US10011475B1
A bucket bottling stand is described. The bucket bottling stand may comprise a top platform and a bottom platform that are attached via a hinge and one or more springs. The top surface of the top platform may include a recess for holding a container and the front of the top and bottom platform may include a hemispherical cut-out. One or more legs may be attached to the bottom platform. Upon emptying a container located on the top platform, the spring may tilt the top platform relative to the bottom platform to aid in dispensing the container.
US10011473B2
A milk jug includes a pitcher body, a handle, a blade retainer, and an expiration tag retainer. The milk jug is useful for containing and dispensing milk packaged in bags while retaining necessary accessories on the pitcher. The milk jug improves the utility and convenience of using milk bags by preventing the loss of the blade and expiration tag commonly used with milk bags.
US10011470B2
A safety barrier for a loading dock lift that includes a lift platform that can be raised and lowered. The safety barrier includes a sleeve attached to the lift platform extending along a vertical axis. The sleeve includes guides to define open and closed positions of said gate and said shaft includes a pin that interacts with the guides to produce rotation of said gate between open and closed positions. Consequently each embodiment gate automatically closes due to gravity whenever the lift is raised off the ground and thereby assures that that gates are locked in position when the lift platform has been raised a short distance.
US10011465B2
This invention relates to a mobile crane with a vehicle framework and at least one support device positioned on the vehicle framework, whereby the at least one support device comprises a sliding beam box and at least one sliding beam supported therein in a telescopable manner, whereby the sliding beam box consists of a fixed partial sliding beam box and of a detachable partial sliding beam box, and whereby the fixed partial sliding beam box is firmly fixed to the mobile crane, particularly on the vehicle framework, and the detachable partial sliding beam box is detachably connected or connectable with the fixed partial sliding beam box.
US10011461B2
An elevator includes an elevator car; a counterweight; a drive wheel mounted stationary, and having a rotational axis; first diverting wheel(s), mounted on the elevator car, and having a rotational axis parallel with the rotational axis of the drive wheel; a second and a third diverting wheel mounted on the counterweight radially side by side, each having a rotational axis, which is at an angle of 60 to 90 degrees relative to the rotational axis of the drive wheel; a roping suspending the elevator car and counterweight and including a first belt-like rope and a second belt-like rope, each having a first end and a second end fixed to a stationary rope fixing, and each comprising one or more load bearing members made of fiber-reinforced composite material; wherein the first rope and the second rope are arranged to pass side by side from the fixing of the first end downwards to the elevator car; and to turn side by side under said first diverting wheel(s); and to pass upwards to the drive wheel; and to turn side by side over the drive wheel; and to pass downwards to the counterweight, each rope turning around its longitudinal axis an angle of 60 to 90 degrees, and into the gap between the rims of the second and third diverting wheel, the first rope passing to the second diverting wheel and the second rope passing to the third diverting wheel, the first rope passing under the second diverting wheel and the second rope passing under the third diverting wheel, the diverting wheels rotating in opposite directions guiding the ropes arriving to them from the drive wheel to turn away from each other; and to pass upwards to the fixing of the second end.
US10011456B2
Method for implementing a correct winding of a wire on a spool (100). The method also comprises a step for calculating the angular speed of a motor (43) displacing the wire dispensing device (40) according to the wire winding step and according to the dancer error, detected by a position sensor (35) that provides an analogical signal with respect to a zero position and to a tolerance value, in order to determine the presence of a possible “valley error”, or of a possible “peak error”. In this method, if during the spool winding, a “valley error” or a “peak error” is detected, the control device decides whether to slow down or to increase the speed of the wire dispensing device (40) with the aim of filling the depression or skipping the peak.
US10011437B2
An overturning and shifting mechanism, comprising: a carrier platform (10) on which a first item-sensing device (12) is disposed; a transporting device (11) on which a second item-sensing device (13) is disposed; an overturning device (14) which is positioned between the carrier platform (10) and the transporting device (11) and which comprises a driving device (141) and a rotating arm (142), the rotating arm (142) being provided with a suction structure (15) thereon; and a control device which is connected with the first item-sensing device (12), the second item-sensing device (13), the driving device (141) and the suction structure (15), wherein according to sensing signals of the first item-sensing device (12) and the second item-sensing device (13), the control device controls the driving device to drive the rotating arm (142) to rotate reciprocatingly between the carrier platform (10) and the transporting device (11), while at the same time the control device controls sucking or releasing operation of the suction structure (15). The mechanism is mainly used in production process of display devices and solves problems in contaminations and deformations due to overturning and shifting of display panels by manual operations in the conventional arts.
US10011433B2
A workpiece convey system comprising two conveyor devices which alternately convey workpieces from a source area to a destination area, wherein each of the two conveyor devices is provided with a workpiece holding part which can hold a workpiece, and a movement mechanism which moves the workpiece holding part back and forth between the source area and the destination area, the two conveyor devices being arranged so as to match the positions where their respective workpiece holding parts are stopped within the source area.
US10011431B2
A long run conveyor system is disclosed in which at least a portion thereof traverses a slope sufficiently steep so that tensile force associated with overcoming the effects of the slope is greater per unit length than tensile force per unit length of run due to main frictional resistance of the conveyor system. The long run conveyor system includes an external belt defining a continuous loop traversing an entire route of the conveyor system and is configured to transport material load across the entire route. The conveyor system also includes an internal belt positioned inside the continuous loop of the external belt, which also traverses substantially the entire route. An upper side of the internal belt operably engages an underside of the external belt. The internal and external belts are configured such that each respectively carries an approximately equal amount of belt tension.
US10011424B1
A front load refuse container made according to this invention has its four walls integrally formed out of a single piece of sheet metal. To form the walls, the single sheet is welded along a single vertical seam to form a circular-shaped ring. The circular-shaped ring is subjected to a swaging process that produces a rectangular-shaped ring with rounded corners. The container includes a lift pocket, formed from a single sheet, that defines half-hexagon-shaped prong receiving channel.
US10011421B2
A capsule includes a deformable and/or compressible casing, provided with a base wall and a side wall defining a cavity that is open and suitable for containing an initial product to obtain a final food product. A supporting element is fixed to a first edge of the casing and facing the cavity and a nozzle is fixed to the supporting element and arranged for delivering a fluid into the cavity which interacts with the initial product to make the final product. The nozzle also opens the base wall and enables the final product to exit when the casing is compressed and crushed.
US10011419B2
An automatic discharge device includes a housing having a recess for receipt of the body of a container and a groove configured to receive a portion of a valve stem of the container. The recess includes a tapered upper end configured to fit a neck of the container. Further, a first compartment for receipt of a first battery and a second compartment for receipt of a second battery are provided. An actuator is disposed proximate the groove, which defines lateral sidewalls and a rear sidewall and has an open forward end to receive the valve stem.
US10011413B1
A drinking straw wrapper comprises an upper portion and a lower portion detachably engaged with the upper portion. The upper and lower portions are collectively configured to enclose a drinking straw. Detachment of the upper portion from the lower portion creates an opening in the upper portion and an opening in the lower portion, with the opening in the upper portion being substantially wider than the opening in the lower portion so as to facilitate replacement of the upper portion on a top of the straw after its initial removal therefrom. The upper portion may be formed from a first material and the lower portion formed from a second material different than the first material. Alternatively, the upper portion may be formed from a material having a first thickness and the lower portion formed from a same material but having a second thickness that is less than the first thickness.
US10011409B2
A device for securing two or more posts together is disclosed. The device comprises a first end that can be passed through the post apertures, that is also configurable to prevent the first end from being withdrawn through the apertures, and a second end adapted to prevent the second end from passing through the apertures. The device may be reusable or non-reusable. A handle for use in moving a bundle of two or more posts is also disclosed. The bundle may have been formed with the device, or in another manner. The device and handle may be separate components or integrally formed. Systems and methods employing the device and/or handle are also disclosed.
US10011399B1
A hermetically sealed enclosure for use in fabricating a polymeric dental article. Monomers are mixed within the enclosure by squeezing a first burst pouch to break a first burst seal between it and a second burst pouch and manipulating the enclosure by hand to initiate a polymerization reaction while the enclosure remains hermetically sealed. A second burst seal between the second burst pouch and a dispensing funnel chamber is broken by further squeezing which forces the mixture into the dispensing funnel chamber. The mixture is dispensed from an outlet of the dispensing funnel chamber by further squeezing after a tear-off strip closing the outlet has been torn off.
US10011394B2
A reusable mailer bag includes a front panel, a rear panel, a pair of side panels, and a bottom panel. The panels together define a carrying volume including an opening opposite the bottom panel. A pair of handles are attached to an interior surface of the carrying volume and are configured for positioning entirely within the carrying volume during shipping. The pair of handles are configured to extend out of the opening to convert the reusable mailer bag for use as a carrying bag. A flap is attached to the rear panel at a first end and is configured to extend across the opening to close the opening. The flap is securable to the front panel at a second end by an adhesive strip. The flap is configured to be removed from the mailer bag after shipping.
US10011376B2
It is to provide a packaging container comprising: a synthetic resin container body having a flange part at a periphery of an opening at an upper end thereof; and a container cap having a top board part and a skirt part provided such that it is suspended from a-periphery of the top board part, and wherein the top board part is heat-sealed onto an upper surface of the flange part of the container body; wherein the packaging container has a first cutout part at an upper end of an outer edge of the flange part. By providing a first cutout part, a packaging container possible to achieve sealing with the container cap stably, and to open the sealing easily and surely as well can be provided, by suppressing the effect of a molten resin on a folded corner part of the skirt of the container cap when the container body is heat-sealed with the container cap.
US10011372B2
A system is configured to shield an interior chamber of a structure. The system may include a power source, an outer shield assembly operatively connected to the power source and coupled to an outer wall of the structure, and an inner shield assembly surrounding the internal chamber. The outer shield assembly generates a magnetic field through and around the structure. The inner shield assembly deflects radiation particles away from the interior chamber and re-directs portions of the magnetic field around the interior chamber.
US10011371B2
[Object] To provide a control device which enables a flight vehicle device to obtain a highly precise image.[Solution] Provided is the control device including an illuminating control unit configured to adjust a light amount of an illuminating device according to an inclination of a body of a flight vehicle device that has an imaging device configured to photograph a photographing target and the illuminating device configured to illuminate the photographing target.
US10011366B2
A fuel tank in which it is possible to reduce working hours or cost in a manufacturing process and prevent an increase in weight in, a main wing, an aircraft fuselage, an aircraft, and a mobile body. The fuel tank is provided with a structural member using carbon fiber reinforced plastic in which a reinforcing material includes carbon fibers and a matrix includes plastic, wherein the matrix has electrical conductivity applied thereto. Furthermore, a cut surface of the structural member, which is formed by cutting the structural member, may be exposed to the inside in which fuel is accommodated, of a fuel tank.
US10011362B2
An aircraft outer skin heat exchanger includes a first cooling air inlet and a first cooling air duct section, in which a first heat carrier fluid duct section is arranged. A cooling air conveying device is configured to convey a cooling air stream in such a way through the first cooling air inlet and the first cooling air duct section that the cooling air stream is subdivided by a first heat carrier fluid duct section, arranged in the first cooling air duct section, into two partial air streams which flow through the first cooling air duct section substantially parallel to one another and in the same direction.
US10011351B2
In some embodiments, a passenger pod assembly transportation system includes a transportation services provider computing system and a plurality of flying frame flight control systems, wherein the system is configured to receive, at the transportation services provider computing system, a request for transportation of a passenger pod assembly having a current location and a destination; upload a flight plan to a flight control system of a flying frame including an airframe and a propulsion system; dispatch the flying frame to the current location of the passenger pod assembly; couple the flying frame to the passenger pod assembly at the current location of the passenger pod assembly; transport the passenger pod assembly by air from the current location of the passenger pod assembly to the destination of the passenger pod assembly; and decouple the passenger pod assembly from the flying frame at the destination of the passenger pod assembly.
US10011348B1
A vertical thrust lever has a first range of motion and is configured to output a first signal level where the first signal level is based at least in part on the position of the vertical thrust lever and the first signal level is used to control a first set of rotors which rotate in a horizontal plane. A controller has a second range of motion and is configured to output a second signal level where the second signal level is based at least in part on the position of the controller and the second signal level is used to control a second set of rotors which rotate in a vertical plane.
US10011344B1
An improved high-voltage AC power supply energizes and regulates plasma actuators for aerodynamic flow control. Such plasma actuators are used, for example, on aerodynamic surfaces, wind turbine blades, and the like for vehicle control, drag or noise reduction, or efficient power generation. Various embodiments of the power supply are small, compact, lightweight, portable, modular, self-contained in its own housing, easily replaceable and swappable, autonomous, self-cooling, and/or gangable in series or parallel to provide any desired control authority over the selected surface. In some embodiments, the parameters for the plasma electronics can be manually selected and pre-programmed for a specific application, while in preferred embodiments, the plasma electronics can automatically identify the appropriate parameters and self-tune the performance of the plasma actuators.
US10011339B2
A method of controlling trim position of two or more propulsion devices on a marine vessel includes receiving a running trim position for the two or more propulsion devices and receiving at least one of a steering input value or a roll angle of the marine vessel. An adjusted trim position for each of the at least two propulsion devices is then determined based on the running trim position and the steering input value or the roll angle of the marine vessel. A trim actuator for each propulsion device is then operated to move each propulsion device toward its respective adjusted trim position.
US10011338B2
An apparatus including a frame; a drive wheel coupled to the frame; first and second foot links operably coupled to said drive wheel to transfer power to said drive wheel so as to propel the apparatus; and each of said first and second foot links including a pivoting foot platform for receiving an operator's foot, said pivoting foot platform pivotally coupled to one of said first and second foot links so as to allow angular travel of the pivoting foot platform, the apparatus including one or more features to limit the angular travel of said pivoting foot platform.
US10011335B2
Vehicles designed to use ground effect forces to control a positioning of the vehicle relative to a surface as well as their methods of use are described.
US10011332B2
This invention discloses an inflator mechanism for rafts and life vests that performs a multitude of functions required for rescue and underwater deployment of personnel and devices. The inner cylinder in this disclosure is actuated by a plethora of inputs, manual, automatic selectable pressure sensing, or dualled hydrostatic sensors which can each be safely selected by function selection. Since the inflator uses spring discs to drive a penetrator which mechanically punctures a membrane of an inflation gas source and actuated by an electronically controlled solenoid, dissolvable elements, conductivity switches and preset check valve actuators are eliminated increasing the safety and reliability of the actuator. Electronic control further permits user enabling of inflation depth actuation and the multiple water sensors prevent failure of actuation due to splashes and humidity effects on sensors. The actuator mechanism is self cocking, indicates proper installation of gas source enables use of several gas source cylinders and is multiply reusable.
US10011321B2
Device for driving a common shaft by pushing and pulling hand movements, that comprises respective driving bars for the left and right hands, and a mechanical unit that converts both the forward and backward movements of the pushed, respectively pulled driving bars to rotate a driven shaft, wherein respective biased rope drums (28, 29; 61, 62) are provided at both sides of the driven shaft, and on the rope drums respective ropes (30, 60) are arranged as windings, and the driving bars (15, 16; 51) are interconnected and pivoted around a common shaft (17, 52), the ropes are coupled to the respective driving bars in such a way that at one of the two sides an assembly is provided that reverses the direction of the rope displacement to become opposite to the direction of the displacement of the associated driving bar (16).
US10011320B2
A wheel hub has an axle device and a braking device. The axle device has an axle and a hub body. The hub body is mounted rotatably around the axle. The braking device is connected to the axle device and has a driving sleeve, a braking sleeve, a pressing jacket, and a fixing member. The fixing member is mounted in the hub body, is mounted around an end of the axle, and has a first end and an elongated engaging protrusion. The elongated engaging protrusion is formed on and protrudes from the first end of the fixing member.
US10011316B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle with foldable double-wheel assembly having two states, one first state as a pedaled tricycle and a second state as a running bike, comprising: a frame; a single-wheel assembly; two pedals for driving the steering wheel to roll; a handlebar assembly matching with said single-wheel assembly for control steering; and a double-wheel assembly.
US10011311B2
A surface walker for human beings consisting of a chassis holding four articulated, movable limbs for walking. Each limb rests on foot, ski or float. Chassis is topped with cushioned seat whereon user lies prone on chest and belly with access to limbs, which are activated with arms and legs. Chassis height and limb length are adjustable. User regulates walking gait, limb stride and motion frequency of limbs. Walker advances on land and water and diverse landscapes. Design incorporates optional computer-controlled power assistance for walker motion and use of mechanical hand for enhanced traction and anchoring effects.
US10011309B1
A drag-reducing pickup truck canopy includes an upper portion having a generally rectangular shape with one long side acting as a front edge and an opposite long side acting as a rear edge, the upper portion having a downward sloping section extending between the front edge and the rear edge, two side portions with one side portion extending downward and tapering outward from each short side of the upper portion, and two support portions extending outward from lower edges of the side portions. The upper portion may include a substantially flat portion adjacent to the front edge and/or a substantially flat portion adjacent the rear edge.
US10011306B2
The present invention relates to a motor vehicle facade module (1) comprising a support piece (3, 5, 7, 9) comprising: —a first part (11) comprising an upper crossmember (3) having a first reinforcement (10), —a second part (13) made of plastic and comprising: lateral uprights (7), and at least two portions (15) configured for assembly with the first part (11), the at least one portion (15) comprising a second reinforcement (12).
US10011298B2
An electric power assisted steering apparatus comprising a combined angular position and torque sensor assembly comprising an upper column shaft that in use is operatively connected to a steering wheel of the vehicle, a lower column shaft that in use is operatively connected to the road wheels of the vehicle, a torsion bar that interconnects the upper column shaft and the lower column shaft, a first and a second torque signal generating means that each generate a first torque signal based on angular deflection of the torsion bar, an absolute position signal generating means that in use produces an absolute upper column position signal indicative of the angular position of the upper column shaft, an electric motor that is connected to the lower column shaft of the torque sensor assembly, and a motor position sensor carried by the motor that provides a motor position signal dependent on the angular position of the motor rotor. The apparatus further comprises a virtual torque signal generating means that in use is adapted to determine a third torque signal from a combination of the motor position signal and the absolute angular position signal produced by the processing means.
US10011285B2
The autonomous vehicle visual language system displays a plan sentence to an operator of an autonomous vehicle. The plan sentence includes visual syntax, the visual syntax being images displayed in predetermined configurations to convey specific information associated with any maneuvers the autonomous vehicle plans to execute. The visual syntax allows for a structured layering of information such that the plan sentence can display more complex information. The operator of the autonomous vehicle can process individual warnings and information more quickly, even when the operator has never seen a particular warning or element of information before. Additionally, the system 100 allows for personalization of a driver model to more closely reflect the operator's driving style, which is then implemented in the visual language displayed as the plan sentence.
US10011281B1
A lane change device, a system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The lane change system includes a sensor unit that senses a rotational angular velocity of a turn signal lever of a subject vehicle, an electric field signal of a gear lever of the subject vehicle, and distances between the subject vehicle and neighboring vehicles. A processor then sets a driving mode using the rotational angular velocity, the electric field signal, and the distances between the subject vehicle and the neighboring vehicles, generates a lane change path based on the driving mode, and executes a lane change of the subject vehicle.
US10011278B2
A collision avoidance system includes: a radar that detects an object that is located behind a vehicle and that detects a distance to the object; a plurality of ultrasonic sensors, each of which detects the object and detects a distance to the object, the plurality of ultrasonic sensors respectively detect different detection areas; an approaching object detection unit that detects an approaching object that approaches the vehicle from among the objects; a screen estimation unit that estimates that there is a screen that blocks an approach to the vehicle from behind; and a control unit that, when the approaching object has been detected, executes driving assistance for avoiding a collision with the approaching object, and, when a distance to the approaching object is larger by a predetermined value or more than a distance to the screen, restricts or prohibits execution of the driving assistance.
US10011277B2
A path of a target object is predicted. A path of a non-moving host vehicle is predicted based on at least one of a predetermined host vehicle acceleration and a predetermined host vehicle speed. A threat number for the target is determined based at least in part on the predicted path of the host vehicle, the threat number indicating a probability of a collision between the target and the host vehicle. A brake is actuated when the threat number is above a threat number threshold.
US10011267B2
The application relates to a method for stall-starting a hybrid vehicle comprising a combustion engine (12), an electric machine (14), a transmission (16) and two clutches (20, 22). In a first stall phase torque output of the combustion engine (12) is increased and compensated by the electric machine (14) operating as a generator. In the second start phase the method comprises configuring the electric machine (14) not to operate as a generator, in particular to operate as a motor. A further independent claim is directed to a stall-start apparatus. This avoids overheating the clutches (20, 22) and battery depletion, while at the same time providing high acceleration.
US10011264B2
A control system of a hybrid electrical vehicle includes: a transmission device; an engine power subsystem and a motor power subsystem connected with the transmission device; and a control module configured to control the hybrid electrical vehicle to operate in a hybrid electrical-economical mode by controlling the engine power subsystem and the motor power subsystem, and to control the hybrid electrical vehicle to operate in a first manner if a current slope detected by the hybrid electrical vehicle is less than or equal to a minimum slope and a current electric quantity of a power battery of the motor power subsystem is less than or equal to a first electric quantity threshold, or if the current slope is less than or equal to the minimum slope and a maximum allowable discharge power of the power battery is less than or equal to a first power threshold.
US10011263B2
A method and a system for improving operation of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, torque converter impeller torque from beginning to end of transmission shifting is adjusted in response to variable driveline inertia. The approach may improve transmission shifting and reduce driveline torque disturbances.
US10011259B1
In one aspect, there is provided a combination vehicle system, including a drone and a hovercraft body. The drone has a plurality of motor-driven rotors and a controller. The hovercraft body defines a ground-facing chamber having a hover air inlet, and includes a mount for the drone. The drone is removably connectable to the mount in a mounted position so as to form a hovercraft. The controller is programmed to drive the plurality of rotors to maintain stable flight of the drone without the hovercraft body connected thereto. The controller is programmed to drive the first rotor to at least partially lift the hovercraft off a support surface and to drive the second rotor to propel the hovercraft along the support surface.
US10011254B2
Disclosed herein is a pulsation damping device of a hydraulic brake system. The pulsation damping device of a hydraulic brake system which attenuates a pressure pulsation of brake oil discharged from a pump, the device comprises a damping portion installed to be inserted into a bore in communication with an inport into which the brake oil flows and an outport through which the brake oil is discharged, and a cap coupled to one end of the bore to block the one end, wherein a flow path is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the damping portion to guide the brake oil introduced into the inport to be discharged through the outport, and the flow path is formed in a longitudinal direction of the damping portion to be continuously connected from the inport to the outport.
US10011245B2
An adjustment device has a frame, a guide, a holding bar, a connector, and a manipulating unit. The frame has a holding inclined surface. The guide has two guiding slots extending longitudinally. The holding bar is disposed in and is movable along the guiding slots. The holding bar and the holding inclined surface clamp the webbing of the seat belt. The connector is mounted around the frame and is connected to the webbing. The manipulating unit is slidably mounted around the connector and has a pushing portion formed on a back side of the front slat and disposed under the holding bar and in front of the holding inclined surface. The adjustment device is to connect the webbing's second segment that is positioned vertically and clamp the webbing's first segment that is fastened obliquely on a user, and is simply operated by stepless adjustment to enhance comfort and safety.
US10011222B1
A system includes a shell at least partially formed in a shape of a steering wheel and having a first layer and a second layer spaced apart from one another. The system further includes an LED coupled to the shell or the steering wheel. The system also includes a positive triboelectric material coupled to the first layer of the shell and that loses electrons in response to friction. The system further includes a negative triboelectric material coupled to the second layer of the shell and that gains electrons in response to friction. The system further includes an electrical connector coupled to the LED and at least one of the positive triboelectric material or the negative triboelectric material. Current flows through the electrical connector to illuminate the LED when force is being applied to the shell causing the positive triboelectric material to contact the negative triboelectric material.
US10011219B2
A vehicle is provided herein. The vehicle includes a body panel and a badge attached to the panel. The badge includes a substrate and a housing attached thereto that define a cavity therebetween. A reflective member is disposed within the cavity. A light source is disposed within the cavity and is configured to emit excitation light in a first direction to illuminate a viewable portion of the badge and in a second direction towards the reflective member. The reflective member redirects the light through a peripheral portion of the badge.
US10011215B2
An illuminated emblem assembly that includes a power source; a light-producing assembly that is coupled to the power source, supported by a backing member and comprises a plurality of light-emitting diode sources; a chromatic layer comprising an emblem shape over the light-producing assembly, wherein the shape is visible under ambient lighting; and a polycarbonate sealing structure over the chromatic layer that seals the backing member, the light-producing assembly, and the chromatic layer. Further, the sealing structure can comprise a design feature. In addition, the plurality of light-emitting diode sources can be dispersed in the light-producing assembly. The light-emitting diode sources can also be micro-sized elements comprising gallium nitride that are arranged on a positive electrode layer in the form of an ink.
US10011214B2
A vehicle headlight with a laser light source (1), having at least on laser diode branch (Z) with at least one modulated laser diode (DL), wherein the laser beam (2) of the at least one laser diode can be directed in a scanning manner by means of a light scanner (7) onto a light conversion means (8) in order to generate a luminous image (11) on same, which is projected by means of an imaging system (12) as light image (11′) onto the road (13), as well as with a laser diode controller (3) and a processing unit (4) associated with same, which is supplied with sensor signals (s1 . . . sn) and which delivers a modulation signal (sm) for the laser diode controller, and with a controlled power supply (15) for the laser diode controller. The laser diode branch (Z) is bridged by a controlled parallel circuit (P) which is designed as a current controller with an analog controller (16, T2) of the laser diode controller (3) and the modulation signal (sm) is fed to the analog controller.
US10011201B2
Provided is a vehicle seat which has a simple structure, prevents the lower back region of an occupant from sinking into the seat back, induces backward rotation of the entire upper body when a rear-end collision occurs, and reduces the degree to which the neck region of the occupant independently tilts backward, and is therefore able to effectively reduce the load on the neck region and so on of the occupant. A vehicle seat is provided with a neck-burden reduction element that, during a rear-end collision, causes a greater amount of backward movement of a connection point between the neck region and a torso region of the occupant than the amount of backward movement of a lower torso region of the occupant, and causes an upper torso region of the occupant to sink into the seat back.
US10011199B2
A safety seat includes a base unit adapted to be attached to the vehicle. The base unit includes a base body, and a base carriage coupled to the base body and moveable relative thereto from a resting position to a ride down position. Movement of the base carriage from the resting position to the ride down position is caused by a force acting on the base carriage that is above a prescribed threshold. A braking element is coupled to the base body and the base carriage, and is adapted to bias the base carriage toward the resting position. A seat unit is detachably engageable with the base carriage and defines a seat cavity sized and configured to receive the child.
US10011194B1
A system and method for positioning a seat arrangement in a vehicle having a front seat arrangement and a rear seat arrangement includes moving the rear seat arrangement rearward relative to the vehicle when a plurality of criteria are met, including at least one criterion related to occupancy of the rear seat arrangement and at least one criterion related to a likelihood of impact into the vehicle from behind the vehicle. The rear seat arrangement is not moved rearward when at least one of the criteria is not met.
US10011190B2
An electrically operated backrest adjuster (1, 1″) for a vehicle seat (3) includes a seat part (3.1) and a backrest (3.2) which is adjustable relative to the seat part (3.1). At least one of two fitting sides—of which each includes a fitting upper part (B1) mounted on the backrest and a fitting lower part (B2) mounted on the seat part—includes a fitting (2, 2′) for adjusting the inclination of the backrest (3.2). The fitting (2, 2′) is arranged between the fitting upper part (B1) and the fitting lower part (B2). The fitting sides are coupled to each other by a transmission rod (5). An electric drive unit (6, 6′) is provided on one of the fitting sides. The drive unit is arranged on the outside of the associated fitting lower part (B2) is being coupled to the transmission rod (5) for driving same.
US10011185B2
The disclosure relates to a method for battery management, wherein a magnitude of a current that can be provided by the battery within a prediction period is determined from an available magnitude of a status variable, which is predicted within the prediction period, wherein the predicted available magnitude of the status variable is determined by means of a difference between a permissible magnitude of the status variable, which is determined for a first reference period, and an obtained magnitude of the status variable, which is determined for the first reference period. The disclosure also relates to a computer program and a battery management system suitable for carrying out the method and to a motor vehicle having such a battery management system.
US10011178B1
An electrified vehicle propulsion system uses current feedback to modify gate drive signals to suppress voltage spikes and increase switching efficiency. A DC link having a link capacitor and a link inductance is connected to first and second converters. A first converter bridge has a first phase leg with first upper and lower switching devices, each switching device having a respective gate loop. A second converter bridge has a second phase leg with second upper and lower switching devices, each switching device having a respective gate loop. A plurality of gate drivers provide gate drive signals to respective gate loops for turning the respective switching devices on and off. A plurality of gate coils are provided, wherein each gate coil is connected in series between a respective gate driver and a respective gate loop. Each gate coil is respectively inductively coupled to the link inductance.
US10011173B2
A powertrain system for a machine is described. The powertrain system includes a power source configured to provide a torque output. The powertrain system further includes a first drivetrain coupled to the power source, to drive a first set of ground engaging members, and a second drivetrain coupled to the power source to drive the second set of ground engaging members. The powertrain system further includes a controller having one or more lug curve maps defining a maximum allowed torque value of the power source for a current operating condition of the machine. The controller is configured to determine a parasitic load due to the second drivetrain, and adjust the torque output of the power source based on the determined parasitic load to maintain a rimpull performance of the machine, where the adjusted torque output is limited by the maximum allowed torque value.
US10011170B2
Provided is a lid device which is compact, and can be installed in an efficient manner. The lid device (20) releasably locks a lid provided with a hinge (12) in a closed position. The lid device is provided with a push lifter that alternates between an extended state and a retracted state each time the lid is pushed, a motor (54) placed next to the push lifter, a lock member (18) and a transmission mechanism (60, 64) for transmitting the output of the motor. The push lifter and the motor are arranged such that a lengthwise direction of the push lifter and a lengthwise direction of the motor are perpendicular to each other, and such that the motor at least partly overlaps with the push lifter when seen from the lengthwise direction of the motor.
US10011157B2
A vehicle includes: a front windshield that continuously extends along an A-pillar so as to form a partial roof of the vehicle above a driver area; a visor having a proximate end hinged to the A-pillar so as to assume a stowed position along the A-pillar; and on the front windshield, an attachment configured to selectively engage a distal end of the visor in a deployed position.
US10011153B1
A suspension for vans or semi-trailers has a sliding (or slider) frame that can be slid longitudinally between spaced, left and right trailer stringers. The sliding frame is coupled within the stringers for longitudinal sliding between forward and rearward extremes. The sliding frame is formed by a pair of left and right rails spaced by two or three or more cross members. The sliding frame has an even number of independent air-spring support towers. The support towers are welded to the rails, but the cross members are bolted. The air-spring support towers can take semi-funnel shapes to having a lower narrower end forming an air-spring seat, and flaring upwardly from there to upper ends connected high on the rails to funnel the weight of the van or trailer from over a wider area to more of a pinpoint distribution on the air-spring seat.
US10011149B2
A self-repairing inflatable article including an inflatable component that includes an interior surface and an exterior surface, a sealed flexible package adjacent to the inflatable component, and a sealant composition disposed in the sealed flexible package. The sealed flexible package is configured to release the sealant composition upon puncture, tearing or other breach of the inflatable component.
