US09760924B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining which of multiple vendors have a product in stock. One of the methods includes maintaining a central database that includes information about respective inventories of multiple vendors, receiving information from a first user device identifying a requested commerce object, and a geographical area, identifying a plurality of sources of available inventory data, searching the plurality of sources for available inventory of the requested commerce object, the searching comprising performing all three of the following processes substantially in parallel: performing real-time searching in the central database, performing sub-real-time searching in respective databases maintained by individual vendors, and initiating manual-assisted searching, asynchronously receiving and aggregating search results into groups, and serving, for each of the groups of search results, instructions for a presentation of the respective composite user interface to a second user device.
US09760915B2
A system for calculating and preparing state and local sales and use tax returns suitable for filing with state and local municipal taxing authorities is disclosed. The system in accordance with the present invention provides a total solution for sales and use taxes and is configured to not only determine and prepare state and use tax returns but also calculates and prepares returns of all local taxing authorities where the taxpayer conducts business. Thus, the system in accordance with the present invention is able to provide a total solution for determining and preparing state and local sales and use tax returns. The system is also able to easily and effortlessly prepare local municipal sales and use tax returns that are cumbersome.
US09760889B2
A wireless device is enabled to receive a financial account card that is inserted into a card slot of the wireless device. The wireless device reads card data from the financial account card when it is inserted into the slot and programs an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag or a memory included in the wireless device. The wireless device may then be used to provide payment by transmitting the card data via radio frequency to a nearby RFID reader using the RFID tag. The financial account card may also be ejected from the wireless device and swiped by a magnetic card reader.
US09760886B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for efficiently provisioning mobile devices with personalization data. For some embodiments, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a request for provisioning comprising device information for a mobile device and user authentication information for a user, generating a partial personalization script, an activation script, and a deletion script using the device information, sending the partial personalization script, the activation script, and the deletion script to an application provider computer, wherein the application provider computer initiates execution of the partial personalization script on the mobile device, authenticating the user authentication information, and sending an activation message to the application provider computer, wherein the application provider computer initiates execution of the activation script.
US09760884B2
An embodiment includes a credit card device capable of generating a programmed magnetic field of alternating polarity based on a speed of a card swipe, and methods for constructing the device for the purpose of emulating a standard credit card. An apparatus is described to allow said device to emulate behavior of a credit card when used in electronic credit card readers. Additionally methods are described to allow user control of said device for the purpose of authorizing or controlling use of said device in the application of credit, debit and cash transactions, including cryptocurrency and card-to-card transactions. Methods are also described for generating a limited-duration credit card number when performing a transaction for the purpose of creating a limited-use credit card number, which is limited in scope of use to a predetermined number of authorized transactions. Furthermore said device may interact with other similar devices in proximity for the purpose of funds or credit/debit transfers.
US09760871B1
The Event-Triggered Business-To-Business Electronic Payment Processing Apparatuses, Methods And Systems (hereinafter “B2B-PAY”) provides a business-to-business payment platform which facilitates business to business payment triggered by a user event, and transforms purchase item information inputs or purchase receipt inputs via B2B-PAY components into restricted-use account payment settlement outputs. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, including: receiving a first payment request from a healthcare provider, the first payment request including healthcare bill information and user payment information loaded via a user vehicle; transmitting a second payment request to an insurance provider, the second payment request comprising an insured amount; receiving an indication of an approved amount from the insurance provider; facilitating payment of the approved amount from the insurance provider to the healthcare provider; calculating a user responsible amount; and facilitating payment of the calculated user responsible amount from the user to the healthcare provider.
US09760857B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of receiving, at a processing device of a commerce server, at least a video signal from a head mountable unit worn by a consumer in a retail store. The method also includes the step of identifying, with the processing device, an indication of depleted stock in the retail store in response to the video signal received from the head mountable unit. The method also includes the step of transmitting, with the processing device, a restock signal in response to the identifying step.
US09760852B2
Embodiments of the invention may relate to systems and/or methods for using video surveillance systems to monitor spaces where people tend to gather such as retail stores, theaters, stadiums, or other public gathering places. Furthermore, embodiments may be adapted to discern elements of human behavior in a video feed, and use these behaviors to draw quantitative and/or qualitative conclusions from the video data. Typical conclusions may include overall conversion rates for a store, conversion/close rates of individual salespeople, traffic patterns within a space, peak traffic times, and so on.
US09760850B1
Deep learning is used to identify specific, potential risks to an enterprise (of which litigation is the prime example) while such risks are still internal electronic communications. The system involves mining and using existing classifications of data (e.g., from a litigation database) to train one or more deep learning algorithms, and then examining the internal electronic communications with the trained algorithm, to generate a scored output that will enable enterprise personnel to be alerted to risks and take action in time to prevent the risks from resulting in harm to the enterprise or others.
US09760846B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a computer-implemented method and system for the assignment of roadside assistance service providers such as tow trucks to distressed vehicles/drivers requiring roadside assistance. The methods and systems may include a roadside assistance service provider system with a collection module, an assignment module, and a feedback module. The collection module collects roadside assistance service provider information and historical statistics from real-world information and stores the information in a database that may then be analyzed using particular rules and formulas. The assignment module assigns particular roadside assistance service providers to particular distressed vehicles/drivers based on one or more characteristics. The feedback module may provide near real-time cues to the tow truck driver's mobile device, such as alerting when the amount of time spent on a task exceeds a predefined threshold, flagging high priority tasks/assignments, providing a step-by-step checklist for the repair.
US09760844B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for selecting a synchronous or asynchronous process to determine a forecast. These mechanisms and methods for such synchronous/asynchronous process selection can enable embodiments to determine forecasts for multiple users (e.g. with hierarchical relationships, etc.) over an arbitrary time interval. The ability of embodiments to provide forecasts that involve such a large amount of data in an effective way can enable forecasting that was otherwise infeasible due to resource limitations.
US09760836B2
A plurality of data keys are associated with a plurality of type values; query frequencies of the data keys are known. A computer memory is divided into a plurality of tranches, each tranche including a probabilistic or non-probabilistic data structure. The data keys are stored in the tranches in accordance with their query frequencies such that, e.g., frequently queried data keys are stored in data structures having higher accuracy and infrequently queried keys are stored in data structure having less accuracy (and consequently require less memory space).
US09760834B2
Systems and methods for assaying a test entity for a property, without measuring the property, are provided. Exemplary test entities include proteins, protein mixtures, and protein fragments. Measurements of first features in a respective subset of an N-dimensional space and of second features in a respective subset of an M-dimensional space, is obtained as training data for each reference in a plurality of reference entities. One or more of the second features is a metric for the target property. A subset of first features, or combinations thereof, is identified using feature selection. A model is trained on the subset of first features using the training data. Measurement values for the subset of first features for the test entity are applied to thereby obtaining a model value that is compared to model values obtained using measured values of the subset of first features from reference entities exhibiting the property.
US09760827B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for applying neural networks in resource-constrained environments. A system may include a sensor located in a resource-constrained environment configured to generate sensor data of the resource-constrained environment. The system may also include a first computing device not located in the resource-constrained environment configured to produce a neural network structure based on the sensor data. The system may further include a second computing device located in the resource-constrained environment configured to provide the sensor data as input to the neural network structure. The second computing device may be further configured to determine a state of the resource-constrained environment based on the input of the sensor data to the neural network structure.
US09760824B2
An RFID tag assembly and method of use with a RFID tag assembly the RFID tag assembly includes an RFID tag having a mounting substrate having a spacer with a first surface and an opposing second surface, the spacer having a predetermined thickness, a mounting carrier with a substantially planar body with a first portion having first and second ends with two sides defined therebetween and has two or more second portions extending from the body forming free ends each and having selectively attachable adhesive on a portion of the bottom surface being deformably attached to the first portion and with second surface attached to the top surface of the first portion with the first planar surface with the RFID tag position parallel and set apart above the top surface of the carrier at a distance equal to or greater than the predetermined thickness.
US09760822B2
An actively transmitting tag detects a shift of a phase of an antenna signal (as) with regard to a phase of a transmitted signal (ts) in time intervals with a length of one half-period of a subcarrier, in which time intervals it transmits high-frequency wave packets with their phase being inverted according to a communication protocol at the ends of said half-periods. Generation of said wave packets is controlled by said phase shift in a way that said phase shift retains its absolute value at transitions into subsequent half-periods. Synchronizing the tag's transmission to a received interrogator signal carried out even during tag's transmitting enables the tag to transmit according to protocol ISO 14443 B by inverting a phase at transitions between said half-periods. Said synchronizing is carried out although no time window without a tag transmitting exists within the transmitted data frame.
US09760818B2
Example embodiments relate to recognizing embedded information from images. In this manner, the embodiments disclosed herein enable recognition of a first barcode from a first image and a first machine-readable watermark based on the first barcode. The first barcode may be decoded to obtain a first group identifier. The first machine-readable watermark may also be decoded. A first payload associated with the first machine-readable watermark may be accessed based on the first group identifier and a first reusable watermark identifier of the first machine-readable watermark.
US09760802B2
A clustering and recommendation machine determines that an item is included in a cluster of items. The machine accesses item data descriptive of the item. The machine accesses a vector that represents the cluster and calculates the likelihood that the item is included in the cluster, based on the item variable and the probability parameter. The machine determines that the item is included in the cluster, based on the likelihood. The machine also recommends an item to a potential buyer. The machine accesses behavior data that represents a first event type pertinent to a first cluster of items. The machine calculates a probability that a second event type pertaining to a second cluster of items will co-occur with the first event type. The machine identifies an item from the second cluster to be recommended and presents a recommendation of the item to the potential buyer.
US09760791B2
Various aspects of a method and system for object tracking are disclosed herein. The method comprises computation of an overlap value between a first bounding box and a second bounding box, associated with an object in an image frame of a video stream. The overlap values are utilized to track the object in the video stream. The first bounding box encompasses at least a partial first portion of an object. The second bounding box encompasses at least a partial second portion of the object. A first score associated with the first bounding box and a second score associated with the second bounding box is computed based on a comparison of the computed overlap value with a pre-defined threshold value. The first bounding box is updated to a new bounding box that at least partially encompasses the object, based on the computed first score and the computed second score.
US09760788B2
In various embodiments, methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting, estimating, calculating, etc. characteristics of a document based on reference objects depicted on the document are disclosed. In one approach, a computer-implemented method for processing a digital image depicting a document includes analyzing the digital image to determine one or more of a presence and a location of one or more reference objects; determining one or more geometric characteristics of at least one of the reference objects; defining one or more region(s) of interest based at least in part on one or more of the determined geometric characteristics; and detecting a presence or an absence of an edge of the document within each defined region of interest. Additional embodiments leverage the type of document depicted in the image, multiple frames of image data, and/or calculate or extrapolate document edges rather than locating edges in the image.
US09760780B2
Thumbnail management for video content may include detecting scene change points from video content, prioritizing each frame in each analysis window, selecting a frame in each analysis window based on a respective prioritization score for each frame, and storing the selected frame as the thumbnail for the respective analysis window.
US09760777B2
A server for campaign optimization is described. The server generates analytics data from users interactions with a first virtual object displayed on a plurality of devices and user interactions with a first set of user interactive features of the first virtual object from a first content dataset. The server generates and provides a second content dataset to a device based on the analytics data. The second content dataset. The device recognizes an identifier from the second content dataset and displays, in the device, the second virtual object and the second set of user interactive features of the second virtual object in response to identifying the identifier.
US09760776B1
Some aspects of the invention relate to a mobile apparatus including an image sensor configured to convert an optical image into an electrical signal. The optical image includes an image of a vehicle license plate. The mobile apparatus includes a license plate detector configured to process the electrical signal to recover information from the vehicle license plate image. The mobile apparatus includes an interface configured to transmit the vehicle license plate information to a remote apparatus and receive a vehicle history report corresponding to the vehicle license plate image in response to the transmission.
US09760774B2
In computation of a line-of-sight direction in a control unit, a first computed line-of-sight direction is obtained from the center of a pupil and a reflection point of cornea reflection light, a second computed line-of-sight direction is obtained by computing the ellipse shape of an iris or the pupil, and a third computed line-of-sight direction is obtained on the basis of a face orientation and the relative position of the iris or pupil in an eye. The line-of-sight direction can be computed over a wide range with high accuracy by selecting one of the computed line-of-sight directions.
US09760773B1
A smart card has a bottom layer, a circuit board, a microprocessor, a retina identifying module, an operation unit, and a top layer. The microprocessor is mounted on the circuit board. The operation unit is mounted on the circuit board and is electrically connected with the microprocessor. The retina identifying module is mounted on the circuit board, is electrically connected with the microprocessor, and has a retina identifying chip and an encapsulation. The retina identifying chip is mounted on the circuit board and is electrically connected with the microprocessor. The encapsulation body is transparent, is mounted on and encloses the retina identifying chip, and has a convex top face. The top layer is mounted on the circuit board to cover the microprocessor, the operation unit and the retina identifying module.
US09760764B2
An apparatus for recognizing faces with different illuminations may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including detecting and extracting face data of a first candidate face of a first image and a second candidate face of a second image. The first image is associated with a first light intensity and the second image associated with a second light intensity different from the first light intensity. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to analyze face data to determine whether the first candidate face corresponds to an area in the first image that is substantially the same as an area of the second candidate face and evaluate data of the first and second areas to determine whether the first and second candidate faces are valid or invalid faces. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.
US09760763B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for detecting feature points of a face. The system for detecting feature points of a face include: a training unit configured to divide each of a plurality of facial images into segments of a predetermined size, and generate an eigen-codebook representing a correlation between a feature vector of each of the divided segments and location of a predetermined feature point in the facial image; and a detection unit configured to detect a facial area from a target image, divide the facial area into segments of a predetermined size, detect a feature vector of each of the divided segments of the facial area, and detect a location of a feature point in the facial area by using the detected feature vector and the eigen-codebook.
US09760758B2
A method for using a fingerprint sensor on a mobile device to determine which hand is being used to operate the mobile device includes: acquiring, by a processor, sensing data from the fingerprint sensor corresponding to a finger sensed by the fingerprint sensor; determining, by the processor, an orientation of the finger based on the acquired sensing data; and generating, by the processor, a signal for indicating which hand is being used to operate the mobile device based on the determined orientation of the finger.
US09760757B2
A novel system, device and method of validation is provided for sensing a biometric such as a fingerprint, where biometric data corresponding to the biometric entity such as a fingerprint is then transmitted to a host configured to perform a plurality of authentication processes to authenticate the biometric data. At least one of the plurality of authentication steps is then validated. Alternatively, a portion of the biometric data may be retained, where biometric data corresponding to the biometric is then transmitted to a host configured to perform a plurality of authentication steps to authenticate the biometric data. At least one of the plurality of authentication steps is then validated.
US09760751B2
A method for identifying a piece of baggage. An electronic display is activated in order to set the display ready for receipt, the display being integrated in the piece of flight baggage and configured as an electronic tag. Flight and personal data necessary for a flight is transmitted from a check in mechanism to the display. The flight and personal data is represented graphically on a display surface of the display.
US09760748B2
A calibration circuit includes a single-wire memory and a transmission line. The single-wire memory includes a power/interrogation terminal and a ground terminal. The single-wire memory is configured to store calibration data for a sensor. The transmission line is configured to be coupled between the sensor and a sensor reader. The transmission line includes first and second conductors. The first conductor is coupled to the power/interrogation terminal and is configured to provide the calibration data and a sensor output signal to the sensor reader. The second conductor is coupled to the ground terminal and is configured to provide a ground reference for the first conductor, the single-wire memory, and the sensor.
US09760746B2
One aspect of the present invention provides an RFID reader/writer and a diagnosis processing program for outputting correct diagnostic information on communication between the RFID reader/writer and an RF tag. The RFID reader/writer includes a communication unit configured to conduct communication with the RF tag and a communication diagnostic unit configured to diagnose the communication when the communication is successfully conducted. The communication diagnostic unit includes a characteristic acquisition unit configured to acquire a characteristic of the communication from a communication signal with the RF tag, a comparator configured to compare a value indicated by the acquired characteristic to a threshold used to determine a communication margin, and an output control unit configured to cause an output unit to output information on the communication margin from a comparison result.
US09760723B2
Techniques for in-app user data authorization are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a permissions component, and a token component. The permissions component may be operative on the processor circuit to receive a request from an application to perform a task on a device and to return a response to the request to the application based on active permissions for the application. The token component may be operative on the processor circuit to manage a token database and to determine the active permissions for the application based on the token database. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09760721B2
The invention relates to a transaction method, the method including the steps of: providing a tenninal including a main processor, a graphic processor controlling a display, and a control member, the graphic processor including a memory bank which cannot be accessed from the outside; creating a link between the graphic processor and a secure processor, the link being secured by means of an encryption key shared only by the graphic processor and the secure processor; presenting first data to the user; collecting second data from commands entered by the user by means of the control member, in connection with the first data; transmitting the second data to the secure processor; and, if the user has been authenticated from the second data, carrying out the transaction, the secure link being used to transmit the first and/or second data, and/or to carry out the transaction.
US09760718B2
A mechanism is provided for anonymizing sequential and location datasets. Responsive to receiving the sequential and location datasets from an enterprise, the sequential and location datasets are scanned to expose a set of privacy vulnerabilities. A set of privacy constraints P is generated based on the set of discovered privacy vulnerabilities and a set of utility constraints U is identified. The sequential and location datasets is anonymized using the set of privacy constraints P and the set of utility constraints U thereby forming an anonymized dataset. The anonymized dataset is then returned to the enterprise.
US09760715B2
A method is provided of protecting a computer against malware affection. The computer has a data storage and an operating system for managing the data storage. The method comprises providing a filter module in the operating system which operates to detect an attempt to store data in the data storage, to determine a data format of the data to be stored in the data storage, and to prevent storage of the data if the data format is determined to relate to a predefined type. The filter module may be provided as a file system filter driver in a kernel of the operating system. The filter module may be arranged to operate between an input/output manager of the operating system and a driver associated with the data storage. The input/output manager and driver associated with the data storage may form part of the kernel of the operating system.
US09760711B1
A repackaged mobile app that has been unpacked and repackaged back is detected based on similarity of app labels of a target mobile app being evaluated and a reference mobile app. The similarity of the sound of the app label of the target mobile app to the sound of the app label of the reference mobile app may be determined. The similarity of the appearance of the app label of the target mobile app to the appearance of the app label of the reference mobile app may also be determined. The target mobile app may be deemed to be a repackaged mobile app when the app labels of the target and reference mobile apps are deemed to be similar (which may include being the same) but the target and reference mobile apps have different identifiers.
US09760706B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for dynamically adjusting a program login interface. The method includes: displaying a preset flash on a program login interface; detecting a user operation within a preset area in the login interface; and updating the displayed flash according to the user operation within the preset area. The embodiments of the present disclosure further disclose a computing terminal. During implementation of the embodiments of the present disclosure, dynamic interaction may be achieved in the program login interface, and more abundant content may be provided.
US09760700B2
Systems and methods of determining image characteristics are provided. More particularly, a first image having an unknown characteristic can be obtained. The first image can be provided to a plurality of user devices in a verification challenge. The verification challenge can include one or more instructions to be presented to a user of each user device. The instructions being determined based at least in part on the first image. User responses can be received, and an unknown characteristic of the first image can be determined based at least in part on the received responses. Subsequent to determining the unknown characteristic of the first image, one or more machine learning models can be trained based at least in part on the determined characteristic.
US09760695B2
A system includes a content playback apparatus, a removable media reading apparatus 20 that is provided with a nonvolatile memory 22m in which first viewing restriction information is stored, and that is detachably attached to the content playback apparatus, and a removable media in which second viewing restriction information is stored, and the removable media being detachably attached to the removable media reading apparatus, and the content playback apparatus checks the first viewing restriction information against the second viewing restriction information, and if the first viewing restriction information satisfies a condition of the second viewing restriction information, removes a playback restriction on a content stored in the removable media in a state of being restricted for playback. It is possible to restrict viewers of the content to specific target persons, and also to reduce the risk of tampering of the viewing restriction information, and increase security in content management.
US09760694B2
A method and related apparatus for managing files for producing a compilation of works, including the step of obtaining a complete file of a work to be compiled in the compilation of works, selecting a portion of the complete file as a separate excerpt file to be compiled in the compilation of works, and independently managing the complete file and the excerpt file for producing the compilation of works.
US09760693B2
An apparatus for providing an improved content protecting and packaging system for protecting content may include an extractor for extracting a content package into a plurality of content segments including a first portion and a second portion. An enveloper may envelop each of the content segments in the first portion separately to thereby create one or more protected content segments. Further, a packager may package the protected content segments with the second portion of the content segments into a protected content package, which may then be uploaded to a distributor for distribution to user terminals. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.
US09760692B2
There is provided a server computer system configured to acquire recorded exerise data of an exercise performed by an exeriser; acquire recorded location data of the exercise, wherein the location data depicts a route travlled during the exerise; acquire a map of an area which comprises the trivlled route; generate the dynamic execise presentation on the basis of the exercise data andthe location data, wherein the dynamic exercise presentation comprises: displaying the exercise data as a function of the location data on a display having the map as a background, and automatically moving a pointer on the display along the traveled route on the basis of the location data such that the moving pointer depocts the location of the exerciser on the travlled route as the exercise advances; and cause a display of the exercise presentation on the display via a network.
US09760691B2
Technologies are generally described for providing a pill dispensing device with adherence monitoring and alerting features, as well as communication capabilities. A pill pack may be integrated within a housing of the pill dispensing device, where removal of each pill in the pill pack may be monitored through a conductive trace or comparable mechanism. Timing of the removal, remaining pills, and similar information may also be detected by the pill dispensing device and provided along with additional information such as health status of the consumer monitored by one or more sensors to a health care provider or similar entity over wired and/or wireless networks. The pill dispensing device may include audio and/or visual output device(s) to provide alerts and health/medication related information to the consumer. A display technology may employed enabling continuous display with low power usage such as ink display while providing color and/or video capabilities.
US09760685B2
A fluid analyzing system includes a handheld device and a management system. The handheld device includes a fluid analysis control module and a telematics device. The fluid analysis control module is configured for initiating acquisition of a sample of a fluid and providing the sample to a microfluidic analyzer for conduction of a microfluidic analysis. The telematics device is coupled with the fluid analysis control module and configured with a wireless transceiver. The management system is located remotely from the telematics device, and configured for wirelessly receiving results of the microfluidic analysis transmitted from the telematics device.
US09760683B2
It is formed, on a display, a first display region in which at least one of measurement signals related to biological information of a subject is displayed in real time. It is formed, on the display, a second display region at a position where is not overlapping with the first display region. A first history display region and a second history display region are displayed in the second display region. The first history display region displays a history related to a first one of the measurement signals, and the second history display region displaying a history related to a second one of the measurement signals.
US09760681B2
Embodiments include an offline application, encrypted patient medical data records, and an encryption key that are stored in a cache of a browser application on the local computing device when a network connection is available. The offline application is accessed when the network connection is subsequently lost. Embodiments allow the user to access decrypted patient medical data records stored in the browser application cache, as well as create and access new patient medical data records when a network connection is offline. Any access to a patient medical data record when the network connection is offline may be documented in an offline-access record, an audit record that satisfies HIPAA Security Rule restrictions, that is created and encrypted. When a network connection becomes available, corresponding patient medical data records in the EHR system are updated or created according to the offline-access record and/or an offline-updated patient medical data record.
US09760669B2
A method, computer program product, and system for rerouting wires based on wire size and spacing requirements including partitioning a chip into a plurality of global routing tiles, assigning a set of wires to one or more of the plurality of global routing tiles, sorting the set of wires into one or more groups based on line spacing requirements for wires of the set of wires, each of the one or more groups includes one or more wires with a common line spacing requirement, and organizing the one or more groups in a numeric order based on the common line spacing requirement of each group.
US09760668B2
A user specified high level design selects a plurality of IP cores for placement in a customized system on a chip. A single integrated service automatically performs each of a design integration phase, specification phase, and verification phase for the user specified high level design to generate an integration file specifying stitching between a plurality of pins of each of the plurality of IP cores, a specification file specifying one or more characteristics of the customized system on a chip based on the user specified high level design, and a verification testbench for verification of the user specified high level design.
US09760658B2
A method and apparatus for efficiently managing cached objects is provided. A mapping is a typed relationship between cached objects. A base object contains content, and a mapped object is mapped to a base object when there is a particular relationship between the mapped object and the base object. The type of mapping defines how the objects in the relationship are treated when the mapped object is created, read, or written. At creation time, the mapping type may define how the mapping relationship is recognized. Sometimes recognizing a relationship requires establishing equivalence between the objects. At read and write time, the mapping type may define on which object a mutual exclusion lock is held, which content is returned or which object's content is updated. A wide range of applications can benefit from enhanced object caching performance, and in addition, application may define application-specific semantics on mapping types as well.
US09760655B2
Systems and methods for identifying entities sharing a temporal pattern using bipartite graphs are described. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a temporal pattern in a sequence of bipartite graphs for a sequence of records involving two entity types, where records of the sequence of bipartite graphs vary according to time. An embodiment may color code the edges between entity types in the sequence of bipartite graphs according to the at least one temporal pattern identified (e.g., increasing sales between a business representative and a customer). An embodiment may therefore identify a time-based relationship between at least two entities according to the coded edges. Given the identification of entities having a time-based relationships, groups of these entities may be identified and trends may be derived therefrom (e.g., increasing sales for business units of a particular geographic region).
US09760654B2
Techniques for comparing customer records to identify linked customer records pertaining to a single customer entity are provided. The techniques include identifying a target group of electronic customer records having data fields containing data pertaining to a customer, identifying one or more focused blockers identifying a data value for an electronic customer record data field, and analyzing the target group of electronic customer records to identify a focused group of electronic customer records containing the focused blocker data value. The techniques also include comparing pairs of electronic customer records from the focused group of electronic customer records to identify linked records which pertain to a single customer entity.
US09760653B2
Mapping non-generic markup language elements to generic object-oriented programming language objects
A system extends functionality of Java architecture for XML (extensible markup language) binding, (JAXB). Represents non-generic elements of a markup language (for example, XML) document in an object oriented programming language (for example, Java). The elements are represented as objects in the programming language. Objects are changed in the programming language representation and the original markup language document is then updated with updated objects translated back as updated elements of the document. The entire document infoset is preserved.
US09760651B2
A web services-based communication system and technique uses an information server to facilitate the communication of process control data and analysis results between a plurality of web services coupled to a communication network. A graphical user interface coupled to the network enables users to store user profile information and configuration information in a database within the information server. The information server uses the configuration information and the profile information to control the operations of a scheduler and a router within the information server to enable users to selectively view process control information via the graphical user interface and to route process control information to appropriate ones of the web services.
US09760647B2
A database server that manages a database retrieves metadata that is stored, within the database, in association with a procedure that is stored in the database. Based on the metadata, a Web service definition is automatically constructed to describe the procedure as a Web service. The WSDL definition can be referenced to construct SOAP messages with the appropriate arguments and in the appropriate format which, when received, are converted to a suitable format for invoking execution of the procedure by the database server.
US09760645B1
An invention for managing and distributing electronic business cards is disclosed. The system and the methods disclosed utilize a centralized database for managing contact information and make this contact information available as an electronic business card available online for others to view and subscribe using an convenient token such as QR-Code or Bar-Code. Another aspect of the invention is the ownership of the contact information is with the owner of the business card who is responsible for keeping it updated and making the most current information visible to subscribers. A recipient subscribes to an electronic business card by adding a link to the electronic card in their address book referencing which results in the retrieval of the most current and up-to-date contact information from the centralized database. This relieves the subscribers, or the recipients of the business card, from the onus of updating the card owner's information on their local copy. Information is accessed from the database over the network ensuring that the information seen by recipient is never stale. The system also provides the capability for card owners to define their own customized fields for storing their specialized, idiosyncratic, or locale specific contact information. Furthermore, card owners can create groups of their subscribers and control the attributes or the elements of their contact information that are visible to subscribers in a groups. The system also supports push notifications that are sent out to subscribers when card owner makes a change to their centrally stored contact information.
US09760630B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating a synonym list from an existing thesaurus includes preparing a first feature vector from a natural language query and preparing a second feature vector from a result of the natural language query, determining, using a processor, whether a combination of a first feature from the first feature vector and a second feature from the second feature vector is included as a synonym pair in the existing thesaurus, and generating the synonym list by adding the combination to the synonym list when the determination is positive. The result of the natural language query may be identified by a user browsing action or by a positive feedback from a user. The method further includes reading a log which includes a single set or plural sets of the natural language query and the result of the natural language query.
US09760621B2
A method for establishing a group of individuals as a single contact entity eligible for contact services within a contact center includes the steps (a) identifying a group and each group member according to existing group rules and member profiles; (b) identifying and quantifying the unifying aspects of the members in the group; (c) aggregating the contact information for each group member relative to communications channels common to the group members and to the contact center; and (d) establishing one or more temporary and or permanent group channels between the contact center and the group members.
US09760619B1
The disclosure includes a system and method for generating weighted clustering coefficients for a social network graph. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to: receive social graph data associated with a social network, the social graph data including nodes, edges that connect the nodes and weights associated with the edges in a social graph, determine a first probability of existence of an edge in the social graph based on the weights, determine a second probability that a first node forms a triangle with two neighbor nodes, and compute a weighted clustering coefficient for the first node based on the first and second probabilities.
US09760615B2
A computer implemented method, computer program product and system for data quality monitoring includes measuring a data quality of loaded data relative to a predefined data quality metric. The measuring the data quality includes identifying delta changes in at least one of the loaded data and the data quality rules relative to a previous measurement of the data quality of the loaded data. Logical calculus defined in the data quality rules is applied to the identified delta changes.
