US09717764B2
It comprises an egg preparation comprising a mixture of the yolk and the white extracted from a fertilized egg incubated for a period comprised between 18 hours and 36 hours, wherein the mixture of the yolk and white is in a ratio in which the amount of the white is comprised between 2% and 40% by volume of the yolk volume, useful as regenerating, analgesic and/or anti-inflammatory agent, as well as its preparation process. It also relates to functional foods, dietary supplements, and pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions containing the egg preparation. It also relates to cosmetic compositions comprising the egg preparation and to its use as skin care or hair or fur care agent.
US09717742B2
This invention relates, e.g., to a synthetic compound, Oxy133, having the structure [Formula I] or a bioactive or pharmaceutical composition comprising Oxy133 and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Methods are also disclosed for using the compound or bioactive or pharmaceutical composition to treat a variety of disorders, including e.g. bone disorders, obesity, cardiovascular disorders, and neurological disorders.
US09717741B2
Method and composition for treating psoriasis and other skin disorders.
US09717740B1
The disclosure relates to the treatment of adrenal insufficiency with particular but not limiting application to pediatric treatment regimens, the treatment of the elderly and non-human animals.
US09717734B2
Flavored chewable wafers containing caffeine suitable for increasing alertness and allow an individual to perform tasks in a more focused and energetic manner comprises, formulations of phospholipids, specifically identified concentrations of phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidic acid, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, glycolipids and phosphatidylserine along with inulin and other desirable active ingredients.
US09717733B2
A composition is provided that includes a microvesicle derived from an edible plant and a therapeutic agent conjugated to the microvesicle. The therapeutic agent can be chemically-linked to a plasma membrane of the microvesicle with a cross-linking agent and the edible plant can be a fruit or a vegetable. Methods for treating an inflammatory disorder or a cancer are further provided and include administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a composition including a microvesicle derived from an edible plant and having a therapeutic agent conjugated to the microvesicle.
US09717730B2
The invention provides combinations comprising a) compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein R1, R2, R5, R10, and A have any of the values defined in the specification; and b) one or more agents selected from 5-FU, a platinum agent, leucovorin, irinotecan, docetaxel, doxorubicin, gemcitabine, SN-38, capecitabine, temozolomide, paclitaxel, bevacizumab, pertuzumab, tamoxifen, rapamycin and lapatinib. The combinations are particularly useful for treating hyperproliferative disorders, such as cancer.
US09717727B2
The present invention relates to preventing and treating leukemia and other cancers of the blood and bone, as well as disorders of the blood, by inhibiting gut-derived serotonin. The inhibition of the gut-derived serotonin is accomplished by inhibiting Tph1, an enzyme responsible for the production of gut-derived serotonin. The present invention also relates to preventing and treating leukemia and other cancers of the blood and bone, as well as disorders of the blood, by increasing the number, growth and proliferation of osteoblasts.
US09717716B2
Methods of sedating a patient undergoing critical care treatment using intravenous gaboxadol are provided.
US09717714B2
Compounds having the structure of Formula (I), including pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds, are CETP inhibitors and may be useful for raising HDL-cholesterol and reducing LDL-cholesterol in human patients and for treating or preventing atherosclerosis. The chemical compounds that are disclosed cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) and are expected to have utility in raising HDL-C, lowering LDL-C, and in the treatment and prevention of atherosclerosis.
US09717701B2
Disclosed herein is a composition for oral administration of O-desmethyltramadol that is effective for overcoming resistance to tramadol in patients.
US09717697B2
Compositions for the transdermal delivery of methylphenidate in a flexible, finite form are described. The compositions comprise a polymer matrix that includes methylphenidate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and at least one acrylic polymer that is non-reactive with methylphenidate. Methods using the compositions to achieve transdermal delivery of methylphenidate or for treating Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and/or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or narcolepsy also are described.
US09717696B2
A storage stable L-menthol composition includes a tablet, caplet, capsule, or sachet dosage form. The dosage form has (a) a plurality of individual cores containing an L-menthol source and at least one pharmaceutical excipient and (b) a proteinaceous coating of a continuous film of proteinaceous material over the individual cores forming a plurality of proteinaceous coated individual cores. The film is effective to substantially prevent L-menthol in the L-menthol source from leaving the individual cores when stored at a temperature of 40 degrees C. and 75% relative humidity for at least 1 day. The dosage form contains an effective amount of the L-menthol source for treating a gastrointestinal disorder.
US09717695B2
The present invention features, inter alia, constructs for the delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to a patient. The constructs can include a nanoparticle, a targeting agent that specifically binds a targeted tissue or cell, a therapeutic moiety, and a hydrogel. The constructs can be used in the treatment and diagnosis of bowel diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colon cancer. In one embodiment, the therapeutic agent is a nucleic acid that mediates RNA inhibition (RNAi), and the invention is directed to treatments for IBD that combine the positive aspects of such agents {e.g., siRNAs) with the safety of a biodegradable polymeric delivery system to facilitate specific targeting of colonic tissues and cells. As the constructs can be formulated for oral administration, they are well tolerated and offer advantages with regard to patient compliance.
US09717693B2
Microparticles or granules intended for use in the zootechnical field, constituted by a core which contains a substance having a pharmacological action, a food supplement or a diagnostic medium, intimately mixed or adsorbed with a hydrated silicate of magnesium, aluminum, calcium and sodium (smectite, montmorillonite or bentonite); the core is coated with a double fatty layer constituted by two fats or waxes, of which the one having the highest melting point constitutes the inner layer while the one having the lowest melting point is arranged so as to form the outer layer. The ability to control release effectively and accordingly reduce rumen degradation of active substances which contain a cationic or an anionic chemical function, such as for example choline chloride lysine hydrochloride, calcium chloride, citric acid, ascorbic acid or nicotinic acid is determined by the synergistic action of two phenomena: an interaction between the active substance and the other component of the core, and the barrier effect of the double fat layer. Taken individually, the two phenomena are unable to apply effective control over the release of the active substance.
US09717686B2
The present invention provides methods for delivery of therapeutic agents to a subject using multi-component liposomal systems. The methods include administration of a therapeutic liposome containing an active agent, followed by a administration of an attacking liposome that induces release of the agents from the therapeutic liposome.
US09717684B2
A solution that is stable at 5° C. to 30° C. for at least 24 hours, comprising: (a) water, (b) montelukast sodium; (c) a carrier material for a fast disintegrating dosage form; and (d) a component selected from a strong base, a bicarbonate salt and mixtures thereof. The solution comprising montelukast sodium is stable under conditions that are typically encountered during certain phases of the manufacturing process of fast disintegrating dosage form that contain the montelukast sodium. The solution can be used to form fast disintegrating dosage form tablets. A method of preparing a fast disintegrating dosage form tablet including preparing such solution, and forming a tablet, and a fast disintegrating dosage form that is prepared from the montelukast sodium solution are also described.
US09717683B1
A cannabinoid material as active agent containing formulation comprising the active agent, an HFA propellant, and optionally a co-solvent is disclosed. Also disclosed is an inhalation method of administration of the formulation without the use of heat greater than 50° C.
US09717676B2
The present invention relates to amino silicone nanoemulsions. More specifically, the present invention relates to amino silicone nanoemulsions that may be used to protect surfaces from being soiled or wetted.
US09717674B1
A skin cleansing composition having biodegradable abrasive particles, is provided. The abrasive particles have a mean Circularity of from about 0.10 to about 0.60 and a mean particle size as expressed by the area-equivalent diameter of about 500 μm to about 2,000 μm and a Biodegradable Rate of about 30% to about 100%. The composition has a structured surfactant phase or surfactant phase having a Yield Stress of about 1 Pa to about 100 Pa or a Yield Stress of about 0.1 Pa to about 10 Pa, respectively.
US09717670B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising an aqueous phase, at least one mattifying filler and at least one silane corresponding to formula (I) below and/or oligomers thereof: R1Si(OR2)z(R3)x(OH)y(I) in which: •Ri is a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated C1-C22 hydrocarbon-based chain, which may be substituted with an amine group NH2 or NHR (R=C1-C20 and especially C1-C6 alkyl, C3-C40 cycloalkyl or C6-C30 aromatic); or with a hydroxyl group, a thiol group, an aryl group (more particularly benzyl), which is substituted or unsubstituted; Ri possibly being interrupted with a heteroatom (O, S or NH) or a carbonyl group (CO), •R2 and R3, which may be identical or different, represent a linear or branched alkyl group comprising from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, •y denotes an integer ranging from 0 to 3, and •z denotes an integer ranging from 0 to 3, and •x denotes an integer ranging from 0 to 2, •with z+x+y=3, The invention also relates to a cosmetic process for making up and/or caring for keratin materials comprising a step of applying a composition according to one of the preceding claims to the said materials.
US09717667B2
An oral care composition is provided wherein the composition comprises an ionic liquid, wherein the ionic liquid comprises: a) a quaternary ammonium cation of the formula wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each an organic moiety and may be the same or different, and at least one of R1, R2, R3 and R4 includes a hydroxyl; and b) an anion selected from the group consisting of salicylate, alkylsulfate, sulfate, acetate, halide, phosphate, alkyl phosphate and tosylate; wherein the oral care composition is a mouth rinse, toothpaste, toothpowder, oral bead or strip, fluid-encased dental strip, irrigation fluid, plaque removal liquid, dental floss, hard candy, soft candy, lozenge, chewing gum, or lollipop.
US09717664B2
The present invention relates to processes for the preparation of compounds of the formula (Ia) by reacting styrene with a secondary alkanol and the hydrogenation of the resulting phenyl-substituted tertiary alkanol. In addition, the invention relates to compounds of the formula (Ia) and to the use of such compounds as fragrances, and also to compositions which comprise compounds of the formulae (Ia) and (Ib).
US09717655B2
An electronic pill box for receiving a blister pack having a plurality of dosettes pre-loaded with doses of medication. The pill box includes a base module having a plurality of receptacles that receive the dosettes of the blister pack. The number of receptacles is sufficient to hold about a month of medication. A day module is engaged with the base module but is detachable therefrom. Individual dosettes are detached from the blister pack and loaded into receptacles in the day module. The base module and day module include capacitance sensors for determining if a dose of medication has been removed at the required time. The day module also includes a light sensor assembly that verifies whether the dosettes loaded into the day module's receptacles are the correct dosettes for the time of day a particular dose of medication should be taken.
US09717653B2
A blister packaging including a blister card including a plurality of flexible blisters; and a backing sheet including blister backing portions and backing securing portions, wherein when the backing securing portions are secured to the blister card, the blister backing portions are aligned to each blister forming a plurality of compartments adapted to store a medicament, and wherein the backing includes two or more conductive first leads affixed to the backing, two or more conductive second leads affixed to the backing, and a plurality of conductive zones, wherein each conductive zone electrically connects one of the first leads to one of the second leads, and wherein each blister backing portion includes a conductive zone.
US09717652B2
An add-on unit for a handheld container, preferably a medication container, for storing medication objects, e.g. pills, to be dispensed, includes an open channel with dimensions enabling a free passage of an object to leave the container under influence of a gravity force without using a dispensing mechanism. Shaking the medication container while it is held in a slanting upside down position causes that objects are moved to the channel and will fall through the channel to leave the container. A detector detects the object which passes the channel. Electronic circuitry derives and stores information related to one or more detected passages of objects. The add-on unit is provided with an interface for communication with the outside world for outputting the information derived. Preferably the add-on unit has the form of an insert unit which fits in the neck of a standard container.
US09717645B2
A mechanized sexual stimulation device is provided that provides a reciprocating stimulation body, preferably emulating a male in function with various length of penetration possible. Designs herein allow the protruding dildo to move back and forth to a variety of length, speeds and angles while flexing in many directions. The device includes a housing with a ball reverse screw rotatably mounted to the housing, and a reversing nut which retains bearing balls that allow the nut to move linearly up and down the ball reverse screw as the screw is turned in a single direction, thereby moving a reciprocating stimulation body such as a dildo connected (indirectly or directly) to the reversing nut. Channel or groove structures on the ball reverse screw and reversing nut guide the reciprocating back and forth stoke in a linear motion.
US09717640B1
A vertebral column traction device is disclosed for expanding the vertebral column of an individual. The vertebral column traction device comprises a support body having a front surface generally adjacent to a first femur and a second femur for creating a first inclined orientation and a second inclined orientation respectively. A rear surface of the support body is distanced from a first tibia and a second tibia for creating a first cantilever orientation and a second cantilever orientation respectively. A pivot area of the support body is generally adjacent to the first tibia and the second tibia for defining a first fulcrum and a second fulcrum respectively. A first lever and the second lever are defined about the first fulcrum and the second fulcrum respectively for expanding the vertebral column.
US09717634B2
An apparatus and method for rotating and transferring a discrete article. The rotation apparatus may include a slot portion defining a longitudinal slot axis. A head assembly may be positioned adjacent to the slot portion. The head assembly may include a transfer member. The transfer member may define a longitudinal transfer axis. A support member extending from the transfer member toward the slot portion may rotate about the longitudinal transfer axis. A first follower and a second follower may be operatively engaged with the support member. The first follower may include a first follower outer surface defining a first longitudinal follower axis and the second follower may include a second follower outer surface defining a second longitudinal follower axis. The first follower and the second follower may be positioned such that the first longitudinal follower axis and the second longitudinal follower axis intersect the longitudinal slot axis.
US09717633B2
Lighted headgear, and more particularly lighted earwear such as earmuffs or headphones, is provided herein that are configured to mount or secure to a user's head while providing light forwardly thereof. The lighted headgear includes ear engaging or covering assemblies, which can be connected by a headband or other crown portion. The ear covering assemblies can include one or more light sources mounted thereto or can have a light module secured thereto to provide a user with hands-free lighting.
US09717629B2
An apparatus for ophthalmic procedures contains a source of aiming and treatment laser beams, folded mirrors and lens arrays to cause the formation of a static pupil on a delivery mirror for observation and treatment by an operator of the apparatus.
US09717623B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for controlling body temperature of a patient during hypothermia treatment, comprising: a body trunk cooling unit having a first affixing portion to be applied on a surface of the trunk of a patient's body and for cooling the surface of the trunk of the patient's body; and a body peripheral part heating unit having a second affixing portion to be applied to the peripheral part of the patient's body and for heating the peripheral part of the body by utilizing exhaust heat from the body trunk cooling unit and suppressing activation of cold receptors of the skin of the patient.
US09717618B2
A gastrointestinal device and methods of manufacturing said gastrointestinal device are described and include a flexible tubular structure including an inner surface and an outer surface, a plurality of at least one type of commensal microbe associated with at least a portion of at least one of the inner surface and the outer surface, and a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end and the distal end forming a flow conduit through the flexible tubular structure; and at least one anchor structure including one or more gastric wall-engaging components configured to engage a wall of the gastrointestinal tract of the subject.
US09717614B2
A handle assembly for a delivery device the sequential release of trigger wires from a prosthesis to release the prosthesis from the delivery device. The handle assembly has two handles, one of which is a rotating handle. The rotating handle has a first and second trigger wire release mechanisms which operate to sequentially release a first and second trigger wire, respectively, and a locking mechanism. The other handle has a locking mechanism that prevents that operation of the second trigger wire release mechanism until the first trigger wire has been released.
US09717610B2
Polymeric composite stents reinforced with fibers for implantation into a bodily lumen are disclosed.
US09717601B2
An implant includes a first plate and a second plate, a first wedge member and a second wedge member spaced from the first wedge member that couple the first and second plates together. The first and second wedge members configured to translate along the first and second plates from a first contracted configuration into a second separated configuration. The implant includes an actuation member coupled to the first wedge member and the second wedge member. The actuating member defines a flange extending toward the first and second plates. The actuation member configured to move the first and second wedge members from the first contracted configuration into the second separated configuration so that the first and second plates separate from each other.
US09717599B1
A radiocarpal wrist joint replacement includes a radial member configured to be affixed to a portion of an end of the radial bone proximal to the wrist including a fixture to be affixed over a longitudinal aspect of the radial bone and a radial resurfacing plate having a substantially concave surface configured to be located at the end of the radial bone. A carpal capitate bone insert configured to be inserted and affixed into the carpal capitate bone. A bulbous component includes a first convex head and a second convex head, substantially opposite each other and connected by a neck defining an annular groove between the first convex head and the second convex head. The carpal capitate bone insert is configured to be flexibly coupled to the first convex head of the bulbous component. The radial resurfacing plate of the radial member with the concave surface is configured to be operably coupled to the second convex head of the bulbous component so as to allow radial freedom of motion in the joint replacement.
US09717589B2
An accommodating intraocular artificial lens with variable optical power, comprising two optical elements which are adapted to mutually shift in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis wherein the optical elements have such a shape that the optical elements exhibit, in combination, different optical powers at different relative positions. Flanges are adapted to position the anterior section of the haptics in the sulcus of the eye or, alternatively, the ciliary body is enclosed by a combination of anterior and posterior flanges. Also disclosed are methods to provide for an accommodating intraocular lens which is adjustable post-implant to ensure emmetropia of the eye.
US09717588B2
A scleral prosthesis includes an elongated body configured to be implanted into scleral tissue of an eye. The elongated body includes (i) opposing first and second free ends and (ii) multiple first portions that form the first end of the body and part of a remainder of the body between the first and second ends. The first and second ends are wider than the remainder of the body. The first portions are separated by empty space such that the first portions meet at a point between the first and second ends and are not connected to each other between that point and the first end. The first end projects beyond one or more sides of the remainder of the body and angles back towards the second end. The second end projects beyond the one or more sides of the remainder of the body and angles back towards the first end.
US09717585B2
An endovascular apparatus is provided for treating the effects of vascular disease including aneurysms and arterial blockages using a percutaneous, minimally invasive technique. In one embodiment the endovascular apparatus includes a tubular sleeve having a cranial end, a first caudal branch, and a second caudal branch such that the tubular sleeve is shaped like an upside down “Y.” The apparatus further—includes at least one expandable attachment device attached to the tubular sleeve for securing the endovascular apparatus to an interior wall of a vessel. The at least one expandable attachment device includes a plurality of telescoping segments similar to the telescoping segments of a presentation pointer. Accordingly, during percutaneous insertion of the endovascular apparatus into a patient the attachment device can be collapsed into a small profile. Once positioned at the site of the aneurysm the telescoping attachment device can be expanded to hold the endovascular apparatus in place.
US09717583B2
Disclosed herein are medical products with a layer of dehydrated modified basement membrane preparation formed thereon. The basement membrane has been modified before dehydration of remove low molecular weight components. Methods of making and using the products also are disclosed.
US09717576B1
A dental implant cleaning or chemotherapeutic treatment device includes an elongated hollow stem, and bristles operably attached to the elongated hollow stem adjacent a first end of the elongated hollow stem and projecting from the elongated hollow stem nonparallel to the elongated hollow stem.
US09717568B1
A dental arch model fabricated by a 3-D printing process is covered by conforming a liquid-dissolvable sheet of material onto a portion of the dental arch model to physically isolate material from which the dental arch model has been fabricated from material which will be used to fabricate an intra-oral device. The sheet material is a barrier which renders the material of the dental arch model and the material of the intra-oral device immune to chemical reaction with each other. After the device has been removed from the model, liquid is applied to the liquid-dissolvable material on the model. Instead of using a sheet as a barrier, a conditioning coating may be applied to the arch model, and a release coating is applied over the conditioning coating.
US09717567B1
A tear-resistant dental dam is provided. The tear-resistant dental dam includes a first thermoplastic elastomeric sheet and a second thermoplastic elastomeric sheet disposed on the first thermoplastic elastomeric sheet. The first and second thermoplastic elastomeric sheets have a grid pattern of weld joint regions configured to couple together the first and second thermoplastic elastomeric sheets. The grid pattern of weld joint regions define a plurality of unwelded regions of the first and second thermoplastic elastomeric sheets.
US09717565B2
Various embodiments of a wirelessly detectable object to be used in medical procedures are provided. One example wirelessly detectable object includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder that, when interrogated, wirelessly returns a first response signal that contains identification information associated with a surgical object. The wirelessly detectable object further includes a presence transponder that, when interrogated, wirelessly returns a second response signal that does not contain identification information. The presence transponder is received and freely movable within a pouch. The presence transponder is independently movable with respect to the RFID transponder. Another example wirelessly detectable object includes at least one active antenna element and at least one passive antenna element that together operate as a directional antenna.
US09717555B2
A catheter includes an elongated body, a distal assembly with a shape-memory member defining a generally helical form, and a control handle. The control handle may be adapted to actuate a deflection puller wire for deflecting a portion of the elongated body and a contraction wire for contracting the generally helical form. The generally helical form carries irrigated ablation ring electrodes. A nitinol support member with shape memory extends through the distal assembly and into the elongated body to provide the helical form. The support member may have a varying stiffness along its length, for example, a decreasing stiffness toward a distal end of the support member. The support member can also be hollow so that it can receive a mandrel whose stiffness is greater than that of the support member.
US09717537B2
The present invention generally relates to methods and devices for treatment of spinal deformity, and in particular to the utilization of at least one implant to either maintain the position of at least one vertebra of a patient to prevent increase in abnormal spinal curvature, to slow progression of abnormal curvature, or to impose at least one corrective displacement and/or rotation on at least one vertebra of a patient so as to incrementally correct abnormal spinal curvature.
US09717527B2
An external fixator system comprising at least two fixation plates which are arranged at a distance to each another, at least one adjustable length strut having a first end region and a second end region which are in connection with the fixation plates and at least one actuation unit to adjust the length of the strut in order to adjust the distance and/or orientation between the fixation plates. The actuation unit is in a fixed connection with at least one of the fixation plates as well as with at least one of the end regions of the respective strut in order to connect the strut with the fixation plate. The actuation unit comprises a feedback unit which provides the user with a feedback concerning the degree of the actuation.
US09717525B2
Embodiments disclose uterine manipulators, dye delivery systems and fornix delineators that address several issues, such as minimizing surgical error, minimizing loss of parts inside a patients, enabling easy manipulation of a patient's anatomy, securing and removing the device into and from the patient atraumatically, preventing loss of pnuemoperitoneum, and securing the device fastener and components efficiently and atraumatically. An embodiment includes a uterine manipulator having a fornix delineator, uterine shaft, outer tube, fastener, handle, inlet, tip, ring and connecting string, and/or occluder.
US09717524B2
An apparatus includes a hollow sleeve member with an open interior section and a sleeve proximal and a sleeve distal end. Two or more probes are disposed within the open interior section and extending beyond the sleeve distal end when in a deployed position. Distal ends of the probes have a lateral space between each other. One or more tissue manipulators are disposed at the distal end of each of the at least two probes. The hollow sleeve member and the two or more probes move axially relative to each other to reduce the lateral space. A method of closing a vaginal cuff of a vaginal canal is also provided.
US09717521B2
A knife (10) has a handle (15) with a mount (16) for affixing a removable blade (11). A concave surface (17) of the mount supports an elongate protrusion (18) for engaging a complementary slot (12) in the blade and reaches a landing (20) rearward of the tip that is exposed when the blade is mounted on the handle with a surface of the blade being completely supported by the concave surface. A channel (25) in the landing is dimensioned such that a rearmost part (26) thereof remains exposed when the blade is mounted on the handle. The blade is removed by inserting a curved lever (30) into the channel underneath a rearmost part of the blade and swiveling the lever so as to disengage the blade from the elongate protrusion.
US09717515B1
A dual-purpose surgical bougie is disclosed for vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) procedures, and other related operations, that can serve the purpose of both operating as a guide or dilator for stapling and resecting a stomach and also securing, containing, and trans-orally extracting the resected stomach, thereby promoting faster patient recovery, minimizing and reducing the size and number of incisions, and further minimizing VSG procedure related complications, among other advantages. In one aspect of the disclosure described herein, the dual-purpose medical device can include a surgical bougie having a distal end and a proximal end, wherein the bougie can be made of at least one of rubber, silicone, plastic, and metal. In addition, the bougie can include a channel or passage disposed within its central axis extending from its distal end to the proximal end, and a securement member coupled to the bougie. Here, the securement member can extend from the distal end of the flexible member, such that the securement member securely couples to a resected body tissue thereby allowing the bougie to trans-orally extract the resected body tissue.
US09717513B2
A device for fracturing calcifications in heart valves including a catheter (12, 22, 42) configured for percutaneous delivery to a heart valve, an fracture-producing element (14, 26, 46, 64, 66,82, 124, 152) disposed at a distal portion of the catheter and operative to vibrate and mechanically fracture calcifications when brought into contact with a calcification at a leaflet of the heart valve, and an energy source (34, 47, 79, 98, 152) operative to vibrate the fracture-producing element so that the fracture-producing element fractures the calcification without necessarily removing the calcification from the leaflet. The device may further comprise a valvuloplasty balloon (30), an embolic protection net (56) and a protective sleeve (110, 130).
US09717511B2
An instrument system, associated milling or drilling guide and method include use of a trial implant of a size corresponding to an actual implant for the intervertebral space, with a milling guide mounted on the trial implant. The system also includes a cutting tool which is used to form a cutout in an adjacent vertebra.
US09717500B2
A system and method of delivering and detaching an implant within a body of a patient is described. A tether connects an implant with a delivery device. The delivery device includes a heater coil through which the tether passes. The inner diameter of the heater coil is about the same size or slightly larger than the outer diameter of the tether, allowing the tether to more efficiently break the tether during delivery.
US09717494B2
Provided herein are medical apparatuses and methods and more particularly devices and methods for positioning and anchoring a lining to a hollow body organ, such as a stomach, intestine or gastrointestinal tract. For example, in one embodiment, an endoluminal applier includes a fastening assembly configured to receive tissue and lining, a suction device configured to acquire tissue and lining, and a stitching mechanism configured to stitch into the fastening cavity and to apply a running suture to the tissue portion and lining.
US09717485B1
A multi-functional handle manipulates a medical instrument and includes a body capable of being gripped by a hand of a user and further capable of being in communication with the medical instrument. In non-limiting exemplary embodiments, the handle may include one or more of a first trigger assembly, a second trigger assembly and a third trigger assembly. The body may also include a first portion and a second portion coupled thereto such that the second portion is displaced relative to the first portion. At least one of the first portion, second portion and first trigger assembly is capable of manipulating the medical instrument. Non-limiting exemplary embodiments also include one or more of a primary digit-receiving member, a secondary digit-receiving member, and a tertiary digit-supporting member for facilitating ergonomic operation of the handle.
US09717484B2
The present invention utilizes tetherless microtools to biopsy tissue. The invention provides a device and method for deployment and retrieval of tetherless microtools. The size of the microtools ensures that tissue damage at a site targeted for biopsy is negligible. As such, large numbers of microtools may be deployed ensuring that a true statistical sampling of biologic tissue is performed.
US09717482B2
A marker deployment tool may comprise a marker cannula having a lateral deployment aperture, a push rod slidably disposed within the marker cannula and a scalloped tip coupled to the distal end of the marker cannula. The scalloped tip may have a push rod recess configured to receive a portion of the distal end of the push rod such that the push rod does not appreciably extend out of the lateral deployment aperture when the push rod is actuated distally. The marker deployment tool may further comprise a magnet at or near the distal end. This magnet may be used in combination with a magnet or plurality of magnets disposed about an access chamber in a tissue sample holder to assist the user in aligning the marker deployment tool. The access chamber in the tissue sample holder may also include a valve, two valves, or a removable plug.
US09717479B2
Data is communicated from an implanted section to an external location. The implanted section includes a transducer such as a piezoelectric element with an ultrasound reflecting surface that moves in response to an applied driving signal. A sensor generates an output signal that depends on a sensed parameter, and a control circuit drives the transducer based on the sensor's output. The transducer's response to the driving signal is repeatable such that the value of the output signal can be determined by measuring the variations in the velocity of the surface using externally applied Doppler ultrasound, and computing the value of the sensor's output from the measured variations in velocity.
US09717472B2
The present invention provides for an improved combination sensor tip that includes an ultrasound transducer and a pressure sensor both disposed at or in close proximity to the distal end of the combination sensor tip. The present invention also provides for an improved connector to couple a guide wire to a physiology monitor that reduces torsional resistance when maneuvering the guide wire.
US09717471B2
A method and system for determining a velocity of a moving object such as a body or a stream. The object is irradiated in a non-collinear configuration with multiple ultrasound waves overlapping in a region-of-interest (ROI) of the object. An response wave, resulting from the non-linear interaction among the incident waves and the object, is detected and the frequency variations of the response wave are determined. Data representing a Doppler-shift of this frequency is further determined and processed to calculate the velocity of the moving object.
US09717458B2
A magnetic-flap optical sensor has an emitter activated so as to transmit light into a fingertip inserted between an emitter pad and a detector pad. The sensor has a detector responsive to the transmitted light after attenuation by pulsatile blood flow within fingertip so as to generate a detector signal. Flaps extend from the emitter pad and along the sides of a detector shell housing the detector pad. Flap magnets are disposed on the flap ends and shell magnets are disposed on the detector shell sides. A spring urges the emitter shell and detector shell together, so as to squeeze the fingertip between its fingernail and its finger pad. The flap magnets have opposite north and south orientations from the shell magnets, urging the flaps to the detector shell sides and squeezing the fingertip sides. These spring and magnet squeezing forces occlude the fingertip blood flow and accentuate a detector signal responsive to an active pulsing of the fingertip.
US09717455B2
An apparatus is disclosed that may include a substrate that may have a surface, a channel of a volume that may be defined, at least in part, by the substrate, wherein the channel may have a first end and a second end, a valve may be coupled to the channel at the first end, wherein the valve may be configured to allow a fluid to pass into the channel when the valve is open, and a continuity detector, which may be coupled to the channel at the second end, wherein the continuity detector may be activated when the fluid contacts the continuity detector, wherein the continuity detector may further be configured to provide a signal to close the valve and remove the fluid from the channel. A method for calculating a rate of flow of a fluid collected from a bodily surface into a body-worn device is disclosed.
US09717451B2
A device includes a plurality of skin penetrating devices for delivering or withdrawing a substance through the skin of a patient. The device has a support formed with a top and bottom end and a plurality of channels extending axially through the support. A plurality of the skin penetrating members is positioned in the channels with a tip extending from the bottom end of the support. A coupling member is attached to the support for coupling with a fluid supply and directing the fluid to the skin penetrating members. The skin penetrating members have a length of about 100 microns to about 2000 microns and are about 30 to 50 gauge.
US09717447B2
A device includes a first sensor coupler that is configured to receive a first input signal from a first sensor. The first input signal corresponds to a first physiological parameter and is based on optical excitation of a tissue. The device includes a processor coupled to the first sensor coupler. The processor is configured to generate an output signal based on the first input signal. The first physiological parameter is encoded in the output signal. The output signal differs from the first input signal. The device includes an output coupler configured to communicate the output signal to a remote device.