US10011144B2
A cap mounted to a mounting hole of a wheel, the mounting hole being formed to have a circumferential groove, includes: a circular body; a circular support; a circumferential projection that projects relative to an outer circumferential surface of the body in a radial direction; and a joint shaft. An outermost diameter of the circumferential projection is not more than an inner diameter of the mounting hole. The circumferential projection enters the circumferential groove of the mounting hole so that the cap is mounted to the wheel.
US10011142B1
An erasable writable material for large format applications is disclosed, and includes a cast polyvinylchloride film with a mount surface opposite an etched receiver surface. Also incorporated is a transparent polyester film that has a marking side with a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 79 and an opposite seal side, hermetically laminated to the receiver surface. The marking side includes a clear superstrate that has a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 90, which is applied to the marking side of the polyester film to lower surface energy below about 24 millinewtons per meter. The receiver surface is treated to have a surface energy exceeding about 45 millinewtons per meter, to enable improved adherence of printed and preformed graphic elements, which are encapsulated when laminated between the PET film and receiver surface. The superstrate includes a perfluoropolyether, a polyurethane, an acrylated polyurethane, and/or an acrylate resin to harden the material.
US10011140B2
An integrated security structure is provided employing an external source of energy to change the appearance of the structure rendering the structure more challenging to duplicate due to its complexity. The security structure includes a substrate forming part of a bank note, identification document, or other security device; an active device within the substrate changing color between at least two colors wherein a color of the substrate surrounding the active device matches one of the at least two colors to form a metameric device. At least one Interference Security Image Structure (ISIS) is configured to be metameric with a bleached state of the active device and is therefore invisible at normal incidence. Another ISIS is metameric with the colored state of the electrochromic device and consequently becomes invisible during coloration. When the whole device is tilted, both ISIS's change color while the rest of the device essentially remains the same.
US10011133B2
A liquid discharge device includes a liquid discharge head that includes a nozzle from which liquid is discharged and a liquid channel communicating with the nozzle, and that discharges liquid from the nozzle. The nozzle has an inner wall surface having an uneven pattern including a recess where the inner diameter of the nozzle is increased and a projection where the inner diameter of the nozzle is smaller than that in the recess. In a case where ink is continuously discharged from an identical nozzle, at a time when a meniscus in the nozzle after previous discharge is located closer to an initial position before discharge than a center position between the initial position and a position at which the meniscus is most greatly drawn toward the liquid channel, subsequent discharge is performed.
US10011131B2
A printing apparatus includes a print section to perform printing on a medium, a supply path to supply the medium to the print section, a correction roller pair to enable the medium transported on the supply path to strike the correction roller pair to correct skewing of the medium, an adjusting mechanism for adjusting a nip load applied to the correction roller pair, and a controller to control the adjusting mechanism based on print job information.
US10011126B2
Thermal print mechanism comprising a printer chassis, a thermal printhead, a platen roller having a conductive shaft, a manner of imparting motion to put the platen roller in rotation, two lateral conductive contacts arranged on the printer chassis so as to be directly or indirectly in electrical contact with two opposite ends of the platen roller conductive shaft for conducting of electrical current, thus forming an electrical switch. At least one nonconductive part of one end of the conductive shaft interacting with one two lateral conductive contact or at least one nonconductive element mounted on said one end of the conductive shaft, is arranged so as to open and to close the switch when the platen roller is rotating.
US10011117B2
Embodiments provide an inkjet cartridge refilling system. The system may include a drill station configured to drill at least one refilling hole in an inkjet printer cartridge. The system may include an evacuation station configured to remove excess ink from the inkjet printer cartridge. In some embodiments, the excess ink is removed via a vacuum source. The system may also include a filling station configured to provide any of a plurality of inks into the cartridge. Some embodiments provide the ink to the inkjet cartridge via a hole drilled in the cartridge. Other embodiments provide the ink via inkjet nozzles of the inkjet printer cartridge. The system may also include a test station configured to test the refilled cartridge to determine whether it is functioning properly after being filled with ink.
US10011115B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head and a dummy discharge controller. The liquid discharge head includes nozzles to discharge liquid onto a continuous medium. The dummy discharge controller controls a dummy discharge operation to discharge dummy discharge droplets onto the continuous medium. The dummy discharge controller controls the liquid discharge head to perform a pre-first-page dummy discharge operation to discharge dummy discharge droplets onto the continuous medium in a period from a start of feeding of the continuous medium to a start of printing of a first page.
US10011110B2
A liquid ejection apparatus is disclosed. One apparatus includes a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The lower electrode has a partial overlapping portion and a non-overlapping portion. The partial overlapping portion at least partially overlaps the pressure chamber. The partial overlapping portion of the lower electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. The upper electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. A distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to one of the two ends of the upper electrode in the transverse direction is smaller than a distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to a corresponding one of the two ends of the partial overlapping portion in the transverse direction.
US10011107B2
The present invention relates to a method for printing a bag with a print, which bag is filled with a detergent or cleaning agent and is made from a water-soluble or water-dispersible film, wherein the printing of the bag is carried out by means of an inking-pad printing process; and to a method for producing film bags of this type; and to the film bags which are produced in this way.
US10011106B2
A printing roller for a printing machine, e.g., for a flexographic printing machine, wherein the printing roller includes a rotary and longitudinal axis and an external surface, the external surface being substantially cylindrical and adapted for mounting a plate. The new feature of a printing roller according to the invention is that the external cylindrical surface includes at least one longitudinal groove, where the at least one longitudinal groove includes a geometry with one or more surfaces, the surface or surfaces lying within a circumscribed cylindrical surface for the external surface of the printing roller. In other words, this means that the longitudinal groove or grooves are cutouts in the form of milled or ground grooves in the external cylindrical surface itself on a printing roller.
US10011096B2
The invention relates to a polymer-coated packaging material, a method of manufacturing the same, and products, such as a disposable drinking cup, made from the material. The packaging material comprises a fibrous base (1) of paper or board, an innermost polymer layer (2) containing a blend of (i) 10 to 25 wt-% of a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and (ii) 75 to 90 wt-% of a second polyethylene with a higher melt viscosity, said second polyethylene being selected from linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and an outer layer (3) of more than 90 wt-% of HDPE. An outermost layer (4) of a polymer blend similar to that used for the innermost layer (2) may be provided for heat-sealing. The layers (2, 3 and 4) may be brought and adhered to the fibrous base (1) by coextrusion. To maximize renewability of the materials HDPE and LLDPE as used for the structure are of biologic origin.
US10011084B2
The invention relates to a cycle press, in particular a short-cycle press, for producing and/or coating board-shaped materials, in particular engineered wood boards, comprising a press body having several press frames arranged next to one another in the longitudinal press direction, and further comprising an upper press plate and a lower press plate, wherein pressing cylinders supported on the press frames act on the upper press plate or the lower press plate. According to the invention, said cycle press is characterized in that the pressing cylinders are attached to the press frames by means of frame pins, wherein said frame pins engage in cut-outs of the press frames. Thus, the pressing cylinders can be prestressed against the press frames.
US10011074B2
A color three-dimensional (3D) printing apparatus configured for forming a colored 3D object is provided. The color 3D printing apparatus includes a stage, a first printing unit, a second printing unit, a color inkjet printing unit, and a curing unit. The first printing unit is configured for providing the stage with a first material. The second printing unit is configured for providing the stage with a second material, and a gap remains between the first material and the second material. The color inkjet printing unit is configured for providing the gap with a colored pigment. The curing unit is configured for curing the colored pigment to form the colored 3D object, and the colored 3D object is composed of a plurality of colored object units stacked together. A color 3D printing method is also provided.
US10011069B2
A fuel tank flange section molding device including: upper and lower molds that are closed together to mold a fuel tank; a fixed section that controls an amount of molten resin flowing toward a fuel tank main body side due to the protruding portion being disposed nearer to the lower mold side than the mold face when the upper and lower molds have been closed together; a flange insert that includes a mold face capable of rotating about the fixed section to an angle sloped toward a retracting direction of the upper mold, with respect to an extension direction of the flange section; and a cut-off insert that includes a mold face that forms an end portion of the flange section at the opposite side from the fuel tank main body, and that is capable of retracting from the upper mold with respect to the lower mold.
US10011064B2
Method for producing a plastic bottle, and preform and blowing mold suited therefore are disclosed. An exemplary process can produce a plastic bottle, for example, a PET bottle. Such a bottle can be produced from a preform which has a body which is closed on one side, which is connected to a neck section with a pour opening, in which the preform which has been produced in a plastic injection process or an extrusion process is placed in the mold cavity of a blow mold and inflated using the blow nozzle by overpressure according to the mold cavity. Sealing can take place between the blow nozzle and the preform within the preform.
US10011058B2
A method of making a vehicle headrest restraint and connecting first and second molds to form a mold cavity. A first material is injected with a first density into the mold cavity. A second material is injected with a second density into the mold cavity. The first and second materials are cooled to develop an integrally formed headrest.
US10011057B2
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus which forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate by using a mold, the apparatus comprising an image sensing unit configured to sense an image of the imprint material via the mold, and a control unit configured to, in a state in which the mold and the imprint material are in contact with each other, cause the image sensing unit to sense the image of the imprint material while scanning the image sensing unit and obtain information on forming of the pattern of the imprint material based on the image obtained by the image sensing unit.
US10011053B2
A rotary molding system for molding food products, mold cavities formed when a mold shell rotates mold shapes disposed along the mold shell into a fill position between a fill plate and a wear plate. Molded food products are removed from mold cavities using knock-out cups, the use of air pressure, or the use of a vacuum source disposed below the mold cavity, without the need to slow the rotation of the mold shell. Knock-out cups may be used with a heating system to reduce accumulation of unwanted materials on the knock-out cups. The rotary molding system can also be used to form products with contoured surfaces. A smart tagging system can be used to ensure that compatible sets of mold shells and knock out cups are being used. A vacuum region may be disposed upstream of the fill position to remove air within the mold cavity prior to filling.
US10011050B2
Provided is a method in which a computational device generates a design of a negative mold of teeth. The negative mold of the teeth is fabricated from the design of the negative mold. An aligner is formed using the fabricated negative mold. Provided also is a negative mold of teeth for fabricating a positive model of the teeth for an aligner. The negative mold comprises a tooth surface, and an identity tracking entity coupled to the tooth surface to provide identification.
US10011023B1
An end-effector assembly includes a master boom, a frame rail coupled thereto, and at least one branch rail movably coupled to the frame rail by a swing branch lock. The swing arm is movably coupled to the at least one branch rail by a swing arm lock. Each of the swing branch lock and the swing arm lock further includes a clamp configured to movably secure the branch rail to the frame rail or the swing arm to the branch rail. A pivot shaft extends through the clamp and is configured to rotationally secure the clamp in place. A swing plate is secured to the pivot shaft and is configured for engagement with a configuration tool. A locking fastener extends through the swing plate and into the pivot shaft and is configured to lock and unlock the clamp in position.
US10011016B1
An example implementation includes operating a robotic system in an environment. The implementation also includes detecting, using one or more sensors of the robotic system, a surface marker at a first location in the environment. The implementation also includes determining that the detected surface marker indicates the presence of an object having a first surface attribute at the first location, wherein the first surface attribute is one of a plurality of predefined surface attributes. The implementation also includes determining one or more tasks that correspond to the first surface attribute in response to determining that the surface marker indicates the object having the first surface attribute. The implementation also includes causing the robotic system to perform the one or more tasks with respect to the object.
US10011015B2
A biological reaction apparatus for receiving at least one substrate having a sample located in a sample region, and a separate cover, such that a reaction chamber is formed between the cover and substrate over the sample region, wherein the apparatus includes a locating means to locate the substrate; a cover locating means for locating and moving the cover with respect to the substrate; a fluid dispensing means for dispensing fluid into the reaction chamber; and a draining mechanism; wherein the draining mechanism includes wicking means.
US10011013B2
Example implementations may relate to a cloud service that stores a detection metric corresponding to a maintenance request for a particular component. In particular, the cloud may receive sensor data from various robotic systems each having the particular component. The cloud may then determine, based on the sensor data, performance data for the particular component over time at the various robotic systems. The cloud may also determine various maintenance events for the particular component. Based on the performance data, the cloud may determine that at least one maintenance event occurs at other metrics that are different from the detection metric. Responsively, the cloud may adjust the detection metric based on a difference between the detection metric and the other metrics. The cloud may then detect operation of a particular robotic system at the adjusted detection metric and may responsively request maintenance for the particular component at the particular robotic system.
US10011012B2
A semi-autonomous robot system (10) that includes scanning and scanned data manipulation that is utilized for controlling remote operation of a robot system within an operating environment.
US10011005B2
A bar clamp has a slide bar supporting a movable jaw assembly. The slide bar is supported in a fixed jaw assembly. The fixed jaw assembly includes a drive mechanism for moving the slide bar relative to the fixed jaw assembly. Mechanisms for expanding the capacity of the bar clamp including the use of straps and two slide bars. Specialized jaws are provided where the jaws may be removable from the jaw assemblies. Additional clamping jaws are provided in addition to the movable and fixed jaw assemblies for varying the clamping force applied to a workpiece.
US10011002B2
A method of forming a chemical mechanical polishing pad composite polishing layer is provided, including: providing a first polishing layer component of a first continuous non-fugitive polymeric phase having a plurality of periodic recesses; discharging a combination toward the first polishing layer component at a velocity of 10 to 300 msec, filling the plurality of periodic recesses with the combination; allowing the combination to solidify in the plurality of periodic recesses forming a second non-fugitive polymeric phase giving a composite structure; and, deriving the chemical mechanical polishing pad composite polishing layer from the composite structure, wherein the chemical mechanical polishing pad composite polishing layer has a polishing surface on the polishing side of the first polishing layer component; and wherein the polishing surface is adapted for polishing a substrate.
US10011001B2
The present invention relates to a wheel brush, which is composed of a base plate, springs, chucks, iron sleeves and bristles. When a bristle unit is to be mounted, the iron sleeve of the bristle unit is placed on the upper side of the base plate, two anti-rotating lugs are made to correspond to two lug slots in the base plate, and the chuck is inserted from the lower side of the base plate; after a gasket is fixed in a counter bore in the lower side of the base plate, a wing nut is continuously pressed upwards, so that the spring is tensioned, and two guiding lugs of a fixing pin come into contact with the bottom ends of guiding slots in the iron sleeve; and after the wing nut is rotated by 90 degrees, the bristle unit can be locked.
US10010999B2
Control valves for waterjet systems, control-valve actuators, waterjet systems, methods for operating waterjet systems, and associated devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. A control valve configured in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a first seat having a tapered inner surface, a second seat having a contact surface, and an elongated pin having a shaft portion and an end portion. The pin is movable relative to the first and second seats between a shutoff position and one or more throttling positions. When the pin is at the shutoff position, the end portion of the pin is in contact with the contact surface. When the pin is at the throttling position, the end portion of the pin is spaced apart from the contact surface and the tapered inner surface and the shaft portion of the pin at least partially define a throttling gap.
US10010987B2
A method of mounting a substrate support in a chamber includes placing an auxiliary transfer tool having a first portion and a second portion in a chamber which provides a processing space and an additional space, and which has an opening for communication between the additional space and the outside, the first portion in an expanded state being positioned in the processing space and the second portion being positioned in the additional space, inserting a substrate support having a contact portion for supporting the substrate, a rod portion, and a threaded portion connecting to the rod portion, the rod portion being slid on a side surface of the second portion, shrinking the first portion so that the rod portion is moved downward in the additional space and the threaded portion projects out of the chamber through the opening.
US10010983B2
A member has a wave inhibitor adapted to control the effects of a wave of longitudinally displaced material positioned ahead of an expansion mandrel used to expand the member. The wave inhibitor has a decreasing transverse cross-sectional area to diminish the effects attributable to the wave, such as workpiece distortions, material upset of the workpiece, lengthening of the member, and excessively high strains in the workpiece. The wave inhibitor can also induce radially compressive stresses in the workpiece and produce an interference fit.
US10010981B2
Materials having increased mobility after heating are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the materials may be realized as a material which has reduced apparent molecular weight and/or viscosity and thus increased mobility after a heating process, and which consequently allows material residue to be more easily removed during subsequent cleaning processes. Such a material may be useful in any industrial process which requires heating the material followed by removing material residue.
US10010978B2
A method for determining a quality of at least one aluminum weld comprises detecting a force exerted on a workpiece by at least one electrode, and determining at least one factor characterizing the quality on the basis of a comparison of the detected force with at least one reference value. An aluminum welding method, a welding device set up for a corresponding operation, a welding controller and a computer program are likewise the subject matter of the disclosure.
US10010977B2
Systems and methods for forming apertures in microfeature workpieces are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes directing a laser beam toward a microfeature workpiece to form an aperture and sensing the laser beam pass through the microfeature workpiece in real time. The method can further include determining a number of pulses of the laser beam and/or an elapsed time to form the aperture and controlling the laser beam based on the determined number of pulses and/or the determined elapsed time to form a second aperture in the microfeature workpiece.
US10010974B2
Disclosed is a technique for quickly detecting a defect of a portion welded by laser beam welding. Specifically disclosed is a welding step in which a welding device is used, the welding device welding an object to be welded with a pulsed laser. In the welding step, a first photodetector receives only infrared rays having a wavelength allowing detection of a keyhole formed in a molten pool from among infrared rays radiating from a welded portion during the welding of the object, and an analyzer determines quality of the welded portion on the basis of intensity of the infrared rays received by the first photodetector.
US10010969B2
A method for friction welding, the method comprising: locating a first workpiece in a recess or aperture of a first tool; bringing a weld face of the first and a weld face of a second workpiece into frictional engagement; and moving the first tool and the second workpiece relative to one another.
US10010968B2
A friction stir welding tool with a base, a rotating friction stir slug mounted in the said base and at least one guide member connected to the said base, the welding tool being adapted to move from upstream to downstream; a welding tool having at least one displacement member of the guide member relative to the said base between at least one guiding position in which the guide member extends in a scout area located downstream and facing the friction stir slug and at least one retracted position in which the guide member is offset from the said scout area.
US10010961B2
Multiple arc welding systems are provided, along with welding system controllers and control methods, in which a single user selected system setpoint value is used to derive individual machine setpoints for a plurality of welding machines in the multiple arc welding system.
US10010957B2
A control device 8 controls a tension device 10 to apply a tension to a wire electrode WE such that a set tension value is as small as possible within a range of 80 g or less during a particular anneal period when a particular anneal current is supplied from a current supply device 5.
US10010947B2
A hole cutter has a cylindrical blade body including a cutting edge and one or more axially-elongated apertures formed within a side wall of the blade body. The axially-elongated aperture is configured to receive a lever, such as a screwdriver, therethrough. Each axially-elongated aperture includes a first fulcrum axially spaced adjacent to the cutting edge, a second fulcrum axially spaced further away from the cutting edge than the first fulcrum, and optionally a third fulcrum axially spaced between the first and second fulcrums. A lever, such as a screwdriver, can be inserted into the aperture and placed against each of the fulcrums to lever slugs out of the interior of the blade body.
US10010938B2
A reservoir for one or more chemical reactants has means for heating the reactants and optional means for stirring the reactants. A pumped reactant feed line and a return line provide fluid communication between the reservoir and a 4-way valve system. The 4-way valve system is also in fluid communication with a reactor vessel and a source of inert gas for purging the system. In a first state, the 4-way valve provides fluid communication between the reservoir and the reactor. In a second state, the 4-way valve provides a continuous circulation path for the heated reactants from the reservoir, to the valve system, and back to the reservoir via the return line. In a third state, the 4-way valve provides a fluid pathway for purging the reactor with inert gas. In a fourth state, the 4-way valve provides a fluid pathway for purging the reservoir with inert gas.
US10010937B2
A method of forming an overhanging structure at a discharge end of a cooling hole that passes through a component. The method includes the step of using an additive manufacturing process to fuse material to a face to build up an edge of the discharge end of the cooling hole to form an overhanging tab.
US10010931B2
The present invention provides a water spot cooling apparatus, a water spot cooling method for casting a mold, a method for manufacturing the water spot cooling apparatus and use of the water spot cooling apparatus. The technical solution of the present invention has the following advantages: spot cooling of multiple spots can be realized on each side mold by using only one water inlet pipeline, thereby saving the water cooling pipeline and facilitating field installation; the water inlet and outlet are integrated on a main body, thereby facilitating field implementation; the whole apparatus is easy to process, convenient to maintain, and low in manufacturing cost; and it is not restricted by the product structure and facilitates promotion.
US10010929B2
An apparatus to produce a self-piercing and clinch nut includes a first forging die assembly, a second forging die assembly, a third forging die assembly, a transfer mechanism, and a controller. The first forging die assembly subjects a blank to first processing. The second forging die assembly is adjacent to the first forging die assembly, and subjects the blank, which has undergone the first processing in the first forging die assembly, to second processing. The third forging die assembly is adjacent to the second forging die assembly, and subjects the blank, which has undergone the second processing in the second forging die assembly, to third processing. The transfer mechanism transfers the blank between two adjacent forging die assemblies among the first to third forging die assemblies. The controller controls operations of the first to third forging die assemblies and the transfer mechanism.
US10010926B2
A method is provided wherein a metallic container is filled with a consumer identified beverage, seamed to a metallic end closure, distributed, and sold to the consumer. Thus, a consumer has influence and control over volume, qualities, and size of the beverage along with specific characteristics regarding the size and shape of the metallic container.
US10010924B2
In a cutting die having a cutting chip, applied to a punch press, and cutting a work in collaboration with a cutting punch, a resistance member for guiding swarf generated during cutting of the work through the cutting chip and dividing it by giving resistance to it is provided around a scrap discharge hole so that the divided swarf does not remain in the scrap discharge hole but is discharged to an outside so as to prevent clogging by scrap.
US10010912B2
Methods and apparatus for particle reduction in throttle gate valves used in substrate process chambers are provided herein. In some embodiments, a gate valve for use in a process chamber includes a body having an opening disposed therethrough from a first surface to an opposing second surface of the body; a pocket extending into the body from a sidewall of the opening; a gate movably disposed within the pocket between a closed position that seals the opening and an open position that reveals the opening and disposes the gate completely within the pocket; and a plurality of gas ports disposed in the gate valve configured to direct a gas flow into a portion of the gate valve fluidly coupled to the opening.
US10010905B1
A pole-painting tool includes a V-shaped handle having an apex that is encapsulated by a foam handgrip, and two free ends with a roller assembly removably mounted therebetween. The roller assembly includes an axle having a plurality of narrow, juxtaposed paint rollers mounted thereon. Accordingly, the rollers are submerged within a paint supply and placed against a pole, a pipe or another tubular object. By applying a directional force to the handgrip, a worker can conform the rollers around the tubular surface to more efficiently apply paint thereto.
US10010876B2
This invention relates to highly active and stable catalyst composite used in high temperature synthesis gas production. More specifically, nickel alumina catalysts doped with noble metals and lanthanide groups or transition metal groups containing a lattice spinel structure with a general formula [NixA1-x][(ByAl1-y)2]O4. Stabilizers such as yttria-stabilized zirconia are also integrated in this composite to enhance high temperature catalytic performance. The catalyst composite of present invention exhibits high redox tolerance, coking resistance, high temperature stability, and high catalytic activity.
US10010874B2
In accordance with the present subject matter there is provided a process for catalytic decomposition of lower hydrocarbons to produce carbon oxides free hydrogen and bamboo shaped carbon nanotubes over a catalyst composition. The process for catalytic decomposition of lower hydrocarbons comprises contacting lower hydrocarbon over a catalyst composition, where the catalyst composition comprising, a catalyst, at least one modifying agent and a support material.
US10010872B2
A titanium-oxide catalyst containing catalytic metal shows catalysis under high temperature conditions. A titanium-oxide catalyst contains a titanium-oxide nanoparticle assembly and ruthenium particles. The titanium-oxide nanoparticle assembly is an assembly of titanium-oxide nanoparticles, which are nanoparticles of titanium oxide. The ruthenium particles have a smaller particle diameter than the titanium-oxide nanoparticle assembly and the titanium-oxide nanoparticles. The ruthenium particles are dispersed and supported on a surface of the titanium-oxide nanoparticle assembly.
US10010870B2
Embodiments of a method of synthesizing a metathesis and isomerization catalyst or metathesis catalyst or isomerization catalyst comprises forming a catalyst precursor solution comprising a diluent and a catalyst precursor where the catalyst precursor comprises at least one of a silica precursor and an alumina precursor for the isomerization catalyst and additionally an oxometallate precursor or metal oxide precursor for the metathesis catalyst or the metathesis and isomerization catalyst, where the catalyst precursor solution is absent a surfactant; aerosolizing the catalyst precursor solution; drying the aerosolized catalyst precursor mixture to form a dried catalyst precursor; and reacting the dried catalyst precursor to yield the metathesis and isomerization catalyst or the metathesis catalyst or the isomerization catalyst, the metathesis and isomerization catalyst comprising a silica and alumina support with an oxometallate or a metal oxide distributed within the silica and alumina support.
US10010863B2
A method for preparing a chromatography medium having the properties of high virus adsorption and high fluidity, and a method for producing a virus vaccine using the chromatography medium are provided. The chromatography medium is obtained by forming a sulfated polysaccharide bound with porous particles having an exclusion limit molecular weight of 6000 Da or less when pure water is used as mobile phase and standard polyethylene glycol is used and an average particle size in the range of 30-200 μm.
US10010857B2
The present invention provides an a polyarylene sulfide (PAS) production device provided with a supply tube for loading corrosive materials such as a strong alkali into a reaction vessel, wherein prescribed amounts of various raw materials or the like can be accurately loaded into the reaction vessel without causing decreases in production efficiency due to the replacement of the supply tube or the repair of the reaction vessel in response to the corrosion of the supply tube or the like.The present invention is a production device, and a PAS production device, in particular, provided with a reaction vessel equipped with one or a plurality of supply tubes, at least one of the supply tubes having an insert pipe, which is preferably detachable, to be inserted into an outer supply tube; and a tip opening of the insert pipe being positioned further inward than an inside wall of the reaction vessel.
US10010852B2
A system for regulating a temperature of a measurement array is disclosed. The system includes a measurement array including a plurality of sensors, wherein the plurality of sensors are integrated onto an integrated circuit die. The system includes a thermal sensor integrated onto the integrated circuit die, wherein the thermal sensor senses a temperature associated with the plurality of sensors. The system further includes a heat pump coupled to the integrated circuit die, wherein the heat pump is controlled by a feedback control circuit including the thermal sensor.
US10010850B2
The present invention mainly provides a non-contact reactor consisting of a reaction vessel having a particularly-designed size, a plurality of injection modules, an agitator, a heat exchange module, and an electrical gate valve module. Operators can inject at least one precursor solution into the reaction nanometer-scale semiconductor crystallites vessel and make the injected precursor solution reach a specific position in the reaction vessel by using the electrical gate valve to control the injection pressure of the injection modules. Moreover, the operators can further control the rotation speed of the agitator through a controller, so as to evenly and quickly mix the injected precursor solution and a specific solution pre-filled into the reaction vessel to a mixture solution; therefore, the acceleration of production rate and the enhance of production yield of the semiconductor nanocrystals are carried out.
US10010843B2
Device for the mixing and distribution of fluids for a catalytic reactor with a downward flow, said device comprising a collection zone (A), a mixing zone (B) and a distribution zone (C) comprising a distribution plate (12) comprising at least one first zone (C1) supporting a plurality of chimneys (13) and a second zone (C2); said mixing zone (B) is comprised in an annular enclosure (15) situated in the distribution zone (C), said mixing (B) and distribution (C) zones being delimited by at least one annular wall (16) comprising at least one lateral passage section (17a, 17b) suitable for the passage of the fluids from said mixing zone (B) to the first zone (C1) of said distribution zone (C), and the second zone (C2) comprises a plurality of openings (18) suitable for the partial passage of the fluids out of the distribution zone (C).
US10010838B2
A dispersing resin of formula (I), T-P-Z-T (I). The dispersin resin of this formula is defined where T is at least one monocarboxylic acid, where Z includes at least one of a polyallylamine and a poly(C2-4-alkyleneimine), and where P is a polyester obtained by a process of reacting a dicarboxylic or a polycarboxylic acid and a diol or a polyol.
US10010835B2
Microporous polymer membranes and related methods of fabrication are provided. An asymmetric microporous membrane embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a thermoplastic polymer substrate defining a plurality of micropores, the thermoplastic polymer including one or more of polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polymethylpentene (PMP), and a combination thereof; and a polymethylpentene (PMP) polymer skin positioned on the thermoplastic polymer substrate, wherein when the thermoplastic polymer substrate includes PMP, the PMP polymer skin has a crystallinity that differs from a crystallinity of the PMP in the polymer substrate.
US10010821B2
A rigid flow control device includes a porous rigid body having an outer surface and an inner surface. The body defines a flow path and is formed from a material operatively arranged with a surface energy less than that of the fluid for passively impeding an undesirable component of the fluid more than a desirable component of the fluid.
US10010819B2
A filter element for installation in a filter element adapter assembly with a keyed retractable shroud for covering external threads configured to receive the filter element is provided. The filter element includes an end cap having one or more keyed fingers protruding axially and radially therefrom, to engage with keyed passageways on the retractable shroud.
US10010814B2
The present invention relates to portable filtration units including filter components mated with retentate and permeate flow channels wherein particle containing solutions are introduced into the portable filtration units and contacted with the filter components for filtration thereby producing a retentate outflow and a permeate outflow for capture of desired end product.
US10010813B2
A reduced foam or reduced foam and water petroleum composition includes crude oil and a preformed antifoam emulsion. The antifoam emulsion includes a hydrophilic continuous phase and a polyorganosiloxane dispersed in the hydrophilic continuous phase. The hydrophilic continuous phase may also contain a demulsifier. The antifoam emulsion includes less than 50 weight percent of a hydrophobic solvent. A method of reducing foam or foam and water in crude oil disposed in a tank is also described.
US10010809B2
A method for cleaning a contaminated solvent used to treat a gas stream, for example a contaminated glycol or a contaminated amine stream, by vacuum evaporation using a mechanically-maintained horizontally-orientated thin film evaporator, where the contaminant material is recovered from the thin film in solvent-free form, as either a heavy organic material or as free flowing salts.
US10010808B2
A process and apparatus provides for blending a heavy naphtha stream with a diesel stream to increase the yield of diesel. The diesel stream is recovered separately from a kerosene stream to leave the kerosene stream undiminished. The blended diesel provides a valuable composition.
US10010805B2
A wall module assembly usable to make interchangeable scenery, the module comprising a first support member having a first end, a second end, a first main surface, and a second main surface, a second support member having a first end, a second end, a first main surface, and a second main surface, a plurality of panel members interchangeably and removably supported by at least one of the first support member and the second support member, adjacent at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface of the first and/or second support member, and a plurality of connection members supported by the first end of the first support member and configured to be removably received within openings formed in the second end of the second support member positioned adjacent to the first support member.
US10010795B2
The present invention generally relates to methods and systems involving an enhanced social expression card that comprises machine-readable storage for data relating to one or more virtual goods. The one or more virtual goods may be, for example, redeemable in a virtual environment such as a videogame or an online virtual world.