US09760613B2
A computing machine performs a correlation search against KPI data for one or more services using a selection criteria and a triggering condition. When the triggering condition is satisfied a notable event or incident is created and information about the notable event is presented using a graphical user interface (GUI) that may have interactive elements.
US09760598B1
A method is provided to verify the computational results of a transaction processing system utilizing cloud resources. A transaction is allowed to modify an application's state only if the validity of the result of the processing of the transaction is verified across the majority of the participating child nodes in the cloud. Otherwise, the transaction is aborted.
US09760593B2
A processor receives statistical information about a data set included in a column of a data table. The processor receives additional information about the data set that indicates a data format utilized by the data set and a type of information represented by the data set. The processor generates a data dictionary for compression of the data set based, at least in part, on the statistical information and the additional information. The data dictionary is created such that the data dictionary is capable of compressing data that is statistically predicted to be received at a future point.
US09760576B1
Embodiments of system and method for performing object-modifying commands in an unstructured storage service are described. Embodiments may include utilizing one or more nodes to implement an unstructured storage service including a service interface configured to service data storage requests and data retrieval requests from remote clients. The unstructured storage service is configured to isolate access to each of multiple storage domains of the service to different clients. Embodiments may also include receiving from a given remote client, a request to store a data object to a given storage domain of the service. The request further specifying a command to modify source data for the object prior to storing the object. Embodiments may also include using the unstructured storage service to perform the command without exporting the source data from the unstructured storage service to the given remote client prior to completion of the command.
US09760570B2
A system and method for disambiguating references to entities in a document. In one embodiment, an iterative process is used to disambiguate references to entities in documents. An initial model is used to identify documents referring to an entity based on features contained in those documents. The occurrence of various features in these documents is measured. From the number occurrences of features in these documents, a second model is constructed. The second model is used to identify documents referring to the entity based on features contained in the documents. The process can be repeated, iteratively identifying documents referring to the entity and improving subsequent models based on those identifications. Additional features of the entity can be extracted from documents identified as referring to the entity.
US09760569B2
Methods and/or systems for providing a translation result based on various semantic categories may be provided. A translation result providing method using a computer may include generating translations by translating a source sentence of a source language into a target language, and classifying the translations into semantic categories, respectively, and providing the classified translations to the user terminal.
US09760567B1
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is disclosed in which a command is received over a common command interface. The command is received in a common dialect for translation to one of a plurality of different specific dialects corresponding to a specified one of a plurality of execution interfaces of a software application. Each execution interface has its own specific dialect, and the common dialect is common to each of the execution interfaces. Based on one of a plurality of translation rules, a translated command is generated that comprises a translation of the command from the common dialect to the specific dialect of the specified execution interface.
US09760546B2
A system and method of identifying repeat subsequences having at least a value of x for threshold of different left contexts and a value of y for a threshold of different right contexts for an input sequence are disclosed. The method may include generating a lexicographically sorted suffix array for the input sequence and a longest common prefix array. The suffix array is traversed in lexicographic order comparing the longest common prefix values between consecutive suffixes. Suffixes with the same longest common prefix are representative of occurrence of the same repeat, a higher longest common prefix indicates a new occurrence of a longer repeat, and a lower longest common prefix indicates the last occurrence of a repeat.
US09760544B2
A method comprising creating and storing a graph having nodes and edges that represent financial assets and accounts in which the assets are held; individuals who own the assets; or legal entities who own the assets; receiving and storing bucketing factors and column factors; traversing the graph and creating a list of a plurality of paths of nodes and edges in the graph; applying the bucketing factors to the paths to result in associating each set among a plurality of sets of the nodes with a different value node among a plurality of value nodes; applying the column factors to the paths and the value nodes to result in associating column result values with the value nodes; creating and causing displaying a table view by forming rows based on the value nodes and forming columns based on the column result values.
US09760542B1
A method, system, and medium for providing context-sensitive writing assistance to a user that is composing a textual communication are described. The context is used to tune the writing assistance to accommodate the different communication styles between users and recipients. The context includes the writing medium, the recipient, and the writer. Examples of writing assistance include spell check, grammar check, and auto-fill in.
US09760527B2
A system comprising a unified interconnect network, a plurality of process memory modules, and a plurality of processor modules configured to share access to the memory modules via the unified interconnect network. Data may be communicated between a plurality of processor modules and a plurality of shared resource pools via a unified interconnect network, wherein the communications comprise a protocol that is common to all resource pools, and wherein each resource pool comprises a plurality of resource modules each configured to perform a common function. Further, a network interface controller (NIC) module may be configured to receive data from a plurality of processor modules via a unified interconnect network, and provide core network connectivity to the processor modules.
US09760526B1
A multiprocessor system includes a first microprocessor and a second microprocessor. An external memory system is coupled to the first and second microprocessors and is configured to receive and temporarily store messages transferred between the first and second microprocessors. A first signaling pathway may be configured to send message transmission coordination signals from the first microprocessor to the second microprocessor. A second signaling pathway may be configured to send message transmission coordination signals from the second microprocessor to the first microprocessor. The first signaling pathway may be independent of the second signaling pathway. The first signaling pathway may be coupled to at least two flag registers associated with the second microprocessor. The second signaling pathway may be coupled to at least two flag registers associated with the first microprocessor.
US09760525B2
A clock generator chip, a PCI Express port and a computing device control board are provided herein. In one embodiment the clock generator chip includes: (1) a clock generator configured to generate a reference clock signal for a component in response to a clock request from the component, (2) a reference clock pin configured to provide the reference clock signal and (3) a pair of sideband signal pins configured to receive and transmit sideband packets between the component and the clock generator chip.
US09760515B2
Methods and systems for shared control of a phase locked loop (PLL) for a multi-port physical layer (PHY) are disclosed. In one aspect, an arbitration logic circuit is coupled to ports of a multi-port PHY sharing a phase locked loop (PLL). Upon receiving an indication that the shared PLL is to be reset, the arbitration logic circuit commands the ports sharing the PLL to enter a state in which any reset of the shared PLL would have minimal or no effect in their operations. In this manner, an integrated circuit (IC) including a multi-port PHY may be configured with only one PLL and associated clock generating logic to provide a clock signal for some or all of its ports, thus reducing its semiconductor area and power consumption. Furthermore, the ports of the multi-port PHY may operate independently from each other obviating any configuration and/or interoperability problems associated with having a shared PLL.
US09760513B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving by a network element a request from a network device connected to the network element to update a shared resource maintained by the network element; subsequent to the receipt, identifying a Base Address Register Resource Table (“BRT”) element assigned to a Peripheral Component Interconnect (“PCI”) adapter of the network element associated with the network device, wherein the BRT points to the shared resource; changing an attribute of the identified BRT from read-only to read/write to enable the identified BRT to be written by the network device; and notifying the network device that the attribute of the identified BRT has been changed, thereby enabling the network device to update the shared resource via a Base Address Register (“BAR”) comprising the identified BRT.
US09760509B2
A memory storage device including a first and a second connection interface units, a memory control circuit unit and an interfacing circuit is provided. The first connection interface unit and the second connection interface unit are electrically connected to an input/output channel of the memory control circuit unit. The interfacing circuit is disposed between the memory control circuit unit and at least one of the first and the second connection interface units. The interfacing circuit is configured to provide determination information of an electrically connecting configuration between at least one host system and the at least one of the first and the second connection interface units. The memory control circuit unit is configured to provide different operation functions to the at least one host system based on the determination information.
US09760507B2
A data processing device includes a first sub-arbiter configured to arbitrate an access by first and second masters that access data stored in a memory; a second sub-arbiter configured to arbitrate an access to the memory by a plurality of masters other than the first and the second masters; a main arbiter configured to prioritize the access to the memory by the first sub-arbiter over the access to the memory by the second sub-arbiter; and a limiting unit configured to limit an amount of the access to the memory by the second master within a preset range.
US09760504B2
Keys are generated at a memory device with a period of time elapsing between generation of each key. A request is received from a memory controller for the most recently generated key. The memory device communicates the first key to the memory controller. Access to nonvolatile memory on the memory device is locked. An unlock command with a second key is received from the memory controller. The memory device determines that the second key matches the first key and unlocks access to the nonvolatile memory in response.
US09760498B2
An electronic system for multiple agents, both coherent and non-coherent, to communicate with a hybrid cache, the hybrid cache to provide functionality associated with a cache for coherent agents in an outer shareable domain, and to provide functionality associated with a cache for non-coherent agents in a system shareable domain, the functionality provided by tag fields in cache lines stored in the hybrid cache. The tag fields are configured to indicate if a cache line of the hybrid cache belongs to at least one of a logical coherent cache or a logical system cache.
US09760493B1
A method of updating a cache data structure that includes first, second, and third queues includes the step of storing contents of a data item in a cache location in response to a read or write input/output operation (IO) that accesses the data item. If the data item is not tracked in any of the first, second, and third queues, the data item is added to the first queue with the cache location of the data item. On the other hand, if the data item is tracked in the second queue, the data item is added to the third queue with the cache location of the data item.
US09760482B2
A solid-state drive (SSD) is configured for dynamic resizing. When the SSD approaches the end of its useful life because the over-provisioning amount is nearing the minimum threshold as a result of an increasing number of bad blocks, the SSD is reformatted with a reduced logical capacity so that the over-provisioning amount may be maintained above the minimum threshold.
US09760479B2
Writing data in a storage system that includes a first type of storage device and a second type of storage device, including: selecting, for one or more unprocessed write requests, a target storage device type from the first type of storage device and the second type of storage device; issuing a first group of write requests to the first type of storage device, the first group of write requests addressed to one or more locations selected in dependence upon an expected address translation to be performed by the first type of storage device; and issuing a second group of write requests to the second type of storage device, the second group of write requests addressed to one or more locations selected in dependence upon a layout of memory in the second type of storage device.
US09760477B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a self-healing job executor pool. A server detects that a job executing on an executor failed. The server determines, based on at least one factor from a predetermined set of executor-related factors, that the job executing on the executor failed due to a state of the executor. The server adjusts, in response to determining that the job executing on the executor failed due to the state of the executor, the state of the executor to a known good state, where the known good state is selected from a stored set of known good states.
US09760476B2
Methods and arrangements for a method of managing crowdsourced devices for application testing, said method comprising: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: receiving, from a mobile device, a request to register itself as a rentable device; receiving, from a remote device, a request to test an application; transmitting, to the remote device, a list of rentable devices available; receiving a selection, from the remote device, of at least one rentable device for testing; and responsive to receiving the selection, transmitting instructions to the at least one rentable device to execute the instructions, the instructions comprising at least one test step for an application. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
US09760464B1
A leak detection system may be configured to receive a plurality of memory use reports periodically from a user device. The memory use reports may include an indication of memory that may be used and/or allocated by/to a particular process, such as a process that may currently be running on the user device. The memory use report may further provide a relatively granular view of the allocation of memory associated with the process, such as by type of memory and/or category of memory associated with the process. The leak detection system may use the plurality of memory use reports to generate a memory profile associated with the process and particular memory types and/or categories of memory allocation. By analyzing the memory profiles, the leak detection system may be configured to identify a memory leak associated with the process on the user device.
US09760463B2
Temporary fault injection to existing hardware is performed using only software without changing an implementation of the hardware. A fault injection interrupt process starts on an operation of a CPU using an interrupt that is not used by software, and an internal state of hardware is updated to the same value as a result obtained when a fault has occurred during the interrupt process. A clock of the CPU during the interrupt process is accelerated so that a period of time of the interrupt process is smaller than a period of time until a fault becomes effective.
US09760459B2
Services associated with first and second nodes are managed. As part of the management, the first node receives a request to modify the services. A synchronization policy is identified. The synchronization policy requires that modifications attempted on the set of services on the first node also be attempted on the second node. In response to the request, an attempt is made to modify the set of services on the first node. Further, in response to the request and pursuant to the synchronization policy, the second node is caused to attempt to modify the set of services. The synchronization policy is identified as a relaxed synchronization policy. A determination is made that the attempt to modify the set of services on the second node failed. Based on identifying that the synchronization policy is a relaxed synchronization policy, the attempt to modify the set of services on the first node continues.
US09760454B2
A high availability method and system for improving utilization of physical servers in a cloud computing resource pool, wherein the method includes: when the physical servers in the cloud computing resource pool fail, judging whether idle memory on the normally-running physical servers can support running of virtual machines on all the failed physical servers; when the idle memory on the normally-running physical servers can support the running of the virtual machines on all the failed physical servers, restarting the virtual machines on all the failed physical servers on the normally-running physical servers. The embodiments of the present document improve the utilization of memory resource of physical servers.
US09760442B2
A method of delaying checkpointing in a virtual machine system. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of examining a network frame to determine if it is a deferrable frame and if the frame is a deferrable frame, delaying a checkpoint associated with the frame. In another embodiment, the deferrable frame is one of a group comprising: an IP packet tagged with the ‘more fragments’ attribute; TCP data segments that lack the PSH flag and carry no flags other than ‘ACK’; and TCP segments that contain no data and carry only the ‘ACK’ flag; and any frame originating from or destined to a designated network address or port number. In still another embodiment, the method includes the step of concatenating the delays due to deferrable frames. In still yet another embodiment, the method further includes setting an upper limit to the amount of delay that can be generated.
US09760440B2
A distributed storage network (DSN) can include a DSN memory and a distributed storage (DS) managing unit in communication with the DSN memory. The DSN memory includes DS units physically located at different sites. The DS units store encoded data slices associated with a storage vault having a number of pillars and a read threshold. The number of pillars correspond to a number of encoded data slices generated from a particular segment of data, and the read threshold corresponds to subset of those encoded data slices required to reconstruct the particular segment of data. The DS managing unit assigns storage of particular encoded data slices to particular DS units based, at least in part, on a pillar associated with the encoded data slices and on the physical locations, e.g. the sites, at which the DS units are located.
US09760437B2
Systems and methods to manage a memory device by executing program code to determine a temperature profile associated with a region of the memory device. The temperature profile may be one of many temperature profiles each associated with a respective region of the memory device. A correction capability may be determined based on the thermal profile and an error in the memory region may be corrected using the determined correction capability.
US09760432B2
An intelligent code apparatus, method, and computer program are provided for use with memory. In operation, a subset of data stored in a first memory is identified. Such subset of the data stored in the first memory is processed, to generate a code. The code is then stored in a second memory, for use in reconstructing at least a portion of the data.
US09760430B2
A solid-state drive (SSD) may not include a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) but rather may utilize a host memory buffer of system random access memory (RAM). During a power failure data on dirty cache lines may be lost. A power protection caching policy may be implemented where an SSD controller is capable of accepting a flush cache signal, which may be a signal to a redefined pin of the SSD or a command, from a controller of the information handling system. The controller may utilize a slope detect mechanism and/or a power good detect mechanism to detect a power failure and if a power failure is detected to issue a flush cache signal the SSD controller to cause a flush of all dirty cache lines from the host memory buffer before the power failure results in inoperability of circuitry associated with the dirty cache lines.
US09760428B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing preventative maintenance in a Network Function Virtualization based (NFV-based) communication network. In use, a first potential fault is identified in a first resource in an NFV-based communication network. Additionally, a first time for maintaining the first resource is identified to prevent an occurrence of the first potential fault. Further, a second resource is identified for replacing the first resource during the first time.
US09760426B2
The claimed subject matter includes techniques for detecting anomalous accounts. An example method includes receiving, via a processor, a list of monitored machines and event logs including logons for the list of monitored machines for a predetermined window of time. The example method also includes generating, via the processor, a baseline based on the event logs for the predetermined window of time. The example method also includes collecting, via the processor, daily logon events after the predetermined time and comparing the daily logon events to the baseline. The method further includes detecting, via the processor, an anomalous account based on a difference of logon events of the anomalous account from the baseline. The method also includes displaying, via the processor, the detected anomalous account.
US09760425B2
A method, system and computer program product for data lifecycle management is provided. A method for managing metrics from a monitored system comprises: identifying a fault from the monitored system; identifying from the monitored system, one or more metrics are that are directly related to the fault and one or more metrics that are indirectly related to the fault by virtue of being directly or indirectly related to the one or more directly related metrics; identifying a lifespan condition associated with the fault; adding or changing a lifespan for each of the directly and indirectly related metrics based on the identified lifespan condition; and removing metrics from the storage if their associated lifespans are over.
US09760424B2
The boot process of a content/service receiver is dynamically monitored to provide error and/or status information in a step-by-step and/or in a single-snapshot manner. This can be accomplished by, for example, utilizing an application thread running within, and/or, outside the context of the boot code. Status information from, for example, software drivers and/or any other software/hardware/middleware components, is acquired by the application thread utilizing any mechanism, for example, event-driven and/or polling, and then relayed to an external entity, which can be locally and/or remotely located. The external entity can be reached by any means of standard and/or proprietary medium and protocols available, if necessary. The relayed information can then be used, for example, for displaying to a user via a graphical user interface, and/or can be recorded and the like.
US09760423B2
A first control device includes a first storage unit holding a first error count and a first control unit that calculates the first error count, based on a status of an error detected when a storage device is accessed via a second control device, stores the calculated first error count in the first storage unit, and transmits the first error count to the second control device at predetermined timing. The second control device includes a second storage unit holding a second error count and a second control unit that calculates the second error count, based on a status of an error detected when the storage device is accessed, stores the calculated second error count in the second storage unit, and determines whether the storage device has malfunctioned, based on an aggregate value of the first error count received from the first control device and the second error count.
US09760421B2
An information processing device includes a plurality of processors. One of the plurality of processors is configured to: acquire a first code from a plurality of codes included in a program to be emulated; determine whether or not that a plurality of native codes corresponding to the acquired first code are for the atomic operation and that the first code accesses a memory; and generate a modified native code string with delay in which a certain code for delaying the completion of executing the plurality of native codes is inserted in the plurality of native codes corresponding to the first code when the one of the plurality of processors determined that the plurality of native codes corresponding to the first code are not for the atomic operation and that the first codes accesses the memory.
US09760418B2
A forwarding pipeline of a forwarding engine includes a mirror bit mask vector with one bit per supported independent mirror session. Each bit in the mirror bit mask vector can be set at any point in the forwarding pipeline when the forwarding engine determines that conditions for a corresponding mirror session are met. At the end of the forwarding pipeline, if any of the bits in the mirror bit mask vector is set, then a packet, the mirror bit mask vector and a pointer to the start of a mirror destination linked list are forwarded to the multicast replication engine. The mirror destination linked list typically defines a rule for mirroring. The multicast replication engine mirrors the packet according to the mirror destination linked list and the mirror bit mask vector.
US09760416B1
A multiprocessor system includes a first microprocessor and a second microprocessor. A first signaling pathway is configured to send message transmission coordination signals from the first microprocessor to the second microprocessor. The first signaling pathway may be coupled to at least two flag registers associated with the second microprocessor. A second signaling pathway is configured to send message transmission coordination signals from the second microprocessor to the first microprocessor. The second signaling pathway may be coupled to at least two flag registers associated with the first microprocessor. The first signaling pathway is independent of the second signaling pathway.
US09760413B2
A notification service receives messages including various data from application services, and provides notifications including that data to the appropriate computing devices. Each computing device includes a notification system that receives notifications from the notification service and provides those notifications to the appropriate applications on the computing device. If an application is not allowed to run on a computing device, the notification system on the computing device provides an indication to the notification service to block notifications for the application on the computing device. The notification service ceases providing notifications to a computing device targeting applications for which notifications are blocked on the computing device until an indication is received from the computing device to unblock notifications for the application.
US09760407B2
Mobile device based workload distribution may include determining whether a processing requirement for a workload exceeds an operational threshold of an associated mobile device, and detecting, in response to a determination that the processing requirement for the workload exceeds the operational threshold of the associated mobile device, a performance degradation of the associated mobile device. In response to the detected performance degradation of the associated mobile device, the workload may be divided into a plurality of workload portions. A workload portion of the plurality of workload portions may be distributed to a further mobile device for workload processing. Mobile device based workload distribution may further include receiving, from the further mobile device, a processed workload portion related to the distributed workload portion, and assembling the processed workload portion related to the distributed workload portion with a plurality of processed workload portions, for example, for rendering on the associated mobile device.
US09760405B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for enforcing performance goals in an n-Tier distributed caching infrastructure. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of enforcing performance goals in an n-Tier distributed caching infrastructure can include establishing a communicative connection to multiple different cache servers arranged in respective tier nodes in an n-Tier cache. The method also can include collecting performance metrics for each of the cache servers in the respective tier nodes of the n-Tier cache and identifying a cache server amongst the cache servers in respective tier nodes of the n-Tier demonstrating a performance likely to breach at least one term of an SLA. Finally, the method can include applying a remedial measure to the identified cache server.
US09760404B2
Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for dynamic tuning of multiprocessor and multicore computing systems to improve application performance and scalability. A system may include a number of processing units (CPUs) and profiling circuitry configured to detect the existence of a scalability problem associated with the execution of an application on CPUs and to determine if the scalability problem is associated with an access contention or a resource constraint. The system may also include scheduling circuitry configured to bind the application to a subset of the total number of CPUs if the scalability problem is associated with access contention.
US09760401B2
Systems and methods of a personal daemon, executing as a background process on a mobile computing device, for providing personal assistant to an associated user is presented. Also executing on the mobile computing device is a scheduling manager. The personal daemon executes one or more personal assistance actions on behalf of the associated user. The scheduling manager responds to events in support of the personal daemon. More particularly, in response to receiving an event the scheduling manager determines a set of apps that are responsive to the received event and from that set of apps, identifies at least a first subset of apps for execution on the mobile computing device. The scheduling manager receives feedback information regarding the usefulness of the executed apps of the first subset of apps and updates the associated score of each of the apps of the first subset of apps.
US09760393B2
Some embodiments of the present invention include a method comprising: accessing units of network storage that encode state data of respective virtual machines, wherein the state data for respective ones of the virtual machines are stored in distinct ones of the network storage units such that the state data for more than one virtual machine are not commingled in any one of the network storage units.
US09760392B1
Various systems, methods, and processes to perform adaptive throttling of write operations in hybrid storage environments are disclosed. A credit value is assigned to a virtual machine. Input/output (I/O) operations generated by an application executing on the virtual machine are throttled based on the credit value assigned to the virtual machine. The credit value is assigned to the virtual machine in proportion to static measures and dynamic conditions. The static measures and the dynamic conditions are used to calculate a quality of service provided to the virtual machine by a storage system.
US09760388B1
Described herein are systems for monitoring memory allocation and deallocation associated with compact virtual machine (CVM) instances operating on a host environment. In some cases, the systems output a tree structure that is viewable by a user to understand the native memory usage of the CVM instance stemming from java frames execution. In some particular instances, the tree structure may present to the user a code line by code line analysis of the memory allocation and deallocation.
US09760387B2
A service manages a plurality of virtual machine instances for low latency execution of user codes. The service can provide the capability to execute user code in response to events triggered on an auxiliary service to provide implicit and automatic rate matching and scaling between events being triggered on the auxiliary service and the corresponding execution of user code on various virtual machine instances. An auxiliary service may be configured as an event triggering service to detect events and generate event messages for execution of the user codes. The service can request, receive, or poll for event messages directly from the auxiliary service or via an intermediary message service. Event messages can be rapidly converted to requests to execute user code on the service. The time from processing the event message to initiating a request to begin code execution is less than a predetermined duration, for example, 100 ms.
US09760385B2
In one or more embodiments, a system can configure a physical mobile device via configuring a configuration for an emulator of the physical mobile device. For example, a user (e.g., a customer) can request a physical mobile device, and a system can provide the user with an emulation of the physical mobile device, where the user can configure the emulation of the physical mobile device. In one or more embodiments, the user can be provided with the configuration via at least one of a network and a physical delivery of the physical mobile device, configured with the configuration. In one example, the user can execute an emulation of the physical mobile device configured with the configuration, received via the network. In another example, the physical mobile device can be configured with the configuration, and subsequently, the physical mobile device can be physically delivered to the user.
US09760382B2
A space vehicle may have a modular board configuration that commonly uses some or all components and a common operating system for at least some of the boards. Each modular board may have its own dedicated processing, and processing loads may be distributed. The space vehicle may be reprogrammable, and may be launched without code that enables all functionality and/or components. Code errors may be detected and the space vehicle may be reset to a working code version to prevent system failure.
US09760380B2
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to serializing and de-serializing objects. In aspects, a serialization engine uses a grammar to serialize data into a binary representation. The serialization engine may call upon a host serialization engine to serialize embedded object that are not directly supported by the environment hosting the serialization engine. The serialization engine may encode the grammar used to serialize the data into the serialized data for use in de-serializing the data. After the object is serialized, the serialized data may be de-serialized when desired by using the grammar. The grammar is such that it causes embedded objects and relationships to be preserved in the serialized representation of the object.
US09760378B2
Embodiments include methods, computer systems and computer program products for performing superscalar out-of-order processing in software in a computer system. Aspects include: loading opcodes into an analysis thread of the computer system, analyzing opcodes to identify certain non-independent opcode snippets, distributing non-independent opcode snippets to separate threads of computer system, instructing each of separate threads to execute each of non-independent opcode snippets, respectively, and collecting results of executions of each of separate threads by a consolidation thread. In exemplary embodiments, analyzing may include analyzing the opcodes using arbitrarily large variable size instruction windows to identify the non-independent opcode snippets, and distributing may include distributing opcode snippets: to a thread of same ISA, and to a code morphing thread when the opcode snippets need to be executed in threads of different ISA and then distributing the opcode snippets to the threads of different ISA by the code morphing thread.
US09760376B1
An apparatus may include a processor and storage to store instructions that cause the processor to perform operations including: in response to a determination that a GPU of a node device is available, determine whether a task routine can be compiled to generate a GPU task routine for execution by the GPU to cause performance of multiple instances of a task of the task routine at least partially in parallel without dependencies thereamong; and in response to a determination that the task routine is able to be compiled to generate the GPU task routine: employ a conversion rule to convert the task routine into the GPU task routine; compile the GPU task routine for execution by the GPU; and assign performance of the task with a data set partition to the node device to enable performance of the multiple instances with the data set partition by the GPU.
US09760367B2
In a method for reconfiguring software parameters in a microcontroller having at least one computing unit, a first non-volatile read-only memory and a volatile memory, which software parameters are stored in the first non-volatile read-only memory, reconfiguration information concerning software parameters to be modified and at least one correction value are transferred from a second non-volatile read-only memory assigned to the microcontroller into the volatile memory. At least one software parameter is transferred from the first non-volatile read-only memory into the volatile memory for processing by the computing unit. If the software parameter transferred into the volatile memory matches one of the software parameters to be modified, the value of the software parameter transferred into the volatile memory is replaced by a correction value before processing.
US09760364B2
Software extensions for applications of an enterprise system may be developed in a test system. An adaptation transport module accesses, in the test system, a collection of adaptation objects where each adaptation object includes a semantic representation of a software extension for an application of an enterprise system and at least one associated software object. The transport module processes the collection by: generating staging data based on a type of each adaptation object; exporting the collection from the test system; performing checks on each adaptation object based on the staging data; and importing the collection to the enterprise system. The transport module installs each of the software extensions on the application, using the at least one associated software object for each, based on the results of the checks of each respective adaptation object. The staging data may be written to a file in a common directory shared by both systems.
US09760363B2
There is provided a method and system to automatically provide software and/or firmware updates to the electronic devices, particularly mobile devices used by consumers such as portable health-care data interchange devices. There is also provided a method and system of updating software in electronic devices without requiring a wired data interface to affect changes. There is also provided a method and system for tracking the configuration of electronic devices that are sold to and configured by particular consumers, especially consumers/patients using electronic devices related to health care. Further, there are also provided a methods and systems for integrating the purchase, and ordering, and software configuration of electronic devices.
US09760356B2
Systems and methods may provide for identifying a nested loop iteration space in user code, wherein the nested loop iteration space includes a plurality of outer loop iterations, and distributing iterations from the nested loop iteration space across a plurality of threads, wherein each thread is assigned a group of outer loop iterations. Additionally, a compiler output may be automatically generated, wherein the compiler output contains serial code corresponding to each group of outer loop iterations and de-linearization code to be executed outside the plurality of outer loop iterations. In one example, the de-linearization code includes index recovery code that is positioned before one or more instances of the serial code in the compiler output.
US09760353B2
An instrumentation analysis system processes data streams by executing instructions specified using a data stream language program. The data stream language allows users to specify a search condition using a find block for identifying the set of data streams processed by the data stream language program. The set of identified data streams may change dynamically. The data stream language allows users to group data streams into sets of data streams based on distinct values of one or more metadata attributes associated with the input data streams. The data stream language allows users to specify a threshold block for determining whether data values of input data streams are outside boundaries specified using low/high thresholds. The elements of the set of data streams input to the threshold block can dynamically change. The low/high threshold values can be specified as data streams and can dynamically change.
US09760340B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for enhancing quality of requirements for an application development. The method comprises retrieving expertise information of each user of groups involved in identifying requirements, domain knowledge of each user, information on number of defects associated with requirements and information of requirements for application development from sources. Then, skill score of the groups is computed using expertise information and domain knowledge of each user of corresponding groups. Solidity score of each of requirements is determined using information of requirements and predetermined threshold solidity score. Weightage score of each of requirements is computed based on information of requirements and information on number of defects. The, using skill score of groups, solidity score of each of requirements and weightage score, strength score of each of requirements is computed for enhancing quality of requirements.
US09760330B2
An information processing device includes: an identification information acquiring unit that acquires, from a mobile terminal having acquired, from a machine, first machine identification information for identifying the machine, mobile terminal identification information for identifying the mobile terminal and the first machine identification information; a job information acquiring unit that acquires, on a basis of the mobile terminal identification information, job information including at least job identification information for identifying a job being executed in another machine according to an instruction from the mobile terminal; an executability determining unit that determines, on a basis of used function information indicating a function to be used in the job, and first capacity information indicating a function executable by the machine, whether the machine can execute the job; and a job control unit that causes, when the job can be executed, the job to be distributed to and executed by the machine.
