US10166225B2
This invention is directed to the treatment of osteoporosis using N-(4-{[6,7-bis(methyloxy)quinolin-4-yl]oxy}phenyl)-N′-(4-fluorophenyl)cyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxamide.
US10166222B2
This invention is directed to derivatives of piperidine-2,6-dione, or their organic or inorganic salts thereof, a methods of synthesis of these derivatives, and their application as active pharmaceutical ingridient as inhibitors of TNFα releasing in cells, the derivative of piperidine-2,6-dione being of the general formula (I): wherein n represents 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; R1 represents from one to four of the same or different substituents selected from F, Cl, Br, C1-4 alkyl, OH, OC1-4 alkyl, NO2, NHC(O)C1-4 alkyl, NH2, NH(C1-4 alkyl), N(C1-4 alkyl)2; R2 represents OR3, NR3R4, N(R3)COR4, O2CR5; R3 and R4 represent independently and at each occurrence H or C1-4 alkyl; R5 represents CHR6NR7R8, CHR6NR9C(O)CHR10NR7R8, a heterocycle W or CHR6NR9C(O)W; R6, R9, R10 represent independently and at each occurrence H, or C1-4 alkyl; R7 and R8 represent independently and at each occurrence H, C1-4 alkyl, or R7 and R8 taken together represent 1,3-propylene, 1,4-butylene, 1,5-pentylene , or 1,6-hexylene; W represents four-membered, five-membered, six-membered, seven-membered, or eight-membered saturated or unsaturated heterocycle.
US10166221B2
The present application relates to pharmaceutical formulations and dosage forms of a lysine specific demethylase-1 (LSD1) inhibitor, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, or hydrate thereof, including methods of preparation thereof, which are useful in the treatment of LSD1 mediated diseases such as cancer.
US10166192B2
The present invention is directed to compositions and methods of delivery of CoQ-10 solubilized in monoterpenes. Use of monoterpenes as dissolving agents, greatly effects the ability to incorporate greater amounts of bioactive CoQ-10 in formulations, such as soft gel capsules.
US10166188B2
The present invention relates generally to the fields of immunology and vaccine technology. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods for vitrifying biological preparations, including peptides, antigens, antibodies, cells, and the like.
US10166183B2
The present invention relates to new extended release pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use thereof for the treatment of disorders. In certain embodiments, disclosed herein is an extended-release pharmaceutical formulation comprising, in a solid dosage form for oral delivery of between about 100 mg and about 1 g total weight: between about 2 and about 18% of an active ingredient; between about 70% and about 96% of one or more diluents; between about 1% and about 10% of a water-soluble binder and between about 0.5 and about 2% of a surfactant.
US10166181B2
Pharmaceutical composition made of microparticles for the slow release of an active substance at least during a period covering the 6th month after injection of said composition, said composition comprising a group of microparticles made of a copolymer of the PLGA type which incorporate an active substance in the form of a water insoluble peptide salt; said copolymer furthermore comprising at least 75% of lactic acid and an inherent viscosity between 0.1 and 0.9 dl/g, as measured in chloroform at 25° C. and at a polymer concentration of 0.5 g/dL; said microparticles furthermore having a size distribution defined as follows: —D (v,0.1) is between 10 and 30 micrometers, —D (v,0.5) is between 30 and 70 micrometers, —D (v,0.9) is between 50 and 1 10 micrometers.
US10166173B2
Provided are compositions and methods that are useful for hair care compositions. The compositions comprise polyurethane microparticles coated with zinc salt particles, wherein the ratio of zinc salt to polyurethane is in a range of from 1:99 to 3:7, and the polyurethane microparticles have an average particle size of less than 100 microns. Also provided are methods of preparation of such compositions.
US10166172B2
A bottle assembly includes a container and a vent assembly positionable at least in part of a rim of the container. A collar assembly generally defines a closure for the container and is releasably engaged with a neck of the container. The collar assembly and the vent assembly are configured relative to one another to permit selective configuration between a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration, the collar assembly urges the vent assembly onto the rim of the container such that at least a majority of a cross-section of a lateral vent of the vent assembly is disposed below the rim. In the second configuration, in which the vent assembly is omitted from the bottle assembly, the collar assembly substantially sealingly engages the rim of the container.
US10166169B2
A chest compression device includes a piston to apply compression to the sternum and incorporates leaf springs simultaneously driven by the piston to apply lateral compression to the thorax during chest compressions. A motor in the chest compression device provides motive power to cyclically extend and contract the piston to provide therapeutic chest compressions. One end of each leaf spring is operably connected to the piston and the other end of each leaf spring is secured to the backboard/base or to a support leg of the chest compression device such that during extension of the piston, each leaf spring is compressed against the device base or leg which causes the springs to flex and provide lateral compression of the patient's thorax in addition to the sternal compression of the piston.
US10166166B1
An apparatus for applying periodic pressure to the limb of a patient includes a cuff which has a bladder, the cuff is shaped and dimensioned to wrap around the limb of the patient. The apparatus also includes a pump which inflates the bladder in accordance with a pressure application mode which is selected by the patient. In one embodiment a plurality of pressure application modes are provided. The patient can select which particular pressure application mode the apparatus will use. In another embodiment, the maximum cuff pressure is 55 mmHg. In another embodiment, two cycles of pressure application and removal are repeated every minute. In another embodiment, pressure is applied and removed in step fashion. In another embodiment, the pump is capable of increasing cuff pressure from 0 mmHg to 55 mmHg within two seconds. In accordance with another embodiment, a display on the apparatus shows real time cuff pressure, the selected pressure application mode, and cumulative hours of apparatus operation. In another embodiment, a pressure switch ensures that the cuff is properly wrapped around the limb of the patient.
US10166161B2
Devices, systems, and methods described herein can provide a simulated fluid environment similar to the mother's womb to recreate an ideal or more familiar environment for infants who are born before their ideal due date. In some embodiments, the premature infant amniotic bath incubator can comprise an incubating tank with synthetic or simulated amniotic fluid, a heating element(s), a temperature sensor(s), and/or thermostat(s) for temperature regulation.
US10166159B2
A care robot that assists a standing-upright motion or a sitting motion of a care receiver without making the care receiver uncomfortable. In the care robot, a standing-upright trajectory, along which a movement control portion of a care receiver moves, is set so a center of gravity of the care receiver is in a range of the soles of both feet between a point in time early after the start of a standing-upright motion and an end time point of the standing-upright motion of the care receiver. A sitting trajectory is set so the center of gravity of the care receiver is out of the range of the soles of both feet from a point in time early after the start of a sitting motion of the care receiver, and moves toward a predetermined sitting position of the care receiver.
US10166154B2
A shaped non-woven fabric for an absorbent has a first surface and a second surface and is usable with the second surface facing a constituent member of an absorbent article. The shaped non-woven fabric is includes a thermoplastic resin fiber. The non-woven fabric includes a plurality of first recesses which have openings in the first surface and are recessed toward the second surface, and a plurality of through-holes which penetrate from the first surface to the second surface. Each of the plurality of first recesses has a peripheral wall section which extends in the thickness direction from the end edges of the openings toward the second surface, and a bottom section connected to the end edge of the peripheral wall section. At least a portion of the plurality of first recesses includes a hole section which penetrates from the first surface to the second surface.
US10166153B2
A pant-type absorbent article, such as a pant diaper, a sanitary pant or incontinence pant, includes a front portion, a back portion and a crotch portion, wherein lateral side portions of the front portion and back portion are superposed so that their inner surfaces face each other and being joined to each other along side seams. At least part of said front and back portions comprises an elastic laminate including first and second fibrous layers and an elastic film layer located therebetween, the first fibrous layer forms an inner wearer-facing side of the elastic laminate having a basis weight of between 13 and 30 g/m2 and the basis weight of the first fibrous layer is between 10 and 300% higher than the basis weight of the second fibrous layer, and wherein the first fibrous layers face each other along said side seams.
US10166151B2
A method for manufacturing a disposable absorbent pant includes conveying a first nonwoven web along a machine direction, applying an opposing pair of pre-strained elastic members, laminating a second nonwoven web, cutting the first elasticized multilayer web along two cutting paths, laminating a third nonwoven web, affixing central chassis structures, and cutting the second elasticized multilayer web.
US10166150B2
A compression device can treat edema with a number of curved shells, each having an internal pad. A ligature network employing tensioners is routed across the shells for compressing them. Tensioners on at least some of the shells can separately adjust tension in different portions of the ligature network. The ligature network is (a) releasably mounted on the shells, and (b) repositionable to allow spatial adjustment of compression forces produced by the compression device. By adjusting the routing of the ligature network across the shells, tailored compression forces are provided. With a body part embraced by the padded shells, tension is separately adjusted in different portions of the ligature network to provide different compression forces at spaced positions along the plurality of padded shells.
US10166147B2
An absorbent article that includes an outer covering made of two liquid-permeable cover layers that are joined together to form a pocket, and an inner layer that is initially freely movable within the pocket. The inner layer includes a mixture of particles of a superabsorbent polymer and substances that are osmotically comparatively weaker than the particles. When the absorbent article is applied to a human or animal skin surface to cover a wound, the absorbent article exerts an osmotic pressure via which endogenous wound exudate is removed from the wound. Thus, the absorbent article assists, both in a surface region and in a tissue depth, a normal interstitial hydration of the tissue by directing the wound fluids in a direction of flow to the skin surface and into the absorbent article, and by keeping the wound fluids that flow to the skin surface in the absorbent article.
US10166139B2
A device enabling food bolus flow between two stomas, said device having a pump forming means (3), said pump forming means (3) having an entry opening and an exit opening and being suitable for sucking food bolus through said entry opening and releasing it through said exit opening. The device further includes: —first watertight connection means (11) suitable for connecting said entry opening to a upstream stoma (S1) located on a patient's abdominal wall; —second watertight connection means (1) suitable for connecting said exit opening to a downstream stoma (S2), located on said patient's abdominal wall; said pump forming means being able to be activated by a user and suitable for being mounted on a patient's body, particularly on said patient's abdomen, in such a manner that once said device is mounted onto said patient's abdomen, food bolus flow can circulate from said upstream stoma (S1) to said downstream stoma (S2) outside of said patient's abdomen.
US10166138B2
A stoma adapter is described that is especially suited to a recessed stoma or a flush stoma. The stoma adapter effectively extends the discharge passage from the stoma, protects peristomal skin, and forms a bridge at the interface between the stoma and an ostomy appliance. The stoma adapter contains a substantially unobstructed discharge passage, at least for effluent flowing in a discharge direction. The stoma adapter includes a seal for sealing against the bowel wall. The stoma adapter has collapsing, expanding, flexible and reinforced designs.
US10166128B2
The invention relates to medical devices and methods of using them. The devices are prostheses which can be percutaneously deliverable with (or on) an endovascular catheter or via other surgical or other techniques and then expanded. The prostheses are configured to have a lattice resistant to dilation and creep, which is defined by a plurality of openings. The prosthesis may also optionally have a stent disposed proximal to the lattice. In exemplary embodiments, the fluoropolymer is expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. The composite materials exhibit high elongation while substantially retaining the strength properties of the fluoropolymer membrane. In at least one embodiment, the lattice is made of a composite material that includes a least one fluoropolymer membrane including serpentine fibrils and an elastomer. A lattice including a generally tubular member formed of a composite material including a least one fluoropolymer membrane containing serpentine fibrils and an elastomer is also provided.
US10166125B2
A transdermal intraosseous device includes a transdermal adapter for an external prosthetic device for a bone of a patient and a bone fixator including a distal portion coupled to the transdermal adapter and a proximal portion for anchoring into the bone. The transdermal adapter includes a dome-shaped portion for transcutaneous implantation and an external shaft extending from the dome-shaped portion. A dermal transition structure is configured to include a controlled roughness gradient from the external shaft to the dome-shaped portion and configured for use in infection control at a dermis layer of the patient.
US10166114B2
An intervertebral implant (100) for the fusion between two vertebral bodies of a vertebral column comprising: —a fusion cage (1), extending from a posterior side to an anterior side, adapted to be interposed between two adjacent vertebral bodies of a patient; —an asymmetrical fixing plate (2), attached to the fusion cage (1) and having a plurality of passageways (16; 7) for the insertion of bone screws on a single side.
US10166092B2
A toothbrush device includes one electric motor that provides the toothbrush with various frequencies of pulsations that are transmitted in a controlled fashion. The toothbrush device has a brush head with bristle touch-points, a handle, and a carrying case that extends from the head to the handle and holds the electric motor (e.g., a vibration motor). The electric motor generates vibration energy that travels through a shaft of the carrying case to the brush head in generally a single direction to vibrate the brush head. For example, the carrying case of the electric motor contacts the handle at a contact point, which is approximately at the center of the carrying case such that the majority of the vibrations generated by the electric motor are transmitted toward the brush head, while the vibrations towards other directions are minimized.
US10166076B2
Disclosed is a registration object for computed radiographic tomography. The object has a body portion defining a void for including at least part of a target object. The registration object comprises one or more relatively radiopaque or relatively radiolucent features. Said feature or features provide, in a suitable proportion of radiographic projections of the registration object with respect to angle about a predetermined axis, a pair of identifiable registration points which are spaced apart in a direction parallel to the predetermined axis by a first distance, and whose positions in that direction are each either a constant or a function only of the angle of the projection about the predetermined axis. Said feature or features define, in the suitable proportion of radiographic projections of the object with respect to angle about a predetermined axis, a pair of identifiable registration points which are spaced apart in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined axis by a second distance whose positions in that direction are each either a constant or a continuous function only of the angle of the projection about the predetermined axis. The suitable proportion can be substantially all or all radiographic projections. Also disclosed are a method, an apparatus, a storage medium and a signal for correcting computerized radiographic tomography data, optionally using such an object.
US10166066B2
An aspect of various embodiments of the present invention system and method provide, but not limited thereto, a novel means for epicardial ablation using a double-curve steerable sheath and a double-curve deflectable open irrigated-tip/suction catheter that can be guided around the apex of the heart and adjusted so as to position the distal tip optimally. The catheter can also both deliver fluid to and withdraw fluid from the pericardial space. Access to the epicardial surface of the heart is via a subxiphoid entry. The method and means presented include, but are not limited to, steering, energy delivery, bipolar mapping, placement and use of electrodes, irrigation, suction of irrigation fluid, and other details of the subject invention.
US10166064B2
A surgical system and method for fusing tissue are disclosed. The system has an electrosurgical generator capable of delivering electrosurgical power, a surgical instrument electrically connected to the electrosurgical generator and adapted to transfer the electrosurgical power from the electrosurgical generator to a distal end of the surgical instrument, and a power control circuit for controlling the delivery of radio frequency energy to the tissue in contact with the distal end of the surgical instrument. The surgical system is configured to: deliver the radio frequency energy at a non-pulsing power to the tissue for a period of time of 3 seconds or less, wherein the non-pulsing power is held constant, the output current is held under 2 Amperes RMS, and the output voltage is held under 100 Volts RMS, the non-pulsing power further causing the tissue to begin to desiccate and to fuse within the period of time.
US10166062B2
According to some embodiments, a method of confirming successful ablation of targeted cardiac tissue of a subject using a high-resolution mapping electrode comprises pacing said cardiac tissue at a predetermined pacing level to increase the heart rate of the subject from a baseline level to an elevated level, the predetermined pacing level being greater than a pre-ablation pacing threshold level but lower than a post-ablation pacing threshold level, delivering ablative energy to the ablation electrode, detecting the heart rate of the subject, wherein the heart rate detected by the high-resolution mapping electrode is at the elevated level before the post-ablation pacing threshold level is achieved, and wherein the heart rate detected by the high-resolution mapping electrode drops below the elevated level once ablation achieves its therapeutic goal or target, and terminating the delivery of ablative energy to the ablation electrode after the heart rate drops below the elevated level.
US10166060B2
A surgical instrument is disclosed. The surgical instrument can include an end effector, a shaft, and a handle. The handle can include a trigger assembly. The trigger assembly can include a first trigger and a second trigger, which are movable as a nested unit during a first actuation of the trigger assembly to affect a first surgical function. The second trigger can be movable away from the first trigger after the first actuation of the trigger assembly and can be movable toward the first trigger during a second actuation of the trigger assembly to affect a second surgical function.
US10166051B2
A bone plate system having a retainer for resisting back-out of a bone anchor from a throughbore of a bone plate is provided. In one aspect, a bone plate system having a resilient retainer disposed in a bone plate throughbore with a pair of elongate arm portions of the resilient retainer extending along opposite sides of the throughbore. In another aspect, a bone plate system having a resilient retainer with a pair of elongate interference portions completely exposed in the throughbore and spaced from each other across the throughbore to retain a head of a bone anchor received in the throughbore. In addition, a bone plate system having a resilient retainer with a pair of opposite end portions disposed within a groove of a throughbore wall such that a bone anchor may be inserted into the throughbore without contacting either of the opposite end portions of the retainer.
US10166047B2
An implantable spacer for placement between adjacent spinous processes in a spinal motion segment is provided. The spacer includes a body defining a longitudinal passageway. A first arm and a second arm are connected to the body. Each arm has a pair of extensions and a saddle defining a U-shaped configuration for seating a spinous process therein. An actuator assembly is disposed inside the longitudinal passageway and connected to the body. When advanced, the actuator assembly contacts camming surfaces of the arms to rotate them from an undeployed configuration to a deployed configuration. In the deployed configuration, the distracted adjacent spinous processes are seated in the U-shaped portion of the arms providing sufficient distraction to open the neural foramen. An insertion instrument is provided for implanting the interspinous process spacer. The system is configured for implantation through a small percutaneous incision employing minimally invasive techniques.
US10166044B1
This invention relates to the pelvic floor and vagina manipulator probes and related systems and methods. In certain aspects of the invention, a vaginal manipulator probe assembly is comprised of an intravaginal body curved along its long axis and with an adjustable pelvic floor ring. The probe assembly can be configured as an apparatus for insertion into a vagina for repositioning the vagina, cervix, uterus and pelvic floor and method for securing the same. In certain aspects, the curved intravaginal probe can be configured to receive a cervix. In certain implementations, the vaginal manipulator probe facilitates surgical visibility, dissection, and graft placement, is a device to elevate, support, and expose the pelvic floor and perineal body during surgical repair, is a device to set the proper vaginal insertion depth, is a device to assist with proper tensioning of the repositioned pelvic floor structures, and is a device to facilitate shortening of the anterior or posterior vaginal wall.