US09717444B2
A non-invasive device for measuring concentration levels of optically active substances, such as glucose, by determination of polarization plane turn angle in the infrared spectrum. Instant embodiments, measuring optical polarization shift, include a narrow-band optical source having a first linear polarizer; substantially illuminated by the source, a sample stage capable of temporarily immobilizing a sample; proximate to the sample stage and within a predetermined angular range with respect to the source illumination of the sample, a narrow-band optical detector capable of detecting polarization angles from the illuminated sample; and in conjunction with the source and the detector, a linear polarization angle comparator for comparing a polarization of the source with a polarization maxima region measured by the detector.
US09717441B2
An automatic process of predictive determination of the position and movements of the skin of a subject in a zone of interest, with the subject breathing freely or in an assisted manner, includes preliminarily acquiring multiple configurations of the skin profile in axial planes, at given successive times, in different respiratory positions, and for each axial plane, constructing at least one deformable digital model starting from different skin profiles, then noting, in a repetitive manner, the actual position of a point on the skin at the level of each axial plane, whose position is significantly modified during inhalation and exhalation phases, and providing, essentially in real time, a simulation of the skin profile in each axial plane, as a function of the actual position noted, and an evolving three-dimensional representation of the skin at the level of the zone of interest, by interpolation between the different axial planes.
US09717440B2
Systems and methods for decoding neural and/or electromyographic signals are provided. A system can include at least one single channel decoder. Optionally, the system can include a demixer in operable communication with the single channel decoders. Each single channel decoder can include a filter to attenuate noise and sharpen spikes in the neural and/or electromyographic signals, a detection function to identify spikes, and a demodulator to get a real-time estimate of motor intent.
US09717434B2
The present invention relates to a perfusion cannula for placement of an access, having a cannula wall and a perfusion lumen which is surrounded by the cannula wall and in which a fluid flow can flow through the perfusion cannula, wherein the perfusion cannula furthermore comprises at least one sensor lumen and at least one sensor device, in particular an ECG sensor, which is arranged at least partially in the sensor lumen. As a result, it is possible to provide a particularly reliable perfusion cannula with improved functionality and for reliable handling, in particular in conjunction with an extracorporeal lung support system.
US09717429B2
A method of generating a cardiac electrophysiology map includes receiving a reference biological signal and an electrical signal indicative of electrical activity at a location on a patient's heart. Using a graphical user interface, a practitioner designates at least two trigger point icons, one upward-pointing and one downward-pointing, on a graphical representation of the reference biological signal (e.g., a waveform). By pairing one upward-pointing icon with one downward-pointing icon, a plurality of triggering criteria are defined. Electrophysiology data points are captured and/or added to the electrophysiology map when the triggering criteria are satisfied.
US09717427B2
A wearable electronic device, comprising a heart rate sensor to determine a heart rate of the user, a motion sensor to detect motion of a user, the motion sensor operated in an initial calibration phase during which the heart rate sensor is detecting the heart rate of the user, and the motion sensor is detecting the motion of the user, the calibration phase being used to compute a correspondence between motion of the user and the heart rate of the user, the motion sensor being operated in a low power phase during which the heart rate sensor is powered down, and a processor configured to run a heart rate estimation module configured to calculate an estimated heart rate of the user based upon the motion of the user and the correspondence between the heart rate of the user and the motion of the user determined in the calibration phase.
US09717411B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an intraocular pressure sensor that is put into an eyeball of a patient and measures the intraocular pressure, the method comprising: preparing a first substrate; depositing a base film on the bottom of the first substrate; exposing the top of the base film by etching the first substrate; applying epoxy onto the center of the exposed base film; disposing the first electrode at the epoxy-applied portion on the base film; preparing a second substrate; depositing a support film onto the second substrate; forming a second electrode on the support film; exposing the bottom of the support film by etching the second substrate; and disposing the second substrate onto the first substrate.
US09717392B2
A dishwasher includes a washing tub defining a space that is configured to receive dishes to be washed by wash water, a sump configured to receive and collect wash water flowing from the washing tub, a filter unit disposed at the sump and configured to filter the wash water flowing from the washing tub to the sump, and a cap configured to prevent the wash water received in the sump from flowing from the filter unit to the washing tub.
US09717391B2
The disclosed cleaning system provides a system for storing and containing together a cleaning tool and cleaning ampoules, which contain the cleaning material, so that all the necessary parts of the cleaning system are easily stored and accessible for cleaning needs. In one embodiment, the cleaning system includes a cleaning tool and a cleaning ampoule. The cleaning tool includes a body with a working surface having scrubbing elements. The body has an ampoule receptacle. The cleaning ampoule contains a cleaning material. The cleaning ampoule includes a compartment and a cover for containing the cleaning material in the compartment. The ampoule receptacle is capable of holding the cleaning ampoule while the cleaning material is dispensed to the working surface from the cleaning ampoule.
US09717374B1
A bodily scrubbing assembly includes a housing that may be removably coupled to a wall in a shower. A sponge is removably positioned in the housing. Thus, the sponge is retained on the shower thereby facilitating the sponge to scrub a user's body. A plurality of couplers is provided and each of the couplers is coupled to the sponge. Each of the couplers engages the housing such that the sponge is removably retained in the housing.
US09717370B2
A base for a food processing system is provided including a housing configured to couple with a complementary container. The housing includes a bottom surface. At least one suction device is mounted to the bottom surface and is configured to adhere the base to an adjacent surface. At least one release mechanism is mounted to mounted generally flush with an outer surface of the housing. The at least one release mechanism is operably coupled to at least one suction device and is movable between a first position and a second position to release the at least one suction device from the adjacent surface.
US09717369B2
The invention discloses a hand blender with a body which can be connected with different stirring tools. The body includes a motor with an output shaft, a deceleration component and a plurality of output connectors. The speed control knob and the safety switch, starting switch which control the moving of the motor are set up of the body. The control circuit includes a half speed control lever and a reverse control lever which can be moved by the corresponding stirring tools. The hand blender can connected with different stirring tools and output different kinds of speeds. It is more convenient and safe.
US09717367B2
The present application relates to a vacuum flask assembly (1). The vacuum flask assembly (1) comprises a vacuum flask (2) with a push-button lid (5). The push-button lid (5) is movable between an open condition and a closed condition, in which a sealing actuator (15) of the lid (5) is elevated when the lid (5) is in its open condition and retracted when the lid (5) is in its closed condition. The vacuum flask assembly (1) further comprises a container part (21) which is locatable over the lid (5) and is mountable to the vacuum flask (2). When the lid (5) is in its open condition, the container part (21) is configured to act on the sealing actuator (15) as the container part (21) is mounted to the vacuum flask (2), so that the lid (5) is urged to move from its open condition into its closed condition. The present application also relates to a container (3) for a vacuum flask (2) and a baby bottle kit.
US09717359B2
A theft-resistant wall mount mailbox is provided. A housing has a rectangular shape with a front side and a back side. A rotatable mail deposit is pivotably attached to the front side of the housing and includes a mail delivery door, an inner panel affixed on a proximate end at an angle to a bottom of the mail delivery door, and a safety arm affixed at a further angle to a distal end of the inner panel. A mail retrieval door is located below the rotatable mail deposit and pivotably attached to the front side of the housing.
US09717356B2
The present invention provides a cup sleeve formed with a reverse damping structure having one or more rings inwardly bent and annularly arranged on one or both of the edge and the inner periphery of the cup sleeve, so when the mentioned cup sleeve is sleeved with a cup-shaped or bottle-shaped or can-shaped container, the anti-slip damping for enhancing the anti-loose function is provided by the reverse damping structure, thus the cup sleeve is less likely to be released from the cup-shaped or bottle-shaped or can-shaped container, and with the reverse damping structure, the interval formed between the cup sleeve and the cup-shaped or bottle-shaped or can-shaped container is enlarged thereby increasing the thermal insulation effect.
US09717355B2
A cup-type container obtained by compression-forming a thermoplastic resin and including at least a flange portion, a body portion and a bottom portion, wherein a ratio (L/D) of the height of the container to the diameter of the opening is not less than 1.0, and if the direction of height of a test piece cut out from the body portion of the container is denoted by x and the circumferential direction thereof by y, a half-value width P at a half peak of a Miller index at a diffraction angle 2θ=14.5° that represents the diffraction by the crystal plane (110), is in a range of 1.25 to 1.5 over the whole body portion in a peak intensity profile in the direction of height (x-direction) of a Debye's ring obtained by measuring the diffraction intensities by causing the X-rays to be incident on an x-y plane of the test piece at right angles thereto. The cup-type container is evenly oriented in the direction of height of the container and in the circumferential direction thereof, has an even strength in all directions and has excellent heat resistance. The invention, further, provides a method of forming the cup-type container.
US09717349B1
The present invention relates to a combination storage and display system, and in particular to a system that is modular, provides high density storage and easy display of mattresses. In one embodiment, the rack has a base frame with several longitudinal rails. Several display frames are also provided (one for each longitudinal rail). The display frames have a translating bar that is movable relative the longitudinal rails. The display frame has a post and an angled support. The angled support holds the mattress in a nearly vertical orientation. A mattress support is pivotally connected to the post. The mattress support has a base, two ears, a leg and a lip. The lip engages a small portion of a side of the mattress. The leg pivotally depends from an ear.
US09717337B2
A U-shaped adjustable shelving system comprised of a plurality of interconnecting shelf sections including a back shelf section, a right side shelf section and a left side shelf section. The right and left side shelf sections are coupled to the back shelf section with a sliding dovetail arrangement so as to allow adjustment of the right and left side shelf sections relative to the back shelf section in order to change the width of the adjustable shelving system. The back shelf section is adjustable in length to substantially match the width of the space in which the shelving system is to be installed. The adjustable shelving system includes support risers for self-supporting the shelving system above a surface. The adjustable shelf can be easily installed into a variety of cabinets, and allows access to small containers, such as those for herbs and spices.
US09717326B2
The invention discloses a pedestal apparatus for an article of furniture. The pedestal apparatus has an elongate post formation defining a first end and a second end and having a longitudinal axis. The post formation immovably supports a fixed foot arrangement and also movably supports a variable foot arrangement. The variable foot arrangement is selectively movable along and around the longitudinal axis for varying a longitudinal and angular proximity between the variable foot arrangement and the fixed foot arrangement. Biasing means are provided for controlling movement of the variable foot arrangement whereby, in use, the biasing means causes both the fixed foot arrangement and the variable foot arrangement to abut an underlying surface and thereby provide a substantial stabilization of the pedestal apparatus.
US09717323B2
A split type hanging buckle includes a base and a connecting element, the base includes a top cover and a bottom cover, the top cover has a receiving groove, one end of the bottom cover has an accommodating groove, the accommodating groove corresponds to the receiving groove, the connecting element includes a first magnetic element, a second magnetic element, a connecting part and a fitting part, the first magnetic element is received in the accommodating groove, one end of the connecting part has an inserting part and a clamping part, one end of the inserting part has an receiving cavity, the second magnetic element is received in the receiving cavity, and after the second magnetic element is received in the receiving cavity, portions of the second magnetic element away from the inserting part attract the first magnet element, such that the connecting element is connected with the base.
US09717322B1
A convertible carrying case having a first container and a second container that is convertible between a primary configuration and a secondary configuration. Each container having a primary face (with primary access structure for accessing the interior of the container when the convertible carrying case is in the primary configuration) and a secondary face (with secondary access structure for accessing the interior of the container when the convertible carrying case is in the secondary configuration). A first matable half and a second matable half of an openable-closeable connection are connectable to secure the containers in either a primary configuration or a secondary configuration. Preferably, contents within the containers may remain during conversion between the primary configuration and the secondary configuration. A method for converting a convertible carrying case between the primary configuration and the secondary configuration.
US09717304B2
In a sole for a flexible shoe having a soft-elastic midsole which comes in contact with the ground at least partially during running, which has laterally open, trough-shaped elements which project downwards towards the ground and which are aligned transversely to the longitudinal direction thereof, a midsole is divided into a medial and a lateral part by a longitudinal slot extending from the heel into the ball region. The midsole can have an edge strip which bridges the trough-shaped elements in each case. The midsole is covered by an incompressible but elastically resilient plate framed by the edge strip and that the trough-shaped elements are deformable as far as closure of the lateral openings thereof in the region of the edge strip under the action of forces acting vertically and/or in the longitudinal direction which occur during running.
US09717298B1
A micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) exhaust valve-based impact attenuating fluid filled cell for use in cushioning impact and decelerating of a wearer's body portion (e.g. head, shoulder, torso, etc.) after an impact. In combination with the use of accelerometers, pressure sensors, location and other electronics supply signals to a microcontroller, the controlled opening/closing of said exhaust valve (resulting in the expelling of said fluids with an optional combination with cell refill means) when certain parameters exceed a threshold. Individuals who engage in activities that carry a risk of injury to the head from impact in the normal course of the activity could, in combination with regular exams, benefit from a system that produces and updates a kinematic 3D model of the individual's head, including brain matter, cerebrospinal fluid paths, arterial and venous blood flow pathways, as well as the skull, supporting connective tissues and other biological structures in the head suitable for interaction with exogenous stimuli prepared from hypothetical or actual recorded impact events.
US09717294B2
A hinge mechanism for attaching ear accessories to a helmet allows an accessory to be attached at a point outside the helmet shell utilizing, for example, a slidable mounting rail, and to reach under the edge of the helmet shell so that the accessory is supported in contact with the wearer's head. The hinge mechanism is well suited for use in connection with military helmets that have a “bulge” or protrusion over the ear.
US09717290B2
Disclosed herein are devices for preventing or treating an injury to an individual. Also provided are devices and methods for alleviating pain or discomfort caused by equipment or other padding or articles of clothing or uniform. The device can include a disposable padded tape having a plurality of force absorbing zones. It can also include an adhesive layer for attaching the device to a body contacting surface.
US09717289B1
An article of swimwear for providing targeted compression areas includes inner and outer fabric layers that are bonded together with adhesive layers having different compressive strengths. For example, a first adhesive layer is disposed between first fabric portions of the inner and outer fabric layers. In addition, a second adhesive layer is disposed between second fabric portions of the inner and outer fabric layers. The first and second fabric portions may be laterally adjacent each other or spaced apart. The first adhesive layer provides a first compressive strength to the first fabric portions of the inner and outer fabrics when bonded there between, and the second adhesive layer provides a second compressive strength to the second fabric portions of the inner and outer fabrics when bonded there between. In certain implementations, the first compressive strength is greater than the second compressive strength.
US09717287B2
A climate control vest having a flexible exterior layer defines a head opening area, left and right arm opening areas, a front surface, a back surface, and a belt configuration. A flexible middle layer is positioned between the flexible exterior layer and a flexible first interior layer. There is at least one pocket positioned to be over an individual's (i) front torso or lumbar areas, (ii) back torso area and (iii) back lumbar area to receive a temperature altering or control apparatus, each pocket is defined by a flexible second interior layer attached to certain portions of the flexible first interior layer except for an opening to receive the temperature altering or control apparatus.
US09717286B1
A support structure of a bra cup contains: a bra cup body and an underwire channel. The bra cup body includes a concave face and a convex face, and the concave face has an imaginary point defined on a central position thereof. The underwire channel is hollow and is in an arcuate strap shape, and the underwire channel is mounted on a peripheral side of a bottom of the bra cup body. The underwire channel includes an external layer, an internal layer, and a hollow portion. The hollow portion has an opening arranged on one end thereof and configured to accommodate an underwire. The underwire channel further includes a flexible mesh sheet arranged on one surface thereof facing the bra cup body. The flexible mesh sheet has a reinforcement section extending outwardly from the underwire channel to the imaginary point of the concave face of the bra cup body.
US09717282B1
Disclosed herein are lower-body garments having wide, abdominal-shaping waistbands, and methods of making the same. The garments disclosed herein have wide, abdominal-shaping waistbands with features tailored to smooth and restrain the garment-wearer's abdominal area and/or reduce the undesirable “muffin top” effect that can occur when garments cinch at the waist.
US09717275B2
The present invention relates to an electronic cigarette preventing its nozzle from falling off, comprising a shell with a hollow inner chamber. The shell is configured with an atomizer, a cylindrical liquid storage component and a storage battery and a cup holder therein, and has its one end to be inserted with a cylindrical nozzle. The nozzle coaxially defines a vent extended therethrough, and is configured with expanding portions at its outer sidewall for tightly engaging with an inner wall of the shell by expansion, the vent is configured with plural reinforcing ribs axially extended on its inner wall and a support tube positioned on its inner wall; the nozzle, the cup holder and a part of the shell collectively form a liquid smoke cup for accommodating and positioning the liquid storage component, and the liquid storage component is configured with a conduit communicated with the vent of the nozzle.
US09717265B2
A rumen-protected carotenoid animal feed product is described that is free-flowing, resistant to ruminal degradation and effective at raising the carotenoid level in milk produced by the animal.
US09717253B2
The present invention generally relates to the use of synergistic amounts of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai and chlorantraniliprole for the control of Diamondback Moth, Beet Armyworm, Soybean Looper, Corn Earworm, Cabbage Looper, and Southwestern Corn Borer. Specifically, the synergistic ratio of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai to chlorantraniliprole is from about 1:0.00003 to about 1:3.
US09717243B2
Piperidinecarboxylic acidderivatives of the formula (I) in which the symbols A, L1, L2, G, p, Q, R1, R2, T and Y are each as defined in the description, and salts, metal complexes and N-oxides of the compounds of the formula (I), and the use thereof for controlling phytopathogenic harmful fungi and processes for preparing compounds of the formula (I).
US09717226B1
A line management system for an outrigger structure is provided for guiding outrigger cords through cord passages to maintain an independent longitudinal displacement in order to prevent entanglement. The system includes a plurality of outrigger cords, cord management units, and retention devices. The plurality of cord management units are coupled to the outrigger structure and are longitudinally spaced one from the other along the outrigger structure. Each of the cord management units defines a plurality of transversely offset cord passages respectively guiding predetermined ones of outrigger cords to maintain an independent longitudinal displacement relative to the outrigger structure.
US09717209B1
A novel sweet corn hybrid plant, designated HMX5383YS is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of sweet corn hybrid HMX5383YS, to the plants and plant parts of sweet corn hybrid HMX5383YS, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant by crossing the sweet corn hybrid HMX5383YS with itself or another sweet corn plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sweet corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other sweet corn plants derived from the sweet corn hybrid plant HMX5383YS.
US09717191B2
The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for generating and optimizing irrigation protocols that are in compliance with municipal restrictions. The disclosure also extends to methods, systems and computer program products for providing automated irrigation.
US09717187B2
A sectional planter is provided with an interior volume defining a planter portion with a flange and a tongue and groove for positively connecting the sectional planter to at least one additional sectional planter, where the tongue and groove connection allows for easy removal of the sectional planter from the base of a tree or post after assembly. The sectional planter can hold a variety of plants, shrubs, bushes or other floral or decorative items. The sectional planter may be combined with one or more additional sectional planters to form a geometric shaped planter. The geometric shapes formed with two or more interconnected sectional planters may be a circle, an oval, a square, a star pattern, a rectangle, a triangle, a trapezoid, or a parallelogram. In at least one embodiment two or more sectional planters are combined to form to encircle a tree.
US09717179B2
A hydraulic system for use with an agricultural harvester header is provided. The hydraulic system includes a reversible hydraulic pump that drives a reversible hydraulic motor in a forward or harvesting direction and a reverse or header cleaning direction. The system can further include a second reversible pump similarly driving a second reversible hydraulic motor in forward and reverse directions. The pumps and motors can be used to operate various header implements, e.g., the first pump and motor may be used to operate at least a crop cutting knife and the second pump and motor can be used to operate at least one conveyor. The pumps and motors operate within hydraulic circuits which share their hydraulic fluid with the harvester's hydraulic fluid reservoir, thereby reducing system weight, complexity and maintenance requirements.
US09717172B2
A control system for a mobile machine includes one or more sensors for generating machine state data and one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices are configured to determine a first segment and a second segment of an operating path of the machine and to use the machine state data to determine an optimal speed for a turn maneuver between the first segment and the second segment of the operating path. The one or more computing devices may further be configured to determine a first optimal speed for a first portion of the turn maneuver and a second optimal speed for a second portion of the turn maneuver.
US09723762B1
A data center includes heat producing components and an air handling system that provides reduced relative humidity air to cool the heat producing components. The air handling system includes a thermal storage unit that removes thermal energy from incoming air under a given set of ambient air conditions and releases thermal energy into incoming air under another set of ambient air conditions. Under the given set of ambient air conditions, the thermal storage unit cools the incoming air and causes water vapor to condense out of the incoming air. Under the other set of ambient air conditions, the thermal storage unit releases thermal energy into the incoming air, thus heating the incoming air.
US09723758B2
A chassis directs cooling air around compute components of an information handling system (IHS). The chassis includes an enclosure having a base wall, an air intake at a front side, and an air exhaust at a rear side. Stiffeners are attached laterally across the base wall and positioned between the front side and a rear area of the base wall. A planar member is horizontally attached on top of the one or more stiffeners. The planar member is provisioned with the compute components, which substantially block air flow above the planar member causing thermal shadowing of the thermal energy generating component that is provisioned in the rear area. Air channels formed through each of the stiffeners direct air flow under the planar member toward the rear area that is provisioned with the thermal energy generating component.
US09723754B2
A ground structure of a controller that is mounted in a construction machine such as a dump truck and has a case having an upper surface on which a connector receiver hole for a receptacle connector to be received is provided includes: a cable harness that is provided by a plurality of cables including a ground cable and is connected to the receptacle connector; and a connecting portion for the ground cable to be connected, the connecting portion being provided near the connector receiver hole on the upper surface.
US09723753B2
A cooling system for cooling an electronic component has a heat pipe defined by an inner wall and an outer wall with an intermediate fluid chamber. The heat pipe has a wall to be put in contact with a cold plate and extends away from the cold plate to define a cup shape with a fluid movement member positioned within the chamber to move the fluid from an end of the chamber adjacent to the cold plate to a spaced end of the cup shape.
US09723747B1
Equipment module support brackets, rack-mounted equipment cabinet systems, and related methods can include at least one equipment module, a rack-mounted equipment cabinet for storing the rack-mounted equipment, and at least one equipment module support bracket installed in the rack-mounted equipment cabinet for supporting the at least one equipment module stored in the rack-mounted equipment cabinet. The support bracket can include a longitudinally extending top face, and at least one aperture disposed on opposite ends of a rear facing longitudinal edge of the longitudinally extending top face. The support bracket can include a height of less than one (1) rack unit (RU) when mounted in the rack-mounted equipment cabinet. The support bracket can include at least one server support bracket for supporting a server.
US09723735B1
A kickstand for an electronic device includes a standing leg, a base and an adhesive provided on a surface of the base so that the base can be attached to the protective case. The kickstand further includes a shaft and the standing leg is pivoted on the base. The base includes a first opening and a second opening to receive both ends of the shaft, and the shaft is substantially in a shape of a cylinder and includes a head, a body, and a bottom. The shaft further includes a cylindrical hole formed on the bottom and a metal pin is received in the cylindrical hole. The diameter of the head is greater than that of the body. Additionally, the diameter of the bottom is greater than that of the body.
US09723730B2
This is directed to a hook and receiving element combination for securing components forming the shell of an electronic device. The receiving element can include a beam connected to the outer shell component and operative to deflect as the hook element approaches the receiving element. To limit deflections of the outer shell component, the beam can be restrained at opposing ends in directions perpendicular to the beam length, but free to slide along the beam axis. In some embodiments, the receiving element can include a lip for guiding the deflection of the beam as the beam contacts the hook element. In particular, the lip can ensure that the beam deflects at an angle relative to the hook element motion such that a smaller hook element motion is required to engage the beam.
US09723723B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for tempering or chemically strengthening glass substrates having electrochromic devices fabricated thereon. In one aspect, an electrochromic device is fabricated on a glass substrate. The glass substrate is then tempered or chemically strengthened. The disclosed methods may reduce or prevent potential issues that the electrochromic device may experience during the tempering or the chemical strengthening processes, including the loss of charge carrying ions from the device, redistribution of charge carrying ions in the device, modification of the morphology of materials included in the device, modification of the oxidation state of materials included in the device, and the formation of an interfacial region between the electrochromic layer and the counter electrode layer of the device that impacts the performance of the device.
US09723718B2
An electronic component mounting device includes an insulating substrate having a metal pattern formed thereon and a MELF electronic component. The MELF electronic component is fitted into a first receiving portion configured with the metal pattern and the insulating substrate exposed from a lacking portion of the metal pattern. The electronic component mounting device further includes a conductive member formed between the MELF electronic component and the metal pattern, and the conductive member is not formed between the MELF electronic component and the insulating substrate.
US09723705B2
In an example, a synchrocyclotron includes a particle source to provide pulses of ionized plasma to a cavity; a voltage source to provide a radio frequency (RF) voltage to the cavity to accelerate particles from the plasma column outwardly; and an extraction channel to receive a beam of particles from the cavity for output from the particle accelerator. The particle source is configured to control pulse widths of the ionized plasma in order to control an intensity of the beam of particles. This example synchrocyclotron may include one or more of the following features, either alone or in combination.
US09723704B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a pyroelectric crystal, a deuterated or tritiated target, an ion source, and a common support coupled to the pyroelectric crystal, the deuterated or tritiated target, and the ion source. In another embodiment, a method includes producing a voltage of negative polarity on a surface of a deuterated or tritiated target in response to a temperature change of a pyroelectric crystal, pulsing a deuterium ion source to produce a deuterium ion beam, accelerating the deuterium ion beam to the deuterated or tritiated target to produce a neutron beam, and directing the ion beam onto the deuterated or tritiated target to make neutrons using a voltage of the pyroelectric crystal and/or an HGI surrounding the pyroelectric crystal. The directionality of the neutron beam is controlled by changing the accelerating voltage of the system. Other apparatuses and methods are presented as well.
US09723695B1
A lighting control system is provided with a communication method utilizing downstream current modulation. A primary controller is electrically coupled to a plurality of lighting devices via a mains power transmission network. Each of the respective lighting devices includes an occupancy sensor and is configured to provide full illumination when occupancy is detected in the associated area. The controller identifies occupancy by an increase in current on the mains lines, directs the other devices to fully illuminate, and activates a timer. Prior to lapsing of the timer, any of the devices may indicate continued occupancy by adjusting an operating current to a respective light source according to a predetermined pattern. Upon identifying the pattern, the controller generates control signals directing each of the other devices to remain fully illuminated, and resets the timer. The predetermined pattern may for example include amplitude modulation, threshold numbers of cycles, or both.
US09723686B2
A light emission device includes an organic EL panel and a molding resin. In the organic EL panel, an organic EL light emission portion is formed on a substrate. The organic EL panel is flexible. The molding resin shapes the organic EL panel so that the organic EL panel is in a curved state.
US09723682B2
A luminaire is for use in a lighting apparatus that includes a plurality of luminaires and a computerized device. The luminaire includes a plurality of lights and a controller. The luminaire is operated to emit source light characterized by a dominant source light wavelength within a range from 390 nanometers to 750 nanometers, and with a different dominant source light wavelength than the source light of at least one other luminaire in the lighting apparatus, and such that the source light emitted by the luminaire is combined with the source light emitted by the at least one other luminaire to form a combined light. The dominant source light wavelength of the luminaire is variable with time, and the controller operates the plurality of LEDs such that a color temperature of the combined light does not vary more than 5% across the length and width of the area of illumination while the dominant source wavelength varies with time.
US09723681B2
An LED lamp system with different color temperatures and various operation modes can resolve the problems occurred in the prior arts. By switching the AC current continuously, not only the LED lamp sets can emit lights of different color temperatures, and moreover, at the same time, the light sensitive detector and moving object detection circuit serve to detect environmental light intensity and the moving objects so as to auto-control the lighting and light intensity of the LED lamp sets so as to match the requirements of environment protection and power saving As a result, intellectual light control for LED lamps is achieved. This is beneficial to the applications of LED lamps.
US09723676B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure related to a method for modifying a beacon light source for use in a light-based positioning system. In some embodiments, the method includes selecting a modulation scheme for the light source, determining a duty cycle for the light source based on the modulation scheme, the duty cycle having a proportion of time the light source is in an on state and a corresponding proportion of time the light source is in an off state, the proportion of time the light source is in an off state resulting in reduced luminosity of the light source, and supplying additional power to the light source to compensate for the reduced luminosity of the light source by the duty cycle.
US09723675B2
A dimming circuit includes an active dimmer configured to apply input power Vin to an amplification module or an error compensation module, the amplification module configured to amplify an output current of the active dimmer, and the error compensation module configured to correct an error or distortion of the amplification module. The amplification module and the error compensation module are connected in a feedback form.
US09723673B2
A handheld device for merging groups of lighting fixtures is disclosed. The handheld device includes a communication interface configured to wirelessly communicate with a plurality of lighting fixtures and control circuitry. In one embodiment, the control circuitry is configured to effect selection of a first lighting fixture or a first switch module that is grouped with a first group of lighting fixtures via the communication interface; identify the first group of lighting fixtures; effect selection of a device-to-be-added that is not initially associated with the first group of lighting fixtures via the communication interface; determine a new group by adding the device-to-be-added to the first group of lighting fixtures; create group assignment information for the new group; and send the group assignment information to each of the first group of lighting fixtures and the device-to-be-added of the new group via the communication interface.
US09723667B1
An LED driver circuit is provided with a dynamic operating range which can be set using an offline tuning interface. During an offline mode of operation, the tuning interface may be coupled to the dimming control interface and provide both power and one or more digital pulses corresponding to a desired maximum output voltage and/or maximum output current. The controller then modifies the programmed maximum output voltage and the maximum output current values based on the one or more digital pulses received via the tuning interface circuit. Group tuning is permitted by way of a shared bus between a programming device and a plurality of LED driver circuits. Tuning confirmation or error may be detected by an LED driver circuit and the programming device may be notified of the success or failure of a particular tuning operation.
US09723658B2
The present invention provides a light-emitting module capable of absorbing individual differences in organic EL panels that are inevitably generated in manufacture or individual differences between different types of organic EL panels. A connector includes a connection side circuit. The connection side circuit includes a circuit side power supply path that contributes to power supply to a light-emitting panel. The light-emitting panel includes an adjustment element and a light-emitting element. The adjustment element is capable of adjusting an electric resistance value and electrically connected to the light-emitting element through the circuit side power supply path.