US09760324B2
A communication device may acquire function execution information and authentication information, and execute a first determination process. The first determination process may determine whether a state of the communication device is an executable state in which the communication device is capable of executing a specific process or a non-executable state without using the authentication information. The communication device may execute a second determination process determining whether the communication device is capable of executing the communication with a second device in a case where it is determined that the state of the communication device is the executable state, and execute the communication with the second device in a case where the communication device is capable of executing the communication.
US09760312B2
The invention is directed to a storage device utilizing laptop storage drives and rackmount server adapted to use the same. The storage device includes a body and drive software. The drive and internal portions of the body are adapted to form contact fits. The software of the storage device provides an electronic interface that permits operations of advantageous RAID configurations.
US09760311B1
A storage system and method for adaptive thermal throttling are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for adaptive thermal throttling is provided that is performed in a storage system having a memory. This method comprises determining if a temperature of the storage system is above a threshold temperature; and in response to determining that the temperature of the storage system is above the threshold temperature: reducing performance of the storage system in an iterative manner until the temperature of the storage system is within a temperature envelope around the threshold temperature; and storing, in the memory, a value indicating what the performance of the storage system was reduced to in order to get the temperature within the temperature envelope. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US09760310B2
Embodiments of the present invention allow a data segment stored in a compressed format to be directly staged into a cache allowing access to the data segment. In operation, a request to access a data segment is received. In response, whether the data segment is stored in a compressed format is determined. If the data segment is stored in the compressed format, the data segment is staged directly into a cache.
US09760304B2
A method of writing data to a range of logical blocks in a storage medium includes: receiving a command including a starting logical block address, a value indicating a range of logical block addresses to be written, and a logical block of data; storing the logical block in a first temporary storage; generating a logical page by duplicating the logical block a plurality of times corresponding to a number of logical blocks in a logical page and transporting the generated logical page to a second temporary storage and storing the generated logical page in the second temporary storage; writing the generated logical page from the second temporary storage into the storage medium beginning from the starting logical block address; and performing a read-modify-write operation if the first write operation does not begin on a logical page boundary or the last write operation does not end on a logical page boundary.
US09760303B2
Partially-bad blocks are identified in a 3-D block-erasable nonvolatile memory, each partially-bad block having one or more inoperable separately-selectable sets of NAND strings and one or more operable separately-selectable sets of NAND strings. Operable sets of NAND strings within two or more partially-bad blocks are identified and are mapped to form one or more virtual blocks that are individually assigned virtual block addresses. The virtual block address are maintained in a list and used to access the virtual blocks.
US09760301B2
A system for write-once memory (WOM) code emulation of EEPROM-type devices includes, for example, a host processor for sending data words for storing in a WOM (Write-Only Memory) device. A host interface receives the data words for encoding by a WOM controller. An emulator programs the WOM-encoded data and an address identifier as an entry of the WOM device. The emulator overwrites previously programmed WOM-encoded data by searching entries of a current active page of a WOM device to locate a programmed WOM entry that includes the searched-for address identifier and the previously written WOM-encoded data word. When the previously written WOM-encoded word cannot be correctly overwritten, the contents of the second WOM-encoded word are stored in a new entry. When the current active page is substantially full, the new entry is stored a new page and the current active page is block-erased.
US09760290B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product optimizes storage space usage. One or more processor, which implement a Smart Volume Manager, receive an input/output (I/O) client process that requests an I/O action from a file system storage device. In response to determining that the file system storage device is operating at 100% capacity, the Smart Volume Manager generates a dynamic virtual buffer disk group from multiple donor disk groups, and then redirects the I/O client process to the dynamic virtual buffer disk group, which is appended to the file system storage device to create an extended filesystem volume.
US09760278B2
A system and method for haptic feedback includes: sensing touch input in at least one area of a touch surface; determining quantitative features of the touch input; determining temporal features of the touch input; and generating a command represented by the quantitative and temporal features of the touch input, said command producing at least one of: an alphanumeric character, a symbol, and an execution instruction.
US09760277B2
A method for detecting an input in an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a non-contact proximity input by an input unit at a plurality of points on a screen that is functionally connected to the electronic device, calculating a change in distance from the input unit in response to movement detected by the input unit, for each of the plurality of detected points, and determining at least one of the plurality of points as an input point by the input unit using the calculated change.
US09760276B2
A method of disabling a locking screen of an electronic device is provided. The method includes selecting at least two objects among at least three objects each having a unique color, determining whether at least one of a color order and a rotation direction of the selected at least two objects matches a pre-set color order and a pre-set rotation direction, and disabling a locking screen upon determining the match with at least one of the pre-set color order and the pre-set rotation direction.
US09760254B1
Provided are systems and methods for progressively providing content of an electronic book (e-book) to members of a book reading group. An example method includes: determining a group associated with content, wherein determining the group comprises determining a first user profile and a second user profile, determining a first stop-read position comprising a first position in the content, sending, to a first user device associated with the first user profile, an indication of the first stop-read position, determining that the first user device has displayed at least a threshold amount of a first portion of the content, determining a second stop-read position comprising a second position in the content, and sending, to the first user device, an indication of the second stop-read position.
US09760245B2
A graphical planner allows a user to create or select, and then display, images that represent tasks and events to be completed by the user, as well as corresponding images that represent tasks and events that the user has already completed. The graphical planner allows a user to plan and schedule events and tasks by indicating an event or task in a non-textual (i.e., graphic or symbolic) manner. Completion of the events and tasks by the user can also be signaled or otherwise indicated in a non-textual (e.g., visual, audible) manner.
US09760237B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide user interfaces for overlaying a displayed image of a geographic area with graphical information derived from a plurality of data layers that are received in response to a search query. The graphical information includes graphical indications derived from or included in the first one of the plurality of the data layers that show the locations of the subset of the plurality of land parcels in the geographic area. Other information is also overlaid on the image of the geographic area.
US09760233B2
Touch sensitivity is enabled using a touch system that comprises a panel configured to conduct signals, e.g. by TIR, along detection lines across a touch surface. A signal processor operates to generate data samples indicative of transmitted signal energy on parallel detection lines at a number of different angles across the touch surface; process the data samples for generation of interpolated Fourier coefficients at grid points in a regular grid in a Fourier domain; and operate a two-dimensional inverse Fourier transform on the interpolated Fourier coefficients so as to generate an interaction pattern for the touch surface. The interpolated Fourier coefficients are generated sequentially for individual groups of grid points. Each individual group comprises grid points that have equal distance to an origin in the regular grid, e.g. grid points that are mapped onto each other by one or ore lines of symmetry in the regular grid. The group-based processing may improve processing speed and/or reduce the need for data storage.
US09760232B2
Provided is a current output circuit 1 including a pseudo sine wave separation circuit 11 that separates a pseudo sine wave represented by a digital code Din into two pseudo half-waves represented by digital signals D1 and D2, a DA converter 113 that converts the pseudo half-wave represented by the digital signal D1 into an analog half-wave signal V1, a DA converter 114 that converts the pseudo half-wave represented by the digital signal D2 into an analog half-wave signal V2, and a voltage-current conversion circuit 12 that converts voltages of the half-wave signals V1 and V2 into currents and outputs a current Iout obtained by combining the currents.
US09760230B2
A touch screen according to the present invention includes: a substrate; and a plurality of row direction wirings and a plurality of column direction wirings which are disposed on the substrate to intersect through an insulating film in a stereoscopic view, and at an intersection portion of each of the row direction wirings and each of the column direction wirings, wiring width of at least one of the row direction wiring and the column direction wiring is wider than a portion other than the intersection portion in a plan view.
US09760228B2
Disclosed is a transparent electrode pattern structure including: a first transparent electrode layer and a second transparent electrode layer which are stacked on a transparent substrate in a predetermined pattern, respectively; an insulation layer disposed between the first transparent electrode layer and the second transparent electrode layer; and contact holes formed in the insulation layer to electrically connect the first transparent electrode layer with the second transparent electrode layer; wherein the first transparent electrode layer and the second transparent electrode layer have a thickness of 100 to 200 nm, respectively, and the insulation layer has a thickness of 1,000 to 2,000 nm, thereby considerably decreasing a difference in reflectance on separate positions, as well as a touch screen panel including the transparent electrode pattern structure.
US09760225B2
A circuit device is provided. The circuit device comprises a transparent substrate, a first transparent blocking layer, a first patterned conductive layer, and a second conductive layer. The transparent substrate has a first surface. The first transparent blocking layer is disposed on the first surface. The first patterned conductive layer is disposed on the first transparent blocking layer, and the second conductive layer is disposed on a side of the transparent substrate opposite to the first surface.
US09760220B2
According to an aspect, a touch detection device, includes drive electrodes arranged in parallel in a predetermined direction; touch detection electrodes arranged in parallel in a direction intersecting with the predetermined direction; an operation drive unit applying a touch detection drive signal to the drive electrodes; and a touch detection unit. The drive electrodes are divided into a plurality of drive signal application blocks. Each of the drive signal application blocks has a drive block overlapped portion on which an arrangement order of the drive electrodes is changed such that an area of at least one of the drive electrodes at an end side in the predetermined direction is swapped for an area of at least one of the drive electrodes in an adjacent drive signal application block at an end side in the predetermined direction.
US09760218B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a capacitive touch panel and a display device. The capacitive touch panel comprises an array substrate, an opposing substrate arranged opposite to the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the opposing substrate and the array substrate, wherein shielding electrodes, touch drive electrodes and touch sensing electrodes are disposed on one side of the opposing substrate away from the liquid crystal layer; the touch drive electrodes, the touch sensing electrodes and the shielding electrodes are insulated from one another; the touch drive electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are arranged to intersect with each other; and orthographic projections of the shielding electrodes on the opposing substrate fall into gaps of orthographic projections formed by the touch drive electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes arranged to intersect with each other on the opposing substrate. Therefore, the orthographic projections of the shielding electrodes on the opposing substrate are not overlapped with the orthographic projections of the touch drive electrodes or the touch sensing electrodes on the opposing substrate, and hence the structure in which the shielding electrodes are directly opposite to the touch sensing electrodes or the touch drive electrodes can be reduced and the capacitance formed at directly opposite positions can be reduced, and consequently the sensitivity of touch sensing can be improved.
US09760211B2
According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes a display panel, first driver, and second driver. The display panel includes a common electrode, a pixel electrode, a detection electrode, a connection line and lead line. The first driver supplies a common driving signal to the common electrode during a display drive time and supplies a sensor driving signal to the common electrode during a sensing drive time. The second driver detects a sensor output value during the sensing drive time. The lead line and the common electrode are apart from each other with a certain gap at least during the sensing drive time.
US09760208B2
An electronic apparatus has a touch sensor provided with a first touching zone including at least a second touching zone and a third touching zone, the second and third touching zones being allocated with different functions. The electronic apparatus is controlled to perform a specific function assigned to a specific touching zone that is the second or the third touching zone when there is a first touch input at first through the specific touching zone and continuously perform the specific function even if there is a second touch input that follows the first touch input, through either the second or the third touching zone that is not the specific touching zone, as long as there is a continuous touch input through the first touching zone from the first to the second touch input with no intermission.
US09760200B2
Displays with touch sensing circuitry integrated into the display pixel stackup are provided. An integrated touch screen can include multi-function circuit elements that can operate as circuitry of the display system to generate an image on the display, and can also form part of a touch sensing system that senses one or more touches on or near the display. The multi-function circuit elements can be, for example, capacitors in display pixels that can be configured to operate as storage capacitors/electrodes, common electrodes, conductive wires/pathways, etc., of the display circuitry in the display system, and that may also be configured to operate as circuit elements of the touch sensing circuitry.
US09760187B2
Styluses with active color indicator functionality are disclosed. The styluses are intended for use with a touch sensitive device. The active color generally refers to the color currently in use by the touch sensitive device, such as in a virtual drawing or note taking application. Active colors can be selected using the touch sensitive device and/or the stylus itself. When the active color is selected using the touch sensitive device, the stylus receives the active color information and indicates the color on the stylus (e.g., via a correspondingly colored LED or LCD or a color rotation mechanism). When the active color is selected from the stylus itself, that color is indicated on the stylus and active color information is transmitted to the touch sensitive device. The active color can be displayed such that it is detectable regardless of stylus position (e.g., no blind spots).
US09760180B2
A user interface device having: an acquisition unit that sequentially acquires pointing positions indicating at least one representative position of a specific region of a user used in a pointing operation; a detection unit that detects the start of a change and the end of the change into a predetermined shape of the specific region of the user; a storage unit that stores a pointing position corresponding to the time of the start of the change detected by the detection unit; a calculation unit that specifies a pointing position corresponding to the time of the end of the change detected by the detection unit and calculates a difference between the specified pointing position and the pointing position stored in the storage unit; and a position adjustment unit that adjusts the pointing positions acquired by the acquisition unit using the difference calculated by the calculation unit.
US09760179B2
One or more pages are displayed on a touch display. A page-flipping gesture directed to a displayed page is recognized. Responsive to such recognition, a virtual page flip is displayed on the touch display. The virtual page flip turns successive pages to a landing page.
US09760173B2
Disclosed is controlling a vibration of a vibration generating device configured to reciprocatively vibrate an operating body movably supported in a first direction and a second direction which are opposite to each other, a driving signal being transmitting to a first interval and a second interval in which vibration frequencies of acceleration during movement of the operating body are different from each other, the first interval being an initial motion interval when the operating body moves toward the first direction, the second interval being an initial motion interval when the operating body moves toward the second direction. The vibration frequency of the second interval is smaller than the vibration frequency of the first interval which is equal to or smaller than 250 Hz, and the vibration frequency of the second interval is greater than the vibration frequency of the first interval which is equal to or greater than 250 Hz.
US09760162B2
Techniques to control power and processing among a plurality of asymmetric cores. In one embodiment, one or more asymmetric cores are power managed to migrate processes or threads among a plurality of cores according to the performance and power needs of the system.
US09760161B2
A method and a system are applied to manage a plurality of power supplies. In both the method and the system, a board management controller is applied to detect a plurality of power supplies, so as to determine whether the power supplies are normally operated. When the power supplies are operated normally, the board management controller automatically checks whether an automatic power control means is activated. When the automatic power control means is not activated, the board management controller calculates a real-time residual maximum power value according to at least one of the normal-operated power supplies. Then, the board management controller resets a system power supply value of a management engine by the real-time residual maximum power value. Finally, the board management controller orders the complex programmable logic device relieve a thermal protection means, whereby the processor's operating frequency can be maintained at a normal operating frequency.
US09760160B2
In one embodiment, a processor comprises: a plurality of processing engines including a first processing engine and a second processing engine to independently execute instructions; and a power controller including a performance state control logic to control a performance state of at least one of the processing engines, and a first logic to determine an average number of active processing engines over a first window, an estimated activity level of the processor for the first window, and adjust at least one of a window length at which the performance state control logic is to perform a performance state determination and at least one activity level threshold, based at least in part on a comparison of the estimated activity level and the average number of active processing engines. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09760156B2
A display apparatus, a display system having a plurality of display apparatuses, and a method for controlling the display system are disclosed in which a first voltage of a first transmission channel of a first display apparatus is changed according to transition from a power saving state to a wake-up state and a second display apparatus electrically connected to the first display apparatus detects variation of voltage of a first reception channel corresponding to voltage variation of the first transmission channel and transitions from a power saving state to a wake-up state according to the detection.
US09760148B2
An information processing apparatus capable of sufficiently saving power consumption. A receiving unit receives a packet transmitted from an external device. An identifying unit identifies an application which is to execute processing of the packet on a basis of a port number of the packet received by the receiving unit. The application identified by the identifying unit analyzes a content of the packet, identifies a unit required for executing processing of the packet, and issues an instruction to supply power to the unit.
US09760144B2
Circuits and methods for providing power from power sourcing equipment to a powered device using an ethernet cable are disclosed herein. An embodiment of the method includes detecting a resistance value in the powered device, wherein the resistance value determines whether the powered device can receive power. A first class event is performed to determine the class of the powered device. A second class event is then performed to determine the class of the powered device. Power is transmitted on all four pairs of the ethernet cable simultaneously when the first and second class events indicate that the class of the powered device conforms to a class that can receive power from the power sourcing equipment on all four pairs.
US09760136B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes at least one core to execute instructions and a memory controller coupled to the at least one core. In turn, the memory controller includes a spare logic to cause a dynamic transfer of data stored on a first memory device coupled to the processor to a second memory device coupled to the processor, responsive to a temperature of the first memory device exceeding a thermal threshold. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09760134B1
A hydraulic card retainer can be operable to retain a CCA within a card cage. The hydraulic card retainer can comprise a tube section which defines an interior envelope. The interior envelope can be operable to contain a volume of fluid. The hydraulic card retainer can further comprise an interfacing section which can be in fluid communication with the tube section. The hydraulic card retainer can further comprise an actuator which can be at least partially supported by the interfacing section and which can also be operable to form a fluid-tight seal at the interfacing section. The actuator can operate to apply a compression force to the volume of fluid upon actuation. The compression force can cause at least a portion of the tube section to expand, thereby generating and applying a retaining force between the CCA/chassis assembly and the card cage.
US09760133B2
There is provided an apparatus, a method and computer program product for managing one or more components of an electronic machine. A user connects one or more components to an electronic machine in parallel. The electronic machine determines whether the components are failed. A latch device, attached to each component, automatically locks one or more of the components to the electronic machine if the one or more of the components are not failed. The electromechanical latch automatically releases the one or more of the components from the electronic machine if the one or more of the components are failed.
US09760124B1
Method and apparatus for OLED-based displays are provided. Methods may include receiving card identification from a contactless communications chip at an OLED-based foldable display. Methods may include receiving a handwritten signature at a pressure-sensitive portion on the display. Methods may include transmitting the card identification information to a secure entity hub. Methods may include receiving a packet from the secure entity hub. The packet may include the identification number, an acceptance of the handwritten signature and card blank information. Methods may include activating a card blank attached to the display with card blank information. Methods may include transmitting a second packet to the secure entity hub comprising the identification number and a message that the card blank has been activated.
US09760123B2
In several embodiments, a speech generation device is disclosed. The speech generation device may generally include a projector configured to project images in the form of a projected display onto a projection Surface, an optical input device configured to detect an input directed towards the projected display and a speaker configured to generate an audio output. In addition, the speech generation device may include a processing unit communicatively coupled to the projector, the optical input device and the speaker. The processing unit may include a processor and related computer readable medium configured to store instructions executable by the processor, wherein the instructions stored on the computer readable medium configure the speech generation device to generate text-to-speech output.
US09760121B2
Method is provided which includes mounting a touch screen protector to the front face of a portable electronic device. The front face has a declining surface portion extending along the outer perimeter thereof. The touch screen protector includes a planar sheet having a front side and a back side, an outer perimeter corresponding in shape to the device, and a transparent window portion. An opaque band is applied around the perimeter of the planar sheet, surrounding the transparent window portion. An adhesive layer is applied to the back side of the planar sheet for mounting the touch screen protector on the device. The planar sheet is sufficiently stiff such that a portion of the glass touch screen protector hangs over the declining surface portion of the front face of the portable electronic device when mounted thereon.
US09760118B2
This is directed to a case for securing and protecting an electronic device. The case can include a cover connected to a pouch by a hinge such that the cover can be overlaid over a device interface (e.g., a device display). The case can be constructed by layering and combining several types of materials, including for example materials having resistant outer surfaces, materials limiting the deformation of the case, materials providing a soft surface to be placed in contact with the device, and rigid materials for defining a structure of the case. In some embodiments, the case can include a tab that allows a user to fold open the cover of the case to form a triangular prism. The prism can be placed on any of its surfaces such that the device can be oriented towards a user at particular angles (e.g., a typing-specific orientation and a media playback orientation).
US09760110B2
Methods and systems for memory-based computing include combining multiple operations into a single lookup table and combining multiple memory-based operation requests into a single read request. Operation result values are read from a multi-operation lookup table that includes result values for a first operation above a diagonal of the lookup table and includes result values for a second operation below the diagonal. Numerical inputs are used as column and row addresses in the lookup table and the requested operation determines which input corresponds to the column address and which input corresponds to the row address. Multiple operations are combined into a single request by combining respective members from each operation into respective inputs an reading an operation result value from a lookup table to produce a combined result output. The combined result output is separated into a plurality of individual result outputs corresponding to the plurality of requests.
US09760109B2
A brake pedal assembly includes an assembly frame, a pedal arm pivotally carried by the assembly frame, a booster input rod, a booster washer carried by the booster input rod, a rod actuating element carried by the pedal arm and engaging the booster input rod and a biasing device interposed between the booster washer and the rod actuating element.
US09760107B2
A plurality of IO cells are arranged along an edge portion of a semiconductor chip. Some elements forming a reference voltage generation circuit are arranged in a first corner region of the semiconductor chip. Remaining elements forming the reference voltage generation circuit are arranged in a core region on an inner side of the edge portion of the semiconductor chip. Among a plurality of corner regions, the first corner region is located closest to the remaining elements.
US09760095B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining relative orientation between a self-propelled device and a mobile computing device by utilizing the asymmetric radiation pattern of communication link emissions by the self-propelled device. Upon establishing the communication link, the self-propelled device may perform a spin, thereby enabling the self-propelled device and/or the mobile computing device to detect radiated pulses due to the asymmetry in the link. A direction may be determined based on such pulses, which may be utilized for calibration purposes.
US09760093B2
A system for manipulation of objects. The system includes N objects, where N is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer; and a mechanism for controlling and 2D locating of the N objects. A method for manipulating objects. The method includes the steps of receiving information from N objects, where N is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer, at a centrally controlling and 2D locating controller; determining 2D locations by the controller of the N objects; and transmitting from the controller directions to the N objects for the N objects to move. An apparatus for tracking. The apparatus includes N objects, where N is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer, each object having an emitter which emits light; and a mechanism for 2D sensing of the N objects over time from the light emitted by each emitter. The present invention pertains to a method for tracking. The method includes the steps of emitting light from N objects, where N is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer; and sensing 2D locations of the N objects over time from the emitted light from the N objects.
US09760086B2
A method for storing and/or order-picking product units in a storage and/or order-picking installation (P1), in which incoming transporting units are stored on an interim basis in a store, are supplied, if required, to a depalletizing station (4) and are individually stored on an interim basis in a buffer store (6) for product units. Thereafter, branch-specific mixed pallets (16) are automatically set up, supplied to the delivery zone (11) and loaded onto lorries. The system solution is distinguished, in particular, in that it can dispense entirely with transporting aids such as shelves for product units, rows of product units or for entire layers of transporting units. The transport shuttles (8) provided and the rail installation (8a) perform largely the functions of transporting aids, storage means and conveying systems.
US09760073B2
An improved tool and technique for performance quality testing of a synthesized controller or a controller-in-development is disclosed. A controller's performance in a test run within a simulation testing environment is quantitatively compared to an optimal performance parameter as defined in a controller performance model. Deviation between these compared results is recorded as an indicator of poor controller performance. Only deviating test results are recorded for review to guide further fine tuning or modifications of controller settings, and to save mass storage space. The controller performance test runs autonomously and may be automatically restarted should any failure within the simulation environment occur.
US09760065B2
A home appliance, a home appliance system, and a control method thereof are disclosed. Transmission and reception of data are performed between the terminal and the home appliance using near field communication (NFC), thereby easily checking information of the home appliance. In addition, operation of the home appliance is easily set and changed through an application installed in the terminal and information regarding the home appliance received from the home appliance is displayed through the terminal such that a user checks various kinds of information regarding the home appliance, thereby greatly improving user convenience.
US09760064B2
A wearable electronic device includes an external housing including a first surface, a second surface toward a direction opposite to the first surface, and a first opening formed through the first surface; a display disposed in the opening; a plate covering the display, forming at least a portion of the first surface, and having a substantially circular shape; a first structure forming a portion of the external housing or extending from the external housing; a bezel surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the plate, mounted on the external housing to be rotatable, and including a surface toward a portion of a surface of the first structure; and a second structure disposed between the portion of the surface of the first structure and the surface of the bezel and attached to the first structure. The second structure has a friction coefficient smaller than a friction coefficient of the first structure.
US09760061B2
Methods and systems for performing dynamic aperture holography are described. Examples include a method of recording multiple holograms in a photosensitive recording medium, where multiple signal beam angular apertures used to record the multiple holograms differ from each other. The multiple signal beam angular apertures can facilitate using a larger range of reference beam angular apertures. The multiple holograms are typically multiplexed, and examples of dynamic aperture holography enable packing the multiplexed holograms more densely in the recording medium. Some dynamic aperture holography systems include monocular objective lens architecture.
US09760056B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body casing, a waste toner container, and a drum unit configured to move between a first position inside the main body casing and a second position outside the main body casing, the drum unit including a photoconductive drum, a cleaner, and a transporter including a first transportation member, and a transportation tube including a first frame including a first half-tubular section and a tubular section, and a second frame including a second half-tubular section. The first half-tubular section and the second half-tubular section define a first space configured to allow toner removed by the cleaner to pass therethrough. The tubular section of the first frame defines a second space configured to allow the toner passed through the first space to pass therethrough.
US09760051B2
A post-processing apparatus of an embodiment includes a first tray configured to receive a sheet on which the post processing is not executed by a processing section, a second tray configured to temporarily place a sheet, an inlet roller configured to carry in a sheet discharged from an image forming apparatus into the post-processing apparatus, a first roller configured to convey the sheet to the first tray, a second roller configured to convey the sheet to the second tray, a detection sensor configured to detect whether or not there is sheet being conveyed in a sheet conveyance path from the inlet roller to the first or the second tray, and a roller control section configured to drive the first or the second roller if an image forming apparatus stops the discharge of the sheet that is being printed and the detection sensor detects the sheet.
US09760045B2
An image formation apparatus includes: a fixer that fixes a toner image onto a sheet by heat and pressure, and includes: a heat source; a first rotary member that is heated by the heat source; a temperature sensing unit that senses a temperature of the first rotary member; and a second rotary member that forms a nip with the first rotary member for applying heat and pressure to the sheet; and a controller that calculates a nip width of the nip in a passing direction of the sheet with use of a rotation period and a rest period of the first rotary member during which the heat source operates, and changes a target temperature of the first rotary member in accordance with the calculated nip width.
US09760037B2
A developing apparatus includes a sleeve for carrying a developer including toner and magnetic carrier, the sleeve having a plurality of grooves extending in a longitudinal direction; a magnet provided inside the sleeve, a non-magnetic regulating member, provided spaced from the sleeve, wherein an amount M/S (mg/mm2) of the developer carried on a unit area of the sleeve after passing by the regulating member, a gap SB (mm) between a free end of the regulating member and the sleeve, a density G (mg/mm3) of the developer, and a groove ratio α which is a ratio of the grooves in the surface of the sleeve satisfy, 0.1≦M/S (mg/mm2)≦0.5 0.2≦SB (mm), and m/S (mg/mm2)×¼≦α×{SB (mm)+D (mm)}×G (mg/mm3)
US09760033B2
Provided is a toner for developing electrostatic images containing toner particles. The toner particles contain a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin. The amorphous resin contains an amorphous vinyl resin component containing a polymer of monomers having a structure represented by formula (1). The content of a structural unit derived from the monomers in the toner particles is within a range of 2.4 to 13.5 mass %. H2C═CR1—COOR2 (1) In formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and R2 represents a branched alkyl group having a carbon number of 8 or more.
US09760027B2
A scanner routing method for particle removal is disclosed. A dummy wafer coated with a viscosity builder is provided. The dummy wafer is moved, shot by shot, with an immersion scanner. The moving includes moving edge shots in a direction from the outside of the dummy wafer toward the inside of the same. The scanner routing method of the invention is beneficial to remove unnecessary particles or chemicals in the immersion liquid and therefore improve the performance of the product wafer which is subsequently run after the dummy wafer.
US09760020B2
Metrology methods and systems are provided, which measure metrology targets during the exposure stage using reflected or diffracted exposure illumination or additional simultaneous illumination having longer wavelengths than the exposure illumination. The metrology measurements are used to correct the lithographic process in a short loop, enabling realtime and even predictive error correction. The metrology methods, tools and systems also include defect detection during the exposure stage.
US09760012B2
An illumination optical system that illuminates a target surface includes a first deflector, a second deflector, and an optical integrator. The first deflector is arranged on a first face crossing an optical path of light from a light source and has a period in a first direction defined on the first face. The second deflector is arranged on a second face crossing an optical path of light from the first deflector and has a period in a second direction defined on the second face. The optical integrator has a plurality of wavefront division facets arrayed on a third face crossing an optical axis of light from the second deflector. At least one of the first and second deflectors rotates about an optical axis of the illumination optical system or about an axis parallel to the optical axis in order to adjust a pattern of an illumination distribution.
US09760009B2
A hydrogel material composition includes: (1) an alginate (or other cross-linking polymer) material; (2) an optional α-hydroxy carboxylate material; and (3) an iron cation material. The hydrogel material composition with or without the α-hydroxy-carboxylate material may be used in a photolithographic imaging application or a photorelease application within the context of a photoirradiation induced reduction/oxidation reaction of an iron (III) cation material to form an iron (II) cation material.
US09760005B2
A salt having a group represented by formula (a): wherein Xa and Xb each independently represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, X1 represents a divalent group having an alicyclic hydrocarbon group where a methylene group may be replaced by an oxygen atom or a carbonyl group, and where a hydrogen atom may be replaced by a hydroxy group or a fluorine atom, and * represents a binding site.