US10010786B1
A rolling toy to be rolled on a horizontal support surface, for instance, on a floor, having a primary roller and a secondary roller. The primary roller having a tubular-like member extending along a longitudinal axis and at least one annular flange fixedly attached to the tubular-like member and extending outwardly therefrom. The secondary roller is adapted a for rolling motion upon an interior surface of the tubular-like member when the primary roller rotates about the longitudinal axis due to the rolling motion of the rolling toy on the horizontal support surface. At least one of the following includes a helical guiding means: (i) the tubular-like member and (ii) the secondary roller. Thereby, when the secondary roller is disposed on the interior surface of the tubular-like member and the primary roller is set in a rolling motion on the horizontal support surface in a predetermined direction, the rolling motion of the primary roller results in a tilting of the latter. The tilting of the primary roller may result in its standing vertically on the horizontal support surface.
US10010785B2
A gaming ticket and method for providing the same includes foil applied to the gaming ticket surface such that the foil covers less than the entire surface of any surface of the gaming ticket.
US10010778B2
Systems and methods are provided for tracking a dribbling and/or passing motion associated with a person engaged in either a training session for a sporting event or the live play of the sporting event. In sporting events, a dribbling motion can be associated with a repetitive movement or a short trajectory sequence between changes of direction of a ball, puck or other object used in the sporting event. A passing motion can be associated with the movement of the ball, puck or other object between two people during the sporting event. The system can use one or more sensors to capture information about a person dribbling and/or passing an object and at least one processor to analyze the information to determine and evaluate one or more characteristics associated with the dribbling, the passing motion, or a transition from dribbling to passing.
US10010768B2
Provided is a golf club enabling the rotation position of an adapter to be viewed without disassembling a coupling structure for coupling a shaft and a golf club head. This golf club includes a shaft, a golf club head having a hosel portion, a first adapter that is accommodated in the interior space of the hosel portion through a shaft attachment hole in the hosel portion, a second adapter that has a through-hole through which the first adapter passes, and at least a portion arranged outside the attachment hole, and a fixing member detachably fixing the first adapter in the interior space of the hosel portion. The shaft is coupled with an inclination relative to the first adapter, the first adapter is coupled with an inclination relative to the second adapter, and the first adapter and the second adapter are coupled so as to be capable of axial rotation.
US10010764B2
Multi-layered, golf balls having a core made of a foamed composition are provided. The core preferably has a foam inner core (center) and surrounding thermoset or thermoplastic outer core layer. The core also includes a structural insert such as, for example, a solid shell, perforated shell, a lattice or mesh, or a central hub with extending arms, and the like. The core layers have different hardness gradients and specific gravity values. The ball further includes a cover having at least one layer. By adjusting the respective specific gravity values of the core layers, the Moment of Inertia (MOI) of the ball can be increased or decreased. In one embodiment, the ball has generally good flight distance and low spin rate.
US10010753B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from one or more sensors, biomechanical data of a first user performing a plurality of actions of a first action-type and outcome data of a plurality of outcomes corresponding to the respective plurality of actions. A plurality of sets of action-parameter values may be determined based on the received biomechanical data, where each of the sets of action-parameter values corresponds to a respective action of the plurality of actions. An athletic-performance model of the first user may be generated based on the plurality of sets of action-parameter values. The athletic-performance model may be a statistical model including probabilities computed with respect to the sets of action-parameter values and the outcome data.
US10010744B2
A piece of fitness equipment, which is suitable for fitting to a body part of a person comprising a pressure chamber to which a fluid can be applied and a pump that is connected with the pressure chamber and is suitable for applying the fluid to the pressure chamber. Furthermore, the device comprises a controller for controlling the pump and a wearable holder that is detachably connectable with the pressure chamber and serves for holding the pressure chamber to the body part. The pressure chamber is formed in the shape of a hose.
US10010739B2
A low friction rehabilitation board having an integral band retaining feature is described. The rehabilitation board may have a coefficient of static friction of no more than about 0.5 and in some embodiments no more than about 0.06. The rehabilitation board has a plurality of band retaining feature configured along one or both ends and may be an integral band retaining features being formed in the board. Additionally, the rehabilitation may include one or more band retaining features on one or both sides of the board. The unique configuration of the band retaining features enables rehabilitation method heretofore not possible with a single board. Resistance bands may be retained in the band retaining features and coupled to a user's limb, such as a foot or ankle, to resist motion, such as sliding or extending the foot along the low friction surface of the rehabilitation board.
US10010730B2
A sprinkler assembly (10) having a receiving member (12), a fluid tight seal (44) and a sprinkler frame (14). The receiving member includes an inner surface (22) defining an internal passageway and a central axis (A-A) of the assembly. The frame of the sprinkler includes an internal surface (38) that defines a fluid passage. The sprinkler assembly includes cooperating positioning elements (28, 40) which engage and couple the sprinkler frame to the receiving member for at least one of an axial and rotational adjustment between the frame and receiving member. The engaged positioning elements facilitate formation or location of the fluid tight seal between the sprinkler frame and receiving member, the seal being spaced from the engaged positioning elements. In one aspect of the assembly, the sprinkler frame and receiving member are made of plastic material (e.g. CPVC).
US10010728B2
A respiratory protection device in which a plurality of filter units are provided. A respiratory protection device includes a plurality of filter units. Air flow paths that extend to the facepiece are provided in respective filter units. An inhalation port leading in the facepiece is provided at a portion where the air flow paths merge. The inhalation port can be temporarily closed by using an inspection valve included in the fit checker.
US10010727B2
The invention provides for a medical apparatus (300) comprising: a magnetic resonance imaging system (302); an ultrasonic system (322) for connecting to a catheter (324, 504, 600) with an ultrasound array (400, 402, 404, 508, 602, 604). The ultrasonic system is operable for driving the ultrasound array. Machine executable instructions (354, 356, 358) cause a processor (334) for controlling the medical apparatus to: generate (100, 202) at least one acoustic radiation impulse with the ultrasonic system, wherein the generated ultrasound energy is below a predetermined level; acquire (102, 204) the magnetic resonance data using an acoustic radiation force imaging pulse sequence; reconstruct (104, 206) at least one acoustic radiation force pulse image using the magnetic resonance data; and determine (106, 208) an energy deposition zone for the catheter using at least partially the at least one acoustic radiation force pulse image.
US10010726B2
Methods and systems for treating skin, such as stretch marks through deep tissue tightening with ultrasound are provided. An exemplary method and system comprise a therapeutic ultrasound system configured for providing ultrasound treatment to a shallow tissue region, such as a region comprising an epidermis, a dermis or a deep dermis. In accordance with various exemplary embodiments, a therapeutic ultrasound system can be configured to achieve depth with a conformal selective deposition of ultrasound energy without damaging an intervening tissue. In addition, a therapeutic ultrasound can also be configured in combination with ultrasound imaging or imaging/monitoring capabilities, either separately configured with imaging, therapy and monitoring systems or any level of integration thereof.
US10010717B2
Electrical energy is transcutaneously transmitted at a plurality of different frequencies to an implanted medical device. The magnitude of the transmitted electrical energy respectively measured at the plurality of frequencies. One of the frequencies is selected based on the measured magnitude of the electrical energy (e.g., the frequency at which the measured magnitude of the electrical energy is the greatest). A depth level at which the medical device is implanted within the patient is determined based on the selected frequency. For example, the depth level may be determined to be relatively shallow if the selected frequency is relatively high, and relatively deep if the selected frequency is relative low. A charge strength threshold at which a charge strength indicator generates a user-discernible signal can then be set based on the determined depth level.
US10010712B2
A disposable dental valve device is disclosed having a valve body having a tip receiving end, a hose receiving end, a lumen formed between the tip receiving end and the hose receiving end, a partial opening formed in the valve body, and a rotatable valve sealing body adapted to being inserted into the partial opening, the rotatable valve sealing body having a bore for alignment with the lumen formed between the tip receiving end and the hose receiving end, the bore having a tip receiving opening and a hose receiving opening, the rotatable valve sealing body having a check valve positioned on the tip receiving opening, and the rotatable valve sealing body having a top and a handle portion connected to the top.
US10010707B2
The present disclosure provides a low-profile system and methods for delivering a microneedle array. The delivery system includes a housing that may be secured to and temporarily worn on a patient's skin. A carrier assembly coupled to a microneedle array is received in the housing proximate an applicator device. The carrier assembly is at least releasably secured to the housing and it is typically not attached or otherwise fixed to any portion of the applicator device.
US10010703B2
This invention relates to an ingestible drug delivery device configured for wireless communication with other ingestible drug delivery devices.
US10010699B2
Embodiment methods of treating a human or animal patient using a remotely controlled robotic catheter device inserting a handle of a catheter into a handle controller, inserting the catheter tubular portion into a resealable delivery channel forming a sterile barrier to a sled base, engaging a tip of the catheter with a sterile introducer disposed at an end of the sled base and engaged with the patient's body, positioning the catheter into the patient's body by remotely sending commands to the tele-robotic device to cause the sled member to advance toward the patient's body, and performing a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure on the patient using the catheter. Diagnostic or therapeutic procedures may include a mapping procedure, an ablation procedure, an angioplasty procedure, a drug delivery procedure; an electrophysiology procedure, a radiological procedure, and a medical device implantation or positioning procedure.
US10010697B2
A urinary catheter includes a tube and a tip. The tube has a tube wall defining a lumen extending between a distal tube end and a proximal tube end, with an opening formed in the tube wall. The tip extends from the proximal tube end to a closed proximal tip end. An inside diameter of the lumen increases constantly along an entire length of the tube from a first inside diameter measured at the proximal tube end to a second inside diameter measured at the distal tube end, where the first inside diameter is smaller than the second inside diameter such that the lumen is formed in a conical shape that diverges from the proximal tube end to a wider cross-sectional opening at the distal tube end.
US10010694B2
A gas generating system for health use is provided, including a hydrogen-oxygen gas generator and an atomized/volatile gas generator. The hydrogen-oxygen gas generator has a first casing. The first casing accommodates an electrolysis device for electrolyzing water in order to produce a gas mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. The atomized/volatile gas generator has a second casing, the second casing accommodates a gas mixing camber coupled to the electrolysis device to receive and combine the gas mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with water vapor, an atomized medicine, a volatile essential oil or any combination thereof in order to produce a healthy gas for a user to inhale.
US10010693B2
A medical tube has a tube wall, a first end and a second end. At least one heater wire is wrapped around the wall. Near or at one of the first end or the second end, there is at least one recess in an outer surface of the wall. The heater wire passes over the at least one tube recess such that the wire does not contact the wall in the area of the tube recess. Also disclosed are methods of making the tube and components used in making the tube.
US10010687B2
A device for inhaling powdery substances, in particular of a medical nature, contained in capsules, can be brought into an emptying position via a receptacle that can be moved in a flat housing, in which position the capsule wall can be pierced via movable needles for the purpose of sucking out the capsule content through a mouthpiece channel, which extends in axial extension of the capsule chamber. The receptacle is designed as a part of the narrow lateral wall of the flat housing that can be pivoted out to a limited extent about an axis and a partial region of the narrow lateral wall plane is designed as a spring-loaded push-button for the needle bearings, in such a way that the partial region moves back to the plane of the narrow lateral wall at a maximum.
US10010685B2
A single use delivery device is disclosed having a manually deformable liquid container defining an inner chamber, the container having a distal end, a body, a proximal end, and an outlet on the distal end; a tip projecting from the outlet on the distal end of the container, the tip in fluid communication with the inner chamber of the container; and a primer element for removing one or more air bubbles from the chamber, said primer element being attached to and in fluid communication with the deformable container. A method of administering a fluid to or flushing a vascular access device using a single use pre-filled delivery device as described herein is also disclosed.
US10010676B2
A method of making a delivery device (10) for therapeutic agent, drug or vaccine is disclosed. The method includes providing a flat panel wafer, forming a plurality of reservoirs, with each reservoir defining a cavity, within the flat panel wafer, and attaching a cover layer (20) across the plurality of reservoirs. The method also includes filling the plurality of reservoirs with at least one of a therapeutic agent, drug, and vaccine to form a plurality of filled reservoirs, and providing a housing portion adjacent each of the plurality of filled reservoirs to form a composed layer. The method also includes separating the composed layer into a plurality of delivery devices, wherein each delivery device includes a reservoir. The delivery device may be suitable for self-injection use.
US10010675B2
The application concerns an autoinjector comprising a syringe, a driver for driving the plunger of the syringe and a stabilizing adaptor for holding the injector on the skin of a patient. The stabilizing adaptor has an adhesive base with a long axis to short axis ratio of at least 1.5 to 1. The syringe is orientated with its axis at an angle of between 60 and 120 degrees to the base during operation of the autoinjector.
US10010674B2
A novel enhanced infusion pump system is adapted for dispensing medicament from a flow material reservoir Software used in conjunction with a pressure sensor can determine a backstroke volume of medicament that can be used to calculate the volume of medicament in the flow material reservoir.
US10010669B2
A system for at least partial closed-loop control of a medical condition is disclosed. The system includes at least one medical fluid pump. The medical fluid pump including a sensor for determining the volume of fluid pumped by the pump. Also, at least one continuous analyte monitor, and a controller. The controller is in communication with the medical fluid pump and the at least one continuous analyte monitor. The controller includes a processor. The processor includes instructions for delivery of medical fluid based at least on data received from the at least one continuous analyte monitor.
US10010656B2
A reduced pressure dressing for applying reduced pressure treatment to a tissue site includes an interface layer adapted to be positioned at the tissue site. An absorbent layer is in fluid communication with the interface layer to absorb liquid from at least one of the interface layer and the tissue site. A pump is in fluid communication with the absorbent layer to deliver a reduced pressure to the tissue site. A cover is positioned over the pump, the absorbent layer, and the interface layer to maintain the reduced pressure at the tissue site, and a liquid-air separator is positioned between the absorbent layer and the pump to inhibit liquid from entering the pump.
US10010652B2
The present invention relates generally to a bio-degradable implant based on magnesium having a reduced corrosion rate and to a method for the production of such an implant. It is a method for treating a surface of a bio-degradable metallic implant comprising the following steps: providing a dispersed system comprising a colloid-dispersed apatite and adding an apatite powder to the dispersed system, subjecting an implant to the dispersed system such that a surface of the implant which is to be treated is immersed in the dispersed system wherein the implant comprises a magnesium based alloy, applying an AC voltage difference between the implant as a first electrode and a second electrode positioned in the dispersed system for generating a plasma electrolytic oxidation on the immersed surface of the implant so that the immersed surface is converted to an oxide film which is at least partially covered by apatites formed by the colloid-dispersed apatite and the apatite powder. The evolution of corrosion induced hydrogen gas evolution is decreased and osseointegration is improved.
US10010648B2
The present invention provides a system comprising: (i) a layer containing a nitrite; and (ii) a hydrogel that contains hydrogen ions; wherein the layer containing a nitrite and/or the hydrogel comprises a pharmaceutically active agent. The invention also provides the use of a system of the invention in medicine, and in the treatment of pain.
US10010641B2
A dispensing unit has a base with two or more upwardly projecting side panels hingedly attached thereto. The sides have upper ends which pivot inwardly to a closed position, and outwardly to an open position. One or more removable dispensable compound containers are locatable within the unit, positioned adjacent a relative movable side panel. Each side has a capping projection that is located over and caps the container when the side panel is in a closed position, and which uncap the container when in the open position. When the sides are pivoted outwardly, they permit dispensing of the dispensable compound located in each container.
US10010638B2
A wax melt includes between about one and about sixty percent by weight of paraffin wax, between about 3 percent and about 20 percent by weight of fragrance, and between about 10 percent and about 35 percent by weight of a silicate. The silicate causes between about 97 percent and about 98 percent of a wax melt weight to be retained over a time period of about sixteen hours when maintained at about sixty-five degrees Celsius.
US10010634B2
A disinfecting system includes a housing. An ultraviolet light (UV) source is secured to the housing and configured to emit UV light for disinfection of a target. A processor is secured to the housing in communication with the UV light source. The processor is configured to activate the UV light source for a selected amount of time suitable for disinfection of the target.
US10010633B2
A sterilization system consisting of a mobile emitter, a sensing subsystem and a data logging subsystem is described. The emitter has one or more UV emitting lamps or devices. The sensing system comprises at least one remote UV sensor and at least one door sensor. The door sensor comprises a safety shut off door detector and may contain an emergency stop detector and arming detector to protect people from being exposed to UV energy. The system has a remote control for starting, stopping and setting system parameters which include but are not limited to: treatment time, dosage, room size, room number, unit number, floor, facility name, operator name, operator identification number, password, default dosage values, dosage, and patient identification number. The number of treatments per unit of time can be maximized because of the use of incident light measurement.
US10010621B2
This document relates to conjugates of a biologically active molecule or a derivative thereof and functionalized (e.g., mono- or bi-functional) polymers (e.g., polyethylene glycol and related polymers) as well as methods and materials for making and using such conjugates.
US10010620B2
A process for the preparation of an erodible tamper-resistant dosage form that comprises a therapeutic agent-substrate complex embedded in a thermo-formable matrix, such that the complex includes at least one therapeutic agent bound to at least one substrate to form the therapeutic agent-substrate complex. The at least one substrate is being selected from a polyelectrolyte, an organic counter-ion, a pharmacologically inert organic component of a prodrug, an inclusion compound and an inorganic adsorbent; and the thermo-formable matrix includes one or more thermoplastic polymers and optionally at least one pharmaceutical additive. The dosage form provides resistance to intentional or unintentional tampering such as chewing, crushing and grinding, and volatilization.
US10010615B2
The presently described technology provides a novel class of prodrugs of quetiapine that can be synthesized by chemically conjugating amino acids. The present technology also provides methods of treating patients, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of synthesizing conjugates of the present technology.
US10010597B2
Recombinant strains of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guerin (M. bovis BCG) comprising a heterologous nucleic acid sequence of Mycobacterium marinum (M. marinum) are provided. In some embodiments the heterologous nucleic acid sequence of M. marinum comprises a plurality of open reading frames, wherein the plurality of open reading frames comprise open reading frames that encode proteins each at least 95% homologous to the Mycobacterium marinum (M. marinum) proteins MMAR5445, MMAR5446, MMAR5447, MMAR5448, MMAR5449, MMAR5450, MMAR5451, MMAR5452, MMAR5453, and MMAR5455. In some embodiments the plurality of open reading frames further comprise an open reading frame that encodes a protein at least 95% homologous to the M. marinum proteins MMAR5443, MMAR5444, and MMAR5457. In some embodiments the plurality of open reading frames further comprise open reading frames that encode proteins at least 95% homologous to the M. marinum proteins MMAR5429, MMAR5430, MMAR5431, MMAR5432, MMAR5433, MMAR5434, MMAR5435, MMAR5436, MMAR5437, MMAR5438, MMAR5439, MMAR5440, MMAR5441, MMAR5442, MMAR5454, MMAR5456, MMAR5458, MMAR5459, MMAR5460, and MMAR5461. Pharmaceutical compositions, kits, methods of inducing an immune response against M. tuberculosis in a subject, and methods of treating an M. tuberculosis infection in a subject are also provided, among other things.
US10010596B2
Bacterial live vector vaccines represent a vaccine development strategy that offers exceptional flexibility. In the present invention, genes encoding protective antigens of unrelated bacterial, viral, parasitic, or fungal pathogens are expressed in an attenuated bacterial vaccine strain that delivers these foreign antigens to the immune system, thereby eliciting relevant immune responses. Rather than expressing these antigens using only low copy expression plasmids, expression of foreign proteins is accomplished using both low copy expression plasmids in conjunction with chromosomal integrations within the same live vector. This strategy compensates for the inherent disadvantage of loss of gene dosage (versus exclusive plasmid-based expression) by integrating antigen expression cassettes into multiple chromosomal sites already inactivated in an attenuated vector.
US10010594B2
Compositions are provided comprising a replication-competent herpesvirus vector system and/or a herpesvirus vector particle comprising a heterologous recombinant transgene of interest encoding an antigen of interest (e.g., a tumor-associated antigen, a microbial antigen, etc.), wherein the recombinant transgene has been modified to comprise a codon usage signature of a herpesvirus late gene operably linked to an active promoter. Such compositions find use in a variety of methods including, for example, methods of generating an immune response against an antigen of interest in a subject in need thereof, as well as methods for treating or preventing cancer or a microbial infection.
US10010583B2
The described invention provides methods for treating an inflammatory brain disease, disorder or condition and for treating a traumatic brain injury having an inflammatory component in a subject in need thereof using isolated erythropoietin (EPO)-derived oligopeptides.
US10010563B2
The present invention is a sterile peritoneal dialysis fluid, including an acidic first liquid containing 60.0 to 94.0 g/L of icodextrin and 0 to 2.34 g/L of sodium chloride, and an alkaline second liquid containing an alkaline pH regulator, in which the first liquid after sterilization has a pH of 5.0 to 5.5, the second liquid after sterilization has a pH of 6.5 to 7.5, and a mixture of the first liquid and the second liquid after sterilization has a pH of 6.0 to 7.5. The present invention can provide a peritoneal dialysis fluid containing icodextrin, in which the stability of icodextrin during the heat sterilization and the subsequent storage can be improved to the maximum, and the pH of the peritoneal dialysis fluid is close to the physiological range.
US10010562B2
Disclosed herein is a method for inhibiting expression of a gene of a subject comprising administering (1) a composition comprising R-(L)a-(G)b; wherein R is an oligonucleotide selected from the group consisting of DNA, RNA, siRNA, and microRNA; L is a linker and each occurrence of L is independently selected from Table 3; G is a targeting ligand and each occurrence of G is independently selected from Table 4; each of a and b is independently 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; and (2) a composition comprising (P)c-(L)d-(G)e; wherein P is a peptide and each occurrence of P is independently selected from Table 2; L is a linker and each occurrence of L is independently selected from Table 3; G is a targeting ligand and each occurrence of G is independently selected from Table 4; d is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; and each of c and e is independently 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. Compositions in (1) and (2) can be co-administered or sequentially administered.
US10010561B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of treating cancer using a composition including a target-specific self-illuminative nanocomplex which includes a self-illuminative nanocomplex including a quantum dot and a modified self-illuminative protein (m-Rluc8), a targeted cancer-specific molecule and a hydrophilic polymer, and a method of preparing the composition. Since the high efficiency self-illuminative nanocomplex may have high target specificity by chemically binding to a target-specific molecule, it can be effectively used in cancer treatment using a nanometer-scale laser light source, and therefore it is expected to propose a new paradigm of nanoptic therapeutics.
US10010554B2
Fused pyrimidine compounds having a saturated, unsaturated or aromatic A ring fused to a pyrimidine ring and having a complex substituents at the 2 position and a substituted amine at the 4 position of the pyrimidine ring as well as optional aliphatic, functional and/or aromatic components substituted at other positions of the pyrimidine ring and A ring are disclosed. These compounds are inhibitors of the AAA proteasome complex containing p97 and are effective medicinal agents for treatment of diseases associated with p97 bioactivity such as cancer.
US10010553B2
The present invention relates to a new use of phosphodiesterase 1 (PDE1) inhibitors for the treatment of psychosis, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, mania, or bipolar disorder.
US10010551B2
The invention relates to spiro deriviatives, to the use of said derivatives in treating diseases and conditions mediated by modulation of voltage-gated sodium channels, to compositions containing said derivatives and processes for their preparation.
US10010545B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for compositions including an antibiotic containing a N-thiolated beta-lactam moiety, pharmaceutical compositions including the antibiotic, methods of treatment of a condition (e.g., bacterial infection), methods of treatment using compositions or pharmaceutical compositions, and the like.
US10010539B2
The present invention is directed to pyrazole, triazole and tetrazole compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. Such compounds are of the general structural formula I: The present invention is also directed to uses of the compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these pharmaceutical compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.
US10010537B2
Pharmaceutical formulations comprising clevidipine and an antimicrobial agent exhibit a reduced propensity for microbial growth and provide increased convenience to health care workers administering clevidipine-containing formulations to patients.
US10010535B2
Iron overload is associated with pathological conditions such as oxidative stress, transfusional iron overload, thalassemia, primary hemochromatosis, secondary hemochromatosis, diabetes, liver disease, heart disease, cancer, radiation injury, neurological or neurodegenerative disorder, Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), macular degeneration, closed head injury, irritable bowel disease, and reperfusion injury. The present invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions using desferrithiocin analogs of Formulae (A) and (J) for treating and/or preventing these pathological conditions, metal (e.g., iron, aluminum, a lanthanide, or an actinide (e.g., uranium)) overload conditions, and infectious diseases (e.g., malaria).
US10010532B2
The present technology provides compositions and methods for treating chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease, or diabetic nephropathy. The compositions comprise a nitrated lipid and an inhibitor of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. The methods comprise administering a nitrated lipid in combination with an inhibitor of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system to a subject in need thereof, in an amount effective to treat diabetic nephropathy, chronic kidney disease, and/or end-stage renal disease. The use of a nitrated lipid with an inhibitor of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system exhibits a synergistic effect in treating chronic kidney disease and diabetic nephropathy.
US10010531B2
The present invention provides methods for treating and preventing the reoccurrence of C. diff infection by administering an immunoglobulin concentrate in conjunction with a low protein diet.
US10010526B2
In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to heterocyclic flavone derivatives, such as those described by formula provided herein, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing diseases or conditions related to BDNF and TrkB activity, such as depression, stroke, Rett syndrome, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease by administering effective amounts of pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds disclosed herein.
US10010521B2
This invention is directed to substituted acylanilide compounds and uses thereof in improving or preserving lung function and cardiac function in a subject suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
US10010519B2
Methods and compositions containing a phorbol ester or a derivative of a phorbol ester are provided for the treatment and prevention of stroke and the sequelae of stroke. Additional compositions and methods are provided which employ a phorbol ester or derivative compound in combination with at least one additional agent to yield more effective treatment tools to treat or prevent stroke and the long term effects of stroke in mammalian subjects.
US10010514B2
Methods and compositions for reducing frequency of urination are disclosed. The methods comprise administering to a subject having a condition that resulting in undesired frequency of urination an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising one or more prostaglandin pathway inhibitors. The pharmaceutical compositions comprise one or more prostaglandin pathway inhibitors and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US10010513B2
The present invention is directed to an aqueous pharmaceutical composition, particularly an aqueous ophthalmic composition, suitable as an injection, particularly an intravitreal injection. The composition includes a biologic therapeutic agent (e.g., an isolated monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to a C5 protein) that tends to raise the viscosity of the composition and a guanidine and/or guanidine derivative (e.g., L-arginine) that tends to lower the viscosity of the composition.
US10010512B2
This invention relates to pharmaceutical composition and methods of using vitamin A and/or RARβ agonist for the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions associated with high fat diet and/or vitamin deficiency.
US10010509B2
An apparatus for producing a controlled dosage of bioactive agent is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a print device to eject a drop of a mixture onto an ingestible substrate, wherein the drop of mixture includes a bioactive agent within an ingestible carrier fluid and is between 50 ng and 1000 ng in size; a charge generating device adjacent to the print device to generate charge on the bioactive agent to draw the bioactive agent to the ingestible substrate; a cold fluid removal device adjacent to the charge generating device to remove a portion of the ingestible carrier fluid from the bioactive agent; an application device adjacent to the cold fluid removal device to apply an ingestible layer on top of the ingestible substrate encapsulating the bioactive agent or to fold the ingestible substrate on top of the bioactive agent encapsulating the bioactive agent; and a transfer device adjacent to the print device, the charge generating device, the cold fluid removal device, and the application device to move the ingestible substrate from one device to the next.
US10010508B1
11-mercaptoundecyl trimethylammonium bromide gold nanorod (MTAB-GNR) coated with tannic acid (TA), useful for biological cellular imaging. A method of synthesizing tannic acid-coated 11-mercaptoundecyl trimethylammonium bromide gold nanorods (MTAB-TA GNRs) comprising presenting 11-mercaptoundecyl trimethylammonium bromide gold nanorods (MTAB-GNRs) in solution; functionalizing the MTAB-GNRs with tannic acid (TA) added to the MTAB-GNRs, the tannic acid configured to form a coating around the MTAB-GNRs forming MTAB-TA GNRs. The functionalizing step may further comprise adding a sodium chloride solution to the MTAB-TA GNR solution, and/or adding a MOPS buffer to the solution of tannic acid with MTAB-GNRs, and the tannic acid MTAB-GNR solution may be vortexed after each step. The MTAB-TA GNR solution may be centrifuged to separate the MTAB-TA GNRs from residual tannic acid and supernatant, and sterile water may be added to the MTAB-TA GNR solution and centrifuging performed to remove residual tannic acid from the MTAB-TA GNRs.
US10010504B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treatment of proliferative disease. In specific aspects, the present invention relates to compositions including celecoxib and plumbagin in combination; methods for treatment of a proliferative disease including administration of celecoxib and plumbagin in a subject in need thereof; and particularly methods for treatment of skin cancer including administration of celecoxib and plumbagin in a subject in need thereof.
US10010503B2
This invention provides compositions comprising a protein, an absorption enhancer, a protease inhibitor, method for treating diabetes mellitus, comprising administering same, and methods for oral administration of a protein with an enzymatic activity, comprising orally administering same.
US10010501B2
A method (and the resulting product) of making a medical implant device for releasing self-contained drugs on a controlled basis wherein the method utilizes, at least in part, computer-controlled 3-D printing equipment to deposit via nozzles portions of one or more layers of the medical implant product. The implant has an outer impervious coating, an inner matrix core, an opening and an optional bonding layer.
US10010495B2
The present invention relates to a process for dyeing keratin fibers, in particular human keratin fibers such as the hair, in which the said fibers are treated using one or more cosmetic compositions comprising a) one or more ortho-diphenols, b) one or more organic salts of titanium and of at least one carboxylic acid, and c) optionally one or more chemical oxidizing agents such as hydrogen peroxide or one or more hydrogen peroxide generating systems.
US10010487B2
An apparatus is provided for receiving a substance, and includes a body defining a chamber for receiving the substance; and a dome-shaped needle penetrable and resealable portion that is penetrable by the needle for aseptically filling introducing substance into the chamber. The penetrable and resealable portion includes an injection member contacting member configured to contact and wipe the injection member during movement of the injection member therethrough, and is resealable to seal the product from ambient atmosphere within the chamber.
US10010473B1
An apparatus for providing sectional (cervical, thoracic and/or lumbar spine as individual parts) and global spinal (full-total spinal: cervical/thoracic/lumbar simultaneous as a single part) decompression including a head harness that has: a rigid member which extends into the mouth cavity of a user; and an attachment point located substantially at the same distance from the center of the skull as the end of the rigid member; wherein the rigid member comprises a U-shaped mouth guard, the u-shaped mouth guard contacting at least the “rear most” upper set of teeth during use; the attachment point is configured to attach to an external force providing apparatus; the attachment point is configured to provide a force in the direction of the user's height via the mouth guard. The location of the attachment point provides an optimal force vector when the device is pulled away from the head in a direction parallel with the user's height for medical applications associated with decompression of the spine. For comfort, positional placement and stability, a forehead pad and cranial straps may be provided.
US10010471B2
The present disclosure generally relates to intelligent garments that provide thermal regulation in a variety of environments. The garments may include different layers such as a hydrophilic layer in direct contact with a wearer's skin surface and saturated with an aqueous mixture, a spacer layer, a reflective layer, and an outer hydrophobic layer. The layers of the garment may work together to reduce the metabolic expenditure of the wearer in extreme environmental conditions or during demanding physical activity. A variety of sensors may be displaced throughout the garments so as to enable the collection of data associated with wearers as well as environmental conditions. Wearers may control the thermal balance and other properties of the garments as desired.