US10166037B2
An actuation method for a surgical tool and the tool itself, which includes a proximal coupling portion from which two hydraulically actuatable, pivotably connected members extend. Each of the branches, at least at their distal ends, have an active portion and form in the coupling portion a boundary for at least part of a fluid-tight, fluid-fillable cavity. A pivot position of the members and a volume of the fluid in the cavity are operatively coupled with one another. An actuation method for a micro-surgical tool and the micro-surgical tool, which includes a proximal handle with an actuation device and a distally disposed inventive hydraulically actuatable surgical tool, which is connected by a shaft with the handle and can be actuated by the actuation device.
US10166019B2
Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, data related to retraction of tissue can be gathered during performance of a surgical procedure. In one embodiment, the data can be used during performance of the surgical procedure, e.g., to determine whether a length of time a tissue is retracted using a retractor reaches a predetermined threshold amount of time, an amount of tissue retraction reaches a predetermined amount of tissue, and an amount of pressure being placed on tissue and/or nerves as a result of retraction reaches a predetermined amount of pressure, and/or the data can be used after performance of the surgical procedure, e.g., in determining a correlation between the data and patient pain level data.
US10166011B2
A method of operating a biopsy device includes providing a hollow needle having a longitudinal axis; moving a sample-receiving device received in the hollow needle from a retracted position to an extended position to expose a cavity in the sample-receiving device, the cavity configured to receive a tissue sample; displacing the hollow needle in a distal direction relative to the sample-receiving device to sever tissue received by the cavity of the sample-receiving device; moving a toothed flexible member along the longitudinal axis to move the sample-receiving device in the hollow needle from the extended position to the retracted position, the toothed flexible member having a proximal portion that extends proximal to the proximal end of the hollow needle; and receiving the proximal portion of the toothed flexible member in a helical coiling-up groove of a housing element when the sample-receiving device is moved to the retracted position.
US10165988B2
The invention relates to a device with a sensor arrangement, which is able to detect magnetic or magnetized oral administration forms after oral take-up, moreover tracks the dissolution thereof via the reduction or disappearance of the magnetic field of the oral administration form, and with a log function, which records a subjective evaluation on the part of the human wearer of the sensor arrangement during or after the oral take-up.
US10165986B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for processing, transmitting and displaying data received from an analyte sensor, such as a glucose sensor. The system may include a display device with at least one input device. In response to movement of or along the input device, the display device may change a glucose data output parameter and update an output of the display device using the changed output parameter.
US10165982B2
A phone comprising: a phone body, at least one sensor on the phone body for measuring a vital sign of a user when the phone is held in use; means for converting the vital sign measurement into a voice-frequency band signal; and means for transmitting the voice-frequency band signal for use in monitoring the health of the user.
US10165973B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to devices, systems, and methods for monitoring pregnancy of a female pregnant subject. For example, a pregnancy monitoring system can detect movement or motion of a pregnant subject and/or of the fetus in the pregnant subject. Additionally or alternatively, the pregnancy monitoring system can detect internal and/or external source loads applied to the pregnant subject. In an embodiment, the pregnancy monitoring system can compare and/or correlate two or more loads, one to another (e.g., to produce an output that is at least partially based on such comparison and that is related to the wellbeing of the pregnant subject and/or of the fetus). For example, the pregnancy monitoring system can include a controller that is configured to determine and compare two or more loads based on signals received from one or more sensors that can be positioned on the pregnant subject.
US10165970B1
An oximeter probe includes sensor head with a probe face having one or more sensor structures to make measurements, a handle, and an elastic member connected between the handle and the base. A user can hold the handle while measurements are made and the elastic member permits the handle to flex relative to the sensor head with one or more sensor structures.
US10165968B2
Methods and apparatuses for blood glucose measurement are provided. A first glucose concentration in a body fluid of a user is detected based on a first measurement interval. A first blood glucose level of the user is determined based on the first glucose concentration. A glucose concentration measurement interval is changed from the first measurement interval to a second measurement interval according to an occurrence of an event. A second glucose concentration in the body fluid is detected based on the second measurement interval. A second blood glucose level of the user is determined based on the second glucose concentration.
US10165964B2
Analysis of pulmonary scans representative of a patient's pulmonary structure can be used to classify a patient into one or more of a plurality of populations. The patient's scan can be mapped to a reference domain and analyzed to determine one or more fissure features associated with a plurality of regions in the reference domain. Comparison of the determined fissure features with a plurality of fissure atlases, each associated with different population, can be performed to classify the patient into one or more of the populations. Data from different fissure atlases can be compared to determine regions in the fissure atlases that distinguish one population from another. Such distinguishing regions can improve the ability to classify the patient while reducing errors based on false classifications.
US10165960B2
In a method and apparatus for producing respiration-corrected MR images of an examination volume containing the heart of a patient during respiratory movement of MR signals are recorded continuously during multiple cardiac cycles, each cardiac cycle having multiple time segments. One 2D navigator image data record per cardiac cycle is recorded during a time segment of that cardiac cycle, with k-space being filled along a Cartesian trajectory such that a spatial resolution is achieved in two spatial directions of the examination volume. Also, multiple 3D image data records are recorded in the other time segments of that cardiac cycle, with Cartesian filling of raw data space such that a spatial resolution is achieved in all three spatial directions of the examination volume. The respiratory movement is then determined from these navigator data records. The determined respiratory movement is corrected in the recorded MR signals.
US10165951B2
A method for measuring and determining a pulse arrival time (PAT) value of a user using a sensor device having a photoplethysmographic (PPG) multichannel sensor formed from a plurality of PPG sensor channels and being adapted to measure a set of PPG signals, each PPG signal being measured by one of the PPG sensor channels when the multichannel PPG sensor is in contact with the user; having: measuring the set of PPG signals; extracting a plurality of features from each of the measured PPG signals; selecting a subset from the set of PPG signals based on the extracted features; and processing the selected subset of PPG signals to determine the PAT value. The disclosed sensor and method can be embedded into a chest belt and do not need skilled supervision. They can represent a potential candidate for the implantation of PWV measurement campaigns in the ambulatory setting.
US10165944B2
In an eye fundus surface expansion observation screen, a surface moving image that is a moving image showing the surface of a predetermined region in a subject's eye is enlarged and displayed. In an eye fundus tomography expansion confirmation screen, a tomographic image showing the tomography of the subject's eye, which corresponds to a position selected from the surface moving image, is enlarged and displayed.
US10165935B2
A measuring head of an endoscopic device is provided. The measuring head has an optical projection unit (projection optics) intended and designed to illuminate an object to be examined with light, and an optical measurement unit (measurement optics) intended and designed to record the light reflected or diffused from the object to be examined. It is provided that the optical measurement unit (measurement optics) has an aperture diaphragm of which the aperture is settable.
US10165932B2
An insertion device includes a support member supporting a rotating tubular member between a base member and the rotating tubular member in diametrical directions and holding the rotating tubular member at a position where a rotation driving force is transmittable from a driving unit to an inner peripheral portion of the rotating tubular member connected to the driving unit. The insertion device includes a distal side ring member maintaining liquid-tightness between an outer peripheral portion of the base member and the inner peripheral portion of the rotating tubular member to a distal direction side of the driving unit placement cavity, and a proximal side ring member maintaining liquid-tightness between the outer peripheral portion of the base member and the inner peripheral portion of the rotating tubular member to a proximal direction side of the driving unit placement cavity.
US10165930B2
The endoscope includes: a rotating shaft in a distal end portion body of an insertion portion; an elevator which is coupled with one end of the rotating shaft; an elevator erecting lever which is coupled with the other end; an operating wire which rotates the rotating shaft through the elevator erecting lever to erect the elevator; a partition wall including a holding hole to support the rotating shaft; and a seal member disposed between the holding hole and the rotating shaft. The configuration of the rotating shaft and a positional relation between the rotating shaft and the seal member are improved so as to reduce time and labor taken for cleaning processing of the endoscope.
US10165926B2
A dishwasher includes a washing chamber exposed to liquid during washing operation and enclosed by a plurality of walls of a washing container and by an internal wall of a door. At least one of the walls has at least one aperture which is covered or closed by at least one illumination element. The at least one illumination element includes at least one planar lighting element and at least one transparent, translucent or reflective planar element associated to the planar lighting element.
US10165922B2
A nozzle comprising a first light and a second light, wherein one of the lights is used to detect certain materials, such as bodily fluids, pet messes and stains and the like, while the other light is used for illuminating an area to be cleaned. The lights may be integrally incorporate into a nozzle or removably detachable therefrom.
US10165914B2
A hand vacuum cleaner may include a suction motor and fan assembly that is positioned downstream of a pre-motor filter and in an upper end of the hand vacuum cleaner. A post motor filter may be positioned downstream of the suction motor and fan assembly and may be in the lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner. The clean air outlet may be positioned below the suction motor and fan assembly whereby air may travel generally downwardly from the suction motor and fan assembly and through the post motor filter to the clean air outlet.
US10165913B2
A hand vacuum cleaner has a handle provided at the rear end of the hand vacuum cleaner, the handle having a hand grip portion that extends upwardly and forwardly. An energy storage member is positioned above and overlying the hand grip portion, a suction motor and fan assembly that is positioned forward of the hand grip portion and a clean air outlet positioned rearward of the suction motor and fan assembly.
US10165901B2
A toothbrush holder apparatus can include a toothbrush and a handle. The toothbrush can include a distal end with bristles. The handle can include a gripping portion and a cavity configured to hold the toothbrush. The handle can include a secured configuration and an unsecured configuration. In the secured configuration, the toothbrush can be secured within the handle with a support feature. In the unsecured configuration, the toothbrush is removable from the handle. A stopper can be coupled to the handle. The stopper can be located at a distance from the distal end of the toothbrush. An adapter can extend from the stopper and include an opening to the cavity. The adapter can have a convex shape extending from the stopper. The toothbrush can be located within the opening, and a support feature configured to hold the toothbrush within the handle.
US10165898B2
A coffee bean conveyance device includes a conveying unit, a coffee bean holding unit and a driving mechanism. The conveying unit is a hollow member detachably assembled to the coffee bean holding unit, such that the coffee bean holding unit and the conveying unit are internally communicable with each other. The driving mechanism is eccentrically connected to the conveying unit, such that axes of the conveying unit and driving mechanism are parallelly spaced from each other. When the driving mechanism operates, coffee beans in the coffee bean holding unit are caused to stably move into the conveying unit and a constant weight or quantity of coffee beans is continuously fed to a coffee bean grinder or a coffee bean dispenser disposed below an outlet of the conveying unit. With these arrangements, the feeding of irregular weight or quantity of coffee beans to the coffee bean grinder or dispenser is avoided.
US10165876B2
An improved floral display box to house flowers. The floral display box includes a vase for arranging a plurality of flowers having an open top, a closed bottom, and one or more side walls. The vase is adapted to house the flowers and accompanying water and nutrients. Further, a lid is removably disposed over the open top of the vase. The lid has a plurality of openings disposed therethrough to hold the flower in place within the vase, the plurality of holes having a diameter of about 0.1 and 1 cm and being disposed at an angle of about 20 degrees to about 45 degrees with respect to a centerline from a centrally place opening in the lid to the bottom surface of the vase to a centerline through outermost holes in the lid to the bottom surface of the vase.
US10165873B2
A security device and base for a mobile device. The security device includes a body, at least two sliding arms coupled to the body, and a leveling plate coupled to the body and configured to receive the mobile device.
US10165863B2
A thoracic support for a seatback of a seat is provided. The thoracic support has a center portion extending in an upright direction and adapted to be positioned adjacent the seatback to align adjacent a thoracic region a user's spine and having a first hardness. A pair of side portions are each disposed on opposing lateral sides of the center portion. The side portions have a second hardness less than the first hardness of the center portion. The pair of side portions and the center portion to define a smooth forward support surface.
US10165852B1
A teeth cleaning implement includes a deformable hollow body having a volume of dentrifice secured within a central void of the body. Bristles are secured about the outer surface of the body. A plurality of apertures in environmental communication with the central void of the body are placed about and through the outer surface of the body to permit the passage of the dentrifice.
US10165850B1
A releasably-engageable strap loop having a unitary body is configured to enhance the securement of a strap or other material within a limited range of motion. The strap loop can be employed to secure, among other things, a head-mounted display unit to a wearable article worn by an individual, facilitating restricted movement of the head-mounted display unit relative to the individual's preferred field of view or any other part of the individual while the individual is active. The releasably-engageable strap loop can include, among other things, a unitary body that can receive a strap, such as one employable to secure a head-mounted display unit to a wearable article or safety gear worn by an individual. In some embodiments, the releasably-engageable strap loop can also include a securing member that is releasably or permanently securable to an external body, providing additional securement and restriction of movement of the head-mounted display unit relative to the individual.
US10165843B2
A hand held appliance including a body, a handle, a fluid flow path flowing from a fluid inlet into the handle to a fluid outlet from the body and a baffle wherein the fluid flow path is non-linear and the baffle directs flow within the fluid flow path. The fluid flow path may flow in a first direction within the handle and a second direction within the body. The baffle may be provided to direct flow between the handle and the body. The baffle may extend from the handle into a space defined within the body. The handle may include a wall that defines the fluid flow path within the handle. The baffle may form a partial continuation of the wall. The body and the handle may be molded as a first part and a second part. The baffle may be formed from a handle part and a body part.
US10165841B2
A footwear carrying system may include first and second separate carriers, each having a first attachment point near a first end of the carrier, a second attachment point near a second end of the carrier opposite the first end, and a third attachment point along a side of the carrier. A first strap may be adapted to connect the first and second attachment points of the first carrier, and a second strap may be adapted to connect the first and second attachment points of the second carrier. The third attachment points of the first and second carriers may be adapted to connect the first and second carriers together. The carriers may be suspended from one or more shoulders of a wearer, or attached to another carrier using the straps or a connection between the first and second carriers.
US10165836B2
A mold for imparting a marking including a requisite optical element has two and a half dimensions (2.5D) to the outer surface of an article formed from a ductile material. The mold includes a marking surface for imparting the mark to an outer surface of the article. That imparting is done by localized plastic deformation of the material from which the article is formed upon the mold and the article being urged against each other. The marking surface includes a micro-structure formed by an arrangement plural micro meter sized recessed or protruded entities. The entities are arranged in a predetermined arrangement in relation to each other, and the entities are arranged as a micro-structure having two and a half dimensions (2.5D). The entities are arranged in an inverse arrangement compared to the optical element, and to provide the recesses extending from the marking surface into the mold.
US10165834B2
Provided is a buckle type jewelry lock catch. The lock catch includes a lock catch body, a buckle sleeve and a buckle. One end of the buckle sleeve is provided with a buckle sleeve matching surface, the other end of the buckle sleeve is provided with a buckle inlet, and an internal wall of the buckle sleeve is provided with lock pins; an external surface of the buckle is provided with U-shaped clamping grooves, a spring chamber is provided inside the buckle, and a spring is provided in the spring chamber; and a thimble of the spring is provided at one end of the buckle, and a connecting mechanism of a jewelry chain is provided at the other end of the buckle. The buckle type jewelry lock catch effectively combines firmness with beautiful appearance.
US10165821B2
A sole for a shoe, in particular for a running shoe, the sole having a polyurethane injected midsole, a longitudinally extending shank, and an outsole. The shank extends from the forefoot of the sole through an arch area to a heel area and has an opening in its heel area for receiving polyurethane during injection of the polyurethane for the midsole. Further, the shank has a cavity for receiving a comfort element. The heel area of the shank is offset to be closer to the outsole than the shank in the arch area. The sole provides a low weight sole while still providing comfort to the wearer of the shoe. By placing a comfort element in the cavity, in the heel area of the shank, which comfort element has a higher elasticity than the polyurethane of the midsole, the sole provides improved energy absorption and energy return.
US10165817B2
Methods and devices for attaching a battery to a helmet and attaching a battery to an additional device are disclosed. A battery may be mounted to the rear center of a helmet. Attaching and detaching a battery to and from a helmet may be performed with a tool or by hand. The battery may be used to power multiple devices through separate contacts, and a device may be attached to the battery while the battery mounted to a helmet. The battery also may be detached from the helmet and serve as a portable energy source.
US10165814B2
A system and method of selectively connecting at least two articles of clothing is provided. First and second articles, which may comprise a glove and jacket sleeve or cuff, have mating geometries and at least one fastener to securely and selectively connect the two articles. In certain embodiments, magnets are provided as fasteners to connect the articles. For example, in certain embodiments, a method and system is provided that comprises features adapted to allow connection of an accessory (e.g. ski glove) to a portion of another article (e.g. jacket).
US10165805B2
A bottom garment with buttock lifting feature with a tape attached to an inner side of the seat area corresponding to each of the back pockets, such that the tape extends downwardly from the waist area along and inside a stitching line of the outer lateral edge of the back pocket to the lower end of the outer lateral edge, then extends laterally from the lower end of the outer lateral edge along and inside a stitching line of the bottom edge to the lower end of the inner lateral edge, and finally extends upwardly from the lower end of the inner lateral edge along and inside a stitching line of the inner lateral edge to the waist area.
US10165801B2
This item of male underwear, in the form of boxer shorts or underpants, has, at the front, a molded central portion (16) and elongate reinforcement elements (20, 20′, 21, 21′, 22, 22′) made, for example, from silicone, provided in three areas (A, B, C) of the front face (11), i.e.—A support area (A) located at the bottom of the central portion (16), the elongate elements (20, 20′) being shaped substantially like a cradle in this area,—A control area (B) located at the top of the central portion (16), the elongate elements (21, 21′) being shaped substantially like an inverted cradle in this area,—A reinforcement area (C) located to each side of the central portion, the elongate elements (22, 22′) having, in this area, an inclined direction linking the edges (19) of the central portion (16) to the top of the front face (11) in such a way as to pull the support area (A) upwards and towards the sides.