US09723655B2
A communication device includes a communication interfacing unit, a display unit, and a processor. The processor operable to perform operations includes controlling the display unit to display a user interface; controlling the display unit to display a first icon on the user interface, in which the first icon indicates a first strength of a first signal of a radio access technology (RAT) received by the communication interfacing unit; and controlling the display unit to display a second icon on the user interface corresponding to a second strength of a second signal of the RAT received by the communication interfacing unit, in which the first signal and the second signal are transmitted by different devices.
US09723647B2
A method for a communications system, wherein in response to detecting a radio link problem during a first phase of a radio link failure, the first user terminal transmits an indication of the detection of the radio link problem to a second user terminal over a device-to-device link. In response to a report on the radio link problem detection of the first user terminal being sent from the second user terminal to a network apparatus, the first user terminal receives a confirmation on a status of the report from the second user terminal over the device-to-device link. Based on the confirmation, the first user terminal decides, whether to stop a first radio link failure timer, reset the first radio link failure timer, or extend the first radio link failure timer.
US09723646B2
An apparatus for communicating over a circuit switched network and a packetized data network. The apparatus includes a packetized data modem, a circuit switched modem, and a hybrid processor. The packetized data modem is configured to communicate with the packetized data network over a packetized data radio link via a radio. The circuit switched modem is configured to communicate with the circuit switched network over a circuit switched radio link via the radio. The hybrid processor is configured to monitor a circuit switched sleep cycle and a packetized data sleep cycle, and is configured to direct the packetized data modem and the circuit switched modem to switch between the networks according to the sleep cycles by prioritizing communications with the circuit switched network above communications with the packetized data network.
US09723643B2
A Device-to-Device (D2D) communication between a first wireless device served by a first base station and a second wireless device served by a second base station is supported by employing an assisting node that cooperates with the first base station by creating a network code form (f(x1,x2)) of first data (x1) transmitted by the first wireless device and second data (x2) transmitted by the second wireless device. The assisting node transmits the network coded form of the first and second data to the first base station, such that the first base station is able to determine the second data (x2) based on the received first data (x1) and the network coded form (f(x1,x2)), and to transmit the second data to the first wireless device, for combining with data received by the second wireless device in the D2D communication.
US09723638B2
A method for establishing a networking connection includes: utilizing a mobile communication device to wirelessly communicate with a wireless access point to establish a networking connection between the mobile communication device and the wireless access point; utilizing the mobile communication device to encode a profile of a wireless local area network (WLAN) corresponding to the wireless access point to generate one or more profile encoded packets; utilizing the mobile communication device to transmit the one or more profile encoded packets; utilizing a wireless communication device to receive the one or more profile encoded packets; utilizing the wireless communication device to parse the one or more profile encoded packets to obtain the profile of the WLAN; and utilizing the wireless communication device to connect to the wireless access point according to the profile of the WLAN to establish a networking connection between the wireless communication device and the wireless access point.
US09723636B2
Physical layer structures and access schemes for use in such networks are described and in particular initial access channel (IACH) structures are proposed. A spectrum efficient downlink (DL) IACH design supports different types of User Equipment (UE) capabilities and different system bandwidths. An IACH includes the synchronization channel (SCH) and broadcast-control channel (BCH). A non-uniform SCH for all system bandwidths is provided, as well as scalable bandwidth BCH depending on system bandwidth. An initial access procedure is provided, as well as an access procedure.
US09723633B2
A method of performing uplink transmission at a user equipment (UE) is provided. The UE determines whether a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission collides with a transmission for a random access in a time interval, and performs the HARQ retransmission when the HARQ retransmission does not collide with the transmission for random access in the time interval. A current value of information indicating a redundancy version (RV) for the HARQ retransmission is incremented by 1 when the HARQ retransmission does not collide with the transmission for random access in the time interval.
US09723632B2
Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.
US09723630B2
A contention-based resource allocation method and apparatus is provided for use in a low power Device-to-Device (D2D) communication. The resource allocation method of a Device-to-Device (D2D) terminal of the present disclosure includes selecting an available resource in a frame, monitoring to detect a signal is received while a backoff timer is running, and performing, when no signal is received on the available resource before expiry of the backoff timer, a D2D communication using the available resource.
US09723627B2
A method for transmitting HARQ for uplink data in support of multi-frame scheduling is provided. The method includes a UE receiving a multi-subframe scheduling uplink grant signaling and PHICH information sent from a base station; for one uplink subframe, the UE processes parameters of uplink transmission according to uplink grant signaling which schedules a SHARQ process of the scheduled uplink subframe and a relative position of a PHICH channel; and the UE sends new uplink data, retransmitting data of the SHARQ to which the uplink subframe belongs, or currently does not send uplink data in the uplink subframe.
US09723623B2
An access point may schedule concurrent peer-to-peer transmissions for different stations in a basic service set (BSS) of an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 architecture.
US09723622B2
A method and apparatus for enabling prioritization of signaling messages in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method receives at least one signaling message, and classifies each of the at least one signaling message. The method schedules each of the at least one signaling message for processing, and discards selectively one or more signaling messages that have been scheduled under an overload condition.
US09723619B2
A method in a first network node (110) for coordinating data transmissions between wireless devices (121, 122) and two or more antennas associated with at least one second network node (210, 310) in a wireless communication network (100) is provided. The wireless devices (121, 122) are served by the at least one second network node (210, 310) and the at least one second network node (210, 310) is configured to perform coordinated data transmission or reception. First, the first network node (110) identifies two or more groups of wireless devices based on mutual spatial correlation between the wireless devices (121, 122). Then, the first network node (110) selects a subset of wireless devices from two or more of the identified groups of wireless devices based on a criterion that relates to a data rate of each of the wireless devices. The first network node (110) then schedules wireless devices from the selected subset of wireless devices for the coordinated data transmission or reception of the at least second and third network node (210, 310). The first network node (110) then coordinates the data transmission or reception between the two or more antennas comprised in the at least one second network node (210, 310) and the scheduled wireless devices.A first network node and a computer program are also provided.
US09723618B2
The invention relates to methods for improving a scheduling request transmission between a UE and a base station. The transmission of the scheduling request is postponed, by implementing a threshold that the data in the transmission buffer has to reach, before a transmission of the scheduling request is triggered. In one variant, the data in the transmission buffer needs to reach a specific amount, to trigger a scheduling request. The invention refers to further improvements: the PDDCH monitoring time window is delayed after sending a scheduling request; the dedicated scheduling request resources of the PUCCH are prioritized differently such that low-priority scheduling requests are transmitted less often.
US09723617B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for processing interference, wherein according to a first demodulation reference signal DMRS pilot symbol carried by a first subcarrier used by an uplink user equipment, an interference channel matrix of an uplink interference channel from the uplink user equipment to a D2D receiving end is measured, wherein the first subcarrier is a subcarrier shared by a D2D transmitting end and the uplink user equipment; a null space matrix of the uplink interference channel is calculated according to the interference channel matrix; and the signal received by the D2D receiving end via the first subcarrier is processed by using the null space matrix to eliminate an interference signal which comes from the uplink user equipment in the signal.
US09723609B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of extending cell coverage, a base station using the same method, and a user equipment using the same method. In one of the exemplary embodiments, a base station transmits a system information over a physical channel located at a first physical location in a group of radio frames to a user equipment (UE). The base station would then determine based on at least a cell identification (ID) of the base station the second physical location for a repetition of the system information over the physical channel located at the second physical location in a group of radio frames. The base station would then transmit the repetition of the system information at the second physical location in the group of radio frames to the UE.
US09723601B2
The proposed technology relates to a method for conveying information from a node to user equipment, UE, in a HSPA, system. The method comprises the step of obtaining (S1) rank information and modulation information related to a four-branch Multiple Input Multiple Output, MIMO, system. The method also comprises the step of combining (S2) the rank information and the modulation information related to the four-branch MIMO system into a bit pattern, and the step of transmitting (S3) the combined rank information and modulation information related to the four-branch MIMO system as said bit pattern in a control channel to the UE. In this way, a power-efficient solution for conveying information related to a four-branch MIMO system in a control channel from a node to a UE in a HSPA system is provided.
US09723600B2
A method of receiving information by a wireless communication device is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of wireless subframes at a periodic interval, wherein an interval duration of the periodic interval is greater than a duration of each of the plurality of wireless subframes. The method further includes determining for each wireless subframe of the plurality whether the wireless subframe includes a grant resource that indicates that a resource unit pattern of a plurality of selectively assignable resource unit patterns of resource units of the subframe includes information for the communication device. A method of transmitting information by the wireless communication device is also provided.
US09723588B1
A method for determining a location of a wireless transmitter includes: receiving, at data processing hardware, receiver signals from corresponding receivers located within an observation area; estimating, by the data processing hardware, the location of the rogue transmitter; and reporting the estimated location of the rogue transmitter to a remote system in communication with the data processing hardware. Estimating the location of a rogue transmitter includes, for each receiver, determining a transmitter location contour about the receiver based on the corresponding at least one receiver signal and one or more propagation path loss functions and identifying an intersection of the transmitter location contours of the receivers as the estimated location of the rogue transmitter. Each propagation path loss function is based on terrain information corresponding to the observation area. The transmitter location contour defines a collection of candidate locations of the rogue transmitter relative to the receiver.
US09723585B2
A scaling apparatus and method scales uncertainty criteria (horizontal and vertical accuracy requirements) originally received from an end user before the uncertainty criteria is sent on to a wireless terminal (30) as requirements on the accuracy of location positioning performed by/for the wireless terminal. In an example embodiment the amount/degree of scaling is selected according to a configured best estimate of the confidence and uncertainty relation, and such best estimate can be based on the majority of the terminals of the network. For a WCDMA radio access network (RAN) case the scaling can be performed in a radio network controller (RNC). For a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio access network (RAN) case the scaling can be performed in the evolved Serving Mobile Location Center (eSMLC) node. In another case the scaling can alternatively be performed in the wireless terminal itself.
US09723583B2
An approach is provided for collaboratively synchronizing devices in an ad hoc network. Responsive to a transmission of a map by a first device to other device(s) listening to the first device, a second device determines the map, which allocates time slots to devices, indicates a conflict by which a same time slot is allocated to the second device and another device. The transmission is responsive to a determination that a Boolean value is true with a probability p if the first device is in an alive mode or a probability q if the first device is in a dormant mode, where p>q and q>0, and where p and q indicate respective likelihoods of performing the transmission. The second device resolves the conflict by allocating another time slot to the second device.
US09723581B2
Systems and methods for establishing synchronized operations on a data delivery network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving synchronization information for a neighbor aware network and for a second channel associated with a data delivery network (including a paging window for one of the networks), and receiving service data on the data delivery channels while maintaining synchronization on all data delivery channels using only the synchronization information from the neighbor aware network channel. The synchronization allows devices to increase efficiency by allowing them to sleep, wake-up, send or store data traffic, and receive or transmit indicators of stored data traffic, among other actions, in a coordinated manner such that the devices are awake at the same specified times (e.g., paging windows). Devices may then stay awake to receive or transmit traffic or sleep to conserve power if there is no traffic to send or receive.
US09723579B2
A traffic data integration method includes: obtaining, by using a computer, pieces of frame data having a same data pattern between first and second traffic data collected respectively by first and second capture devices that capture, as traffic data, frame data communicated by a node in a network; performing, by using the computer, a time correction process by which a time of each piece of frame data in the first and second traffic data is corrected so that capturing times of pieces of obtained frame data are identical; using, by using the computer, frame data for which a same data pattern does not appear repeatedly in a same capture device, as frame data for performing the time correction process; and restricting, by using the computer, a time difference of frame data used when the time correction process is performed.
US09723566B2
A method implemented in a wireless communications system including a first uplink (UL) client device, a second UL client device, a first downlink (DL) client device, and an access point (AP) is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps in this order: a) determining interference alignment (IA) solution between the first and second UL client devices and the first device; and b) determining, according to the IA solution, receive filter U0 for the AP and precoder V0 for the AP to improve a UL stream rate and a DL stream rate. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.
US09723559B2
Various embodiments of wireless ambient sensor unit are presented. The sensor unit may include a wireless transceiver configured to transmit sensor data and to receive instructions. The sensor unit may include a sensor configured to measure an ambient condition. The sensor unit may include a controller in communication with the wireless transceiver and the sensor. The controller may be configured to compare data measured about the ambient condition to a stored threshold while the wireless ambient sensor unit is functioning in a low-power mode. The controller may be configured to exit the low-power mode in response to the comparison of the data with the stored threshold. The controller may be configured to cause the data measured about the ambient condition to be transmitted by the wireless transceiver as one or more messages in response to the comparison to the stored threshold.
US09723557B2
In a first embodiment, a method includes: entering a reduced communications performance environment, wherein a mobile device connected to a network loses connection to the network; attempting to reconnect to the network in the reduced performance environment without success; recording network connection attempt information; entering an improved performance environment, wherein the mobile device is reconnected to the network; and transmitting the network connection attempt information to a remote server. In a second embodiment, a method includes: consulting a network reconnection attempts profile previously sent from a cloud server to a mobile device; based on the network reconnections attempts profile, determining a network reconnection attempt schedule; and attempting to reconnect to the network according to the network reconnection attempt schedule until the mobile device is reconnected to the network.
US09723553B2
According to a first aspect, it is presented a method, performed by a network device, for determining a set of power state parameters at least partly defining when a wireless terminal is to be in an active state or a power saving state. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining at least one traffic characterization parameter; for each traffic flow, simulating a plurality of sets of power state parameters; obtaining at least one operational traffic characterization parameter; associating the operational traffic with a selected traffic flow; finding an applicable set of power state parameters by finding a set of power state parameters with a low cost, wherein the set of power state parameters are associated with the selected traffic flow; and sending the applicable set of power state parameters to the wireless terminal in operation. A corresponding network node, computer program and computer program product are also presented.
US09723546B2
An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a wireless communication device that is capable of efficiently searching another wireless communication device that is capable of providing a required service. A master device, when the master device receives an advertisement from a slave device, transmits, to the slave device, a scan request that includes information on a requested service that the master device requires. The slave device, which has received the scan request, decides whether or not the slave device itself is capable of providing the requested services, and transmits, to the master device, a scan response that includes a result of the decision. When the decision result included in the scan response indicates that the slave device is capable of providing the requested service, the master device establishes a connection to the slave device.
US09723541B2
Techniques for priority access to a priority access channel are described. In at least some embodiments, a portion of the radio spectrum is divided into general access (GA) channels and priority access (PA) channels. Levels of access to the different channels are controlled based upon priority levels of devices attempting to access the channels. For instance, embodiments employ a channel database that tracks available GA channels and PA channels, and notifies various devices of the available channels. The channel database may also track keys for PA channels that enable authentication of devices for priority access to PA channels. In at least some embodiments, tracking available GA channels and PA channels enables underutilized radio channels to be identified for various uses, such as for wireless broadband communication.
US09723540B2
A low-cost system and methodology that facilitates improved femto access control by employing Bluetooth® technology is provided. Bluetooth-based femto access control utilizes a Bluetooth modem in a femto access point (FAP) that broadcasts a unique Bluetooth identity (ID). Nearby UEs can detect the femtocell and employ the Bluetooth ID for idle mode reselection and active mode handover behavior. Specifically, on detecting a femtocell, a UE can perform Bluetooth pairing with the FAP prior to performing attachment signaling. Moreover, only if Bluetooth signaling is successful, the UE proceeds to attach to the FAP. Thus, the system and method disclosed herein can control the UEs that attach to the femtocell, thereby reducing the signaling load and improving battery life of the UEs.
US09723533B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for performing multi-eNB connectivity communication. An eNB receives a Radio Link Failure (RLF) expected message related to a first link, from a UE. A target cell is sought for a handover of the UE according to the RLF expected message. The target cell is selected, when the target cell is found. The eNB receives, from the UE, an RLF message related to the first link, through a second link. An instruction for the handover to the selected target cell is transmitted to the UE.
US09723530B2
An apparatus and a method for providing call continuity in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a first communication unit for setting a call with a counterpart terminal in a first network, a second communication unit for setting a call with the counterpart terminal in a second network while the call is set in the first network, and a control unit for terminating the call of the first network after the call setup is completed in the second network.
US09723527B2
Methods and apparatus for wireless communication for improving back to back cell reselection that includes establishing that cell reselection to a primary candidate cell has failed. Afterwards, a UE determines if a set of predetermined conditions have been triggered and schedules cell reselection to a secondary candidate based on whether the set of predetermined conditions have been triggered.
US09723521B2
A network handover method, a terminal, a controller, a gateway, and a system. The method includes: when a terminal accesses a first network, converting data including an initial TCP four-tuple into data including a first TCP four-tuple, and sending the data to a gateway; and after handing over from the first network to a second network, converting data including the initial TCP four-tuple into data including a second TCP four-tuple, and sending the data including the second TCP four-tuple to the gateway. This achieves objectives of preventing a connection from being interrupted before and after the network handover, improving use experience, and reducing complexity of a network handover process.
US09723520B1
The present invention provides a dual mode mobile terminal that is capable of supporting both cellular and local wireless communications. The mobile terminal operates to determine when to switch between local wireless communication and cellular modes. To determine when to switch between local wireless and cellular modes, the mobile terminal determines its current location, uses the current location to obtain mode switching information, and switches modes as necessary based on the mode switching information.
US09723514B2
Method and arrangement in a first node for requesting a status report from a second node. The first node and the second node are both comprised within a wireless communication network. The status report comprises positive and/or negative acknowledgement of data sent from the first node, to be received by the second node. The first node comprises a first counter configured to count the number of transmitted Protocol Data Units, PDUs, and a second counter configured to count the number of transmitted data bytes. The method and arrangements comprises initialising the first and the second counter to zero, transmitting data to be received by the second node, comparing the value of the first and the second counters with a first threshold limit value and a second threshold limit value and requesting a status report from the second node if any of the threshold limit values is reached or exceeded.
US09723513B1
A wireless device including a selection module configured to select a discovery window from a plurality of discovery windows in which to transmit a discovery frame, and a transmit module configured to transmit on average one discovery frame every predetermined number of discovery windows to reduce probability of collision in response to the one or more wireless devices competing for access to a channel. A discovery window is a time period in which (i) the wireless device and (ii) one or more wireless devices in a network are configured to transmit discovery frames to discover a service in the network prior to associating with each other. The discovery frame includes (i) a publish message to make information about capabilities and services of the wireless device available to other devices or (ii) a subscribe message to gather information about capabilities and services of other devices.
US09723507B2
A user device performs intra-frequency measurements and inter-frequency measurements at a specified rate when the user device in a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, and determines a signal condition of a signal received from a serving cell. The user device selects one of multiple lower intra-frequency rates for intra-frequency measurements in subsequent DRX cycles based on the signal condition and selects one of multiple lower inter-frequency rates for inter-frequency measurements in the subsequent DRX cycles based on the signal condition. The reduction in the rate may reduce a current drain by the user device when the user device is in the subsequent DRX cycles.
US09723495B2
Multiple access wireless communication networks/infrastructures are virtualized in telecommunications environments. A system replicates a cell identifier associated with a macro base station device to create a virtual base station device presence for a set of network devices included in the multiple access wireless communication network and thereafter facilitates communication with the multiple access wireless communication network, the set of network devices, and a mobile device through the created virtual base station presence.
US09723492B2
A method and an apparatus for antenna management are disclosed. The method comprises that resource use status data are collected from managed access networks, access networks which participate in antenna scheduling are selected from the managed access networks according to the resource use status data to compose an antenna scheduling set, wherein access networks using same spectrum resources are composed in the same antenna scheduling set; radio links of each access network in the antenna scheduling set are divided into one or more radio link clusters; radio resources are allocated to every radio link cluster in the antenna scheduling set in order that mutual interferences among all the radio link clusters in the antenna scheduling set are within a preset range; and radio resource allocation results are sent to the access network that the radio link clusters belong to.
US09723480B2
An example mobile terminal is a terminal for transmitting and receiving data to and from a server device via an access point by wireless communication. The mobile terminal includes an identification information storage unit configured to store a terminal ID, a signal receiver configured to receive a broadcast signal containing a plurality of terminal IDs transmitted from the server device via the access point, an ID determiner configured to determine whether or not any of the terminal IDs contained in the received signal corresponds to the terminal ID of this mobile terminal, a connection requester configured to, when the ID determiner determines that one of the terminal IDs corresponds to the terminal ID of this mobile terminal, request a wireless connection to the access point, and a data communicator configured to transmit or receive data to or from the server device via the access point by wireless communication.
US09723477B2
The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a connectivity service platform in a communication network. The method comprises storing a fall-back policy comprising information about a fall-back timer. The method also comprises sending a policy message comprising information about the fall-back policy to a radio device comprising an eUICC. The method also comprises determining that the radio device experiences a problem with a wireless network connection from a first subscription of the radio device with a first network operator. The method also comprises starting the fall-back timer in accordance with the stored fall-back policy in response to said determining The method also comprises falling back in accordance with the stored fall-back policy in response to the started fall-back timer having expired, thereby enabling the connectivity service platform to communicate with the radio device via a network connection from a second subscription of the radio device instead of from the first subscription.
US09723474B2
Provided in one disclosure of the present specification is a method for transmitting a detection signal from user equipment (UE). The method comprises the steps of: driving a mobility management (MM) delay time timer, when the MM delay time timer is received by the UE from a mobility management entity (MME) in a network; confirming the priority for detecting at least one other UE, when detection of the at least one other UE is required before the MM delay time timer expires; and randomly selecting a resource based on a shared resource pool included in system information, which is broadcasted from a base station, and then transmitting to the at least one other UE a detection signal including a proximity service code from the randomly selected resource, when the detection of the at least one other UE is considered to have high priority or to be urgent.
US09723468B2
A method of emergency handling is provided for a vehicle engaged with an uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV). The method can include collecting location information if emergency situation occurs. In emergency situations, the vehicle can determine whether an operation of uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) is allowed based on the location information and time information. After determining whether there is a flight space for the operation of uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) above a vehicle, the vehicle can transmit at least one of SOS and an emergency call into the uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV).
US09723465B2
A system, station and corresponding methods for providing warning notifications. In one exemplary method, it is determined whether any of a plurality of stations to which a Warning Notification is to transmitted is in a connected state. When it is determined that a first one of the stations is in a connected state, generating, by a broadcaster, a secondary Warning Notification formatted for transmission over a dedicated control channel (DCCH) and transmitting, by the broadcaster, the secondary Warning Notification to the first station over the DCCH. In another exemplary embodiment, a station for receiving emergency notifications is described. The station includes a receiver configured to receive a primary Warning Notification; and a processor which, upon receiving the emergency alert configuration in a format of one of a Paging Type 2 message and an SICI message, despreads a plurality of fingers.
US09723464B2
Systems and methods for receiving service data from a data path are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a message from a neighbor aware network, and decoding the message to determine a communication channel used to provide a service, and an indicator of a paging window for the communication channel. In some aspects, the indicator of the paging window is based on synchronization information for a second communication channel.
US09723448B2
A tracking device, a battery charger, and a tracking method thereof are provided. The method, adopted by a tracking device, includes: upon being attached to a battery charger, scanning, by the tracking device, for a first radio environment; and transmitting, by the tracking device, a request for setting the scanned first radio environment as a home zone to a monitoring device.
US09723444B2
A position-determining apparatus, such as a GPS receiver, determines the position of the mobile device based on the time of flight of a transmitted probe signal using a method in which sections of the received signal is classified into two or more categories and accumulated according to categories before being used to compute the convolutions familiar in the context of a matched filter. Using the method of the present invention to compute the convolutions, and optionally applying additional time-saving techniques described herein, a position determination is achieved using a number of arithmetic operations that is significantly reduced from that required in prior art methods to compute the convolutions. The reduced number of arithmetic operations can reduce significantly the power consumption required of a device carrying out a method of the present invention, and thereby realizing a significant advantage.
US09723437B1
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for performing a positioning process utilizing wireless communication network reference signals. The method may include processing, by a mobile device with carrier aggregation, a voice call via a first Radio Access Technology (RAT), the processing of the call causing second RAT capabilities of the mobile device to go out of service. The method may also include obtaining assistance data that includes information for capturing reference signals of a wireless communications network suitable for performing a positioning process with the mobile device during the voice call over the first RAT. Furthermore, based on the obtained assistance data, the method may include searching for the reference signals using an available receiver of the mobile device to access the wireless communications network. The method may also include providing signal measurements generated from captured reference signals to a position determining entity.
US09723428B2
An Internet-of-Things (IoT) system for public transportation service and a method of operating the same are disclosed. The IoT system includes on-vehicle devices, a management server, a plurality of bus stop access points (APs), and a wired/wireless bus stop access point (AP) communication network. The on-vehicle devices are mounted within a bus, i.e., a public transportation means. The management server is connected to the bus over an Internet, i.e., a wireless communication means. The plurality of bus stop APs are short distance communication APs, and are each provided in each bus stop at which the bus stops and configured to enable information to be exchanged between the bus stop and the bus. The wired/wireless bus stop AP communication network connects the plurality of bus stop APs. The management server performs Internet access processing to connect the bus stop AP communication network and an external terminal.
US09723421B2
A method for controlling an electronic device is provided. The method for controlling an electronic device includes operating a first microphone and a second microphone; receiving a first voice signal picked up by the first microphone and a second voice signal picked up by the second microphone; selecting at least one voice signal; storing the selected at least one voice signal; and sending the second voice signal picked up by the second microphone to a communication module.
US09723418B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing media content based on playback zone awareness. In one aspect a server associated with a service provider may be configured to receive zone data identifying a name of a zone associated with a playback device, identify, based on the zone data, media content based on the zone data, and provide the media content to the playback device. In another aspect, a playback device may be configured to associate the playback device with a zone, and provide to a service provider zone data identifying a name of the zone associated with the playback device. In yet another aspect, a controller device may be configured to receive an input identifying a playback zone, and sending to a service provider, a message including zone data identifying the playback zone.
US09723412B2
The present invention provides a speaker system comprising: an electroacoustic converter film composed of a polymeric composite piezoelectric body in which piezoelectric body particles are dispersed in a viscoelastic matrix formed of a polymer material that exhibits viscoelasticity at normal temperature, and thin film electrodes formed on both surfaces of the polymeric composite piezoelectric body; and a driving circuit that attenuates signal intensity of an input signal from a signal source at a rate of 5 dB to 7 dB per octave and supplies the attenuated input signal to the electroacoustic converter film.
US09723410B2
A speaker assembly includes a shellpot for receiving a speaker motor, the shellpot including an upstanding rim on an upper portion of the shellpot, and speaker basket including a base portion having an opening therein for receiving the shellpot. An insert member is disposed adjacent the speaker basket and the rim, wherein a plurality of sections of the rim are displaced to abut the insert member and couple the shellpot to the speaker basket. A method of assembling the speaker assembly is also provided.
US09723401B2
A mobile communications device contains at least two microphones. One microphone is designated by a selector to provide a voice dominant signal and another microphone is designated to provide a noise or echo dominant signal, for a call or a recording. The selector communicates the designations to a switch that routes the selected microphone signals to the inputs of a processor for voice signal enhancement. The selected voice dominant signal is then enhanced by suppressing ambient noise or canceling echo therein, based on the selected noise or echo dominant signal. The designation of microphones may change at any instant during the call or recording depending on various factors, e.g. based on the quality of the microphone signals. Other embodiments are also described.
US09723396B2
Earphone assemblies with magnets are provided to anchor the assemblies to a user during use.
US09723395B2
A portable sound equipment including a flexible band with variable curvature, a pair of housings coupled to both ends of the band, respectively, an earbud holder provided in each of the housings, an earbud detachably held in the earbud holder and outputting sounds, a controller provided in the housing and connected to the earbud to control the sound output unit, a sound signal wire configured to connect the earbud and the controller with each other and a wingtip detachably coupled to an end of the housing and having an elastic material, where the wingtip includes a rubber ring to expose the earbud holders and the earbuds and the sound cables penetrate an opening of the rubber ring.
US09723387B2
To provide an optical signal processing device that can collect light from an input waveguide to form a beam array having a small diameter. The optical signal processing device includes input waveguides 302a to 302c, an array waveguide 305 and a slab waveguide 304 that is connected to a first arc 304a having the single point C as a center and input waveguides 302a to 302c and that is connected to a second arc 404b having the single point C as a center and an array waveguide 305.
US09723386B1
A communication system includes a transparent refractive optical wedge, a steerable mirror, a position feedback device, and a transceiver. The transparent refractive optical wedge has first and second faces angled with respect to each other and receives first and second optical signals through both the first and second faces. The first and second optical signals travel along parallel or common paths through the first face and diverge at a deflection angle with respect to each other through the second face. The steerable mirror is in optical communication with the first face of the optical wedge, the position feedback device, and the transceiver. The position feedback device adjusts a position of the steerable mirror to maintain the alignment of the reflected signal with the position feedback device. The transceiver has an optical transmitter transmitting one of the optical signals and an optical receiver receiving the other optical signal.
US09723380B2
A method of and system for automatically adjusting airflow and sensors for use therewith are disclosed. A sensor assembly includes a first face on an opposite side of the sensor assembly relative to a second face. The assembly includes an electrical plug on the first face and an electrical outlet on the second face. The electrical outlet is of a same type that is complimentary to the electrical plug on the first face. The assembly includes a sensor for sensing a value of an environmental variable in a space and a sensor communication system for transmitting and receiving information. A sensor system includes a plurality of sensor assemblies disposed in a building. Each sensor assembly includes a sensor for sensing a value of an environmental variable of the space within which the sensor is placed. The system determines gradient values for the sensed environmental variable.
US09723377B2
The disclosure relates to a method of processing a sequence of image frames to reduce its length. One implementation may involve extracting coefficients (e.g., Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients) from components of individual frames, and comparing the resulting coefficients for sequential frames to identify frames having the least change from a prior frame. Also, scene change values for each frame may be calculated and placed in a sorted list to facilitate identification of frames for removal. Frame removal may be conducted in rounds, where a group of pictures (GOP) may only have one frame removed for any given round.
US09723374B2
Described is a system and method for programmatically determining credits for a video content item. By determining a point at which credits are displayed, a content provider may effectively provide supplementation information in a contextual and non-intrusive manner. In order to determine when credits are displayed, individual frames of content may be decoded and various characteristics of the individual frames may be analyzed.