US10010469B2
The invention relates to medicine, and more particularly to gravity therapy, and can be used in the comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation of patients having neurological, cardiological and therapeutic profiles with circulatory insufficiency. The technical result is achieved in that the patient is placed in a right lateral recumbent position on an inversion table with their legs bent at the knees and the thighs spread at 30-60 degrees. The patient is secured by the pelvis with the aid of a soft securing device. The parameters of a cycle of oscillatory movements to be performed by the inversion table as the head part of the table is lowered or raised, i.e. variable angles of rotation about the longitudinal and transverse axes of the table, the oscillation frequency of the table and the maximum angle of inclination of the head part of the table, are set using an operating console. When in operation, the inversion table performs oscillatory movements changing the direction of rotation of the table about the axis and the angle of inclination of the table, the head part of the table being gradually lowered and returned to its starting position. Use of the claimed invention increases the efficacy of treatment of patient diseases related to circulatory insufficiency while avoiding negative effects on the patient in the form of reflex reactions, raised arterial pressure and the disruption of venous outflow from the vital organs.
US10010464B2
An adjustable support device adjustable by an electric motor, for supporting padding of seating or reclining furniture has an outer frame and a base body having at least two support parts. The two support parts are adjustable relative to one another. An adjustment element, which is in drive connection with a drive unit, is associated with at least one of the adjustable support parts. The adjustment element is a pivot lever which is pivotable under the traction effect of a pull cable of a Bowden cable, and the pivot lever is pivotably connected to the associated support part, and is supported on a support situated on the outer frame. Or the pivot lever is pivotably connected to the outer frame, and with its free end forms a support for the support part to be adjusted.
US10010450B2
A system is provided including an elongate needle body and an aqueous humor drainage device. The drainage device includes an elongated tube that is operatively coupled to a proximal end of the needle body. Methods for the implantation of the aqueous humor drainage device in the eye are provided. A system including an elongate needle body and drainage device is also provided for draining other body cavities.
US10010446B2
A cooling system for an occupant of an occupant support comprises a coolant conduit having an inlet for receiving coolant and an outlet for discharging the coolant to a destination. The conduit is nonpermanently and manually shape adjustable, shape stable subsequent to adjustment, and removably securable to the occupant support, the occupant or both. In one embodiment the destination is an ambient environment selected to achieve targeted coolant delivery to a localized region of the occupant's body. A cooling glove to be worn by a user has at least one coolant intake and at least one of a) a coolant passage extending from the coolant intake to an exhaust opening which exhausts coolant to an ambient environment; and b) a cooperative relationship with the user which defines a fluid pathway bounded in part by the glove and in part by the user and which discharges coolant to an ambient environment.
US10010436B2
A method of manufacturing a polymeric stent by forming a pattern on a polymer tube with a laser, where the pattern formed on the polymer tube comprises a plurality of repeating units comprising a plurality of unit cells, each having a V-shaped configuration and polymeric stents formed by the methods. The pattern may be formed on the polymer tube (e.g., polylactic acid tube) using a second harmonic generator laser in which a wavelength ranging from 940 nm to 1552 nm is converted.
US10010429B2
An implantation instrument for an expandable intervertebral fusion implant that includes a base piece and a cover piece that are configured to bear on a facing end plate of one of two adjacent vertebrae, the cover piece being adjustable in height with respect to the base piece, and a ratchet mechanism being provided between the base piece and the cover piece to effect a stepped adjustment of height and secure an adopted height again reversal, the implantation instrument being configured for expanding the intervertebral fusion implant and comprising a force measurer that interacts with a displacement measurer to indicate an expansion attained by a particular actuating force.
US10010426B2
An adaptable spinal facet joint prosthesis may include a pedicle fixation element; a laminar fixation element; and a facet joint bearing surface having a location adaptable with respect at least one of the pedicle fixation element and the laminar fixation element. Methods of implanting an adaptable spinal facet joint prosthesis may include determining a desired position for a facet joint bearing surface; and attaching a prosthesis comprising a facet joint bearing surface to a pedicle portion of a vertebra and a lamina portion of a vertebra to place the facet joint bearing surface in the desired position. A facet joint prosthesis implant tool may include a tool guide adapted to guide a vertebra cutting tool; and first and second fixation hole alignment elements extending from the saw guide. Systems for treating spinal pathologies may include intervertebral discs in combination with spinal and facet joint prostheses.
US10010412B2
Embodiments of crimping devices for crimping stented prosthetic valves and other medical devices from a larger, expanded diameter to a smaller, crimped diameter are disclosed. Some crimping devices utilize a conical surface extending out-of-plane from the direction of crimping, where motion of the conical surface in the out-of-plane direction causes in-plane radially crimping. Other crimping devices comprise a funnel-shaped rigid body having a tapered inner lumen that compresses a medical device moving therethrough. Some funnel-shaped embodiments have slotted sides that allow portions of the medical device to project therethrough. Other funnel-shaped embodiments are used with a tubular sock to pull the medical device through the tapered lumen. Other crimping devices utilize rotating rollers that compress a medical device while the medical device spins between the rollers.
US10010409B2
IOL (intraocular lens) injector (1) for introducing an IOL (100) into the eye, comprising: an injector body (2); a cavity (4) for holding the IOL (100) comprising a leading haptic (100b) and a trailing haptic (100c); a cartridge (5) ending at a distal end (5c) in an injection nozzle (5a); the injector body (2), the cavity (4) and the cartridge (5) having a channel (6) extending in axial direction (P); and an axially movable pushing plunger (7) being placed in the channel (6) of the injector body (2) for pushing the IOL (100) in axial direction (P) out of the cavity (4) and into the cartridge (5) and the injection nozzle (5a), wherein a folding plunger (8) is arranged in the channel (6) and is extending in axial direction (P), parallel to the pushing plunger (7); and wherein the cavity (4) comprises a trailing haptic rest (4c) for defining the direction of the trailing haptic (100c) of an IOL (100) arrange in the cavity (4), such that the folding plunger (8) when moved in axial direction (P) hits the trailing haptic (100c) of the IOL (100).
US10010404B2
Improvements for use with tissue expanders are provided. A first aspect includes a tissue expander device provided with a colorant inside a shell before the shell is inflated with fluid, wherein the colorant mixes with fluid upon injection of fluid into the shell. A second aspect includes a tissue expander device provided with a tread on an exterior surface of the shell. A third aspect includes a system having: a computing device with a visual display screen; a detector connected to the computing device that is configured to detect a port of a tissue expander that is implanted under skin of a patient; and software running on the computing device that receives signals from the detector and causes the visual display screen to show a visual representation of a location of the detected port of the tissue expander.
US10010403B2
A stent-graft prosthesis includes a generally tubular outer PTFE layer, a generally tubular helical stent, a generally tubular inner PTFE layer, and a suture or fabric support strip. The outer PTFE layer defines an outer layer lumen. The helical stent is disposed within the outer layer lumen and defines a stent lumen. The inner PTFE layer is disposed within the stent lumen and defines an inner layer lumen. The suture includes a suture first end coupled to a stent first end and a suture second end coupled to a stent second end, with the suture disposed between the outer PTFE layer and the inner PTFE layer. Alternatively, the fabric support strip is disposed between the outer and inner PTFE layers. The suture or fabric support strip may include a plurality of sutures or fabric support strips and may be spaced equally around a circumference of the inner PTFE layer.
US10010402B2
The present invention relates to a thoracic aortic covered stent (100), comprising a bare stent segment (110) and a covered stent segment (120). The bare stent segment (110) comprises a bare wave-shaped ring (111); the covered stent segment (120) has a lesser curvature side region (100c), a greater curvature side region (100a), and two opposite intermediate regions (100b) located between the lesser curvature side region (100c) and the greater curvature side region (100a) respectively; and the covered stent segment (120) comprises a first proximal wave-shaped ring (121). The stent (100) further comprises a first connecting member (131), a first side connecting member (132) and a second side connecting member (133) all connected to the bare wave-shaped ring (111) and the first proximal wave-shaped ring (121), wherein the first connecting member (131) is arranged in the lesser curvature side region (100c), and the first side connecting member (132) and the second side connecting member (133) are arranged in the two intermediate regions (100b) respectively. The stent (100) when located near the lesser curvature side (22) with a relatively small radius of curvature has a connecting assembly rigidly connecting the bare stent segment (110) and the covered stent segment (120), and through the constraints thereof, the bare stent segment (110) can be effectively prevented from overturning towards the vessel wall during the release process, so that the proximal end of the covered stent segment (120) is securely apposed to the wall, thereby avoiding the “turnover” effect.
US10010401B2
A woven prosthesis, such as a woven vascular graft, woven from warp and weft yarns. Velour warp yarns forming the prosthesis are selectively incorporated into a base layer of the prosthesis so as to provide a bulbous section without compromising the porosity of the prosthesis.
US10010399B2
A low profile intraluminal filter includes first and second wire members that define arcuate paths having only a single sigmoidal curve. Connectors join the wire members to form an opening between the wire members. Each connecting member of a plurality of connecting members is connected to the first and second wire members and extends across the opening. The plurality of connecting members provides a plurality of open cells that permit passage of fluid flow through the opening when the filter is deployed within a body vessel.
US10010396B2
Novel multilayer composite material vias for biological implants are disclosed. The vias comprise two metals, so that the metal more compatible with biological environments is on one end of the via, and the metal more compatible with fabrication of a hermetic package is on the other end of the via.
US10010395B2
The present disclosure provides composite prosthetic devices including two or more layers of electrospun polymers and methods of preparation thereof. In some embodiments, the two or more layers can be porous and in other embodiments, one or more components is nonporous. The composite prosthetic devices can include various materials and the properties of the prosthetic devices can be tailored for use in a range of different applications.
US10010392B1
An indwelling valve actuated urinary catheter has an inner catheter having an inlet port configured on a distal end and for locating within the bladder and a sheath that slides over the inner catheter to produce a valve. The sheath extends over the inlet port when the valve is in a closed position and manipulation of a valve actuator on the proximal end, located within the penis, opens the valve. The sheath may include a window that is aligned with the inlet port when the sheath is moved to open the valve. The valve actuator may comprise a proximal nodule and a distal nodule that are configured within the urethra along the penis. Manual manipulation of the valve actuator through the penis, such as by pinching the penis, moves the proximal and distal nodules with respect to each other to open or close the valve.
US10010389B2
An apparatus for providing a pressurized water stream for cleaning gums and teeth. The embodiment includes a base unit defining a cavity. The cavity contains a pump, which may move pressurized water from a reservoir to a tip in fluid communication with the pump. The pump may be secured within the cavity by at least one vibration reduction mount. Fluid may flow from the reservoir and ultimately into the tip to provide oral irrigation and/or cleaning of the teeth, gums, and tongue. The base may include a plurality of footings that elevate the base unit above a surface supporting the base unit. Also, the base may include a basin for receiving a reservoir. The basin may include a reservoir valve initially biased to a closed position and operationally attached to the reservoir, and a tube projection connected to the base unit and opening the valve when the reservoir is received within the basin. The basin and the reservoir are configured to guide the reservoir valve adjacent to the tube projection.
US10010381B2
An apparatus and method for tracking the position of one or more connected rigid bodies using markers attached to the rigid bodies by laterally compliant connectors. Systems based on this method are comprised of laterally compliant connectors, a position tracking system and a data processing algorithm to determine the positions and orientations of the rigid bodies. Variations in the methods of attachment of the laterally compliant connectors, the means by which lateral compliance in the connector is produced, and in the layout of the markers are presented.
US10010373B2
An image guided navigation system for navigating a region of a patient which is gated using ECG signals to confirm diastole. The navigation system includes an imaging device, a tracking device, a controller, and a display. The imaging device generates images of the region of a patient. The tracking device tracks the location of the instrument in a region of the patient. The controller superimposes an icon representative of the instrument onto the images generated from the imaging device based upon the location of the instrument. The display displays the image with the superimposed instrument. The images and a registration process may be synchronized to a physiological event.
US10010360B2
An apparatus and technique for infernally securing a plurality of bone segments together. The device incorporates a plate-like structure stabilizing the fracture and integrated fasteners to attach straps circumscribing the bone segments.
US10010356B2
Systems for trauma and/or joint fusion implants and instruments include transarticular screw and intra-articular washer, polyaxial screw and plate, single- and multi-level polyaxial bone clamps, and minimally invasive adaptations.
US10010353B2
A polyaxial bone anchoring device is provided comprising a bone anchoring element having a shank to be anchored in a bone and a head; a receiving part coupled to the shank and configured to pivotably receive the head, and having a channel for receiving a rod and a longitudinal axis; a pressure member configured to be positioned in the receiving part; a locking member insertable into the channel; wherein the pressure member has a deformable portion; and wherein, when the locking member is advanced into the channel in the direction of the longitudinal axis, the locking member in moveable from a position where it contacts the pressure member resulting in a load applied to the pressure member that clamps the head, to a position where the locking member contacts the pressure member such that the deformable portion is deformed and the locking member contacts the rod and clamps the rod.
US10010351B2
An implant to be fastened to a tissue, a tool a kit and a method. The implant has a first end, a second end and an elongated shank made in part from a first polymer material. The implant includes a contact surface for receiving external mechanical energy for deforming the shape of the implant such that the shape of the implant can be deformed and locked in the tissue by the effect of the external mechanical energy.
US10010346B2
An external fixation system includes first and second fixation members having first and second pluralities of mounting holes, respectively. The first and second plurality of holes are configured to receive first and second ends of a plurality of struts, each strut having a default or initial mounting position. A simulation of the correction may be performed with the struts in the default positions, but it may be determined that the correction is not achievable. Additional simulations of the correction may be performed with the ends of the struts in different mounting positions to determine if other mounting positions of the struts allow the correction to be completed. During the correction, if one of the struts reaches a maximum length, it may be disconnected and reconnected to a different mounting hole so that, after being reconnected, the strut may be further increased in length to continue the correction.
US10010345B2
A surgical instrument for at least partial occlusion of the uterus blood vessels comprising two opposing jaws with scissor-type handles and a latching mechanism.Each jaw has a straight member 1 and a straight member 2 connected with an angle 30-45 degrees. Each said member 1 has a tubular cover. Each member 2 is integrated with the scissor-type handle. Each jaw has an inner side and an outer side. The jaws are made movable relative to each other in order to at least partially occlude the uterus blood vessels by the opposite sides of the covers on the inner sides of the members 1. The latching mechanism is made to retain the jaws in the working position over a needed period of time and release the jaws when the need for occlusion is over.Each cover has an inner cavity open from one end for receiving and retaining the member 1 of said jaw. The thickness of each said cover on the inner side of the member 1 is 8-12 mm, the width of said cover is 10-30 mm, the length of said cover is 50-60 mm, and said cover is made of soft plastic, silicon, fabric, gauze or non woven material.
US10010342B2
In an ultrasonic probe, a curved portion gravity center of a probe curved portion located on a first perpendicular direction side with respect to a longitudinal axis. A boundary position between a probe relay portion and a probe main body portion is located on a distal side with respect to a reference antinode position which is located most distally among antinode positions of a longitudinal vibration located on a proximal direction side with respect to the probe curved portion. By a cross-section changing portion located at the boundary position, a cross section gravity center in a cross section of the probe relay portion perpendicular to the longitudinal axis is away from the longitudinal axis toward a second perpendicular direction opposite to the first perpendicular direction.
US10010337B2
A slotted cannula for endoscopic surgical procedures is disclosed. The slotted cannula has a tubular body having a distal end, a proximate end, an open slot extending longitudinally from the beginning of the proximate end to the proximity of the distal end, and a pair of wings integrally formed on the proximate end. The tubular body is made from a transparent material and has an inner diameter large enough to accommodate an endoscope.
US10010336B2
Medical systems, devices and methods are provided for engaging tissue, e.g. for clipping tissue, closing a perforation or performing hemostasis. Generally, the medical system including a housing, first and second jaws rotatable relative to the housing, a driver, and an elongate drive wire. The elongate drive wire may be disconnected from the driver, first and second jaws, and the housing, which are left in vivo engaged with the tissue. The medical device of the system may include a biasing strip engaged with the jaws, and/or a gripping strip attached to at least one of the jaws to improve the engagement of the tissue between the jaws.
US10010331B2
A system and a device are provided for counterbalancing a surgical robotic system that include a rail assembly having a shaft that engages a first carriage and a second carriage via threaded mechanism. A manipulatable arm carries a movable effector; the manipulatable arm is supported by the first carriage. A counter weight is supported by the second carriage with a single actuator. A simplified robotic surgery system results.
US10010328B2
A vascular occlusion device having an expandable frame that carries a membrane. The membrane can include a tubular portion configured to transition between an open configuration in which the tubular portion is configured to receive a guidewire and a closed configuration in which the tubular portion is configured to occlude blood flow.
US10010318B2
A fastener is provided for attaching body tissue to body tissue or another material to body tissue. The fastener includes a head portion, a body portion, and an anchoring element. The anchoring element is on the distal end of the fastener, and has one or more barbs or similar anchoring devices that are configured to prevent removal of the fastener once it is attached to the body tissue. The head is located on the proximal end of the fastener, and anchors the body tissue or other material when the fastener is attached to the body tissue. The disclosure also provides a driver apparatus for inserting the fasteners. The applicator device includes an indexer for sequentially indexing one or more fasteners, and a driver for applying an insertion force to a fastener that is sufficient to insert the fastener and attach it to body tissue. The disclosure also provides a method of using the fastener and applicator device.
US10010314B2
An assembly includes a flexible fixation member, a suture, and a delivery device. The fixation member includes a body with two terminal ends. A suture passes through the flexible fixation member at various points along a length of the body such that portions of the fixation member are slidable relative to the suture and configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site. The delivery device includes a tubular member, an elongated inserter, and a trigger. The elongated inserter is slidably disposed within the tubular member. The inserter has a forked distal end configured to receive a portion of the flexible fixation member and the suture. The trigger is finger-engagable and fixedly coupled to the proximal end of the inserter. It is configured to advance and retract the inserter relative to the tubular member. The trigger includes a retention member for retaining a proximal end portion of the suture.
US10010308B2
An image-guided system and method for performing needle biopsy on a moving lung nodule of a body is provided. CT images of the lung nodule are obtained to generate a motion model, based on which an optimal needle advancing path is determined. The motion of the lung nodule and the motion of a fiducial marker attached to the body are correlated. The motion of the fiducial marker is tracked and monitored by a camera to determine a position of the lung nodule based on the correlation. A time for advancing the needle is determined based on a motion attribute of the reference. The needle is advanced by a robotic needle manipulator at the predetermined time along the path to accomplish the needle placement.
US10010300B2
A bite-block and film-holding device is used with an x-ray film or a digital image sensor and held by a patient between teeth to align with an external camera device for dental radiographic imaging of the patient's teeth. The bite-block and film-holding device includes a disposable film holder having a bite block portion, a film-holding portion made of a plastic material, and a bonding member having a release layer attached thereto; and an aiming assembly having a coupling arm coupled to the disposable film-holder and an aiming ring assembly installed on the camera device and connected to the coupling arm. The aiming ring assembly is adjustable in position for the camera device to face at a right angle to the film-holding portion. After the dental radiographic imaging, the disposable film holder is separated from the aiming assembly and discarded to ensure the patient's oral cavity hygiene and health.
US10010299B2
In a test for supporting diagnosis of periodontal disease, a test method, whose measurement result has reproducibility and can be an objective index, is achieved and the loss of a tooth is predicted by use of the obtained objective index. A periodontal disease diagnosis supporting device supports diagnosis of periodontal disease by use of a captured three-dimensional image of a tooth part. The device includes a tooth root adhesion degree measuring part for measuring a degree of adhesion between a tooth root and alveolar bone by use of the image. The device further includes a periodontal disease diagnosis supporting part for supporting diagnosis of periodontal disease by use of a measurement result of the measuring part.
US10010295B2
An apparatus for cone beam computed tomography of an extremity has a digital radiation detector and a first device to move the detector along a circular detector path extending so that the detector moves both at least partially around a first extremity of the patient and between the first extremity and a second, adjacent extremity. The detector path has radius R1 sufficient to position the extremity approximately centered in the detector path. There is a radiation source with a second device to move the source along a concentric circular source path having a radius R2 greater than radius R1, radius R2 sufficiently long to allow adequate radiation exposure of the first extremity for an image capture by the detector. A first circumferential gap in the source path allows the second extremity to be positioned in the first circumferential gap during image capture.
US10010291B2
A system and method provides a glucose report for determining glycemic risk based on an ambulatory glucose profile of glucose data over a time period, a glucose control assessment based on median and variability of glucose, and indicators of high glucose variability. Time of day periods are shown at which glucose levels can be seen. A median glucose goal and a low glucose line provide coupled with glucose variability provide a view into effects that raising or lowering the median goal would have. Likelihood of low glucose, median glucose compared to goal, and variability of glucose below median provide probabilities based on glucose data. Patterns can be seen and provide guidance for treatment.
US10010289B2
The present invention pertains to Method for monitoring a dialysis treatment of a patient, preferably for monitoring a haemodialysis, haemodiafiltration and/or peritoneal dialysis treatment of a patient, the method including the steps of: irradiating a sample of a dialysis fluid used in the dialysis treatment with linearly polarized irradiation light; detecting the intensity of the fluorescence light emitted by the dialysis fluid in a first polarization plane; detecting the intensity of the fluorescence light emitted by the dialysis fluid in a second polarization plane which is different from the first polarization plane; determining the anisotropy of the fluorescence light emitted by the dialysis fluid; and determining the concentration of at least one fluorophore in the dialysis fluid on the basis of both, the determined anisotropy and the intensity of the fluorescence light emitted by the dialysis fluid.
US10010282B2
Blood sample optimization systems and methods are described that reduce or eliminate contaminates in collected blood samples, which in turn reduces or eliminates false positive readings in blood cultures or other testing of collected blood samples. A blood sample optimization system can include a blood sequestration device located between a patient needle and a sample needle. The blood sequestration device can include a sequestration chamber for sequestering an initial, potentially contaminated aliquot of blood, and may further include a sampling channel that bypasses the sequestration chamber to convey likely uncontaminated blood between the patient needle and the sample needle after the initial aliquot of blood is sequestered in the sequestration chamber.
US10010274B2
The systems, methods, and devices described herein generally involve monitoring and/or quantification of various analyte levels in a biological fluid using one or more implantable sensors. In various aspects, systems, methods, and devices described herein can provide for the in situ calibration and/or cleaning of such sensors when implanted in the patient. The systems and devices disclosed herein can, for example, continuously or serially measure analytes within a biological fluid in vivo (e.g., without extracting the biological fluid from the patient) and periodically calibrate and/or clean the sensor without using finger sticks or additional, invasive calibration techniques. By way of non-limiting example, systems and devices disclosed herein can enable continuous monitoring of analyte concentrations (e.g., glucose) in subcutaneous interstitial fluid for several hours to a few days.
US10010263B2
A robust liver function quantification algorithm to quantify regional and global liver function using temporally sparse-sampled multi-phase MRI with gadoxetic-acid injection is provided. The liver function quantification algorithm may be utilized in a liver function analysis server and indications of a patient's liver function may be provided for display on a healthcare professional's network-enabled device. The use of a single clinical multi-phase MRI with gadoxetic-acid injection may provide 1) regional liver function assessment, 2) global liver function assessment, and 3) risk analysis for future liver intervention.
US10010255B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining individual-specific blood flow characteristics. One method includes acquiring, for each of a plurality of individuals, individual-specific anatomic data and blood flow characteristics of at least part of the individual's vascular system; executing a machine learning algorithm on the individual-specific anatomic data and blood flow characteristics for each of the plurality of individuals; relating, based on the executed machine learning algorithm, each individual's individual-specific anatomic data to functional estimates of blood flow characteristics; acquiring, for an individual and individual-specific anatomic data of at least part of the individual's vascular system; and for at least one point in the individual's individual-specific anatomic data, determining a blood flow characteristic of the individual, using relations from the step of relating individual-specific anatomic data to functional estimates of blood flow characteristics.
US10010245B2
A subject irradiated with violet light and green light is imaged to obtain RGB signals, based on which a base image is produced. Frequency filtering processing is applied to the B signal to obtain a blood vessel extraction signal, in which a most superficial blood vessel, a superficial blood vessel, and a middle-layer blood vessel at different depths are extracted. Edge strength of each blood vessel in the blood vessel extraction signal is calculated. Display control processing based on the edge strength of each blood vessel is applied to the base image. Thereby, a first image or a second image is produced. In the first image, the most superficial blood vessel, the superficial blood vessel, and the middle-layer blood vessel are displayed in a distinguishable manner. In the second image, the most superficial blood vessel, the superficial blood vessel, and the middle-layer blood vessel are selectively enhanced or suppressed.
US10010240B2
A system for sanitizing footwear through the use of pulsed ultraviolet (UV) light. The system can include an area that receives footwear of a user and applies a PUV light to the footwear to eliminate pathogens residing on the footwear. The system may contain a protective housing to ensure that exposure to the PUV light is limited to the footwear received in the PUV light area. The system contains electrical circuitry or control mechanism for operation of the PUV light. The system may also contain a brush area so that a user may remove dirt or solid particles from the footwear by engaging bristles that contact the underside and sides of the footwear. The intensity and the duration of the PUV light may be predetermined depending on the requirements of the facility intending to use the system.
US10010237B1
A dish treating appliance for treating dishes having a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber with an access opening and a door movable between opened/closed positions to selectively open/close the access opening. The door having an inner door panel confronting the treating chamber in the closed position, and an outer door panel spaced from the inner door panel to define a door cavity there between. A foam panel located within the door cavity, the foam panel have areas of differing densities.
US10010229B2
A hose valve for central vacuum cleaning systems having retractable suction hoses that retract into a system vacuum pipe. The hose valve comprises a valve box, a chamber connection port, and a system pipe connection port arranged to securely engage the chamber connection port. A locking assembly is radially disposed about a locking assembly axis between the chamber connection port and the system pipe connection port. The locking assembly comprises a coaxially disposed compression cylinder having a radially outer cylinder surface arranged to define symmetrically disposed helical grooves. A cylindrical deformable sleeve is coaxially disposed adjacent the compression cylinder and is radially inwardly deformable responsive to an axial compressive force. A thrust ring is disposed adjacent the chamber connection port and defines a radially inner surface having opposing inner post groove followers arranged to engage the helical grooves of the compression cylinder to urge the compression cylinder axially toward the system pipe connection port to compress the deformable sleeve to form a seal around a vacuum suction hose.
US10010228B2
An apparatus for assisting a person in assumption of a squat position for evacuations when using a toilet, the apparatus including a platform adapted to raise a user's feet from the ground surface, and at least one foot member, each having an opening therein to at least partially receive a portion of the toilet or bowl, and at least one height adjustment assembly to adjust the height of the platform above the at least one foot member, the height adjustment assembly including an upper leg mounted to the platform, a lower leg mounted to the at least one foot member for slidable movement relative thereto, a resilient separator to bias the platform and the at least one foot apart, and a locking mechanism to at least temporarily lock the upper leg relative to the lower leg to fix the height of the platform.
US10010226B2
Package of wet wipes with easy openability, improved moisture retention and manufacturing efficiency
A package containing a stack of wet wipes moistened with aqueous lotion is disclosed. The package comprises a polymeric film wrap, the film wrap comprising a laminate with an inner layer of a first polymer and an outer layer of a second polymer, and a surface bearing scoring along a path defining a substantially closed shape, the scoring at least partially penetrating the outer layer and not entirely penetrating the inner layer.
US10010217B1
A grill has a cooking assembly positioned inside a heating chamber, where the cooking assembly is configured to slide along a track system positioned inside and extending out from the heating chamber such that the cooking assembly can be slidably removed from the heating chamber. An end plate attached to the slidable cooking assembly is configured to substantially seal the heating chamber when the cooking assembly is slidably removed from the heating chamber. The cooking assembly may comprise multiple cooking surfaces, with each of the cooking surfaces capable of being slidably removed from the heating chamber, with an end plate connected to each cooking surface configured to seal the appropriate end of the heating chamber when the cooking assembly is removed.
US10010215B2
A cooking assembly is provided. The cooking assembly includes first, second, third, and fourth side walls defining an interior region. The cooking assembly further includes a skewer having a shaft, a handle, and a sprocket. The skewer is configured to be rotatably and removably coupled to the first and second side walls such that a portion of the shaft between the sprocket and the handle is rotatably disposed in a first groove of the first side wall, and the second end of the shaft extends through a first aperture of the second side wall, and the sprocket of the skewer is disposed in the interior region. The cooking assembly further includes a chain drive assembly coupled to the first side wall.
US10010211B2
A system (1) for making beverages comprises a capsule holder (11) and a capsule (2) containing a powdered food substance which can be extracted to make a beverage; the capsule (2) comprises a body (3) comprising a lower wall (4), a lateral wall (5), a lid (7) and a filter bag (9). The system (1) also comprises injection means (13) for injecting water into the capsule (2) through the lid (7) and collecting means (16) comprising a piercing element (17) for piercing the lower wall (4). The inside of the capsule (2), at the lower wall (4), comprises a protection element (20) for preventing contact between the piercing element (17) and the filter bag (9). The protection element (20) together with at least the lower wall (4) forms an annular chamber (21), extending around an axis of extension (8) and being in fluid communication with the filter bag (9), and forms a seat (33) facing towards the lid (7), in which a lower part (37) of the filter bag (9) is inserted, and which is surrounded by the annular chamber (21). The piercing element (17) is positioned off center relative to the axis of extension (8), passes through the lower wall (4) at the annular chamber (21) and is partly inserted in said chamber.
US10010200B2
A lid with a straw for a beverage container is described. The lid includes a supporting structure to house the straw. The lid includes a door structure to close the straw. The door structure is rotatably or pivotally connected to the supporting structure. The lid includes a vent to prevent a vacuum from forming in the interior of the beverage container. The door structure also bends the straw to cover the vent in order to close the vent. The supporting structure positions the straw at an optimal angle towards a user's mouth when the straw is released from the supporting structure by opening the door structure.
US10010197B1
An apparatus for holding a plurality of documents includes a plurality of dividers. The dividers include a front facing surface, a rear facing surface, an upper end and a lower end. Each divider includes a first attachment member that is attached to a corresponding second attachment member of an adjacent divider so as to form a stacked and interconnected configuration. A frame retains lateral edges of the stacked dividers in which the stacked plurality of dividers define a corresponding plurality of document retaining pockets. In at least one version, the size of the retaining pockets can be selectively and independently adjusted, as needed wherein the apparatus can be used in conjunction with at least one display board, such as a dry-erase board.
US10010192B1
A seat protection pad to protect a seat against spilled liquids and other bodily fluids including human and animal fluids, including a base pad having a first side and a second side and a front portion, a mid-section portion and a rear portion, wherein the base pad includes a base pad opening located between the mid-section portion and the front portion, an upper pad having a first side and a second side and a front end and a rear end, wherein the upper pad is attached to the first side of the base pad at a location adjacent to the front portion of the base pad such that the second side of the upper pad is located adjacent to the first side of the base pad, an upper pad opening located between the front end of the upper pad and the front portion of the base pad such that the upper pad opening is aligned with the base pad opening to allow a seat belt buckle to be inserted through the base pad opening and the upper pad opening, a plurality of adhesive strips located on the second side of the base pad, wherein a first one of the plurality of adhesive strips is attached adjacent to the rear portion of the base pad, a second one of the plurality of adhesive strips is attached adjacent to the mid-section portion of the base pad and a third one of the plurality of adhesive strips is attached adjacent to the front portion of the base pad, and a plurality of stitches located on each of the plurality of adhesive strips for securing the plurality of adhesive strips to the base pad.