US10165799B2
An electronic vaping device includes a liquid storage portion, an electric heater and electronic circuitry. The liquid storage portion is configured to store liquid vapor-forming substrate. The electric heater includes at least one heating element, the at least one heating element configured to heat the liquid vapor-forming substrate. The electronic circuitry is configured to self-activate the electric heater for a first time interval during a period of inactivity of the electric heater to determine depletion of the liquid vapor-forming substrate based on a relationship between a power applied to the at least one heating element and a resulting temperature change of the at least one heating element.
US10165796B2
A hookah system for a smoking product may comprise a head assembly and a base assembly. The head assembly may include a capsule, a cavity member, a bowl, and a ring. The capsule may include a capsule base, a capsule sidewall with a capsule interlock, and a capsule shelf. The cavity member may include a cavity base with a shaft extending therefrom and about an axis, a cavity sidewall with a cavity interlock configured to be positioned in at least a portion of the capsule interlock, and a cavity shelf. The bowl may include a bowl sidewall and a bowl base configured to engage the shaft. The ring may be configured to be positioned between the cavity member and the bowl.
US10165794B2
The present invention relates to a smoking article (8) comprising a smokeable material and a mouthpiece (1), the mouthpiece comprising at least three segments (2, 3, 5) in axial alignment. One segment defining a cavity (5) is disposed between two other segments (2, 3) and a fluid-containing breakable capsule (6) is arranged in the cavity. A first wrapper (4) circumscribes at least the cavity, wherein the first wrapper comprises a substantially smooth transparent section overlaying at least a part of the cavity, such that the capsule is at least partially visible through the first wrapper. The first wrapper has one or more layers of transparent varnish applied thereto. The invention further relates to a mouthpiece for a smoking article and a method of producing a smoking article.
US10165792B2
The hunger minimized fasting system relies on providing a blood glucose level at all times in the range of 5 to 10 mM, satisfying glucose needs of the brain and metabolizing blood glucose through anaerobic glycolysis to release ATP at the extramitocontrial portion of the cell. Consuming only solid free nutrient liquids eliminates brain hunger response. Liquids consumed during fasting include solid filtered vegetable soup and clear fruit juices of 8 to 12 ounces taken every 2 to 4 hours having calorie deficiency of 600 to 1400 as compared to minimal daily calorie requirements for an adult. Fat released from storage is metabolized by ATP produced by glycolysis at the extramitocontrial location and enters the interior of the mitochondria, enabling the TCA cycle. Weight loss observed during fasting is about one half to one pound per day.
US10165791B2
The invention relates to the use of rubusoside and certain mixtures containing rubusoside, preferably the use of certain rubusoside-containing mixtures, in particular Rubus suavissimus extracts, for masking, reducing or suppressing a bitter, sour and/or astringent taste impression. The invention further relates to orally consumable preparations, comprising at least one bitter, sour and/or astringent-tasting substance and rubusoside or certain rubusoside-containing mixtures, preferably certain Rubus suavissimus extracts, a corresponding method of producing said preparations and a method for reducing or suppressing the bitter, sour and/or astringent effect of a bitter, sour and/or astringent-tasting substance. The invention further relates to certain flavoring compositions that are particularly effective for masking, reducing or suppressing a bitter, sour and/or astringent taste impression.
US10165790B2
A method for producing powderized cannabis oil, and the resulting powderized cannabis oil, in which concentrated cannabis oil is mixed with and absorbed by a modified starch powder, preferably maltodextrin, in a ratio of at least three grams of starch powder for every one-eighth of a gram of cannabis oil is disclosed. Further disclosed are beverages, baked goods and single-serve beverage brewing cartridges utilizing or incorporating the powderized cannabis oil to create human-consumable products that contain an emulsified, tasteless, and odorless dose of cannabis oil.
US10165788B2
Pre-biotic compositions containing oligosaccharides and probiotic compositions useful for treatment of a subject are provided herein. Also provided are methods for administering probiotic or pre-biotic compositions.
US10165786B2
A pastry bag includes: a container containing a creamy substance; a nozzle connected to the container; and an auxiliary member. The auxiliary member includes: a fixing portion fixed to the nozzle; and a positioning portion to be brought into contact with a creation surface on which a decoration is to be created.
US10165784B2
A method for preserving and conditioning beef comprises: cleaning and chopping picked fresh beef, dipping in composite essential oil prepared from clove essential oil, cinnamon essential oil and illicium verum essential oil for 30 s and taking out and draining slightly; placing the beef dipped into a modified atmosphere packaging box and fast precooling; inflating gas of mixed proportion into the cooled modified atmosphere packaging box with beef for preservation packaging and then storing at the low temperature of 0-4° C. The shelf life of the beef packaged by the method is up to 24 d. The aerobic bacterial count is not over 6.0 lgcfu/g. A total volatile basic nitrogen TVB-N value is not over 20 mg/100 g and belongs to the range of second freshness. The beef is stable in color, is cherry-red, has the advantage of good preservation effect and is used for cooking preserved cooked beef.
US10165781B2
The present invention relates to the fields of malaria and dengue virus. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods useful for the treatment and prevention of malaria and dengue virus. In particular embodiments, a composition comprises mosquito nectar feed and Chromobacterium sp_Panamam (Csp_P).
US10165758B2
An improved pet toy is generally ring-like and is rollable along a surface, such as the ground. The pet toy includes a resilient foam core that is surrounded by an elastomeric outboard portion and a fabric inboard portion that are affixed to one another and to the core. The outboard portion has a roughened surface that provides traction with the ground and enables the pet toy to roll in various fashions. The fabric inboard portion includes a stiffening structure in the form of a rib that resists deformation of the pet toy in a radial direction toward and away from a center of the toy.
US10165757B2
The present invention provides a scarfing type scratching pad, including a base board which includes a plurality of salients, a plurality of side boards which includes a plurality of salients and recess holes and a plurality of top boards which have a plurality of recess holes. A three-dimensional shape is created with the salients of the base board sequentially going through the recess holes of the side boards and the recess holes of the top boards, and also the salients of the side boards sequentially going through the recess holes of the top boards. By this invention, it provides a scarfing type scratching pad that can let the cats play, rest, sleep and keep their claws honed and this pad also have functions of collecting cats' hair and scratching confetti.
US10165753B1
A pet water fountain comprises a bucket, a pump, a cover body, a filter, a water platform and a flower nozzle, wherein the cover body is covered on the bucket, the filter is contained in a first recess formed in the center of the cover body, and a first hollow pipe extends from the bottom of the first recess into the bucket; the water platform has a second hollow pipe extending downwards to go through the first hollow pipe to connect a pump outlet of the pump, and has an inner flange higher than an outer flange, and further has an outer sidewall extending downwards to being supported on a first step surrounding the top of the first recess; the flower nozzle has a plurality of spouts and a third hollow pipe extends downwards from the center of the flower nozzle to be inserted into the second hollow pipe.
US10165734B1
A growing system (e.g., greenhouse) is equipped with a mixing box that features a pair of PLC-controlled cooling coils and a heating coil in series. PLC regulated inputs include air and CO2-containing exhaust. The cooling coils in series facilitate condensation to maintain relative humidity in an acceptable range. At least two stages of cooling are necessary to achieve sufficient condensation and temperature reduction. Condensate is collected for reuse. The heating coil heats cooled CO2-enriched air to an acceptable temperature for plant health. The output is a temperate low relative humidity CO2-enriched stream optimal for plant health.
US10165732B2
A system, device and method for delivering CO2 or other gases to plants in fields, orchards, vineyards and the like. A stake with a windbreak structure and gaseous emitters on the upwind side creates a leeward wind eddy surrounding a plant, such as an orchards sapling. This establishes and maintains a gaseous microclimate beneficial to the plant. The device delivers CO2 gas to a plant in an agricultural field, orchard, grove, orchard of the like. The device includes an elongated base adapted to be adjustably placed on the ground a predetermined distance from the plant, upwind of the plant. A wind foil is adjustably connected to the base along its elongated length. The wind foil has a curvilinear geometry with a first face having a generally convex configuration, and a second face having a generally concave configuration. An emitter assembly is disposed on the second face of the wind foil. A gas supply conduit is communicatively connected to the emitter and adapted to be connected to a gas supply. A system including multiple devices and a method of making and using the device and system are also disclosed.
US10165730B2
A method and system for operating an agricultural baler, that includes measuring at least one physical input parameter associated with a compression profile of crop material in a bale chamber of the baler; analyzing the compression profile of the crop material, dependent upon the measured at least one physical input parameter; and adjusting at least one physical output parameter of the baler which affects the compression profile of the crop material in the bale chamber.
US10165725B2
An agricultural machine has a communication component configured to receive a first data set and a second data set. The first and second data sets comprise indications of a soil parameter of a worksite. The first data set is captured at an earlier time than the second data set. The agricultural machine also has a controller configured to receive the first and second data sets and, based on the first and second data sets, generate a map of the worksite. The agricultural machine also has a controllable subsystem configured to receive a control signal from the controller. The control signal is generated based on both a position of the agricultural machine within the worksite and the generated map. The control signal is configured to control operator of the controllable subsystem.
US10165724B2
A potato seed planting apparatus has: a frame configured to be advanced over a subjacent field into which potato seed is planted; at least one container on the frame for a supply of potato seed; and a plurality of laterally spaced planting units on the frame. Each of the planting units is configured to cause potato seed from the at least one container to be discharged to the subjacent field at controlled time intervals as the potato seed planting apparatus is advanced in a travel path. First and second of the planting units are configured so that the discharge time intervals for potato seeds from the first planting unit are different than the discharge time intervals for potato seeds from the second planting unit with the potato seed planting apparatus advanced at a first speed in the travel path.
US10165722B2
Embodiments include a ground scout having an ability to identify the location of rows of crops and the end of the rows so that it can navigate, but in other embodiments, the ground scout can also rely more on an aerial drone to navigate, to act as a communication relay system, and so on. A buddy system including a ground scout and an air scout (e.g. drone) communicate their findings with each other.
US10172269B2
A chuck device includes a plurality of types of chuck pawls clamping a component, a chuck pawl switching mechanism switching the chuck pawls in use among the plurality of types of chuck pawls in accordance with the type of the component to be clamped, and a driving mechanism allowing the chuck pawl switched by the chuck pawl switching mechanism to be put into a clamping operation. The chuck pawl switching mechanism is configured to use a cylindrical cam, the plurality of types of chuck pawls are placed at predetermined intervals around the cylindrical cam, a cam follower disposed in each of the chuck pawls is fitted into a cam groove in an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical cam, and the respective chuck pawls are moved upward and downward independently of each other by the cylindrical cam being rotated.
US10172265B2
A shielding assembly is disclosed, the assembly including at least a board level shield and a heat sink. The assembly may include a board level shield that includes both a lid and a fence, and may also include a thermal interface material, where the assembly may be mounted on a printed circuit board to provide both EMI shielding and thermal management of heat-generating electronic components or heat sources on the circuit board. The heat sink includes at least one pin, and the shield includes at least one complementary perforation relative to the pin, such that an assembled device of the disclosure provides both EMI shielding and thermal management while permitting the transfer of thermal energy via the heat sink pin through the board level shield perforation.
US10172264B2
A housing includes a first member that has a first conductor, a second member that has a second conductor and cooperates with the first member to accommodate a circuit board on which an electronic element is mounted, inside a space surrounded by the first conductor and the second conductor, and a plurality of connecting elements that are arranged at a predetermined arrangement interval y to fix the second member to the first member.
US10172260B2
A method. A cooling fluid flows through a flexible tube into each rack container including a plurality of rack units via a cooling conduit that encapsulates the flexible tube and is secured at a first port on a top surface of each rack container. The rack units are stacked in a direction parallel to a floor. The cooling conduit includes a first segment, a second segment, and a third segment. The first segment is linked to, perpendicular to, and in direct physical contact with, the second segment through a first articulation. The second segment is linked to, parallel to, and in direct physical contact with, the third segment through a second articulation. The first and second articulations are configured to rotate horizontally in a plane parallel to the floor to enable the flexible tube to maintain smooth contact with the top surface of each rack container.
US10172252B1
An information handling includes a plunger that secures a server planar board within the information handling system. The plunger includes a nut, a body, a rod, and a cap. The nut tightens toward the body and holds the server planar board between the nut and the body. The rod securely holds the server planar board within the information handling system in response to the plunger being in a locked position, and enables the server planar board to be removed from within the information handling system in response to the plunger being in an unlocked position. The cap includes a handle to provide a surface for a force to be exerted to cause the plunger to move from the locked position to the unlocked position.
US10172248B1
The description relates to devices, such as computing devices having displays that can be rotated through a range of travel. The device can counter-balance the display to create a near weightless feel for the user when repositioning the display.
US10172231B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for reducing crossover coupling of two or more RF signals are described. In one case, a crossover structure is described where RF signals are routed through coplanar waveguides having a specific characteristic impedance and crossing at a central point of the crossover structure by way of a bridge. A ground shield having a geometry adapted to reduce the crossover coupling while minimally affecting capacitive coupling between the RF signals and the ground shield is introduced in-between a region comprising the central point. Further described is a multi-port rotary RF switch fitted with the crossover structure which allows substantially balanced electrical performance across all the operational states of the rotary RF switch at RF signal frequencies up to 40 GHz and beyond.
US10172230B1
A surface mount technology (SMT) device can include an SMT interface on a given side of the SMT device. The SMT interface can include an interface ground plane formed of conductive material. The SMT interface can also include a plurality of signal pads formed of the conductive material. Each signal pad can be encircled by one of a plurality of isolation regions formed from a non-conductive region of the SMT interface. The SMT device is configured for mounting on a printed wiring board (PWB) that includes a board interface having substantially the same shape at the SMT interface.
US10172229B2
Provided are interconnect circuits for combined electrical and thermal energy transfer to devices connected to these circuits. Also provided are methods of fabricating such interconnect circuits. An interconnect circuit may include an electro-thermal conductor and at least one insulator providing support to different portions of the conductor with respect to each other. The insulator may include one or more openings for electrical connections and/or heat exchange with the electro-thermal conductor. The portions of the conductor may be electrically isolated from each other in the final circuit. Initially, these portions may be formed from the same conductive sheet, such as a metal foil having a thickness of at least about 50 micrometers. This thickness ensures sufficient thermal transfer in addition to providing excellent electrical conductance. In some embodiments, the conductor may include a surface coating to protect its base material from oxidation, enhancing electrical connections, and/or other purposes.
US10172221B2
According to the present disclosure, lighting sources having operating parameter(s), which is controllable in lighting sequence(s) as a function of a time code data set coupled with the sequence, are controlled as a function of a videogame played on display(s): by providing a repository of operating data files for the sources coupled with the lighting sources with each data file including time code data set(s) for lighting sequence(s) for one of the lighting sources, by retrieving in the data repository operating data file(s) coupled with a source selected among the lighting sources, and by detecting from the display a videogame signal indicative of the development of a videogame, and by operating the selected lighting source by controlling the operating parameter(s) as a function of the operating data included in the operating data file retrieved and as a function of the videogame signal detected.
US10172218B2
The present disclosure relates to a lighting fixture that includes a driver module and at least one other module that provides a lighting fixture function, such as a sensor function, lighting network communication function, gateway function, and the like. The driver module communicates with the other modules in a master/slave scheme over a communication bus. The driver module is configured as a slave communication device, and the other modules are configured as master communication devices. As such, the other modules may initiate communications with the driver to send information to or retrieve information from the driver module.
US10172217B2
A method for configuring an electronic element (e.g., a ballast) in a lighting system prior to powering up the lighting system uses a wireless communication interface in the electronic element based on near field communication or radio frequency identification communication. An external configuring device, such as a programmed smartphone or tablet, is equipped with a wireless communication module and transmits configuration data to the wireless communication interface which in turn writes the data to memory in the electronic element without power being supplied to the electronic element. The control for the electronic element reads the configuration when it is powered up.
US10172216B2
A control device for controlling a plurality of lighting devices via a network is disclosed. The control device 100 comprises a receiver (102) for receiving a signal based on a user input related to adjusting a control parameter of the plurality of lighting devices (114, 116). The control device further comprises a processor (104) for generating, based on the received signal, on a predetermined network capacity and on the number of user input commands received within a predetermined time period, one of: a plurality of messages of a first type (108) and a single message of a second type (110). The control device further comprises a transmitter (106) for transmitting the generated plurality of messages of a first type (108) or the single message of a second type (110) via the network (112), thereby adjusting the control parameter of the plurality of lighting devices (114, 116). The control device is able to utilize the network optimally by generating messages based on their impact on the network. This may improve the control of the plurality of lighting devices and provide an optimized user experience.
US10172214B2
The (Power-over-Ethernet) power distribution system comprises a lighting unit (40-80) for producing light. The power distribution system further comprises at least two (Power-over-Ethernet) switch units (20, 30) each having a plurality of ports (25, 35). The at least one lighting unit (40-80) is coupled to at least a first port of the first switch unit and a second port of the second switch unit. The switch units further each comprise a power supply unit (21, 31) for supplying power for the respective plurality of ports (25) and the at least one lighting unit (40-80). The power distribution system furthermore comprises at least one load management unit (100) for controlling the power supplied by the respective power supplies of the switch units to the at least one lighting unit (40-80) such that the power efficiency of the distribution system is optimized.
US10172209B2
Enhancements to ornamental or holiday lighting are disclosed including remote control ornamental illumination with color pallet control whereby a user can vary the color/intensity/appearance of an individual bulb or entire light string by selecting the electronic address of the bulb and selecting its attribute. Further disclosures include: motion responsive lights which respond to sensed movement, gesture controlled lights, adjustable white color/white led sets, connectable multi-function lights, controller to sequence lights to music or other input source, rotating projection led light/tree top/table top unit, and remote controlled sequencing icicle lights and ornament lighting system.
US10172205B2
A dimming module includes a triggering circuit, a control signal generating circuit, a voltage converting circuit, and a linear driving circuit. The triggering circuit is configured to control a trigger delay angle of an AC input voltage according to a dimming command, in order to output a first voltage signal correspondingly. The control signal generating circuit is configured to output a control voltage according to the first voltage signal. The voltage converting circuit is configured to output a DC operating voltage having an operating level according to the first voltage signal, and output the DC operating voltage to a lighting module, in which the lighting module includes a light-emitting diode. The linear driving circuit is configured to drive the lighting module according to the control voltage.