US09723372B1
Systems and methods for stitching advertisements in streaming content are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving one or more advertisements. An unmarked content item may be received, the unmarked content item comprising a stream-enabled video including a set of sequential black frames. An insertion point may be identified based on a location of at least one black frame of the set of sequential black frames without requiring user input, the insertion point identified during streaming of the unmarked content item to a consumer system, the insertion point being ahead of a current playback point of the unmarked content item streaming to the consumer system. The one or more advertisements may be stitched in the unmarked content item at the insertion point. The unmarked content item may be streamed to a consumer system until the insertion point is reached, and the one or more advertisements may be streamed to the consumer system when the insertion point is reached.
US09723366B2
A supplemental content retrieval system is disclosed for playing supplemental video content on a video player. The system comprises a video player for playing video content, a secondary device for receiving supplemental video content, and a remote database for providing supplemental video content, wherein the video player is configured to play the supplemental video content received by the secondary device. A method for using said system is also disclosed.
US09723361B2
A method and system for monitoring video assets provided by a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) includes an expert test monitoring platform (ETMP) configured to emulate MCDN client systems at a facility of an MCDN service provider. The ETMP may allow execution of ETMP scripts that specify remote control commands to send to a desired plurality of multimedia handling devices representing emulated MCDN clients. The ETMP scripts may be manually or automatically initiated and may be configured with execution parameters specifying, among other aspects, a number of iterations to repeat. Results recorded when the ETMP script executes may be retrieved and used to generate reports.
US09723355B2
A data processing device, includes a bus, a demultiplexer which is coupled to the bus, and which receives a content including video data and audio data. A memory interface which is coupled to the bus, and which is connectable to a memory for temporarily accumulating the video data and the audio data output from the demultiplexer in accordance with a delay amount.
US09723345B2
A network device includes an electronic program guide (EPG) component configured to receive EPG data associated with an EPG from an external EPG server. The network device further includes a manager component comprising a pre-loader configured to pre-render and send first EPG images, associated with the EPG, that are frequently re-used to multiple client devices; a graphics interceptor configured to generate one or more second EPG images based on a graphics call, wherein the graphics call causes a first one of multiple client devices to display the one or more second EPG images; and a window manager configured to track changes in the one or more second EPG images and send a modified EPG image that includes the changes, or a modified portion of an EPG image that includes the changes, to the first one of the multiple client devices.
US09723344B1
A media sharing system identifies fingerprints that represent an uploaded video and generates a digest based on the fingerprints. The media sharing system searches for digests of previously processed videos whose digests match the digest of the uploaded video. A previously processed video whose digest matches the digest of the uploaded video is identified as a matching video. For each matching video, the media sharing system retrieves policy information that describes whether the video was found to violate one or more policies of the media sharing system. The media sharing system determines whether to halt processing of the uploaded video based on the retrieved policy information.
US09723340B2
A method for transmitting broadcast signals in a transmitter. Internet Protocol (IP) packets are input processed to output data of a plurality of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs). The IP packets include service data for a service and service information for acquiring the service. The service information includes Electronic Service Guide (ESG) signaling information. When an ESG is delivered in a session that is included in at least one of the IP packets, the ESG signaling information includes identification information for identifying the session and IP address and port information for the ESG. Layer 1 (L1) signaling information is encoded for signaling the plurality of PLPs. A first signal frame and a second signal frame are modulated by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method. A first broadcast signal including the modulated first signal frame and a second broadcast signal including the modulated second signal frame are transmitted.
US09723339B2
A method for generating time marking for synchronous terrestrial broadcasting in at least one single-frequency zone of at least one audiovisual stream via at least one connection in which the at least one audiovisual stream is multiplexed with at least one other audiovisual stream broadcast via the at least one connection, the method including: inserting packets including at least one item of information representing a common reference clock, detecting at least one packet including information representing the number of days elapsed since a predetermined date, calculating the number of loopbacks of a counter during a given period, updating the counter at each packet of the audiovisual stream transmitted, inserting at least one packet including the value of the updated counter in the audiovisual stream in order to form a modified audiovisual stream and transmitting the modified audiovisual stream.
US09723323B2
When a block (MB22) of which motion vector is referred to in the direct mode contains a plurality of motion vectors, 2 motion vectors MV23 and MV24, which are used for inter picture prediction of a current picture (P23) to be coded, are determined by scaling a value obtained from averaging the plurality of motion vectors or selecting one of the plurality of the motion vectors.
US09723300B2
A direct interaction stereoscopic display system that produces an augmented or virtual reality environment. The system comprises one or more displays and one or more beam combiners to virtually project high-resolution flicker-free stereoscopic 3D imagery into a graphics volume in an open region. Viewpoint tracking is provided enabling motion parallax cues. A user interaction volume co-inhabits the graphics volume and a precise low-latency sensor allows users to directly interact with 3D virtual objects or interfaces without occluding the graphics. An adjustable support frame permits the 3D imagery to be readily positioned in situ with real environments for augmented reality applications. Individual display components may be adjusted to precisely align the 3D imagery with components of real environments for high-precision applications and also to match accommodation-vergence distances to prevent eye strain. The system's modular design and adjustability allows display panel pairs of various sizes and models to be installed.
US09723297B2
A 3D display device is provided. The 3D display device includes a collimated backlight, a display module, an interference filter, and a lens array. The collimated backlight herein includes a first sub-backlight source and a second sub-backlight source. The display module includes a plurality of sub-pixel units. The interference filter includes a plurality of first interference filter units and second interference filter units. The lens array includes a plurality of lens units. The 3D display device of the present invention has a higher resolution and a wider viewing angle.
US09723280B2
Provided is a projection-type image display device including: a projection unit including a light source configured to emit light having intensity corresponding to a pixel value of an input image and a deflection unit configured to deflect emitted light from the light source using a mirror to perform scanning on a projection object; a retiming unit configured to perform retiming on pixel data of the input image in accordance with a deflection angle in the deflection unit; a shape distortion correction table having a shape distortion correction amount in each shape distortion correction table calculation position; a brightness distortion correction table having a brightness distortion correction amount in each brightness distortion correction table calculation position; and an image correction unit configured to perform distortion correction on the input image by performing signal processing based on the shape distortion correction table and the brightness distortion correction table.
US09723273B2
Methods and systems are described for using a video camera. According to at least one embodiment, a camera assembly for recording video footage includes a lens connector with a lens attached to a first end and a camera body connector on a second end. Further, the lens connector has a length that separates the video lens a distance from a camera body when the lens connector is attached to camera body and also housing at least one cable capable of transmitting a video signal recorded by the lens from the lens to the camera body. Also, the camera body has a power module and a communication module to communicate with a remote control unit.
US09723270B2
A device for acquiring first and subsequent images of a suspect area on a patient and methods for monitoring or detecting changes of the suspect area over time and providing notification when the changes exceed a threshold. The device may be an imaging device, such as a digital camera, possibly augmented with physical or optical devices for arranging the orientation and/or distance of the imaging device with respect to the suspect area. In addition, methods for identifying, relocating, acquiring a first and/or subsequent image of the suspect area, and performing a comparative analysis of respective images are also described. Results of the comparative analysis can be used to notify and/or assist a medical professional in treating or counseling the patient.
US09723268B2
A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding a broadcast program signal received from a TV tuner to thereby display it on a display screen while producing audio sounds by loudspeakers and which performs, in the videophone function mode a videophone-use decode function for decoding a videophone signal received from a distant party to thereby display on the screen an image of the distant party using the screen and speakers, and an encoder which performs a videophone-use encode function for encoding a video signal from a camera and a voice signal from a microphone to generate a videophone signal, which is sent to the distant party via a network.
US09723257B2
Video conversion technology, in which a first stream of video content is accessed and multiple, different layers are extracted from the first stream of the video content. Each of the multiple, different layers are separately processed to convert the multiple, different layers into modified layers that each have a higher resolution. The modified layers are reassembled into a second stream of the video content that has a higher resolution than the first stream of the video content.
US09723256B2
Systems and methods for re-recording content associated with popularity that re-emerged are provided. A plurality of media assets is recorded. Responsive to determining that popularity of a given one of the plurality of media assets fell below a first threshold, the given media asset is selected for deletion and the given media asset is added to a list of a plurality of media assets that have been selected for deletion. Popularity for the given media asset in the list is retrieved after selecting the given media asset for deletion. The retrieved popularity of the given media asset, which previously fell below the first threshold, is compared to a second threshold. In response to determining that the retrieved popularity of the given media asset, which previously fell below the first threshold, is now above the second threshold, an action relating to re-recording the given media asset is performed.
US09723251B2
A technique for image acquisition and management, by utilizing a mobile device equipped with a camera and a mobile software application. The software application enables a) providing guidance to an operator for making, by the camera, a set of one or more images of an object, so as to obtain them at one or more angles suggested by the software application for properly registering currently existing visible features of the object, b) obtaining the set of images, c) storing the set of obtained images as a current set, along with its related data, in at least one storage/processing location for further analysis. The technique, using the mobile software application, may also perform d) analysis of thus obtained current set of images by comparing it with another reference set of images of the same or similar object. The technique may be used, for example, for detecting defects on a vehicle body.
US09723246B2
A holographic producing housing includes a base panel having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a back end and a front end opposite the back end. The housing further includes a first and second side panels vertically extending from the first and second side of the base panel. A back panel vertically extends from the back end of the base panel and a floor panel extends partially upwards from the front end of the base panel. A front opening is formed leading into the housing. The first side panel and the second side panel each include an aligning diagonal slot to receive and secure a reflective window within. A receiver is formed on the housing to secure an electronic video playing device within so that a screen of the electronic video playing device is directed towards the reflective window at an angle.
US09723245B2
Provided are data transmitting apparatuses and methods, data receives apparatuses and methods, and data transceiving systems and methods. A data transmitting apparatus includes: a packet generator configured to generate an audio metadata packet; and a transmitter configured to transmit the generated audio metadata packet to a data receiving apparatus, wherein a header of the generated audio metadata packet includes a split screen information field in relation to audio data represented by the generated audio metadata packet.
US09723244B2
An LED driver IC for driving external strings of LEDs includes a prefix register and a data register connected in series with each other and with the prefix and data registers in other driver ICs. The prefix and data registers of the driver ICs are connected in a daisy chain arrangement with an interface IC. The interface IC loads data identifying a functional latch into the prefix register and data defining a functional condition into the data register of each driver IC. The data in the data register is then transferred to the functional latch to control the functional condition within the LED driver IC.
US09723235B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a light shielding unit and a transfer transistor. The photoelectric conversion unit generates charges by photoelectrically converting light. The light shielding unit is formed by engraving a semiconductor substrate on which the photoelectric conversion unit is formed, so as to surround an outer periphery of the photoelectric conversion unit. The transfer transistor transfers charges generated in the photoelectric conversion unit. During a charge accumulation period in which charges are accumulated in the photoelectric conversion unit, a potential that repels the charges is supplied to the light shielding unit and a gate electrode of the transfer transistor. During a charge transfer period in which charges are transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a potential that repels the charges is supplied to the light shielding unit and a potential that attracts the charges is supplied to the gate electrode of the transfer transistor.
US09723232B2
A solid-state image sensor is provided. The solid-state image sensor includes a substrate. The substrate includes an electrode layer, an insulating layer arranged on the electrode layer, and a semiconductor layer arranged on the insulating layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region configured to accumulate charges generated by photoelectric conversion, the second semiconductor region being arranged on the first semiconductor region and having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, and a third semiconductor region of the second conductivity type to which the charges accumulated in the second semiconductor region are transferred.
US09723224B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for implementing adaptive low-light identification. These techniques and apparatuses enable a computing device to capture infrared (IR) imagery of a person and determine, based on previously-captured IR imagery of multiple people, an identity of the person. Visible-light imagery of the identified person can then be retrieved and combined with the IR imagery to provide composite imagery of the person, which is presented to a user. By so doing, the user can more-easily identify the person, particularly in low-light conditions.
US09723222B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which self-photography can be assisted in a manner of controlling a front camera and a rear camera. The mobile terminal includes a first camera located on a rear side of the mobile terminal, a touchscreen and a controller. The controller is configured to activate the first camera, cause the touchscreen to display a preview screen for the activated first camera, and cause the touchscreen to stop the displaying of the preview screen when a self-photograph condition is satisfied while the first camera is activated and the preview screen is displayed, wherein the first camera is used to capture a first image in a self-photography mode when the self-photography condition is satisfied.
US09723220B2
Included is an imaging unit that outputs images by imaging a subject, a light amount adjustment unit that drives a light amount adjustment member to adjust the amount of light input to the imaging unit, a control unit that controls the imaging unit so that after a first image is output by the imaging unit, a second image having an exposure amount different from that of the first image is output, and a setting unit that sets the difference in the exposure amount between the first image and the second image. The first image and the second image are images used for compositing. The setting unit sets the difference in the exposure amount between the first image and second image so that the relative relationship in the exposure amount between the first image and the second image imaged when the light amount adjustment unit is operating is the same as the relative relationship in the exposure amount between the first image and the second image imaged when the light amount adjustment unit is not operating.
US09723217B2
An imaging device that photographs a moving image, comprising: an imaging unit configured to repeatedly obtain image data of one frame in a first cycle, further divide a period of the one frame into periods of a predetermined number of divided frames, and repeatedly output divided image data for each divided frame; a gain application section configured to detect object luminance and apply a gain to a plurality of pieces of divided image data; and a synthesis processing section configured to combine the plurality of pieces of divided image data, to generate combined image data of one frame, wherein, when the plurality of pieces of divided image data is obtained in the imaging unit, the number of divided frames is not changed during the period of the first cycle, and wherein, when the number of divided frames is changed for a next cycle of the first cycle.
US09723212B2
The present disclosure provides techniques for capturing an image or video. In particular, the present disclosure provides techniques for capturing the image or video using a camera integrated with a computing device, such as a cellular phone. A computing device can include an image sensor to capture image data and a processor to process the image data. The image sensor is to capture the image data in an orientation format irrespective of an orientation of the computing device.
US09723211B2
In a camera module having an image stabilization mechanism, both of miniaturization and thinning are achieved, while adopting a structure of driving an entire of a lens group in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis direction. An image stabilization portion (4) of a camera module (50) includes an OIS base (14), an OIS movable plate (12), and guide balls (15) which support the OIS movable plate (12) so as to be movable in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis direction with respect to the OIS base (14).
US09723206B1
Enabling a true surround view of a 360 panorama via a dynamic cylindrical projection of the panorama
A stereographic panoramic media (SPM) can be received. The media can include a 360 degree field of view (FoV) within the horizontal plane and a usable FoV within the vertical plane. A first, second, and third field of view associated with the SPM can be identified. The first FoV can be 180 degree field of view and the second and third FoVs can encompass 90 degree FoV within the horizontal plane. The SPM can be translated to a cylindrical panoramic media (CPM). The CPM can conforms to a three dimensional hollow cylindrical projection (CP). The first FoV of the SPM can be mapped onto the inner surface of the CP, and the first and the second field of view can be mapped onto the outer surface. The CPM can provide a visible continuous field of view of at least 270 degrees.
US09723204B2
Dynamic motion path blur techniques are described. In one or more implementations, paths may be specified to constrain a motion blur effect to be applied to a single image. A variety of different techniques may be employed as part of the motion blur effects, including use of curved blur kernel shapes, use of a mesh representation of blur kernel parameter fields to support real time output of the motion blur effect to an image, use of flash effects, blur kernel positioning to support centered or directional blurring, tapered exposure modeling, and null paths.
US09723196B2
An imaging device includes a non-contact communication unit and a control unit. The non-contact communication unit performs non-contact communication with an external device. The control unit controls turning ON/OFF power and an imaging preparation operation of the imaging device. The control unit performs control of turning ON power of the imaging device when detecting a polling command which is transmitted from the external device by the non-contact communication, of transmitting connection information regarding wireless communication connection with the external device to the external device after the power is turned ON, and of performing the imaging preparation operation when transmission of the connection information is completed.
US09723195B2
An image capturing apparatus that communicates with an external device includes a field-of-view changing unit configured to change a field of view for capturing an image of a subject, a receiving unit, a control unit, and an amount-of-change determination unit. The receiving unit receives, from the external device, a command for controlling the field-of-view changing unit. The control unit controls, when the receiving unit receives a command to start to change a field of view, the field-of-view changing unit to start to change the field of view. The amount-of-change determination unit determines an amount of change in the field of view. The control unit controls the field-of-view changing unit such that the determined amount of change in the field of view becomes a predetermined amount or more, irrespective of whether the receiving unit receives a command to stop changing the field of view using the field-of-view changing unit.
US09723193B2
There is provided a transmitting device including a packet signal generation unit configured to generate a packet signal of a video, a transmitting unit configured to transmit the packet signal via an asynchronous transmission network used in common by another transmitting device, and a compression rate control unit configured to control a video compression rate. Switch timing information indicating a switch timing of the video compression rate is transmitted together with the packet signal of the video.
US09723185B2
The present disclosure relates to a camera module including a fixture; a moving part centrally coupled with a lens and arranged to move relative to the fixture; three or more magnets arranged at a periphery of the moving part; and three or more coils arranged from an inner surface of the fixture to areas opposite to the three or more magnets, where each of the coils independently receives a control signal so that the moving part moves to a height direction and tilted relative to a central axis of the moving part, whereby a lens can be axially moved and tilted at the same time using arrangement of a single set of coils and magnets.
US09723182B2
A received image displaying apparatus comprises: a wireless communication unit that wirelessly receives the frame images transmitted by the image transmitting apparatus with which the received image displaying apparatus has established a connection of wireless communication; and a displaying unit that displays the frame images, which were wirelessly received by the wireless communication unit, in an order in which the frame images were captured. At least one of the image transmitting apparatus and the received image displaying apparatus comprises: a reference sync signal generating unit that generates the reference sync signals; and a control unit that, if the wireless communication unit has received no reference sync signals for a certain time interval, controls the reference sync signal generating unit to generate reference sync signals and that further controls the wireless communication unit to wirelessly transmit the reference sync signals to the other apparatus included in the image transmitting/receiving system.
US09723174B2
An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a data receiver, an image specifier, a replacement specifier, and a data generator. The data receiver receives data. The image specifier specifies a first image contained in the data. The replacement specifier specifies replacement data for the first image on the basis of a characteristic of the data. The data generator generates data in which the first image has been replaced with an image represented by the replacement data.
US09723160B2
A sheet conveyor includes: a sheet conveyor; a supporter including a movable guide and having a first and second end portions in a widthwise direction; and a first cover adjacent to the first end portion. The supporter has an upstream edge in the conveying direction. A first-end upstream end portion of the upstream edge is nearer to the sheet conveyor than a second-end upstream end portion of the upstream edge. The first cover has a first region and a second region. The first region has a height greater than or equal to that of the guide and extends to a position located upstream of an upstream, end portion of the guide. The second region is located upstream of the first region, and the second region is less in height than the first region. The first-end upstream end portion overlaps the first region when viewed in the widthwise direction.
US09723155B2
Techniques described herein may be used to identify communication sessions (e.g., voice calls, video calls, etc.) that can be routed using local network resources, such as a base station to which the user devices are attached, and cause routing responsibilities for the session to be offloaded to the local network resources. Doing so may conserve network resources by alleviating the core network from having to support communication sessions that do not need to be routed through the core network. In turn, this may reduce the potential for network latency since: 1) core network resources will be more available to support sessions that actually need to be routed through the core network; and 2) sessions that do not need to be routed through the core network can be routed over shorter distances that involve fewer network devices (e.g., a based station).
US09723154B2
A system, smart device and method for apportioning costs of smart device operations between purposes. Operation information concerning operations performed by the smart device is recorded. The operations are apportioned between purposes based on categorization information and the operation information. The cost of the apportioned operations performed by the device is determined for the purposes based on the operation information and tariff information.
US09723142B2
Systems and method are provided for using a priority level for a call from a caller to a callee. The systems and methods involve presenting to the caller on a screen of a caller's mobile device an option for selecting the priority level for the call at a time that the call is initiated by the caller. The systems and methods further involve transmitting data corresponding to the priority level from the caller's mobile device to a callee's mobile device. The systems and methods further involve providing an indication on the callee's mobile device of the priority level at a time that the call is indicated to the callee as incoming.
US09723141B2
Disclosed are a mobile terminal, and an incoming screen display method thereof. The mobile terminal comprises: a communication unit configured to perform a communication with a transmitting terminal and/or a community server; and a controller configured to download a sender's content by requesting search for the sender's content from the community server when a call request is received from the transmitting terminal, and configured to display the downloaded content.
US09723138B2
From one perspective, an apparatus receives a request for a calling terminal device to initiate a session with a called terminal device. Based on the request, the apparatus obtains a storage address of the multimedia resource, and sends the address to the called terminal device. Based on sending the address the apparatus receives, from the called terminal device, a message indicating the called terminal device is playing the multimedia resource, and a message indicating that the called terminal device is off-hook. The called terminal device stops playing the multimedia resource when off-hook. From another perspective, a terminal device receives a storage address of a multimedia resource from a service management entity. The terminal device downloads the multimedia resource from a resource storage entity, and plays the multimedia resource as part of ringing, and before detecting that it is off-hook. The terminal device ceases playback after detecting it is off-hook.
US09723137B2
Implementing a multimedia calling line identification presentation service. A multimedia resource notification module obtains a storage address of a multimedia resource that is stored by a resource storage entity and that is subscribed to by a calling terminal, and sends the storage address of the multimedia resource to a resource playing entity. A service management module establishes a media channel between the resource playing entity and the called terminal for playing the multimedia resource. Establishing the media channel includes sending multimedia session information to the called terminal, the multimedia session information having been received by the service management module from the resource playing entity. Establishing the media channel also includes sending negotiated multimedia session information to the resource playing entity, the negotiated multimedia session information having been received by the service management module from the called terminal.
US09723136B2
An audio segment recorded by an individual is stored in a computational device controlled by an entity, where the computational device is coupled to a telephony device having a speaker and a microphone that are configurable to be enabled or disabled by the computational device. An electronic communication is initiated to the individual via the telephony device when the speaker and the microphone are both enabled. The stored audio segment is retrieved from an audio recording database that stores a plurality of audio segments of a plurality of individuals and played to the individual to authenticate the entity, in response to the initiating of the electronic communication to the individual.
US09723134B1
A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when read by a processor perform receiving a telephony connection request at a location in a telephony network, the location separated from an intended recipient of the telephony connection request by a target telephony network, determining addressing information regarding the intended recipient, the addressing information including at least routing information or a phone number, determining a status characteristic of the intended recipient based on the addressing information, based on the status characteristic, and determining whether the intended recipient would successfully receive the telephony connection request if the telephony connection request was forwarded to the intended recipient.
US09723133B1
A contact center dialing a telephone number to a destination party, such as a debtor, may discover that the number is subject to a prohibition of being autodialed. In other embodiments, a number that was subject to the prohibition of being autodialed is now discovered to no longer be subject to such prohibition. Various mechanisms may be defined to indicate how such a prohibition associated with the number may be indicated in a dialing list and how various contact center architectures may be used to process the dialing list. In one embodiment, separate sub-systems are used to dial separate dialing lists based on whether the number is to be manually dialed or dialed using an autodialer. In another embodiment, another architecture is used to process an integrated dialing list to determine whether a number is to be manually dialed or autodialed.
US09723128B2
A system and method of enhancing a profile of a portable device. The system and method includes defining an event type in a scheduling tool and scheduling a time to initiate the event type. The system and method further includes associating a notification profile of a device with the defined event type and changing a setting of the device to the notification profile in response to the scheduling time and the defined event type.
US09723124B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which image data of a counterpart having triggered an event can be displayed. The present invention may include a display unit configured to display information, a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with an external server that stores first image data and to communicate with a counterpart terminal, a memory to store a second image data, and a controller, in response to an event triggered by the counterpart terminal, to extract an image data related to a counterpart from one of the first image data and the second image data, and the controller to output the extracted image data on a portion of the display unit to notify an occurrence of the event.
US09723123B2
A method of controlling an application of a smart device, by the smart device, is provided. The method includes generating a composition window by compositing windows of applications of the smart device, and transmitting the composition window to a smart terminal on which the composition window is displayed. The method further includes receiving, from the smart terminal, information of a user input in the smart terminal with respect to the displayed composition window, and controlling and displaying at least one among the applications based on the received information of the user input.
US09723115B2
A magnification system includes an electronic device that has a display. The display may display an image. A case is provided and the case has the electronic device is removably positioned within the case such that the display is visible. A magnifier is removably coupled to the case. Thus, the magnifier magnifies the image on the display thereby enhancing visibility of the image.
US09723113B2
A protective cover for a handheld portable electronic device includes a front cover, and one or more mounting portions. The mounting portions can couple the front cover to the handheld portable electronic device. The front cover can cover the display screen of the portable electronic device. The front cover, the mounting portions, or both include studded surfaces or socket surfaces. The studded surfaces or socket surfaces couple with standard building elements of a play building set.
US09723092B1
A system is presented that enables the control and/or monitoring of an electronic device by a remote terminal via a wireless network. The system includes a remote terminal from which a user accesses an application for controlling and monitoring the electronic device. The application is processed through an application program interface to configure the application for the remote terminal. The configured application is then accessible through a network communication for execution by the remote terminal. The server or system offering the configured application may also act as a proxy between the user terminal and the electronic device, for wireless monitoring or control of the electronic device while the user terminal executes the application.
US09723088B2
According to an aspect, a server receives first and second transient (changing with time) locations of an entity, the first transient location being associated with a time instance until which the entity is physically present at the first transient location. The server accordingly provides the first transient location as the physical location of the entity prior to the time instance, and the second transient location as the physical location after the time instance. According to another aspect, a client device identifies that a search text (received from a user) is directed to searching for physical locations in view of the search text including an affix. The client device then parses the search text to determine an identifier, sends a location request containing the identifier, receives a response containing a transient location associated with the identifier, and then provides the transient location to the user as the response to the search.
US09723073B2
An apparatus including a network interface to a first portion of a network and a second portion of a network. A deep-packet-inspection (DPI) unit identifies a content source, inspects one or more packets provided from the identified source over the first network portion, each packet having a source address and a destination address. A storage stores at least a portion of the content. A content delivery unit receives a request from the second network portion for requested content from the identified source and responsive thereto provides the requested content, or portions of the requested content, from the storage to the second network portion if the requested content, or a portion of the requested content, is stored in the storage, or otherwise sends the request over the first network portion to the identified source for the requested content, or missing portions of the requested content.
US09723062B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method to provide a mechanism to perform faster collaboration among the services by retrieving the context information from the central device using service identifier as key element. The system is adapted to create a unique device identifier by associating device MAC address, context information and operation/service identifier while performing the device registration.
US09723059B2
A method and collaboration system for determining the usefulness value of different contributions to the creation of a collective work produced by different contributors in a collaborative work platform is described. The value of each contribution is determined according to usefulness indicators that respectively characterize the contribution itself, the specific data that it provides to the collective work, the work thus produced and the contributor, and, according to valuation parameters (set of numeric constants, mathematical functions and algorithms) mutually defined by a manager of the system and the contributors. These usefulness indicators are collected periodically during the development and life of the work, and their variation over time may cause the usefulness value of contributions to vary. The determination of the usefulness value of each contribution is intended to calculate the individual compensation for contributors in the production of the work.
US09723057B2
A system, method, and computer program product for reducing web page load latency by scheduling sets of successive outgoing HTTP calls. Some embodiments commence upon receiving from a requesting client device, a request for content of a web page, wherein the content comprises two or more portions of dynamic content. Operations are performed to determine that the two or more portions of dynamic content are to be processed separately. A scheduling script to be executed by the requestor is generated and sent to the client device. The scheduling script comprises instructions to process a first subset of the two or more dynamic portions of content and also comprises instructions to process a second subset of the two or more portions of dynamic content. The scheduling script, when executed by requesting client device, causes the first subset of dynamic content and the second subset of dynamic content to be processed separately.
US09723042B2
The present invention relates to methods and arrangements to optimize load transportation between a P2P live streaming network and an access network. The method comprises steps like: a peer in the access network selects a live channel to use; a request comprising information of the selected channel is sent from the access network to the streaming network a converter node connecting the P2P live streaming network and the access network detects that a number of peers in the access network using the selected channel has reached a predetermined threshold value (T) and chunks that are parts of the selected channel arriving from peers in the streaming network are converted in the converter node from P2P format to multicast format.
US09723040B1
Secure, controlled, interactive virtual visitation for confinement institution inmates is provided using computing devices connected through a network by managing the scheduling of visitation sessions and use of shared visitation session resources, ensuring the identities of the inmate and the person with whom the inmate is to interact in the virtual visitation session, and by monitoring the interactions and communications during the virtual visitation sessions to detect prohibited activities. Another embodiment of the invention uses a virtual desktop shared from a remote server to ensure that an inmate does not have access to prohibited applications or content during a virtual visitation session.
US09723036B2
A system for collaborative viewing of a digital slide image. In an embodiment, a session is established for viewing a digital slide image by a plurality of client viewers. A leader client viewer and non-leader client viewers are identified for the session. When a command is received from the leader client viewer, the command is sent to each of the non-leader client viewers to synchronize a view of the digital slide image at the non-leader client viewers with the view of the digital slide image at the leader client viewer.
US09723034B2
An online system and method are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing meeting information to a server and/or a participant device prior to the online meeting and streaming audio content to participants during the meeting. The system and method allow online meeting participants to connect to and view meeting information using less network bandwidth during the meeting, compared to traditional online meeting systems and methods.
US09723033B2
A router including a processor, a wide area network (WAN) signal transceiver, and a local area network (LAN) is provided. The WAN signal transceiver is controlled by the processor. The WAN signal transceiver is configured to transceive voice signals and data signals with a base station via a telecommunication network. The LAN signal transceiver is controlled by the processor. The LAN signal transceiver is configured to transceive the voice signals and the data signals with a wireless access point via a local area network.
US09723014B2
Detecting malware-related activity on a computer by detecting activity associated with the creation of a data object, where the activity is performed by a process, where the process is an instance of a computer software application that resides in a computer memory and that is executed by a computer, and where the data object is configured to persist after termination of the process, determining a string that identifies the data object, searching for a portion of the string that identifies the data object within any areas of the computer memory storing static portions of the computer software application, and performing a computer-security-related remediation action responsive to determining that the portion of the string that identifies the data object is absent from the searched areas of the computer memory.
US09723008B2
An integrated firewall provides security in a multi-tenant environment having a connection-based switched fabric directly connecting database servers which provide a plurality of database services with application servers hosting database service consumers each having a different database service consumer identity. The firewall functionality integrated into each database server provides access control by discarding communication packets which do not include a database service consumer identity and using the database service consumer identity in combination with an access control list to control access from the database service consumers to the database services. The access control includes address resolution access control, connection establishment access control, and data exchange access control based on said access control list. The integrated firewall enables direct connection of database servers and application servers via an InfiniBand network providing without requiring a separate intermediary firewall appliance or security node.