US10010190B2
A pocketed spring assembly comprises a plurality of parallel strings of springs, each string joined to an adjacent string. Each string comprises a plurality of pockets formed along a length of the string by transverse seams joining first and second plies of fabric on opposed sides of springs. At least one spring is positioned in each pocket. Each spring has two end portions and a middle portion. The convolutions of the middle portion are greater in diameter and pitch than the convolutions of the end portions. Each interior transverse seam is cut or otherwise treated to create at least one divide enabling at least one end portion of the spring to compress without substantially compressing the middle portion of the spring.
US10010189B2
Pocketed spring assembly comprising strings of springs of different heights and enhanced ventilation
A pocketed spring assembly comprises a plurality of parallel strings of individually pocketed springs of different heights. Each string is joined to an adjacent string. Each string has first and second opposed plies of fabric and a plurality of pockets formed along a length of the string by transverse seams joining the plies. An upper end of each transverse seam is below the upper surface of the string so as to partially separate adjacent pockets within a string of springs when the spring is relaxed. The strings of springs have ventilation openings to increase airflow.
US10010188B2
An adjustable mattress structure comprises a mattress body in which there are a plurality of hollow bases, a plurality of elastic support units, a plurality of adjustable positioning boards and a plurality of spring positioning bodies. Each of the elastic support units consists of a first encapsulated elastomer and a second encapsulated elastomer. The first encapsulated elastomer depends on spring positioning bodies to be fixed on one of the hollow bases so that the second encapsulated elastomer extends inside the hollow base. Each of the adjustable positioning boards is fixed inside a hollow base and used to receive a second encapsulated elastomer; the adjustable positioning boards in the hollow bases are situated at distinct positions by which the adjustable positioning boards make the elastic support units generate distinct resilient bearing capacities for adjustable mattress firmness supporting a body curve.
US10010186B2
A folding bed is provided, which includes a bed sheet, a first lateral supporting rod connected to a first edge of the bed sheet and a second side supporting rod connected to a second edge of the bed sheet. The folding bed further includes a first L-shaped supporting rod having a first end articulated to the first side supporting rod, a second L-shaped support rod having a first end articulated to the second side supporting rod, a gear connected to a second end of the first L-shaped supporting rod, and a gear locking member connected to a second end of the second L-shaped supporting rod. The gear locking member is provided with teeth which are rotatable in only one direction with respect to teeth of the gear. The folding bed is has a small size after being folded, is convenient to assemble and is easy to fold.
US10010185B2
A furniture member may include a base frame, a seat bottom and an ottoman assembly. The seat bottom is attached to the base frame and defines a seating surface. The ottoman assembly may include a drive assembly that moves an ottoman platform relative to the seat bottom and the base frame among a retracted position, an extended position and a raised position. The ottoman platform includes a support surface that faces upward and away from a ground surface in the retracted, extended and raised positions. The ottoman platform is disposed beneath the seating surface in the retracted position and moves linearly in a horizontal direction from the retracted position to the extended position. The ottoman platform moves linearly in a vertically upward direction from the extended position to the raised position.
US10010183B2
This disclosure relates to a cushion and more particularly to a pillow providing cervical alignment by way of a cervical spine support structure that is positioned along a major axis of the pillow, and that can be rotated around the major axis. The pillow utilizes one or more of the following features: 1) a dimensionally correct platform for the proper sleep posture of a majority of body types on a wide array of mattress types; 2) A non-crush zone integrated cervical support roll which can be adjusted for extended durations of supportive comfort. (The roll—in and of itself—is unique compared to the standard of care because of its foam densities and its semi-hollowed out section); and 3) A sleep posture platform with a side sleeping position and a back-sleeping position. The pillow standardizes care by placement of the support roll inside a dimensionally correct platform using different materials.
US10010172B1
A configurable bottle storage rack kit includes front bottle support panels and rear bottle support panels, with a bottle support panel hinge section being located at first and second sides of each panel. The kit includes panel connecting members, each defined by first and second sides, and each having a hinge located at the first and second sides. The kit includes a plurality of leg members and spacing members. The front bottle support panels, (and likewise, the rear bottle support panels) can be connected to one another by engaging the hinges of the respective panel connecting members to the respective (i.e., front or rear) bottle support panel hinge sections. The panel connecting members can be attached to the leg members, and the spacing members can be disposed between leg members where panel connecting members are be attached to the leg members.
US10010170B2
The invention provides a modular storage system (1), comprising a plurality of box-shaped structural units(2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14), one or more of which are storage units used for storage, and each structural unit having front and back faces and left, right, top and bottom sides, wherein: the box-shaped structural units (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14) are laterally attachable to each other side-by-side through attachment points (30,31,32,33,74,79,97,99) on the left and right sides, thereby to construct a joined structure of at least two of the structural units; and one or more of the box-shaped structural units are reversible structural units, in which the corresponding attachment points are positioned and shaped so that the reversible structural unit is attachable in the lateral side-by-side attachment so that the corresponding front faces of adjacent joined structural units are oriented either in one direction or in opposite directions.
US10010159B1
A portable backpack for the storage and transport of a collapsible quad chair, in which the insertion or removal of the collapsible quad chair is enabled by maintaining the shape of the opening through placement of the flap away from the opening to prevent deformation of the opening.
US10010155B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a makeup support device capable of appropriately supporting the application of makeup even for users who have insufficient makeup skills. The makeup support device (100) has: a makeup style selection unit (250) that selects a makeup style being a makeup method, for each face to be made up; and a makeup style suggestion unit (260) that guides the position of the face to a prescribed position, and sprays cosmetics corresponding to the selected makeup style, using the prescribed position as reference. The makeup style suggestion unit (260) causes, for example, a spray unit that sprays a plurality of cosmetic colors in a prescribed direction to spray a cosmetic color corresponding to the prescribed direction when the face is in the prescribed position, among the colors used for the selected makeup style.
US10010152B2
A built-in material scraping device for a cosmetic container is a material scraping device capable of being slipped downward with a liquid surface of liquid material stored inside the cosmetic container. An elastic piston piece is mainly into the container before a scraping element is installed on the mouth of the container, where a through hole is configured on the center of the piston piece, having a diameter equal to the diameter of a brushing rod, which is passed through the through hole to press the piston piece downward to move the stored liquid material to flow downward, thereby being convenient for the soaking of the brush head upon make-up use.
US10010143B2
An umbrella with a Bluetooth sound device, which includes a column having a top and a middle, a tray, a plurality of ribs, a canopy, a controlling handle disposed on the middle of the column and an electrical box having a involutory front cover and back cover. A solar receiving device is connected to the top of the column; a plurality of LED lamp strings is attached to the tray and the ribs. The PCB circuit board, the speaker, the LED lamp strings, the solar rechargeable cell and the umbrella are reasonably combined and fused into an entirety, thereby being very convenient to detach and install at the same time and convenient to change and maintain parts, the umbrella not only satisfies the daily sunshade and rain shielding of outdoor leisure facilities, but also has illumination, music playing, call answering and other functions, and is convenient to operate.
US10010135B2
A comfort system for Cowboy and work boots, including an insole chassis, an insole chassis backing board, and cushioning pads for absorbing and attenuating shocks encountered by a wearer of the boots. Cushioning pads are secured to a surface of the insole chassis backing board, and apertures in the insole chassis allow the cushions to pass through. Additional cushioning pads are retained in recesses in the midsole. Pads on insole chassis backing board and midsole are vertically aligned. A steel toe inset is utilized in conjunction with the comfort system for work boots. A rim may depend below the midsole to receive a foamed plastic pad.
US10010114B2
A charger assembly is configured to charge the electronic vaping device. The charger assembly includes a base including a housing defining a port. The port is configured to receive a tip end of an electronic vaping device. The port includes a magnetic electrical contact centrally positioned at a bottom of the port and a first pin positioned at the bottom of the port. The charger assembly also includes a microprocessor electrically connected to the magnetic electrical contact and the first pin.
US10010106B2
A method and apparatus for causing attrition to an outer surface of a food product to provide a removed portion of the food product and a remainder of the food product. In a first aspect, an abrasive stream contacts the outer surface of the food product, thereby separating at least a portion of the outer surface of the food product from the remainder of the food product to provide the removed portion of the food product. In a second aspect, the apparatus includes a product positioner to position the food product in an attrition zone and a nozzle for discharging the abrasive stream into contact with the food product in the attrition zone. The abrasive stream can be food grade and can include a food grade fluid and a food grade abrasive, for example, air and salt, respectively.
US10010103B2
Disclosed is a method to prepare a myceliated high-protein food product, which includes culturing a fungi an aqueous media which has a high level of protein, for example at least 20 g protein per 100 g dry weight with excipients, on a dry weight basis. The fungi can include Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus eryngii, Lepista nuda, Hericium erinaceus, Lentinula edodes, Agaricus blazeii, Laetiporus sulfureus and combinations thereof. After culturing, the material is harvested by obtaining the myceliated high-protein food product via drying or concentrating. The resultant myceliated high-protein food product may have its taste, flavor, or aroma modulated, such as by increasing desirable flavors or tastes such as meaty, savory, umami, popcorn and/or by decreasing undesirable flavors such as bitterness, astringency or beaniness. Deflavoring and/or deodorizing as compared to non-myceliated control materials can also be observed. Also disclosed are myceliated high-protein food products.
US10010092B2
The present invention relates to a method for using the by-products of coffee in the production of proteins, polyphenols, vitamins and minerals, through methods of concentrating and conserving the mucilage and the pulp (husk), which is/are suitable for use in products for human or animal consumption, drugs, cosmetics or as raw materials for the production of alcohol for fuel (ethanol), wherein said process makes it possible to reduce the pollution of the environment by avoiding the waste of coffee by-products and to exploit the properties and advantages of the same for producing the aforementioned products.
US10010090B2
A method for controlling microbiological contamination in a heat exchanger while using the heat exchanger to process a food product. The method includes: while processing the food product in the heat exchanger, adding a microbiological control agent to the food product at a first location; and neutralizing at least partially the microbiological control agent by adding a neutralizing agent to the food product at a second location, the second location being downstream from the first location, at least part of the heat exchanger being between the first and second locations, the neutralizing agent being operative for reducing a chemical reactivity of the microbiological control agent in the food product. The microbiological control agent controls the microbiological contamination in the heat exchanger while the food product is processed. In some embodiments, the food product is a milk product.
US10010086B2
A crab butchering machine removes the carapace, mandibles and tail from a crab by timing actuation of tools depending upon the measured dimensions of the carapace. A measuring tool determines the location of the front and rear of the carapace relative to the saddle, securing and advancing the crab through the machine. The positions of the ends of the tools that operate on the crab are known. After measuring, the crab is advanced into a calculated position relative to a first tool, whereby an arm moves upwards, separating the carapace from the crab. The crab is next advanced past a 10 second tool that lifts the carapace away from the crab carcass, allowing a third tool to move upwards, separating the carapace and tail from the carcass when the saddle is in a second calculated position. The remaining leg clusters are separated and released from the saddle for further processing.
US10010085B2
In a hollow cylindrical housing which stores a coolant, a feeding device having a rotating shaft and spiral screw vanes fixedly installed on the periphery of the rotating shaft is provided. At least one first diffusion nozzle is provided in each pitch of the screw vanes on the inner wall of the housing. A pair of second diffusion nozzles are provided for every pitch of the screw vanes on the outer periphery of the rotating shaft respectively at different positions in the axial direction of the rotating shaft and at mutually opposite positions in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft. The first diffusion nozzles are supplied with wash water through a high-temperature water piping provided on the upper outside of the housing, while the second diffusion nozzles are supplied with wash water through a channel formed in the interior of the rotating shaft.
US10010080B2
This invention is a process for the manufacture of water stable, partially polymerized antimicrobial silanol quaternary ammonium compounds (SQACs) and their trisilanol, polysiloxanol and water soluble polysiloxane derivatives thereof. Partial polymerization is accomplished by allowing the aqueous SQAC product solution to polymerize at conditions that will substantially convert all the chlorosilanol monomer to a copolymer of the SQAC, thus reducing the toxicity of the solution greatly. A stabilizing agent is added either before or after the partial polymerization. The stabilizing agent is selected from a list of antimicrobial, naturally occurring, renewable phytochemical essential oils and extracts that easily form crystal clear microemulsions when water is added to the concentrated SQAC/essential oil mixture. These non-foaming oil in water microemulsions have excellent long term storage stability, are freeze/thaw stable, remain very low in viscosity and do not phase separate or precipitate for many months. Many of the essential oils found to be useful in this process are non-toxic food additives and have pleasant scents, have low flammability yet are volatile enough to evaporate upon cure down of the SQAC, thereby resulting in a higher concentration of SQAC in the cured, antimicrobial film. Economically shippable concentrations of the low toxicity, partially polymerized, stabilized SQACs can be further diluted with water to application concentrations without losing any of their stabilizing properties and remain storage stable at these lower concentrations indefinitely. In particular, the invention relates to the use of such aqueous dilutions cured as durable antimicrobial coatings on both manufactured and natural substrates and for human or animal skin that covalently bond to the skin, remain active through many washings and reduce or eliminate bacteria, viruses and fungi for days.
US10010076B2
A plant or algae control composition is disclosed. The composition contains a herbicide and/or algaecide combined with an amplifying agent. The amplifying agent may comprise a polypeptide, such as a protein. The amplifying agent is added in an amount sufficient for the efficacy of the herbicide and/or algaecide to be improved. For instance, the presence of the amplifying agent allows for the herbicide and/or algaecide to be used at lower concentrations but have the same potency.
US10010075B2
Methods and systems for temperature-controlled, on-site generation of peracids, namely peroxycarboxylic acids and peroxycarboxylic acid forming compositions are disclosed. In particular, methods for using an adjustable biocide formulator or generator system overcome the limitations of temperature on the kinetics of the peracid generation and/or peracid decomposition inside an adjustable biocide formulator or generator system. The methods include the controlling of the temperature of at least one raw starting material, namely water, to improve upon methods of on-site generation of peracids. The methods allow for the generation of user-selected chemistry without regard to the ambient temperatures of the raw starting materials and/or the biocide formulator or generator system.
US10010071B2
A liquid concentrate which includes: a) from 20 to 70% by weight of 3-phenylpropan-1-ol, b) from 10 to 50% by weight of 1,2-octanediol, c) from 15 to 60% by weight of 1,3-propanediol, and d) where necessary up to 2000 ppm of one or more antioxidants; and a composition for topical application, including such liquid concentrate.
US10010066B2
Hydraulic systems and tools having an actuator that actuates a pump and a control valve are described. The pump transports fluid into a chamber to advance a piston in the chamber. The control valve is biased open and regulates flow of hydraulic fluid from the chamber to a reservoir. The actuator is operable in a first state in which the control valve is open, allowing flow of fluid from the chamber to the reservoir, and the pump is not pumping. The actuator can be operated in a second state in which the control valve is closed, restricting flow of fluid from the chamber to the reservoir, and the pump is not pumping. The actuator can be operated in a third state in which the control valve is closed and the pump is pumping fluid from the reservoir into the chamber in order to advance the piston.
US10010064B2
A method of treating a hoof of an ungulate animal. The method comprises coating one or both of (i) at least a portion of a bottom surface of the hoof or (ii) at least a portion of a block surface with a curable polymer and allowing the polymer to cure for a period of time. The polymer is cured within 60 seconds or less of the coating and the cured polymer has a Shore D hardness of about 10 to about 50. The curable polymer is provided as a two component system. The first component is a reaction product of (a) comprises 4-4′-diphenylmethane-diisocyanate, castor oil, isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane, and glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane, and wherein (b) comprises dicyclohexylmethane-4,4-diisocyanate, polyether polyol, 4,4′-diphenylmethane-diisocyanate (MDI), and triethoxy(3-isocyanatopropyle)silane. The second component comprises polyoxypropylene oxide ether polyol, diol (2000 MW), polyxoypropylene oxide ether polyol, triol (450 MW), tetrahydroxypropylethylendiamine, metaxylenediamine, and organobismuth catalyst.
US10010049B2
A collapsible enclosure having a top panel, a bottom panel, two side panels, a front panel having an opening, and a rear panel. The top panel, bottom panel, two side panels, front panel, and rear panel are connected to one another to form a substantially rectangular enclosure having a door in the opening for ingress and egress. The side panels include a peripheral edging containing a looped frame. A method of collapsing the kennel is also disclosed.
US10010039B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety BY1213290 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety BY1213290 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using BY1213290 in a breeding program.
US10010033B2
The hydroponic device contains support members, at least a frame member placed on the support members; a cover member placed on the support members covering the frame member. The frame member contains a base element and a number of extension elements. The base element is for the installation of an absorbing piece where seeds are placed. Each extension element has at least a through slot where a positioning pin of the base element or a previous extension element is slidably embedded. The base element and the extension elements are as such collapsible and expandable along a lateral direction on the support members so as to provide room of growth for the seeds.
US10010030B2
The present application relates to a polymer composition as defined in claims comprising (A) a polymer base resin, which comprises a blend of (A-1) a multimodal ethylene polymer and (A-2) an ethylene polymer, and carbon black, a drip irrigation pipe comprising said polymer composition, a process for producing said drip irrigation pipe, pellets comprising said polymer composition and the use of said polymer composition for producing said drip irrigation pipe.
US10010026B2
An adhesively bonded frame section for an agricultural sprayer boom is provided. One agricultural sprayer boom section includes a first support member and a second support member disposed adjacent to the first support member. The boom section also includes a side plate adhesively bonded to a first lateral side of the first support member, and to a first lateral side of the second support member to couple the first support member to the second support member.
US10015913B2
A power converter, including a heat generating element, and a cooler that includes a heat receiving plate, a plurality of cooling fins and a baffle plate. The heat generating element and the plurality of cooling fins are respectively mounted on two different surfaces of the heat receiving plate. Each cooling fin is a plate of a rectangular shape, and the plurality of cooling fins are arranged in parallel to one another, surfaces of any adjacent two of the cooling fins defining a course for cooling air to flow therethrough. The baffle plate is provided across the plurality of cooling fins, and has a substantially rectangular surface in a direction perpendicular to a direction of the courses.
US10015900B2
A method and apparatus for retaining a removable module (such as a memory card) in engagement with an interface structure of a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB is coupled to a tray, wherein the module is positioned between the PCB and the tray. The tray includes one or more forms configured to receive the module, and prevent the module from moving out of engagement with the interface structure of the PCB. A first form includes a depressed region formed in the tray, wherein the module is fitted within the depressed region. A slot, which extends through the tray, may be located adjacent to the depressed region, wherein an edge of the slot restricts movement of the module. A second form may include a raised lip, which is located adjacent to the module, and restricts movement of the module.
US10015897B1
An information handling system having rotationally coupled housing portions supports a flexible display disposed across the housing portions with a hinge structure that manages flexible display curve radius in a folded configuration. The flexible display is supported on a display frame that slides relative to a housing of the information handling system during rotation of housing portions. A biasing device provides force to the display frame in coordination with the sliding motion to reduce forces applied to the flexible display surface during housing portion rotations.
US10015895B2
A casing device and an insertion structure thereof are provided. The casing device includes a first casing, a second casing, and an insertion structure. The second casing has an engagement structure. The insertion structure includes a tamperproof element. The tamperproof element has one end extended outward to form two barb-like protruding portions and the other end protrudingly provided with a leaf spring. The leaf spring includes resilient protruding plates protrudingly formed on the outer surface of the tamperproof element. Since the resilient protruding plates and the engagement structure are engaged with each other, the insertion structures can clamp the first casing and the second casing to prevent consumers from dismantling an electronic device enclosed by the casing device but enable the electronic device manufacturers to confirm whether the casing device has been inappropriately dismantled by the consumers, thereby settling disputes over damages liability between a consumer and a manufacturer.
US10015885B2
Provided are a printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the printed circuit board, the printed circuit board including: a first element and a second element; a first base substrate including an embedding part in which the first element is embedded and a cavity into which the second element is mounted; and a second base substrate bonded to one surface of the first base substrate and including a first via for the second element.
US10015874B2
A hybrid linear accelerator is disclosed comprising a standing wave linear accelerator section (“SW section”) followed by a travelling wave linear accelerator section (“TW section”). In one example, RF power is provided to the TW section and power not used by the TW section is provided to the SW section via a waveguide. An RF switch, an RF phase adjuster, and/or an RF power adjuster is provided along the waveguide to change the energy and/or phase of the RF power provided to the SW section. In another example, RF power is provided to both the SW section and the TW section, and RF power not used by the TW section is provided to the SW section, via an RF switch, an RF phase adjuster, and/or an RF power. In another example, an RF load is matched to the output of the TW section by an RF switch.
US10015869B2
Disclosed is a lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus includes: a control module supplying power; a heat sink receiving the control module; a light source mounted on the heat sink and connected to the control module; and a communication module including a connection terminal inserted into the heat sink and connected to the control module, and an antenna device protruding from the heat sink. Since the lighting apparatus can be controlled in a wireless scheme, a user of the lighting apparatus can easily control the lighting apparatus.
US10015867B2
A low-voltage controller (LVC) is configured to utilize a low-voltage signal to operate a high-voltage load, such as, for example, a lamp. The LVC is configured to receive a low-voltage step signal at a switch input. The LVC has a line input for connection to a source of power at a line voltage and a load output for connection to a first load, and a dimmer for setting an intensity of the first load. Subsequent step signals may alter the intensity of the load. A method for low-voltage control of a load is provided. A method includes the steps of receiving a first switch signal at a switch input of an LVC; setting a lamp to a first intensity; receiving a second switch signal at the switch input; and setting the lamp to a second intensity.
US10015866B2
The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that employ a control component integrated in a light bulb to control the light bulb wirelessly. The wireless light bulb can include a light source, a control component that manages operation of the light source, an input component that wirelessly obtains input signals that can be utilized by the control component, and a power source. For instance, the light source can be one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) and/or the power source can be one or more batteries. Moreover, the input component can receive the input signals (e.g., radio frequency, infrared, . . . ) from a remote control, a sensor, a differing wireless light bulb, a radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag, etc. Further, the wireless light bulb can be mechanically coupled to a lighting fixture, where the lighting fixture may or may not be electrically coupled to an alternating current (AC) power source.
US10015856B2
A light treatment apparatus is an example of a light-emitting apparatus including a white light source, a blue light source, and a controller. The controller performs (i) constant light emission control for causing each of the white light source and the blue light source to emit light at constant brightness, and (ii) light reduction control which is performed after the constant light emission control so as to cause each of the white light source and the blue light source to reduce light intensity. The controller causes the blue light source to start reducing light intensity before causing the white light source to start reducing light intensity, and turns on the blue light source at the same time as or before turning on the white light source.
US10015853B2
Provided is a light emission device. When the size of an input voltage exceeds a minimum light emission voltage, all light emission elements emit light always irrespective of the size of a voltage, and as the size of the voltage decreases, the light emission device has a configuration in which the light emission elements are connected in parallel with each other, and as the size of the voltage increases, the light emission device has a configuration in which the light emission elements are connected in series with each other.
US10015848B2
Described herein are methods and circuits for improving the performance of an AC to DC power supply. The methods and circuits achieve high power factor (PF) at the AC side and at the same time, reduce or substantially eliminate ripple in the DC output power. The methods and circuits provide an isolated topology including primary side voltage and current sensing and primary side ripple cancellation control. The methods and circuits may be used in any application where high power factor and/or low output ripple are required. In particular, the methods and circuits may be used in DC lighting applications, such as in light emitting diode (LED) lighting, wherein suppression of low frequency ripple in the output power eliminates visible flickering.
US10015847B1
A multi-cavity microwave cooking appliance provides at least two (2) microwave cooking ovens a vertically elongated third beverage heating unit in at least one (1) embodiment. In general, each of the ovens and the heating unit are operated and controlled independently from each other. However, the ovens and heating unit may be controlled together if a particular switch is pressed. Each oven and the heating unit have separate access doors, magnetrons, and control switches. A control unit can be used to enter cooking information to the ovens and heating unit. The multi-cavity microwave cooking appliance further supports a tray and turntables.
US10015845B2
The heating cooker includes: a heating compartment having a bottom tray mounted at the bottom part; a light source provided on the upper side of the heating compartment; a light-receiving element for receiving light transmitted by the bottom tray out of the light emitted from the light source, the light-receiving element being provided on the lower side of the bottom tray; and a determining part for determining, on the basis of a light-reception signal detected by the light-receiving element, the presence/absence or the size of a heating object placed on the bottom tray in the heating compartment. Thus, a heating cooker capable of preventing leakage of steam and detecting the presence/absence of food in the heating compartment, even when heat cooking using steam is performed, is provided.
US10015844B2
A condensation inhibiting device includes a condensation inhibiting unit for inhibiting condensation on a first surface, and a thermoelectric generator which powers the condensation inhibiting unit.
US10015838B2
A method for controlling data communication in a terminal is provided. The method includes sensing whether a voice call occurs in the terminal, determining whether a data suspension condition is satisfied during the voice call, and suspending the data communication in the terminal during the voice call if the data suspension condition is satisfied. An apparatus for controlling data communication in a terminal is provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate data between the terminal and a base station, and a controller configured to detect whether a voice call occurs in the terminal, determine whether a data suspension condition is satisfied after the voice call occurs, and cause the communication unit to suspend the data communication in the terminal while the data suspension condition is satisfied.
US10015829B2
A method of controlling interference may include receiving interference parameters. The method may further include determining an interference measurement of a resource element. The interference measurement may be associated with a first location. The method may further include calculating a maximum transmission power of the resource element based at least in part on the interference parameters and the interference measurement. The method may further include transmitting a transmission via the resource element, the transmission including a transmission power equal to or less than the maximum transmission power.
US10015816B2
A network apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a receiver configured to receive, from a user terminal, channel state information corresponding to a channel state of a downlink signal from a cell to which the user terminal is connected, to the user terminal; a controller configured to determine transmission frequency of the channel state information; and a transmitter configured to transmit, to the user terminal, frequency information indicating the transmission frequency determined by the controller. The controller determines the transmission frequency of the user terminal on the basis of fixation information indicating that the user terminal is a fixed user terminal whose movement is restricted.
US10015811B1
Systems and methods are described for coordinating transmissions from a multiple access nodes in a communication network. A relay-capable status of wireless devices connected to an access node may be determined. Relay capable wireless devices are dynamically selected from the connected wireless devices for assignment of coordinated transmissions from an access node. Scheduling between the selected relay capable wireless devices and the access node is conducted.
US10015808B2
Provided are resource-utilization controlling methods for a device-to-device communication and wireless devices therefor. The method performed by a first wireless device comprises steps of: detecting current utilization state of the resource for the device-to-device communication as a resource utilization state; and explicitly or implicitly signaling the resource utilization state through broadcasting in the physical layer. The method performed by a second wireless device comprises steps of: receiving one or more resource utilization states explicitly or implicitly signaled from one or more other wireless devices; and determining whether and/or how to adjust the transmission behavior of the second wireless device based on the received one or more resource utilization states.
US10015807B2
Embodiments of an evolved Node B (eNB) and methods for radio link failure handling for dual connectivity are generally described herein. A method performed by circuitry of a User Equipment (UE) may include connecting, at a UE, to a Master eNB (MeNB) and connecting to a Secondary eNB (SeNB). The method may include determining, at the UE, that one of the connections has a Radio Link Failure and determining at the UE, that the other of the connections remains connected to the UE. The method may include refraining from initiating a Radio Resource Control (RRC) re-establishment procedure while at least one of the connections does not have a radio link failure.
US10015804B2
Described herein are systems, devices, techniques and products for operating network devices, such as wireless access points, in a network environment. For example, wireless client devices may have resources reserved for their use by a network device if the wireless client device is categorized for such resource reservation, such as if the wireless client device is categorized as more important than other wireless client devices. Such categorization may be indicated by a context associated with the wireless client device, including belonging to or being associated with an important user or being used for an important purpose, such as emergency purposes, prescheduled purposes or involving multiple users. Reservation of wireless resources for wireless client devices may be performed to ensure an important user or device is provided with adequate resources to place a voice or video call, for example.
US10015799B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a communication system and method adapted to manage interference between users of base stations.
US10015791B2
Methods and systems for configuring an access point (AP) are provided. According to one embodiment, a wireless network architecture includes multiple dual concurrent wireless access points, each including dual radios and dual antennas. The dual radios are configured to operate in a same frequency band and include multiple channels within the frequency band. The dual radios in each of the dual concurrent wireless access points are configured with different channels. The dual concurrent wireless access points are configured in a cell pattern, configured to use all of the channels within the frequency band.
US10015790B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and, particularly, to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving first uplink resource allocation information from a base station, wherein the first uplink resource allocation information includes information indicating a subframe set and TPC range indicating information; transmitting second uplink resource allocation information to the base station, wherein the second uplink resource allocation information includes a TPC value selected by a user equipment in the TPC range determined on the basis of the TPC range indicating information; and transmitting uplink data to the base station in the subframe set, wherein the transmission power for the uplink data is set on the basis of the TPC value, the subframe set includes multiple subframe groups, and the TPC range is changed in a unit of subframe groups according to the predefined pattern.
US10015786B2
A technique for receiving and transmitting downlink reference signals is disclosed. When transmitting downlink data demodulation reference signals (DMRS) (or reference signals for downlink data demodulation) by using two or more layers, the DMRS of each layer may be multiplexed by using a code division multiplexing method and then transmitted. The DMRS for each of the two or more layers may be used for one user equipment or for two or more user equipments. And, downlink control signals for transmitting and receiving such DMRS may be configured to have the same format regardless of a single-user mode (or SU-MIMO mode) or a multi-user mode (or MU-MIMO mode), thereby being used.
US10015784B2
A method is provided of receiving a control channel at a user equipment in a wireless communication system. A subframe including a plurality of search spaces is received. Each of the plurality of search spaces is associated with a respective carrier indicator field (CIF) value. At least one control channel candidate for a cell indicated by a first CIF value is monitored in two or more of the plurality of search spaces for control channel candidates having a same downlink control information (DCI) format size and different CIF values.
US10015780B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting a control channel, a method and an apparatus for processing the transmission of the control channel, a network side device and a terminal are provided. The method for transmitting the control channel is applied to the network side device. The method for transmitting the control channel includes: acquiring indicating information for indicating a terminal type; and when the indicating information indicates that the terminal type is a first terminal type, transmitting the control channel to the terminal with the first terminal type in multiple sub-frames.
US10015777B2
A method and an apparatus for allocating spectrums are provided in the disclosure. The method includes: reconfigurable spectrums for a target group domain are calculated, wherein said reconfigurable spectrums contain one or more of a dedicated spectrum, a reusable spectrum and a loanable spectrum; during the system reconfiguration, spectrums are allocated to cells of the target group domain in a non-overlap region after spectrums are allocated to cells of the target group domain in an overlap region according to the reconfigurable spectrums. By use of the disclosure, the spectrum allocation can be implemented during the system reconfiguration, and interference can be effectively suppressed.
US10015773B2
A prompting method using an electronic device includes detecting whether the electronic device receives a new event. A number of times that new events of the electronic device are not processed is calculated when the received new event is not processed. A prompting device is controlled to transmit a notice of the received new event according to the calculated number of times.
US10015772B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a geo-tagged beaconing operation. With the geo-tagged beaconing operation, Wi-Fi nodes include geographic information within beacon frames generated by the nodes. In various embodiments, the Wi-Fi nodes include one or more of networking equipment access points, client devices and dedicated Wi-Fi endpoints. Enables a device attempting a Wi-Fi connection to determine its location based upon the geographic information contained within the beacon frame. Upon detecting its location, the Wi-Fi radio then dynamically selects one or more Wi-Fi mode and/or power calibration setting.