US09760000B2
An imprint apparatus performs processing including dispensing of a resin onto an imprint region on a substrate and molding of the dispensed resin using a mold. The imprint apparatus includes a dispenser including a discharge section having an array of ports for discharging the resin, and configured to dispense the resin onto the imprint region; and a controller configured to control the dispenser, during a processing for a plurality of imprint regions of which nominal sizes are the same, such that switching is performed from one subset of the array of ports used for dispensing the resin onto one imprint region to another subset of the array of ports for dispensing the resin onto another imprint region.
US09759993B2
In some aspects, the present disclosure is directed to, among other things, a device. The device may include a mirror with a first material and a pivoting system with a second material. The fracture toughness of the second material may be at least 20 M-Pa(m1/2). The pivoting system may be configured to pivot the mirror around an axis.
US09759984B1
A portable electronic device has a device housing, and an electronic camera module in the device housing. The module has a focusing lens to focus light from a scene, an imaging sensor to receive the focused light, and an electro-optic variable aperture to allow different amounts of the light from the scene to reach the imaging sensor. The electro-optic variable aperture may include a first aperture stack placed on a transparent substrate and a second aperture stack placed on the first aperture stack. The first aperture stack defines a first aperture and the second aperture stack defines a second aperture that is larger than the first aperture. Each aperture stack includes a transparent conductive oxide layer that is common with the adjacent aperture stack. Alternatively the electro-optic variable aperture may include an aperture stack that has two transparent conductive oxide layer layers, where one layer is in the form of concentric annuli.
US09759979B2
An electronic-ink display device includes a cover plate, an electronic-ink display, a frame, and a water-proof glue. The electronic-ink display is disposed on the cover plate. The frame is disposed on a periphery area of the cover plate and surrounds the electronic-ink display to form a trench. Then, the water-proof glue fills the trench.
US09759972B2
An array substrate and a display device. The array substrate comprises a common electrode line, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines which intersect with each other, and pixel units defined by neighboring in gate lines. A storage electrode line is provided, so that storage capacitance between the storage electrode line and the pixel electrode can compensate storage capacitance formed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode. The ability of charge retention of the pixel electrode can be increased, so that voltage of the pixel electrode is constant during display period of a frame, and the display effect of a picture is ensured.
US09759970B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD), an array substrate of the LCD and a method for repairing a broken line are disclosed. According to the present invention, a detection line and a repairing line are disposed on an array substrate of the LCD, the detection line is connected to a non-defective scan line and the repairing line is connected to a broken line; and when a scan signal is detected by the repairing IC via the detection line, a repairing signal is outputted at an appropriate time to repair the broken line via the repairing line. With this arrangement of the LCD and the method for repairing a broken line of the present invention, broken scan lines that are detected in the LCD after the cell process can still be repaired. This reduces the reject ratio, avoids unnecessary waste and lowers the manufacturing cost.
US09759967B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate having a pixel region and a frame region, and a color filter substrate. The frame region includes a first metal wire that surrounds the outside of the pixel region, and a second metal wire that is formed so as to surround the outside of the first metal wire. The first metal wire has at least one slit at an area overlapping with a seal material.
US09759966B2
An array substrate and a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor, a gate line and a data line that are provided on the base substrate; and an electrostatic shielding layer provided on the base substrate. The electrostatic shielding layer is configured for electrostatic protection during production of the array substrate.
US09759964B2
A semi-transmissive display apparatus including: a reflective electrode provided for each pixel, wherein the semi-transmissive display apparatus performs reflective display operation by using the reflective electrodes and transmissive display operation by using spaces between the reflective electrodes of the pixels.
US09759960B2
A display panel including a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a pixel array is provided. The pixel array disposed on the first substrate includes a pixel area wherein a pixel electrode is disposed. The pixel electrode includes a first main electrode, a second main electrode, which substantially perpendicularly intersecting for defining a first domain, a second domain, a third domain, and a fourth domain of the pixel area, and a plurality of branch electrodes separately connected to the first or the second main electrode. When a maximum voltage is applied to the display panel, the liquid crystal layer has an average Azimuthal Angle represented as y1, satisfying B1
US09759959B2
A liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a pixel electrode on the first substrate and including a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode separated from each other and located in one pixel area, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common electrode on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a first voltage applied to the first subpixel electrode is higher than a second voltage applied to the second subpixel electrode, wherein the first subpixel electrode includes first branch electrodes, the second subpixel electrode includes second branch electrodes, the second subpixel electrode is located around the pixel area to enclose the first subpixel electrode, wherein the first branch electrodes and the second branch electrodes face each other in a boundary portion of the first subpixel electrode and the second subpixel electrode.
US09759949B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device having excellent display quality, with reduced string-like defects that occur in display pixels. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes multiple spacers between a pair of substrates, wherein the spacers are arranged such that an inter-spacer distance between adjacent spacers in a longitudinal direction is different from an inter-spacer distance between adjacent spacers in a transverse direction, and an angle formed between a line connecting the spacers with a shorter inter-spacer distance and an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules at a voltage lower than a threshold voltage in the liquid crystal layer is 20° or smaller.
US09759948B2
A curved liquid crystal display is provided. The curved liquid crystal display (LCD) comprises a first curved substrate; a second curved substrate; a first curved liquid crystal alignment layer disposed between the first curved substrate and the second curved substrate; a second curved liquid crystal alignment layer disposed between the first curved liquid crystal alignment layer and the second curved substrate; and a liquid crystal layer including first and second liquid crystal molecules with negative dielectric anisotropy and disposed between the first curved liquid crystal alignment layer and the second curved liquid crystal alignment layer, the first liquid crystal molecules are aligned at a surface of the first curved liquid crystal alignment layer, and the second liquid crystal molecules are aligned at a surface of the second curved liquid crystal alignment layer, wherein, in an initial state when no electric field is applied, the first liquid crystal molecules are relatively vertically aligned as compared with the second liquid crystal molecules with respect to the first curved substrate and the second liquid crystal molecules are relatively tilt-aligned as compared with the first liquid crystal molecules with respect to the first curved substrate.
US09759947B2
The invention relates to the display technology field, and particularly to a wire grid polarizer, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The wire grid polarizer comprises a substrate, in which wire grid structures are arranged at intervals in an array, to allow light to penetrate from the grid pitches thereof, with the other area except the wire grid structures of the substrate being a continuous opaque area. Due to the wire grid polarizer being provided with the wire grid structures arranged at intervals in a array, local light transmitting areas can be formed, and light emergence can be controlled more flexibly. A display panel using the wire grid polarizer can effectively lower the light absorption rate, also avoid peripheral light leakage in a non-subpixel area, and prevent the light leakage of the pixels themselves; correspondingly, a display device using the display panel can improve the light utilization rate, and achieve a good display effect.
US09759946B2
A liquid crystal display device of a horizontal electric field type includes: a first electrode and a second electrode formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of the first transparent substrate, and two polarization plates respectively adhered such that respective transmission axes thereof are orthogonal to each other, wherein the liquid crystal material is rotated by an electric field generated between the first electrode and the second electrode. With respect to the transmission axis located in an extending direction between the first electrode and the second electrode, an initial orientation direction of the liquid crystal material is within a range between a direction rotated by 0.5-degree in an opposite response direction of the liquid crystal material and a direction orthogonal to an electric field direction generated between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US09759945B2
An image display device in which an image display panel, at least one patterned retardation layer and a polarization element layer are arranged in this order, and the patterned retardation layer includes first retardation regions and second retardation regions which are alternately arranged in a stripe-like form and in which at least one of an in-plane slow axis direction and a retardation is different from each other.
US09759944B2
Discussed are a side cover film for a display device and the display device including the same, which include a reduced bezel area and which effectively discharge static electricity. The display device can include a display panel including a signal line, a panel supporting frame supporting the display panel, a driving circuit unit connected to the signal line at a side surface of the display panel and disposed on one side surface of the panel supporting frame, a cover shield covering the driving circuit unit, and a side cover film covering the side surface of the display panel.
US09759934B2
A method for measuring at least one geo-morphometric parameter of an individual wearing glasses that includes adjusting the inclination of the image acquisition system so that it lies in an acceptable angular range; adjusting the height of the image acquisition system so that the individual can see the target along a substantially horizontal line of sight; observation of the target, by the individual; acquiring at least one image of the eyes of the individual and of the frame. The method includes processing the at least one image using the processing unit in order to determine each geo-morphometric parameter of the individual from the position of their pupils and the inclination of their glasses and returning the result of the measurements.
US09759931B2
A pair of progressive ophthalmic lenses (1, 2) meets special conditions for improving binocular vision of a wearer, while avoiding discomfort for peripheral vision. A first one of the conditions sets a minimum value for the difference between nasal and temporal half-widths of far vision field and/or proximate vision field for at least one of the lens. A second one of the conditions sets a maximum value for the relative difference in mean refractive power gradient between both lenses.
US09759922B2
Systems and methods are provided for verifying a magnetic positioning system. One embodiment includes a mounting unit, a drive unit, and a controller. The mounting unit is able to mechanically couple with a device that includes a magnetic sensor. The mounting unit includes a nonconductive mount to attach to the device, and a nonconductive swivel bearing with arms that are rotatably attached to the mount. The drive unit includes a platform, a nonconductive rigid post extending outward from the platform and attached to a center portion of the swivel bearing, linear actuators attached to the platform, and nonconductive shafts attached to the arms of the swivel bearing. Each shaft is attached to a linear actuator for displacement by the actuator. The controller directs the linear actuators to adjust the nonconductive shafts in order to move the swivel bearing, thereby adjusting an orientation and position of the device.
US09759906B2
Structures for representing images comprise a plurality of tile elements which, when illuminated by a light source, each direct an amount of light toward an observer at a viewing location dependent on their orientation angles. The orientation angles of each tile element may be selected based on a characteristic of a corresponding pixel of an image, such that the observer sees a representation of that image created by the varying amount of light directed to the viewing location by the tile elements.
US09759891B2
A wide angle lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a negative first lens, a negative second lens, a positive third lens, a positive fourth lens, a negative fifth lens, and a positive sixth lens, wherein the sixth lens is adhered to the fifth lens to form a doublet lens. In addition, the wide angle lens further satisfies the condition of SD2/R2>0.6, where SD2 is half of an effective aperture of a surface of the first lens which faces the image side, and R2 is a radius of curvature of the surface of the first lens which faces the image side. Whereby, the FOV of the wide angle lens can be greater than 140 degrees, and the wide angle lens is compatible with a large-sized, e.g., 1/2.3″, photosensitive component.
US09759889B1
An imaging lens includes first, second, and third lens elements arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The image-side surface of the first lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery. The image-side surface of the second lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery. The third lens element has negative refracting power. The object-side surface of the third lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery. A mobile device is also provided.
US09759888B2
A lens assembly for biologic characteristic identification is provided in the present disclosure. The lens assembly includes a first lens with positive refractive power and a second lens with negative refractive power, arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side and satisfy conditions: −0.95≦f1/f2≦−0.68; 0.10≦d1/f≦0.20; 0.24≦d2/f≦0.50; −3.50≦(R1+R2)/(R1−R2)≦−1.80; f is the focal length of the lens assembly, f1 and f2 is the focal lengths of the first lens and the second lens, d1 and d2 is the central thickness of the first lens and the axial distance from the image side of the first lens to the object side of the second lens, R1 and R2 is the curvature radius of the object side and the image side of the first lens.
US09759885B2
A lens module includes a lens supporter, and a lens group received by the lens supporter. The lens supporter includes an aperture plate, a main body extending downwardly from the aperture plate and a receiving space formed by the aperture plate and the main body, the aperture plate having a light aperture, the main body having an internal surface facing the receiving space. The lens group includes a first lens abutting against the aperture plate for forming a first alignment accuracy, a second lens stacked on the first lens and keeping a distance from the internal surface of the main body, a third lens stacked on the second lens and keeping a distance from the internal surface of the main body, and a fourth lens stacked on the third lens and abutting against the internal surface of the main body.
US09759880B2
Tower systems suitable for use at cellular base stations include a tower, an antenna mounted on the tower, a remote radio head mounted on the tower and a power supply. A power cable having a power supply conductor and a return conductor is connected between the power supply and the remote radio head. A shunt capacitance unit that is separate from the remote radio head that is electrically coupled between the power supply conductor and the return conductor of the power cable.
US09759879B1
An electrode portion of a module board to be disposed in a transceiver module is formed from a group of contact pads which are arrayed substantially in parallel to a long side of the module board, and the group of contact pads include a line of ground line pads formed at predetermined intervals from one end to the other end, and two lines of signal line pads formed in spaces between the ground line pads.
US09759865B1
A compact polarization beam splitter is formed by cascading two stages of three restricted MMIs. Each MIMI is configured to set ultra compact width and length for a rectangular waveguide body to limit no more than 4 modes therein working as a polarization beam splitter in a 50 nm wavelength window around 1300 nm. Each MMI is further configured to couple an input at a first end and a TE bar output and a TM cross output at a second end of the rectangular waveguide body. The locations of the input/output waveguide ports are designated to be a distance of ⅙ of the width away from a middle line from the first end to the second end. Two second-stage MMIs have their inputs coupled to the TE bar output and the TM cross output of the first-stage MMI and provide a second-stage TE bar output and a second-stage TM cross output, respectively.
US09759862B1
The various presented herein relate to an on-chip polarization beam splitter (PBS), which is adiabatic for the transverse magnetic (TM) mode and diabatic for the transverse electric (TE) mode. The PBS comprises a through waveguide and a cross waveguide, wherein an electromagnetic beam comprising TE mode and TM mode components is applied to an input port of the through waveguide. The PBS can be utilized to separate the TE mode component from the TM mode component, wherein the TE mode component exits the PBS via an output port of the through waveguide, and the TM mode component exits the PBS via an output port of the cross waveguide. The PBS has a structure that is tolerant to manufacturing variations and exhibits high polarization extinction ratios over a wide bandwidth.
US09759861B2
A sequence of processing steps presented herein is used to embed an optical signal path within an array of nanowires, using only one lithography step. Using the techniques disclosed, it is not necessary to mask electrical features while forming optical features, and vice versa. Instead, optical and electrical signal paths can be created substantially simultaneously in the same masking cycle. This is made possible by a disparity in the widths of the respective features, the optical signal paths being significantly wider than the electrical ones. Using a damascene process, the structures of disparate widths are plated with metal that over-fills narrow trenches and under-fills a wide trench. An optical cladding material can then be deposited into the trench so as to surround an optical core for light transmission.
US09759852B2
Techniques are disclosed for obtaining a desired luminance and/or intensity distribution from any lighting fixture that is illuminated by a lightguide. The techniques can be used, for instance, to design a non-uniform surface texture (e.g., of light extraction features) for a lightguide, wherein the surface texture achieves a desired uniform or an intentionally non-uniform luminance distribution for a given lightguide shape/geometry, dimensions, and/or composition. In some embodiments, an iteration algorithm with illuminance distribution feedback is utilized to design a non-uniform surface texture (e.g., geometry, dimensions, quantity and/or spatial distribution of light extraction features) to achieve the target luminance distribution for a given lighting application.
US09759845B2
Color correction system for an automated stage light that allows the color temperature of the light beam to be continuously adjustable to both a higher and lower Kelvin value than the natural temperature of the open beam, by filtering using a dual peak filter and also color correcting the beam.
US09759836B2
A multiple sensor fiber optic sensing system includes an optical fiber having at least first fiber optic sensors and second fiber optic sensors deployed along its length. In response to an interrogating pulse, the first fiber optic sensors generate responses in a first optical spectrum window, and the second fiber optic sensors generate responses in a second, different optical spectrum window. The responses in the first optical spectrum window are measured in a first optical spectrum channel, and the responses in the second optical spectrum window are measure in a second, different optical spectrum channel and provide simultaneous indications of one or more parameters, such as temperature and pressure, in the environment in which the sensors are deployed.
US09759829B2
A system and method for geophysical data collection, for use with resistivity and induced polarization. The system and method include the use of a single voltage reference wire to which all voltage recorders or nodes are connected by means of a piercing wire connector, the voltage recorders providing a measurement of the potential voltage between the reference wire and the ground and allowing for calculation of relative voltage potentials between adjacent recorders.
US09759826B2
A method and system for generating a model function h(x,y,z) implicitly representing geologic horizons. Geological data representing a fault network and horizons automatically extracted from seismic data may be received. A 3D mesh may be generated and divided into a plurality of fault blocks by the fault network. A discrete function h(x,y,z) may be defined having values of the geological data representing horizons at discrete nodes of the mesh. Constraints may be installed on the discrete function h(x,y,z) defining surfaces representing horizons. Constraints may be installed on the discrete function h(x,y,z) to ensure the uniqueness of the function h(x,y,z). The discrete function h(x,y,z) may be interpolated at the nodes of the mesh to create a piecewise continuous function h (x,y,z) while honoring the constraints. The piecewise continuous horizon function h(x,y,z) may be synchronized across multiple fault blocks. A model of the piecewise continuous horizon function h(x,y,z) may be displayed.
US09759824B2
The application describes methods and apparatus for seismic monitoring using fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). The method involves interrogating a first optical fiber (102) deployed in an area of interest to provide a distributed acoustic sensor comprising a plurality of longitudinal sensing portions of fiber and also monitoring at least one geophone (107) deployed in the area of interest. The signal from the at least one geophone is analyzed to detect an event of interest (105). If an event of interest is detected the data from the distributed acoustic sensor acquired during said event of interest is recorded. The geophone may be co-located with part of the sensing fiber and in some embodiments may be integrated (307) with the sensing fiber.
US09759820B2
A scintillator array including a plurality of scintillators, an optical detector array corresponding to the scintillators, an AD conversion unit configured to convert an analog signal output from each optical detector into digital data, and a position detection processing unit configured to specify a position of the scintillator on which the radiation is incident are provided. If there are two different pieces of digital data at the same time, the position detection processing unit determines that radiation is incident on two scintillators when energy value data of the two pieces of digital data is greater than an energy value of a Compton edge and specifies the address of the scintillator on which the radiation is incident by comparing the energy values of the two pieces of digital data when at least one of the two energy values is less than the energy value of the Compton edge.
US09759818B2
Systems and methods for generating an X-ray image using a digital flat panel detector with a squircle shape are described. The flat panel X-ray detector contains a circuit board, a light imager electrically connected to the circuit board, and a scintillator coupled on the light imager. The detector has superellipse shape or a cornerless shape with a first substantially straight edge and a second substantially straight edge running substantially perpendicular to the first edge, wherein the first and second edges do not physically intersect with each other at 90 degrees. The flat panel detector with this shape can be used in an x-ray imaging system that uses the detector to detect x-rays and produce an x-ray image. With this shape, the active sensing area of the detector can be similar to those currently available with rectangular or square flat panel detectors, while using less material to create the detector.
US09759812B2
A system and methods are provided for providing intersection positioning data. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting one or more objects by a device, wherein the one or more objects are detected relative to at least a portion of a roadway by an integrated radar sensor of the device, and tracking one or more detected objects by the device to determine tracking data, wherein tracking includes determining a number of detected objects, determining speed of the one or more detected objects and determining position of the one or more detected objects. The method may also include outputting the tracking data by the device. The system and methods may advantageously be employed for transmitting one or more of a collision warning, red light warnings, red light violation warnings and operation characteristics of objects during a traffic incident relative to intersection.
US09759808B2
A method of radar signal processing includes providing an analog front end (AFE) including an amplifier coupled between an antenna and an ADC in a receive path, where an ADC output is coupled to an input of an elastic ADC buffer (elastic buffer) including a divided memory with for writing samples from the ADC (samples) while reading earlier written samples to a first signal processor by a high speed interface. A transmit path includes at least one power amplifier provided by the AFE coupled to drive an antenna. A Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) is determined across all chirps in a radar frame programmed to be used. For each frame a sample size for the elastic buffer is dynamically controlled constant to be equal to the GCD for reading samples from one memory block and writing samples to another memory block throughout all chirps in the frame.
US09759793B2
Provided are an object discrimination method and an object discrimination apparatus using an ultra-low magnetic field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The method includes measuring the respective spin-lattice relaxation times at a plurality of strengths of prepolarization magnetic fields with respect to a measurement target and classifying the measurement target using the spin-lattice relaxation times.
US09759789B2
The present invention relates to a coil arrangement, in particular for use in a magnetic particle imaging apparatus (100), comprising a coil split into at least two coil segments, wherein the winding direction is inverted between at least one coil segment to another coil segment, and a capacitor coupled between at least two adjacent coil segments. Further, the present invention relates to such a magnetic particle imaging apparatus, in particular an apparatus (100) for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a field of view (28), which apparatus comprises selection means and drive means (120) wherein at least one drive field coil and/or at least one selection field coil representing a selection field element is implemented by a coil arrangement as proposed according to the present invention.
US09759787B2
A coil system for a magnetic resonance tomography system includes a plurality of coils for sending and/or receiving high-frequency signals. The plurality of coils is disposed in a receiving chamber between a tomography magnet and a lining of an opening in the tomography magnet and may be cooled by a cooling apparatus. When the coil system is in an operating state, the receiving chamber is filled with a cryogenic cooling medium.
US09759786B2
A magnetic resonance apparatus configured to select a coil mode that includes a combination of coil elements to be used when a subject is scanned from within a plurality of coil elements and configured to execute a predetermined scan for acquiring data on the subject using the selected coil mode is provided. The magnetic resonance apparatus includes a coil device having n coil modes, a selecting unit configured to select, from within the n coil modes, a candidate for the selected coil mode, a scanning unit configured to execute a first scan for acquiring the data on the subject using the candidate, and a sensitivity map preparing unit configured to prepare a sensitivity map of the candidate based on data obtained by the first scan.
US09759784B2
A method for establishing a functional diagnosis for a buck static DC-DC voltage converter in an electric or hybrid vehicle including a power supply circuit including at least a first and a second electrical voltage source supplying respectively a primary and a secondary circuit with direct current, the first source having a voltage value greater than the second source, the primary and secondary circuits being connected by the voltage converter which itself is commanded by control and safety elements, includes the following sequential steps: deactivating any power consumer on the primary circuit or waiting for any power consumer on the primary circuit to be inactive, commanding from the converter an output voltage greater than the voltage of the second electrical voltage source, determining if there is a power transfer from the primary to the secondary circuit, and: if not, establishing a faulty functionality diagnosis for the converter.
US09759782B2
The invention relates to a method, The method comprises measuring a first battery voltage of a battery of a device at and a first charging current after terminating a constant current charging mode and before initiating a constant voltage charging mode, producing a charging impulse on the battery, measuring a second battery voltage and a second charging current, and determining an impedance of the battery on the basis of a voltage difference between the first and the second battery voltage and a difference between the first and the second charging current. The invention further relates to an apparatus and a computer program product that perform the method.
US09759775B2
A method for monitoring a first battery in a device, in particular in a motor vehicle, a first magnetometer measuring a magnetic flux density in the battery and/or adjacent to the battery, a second magnetometer measuring a magnetic flux density remotely from the first battery in the device, and in a period, in which no power supply or power withdrawal is provided to or from the first battery, a measurement of the first and the second magnetometer being carried out, and an evaluation unit, for the case in which the magnetic flux density measured by the first magnetometer exceeds a background magnetic flux density measured with the aid of the second magnetometer beyond a predetermined amount, determining and outputting an error status of the first battery.
US09759769B2
A rechargeable power module (RPM) may include a rechargeable energy storage device such as a battery or capacitor, a charging circuit, a direct-current (DC) to DC converter, a low drop-out (LDO) voltage regulator and a controller. The charging circuit provides the rechargeable energy storage device with a charging current based on power requirements of device under test and the state of charge, or storage, of the energy storage device.
US09759768B2
A chassis platform, such as processor or a system-on-chip (SoC), includes logic to implement a debug chassis security system including a policy generator to control access from a test access port. The policy generator may distribute a debug policy to at least one logic block that locally enforces the debug policy. The debug policy may include a delayed authentication policy in which debug assets are distributed and the chassis platform is initially locked to prevent debug access via the test access port. An authenticated debug user may unlock the chassis platform at a later time to enable debugging operations. The debug policy may also include a live execution policy and an immediate debug policy.
US09759766B2
An electromigration test structure is provided for evaluation of interconnect liner integrity in a semiconductor interconnect structure. The electromigration test structure includes a feeding line; a stress line overlying the feeding line; a first via interconnecting the feeding line and the stress line, wherein the first via comprises a bottom barrier; a first cathode sense and a second cathode sense interconnected to the feeding line; and a first anode sense and a second anode sense interconnected to the feeding line.
US09759762B2
A probe device includes an electrode plate arranged above a mounting table for mounting thereon a semiconductor wafer and electrically connected to a tester, a contact probe arranged at a side of the mounting table and electrically connected to a mounting table electrode of the mounting table. The contact probe includes a contact portion, having a top surface formed uneven, to be in contact with the electrode plate, and a cable connection portion formed as one unit with the contact portion. The contact portion and the cable connection portion are vertically movable by a biasing member provided below the cable connection portion. When the probes are made contact with electrodes of a semiconductor device of the semiconductor wafer by moving up the mounting table, the contact portion and the electrode plate are made contact with each other and the backside electrode and the tester are electrically connected to each other.
US09759760B2
A device for testing a solenoid valve includes: a voltage generator for applying a short pulse of voltage, which is not long enough to open the solenoid valve, to the windings of the solenoid valve; a current meter configured for measuring the current flowing through the windings of the solenoid valve; and an analysis device which is configured for analysing the current measured by the current meter for detecting a potential fault of the solenoid valve.
US09759755B2
Described herein is a method and apparatus for measuring the potential on a modern shielded high-voltage cable such as those used in medium-voltage distribution networks. A capacitive sensor arrangement (100) is constructed on a cable (110) using pre-existing structures (114, 116, 118, 120) within the cable (110). The use of implicit guarding methods is also described that allows the use of the semiconductor layer (116) present in modern cable design to be retained and to form part of the capacitive sensor arrangement (100). Performance of the sensor arrangement (100) can also be improved using temperature compensation techniques.
US09759750B2
A low-loss current sensor for use with a circuit containing a capacitor to sense a current flowing into a node in the circuit is provided. The current sensor includes a differentiator circuit having an input connected to the circuit capacitor and adapted to generate an output which is proportional to the current flowing through the circuit capacitor. The novel use of a capacitive current divider allows the sensor to sense current with virtually no power dissipation.
US09759743B2
A testing system includes a test machine, a plurality of probe sets, a data input device, a controller, a memory, and a data output device. The test machine has a platform for a DUT to be placed thereon, and a test arm which is movable relative to the platform. The probe sets are provided on the test machine with at least one probe set provided on the test arm to contact the DUT. The data input device is used to input information about the DUT. The controller is electrically connected to the test arm, the probe set on the test arm, and the data input device to move the test arm to a predetermined position according to the inputted information, and to make the probe set contact the DUT for electrical test. The memory saves electrical test result, which is outputted by the data output device.
US09759737B2
A first counter is incremented when a first rotational speed sensing device detects a falling edge of one of the teeth of a single multi-tooth target wheel, a second counter is incremented when a second rotational speed sensing device detects a falling edge of one of the teeth, and a third counter is incremented when either of the first and second rotational speed sensing devices detects either of a rising edge and a falling edge of one of the teeth. A direction of rotation is determined based upon the third counter and a rotational speed of the rotatable member is determined based upon one of the first and second counters. The rotatable member is indicated to be at zero speed when the rotational speed is less than a threshold speed and the direction of rotation changes between a positive direction and a negative direction.
US09759734B2
The present invention aims at providing an analyzing apparatus control system which is capable of appropriately setting the conditions of measurement in an analyzing apparatus which is connected to a chromatograph, in which one more measurement events are performed based on a reference chromatogram. This system includes a measurement time range setting section for setting, for each of all peaks or previously selected peak or peaks included in a previously provided reference chromatogram which corresponds to the sample to be examined, the width of a peak as the measurement time range of the peak when the peak does not overlap another peak, or, when the peak overlaps another peak, the overall width of the peak and the overlapping peak as the measurement time range of the peak.
US09759730B2
The invention lies in the area of platelet function diagnostics and relates to a method for the determination of platelet function under flow conditions as well as a device for the implementation of this method. The method is particularly suitable for the determination of the effect of clopidogrel and of other P2Y(12) antagonists with antithrombotic activity as well as the determination of P2Y(1) antagonists with antithrombotic activity.
US09759727B2
In this invention, polyimidazole ligands (PILs) incorporating pendant imidazole moieties for nanocrystal binding and either sulfonatebetaine, carboxybetaine, or phosphocholinebetaine moieties for water-solubilization have been developed. Greatly enhanced stability of nanocrystals (both over time and in wide pH range) was achieved by incorporating multi-dentate imidazole moieties which provide strong coordination of the ligand to the nanocrystal surface and prevent aggregation of nanocrystals. Synthesis of betaine PILs was developed by modifying the synthesis of recently developed PEG containing poly imidazole ligands (PEG PILs). These nanocrystals are compact, water soluble, and biocompatible.
US09759722B2
The present invention provides self-contained systems for performing an assay for determining a chemical state, the system including a stationary cartridge for performing the assay therein, at least one reagent adapted to react with a sample; and at least one reporter functionality adapted to report a reaction of the at least one reagent with said sample to report a result of the assay, wherein the at least one reagent, the sample and the at least one reporter functionality are contained within the cartridge.
US09759721B2
The present specification discloses methods of detecting a pathogen of interest and components useful in carrying out these methods, including a pre-enrichment media, and enrichment media and a detection solution.
US09759718B2
A microfluidic device comprising a microfluidic channel network sealed on one side by a membrane sheet, the sheet having PDMS defining at least the surface sealing the channel, the membrane sheet on its opposite side sealing one side of a pneumatic channel, the pneumatic channel arranged to enable pneumatic deflection of a deflectable portion of the membrane sheet into contact with an opposed surface to control flow in a channel of the network, the membrane sheet confining in a channel of the network at least one micro-particle, micro-length tube or glass nano reactor, functionalized with a capture agent, that has been inserted into that channel. A microfluidic device having a microfluidic channel containing at least two micro-particles, micro-length tubes or glass nano reactors, one functionalized with nucleic acid and another with antibody or antigen. A microfluidic device having a microfluidic channel containing at least one micro-length tube or glass nano reactor functionalized to capture nucleic acid, the device constructed to enable recovery of the nucleic acid captured by the device.