US09723000B1
The present invention relates generally to a system and method of securing content from on networked enabled communication devices wherein the user's identity is authenticated using a verification dongle with biometric technology, which upon verification a secure working environment is established, by closing the ports and effectively pausing the majority, if not all external tasks until the current secured task session is selectively completed by the user. Upon completion of the secured task session, the secure working environment is closed and the ports are reopened. In this manner, sensitive confidential and/or proprietary information may be edited and/or transmitted to a third party in a secure manner.
US09722991B2
A confidence-based authentication discovery scheme is implemented at a proxy. The scheme assumes that some level of unauthenticated browsing is allowed prior to enforcing authentication at the proxy. Once a known and trusted set of identity providers has been accessed and the user is required to authenticate at the proxy (e.g., as a result of policy), the proxy initiates Federated Single Sign-On (F-SSO) to one or more (or, preferably, all) known sites accessed by the browser. This F-SSO operation is performed seamlessly, preferably without the user's knowledge (after the user allows an initial trust decision between the proxy acting as a service provider and the external identity provider). The proxy collates the results and, based on the trust it has with those sites, produces a confidence score. That score is then used as input into policy around whether or not a user should be permitted to access a particular site.
US09722990B2
Web-based single sign-on can enable a user to log in to a single interface (such as through a web browser or thin client) and then provide SSO services to the user for one or more web applications. The web-based SSO system can be extended to support one or more different access control methods, such as form-fill, Federated (OIF), SSO Protected (OAM), and other policies. The web-based SSO system can include a user interface through which the user can access different web applications, systems, etc. and manage their credentials. Each SSO service can be associated with a web interface allowing the SSO services to be accessed over the web. The web interfaces can provide CRUD (create, read, update, delete) functionality for each SSO service. To support different access policy types, the web-based SSO system can include an extensible data manager that can manage data access to different types of repositories transparently.
US09722987B2
Various mechanisms can be used for authorizing access between entities in a computing environment. Configuring such access may involve configuration data stored on one or more of the computing devices or stored externally to the computing devices. Various aspect are disclosed herein for collecting, analyzing, correlating, organizing, storing, using and/or displaying such information, for example in the form of pre-analyzed access relationships between entities in the computing environment. In accordance with an aspect access-related configuration information is collected from a plurality of entities and an access relationship between two or more entities is determined based on the configuration information. Information about the determined access relationship is stored in a non-volatile storage. The information identifies a source entity and a destination entity and the determined access relationship defines a user account associated with the source entity and authorized to log into a user account associated with the destination entity.
US09722984B2
A first device requests a protected resource (managed by a second device). A first authentication is performed by the second device upon receipt of the request. The second device provides an audio message back to the first device, which plays the audio message over a speaker. A third device captures the audio message as audio and uses the audio message to request a second authentication from the second device. The second device provides an authenticated session handle back to the first device for accessing the protected resource when both the first and second authentications are successful.
US09722981B2
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for password management. The embodiment may include a computing device that creates a password inventory. The password inventory may be a list of one or more passwords, where each of the one or more passwords corresponds to a password key. The embodiment may update the password inventory without input from a user. The embodiment may receive a first login request from a first device. The embodiment may transmit information detailing a first password key to the first device, where the first password key corresponds to a first password from the list of one or more passwords. The embodiment may receive information detailing a first entered password from the first device. The embodiment may determine whether the first entered password is identical to the first password from the list of one or more passwords.
US09722978B2
A system for license identification and verification uses watermarking technology to embed license information in the medium itself. Various techniques for the creation of the license are described. The Platform on which the media will be used can extract the watermark data and thereby identify and verify the license. The watermark data includes a certain minimal amount of license data. If further information is required, the Platform can use the watermark data to request additional license details from a Licensor or from a license server. Using this approach, the Platform can readily identify and verify that the media in its possession is properly licensed.
US09722975B2
A method for establishing a secure communication channel between an off-card entity and an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) is provided. The method involves establishing symmetric keys that are ephemeral in scope. Specifically, an off-card entity, and each eUICC in a set of eUICCs managed by the off-card entity, possess long-term Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) information. When a secure communication channel is to be established between the off-card entity and an eUICC, the eUICC and the off-card entity can authenticate one another in accordance with the respectively-possessed PKI information (e.g., verifying public keys). After authentication, the off-card entity and the eUICC establish a shared session-based symmetric key for implementing the secure communication channel. Specifically, the shared session-based symmetric key is generated according to whether perfect or half forward security is desired. Once the shared session-based symmetric key is established, the off-card entity and the eUICC can securely communicate information.
US09722974B1
A re-encryption service module in a multi-tiered encryption system that manages key rotation policies continuously or periodically re-encrypts data. Each encryption tier in the system can include a node programmed to service encryption, decryption, and/or re-encryption requests and a key store to store encryption keys. A computing node that interfaces with a requesting device may include the re-encryption service module. The re-encryption module may receive encrypted data and a key identifier identifying the key used to encrypt the data. The re-encryption module may decrypt the encrypted data using the identified key, retrieve a new key if the identified key is exhausted, and use the new key to encrypt the decrypted data. The key identifier may be updated to identify the new key and the re-encrypted data and the updated key identifier may be transmitted to the requesting device.
US09722963B2
An approach for delaying social media messages is provided herein. A first computing device receives user preferences. The first computing device detects a social media message of a user. The first computing device determines that the user is not in the physical location. The first computing device determines whether to delay the posting of the social media message based on a comparison of the content of the social media message with the received user preferences.
US09722962B2
One or more embodiments described herein include methods and systems of providing message status notifications. The status notifications can comprise one or more of sent, delivered, or accessed/read notifications. In one or more embodiments a status notification is persistently displayed in a thread for each participant in a conversation. Each time the participant accesses a new message, the system can move the status notification adjacent to the new message.
US09722960B1
In some implementations a computer-accessible medium includes a multimedia-document integration module that includes a heterogeneous distinction identifier between a first multimedia-document and a second multimedia-document and includes an integrator of the first multimedia-document and the second multimedia-document into an integrated multimedia-document, a data capture module that includes a data-extractor of the integrated multimedia-document, a query module that includes a query-generator encapsulated in a corresponding number of enquiry/inquiry transmissions, the enquiry/inquiry transmissions being short-message-service text-messages, a communication-subsystem that includes a transmitter of the enquiry/inquiry transmissions to an external device and receiver of an acknowledgement transmission or a negative-acknowledgement transmission from the external device, the acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement transmission being a short-message-service text-message, and, a variance analytic module that includes a generator of quantitative variance from the acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement transmission, the quantitative variance describing statistical variances and discrepancies within the first multimedia-document and within the second multimedia-document and between the first multimedia-document and the second multimedia-document.
US09722959B2
A method of storing data items included in an email message for access by a user in conjunction with an accessing by the user of a profile of a member of the social-networking system is disclosed. An email message from an additional user of a social-networking system is received by the user of the social-networking system. A data item included in the email message is identified upon which a correspondence between the data item included in the email message and a profile of a member of the social-networking system may be determined. An additional data item included in the email message is stored such that the additional data item is accessible by the user of the social-networking system in conjunction with an accessing by the user of the profile of the member.
US09722954B2
A device with dynamically tunable heterogeneous latencies includes an input port configured to receive a packet via a network, and a processing module configured to determine multiple values corresponding to a number of qualifying parameters associated with the packet. The processing module may use the values to generate a selector value and may allocate a latency mode to the packet based on the selector value.
US09722951B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer program stored therein can provide adaptive priority scheduling of communications over a communication network and dynamic resources allocation among a plurality of devices positioned in the communication network. A system according to an embodiment can include an automation application provisioning module (AAPM) to configure and provision relationships among automation application (AA) devices and non-AA devices; an automation application control module (AACM) to control network resources allocation responsive to the AAPM; a network infrastructure interface module (NIIM) to interface with and measure performance of the devices; a network performance analysis module (NPAM) to analyze performance of the devices and identify optimal network topologies responsive to the NIIM; and a network resources allocation platform module (NPM) to control network resources allocation responsive to the AAPM, the AACM, and the NPAM thereby to enhance coexistence of the AA and non-AA devices within the network.
US09722950B2
A method for processing a resource access request in a network based on a software defined network (SDN) protocol includes receiving a resource access request forwarded by a first SDN switch in the network, wherein there exists no forwarding rule matching the resource access request in the first SDN switch; obtaining, according to the resource access request, resource server information of a resource server where the requested resource is stored, wherein the resource server is located in the network; generating a forwarding rule corresponding to the resource access request according to the resource server information; and sending to the first SDN switch at least one portion of the forwarding rule corresponding to the resource access request, so that the first SDN switch forwards the resource access request according to the at least one portion of the forwarding rule.
US09722945B2
Embodiments are directed to preventing flapping when auto-scaling cloud resources. In one scenario, a computer system accesses information specifying a target operational metric that is to be maintained on a plurality of cloud resources. The computer system determines a current measured value for the target operational metric for at least some of the cloud resources. The computer system further calculates a scaling factor based on the target operational metric and the current measured value, where the scaling factor represents an amount of variance between the target operational metric and the current measured value. The computer system also calculates a delta value representing a modified quantity of cloud resources modified by the calculated scaling factor and determines whether a scaling action is to occur based on the calculated delta value.
US09722931B2
Embodiments presented herein describe techniques for isolating multicast and broadcast frames to a traffic class that is separate from a traffic class used for unicast frames. According to one embodiment, a network switch receives an incoming Ethernet virtual local area network (VLAN)-tagged frame. The switch evaluates priority bits of the VLAN tag of the frame. The switch also determines a type of frame (e.g., whether the frame is unicast, broadcast, multicast, or flood). Based on the priority field values and the type of the frame, the switch identifies a mapping of the frame to a particular traffic class. The network switch assigns the frame to the traffic class.
US09722929B2
Described herein is a Core Network (CN) node 200 and a Radio Access Network (RAN) node 100 and methods therein for handling quality of service, QoS, targets for traffic flows between the RAN, node and a radio terminal 300 served by the RAN node, disclosing an obtaining a number of traffic classes into which the traffic flows can be classified, and QoS targets are defined for each obtained traffic class for at least two congestion levels, and wherein the traffic classes with the associated QoS targets and congestion levels are provided to the RAN node so as to provide congestion level dependent QoS targets for the traffic classes to the RAN node.
US09722927B2
A method implemented by a network controller, comprising receiving an address filter from a service chain orchestrator, wherein the address filter comprises a plurality of service instance (SI) addresses associated with a plurality of SIs in a network, obtaining network topology information from a plurality of service function (SF) forwarders controlled by the network controller, wherein the network topology information indicates a plurality of network devices communicatively coupled to the plurality of controlled SF forwarders, and wherein at least some of the network devices are SI hosting devices, and generating a service chain topology map by building mappings between at least some of the plurality of controlled SF forwarders, the SI hosting devices, and the plurality of SIs according to the network topology information and the address filter.
US09722926B2
A method for controlling large flows in a network includes asynchronously calculating a traffic rate associated with a network flow by a controller device based on a randomly sampled packet, comparing the calculated traffic rate with a threshold value, and generating a notification of a large flow when the rate exceeds the threshold value. The method further includes creating a filter in response to the notification, assigning an action to the filter, and installing the filter and the action in a network device. In addition, the method includes removes the installed filter and action from the network device after a time interval has elapsed.
US09722924B2
The method includes the following steps. First, a controller receives a data packet that is reported by a switch connected to a source host; then the controller searches a local media access control (MAC) address table of physical addresses of devices to determine whether a destination address of the data packet exists, and the controller acquires a destination port if no destination address of the data packet exists, where the destination port is a port of a switch connected to a destination host, and the destination host is another host different from the source host; and finally, the controller uses the destination port as a destination address to generate a routing table, and sends the routing table to the switch connected to the source host, so that the switch connected to the source host forwards the data packet according to the routing table.
US09722918B2
Expertise, for performing classification of a type of network traffic, can be encapsulated in a module. A set of modules, as currently available to a traffic controller, can be referred to as a collection. Programming language constructs are introduced that facilitate the writing of modules customized to identify network traffic that is peculiar to a particular user, or to a relatively small group of users. An example programming language, based on Tcl, is introduced. A key aspect is event-driven programming, and the “when” command construct is introduced. Three important event types, that can trigger a “when” command, are CLIENT_DATA, SERVER_DATA, and RULE_INIT. Another key aspect is an ability to keep state information between events. Constructs for intra-session, intra-module, and global state are introduced. A module can be blocked from executing more than once for a session. Successful execution of a module can be specified by a “match” statement.
US09722910B2
A method for controlling transit of routing messages in a network comprising multiple autonomous systems (AS) is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a first AS, a routing message of an inter-AS routing protocol and identifying that the routing message comprises transit domain control (TDC) information specifying one or more autonomous systems to which the routing message may be propagated and/or one or more autonomous systems to which the routing message may not be propagated. The method further includes propagating the routing message from the first AS to a second AS in accordance with the TDC information.
US09722908B2
A multi-mainframe system problem determination method includes recording, in a first computing system, diagnostic data, receiving, in the first computing system, a data collection trigger, responsive to the data collection trigger, coordinating, in the first computing system, synchronized collection of recorded diagnostic data with a second computing system and delivering collected diagnostic data to a storage medium.
US09722904B2
Provided are a detection method and device for link keep-alive between an Access Controller (AC) and an Access Point (AP). The method includes: setting a maximum permissible heartbeat keep-alive failure number; and performing link keep-alive detection between the AC and the AP based on the maximum permissible heartbeat keep-alive failure number by virtue of a heartbeat message or message retransmission. By the solution, a maximum permissible heartbeat keep-alive failure number is set, and a maximum retransmission interval is set for link keep-alive detection between the AC and the AP based on the maximum permissible heartbeat keep-alive failure number and a heartbeat keep-alive period, so that the problem that the AP frequently gets offline and frequently re-accesses the AC due to link quality reduction to seriously impact user experiences can be effectively solved.
US09722903B2
A method includes receiving, at a device from a content source, a portion of a particular chunk of media content a particular quality level. The method includes receiving, at the device, network data about network conditions associated with the device in response to receipt of the portion. The method includes making, at the device, a determination based on the network data whether to download the particular chunk at a first quality level that is higher than the particular quality level based on the particular quality level and the data. The method includes, in response to the determination indicating to download the particular chunk at the first quality level: sending, to the content source from the device, a request for the particular chunk at the first quality level, and replacing the portion with the particular chunk at the first quality level.
US09722895B1
A vendor usage assessment system analyzes network traffic from an enterprise data network and generates vendor usage analytics for the enterprise. In some embodiments, the vendor analytics may include vendor usage risk assessment. The vendor usage assessment system is advantageous applied to assess network security in view of an enterprise's network interactions with third party vendors or suppliers.
US09722888B2
A system and method are provided for providing using Diameter based signaling to activate and deactivate subscriber centric, visually rendered, services. The system is implemented in a computer infrastructure which includes computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium. The executable code is operable to activate and deactivate subscriber centric, visually rendered, services using a Diameter based signaling protocol and support home subscriber server (HSS) based subscriber profiles that pertain to visual characteristics.
US09722881B2
A method and an apparatus for managing a network are disclosed. For example, the method collects a plurality of call detail records (CDRs), and organizes one or more parameters of the CDRs in accordance with a plurality of cause codes. The method displays the one or more parameters of the CDRs in a hierarchical representation comprising a plurality of screen displays.
US09722880B2
The preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to a network tracing engine for tracing and depicting a topology (i.e. a network configuration) of a network using, for example, a network diagram. The network tracing engine preferably queries/telnets to interfaces of routers associated with one or more source-to-destination paths in a network concurrently and independently to ensure proper configuration of the routers and/or to generate a true depiction of a routing configuration without redundantly querying routers.
US09722875B2
A master device, a slave device, and methods are disclosed. The method is performed by a first slave device connected to a master-slave tree network, comprising: determining whether a beacon has not been received within a predetermined time period; and distributing a first beacon to a second slave device if no beacon has been received within the predetermined time period; wherein for the first slave device to remain in the master-slave-network, a beacon be received by the first slave device within the predetermined time period.
US09722871B2
Techniques are described for providing managed virtual computer networks that have a configured logical network topology with virtual networking devices, such as by a network-accessible configurable network service, with corresponding networking functionality provided for communications between multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by the virtual networking devices if they were physically present. In some situations, the networking functionality provided for a managed computer network of a client includes receiving routing communications directed to the virtual networking devices and using included routing information to update the configuration of the managed computer network, such as to allow at least some computing nodes of a managed computer network to dynamically signal particular types of uses of one or more indicated target network addresses and/or to dynamically signal use of particular external public network addresses based on such routing information.
US09722867B2
A resource management method, a resource management system and a resource manager are disclosed, and the method includes: acquiring a resource allocation request, where the resource allocation request carries a resource requirement list and an access domain name of an application requesting allocation of resources; searching for a resource index locally according to the resource requirement list, and acquiring addresses of at least two available resources, where the at least two available resources are located at different platform as a service layer devices, respectively, and the two available resources both satisfy the resource requirement of the resource requirement list; establishing a correspondence between an address of each available resource and the access domain name; and configuring at least two access routes according to the correspondence, where an access route is used for routing an access request accessing the access domain name to the available resource.
US09722849B2
Gain variations during a packet can lead to significant performance degradation in communications systems that use high order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). A method and the associated apparatus track such variations in an OFDM system and completely eliminate any performance degradation. Gain estimation and compensation is employed with the use of pilot subcarriers in the payload of an OFDM data packet. Estimated pilot magnitude ratios are averaged, throughout the processing life of a packet, to yield accurate gain estimations. A gain compensation factor is used to adjust data carriers. An exclusion method is also employed to eliminate pilot carriers which contribute to noise.
US09722838B2
An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal includes an input formatting module configured to de-multiplex an input stream into at least one Data Pipe (DP); a BICM module configured to perform error correction processing on data of the at least one DP; a signal frame building module configured to map the data of the DP to symbols within a signal frame; and an OFDM generation module configured to generate a transmission broadcast signal by inserting a preamble into the signal frame and performing OFDM modulation. The OFDM generation module includes a pilot signal insertion module configured to insert a pilot signal including Continual Pilots (CP) and Scattered Pilots (SP) into the transmission broadcast signal, and the CPs are inserted into every symbol of the signal frame, and location and number of the CPs are determined based on a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) size.
US09722835B2
A data processing apparatus is arranged to map input data symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed OFDM symbols. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data symbols are divided into first sets of input data symbols and second sets of input data symbols.
US09722830B1
The disclosure is directed to a signal detection system. The system includes a receiver configured to receive data comprising noise and a signal having an amplitude lower than that of the noise received by the receiver. The system also includes a detection module configured to receive the data received by the receiver, define a region of interest of the data, compare a plurality of portions of the region of interest, and identify a portion of the region of interest that is more likely to contain the signal.
US09722829B2
A pulse shaping circuit is configured to shape a waveform of an edge of a signal applied to a switch of a power amplifier included in an on-off keying transmitter.
US09722819B2
A distortion compensation system includes a first communication node including a first reception unit including an equalizer configured by a first digital filter unit and a first transmission unit including an emphasis circuit configured by a second digital filter unit, and a second communication node including a second transmission unit transmitting a training pattern before receiving normal data from the first communication node. The equalizer converges a filter constant of the first digital filter unit so that an error of the received training pattern is converged. The first transmission unit performs a distortion compensation using the converged filter constant of the first digital filter unit as at least a part of a filter constant of the second digital filter unit of the emphasis circuit, and then transmits the data.
US09722818B2
A circuit includes a summation circuit for receiving an input data signal and a feedback signal including a previous data bit. The summation circuit is configured to output a conditioned input data signal to a clock and data recovery circuit. A first flip-flop is coupled to an output of the summation circuit and is configured to receive a first set of bits of the conditioned input data signal and a first clock signal having a frequency that is less than a frequency at which the input data signal is received by the first summation circuit. A second flip-flop is coupled to the output of the summation circuit and is configured to receive a second set of bits of the conditioned input data signal and a second clock signal having a frequency that is less than the frequency at which the input data signal is received by the first summation circuit.
US09722811B2
A method of controlling an external apparatus includes: receiving an input command of a user and biometric information of the user from a device; determining a condition for controlling the external apparatus and operation of the external apparatus based on the received input command of the user and the received biometric information of the user; and providing a control command for controlling the operation of the external apparatus if the determined condition is satisfied.
US09722808B2
A data transmission system including a plurality of terminal devices arranged in a communication network and configured to transmit or receive content data. At least one terminal devices configured to receive content data transmitted from another terminal device, among the plurality of terminal devices, includes a reception priority management unit configured to manage priority of two or more content data addressed to the own terminal device, and a data reception control unit configured to, based on an output time interval of output signals corresponding to priority data whose priority managed by the reception priority management unit is high among two or more content data being received, request a transmission source configured to transmit content data having priority lower than the priority data, to perform control to stop transmitting the content data.
US09722800B2
There is provided a method for creating an authentication entity derived from an original data carrier, wherein the original data carrier has a key pair that is individual to the original data carrier and comprises a public key and a secret key of the original data carrier, and a certificate for the public key of the original data carrier. The method comprises the following steps: deriving a secret key for the derived authentication entity from the secret key of the original data carrier by the original data carrier; forming derivation data for the derived authentication entity; transferring authentication data to the derived authentication entity, wherein the authentication data have the derivation data, the certificate of the public key of the original data carrier as well as a derived key pair which comprises the derived secret key and the public key of the original data carrier.
US09722798B2
A method for signing and subsequently verifying a digital message, including the following steps implemented using at least one processor-based subsystem: selecting parameters including an integer q and a relatively smaller integer p that is coprime with q; generating random polynomial f relating to p and random polynomial g relating to q; producing a public key that includes h, where h is equal to a product that can be derived using g and the inverse of f mod q; producing a private key from which f and g can be derived; storing the private key and publishing the public key; producing a message digest by applying a hash function to the digital message; producing a digital signature using the message digest and the private key; and performing a verification procedure utilizing the digital signature and the public key to determine whether the signature is valid.
US09722794B2
System and method to digitally validate a document, the method including: receiving, by a secure development platform (SDP), a security information from an end user, the SDP comprising an SDP processor coupled to a secure SDP memory; exchanging a security token with a user device based upon the security information; receiving, from the user device, a request for a digital certificate; managing and storing public/private key pairs; transmitting, to the PKI service processor, the request for a digital certificate; if information in the request for a digital certificate is correct: creating the digital certificate; and receiving the digital certificate from the PKI service processor; and storing the digital certificate in the secure SDP memory, the secure SDP memory not directly accessible by the user device, the SDP processor configured to request a signature generation by use of the private key associated with the digital certificate, the SDP processor configured to request a validation by use of the digital certificate.
US09722791B2
A computing system, method, and computer program product provide cryptographic isolation between a client device and a server computer for providing a network service to the client device. The computing system stores encrypted user authentication data of the client device and its user, and encrypted service authorization data of the server computer in such a way that neither the client device nor the server computer can obtain information about the other. Upon subsequent receipt in the computing system of purported user authentication data and a request to access the network service, the computing system encrypts the purported authentication data and compares it against the stored, encrypted data. Only when these encrypted data match is the computing system able to decrypt the service authorization data and provide it to the server computer to gain access to the network service.
US09722783B2
An inner-product predicate encryption scheme with improved flexibility without a restriction that the dimensions of an attribute vector x→ and a predicate vector v→ should be equivalent. A ciphertext having an element c0 and an element ct for each index t included in a set Ix→ is decrypted with a decryption key having an element k0 and an element kt for each index t included in a set Iv→ by computing a product of pairing operations between corresponding pairs of basis vectors on the element c0 and the element k0 and on the element ct and the element kt.
US09722774B2
A method generating a cryptographic key and corresponding helper data includes measuring an analog value associated with a physical property of cells of a memory array; digitizing the measured analog value to generate the cryptographic key; quantizing the measured analog value to generate the corresponding non-leaky helper data.
US09722769B2
An equalizer includes a data sampler that samples input data and outputs a time-series data string according to the input data, an arithmetic circuit that multiplies a data string output before reference data in the data string output from the data sampler by a tap coefficient and forms the input data by an arithmetic operation of a multiplication result and an input signal, a tap coefficient calculation circuit that updates the tap coefficient based on a data string output before the reference data, and a determination circuit that receives the reference data and data output after the reference data in the data string and controls presence or absence of update of the tap coefficient performed by the tap coefficient calculation circuit.
US09722765B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for managing the time slots in time division duplex (TDD) frames in an xDSL system. According to certain aspects, power savings in a TDD system operating with vectoring may be achieved with sending of quiet symbols in time slots that do not have data and through the efficient configuration of time slots with data and/or idle symbols so as to limit the amount of processing by the vectoring engine within the DO portion of each TDD frame. In embodiments, a central controller in a DPU monitors the data buffers at the transmitter input on each line and computes an optimal configuration of the time slots in the DO portion of the TDD frame to achieve an optimal balance between performance and power dissipation.
US09722764B2
Embodiments provide solutions to reduce power utilization (either at individual cable modems or in the overall network) in future cable modem networks. Particularly, embodiments seek to reduce power utilization at individual cable modems and in the overall network, by allocating upstream frequency bands and/or transmission modulation schemes among cable modems while accounting for cable loss experienced by individual upstream cable modem transmissions. According to embodiments, frequency spectrum and modulation scheme allocation techniques are provided to optimize power utilization and enable lower upstream transmission power by cable modems while maintaining similar signal strength of received signals or lower signal strength with reduced SNR requirements using lower capacity modulation at the headend.
US09722753B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a response signal in a wireless communication system are provided. In a method for transmitting a response signal in a broadcasting system, Acknowledgement (ACK) information for uplink packet data for each user is generated. A symbol and a subcarrier which will transmit the ACK information for each user inside a transmission frame are determined. ACK transmission related information is transmitted via a control channel inside the transmission frame. The ACK information for each user is transmitted via the determined symbol and subcarrier inside the transmission frame.
US09722744B2
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a first radio node (400), and corresponding methods therein, for determining a bandwidth of a second radio node (402). The first and second radio nodes are configured for use in a communications network. The bandwidth is determined based on a correlation between a signal received form the second radio node and at least one known signal which are transmittable on one or more known radio resources. Such bandwidth determination eliminates the need for the wireless terminal to receive such information via system information broadcasted from a cell.
US09722743B2
A buffer status reporting scheme for a terminal (10) wishing to transmit data simultaneously in multiple RATs of a wireless communication network, which enables the co-ordination of multiple base stations (12, 14) of different RATs (e.g. LTE eNB, UMTS base station, WiFi access point, etc.) with the assistance of the terminal (10) in order to achieve efficient radio resource scheduling for multi-RAT multi-flow aggregation in uplink. A radio bearer is configured for multi-RAT multi-flow aggregation by the network, and multiple logical channel IDs are assigned to this RB that may be associated with different RATs. Logical channels associated with a certain RAT (or a given set of RATs) may be grouped into one logical channel group for radio resource scheduling reason. The terminal (10) performs buffer status reporting, according to the configuration, on all involved RATs and sends reports/indications to one or more involved base stations (12.14).
US09722730B1
A data symbol vector comprising a plurality of data symbols is received. The data symbol vector corresponds to a transmitted data symbol vector comprising a corresponding plurality of transmitted data symbols. Data values are estimated for transmitted data symbols in a first group of transmitted data symbols using a hard-decision technique. One or more iterations of refining estimated data values for at least one of the transmitted data symbols in the first group are performed based on estimated data values for the other one or more transmitted data symbols in the first group. Likelihood values for bits corresponding to transmitted data symbols in a second group of transmitted data symbols are calculated using a soft maximum-likelihood (ML) technique based on the estimated and refined data values of transmitted data symbols in the first group.
US09722727B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of transmitting and receiving transmission feedback in a radio network node. More particularly the disclosure pertains to transmitting and receiving messages acknowledging reception and successful decoding of a transport block in a radio network node. The disclosure also relates to a wireless device providing transmission feedback and to a radio network node receiving the transmission feedback. The disclosure proposes a method, performed in a radio network node, of receiving transmission feedback. The method comprises transmitting, using a set of transmission properties, a transport block to a receiving wireless device and receiving, from the receiving wireless device, an acknowledgement (ACK) confirming reception and successful decoding of the transport block in the receiving wireless device, wherein the ACK defines a decoding margin of the decoding. The disclosure also proposes a corresponding method in a wireless device and corresponding devices as well as a corresponding computer program.
US09722726B2
Reciprocity detection and utilization techniques for beamforming training are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a station (STA) comprising logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to perform an initiator transmit sector sweep (TXSS) to select an initiator transmit (TX) sector, perform a beamforming reciprocity test using the selected initiator TX sector, and determine whether to perform directional reception using a reciprocal initiator receive (RX) sector for the initiator TX sector based on an outcome of the beamforming reciprocity test. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09722722B2
A data transceiver module, data transmission system incorporating same and methods related thereto, which include optical transmitters configured to receive an information bearing signal and generate an optical signal having a wavelength different from wavelengths generated by others of the plurality of optical transmitters; optical receivers configured to receive an optical signal having a wavelength matching one of the plurality of optical transmitters and convert it to an information bearing electrical signal; and a four level pulse-amplitude-modulator (PAM4) chip generating a pulse-amplitude-modulated information bearing signal input to at least one optical transmitter of the plurality of optical transmitters and receiving the information bearing from at least one optical receiver of the plurality of optical receivers and converting it to an information signal using pulse amplitude demodulation. Alternative embodiments include coherent-detection-based optical coherent receiver and coherent transmitter.
US09722719B2
A method of determining hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) resource of a UL subframe for an advanced communication device comprises determining a first new association set of the UL subframe according to an association set of the UL subframe of a first UL/DL configuration of a legacy communication device; configuring a mapping between at least one sequence index of the UL subframe of the first UL/DL configuration and the first new association set according to the first UL/DL configuration; and determining the HARQ resource of the UL subframe according to the mapping and the first new association set.
US09722716B2
A touch-sensitive rotary control device with an illumination function includes a rotary encoder having a conductive outer casing and a rotatable shaft extending from it, the shaft operating as a light guide for a light source located in the rotary encoder, a conductive sleeve mechanically coupled to and surrounding the side of shaft, and electrically coupled to the conductive outer casing of the rotary encoder, so that touch-sensitivity is provided and light is allowed to exit the shaft and such that the device can be provided as a kit of parts or form part of a mixing console.