US10015766B2
Associating each of a plurality of an Internet of Things (IoT) devices with a different attendee at an event, the IoT devices configured to form local wireless connections with one or more IoT hubs or client devices; as a first attendee moves around the event, periodically establishing a local wireless connection between a first IoT device associated with the first attendee and the IoT hubs or client devices within range of the first IoT device; transmitting one or more data packets from the IoT hubs or client devices to an IoT service over the Internet, the data packets including data identifying the first attendee, the first IoT device, and the IoT hubs or client devices to which the first IoT device establishes the local wireless connections, the IoT service storing the data in a database and using the data to determine portions of the event visited by the first attendee.
US10015762B2
Systems and associated methods for reducing Doppler shifts in the broadband signals between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and ground stations are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for reducing the Doppler shift of wireless signals includes estimating a velocity of the UAV based on a Global Positioning System (GPS) or an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) of the UAV and calculating the Doppler shift of an upload (UL) wireless signal based on the velocity of the UAV. The method further includes predistorting a frequency of the UL wireless signal at the ground station to reduce the Doppler shift at a UAV receiver (RX) and transmitting the UL wireless signal from a ground station transmitter (TX) to the UAV RX. In some embodiments, calculating the Doppler shift of the UL wireless signal is performed at the ground station.
US10015761B2
One embodiment is directed to a method comprising sensing, by an apparatus, a shared channel; determining whether the shared channel is free; determining whether a synchronization signal has been received; and based on that the shared channel is determined free and the synchronization signal is determined received, beginning to access the shared channel.
US10015760B2
Methods and apparatus which allow a wireless terminal (302) to simultaneously maintain connections with multiple base stations (304, 306) are described. Each wireless terminal (302) is capable of supporting multiple separate timing and/or other control loops one, for each base station connection thereby allowing the connections to operate independently and in parallel. Different control signals and/or data are transmitted on each connection that is established with a base station (302, 306). In this manner base stations (302, 306) receive different data allowing for asynchronous data transmission. The data received by the base stations (302, 306) can be supplied to a wired asynchronous network (308) without the need to combine the received data prior to supplying it to the wired network (308). The communications techniques of the invention can be used to implement soft handoffs without the need to duplicate data transmissions to multiple base stations.
US10015756B1
Provided are systems and processes for adjusting signal strength for medical appointment progress tracking. According to various examples, a method is provided which comprises transmitting, via an antenna of a transceiver, a wireless signal within a medical examination room such that a location within the medical examination room is within a coverage area of the wireless signal. A plurality of checkpoints are identified within the medical examination room, and the strength of the wireless signal is measured at each checkpoint. An amount to adjust the gain of an amplifier coupled to the antenna is determined. The amount may be determined based on the strength of the wireless signal measured at each checkpoint. The strength of the wireless signal is adjusted based on the determined amount such that the coverage area includes a desired wireless signal strength.
US10015742B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
US10015740B2
An accessory wireless device partakes in a data session with a remote device. The data session may be a voice call or other service. To preserve the battery power of the accessory wireless device, the accessory wireless device opportunistically offloads medium-to-long range radio transmission and reception tasks to the companion wireless device while maintaining call continuity. The accessory wireless device and the companion wireless device communicate through a local connection. In one embodiment, the accessory wireless device pushes a wireless wide area network (WWAN) connection to the companion device by sharing selected security and network information with the companion wireless device. When the accessory device and/or the companion device determine that the local connection may not be sustainable, the accessory device pulls the WWAN connection of the companion device back to itself.
US10015739B2
A user terminal for controlling a display device and a control method thereof are provided. The user terminal includes a communicator configured to communicate with the display device, a main controller configured to control the user terminal, and a sub-controller configured to control the user terminal while the user terminal is in a sleep mode, wherein the sub-controller is configured to change a mode of the user terminal from the sleep mode to a standby mode in response to the communicator receiving environmental change detection information or user detection information from the display device while the user terminal is in the sleep mode.
US10015734B2
A system and method of locating a wireless connection among a plurality of possible wireless connections. More particularly, a system and method of locating a user preferred wireless connection among a plurality of possible wireless connections. The method includes scanning for available networks and determining whether the available networks satisfy one or more user preferences. The method further includes establishing a secondary network connection with one of the available networks based on one or more user preferences being satisfied.
US10015731B2
A network access method includes the follows. Information of a target user identification card inserted into a mobile terminal is detected. Whether the target user identification card is included in at least one user identification card stored in advance by the mobile terminal is determined. If no, determine that the target user identification card is a new card inserted into the mobile terminal the first time and all the network types supported by the target user identification card according to a type of the target user identification card will be determined. Network identifiers of PLMNs of all the network types are determined and added to an EHPLMN list. If it finds a target PLMN that matches a network identifier in the EHPLMN list when the mobile terminal arrives at a place of visit from a designated location, a communication connection between the mobile terminal and the target PLMN is established.
US10015726B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for active scanning in a wireless LAN. The method for active scanning in a wireless LAN may comprise the steps of: a first station (STA) transmitting a first probe request frame to an access point (AP); and a first STA receiving a probe response frame from the AP, wherein the probe response frame is a response for the probe request frame, and the first probe request frame comprises fast initial link setup (FILS) capability information which can indicate whether the first STA supports FILS.
US10015717B1
Systems, methods, and processing nodes are related to improving service in a wireless network. The method includes determining a frame configuration and bandwidth for a plurality of communication bands available for communication with a wireless device. The method includes generating a reselection priority based on one or more of the frame configuration and bandwidth for each of the plurality of communication bands. The reselection priority of each of the plurality of communication bands is based on a suitability of one or more of the frame configuration and bandwidth to service uplink traffic. The method includes transmitting the reselection priority to the wireless device. The wireless device utilizes the reselection priority in communication band reselection based on uplink traffic generated by the wireless device.
US10015712B2
A method and system for notifying information applied to an Evolved Packet System/General Packet Radio Service network implemented by a Software Defined Network is provided, in which, a controller reselects a gateway to obtain a new gateway and sends user plane information of the new gateway to a front-end network element. The user plane information comprises user plane address information of the new gateway. The controller sends a GPRS Tunnel Protocol (GTP) notification message or GTP Update Bearer Request message carrying the user plane information of the new gateway to the front-end network element; or sends a GTP Update Bearer Request message carrying an update indication to the front-end network element, sends a bearer response message carrying the user plane information to the front-end network element through a GTP Modify Bearer Response after receiving a GTP Modify Bearer Request message sent by the front-end network element.
US10015710B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). An operating method of a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The operating method includes receiving a service through a first enhanced node B (eNB) for a first time interval period from a first timing point; and receiving the service through a second eNB for a second time interval period from a second timing point, wherein the first timing point is different from the second timing point.
US10015709B2
To reduce handover latency experienced by a user using a user equipment that is served for offloaded user data traffic by a first small cell, a handover between a first macro cell deploying the first small cell and a second macro cell deploying a second small cell is triggered when information indicating that the user equipment has associated with the second small cell not deployed by the first macro cell is received.
US10015701B2
Disclosed is a multimode dual-path terminal, comprising an antenna, a first radio-frequency transceiving module which supports the receiving and transmitting of a radio-frequency signal of the first communication model, a second radio-frequency transceiving module which supports the receiving and transmitting of a radio-frequency signal of the second communication model, a first radio-frequency switch, a second radio-frequency switch, a third radio-frequency switch and a fourth radio-frequency switch, wherein the first path of a high-band transceiving path of the first radio-frequency transceiving module is connected to the antenna via the first radio-frequency switch, and the first path of a low-band transceiving path of the first radio-frequency transceiving module is connected to the antenna via the second radio-frequency switch; and a high-band transceiving path of the second radio-frequency transceiving module is connected to the antenna via the third radio-frequency switch, and a low-band transceiving path of the second radio-frequency transceiving module is connected to the antenna via the fourth radio-frequency switch.
US10015695B2
A computing device in a wireless communications network identifies content to be transmitted to a mobile device in the wireless communications network. The computing device also determines mobile edge nodes that serve radio coverage areas at different positions along a path that the mobile device is expected to take while receiving the content. Further, the computing device allocates, for storage in respective caches of the mobile edge nodes, different portions of the content that are expected to be served by different mobile edge nodes as the mobile device moves along the path.
US10015690B2
A technique in a telecommunications core network of processing a call between at least a first subscriber terminal and a second subscriber terminal. Verifying that the call is eligible for call analysis by checking the settings of call monitoring consent. Then, a first node on a call control plane of the core network is triggered to provide subscriber data to a call analysis node. The subscriber data includes at least one subscriber identifier. A second node on a user plane of the core network is triggered to direct at least a part of media data included in the call to the call analysis node. Related operations for legal interception and monitoring of a call and for separation of user plane and call control plane are provided.
US10015687B2
Drive testing for network optimization has been supplemented by the use of information measuring radio conditions collected by mobile terminals (i.e. UEs). To improve the user experience of multicast and broadcast services based on cellular telecommunications networks, such as MBMS and eMBMS, a mechanism is described that adapts UE-based reporting of measurement reports to multicast and broadcast services.
US10015670B2
A mobile phone number that is been provided by a customer during enrollment is verified for use. SS7 protocol data associated with the mobile phone number is collected and evaluated, and if the condition of the subscriber account associated with phone number has changed or is inconsistent with the circumstances surrounding the enrollment of the phone number, the phone number is designated as one that is not to be called.
US10015669B2
A communication method includes receiving by a SGSN a context request message from a mobility management entity (MME), obtaining by the SGSN an authentication vector-related key, and calculating by the SGSN a root key according to the authentication vector-related key. In addition, the method further includes sending by the SGSN a context response message including the root key to the MME, wherein the MME derives a NAS protection key according to the root key.
US10015667B2
Passive tracking of an electronic device (and, more generally, the anonymous use of location-based services) is avoided by identifying the electronic device with different addresses in a block of addresses when transmitting probe requests. In particular, the electronic device may request and then receive the block of addresses from an address-management server. Subsequently, when a probe request is transmitted (e.g., to an access point), the electronic device may use one of the addresses in the block of addresses instead of the media access control (MAC) address. Furthermore, whenever subsequent probe requests are transmitted, the electronic device may include a different address in the block of addresses.
US10015664B2
A system may be configured to establish a communication between a first user device and a second user device, where the first and second user devices are associated with different service providers that provide different networks with which the first and second user devices are respectively associated. The establishing may include determining capability information, associated with the second user device, without requesting the capability information from the telecommunications network with which the second user device is associated. The establishing may further include transcoding the communication based on the capability information associated with the second user device.
US10015663B2
A roaming device sends, through a visited network and a proxy network, to a home network, an identifier for a first subscription. The home network sends, through the proxy network, to the visited network, data relating to the first subscription. The proxy network sends to the home network a first temporary address. The visited network sends to the proxy network a second temporary address. The device activates a second subscription. The device sends, through the visited network and the proxy network, to the roaming provider network, an identifier for the second subscription. The roaming provider network sends, through the proxy network, to the visited network, data relating to the second subscription. The proxy network registers the first subscription identifier, the second subscription identifier, the first temporary address and the second temporary address. The proxy network sends to the roaming provider network the first temporary address.
US10015662B2
One disclosure of the present invention provides a discovery signal receiving method. The method may comprise the steps of: identifying, through a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) received from a small-scale cell over a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a downlink sub-frame, the position of an OFDM symbol over which a downlink control channel is received; and determining a resource region on which a discovery signal is received from the small-scale cell. In the determining step, it can be assumed that the resource region on which the discovery signal is received does not overlap a resource region on the OFDM symbol over which the downlink control channel is received.
US10015659B2
Security systems are warned of earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. When an early warning system detects a natural disaster, the early warning system alerts a central server. The early warning system alerts the central server to the natural event and its associated geographic area. The central server may then consult a database and determine the security systems operating in a vicinity of the geographic area experiencing the natural event. The central server may thus warn the security systems of the natural event. The security systems may then implement pre-programmed procedures to protect life and property during earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters.
US10015646B2
A method of selecting one of a number of wireless devices to be a group owner of a peer-to-peer network includes determining, at a first wireless device, a first count value indicating how many other wireless devices are within wireless communication range of the first wireless device; determining, for a second wireless device, a second count value indicating how many other wireless devices are within wireless communication range of the second wireless device; and selecting either the first wireless device or the second wireless device as the group owner based, at least in part, on whether the first count value is greater or less than the second count value.
US10015637B2
A system for presence monitoring and in particular for presence monitoring in multiple presence buildings, so that emergency services can get an accurate presence list in the case of an emergency. A mobile device belonging to a user outputs a location notification to a location module when it crosses a geofence defining the boundaries of a facility. The location module monitors the location of one or more mobile devices belonging to users and outputs an indication whenever a location notification is received. A register module then operates in response to the location module to generate an up to date presence list for the facility based on the identity of monitored devices within the geofence. An interface outputs the presence list on demand and can transmit the presence list to one or more external devices or locations in response to an evacuation alarm.
US10015635B2
A location of a target associated with a first system is determined at the first system at a first time. A signal is constructed at the first system where the data of the signal includes a unique identifier, an identifier indicative of a collision avoidance nature of the signal, and the location of the target. The signal is broadcast from the first system. the broadcasting causes a second system to receive the signal; compute a likelihood of a collision between the first system and the second system using the location from the signal, a velocity of the first system, a location of the second system at the first time, and a velocity of the second system at the first time; and send a notification from the second system about the likelihood of collision when the likelihood of collision exceeding a threshold likelihood.
US10015633B2
A computer-implemented method includes identifying a context associated with a mobile device, wherein the mobile device is capable of listening for a beacon signal. The computer-implemented method further includes determining whether the mobile device is qualified to listen for the beacon signal based on the context associated with the mobile device. The computer-implemented method further includes activating the mobile device to listen for the beacon signal.
US10015630B2
This specification generally relates to a method for tracking one or more persons in a relationship between a tracker and the one or more participants. The method can include using an event stamp function to activate the tracking system. The person being tracked determines when they are trackable by connecting to a proximity grid. When the person being tracked wants to be tracked, that person connects to a proximity grid, and when the person being tracked does not want to be tracked, that person disconnects from the proximity grid, thereby simplifying setting up rules for when the person being tracked can be tracked.
US10015623B2
One example discloses an apparatus for near-field magnetic induction (NFMI) based robustness, including: a first wireless device including a first wireless signal interface and a first NFMI signal interface; wherein the first wireless signal interface is configured to receive a data set from a third wireless device; wherein the first NFMI signal interface is configured to communicate with a second wireless device through a second NFMI signal interface; and wherein the first wireless device is configured to detect an error in the data set received from the third wireless device and in response to detecting the error configure the first NFMI signal interface to receive the data set from the second wireless device through the second NFMI signal interface.
US10015615B2
The present technology relates to a sound field reproduction apparatus and method, and a program, enabled to more accurately reproduce a sound field. A spacial filter application unit obtains a virtual speaker array drive signal of an annular virtual speaker array with a radius larger than a radius of a spherical microphone array, by applying a spacial filter to a spacial frequency spectrum of a sound collection signal obtained by having the spherical microphone array collect sounds. An inverse filter generation unit obtains an inverse filter based on a transfer function from a real speaker array up to the virtual speaker array. An inverse filter application unit applies the inverse filter to a time frequency spectrum of the virtual speaker array drive signal, and obtains a real speaker array drive signal of the real speaker array. The present technology can be applied to a sound field reproduction device.
US10015613B2
A system for generating one or more audio output signals is provided, having a decomposition module, a signal processor, and an output interface. The signal processor is configured to receive the direct component signal, the diffuse component signal and direction information. Moreover, the signal processor is configured to generate one or more processed diffuse signals depending on the diffuse component signal. For each audio output signal of the one or more audio output signals, the signal processor is configured to determine a direct gain, the signal processor is configured to apply the direct gain on the direct component signal to obtain a processed direct signal, and the signal processor is configured to combine the processed direct signal and one of the one or more processed diffuse signals to generate the audio output signal. The signal processor further has a gain function computation module and a signal modifier.
US10015604B2
Consistent with an example embodiment there is an electromagnetic induction field communication system, illustratively, for communicating on or around the body. Two transceivers (or receiver and transmitter) contain coils and capacitors suitable for generating an electromagnetic induction field surrounding the body and are capable of communicating therebetween.
US10015578B2
Apparatus and methods for reducing crosstalk in personal audio equipment are provided. In an example, a method to reduce headset audio crosstalk can include applying a first signal to a first speaker channel of a headset, coupling a second speaker channel to a first input of a comparator of a crosstalk compensation circuit using a first switch of the crosstalk compensation circuit, the switch and detect circuit including the crosstalk compensation circuit, coupling a first resistor divider to a second input of the comparator using a second switch of the crosstalk compensation circuit, and adjusting a resistance setting of the first resistor divider from an initial setting using an output of the comparator.
US10015570B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing point-to-point fiber insertion within a passive optical network (“PON”) communications system. The PON communications system, associated with a first service provider or a first service, might include an F1 line(s) routed from a central office or DSLAM to a fiber distribution hub (“FDH”) located within a block or neighborhood of customer premises, via at least an apical conduit source slot, an F2 line(s) routed via various apical conduit components to a network access point (“NAP”) servicing customer premises, and an F3 line(s) distributed, at the NAP and from the F2 Line(s), to a network interface device or optical network terminal at each customer premises via various apical conduit components (e.g., in roadway surfaces). Point-to-point fiber insertion of another F1 line(s), associated with a second service provider or a second service, at either the NAP or the FDH (or outside these devices).
US10015566B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a video processing method, associated devices and a communication system. The video processing method may comprise: obtaining, by a screenshot server, a video from a video server; capturing, by the screenshot server, a plurality of pictures from the video based on a preset screenshot strategy; and storing, by the screenshot server, the pictures into a storage server such that a first user terminal obtains the pictures from the storage server and plays the pictures. Technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application are favorable to reduce a lag phenomenon as much as possible.
US10015565B2
Embodiments of present disclosure relates to a method and an interactive infomercial system for enabling interactive infomercials. In one embodiment, data associated with user of viewing interactive infomercial content may be received on a mobile viewing device. The system may select one interactive infomercial content based on the received data. Upon selection, at least one infomercial unit comprising the at least one interactive infomercial content such as animation content, a unique infomercial identification information (U3I) associated with the selected interactive infomercial content is generated and transmitted to the mobile viewing device of the user. The mobile viewing device receives and downloads the animation content and enables connecting back with the system for further interactions. Thus, the system and method enables real-time interactive infomercials to the users without consuming memory of the mobile viewing device as well as without modifying the U3I associated with the infomercial content.
US10015562B2
Systems and methods for providing metadata-selected advertisements are provided. These systems and methods may receive metadata and other media, select an object, read metadata attached to or associated with the selected object, select an advertisement based on the metadata, and display the selected advertisement. In addition, monitoring, collecting, and recording of predefined data concerning metadata selected advertisements may be provided. The invention also provides a receiver for receiving signals and/or data (e.g., programs, advertisements, program guides, metadata, etc.) and a processor for accepting a user=s input signal, selecting an object, reading metadata attached to or associated with a selected object, selecting an advertisement, and displaying the selected advertisement.
US10015546B1
Methods and systems for providing content creation and content publishing in a controlled environment are disclosed herein. A media management device receives an audio track including lyrical content. Further, the media management device performs speech recognition analysis on the audio track to determine lyrical text corresponding to the lyrical content. Additionally, the media management device determines whether the audio track contains prohibited content based on comparing the lyrical text to a blacklist of prohibited information. When the audio track does not include prohibited content, the media management device publishes the audio track to a media library accessible to devices within the controlled environment.
US10015544B2
A system for assisting a content consumer to select content services, the system including a processor that is configured to execute a matching algorithm. The matching algorithm comprises interviewing the content consumer for questions in a plurality of categories, determining a point system for answers obtained by the interviewing step, wherein the answers indicate entertainment interests of the content consumer; calculating a service score for each content service based on the point system, wherein the service score indicates an agreement between a content service and the entertainment interests of the content consumer; and selecting a pre-determined number of content services based on the service score.
US10015543B1
A video traffic, quality of service and engagement analytics system and method are provided. The system and method provide business intelligence on the broad areas of traffic statistics, viewer engagement, and quality of service for online video publishers. In one implementation, the system may utilize a tracker unit for a media player to gather the information for the video analytics.
US10015542B2
A method and system are provided for securely storing and retrieving live off-disk media programs. Events delineate media segments, each of which are encrypted with a different key so as to be streamable to a remote device via digital living network alliance (DLNA) or HTTP live streaming protocols. Media segments and identifiers for managing the storage and retrieval of such media segments are compatible with live streaming data structures, obviating the need to re-encrypt data streams.
US10015540B2
A method for providing information which is performable by a display device is provided. The method includes: receiving at least one piece of broadcasting program information; obtaining at least one of viewing history information which relates to at least one piece of content that was watched before a predetermined point of time and recording information which relates to at least one piece of content that was recorded before the predetermined point of time; and displaying at least one piece of broadcasting program information from among the at least one piece of broadcasting program information which corresponds to the predetermined point of time on a first region of the display device based on the predetermined point of time, and displaying at least one of the viewing history information and the recording information on a second region of the display device based on the predetermined point of time.
US10015539B2
Various arrangements for providing a multichannel viewing event are presented. A definition of the multichannel viewing event may be broadcast to multiple television receivers. A television receiver may, as part of an electronic programming guide, provide a single-selection option to activate the multichannel viewing event based on the broadcast definition. In response to receiving user input that selects the single-selection option, the definition of the multichannel viewing event is accessed. One or more tuners of the television receiver may be tuned based on the television channels defined in the definition of the multichannel viewing event. A quad video stream that includes live feeds of four television channels may then be output to a display device for simultaneous presentation.
US10015538B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top box having a controller to receive a selection of media content that has finished being broadcast where the selection is of the previously broadcast media content, transmit a request for the media content, and receive the media content for presentation at the display device, where the media content includes a plurality of segments, where one or more of the segments is provided by each of a plurality of digital video recorders (DVR's) that have recorded the media content, where the DVR's are remote from the set-top box, and where the plurality of segments are merged prior to presentation by the set-top box. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10015535B2
Providing content in a content list may include identifying positions within the list where content can be provided. A client agent may automatically play items of content at a first position when determining that the first position is within a displayed region of the content list. The client agent may identify a duration during which the first item is within the displayed region of the list, pause playback of the first item at a point in time when the displayed region of the list is advanced to no longer include the first position, and compare the first duration to a threshold value. The client agent may determine that the displayed region of the list has advanced to a second position and resume playback of the first item near the point in time and at the second position if the duration is less than the threshold value.
US10015533B2
In a switched digital video content-based network, wherein a head end obtains a first group of program streams and sends to a client only a subset of the program streams selected by subscribers in a neighborhood of the client, imminence and/or presence of a condition of inadequate bandwidth is determined. Responsive to the determining, a bit rate of at least one of the subset of the program streams selected by the subscribers in the neighborhood of the client is dynamically decreased by adjusting encoding thereof, while maintaining adequate quality for the at least one of the subset of the program streams selected by the subscribers in the neighborhood of the client, based on an objective quality measure, in order to address the imminence and/or presence of the condition of inadequate bandwidth.
US10015532B2
A recording and reproducing apparatus changes program names efficiently to improve user's convenience.A controller changes a name of a target program, for which information is stored in a program information DB, in accordance with an instruction made via an instruction input. The controller changes, based on the change in the target program, a name(s) of associated one(s) of programs for which information is stored in the program information DB. The associated one(s) has/have a specific attribute in common with the target program. Accordingly, changing of the name of the target program made by a user is automatically reflected to the program(s) associated with the target program.
US10015527B1
Various examples are directed to the generating and playback of panoramic videos comprising a plurality of tiles. Each tile may be a video having a tile field-of-view that is a portion of a full field-of-view of the panoramic video. An active field-of-view may be displayed from the first tile, where the active field-of-view is selected from a first tile field-of-view. A translate command may indicate a translate direction for the active field of view. A second tile may be requested. The second tile may have a second tile field-of-view that is adjacent to the first file field-of-view in the translate direction. The active field of view may be translated in the translate direction. When the active field-of-view reaches an edge of the first tile field-of-view, the active field-of-view may be displayed, at least in part, from the second tile.
US10015518B2
A system and method for imaging is disclosed wherein light that is convolved by a blade is received by an imaging sensor. The received light may be convolved by a blade moving laterally across the image plane. The received light may be recorded as light data. The light data may be processed by rotations, collapses, normalizations, and applying one or more derivative filters to generate enhanced result images.
US10015517B2
A coding distortion removal method is provided for removing coding distortion in an area disposed on both sides of a block boundary between a first block and an adjacent second block in a picture having a plurality of blocks, each block being adaptively coded either as a field structure block, comprising only even field pixels or comprising only odd field pixels, or a frame structure block, comprising odd field pixels and even field pixels. The method includes detecting whether the block boundary between the first block and the adjacent second block is a block boundary between a field structure block and a frame structure block, and performing a coding distortion removal process on the first block and the adjacent second block. The coding distortion removal process includes determining whether coding distortion removal is needed, determining the number of pixels to be processed, and removing coding distortion.
US10015515B2
Techniques coding video data, including a mode for intra prediction of blocks of video data from predictive blocks of video data within the same picture, may include determining a predictive block of video data for the current block of video data, wherein the predictive block of video data is a reconstructed block of video data within the same picture as the current block of video data. A two-dimensional vector, which may be used by a video coder to identify the predictive block of video data, includes a horizontal displacement component and a vertical displacement component relative to the current block of video data. The mode for intra prediction of blocks of video data from predictive blocks of video data within the same picture may be referred to as Intra Block Copy or Intra Motion Compensation.
US10015511B2
An image frame motion estimation device and image frame motion estimation method using the same include performing first sampling for generating a first sample source block by performing first-type sampling on pixels of a source block; performing second sampling for generating a first sample reference block by performing first-type sampling on pixels of a reference block; determining a first matching region by comparing pixel values of the first sample source block and the first sample reference block; and determining a second matching region corresponding to the source block by comparing pixel values of a plurality of regions adjacent to the first matching region and the source block. Where one pixel is sampled for each block constituted by N pixels (N is a natural number) in width and M pixels (M is a natural number) in height and the sampled pixels are projected in a horizontal direction, the first-type sampling causes at least two pixels to be sampled for every M pixels or where one pixel is sampled for each block constituted by N pixels (N is a natural number) in width and M pixels (M is a natural number) in height and the sampled pixels are projected in a vertical direction, the first-type sampling causes at least two pixels to be sampled for every N pixels.
US10015507B2
A system and method for frequency reduction and restoration. The system and method may be used to reduce the visual redundancy in digital data, such as in video data and image data.
US10015500B2
A method and an apparatus for performing a Superposition Coded Modulation (SCM) scheme in a broadcasting or communication system including a controller are provided. The method includes controlling an SCM coefficient by the controller. The SCM coefficient is controlled according to a channel capacity of each layer of one or more layers in which information included in a signal is encoded.
US10015499B1
A method for transmitting a computer display image. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a pixel boundary, referenced to a sub-tile boundary within a grid of tiles, for a changed portion of the image; identifying i) a uniform tile within the changed portion referenced to a first tile and ii) at least one hybrid sub-tile, associated with the sub-tile boundary, within the changed portion referenced to a second tile adjacent the first tile; engaging an SIMD vector processor to transform the uniform tile to an exit matrix, transform the at least one hybrid sub-tile to at least one DC coefficient, and transform the exit matrix to a first DC coefficient and the at least one DC coefficient to a second DC coefficient; quantizing, encoding and transmitting coefficients of the first and second tiles; and transmitting a binary mask specification for the changed portion adjusted to the sub-tile boundary.
US10015492B2
The present invention relates to a method for encoding and decoding an image signal and to corresponding apparatuses therefor. In particular, during the encoding and/or decoding of an image signal filtering with at least two filters is performed. The sequence of the filter application and possibly the filters are selected and the filtering is applied in the selected filtering order and with the selected filters. The determination of the sequence of applying the filters may be performed either separately in the same way at the encoder and at the decoder, or, it may be determined at the encoder and signaled to the decoder.
US10015485B2
Systems, apparatus and methods are described including determining a prediction residual for a channel of video data; and determining, using the first channel's prediction residual, a prediction residual for a second channel of the video data. Further, a prediction residual for a third channel of the video data may be determined using the second channel's prediction residual.
US10015484B2
The present disclosure relates to an adaptive scan apparatus and a method for scanning thereof. The adaptive scan apparatus includes a zero coefficient counter and a scan pattern updater. The scan pattern updater is configured to generate a zero counter corresponding to a prediction mode of a neighboring block of a current block and to update the zero counter corresponding to a position where a coefficient value of the current block is 0 for transformed and quantized data. And the scan pattern updater is configured to update a scan pattern by sequentially arranging generated zero counters updated for the current block from a position of a small value to a position of a large value.
US10015473B2
First, the interval between a left virtual camera and a right virtual camera is determined based on the relative position and the relative orientation of an outer imaging section (left) with respect to a marker, which are calculated from a result of marker recognition in the left real world image, and on the relative position and the relative orientation of an outer imaging section (right) with respect to the marker, which are calculated from a result of marker recognition in the right real world image. After the interval between the left virtual camera and the right virtual camera is determined, the positions and the orientations of the left virtual camera and the right virtual camera are determined based on the determined interval such that the relationship between the position and the orientation of the left virtual camera, and the position and the orientation of the right virtual camera is ideal.
US10015472B2
An image processing device includes a phase difference detection portion configured to detect phase difference between parallax images by performing correlation value calculation with the parallax images, and generate phase difference distribution in an image. The phase difference detection portion performs the phase difference detection individually along two or more directions different from each other, and generates the phase difference distribution by utilizing results of the phase difference detection regarding the two or more directions.
US10015470B2
Disclosed is a robot for a repositioning procedure. The robot for a repositioning procedure according to the present invention, comprises: a photographing unit for photographing a plurality of bone images at different angles for each fracture region of a patient and normal region corresponding to the fracture region; an image processing unit for generating a three-dimensional interpolation image for each fracture region and normal region using the plurality of photographed bone images; and a display unit for displaying both the generated three-dimensional interpolation image for the fracture region and the generated three-dimensional interpolation image for the normal region.
US10015465B2
Stereoscopic video data and corresponding depth map data for multi-view auto-stereoscopic displays are coded using a multiplexed asymmetric image frame that combines an image data partition and a depth map data partition, wherein the size of the image data partition is different than the size of the depth map data partition. The image data partition comprises one or more of the input views while the depth map partition comprises at least a portion of the depth map data rotated with respect to the orientation of the image data in the multiplexed output image frame.
US10015462B1
A system for event recording includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive video data and sensor data. The processor is configured to determine a risk level based at least in part on the sensor data; determine a storage quality based at least in part on the risk level; determine a processed video data by processing the video data according to the storage quality; and store the processed video data.
US10015459B2
An image capturing device with automatic white balance and an automatic white balance correction method are provided. The image capturing device includes a lens assembly, a light diffuser, an image sensor and a processor. The relative position of the light diffuser and the lens assembly is fixed. The processor is electrically connected to the image sensor having a first sensing region and a second sensing region. The light diffuser converts a fraction of the incident light to the reference light. The first sensing region converts the incident light to the display image information. The second sensing region converts the reference light to the correction information. The processor determines a reference gain average according to at least one color gain of the correction information and obtains at least one color gain correction value according to the reference gain average to adjust the white balance setting of the display image information.