US10172199B1
The present light-actuated wide voltage range LED lamp driver circuit includes a rectifier module, two LED modules, a detection module, a control module, a light actuated module, an actuator and a main relay. The output terminals of the rectifier module are connected to the detection module and the control module respectively, and the detection module and the two LED modules are respectively connected to the control module. The detection module includes a transistor Q1 and a transistor Q2. In the low voltage range, both of the transistor Q1 and the transistor Q2 are turned off, making the two LED lamp modules connected in parallel; while In the high voltage range, both of the transistor Q1 and the transistor Q2 are turned on, making the two LED lamp modules connected in series.
US10172198B2
A lighting system includes an electronic converter, a lighting module and a switching stage. The electronic converter includes a transformer, a rectifier circuit and an output filter circuit. A capacitance is connected between the primary winding and the secondary winding. The lighting module includes a chain of LEDs and a current regulator, wherein the chain of LEDs is mounted onto a substrate of a metallic material, so that a parasitic capacitance is present between the lighting module and the substrate of a metallic material.The switching stage includes a field-effect transistor interposed in the negative line which connects the lighting module to the electronic converter, and a control unit configured to drive the gate terminal of the transistor as a function of a dimming signal.The switching stage includes a diode connected to negative output terminal of the switching stage and to positive output terminal of the switching stage.
US10172183B2
A core network node (e.g., Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)), a radio access network node (e.g., Base Station Subsystem), and various methods are described herein for realizing time coordinated cells and maintaining a reliability of paging a wireless device (e.g., Machine Type Communications (MTC) device, mobile station).
US10172178B2
Proposed is a method for receiving a Wi-Fi service by a wireless LAN station supporting an application service platform (ASP). Specifically, the Wi-Fi service can be received through at least two connection techniques, for example, a Wi-Fi direct connection of Wi-Fi infrastructure connection may be used. The wireless LAN station having an ASP may detect information on each of the connection techniques and may be provided with the Wi-Fi service using one of the connection techniques. In addition, when a change in a communication environment or the like occurs, the connection technique may be switched and, in this case, signaling for switching the connection technique may be used.
US10172177B2
Methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses are described for wireless communications in which a wireless device may identify a small cell (e.g., SCell) and establish an independent connection with the small cell based at least in part on selection parameters received from a macro cell (e.g., PCell). The selection parameters may include power and/or quality parameters, as wells as a set of candidate cells from which to make the selection. The macro and small cells may be in communication with each other but need not be associated with the same base station (i.e., are not collocated). Once the small cell connection is established, the device may communicate with both cells concurrently. Available uplink data and/or downlink data may trigger the need for the device to connect with the small cell. For example, the small cell connection may be used to communicate uplink/downlink data associated with certain quality-of-service (QoS) and/or bearer identifier.
US10172166B2
A method and apparatus for handling evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) radio access bearer (E-RAB) switch failure for dual connectivity in a wireless communication system is provided. A master evolved NodeB (MeNB) in dual connectivity receives an E-RAB modification confirm message including a list of E-RABs failed to be modified from a mobility management entity (MME). The MeNB may keep old general packet ratio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnels for the failed E-RABs, and trigger a secondary eNB (SeNB) release procedure or a SeNB modification procedure for releasing the failed E-RABs. Alternatively, the MeNB may trigger an E-RAB release procedure for releasing the failed E-RABs.
US10172154B2
Provided are a method and device for sending control information and receiving control information. The method for sending control information comprises repeatedly sending control information within a scheduling period of the control information M times, wherein the scheduling period is the length of N radio frames, N and M are positive integers greater than 1, and N is greater than or equal to M. The disclosure solves the technical problem in the related art that control information cannot be correctly received in a low-coverage environment and thus a terminal cannot normally access a network, achieving the technical effect of accurately receiving the control information so as to ensure that the network can be accessed normally.
US10172152B2
An embodiment according to the present invention, with respect to a method for a device-to-device (D2D) UE for transceiving a signal, comprises the steps of: receiving a D2D communication resource configuration; and transmitting a D2D communication signal on the basis of the D2D communication resource configuration, wherein if the UE transmits a D2D communication signal by means of a resource indicated by a base station, then the D2D communication signal is transmitted in a first timing determined from a value indicating a timing offset between uplink and downlink radio frames (NTA), and if the UE selects a resource which will transmit the D2D communication signal, then the D2D communication signal is transmitted in a second timing determined without regard to the value indicating the timing offset between the uplink and downlink radio frames (NTA).
US10172150B2
A wireless device, such as a user equipment device (UE), and a base station are disclosed, which may communicate with more efficient use of dynamic transmit time interval durations to enable a faster and more efficient ramp up of TCP communications to a higher or maximum throughput. The UE may communicate uplink or downlink communications with the base station according to a first shorter TTI duration for a first period of time. After the first period of time, the UE may communicate uplink or downlink communications to the base station according to a second longer TTI duration. For the case of uplink communications, the UE may be configured to increase a congestion window size after each acknowledgement of an uplink communication received by the base station during the first period of time. For the case of downlink communications, the base station may be configured to increase a congestion window size after each acknowledgement of a downlink communication received by the UE during the first period of time.
US10172145B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for phone-as-a-key localization based on object detection. An example disclosed vehicle includes sensors, wireless nodes, and a phone key unit. The example sensors detect objects around the vehicle. The example wireless nodes receive RSSI values from a mobile device. The example phone key unit determines a quantity of the objects around the vehicle. The example phone key unit also determines a first RSSI threshold based on the quantity. Additionally, in response to an average of a portion of the RSSI values satisfying the first RSSI threshold, the phone key unit primes a door of the vehicle.
US10172134B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a control signal (for example, PDCCH signal) in an asymmetric multicarrier environment. The method for transmitting a control signal for an asymmetric multicarrier in a wireless connection system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: determining the size of a carrier indicator field (CIF) indicating a downlink component carrier (DL CC) by which downlink data is transmitted, on the basis of a maximum value of the number of DL CCs and of the number of uplink component carriers (UL CCs) being managed in a base station; transmitting the CIF on a 1st DL CC to a terminal through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and transmitting downlink data on a 2nd DL CC indicated by the CIF to the terminal through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).
US10172133B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for managing access of mobile stations to a plurality of wireless carriers. For example, in one embodiment, a central system can provide configuration files to mobile stations. The mobile stations can use the configuration files to access a plurality of different wireless carriers, with the different wireless carriers potentially implementing distinct technologies and communication standards and protocols.
US10172130B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device configured for carrier aggregation may communicate using transport blocks (TBs) mapped according to a wideband configuration that includes resources of multiple component carriers (CCs) within a single, low latency transmission time interval (TTI)—e.g., a TTI that has a shorter duration relative to other TTIs used in the same system. The number of CCs, and thus bandwidth, available for mapping each TB may change dynamically based on the configuration of the CCs. For a CC configured with a control region during a given low latency TTI, a TB sent during that low latency TTI may not be mapped to resources of that CC. In other cases, portions of a CC configured with a control region may be used for wideband configurations. Wideband low latency communications may be used on the uplink or downlink communications, or both.
US10172118B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure provide for methods, apparatus, and computer software for transmitting a common uplink burst in time division duplex (TDD) carriers. The common uplink burst includes a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmitted separate from (e.g., decoupled from) a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS). At least one symbol in the common uplink burst includes a control region for carrying control information and a data region for carrying data information. The SRS may be precoded separately from precoding of the control and data regions, so that the control and/or data information may be transmitted utilizing multiple input multiple output (MIMO).
US10172102B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a power headroom reporting in the wireless communication system, the method comprising: generating a PHR MAC CE (Power Headroom Reporting MAC Control Element) to be transmitted to the first BS; and transmitting a power headroom reporting through the PHR MAC CE to the first BS, wherein the PHR MAC CE includes only first PH (Power Headroom) information for activated cells served by the first BS such that second PH information for activated cells served by the second BS is not included.
US10172101B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a first network node for enabling at least one second network node to perform a transmission in a wireless communications network. The first network node and the at least one second network node performs transmissions using contention-based transmission resources of the same frequency. The first network node determines an indication of a maximum transmit power for the transmission by the at least one second network node to be used by the at least one second network node when the contention-based transmission resources of the same frequency is available for transmissions by the first network node in the wireless communications network. Then, the network node transmits the determined indication of a maximum transmit power to the at least one second network node. Embodiments of the first network node are also described.
US10172097B1
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage media for scheduling physical resource blocks are provided. Base stations, of a communication radio access network, may be configured with schedulers that assign one or more physical resource blocks to a communication channel of a wireless device based on distance or power. The physical resource blocks allow the wireless device to communicate with the base station. Some resource blocks may be monitored across multiple sites to determine whether an aggregate power for the resource blocks exceeds a threshold. When the aggregate power threshold is surpassed, the schedulers may limit or prevent use of the identified resource blocks.
US10172092B1
Example systems and methods are provided for maintaining a system clock during a sleep mode of a mobile communication device. An example system may include a high frequency clock circuit configured to generate a system clock, and a low frequency clock circuit configured to generate a sleep clock, where the sleep clock has a lower frequency than the system clock. The example system may further include a sleep system configured to deactivate the system clock in response to the mobile communication device entering sleep mode. The sleep system may include a sleep counter configured to use the sleep clock to maintain a sleep count for the deactivated system clock during the sleep mode, and a calibration unit configured to activate a calibration clock at periodic intervals during the sleep mode and utilize the calibration clock to calibrate a frequency of the sleep clock.
US10172086B2
A device may include a wireless communication interface configured to communicate with a sensor reading device, receive a wake up command from the sensor reading device, and receive reflected energy from a sensor. The device may also include one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer readable media including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, perform or control performance of operations. The operations may include performing a wake up operation based on the wake up command from the sensor reading device, and recording the reflected energy from the sensor. The operations may further include generating a report regarding the reflected energy, and causing the wireless communication interface to transmit the report to the sensor reading device.
US10172084B2
There is provided provision of timing information of a first timing information source using timing information of a second timing information source to a wireless device. A network node determines that second timing information from the second timing information source is available and that timing information from the first timing information source is derivable from the second timing information. The network node instructs the wireless device to use the second timing information as a source for deriving first timing information of the first timing information source.
US10172081B2
An information processing system transmits, via a first network, connection information for a second network that is different from the first network to a plurality of terminal apparatuses; carries out communications with the terminal apparatuses via the second network based on the transmitted connection information; stores respective items of terminal identification information for the terminal apparatuses, with which the communications are carried out via the second network; determines whether the terminal apparatuses that are identified by the stored items of terminal identification information can carry out communications via the second network; and, when determining that the terminal apparatuses cannot carry out communications via the second network, carries out such control as to prevent the second network from being used to carry out communications.
US10172068B2
One embodiment provides a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The MANET includes a plurality of mobile nodes and a centralized controller node. The controller node includes a receiving mechanism configured to receive, from a source mobile node, a request for a service, with the request including an identifier associated with the requested service; an identification mechanism configured to identify a destination mobile node that provides the service associated with the identifier; a path-computation mechanism configured to compute a path between the source mobile node and the destination mobile node using a network graph for the mobile nodes; and a path-sending mechanism configured to send the computed path to at least the destination mobile node, which facilitates establishing a route between the source mobile node and the destination mobile node.
US10172063B1
A wireless network backhaul node serves eNodeBs. The backhaul node exchanges user data and network signaling between the eNodeBs and a Long Term Evolution (LTE) core. The backhaul node receives loading information from the eNodeBs and determines overloaded eNodeBs and underloaded eNodeBs. The backhaul node selects handover thresholds for the eNodeBs to inhibit handovers from the underloaded eNodeBs to the overloaded eNodeBs and to encourage handovers from the overloaded eNodeBs to the underloaded eNodeBs. The backhaul node transfers the selected handover thresholds to the eNodeBs. The backhaul node also performs X2 and/or S1 handover assistance for the eNodeBs.
US10172038B2
A method for communication, includes communicating over the air with a first user equipment (UE) in a frequency domain duplexing (FDD) mode, which defines a downlink channel comprising a first set of time-frequency resources in a first frequency range and an uplink channel comprising a second set of time-frequency resources in a second frequency range, which is disjoint from the first frequency range. An excess capacity is identified in the uplink channel, and at a least a portion of the excess capacity is allocated for downlink communication by assigning a subset of the time-frequency resources in the second frequency range to the downlink communication. The method includes communicating over the air with at least one second UE by transmitting downlink information using concurrently a given subset of the first set of time-frequency resources in the first frequency range and the assigned subset of the time-frequency resources in the second frequency range.
US10172037B2
Method for assisting load-balancing of subscriber sessions in a distributed mobile gateway (e.g. PGW, SGW, ePDG, or TWAG) comprising a plurality of distributed gateway instances (DGIs) is disclosed. Method includes receiving an advertisement of GTP fully qualified tunnel endpoints identifications (F-TEIDs) allocated to a first plurality of subscriber sessions, the sessions assigned to a first DGI of the DGIs. The advertisement indicates the first DGI as a recipient for data provided to the gateway and related to any of the first plurality of sessions. Method further includes storing an association between the GTP F-TEIDs of the advertisement and the first DGI, receiving a packet comprising data related to a subscriber session of the first plurality of sessions, identifying a F-TEID for the data of the received packet, identifying from stored association, that the F-TEID is associated with the first DGI, and forwarding data of the packet to the first DGI.
US10172036B2
There is provided user equipment for communicating with a base station in a mobile communication system including the base station and the user equipment, the user equipment including a PDCP layer processor provided with a storage unit that receives and stores a plurality of acknowledgement signals to be transmitted to the base station; and an RLC layer processor that transmits, to the PDCP layer processor, a signal transmission grant signal that indicates that transmission of an uplink signal is allowed, wherein, upon receiving the signal transmission grant signal, the PDCP layer processor transmits, to the RLC layer processor, an acknowledgement signal that is received most recently among the plurality of acknowledgement signals.
US10172035B2
A storage and playback device is capable of being detachably coupled to an output device, such as speakers of an automobile. The device includes a wireless transceiver to receive compressed digital content automatically from a computer system via a wireless local area network based on user defined preferences input into the computer system. The wireless transceiver is communicably coupled to the wireless local area network when the wireless transceiver is a predetermined distance from a wireless local area network access point. The device also includes a decoder and converter to decompress and convert the digital content. The decompressed and converted digital content is sent to be played on the output device.
US10172032B2
A system and method are disclosed for admission control of mobile conversational user sessions by a satellite network is described. When a request to admit a new session over a satellite network is received, the radio access bearer setup request is transmitted to a remote terminal of the satellite network. The system determines if a requested guaranteed bit rate for the new session is available from the remote terminal. If the requested guaranteed bit rate is available, the terminal forwards the request to a gateway of the satellite network. The new session is subsequently admitted over the satellite network and allocated the requested guaranteed bit rate.
US10172027B2
A communication device for reporting a wireless local area network (WLAN) connection status in a wireless communication system comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage device. The instructions comprise establishing a cellular connection to a base station (BS) of a cellular network via a cell of the BS; receiving a first Cellular-WLAN Radio Level Integration with Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) Tunnel (CWIP) configuration configuring a first IP address, a first Internet Key Exchange (IKE) identity and a first counter value for establishing a first IPsec tunnel over a WLAN, on the cellular connection from the BS; and transmitting a first WLANConnectionStatusReport message on the cellular connection to the BS, when the communication device has a WLAN connection with the WLAN, wherein the first WLANConnectionStatusReport message indicates “successfulAssociation”.
US10172024B2
A movable radio base station, M-RBS, configured to provide to a plurality of user equipments wireless access to a telecommunications network is changed from a first mode to a second mode that is different from the first mode. Each of the first mode and the second mode specifies a set of parameter values for operating parameters of the M-RBS.
US10172013B2
A base station control method for a wireless communication system, a base station control apparatus, a wireless communication system and an electronic device. The wireless communication system includes a small cell. The base station control apparatus includes an upper limit determination unit and a frequency band control unit; wherein the upper limit determination unit is configured to determine the upper limit of the estimated number of small cells using unlicensed frequency bands in a target region according to available unlicensed frequency band resources and estimated service volume in the target region; and the frequency band control unit is configured to control one or more small cells to use or stop using the unlicensed frequency bands according to the upper limit of the estimated number, so that the number of small cells operating at the unlicensed frequency bands is not greater than the upper limit of the estimated number.
US10172009B1
In Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications, the broadcast data towards the vehicles must use the network resources efficiently while the unicast data must arrive reliably with ultra-low-latency. Furthermore, the connections must remain network-attached while vehicles move rapidly. A system/method are described through which a vehicle with a special communications module and internal computer can connect to one or more 5G vehicular network slices (VNS) with multiple Radio Access Technologies (multi-RAT) in order to efficiently communicate with local or remote transportation information databases and applications, road safety and emergency infrastructures. The infrastructure of this disclosure uses the network-slicing feature of a 5G mobile network to carve out a vehicular data and control planes specialized to offer the vehicular service only. The vehicular network slice further comprises (i) Road Side Access Unit (RSAU), (ii) Vehicle Id registrar (VIR), (iii) Vehicular Slice Manager (VSM), and (iv) distributed Virtual Transportation Network Functions (VTNF).
US10172000B2
Pre Shared Keys (“PSK”) for application and data session security are generated using application authentication secret values stored in a SIM device/card. The SIM internally uses the secret values as inputs to a security algorithm engine, but the secret values are not accessible outside of the SIM. The application authentication secret values cannot be used to authenticate the SIM, or a device that includes the SIM, to a communication network. Rather, symmetric keys and keying material are generated for use by applications outside of the standard and conventional wireless networking uses of a SIM device. Updated PSKs are generated at different network endpoints such that the PSKs are generated individually and separately at the endpoints; the ‘preshared’ keys are not actually shared. Thus, a client endpoint and a server endpoint, or an endpoint associated with the server, independently generate the same PSK without the PSK being transmitted between the endpoints.