US09722708B2
An optical signal generation section and a transmitter control section are provided. The optical signal generation section includes a light source, a temperature adjuster that adjusts a temperature of the light source, and a light amplifier that amplifies light generated by the light source and generates burst signals. The transmitter control section includes a temperature change suppresser that sends a temperature suppression signal to the temperature adjuster, the temperature suppression signal reporting a temperature suppression amount that is to suppress a temperature change of the light source caused by burst signal generation at the light amplifier. The temperature adjuster receives the temperature suppression signal at least a duration that the temperature adjuster requires for temperature adjustment before a timing at which the light amplifier is to generate a burst signal.
US09722666B2
A power line method and system are provided. The power line transmission method is applicable to a power line network, where the power line network includes a main power line device configured to connect a cable network, and a plurality of slave power line devices configured to receive the power line network provided by the main power line device. The power line transmission method includes the steps of selecting an agent device from the slave power line devices located in a section where the power line network is broken and maintaining the power line network by connecting the slave power line devices located in the non-broken section of the power line network to the agent device through a wireless network function provided by the agent device.
US09722663B2
In one example a controller comprises logic, at least partially including hardware logic, configured to implement a first iteration of an interference test on a communication interconnect comprising a victim lane and a first aggressor lane by generating a first set of pseudo-random patterns on the victim lane and the aggressor lane using a first seed and implement a second iteration of an interference test by advancing the seed on the first aggressor lane. Other examples may be described.
US09722656B2
A system for mobile device photography and videography comprises a camera-shaped case configured to retain a mobile device. A lens of the case may be configured to direct an image into a camera lens of the mobile device, with the lens and the camera lens of the mobile device arranged substantially perpendicularly to each other. The camera-shaped case may also comprise a viewfinder that directs any visible content displayed on a portion of the graphical user interface into an eyepiece attached to the viewfinder. Additionally, the camera-shaped case may comprise an eyepiece connected to the viewfinder, a button disposed configured to actuate a camera function of the mobile device, and a cable to be inserted into the mobile device. The system may also include a downloadable software application executable on the mobile device configured to display an image and one or more videography controls on the graphical user interface.
US09722655B2
A smart ultra box adapting to a protective case is disclosed. The protective case protects a mobile communication device. The ultra box comprises a main body, a conversion unit and a flexible printed circuit board. The main body has a power output interface and an external power interface. The conversion unit disposes at the main body, to electrically connect the power output interface and the external power interface. The flexible printed circuit board electrically connects to the conversion unit, the flexible printed circuit board extending outwardly from the main body. The external power interface receives a commercial power source. The conversion unit converts the commercial power source into a first electric power and a second electric power. The power output interface output the first electric power, and the flexible printed circuit board transmits the second electric power.
US09722649B2
In some embodiments, techniques are provided for extending the functionality of a receiving unit which is configured to express a state during an event. In some embodiments, a receiving unit configured to receive a first set of transmissions during an event from one or more transmitting units and express a state in response may also be configured to receive a second set of transmissions from other components at a time other than during the event and express a state in response to receiving the second set of transmissions.
US09722643B2
Embodiments relate to enhancing echo cancellation in a transceiver integrated circuit (IC) for full-duplex communication by providing a signal path connected to a dummy driver that replicates a signal path between a main driver and a counterpart transceiver IC to cause a duplicated signal generated by the dummy driver to more closely replicate a sending signal generated by the main driver. The signal path connected to the dummy driver includes circuit elements having transmission line parameters and RLC parameters that replicate transmission line parameters and RLC parameters of circuit elements in the signal path between the main driver and the counterpart transceiver IC.
US09722633B2
In an advanced adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) scheme, the code rate and the parity-check matrix (PCM) for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are adapted according to modulation formats and variable-iteration receivers. The degree distribution for the PCM adaptation is designed by heuristic optimization to minimize the required SNR via an extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) trajectory analysis for finite-iteration decoding. The method uses dynamic window decoding by generating spatially coupled PCM for quasi-cyclic LDPC convolutional coding. The method also provides a way to jointly optimize labeling and decoding complexity for high-order and high-dimensional modulations.
US09722632B2
A system for hardware error-correcting code (ECC) detection or correction of a received codeword from an original codeword includes an error-detecting circuit configured to process a selection of symbols of the received codeword using a set of factors, the original codeword being recomputable from a corresponding said selection of symbols of the original codeword using the set of factors. The error-detecting circuit includes a hardware multiplier and accumulator configured to use the set of factors and the selection of symbols of the received codeword to recompute remaining symbols of the original codeword, and a hardware comparator configured to compare the recomputed remaining symbols of the original codeword with corresponding said remaining symbols of the received codeword and to output first results of this comparison.
US09722624B2
A semiconductor device and operating method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a mode controller configured to output a control signal of a first level in a first mode, and output a control signal of a second level that is different from the first level in a second mode that is different from the first mode; and a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) configured to convert an analog input signal into a digital output signal using a plurality of variable sampling capacitors, wherein each of the plurality of variable sampling capacitors comprises a first sampling capacitor having a first capacitance, and a second sampling capacitor having a second capacitance, wherein, in the first mode, the SAR ADC is configured to receive the control signal of the first level and connect the first sampling capacitor and the second sampling capacitor to either of a first voltage and a second voltage that is different from the first voltage to convert the analog input signal into the digital output signal, and wherein, in the second mode, the SAR ADC is configured to receive the control signal of the second level and connect any one of the first sampling capacitor and the second sampling capacitor to either of the first voltage and the second voltage to convert the analog input signal into the digital output signal.
US09722622B2
The disclosure provides a capacitor array. The capacitor array includes one or more first metal plates vertically stacked parallel to each other. A second metal plate is horizontally stacked to couple one end of each first metal plate of the one or more first metal plates. One or more third metal plates are vertically stacked parallel to the one or more first metal plates. Each third metal plate of the one or more third metal plates is stacked between two first metal plates.
US09722615B2
In a multi-context PLD (dynamically reconfigurable circuit), at the time of rewriting configuration data on a non-selected context during circuit operation, configuration data is stably stored. At the time of rewriting configuration data on a non-selected context, writing to a row which is to be rewritten continues until input signals supplied to input terminals of routing switches in the row become “L” all that time or the input signals become “L” at least once. More specifically, a write selection signal for the row continues to be output. In addition, while the write selection signal is being output, loading of configuration data into a driver circuit is not conducted, or loading of configuration data into a driver circuit is conducted but storage thereof in a line buffer is not conducted.
US09722608B2
Various systems may benefit from interfaces for handling multiple types of inputs. For example, a device with a trigger input from an external device may benefit from an isolated logic level trigger that is capable of addressing multiple types and values of voltage. An apparatus can include an input configured to receive an external trigger input signal having a trigger input voltage. The apparatus can also include circuitry configured to automatically adjust the trigger input voltage to a value configured to be compatible with a provided attached system. A working range of the trigger input voltage can exceed a compatible working range of the provided attached system.
US09722603B2
The switch housing for capacitive switches has an outer contact surface and flat electrode structures which are arranged on the inside and in a position opposite the contact surface and which are placed by two-component injection molding in recessed regions of the housing body injected from a first, electrically non-conductive plastic component by a second, electrically conductive plastic component. Preferably, both plastic components are a polycarbonate, the second plastic component containing carbon fibers.
US09722598B2
A semiconductor device, according to one possible configuration, includes switching circuits, each switching circuit comprising IGBT chips connected in series and clamping diodes. The semiconductor device also includes a first and a second wiring line and auxiliary emitter lines. The first wiring line and a first auxiliary emitter line connect the emitter terminals of IGBT chips of the first and second switching circuits. The second wiring line and another auxiliary emitter line connect the emitter terminals of the third IGBT chips of the first and second switching circuits. The wiring lines have a large current carrying capacity and a lower resistance value than their respectively connected auxiliary emitter line.
US09722591B2
A phase adjustment device includes: a detection signal generator configured to generate a pair of first and second detection signals for detecting a phase difference between two signals whose phases have been adjusted by two phase adjusters, respectively, a maximum sensitivity phase difference of one of the first and second detection signals being not overlap with that of the other, and detection sensitivity of the phase difference becoming maximum at the maximum sensitivity phase difference; a detection signal selector configured to select one of the first and second detection signals whose predetermined range around the maximum sensitivity phase difference covers a preset phase difference; and a phase controller configured to control an amount of phase-adjusting by at least one of the two phase adjusters based on a difference between the phase difference detected within the predetermined range using the selected detection signal and the preset phase difference.
US09722566B1
A high-Q factor resonator includes a solenoid having an embedded capacitor assembled in a machinable high-frequency dielectric printed circuit board (“PCB”), or other substrate. The solenoid comprises a plurality of surface conductors positioned on upper and lower surfaces of the PCB. The solenoid further comprises a plurality of conductive vias extending through the PCB between the surface conductors, and at least two aligned vias are separated by a capacitive gap. A liquid crystal dielectric is embedded within the capacitive gap in order to control the capacitance. Accordingly, a tunable capacitive filter is achieved by changing the dielectric permittivity of the liquid crystal. In one example, a nematic liquid crystal is sealed in the capacitive gap and has its permittivity changed with a low frequency bias to tune the capacitor.
US09722561B2
A device is provided. The device includes: a sensor adapted to receive an acoustic wave and generate an electrical signal in response to receipt of the acoustic wave; clock frequency detection circuitry adapted to receive a clock signal, detect a frequency of the clock signal and generate information representative of the frequency; and digital filter circuitry coupled to the clock frequency detection circuitry. The digital filter circuitry is adapted to: receive the clock signal and the information representative of the frequency; access a first set of one or more digital filter coefficient values; and selectively change the first set of the one or more digital filter coefficient values to a second set of one or more digital filter coefficient values based on the information representative of the frequency, wherein the one or more digital filter coefficient values are included within a plurality of digital filter coefficient values.
US09722550B2
A power amplifying radiator is disclosed that includes an electric field receiver or radio frequency (RF) energy coupling and impedance matching element, a capacitive coupler, a cavity combiner including a coaxial-cavity section providing electromagnetic communication with the capacitive coupler, and a phased-array antenna/one or more phased-array antennas. The RF energy coupling and impedance matching element is in electromagnetic communication with the one or more phased-array antennas via the cavity combiner. The cavity combiner includes a center conductor configured and disposed to project from the coaxal-cavity section such that the cavity combiner defines a co-axial cross-sectional configuration. The power amplifying radiator may be included within a high power microwave system.
US09722548B2
An amplification circuit includes a first switching circuit that includes input terminals and first and second output terminals and that puts the second output terminal into an open state with respect to the input terminals while selectively putting the first output terminal into a state of being connected to any of the input terminals or selectively puts the second output terminal into a state of being connected to any of input terminals while putting the first output terminal into a state of being open with respect to the input terminals, a matching network that is connected to the first output terminal, an amplifier that is connected to an output side of the matching network, a second switching circuit that is connected to an output side of the amplifier, and a bypass path that electrically connects the second output terminal and an output terminal of the second switching circuit.
US09722545B2
Provided is an emphasis circuit capable of obtaining a desired emphasis amount with which waveform deterioration of an output signal in a high frequency band (high frequency band deterioration) is suppressed without increasing power consumption (current consumption). In the emphasis circuit, a baseband amplifier section and a peaking amplifier section are connected in parallel to each other, and respective drive current setting sections are adjusted to adjust respective drive current values thereof so that the sum of the drive current value of the baseband amplifier section and the drive current value of the peaking amplifier section may be constant.
US09722541B2
A distributed amplifier includes: an input-side transmission line; M amplification circuits; M output-side transmission lines; and a combination circuit configured to combine outputs of the M output-side transmission lines; wherein the input-side transmission line has an input-side serial line formed by connecting in series M×N unit transmission lines each including the same line length, and an input-side terminating resistor, the M amplification circuits each includes N amplifiers and the N amplifiers of the i-th amplification circuit take the input node of the ((k−1) M+i)-th input-side transmission line to be the input, and the output-side transmission line includes an output-side serial line including N transmission lines each being connected in series between the neighboring outputs of the N amplifiers and each having a line width in which the phase of the output of the amplifier in each stage agrees with one another.
US09722529B2
A method for assisting in operating a PWM driven motor comprising for at least one phase of the PWM driven motor: generating a pulse width modulated phase voltage scheme according to a desired phase profile with a base scaling factor, by time multiplexing a first pulse and at least a further pulse within a pulse width modulation period of the phase the first pulse having a pulse width according to a first profile, for that rotor position, multiplied with a first scaling factor, the first profile being in phase with the desired phase profile, and the at least a further pulse having a pulse width corresponds with a further profile, for that rotor position, multiplied with a further scaling factor, the further profile being not in phase with the desired phase profile, whereby the first pulse and the at least one further pulse are positioned within the pulse width modulation period of the phase in at least partially non-overlapping way.
US09722514B2
There is provided a motor drive comprising: a temperature sensor arranged to sense a temperature of the drive; a braking resistor; switching means arranged when activated to cause current to flow to the braking resistor; and controlling means arranged to activate the switching means when the sensed temperature falls below a predetermined threshold. There is also provided a method of controlling a temperature of a motor drive comprising a braking resistor. The method comprising comprises: monitoring a temperature of the drive; and activating switching means to cause current to flow to the braking resistor when the monitored temperature falls below a predetermined threshold.
US09722513B2
One embodiment describes a method that includes determining a desired torque level of a motor actuated by a motor starter; determining, using a control system, a configuration of the motor starter to achieve the desired torque level, in which determining the configuration includes determining which of a plurality of switching devices in the motor starter should be opened and which should be closed; and instructing, using the control system, the motor starter to implement the determined configuration by opening or closing one or more of the plurality of switching devices.
US09722512B2
A method for controlling an inertial drive on the basis of pulse trains is disclosed. The pulse trains include pulses having sections of different gradients and having variable amplitude and/or frequency. A pulse interval occurs between the individual pulses, wherein the selected pulse duration is so short that is substantially less than the cycle duration of the natural oscillation of the system to be driven.
US09722509B2
A circuit device comprises a circuit board and a plurality of leads each comprising an island portion, a bonding portion elevated from the island portion, and an oblique slope portion connecting the island portion and the bonding portion, and a plurality of circuit elements mounted on the island portions so as to be connected to corresponding bonding portions through wirings. Two leads are adapted to be connected to positive and negative electrodes of a direct-current power source, and yet another lead is an output lead adapted to output alternating-current power. One electrode provided on a transistor mounted on an island portion of the second input lead is connected to a bonding portion of the output lead through a wiring, and another electrode provided on a transistor mounted on an island portion of the output lead is connected to a bonding portion of the first input lead through a wiring.
US09722506B2
A controller for a switched mode power converter includes limit-to-valley ratio circuitry, an on-time generator, and a drive circuit. The limit-to-valley ratio circuitry is coupled to generate a ratio signal in response to sensing a switch current of a switch that regulates an output of the switched mode power converter. The ratio signal is representative of a time ratio between a first length of time that the switch current is at or above a switch current limit and a second length of time that the switch current is at or below a switch current valley that is a portion of the switch current limit. The on-time generator is coupled to vary a switch on-time signal in response to receiving the ratio signal. The drive circuit is coupled to output a drive signal to a control terminal of the switch in response to receiving the switch on-time signal.
US09722493B1
Power converters that can allow for the transfer of DC power between a ground-referenced bus and a floating system are provided. In one embodiment, the power converter includes a ground-referenced DC bus associated with a DC voltage. The power converter further includes a first switching element, a second switching element, and a third switching element coupled in series between the ground-referenced DC bus and a ground reference. The power converter further includes a floating system associated with a floating DC voltage. The floating system can include a first terminal coupled to a first node between the first switching element and the second switching element. The floating system can further include a second terminal coupled to a second node between the second switching element and the third switching element.
US09722486B2
A first detector compares an electric signal to be monitored with a first threshold. A second detector compares the electric signal with a second threshold. A first memory stores setting data of the first threshold. A second memory stores setting data of the second threshold. An interface circuit receives data from an external processor, and writes the data thus received to the first memory and the second memory. The protection circuit is configured such that data writing to the first memory is possible only when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US09722474B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an inverter-integrated electric compressor which, even with the connector of a power source-side cable configured to be connected directly to a P-N terminal on a circuit board, reduces the stress on the circuit board by support by a high voltage electric component and can implement this support with high precision. This inverter-integrated electric compressor is configured such that a P-N terminal for inputting high-voltage DC power is provided on a main circuit board, a power source-side cable can be connected to said P-N terminal by inserting a connector provided on one end, a high-voltage electric component configuring the inverter device is arranged in the facing position on the side of the main circuit board opposite that of the P-N terminal, and the electric component is housed in a case and fixed by a resin member; and is further configured such that multiple protruding and receding portions are formed on the edge of the top opening of the case, and stress on the main circuit board when the connector is plugged in is received by the protruding portions abutting against the bottom surface of the main circuit board.
US09722466B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator in which a plurality of armatures each have a coil formed by a winding wire wound in plural layers around bobbins mounted to a magnetic pole tooth, which are disposed annularly on an inner circumference of a cylindrical frame. The coil is formed by the winding wire being wound with a constant feed pitch in parallel with slots of the bobbins in plural layers. The winding wire forming a first layer of the coil is shifted by half the feed pitch between a left side and a right side of a center axis of the coil as viewed from a plane perpendicular to a stacking direction of a stacked iron core.
US09722457B2
There is provided a semiconductor chip having four sides and being substantially formed in a rectangle, the semiconductor chip including: a first terminal which is located along one side of the four sides of the semiconductor chip and which is to be electrically connected to a solar cell outside the semiconductor chip; a second terminal which is located along the one side of the semiconductor chip and which is to be electrically connected to a secondary cell outside the semiconductor chip; and an interconnection line that electrically interconnects the first terminal and the second terminal.
US09722453B2
A touch screen, an electronic device, and a wireless charging method are provided. The touch screen includes: a substrate adapted to carry a touch sensor circuit, where the touch sensor circuit includes a first touch sensor circuit and a second touch sensor circuit; and an equivalent switch arranged between the first touch sensor circuit and the second touch sensor circuit, where the first touch sensor circuit and the second touch sensor circuit form the touch sensor circuit in a case that the equivalent switch is off; and the first touch sensor circuit and the second touch sensor circuit form an equivalent coil and two ends of the equivalent coil are connected to a rechargeable power supply to generate an induced current for charging the rechargeable power supply, in a case that the equivalent switch is on.
US09722449B2
Disclosed herein is a furniture having a wireless charging function, including: one or more transmission coil units disposed on the same plane of a flat plate of the furniture; and a central transmission controlling unit configured to select at least one transmission coil unit corresponding to a wireless power reception apparatus when the wireless power reception apparatus is placed on the flat plate, and to transmit a wireless power signal through the selected transmission coil unit, the central transmission controlling unit being installed separately from the plurality of transmission coil units.
US09722447B2
In accordance with various embodiments, described herein are systems and methods for enabling efficient wireless power transfer and charging of devices and/or batteries, including in some embodiments freedom of placement of the devices and/or batteries in one or multiple (e.g. one, two or three) dimensions, and/or improved features such as ease of use and compatibility. Exemplary applications include beam inductive or magnetic charging and power for use in, e.g., mobile, electronic, electric, lighting or other devices, batteries, power tools, kitchen, military, medical, industrial tools or systems, robots, trains, buses, trucks and/or vehicles, and other environments.
US09722439B2
Disclosed is a bag with a built in charger for portable electronic devices. The bag includes an interior compartment that is disposed between an interior lining and an exterior of the bag. The interior compartment is adapted to hold a battery unit, which is removably connected to a charging cable and a retractable power cable. The charging cable can be connected to the battery unit via a USB connection, and is adapted to connect to a portable electronic device via a mobile device connection. The retractable power cable can be extended out of the interior compartment through a side opening, and can connect to an electrical outlet via a plug. An electrical connection between the electrical outlet and the plug supplies energy to the battery unit. The energy stored in the battery unit can be used to charge the portable electronic device when an electrical outlet is not readily accessible.
US09722438B2
The present teachings provide for an electrical connector including a first housing, power terminals, and first and second shunts. The terminals and shunts are located within a cavity of defined by the first housing. The first housing is configured to mate with a second housing to transfer power between a power storage device and components of an electric or hybrid electric vehicle. The first shunt is configured to complete an interlock circuit. The second shunt is configured to complete a service disconnect circuit. The interlock circuit prevents the transfer of power between the first and second housings when the circuit is broken and allows it when complete. The service disconnect circuit causes the power storage device to be substantially electrically isolated from the rest of the vehicle when the circuit is broken.
US09722433B2
A power transmitting device includes power transmitting coils, which contactlessly transmit electric power to a power receiving coil, and a switching device. When the power receiving coil is a solenoid coil, the switching device connects the power transmitting coils in parallel with each other such that magnetic fluxes generated inside the power transmitting coils flowing in the same direction along a winding axis. When the power receiving coil is a circular coil, the switching device connects the power transmitting coils in series with each other such that magnetic fluxes generated inside the power transmitting coils flowing in opposite directions along the winding axis.
US09722427B2
A system connected to an AC power grid having an AC phase signal includes an inverter module including a first inverter coupled to a DC voltage, actuated based on the AC phase signal. The first inverter provides a first voltage signal having predetermined harmonic components. A second inverter includes second switch elements coupled to the DC voltage and actuated by a second set of control signals phase delayed with respect to the first control signals. A transformer module has first and second primary windings coupled to the first and second inverters. The transformer module further includes a secondary winding coupled to first primary winding, the second primary winding, and the AC power grid. The secondary winding is configured to provide a secondary output voltage to the AC power grid by combining the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal such that the predetermined harmonic components are substantially cancelled.
US09722426B2
A hybrid energy system includes a (GTG) configured to provide a full-load power output and a storage device configured to store energy. The hybrid energy system includes a generator step-up transformer, wherein the GTG and the storage device are electrically co-located on a low side of the generator step-up transformer.
US09722413B2
A ground-resistance detection device, which is coupled to a power system including a first power line, a second power line, and a protective earth, includes a ground-resistance detection circuit and a controller. The ground-resistance detection circuit includes a first input node and a second input node. The first input node is coupled to either the first power line or the second power line. The second input node is coupled to a ground terminal. The ground-resistance detection circuit generates a DC output voltage according to the voltage of the first input node, the voltage of the second input node, and the DC reference voltage. The controller determines the ground resistance between the protective earth and the ground terminal according to the DC reference voltage and the DC output voltage.
US09722405B2
This invention has to do with a locking cable hanger assembly system for the solar, mining, and electrical industry. The locking cable hanger assembly is comprised of a new wire locking mechanism, new multiple cable carrier saddles on one hanger, data carrier wire capability, and optional high dielectric, UV coated material.
US09722395B2
The present invention describes a method and apparatus for mounting a semiconductor disc laser (SDL). In particular there is described a cooling apparatus assembly (12) for mounting the semiconductor disc laser (1) the cooling apparatus assembly comprising a crystalline heat spreader (8) made of diamond, sapphire or SiC and optically contacted to the SDL (1). The apparatus further comprises a heatsink (13) made of copper and a recess (16) located on a first surface (15) of the heatsink. A pliable filler material (17) which may be In or an In alloy is provided within the recess (16) such that when a sealing plate (19) is fastened to the heatsink the SDL (1) is hermetically sealed within the recess. Hermetically sealing the SDL within the recess is found to significantly increase the lifetime of the device comprising the SDL. The heat sink (13) may be water cooled with pipes (14) delivering the water. In case the sealing plate (19) is made from for example Invar, it has an aperture (20).
US09722394B2
A semiconductor laser diode is provided. A semiconductor layer sequence has semiconductor layers applied vertically one above the other. An active layer includes an active region having a width of greater than or equal to 30 μm emitting laser radiation during operation via a radiation coupling-out surface. The radiation coupling-out surface is formed by a lateral surface of the semiconductor layer sequence and forms, with an opposite rear surface, a resonator having lateral gain-guiding in a longitudinal direction. The semiconductor layer sequence is heated in a thermal region of influence by reason of the operation. A metallization layer is in direct contact with a top side of the semiconductor layer sequence.
US09722381B1
A connection panel for enabling quick change over of a network device comprises a body and an engaging device. An exterior side of the body has multiple sockets, each of which can receive a plug connector. The panel is configured for positioning at one end of a rack space for the network device. The panel's interior side has first network device connections configured to mate with second network device connections on the network device. The engaging device has at least one member extending between the network device and the panel, and is repositionable between at least an engaged position in which the network device is moved towards and mechanically coupled to the panel with the second network device connections urged into engagement with and electrically connected to the first connections, and a disengaged position in which the network device is disengaged from the panel and removable from the rack space.
US09722368B2
Embodiments generally relate to a cable that substantially forms itself into a cylindrical shape when not extended, yet can be extended with a slight force to provide an electrical coupling as, for example, for earphones used with a mobile device such as a mobile phone.
US09722362B2
An electrical connector with improved shielding shell includes an insulating body having a base and a tongue plate; a terminal set comprising multiple terminals provided on two surfaces of the tongue plate; a shielding shell joined with the base, comprising an opening portion and a chamber in mutual communication, and furthermore, a top surface and a bottom surface of the shielding shell are provided with corresponding engagement units, respectively, two ends of each engagement unit are connected integrally with the shielding shell, and a buckling portion and a grounding portion extending into the chamber are provided on each engagement unit, respectively; and a rear cover joining the base and the shielding shell. Thereby, the buckling portion and the grounding portion of each engagement unit as well as the docking connector perform engagement and grounding capabilities, two ends of each engagement unit are connected integrally with the shielding shell, such that longer operating duration and better electrical characteristics are accomplished.
US09722361B2
A connector is provided to facilitate the connection work of a connection terminal and to enhance the connection reliability. A connector includes an attachment part that includes a terminal stand; a connector main body that includes a connection terminal connected to a cable, the connection terminal being fastened and fixed to the terminal stand in a state in which the connector main body is mounted to the attachment part; a cable shield shell that covers an introduction part for the cable in the connector main body; and a connection part shield shell that covers a fastening area between the connection terminal and the terminal stand so as to accommodate the cable shield shell inside the connection part shield shell.
US09722352B2
Disclosed is a mounting system for an electronic device includes a first portion associated with an electronic device and a second portion configured to mate with the first portion. The first portion includes a first face formed from an electrically insulating material, a first central electrical contact on the first face, a first plurality of radial electrical contacts on the first face and positioned around the central contact, a first ferromagnetic member. The second portion includes a second face formed from an electrically insulating material, a second central electrical contact on the second face, a first radial electrical contact on the second face, and a first magnetic member. Magnetic attraction between the first magnetic member and the first ferromagnetic member substantially maintains the first and second central electrical contacts in an electrically conductive relationship.
US09722345B2
An electrical connector (50) comprises a housing (54b) provided with socket holes (52) for the reception of connector pins of a mating connector. A shutter (58) is provided linearly movable between a first end position, in which it covers socket holes, and a second end position, in which no socket holes are covered. Biasing means (60) are adapted to bias the shutter towards the first end position thereof. By providing the biasing means as at least one torsion spring (60)) having a first leg (60a) and a second leg (60b) interconnected by a helical spring portion (60c), very small dimension of the connector can be achieved.
US09722342B2
An electrical connector includes a main body mounted to the circuit board, a shielding plate assembly fastened to the main body, and a plurality of conductive terminals mounted to the main body and arranged in two rows. The shielding plate assembly is located between the two rows of the conductive terminals. Each of the conductive terminals has a fastening portion, a contact portion and a soldering portion. A front end of the contact portion has a contact surface. Thicknesses of two opposite sides of the front end of the contact portion are smaller than a thickness of a middle of the front end of the contact portion. The contact surfaces of the contact portions of the conductive terminals are exposed to a top surface and a bottom surface of the main body, respectively.
US09722330B2
A coaxial cable connector includes an inner barrel having a longitudinal axis, a front end, a rear end, and a compression band between the front and rear ends. A compression collar is mounted to the inner barrel for axial movement over the inner barrel from a retracted position to an advanced position. An inner post of the connector has opposed front and rear ends, and the front end of the inner barrel is carried at and on the rear end of the inner post. In response to axial movement of the compression collar over the inner barrel, the compression band compresses inward. When a cable is applied to the connector and the compression collar is moved axially forward over the inner barrel, the connector is permanently secured to the cable.
US09722327B2
A multi-column antenna having ports for different sub-bands is provided. In one aspect of the invention, power dividers couple the sub-band ports to the columns of radiating elements. At least one power divider is an un-equal power divider to allow a half-power beam width (HPBW) of one sub-band to be configured independently of the HPBW of the other sub-band. The ports may be combined at the radiating elements by diplexers. According to another aspect of the present invention, a multi-column antenna has a plurality of first sub-band ports and a plurality of second sub-band ports. Each of the first sub-band ports is coupled to one of the columns by a first sub-band feed network. Each of the second sub-band ports is coupled to two of the columns by a second sub-band feed network including a power divider. The different sub-bands have different MIMO optimization of the same multi-column antenna.
US09722323B2
An antenna, including a first dipole having a first polarization, the first dipole including a first pair of dipole arms, a second dipole having a second polarization, the second dipole including a second pair of dipole arms, at least one dipole arm of the first pair of dipole arms being located with respect to at least one dipole arm of the second pair of dipole arms so as to form at least one isolation slot therebetween, currents along the at least one isolation slot being operative to at least partially cancel mutual coupling between the first dipole and the second dipole, and a feed arrangement for feeding the first and second dipoles.
US09722315B2
An ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna for wireless communication in proximity to a human body and between devices having no line-of-sight, includes symmetrical radiators disposed on a side of a dielectric layer, and a differential microstrip feeding line disposed on the side and an opposite side of the dielectric layer. The UWB antenna further includes a top dielectric layer disposed over the side of the dielectric layer, a bottom dielectric layer disposed over the opposite side of the dielectric layer, and a top connecting plate disposed on an outer surface of the top dielectric layer. The UWB antenna further includes a bottom connecting plate disposed on an outer surface of the bottom dielectric layer, and an inter-layer connector configured to connect ends of each of the symmetrical radiators to the top connecting plate and the bottom connecting plate, respectively.
US09722309B2
A mobile radio antenna comprises a multi beam forming device which comprises a drivable drive element having a drive shaft and at least two output shafts. Each output shaft is substantially parallel to the drive shaft. At least one output gear is rotationally fixed to the output shaft. At least two phase shifters are each operatively connected to a respective output shaft via a respective drive device. A changeover device enables the drive element to be operatively connected selectively to at least one of the output gears.
US09722307B2
A terminal antenna structure, the antenna structure includes: a dielectric plate, a metal plate, a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feeding strip, and a feeding point, where the metal plate covers a dielectric plate; the CPW feeding strip and the feeding point are disposed on the dielectric plate; the feeding point is disposed at one end of the feeding strip, and the feeding point is connected to the metal plate to implement feed connection between the CPW feeding strip and the metal plate; a hole is opened on the metal plate, and the hole includes a first part and a second part on one side of the first part close to the center of the metal plate or on two sides of the first part.