US09759717B2
The present invention relates to methods of quantitatively analyzing and detecting interactions, which effectively occur between detector materials displayed on a nano-assembly matrix at high density, and sensitively labeling and isolating a target material that effectively interacts with the detector materials, by the use of energy transfer and signal changes that effectively occur in label molecules displayed at high density. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method of quantitatively detecting the interactions between various bioactive materials, which occur in vitro or in vivo, based on high-density displays of molecules, and to a method of sensitively labeling a target material that interacts with these bioactive materials.
US09759716B2
A single device to collect, transfer, and measure salivary nitric oxide analyte and metabolite, nitrite, a biomarker for nitric oxide, as well as, a method to assess the effects of diet and exercise on changing an individual's nitric oxide status and health.
US09759687B2
A method and a device for detecting defects in a packaging laminate having at least one conductive layer are provided. The method comprises the steps of grounding the conductive layer of the packaging laminate, arranging an electrode adjacent to the packaging laminate, applying a high voltage to the electrode by ramping the voltage from an initial value towards an upper predetermined value, and detecting a defect in the packaging material by registering dielectric breakdown between the electrode and the conductive layer of the packaging laminate.
US09759680B2
A diamond based oxygen sensor is able to function in harsh environment conditions. The oxygen sensor includes a gateless field effect transistor including a synthetic, quasi-intrinsic, hydrogen-passivated, monocrystalline diamond layer exhibiting a 2-dimension hole gas effect. The oxygen sensor also includes a sensing layer comprising yttrium-stabilized zirconia deposited onto a surface of the gateless field effect transistor.
US09759677B2
The present invention disclosed a biosensor apparatus comprising a substrate on which a reaction region is defined, a fluid channel defining a path to the reaction region, and a venting means communicably coupled with the fluid channel and opening exterior of the biosensor apparatus at a perimeter side of the biosensor apparatus. The present invention allows air to exit the fluid channel through perimeter sides of the biosensor apparatus without adding significant manufacturing complexity.
US09759675B2
A particulate matter (PM) sensor unit may include an exhaust line where exhaust gas passes, and a PM sensor that may be disposed at one side of the exhaust line and that generates a signal when particulate matter included in the exhaust gas passes the vicinity thereof, wherein the PM sensor may be an electrostatic induction type that generates an induction charge while the particulate matter having an electric charge passes the vicinity thereof.
US09759666B2
Defect detection method and defect detection device and defect observation device provided with same
The disclosed device, which, using an electron microscope or the like, minutely observes defects detected by an optical appearance-inspecting device or an optical defect-inspecting device, can reliably insert a defect to be observed into the field of an electron microscope or the like, and can be a device of smaller scale. The electron microscope, which observes defects detected by an optical appearance-inspecting device or an optical defect-inspecting device, has a configuration incorporating an optimal microscope that re-detects defects, and a spatial filter and a distribution polarization element are inserted at the pupil plane when making dark-field observations using this optical microscope. The electron microscope, which observes defects detected by an optical appearance-inspecting device or an optical defect-inspecting device, has a configuration incorporating an optimal microscope that re-detects defects, and a distribution filter is inserted at the pupil plane when making dark-field observations using this optical microscope.
US09759664B2
A method of analyzing for the presence or concentration of an analyte in a liquid in microgravity is disclosed. The method includes removing a first quantity of the liquid from a first container and passing the removed liquid through a porous pad that includes a reagent that is responsive to the analyte. The presence or concentration of the analyte in the liquid is determined based on a response of the reagent. The removed quantity of liquid is transferred back to the first container or to a second container, and followed by disposal of the first or second container.
US09759661B2
In a device for the optical imaging of a sample, having at least one light source for excitation light in order to excite a fluorescent dye in a sample, which is held by a sample holder, for spontaneous emission of fluorescent light over a limited period of time in a spatial region having increased resolution, and for de-excitation light in order to de-excite the fluorescent dye again except for a residual zone that is reduced in size relative to the spatial region, wherein light from the sample having wavelengths other than those of the excitation light and of the de-excitation light is assignable to the spontaneous emission of fluorescent light from the residual zone of the spatial region (STED, GSD, etc.), the de-excitation light (3) is arranged to be transmitted in two parallel planes which are separated by a gap (2).
US09759660B2
A sensor assembly, a method, and a measuring system for capturing the distribution of at least one variable of an object are disclosed. The sensor assembly has at least one sensor element comprising at least one first sensor sub-element and at least one second sensor sub-element. The at least one first sensor sub-element is transparent for at least one wavelength region of light, the at least one second sensor sub-element is sensitive to at least one variable. Furthermore a method and measuring system and an illumination system for illuminating the sensor assembly and the object is provided.
US09759658B2
An integrated circuit includes a photodetection region configured to receive incident photons. The photodetection region is configured to produce a plurality of charge carriers in response to the incident photons. The integrated circuit also includes at least one charge carrier storage region. The integrated circuit also includes a charge carrier segregation structure configured to selectively direct charge carriers of the plurality of charge carriers into the at least one charge carrier storage region based upon times at which the charge carriers are produced.
US09759645B2
Systems, computer readable medium, program code, and methods are provided for monitoring micro-electro-mechanical (“MEM”) devices removed from a wellbore by a fluid flow stream. The system can include a first MEM reader and a second MEM reader. The first MEM reader can be positionable near the fluid flow stream for detecting MEM devices entering the wellbore in a fluid flow stream. The second MEM reader can be positionable near the fluid flow stream for detecting MEM devices exiting the wellbore in the fluid flow stream. The second MEM reader can detect MEM devices exiting the wellbore in a subsequent fluid flow stream. The system can further include a computing device for determining an amount and types of MEM devices remaining in the wellbore from the first fluid flow stream and an amount and types of MEM devices removed from the well-bore by the subsequent fluid flow stream.
US09759638B1
This invention is directed to a sample preparation apparatus for grinding or homogenizing test samples. More specifically, but without restriction to the particular embodiments hereinafter described in accordance with the best mode of practice, this invention relates to a reciprocating apparatus based upon a slider-crank mechanism for grinding or homogenizing of a sample within a sample vial attached to an oscillating connecting linkage that has an amplitude of oscillatory motion equal to or greater than the length of the sample processing chamber.
US09759633B2
There is described a distributed optical fibre sensor for detecting one or more physical parameters indicative of an environmental influence on a sensor optical fibre, as a function of position along the sensor fibre. The sensor uses probe light pulses of different wavelengths. At least some of the probe light pulses may also be of different pulse lengths. The relative phase bias between interferometric signals in backscattered probe light of different wavelength pulses may also be controlled.
US09759626B2
A system and method of adjusting a zero reference may comprise retracting ram of an actuator coupled to a load cell from a first position to a second position. The system and method may comprise reporting a measurement by a load cell, in response to the actuator being in a second position. The system and method may comprise calculating a force being measured by t the load cell. The system and method may comprise creating a zero reference offset value based on the calculation, in response to the force calculation resulting in a non-zero force calculation. The system and method may comprise adjusting a zero reference value of the load cell by the zero reference offset value.
US09759621B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to generating a signal indicative of a differential pressure using a first absolute pressure sensor and a second absolute pressure sensor, each having a positive relation transducer configured to generate an electrical signal that increases in response to increasing pressure and a negative relation transducer configured to generate an electrical signal that decreases in response to increasing pressure. The first and second positive relation transducers of the first and second absolute pressure sensors, respectively, are electrically connected as a first leg of a Wheatstone bridge at a first output node. The first and second negative relation transducers of the first and second absolute pressure sensors, respectively, are electrically connected as a second leg of a Wheatstone bridge at a second output node. Both positive and both negative relation transducers are connected to a first and a second bias node of the Wheatstone bridge, respectively.
US09759616B2
A coupling device for an optical waveguide includes an optical waveguide connection for a first optical waveguide. The coupling device includes an optical filter arranged in a beam path between a laser light source and the optical waveguide connection which reflects light of a first wavelength range or a first polarization direction and transmits light of a second wavelength range or a second polarization direction.
US09759612B2
A welding portion inspection system includes a sensing head, and first and second electrodes that are disposed a predetermined distance from each other at one side of the sensing head, where front end portions of the first and second electrodes contact both sides of a welding portion to apply current such that a temperature of the welding portion is heated, and an infrared camera is disposed on the sensing head and detects a temperature distribution of the welding portion.
US09759609B2
An inexpensive thermopile temperature detector is particularly adapted to monitoring of electrical equipment, such as a power bus bar, within an enclosed area such as a cabinet. The detector may have a plastic housing, a thermopile sensor and a plastic Fresnel lens. Each sensor also includes a calibrated element such that, but for calibration, the same sensor may be used for various applications for different target sizes and distance or, more generally, with respect to effective target percentage of field of view.
US09759603B2
This is to provide a photometric apparatus improved in measurement precision by improving the state of light incident to a sensor, which photometric apparatus 1 comprises a photometric sensor 30 into which light which is an object to be measured is incident, a signal processing means for processing a sensor output by the photometric sensor, and optical systems 50, 100, 92, 93 and 150 which introduces external light into the photometric sensor, wherein a columnar fiber rod 100 in which a center axis is provided along a direction perpendicular to a light receiving surface of the photometric sensor is provided at a part of the optical system.
US09759593B2
An airflow-rate detecting device capable of detecting humidity has a housing, a flow rate sensor, a humidity sensor, a humidity sensor case, and a dust separating portion. The housing therein defines a bypass passage into which a part of air flowing in a duct flows. The flow rate sensor is disposed in the bypass passage. The humidity sensor detects a humidity of air flowing in the duct at an outside of the housing. The humidity sensor case houses the humidity sensor and therein defines an interior space into which a part of air flowing in the duct flows as a target air of which humidity is detected by the humidity sensor. The dust separating portion removes dust from the target air before the target air flows into the interior space.
US09759588B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an impact flowmeter for powders and granules which can be installed with a smaller investment by removing a part of components in an existing process and improving the process with a minimum cost, without involving relocation, especially in the vertical direction, of devices composing the process, in order to meet a recent demand. Provided is an impact flowmeter for powders and granules, wherein a flow straightener is omitted by adopting a multiple detection plate structure in which detection plates of the multiple detection plate structure are coupled together through a side plate and are suspended inside a casing by four leaf springs.
US09759584B2
In a scale, a reference detection pattern and a displacement detection pattern are formed. A detection head outputs a reference detection signal, a phase compensation signal, and a displacement detection signal. A signal processing unit generates a reference signal by amplifying one or both of the phase compensation signal and the reference detection signal and adding up them, and detects a position of the detection head relative to the scale. A combined light receiving grating includes a reference detection light receiving grating and a phase compensation light receiving grating disposed so as to be shifted from the reference detection light receiving grating in the measurement direction. A combined light receiving element includes a reference detection light receiving element configured to output the reference detection signal and a phase compensation light receiving element configured to output the phase compensation signal.
US09759583B2
A method for finding a reference correction value of an angular encoder index mark is given. The angular encoder has a first read head, a second read head, and a patterned element that includes incremental marks and an index mark. In a first instance, the first read head detects the presence of the index mark and, in response, the second read head generates a first analog signal. In a second instance, the first read head detects the presence of the index mark and, in response, the second read head generates a second analog signal. A processor determines the reference correction value based at least in part on the first analog signal and the second analog signal.
US09759577B2
A resource usage graphical overlay for a navigation system is disclosed. For each such resource, a resource exhaustion distance is computed, based on the consumption or lapse rate of the resource, and the vehicle speed. This resource exhaustion distance is scaled for the interactive map display and rendered as a service area on the interactive map so a user can determine what destinations are reachable before resources are completely depleted.
US09759553B2
Illustrative embodiments of determining geometric characteristics of reflective surfaces are disclosed. In at least one illustrative embodiment, a method of determining geometric characteristics of reflective surfaces includes sensing electromagnetic waves with a sensor, where the electromagnetic waves have been reflected off a reflective surface of a specimen from a target structure including a feature point. The method further includes determining a displacement of the feature point of the target structure indicated by the sensed electromagnetic waves relative to reference data indicating a reference location for the feature point and determining a surface slope of a point of the reflective surface based on the determined displacement of the feature point of the target structure.
US09759550B2
Projection exposure apparatus for microlithography comprising an optical distance measurement system
A projection exposure apparatus (10) for microlithography has a plurality of optical components (M1-M6) forming an exposure beam path, as well as a distance measurement system (30, 130, 230) configured to measure a distance between at least one of the optical components and a reference element (40, 140, 240). The distance measurement system comprises a frequency comb generator (32, 132, 232), which is configured to generate electromagnetic radiation (36, 236) having a comb-shaped frequency spectrum.
US09759549B2
A distance detecting device includes computing unit for detecting a distance to a subject on the basis of a first signal due to a light flux that has passed through a first pupil area of an imaging optical system and a second signal due to a light flux that has passed through a second pupil area of the imaging optical system, the first signal and the second signal being generated by image pickup member formed by arranging a plurality of pixels. The computing unit defines tentative distance detection ranges as ranges of pixels to be used for tentative detection of the first signal and the second signal, calculates a tentative image shift amount from the first signal and the second signal in the tentative distance detection ranges, defines distance detection ranges as ranges of pixels to be used for detection of the first signal and the second signal on the basis of the tentative image shift amount, increases or decreases the number of distance detection ranges for the defined distance detection ranges, and calculates the distance to the subject on the basis of the first signal and the second signal in the distance detection ranges.
US09759543B2
A device for detecting strain and transmitting detected data, as well as a method for the manufacturing of a device of the type indicated above are provided. The device can be either applied to the surface of a structure to be monitored or inserted inside the structure and it allows to reliably acquire and transmit the data relating to the strains suffered by the structure, avoiding errors due to disturbances in the positioning of the strain sensor of the device or in the electronics associated with the sensor. The device includes a middle layer, in which at least one strain sensor made by using a composite material containing electrically conductive impregnable fibers, an electronic circuit and at least an antenna are provided, and a first and a second outer layers made by using a composite material containing electrically insulating impregnable fibers, between which the middle layer is placed.
US09759530B2
A system for sensing the impact of a bullet on a target and remotely reporting the successful impact to the shooter by means of a signal transmitted from a sensor transmitter to a receiver incorporated with headphones, ear buds or an I-phone with Bluetooth capability. The sensor includes a wireless transmitter and a impact/vibration sensor such as a piezoelectric sensor. The target impact sensors can be used with various stationary targets such as metallic or paper targets, but can also be used on movable targets such as body armor worn by players in paint ball competition.
US09759528B2
The invention relates to a method of controlling a smoke generator. The smoke generator is adapted to be connected to a supply of a pressurized gas and a supply of a smoke liquid and further comprises a valve to regulate the pressure of the gas, a fluid driving means, a mixing unit for mixing the smoke liquid and the gas, and a heat exchanger heating the mixture of the pressurized gas and the smoke liquid to vaporize the smoke liquid and form a smoke upon ejection into surrounding air. The control method according to the invention then comprises the steps of receiving a smoke density parameter indicative of a desired amount of smoke to be generated by the smoke generator, measuring a gas pressure at a position between the valve and the heat exchanger, and using these parameters in controlling the valve.The invention further relates to a smoke generator arranged for performing the control method.
US09759524B2
An adjustable firearm scope mounting assembly includes first and second mounting members, each including a base portion fixable relative to a firearm, and an upper portion configured to support a respective scope portion. The first upper portion is selectively adjustable relative to the first base portion in vertical and lateral directions. The second upper portion is selectively adjustable relative to the second base portion in a vertical direction. In one embodiment, one of the first base portion or the first upper portion includes a vertically extending element movable along an arcuate path within a vertically extending socket defined by the other of the first base portion or the first upper portion. In another embodiment, the first and second mounting members include bearing elements that encircle the first and second scope portions and facilitate angular movement of the firearm scope relative to the upper portions when at least one of the upper portions is moved vertically relative to its respective base portion.
US09759519B2
A sight aid including a supplementary sight alignment indicator having a projection plane and a projection device adapted to project a supplementary sight alignment indicator on the projection plane, the supplementary sight alignment indicator is axially-centered with respect to the sight alignment indicator and spaced apart therefrom on the optical axis for forming a composite image with the image of the sight alignment indicator, the target image being viewable together by the user by means of the ocular lens and the projection plane is disposed at a distance from the sight alignment indicator. An adaptor secures the supplementary sight alignment indicator to a portion of the projectile device or the housing.
US09759510B1
A vibration dampening limb bolt preferably includes a hollow bolt and a vibration-dampening member. The hollow bolt includes a countersunk head and a bore. At least a portion of the bore is threaded to form a threaded bore. It is preferably that a tool cavity in the countersunk head has a multiple tooth cavity configuration, which would be shaped to receive a TORX bit. The vibration-dampening member includes a vibration block and a threaded shaft. The threaded shaft extends outward from a bottom of the vibration block. The threaded shaft is threadably engagable with the threaded bore. The vibration dampening material is obtained from a vibration stabilizer manufacturer. A second embodiment of the vibration dampening limb bolt includes the hollow bolt with an unthreaded bore and a vibration-dampening member with a rod projection having at least one o-ring.
US09759508B2
An archery bow comprises a structural riser that comprises a plurality of cells arranged in a repeating pattern. In some embodiments, the riser comprises multiple pluralities of similarly shaped cells, wherein each plurality comprises a different shape. In some embodiments, a bow comprises one or more rotatable members. Each rotatable member can comprise a plurality of cells arranged in a repeating pattern. In some embodiments, cell shapes in the rotatable member(s) are similar to cell shapes in the riser.
US09759505B2
There is provided an automatic firing apparatus, and a method for operating the automatic firing apparatus, the apparatus comprising a trigger actuator for automatically firing bullets contained in a magazine of a firearm; a magazine release actuator for releasing an empty magazine from the firearm; a magazine bank for storing a bullet magazine inside the firearm; and a magazine loading actuator for loading a new magazine inside the firearm from the magazine bank. There is further provided a magazine bank apparatus for use with a firearm comprising a magazine bank base having a plurality of slots adapted to receive and store bullet magazines; and a magazine load actuator adapted to be automatically triggered for loading a bullet magazine among the stored bullet magazines inside the firearm.
US09759500B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a breech system comprising, first, a breech lock with a pivotable cam end plate for accessing a firearm breech and, second, a camming cartridge extractor with a pivotable lever for extracting a fired cartridge. The pivotable cam end plate may be connected to an independently pivotable arm that is operable as a lever for moving the cam end plate into an open position to allow breech access. The pivotable cam end plate and pivotable arm may be capable of a plurality of movements within the same plane in order to optimize leverage and cam action for opening the breech lock.
US09759494B2
A heat exchanger plate has a vertical center axis dividing the plate into a left and a right half delimited by a first and second long side, respectively. A horizontal center axis divides the plate into an upper and a lower half delimited by a first and second short side, respectively. The plate includes a port hole with a reference point that coincides with a center point of a biggest imaginary circle that can be fitted into the port hole. The port hole is arranged within the left half and the upper half. The porthole has a form defined by a number of corner points of an imaginary plane geometric figure of which at least one is displaced from an arc of the circle, and the same number of thoroughly curved lines connecting the corner points. The corner points include first, second and third corner points.
US09759493B1
The disclosure provides a fluid-cooled heat sink having a heat transfer base, a shroud, and a plurality of heat transfer fins in thermal communication with the heat transfer base and the shroud, where the heat transfer base, heat transfer fins, and the shroud form a central fluid channel through which a forced or free cooling fluid may flow. The heat transfer pins are arranged around the central fluid channel with a flow space provided between adjacent pins, allowing for some portion of the central fluid channel flow to divert through the flow space. The arrangement reduces the pressure drop of the flow through the fins, optimizes average heat transfer coefficients, reduces contact and fin-pin resistances, and reduces the physical footprint of the heat sink in an operating environment.
US09759489B2
A heat treatment apparatus includes: a reaction tube processing a plurality of substrates; a support member supporting the reaction tube; a flange protruding outwardly from a lower end of the reaction tube: a concave portion formed in an outer periphery of the flange; and a rotatable roller installed in a top surface of the support member. The rotatable roller engages the concave portion and positions the reaction tube in a circumferential direction.
US09759478B2
A locker assembly insert (10) for a cabinet (11) (shown in phantom). In this case the cabinet (11) is a two door cabinet having a first door (12) and a second door (13) (these doors are shown open in FIG. 4), The cabinet has a base (14) opposite sides (15) (and 16), a back (17) and a top (18). A central mullion (19) having a rear cover plate divides the cabinet (11) down the middle and the doors (12) and (13) close the cabinet. The locker assembly insert (10) in this case is applied to a two door cabinet and has a central support member (20) (which is put in place by first removing the rear cover plate behind the central mullion (19), the rear cover plate is tucked in behind the central support member (20) before assembly allowing it to be reused if the refrigerator is ever restored to its original condition), a pair of vertical side rails (21) and (22), a pair of bases (23) and (24), a pair of tops (25) and (26). This gives the basic door frame. The insert is completed using vertical divider sets (27, 28 and 29) and ten door locker door assemblies (30) and (31).
US09759475B2
An outdoor unit includes a compressor compressing a sucked refrigerant and discharging compress, an outdoor heat exchanger exchanging heat between outdoor air and the refrigerant, an accumulator storing a liquefied refrigerant at a suction side of the compressor, a solenoid valve for storing the refrigerant in the outdoor heat exchanger, and a controller performing control so as to feed the refrigerant stored within the outdoor heat exchanger during a defrosting operation, to the accumulator on the basis of an amount of refrigerant within the accumulator when operation is switched to a heating operation from the defrosting operation.
US09759474B2
A cooling channel is provided for cooling goods to be chilled, in particular food or pharmaceutical products. The cooling channel includes a cooling tower having an inlet end and an outlet end; a driven conveyor belt on which the goods to be chilled are arranged such that they can be conveyed through the cooling tower from the inlet end to the outlet end; a housing surrounding the conveyor belt and forming a cooling zone in the region of the conveyor belt; a filter unit for filtering air; a cooling unit for cooling the cooling zone; and at least one fan that interacts thermodynamically with the cooling unit and that conveys cooled air from the cooling unit to the cooling zone.
US09759461B2
A heat exchanger for a vapor compression system includes a shell, a distributing part disposed inside of the shell to distribute a refrigerant, a tube bundle and a trough part. The tube bundle includes a plurality of heat transfer tubes disposed inside of the shell below the distributing part. The tube bundle includes a falling film region disposed below the distributing part, an accumulating region disposed below the falling film region, and a flooded region disposed below the accumulating region at a bottom portion of the shell. The trough part extends under at least one of the heat transfer tubes in the accumulating region to accumulate the refrigerant therein. The trough part at least partially overlaps with the at least one of the heat transfer tubes in the accumulating region when viewed along a horizontal direction perpendicular to the longitudinal center axis of the shell.
US09759457B1
Methods for and systems of controlling operation of one or more chillers in a primary-secondary chiller plant system. The chillers utilize a set point temperature that is based upon measuring a temperature of water at a supply side of the load on the secondary loop.
US09759455B2
A cryogenic refrigerator includes a compressor which compresses a working gas, a housing which includes a space which the working gas compressed by the compressor flows into and flows from, a cylinder of which an end is connected to the housing and which includes an expansion space at the other end, and a displacer which permits flowing of the working gas into and from the expansion space via a working gas channel provided in an inner portion of the displacer while reciprocating in an inner portion of the cylinder. The working gas flows through a pipe which communicates with the space and the working gas channel.
US09759451B2
A recirculating bath includes a reservoir for receiving a working liquid, a recirculating pump, and at least one thermal element. The recirculating pump and thermal element are located externally to the reservoir so that the reservoir has an unobstructed working space. The thermal element may be thermally coupled to the working liquid through an interior surface of the reservoir, or the working liquid may be circulated over the thermal element by the recirculating pump in a chamber external to the reservoir. The recirculating bath may also include a lid that provides access to the reservoir by pivoting on a latching hinge. When open, the lid may provide a working surface adjacent to the reservoir. The lid may also include a selector that unlatches the hinge so that the lid can be removed. The recirculating pump may be fluidically coupled to the reservoir via a manifold.
US09759442B2
A system and method for providing a substantially constant volume exhaust or ventilation air terminal system is shown for controlling exhaust and/or return airflow rates in a system having a central fan or ventilator. The system and method permits zone-by-zone or area-by-area airflow regulation or control in non-demand areas in response to a demand or call for ventilation in demand areas. In one embodiment, the system employs at least one constant airflow controller or regulator situated in a damper. In one embodiment, a terminal houses a plurality of sub-ducts each having an airflow regulator. At least one of the sub-ducts has a damper. When the damper is open, a maximum airflow through the terminal is a sum of maximum airflow permitted by the regulators.
US09759436B2
The motor fixing support includes long base sections extending in a vertical direction, which are respectively formed on both sides in a lateral direction, and folding pieces respectively extending from both side edges of the respective base sections in a short-side direction. The length of the folding piece in the extending direction, which extends from the base section toward the base section in the short-side direction, and the length of the folding piece in the extending direction, which extends from the base section toward the base section in the short-side direction, are larger than the lengths of the folding pieces in the extending direction.
US09759415B2
An illumination module is provided that can be inserted into a receptacle that includes a wall and may be mounted on a support surface, such as a heat sink, and the illumination module include a cover and an LED assembly rotateably coupled to the cover. The LED assembly seats within the receptacle which causes terminals of the LED assembly to align with contacts on the receptacle. One of the cover and the receptacle can have a plurality of ramps and the other a plurality of shoulders. The cover can be rotated relative to the receptacle to cause the shoulders to slide relative to the ramps so as to direct the LED assembly into the receptacle. When the LED assembly is attached to the receptacle, the terminals on the LED assembly mate with the contacts on the receptacle.
US09759413B2
Embodiments of the present invention use light to add human-like features to an inanimate object. In one embodiment, the object includes a film with an image that has been manipulated to provide for a low profile projection of an image onto a vertical surface directly adjacent to the object. For example, the image of a witch's head could be projected onto a wall and directly beneath, a witch's hat could be hanging on the wall. In another embodiment, changing lights and shadows are used to create animated objects out of otherwise inanimate objects. Various embodiments include components to create the illusion of changing facial expressions. These components include a plurality of light sources and an electronic device that controls the light sources to create the animation.
US09759412B2
An illumination tool contains: a body, an extension assembly, and a mirror assembly. The body includes an accommodation mount having a light emitting element which face a first direction, and the body also includes a magnetic sleeve. The extension assembly couples with the body, and between the extension assembly and the body is defined a rotation structure. The mirror assembly includes a fitting portion, a holder and a first mirror which face a second direction. The holder has an L-shaped channel, and a first end of the channel corresponds to the accommodation mount. The lights illuminate into the channel from the first direction, and a second end of the channel curvedly extends to the second direction. The channel has a second mirror for reflecting the lights out of the second end of the channel in the second direction from the light emitting element in the first direction.
US09759409B2
A light fixture is provided. The light fixture contains a light engine module having a printed circuit board with a plurality of light sources and a lens module having a plurality of lens elements for the plurality of light sources, a housing for the light engine module, and a latch engaged with the housing, the latch locking and unlocking the lens light engine module with the housing.
US09759408B2
Disclosed is a lighting device capable of reducing UGR (Unified Glare Rating). in a illuminating member, reflection efficiency of light significantly scattering to the left and right among light applied to the air gap through the diffusion plate is increased using the adhesion material pattern layer of periphery surrounding an air gap, and simultaneously, the UGR may be reduced by removing the process disposing the pattern with a specific structure and increasing the process efficiency.
US09759407B2
A housing for a light fixture is described herein. The housing can include a first housing portion having at least one first coupling feature and at least one first receiving feature, where the at least one first receiving feature is configured to receive at least one first light module at a first adjustable distance from the first housing. The housing can also include a second housing portion having at least one second coupling feature, where the at least one second coupling feature mechanically couples to the at least one first coupling feature. A position of the first housing portion relative to the second housing portion can be changed using the at least one first coupling feature and the at least one second coupling feature.
US09759405B2
A light emitting module includes a circuit board having a plurality of reflective portions arranged in one direction and connection portions connecting the plurality of reflective portions, light emitting devices mounted on the plurality of reflective portions, and lens units disposed to cover the light emitting devices within boundaries of surfaces, of the plurality of reflective portions, on which the light emitting devices are mounted. A width of each of the connection portions in the other direction, perpendicular to the one direction thereof, is smaller than a diameter of each of the lens units, thus reducing a generation of a dark portion.
US09759401B2
A lamp, comprising at least one light source (3), arranged in a housing (1) having at least one light exit opening, and at least one reflector (4), which is shaped in such a way that the light coming from the light source (3) is divided into at least two light beams, the light exit opening being at least partially covered by a cover panel (5), which has two surface portions (5a, 5b) on which the respectively corresponding light beams impinge, the surface portions (5a, 5b) being shaped in such a way that the predominant part of the light beams that is respectively directed onto a surface portion (5a, 5b) impinges on the surface portion (5a, 5b) at an angle of incidence which is less than 60°, in order to reduce the reflections from the cover panel (5).
US09759398B2
A lighting and/or signaling device, especially for automotive vehicle, comprising an optical system furnished with a light source (S) configured to emit a light beam in an initial color (F1), the device furthermore comprising a glass cover (3) disposed so as to be traversed by the beam, the glass cover (3) being colored in such a way as to transmit the beam in a resulting color (F2). According to the invention the device furthermore comprises a filter configured so as to make the resulting color (F2) of beam closely similar to its initial color (F1).