US10171992B1
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a mobile service provider, a mobile number portability request from a mobile device connected to a current mobile service provider; fetching mobile device porting data from a blockchain ledger accessible by the mobile service provider and by the current mobile service provider; verifying fetched mobile device porting data; in response to a successful verification, sending a request to the blockchain ledger to update current mobile service provider data; and receiving a notification from the blockchain indicating that a connection between the current mobile service provider and the mobile device is disconnected; porting a mobile device number; and updating the mobile device porting data in the blockchain ledger.
US10171989B2
A wireless communication device (16A) is configured to receive user data from a radio network node (18) in a wireless communication system (10) that includes a data channel (26) over which user data is transmitted and a control channel (24) over which control data is transmitted. The device (16A) receives over the control channel (24) a hierarchically-modulated symbol (28) which conveys control data on a control-data modulation layer (30A) and conveys user data on a user-data modulation layer (30B). The control-data modulation layer (30A) is recoverable via demodulation at a lower order, and the user-data modulation layer (30B) is recoverable via demodulation at a higher order. The lower order is lower than the higher order and is generally predefined independent of conditions on the control channel (24). The device (16A) recovers the user data received over the control channel (24) by demodulating at least the user-data modulation layer (30B) at the higher order.
US10171983B1
A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for receiving information about an event from at least one mobile device, the information comprising location information and event type information and identifying the event based on the information, the event being identified by associating the event type information with a specific event and associating the location information with a particular location associated with the specific event.
US10171982B2
Various systems and methods for providing an emergency evacuation service are described herein. An apparatus to provide an emergency evacuation service comprises an emergency event detection module to detect the existence of an emergency event at a venue; a transceiver to request and receive evacuation instructions from an emergency evacuation system, in response to detecting the existence of the emergency event; and a controller to process the evacuation instructions and display, to a user of the apparatus, information related to the evacuation instructions.
US10171971B2
Electrical systems and related methods are disclosed. An electrical system includes a wearable mobile electronic device including cellular voice equipment configured to enable a user to participate in cellular voice calls, cellular data equipment configured to enable the wearable mobile electronic device to communicate through a cellular data network, one or more biometric sensors, and at least one audio speaker. A method includes selecting audio media based, at least in part on biometric information, and providing, with a remote server, data corresponding to the selected audio media to the wearable mobile electronic device through a cellular data network. An electrical system includes a wearable mobile electronic device including control circuitry configured to interact with a remote server to together provide smart mobile electronic device features to a user through the wearable mobile electronic device, wherein the control circuitry is alone insufficient to provide the smart mobile electronic device features.
US10171970B2
The present document discloses a resource attribute notification method, including: an Application Entity, AE, transmitting a first resource updating request to a local Common Service Entity, CSE; the local CSE transmitting a second resource updating request to a remote CSE when determining that a valid notification resource attribute exists in the first resource updating request; and the remote CSE creating a corresponding resource attribute according to the received second resource updating request. The present document further discloses a resource attribute notification system, a local CSE, a remote CSE and a storage medium.
US10171966B1
A method and system for deploying a calibrated positioning map of an area. The method, executed in a processor of a server computing device, comprises generating, using the processor, a distribution of positioning data points based at least in part on a first set of fingerprint data, the positioning data points calibrated in accordance with respective positions within the area, receiving, at the memory, a second set of fingerprint data, processing, using the processor, the second set of fingerprint data and the positioning data points to generate an updated distribution of positioning data points, and when the updated distribution exceeds a threshold density of positioning data points, deploying the updated distribution as the positioning map of the area.
US10171961B1
System and method for authorizing transactions, such as payments or money transfers. A source entity may initiate a transaction with a target entity via a first communications channel. In initiating the transaction, the source entity may indicate that the transaction is to be performed through a transaction authorization service. The target entity may send a transaction initiation message to the transaction authorization service. In response to receiving the transaction initiation message, the service may authorize the transaction with the source entity via a second communications channel. To authorize the transaction, the source entity may provide a PIN number or other identifier via the second communications channel. After receiving and validating the response from the source entity, the transaction authorization service may inform the target entity that the transaction is authorized. The target entity may then complete the transaction with the transaction authorization service and the source entity.
US10171960B2
A broadcast multicast service center (BM-SC), chipset therefor, and a user terminal are for a mobile communication system including a general cell that supports broadcast delivery of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) data and a specific cell that does not support broadcast delivery of MBMS data. The BM-SC includes a processor and memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to either transmit or receive first information to mobile terminal via the specific cell, where the first information is originally transmitted in a transmission path that does not include the general cell, and the transmission path is from the BM-SC to the user terminal. The first information includes information indicating a geographical area in which the MBMS data is delivered, information indicating a frequency at which the MBMS data is delivered, and information indicating an identifier of service by which the MBMS data is provided.
US10171953B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to vehicle event notification via cell broadcast. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system can receive an event message in response to an event. The system can extract information associated with the event from the event message. The system can determine an area of relevance for the event. The system can create an event notification message. The event notification message can be formatted as a cell broadcast message to be broadcast to a cell serving at least a portion of the area of relevance.
US10171949B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device and an operating method thereof. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store at least one expected movement path, and a processor configured to confirm a first location of a user, predict a second location on a basis of the first location and a pre-stored at least one expected movement path, and provide an information service providing signal to at least one external device present in the second location. The method includes confirming a first location of a user, predicting a second location on a basis of the first location and a pre-stored at least one expected movement path, and providing an information service providing signal to at least one external device present in the second location.
US10171948B2
An electronic device includes an application processor and a sensor hub, where the application processor is arranged for executing applications running on a system of the electronic device, and the sensor hub is arranged for obtaining and processing sensed data from a plurality of sensors within the electronic device. In addition, the application processor further downloads location data from a remote device via a network module, and at least a portion of the downloaded location data is further stored in a storage unit of the sensor hub to be reused for positioning.
US10171947B2
A drive safety application (app) that is controls other mobile app(s) and/or functionality of a communication device is centrally regulated via a network device. A manual override instruction can be provided to the network device by an authorized subscriber (e.g., via an online portal) and accordingly, the network device can instruct the communication device to disable the drive safety app. Profiling data is collected from various sources, such as, but not limited to, device sensors, location calculators, a vehicle's onboard diagnostic system (e.g., OBD2) sensors (e.g., via wireless link), scanned access points, etc. The profiling data can be utilized to calibrate device sensors of the communication device and to determine a location and/or context of the user. Further, a set of the mobile apps can be disabled/enabled based on an analysis of the location and/or context.
US10171941B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an existing place information acquisition part and a my-spot information registration part. The existing place information acquisition part is configured to acquire existing place information which specifies an existing place. The my-spot information registration part is configured to acquire spot information related to a spot, which spot information is provided from a plurality of information provider devices, based on the existing place information; and to register spot information specified by a user as my-spot information, out of the acquired spot information.
US10171931B2
An embodiment of the present specification provides a method for receiving a downlink control channel by a machine type communication (MTC) device. The method comprises: a step of receiving, by the downlink control channel, setting information about the maximum number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) which can be transmitted by a base station; a step of receiving, by the MTC device, setting information about a set of control channel monitoring PRBs which should monitor the downlink control channel; and a step of monitoring the downlink control channel on the PRBs according to the setting information about the set of control channel monitoring PRBs, wherein if the number of sets of control channel monitoring PRBs exceeds the maximum number of PRBs, the downlink control channel may be monitored only on the sets of PRBs equal to or less than the maximum number of PRBs.
US10171904B2
A wireless noise-cancelling earplug includes a housing within which at least an active noise cancellation (ANC) circuit for producing anti-noise, a speaker for emitting the anti-noise as a sound wave, and a battery for powering at least the ANC circuit. The earplug further includes an audio cavity for guiding the sound wave from the speaker out of the earplug, at least one microphone for measuring ambient noise and feeding the measured ambient noise to the ANC circuit, and a passive noise reduction unit for blocking ambient noise.
US10171901B2
A sound pickup device includes: a housing; a mount portion via which the housing is mounted on an object; a sound pickup including a microphone; a first output configured to output a sound signal indicating a sound input to the sound pickup; an installer configured to install the sound pickup on the housing; a sensor configured to detect a vibration transmitted to the housing; and a second output configured to output a vibration signal indicating the vibration detected by the sensor.
US10171895B2
A screen having a hydrophobic portion to resist the entry of liquid into an acoustic module and a hydrophilic portion to aid in the removal of liquid from an acoustic chamber is described. The screen is placed in an orifice in the acoustic module between the external environment and the internal acoustic chamber.
US10171892B2
A drain monitor, a system, and a method monitor water level on a roof. The drain monitor includes a base for attaching to the roof, a riser attached to the base and projecting from the roof, a water level sensor attached to the riser for measuring water level on the roof, and a communication system positioned on the riser for transmitting measurement data received from the water level sensor.
US10171891B1
A universal sensor interface enables selective coupling of one or more sensor module units to a wireless node. Each sensor module unit can contain a suite of sensors selected for a particular sensor application at a monitored location. Reconfiguration of the wireless sensor network can occur seamlessly through the plug-and-play connectivity between the sensor module units and the wireless node.
US10171886B2
A channel-based method and system for relaying contents are disclosed. The content relaying method generates a channel on the basis of a user terminal or a specific group adjacent to a display device and can relay, to the display device, a screen for executing the contents displayed on the user terminal when the user terminal accesses the generated channel.
US10171884B2
A user can share Internet assets or content URLs via a second display device with other Internet content service users. Thus, the other users will be able to view the same content on their own internet protocol televisions (IPTV), as first display devices, without the need to search for the content in the content providing service. When the shared content is URLs, the recipient can even preview the content from the URL on the second display device before sending it to the recipient's internet protocol television (IPTV).
US10171883B2
The present disclosure is directed a directional Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) filter. The MoCA filter can include a first port and a second port. Additionally, the MoCA filter can include a bidirectional path and a unidirectional path in parallel between the first port and the second port. Further, the unidirectional path can include an active isolator or a passive isolator.
US10171878B2
Controlling the admission of interactive television iTV applications to an iTV application distribution system is accomplished through the use of iTV application profiles that enumerate sets of allowed functions and behaviors for the iTV applications within the distribution system. In general, the profiles comprise filters that enable various functions within the distribution system, and may be applied to the iTV applications according to any of a number of bases. The distribution system includes an interface or console adapted to permit a system operator to create the application profiles and establish rules for attaching the profiles to the iTV applications, and an application profile engine configured to automatically validate the iTV applications against the profiles according to those rules.
US10171877B1
Embodiments are directed towards providing supplemental content to a viewer based on the viewer's emotion and environment while the viewer is viewing content. Content is provided to a content receiver for presentation to the viewer. While the viewer is viewing the content, an image of the viewer is captured and analyzed to detect the viewer's emotion and environment. Supplemental content is selected based on this detected viewer emotion and environment and presented to the viewer, which allows the supplemental content to be tailored to the emotional state of the viewer. One or more additional images of the viewer are captured while the viewer is viewing the supplemental content and the viewer's emotion while viewing the supplemental content is detected. This subsequent viewer emotion is analyzed to determine if the viewer had an expected response to the supplemental content, which can be used to determine the efficiency of the supplemental content.
US10171861B2
Various arrangements for recording multiple television channels are presented. A plurality of sets of television channels may be identified. An interface may be output for presentation, the interface presenting indications of each of the plurality of sets of television channels and a plurality of input elements associated with the plurality of sets of television channels. User input may be received via one or more of the plurality of input elements indicative of one or more sets of television channels of the plurality of sets of television channels to be recorded. Dates and times at which the one or more sets of television channels are to be recorded may be determined. The one or more sets of television channels may be recorded at the determined dates and the determined times.
US10171844B2
A method of advertising, the method including: 1) segmenting a source video into individual scenes using a clustering-based approach; 2) obtaining relevant information about objects in the video for each individual scene using region-wise convolutional characteristics based detection; 3) searching, in a database, for advertisement objects matching the objects using garment retrieval and a category-based strategy; 4) performing optimization processing of retrieved advertisement objects matching the objects to obtain a candidate advertisement; and 5) optimizing a distance between an advertisement and a target object and an area of overlapping regions between the advertisement and all objects; and 6) distributing the video that contains the candidate advertisement to a plurality of displays and displaying the video that contains the candidate advertisement on the plurality of displays.
US10171843B2
A method includes identifying a plurality of user-interested multimedia files based at on one of a history of a plurality of user multimedia searches, a plurality of user multimedia views, or a history of multimedia sharing with other users. The method creates a catalog of the plurality of user-interested multimedia files, wherein the catalog includes one of more groups of the plurality of multimedia files based on one of a multimedia file length, the history of the plurality of user multimedia searches, the plurality of user multimedia views, or a history of multimedia shares with other users. The method generates a novel multimedia file, where combining one generates the novel multimedia file or more individual multimedia files selected from the catalog of multimedia files.
US10171842B2
A video processing device obtains a data stream comprising a plurality of elementary streams and a High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) timing and Hypothetical Reference Decoder (HRD) descriptor. The HEVC timing and HRD descriptor comprises a target schedule index syntax element indicating an index of a delivery schedule. The video processing device may identify, based on a set of parameters, a syntax element in an array of syntax elements in a video parameter set (VPS). The set of parameters may comprise a parameter having a value equal to a value of the target schedule index syntax element. The video processing device may identify, based on an index specified by the identified syntax element, a particular HRD parameters syntax structure in a plurality of HRD parameters syntax structures as being applicable to a particular elementary stream.
US10171836B2
According to the present invention, an inter-view motion vector of a current coding unit is acquired using parallel processing information, and a motion vector of a current prediction unit in the current coding unit is acquired in parallel using the inter-view motion vector of the current coding unit. The present invention relates to a method and device for processing a video signal, wherein a motion vector prediction value of the current prediction unit is acquired by comparing output order information of a reference picture corresponding to the current prediction unit and output order information of a reference picture corresponding to a corresponding block. According to the present invention, through a parallel processing step, a multi-view point video image can be quickly restored, and the accuracy of the motion vector prediction value can be increased using motion information corresponding to the reference picture of the corresponding block of a different view point from the current prediction unit.
US10171828B2
A method and apparatus for processing picture slices is disclosed. The method determines if the slice of the current picture excludes any predictive coding derived from another picture. If the slice of the current picture is designated to exclude any predictive coding derived from another picture, a flag is set to a first logic state, and if the slice of the current picture is not designated to exclude any predictive coding derived from another picture, the flag is set to a second logic state. Further, at least a portion of predicted weight processing of the slice of the current picture is bypassed according to the logic state of the flag.
US10171825B1
Method and apparatus of compressing a stream of pictures in parallel in a compression device, where the compression device includes at least a first and a second component, are described. A first portion of a first picture of a stream of pictures is processed in the first component of the compression device, while a second portion of a second picture of the stream of pictures is simultaneously processed in the second component of the compression device according to partial compression statistics associated with the second picture, where the partial compression statistics result from the processing of the second picture in the compression device when compression of the second picture is not yet completed.
US10171819B2
A method is provided for encoding a digital video with a video encoder that allows intra prediction of mode selection. The method includes dividing pixels from each intra prediction block into four groups based on phases of the pixels, progressively narrowing down a list of intra prediction modes over a series of stages based on a comparison of a cost value for each intra prediction mode at that stage against a threshold value, tentatively assigning the remaining intra prediction with the lowest cost value after the final stage to the block, calculating a heterogeneity index for each group of contiguous intra prediction blocks based on the tentative intra prediction mode selected for each block after the final stage, and finalizing the tentative intra prediction mode for each block if the group has a heterogeneity index above a predetermined threshold value.
US10171817B2
The present technique relates to an image processing device and a method therefor allowing rate control to be performed more easily. An image encoding device that encodes image data to generate an encoded stream includes: a setting unit configured to set binary parameters used for defining the size, the accumulated data amount, and the like of a hypothetical decoder defined in the encoded stream obtained by encoding the image data in binary data generated by arithmetic coding; an encoding unit configured to encode image data to generate an encoded stream; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the binary parameter set by the setting unit and the encoded stream generated by the encoding unit to an image decoding device that decodes the encoded stream via a predetermined transmission path such as a recording medium or a network. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices, for example.
US10171815B2
A coding manner switching method is provided. The method includes acquiring, by a transmit end, state information of the transmit end and/or a receive end, where the state information comprises central processing unit (CPU) usage, a network bandwidth, and electricity amount information that are of the transmit end and/or the receive end, and information about media content to be sent by the transmit end; determining whether the state information meets a preset condition, and switching a coding manner of the media content if the state information meets the preset condition; and notifying the receive end of the coding manner of the media content of the transmit end, so that the receive end determines a decoding manner of the media content according to the coding manner of the media content.
US10171812B2
A data output apparatus includes: a video decoder that decodes a video stream to generate a first video signal; an external metadata acquisition unit that acquires one or more pieces of metadata corresponding to one or more first conversion modes; an HDR metadata interpreter that interprets one of the one or more pieces of metadata to acquire characteristic data and conversion auxiliary data; a DR converter that supports one or more second conversion modes and performs conversion processing of a luminance range of the first video signal based on the conversion auxiliary data to generate a second video signal; and an HDMI output unit that outputs the second video signal to a display apparatus.
US10171810B2
Video transform coefficient encoding and decoding methods are provided. A two-dimensional array of quantized transform coefficients are obtained for a block of a video frame. The two-dimensional array of quantized transform coefficients are converted to a one-dimensional array of integer samples using a scan pattern, wherein each sample is represented with a level that is an absolute value of the sample and a sign bit if the level is greater than zero. The one-dimensional array of samples is converted to a bit-stream by processing the one-dimensional array of samples in sequential order. A switch is adaptively made between multiple coding modes, where each coding mode is characterized by how consecutive coefficients are jointly coded as a single event. For each mode, a switch may be adaptively made between various variable length code (VLC) tables.
US10171801B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a position information acquiring unit that acquires position information on a position of a viewer; a separation unit that changes a position of an image separator based on the position information; an illumination unit that changes a direction of an optical axis of illumination light based on the position information of the viewer in synchronization with a timing at which the position of the image separator is changed; and a display unit that modulates the illumination light and displays an image including plural parallax images.