US10015453B2
An animal detection unit detects cold-blooded animals and small mammals traversing a tunnel or other constricted area. The animal detection unit includes an elevated threshold that extends across a width of the tunnel or other constricted area. A photo emitter generates a light beam. The photo emitter is located at a first end of the elevated threshold. A photoelectric receiver receives the light beam. The photoelectric receiver is located at a second end of the elevated threshold. The light beam is low enough with respect to the elevated threshold that cold-blooded animals and small mammals moving over the elevated threshold are raised in height sufficiently to block the light beam as the cold-blooded animals and small mammals move over the elevated threshold. A camera is mounted on the frame. The camera is aimed and focused to capture visual recordings of the cold-blooded animals and small mammals as they move over the elevated threshold. The photoelectric receiver sends a trigger signal when an animal blocks the light beam. The camera captures a first visual recording of the animal when the photoelectric receiver sends the trigger signal.
US10015451B2
A digital microscope includes a stationary stand body (12) and a pivot unit (14) that is mounted on a shaft (24) of the stand body (12), pivotably around the longitudinal axis (26) of the shaft (24). The pivot unit (14) includes an image sensing unit for acquiring images of objects to be examined microscopically. The microscope (10) further has a brake unit (22) for braking and/or immobilizing the pivot unit (14), and an actuation element (44) for releasing the brake unit (22). Also provided is an elastic element (82) that, upon pivoting of the pivot unit (14) out of a predetermined zero position, exerts a return moment (MR) on the pivot unit (14), the return moment (MR) being directed against a tangential moment (MT) brought about by the weight (G) of the pivot unit (14).
US10015445B1
A method includes capturing a first image at a first time using a camera; processing the first image to identify a representation of an object in the first image; storing the first image as an event forming a navigable marker in a conference room tracking system; measuring one or more of a room sound and a room activity level at a time associated with capture of the first image; generating a heat marker representing a level of the room sound or the room activity level; and storing the heat marker in association with the event.
US10015444B1
Network architecture for immersive audio-visual communications by temporary communication structures
This invention is directed to improving communication among people at remote locations, accomplished at low cost, by communication schemes involving “portal” structures, “channels” and “phonos.” The portal structures are mobile and easily deployed to the remote locations, for quick assembly and use, creating an audio-visual immersive communication experience for its users. A portal network architecture includes a plurality of portals located in different remote locations, configured to provide identical spaces that facilitate audio-video, immersive conferencing among users at the various portal sites. The portal interiors include favorable lighting and camera configurations to facilitate display of life-size, realistic, and planar images of the users while maintaining eye contact between them. The “channels” facilitate viewing of landscape from a distance and “phonos” implementations provide an unmediated aural link between different locations, enabling both real-time conversation and transmission of ambient sounds.
US10015443B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to spatial congruency adjustment. A method for adjusting spatial congruency in a video conference is disclosed. The method in unwarping a visual scene captured by a video endpoint device into at least one rectilinear scene, the video endpoint device being configured to capture the visual scene in an omnidirectional manner, detecting spatial congruency between the at least one rectilinear scene and an auditory scene captured by an audio endpoint device that is positioned in relation to the video endpoint device. The spatial congruency being a degree of alignment between the auditory scene and the at least one rectilinear scene and in response to the detected spatial congruency being below the threshold, adjusting the spatial congruency. Corresponding system and computer program products are also disclosed.
US10015437B2
A proxy unit is configured to obtain mapping information that maps an identifier for media data to a resource location based on a service for retrieving the media data, wherein the service defines at least one of a plurality of types of transports for transporting the media data, receive a request for the media data from an application service client, determine whether the service is available, and, when the service is available, cause the application service client to receive the media data from a unit that receives the media data using the service from the resource location, based on the mapping information. In this manner, the application service client may receive media data from the unit (e.g., a middleware unit), which then receives the media data using a service that defines transport according to, e.g., broadcast or multicast transport, or another fashion (e.g., unicast) if the defined transport is unavailable.
US10015436B2
An image playback apparatus includes: a moving image processing unit configured to generate playback-oriented moving image data from moving image data as a playback target, among moving image data recorded on a recording device; a display controller configured to play back, on a display device, the playback-oriented moving image data generated by the moving image processing unit; a release instruction input unit configured to receive input of a release signal during playback of the playback-oriented moving image data; a still image generation unit configured to generate, from the moving image data, still image data that correspond to a playback image being played back on the display device at a time of input of the release signal; and a recording controller configured to record, on the recording device, the still image data generated by the still image generation unit, in association with the moving image data.
US10015434B2
A switched-mode power supply and an associated television are disclosed. The switched-mode power supply includes a rectifier circuit, a transformer, a constant voltage control circuit, a power management circuit, and a constant current control circuit. An output terminal of the rectifier circuit is coupled both to a power detection terminal of the power management circuit and to a power input terminal of the transformer. A controlled terminal of the transformer is coupled to a control terminal of the power management circuit. A constant voltage output winding of the transformer is coupled through the constant voltage control circuit to a feedback input terminal of the power management circuit. A constant current output winding of the transformer is coupled to the constant current control circuit via an LED load. The solution of the present disclosure has the advantage of low cost.
US10015432B1
Provided is a method and system for displaying video streams, including receiving video data from a plurality of video stream by a frame controller in communication with a television display including a first picture and a second picture, and also receiving a television program summary list. The television program summary list includes television program data corresponding to the received video streams, and displaying the television program summary list in the second picture, and allowing the selection of a program from the television program summary list by a consumer, and displaying the selected video stream in the first picture.
US10015428B2
A pixel circuit includes a first photocharge accumulator including at least two photodiodes exposed to light for a long period of time, and a second photocharge accumulator including at least one photodiode exposed to light for a short period of time. The pixel circuit includes a first transfer controller that transfers photocharges accumulated in the first photocharge accumulator to a floating diffusion area, and a second transfer controller that transfers photocharges accumulated in the second photocharge accumulator to the floating diffusion area. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor to generate a pixel signal according to the photocharges transferred to the floating diffusion area. A number of photodiodes of the first photocharge accumulator is greater than a number of photodiodes of the second photocharge accumulator.
US10015426B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging element, a driving method therefor, and an electronic apparatus, by which the characteristics of phase-difference pixels can be made constant irrespective of a chip position.In a pixel array section, a normal pixel including a photodiode (PD) that receives and photoelectrically converts incident light such that a color component signal is obtained, and a phase-difference pixel including a pair of a photodiode (PD1) and a photodiode (PD2) including light-receiving surfaces having a size depending on an image height such that a phase difference detection signal is obtained are arranged in a matrix form. The pair of the photodiode (PD1) and the photodiode (PD2) each include a first region serving as a charge accumulation main part and a second region that performs photoelectric conversion and contributes to charge transfer to the main part. The present technology is applicable to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
US10015421B2
A first ramp signal having a potential which is changed with time in a first amplitude range in a first period and a second ramp signal in which a potential is changed with time in a second amplitude range which includes the first amplitude range and which has maximum amplitude larger than maximum amplitude of the first amplitude range and an amount of the change of the potential per unit time is the same as an amount of the change of the potential per unit time of the first ramp signal are generated, and comparison between an optical signal and the first ramp signal and comparison between the optical signal and the second ramp signal are performed in parallel.
US10015418B2
The present invention provides a TDI line image sensor. The TDI line image sensor according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: a pixel unit, which has N line sensors having M CCDs arranged in a line and being arranged horizontally to a scan direction, horizontally moves charges accumulated in the respective columns of the line sensors, and accumulates same; and an output unit for parallelly receiving as inputs the charges accumulated in the pixel unit from the respective columns, performing analog-to-digital conversion on and storing the charges, and then sequentially outputting same.
US10015414B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array and N analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The pixel array includes N pixels arranged in each of a plurality of rows, and each of the N pixels include M photoelectric conversion elements. At least one of the N ADCs are shared by at least one of the M photoelectric conversion elements included in each of the N pixels.
US10015413B1
A camera system captures an image in a source aspect ratio and applies a transformation to the input image to scale and warp the image to generate an output image having a target aspect ratio different than the source aspect ratio. The output image has the same field of view as the input image, maintains image resolution, and limits distortion to levels that do not substantially affect the viewing experience. In one embodiment, the output image is non-linearly warped relative to the input image such that a distortion in the output image relative to the input image is greater in a corner region of the output image than a center region of the output image.
US10015410B2
In the combination of a wide dynamic range by combining a first image and a second image of different light exposure conditions, pixel values at which cumulative frequency proportions (B) become first and second reference values are generated as first and second index values (Sa, Lb) with regard to the first and second images, and first and second light exposure amounts (ES, EL) are controlled under first and second target conditions that the first and second index values (Sa, Lb) have predetermined relations with first and second target values (Sat, Lbt), respectively. It is possible to shorten a time taken until convergence of the light exposure amount in relation to a change of brightness of a subject.
US10015409B2
An electronic device and a method for setting a sensor are provided. The electronic device includes a sensor and a processor. The processor is coupled to the sensor and configured to calculate a plurality of groups of candidate sensor settings every calculation cycle, wherein each calculation cycle includes one or more frames, and each of the groups of candidate sensor settings corresponds to one respective frame of the calculation cycle. Every frame of the calculation cycle, the processor is further configured to determine a respective group of adoptable sensor settings for each frame of the calculation cycle according to the plurality of groups of candidate sensor settings, wherein the respective group of adoptable sensor settings is for provision to set a sensor.
US10015408B2
A dual-aperture zoom digital camera operable in both still and video modes. The camera includes Wide and Tele imaging sections with respective lens/sensor combinations and image signal processors and a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections. The Wide and Tele imaging sections provide respective image data. The controller is configured to combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image from a particular point of view, and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images, each output image having a given output resolution, wherein the video mode output images are provided with a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value or vice versa, and wherein at the lower ZF the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor while at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor.
US10015407B2
Methods and apparatus for supporting zoom operations using a plurality of optical chain modules, e.g., camera modules, are described. Switching between use of groups of optical chains with different focal lengths is used to support zoom operations. Digital zoom is used in some cases to support zoom levels corresponding to levels between the zoom levels of different optical chain groups or discrete focal lengths to which optical chains may be switched. In some embodiments optical chains have adjustable focal lengths and are switched between different focal lengths. In other embodiments optical chains have fixed focal lengths with different optical chain groups corresponding to different fixed focal lengths. Composite images are generate from images captured by multiple optical chains of the same group and/or different groups. Composite image is in accordance with a user zoom control setting. Individual composite images may be generated and/or a video sequence.
US10015406B2
A subject detection unit of an imaging apparatus detects a subject image from an image. An automatic zoom control unit designates the subject image detected by the subject detection unit and cancels the designation. The automatic zoom control unit automatically selects a specific composition among a plurality of compositions and sets a reference size of the subject image used to control a zoom magnification based on the elected composition. The automatic zoom control unit controls the zoom magnification based on the reference size and a size of the subject image sequentially detected by the subject detection unit. At least one of composition selection candidates selected by the automatic zoom control unit is different according to whether the subject image is designated by the automatic zoom control unit.
US10015398B2
There is provided an image capturing apparatus including a positioning adjustment mechanism for performing positioning adjustment of an area image-captured by an image capturing unit; an image processing unit for recognizing a subject using an image signal generated in the image capturing unit; a vibration detection unit for detecting vibration of the image capturing apparatus; a control unit for determining a priority order of subject tracking processing for driving the positioning adjustment mechanism based on a subject recognition result provided from the image processing unit and image vibration correction processing for driving the positioning adjustment mechanism based on a vibration detection result of the vibration detection unit, and for limiting an adjustment amount of the positioning adjustment mechanism for the processing having no priority. Also, an image capturing method thereof and a program therefor are provided.
US10015396B2
A video doorbell system coupled with a ringtone generating unit is applied by a power supply adjusting method and includes a video generating module and a mode switching controller. The video generating module includes a power storing component. The mode switching controller can be switched into a first mode or a second mode in a remote controlling manner. While the mode switching controller is switched into the first mode, the ringtone generating unit is bypassed and an external power source is connected to the video generating module, so as to charge the power storing component by the external power source. While the mode switching controller is switched into the second mode, the video generating module is bypassed and the external power source is connected to the ringtone generating unit, and the video generating module can execute image capturing function via the power storing component.
US10015394B2
Provided is a visual vehicle speed estimation system based on camera output and calibration for such a vehicle speed estimation system. The calibration allows use of the system where the absolute camera position is unknown. Calibration determines an absolute-position-independent relationship between an image space placement and a physical space position relative to the camera. The calibration is done on the basis of camera output using vehicle features of known dimensions and some assumed physical constraints related thereto to provide a conversion relationship between image coordinates and physical space coordinates in a physical space defined in relation to the camera. This relationship is then used to estimate vehicle speeds based only on the visual information provided by the camera. Abstract is not to be interpreted as limiting.
US10015392B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an emission unit for emitting a projection image onto a subject, which is to be photographed, so as to allow the subject to perform a predetermined operation, a recognizing unit for recognizing operation performed by the subject, and an execution unit for executing a predetermined processing according to the operation of the subject that is recognized by the recognizing unit.
US10015391B2
Operating a camera system that includes a forward-facing camera directed at a forward scene and a rearward-facing camera directed at a rearward scene opposite the forward scene includes analyzing a video stream containing a reflection of the forward scene in a cornea of an eye of a user of the camera system, the video stream captured with the rearward-facing camera. The analyzing includes identifying an item in the reflection moving relative to a field of view of the forward-facing camera and predicted to enter the field of view of the forward-facing camera and identifying a characteristic of the item. A camera setting of the forward-facing camera is adjusted according to the characteristic of the identified item, the adjusted camera setting selected to improve capturing a photograph or video containing the item with the forward-facing camera.
US10015374B2
An image capturing apparatus and a photo composition method thereof are proposed. The method is adapted to an image capturing apparatus having a first lens and a depth sensor and includes the following steps. First, a preview frame of a scene is obtained by using the first lens, and depth information of the scene is obtained by using the depth sensor. Next, scene analysis is performed on the preview frame according to the depth information so as to generate a scene analysis result. Next, whether the preview frame satisfies a photo composition requirement is determined according to the scene analysis result and a corresponding photo composition rule. If yes, the first lens is controlled to capture the preview frame; if no, a photo composition suggestion corresponding to the scene is provided according to the photo composition rule corresponding to the scene analysis result.
US10015373B2
Provided is an image processing method, an image processing apparatus, and the like according to which the influence of moiré can be suppressed without incurring a decrease in image resolution. An image is captured in a state in which moiré, which appears when capturing an image in-focus, has appeared, a first image is generated by removing a spatial frequency component corresponding to the moiré from the captured image using a high-pass filter, an image is captured out-of-focus by the camera, a second image is generated by applying a low-pass filter to the captured image, and a third image in which the moiré is eliminated or suppressed is generated by compositing the first image and the second image.
US10015369B2
Timing metadata is generated and added to captured video to compensate for synchronization error between video captured concurrently from multiple cameras. A wireless beacon including timer data is transmitted from an access point to each station camera. A radio circuit of the station camera synchronizes to the timer of the access point based on timing information in the wireless beacon. An image processor in each station camera includes an image processor timer separate from the radio circuit timer. During video capture, timing metrics are generated indicating deviation between the image processor timer and the radio circuit timer. The timing metrics are stored as metadata and can be used to compensate for synchronization error in post-processing.
US10015362B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor in which pixels including a correction pixel region and an effective pixel region are arrayed two-dimensionally; and a creating unit configured to create uncompressed or losslessly-compressed image data from signals acquired from the effective pixel region and the correction pixel region, wherein in the case where a resizing process is to be carried out on the effective pixel region included in the image data, the creating unit does not carry out the resizing process on the correction pixel region.
US10015359B1
Detection and identification a field's boundaries is performed in a workflow based on processing images of the field captured at different times, relative to a defined seed point. Images are clipped to align with the seed point and a bounding box around the seed point, and a mask is built by extracting edges of the field from the images. The workflow floods an area around the seed point that has pixels of a similar color, using the mask as an initial boundary. The flooded area is compared to threshold parameter values, which are tuned to refine the identified boundary. Flooded areas in multiple images are combined, and a boundary is built based on the combined flooded set. Manual, interactive tuning of floodfill areas allows for a separate boundary detection and identification workflow or for refinement of the automatic boundary detection workflow.
US10015356B2
An information processing system comprising: a plurality of information processing apparatuses that perform a plurality of tasks defined by work flow information, wherein the work flow information is information that defines an order of the tasks and defines an information processing apparatus that assumes a host device for performing each of the tasks, one information processing apparatus selected from among the information processing apparatuses is definable as the host device, the information processing apparatus defined as the host device performs each of the tasks defined in the work flow information in the defined order, and one information processing apparatus selected according to a predetermined determination condition performs a task for which the work flow information defines the one information processing apparatus selected from among the information processing apparatuses as the host device.
US10015351B2
An instruction apparatus that instructs a processing apparatus to perform a process includes an information acquiring unit, an apparatus-information transmitting unit, and a display. The information acquiring unit acquires information on the processing apparatus. The apparatus-information transmitting unit simultaneously transmits the information on the processing apparatus acquired by the information acquiring unit and information on the instruction apparatus to a management apparatus. Based on the information on the processing apparatus and the information on the instruction apparatus transmitted from the apparatus-information transmitting unit, an operation-screen generating unit included in the management apparatus generates an instruction-apparatus operation screen. An operation-screen transmitting unit included in the management apparatus transmits information of the instruction-apparatus operation screen to the instruction apparatus. The display displays the instruction-apparatus operation screen.
US10015346B2
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a setting unit configured to apply a setting selected from at least a decolorable recording agent including a decolorable color material and a non-decolorable recording agent including a non-decolorable color material, for a sheet feeding cassette; and a display unit configured to display sheet feeding cassettes whose settings match a user-selected recording agent differently from sheet feeding cassettes whose settings do not match the user-selected recording agent.
US10015335B2
A medium transport device includes a feeding roller which sends a medium to a downstream side; and a detecting unit which can detect the medium sent by the feeding roller at a predetermined position on a transport path, in which the detecting unit includes a lever member of which a posture is changed when being in contact with the medium, and a detecting portion which detects a change in posture of the lever member, and the lever member applies an external force which causes at least a part of the medium to be bent in a gravity direction by being in contact with the medium in a predetermined posture.
US10015325B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit that has multiple pixels for performing image reading, a driving unit that outputs a driving signal to the pixels of the reading unit, and a connection unit that connects the reading unit to the main body of the image reading apparatus. An identification signal is inserted by the driving unit at a specific pixel among ineffective pixels that do not react to external light among the pixels of the reading unit, and detection of whether or not the reading unit is connected correctly to the main body of the image reading apparatus by the connection unit is performed by examining the signal level of the specific pixel.
US10015320B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for conducting communications. One method includes determining a context associated with a communication between a first participant and a second participant while the communication is occurring, determining a failure of the communication, and resuming the communication based, at least in part, on the context.
US10015315B2
Instructions are transmitted from a contact center builder system to a content provider system that, when executed, provide an interface for configuring a contact center for the content provider that includes a contact center telephone number, an agent pool, and an interaction site. Data associated with one or more contact center configuration parameters are received from the content provider. A contact center telephone number is assigned to the contact center based on the data. One or more agents are assigned to the agent pool of the contact center based on the data. The data includes a task to be handled by the communications system without using an agent of the agent pool is determined. In response to determining that the data includes the task to be handled by the communications system without using an agent of the agent pool, multiple interaction pages for the interaction site are generated.
US10015311B2
A system and method for presenting caller ID information related to a caption assisted telephone call incorporating a first party Network appliance, a first party telephone service/terminal, and a relay linkable to the first party Network appliance via the Internet.
US10015310B2
A method of identifying a breach in privacy during a communication session, including communicating with a remote communication device using a local communication device, analyzing an audio signal from the remote communication device to identify an audio input/output configuration of the remote communication device, determining from the audio input/output configuration if a breach in privacy is signified.
US10015284B2
The present disclosure, pertaining to the field of computer technologies, relates to a method for browsing a webpage picture and a client device therefor. The method includes: receiving, by a client device, a picture mode triggered by a user when browsing a webpage; acquiring a picture on the webpage to be browsed by the user; and displaying the picture to the user. The client device includes: a receiving module, a first acquiring module, and a displaying module. According to the present disclosure, when a user is only interested in pictures on a webpage, a client device acquires the pictures on the webpage separately and collectively displays the pictures to the user, such that the user browses the pictures on the webpage, thereby meeting user's demand on browsing only pictures.
US10015277B2
A communication method is provided for transmitting useful data between a first traffic participant, at least one second traffic participant, and a central communication device. It is provided that the first traffic participant provides a data packet and transmits it to the central communication device, the data packet being assigned to a changing key that is transmitted together with the data packet, and that the first traffic participant transmits an identifier together with the key to the second traffic participant, and that the second traffic participant requests from the central communication device, using the key, the data packet assigned thereto, and assigns it to the first traffic participant. Also provided is a communication system.
US10015265B2
A media server receives a request from an unpaired mobile device, queries a login database to determine whether the mobile device is logged in for high speed Internet access, and, when yes, identifies a particular guest area of the hospitality establishment according to details in its login record. One of the media devices accessible from within the particular guest area is selected and paired with the mobile device without requiring a user of the mobile device to input into the mobile device a connect code of the selected media device. In another example, a user initiates a codeless pairing mode on a particular one of the media devices and begins interacting with the media server utilizing an unpaired mobile device. Since, only one media device can be in that mode at a time, the media server pairs the newly detected unpaired mobile device with the particular media device.
US10015264B2
Systems and method for providing remote access to service applications created within an application framework. For each of the controls in the application framework, a wrapper is provided to enable remote-access to the control. An integration component includes proxies that communicate to each the rapper, a proxy manager that communicates to the service application, and a state manager that registers views and event handlers to communicate application state information. A remote access server application receives a connection from a client remote access application executing on the client device, and state information is communicated between the service application and the client remote access application to provide a view of the service application at the client device.
US10015259B1
A sensor system may be configured for continuous operation in a low resource environment and/or in extreme environmental conditions. The sensor system may have sufficient processing capabilities to provide scientific computing for pre-processing, quality control, statistical analysis, event classification, data compression and corrections (e.g., spikes in the data), autonomous decisions and actions, triggering other nodes, and information assurance functions that provide data confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. The hardware may have both mesh networking and satellite and cellular communication capability, and may be available for relatively low cost. Such a network provides the flexibility to have potentially any number of nodes be completely independent from one another. Thus, the network may scale across a diverse terrain.
US10015254B1
Traditionally, wireless device, such as cell phone or personal data assistant device (PDA), has relatively smaller storage capacity. Therefore, it is quite often that a user of the wireless device has difficulty to find more storage space for storing ever increased personal data, such as storing message, and multiple Gig bytes of multimedia data including digital video, music, or photo picture etc. Instant application disclosed a system and method for a storage system providing storage service to the wireless device for the wireless device remotely storing personal data into an external storage space allocated exclusively to a user of the wireless device by the storage system.
US10015252B2
Implementations generally relate to storing content items. In some implementations, a method includes receiving content items on a mobile device. The method includes storing the content items on local storage on the mobile device. The method includes determining available local storage capacity of the mobile device. The method includes uploading content items to secondary storage, and selecting content items to remove from the local storage or add to the local storage based on predetermined criteria, for example, when the available local storage capacity meets a threshold available local storage capacity.
US10015244B1
An author using an author device may connect to a publishing network, which in turn may be connected to a number of service provider networks that provide services relating to publishing workflow (e.g., editing, typography, historical research, cover designing) and business (e.g., marketing, promotion, author events). The publishing network may provide a network portal for the author and network portals for various service providers, with graphical user interfaces for both the author and the service providers. The author can then select specific service providers based on ratings, posted service rates, special requirements such as time scheduling and genre specialization, and can hire those service providers to work with the author's on or with the author's manuscript through the publishing network. The publishing network may then generate an agreement and track its signing as well as other milestones in the working relationship.
US10015239B1
A self-organizing distributed network architecture is described. An example method includes, by a network node, sending via a network gateway node a DNS lookup request to a DNS service. The DNS lookup request comprises a string that at least includes a MAC address of the network gateway node that is used by the DNS service to identify a network address for the network node to access the network service of interest. The method further includes receiving via the network gateway node a DNS lookup response from the DNS service. The DNS lookup response comprises the network address for the network node to access the network service of interest. The method further includes accessing the network service of interest from another network node in the network system that is addressable by the received network address.
US10015238B2
Distributed game commands in massive multiplayer online games. A game engine receives commands and determines the order of their execution based on a global order policy using sequencers. The sequencers dispatch the commands to appropriate game engine instances on shards hosting game states. Engine instances execute the commands according to the global order established by the sequencers.
US10015226B2
Methods, devices, and computer-readable storage media that make an asynchronous JavaScript and extensible mark-up language (AJAX) application content state bookmarkable and crawlable include receiving a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request is received. The HTTP request includes an HTTP request uniform resource locator (URL) representing a current application state. When the HTTP request URL contains a first reference substring, a second substring is extracted from the HTTP request URL based upon the first reference substring. A modified URL is generated based at least in part on the extracted second substring. The modified URL represents the current application content state.
US10015213B2
An interactive organization architecture and application platform and methods for use with social reading systems and networks are disclosed for permitting users to interact while viewing the pages of electronic content, for example, a book. Users may highlight text and attach a comment, link, poll, or quiz to the text of the electronic content. As other readers peruse through the electronic content, they are either presented with the notes as they read or are presented with aggregated notes in their feed, which may be determined as relevant based on predetermined criteria. Users may share content with others in multiple private and public discussion threads. The social reading platform system and methods also include other features that facilitate discovery, collaborative reading, assignment of tasks, review of tasks by teachers and peers etc.
US10015210B2
In one embodiment, a first computing device associated with a receiving user receives, from a second computing device, a reference of a first media session that has been initiated by a sharing user. The reference is displayed to the receiving user on a user interface of the first computing device. The first computing device receives user input requesting that the receiving user also participate in the first media session. The first computing device then receives from the second computing device information to initiate a second media session on the first computing device. The second media session is initiated at the same point in time that the first media session is currently at, and the second media session is synchronized with the first media session.
US10015208B2
A first service node receives a message configured to set up a secure communication session between a client and a server, in which the first service node acts as a proxy. Data packets in the secure communication session are subject to multiple service functions that require decryption of the data packets. A service function chain assigns a service node to each of the service functions. A service header is generated including metadata instructing the service nodes other than the first service node not to act as proxies in the secure communication session. The message and the service header are transmitted to a second service node in the service function chain.
US10015206B2
A network system includes a server and an apparatus connected to the server via a network. The server includes a connection information generation part configured to generate connection information including network connection information for a portable terminal connecting to the network and apparatus connection information including the IP address of the apparatus, and a connection information transmission part configured to transmit the connection information to the apparatus. The apparatus includes an image code display part configured to display an image code into which the connection information is converted, a request reception part configured to receive a job request specifying the IP address of the apparatus and transmitted from the portable terminal having decoded the image code and connected to the network using the network connection information, and a job execution part configured to execute a job based on the job request.
US10015203B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of differentiating between an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) connection and a non-IMS connection. For example, a UE may include a communication module configured to receive from an application a request to establish a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection, and to assign an IMS tag to a traffic flow identifier of the PDN connection, wherein the IMS tag indicates that the PDN connection is an IMS connection or a non-IMS connection. The communication module may be configured to receive from the application a request to handle data packets having the traffic flow identifier, and to process the request to handle the data packets based on the IMS tag assigned to the traffic flow identifier.
US10015202B2
A method of initiating a voice call via a dialer user interface on a user device in a telecommunications network is provided. The user device comprises at least a first communication client adapted to communicate via a first part of the telecommunications network and a second communication client adapted to communicate via a second, different part of the telecommunications network. The method includes, at the user device, receiving, via the dialer user interface of the user device, user input from a user of the device associated with initiating setup of a communication session, and selecting a given one of the first and second communication clients to pass the user input to for processing, whereby a communication session setup request is transmitted from the given communication client into the respective part of the telecommunications network.
US10015194B1
The disclosed embodiments include a method of disarming malicious code in a computer system having a processor. The method comprises receiving, by the computer system, input content, and rendering, by the processor, any malicious code included in the input content inactive for its intended malicious purpose without applying a malware detection algorithm to the input content. The rendering is performed by automatically applying, using the processor, a data value alteration model to the input content for altering select data values within the input content, and outputting a new content reflecting the application of the data value alteration model to the input content. The processor renders any malicious code included in the input content inactive for its intended malicious purpose without regard to any structure used to encapsulate the input content. The input content includes media content.
US10015189B2
A set and a second set of collections of forecasted feature vectors are selected from a repository for a future time window, a cyber-attack being in progress in a data processing environment at the present time, a collection in the set and a collection in the second set indicating an event related to the cyber-attack in a first region and a second event in a second region, respectively, of the environment at a discrete time. The set of collections is input at a first input and the second set of collections is input at a second input in the LSTM. The events corresponding to the collections are classified into a class of cyber-attack. From a mapping between a set of phases of the cyber-attack and a set of classes, a phase that corresponds to the class is predicted as likely to occur during the future time window in the region.
US10015187B2
Methods and systems for scanning an endpoint terminal across an open computer network are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a scanner engine in a computer server in communication with an open computer network, and establishing a secure connection across the open computer network between the scanner engine and a scanner agent installed on the endpoint terminal in communication with the open computer network. Commands for collecting data regarding the endpoint terminal are sent from the scanner engine across the secure connection to the scanner agent. The scanner engine then receives the collected data from the scanner agent across the secure connection, analyzes the data to assess a current posture of the endpoint terminal, and determines any updates for the endpoint terminal from the analysis. Updates are sent across the secure connection to the scanner agent for installation on the endpoint terminal, and the secure connection may then be terminated.
US10015186B1
An apparatus and associated method are provided for reducing a security risk in a networked computer system architecture. The method comprises receiving at a security computer external vulnerability data from an external source regarding vulnerabilities associated with an attack vector for configuration item (CI) data related to a (CI) device, of the networked computer system. The security computer accesses a configuration management database (CMDB) and the CI data related to the physical device is read. Trust zone data associated with the CI device is determined utilizing the CMDB, and the security computer performs a vulnerability calculation for the CI device utilizing the external vulnerability data and associated trust zone data. This is also done for a second CI device. The vulnerability calculations for both are compared and this comparison serves as a basis for prioritizing an action to be taken on the CI device or associated other network components.
US10015185B1
A processing device in one embodiment comprises a processor coupled to a memory and is configured to generate access profiles for respective user identifiers, to obtain data characterizing a current access for a given one of the user identifiers, to extract a plurality of features from the data characterizing the current access for the given user identifier, and to generate feature risk scores based on the extracted features and the access profile for the given user identifier. The processing device is further configured to aggregate the feature risk scores into a composite risk score. The aggregation illustratively comprises weighting the feature risk scores as a function of their relative levels of riskiness. The composite risk score is compared to a threshold, and an alert is generated relating to the current access based on a result of comparing the composite risk score to the threshold.
US10015184B1
Systems and methods of detecting an attack in a utility grid are described. An anomaly detector identifies a first indication of signal samples used by a controller to adjust a voltage level at a load terminal during a first time interval, and a first indication of voltage levels at the load terminal of the controller. The anomaly detector identifies a regulator emulation model (“REM”) for the controller. The anomaly detector receives a second indication of signal samples used by the controller during a second time interval, and a second indication of a voltage level at the load terminal. The anomaly detector detects a level of conformance with the REM based on a comparison of the second indication of the voltage levels with a voltage level determined by inputting the second indication of the signal samples into the REM. The anomaly detector provides a notification indicating an anomaly with the controller.