US09759387B2
A LED lamp includes an at least partially optically transmissive enclosure and a base connected to the enclosure. A plurality of LEDs are located in the enclosure and are operable to emit light when energized through an electrical path from the base. An optical interface is positioned in the enclosure for electrically isolating a live electrical component and for receiving at least a portion of the light. The optical interface includes a light modifying property for modifying a characteristic of the portion of the light.
US09759382B2
A method for filling up a storage tank (e.g., a vehicle tank) with a gaseous, pressurized medium, in particular in the form of hydrogen, in which a supply tank system for storing the hydrogen is connected with the storage tank to be filled by way of a tank feed line and a fueling valve, wherein, prior to filling up the storage tank with aforesaid medium with the fueling valve closed, a flow of the medium for cooling the tank feed line is guided through the tank feed line at a predefinable target temperature, and removed from the tank feed line through a line that branches away upstream from the fueling valve. The disclosure further provides for a fueling facility for filling up a storage tank.
US09759377B2
A lubricant injector is provided including a body having a passageway, an inlet, an outlet, and an aperture for lubricant to flow from a measuring chamber into the passageway. A piston is slidable along the passageway. When the piston is in a retracted position, a discharge chamber is present in the passageway between the piston and the outlet. A biasing spring is disposed in the passageway for urging the piston towards the retracted position. The injector has a rest mode, wherein no pressurized lubricant is supplied to the inlet, and the piston is retracted. The injector has a pressurized mode wherein the piston is under pressure and is moved to its extended position to urge lubricant out the outlet. In the rest mode, the spring urges the piston towards its retracted position to create the discharge chamber and to open the aperture between the measuring chamber and the discharge chamber.
US09759352B2
The present invention provides a pre-embedded/pre-built-in hole creating apparatus for buildings, including: a pipe casing for a pipe or a pipeline system of the building to pass there through; at least one thermal-expandable foam detachably accommodated within the pipe casing; an inspection annulus detachably joined with the pipe casing; and a slide cover installed onto the pipe casing and secured to the building structure. The at least one thermal-expandable foam in the hole creating apparatus embedded in the building structure can be removed via the detachable structure for inspection and replacement so as to maintain the flame-retardant function of the hole creating apparatus. Said apparatus further includes an annular shielding plate providing functions of airtight and smoke blocking for the through pipes as well as includes an identifying device providing information, tracking and service associated with the apparatus in order to guarantee long term safety.
US09759344B2
A flush valve has a valve body having an inlet and an outlet, and a piston disposed in the valve body between the inlet and the outlet. A surface is disposed in the valve body for seating the piston. The surface tapers inwardly as it passes into the outlet wherein the taper improves the flow characteristics of fluid passing by the taper thereby minimizing water hammer and leakage therethrough.
US09759338B2
A valve for an inflatable device is disclosed. The valve includes a base configured to seal to a fluid impermeable wall of a bladder of the inflatable device, a cap including a rim, and a seal. The bases defines an orifice for exhausting fluid from an interior of the inflatable device and a sealing surface. The rim can include a generally circular peripheral region including at least one rib located about an underside of the peripheral region and a cavity defined in part by at least one wall located radially inward of the rib. The seal can include a first end region secured to the cap within the cavity between the at least one wall and the at least one rib and a second end region configured to move with the at least one first end region secured to the cap.
US09759332B2
A desuperheater spraying valve assembly includes an actuator coupled to a plug with a valve seat in the proximity of the plug. The plug is affixed to an actuator rod which transverses the body of the valve assembly. A spray tube may be affixed to the valve seat and at least one spray nozzle is affixed to the spray tube. The plug and the valve seat are conical in shape and when the plug is inserted into the valve, they form a seal.
US09759323B2
A sliding member includes: a base; a chromium-based hard chromium plated layer formed on the surface of the base; a hard carbon layer that is mainly composed of carbon element and is formed on the hard chromium plated layer. The hydrogen concentration of the hard chromium plated layer is equal to or less than 150 mass ppm. A method for producing the sliding member involves heating the surface of the base on which the chromium-based hard chromium plated layer has been formed at a temperature of 250° C. or more so that the hydrogen concentration of the hard chromium plated layer is equal to or less than 150 mass ppm, and thereafter forming the hard carbon layer mainly composed of carbon element on the hard chromium plated layer.
US09759316B2
A normal oil passage that supplies hydraulic pressure to a friction engagement element through a hydraulic control valve, and a bypass oil passage that supplies hydraulic pressure to the friction engagement element while bypassing the hydraulic control valve, are provided. By switching an operative position of a manual valve, a hydraulic pressure supply route to the friction engagement element is switched between the normal oil passage and the bypass oil passage. By switching to the bypass oil passage, the hydraulic pressure supplied to the friction engagement element is not affected by operation of the hydraulic control valve, and a cleaning control may be performed to cause the hydraulic control valve to perform a cleaning operation. Accordingly, even if an operation amount of the cleaning control for the hydraulic control valve is increased, malfunctions by the friction engagement element will not occur.
US09759315B2
A hydraulic control device that includes a normally closed first solenoid valve, a first check valve, a failsafe valve, and a second check valve, wherein the first movable member of the first check valve is biased to cut off the communication between the first input port and the first drain port in case of the failure in which no current is applied to the first solenoid valve.
US09759305B2
A planet gear for an integrated drive generator includes a planet gear body having an outer diametric surface provided with fifteen (15) gear teeth. The integrated drive generator can include a housing that surrounds an input system. The input system can be operatively coupled to a variable speed drive source. The integrated drive generator can also include a generator and an epicyclic differential gear system.
US09759304B2
A method of making a worm gear is provided. The method comprises forming a gear hub from a powdered metal material. Thereafter an outer surface of the gear hub is sealed.
US09759303B2
A vehicle differential disconnect assembly can include a differential case, a differential gear set, and a torque distribution device. The differential gear set is carried within the differential case. The torque distribution device transfers torque between the differential gear set and side shafts of the accompanying vehicle driveline. The torque distribution device can include a clutch pack and an actuator assembly. The clutch pack is located at a first side of the differential case relative to the differential gear set, and the actuator assembly is located at a second side of the differential case relative to the differential gear set. The actuator assembly has a mover that transmits movement to the clutch pack when the actuator assembly actuates and deactuates the clutch pack.
US09759296B2
A linear actuator comprising a spindle-based linear drive (1) having an inner threaded spindle (5) and an outer element (2) surrounding the threaded spindle (5), in which the threaded spindle (5) can be moved in the axial direction; and a telescopic housing (20) with a first telescope part (21) and a second telescope part (22), which is surrounded at least in part by the first telescope part (21). On its side facing the first telescope part (21), the second telescope part (22) has an adapter part (24) that is connected rotationally fixedly to the second telescope part (22) and has a central opening. The linear drive has a connecting element (30) that is mounted on the outer element (2) and comprises snap elements (31) that are engaged with the central opening of the adapter part (24) in such a manner that the connecting element (30) is held in the adapter part (24).
US09759295B2
A single axis actuator includes a driving-side timing pulley located at one end in a longitudinal direction of a device frame in such a manner that a rotational center thereof is vertically oriented, a rotation transmission shaft coaxially connected to the driving-side timing pulley and extending upwardly, a driven-side timing pulley located at another end in the longitudinal direction of the device frame in such a manner that a rotation shaft thereof is vertically oriented, a timing belt bridged between the driving-side and driven-side timing pulleys, a slider connected to a part of the timing belt to be made movable in the longitudinal direction of the device frame, and a motor having a motor shaft that is connected to an upper end of the rotation transmission shaft.
US09759290B2
A gearbox comprising: a first shaft (2) and a second shaft (1), one of the first and second shafts being an input shaft (1) for receiving a drive torque and the other being an output shaft (2) for providing a drive torque; two intermediate shafts (6, 7) by means of which the first and second shafts (2, 1) can be coupled together, each intermediate shaft being arranged so that: (a) it can be coupled to the first shaft (2) via a respective first torque path at any of a plurality of gear ratios (1st-8th), or the respective first torque path can be disengaged; and (b) it can be coupled to the second shaft (1) via a respective second torque path, or the respective second torque path can be disengaged; and a differential torque device (50) coupled between the intermediate shafts (6, 7), the differential torque device (50) being capable of transmitting a differential torque between the intermediate shafts (6, 7).
US09759288B2
A crimp sleeve for use with small enclosures has a body having an outer diameter and an opening having an inner diameter extending through the body. The sleeve joins a wire formed of stainless steel to a fiber formed of Vectran braid through the opening. The sleeve is formed of a material which has a high coefficient of friction relative to the wire, such as titanium.
US09759286B1
Adhesive damping systems are described. A damping system for reducing the effects on a substrate caused by a disruption in the substrate environment includes an adhesive having a plurality of three-dimensional nanoparticles dispersed therein. The nanoparticles are configured to provide a controlled response to an applied force field. The system further includes a sensor which measures an amplitude and frequency spectrum of the disruption. In a use configuration, the sensor determines the amplitude and frequency spectrum of the disruption received by the substrate; and the applied force field is dependent on the amplitude and frequency spectrum of the disruption.
US09759275B2
A controller adjust a clutch actuator position is response to movement of a clutch pedal. During an engagement or a disengagement, the controller monitors sensor signals to determine the actuator position corresponding to the touch point. The sensors may directly indicate clutch torque or may respond indirectly. A Giant Magneto Resistive (GMR) sensor provides a precise shaft rotational position signal which can be twice numerically differentiated to yield an accurate and stable acceleration signal. The controller updates the touch point based on a change in the sensed acceleration or torque. The controller then adjusts the relationship of actuator pedal position to clutch pedal position, making mechanical wear adjustment unnecessary.
US09759271B2
A dry-plate clutch (single or dual) of inverted construction for a vehicle transmission includes a clutch structure with a connecting device arranged to be connected to a prime mover; a pressure plate rotationally fixed and axially displaceable relative to the clutch structure, and a driven disc connected to a driven shaft and located between the clutch structure and the pressure plate. An actuator is arranged to displace the pressure plate between an engaged state, where the driven disc is clamped between the clutch structure and the pressure plate, and a disengaged state, where the disc is rotatable relative to the clutch structure. The connecting device has hollow sections at a number of angular locations extending into a radial surface facing the pressure plate. The pressure plate has corresponding axially extending protrusions in a radial surface facing the connecting device; and the protrusions at least partially extend axially into the hollow sections in the disengaged state.
US09759268B2
A torque-limiting device for secure transmission of a rotation between an inlet baseplate and an outlet baseplate, including at least one drive bolt that forms a breaking element by shearing in case of a torque exceeding a predetermined threshold, and an intermediate baseplate that is driven by the inlet baseplate and which in turn drives the outlet baseplate. The at least one bolt ensures driving of the intermediate baseplate and the inlet baseplate or the outlet baseplate. The intermediate baseplate includes at least one locking element by shape cooperation with a locking part of the bolt, and the torque-limiting device has a larger number of locking elements than of bolts. An agricultural machine can include such a torque-limiting device.
US09759265B2
A joint assembly includes a first shaft having an end, a second shaft having an end, a first inner ring coupled to the first shaft, and a second inner ring coupled to the second shaft. The assembly further includes a sleeve coupled to the first and second inner rings, the first and second inner rings disposed within the sleeve, and a centering device engaging the ends of the first and second shaft. The centering device is configured to maintain the angular positions of the first and second shafts relative to one another, and the centering device is substantially fixed from rotation during rotation of the first and second shafts.
US09759250B2
A mounting system may comprise a male coupling and a female coupling. The male coupling may include an upper flange and a lower flange. The female coupling may include an upper lip forming a downward-facing open channel and a lower lip form an upward-facing open channel. The upper lip may be configured to receive the upper flange and allow it to pivot in the downward-facing open channel, thereby bringing the lower flange proximal the lower lip. The lower lip may be configured to receive the lower flange in the upward-facing open channel, thereby securing the male coupling to the female coupling.
US09759248B1
A chair comprises: two side frames, each of the two side frames comprising a front supporting leg and a rear supporting leg; a seat portion fixed between the two side frames; and a backrest portion connected to the rear supporting legs of the two side frames via a plug structure.
US09759244B2
An orthopaedic tool cluster clamp includes a pair of jaws held together and defining a distance therebetween, the jaws being movable relative to one another to adjust the distance; a connector holding the jaws together, with actuation of the connector adjusting the distance between the jaws; a cam base including a ramped portion statically associated with one of the jaws; and a cam lever pivotally connected to the connector about an axis of rotation and held against the cam base. The cam lever defines a profile such that rotating the cam lever along the ramped portion and pivoting the cam lever about the axis of rotation both cause actuation of the connector.
US09759241B2
A pressure compensator is disclosed for a subsea electric installation, which includes a rigid bottle and a flexible bag placed in the rigid bottle, the pressure compensator including a first opening at a first end of the pressure compensator allowing fluid communication of an insulating medium arranged to intermediate space between the rigid bottle and the flexible bag, a second opening at a second end of the pressure compensator allowing fluid communication of seawater arranged within the flexible bag; and a bypass channel providing fluid communication between two points in the intermediate space of the pressure compensator.
US09759215B2
An internal rotor-type fluid machine includes a rotary shaft, a rotor which rotates together with the rotary shaft, a support portion which is provided on the rotary shaft or the rotor, and which supports the rotary shaft to be tiltable with respect to the rotor, and a pressure chamber inner wall surface which configures a pressure chamber by contacting an end surface of the rotor in an axial direction. The rotor is pressed toward the rotary shaft by a high fluid pressure, based on a pressure difference in the pressure chamber between a high pressure side and a low pressure side having a lower pressure than the high pressure side. The support portion is deviated in a direction away from the pressure chamber inner wall surface further than a center position of the rotor in the axial direction.
US09759214B2
A screw spindle pump constituted by at least two parts is disclosed. The first part includes a housing and at least one spindle system disposed in the housing and capable of being driven in a rotational manner. Furthermore, a pressure region disposed downstream of the spindle system and at least one outlet opening which is connected to the pressure region, the outlet opening discharging the delivery medium out of the pressure region. The second part includes at least one low-pressure chamber disposed upstream of the spindle system and at least one inlet opening for the delivery medium into the low-pressure chamber. The first part and the second part are coupled together, preferably in a rotational manner, so that they can assume at least two different relative positions.
US09759212B2
An electrical pressure control load sense system having a pump connected inline to an operator control spool valve and a compensation circuit. The system also has a plurality of sensors, at least one pressure transducer, a micro-processor, a fixed orifice, a proportional pressure relief valve, and a swashplate angle sensor.
US09759211B2
A control method and system for a resonant linear compressor applied for controlling the capacity of a cooling system. The method includes: a) reading a reference operation power (Pref) of the motor of the compressor; b) measuring an operation current (iMED); c) measuring an operation voltage of a control module of the compressor; d) calculating an input power (PMED) of the motor as a function of the operation current (iMED) and of the operation voltage; e) comparing the input power (PMED) with the reference operation power (Pref); f) if the reference operation power (Pref) is higher than the input power (PMED), then increase an operation voltage of the compressor (UC); g) if the reference operation power (Pref) is lower than the input power (PMED), then decrease the operation voltage of the compressor (UC).
US09759204B2
A piston pump for a vehicle brake system includes a piston which is mounted in a cylinder so as to be movable along an axis. An inlet valve for introduction of fluid into the cylinder, and a sealing element configured to seal off the piston with respect to the cylinder are located on the piston. A first portion of the piston includes a valve seat of the inlet valve, and a second portion of the piston includes a piston rod. The sealing element includes a projection which engages axially over the first piston portion and extends to the second piston portion.
US09759200B2
An unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to inspect equipment and a method of inspecting equipment with the UAS are described. The UAS includes a scanner to obtain images of the equipment and a memory device to store information for the UAS. The UAS also includes a processor to determine a real-time flight path based on the images and the stored information, and a camera mounted on the UAS to obtain camera images of the equipment as the UAS traverses the real-time flight path.
US09759197B2
The invention relates to a wind turbine rotor comprising a hub, a plurality of blades, and at least one pitch mechanism for rotating at least one of the blades, each pitch mechanism comprising a partial ring gear, a pitch bearing, a pinion that is arranged to mesh with the partial or complete ring gear and a pitch motor arranged for driving said pinion, wherein the pitch bearing is mounted between the hub and a blade, and the ring gear is mounted on the hub or on the blade. The invention further relates to a method of repairing a partial or complete ring gear in a wind turbine rotor, the ring gear comprising a plurality of segments, the method comprising detaching at least a segment of the ring gear and attaching the ring gear in a modified configuration.
US09759185B2
The invention concerns a rotor blade of a wind power installation, comprising a rotor blade root (4) for attachment of the rotor blade to a rotor hub and a rotor blade tip arranged at a side remote from the rotor blade root, as well as a wind power installation having such rotor blades. In that arrangement a relative profile thickness which is defined as the ratio of profile thickness to profile depth has a local maximum in a central region between rotor blade root and rotor blade tip.
US09759184B2
A bulkhead (22) of a wind turbine (10) to be arranged on a rotor blade connection of a rotor blade (14), especially on a rotor hub (9). The bulkhead (22) has a core body (30). A layer (31, 32) of fiberglass-reinforced plastic (31, 32) is arranged on the core body (30) on both sides respectively and a metal layer body (33) is arranged on one side of the layer of fiberglass-reinforced plastic (31). A method for producing a bulkhead (22) of a wind turbine (9), which is arranged on a rotor blade connection of a rotor blade (14) and a use of a bulkhead (22) of a wind turbine (10).
US09759182B2
The invention relates to a wind turbine, more specifically a rotor assembly for a wind turbine. The rotor assembly comprises blades with an advantageous cable system.
US09759178B2
There are provided a plug built-in type optical measurement probe capable of obtaining a more accurate measurement value, and an optical measurement device provided with the same. A spark section and a light receiving section are held by a plug main body while being arranged next to each other in a protruding manner such that an end face of a holder is arranged at a position where discharge light from the spark section does not enter the field of view of the light receiving section. Accordingly, the light receiving section can be held in a manner protruding from the plug main body, and entering of the discharge light from the spark section can be restricted by the holder of the light receiving section. That is, by arranging the end face of the holder at a position where the discharge light from the spark section does not enter the field of view of the light receiving section, the light receiving intensity of the discharge light from the spark section can be prevented from being added to a measurement value, and it is possible to measure only the light generated at the time of combustion, and thus, a more accurate measurement value can be obtained.
US09759175B2
Outdoor power equipment includes an internal combustion engine including an electric motor, a battery receiving port, a rechargeable battery removably attached to the battery receiving port, wherein the rechargeable battery is configured to power the electric motor to start the engine, an implement driven by the internal combustion engine, a release mechanism movable to an engaged position to put the implement in a ready-to-run condition in which the implement is ready to be driven by the engine, a run sensor configured to detect the ready-to-run condition, a switch actuated by the release mechanism, and a control module coupled to the switch so that the switch provides a signal to the control module when the release mechanism is in the engaged position and the control module turns on the electric motor to start the engine in response to the signal from the switch and the run sensor detecting the ready-to-run condition.
US09759172B2
A fuel injector which includes an actuator having an electrical contact element, a plug, a fuel supply pipe, and an injection-molded housing part. The plug has a base body, an electrical connection element for an electrical connection with the electrical contact element of the actuator, and a rib which projects from the base body, the injection-molded housing part surrounding the electrical connection element of the plug and being injection-molded on the rib of the plug and the fuel supply pipe.
US09759166B2
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing degradation of an evaporative emissions system in a vehicle. One example method comprises following a vehicle-off event, waking an electronic controller to indicate an absence of a leak in the evaporative emissions system responsive to vacuum in the evaporative emissions system attaining a vacuum threshold, the vacuum threshold based on ambient conditions and fuel conditions at the vehicle-off event. The vacuum threshold may vary based on existing conditions and may enable a more reliable diagnosis of a status of the evaporative emissions system.
US09759157B2
A heat/acoustic wave conversion unit includes a heat/acoustic wave conversion component and two heat exchangers. Hydraulic diameter HD of the cells in the heat/acoustic wave conversion component is 0.4 mm or less, and a ratio HD/L of HD to the length L of the heat/acoustic wave conversion component is from 0.005 to 0.02. One of the heat exchangers includes a heat-exchanging honeycomb structure and an annular tube that surrounds a circumferential face of the heat-exchanging honeycomb structure. The annular tube includes a structure body that is disposed in the channel to increase a contact area with the heated fluid, an inflow port into which the heated fluid flows, and an outflow port through which the heated fluid flows out. At least one of the heat-exchanging honeycomb structure and the structure body is made of a ceramic material that contains SiC as a main component.
US09759130B2
A cooling system for a gas turbine engine. The system includes a fuel air heat exchanger with a fuel passage that is in thermal contact with an engine cooling air passage. The system further includes a fuel deoxygenator located upstream of the fuel air heat exchanger and configured to deliver deoxygenated fuel to the fuel air heat exchanger fuel passage. The system also includes a valve configured to moderate engine cooling air flow to the engine cooling air passage.
US09759120B2
High temperature (HT) and low temperature (LT) cooling water, the LT cooling water being at a lower temperature than the HT cooling water, circulate in HT and LT cooling water flows in respective channels. A controller controls to set the temperature of the LT cooling water lower in a case where an operating point of an engine lies in a particular region in an operational region of the engine, the particular region including a region in which the load is high and the engine speed is low, than in a case where the operating point lies in an operational region other than the particular region. Furthermore, the controller narrows the particular region in a direction toward higher loads in a case where the temperature of the HT cooling water is lower than a predetermined temperature.
US09759108B2
An exhaust treatment device includes first and second substrates positioned in parallel within a housing. A baffle plate supports the substrates, an inlet tube and an outlet pipe, and defines a portion of a first chamber. First ends of the substrates and a second end of the inlet tube is in fluid communication with the first chamber. A partition supports the substrates, the inlet tube and the outlet pipe and defines a portion of a second chamber separate from first chamber. Second ends of the substrates and a second open end of the outlet pipe is in fluid communication with the second chamber. All of the exhaust flows in a first direction through the inlet tube, reverses direction through the substrates and reverses direction again to flow through the outlet pipe.
US09759099B2
In a valve drive train device for an internal combustion engine of motor vehicle, wherein at least one axially movably mounted cam element including at least one cam set with at least two cam parts and a shifting gate with at least two gate track for converting a rotary movement of the cam element into an axial shifting motion, at least one of the cam parts and the adjacent gate track are disposed in an at least partially axially overlapping relationship for reducing thereby the axial length and the mass of the cam element or permitting the use of a larger, highly durable, actuating mechanism.
US09759098B1
A valvetrain conversion kit for an engine can comprises at least one timing idler rim gear configured to be meshed with at least one of a crank gear of the engine and a cam gear of the engine. The kit can include a first timing gear chamber member having a plurality of engine mounting locations corresponding to a plurality of corresponding cover mounting locations on an internal combustion engine body. The first timing gear chamber member can be configured to be rigidly attached to an engine body at the plurality of engine mounting locations. The first timing gear chamber member can also include a timing idler rim gear shaft supported by the interior surface, the timing idler rim gear shaft having an exterior shaft surface where the exterior shaft surface is configured for rotatably supporting the timing idler rim gear.
US09759095B2
An integrated access panel is disclosed that can be used to assist in adjusting a component like a fan blade of a turbofan engine. in one form the integrated access panel is hinged at one end such that the panel remains attached during adjustment of the fan blade. The access panel can be positioned in an angled flow surface of a nacelle such that the fan blade cannot be removed from a wheel without removal of the nacelle or opening of the access panel. The integrated access panel can be spring-loaded and positioned to allow the fan blade to be removed from a wheel by moving the access panel out of the way. Subsequent blade removal can occur by rotation of the wheel to locate another blade in proximity to the access panel.
US09759085B2
A device protecting an aircraft turbomachine computer against speed measurement errors, including: on a speed regulation channel: a speed sensor of a turbomachine gearbox shaft, a speed measurement circuit, and a speed regulation circuit; on a monitoring channel: a speed sensor of a turbomachine gas generator shaft, a speed measurement circuit, and a turbomachine stop control circuit. Each channel uses dissimilar characteristics eliminating common mode errors. Each speed sensor delivers a pseudo-sine frequency signal. On each channel, speed monitoring circuits compare the frequency signal with a minimum threshold, delivering an error signal when the measured frequency is lower than the minimum threshold. A common speed cross checking circuit detects exceeding a determined deviation between both frequencies, the monitored deviation being higher or lower than a maximum deviation corresponding to loss of a frequency period on either sensor. Analyzing the error signals, exceeding the determined deviation can control stopping the turbomachine.
US09759073B1
A turbine airfoil is provided with at least one insert positioned in a cavity in an airfoil interior. The insert extends along a span-wise extent of the turbine airfoil and includes first and second opposite faces. A first near-wall cooling channel is defined between the first face and a pressure sidewall of an airfoil outer wall. A second near-wall cooling channel is defined between the second face and a suction sidewall of the airfoil outer wall. The insert is configured to occupy an inactive volume in the airfoil interior so as to displace a coolant flow in the cavity toward the first and second near-wall cooling channels. A locating feature engages the insert with the outer wall for supporting the insert in position. The locating feature is configured to control flow of the coolant through the first or second near-wall cooling channel.
US09759072B2
A component for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure including, among other things, an airfoil that extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge and a cooling circuit disposed inside of the airfoil. The cooling circuit includes at least one core cavity that extends inside of the airfoil, a baffle received within the at least one core cavity, a plurality of pedestals positioned adjacent to the at least one core cavity and a first plurality of axial ribs positioned between the plurality of pedestals and the trailing edge of the airfoil.
US09759070B2
The present application provides a turbine bucket. The turbine bucket may include an airfoil and a tip shroud attached to the airfoil. The tip shroud may include a cooling core and an enhanced cooling surface.
US09759069B2
The present invention is a turbine blade (1) having a hollow blade body (2). This turbine blade (1) is provided with: cooling air holes (5) that penetrate the blade body (2) from an internal wall surface (2e) to an external wall surface (2f) thereof, and are provided with a straight tube portion (5a) that is located on the internal wall surface (2e) side of the blade body (2), and an expanded diameter portion (5b) that is located on the external wall surface (2f) side of the blade body (2); and with a guide groove (6) that is located on an internal wall of the expanded diameter portion (5b) and that guides cooling air (Y) in the expanded diameter portion (5).
US09759066B2
A positive-displacement unitary pump and turbine is operable as a fluid energy exchanger using a charging fluid as motive force and acting upon a separate feed fluid that exits the turbine at an elevated energy state. The rotor casing defines a rotor chamber having a contoured wall that forms a plurality of lobes, typically in an even number. Each lobe has an inlet port and an outlet port defined by the contoured wall, and the rotor has a plurality of vanes that follow the contoured wall as the rotor spins. The rotor is driven by the charging fluid entering first and second lobes, located generally opposite one another, and exiting the lobes at a lower energy state. The driven rotor is operable to elevate the energy level of a feed fluid in third and fourth lobes, located generally opposite one another.
US09759064B2
A method of testing an earth formation can include incrementally opening a choke while drilling into the formation is ceased, thereby reducing pressure in a wellbore, and detecting an influx into the wellbore due to the reducing pressure in the wellbore. Another method of testing an earth formation can include drilling into the formation, with an annulus between a drill string and a wellbore being pressure isolated from atmosphere, then incrementally opening a choke while drilling is ceased, thereby reducing pressure in the wellbore, detecting an influx into the wellbore due to the reducing pressure in the wellbore, and determining approximate formation pore pressure as pressure in the wellbore when the influx is detected. Drilling fluid may or may not flow through the drill string when the influx is detected. A downhole pressure sensor can be used to verify pressure in the wellbore.
US09759062B2
A system for downhole telemetry is provided herein. The system employs a series of communications nodes spaced along a tubular body either above or below ground, such as in a wellbore. The nodes allow for wireless communication between one or more sensors residing at the level of a subsurface formation or along a pipeline, and a receiver at the surface. The communications nodes employ electro-acoustic transducers that provide for node-to-node communication along the tubular body at high data transmission rates. A method of transmitting data in a wellbore is also provided herein. The method uses a plurality of data transmission nodes situated along a tubular body to accomplish a wireless transmission of data along the wellbore using acoustic energy.
US09759055B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of fracturing and sampling an isolated interval within a wellbore. The method includes deploying a plurality of packers to isolate the interval and initiating a fracture at the isolated interval. The method further includes directing a motive fluid into a proppant injection chamber to direct a proppant stored within the proppant injection chamber into the isolated interval. Sampling also may be performed at the isolated interval.
US09759048B2
A perforating gun has shaped charges that can generate a high-pressure gas. A valve sub connects to the perforating gun and a reservoir sub connects to the valve sub. The valve sub has an enclosure with a port. A mandrel in the enclosure has a piston head and a fluid path extending at least partially through the mandrel. A sleeve is slidably mounted on the mandrel and selectively blocks fluid flow through the port. A pressure chamber in the sleeve receives the generated high-pressure gas via the fluid path. The sleeve slides toward the perforating gun after a predetermined pressure is created by the generated high-pressure gas in the pressure chamber. The reservoir sub may have at least one chamber in fluid communication with the interior of the valve sub.
US09759041B2
Methods and apparatus for utilizing a valve with a pump rotor passage with a downhole production string, the pump rotor being on a rotatable rod with a bobbin moving along the rod between a position for opening the passage to fluid flow, when the bobbin is not seated on a shuttle seat, and a position for closing the passage to fluid flow, when the bobbin is seated on the shuttle seat. The pump rotor and rod are removable through the passage while leaving the pump stator in place upstream of the valve.