US09722301B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure may provide an electronic device that includes: a first cover configured to form a first surface of the electronic device; a second cover configured to form a second surface of the electronic device, the second cover being opposite to the first surface; a conductive sidewall configured to surround at least a part of a space formed between the first cover and the second cover; a conductive member located in the space and configured to integrally extend from the conductive sidewall, the conductive member including a first surface directed toward the first cover and a second surface directed toward the second cover; a non-conductive member located in the space to make contact with the conductive member, the non-conductive member including a first surface directed toward the first cover and a second surface directed toward the second cover; a conductive pattern disposed on the second surface of the non-conductive member and electrically connected to the conductive member; and a conductive structure disposed between the conductive pattern and the conductive member to electrically connect the conductive pattern to the conductive member. The non-conductive member may include a via hole that at least partially passes through the area between the first surface and the second surface thereof, and the conductive structure may include a first part having a first cross-sectional area and a second part having a second cross-sectional area that is larger than the first cross-sectional area, wherein at least a part of the conductive structure may be disposed within a through-hole of the non-conductive member, and the second part may be disposed closer to the second surface of the non-conductive member than the first part. Various other embodiments are possible.
US09722296B2
A device for mounting an antenna to a rail is provided. The device includes a first clamp member and a second clamp member. The first clamp member includes a planar base plate having a first surface and a second surface. The planar base plate has at least two slots spaced apart on a longitudinal axis. At least two extension sections extend from the first surface of the planar base plate and being spaced apart along the longitudinal axis and closer to a center than the at least two slots. Each extension section includes a patterned cutout area configured to receive the rail. A plurality of threaded fasteners extend from the first surface of the planar base plate and being positioned outside the patterned cutout area along a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The second clamp member has a plurality of through-holes configured to receive the plurality of threaded fasteners and a planar surface facing toward the first surface of the first clamp member.
US09722278B2
A method for producing a solid lithium-based electrolyte for a solid microbattery implements the cathode sputtering of a lithium-based target material on an object supported by a substrate holder. A grid made of lithium-free electrically conductive material is interposed between the object and the lithium-based target material, the grid being electrically connected to the substrate holder.
US09722273B2
A fuel cell stack module includes a plurality of fuel cell stacks, a base supporting the plurality of fuel cell stacks, and a metal shell located over the base and the fuel cell stacks. The metal shell contains an integrated heat exchanger.
US09722269B2
A fuel cell, a reinforced membrane electrode assembly and a method of fabricating a reinforced membrane electrode assembly. The method comprises depositing an electrode ink onto a first substrate to form a first electrode layer, applying a first porous reinforcement layer on a surface of the first electrode layer to form a first catalyst coated substrate, depositing a first ionomer solution onto the first catalyst coated substrate to form a first ionomer layer, and applying a membrane porous reinforcement layer on a surface of the first ionomer layer to form a reinforced membrane layer.
US09722264B2
A redox flow battery includes an anolyte storage tank configured for containing a quantity of anolyte and an anolyte headspace; a catholyte storage tank configured for containing a quantity of a catholyte and a catholyte headspace; and a gas management system comprising at least one conduit interconnecting the anolyte headspace and the catholyte headspace, and a gas exchange device configured to contain or release an evolving gas from either or both of the anolyte and catholyte storage tanks to an exterior battery environment when an interior battery pressure exceeds an exterior battery pressure by a predetermined amount.
US09722263B2
An object is to suppress interference with the flow of a reactive gas or an off-gas in a fuel cell. There is provided a fuel cell comprising a stacked body that includes at least a power generation body configured by stacking a plurality of unit cells; and an end plate that is placed on at least one end in a stacking direction of the stacked body. The stacked body includes a manifold that is formed to pass through at least the power generation body in the stacking direction and is configured to cause a reactive gas or an off-gas to flow through. The end plate comprises a through hole that is formed to communicate with the manifold; and a plate portion that is placed inside of the through hole at a position corresponding to an outer circumference of an opening of the manifold formed in an end face on the one end of the stacked body and is arranged away from the end face of the stacked body across a clearance.
US09722260B2
An ion exchanger includes a lower casing, an upper casing, and a cartridge. The lower casing includes an upper opening and a circumferential wall, which includes an intake port and a discharge port. The upper casing includes a lid, which is arranged on the opening of the lower casing, and a cylinder, which extends downward from the lid and is accommodated in the circumferential wall. The cartridge, which is provided integrally with the inner side of the cylinder, accommodates an ion exchange resin. The cylinder includes a communication hole, through which the inner side of the cylinder is in communication with the intake port. The upper casing includes an accumulation limiting structure that limits the air remaining immediately below the lower surface of the lid in the upper casing after flowing into the cylinder together with coolant.
US09722255B2
A reinforced catalyst layer assembly, suitably for use in a fuel cell, said reinforced catalyst layer assembly comprising: (i) a planar reinforcing component consisting of a porous material having pores extending through the thickness of the material in the z-direction, and (ii) a first catalyst component comprising a first catalyst material and a first ion-conducting material, characterized in that the first catalyst component is at least partially embedded within the planar reinforcing component, forming a first catalyst layer having a first surface and a second surface is disclosed.
US09722253B2
Disclosed is an electrode comprising a coating layer formed partially or totally on a surface thereof, the coating layer comprising: (i) a reduced form of a first acrylate compound having one or two acryl groups; and (ii) a reduced form of a second acrylate compound having three or more acryl groups. Further, disclosed in an electrochemical device comprising a cathode, an anode, a separator and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the cathode and/or the anode is the above electrode.
US09722247B2
A positive electrode comprising ε-VOPO4 and/or Nax(ε-VOPO4) wherein x is a value from 0.1 to 1.0 as an active ingredient, wherein the electrode is capable of insertion and release of sodium ions and a reversible sodium battery containing the positive electrode are provided.
US09722246B2
Disclosed is a method of preparing inorganic particles using a hydrothermal synthesis device, including introducing a precursor liquid or slurry stream including a reaction precursor for preparation of an inorganic material into a hydrothermal synthesis reactor, introducing a supercritical liquid stream including water into the hydrothermal synthesis reactor, preparing an inorganic slurry by hydrothermal reaction in the hydrothermal synthesis reactor and discharging the inorganic slurry therefrom, and filtering the discharged inorganic slurry, wherein the precursor liquid or slurry stream includes an NH3 source at a high temperature of the supercritical liquid stream and thus clogging of the stream in the hydrothermal synthesis reactor is inhibited by pH changes in the hydrothermal reaction.
US09722239B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode layer. The negative electrode layer contains a titanium composite oxide and a carboxymethyl-cellulose compound. The carboxymethyl-cellulose has a degree of etherification of 1 or more and 2 or less. The negative electrode layer has a density of 2.2 g/cm3 or more.
US09722238B2
Provided is battery pack, including a plurality of battery cells that and a case covering the plurality of battery cells, wherein at least one drainage hole is formed on a bottom of the lower case, that includes a first region and a second region, the first region being a region from an inner surface to a predetermined depth in a thickness direction of the bottom of the lower case and the second region being a region from where the first region ends to an outer surface from the thickness direction of the bottom of the lower case, wherein the first region includes a first tiling portion formed tilted such that the drainage hole becomes smaller, grooves formed at regular intervals along a circumference of the drainage hole from where the first tilting portion ends to the outer surface of the bottom of the lower case and a foreign substance blocking portion formed on a same plane as the outer surface of the lower case.
US09722237B2
A secondary battery having improved safety includes an electrode assembly, a case, and a cap assembly. The electrode assembly has first and second non-coating portions. The case accommodates the electrode assembly. The cap assembly includes a cap plate coupled to the case, and first and second collector plates. In the secondary battery, the first and second non-coating portions and the first and second collector plates are connected or coupled by first and second lead tabs, respectively, and the first and/or second lead tabs include a fuse portion.
US09722234B2
A secondary battery, which can improve safety during a longitudinal compression test by reinforcing strength of a cap plate, is provided. In one embodiment, the secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a can accommodating the electrode assembly, and cap plate coupled to a top portion of the can and sealing the can, wherein a reinforcement unit is formed on at least one side of the cap plate.
US09722220B2
Element (12) for holding a power supply device (5) for supplying power to an actuator (4) for controlling a movable screen (3), the actuator causing a drive shaft to rotate, the holding element comprising a body (120) provided with a hole (125) for receiving at least part of the power supply device and a longitudinal slit (126) on at least part of the body.
US09722219B2
A battery includes a bottomed case of box shape housing a power-generating element, a lid component for the case, a terminal electrode provided outside the case and extending in the direction of the thickness of the lid component, a take-out electrode passing through the lid component, provided for taking out an electric power of the power-generating element to the outside of the case, and disposed at a position different from that of the terminal electrode within a plane including the lid component, and a connecting member connecting the terminal electrode and the take-out electrode and including a thinner portion allowing bending of the connecting member in response to an external force applied to the terminal electrode in the direction of the thickness of the lid component.
US09722217B2
A pouch type battery cell includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator located between the first and second electrode plates; a first case having a first accommodating portion in which at least one portion of the electrode assembly is accommodated, wherein the first accommodating portion is generally concave; and a second case covering the first case, wherein the first case includes a metal layer including steel or hard aluminum, and wherein a depth of the first accommodating portion is between about 1 mm and about 4 mm, and wherein a thickness of the metal layer is between about 40 μm and about 100 μm.
US09722213B2
When a coating film 4 is formed on a substrate 1, on which elements 3 are formed, by an ALD film forming method or the like, the coating film 4 is partially removed in a simple step. A method for manufacturing an electronic device includes a step of coating the substrate 1 partially with a partially coating member 2, a step of forming the elements 3 on the substrate 1, a step of forming the coating film 4 on the substrate 1 to cover the elements 3 and the partially coating member 2, and a step of forming a crack 4A in the coating film 4 on the partially coating member 2.
US09722211B2
An organic light-emitting device includes at least one functional layer for generating electroluminescent radiation, an encapsulation structure formed on or over the at least one functional layer, and a heat conduction layer formed on or over the encapsulation structure. The heat conduction layer includes a matrix material and heat conducting particles embedded in the matrix material.
US09722207B2
Provided is a display device, including two light-emitting elements having different turn-on voltages. Each of the light-emitting elements includes a patterned electrode, a common layer, a patterned light-emitting layer, and a common electrode. The light-emitting element with the lower turn-on voltage among the two light-emitting elements includes a functional layer which suppresses a hole from being leaked from the light-emitting layer with the higher turn-on voltage through the common layer when the light-emitting element with the higher turn-on voltage among the two light-emitting elements is driven at a low gray scale to move into the patterned light-emitting layer of the light-emitting element with the lower turn-on voltage. Therefore, the light emission of an undesired pixel due to the leakage current is reduced, thereby improving the display quality.
US09722204B2
A display device is provided including a display region arranged with a plurality of pixels, and a first sealing region arranged in an exterior periphery part of the display region, the display region includes an individual pixel electrode arranged in each of the plurality of pixels, a common pixel electrode arranged in upper layer of the individual pixel electrode and in succession to the plurality of pixels, and a light emitting layer arranged between the individual pixel electrode and the common pixel electrode, and the first sealing region includes a sealing layer arranged on a lower layer than the common pixel electrode and a region stacked with the common pixel electrode extending from the display region, the stacked region being enclosed by the display region.
US09722202B2
Display apparatus, including a substrate; a pixel electrode on the substrate and corresponding to a pixel; an auxiliary line on the substrate and insulated from the pixel electrode; an insulation layer on the pixel electrode and the auxiliary line, the insulation layer covering at least a portion of the pixel electrode and at least a portion of the auxiliary line; an organic light emitting layer on the pixel electrode, the auxiliary line, and the insulation layer; a first electrode on the organic light emitting layer and overlapping at least a portion of the auxiliary line; an opening in each of the organic light emitting layer and the first electrode to correspond to the auxiliary line; and a second electrode on the first electrode and an exposed portion of the auxiliary line, the second electrode electrically connecting the auxiliary line to the first electrode, the exposed portion of the auxiliary line being exposed by the opening.
US09722199B2
An organic light emitting display device comprises first and second electrodes facing each other on a substrate; and three emission portions arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one among the three emission portions includes two emitting layers, and the first, second and third emission portions being collectively configured as a TOL-FESE (Thickness of Organic Layers between the First Electrode and the Second Electrode) structure in which thicknesses of organic layers between the first electrode and the second electrode are different from one another, each organic layer having a specified thickness that provides the organic light emitting display device having the TOL-FESE structure with improved red efficiency or blue efficiency and minimized color shift rate with respect to a viewing angle, when compared to an organic light emitting display device that lacks the TOL-FESE structure.
US09722192B2
A metal complex having a structural formula as follows, wherein, the metal atom M is selected from the group consisting of iridium (Ir), platinum (Pt), osmium (Os), rhenium (Re), ruthenium (Ru) and copper (Cu); R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently selected from the group consisting of —F, —CF3, —CH3 and substituted phenyl; in the (C^N) substructure located on a left side of the metal atom M in the structural formula (I), C is located in a first aromatic or heteroaromatic ring, and N is located in a second heteroaromatic ring. The metal complex can be used in luminescent material of display devices.
US09722184B2
A thiadiazole contains a basic skeleton represented by any of formulae (1), (2), and (3) in the molecule.
US09722164B2
Disclosed are methods for the manufacture of n-type and p-type filled skutterudite thermoelectric legs of an electrical contact. A first material of CoSi2 and a dopant are ball-milled to form a first powder which is thermo-mechanically processed with a second powder of n-type skutterudite to form a n-type skutterudite layer disposed between a first layer and a third layer of the doped-CoSi2. In addition, a plurality of components such as iron, and nickel, and at least one of cobalt or chromium are ball-milled form a first powder that is thermo-mechanically processed with a p-type skutterudite layer to form a p-type skutterudite layer “second layer” disposed between a first and a third layer of the first powder. The specific contact resistance between the first layer and the skutterudite layer for both the n-type and the p-type skutterudites subsequent to hot-pressing is less than about 10.0 μΩ·cm2.
US09722147B2
Networks of semiconductor structures with fused insulator coatings and methods of fabricating networks of semiconductor structures with fused insulator coatings are described. In an example, a semiconductor structure includes an insulator network. A plurality of discrete semiconductor nanocrystals is disposed in the insulator network. Each of the plurality of discrete semiconductor nanocrystals is spaced apart from one another by the insulator network.
US09722143B2
According to one embodiment, the p-side electrode is provided on the second semiconductor layer. The insulating film is provided on the p-side electrode. The n-side electrode includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The first portion is provided on a side face of the first semiconductor layer. The second portion is provided in the first n-side region. The third portion overlaps the p-side electrode via the insulating film and connects the first portion and the second portion to each other.
US09722142B2
An LED die includes a substrate, a pre-growth layer, a first insulating layer and a light emitting structure. The pre-growth layer, the first insulating layer and the light emitting structure are formed on the structure that order. The substrate includes a first electrode, a second electrode and an insulating part. The insulating part is formed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The LED die further includes a second insulating layer and a metal layer which are formed around the pre-growth layer. The present disclosure includes a method for manufacturing the LED die.
US09722137B2
A light emitting diode (LED) structure has semiconductor layers, including a p-type layer, an active layer, and an n-type layer. The p-type layer has a bottom surface, and the n-type layer has a top surface though which light is emitted. A copper layer has a first portion electrically connected to and opposing the bottom surface of the p-type layer. A dielectric wall extends through the copper layer to isolate a second portion of the copper layer from the first portion. A metal shunt electrically connects the second portion of the copper layer to the top surface of the n-type layer. P-metal electrodes electrically connect to the first portion, and n-metal electrodes electrically connect to the second portion, wherein the LED structure forms a flip chip. Other embodiments of the methods and structures are also described.
US09722128B2
[Problem] To provide a solar power system and a solar panel installation method with which, by using a positioning configuration which is not prone to visible vertical misalignment while preserving sunlight lighting efficiency in the positioning of a plurality of solar panels, solar panel installation is easy, and which is suitable to installing a large solar power system on a hill, in wetlands, etc. [Solution] A solar power system comprises a solar panel group (2) in which a plurality of vertically oriented rectangular solar panels (21) are inclined in the same direction, either left or right, at a prescribed angle of inclination (theta), and the lighting faces (22) of each of the solar panels (21) are arrayed in the same plane.
US09722127B2
A mounting member includes: an insulating substrate, a first die pad unit, first and second terminals. The insulating substrate has a rectangular first surface, a second surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface, and a fourth side surface. A through hole is provided from the first surface to the second surface. The first die pad unit is provided on the first surface. The first terminal has a conductive region covering the first side surface, the first surface, and the second surface. The second terminal has a conductive region covering the second side surface and the second surface, connected to the first die pad unit by conductive material provided in the through hole or on a side wall of the through hole. The first die pad unit, the first terminal, and the second terminal are apart from one another.
US09722122B2
Isoelectronic co-doping of semiconductor compounds and alloys with acceptors and deep donors is used to decrease bandgap, to increase concentration of the dopant constituents in the resulting alloys, and to increase carrier mobilities lifetimes. For example, Group III-V compounds and alloys, such as GaAs and GaP, are isoelectronically co-doped with, for example, B and Bi, to customize solar cells, and other semiconductor devices. Isoelectronically co-doped Group II-VI compounds and alloys are also included.
US09722114B2
A photovoltaic cell mounting substrate includes a substrate; and a plurality of grooves provided at one surface of the photovoltaic cell mounting substrate, the plurality of grooves including a first groove and a second groove that is placed at a circumferential side of the first groove, at the one surface of the substrate, the second groove being formed deeper than the first groove, with respect to the one surface of the substrate.
US09722108B2
A photodetector with a plasmon structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of light-receiving elements that are formed in a predetermined pattern, protruding from the semiconductor substrate, and a nanostructure that is placed in contact with a surface of the semiconductor substrate among the light-receiving elements and which induces a plasmon phenomenon thereon.
US09722106B2
The invention relates to the manufacturing process of a solar cell (1) with back contact and passivated emitter, comprising a dielectric stack (10) of at least two layers consisting of at least a first dielectric layer (11) made of AlOx in contact with a p-type silicon layer (3), and a second dielectric layer (13) deposited on the first dielectric layer (11). Besides, the method of manufacturing comprising a formation step of at least one partial opening (15) preferably by laser ablation into the dielectric stack (10), sparing at least partially the aforementioned first dielectric layer.
US09722100B2
The present invention provides a thick-film paste for printing the front side of a solar cell device having one or more insulating layers. The thick film paste comprises an electrically conductive metal, and a lead-tellurium-lithium-oxide dispersed in an organic medium.
US09722098B1
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device package includes disposing at least one die over a substrate, dispensing a liquid material on the die, and curing the liquid material so that the liquid material forms a protective layer attached to a portion of the die. The method further includes forming an encapsulant covering at least a portion of the substrate and a portion of the die, where the protective layer is exposed from the encapsulant in a cavity defined by the encapsulant. The method further includes removing the protective layer from the die, and disposing a cap over the cavity.
US09722094B2
The present invention proposes a TFT, an array substrate, and a method of forming a TFT. The TFT includes a substrate, a buffer layer, a patterned poly-si layer, an isolation layer, a gate layer, and a source/drain pattern layer. The poly-si layer includes a heavily doped source and a heavily doped drain, and a channel. The gate layer includes a first gate area and a second gate area. The source/drain pattern layer includes a source pattern, a drain pattern and a bridge pattern, with the source pattern electrically connecting the heavily doped source, the drain pattern electrically connecting the heavily doped drain, and one end of the bridge pattern connecting the first gate area and the second gate area. The driving ability of the present inventive TFT is enhanced without affecting the leakage current.
US09722090B2
A semiconductor device with stable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, a first conductive film, and a second conductive film. The first gate electrode is electrically connected to the second gate electrode. The first conductive film and the second conductive film function as a source electrode and a drain electrode. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first region that overlaps with the first conductive film, a second region that overlaps with the second conductive film, and a third region that overlaps with a gate electrode and the third conductive film. The first region includes a first edge that is opposed to the second region. The second region includes a second edge that is opposed to the first region. The length of the first edge is shorter than the length of the second edge.
US09722088B2
Provided is a semiconductor device in which deterioration of electric characteristics which becomes more noticeable as the semiconductor device is miniaturized can be suppressed. The semiconductor device includes a first oxide film, an oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide film, a source electrode and a drain electrode in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, a second oxide film over the oxide semiconductor film, the source electrode, and the drain electrode, a gate insulating film over the second oxide film, and a gate electrode in contact with the gate insulating film. A top end portion of the oxide semiconductor film is curved when seen in a channel width direction.
US09722085B2
A transistor includes a channel layer in which a plurality of graphene whose edge portions are terminated with modifying groups different from each other are bonded to each other; a gate electrode formed on the channel layer via a gate insulating film; and a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the channel layer.
US09722078B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor device includes a silicon substrate, a fin shaped structure and a shallow trench isolation. The fin shaped structure is disposed on the silicon substrate and includes a silicon germanium (SiGe) layer extending downwardly from a top end and at least occupying 80% to 90% of the fin shaped structure. The shallow trench isolation covers a bottom portion of the fin shaped structure.
US09722075B2
Described herein is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate in which an element region and a termination region surrounding the element region are provided. The element region includes: a gate trench; a gate insulating film; and a gate electrode. The termination region includes: a plurality of termination trenches provided around the element region; an inner trench insulating layer located inside of each of the plurality of termination trenches; and an upper surface insulating layer located at an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate in the termination region. The upper surface insulating layer includes a first portion and a second portion having a thinner thickness than the first portion and located at a location separated from the element region than the first portion, and a gate wiring is located at an upper surface of the first portion and is not located at an upper surface of the second portion.
US09722073B2
A lateral superjunction MOSFET device includes a gate structure and a first column connected to the lateral superjunction structure. The lateral superjunction MOSFET device includes the first column to receive current from the channel when the MOSFET is turned on and to distribute the channel current to the lateral superjunction structure functioning as the drain drift region. In some embodiment, the MOSFET device includes a second column disposed in close proximity to the first column. The second column disposed near the first column is used to pinch off the first column when the MOSFET device is to be turned off and to block the high voltage being sustained by the MOSFET device at the drain terminal from reaching the gate structure. In some embodiments, the lateral superjunction MOSFET device further includes termination structures for the drain, source and body contact doped region fingers.
US09722069B2
A transistor includes a semiconductor body; a body region of a first conductivity type formed in the semiconductor body; a gate electrode formed partially overlapping the body region and insulated from the semiconductor body by a gate dielectric layer; a source diffusion region of a second conductivity type formed in the body region on a first side of the gate electrode; a trench formed in the semiconductor body on a second side, opposite the first side, of the gate electrode, the trench being lined with a sidewall dielectric layer; and a doped sidewall region of the second conductivity type formed in the semiconductor body along the sidewall of the trench where the doped sidewall region forms a vertical drain current path for the transistor.
US09722064B2
An isolated gate field effect transistor and the manufacture method thereof. The isolated gate field effect transistor includes a substrate; a nitride transistor structure arranged on the substrate; a dielectric layer on the nitride transistor structure, where the dielectric layer includes a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer and a third dielectric layer and material of the second dielectric layer includes metal; a groove formed in a gate region and at least partially through the dielectric layer; a metal gate formed in the groove; and a source electrode and a drain electrode located at two ohmic contact regions.
US09722059B2
There are disclosed herein various implementations of a latch-up free power transistor. Such a device includes an insulated gate situated adjacent to a conduction channel in the power transistor, an emitter electrode in direct physical contact with the conduction channel, and a collector electrode in electrical contact with the conduction channel. The power transistor also includes an emitter layer in contact with a surface of a semiconductor substrate adjacent the conduction channel.
US09722046B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate having a channel recess therein, a plurality of spaced apart shallow trench isolation (STI) regions in the substrate, and source and drain regions spaced apart in the substrate and between a pair of the STI regions. A superlattice channel may be in the channel recess of the substrate and extend between the source and drain regions, with the superlattice channel including a plurality of stacked group of layers, and each group of layers of the superlattice channel including stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. A replacement gate may be over the superlattice channel.
US09722039B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for fabricating a semiconductor device comprises depositing a transition layer on a substrate, depositing GaN material on the transition layer, forming a contact on the GaN material, depositing a stressor layer on the GaN material, separating the transition layer and the substrate from the GaN material, patterning and removing portions of the GaN material to expose portions of the stressor layer.
US09722035B2
A termination structure of a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes an active area and a termination area adjacent to the active area, in which the termination area has the termination structure. The termination structure includes a substrate, an epitaxy layer, a dielectric layer, a conductive material layer and a conductive layer. The epitaxy layer is disposed on the substrate and has a voltage-sustaining region. The voltage-sustaining region has trenches parallel to each other. The dielectric layer is disposed in the trenches and on a portion of the epitaxy layer. The conductive material layer is disposed on the dielectric layer in the trenches. The conductive layer covers the trenches, and is in contact with the conductive material layer and a portion of the epitaxy layer, and is electrically connected between the active area and the termination area. A method for manufacturing the termination structure is also provided.
US09722028B2
A silicon carbide substrate has a first main surface, and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. A region including at least one main surface of the first and second main surfaces is made of single-crystal silicon carbide. In the one main surface, sulfur atoms are present at not less than 60×1010 atoms/cm2 and not more than 2000×1010 atoms/cm2, and carbon atoms as an impurity are present at not less than 3 at % and not more than 25 at %. Thereby, a silicon carbide substrate having a stable surface, a semiconductor device using the substrate, and methods for manufacturing them can be provided.
US09722025B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a planar transistor on a first portion of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the first portion of the semiconductor substrate has a first top surface; and a multiple-gate transistor on a second portion of the semiconductor substrate. The second portion of the semiconductor substrate is recessed from the first top surface to form a fin of the multiple-gate transistor. The fin is electrically isolated from the semiconductor substrate by an insulator.
US09722024B1
Formation of semiconductor structures employing selective removal of fins includes, for example, providing a substrate having a first plurality of fins having first hard masks thereon, a second plurality of fins having second hard masks thereon, the first hard mask being different from the second hard mask, depositing a first fill material between lower portions of the first and second fins, depositing a third hard mask layer on the first fill material between the first and second fins, depositing a second fill material on the third hard mask extending between upper portions of the first and second fins, selectively removing the second hard masks and the second fins to form open cavities in the first and second fill material, depositing a third fill material in the opened cavities, and removing the second fill material and the third fill material above the third hard mask to form a fin-cut region.
US09722020B2
A super junction semiconductor device includes a semiconductor portion with first and second surfaces parallel to one another and including a doped layer of a first conductivity type formed at least in a cell area. Columnar first super junction regions of a second conductivity type extend in a direction perpendicular to the first surface and are separated by columnar second super junction regions of the first conductivity type. The first and second super junction regions form a super junction structure between the first surface and the doped layer. A first electrode structure directly adjoins the first surface and a second electrode structure directly adjoins the second surface. The first electrode structure has a first thickness and the second electrode structure has a second thickness. A sum of the first and second thicknesses is at least 20% of the thickness of the semiconductor portion between the first and second surfaces.
US09722019B2
A high voltage integrated circuit device suppresses the quantity of holes that are implanted due to a negative voltage surge, thus preventing malfunction and destruction of a high side circuit. A p−-type aperture portion has a gap portion in an n-type well region that is a voltage resistant region, penetrating the n-type well region to reach a p-type substrate, so as to enclose an n-type well region that is a high potential region.
US09722014B2
Semiconductor structures including a plurality of conductive structures having a dielectric material therebetween are disclosed. The thickness of the dielectric material spacing apart the conductive structures may be adjusted to provide optimization of capacitance and voltage threshold. The semiconductor structures may be used as capacitors, for example, in memory devices. Various methods may be used to form such semiconductor structures and capacitors including such semiconductor structures. Memory devices including such capacitors are also disclosed.
US09722013B2
A thin film electronic component includes: a substrate; a thin film electrode layer over the substrate; an inorganic insulation layer formed on the thin film electrode layer; an organic insulation layer formed on the inorganic insulation layer; and a lead-out electrode that electrically connects to the thin film electrode layer. The inorganic insulation layer has a through-hole formed therein, so as to expose a portion of the thin film electrode layer. The organic insulation layer has a through-hole formed therein, so as to expose the through-hole in the inorganic insulation layer. The lead-out electrode is formed in the through-hole in the inorganic insulation layer and the through-hole in the organic insulation layer. A shape of a borderline defining the through-hole at a top surface of the organic insulation layer in a plan view has chamfered corners.
US09722010B2
A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a transistor section (100) that includes a gate insulating film (130), a semiconductor layer (140), and a gate electrode layer (120), the semiconductor layer being laminated on the gate insulating film, the gate electrode film being laminated on an opposite side to the semiconductor layer of the gate insulating film; a first capacitor section (200) that includes a first metal film (210) and a second metal film (220), the first metal film being disposed at a same level as wiring layers (161, 162) that are electrically connected to the semiconductor layer and is disposed over the transistor section, the second metal film being disposed over the first metal film with a first interlayer insulating film (152) in between; and a display element that is configured to be controlled by the transistor section.
US09722006B2
An organic light-emitting device includes at least an underlayer, a partition wall, and an organic film. The underlayer is disposed above a substrate. The partition wall covers a first part and surrounds a second part of the surface of the underlayer. The organic film includes organic material, is disposed in a recess formed by the partition wall surrounding the second part, and is in contact with the surface of the underlayer and a surface of the partition wall. The surface of the underlayer has a protruding portion that protrudes in an upward direction. The protruding portion is composed of a top surface and an inclined surface surrounding the top surface. The first part includes least the top surface and a portion of the inclined surface, and an inner edge of the partition wall is in contact with the inclined surface or a level portion of the surface of the underlayer.
US09722004B2
A package structure includes a substrate and a package plate. A frame is formed of a seal glue arranged between the substrate and the package plate. An underfill is positioned inboard of the frame. The package plate has a spreading surface, and at least one groove is formed in a spreading path of the frame on the spreading surface of the package plate.
US09721997B2
Provided is an organic light emitting device including: an organic emission layer disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode and in a plurality of sub-pixel areas; a plurality of electroluminescence units which include the organic emission layer and are formed by stacking; and a charge generation layer between the plurality of electroluminescence units, where the charge generation layers respectively disposed in the plurality of sub-pixel areas have a step and are formed at different positions, and the second electrodes respectively disposed in the multiple sub-pixel areas have a step and are formed at different positions.