US10015181B2
Detection of unintended application behaviors, where natural language processing (NLP) techniques are used to analyze the application, and specifically its graphical user interface (GUI), and construct an acceptable (or expected) list per-context actions. Actions executed by the application in a given context that do not fall within the list are flagged as unexpected (or anomalous).
US10015178B2
A configuration is received for an agent associated with an application to monitor application transactions. The agent monitors incoming and outgoing application transactions using the agent and transmits monitored transaction data to a monitoring server for anomalous transaction detection. The agent receives instructions from the monitoring server to perform an action based on the transmitted monitored transaction data and reports the status of the performed action to the monitoring server.
US10015171B1
Improved techniques of performing authentication involve extracting metadata from posts made by legitimate users on a social networking website and generating authentication results based in part on the extracted metadata. For example, in response to an authentication request being made from a device of a legitimate user, an authentication server obtains metadata describing one or more posts made by the legitimate user on the social networking website. The authentication server may then input the metadata to a risk engine, along with information gathered from the user's device. The risk engine then generates a risk score that indicates a likelihood that the request is fraudulent, based at least in part of whether the metadata obtained from the social networking website is consistent with the information obtained from the user's device.
US10015165B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for managing one or more electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs) on an embedded UICC (eUICC). In particular, the technique involves leveraging the GlobalPlatform™ Specification and/or other telecommunication standards to support the eSIMs on the eUICC. Each eUICC can include an Issuer Security Domain (ISD) owned by a device manufacturer and an eSIM manager that manages the plurality of eSIMs on the eUICC. Notably, binaries of one or more applications shared between different eSIMs can be standardized and stored in a manner that enables each eSIM to utilize the one or more applications (via the eSIM manager) without needing to individually store the binaries. Using this approach, the overall size and complexity of each eSIM can be reduced, which can increase the amount of available memory within the eUICC as well as the overall performance of the eUICC.
US10015164B2
The embodiments described herein describe technologies for Module management, including Module creation and Module deployment to a target device in an operation phase of a manufacturing lifecycle of the target device in a cryptographic manager (CM) environment. One implementation includes a Root Authority (RA) device that receives a command to create a Module and executes a Module Template to generate the Module in response to the command. The Module is deployed to an Appliance device. A set of instructions of the Module, when executed by the Appliance device, results in a secure construction of a sequence of operations to securely provision a data asset to the target device. The Appliance device is configured to distribute the data asset to a cryptographic manager (CM) core of the target device.
US10015155B2
A system of resource-based action attribution provides a mechanism for tracking actions performed on a resource shared among multiple users of a resource sharing system, whether the users are authenticated within the resource sharing system or not. The tracking mechanism may allow users to track identifying information of other users who perform actions (e.g., editing actions) on the shared resource. A user can access a resource by providing a resource identifier and/or an access credential associated with the resource. The user's actions on the resource can be associated with an invitee identifier (e.g., an email address) that is associated in memory with the resource identifier and/or the access credential.
US10015154B2
A method for determining a dynamic pairing code for use in exchanging information between a first and a second communications entity. At the at the first communications entity, determining a first authentication score associated with a first information exchange session between the first and second communications entities, determining a second authentication score associated with a second information exchange session between the first and second communications entities, (the second information exchange spaced apart in time from the first information exchange), combining the first and second authentication scores to create a cumulative risk analysis score, and responsive to the cumulative risk analysis score, generating a dynamic pairing code for use in governing exchange of information during subsequent communications between the first and second communications entities.
US10015145B2
Systems and methods are directed towards network data leakage prevention (DLP). More specifically, the systems and methods are directed towards using TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) data packets in conjunction with the DLP monitor. The network DLP utilizes TCP data packets to carry source user identity. With the source user identity, the DLP monitor can determine if sensitive data can be transmitted based on the provided user information and corresponding DLP policies for each user. Furthermore, the DLP monitor can determine if sensitive data can also be transmitted for particular users in situations where multiple users share the same IP address.
US10015144B2
A method for transmitting data involves receiving the data, identifying, by a sender system, a first data element in the data to protect, encrypting, by the sender system, the first data element with a sender session key, generating, by the sender system, a combined key using a receiver key value and a sender compartmentalization key (SK). The method also involves encrypting, by the sender system, the sender session key using the combined key to obtain an encrypted session key, generating, by the sender system, a data passport comprising the encrypted session key, a dictionary classification key (DK) index, a SK index, and a receiver compartmentalization key (RK) index, generating, by the sender system, protected data comprising the data passport and the encrypted first data element, and transmitting, by the sender system and across a network, the protected data to a receiver system.
US10015140B2
System, method and program product for managing a security policy of a firewall. The firewall receives a message packet addressed to a specified port of a destination IP address and determines that the firewall does not have a message flow rule which permits passing of the message packet to the port. The port is tested to determine if the port is open. If so, an administrator is queried whether the firewall should have a message flow rule which permits passing of the message packet to the port. If not, an administrator is not queried whether the firewall should have a message flow rule which permits passing of the message packet to the port. There may be first and second firewalls located between the source IP address and destination IP address. Before the port is tested, a central database is checked to learn if the central database has a record of whether the first firewall should have a message flow rule which permits passing of the message packet to the port. If not, and the port is found to be open, the central database is updated to indicate that both the first and second firewalls should have a message flow rule which permits passing of the message packet to the port. Also, the security policy of the first firewall is updated with a message flow rule which permits passing of the message packet to the port. The second firewall is not updated until it encounters a message packet addressed to the port.
US10015139B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that performs an intrusion-detection technique to differentiate between packets received from malicious remote users and legitimate local users in a networked computer system. During operation, the system determines arrival times for incoming packets at a node in the networked computer system. Next, the system determines inter-arrival times between the incoming packets from the arrival times. The system then determines a mean cumulative function (MCF) for the inter-arrival times by computing a cumulative sum of the inter-arrival times. Finally, upon detecting a change in a slope of the MCF, the system generates an alarm to indicate that a malicious remote user may be generating some of the incoming packets.
US10015136B2
This disclosure relates to controlling unwanted traffic to a device (40) in a communication network (30). The idea is to provide a more fine-grained control of incoming packets or connection attempts, by using an inclusive firewall (10) i.e. a firewall operating on “white-listed” traffic to a device (40). The disclosure, relates to a method for controlling a data flow to a device in a communication network, using a firewall located in the path between said device and a source node. The method comprises receiving (210), in said firewall, at least one data packet of said data flow. The firewall then reads (220), a predefined selection of bits of said at least one data packet, wherein the selection of bits is contained in at least one field of said data packet. The at least field or fields, including the selection of bits, carry a first type information. The firewall then forwards (240) the at least one data packet to the device, if selection of bits fulfills a policy of said device. The policy is defining requirements by which packets to said device are solicited. Hence, the solicitation of packets is a second type of information carried by said selection of bits. The disclosure further relates to a methods controlling a data flow, as well as to a firewall (10), a source (20) and a device (40).
US10015134B2
Systems and methods for creating a new domain, such as a top-level domain or a second-level domain, make use of a Domain Manager that enables a user to enter data that is necessary or optional to implement the creation of a new domain. Systems such as, for example, a Registry and one or more Registrars, may use the data defined by the Domain Manager to create a new domain.
US10015132B1
At least one processing device comprises a processor coupled to a memory and implements virtualization infrastructure including a first container comprising a software agent of a locator-identifier separation protocol. The software agent is configured to communicate with a locator-identifier mapping system that associates identifiers of respective endpoints with respective locators in accordance with the locator-identifier separation protocol. The endpoints comprise respective ones of a plurality of additional containers of the virtualization infrastructure. The first container may be coupled to the plurality of additional containers via a bridge element that combines virtual interfaces of respective ones of the additional containers into a single physical network interface. The first container may additionally be coupled to a network via a router configured to operate in accordance with the locator-identifier separation protocol as an ingress tunnel router with respect to inbound packets and as an egress tunnel router with respect to outbound packets.
US10015128B2
Prioritizing online comments on social network web page is disclosed. An activity of a user consuming a content presented on the social network web page is detected. Time spent by the user consuming the content is determined. Responsive to the user entering a comment on the content, a depth of consumption of the content by the user is determined based on the time spent by the user consuming the content. The comment entered by the user is ranked among a plurality of comments entered by one or more of the plurality of users based on the depth of consumption. The comment entered by the user is presented on the social network web page in the order of the ranking.
US10015127B2
A communication device includes an acceptance section, a mail data generating section, and a transmission section. The acceptance section is configured to accept a plurality of destination addresses and a mail text to be sent to the plurality of destination addresses. The mail data generating section is configured to generate, for every one of the plurality of destination addresses, mail data that contains the mail text, destination information indicating the one of the plurality of destination addresses as a destination, and destination address list information which indicates a list of the plurality of destination addresses arranged in order and in which the one destination address is placed higher in order than when accepted by the acceptance section. The transmission section is configured to send the mail data generated by the mail data generating section.
US10015122B1
In one embodiment, method is provided, comprising: creating at least a portion of an instant messaging application that is configured to cooperate with a relay that is configured to communicate with a web service, the instant messaging application configured to cause a device to: display an instant messaging interface; receive, from the relay and utilizing a communications agent, a first message; display, via the instant messaging interface, at least a portion of the first message; send, to the relay, a second message including text and an automatically determined contactee identifier, for causing the relay to: send, from the relay to the web service, a third message including the text, for causing the web service to: send, to the relay, a fourth message with at least one image that is identified based on the text, for causing the relay to: send, to the device, a fifth message including the at least one image.
US10015115B2
A Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller is described associated with a local domain and configured to control remote services in a remote domain. The SDN controller includes a network interface communicatively coupled to the remote domain; a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface; and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to, subsequent to instantiation of a logical switch in a device in the remote domain, establish a control channel with the logical switch, wherein the control channel flows over the local domain and the remote domain, and control the logical switch in the remote domain via the control channel.
US10015111B2
In one embodiment, a system for steering an input packet stream includes a traffic splitter configured to split an input packet stream into a first packet stream and a second packet stream, and a photonic switching fabric coupled to the traffic splitter, where the photonic switching fabric is configured to switch the first packet stream. The system may also include an electrical packet switching fabric coupled to the traffic splitter, where the electrical packet switching fabric is configured to switch the second packet stream, and a traffic combiner coupled to the photonic switching fabric and to the electrical packet switching fabric, where the traffic combiner is configured to merge the first switched packet stream and the second switched packet stream to produce a first packet flow.
US10015100B1
A packet received via a network is stored in a packet memory. Information in a header of the packet is analyzed to determine multiple ports to which the packet is to be forwarded. The packet is read from the packet memory in connection with transmitting the packet via a first port among the multiple ports. Packet data corresponding to the packet is stored in a packet cache different than the packet memory. In connection with forwarding one or more instances of the packet to ports among the multiple ports, the packet data is read, based on information included in a packet descriptor associated with the packet, from the packet cache. Ones of the one or more instances of the packet are forwarded, using the data corresponding to the packet read from the packet cache and without further accessing the packet memory, to respective one or more of the multiple ports.
US10015095B2
The present application provides a flow table-based table entry addressing method, a switch, and a controller. The method includes: receiving, by a switch, a packet; matching, by the switch, the packet based on a previous flow table; after matching is successful, sending, by the switch based on a write storage index instruction in a flow table entry that is successfully matched, storage index information along with the packet to a lower-level flow table, where, the storage index information corresponds to a flow table entry in the lower-level flow table, and the write storage index instruction is sent by a controller; and directly addressing, by the switch in the lower-level flow table based on the storage index information, the flow table entry corresponding to the storage index information.
US10015094B1
Techniques are described for managing customer-specified routing policies for network-accessible computing resources. In some situations, the customer-specified routing policies may be based at least in part on DNS (“Domain Name System”) information specified by a customer, such as if the customer specifies one or more target destinations to use with an indicated DNS domain name that are different from the destination IP address(es) provided for that DNS domain name by DNS servers—if so, the managing of such a DNS-based routing policy for that customer may include identifying when network-accessible computing resources provided to the customer send electronic communications to that DNS domain name, and causing those electronic communications to be redirected to the customer-specified target destination(s). Such customer-specified target destinations may include, in different situations, final destinations, intermediate destinations, etc., as well as identify particular routes.
US10015091B2
A method is disclosed for more efficiently and economically transporting data on a network using network access links between the first switch, which is the entry point of the network, and an end-user device, which is either on a fixed link on a customer premises or is a mobile device. The method includes terminating one or more protocol sessions at the first switch and removing corresponding packet headers. The first switch creates a substitute packet, adding a substitute header that identifies the transport path and the communications connection. Removed headers are not delivered to the end-user device which processes received substitute packets into usable streams based on the substitute header.
US10015082B2
A device receives traffic; identifies an address associated with the traffic; determines whether the address is associated with an aggregate interface, the aggregate interface being associated with a first port and a second port. The first port corresponds to a first node in a first state, that indicates that the first node is available to forward the traffic, and the second port corresponds to a second node in a second state, that indicates that that the second node is not available to forward the traffic. The device transmits the traffic to the first node via the first port and to the second node, via the second port, when the address is associated with the aggregate interface. Transmitting the traffic enables the second node to forward the traffic when the first node changes from the first state to the second state.
US10015079B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a rerouting sequence planning method and system. The method includes: calculating reference values of to-be-adjusted LSPs, where the reference values are used to denote adjusted priorities of the to-be-adjusted LSPs; selecting a to-be-adjusted LSP with a highest priority from the to-be-adjusted LSPs; determining, according to a critical value of the reference values of the to-be-adjusted LSPs and a reference value of the to-be-adjusted LSP with the highest priority, whether the to-be-adjusted LSP with the highest priority is suitable for adjustment; and if the to-be-adjusted LSP with the highest priority is suitable for adjustment, adjusting the to-be-adjusted LSP with the highest priority to a corresponding final-state LSP; and if the to-be-adjusted LSP with the highest priority is not suitable for adjustment, selecting at least one to-be-adjusted LSP and adjusting the at least one selected to-be-adjusted LSP to a corresponding temporary LSP.
US10015077B2
Techniques are described herein that are capable of forwarding a current request based on, at least in part, previous request(s). For instance, the current request may be received at a first forwarding server from a sending server via a network. The first forwarding server may determine that a second forwarding server is associated with (e.g., receives, causes to be forwarded, or responds to) previous request(s) from the sending system. The first forwarding server may cause the current request to be forwarded to an endpoint based on, at least in part, the previous request(s) being associated with the second forwarding server. For instance, the first forwarding server may cause the current request to be forwarded to the endpoint based on, at least in part, the second forwarding server forwarding the previous request(s) to the endpoint.
US10015064B2
A home network system that personalizes the selection of information content in accordance with an interest of a user of the network is disclosed. More specifically, a method and apparatus are described for automatically presenting an information content of interest to the user, being provided by an Internet site external to the network. The contents of interest may be determined in accordance with an access pattern of the user and a frequency of the use of particular topic in the content.
US10015060B2
An information sharing method that provides a graphical user interface image for sharing information relating to an appliance within a home among a plurality of users includes a receiving step of receiving, as home appliance event information, information on a state change of an appliance within a plurality of homes, a priority determining step of determining a priority of a home that is to be displayed in the graphical user interface image in accordance with an occurrence frequency of the home appliance event information within each home, and a home determining step of determining a home to be displayed in the graphical user interface image in accordance with the priority.
US10015058B2
Disclosed are a reliability evaluation system for multi-state flow network and a method thereof. The system includes an element-gaining module and a reliability calculation module. The method includes using a GCF calculating means to calculate an initial reliability according a first and second system-state vector, comparing values of all elements in a set being composed of elements of a second grade of a third system-state vector, excluding an element with a greater value and other related thereof in all grades in the third system-state vector when only one element in the set except the element with greater values so as to obtain remaining elements, using the GCF calculating means to perform the calculation of the remaining element to obtain a calculation results, and summing the initial reliability and the calculation results so as to obtain a reliability of the multi-state flow network.
US10015055B2
A management system includes a first management unit, a second management unit, and an updating unit. The first management unit manages identification information of a communication terminal classified into a first group. The second management unit manages identification information of a communication terminal classified into a second group. The updating unit updates information managed by the first management unit or the second management unit based on information transmitted from the communication terminals.
US10015053B2
Disclosed herein is a transport software defined networking (SDN) controller, comprising a receiver configured to receive advertisement messages from physical layer NEs, each advertisement message indicating a mapping between a physical layer network elements (NE) port and an adjacent network layer NE, and a processor coupled to the receiver. The SDC controller is configured to determine a relationship between a logical topology and a physical topology, inspect a network layer link aggregation group (LAG) request, the request indicating a first network layer NE is requesting modification of a LAG with a second network layer NE, and modify a physical layer connection between a physical layer NE adjacent to the first network layer NE and a second physical layer NE adjacent to the second network layer NE to implement the LAG modification based on the relationship between the physical topology and the logical topology.
US10015049B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods to configure network devices in a network are described herein. In one aspect, upon determining an unsuccessful configuration of a first network device, configuring the first network device is retried for a predetermined number of times. Further, a configuration of a second network device is reverted when the configuration of the first network device is unsuccessful upon retrying for the predetermined number of times. Upon determining of a successful configuration of the first network device, the configuration of the first network device and the second network device is committed.
US10015043B2
Provided is a network self-construction method of connecting network devices to a specific network in a wireless application environment in which network devices must be divided into multiple networks in the same space. An access point (AP) controls network association of the network devices by transmitting a beacon signal into which information indicating association permission or non-permission of a network operated by the AP is inserted. A system manager associates the network devices with a specific network through the AP. When the network construction is completed, the system manager disables the AP from permitting additional network association. By repeating these steps, new networks are sequentially constructed. The system manager performs network construction by dividing the network devices into multiple networks in a desired structure and supports additional network association of network devices and transfer to other networks.
US10015036B2
Methods, systems, and devices for modulation and coding scheme selection and configuration. A mobile communication device includes a table component, a table selection component, and a communication component. The table component is configured to maintain two or more tables each having entries for a plurality of available modulation schemes. The two or more tables include a default table and a secondary table. The default table and the secondary table have a matching number of entries, and the secondary table includes an entry corresponding to a 256-QAM scheme. The table selection component is configured to select a selected table from one of the default table and the secondary table. The communication component is configured to receive and process a communication from a base station based on a modulation and coding scheme of the selected table.
US10015032B2
A method of acquiring frequency hop timing synchronization includes a propagation delay time computation process of computing a minimum and maximum propagation delay times according to an error of a location of a satellite communication terminal, which is input by an operator of a ground satellite terminal, and a delay transmission process of transmitting a ranging signal after a certain time upon the transmission of the ranging signal through a ranging-dedicated hop group having a hop duration time that is set in consideration of the maximum propagation delay, the minimum propagation delay, a ranging time, and a timing error due to a positional change of a satellite, in order to avoid collisions between the ranging signal and other signals. The satellite communication terminal may receive a ranging signal that was transmitted by the satellite communication terminal and control a timing for determining whether synchronization is acquired and a timing for performing transmission.
US10015031B2
Provided are a data receiving method supporting an expansion modulation scheme and a wireless device using the same. The wireless device receives expansion sub-frame information indicating at least one expansion sub-frame supporting the expansion modulation scheme among a plurality of sub-frames and receives downlink data according to the expansion sub-frame information.
US10015029B2
Disclosed herein are a Bluetooth signal receiving device and a Bluetooth Smart receiving method. The Bluetooth signal receiving device includes a frequency shift demodulator circuit, a sampler circuit, a training bit pattern discriminator circuit, and a symbol timing offset compensation circuit. The frequency shift demodulator circuit generates a baseband signal by performing frequency shift modulation on a received signal. The sampler circuit samples the baseband signal based on a symbol timing, and generates a plurality of series of bit streams based on sampled values. The training bit pattern discriminator circuit determines whether the plurality of series of bit streams generated by the sampler circuit satisfies a training bit pattern condition. The symbol timing offset compensation circuit compensates the symbol timing of the baseband signal based on a measured error metric as an effective error metric if the plurality of series of bit streams satisfies the training bit pattern condition.
US10015020B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for interleaving communications with a home area network (HAN) and a data network. A gateway device interleaves communications within timeslots of a time slotted channel hopping protocol. A gateway device can be configured to determine, during a first portion of a timeslot, whether the gateway device received a portion of a message from a data network. If the gateway device receives no messages from the data network during the first portion of the timeslot, the gateway device switches to listen for communication from the HAN during a second portion of the timeslot. If the gateway device receives a portion of the message from the HAN, the gateway device continues to receive receives the remainder of the message until one or more trigger conditions that cause the gateway device to listen for communication from the data network.
US10015011B2
The anti-diversity concept for secure communication on a two-link compound channel provides secure communication over two parallel communication channels. The message is split into two separate bit sequences by a source splitter. An error correction encoder (110) is applied to the two bit sequences to provide two code words for two channels (122, 124), such that left and right halves of an error correction code matrix respectively corresponds to the two parallel signal channels (122, 124). For the left half of the error correction code matrix, an upper left matrix block is a random permutation matrix, an upper right block is the identity matrix, and the bottom right matrix block is a random matrix of column and row weight greater than or equal to one. The bottom left matrix block is a column permutation of the bottom right, random matrix block. The right half error correction code matrix is a similar, symmetric structure.
US10015010B2
A processor of an aspect includes a plurality of packed data registers, and a decode unit to decode an instruction. The instruction is to indicate one or more source packed data operands. The one or more source packed data operands are to have four 32-bit results of four prior SM4 cryptographic rounds, and four 32-bit values. The processor also includes an execution unit coupled with the decode unit and the plurality of the packed data registers. The execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to store four 32-bit results of four immediately subsequent and sequential SM4 cryptographic rounds in a destination storage location that is to be indicated by the instruction.
US10015009B2
A method of implementing a method of mapping an input message to an output message by a keyed cryptographic operation, wherein the keyed cryptographic operation includes a plurality of rounds using a Feistel network, including: receiving an input having a first half and a second half; performing, by a basic block, a portion of a round function on the second half to produce a portion of an encoded output, and wherein the basic block provides a portion of the second half as a portion of an encoded first input to a next round; and XORing the portion of the encoded output and a portion the first half to produce a portion of an encoded second input to the next round.
US10015008B2
A computer-implemented method for encrypting binary data may include encoding raw binary data in Base64 format to generate Base64 binary data. The Base64 binary data may be encrypted, by a computer processor, using format-preserving encryption to generate Base64 ciphertext. The Base64 ciphertext may be validatable by a Base64 validator.
US10014997B2
An apparatus and a method are provided, by which transmission of reference signals is controlled such that reference signals are transmitted in different time intervals depending on the strength of reception of the reference signals at the user equipment (UE) side. Moreover, an apparatus and a method are provided by which configuration information for measuring reference signals is received, wherein the configuration information comprises an indication about time intervals, during which reference signal with different strength of transmission are sent.
US10014993B2
An aggressor base station herein performs downlink interference coordination with one or more victim base stations in a radio communication network. Such coordination is performed for each of one or more iterations. For any given iteration, the aggressor sends a message to a victim that indicates, for each of one or more downlink resources, whether the aggressor promises to protect that resource from interference by not transmitting on the resource with a transmit power above a threshold (TH2). The victim schedules downlink transmissions to one or more user equipments on resources that, according to the message, are protected from interference. Based on monitoring for interference to those transmissions, though, the victim generates and sends to the aggressor feedback that generally requests an increase or decrease of the threshold (TH2). From evaluation of this feedback, the aggressor determines a new threshold (TH2) on which promises are to be based in a message to the victim in a subsequent iteration.
US10014989B2
Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e−j(π/2)” so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).
US10014986B2
Method comprises determining a first HARQ timing wherein an association determines which UL subframes in the TDD carrier that are defined for transmitting HARQ on an UL control channel for an associated set of DL subframes in the FDD carrier, determining a second HARQ timing, wherein an association determines which UL subframes that are defined for transmitting HARQ on an UL shared channel for an associated set of DL subframes in the FDD carrier, resulting in a first set of UL subframes for which the physical UL shared channel is enabled to comprise HARQ, and a second set of UL subframes is not comprising HARQ, and assigning UL channel resources for the HARQ feedback on the physical UL shared channel in said first set of UL subframes, according to said second DL HARQ timing, when there is no UL control channel assigned according to said first DL HARQ timing.
US10014984B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting multiplexed HARQ feedbacks in a carrier aggregation system, the method comprising: configuring a first cell with PUCCH resource and a second cell with PUCCH resource; configuring zero or more third cells without PUCCH resource; generating a first HARQ feedback by multiplexing HARQ feedbacks of all HARQ processes of the first cell and third cells associated with the first cell; generating a second HARQ feedback by multiplexing HARQ feedbacks of all HARQ processes of the second cell and third cells associated with the second cell; and transmitting the first HARQ feedback on the first cell with PUCCH resource and the second HARQ feedback on the second cell with PUCCH resource.
US10014979B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for starting an extended idle interval in an effort to avoid collisions with transmissions from hidden wireless nodes. One example apparatus generally includes a receiver and a processing system. The receiver is typically configured to receive a multi-user (MU) transmission comprising at least one packet for the apparatus. The processing system is typically configured to determine a checksum of the at least one packet and to start an idle interval associated with the apparatus after receiving the MU transmission if the at least one packet comprises a frame check sequence (FCS) that corresponds to the checksum, wherein the idle interval includes at least enough time for transmission of an acknowledgment (ACK) frame. For certain aspects, the idle interval may comprise an extended interframe space (EIFS).
US10014975B2
An optical system includes a transmitter module and/or a receiver module. The transmitter module is configured to receive input data, map the input data to a set of subcarriers associated with an optical communication channel, independently apply spectral shaping to each of the subcarriers, generate input values based on the spectral shaping of each of the subcarriers, generate voltage signals based on the input values, modulate light based on the voltage signals to generate an output optical signal that includes the subcarriers, and output the output optical signal. The receiver module is configured to receive the output optical signal, convert the output optical signal to a set of voltage signals, generate digital samples based on the set of voltage signals, independently process the digital samples for each of the subcarriers, map the processed digital samples to produce output data, and output the output data.
US10014973B2
A method and apparatus for communications in a passive optical network (PON) system are provided. An optical line terminal (OLT) generates a PON downstream Physical Layer (PHY) frame comprising a downstream physical synchronization block (PSBd) that comprises a wavelength identification (ID) of at least one downstream wavelength of the plurality of downstream wavelengths. The OLT sends the PON PHY frame comprising the wavelength ID in the PSBd to ONU for confirming the at least one downstream wavelength.
US10014972B1
Systems and methods for dynamic communication and control of devices associated with a premises are disclosed. The systems and methods may include receiving first status information by a device associated with a premises; determining a priority condition based at least on the first status information; transmitting the first status information including a first differentiated services code point indicative of the priority condition; and transmitting second status information including a second differentiated services code point indicative of the normal condition.
US10014971B2
Methods and systems may implement a credit based approach for optimizing optical transmission and calculating optical paths in optical networks.
US10014969B2
The present invention presents a method by which a base station notifies a terminal of information on a tone into which interference caused by surrounding cells greatly flows, and by which a terminal uses the information so as to efficiently remove the interference caused by the surrounding cells and to demodulate data channels, such that the method improves reception performance. Particularly, when the surrounding cells transmit cell-specific reference signals, the base station transmits, to the terminal, location information of the cell-specific reference signals transmitted by the surrounding cells, and the terminal demodulates the received data except for a data channel tone in which cell-specific reference signals of the surrounding cells greatly cause interference. The present invention can improve data reception performance by efficiently removing the interference caused by the surrounding cells.
US10014965B1
The present invention is directed to data communication. According to a specific embodiment, the present invention provides technique for loss of signal detection. A loss-of-signal detection (LOSD) device determines an analog signal indicating signal strength by subtracting a threshold offset voltage from an incoming signal. The analog signal is then processed by a switch network of an output stage circuit, which provides a digital output of loss of signal indication at a low frequency (relative to the incoming signal frequency). There are other embodiments as well.
US10014960B1
A technology is described for determining a position of a HBC (Human Body Channel) sensor. An example method may include receiving signal data for a radio signal from a first transmitting HBC sensor transmitted over a human body channel. A signal loss of the radio signal can be calculated using the signal data received from the first transmitting HBC sensor, where the signal loss may be a function of distance of the first transmitting HBC sensor from a receiver. A distance of the first transmitting HBC sensor from the receiver can then be determined based in part on the signal loss and a relative position of the first transmitting HBC sensor can be identified based in part on the distance between the first transmitting HBC sensor and the receiver.
US10014956B2
Provided is an optical receiver module which includes a conversion unit which converts an input optical signal to an electrical signal, an amplification unit which amplifies the electrical signal and outputs an amplified signal, a reception unit which directly or indirectly receives the amplified signal, and an offsetting unit which offsets the electrical signal such that a difference between a center of an intensity width of the electrical signal and a center of an intensity range of a signal capable of being received by the reception unit becomes small.
US10014954B2
Provided are methods and systems for receiving and processing optical signals. A dual single side band (SSB) modulation scheme is utilized to take advantage of a given wavelengths' bandwidth. Modulation schemes are employed that modulate each SSB with their In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) components. The methods and systems discussed utilize an adaptive equalizer and an LMS algorithm to remove imaging components of the left and right SSBs provided by the modulators. The adaptive equalizer and the LMS algorithm also compensate for linear and nonlinear distortions. Various algorithms can be employed, including but not limited to, algorithms for updating crosstalk coefficients in the equalizer, where the cross talk coefficients are induced from the imaging from the modulation of the dual SSB signal, and for updating coefficients relating to linear and nonlinear distortion.
US10014944B2
Distributed antenna systems supporting digital data signal propagation between remote antenna clusters, and related distributed antenna systems, components and methods are disclosed. The distributed antenna systems facilitate distributing digital data signals to provide digital data services remotely to distributed remote antenna units. The digital data signals may be propagated between remote antenna units within a remote antenna cluster for digital data signals transmitted to wireless client devices in the distributed antenna system and for digital data signals received from wireless client devices in the distributed antenna system. Received digital data signals from wireless client devices can be propagated from remote antenna unit to remote antenna unit in a remote antenna cluster until the digital data signals reach a wired network device for communication over a network. The remote antenna units may be configured to support high-frequency digital data signal to support larger channel bandwidths and in turn higher data rate transfers.
US10014943B2
An optical source (10) comprising: a first laser (12) arranged to generate a first optical signal (14) having a first state of polarization and a first optical frequency; a second laser (16) arranged to generate a second optical signal (18, 48, 78) having a second state of polarization, substantially orthogonal to the first state of polarization, and having a second optical frequency, different to the first optical frequency by a preselected frequency difference, Δν; a polarization beam coupler (20) arranged to combine the first optical signal and the second optical signal into a composite optical signal comprising both the first optical signal and the second optical signal having said substantially orthogonal states of polarization; and an output (22) arranged to output the composite optical signal (24).
US10014932B2
The approach relates to a procedure for determining a signal transmission quality of a light transmission path, which consists of a light transmitter on one end and a light receiver on its other end. A transmitter code is received in a first step. The transmitter code hereby represents a signal which is transmitted from the light transmitter to the light receiver. In a further step the receiver code is read in. The receiver code hereby represents a signal which was provided by the light receiver by using the transmitter code. The determining of a degree of correspondency between the transmitter code and the receiver code is performed in a final step of determining, in order to define the signal transmission quality of the light transmission path.