US09759036B2
A sealing device for a tubing arrangement, preferably for use in an offshore facility, such as an offshore wind turbine or an oil rig. The tubing arrangement has a cable or an inner tube arranged in an interior part thereof. The sealing device comprises a substantially rigid housing and a flexible plug part arranged in an interior part of the housing. The housing is mountable on or forms part of the tubing arrangement in such a manner that the interior part of the housing communicates with the interior part of the tubing arrangement. The flexible plug part comprises an inlet opening connectable to a grout source. When grout material is supplied to the flexible plug part, the flexible plug part expands, thereby providing sealing between the housing and a cable or inner tube arranged in the interior of the tubing arrangement. The sealing device can be mounted on the tubing arrangement before the tubing arrangement is mounted on an offshore facility, and the grout material can be supplied at a later time. Use of divers is thereby minimized. The sealing device can easily be removed and replaced.
US09759029B2
A downhole tool for use in a wellbore that includes a mandrel made of a composite material, the mandrel having a distal end and a proximate end. The downhole tool has a metal slip having a slip body comprising at least one longitudinal hole, and a face surface configured with a set of mating grooves. The downhole tool has a lower sleeve disposed about the mandrel at the distal end, the lower sleeve having a set of pin inserts configured to engage the set of mating grooves.
US09759023B2
An apparatus for securing to a tubular includes a tubular base configured to be disposed around the tubular, the base defining a longitudinal central axis therethrough and including axial ends. The apparatus includes fingers extending from at least one of the axial ends of the base and substantially parallel to the longitudinal central axis. The fingers are separated circumferentially apart by slots, at least one of which does not extend across the base. The apparatus includes a sleeve configured to be disposed around the tubular and slid straight axially over the fingers, such that an elasticity of the sleeve provides a radially-inward gripping force on the fingers. The gripping force prevents the base, the plurality of fingers, and the sleeve from rotating relative to the tubular and from moving axially relative to the tubular. The sleeve may abut a stop wall of the base when slid onto the fingers.
US09759021B2
Riser handling on a drilling rig and a flip and service machine for riser handling on a drilling rig
An offshore drilling rig including a drill floor deck having one or more holes, each defining a well center; one or more masts upwardly extending relative to the drill floor deck, and one or more hoisting systems, each supported by at least one of the one or more masts and configured for hoisting and lowering tubular equipment through at least one of the one or more well centers; a storage area for accommodating marine riser joints in upright orientation side by side in respective upright storage positions; a riser handling apparatus, different from the hoisting systems, adapted to move at least one of said marine riser joints along a movement path between its upright storage position and a prostrate maintenance/transfer position on a maintenance/transfer area, which movement path does not intersect any of the well centers.
US09759017B2
An apparatus for maintaining tension of a transmission line in a tubular includes a first clamp segment configured to surround at least a portion of a transmission line and a second clamp segment configured to surround at least a portion of the transmission line. The second clamp segment has a first axial end and a second axial end. The first axial end is configured to contact an axial end of the first clamp segment, such that the first clamp segment and the second clamp segment are configured to apply a force in opposite radial directions to clamp the transmission line with respect to the tubular to lock a position of the transmission line with respect to the tubular.
US09759014B2
Earth-boring tools may have a body, a cutting element attached to the body at a first location, and a formation-engaging structure attached to the body at a second location. The formation-engaging structure may be movable during a drilling operation between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the formation-engaging structure may be located rotationally behind the cutting element at a first radial distance from a longitudinal axis of the body at which the cutting element will at least initially shield the formation-engaging structure from engaging a formation. In the second position, the formation-engaging structure may be located at a different second radial distance from the longitudinal axis of the body at which the formation-engaging structure will engage a formation.
US09758997B2
A high security locking system can be used in a conventional pivot door adapted for use with a latch and deadbolt lock combination. The high security system can be a multi-point lock, received in a recess formed in a locking edge side of a door stile, cooperating with a linkage or other mechanism in a conventional deadbolt/location. The lock can be actuated with a keyed cylinder and thumb turn combination.
US09758984B2
A demolishing method utilizes an aggregate stack demolishing scaffold apparatus mounted to an upper part of an aggregate stack including four smoke funnels arranged adjacent to each other. An uneven scaffold including one plate-shaped upper scaffold portion is placed on an upper end of each smoke funnel. A lower scaffold portion is coupled to the upper scaffold portion and located in lower positions in the smoke funnels with the upper scaffold portion being placed on the upper ends of the smoke funnels. A chain block suspends and supports the uneven scaffold from and on an inner wall of each smoke funnel, and adjusts a suspending height. With this configuration, the upper scaffold portion is located on the upper ends of the smoke funnels, and thus there is no possibility of contact between the scaffolds in the smoke funnels causing a worker to lose his balance, thereby improving safety.
US09758981B2
A stair system with freedom of movement between landings associated therewith includes a connection system configured to connect stairs to a landing associated with a construction, wherein the connection system structurally supports the stairs for safe egress over the stairs while concurrently supporting movement between the landing and a second landing associated with the construction by the stairs in at least one dimension, and wherein the movement supports inter-story drift between the landing and the second landing and removes some force translation between the landing and the second landing.
US09758979B2
A swimming pool cleaner including a body having a debris inlet and a debris outlet and defining an elongate slotted cavity pivotably holding proximal ends of flap members forming a segmented skirt which forms with the pool surface a plenum from which water and debris are drawn into the inlet. The slotted cavity is configured for strain-free insertion of the flap-member proximal ends into the cavity. A removable nozzle within the debris inlet and retaining the flap-member proximal ends in the cavity. A method for inlet to control debris-laden water flow. The cleaner further including a tool-free nozzle-mounting structure at the debris inlet removably retaining the nozzle within the debris inlet and a tool-free wheel-mounting assembly, a plurality of removable nozzles are interchangeably secured within the debris inlet, each nozzle having a flow opening sized differently from flow opening(s) of the other nozzle(s) to control debris-laden water flow.
US09758978B2
An cleaning brush for a pool cleaning apparatus, the cleaning brush that includes: a central portion that has a longitudinal axis; a right handed fin that surrounds a first section of the central portion; a left handed fin that surrounds a second section of the central portion; first protuberances that are oriented in relation to the right handed fin; and second protuberances that are oriented in relation to the left handed fin.
US09758969B2
A roofing system includes shingles having a front surface, a rear surface, an upper portion, and a lower portion. The lower portion is wider than the upper portion. A tongue extends from the upper portion and overlaps the lower portion, thereby defining a first groove between the tongue and the front surface of the lower portion. A return extends from an end of the lower portion opposite the upper portion, thereby defining a second groove between the return portion and the rear surface of the lower portion.
US09758968B2
The invention relates to a method according to which a profile consisting of a shape-memory alloy is placed into concrete, or a concrete to be reinforced is roughened on the outside, then profiles (2) consisting of a shape-memory alloy are fastened to the roughened outside (9) of the structure (6) and a cementitious matrix is applied to the roughened outside (9) to cover the profiles (2). After the cementitious matrix has set, said profiles (2) produce a contraction force and thus a tension as a result of the input of heat. The mortar covering layer (16) thereby acts as a reinforcement layer owing to the interlocking of the mortar covering layer (16) with the roughened outside (9) of the structure (6). The profiles (2) run in an outer mortar as a reinforcement layer (16) of the outside of a structure along the outside of the structure inside the mortar or reinforcement layer (16). A structure can also be prepared for a prestress in the equipped mortar or reinforcement layer by the input of heat, in that electrical cables (3) are routed from the end regions thereof to the outside of the mortar or reinforcement layer (16) or the end regions of the electrical cables (3) are accessible by removing inserts (5).
US09758963B2
A bearing wall includes a pair of vertical members that are joined to upper and lower horizontal members of a building so as to be spaced apart in a horizontal direction; and a wall surface member that includes a first joint portions joined to one of the vertical members, that includes a second joint portions joined to another of the vertical members, and that includes circular-shaped opening portions that are spaced apart in an up-down direction between the pair of vertical members so as to be disposed in a single column. A separation distance between a center of one opening portion and a center of an opening portion that is adjacent to the one opening portion in the up-down direction is shorter than a horizontal separation distance between the first joint portions and the second joint portions.
US09758958B2
A wall anchor for use in a cavity wall includes an elongate body having a driven end portion and a driving end portion. The driven end portion is adapted to be threadedly mounted on the inner wythe of the cavity wall. The elongate body includes a barrel portion adjacent the driven end portion. A first end of the barrel portion is adapted to abut the inner wythe of the cavity wall when installed. A thermal coating is disposed on the first end of the barrel portion. The thermal coating is configured and arranged to reduce thermal transfer in the cavity wall between the elongate body and the inner wythe when installed.
US09758952B2
A human body detection sensor includes: a detection decision unit that decides whether a state is a detection state or a non-detection state of a detection target; a specular reflection decision unit that decides whether or not reflected light that is incident onto a line sensor is specularly-reflected light; and a continuation decision unit that decides whether or not a state in which the detection target exists is ongoing, wherein, when specularly-reflected light is detected while a determination is made indicating the detection state, the detection decision unit keeps the result of a determination indicating the detection state without change if the result of the decision by the continuation decision unit indicates that the state is ongoing and changes the determination to a determination indicating the non-detection state if the result of the decision shows any other states.
US09758942B2
A concrete forming tube formed from a thermoplastic material and having a first end, a second end, and a substantially uniform circumference from the first end to the second end.
US09758941B2
An offshore structure comprises a hull having a longitudinal axis, a first end, and a second end opposite the first end. In addition, the structure comprises an anchor coupled to the lower end of the hull and configured to secure the hull to the sea floor. The anchor has an aspect ratio less than 3:1. The hull includes a variable ballast chamber positioned axially between the first end and the second end of the hull and a first buoyant chamber positioned between the variable ballast chamber and the first end of the hull. The first buoyant chamber is filled with a gas and sealed from the surrounding environment. Further, the structure comprises a ballast control conduit in fluid communication with the variable ballast chamber and configured to supply a gas to the variable ballast chamber. The structure also comprises a topside mounted to the first end of the hull.
US09758940B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling a water sluice gate drive for a water sluice gate, in particular for a roller sluice gate, preferably in a hydroelectric power plant, wherein the drive has an electric machine, in particular has an asynchronous machine, in particular an asynchronous motor/generator. According to the invention, it is provided that the electric machine, in particular an asynchronous machine, has a fan brake, wherein the method comprises the steps of: disengagement of the fan brake in the case that an insufficient power supply is indicated, self-actuated operation of the electric machine, in particular an asynchronous machine, wherein the electric machine, in particular an asynchronous machine, is operated in generative island operation, in which a rotating field is generated in a self-actuating manner.
US09758937B2
An energy absorbing system with one or more energy absorbing assemblies to reduce or eliminate severity of a collision between a moving vehicle and a roadside hazard. The energy absorbing system may be installed adjacent various roadside hazards or may be installed on highway service equipment. One end of the system may face oncoming traffic. A collision by a motor vehicle with a sled assembly may result in shredding or rupturing of portions of an energy absorbing element to dissipate energy from the vehicle collision.
US09758934B1
Systems and methods of imprinting concrete having exposed aggregate. The imprinted concrete system comprises a concrete layer, an imprinted layer disposed on the concrete layer, wherein the imprinted layer comprises a decorative aggregate, and has been imprinted with an imprinting tool. In some embodiments, the decorative aggregate may be at least partially exposed.
US09758933B2
A base plate includes a lateral support section and a lateral contact surface which delimits a supporting area formed on a top side of the base plate for a foot of a rail. A through-hole leading from the top side to the underside of the support section is formed into an edge area of the support section abutting the lateral contact surface. The through-hole has a basic shape which is angular in cross-section. The surface of the edge area meets with the contact surface in an upper marginal edge. A lateral surface of the through-hole assigned to the contact surface at least over a partial area of its height changes into an inclined surface which rises in the direction of the upper marginal edge of the contact surface and ends at the surface of the edge area.
US09758928B2
A simplified method for making an impermeable joining on three-layer or bi-layer fabric materials, either with or without a complex construction on a joining side thereof, and being preliminarily joined by a stitching or ultrasound joining arrangement, wherein the method comprises only two method steps, a first joining step of joining two fabric material panels and a second impermeabilizing step carried out by cauterizing and sealing a strip element, and being performed by a single machine in a single operation thereof.
US09758918B2
A washing machine includes a rear panel mounted on a wall; a tub supported by the rear panel and configured to contain wash water; a front panel having an opening therein and on or in front of the tub; a rotatable drum in the tub; a driving unit providing power to the drum; a cover on the rear panel so as to cover the tub and the front panel; a water supply device supplying wash water to the tub; and a drain device having a drain filter in a wash water discharge path, the drain filter being configured to filter foreign matter in the wash water.
US09758910B2
A throat plate switching mechanism includes a first throat plate and a second throat plate. The first throat plate is formed with a first needle hole having an elongated hole shape at a stitch point. The second throat plate is formed with a second needle hole. A width of the second needle hole is narrower than a width of the first needle hole. The second throat plate is equipped in the first throat plate such that the second throat plate is switched into a use position at which the second needle hole overlaps the first needle hole, and a retreated position at which the second throat plate does not cover the first needle hole.
US09758907B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide approaches for attaching scan control and other electronic chips to textiles, e.g., on a loom as part of a real-time manufacturing process.
US09758902B2
A 3C-SiC epitaxial layer is produced by a production method including: epitaxially growing a first 3C-SiC layer on a Si substrate; oxidizing the first 3C-SiC layer; removing an oxide film on a surface of the 3C-SiC layer; and epitaxially growing a second 3C-SiC layer on the 3C-SiC layer after the oxide film is removed.
US09758898B2
A method and apparatus for plating parts like lug nuts or other metal parts that have both an easily plated outside surface as well as a recessed cavity. The invention works in combination with a standard multi-station plating process. The present invention drains and plates a part containing a cavity by moving the part from a position where the cavity is facing around 45 degrees down to a position where the cavity is facing around 45 degrees up and then back down at various times during the process. The moving is generally initiated when the rack moving along a track above the fluid tanks encounters a roller.
US09758890B2
PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process for roughening both sides of a copper plate by forming a protrusion with a fine bump shape on the both sides of the copper plate, and then to provide a process for a deterioration of an electroplating solution for plating copper to become hard to progress therein.MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS: First of all, there is designed to be arranged electrodes (3, 3) as a similar pole for therebetween to be opposed to each other in an electroplating copper solution 2, and then to be arranged a copper plate 4 at therebetween. And then at first there becomes to be performed an anodic treatment for generating a copper fine particles on both surfaces of the copper plate 4, by performing an electrolytic process with the copper plate 4 as a positive electrode and the electrodes 3 as negative electrodes. And then thereafter there becomes to be performed a cathodic treatment, by performing an electroplating of copper with the copper plate 4 as a negative electrode and the electrodes 3 as positive electrodes, for the copper fine particles to be fixed onto the surfaces of the copper plate 4. Furthermore, there becomes to be formed the above mentioned protrusion with the fine bump shape thereon, by performing the anodic treatment and then the cathodic treatment as not less than one cycle thereof.
US09758889B2
One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for producing a substrate formed with a copper thin layer. The method includes providing a carrier, forming a separation-inducing layer on the surface of the carrier, forming a copper thin layer on the separation-inducing layer, and bonding a core to the copper thin layer.
US09758884B2
A method of adjusting and controlling the color of trivalent chromium deposits is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) measuring the color of a trivalent chromium deposit standard; (b) adding one or more color enhancing additives to a trivalent chromium electrolyte; (c) contacting the substrate with the trivalent chromium electrolyte containing the one or more color enhancing additives to deposit trivalent chromium on the substrate; (d) measuring the color of the color-enhanced trivalent chromium deposit; (e) comparing the color of the color-enhanced chromium deposit to that of the standard; and (f) if necessary, adjusting the amount of the one or more color enhancing additives added to the trivalent chromium electrolyte if the color of the color-enhanced chromium deposit is outside of a desired optical variation from that of the standard color-enhanced chromium deposit. The color of the trivalent chromium deposit may be measured using a spectrophotometer.
US09758868B1
A substrate processing system includes a showerhead including a stem portion and a head portion. The stem portion is in fluid communication with a process gas source, and the head portion is arranged to provide process gases from the process gas source to a reaction volume of a processing chamber below the showerhead to generate plasma in the reaction volume. A suppressor is arranged above the head portion of the showerhead, extends from the stem portion toward sidewalls of the processing chamber, and is sealed against the sidewalls of the processing chamber or sealed against an enclosure surrounding the suppressor. The suppressor, the sidewalls, and a top surface of the processing chamber, the suppressor and the enclosure, or the suppressor, the enclosure, and the top surface define a partitioned volume of the processing chamber above the showerhead. The partitioned volume is in fluid communication with a purge gas source.
US09758867B2
Provided is a method of controlling a gas supply apparatus including a vaporizer, a carrier gas supply source and a gas supply line, the method including: supplying a liquid or sold raw material to a raw material container included in a vaporizer; vaporizing the liquid or sold raw material in the raw material container to produce a raw material gas; exhausting an interior of the raw material container having the liquid or sold raw material; supplying a carrier gas from the carrier gas supply source to the raw material container; and flowing the raw material gas and the carrier gas from the raw material container to a processing chamber in which a substrate to be processed is accommodated via the gas supply line.
US09758865B2
The present disclosure provides a silicon film forming method for forming a silicon film on a workpiece having a processed surface, including: forming a seed layer by supplying a high-order aminosilane-based gas containing two or more silicon atoms in a molecular formula onto the processed surface and by having silicon adsorbed onto the processed surface; and forming a silicon film by supplying a silane-based gas not containing an amino group onto the seed layer and by depositing silicon onto the seed layer, wherein, when forming a seed layer, a process temperature is set within a range of 350 degrees C. or lower and a room temperature or higher.
US09758864B2
An apparatus may comprise a plasma deposition unit, a movement system, and a mesh system. The plasma deposition unit may be configured to generate a plasma. The movement system may be configured to move a substrate under the plasma deposition unit. The mesh system may be located between the plasma deposition unit and the substrate in which a mesh may comprise a number of materials for deposition onto the substrate and in which the plasma passing through the mesh may cause a portion of the number of materials from the mesh to be deposited onto the substrate.
US09758863B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a carrier having first and second ends extending in a first direction, and third and fourth ends extending in a second direction and being not shorter than the first and second ends. The apparatus further includes a member holder having a magnet placement face on which first and second magnetic-pole portions are placed, the magnet placement face having fifth and sixth ends extending in the first direction and being shorter than the first and second ends, and seventh and eighth ends extending in the second direction, being longer than the fifth and sixth ends, and being longer than the third and fourth ends. The apparatus further includes a carrier transporter transporting the carrier along the first direction. The carrier transporter can transport the carrier such that the third and fourth ends pass under a center line of the magnet placement face.
US09758856B2
A sputtering target having a one-piece top coat comprising a mixture of oxides of zinc, tin, and optionally gallium, characterized in that said one-piece top coat has a length of at least 80 cm; a method for forming such a sputtering target and the use of such a target for forming films.
US09758844B2
A method for recovering ruthenium from a spent ruthenium-based catalyst carried on aluminum oxide includes: drying, calcining, and cooling a spent catalyst; grinding the spent catalyst into black powder; placing the black powder in a fluidized bed reactor, purging the reactor with hydrogen and heating the black powder to obtain ruthenium metal, then heating the black powder in a mixed atmosphere of oxygen and ozone to obtain RuO4 gas; absorbing the RuO4 gas with a sufficient amount of hydrochloric acid to obtain a H3RuCl6 solution; adding an excess oxidant to the H3RuCl6 solution to oxidize the H3RuCl6 into H2RuCl6; adding excess NH4Cl to the H2RuCl6 and then filtering, and washing the filter cake to obtain solid (NH4)2RuCl6; and reducing the solid (NH4)2RuCl6 by hydrogen to obtain ruthenium metal.
US09758840B2
The present invention provides systems, methods, and compositions for identifying a subject as infected with a parasite by detecting nucleic acid from an endosymbiont of the parasite in a sample from the subject. In certain embodiments, the parasite is a nematode that infects humans or dogs (e.g., D. immitis, O. volvulus, W. bancrofti, B. timori, or B. malayi) and the endosymbiont is Wolbachia.
US09758830B2
A method for diagnosing and/or evaluating dementia severity in a subject suspected of having or having dementia is provided the method comprising: a) obtaining a test cell sample from the subject, b) assaying the test cell sample to determine a telomere organization signature of the test sample, the telomere organization signature comprising one or more parameters selected from: i) telomere aggregates; ii) telomere number; iii) telomere length and telomere number; iv) telomere aggregates, telomere length and telomere numbers; c) comparing the test cell sample telomere organization signature to a control or one or more predetermined reference signatures; and d) diagnosing whether the subject has dementia and/or the dementia severity according to the test sample telomere organization signature.
US09758819B2
The invention provides methods and reagents for use in distinguishing heparin sodium of porcine origin from heparin sodium of bovine origin using quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
US09758816B2
A method including (a) providing an amplification reagent including an array of sites, and a solution having different target nucleic acids; and (b) reacting the amplification reagent to produce amplification sites each having a clonal population of amplicons from a target nucleic acid from the solution. The reacting can include simultaneously transporting the nucleic acids to the sites at an average transport rate, and amplifying the nucleic acids that transport to the sites at an average amplification rate, wherein the average amplification rate exceeds the average transport rate. The reacting can include producing a first amplicon from a nucleic acid that transports to each of the sites, and producing subsequent amplicons from the nucleic acid or from the first amplicon, wherein the average rate at which the subsequent amplicons are generated exceeds the average rate at which the first amplicon is generated.
US09758815B2
A kit for the characterization of chromosomal inversions using single-stranded probes that are either all identical or all complementary to a single-stranded chromatid is described. Reporter species are attached to oligonucleotide strands designed such that they may hybridize to portions of only one of a pair of single-stranded sister chromatids which may be prepared by the CO-FISH procedure. If an inversion has occurred, these marker probes will be detected on the second sister chromatid at the same location as the inversion on the first chromatid. The kit includes non-repetitive probes that are either all identical or all complementary to at least a portion of a target DNA sequence of only one DNA strand of only one chromatid and may in some embodiments include reagents suitable for performing CO-FISH and/or reagents for hybridizing the probes to the target DNA sequence.
US09758814B2
The invention relates to methods of detecting a genetic variation in a genetic sample from a subject using labeled probes and counting the number of labels in the probes.
US09758812B2
The present invention is in the fields of molecular biology. The present invention is directed to novel compositions, methods and kits useful for the generation of nucleic acids from an RNA template and further nucleic acid replication. Specifically, the invention is directed to the generation and amplification of nucleic acids by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction.
US09758808B1
A bioluminescence energy transfer (BRET) nanosystem having semiconductive quantum rods (QRs) bound by firefly luciferase Photinus pyralis (Ppy) for improved conversion of chemical energy to light, such as in solid-state lighting, near-infrared imaging systems, and in vivo infrared imaging. The nanosystems are formed by synthesizing CdSe/CdS or CdSe/CdS/ZnS quantum rods, rendering the dots hydrophilic and colloidially stable with a facile His-capping, incubating with a Ppy variant (PpyGRTS) at increasing loading ratios, and adding an excess of the luciferin (LH2) substrate to the PpyGRTS-QRs.
US09758802B2
The invention provides a method of degrading or hydrolyzing a polysaccharide, preferably cellulose or chitin, comprising contacting said polysaccharide with one or more oxidohydrolytic enzymes, preferably a CBM33 family protein (preferably CBP21) or a GH61 family protein, wherein said degradation or hydrolysis is carried out in the presence of at least one reducing agent and at least one divalent metal ion. A method of producing an organic substance comprising said method is also provided.
US09758790B2
Materials and Methods for identifying lignin regulatory region-regulatory protein associations are disclosed. Materials and methods for modulating lignin accumulation are also disclosed. In addition, methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) the level of a component (e.g., protein, oil, lignin, carbon, a carotenoid, or a triterpenoid) in plants are disclosed.
US09758788B2
Certain embodiments of the invention provide methods of selecting a mutant plant cell that overproduces a compound that activates an estrogen receptor (ER) beta but does not activate an ER alpha.
US09758784B1
The present invention is related to a ribonucleic acid comprising a double stranded structure whereby the double-stranded structure comprises a first strand and a second strand, whereby the first strand comprises a first stretch of contiguous nucleotides and whereby said first stretch is at least partially complementary to a target nucleic acid, and the second strand comprises a second stretch of contiguous nucleotides whereby said second stretch is at least partially identical to a target nucleic acid, and whereby the double stranded structure is blunt ended.
US09758775B2
Materials and Methods related to gene targeting (e.g., gene targeting with transcription activator-like effector nucleases; “TALENS”) are provided.
US09758758B2
Described is an isolated strain of the fungus Colonostachys rosea termed BVT Cr-7 useful as a biological control agent for the treatment of plants. The isolated strain, formulations comprising said strain and/or spores derived from said strain may be applied to plants or plant materials in order to improve plant yield, to improve plant growth, or for the treatment or prevention of diseases or pathogens in the plant.
US09758755B2
A cell lysis workflow involving a cell suspension that is passed through a filter in a first flow direction from a first side of the filter toward a second side thereof. The filter captures a plurality of cells on the first side. A lysis solution is passed through the filter in a second flow direction opposite the first direction, thereby dislodging the plurality of cells captured on the filter, and resuspending the plurality of cells in the lysis solution on the first side of the filter. The lysis solution lyses the plurality of cells to produce a cellular lysate. The cellular lysate is passed through the filter in the first flow direction.
US09758754B2
A cell separation and culture device having a porous substrate; and a patterned carbon powder layer having a plurality of hollow regions, formed on an upper surface of the porous substrate by a forming manner; wherein the thickness of the patterned carbon powder layer is 0.04-0.08 mm. The cell separation and culture device is able to separate, detect or culture cells with various size and shape. The cell separation and culture device of present invention also simplifies the process of cell separation, detection and culture; therefore, it is accomplished within a very short time.
US09758749B2
The present invention relates to the field of perfumery. More particularly, it concerns short chain β-sulfur carbonyl moieties capable of liberating an active molecule, such as a perfuming α,β-unsaturated ketone or aldehyde. The present invention concerns also the use of said compounds in perfumery as well as the perfuming compositions or perfumed articles comprising the invention's compounds.
US09758746B2
The present invention provides a cleansing composition for a pump foamer that not only has excellent foam quality and low-temperature stability, but can also be easily rinsed away with a small amount of water. A cleansing composition to be dispensed by a pump foamer of the present invention is characterized by comprising: (a) 2 to 5 mass % of an ionic surfactant; and (b) 20 to 60 mass % of a polyhydric alcohol comprising propylene glycol; wherein at least 90 mass % of the (a) ionic surfactant is accounted for by a higher fatty acid soap having 5 to 25 carbon atoms, and an amount of propylene glycol contained in the (b) polyhydric alcohol is less than 20 mass % with respect to the entire composition.
US09758744B2
The present invention concerns a composition of matter comprising at least 85% w/w of (Z)-5,9-dimethyldeca-3,8-dien-5-ol and at most 15% w/w of (E)-5,9-dimethyldeca-3,8-dien-5-ol, as well as the use as perfuming ingredient of said composition of matter.
US09758742B2
The invention relates to the use of an O/W emulsion, in particular a PIT emulsion, for lubricating conveyor belt systems in food industries as well as a lubricant concentrate based on an O/W emulsion, in particular a PIT emulsion, of wax esters.
US09758738B2
A liquid fuel derived from processed biomass having extremely low water content and suitable for use in diesel engines or as an additive to petroleum based fuels, or which can be used as a petroleum or coal slurry substitute in those uses where a lower cost fuel have reduced emission is desired, is described.
US09758733B2
An asphaltenes separation system comprising a flocculant feed system configured to add a flocculant to a production fluid to flocculate asphaltenes in the production fluid, and an asphaltenes separator configured to remove flocculated asphaltenes from the production fluid.
US09758732B1
The removal of poisonous metalloids from crude oil is a method of removing naturally occurring arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), and bismuth (Bi) from crude oil before the crude oil is processed through a refinery. The removal of poisonous metalloids from crude oil entails forming an emulsion comprising the crude oil and an inorganic salt or mineral acid solution prepared by recirculation and agitation. The agitation of the emulsion causes arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), and bismuth (Bi) containing compounds to dissolve in the inorganic salt or mineral acid solution. The crude oil is separated from the inorganic salt or mineral acid solution by settling. The treated crude oil has a poisonous metalloid concentration of less than 1 ppm making it acceptable for oil refining operations. Optionally, any inorganic salt or mineral acid solution remaining in the crude oil after separation can be removed using a silica gel dryer.
US09758731B2
The present invention discloses a process for the conversion of phenolics into aromatic hydrocarbons. In more detail, the present invention refers to a process for the selective hydrodeoxygenation of phenolic feeds into aromatic hydrocarbons, such as benzene, toluene, alkylbenzenes and others. The selective catalytic hydrodeoxygenation is performed in absence of external supply of molecular hydrogen.
US09758729B2
The invention relates to continuous process for converting carbonaceous material contained in one or more feedstocks into a liquid hydrocarbon product, said feedstocks including the carbonaceous material being in a feed mixture including one or more fluids, said fluids including water and further liquid organic compounds at least partly produced by the process in a concentration of at least 1% by weight, where the process comprises converting at least part of the carbonaceous material by pressurizing the feed mixture to a pressure in the range 50-400 bar; heating the feed mixture to a temperature in the range 250-500° C., maintaining said pressurized and heated feed mixture in the desired pressure and temperature ranges in a reaction zone for a predefined time; cooling the feed mixture to a temperature in the range 25-200° C. and expanding the feed mixture to a pressure in the range of 1-70 bar, thereby causing the carbonaceous material to be converted to a liquid hydrocarbon product; at least partly expanding said converted feed mixture in a flash separation step, wherein the converted feed mixture is separated into a gas phase and a liquid phase, and wherein liquid CO2 is recovered from said gas phase, and separating from the liquid phase a fraction comprising liquid hydrocarbon product.