US10171798B2
A liquid crystal lenticular lens element that: comprises a first substrate, a second substrate that is parallel thereto, a liquid crystal layer that is provided between the substrates, a first electrode that is formed on the liquid crystal layer side of the first substrate, and a second electrode comprising a plurality of stripe-shaped electrodes that are formed on the liquid crystal layer side of the second substrate; and that is characterized by having a configuration in which a stripe-shaped repeating structure that comprises a repeating unit along the arrangement direction of the second electrode is formed and an asymmetrical refractive index distribution is induced on a plane that bisects each of the repeating units in a direction that is perpendicular to the arrangement direction by applying an electrical signal from the exterior to each of the electrodes.
US10171792B2
A three-dimensional (3D) communication device includes a 3D stereoscopic camera for capturing video and photos in 3D. The device also includes a 3D display, which enables the display of video and photos in 3D that have been captured by a local user's communication device or that have been received from a remote 3D communication device. The 3D communication device may be configured as a handheld standalone device or may alternatively be configured as a modular device, a case, or a dock that can be interfaced with a portable computing device, such as a smart phone, which lacks the capability to capture and view 3D video/photo content. As such, the 3D communication device enables 3D chat or communication between a local user and one or more remote users of the 3D communication device or any other computing device that is configured with suitable communication or chat software.
US10171791B2
Apparatus and methods for conditional display of a stereoscopic image pair on a display device are disclosed. In some aspects, a vertical disparity between two images is corrected. If the corrected vertical disparity is below a threshold, a three dimensional image may be generated based on the correction. In some cases, the corrected vertical disparity may still be significant, for example, above the threshold. In these instances, the disclosed apparatus and methods may display a two dimensional image.
US10171781B2
An image signal in which a predetermined calibration pattern is synthesized in an input image is output. Based on the output image signal, transmittance or reflectance of a liquid crystal panel is controlled, and an image is formed. The image is projected by irradiating the liquid crystal panel with light, and the projected image is captured. A calibration pattern is extracted from the captured image. A correction parameter is generated depending on a condition of the extracted calibration pattern. Image capturing timing is controlled so that an image before or after update of transmittance or reflectance of the liquid crystal panel is not mixed in the image captured by an image capturing sensor based on timing at which the transmittance or the reflectance of the liquid crystal panel is updated by a liquid crystal control unit.
US10171776B2
A subject can be tracking using a plurality of physical video monitoring or image acquisition devices deployed in a delimited area. A map represents the delimited area. Icons representing the physical monitoring devices can be placed and configured on the map representing the delimited area. Some or all of the placed and configured video monitoring devices can be logically linked together to form scenes. The video feed from the physical video monitoring devices may be recorded in stable storage. A layout for display of the video feeds may be selected. Upon playing the video feed, whether live or recorded, a subject can be tracked through the delimited area by selecting one of the video monitoring devices in one of the available scenes.
US10171768B2
Facilities are provided herein for automatically determining and applying curve profiles to flexible displays. An example process includes obtaining content to be presented on a flexible display, automatically determining a curve profile to apply to the flexible display in association with presentation of the content on the flexible display, the automatically determining being based at least in part on an analysis of the content to be presented, and applying the curve profile to the flexible display in association with the presentation of the content on the flexible display.
US10171766B2
An imaging device includes an image sensor that performs imaging operations at intervals of a predetermined sensor cycle, an image data generator that generates image data based on output data from the image sensor, and a display that displays an image represented by the image data within a second display scanning period whose length is shorter than a first display scanning period corresponding to a display cycle that is N times the sensor cycle (N being an integer larger than or equal to “2”) by a margin period.
US10171765B1
A photodiode is adapted to accumulate image charges. A transfer transistor transfers the image charges to the floating diffusion. A source follower transistor is coupled to receive the voltage of the floating diffusion and provide an amplified signal. A row select transistor enables the amplified signal and outputs the amplified signal to a bitline. A first current source generator is coupled between the bitline and a ground. The first current source generator sinks current through a first cascode transistor, a first bias transistor and a second bias transistor. The first cascode transistor is biased by a cascode control voltage. The first bias transistor and the second bias transistor are biased by a bias control voltage.
US10171763B2
An apparatus is disclosed for structural fixed pattern noise reduction in a video stream. A method may include, for each target pixel in a first image frame, defining a first target pixel patch, and defining a first search area comprising the first target pixel patch; for each pixel in the first search area, comparing a first pixel patch around the pixel with the first target pixel patch, and using the pixel when calculating an average for the target pixel. The method may include, in a second image frame, localizing a second target pixel, and defining a second search area comprising the second target pixel; for each pixel in the second search area, comparing a second pixel patch around the pixel of the second search area with the first target pixel patch, and using the pixel in the second search area when calculating an average for the target pixel.
US10171754B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for presenting non-video content through a mobile device that uses a video camera to track a video on another screen. In one embodiment, a system includes a video display, such as a TV, that displays video content. A mobile device with an integrated video camera captures video data from the TV and allows a user to select an area in the video in order to hear/feel/smell what is at that location in the video.
US10171729B2
An automatic camera adjustment method and an electronic device, where the method is applied to an electronic device with a rotatable camera. The electronic device obtains a parameter of a preview image in a shot of the camera, determines a parameter for rotating of the camera according to the parameter of the preview image, and adjusts an azimuth of the camera according to the parameter for rotating of the camera. Quality of a photographed image may be improved by adjusting the camera.
US10171716B2
A camera module, a molded circuit board assembly, a molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The camera module includes a molded base which is integrally formed with a circuit board through a molding process, wherein a photosensitive element may be electrically connected on the circuit board and at least a portion of a non-photosensitive area portion of the photosensitive element is also connected by the molded base through the molding process. A light window is formed in a central portion of the molded base to provide a light path for the photosensitive element, wherein a cross section of the light window is configured to have a trapezoidal or multi-step trapezoidal shape which has a size increasing from bottom to top to facilitate demolding and avoiding stray lights.
US10171706B2
Examples of a method and a system for configuring an imaging system are described. These examples involve obtaining a random sample of area coverage representations and grouping these by an estimated color, such as a colorimetric value. In each group a selected area coverage representation is determined with respect to one or more imaging attributes. A color gamut based on the random sample and the selected area coverage representations are used to generate a color mapping from an input color space to an area coverage representation space for use by the imaging system.
US10171699B2
The present disclosure relates to a micro-scanning device that comprises a surface on which specimen to be scanned is positioned, and at least one micro lens configured to enable scanning of the specimen so as to obtain micro-details of the specimen. One or more micro lenses are installed below the flatbed surface in an array of movable configuration or in a stationary configuration. The device further incorporates a front panel to live-view micro-detail image of a specimen placed on the flatbed surface and incorporates means to focus, size, and zoom/scale the micro-detail image of the specimen. The device can be either a portable/handheld device or a stationary device and incorporates scan firmware to save and store or send copy of image incorporating micro-details on an associated/coupled computing device and/or in the internal memory of the scanner for performing any of stitching, printing, saving or sharing.
US10171690B2
A print-image generation device comprising: a display; and a processor that controls the display to display a print-image generation screen and a plurality of part images in the print-image generation screen, and performs alignment of at least one of the plurality of part images to generate a print image composed of the plurality of part images, wherein the processor, when the alignment is performed in a state in which two or more part images are selected from among the plurality of part images in the print-image generation screen, performs first alignment of the two or more part images on the basis of a mutual positional relationship between the two or more part images, determines whether or not there exists an area in which the two or more part images overlap each other as the result of the alignment, and when it is determined that there exists an area in which the two or more part images at least partially overlap each other, notifies a user that the overlapped area exists, and when the user is notified that the overlapped area exists, moves at least one of the part images that at least partially overlap each other in the overlapped area so as to eliminate the overlapped area, or changes a size of at least one of the part images that at least partially overlap each other in the overlapped area to a size that eliminates the overlapped area, on the basis of operation by the user.
US10171688B2
An image scanning apparatus, a control method of an image scanning apparatus connectable to a management server, a management server and control method thereof are provided. The control method includes scanning a manuscript to generate a scanned image, generating page information for the generated scanned image, adding the generated page information to the generated scanned image, and transmitting the page information-added scanned image to the management server.
US10171682B1
A method is provided for performing RAN-usage-based tracking in a wireless core network. The method includes receiving a connection authorization request from a radio access network (RAN); obtaining a plan code for a communication device associated with the connection authorization request; associating, based on the plan code, the communication device with a RAN-usage-based plan; and sending, in response to the associating, tracking instances of RAN usage by the communication device to a usage-tracking server device.
US10171681B2
A network service plan provisioning system processes multiple service plan components, where the components are allowed to have respective traffic classification filters that, due to an overlap in classification, can each match the same network traffic event. A user can include multiple such components in the same service plan by creating a prioritization. The provisioning system processes and deploys the components to one or more network devices via an instruction set such that all such components are active for the service plan but the prioritization determines which component is activated when multiple component filters match a network traffic event.
US10171675B1
A virtual assistant application, system, and service that interacts with a caller over a telephone, cellular, or VoIP network as the called party's representative when the called party is unavailable, providing answers to queries and performing commands that were provisioned by the called party. The application includes a telephony interface, speech recognition and synthesis, a dialog manager, and knowledge domain. The application can also be configured to interact with a sender of SMS, MMS, or IM messages.
US10171657B1
A system and method are presented for omni-channel notification and selection. A first party selects a first channel from a plurality of channels based on an estimated wait time for interaction with another party in a contact center or enterprise setting. The plurality of channels may comprise any means of interaction, such as chat, phone call, SMS, video, etc. While waiting in queue for the preferred first channel, the first party is presented with estimated wait times, which are dynamically updated, for other channels. Based on the first party's preferences and the presented estimated wait times for the other channels, the first party may elect to change interaction channels from the first channel to a second channel. The first party may then be moved to a different queue corresponding to the second interaction channel.
US10171654B2
A method for generating a multi-dimensional communication notification for notifying a user is provided. The method may include receiving a plurality of contact details for a contact entry within a contact list. The method may further include determining a plurality of categories associated with the contact entry based on the received plurality of contact details and the identified plurality of supplementary contact details. The method may also include configuring the multi-dimensional communication notification for the contact entry based on the determined plurality of categories.
US10171652B2
In accordance with an embodiment the method includes temporarily configuring the vector processor with a new set of vectoring coefficients during one or more selected symbol positions; restoring the current set of vectoring coefficients outside the one or more selected symbol positions; obtaining at least one error measure over respectively at least one line of the group of vectored lines during the one or more selected symbol positions; and determining a suitability indication for the new set of vectoring coefficients based on the obtained at least one error measure.
US10171649B2
Network-based device management is described. In an example, a server may receive, from a device, a request to change from a first, locked state to a second state. The server may access data associated with at least one of the device or an account associated with the device, and may compare the data with one or more predetermined rules. Satisfaction of the one or more predetermined rules may be necessary to effectuate a change from the first, locked state to the second state. The server may determine that the data satisfies the one or more predetermined rules and the server may send, to the device, an instruction to enable the device to change from the first, locked state to the second state. The instruction may direct an application on the device to effectuate a change to the subscriber identity module (SIM) card associated with the device.
US10171644B2
A communication apparatus searches for a device using a first wireless communication, instructs, using the first wireless communication, a device selected from a list based the result of the search to operate in an access point mode, obtains, using the first wireless communication, connection information from the device operating in the access point mode, establishes a second wireless connection with the device based on the obtained connection information.
US10171643B2
Device and method for directing audio input and output between a plurality of electronic devices. Event records are stored in memory and each event record records a specific combination of states relating to a first device or a second device and are associated with an action. Each action specifies a direction of audio input and output. States of the first and second devices are monitored. Changes to states are detected. Based on specific combination of states, one of the event records associated with the specific combination of states is identified. The action associated with the identified event record is performed and audio input and output between the electronic devices is directed in accordance with the associated action.
US10171638B2
ForcePhone is a novel system for enabling phones to recognize the force applied to their touchscreen and/or body. ForcePhone uses built-in sensors to measure the applied force via a physical property called structure-borne sound propagation. The phone plays an inaudible sound through the phone's speaker. When the phone is free to vibrate, the sound from the speaker easily travels through its body to the phone's microphone. When a force is applied to the phone, vibration is restricted and the sound traveling through the pathway is degraded. ForcePhone estimate the amount of applied force by monitoring the change in sound degradation.
US10171626B2
Presenting URLs on a user interface to guide users on a specific URL browsing path over an internet. A plurality of URLs for a user to view on a user interface running in a computing environment may be received. A URL workflow may be created, which comprise a sequence of the plurality of URLs the user is directed to view. The URL workflow may be created dynamically based on monitoring the current activities of the user in the computing environment. Each URL may be presented one after another on the user interface to automatically direct the user to a next specified URL in the workflow.
US10171624B2
A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment, capture templates are created to harvest content from disparate content sources on multiple platforms. Data is extracted from the content from the disparate content sources using the created capture templates that drives extracting process. A standardized data stream is generated from the extracted data. The standardized data stream is provided for display on one or more different type of platforms.
US10171612B2
Methods, systems, and computer-storage media for intelligently creating and using routing connections between on-premises servers within a client and nodes of a data center are provided. When routing connections being requested by the client are not presently established, a caching service within the data center is programmed to direct a client's cache request over available routing connections, thereby scaling out storage capacity across the data center. When routing connections being requested by the client are established, a load balancer within the data center is programmed to direct the cache request over a requested routing connection, thereby bypassing intervening hops within the data center, such as gateway nodes that host instances of the caching service. To bypass intervening hops, the client network is provided with access to a client-side routing table for identifying an appropriate network key and a connection table for identifying a routing connection mapped to the network key.
US10171599B2
Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online social network are notified according to various criteria that they have set. With this feature, users can browse through content of other users efficiently.
US10171597B2
A method can include discovering a plurality of services that are complementary to an offered service and selecting a service from the plurality of services as a candidate for integration with the offered service. The method further can include automatically generating a new service, using a processor, by integrating the candidate service with the offered service. The new service can be included in a service catalog.
US10171596B2
Systems and methods provide automatic discovery of cluster membership based on transaction processing. An example method includes, at a source node of a first tier of nodes, generating a service identifier for a transaction that requests a service hosted by a second tier, the service identifier being based on a logical identifier for the second tier. The method also includes sending the transaction, including the service identifier, from the source node to the service hosted by the second tier. The method includes, at a destination node in the second tier, obtaining the service identifier from the transaction and reporting the service identifier with a destination node identifier to a visibility server as cluster information. The method also includes, at the visibility server, receiving cluster information from a plurality of destination nodes and assigning each of the plurality of destination nodes to a cluster based on the service identifiers.
US10171593B2
Parameters associated with client devices may be determined, and a subset of the parameters associated with a particular client device may be identified. The subset of the parameters may include information related to hardware, software, and/or an identifier associated with the particular client device. A template associated with requesting a web service may be populated based on the subset of the parameters to form a web services request associated with the particular client device. The web service may be requested using the services request. A response to the services request, related to providing the web service to the particular client device, may be received, and the response may be evaluated with respect to the subset of the parameters, to determine whether the web service is compatible with the particular client device.
US10171588B2
Network techniques are provided, including a method and system for the accurate and complete playback of web operations. According to an embodiment, there is provided a method for playing back a web operation including one or more of the following inputs: a document object model (DOM) node event, a web request, and a web response. The method comprises: in response to the execution of the web operation, identifying an act input from inputs of the web operation, the act input including a DOM node event or a web response; recording feature information associated with the identified act input, the feature information including a temporal sequence feature of the act inputs and a self constraint feature of the act input, and the feature information being used for playing back the web operation.
US10171584B2
A data processing device, such as a monitoring agent, runs process code to process input data captured from a data source of a production environment, such as managed network devices. The process code can be created on or modified at a terminal of a development environment remote from the data processing device. The input data can be routed to the development environment to test the process code with actual data. The development environment can also provide test data to the process code to test edge cases and other situations. The output of the process code running in the development environment can be routed to the data processing device for output to downstream systems as if generated by the data processing device. Once the process code is operating satisfactorily at the development environment, the process code can be transmitted to the data processing device for execution in the production environment.
US10171574B2
A computer system includes: a reference point determining unit that sets node allocation reference points for the job in association with job attribute information of the job, to node coordinate spaces where the plurality of computation nodes are arranged; and a node set searching unit that searches for a computation node set that is a set of computation nodes satisfying a predetermined condition related to a remote degree that is an estimate index of a communication time from the node allocation reference point in the node coordinate space.
US10171559B2
A network device stores a Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VxLAN) Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) membership information that associates VxLANs each with a corresponding set of VTEPs authorized to originate VxLAN packets on that VxLAN. The network device receives from a communication network a VxLAN packet that identifies a VxLAN and an originating VTEP. The VTEP compares the originating VTEP to the set of VTEPs associated with the VxLAN in the VTEP membership information that matches the identified VxLAN. If the comparison indicates that the originating VTEP is not included in the set of VTEPs authorized to originate VxLAN packets, the VTEP discards the received VxLAN packet. Otherwise the VTEP further processes the VxLAN packet.
US10171558B2
Systems and methods cross device application discovery and/or control. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for simple detection and activation of applications on remote devices. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for the control of remote applications in a master and slave configuration. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application, the task being displayed on a target device. Responsive to an activation message, an application can execute a task in an application on a target device, a task context data for the task being streamed to the source device for presentation on a display. Cross device application discovery and/or control can be enabled on a single operating system, or across a plurality of operating systems.
US10171552B2
Various embodiments concern communication platforms that can integrate electronic resources distributed amongst various sources by tagging metadata associated with each of the electronic resources, thereby making the electronic resources readily searchable from a messaging interface using a single search architecture. The messaging interface can be used by users to communicate with one another. In some embodiments, the communication platform performs a search based on characters as they are entered into the text field of the messaging interface. This search across various heterogeneous sources enables the communication platform to identify a reference to an electronic resource the sender of a message wishes to insert within the message. Recipients of the message may be able to access the electronic resource directly from the messaging interface. The communication platform can also perform natural language processing techniques such as speech act detection on messages and/or other textual resources to facilitate intelligent communication streamlining.