US09721991B2
An organic optoelectronic component and a method for operating the organic optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment the organic optoelectronic component includes at least one organic light emitting element including an organic functional layer stack having at least one organic light emitting layer between two electrodes and at least one organic light detecting element including at least one organic light detecting layer, wherein the at least one organic light detecting element and the at least one organic light emitting element are laterally arranged on a common substrate.
US09721989B2
An image sensor includes a substrate having adjacent pixel regions and respective photodiode regions therein, and a pixel separation portion including a trench extending into the substrate between the adjacent pixel regions. The trench includes a conductive common bias line therein and an insulating device isolation layer between the common bias line and surfaces of the trench. A conductive interconnection is coupled to the common bias line and is configured to provide a negative voltage thereto. Related fabrication methods are also discussed.
US09721981B2
A pixel circuit includes a floating diffusion layer of a first conductivity-type between a drain/source of a second conductivity-type and a source/drain of the second conductivity-type. The source/drain and the drain/source touch the floating diffusion layer. A cathode of a photoelectric converter is electrically connected to the floating diffusion layer. An anode of the photoelectric converter touches the cathode. The cathode is of the first conductivity-type and the anode is of the second conductivity-type.
US09721971B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a highly reliably display device in which a high mobility is achieved in an oxide semiconductor. A first oxide component is formed over a base component. Crystal growth proceeds from a surface toward an inside of the first oxide component by a first heat treatment, so that a first oxide crystal component is formed in contact with at least part of the base component. A second oxide component is formed over the first oxide crystal component. Crystal growth is performed by a second heat treatment using the first oxide crystal component as a seed, so that a second oxide crystal component is formed. Thus, a stacked oxide material is formed. A transistor with a high mobility is formed using the stacked oxide material and a driver circuit is formed using the transistor.
US09721966B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, a third electrode layer, a fourth electrode layer, a first gate electrode layer, a second gate electrode layer, a gate insulating film, a first interlayer insulating film, a second interlayer insulating film. The first electrode layer is separated from the substrate in a first direction. The second electrode layer is separated from the first electrode layer in a second direction. The third electrode layer is provided between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The third electrode layer includes a first edge face. A second edge face of the first gate electrode layer at the second gate electrode layer side is along the first edge face.
US09721958B2
A method of forming a memory device by forming spaced apart first and second regions with a channel region therebetween, forming a floating gate over and insulated from a first portion of the channel region, forming a control gate over and insulated from the floating gate, forming an erase gate over and insulated from the first region, and forming a select gate over and insulated from a second portion of the channel region. Forming of the floating gate includes forming a first insulation layer on the substrate, forming a first conductive layer on the first insulation layer, and performing two separate etches to form first and second trenches through the first conductive layer. A sidewall of the first conductive layer at the first trench has a negative slope and a sidewall of the first conductive layer at the second trench is vertical.
US09721951B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first complementary semiconductor device provided on a semiconductor substrate, and including a CMOS circuit, a metal electrode provided above the first complementary semiconductor device, a semiconductor layer provided above the metal electrode, including an nMOS region and a pMOS region separated from each other, and containing Ge; and a second complementary semiconductor device including an nMOSFET provided on the first portion of the semiconductor layer and a pMOSFET provided on the second portion of the semiconductor layer.
US09721946B2
A symmetric varactor structure may include a first varactor component. The first varactor component may include a gate operating as a second plate, a gate oxide layer operating as a dielectric layer and a body operating as a first plate of an area modulating capacitor. In addition, doped regions may surround the body of the first varactor component. The first varactor component may be supported on a backside by an isolation layer. The symmetric varactor structure may also include a second varactor component electrically coupled to the backside of the first varactor component through a backside conductive layer.
US09721943B2
A wiring structure may include at least two conductive material layers and a two-dimensional layered material layer in an interface between the at least two conductive material layers. The two-dimensional layered material layer may include a grain expander layer which causes grain size of a conductive material layer which is on the two-dimensional layered material layer to be increased. Increased grain size may result in resistance of the second conductive material layer to be reduced. As a result, the total resistance of the wiring structure may be reduced. The two-dimensional layered material layer may contribute to reducing a total thickness of the wiring structure. Thus, a low-resistance and high-performance wiring structure without an increase in a thickness thereof may be implemented.
US09721926B2
A semiconductor device includes at least first and second semiconductor chips stacked on each other along a first direction, at least one silicon-through-via (TSV) through at least the first semiconductor chip of the first and second semiconductor chips, a contact pad on the at least one TSV of the first semiconductor chip, the contact pad electrically connecting the TSV of the first semiconductor chip to the second semiconductor chip, and a plurality of dummy pads on the first semiconductor chip, the plurality of dummy pads being spaced apart from each other and from the contact pad along a second direction, and the dummy pads having same heights as the contact pads as measured between respective top and bottom surfaces along the first direction.
US09721911B2
A chip package includes a chip, a laser stopper, an isolation layer, a redistribution layer, an insulating layer, and a conductive structure. The chip has a conductive pad, a first surface, and a second surface. The conductive pad is located on the first surface. The second surface has a first through hole to expose the conductive pad. The laser stopper is located on the conductive pad in the first through hole. The isolation layer is located on the second surface and in the first through hole. The isolation layer has a third surface opposite to the second surface, and has a second through hole to expose the laser stopper. The redistribution layer is located on the third surface, a sidewall of the second through hole, and the laser stopper in the second through hole. The conductive structure is located on the redistribution.
US09721907B2
A wafer that includes a front surface, a back surface, and an edge between the front surface and the back surface having a curved edge profile between an edge of the front surface and a side face of the edge of the wafer. The edge profile includes a first convex curve that joins the edge of the front surface, a second convex curve that joins the side face, and an intermediate concave curve that joins the first convex curve and the second convex curve.
US09721900B2
Provided is a bonding method to construct a bonding with high thermal reliability between electrodes formed on both chip surfaces of a semiconductor device and wiring. The bonding method includes: bonding a semiconductor chip over a first substrate with a bonding film interposed therebetween; forming a first insulating film over the semiconductor chip; forming a first via in the first insulating film; forming a first wiring over the first insulating film so as to be electrically connected to the semiconductor chip through the first via; forming a second via in the bonding film; and forming a second wiring under the semiconductor chip so as to be electrically connected to the semiconductor chip through the second via.
US09721899B2
An embedded component package structure includes a substrate. A first conductive component extends from a first surface of the substrate to a second surface of the substrate, a first conductive layer is disposed on the first surface of the substrate, and a second conductive layer is disposed on the second surface of the substrate and is electrically connected to the first conductive layer by the first conductive component. A die is disposed in a through hole in the substrate. A back surface of the die is exposed from the second surface of the substrate. A first dielectric layer covers an active surface of the die and the first surface of the substrate. A third conductive layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer and is electrically connected to the die by a second conductive component. A first metal layer is disposed directly on the back surface of the die.
US09721898B2
Methods of forming microelectronic interconnect under device structures are described. Those methods and structures may include forming a device layer in a first substrate, forming at least one routing layer in a second substrate, and then coupling the first substrate with the second substrate, wherein the first substrate is bonded to the second substrate.
US09721897B1
A method of fabricating a semiconductor transistor and the semiconductor transistor include a source region and a drain region within a substrate. The method includes forming a gate above the substrate, forming a source contact above the source region and a drain contact above the drain region, and forming air spacers within a dielectric between the gate and each of the source contact and the drain contact. Metal caps are formed on the source contact and the drain contact, and a gate cap is formed between the dielectric and at least a portion of a bottom surface of higher-level contacts, which are contacts formed above the source contact and the drain contact.
US09721887B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a dielectric layer over a substrate, forming a trench in the dielectric layer, forming a first barrier layer in the trench. The first barrier layer has a first portion disposed along sidewalls of the trench and a second portion disposed over a bottom of the trench. The method also includes applying an anisotropic plasma treatment to convert the second portion of the first barrier layer into a second barrier layer, removing the second barrier layer while the first portion of the first barrier layer is disposed along sidewalls of the trench. The method also includes forming a conductive feature in the trench.
US09721878B2
An apparatus including a die including a device side; and a build-up carrier including a body including a plurality of alternating layers of conductive material and dielectric material disposed on the device side of the die, an ultimate conductive layer patterned into a plurality of pads or lands; and a grid array including a plurality of conductive posts disposed on respective ones of the plurality of pads of the ultimate conductive layer of the body, at least one of the posts coupled to at least one of the contact points of the die through at least a portion of the conductive material of the body. A method including forming a body of a build-up carrier including a die, the body of the build-up carrier including an ultimate conductive layer and forming a grid array including a plurality of conductive posts on the ultimate conductive layer of the body.
US09721875B2
A power module includes: an insulating layer; a leadframe disposed on the insulating layer; a semiconductor chip disposed on the leadframe; and a mold resin formed so as to cover the semiconductor chip and at least a part of the metal layer, wherein a groove into which a part of the insulating layer is inserted is formed on a surface of the leadframe facing the insulating layer. Accordingly, there can be provided the power module with improved reliability so that the insulating layer and the leadframe may be hardly deviated from each other even if external force is applied thereon; and a fabrication method for such a power module.
US09721872B1
A package includes a substrate having an electronic component flip chip mounted thereto by flip chip bumps. The electronic component includes an active surface and an inactive surface. Electrically conductive columns (TSV) extend through the electronic component between the active surface and the inactive surface. A RDL structure is coupled to the inactive surface, the RDL structure redistributing the pattern of the electrically conductive columns at the inactive surface to a pattern of inactive surface RDL lands. The inactive surface RDL lands are exposed through via apertures of a package body. By using the inactive surface of the electronic component to distribute the inactive surface RDL lands, the allowable size of the electronic component is maximized.
US09721871B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems associated with a heat exchanger for cooling an IC package are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a heat exchanger may include a base plate having a bottom side to be thermally coupled to the IC package, and a fin side, wherein the fin side is to include a plurality of fins to dissipate thermal energy emanated from the IC package. The heat exchanger may further include a manifold structure disposed on top of the base plate, having one or more layers, to regulate a coolant fluid flow to cool the plurality of fins, wherein the one or more layers are to include a plurality of channels and ports complementarily organized to distribute the coolant fluid flow to the plurality of fins tailored to a thermal energy emanation pattern of the integrated circuit package. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09721868B2
A three dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) includes a first substrate and a heat spreading structure embedded in the first substrate. The 3DIC further includes a die electrically connected to the first substrate, wherein the die is thermally connected to the heat spreading structure. The 3DIC further includes a plurality of memory units on the die, wherein the die is between the plurality of memory units and the first substrate, and the plurality of memory units is thermally connected to the heat spreading structure by the die. The 3DIC further includes an external cooling unit on the plurality of memory units, wherein the plurality of memory units is between the die and the external cooling unit, and the die is thermally connected to the external cooling unit by the plurality of memory units.
US09721856B2
A method and system are provided for implementing resistive defect performance mitigation for integrated circuits. A test is generated for identifying resistive defects. A first self heating repair process is performed for repairing resistive defects. Testing is performed to identify a mitigated resistive defect and a functional integrated circuit. Responsive to identifying a resistive defect not being mitigated and a functional integrated circuit, a second repair process is performed, then testing is performed again.
US09721846B1
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing nanowire semiconductor device. In the active region of the PMOS the first nanowire is formed with high hole mobility and in the active region of the NMOS the second nanowire is formed with high electron mobility to achieve the objective of improving the performance of nanowire semiconductor device.
US09721843B2
An asymmetric high-k dielectric for reduced gate induced drain leakage in high-k MOSFETs and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes performing an implant process on a high-k dielectric sidewall of a gate structure. The method further includes performing an oxygen annealing process to grow an oxide region on a drain side of the gate structure, while inhibiting oxide growth on a source side of the gate structure adjacent to a source region.
US09721836B2
A structure and a formation method of a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a first conductive feature over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a first dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate and surrounding the first conductive feature. The semiconductor device further includes a second conductive feature over the first conductive feature, and the second conductive feature extends into the first conductive feature. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and surrounding the second conductive feature. The semiconductor device also includes an etch stop layer between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. The etch stop layer surrounds the first conductive feature, and a bottom surface of the second conductive feature is above the etch stop layer.
US09721828B2
A method of filling STI trenches with dielectric with reduced particle formation. A method of depositing unbiased STI oxide on an integrated circuit during STI trench fill that reduces STI defects during STI CMP.
US09721823B2
A method of transferring micro-devices is provided. A carrying unit including a carrying substrate, a plurality of electrodes, a dielectric layer covering the electrodes, and a plurality of micro-devices disposed on the electrodes, including a first micro-device and a second micro-device, are also provided. A voltage is applied to an electrode corresponding to the first micro-device, so that an electrostatic force generated on the first micro-device by the carrying unit is larger than a force generated on the second micro-device by the carrying unit. A transfer stamp contacts the first micro-device and the second micro-device, and moves when the transfer stamp contacts the first micro-device and the second micro-device and the electrostatic force is greater than the force generated by the carrying unit, so that the second micro-device is picked up by the transfer stamp and transferred to a receiving unit, and the first micro-device remains on the carrying unit.
US09721819B2
The invention relates to a method for mounting semiconductor chips provided with bumps as flip chips on substrate locations of a substrate. The method comprises the placing of a flip chip in a cavity arranged in a stationary manner where the bumps are wetted with a fluxing agent and the position of the flip chip is determined by means of a camera. The method further comprises the use of a transport head and a bonding head, which allow rapid and highly precise mounting.
US09721817B2
Provided are an apparatus for measuring impurities on a wafer and a method of measuring impurities on a wafer. The apparatus includes: a wafer aligning device for aligning a wafer; a loading robot for moving and loading the aligned wafer; a rotation stage for rotating the loaded wafer; a scan robot for holding a natural oxide layer etching solution for the wafer and a metallic impurity recovery solution; and a container for receiving a predetermined etching solution and a recovery solution, wherein the scan robot removes an oxide layer on an edge region of the wafer.
US09721813B2
The present disclosure provides a cleaning method which enables a cup and a member around the cup to be cleaned thoroughly. In this cleaning method, a cleaning liquid is supplied to a cleaning jig from the upper side of the cleaning jig while rotating the cleaning jig held by a substrate holding unit. The cleaning liquid supplied to the cleaning jig is scattered obliquely upward along an inclined surface of an inclined portion which is provided around the entire circumference of the cleaning jig in the vicinity of the outer circumferential edge of the cleaning jig, thereby cleaning cups.
US09721805B1
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The method includes forming first and second fin structures over a semiconductor substrate. Each of the first and second fin structures has an upper portion and a lower portion. The method also includes forming a phosphosilicate glass (PSG) layer surrounding the upper and lower portions of the first fin structure. The method further includes doping the PSG layer to form a doped PSG layer. In addition, the method includes forming a borosilicate glass (BSG) layer surrounding the upper and lower portions of the second fin structure. The BSG layer extends over the doped PSG layer. The method also includes forming an isolation layer over the BSG layer. The method further includes partially etching the isolation layer, the BSG layer and the doped PSG layer to expose the upper portions of the first and second fin structures.
US09721804B1
A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a substrate; forming a fin-shaped structure on the substrate; performing a first etching process to remove part of the fin-shaped structure for forming a trench; and performing a second etching process to extend the depth of the trench and divide the fin-shaped structure into a first portion and a second portion.
US09721802B2
An apparatus configured to remove metal etch byproducts from the surface of substrates and from the interior of a substrate processing chamber. A plasma is used in combination with a solid state light source, such as an LED, to desorb metal etch byproducts. The desorbed byproducts may then be removed from the chamber.
US09721798B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for depositing an amorphous silicon film. The method includes supplying a source gas and an atmospheric gas onto a substrate in a state where the substrate is loaded in a chamber to deposit the amorphous silicon film on the substrate. The atmospheric gas includes at least one of hydrogen and helium. The source gas includes at least one of silane (SiH2), disilane (Si2H6), and dichlorosilane (SiCl2H2).
US09721795B2
A method of forming patterns includes forming pillars and first peripheral patterns on an underlying layer, forming a separation wall layer covering sidewalls of the pillars and the first peripheral patterns, forming blocking portions on the separation wall layer to fill first openings between the first peripheral patterns, forming a block copolymer layer filling gap regions between the pillars, annealing the block copolymer layer to form first domains and a second domain surrounding the first domains, removing the first domains and removing portions of the separation wall layer to form second openings, removing the second domain and the blocking portions, removing the pillars and the first peripheral patterns to form third openings and fourth openings, and patterning the underlying layer to form fifth openings that extend from the second and third openings and sixth openings that extend from the fourth openings.
US09721787B2
Provided are methods of depositing tantalum-containing films via atomic layer deposition and/or chemical vapor deposition. The method comprises exposing a substrate surface to flows of a first precursor comprising TaClxR5-x, TaBrxR5-x or TaIxR5-x, wherein R is a non-halide ligand, and a second precursor comprising an aluminum-containing compound, wherein x has a value in the range of 1 to 4. The R group may be C1-C5 alkyl, and specifically methyl. The resulting films comprise tantalum, aluminum and/or carbon. Certain other methods relate to reacting Ta2Cl10 with a coordinating ligand to provide TaCl5 coordinated to the ligand. A substrate surface may be exposed to flows of a first precursor and second precursor, the first precursor comprising the TaCl5 coordinated to a ligand, the second precursor comprising an aluminum-containing compound.
US09721785B2
A method of manufacturing a silica layer includes: coating a pre-wetting liquid material including a carbon compound on a substrate; coating a composition for forming a silica layer on the substrate coated with the pre-wetting liquid material; and curing a substrate coated with the composition for forming a silica layer.
US09721781B2
A device for mass spectrometry in continuous operation can be equipped with a focused electron beam source or laser radiation source. It can further include a vacuum chamber, a stage for placing the specimen, and an ion beam column with a plasma source for producing a primary ion beam and a secondary ion mass spectrometer for secondary ion analysis. The ion beam column is connected to an inert gas source and to a reactive gas source and is modified for simultaneous introduction of at least two gases from the inert gas source and reactive gas source. The secondary ion mass spectrometer is of an orthogonal Time-of-Flight type to ensure the function with the ion beam column in continuous operation.
US09721775B2
A sample plate for an ion source is disclosed comprising a plurality of ionization regions, each ionization region comprising a first electrode and a second separate electrode separated by an insulator.
US09721767B2
In some examples, a method comprising depositing a functional layer (e.g., a magnetic layer) over a substrate; depositing a granular layer over the functional layer, the granular layer including a first material defining a plurality of grains separated by a second material defining grain boundaries of the plurality of grains; removing the second material from the granular layer such that the plurality of grains of the granular layer define a hard mask layer on the functional layer; and removing portions of the functional layer not masked by the hard mask layer, wherein the depositing of the functional layer, the depositing of the granular layer, removing the second material, and removing the portions of the functional layer are performed in a vacuum environment.
US09721762B2
Provided are a method and a system for managing semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The method may be performed using an equipment computer and may include ordering to perform a preventive maintenance to a chamber and parts in the chamber, monitoring a result of the preventive maintenance to the chamber and the parts, and performing a manufacturing process using plasma reaction in the chamber, if the result of the preventive maintenance is normal. The monitoring the result of the preventive maintenance may include a pre-screening method monitoring the result of the preventive maintenance using electric reflection coefficients obtained from the chamber and the parts without using the plasma reaction.
US09721757B2
A modular plasma source assembly for use with a processing chamber is described. The assembly includes an RF hot electrode with an end dielectric and a sliding ground connection positioned adjacent the sides of the electrode. A seal foil connects the sliding ground connection to the housing to provide a grounded sliding ground connection separated from the hot electrode by the end dielectric. A coaxial feed line passes through a conduit into the RF hot electrode isolated from the processing environment so that the coaxial RF feed line is at atmospheric pressure while the plasma processing region is at reduced pressure.
US09721746B2
Display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate, a sealant, and, a second substrate fastended to the first substrate via the sealant. At least one of the first substrate and the second substrate is a non-planar substrate including at least two portions correspondingly extending in different planes.
US09721745B2
Fuse load-break switch (1) for low-voltage high-power fuses, a fuse contact pair for receiving a fuse (5A, 5B, 5C) being provided within a housing (2) of the fuse load-break switch (1) for each current phase to be disconnected, characterized in that a thermal power loss brought about by the fuses (5A, 5B, 5C) is dissipated into at least one heat dissipation duct (3) provided laterally on the housing (2) of the fuse load-break switch (1).
US09721735B2
A multi-function charger is provided. The multi-function charger includes a main body, a first plug, a first base, a second base, and a linkage element. The main body has a first surface having a recess and a second surface opposite thereto. The first plug having a first connector, a second connector, and a third connector is arranged in the main body and exposed on the first surface. The first base is connected to the first and second connectors, and the second base is connected to the third connector. The linkage element is pivotally connected to the first and second bases so that the first connector, the second connector, and the third connector are capable of rotating in the same direction until to be arranged in the recess. The linkage element is located in a connecting region defined between the central section of the first base and the second base.
US09721730B1
A capacitor is described. The capacitor comprises a first casing member having a first face wall extending to a first surrounding sidewall in turn extending to a first annular edge defining a first open end. A second casing member has a second face wall extending to a second surrounding sidewall in turn extending to a second annular edge defining a second open end. The second casing member is supported on the first annular edge to thereby close the first open end of the first casing member and provide a first capacitor enclosure comprising the first and second casing members in a stacked relationship. A cover is secured to the second annular edge to close the second casing member and provide a second capacitor enclosure. An anode, for example of tantalum, and a cathode active material, for example of ruthenium oxide, reside in capacitive association with each other inside each of the first and second capacitor enclosures. A working electrolyte is also contained in the capacitor enclosures. Finally, leads extend from each anode through insulative seals structures supported by the casing members for making electrical connection to the capacitor.
US09721726B2
An apparatus having reduced phononic coupling between a graphene monolayer and a substrate is provided. The apparatus includes an aerogel substrate and a monolayer of graphene coupled to the aerogel substrate.
US09721725B2
A magnetic substrate has such a shape that ridges extending between principal surfaces are cut away by cutout portions. A multilayer body has corners arranged so as to overlap the cutout portions. A coil includes lead portions which are connected with both ends of a coil portion and which are drawn out to the corners. A coil is combined with the coil to constitute a common mode choke coil and includes lead portions which are connected with both ends of a coil portion and which are drawn out to the corners. Connecting portions connect external electrodes to the lead portions and are provided at the cutout portion.
US09721722B2
A vehicle includes a power reception unit, a rectifier, a power line, and a cooling fan. The power reception unit of the vehicle is configured to receive, in a contactless manner, AC power output from a power transmission unit of a power transmission device. The rectifier rectifies the electric power received by the power reception unit. The electric power rectified by the rectifier is output through the power line. The cooling fan cools the power reception unit. The cooling fan is electrically connected to the power line, and operates with the electric power received from the power line.
US09721720B2
A power conditioning device reduces capacitive-in-nature, out of phase current (verses voltage), non-linear distortion, and/or leading power factor “noise” in electrical current in an electrical panel, improving the power efficiency of devices connected to the panel. The physical and electrical specifications of the device allow it to be more easily installed and give it a more robust installation environment.
US09721719B1
A coupled inductor includes a ladder magnetic core, a first common leakage plate formed of a magnetic material, and N windings, where N is an integer greater than one. The ladder magnetic core includes first and second rails and N rungs, where each of the N rungs connects the first and second rails. Each of the N windings includes a respective first portion. Each of the N windings is wound around a respective one of the N rungs, and at least two of the N windings are wrapped at least partially around the first common leakage plate such that a first portion of the winding is disposed between an outer surface of the first rail and an outer surface of the first common leakage plate.
US09721707B2
A plurality of windings in a coil winding of a superconducting coil device includes at least one superconducting strip conductor that has a strip-shaped substrate strip and a superconducting layer arranged on the substrate strip. The coil device is subdivided into a plurality of segments in which adjacent windings are cast or adhered together within each segment, adjacent windings being, at most, weakly connected or adhered together in at least one sub-region, in the intermediate region between two adjacent segments.
US09721705B2
The present invention relates to a magnetic particle having a high-reflective protective membrane and a method for producing same, especially wherein the magnetic particle includes a magnetic core, a shell formed on the magnetic core, and a high-reflective protective membrane formed on the shell, and the high-reflective protective membrane has low-refractive-index and high-refractive-index membranes. The magnetic particle has advantages that have high brightness and prevent the shell from being damaged by friction with a filler and pressure between rollers during a dispersion step of an ink-making process. Also, the magnetic particle is used for different colored inks, general paint, particulate pigments for vehicles, pigments for cosmetics, catalyst paint, and especially anti-forgery inks, etc., and has advantages that are durable and express colors that existing magnetic pigments fail to.
US09721695B2
The thermoplastic molding composition comprises, based on the thermoplastic molding composition, a) at least one polyamide, copolyamide or a polyamide-comprising polymer blend as component A, b) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of carbon nanotubes, graphenes or mixtures thereof as component B, c) from 0.1 to 3% by weight of ionic liquids as component C, wherein the thermoplastic molding composition does not comprise any polyamide-12 units.
US09721691B2
The present invention provides a method for producing molybdenum-99 comprising: i) providing an electron accelerator; ii) providing a molybdenum converter/target unit (Mo-CTU) comprising one or more metallic components, wherein each one of said metallic components is made of a material selected from the group consisting of natural molybdenum, molybdenum-100, molybdenum-98, and mixtures thereof; iii) directing an electron beam generated via said electron accelerator onto said Mo-CTU to produce a braking radiation (bremsstrahlung); iv) employing said bremsstrahlung onto said Mo-CTU to produce molybdenum-99 and neutrons via a photo-neutron reaction; v) slowing down the neutrons produced in step iv) with a low atomic liquid, e.g. distilled water; and optionally vi) employing the neutrons produced in step iv) to produce a complementary amount of molybdenum-99 via a neutron capture reaction on said Mo-CTU. The invention further provides an apparatus for producing molybdenum-99.
US09721685B2
Apparatuses for reducing or eliminating Type 1 LOCAs in a nuclear reactor vessel. A nuclear reactor including a nuclear reactor core comprising a fissile material, a pressure vessel containing the nuclear reactor core immersed in primary coolant disposed in the pressure vessel, and an isolation valve assembly including, an isolation valve vessel having a single open end with a flange, a spool piece having a first flange secured to a wall of the pressure vessel and a second flange secured to the flange of the isolation valve vessel, a fluid flow line passing through the spool piece to conduct fluid flow into or out of the first flange wherein a portion of the fluid flow line is disposed in the isolation valve vessel, and at least one valve disposed in the isolation valve vessel and operatively connected with the fluid flow line.
US09721682B2
A nuclear reactor control rod drive assembly includes a control rod drive mechanism coupled to a drive shaft and operable to bi-directionally urge the drive shaft through a portion of an inner volume of a reactor vessel at a first force; a control rod manifold coupled to the drive shaft; a plurality of control rods coupled to the control rod manifold, the plurality of control rods adjustable among a plurality of positions within the inner volume of the reactor vessel based on operation of the control rod drive mechanism; and at least one variable strength joint positioned between the control rod drive mechanism and the plurality of control rods.
US09721679B2
A nuclear fission reactor fuel assembly adapted to permit expansion of the nuclear fuel contained therein. The fuel assembly comprises an enclosure having enclosure walls to sealingly enclose a nuclear fuel foam defining a plurality of interconnected open-cell voids or a plurality of closed-cell voids. The voids permit expansion of the foam toward the voids, which expansion may be due to heat generation and/or fission gas release. The voids shrink or reduce in volume as the foam expands. Pressure on the enclosure walls is substantially reduced because the foam expands toward and even into the voids rather than against the enclosure walls. Thus, the voids provide space into which the foam can expand.
US09721678B2
A duct for a nuclear fuel assembly includes a tubular body and an elongated member. The tubular body has a sidewall with an inner face and an outer face and is configured to contain nuclear fuel within a fuel region. The elongated member extends from the outer face along at least a portion of the fuel region and has a contact surface configured to stabilize the duct during operation of the nuclear fuel assembly.
US09721675B1
An input circuit of a memory device includes an input receiver to receive an input signal, a clock receiver to receive a clock signal, a data latch, an input signal delay path coupled to the input receiver and configured to provide a delayed internal input signal to the data latch, a first clock signal delay path coupled to the clock receiver and configured to provide a first delayed internal clock signal, a second clock signal delay path coupled to the input receiver and configured to provide a second delayed internal clock signal, and a multiplexer coupled to receive and select one of the first delayed internal clock signal and the second delayed internal clock signal in response to a test mode control signal, and to provide the selected signal to the data latch.
US09721673B1
A Multi-Time-Programmable-Memory (MTPM) array architecture, whose structure comprising of having Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect-Transistor (MOSFET) memory elements arranged in a set of twin-pairs coupled by wordlines (WLs), bitlines (BLs) and sourcelines (SLs). More specifically, the use of inactive portions of the MTPM array structure as substitutes for conventional BL write driver areas by utilizing a set of twin-pairs acting in parallel. These substituted twin-pair sets will improve programming efficiency (VGS) and retention (VDS) through a lowering Interconnect (IR) drop and VDS drops at the BL write driver.
US09721671B2
Sense circuits in a memory device can be pre-charged to different levels in a sensing process to reduce the amount of time used for sensing. During sensing of first and second memory cells, a control circuit pre-charges first and second sense circuits to first and second voltages, respectively. The first and second sense circuits are associated with the first and second memory cells, respectively. Also, during the sensing, a control gate voltage is applied to the first and second memory cells. The control circuit allows the first and second sense node voltages to discharge in a common discharge period and the cells are sensed using a common trip condition. The first and second memory cells are therefore subject to different concurrent verify tests.
US09721667B2
There are provided a high voltage switch circuit and a semiconductor memory device including the same. A high voltage switch circuit may include a switching circuit including a first depletion transistor and a first high voltage transistor, which are coupled in series between an input terminal and an output terminal, and a control signal generator for applying, to the first depletion transistor, a control signal having the same potential level as an input voltage applied to the input terminal, in response to a first enable signal and a second enable signal.
US09721659B2
A memory device according to an embodiment comprises a data processing circuit that includes: a data write pre-processing circuit that processes input data to generate first intermediate data; a data write processing circuit that sequentially sets a voltage difference between a selected row line and a selected global bit line based on the first intermediate data; a data read processing circuit that detects a current flowing in the selected global bit line or a voltage of the selected global bit line and sequentially generates second intermediate data from a result of that detection; and a data read post-processing circuit that processes the second intermediate data to generate output data, the data write pre-processing circuit and the data read post-processing circuit having a correcting function that corrects a difference that may occur between the input data and the output data.