US09758727B2
The invention relates to bimesogenic compounds of formula I wherein R11, R12, MG11, MG12, X11, X12 and Sp1 have the meaning given in claim 1, to the use of bimesogenic compounds of formula I in liquid crystal media and particular to flexoelectric liquid crystal devices comprising a liquid crystal medium according to the present invention.
US09758723B2
To provide a novel up-conversion phosphor excellent in light-emitting properties, the up-conversion phosphor of the present invention is an up-conversion phosphor including, in a ZnMoO4-based matrix material thereof, Yb3+, at least one rare earth metal ion selected from the group consisting of Tm3+, Er3+ and Ho3+, and at least one monovalent metal ion selected from the group consisting of Li+, K+, Na+ and Rb+.
US09758716B2
A method of treating wastewater resulting from hydrocarbon production operations is provided, for repurposing as a disinfectant. The method includes a) providing wastewater resulting from hydrocarbon production operations containing greater than 3 ppm bromide ion; and b) adding a sufficient amount of an oxidizing agent to convert the bromide ion to hypobromous acid used in the formation of a disinfectant solution. At least one of chloramine, bromamine, and hypobromous acid is present in the disinfectant solution to provide disinfecting properties. A source of ammonia may also be added to the wastewater, and the disinfectant solution may be blended with other water to provide blended water for use as a fracturing fluid.
US09758713B1
A hydraulic cementing composition and a method of making the same is disclosed. The composition is useful to form a sheath of hardened cement in the annular space between a well pipe disposed in a well bore and the walls of the well bore. The cementing composition is a mixture of dry ingredients comprising hydraulic cement and an additive to control the loss of fluid from an aqueous slurry containing the cementing composition. The fluid loss additive and a method of making the same is disclosed. The fluid loss additive is the reaction product of three chemical compounds each having an ethylene backbone and functional groups selected from carboxylates, hydrogen, anhydrides and combinations thereof.
US09758703B2
Provided is a resin acid ester-based tackifier having a good compatibility with a synthetic rubber elastomer, being capable of reducing the melt viscosity of the elastomer, and being capable of imparting excellent adhesive properties and/or pressure-sensitive adhesive properties to the elastomer.
US09758696B2
There is provided a crosslinked siloxane composition. The crosslinked siloxane composition is a polymerization product of a mixture including from about 2 to about 12 alkoxysilane precursor materials. At least one of the alkoxysilane precursor materials is a hydrophobic alkoxysilane precursor material. In addition at least one of the alkoxysilane precursor materials is an aromatic alkoxysilane precursor material.
US09758692B2
A polymeric carrier composition including a polymer synthesized from monomers selected from acrylic acids, methylacrylates and urethanes and at least one metal having an oxidation state of +1 or +2, including salts and coordination complexes thereof. The composition may be a suspension having 0.5 to 10% by weight of the polymer prepared from monomers selected from a group consisting of acrylic acids, methylacrylates and urethanes, and a viscosity less than 1,000 cps. The composition is applied to substrates, such as woven fabrics, to create metal-infused articles.
US09758688B2
A composition is provided for forming a conductive film. The composition includes a metal compound, a reducing agent, an ionic compound and/or a polar compound, and a compound having at least one atom selected from a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom and a phosphorus atom. The composition may be an ink composition for coating on an electronic device.
US09758686B2
A solvent-based ink jet ink composition includes a coloring material; and a solvent; in which the composition includes, as the solvent, two or more types of solvent that are compounds represented by the following general formula (1), and R1, R2, and R3 have the same structure as one another and m are consecutive integers, in the solvent. R1O—(R2O)m—R3 (1) (in the formula, R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R2 is an alkylene group with 2 or 3 carbon atoms, and R3 is a hydrogen atom, an acetyl group, or an alkyl group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms. However, both of R1 and R3 are not hydrogen atoms. m is an integer of 1 to 7).
US09758683B2
To provide a non-aqueous photopolymerizable composition, which contains: a polymerizable monomer; a polymerization initiator; and a polyether-modified polysiloxane compound represented by the following general formula (1):
US09758682B2
An ink composition is provided, a method of metalizing a surface of an insulation substrate and an article obtainable by the method are also provided. The ink composition may comprise a metal compound and an ink vehicle, the metal compound is at least one selected from a group consisting of a compound of formula I and a compound of formula II, TiO2-σ (I), M1M2pOq (II), 0.05≦σ<1.8, M1 is at least one element selected from a group consisting of groups 2, 9-12 of the periodic table according to IUPAC nomenclature, M2 is at least one element selected from a group consisting of groups 3-8, 10 and 13 of the periodic table according to IUPAC nomenclature, and 0
US09758670B2
A composition includes at least one poly(aliphatic ester)-polycarbonate copolymer, a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer, non-bonding glass fibers, and titanium dioxide. The composition exhibits excellent impact properties and an ultra-white color.
US09758661B2
A composition comprising: a polyvinyl chloride resin; a first rubber component; a second rubber component; at least one copolymer; at least one low temperature plasticizer; at least one filler comprising antimony trioxide; at least one heat stabilizer; at least one internal lubricant; at least one antioxidant; and at least one biofouling agent.
US09758653B2
A dual reactor solution process gives high density polyethylene compositions containing a first ethylene copolymer and a second ethylene copolymer and which have good processability and ESCR properties. The polyethylene compositions are suitable for compression molding or injection molding applications and are particularly useful in the manufacture of caps and closures for bottles or containers.
US09758651B2
There is disclosed a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising: (A) a diene based elastomer, (B) from 50 to 150 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr), of silica; (C) from 0.15 to 0.45 phr of a polymeric amine comprising a primary amine functionality; and (D) from 1.5 to 2.5 parts by weight, per 1 part by weight of the polymeric amine, of an aromatic carboxylic acid or aromatic acid anhydride.
US09758649B2
The present disclosure provides a process for preparing a cured transparent rubber composition containing a synthetic isoprene polymer(s), a transparent polymer(s), a curing agent and additives. The process includes mixing the components at a temperature ranging from 50 to 130° C., curing the compound with peroxide and allowing the compound to mature. The maturated compound is fed to an injection molding machine. The cured transparent rubber composition prepared using the methods described herein has a haze of less than 30% and a total light transmission of more than 80%. The disclosure further provides an article including the cured transparent rubber composition, in particular for medical applications and artificial nipples.
US09758645B2
The invention concerns the combined use, in an elastomer composition preferably comprising an isoprene elastomer, a precipitated silica containing titanium and a specific conjugated diene compound, such as a conjugated diene phosphonate or phosphinate compound. It also concerns the elastomer compositions obtained and the items produced from said compositions.
US09758642B2
A silica-containing rubber mixture includes at least one rubber, a sulphur-containing alkoxysilane, a crosslinking agent, a filler, and optionally further rubber auxiliaries, and the mixture also includes from 0.1 to 15 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of rubber used, of a silicon-free polysulphide additive of the formula (I) A-S—(S)x—S—Y—S—(S)x—S-A (I) where x is 0, 1 or 2, Y is an optionally substituted or heteroatom-containing aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic group, and A may include hydroxy, carboxy, or carboxyphenyl groups.
US09758639B2
Disclosed herein are vulcanizable and vulcanized rubber compositions comprising a conjugated diene polymer or copolymer, silica, and a substituted imidazole-based silica shielding agent of Formula (I), and methods for preparing such rubber compositions. Also disclosed herein are tire components, such as tire treads, containing the rubber compositions disclosed herein.
US09758636B2
A high-transparent, thermoplastically processable polymer composition is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the polymer composition includes an acrylate organic polymer. The acrylate organic polymer is a copolymer that can include functional groups of hydrocarbon group up to nine carbon atoms, hydroalkyl group, halogenated hydrocarbon groups, aminoalkyl group, aryl group, cycloalkyl group, and/or a combination thereof. The polymer composition may further include a polysilicon compound, polycarbonate polymer, a polyvinyl polymer, a plasticizer, and/or a combination thereof.
US09758625B2
Polymeric BODIPY dyes including light harvesting BODIPY unit-comprising multichromophores are provided. In some embodiments, the dyes are polymeric tandem dyes that include a light harvesting BODIPY unit-comprising multichromophore and an acceptor chromophore covalently linked to the multichromophore in energy-receiving proximity therewith. The polymeric tandem dyes may be covalently linked to a specific binding member. Also provided are methods of evaluating a sample for the presence of a target analyte and methods of labelling a target molecule using compositions including the polymeric tandem dyes. Kits and systems for practicing the subject methods are also provided.
US09758617B2
A catalyst system includes a transition metal salt containing a halo group, an acetate group, or a combination thereof, and an organic phosphine ligand. The molar ratio of the organic phosphine ligand to the transition metal salt is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 50.
US09758613B2
The invention relates to a method for producing foamed molded bodies comprising the steps of A) providing a mold, and B) introducing a foam-forming reaction mixture into the mold under variable pressure of injection, wherein the method is characterized in that the foam-forming reaction mixture has a fiber time of ≧20 s to ≦60 s.
US09758612B2
A polymer, an organic layer composition, an organic layer, and a method of forming patterns, the polymer including a moiety represented by the following Chemical Formula 1:
US09758609B2
A monomer having a plurality of tertiary alcoholic hydroxyl groups is provided. A useful polymer is obtained by polymerizing the monomer. From a resist composition comprising the polymer, a negative pattern which is insoluble in alkaline developer and has high etch resistance is formed at a high resolution.
US09758607B2
A polymer with antibacterial activity is provided. The polymer has multiple groups of cationic amines, each group spaced from the polymer backbone by alkylene spacers of different lengths. The resulting polymer maintains significant antibacterial activity while having reduced hemolytic activity relative to a homopolymer that uses hexylene spacers.
US09758604B2
Disclosed is a method of preparing a vinyl chloride based resin by suspension polymerization to prevent foaming by slowly elevating reaction temperature such that pressure is maintained when pressure drops in a late stage of reaction. According to the method, the vinyl chloride based resin is prepared using suspension polymerizing vinyl chloride based monomers so as to reduce foaming and improve a protrusion, thermal stability and the like.
US09758595B2
The present invention provides a method to prepare polysaccharides from Ganoderma lucidum. The prepared polysaccharides reduce body weight and fat accumulation in laboratory animals, and can therefore be used to prevent and treat obesity.
US09758592B2
Recombinant cell surface capture proteins and detection molecules that are useful for isolating and detecting cells that produce a secreted heterodimeric protein of interest (POI) that has an immunoglobulin CH3 domain and/or substituted CH3 domain are provided. Recombinant cell surface capture proteins and detection molecules that isolate and detect bispecific antibodies are also provided. The invention also provides recombinant antigen-binding proteins that are capable of recognizing and binding to proteins of interest that contain a CH3 domain and/or a modified CH3 domain, such as a CH3 domain with or without amino acid substitutions at H95 and Y96 (IMGT).
US09758587B2
Improved anti-CD154 antibodies are provided herein which have ablated FcR binding and/or complement binding/activation. The use of these antibodies for inducing tolerance and treating immune diseases including autoimmunity, inflammation and allergic disorders is disclosed herein.
US09758565B2
The present invention provides soluble CTLA4 mutant molecules which bind with greater avidity to the CD80 and/or CD86 antigen than wild type CTLA4 or non-mutated CTLA4Ig. The soluble CTLA4 molecules have a first amino acid sequence comprising the extracellular domain of CTLA4, where certain amino acid residues within the S25-R33 region and M97-G107 region are mutated. The mutant molecules of the invention may also include a second amino acid sequence which increases the solubility of the mutant molecule.
US09758555B1
The present invention relates to methods for treating and/or preventing tumors and/or promoting apoptosis in a neoplastic cell comprising contacting the neoplastic cell with an cell-penetrating dominant-negative ATF5 (“CP-d/n-ATF5”), wherein the CP-d/n-ATF5 is capable of inhibiting ATF5 function and/or activity.
US09758554B2
The present disclosure relates to a collection of novel muteins derived from human α1m (or a1m) polypeptide or a functional homolog thereof. The disclosure further refers to a α1m mutein capable of specifically binding to one or more targets other than a target to which wild-type α1m binds. The disclosure also relates to a method for producing such collection of muteins and a method for isolating a mutein capable of binding one or more such non-natural targets of wild-type α1m polypeptide. These aspects are made possible due to, e.g, the structural elucidation of α1m disclosed herein by the present inventors, an appreciation of ligand-binding sights thereof and, hence, an understanding of which amino acid positions are most suitable for mutagenesis for re-engineering specificity and affinity for any given target while maintaining the secondary and/or tertiary structure of a1m.
US09758549B2
The present invention relates to peptide ligands of the melanocortin receptors, in particular the melancortin-4 receptor, and as such, are useful in the treatment of disorders responsive to the activation of this receptor, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus and sexual dysfunction.
US09758548B2
A method of treating a bacterial infection in a subject is disclosed. The method comprises administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a peptide being between 3 and 5 amino acids, wherein at least one amino acid of the 3 and 5 amino acids is selected from the group consisting of tryptophan, cysteine, proline and methionine.
US09758534B2
Organoaminosilanes, such as without limitation di-iso-propylaminosilane (DIPAS), are precursors for the deposition of silicon containing films such as silicon-oxide and silicon-nitride films. Described herein are methods to make organoaminosilane compounds, or other compounds such as organoaminodisilanes and organoaminocarbosilanes, via the catalytic hydrosilylation of an imine by a silicon source comprising a hydridosilane.
US09758533B2
A reaction method comprising combining a carbonyl-substituted arylboronic acid or ester and an α-effect amine in aqueous solution at a temperature between about −5 C to 55 C, and a pH between 2 and 8 to produce an adduct. A process is also provided comprising: contacting a composition having a boron atom bonded to a sp2 hybridized carbon, the boron having at least one labile substituent, conjugated with a cis-carbonyl, with an α-effect amine, in an aqueous medium for a time sufficient to form an adduct, which may proceed to further products.
US09758531B2
Azaindazole compounds for treating various diseases and pathologies are disclosed. More particularly, the present invention concerns the use of an azaindazole compound or analogs thereof, in the treatment of disorders characterized by the activation of Wnt pathway signaling (e.g., cancer, abnormal cellular proliferation, angiogenesis, fibrotic disorders, bone or cartilage diseases, and osteoarthritis), the modulation of cellular events mediated by Wnt pathway signaling, as well as genetic diseases and neurological conditions/disorders/diseases due to mutations or dysregulation of the Wnt pathway and/or of one or more of Wnt signaling components. Also provided are methods for treating Wnt-related disease states.
US09758525B2
Disclosed are compounds having enhanced potency in the modulation of NMDA receptor activity. Such compounds are contemplated for use in the treatment of conditions such as depression and related disorders. Orally available formulations and other pharmaceutically acceptable delivery forms of the compounds, including intravenous formulations, are also disclosed.
US09758524B2
The present invention relates to 6-5 membered fused pyridine ring compounds according to Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to their use in therapy. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of 6-5 membered fused pyridine ring compounds according to Formula (I) in the treatment of Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (Btk) mediated disorders.
US09758523B2
The present invention is directed to [1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyridine and [1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyrazine derivatives which are LSD1 inhibitors useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US09758518B2
Generally, the present invention provides novel quinoline compounds and pharmaceutical composition thereof which may inhibit cell proliferation and/or induce cell apoptosis. The present invention also provides methods of preparing such compounds and compositions, and methods of making and using the same.
US09758513B2
The present invention provides a compound which has an effect of inhibiting amyloid β production, especially an effect of inhibiting BACE1, and which is useful as a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for diseases induced by production, secretion and/or deposition of amyloid β proteins.A compound of the formula (I): wherein X is —C(R3a)(R3b)—, —C(R3a)(R3b)—C(R3c)(R3d)— or —C(R3a)═C(R3c)—, R1 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or the like, R2a, R2b, R3a, R3b, R3c and R3d are each independently hydrogen, halogen or the like, R4 is hydrogen or halogen, Ring B is substituted or unsubstituted carbocycle or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocycle, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US09758509B2
The present invention relates to organic molecules capable of modulating tyrosine kinase signal transduction in order to regulate, modulate and/or inhibit abnormal cell proliferation.
US09758508B2
The present invention provides a compound selected from the group consisting of a compound of formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, prodrugs, hydrates, solvates and isomers thereof; a use of the compound for the treatment, relief or prevention of diseases caused by abnormal or uncontrolled activation of protein kinase, and a use of the compound for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment, relief or prevention of the diseases; a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound as an active ingredient; and a method for the treatment, relief or prevention of the diseases using the compound. The inventive compound is useful for the treatment, relief or prevention of diseases caused by abnormal or uncontrolled activation of protein kinase.
US09758507B2
Chiral synthesis of pyrrolidine core compounds en route to neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibitors
A chiral synthesis of pyrrolidine compounds en route to selective neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibitors, and representative inhibitor compounds heretofore unattainable.
US09758496B2
A method of sealing an end of a polymer with a carbodiimide compound without liberating an isocyanate compound. A compound including a cyclic structure having one carbodiimide group whose first nitrogen and second nitrogen are bonded together by a bond group is used as an end-sealing agent for the polymer.
US09758495B2
The present invention provides MDM2 inhibitor compounds of Formula (I), or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variables are defined above, which compounds are useful as therapeutic agents, particularly for the treatment of cancers. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions that contain an MDM2 inhibitor of Formula (I).
US09758494B2
N-(Oxazol-2-yl)-aryl-carboxylic acid amides and use thereof as herbicides N-(Isoxazol-3-yl)arylcarboxamides and their use as herbicides are described. In this formula (I), A represents N or C—Y. R, R′, V, X, Y and Z represent radicals such as hydrogen, halogen and organic radicals such as substituted alkyl.
US09758492B2
There are disclosed compounds that modulate or inhibit the enzymatic activity of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), pharmaceutical compositions containing said compounds and methods of treating proliferative disorders, such as cancer, viral infections and/or autoimmune diseases utilizing the compounds of the invention.
US09758478B2
A Addition-fragmentation oligomers containing allylic disulfide groups are described. The oligomers may be added to polymerizable compositions to provide labile crosslinks that can cleave and reform during the polymerization process.
US09758476B2
The present invention relates to novel ortho alkynyl anilines of formula (I) which are useful in synthesis of drug intermediates and natural products and process for preparation of these ortho alkynyl anilines of formula (I) via copper catalyzed Multi Component Reactions (MCR).
US09758473B2
The present invention relates generally to therapeutics targeting the bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis, including its protease Lysine gingipain (Kgp), and their use for the treatment of disorders associated with P. gingivalis infection, including brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. In certain embodiments, the invention provides compounds according to Formula I, as described herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US09758472B2
Non-lactone carbocyclic and heterocyclic antagonists and agonists of bacterial quorum sensing. Pharmaceutical composition containing antagonists. Methods employing antagonists and agonists for modulation of quorum sensing. Compounds are exemplified by those of formula: A-[Z]n-L1-[Y]q-W-[V]m-L2-HG, where A is an acyclic aliphatic group, and HG is an optionally substituted phenyl group. Compounds include those where m and n are both 0, W is —NH—, Y is present and is —CO—CH2—CO—, and L1 and L2 independently are —[CH2]p1— and —[CH2]p2—, where p1 and p2, independently, are 0 or integers ranging from 1-10.
US09758463B1
The method for producing a vapor composition containing lactic acid of the present invention is capable of suppressing the generation of by-products such as acetaldehyde and carbon monoxide due to pyrolysis of a lactic acid species during vaporization. Furthermore, a lactic acid oligomer generated can be effectively used without loss, and a vapor composition containing lactic acid can be industrially efficiently produced stably for a long time. The present invention relates to a method for producing a vapor composition containing lactic acid including: feeding a liquid composition containing lactic acid to a vaporizer; mixing the liquid composition with a liquid composition containing a lactic acid oligomer contained in the vaporizer to prepare a liquid mixture; and heating the liquid mixture to vaporize part of the liquid mixture, whereby a vapor composition containing lactic acid is produced.
US09758462B2
A process utilizing nitric acid and oxygen as co-oxidants to oxidize aldehydes, alcohols, polyols, preferably carbohydrates, specifically reducing sugars to produce the corresponding carboxylic acids.
US09758456B2
To provide a method for stably storing tetrafluoropropene filled in a container for e.g. storage or transportation, without occurrence of reaction such as polymerization.A method for storing tetrafluoropropene in a gaseous-liquid state composed of a gas phase and a liquid phase in a closed container, wherein the oxygen concentration (content) in the above gas phase is adjusted to at least 3 vol ppm and less than 3,000 vol ppm at a temperature of 25° C.
US09758445B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising alkene benzenes or alkene benzene sulfonates or alkylbenzenes or alkylbenzene sulfonates; methods for making alkene benzenes or alkene benzene sulfonates or alkylbenzenes or alkylbenzene sulfonates; where the benzene ring is optionally substituted with one or more groups designated R*, where R* is defined herein. More particularly, the present invention relates to compositions comprising 2-phenyl linear alkene benzenes or 2-phenyl linear alkene benzene sulfonates or 2-phenyl linear alkylbenzenes or 2-phenyl linear alkylbenzene sulfonates; methods for making 2-phenyl alkene benzenes or 2-phenyl alkene benzene sulfonates or 2-phenyl alkylbenzenes or 2-phenyl alkylbenzene sulfonates; where the benzene ring is optionally substituted with one or more groups designated R*, where R* is defined herein. This invention also relates to compositions, methods of making, use of, and articles of manufacture comprising 2-ethoxylated hydroxymethylphenyl linear alkyl benzenes. This invention also relates to compositions, methods of making, use of, and articles of manufacture comprising 2-propoxylated hydroxymethylphenyl linear alkyl benzenes.
US09758440B2
The method for catalytic methanation of synthesis gas includes the following steps: 1) feeding the synthesis gas into the bottom of a reactor of an upward concurrent flow transporting bed so as to adequately mix and preheat with methanation catalyst entering the bottom of the reactor until the activation temperature of the catalyst is reached and then the methanation reaction begins; and 2) after the methanation reaction, immediately passing the product gas and the catalyst grains outputted from the transporting bed into a gas-solid separator to perform a rapid separation so as to obtain the product gas.
US09758439B1
Reactive nanocomposites comprising a metal nanoparticle functionalized with one or more layers of self-assembled protein cages and methods of making the same. The reactive nanocomposites according to the present invention demonstrate improved reaction kinetics and enhanced exothermic behavior.
US09758430B2
Two part sizing composition for coating glass fibres and composite reinforced with such glass fibres
The present invention concerns a two-part sizing composition comprising: (A) A precursor comprising: (a) An aminosilane (e.g. A1100) and (b) a polymer or copolymer containing carboxylic acid and/or anhydride, both having a functionality, F≧3, and (B) A binder comprising a multi-functional epoxy resin of functionality, F≧3. Glass fibres sized with the reaction product of the above composition yield a higher resistance to hydrolysis of polymeric matrix composite materials reinforced with such fibres. The sizing composition of the present invention is particularly advantageous for use with polyester resins, such as PET.
US09758428B1
An antimicrobial chemically strengthened glass and a method for manufacturing the chemically strengthened antimicrobial glass. The antimicrobial chemically strengthened glass includes an antimicrobial surface layer having at least 0.1 at % of silver ions and at least 0.1 at % of copper ions, wherein the chemically strengthened antimicrobial glass has a CIE color channel b* of less than 1.
US09758426B2
The present invention relates to reflective articles, such as solar mirrors, that include a sacrificial cathodic layer. The reflective article, more particularly includes a substrate, such as glass, having a multi-layered coating thereon that includes a lead-free sacrificial cathodic layer. The sacrificial cathodic layer includes at least one transition metal, such as a particulate transition metal, which can be in the form of flakes (e.g., zinc flakes). The sacrificial cathodic layer can include an inorganic matrix formed from one or more organo-titanates. Alternatively, the sacrificial cathodic layer can include an organic polymer matrix (e.g., a crosslinked organic polymer matrix formed from an organic polymer and an aminoplast crosslinking agent). The reflective article also includes an outer organic polymer coating, that can be electrodeposited over the sacrificial cathodic layer.
US09758424B2
The present invention relates to an anisotropic glass containing, in terms of mol % on the basis of oxides, P2O5 in a content of from 45 mol % to 57 mol %, two or more kinds of alkali metal oxides selected from the group consisting of Li2O, Na2O, K2O, Rb2O, and Cs2O in a total content of from 30 mol % to 54 mol %, and at least one polyvalent element oxide other than P2O5 in a total content of from 0.1 mol % to 20 mol %, and having a birefringence of 30×10−6 or more.
US09758415B2
A method of preparing a microorganisms-immobilized felt-based resin includes the following steps: providing a mixture of an acrylate monomer, an initiator, a solvent, and water; adding a felt to the mixture; initiating a polymerization reaction of the mixture to form a felt-based resin; and immobilizing microorganisms on the felt-based resin to form the microorganisms-immobilized felt-based resin.
US09758411B2
A bioreactor for anaerobic, aerobic and anoxic digestion of organic matter from wastewater, having a bottom anaerobic zone where the wastewater is fed where anaerobic bacteria produces biogas and the sludge produced is deposited on the bottom and subsequently extracted. An anoxic middle zone contains denitrifying bacteria which converts nitrates to nitrogen, and an aerobic zone at the upper part where at least one biological contact rotor is disposed, which degrade organic matter remaining in the water. The growth of nitrifying bacteria converts ammonia nitrogen into nitrites and nitrates. The tank has a plurality of rhomboids for biogas, sludge and scum collection that join together form a intermediate polyhedral separator panel. The rhomboids joined together define conical collectors with connecting nozzles of ducts from a capture and conduction network of biogas and funnel-shaped manifolds with connecting nozzles of ducts that define a capture and conduction network of sludge and scum.
US09758406B2
A wastewater or sludge treatment fixed film cross-flow distribution media corrugated sheet (84, 84′, 84″) and assemblies (118, 118′, 118″) thereof include corrugations (98, 98′, 98″), angled of about 10° to about 80° to the top and the bottom of the sheet and the assemblies. The sheet has a unitarily formed baffle (100, 100′, 100″) along at least a top portion of an exposed side of the sheet (96, 96′, 96″) or assemblies (130, 130′, 130″) exposed to denser wastewater or sludge outside of the assemblies than within the assemblies that is sufficient, when joined with either a like baffle (100, 100′, 100″) on a like sheet (84, 84′, 84″) or optional substantially planar interstitial sheets (132, 132′, 132″) adjacent the corrugated sheets, to substantially block air used in a sparging system from exiting or the denser wastewater or sludge being treated from entering the exposed side (96, 96′, 96″) of the sheet or the exposed side (130, 130′, 130″) of the assemblies. Beneficial biomass forming biofilm on the surfaces within the assemblies is controlled, effectively treating the wastewater or sludge.
US09758398B2
A process and system for determining injection rate of treatment chemicals to eliminate or reduce downstream noxious gas emissions in a wastewater collection system. The process and system provides for treatment chemical injection at a pumping station or directly on a force main wherein dosage is calculated based on current and historical data relative to the pumping station.
US09758396B2
Disclosed herein are systems for removing particulate matter from a fluid, comprising a particle functionalized by attachment of at least one activating group or amine functional group, wherein the modified particle complexes with the particulate matter within the fluid to form a removable complex therein. The particulate matter has preferably been contacted, complexed or reacted with a tethering agent. The system is particularly advantageous to removing particulate matter from a tailing solution.
US09758383B2
The invention relates to a process for converting polychlorosilanes into hexachlorodisilane, by one or more trimeric polychlorosilanes or a trimeric polychlorosilane in a mixture with higher molecular weight polychlorosilanes being exposed to a gas discharge and hexachlorodisilane being formed and isolated.
US09758382B1
Various implementations and embodiments relate to three-dimensional open cellular diamond micro-truss structures and methods.
US09758380B2
The present disclosure relates to graphene quantum dot and a method for preparing the graphene quantum dot.
US09758370B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for manufacturing a CMOS-MEMS device. A partial protective layer is deposited on a top surface of a layered to cover a logic region. A first partial etch is performed from the bottom side of the layered structure to form a first gap below a MEMS membrane within a MEMS region of the layered structure. A second partial etch is performed from the top side of the layered structure to remove a portion of a sacrificial layer between the MEMS membrane and a MEMS backplate within the MEMS region. The second partial etch releases the MEMS membrane so that it can move in response to pressures. The deposited partial protective layer prevents the second partial etch from etching a portion of the sacrificial layer positioned within the logic region of the layered structure and also prevents the second partial etch from damaging the CMOS logic component.
US09758363B2
A delivery system includes a transportation container for cooking oil carried by a delivery vehicle for filling a storage container located at a restaurant. A flexible conduit is temporarily connected between the transportation container and the storage container. The oil is pumped from the transportation container to the storage container. A pressure sensor, carried by the vehicle downstream the pump, monitors pressure in the storage container. A processor operates with the pressure sensor for determining a pressure level in the storage container and controls delivery of the oil for limiting a pressure level to a preselected value. The system waits a period of time and tests the pressure to allow the pressure in the storage container to equalize so that pressure in the conduit at the vehicle is the same as pressure in the storage container. The pressure level is used to establish the amount of cooking oil delivered.
US09758361B2
A machine for filling a container having a longitudinal axis is disclosed. The machine comprises a conveying device, and at least one handling unit moved by the conveying device along a path. The at least one handling unit comprises a support device configured to receive and retain the container, and at least one filling device configured to feed a pourable product into the container as the at least one handling unit travels along the path. The machine further comprises an actuator configured to rotate the container about the longitudinal axis while the container is filled with the pourable product by the at least one filling device.
US09758357B2
A winch assembly is described and shown herein. The winch assembly may include a first housing member having a first retaining member formed therein and a second housing member having a second retaining member formed therein, the second housing member secured to the first housing member forming a winch housing. The winch assembly may further include a drive system generally positioned within the winch housing, and a winch drum operatively coupled with the drive system and rotationally secured with the first and second retaining members.