US10171551B2
Various embodiments concern communication platforms that can integrate electronic resources distributed amongst various sources by tagging metadata associated with each of the electronic resources, thereby making the electronic resources readily searchable from a messaging interface using a single search architecture. The messaging interface can be used by users to communicate with one another. In some embodiments, the communication platform performs a search based on characters as they are entered into the text field of the messaging interface. This search across various heterogeneous sources enables the communication platform to identify a reference to an electronic resource the sender of a message wishes to insert within the message. Recipients of the message may be able to access the electronic resource directly from the messaging interface. The communication platform can also perform natural language processing techniques such as speech act detection on messages and/or other textual resources to facilitate intelligent communication streamlining.
US10171542B2
The present invention relates to a method for providing a cloud streaming service, a device and a system for same, and a computer-readable recording medium having, recorded thereon, a cloud streaming script code for same. At the time of loading a webpage, the present invention loads the webpage with a predefined cloud streaming script code inserted therein and thus can perform processing such that the webpage can provide the could streaming service. Consequently, a pop-up window event or the like, which is incapable of providing the cloud streaming service, can easily be processed without any particular modification to an internal browser engine.
US10171541B2
The invention relates to improving coding of media presentation description data. Requesting streamed timed media data associated with a media item, organized into temporal media segments, the streamed timed media data belonging to partitioned timed media data comprising timed samples, the streamed timed media data being transmitted as media segment files each comprising independently processed components resulting from processing the timed samples, including receiving a manifest comprising metadata for describing the processed components, the metadata comprising parameters used for describing a part of one of the processed components, wherein one of the parameters is a dynamic parameter which value can vary over time, the parameter being associated with an element referring to a metadata resource, external to the manifest and comprising a value defining the parameter; and requesting the streamed timed media data based on metadata of the manifest and of the value defining the parameter.
US10171536B2
A data processing method comprises, using a media server during a first media session between a client device and the media server, determining a stable bitrate value for use as a rate of transmitting multimedia data from the client device to the media server; storing, in a database, the stable bitrate value for the client device in association with an identifier; receiving, from the client device, a request to establish a second media session; determining the identifier within the request; in response to the request, based on the identifier in the request, searching the database for the stable bitrate value that is associated with the identifier; in response to locating the stable bitrate value in the database, sending the stable bitrate value to the client device for use in estimating a bitrate for transmitting multimedia from the client device to the media server in the second media session; establishing, by the media server, the second media session, wherein the media server initially receives multimedia data from the client device at the stable bitrate.
US10171535B2
A computer system for implementing a method for communicating an audio message file from a computing device to an audio player device. The computer system includes the computing device, the audio player device, and one or more computer readable hardware storage devices containing program instructions which upon being executed on both the computing device and the audio player device, implement the method. An audio message file is generated by the computing device and sent to the audio player device. In response to receipt of the audio message file, the audio player device halts play of a song or other audio content that was being played by the audio player device at a time of receipt of the audio message file, and plays the audio message file.
US10171533B1
A system and method for controlling and selecting sources in a room on a network. The system allows a remote viewer to create a virtual presence within the room by providing the available displays, corresponding to the sources, to the remote viewer. The system includes a standardizing technique for improving the communication and overall switching of data for streaming on a network. The system can include a recording server for performing dual recording of the video files in each of a local database and a remote database. A graphical user interface (GUI) display is provided to guide a local user through a medical procedure in the standardized system.
US10171531B2
Continuing electronic media entertainment on a personal electronic device (PED) after completion of a travel segment. Streaming characteristics for streaming of an electronic media item to a PED on board an aircraft via a first connection may be monitored and, if streaming of the remaining portion of the electronic media item will exceed the remaining travel time, trigger some or all of an excess portion of the electronic media item to be sent to the PED. The PED may store the excess potion in an access-controlled media file. After completion of the travel segment (e.g., at the destination location), the PED may resume playback of the electronic media item by obtaining a playback control code via a second, different connection. The second connection may be a different type of connection, or may be an indirect connection, in some cases.
US10171528B2
Methods and systems for enabling streaming of segmented content from a content delivery network to an adaptive streaming client on the basis of a manifest file are described wherein the said manifest file may comprise one or more segment identifiers. The method may comprise: selecting at least one segment identifier from said manifest file, said identifier identifying a segment that has not been requested by said client; and, sending pre-announce information to said content delivery network for announcing in advance that said segment may be requested by said client, said pre-announce information comprising said at least one segment identifier, said pre-announce information being further arranged for triggering said content delivery network to ensure availability of said segment upon receiving said request.
US10171523B2
A network element (NE) comprising a memory configured to store a digest log for a conference, a receiver coupled to the memory and configured to receive a first message from a first of a plurality of service proxies of the conference, wherein the first message comprises a signature profile of a first of a plurality of participants of the conference associated with the first service proxy, a processor coupled to the receiver and the memory and configured to track a state of the conference by updating the digest log according to the first message, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to send a plurality of second messages to indicate the digest log update to the service proxies without a transmission request from the service proxies.
US10171522B1
A method, computer program product, and system for video commentary is described. A method may comprise providing particular media content to two or more user computing devices. The method may further comprise receiving, from a first user computing device of the two or more user computing devices, a selection to view comments from a second user computing device of the two or more user computing devices. The method may also comprise receiving one or more comments from the second user computing device of the two or more user computing devices. The one or more comments from the second user computing device may be associated with video media content. The method may additionally comprise transmitting the one or more comments from the second user computing device to the first user computing device based upon, at least in part, the selection from the first user computing device to view the comments.
US10171521B2
An already-connected telephone call is conferenced in a seamless manner that is transparent to the call participants, after which one or more additional participants may join the conference. The existing call is preferably moved to a conference bridge responsive to an existing call participant either logging on to a network-accessible user interface (such as a web page or portal-type page) or entering some special key or key combination using the participant's phone (which may be a software application that provides phone-like services). The participant requesting the move may be authenticated, and the authorization of the participant to request the move may be verified, before moving the call.
US10171515B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for notifying a response sender of a malformed SIP response message. The method includes, producing a special ACK message after receiving a malformed response message from a SIP server. The special ACK message contains a correction of the determined malformation, and is sent to the SIP server for correction by the SIP server.
US10171514B2
A method for routing media calls over a real time packet switch connection includes providing a session controller for connecting to a network. The method further includes providing a signaling switch for connecting to the session controller. The method further includes controlling call routing in the network with the session controller where the call routing control includes identifiers for elements in at least two layers of a seven layer model. The call routing control includes a preference for a codec for the call. The call routing is carried out taking into consideration a mean opinion score qualifier from previous calls having a same source and destination.
US10171513B2
A session controller coupled to a database and configured to receive an indication associated with an ingress call is disclosed. The disclosed session controller is further configured to compare at least one of a network capacity, a call-peer bandwidth, or a number of active call-legs associated with the ingress call session against a respective threshold, and to reject the ingress call when a respective threshold is exceeded.
US10171512B2
Measures, including methods, systems and computer-readable storage mediums, for use in operating a network node in a network. Signalling information for an in-progress communication session dialog is processed according to a stateless operating mode. The processing according to the stateless operating mode includes storing communication session dialog state data associated with the communication session dialog. An operating mode change trigger is detected. In response to the detection, the stored communication session dialog state data associated with the communication session dialog is retrieved. Signalling information for the in-progress communication session dialog is processed according to a state-full operating mode. The processing according to the state-full operating mode is carried out at least in part on the basis of the retrieved communication session dialog state data associated with the communication session dialog.
US10171509B2
A blockchain may store transactions which should were not intended to be recorded due to inappropriate content or unwanted subject matter submitted by malicious users. A method may also include one or more of identifying a blockchain transaction, processing content of the blockchain transaction to identify prohibited content, and determining whether to approve or disapprove the blockchain transaction based on the content of the blockchain transaction.
US10171508B2
Certain embodiments provide means for managing automated access to computers, e.g., using SSH user keys and other kinds of trust relationships. Certain embodiments also provide for managing certificates, Kerberos credentials, and cryptographic keys. Certain embodiments provide for remediating legacy SSH key problems and for automating configuration of SSH keys, as well as for continuous monitoring.
US10171493B2
The present application relates to the handling of what are generally referred to as denial of service (DoS) attacks. More specifically, the present application relates to a method and system for protecting one or more on-line Web service application servers from DoS and/or distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks.
US10171483B1
An intrusion device identifies network data to be sent to a destination endpoint and determines a sensitivity level of the destination endpoint based on asset valuation. The intrusion device identifies a subset of signatures that corresponds to the sensitivity level of the destination endpoint and determines whether the network data includes an intrusion based on the subset of signatures.
US10171475B2
A method for applying policies to an email message includes receiving, by an inbound policy module in a protected network, message metadata of an email message. The method also includes determining, based on the message metadata, whether receiving the email message in the protected network is prohibited by at least one metadata policy. The method further includes blocking the email message from being forwarded to the protected network if receiving the email message in the protected network is prohibited by the metadata policy. In specific embodiments, the method includes requesting scan results data for the email message if receiving the email message in the protected network is not prohibited by one or more metadata policies. In further embodiments, the method includes receiving the scan results data and requesting the email message if receiving the email message in the protected network is not prohibited by one or more scan policies.
US10171474B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request at a wireless access point from a client system to access a network through the wireless access point. The wireless access point sends an identifier associated with the client system to a social-networking system, the social-networking system including user profiles arranged in one or more social graphs. The social graphs store relationships between the user profiles. The method further includes receiving at the wireless access point from the social-networking system an authorization determination. The authorization determination is based upon a first user profile of the plurality of user profiles. The first user profile includes the identifier associated with the client system. The method further includes providing the client system with access to the network through the wireless access point in accordance with the authorization determination.
US10171470B2
Techniques for secure debugging and monitoring are presented. An end user requests a secure token for logging information with a remote service. A secure monitoring and debugging token service provides the secure token. The remote service validates the secure token and configures itself for capturing information and reporting the captured information based on the secure token.
US10171462B2
A system and method are described for provisioning an IoT device using an association ID code. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: generating an association between a new Internet of Things (IoT) device identification (ID) code and an association ID code; storing the association in an IoT device database of an IoT service; retrieving the association ID code from the new IoT device; transmitting the association ID code to the IoT service, the IoT service performing a lookup in the IoT device database using the association ID code to determine the device ID code; and provisioning the IoT device to communicate with the IoT service using the device ID code.
US10171461B2
A system for secure transfer of encrypted data involves a sender client, a recipient client, a main server, and a key server. The sender client receives instructions from a first user identifying transfer data and a recipient identifier, creates a key, encodes the transfer data using the key, and communicates the key and the recipient identifier to a server. The server creates a secure package identifier and communicates such to the sender client. The recipient client receives and identifies the secure package identifier and the encoded transfer data, receives from a second user a user identifier, and communicates the user identifier and the secure package identifier to the server. The server communicates the key to the recipient client only if the secure package identifier received from the recipient client matches the secure package identifier created by the server and if the user identifier matches the recipient identifier.
US10171459B2
A method of processing a ciphertext, the method includes: acquiring a part of a plurality of encrypted elements included in the ciphertext, each of the plurality of encrypted elements being an encrypted element in which values of a plurality of elements in a multidimensional determination target vector are respectively encrypted by homomorphic encryption; decrypting the acquired part of the plurality of encrypted elements; and determining validity of the determination target vector based on a relationship between at least one value obtained by the decrypting and both of 0 and 1.
US10171455B2
Protecting application passwords using a secure proxy. A request is received by a proxy from a client to access a protected resource located on a target server. A secure session is initiated between the proxy and client. The access request is forwarded by the proxy to the target. A response is received from the target that is a credential form. The proxy server injects into each required credential field a credential field tag and is sent to the client computer. Target credentials mapped by the credential field tags are retrieved by the proxy server from a protected datastore. The form is completed and sent to the target. If the credentials are invalid, the target credentials are updated and stored in the protected data store without client computer intervention, and sent by the proxy server to the target. The client computer is then allowed to access the protected resource.
US10171444B1
An access control system and associated devices are described that conceal and securitize data transmissions between one or more secure databases for various user devices to ensure proper entrance or access into secure locations by approved personnel only. Specific methods and devices for securing (primarily digital and normally two-way) communications using applications that combine securing communications for wireless/cellular phones with personnel access card readers for entry into secure locations are also described. These combined communication and access devices require using specific encryption techniques that cannot be corrupted and are essential to denying fraudulent or otherwise unauthorized personnel the ability to enter or access security protected devices or locations.
US10171438B2
User input is received from a user for identifying a particular account from among multiple accounts. A set of questions specific for the particular account is selected. Further user input comprising one or more responses to each question of the set of questions is received. A password is generated based on the one or more received responses.
US10171437B2
Techniques are provided to manage security artifacts. Specifically, a security management system is disclosed for implementing security artifact archives to manage security artifacts. A security artifact archive may include information for managing one or more security artifacts that can be referenced or included in the security artifact archive. The security management system can create, edit, read, send, and perform other management operations for security artifact archives. Objects can be bundled in an object-specific security artifact archive. Security artifact archives may be named, versioned, tagged and/or labeled for identification. Security artifact archives may be transmitted to a destination (e.g., a service provider or a client system) that provides access to an object whose access is dependent on security artifacts. The destination may can manage access to the object using a security artifact archive that includes relevant and current security artifacts for the object.
US10171435B1
The disclosure provides for one or more devices and associated system that securitize and conceal data transmitted to and/or data received from the devices that utilize one or more master keys comprising at least one device that conceals and reveals such that the data and/or associated data files utilize both master keys and one or more key selectors, wherein the master keys and key selectors produce a specific set of one or more keys that conceal the data and/or associated data files such that one or more key selectors coincide with at least one value that directly corresponds with created cipher data and/or cipher data files. The key selectors can also be concealed and revealed as required. Produced concealed data and concealed data files can only be concealed and revealed with one or more master keys and one or more key selectors.
US10171416B2
Method for establishing data connection on mobile network, mobile network, and policy control entity
A method for establishing data connections on a mobile network, a mobile network, and a policy control entity are disclosed. The method includes: establishing a data channel between a user equipment (UE) and a gateway (GW), and allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the UE according to an address allocation request or a data channel setup request sent from the UE; and triggering the policy control entity to establish or update a policy control session according to the IP address. By using the mobile network and the policy control entity under the present invention, after the data channel is established between the UE and the GW, the GW may trigger the policy control entity to establish or update a policy control session.
US10171414B2
An access device and an extender access device, forming a network for network client devices. A single IP address attribution server in the network attributes IP addresses to network devices based on their MAC address. The access device providing access in a first coverage zone. The extender access device providing access in a second coverage zone. The extender access device implements MAC address translation for representing network client devices in the second zone before the access device. When a network client device roams from the second zone to the first zone, the client device keeps its IP address that was attributed to it by the IP address attribution server via the extender access device even if the client device requests an IP address with its real, non-translated MAC address.
US10171404B2
A computer communication system that allows a user to conveniently display the most recent received messages associated with another user, and to directly initiate composition of a reply to a selected one of those displayed messages. When the user selects the disclosed “Reply to Most Recent” user interface element, a user name entry user interface object is generated that allows the user to specify the name of another user. A reply message user interface object is generated directly to the user interface, such that the reply message user interface object includes a message composition window that is automatically loaded with content from a most recent message from the specified user, and recipients for the reply message are loaded from that most recent message.
US10171402B2
An apparatus for outputting a message alert is provided, comprising a processor configured to: receive a message; determine whether the message includes an attachment file; and responsive to determining that the message includes the attachment file, output sound contained in the attachment file as a message alert for the message.
US10171401B2
Enhancing and personalizing an electronic message with related and relevant information based on context of the message and recipients of the message is provided. A mailbox delivery agent receives an electronic message addressed to a recipient, extracts context data from the electronic message, queries an information source for information related to the context data and relevant to the recipient user, receives a response including information related to the context data and relevant to the recipient user, and generates and appends one or more information elements representative of the information related to the context data and relevant to the recipient user to the electronic message.
US10171399B2
A method, system, and or computer program product manages message threads. A message server detects a message thread addressed to a client device. The message thread is an exchange of multiple message replies related to a first topic discussed in an initial message. The message server determines whether a quantity of messages in the message thread exceeds a predetermined limit during a specified amount of time. If so, then the message server generates a consolidated single message that describes content of the multiple message replies in the message thread, and transmits the consolidated single message to the client device.
US10171397B2
A method includes intercepting a message sent from a computing machine of a first user to at least one second user, analyzing a content of the message to identify each matching context of one or more known contexts matching the content of the message, generating at least one shared entry for each matching context according to information corresponding to the matching context extracted from the message, and submitting each shared entry for publication to at least one collaborative system corresponding to the matching context of the shared entry.
US10171374B2
A software defined infrastructure (SDI) makes available a subset of a computer server's resources to a cloud solution or workload. Multiple subsets of resources can be combined in a SDI to provide a logical resource pool. This allows cloud administrators to create software defined infrastructures derived from the partial capacity of a collection of systems. The resources defined across the physical boundaries of a computer server can then be made available to host deployment of cloud workloads. The infrastructure resource pool can be selected upon deployment of a cloud workload.
US10171370B1
Technology for a distribution operating system is provided. In one example, a method may include executing a distribution operating system on a host operating system on a local computing device and executing an application within the distribution operating system using networked computing resources managed by the distribution operating system.
US10171367B2
Methods, computer-readable media and apparatuses to improve storage and compression of data are disclosed. A processor receives a data stream, wherein the data stream comprises multiplexed data from a plurality of different sources, analyzes the data stream to identify a source of the plurality of different sources for each block of data of the data stream, demultiplexes the data stream based on the source of the each block of data of the data stream and applies a compression to the data stream that is demultiplexed based on the source of the each block of data of the data stream.
US10171365B2
Embodiments of the present invention may provide improved handling of communication characteristics, such as burstiness, latency-sensitive applications, bandwidth-sensitive applications, etc., to improve peak performance while not compromising other characteristics, such as thermal design power of the input/output chip packages. In an embodiment, in a control circuit that may be connected to and control a data transmitter, a method of transmitting data in a network may comprise receiving at least one feed-forward signal from the data transmitter, receiving at least one feedback signal from at least a first node of the network, comparing the at least one feed-forward signal with at least one threshold or condition, comparing the at least one feedback signal with at least one threshold or condition, and generating a signal indicating that a burst transmission should be started or stopped.
US10171357B2
According to one or more embodiments of this disclosure, a network controller in a data center network establishes a translation table for in-band traffic in a data center network, the translation table resolves ambiguous network addresses based on one or more of a virtual network identifier (VNID), a routable tenant address, or a unique loopback address. The network controller device receives packets originating from applications and/or an endpoints operating in a network segment associated with a VNID. The network controller device translates, using the translation table, unique loopback addresses and/or routable tenant addresses associated with the packets into routable tenant addresses and/or unique loopback addresses, respectively.
US10171345B2
Techniques for routing communication sessions are described. According to various embodiments, a set of routing paths are available for routing a communication session across a network. For instance, the routing paths represent Label Switched Paths (LSPs) across a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. According to various embodiments, attributes of a communication session are leveraged to identify a routing path for routing the communication session. According to various embodiments, performance degradation in a communication session across a particular routing path is detected such that a replacement routing path is selected.
US10171340B2
The invention relates to a method and device for managing the interconnection between network domains. In one embodiment this is accomplished by classifying the received frame based on service level agreement, wherein the classifying includes checking the received frame Ethertype value is same as the port on which the frame is received, recognizing an Ethertype of the egress port of the received frame, wherein the recognizing includes checking the received frame Ethertype value is same or not and translating the frame into a compatible Ethertype and forwarding the same to the next available port.
US10171338B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for on-demand next-hop resolution. Aspects of the embodiments include receiving a triggering event to prompt a request for a path to a network location; requesting a path computation from a second network element based on receiving the triggering event; receiving the path computation from the second network element; and programming an output interface with an indication of the path computation received from the second network element.
US10171336B2
A method is provided by a network element to execute a forwarding information base (FIB) manager to program a packet forwarding function of the network element. The FIB manager supports a hybrid control plane with software defined networking (SDN) and local control plane processes. The method includes receiving a request to configure a node reachability configuration element, where the node reachability element describes packet processing instruction for the packet forwarding function to forward packets toward a referred node, selecting a flow control agent to be updated for reachability to the referred node, and updating a logical forwarding information representation to encode a next hop identifier for the referred node.
US10171334B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of values of a data stream, where the plurality of values are generated by a monitored device and received in real time. One or more statistical moments of the data stream are updated, by a computer processing device, based on each value of the plurality of values. Each value of the plurality of values is discarded, after updating the one or more statistical moments of the data stream based on that value. A threshold is set for the data stream based on the one or more statistical moments. It is detected that the threshold has been passed by the data stream. A remedial action is performed on the monitored device, responsive to the threshold being passed, where the remedial action is associated with the threshold.
US10171329B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for optimizing log analysis, such as in SaaS environments. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to determine an optimal log analysis location and ensure that the log file is processed at the optimal location based, at least in part, on the log file size and available network bandwidth.
US10171320B2
A method, system and computer program product for ensuring that important messages are viewed by the intended recipient. A time-to-live pattern for a message identified as being important is determined for the target group, where the time-to-live pattern indicates a set of presentation criteria (e.g., impression analysis, such as the number of views of the message). The target group refers to the intended recipient(s) of the message identified as being important. The message is then monitored in the network environment with respect to the time-to-live pattern using the set of presentation criteria of the time-to-live pattern. An action (e.g., pinning the message for a period of time) may then be performed to increase the priority of the message for the target group if the time-to-live pattern has underachieved within a threshold period of time (i.e., has not met the requirements of the presentation criteria within the threshold period of time).
US10171318B2
A method includes receiving a seed at a computing device. The method further includes identifying, based on first domain name system (DNS) data, first border gateway protocol (BGP) data, first whois data, or a combination thereof, a plurality of first internet-facing assets related to the seed. The method further includes identifying, based on second DNS data, second BGP data, second whois data, or a combination thereof, a plurality of second internet-facing assets related to at least one of the first internet-facing assets. The method further includes generating a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a list of internet-facing assets related to the seed, where the list includes the plurality of first internet-facing assets and the plurality of second internet-facing assets.
US10171310B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product ensures regulatory compliance during application migration to cloud-based containers. In response to receiving a message directing an application to be migrated to a container cloud, the application is matched to multiple containers described in a container registry, where each container is matched to a service that provides a server. A regulatory rule by which at least one of the server, the application, and requisite containers are governed is identified. In response to detecting a change to at least one of the server, the application, and the requisite containers so that there is noncompliance with a regulatory rule, a chain of compliance services is automatically recomposed using an artificial intelligence planning technology.
US10171304B2
In some examples, a configurator device maps a configuration attribute received from a wireless device to a credential attribute, the credential attribute to be mapped to a network policy. The configurator device sends the credential attribute to the wireless device, the credential attribute useable by the wireless device to access an access point (AP), and useable by the AP to obtain the network policy to apply to a communication of the wireless device.
US10171303B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a logical channel apparatus and a tunnel apparatus. The logical channel apparatus associates a logical channel identifier of a logical channel with the switch and assigns an Internet Protocol (IP) address as switch identifier of the switch. The logical channel includes a plurality of member switches and the switch is a member switch of the logical channel. The IP address uniquely identifies the switch in the logical channel. The tunnel apparatus establishes a tunnel with a remote switch in the logical channel. An inter-switch packet from the switch is encapsulated in a tunnel header associated with the tunnel.
US10171298B2
Described are systems and methods for a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) customer premises equipment (CPE) Management Center (CMC). In one embodiment, the CMC includes a communications interface to receive information from the CPE device regarding operation of the CPE device. The received information is analyzed and a command signal generation module generates a corresponding command signal for transmission to the at least one CPE device to modify the CPE device operation based on the analysis results in a manner which either enhances CPE device performance, for example increasing data rate, or improves line stability, for example reducing CPE error rate.
US10171293B2
A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes sending a customized configuration file to the cable modem. The configuration file contains service provisioning information and further includes information indicative of a network address type for the customer premise equipment device. A message is passed from the cable modem to the customer premise equipment device indicative of the network address type. The customer premise equipment device is provided with a network address in accordance with the network address type indicated in the message. In this way, the customer premise equipment device knows what kind of address to obtain, and excessive transactions are avoided.
US10171290B1
A method for correcting connectivity failures of core applications on a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method comprises a client detecting a plurality of request-reply message sequences between a core application and a corresponding server, and learning a set of request-reply message sequences within the plurality of request-reply message sequences that are not producing a connection error with the corresponding server. The method further includes creating a series of ghost replies that each mimic a reply that is one of the set of learned replies coming from the corresponding server and not producing a connection error, and then retaining the series of ghost replies. The method then includes detecting at least one connection error between the core application and the corresponding server, and feeding a ghost reply to the core application.
US10171271B2
Provided are a method and a device for transmitting interference cancellation information for cancelling interference between cells in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting interference cancellation information may comprise the steps of: on the basis of feedback information received from a terminal belonging to a cell controlled by a predetermined base station, estimating a symbol error rate or a packet error rate on a cell boundary region; by comparing the symbol error rate or the packet error rate with a predetermined critical value, determining a probability indicator indicating the probability of cancelling interference between cells at the cell boundary region; and transmitting information on the probability indicator to an adjacent cell.
US10171268B2
An apparatus comprises a plurality of driver circuits and a control registers block. The plurality of driver circuits may be configured to drive a read line in response to a memory signal and a reference voltage. The control registers block generally configures the plurality of driver circuits to implement an asymmetric voltage swing of the read line about a voltage level that is half of the reference voltage.
US10171249B2
The present disclosure relates to a cryptographic method for enabling access by a user device to services provided by a server in a set of reference areas. The method comprises at the user device: obtaining a set of reference credentials of the server certifying data indicating the reference areas; obtaining a location credential certifying location data indicating the current location of the user device; generating an authentication token comprising a cryptographic proof for proving that the current location of the user device certified by the location credential matches at least one reference area certified by the set of reference credentials; sending the authentication token to the server for accessing the services by the user device in the at least one reference area.
US10171235B2
Embodiments utilizing secret keys for authentication and/or encrypted communication are described. In certain embodiments, authentication data is provided from a source network communication device to a target network communication device that allows a computing server to verify that the key migration is authorized by the source network communication device. The authentication data also enables the data provider and the target network communication device to independently determine a temporary key for establishing a secure communication channel between the service provider and the target network communication device and/or determine a new key for the target network communication device. In some implementations, the authentication data may be exchanged between the source and target network communication devices between offline without involvement of the computing server. When the target network communication device later connects to the computing server, the authentication data may be used to verify that the key migration is authorized and/or generate key(s).
US10171221B2
Provided is a method for feeding back a channel quality indicator (CQI) by a terminal. The terminal receives, from a base station, at least one reference signal through at least one of multiple beams of the base station. The terminal measures a signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for the at least one reference signal. The terminal determines a first level corresponding to the measured SINR among levels of a first CQI. In addition, the terminal feeds back the first CQI having the first level to the base station.
US10171209B2
One embodiment relates to a method for communicating multimedia data between two devices over a network. The method comprises the devices repeatedly generating and exchanging the multimedia data and quality data representative of the quality of the communication between the two devices. At least the first device applies at least one current error correction strategy selected from a group of error correction strategies in order to increase the quality of the communication between the devices. The method also comprises an evaluation of an effectiveness of each current error correction strategy on the quality of the communication between the two devices is carried out as a function of newly received quality data.
US10171201B2
A data transmission method and apparatus initialize an index of a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for transmitting data to a terminal, adjust the index of the MCS based on at least one of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARM) feedback of the terminal and a channel quality of the terminal, and transmit the data to the terminal based on the adjusted index of the MCS.
US10171192B2
A device providing an emergency alert service via a mobile broadcasting according to one embodiment of the present invention includes an RS frame encoder configured to generate an RS frame, which is a 2nd dimensional data frame, in a manner of performing an RS (Reed-Solomon)-CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) encoding on an ensemble comprising a mobile data for a mobile broadcasting service and a service signaling channel containing an access information on the mobile broadcasting service, an RS frame divider configured to divide the generated RS frame into a plurality of RS frame portions, a signaling encoder configured to generate a signaling data comprising a TPC (Transmission Parameter Channel) for signaling a transmission parameter of the mobile broadcasting and a FIC (Fast Information Channel) containing a connection information between the ensemble and the broadcasting service, a data group formatter configured to generate a data group containing a part of the signaling data and the RS frame portion, and a broadcasting signal generating unit configured to generate a mobile broadcasting signal containing the data group.
US10171189B2
Various technologies for isolating a signal of interest from signals received contemporaneously by an antenna are described herein. A time period for which a signal of interest is present in a second signal can be identified based upon ratios of values of the second signal to the mean value of the second signal. When the ratio of the value of the second signal at a particular time to the mean of the second signal exceeds a threshold value, the signal of interest is considered to be present in the second signal.
US10171188B2
An example mobile computing device includes a display, a housing coupled to the display, and a graphical indicator. The housing includes a chamber, an antenna to communicate with a wireless network, and an exterior antenna region. The graphical indicator identifies the exterior antenna region on the housing and a signal strength of a connection to the wireless network.
US10171181B2
An apparatus is described which uses directly modulated InGaN Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) or InGaN lasers as the transmitters for an underwater data-communication device. The receiver uses automatic gain control to facilitate performance of the apparatus over a wide-range of distances and water turbidities.
US10171174B1
An apparatus comprises a phase modulator having a first input port to receive a radiation and having a first output port to provide a first signal toward a device under test (DUT), wherein the phase modulator is configured to generate the first signal by performing phase modulation on the radiation received at the first input port; an intensity modulator having a second input port to receive the radiation and having a second output port to provide a second signal toward the DUT, wherein the intensity modulator is configured to generate the second signal by performing intensity modulation on the radiation received at the second input port; and a transfer function analyzer configured to determine a transfer function of the DUT based on the first signal and the second signal.
US10171164B2
A 2D barcode-based bi-directional wireless transmission system includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus each including a display screen, a processing system and a camera. The first apparatus encodes a data to be sent into multiple 2D barcode images and sequentially displays these multiple 2D barcode images on the display screen thereof so that the second apparatus sequentially captures the multiple 2D barcode images from the first apparatus, and then decodes the captured multiple 2D barcode images into a received data, and then encodes a feedback information into a 2D barcode image and displays on the display screen thereof for allowing the first apparatus to capture and then to decode the captured 2D barcode image of the feedback information so as to obtain the feedback information.
US10171160B2
A satellite communications system for communicating at a first frequency slot with first and second pairs of satellite transponders in linear polarization format. The system comprises a first terminal, a second terminal and a station. The first terminal receives at least one first input signal and concurrently radiates a first output signal at the first frequency slot to the first and second pairs of satellite transponders via a first beam and a second beam, respectively, in right-hand circularly polarized format. The second terminal receives at least one second input signal and concurrently radiates a second output signal at the first frequency slot to the first and second pairs of satellite transponders via a third beam and a fourth beam, respectively, in left-hand circularly polarized format. The station receives four satellite signals from the first and second pairs of transponders and recovers the at least one first input signal and the at least one second input signal using wavefront multiplexing technique.
US10171151B1
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes utilizing a sounding procedure to obtain compressed beamforming (CBF) information. The sounding procedure may be a single-user or multi-user sounding procedure. The CBF information may contain various information regarding a particular channel that an access point may use for transmission. The information may include per-tone SNR information which may be processed to determine characteristics of the channel. Various techniques may be utilized to determine the further characteristics of the channel. The determined characteristics of the channel may then be used to determine an appropriate guard interval (GI) between symbols that are to be transmitted. Appropriate GI selection in wireless communications may facilitate higher throughput while decreasing overhead due to unnecessary idle time.
US10171146B2
Systems and methods for Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) rank reduction to improve downlink throughput are disclosed. A method of operation of a radio access node includes determining that an imbalance between parallel channels of a spatial multiplexing downlink transmission to a wireless device is greater than an imbalance threshold and/or that a Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) rate over time for the parallel channels of a spatial multiplexing downlink transmission reported by the wireless device is greater than a NACK rate threshold. The method also includes, in response to determining that the imbalance between the parallel channels is greater than the imbalance threshold and/or that the NACK rate is greater than the NACK rate threshold, performing a fast rank reduction for a next downlink transmission whereby a rank is reduced from a rank indicator reported by the wireless device to some lower rank. Reducing the rank may improve downlink throughput.
US10171139B1
A communication system utilizing reconfigurable antenna systems is described where beam steering and null forming techniques are incorporated to limit the region or volume available for communication with client devices. The communication system described restricts communication to defined or desired area and degrades signal strength coverage outside of a prescribed region. An algorithm is used to control the antenna system to monitor and control antenna system performance across the service area. This antenna system technique is applicable for use in communication systems such as a Local Area Network (LAN), cellular communication network, and Machine to Machine (M2M).
US10171134B2
If RF intensity is strong, an excessive voltage may be generated in an NFC IC to destroy the IC. Thus, an inexpensive arrangement for preventing the NFC IC from being destroyed is required. According to an embodiment of this invention, an electric device for performing short distance wireless communication with a mobile terminal by induced power from the mobile terminal has the following arrangement. That is, the arrangement includes an antenna configured to generate the induced power by an RF signal from the mobile terminal, an element configured to drop a peak voltage generated by the induced power, a circuit driven by the dropped voltage and configured to perform the short distance wireless communication, and a light emission element driven by the dropped voltage and configured to emit light.
US10171127B2
A system comprises a receiver comprising a first pseudorandom binary sequence module, and a transmitter comprising a second pseudorandom binary sequence module. The first pseudorandom binary sequence module is initialized with a first received bit sequence to start bit sequence generation with the aid of the second pseudorandom binary sequence module. Further, received remaining bits are compared to bit sequences generated with the aid of the first pseudorandom binary sequence module to determine whether a bit error rate is below a predefined threshold.
US10171124B2
Methods and devices useful in concurrently receiving and supporting Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) and Long Term Evolution Licensed Assisted Access (LTE-LAA) wireless data signals are provided. By way of example, an electronic device includes a front end module having an arbiter device that controls one or more gain stages to selectively amplify the Wi-Fi and LTE-LAA signals.
US10171109B2
Disclosed is a fast encoding method suitable for Reed-Solomon codes with a small number of redundancies including a step of setting parity-check matrices including presetting parity-check matrices H2 and H3 in which the number of redundant symbols s in the Reed-Solomon codes is 2 or 3. The method also includes a step of constructing the shortened Reed-Solomon codes including constructing (k, s) Reed-Solomon codes over a finite field GF(2m) that conform to the preset parity-check matrix; using k points {oi}i=1k in the R-points input {oi}i=0R−1 as message symbols, and setting the remaining points to zero; a step of encoding including recursively processing the R-points input to obatin s redundant symbols, achieving the encoding of Reed-Solomon codes with a small number of redundancies. Embodiments of the present invention further include an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium.
US10171101B1
This application relates to modulators for providing time-encoded signals and in particular PWM signals. A modulator (200) has a first controlled oscillator (201P) configured to receive a first oscillator driving signal and output a first oscillation signal (S1). An accumulator (204) is configured to provide an accumulator value (VAL) based on a number of pulses of the first oscillation signal and a hysteretic comparator (205) alternates between first and second output states based on a hysteretic comparison of the accumulator value with a defined reference (REF). The first oscillator driving signal is based on a combination of an input signal and a feedback signal derived from an output of the hysteretic comparator. A second controlled oscillator (201N) may be configured to receive a second oscillator driving signal and output a second oscillation signal (S2) and the accumulator may provide the accumulator value based on a difference in the number of pulses of the first oscillation signal and the second oscillation signal.
US10171094B2
A circuit device includes a phase comparator that performs phase comparison between an input signal based on an oscillation signal and a reference signal, a processor that performs a signal process on frequency control data based on a result of the phase comparison, and an oscillation signal generation circuit that generates the oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency which is set on the basis of frequency control data having undergone the signal process. The phase comparator includes a counter that performs a count operation by using the input signal, and performs the phase comparison by comparing a count value in the counter inn (where n is an integer of 2 or more) cycles of the reference signal with an expected value of the count value in integers.
US10171093B2
A method of controlling and maintaining a constant slew rate at an output of a buffer is provided. The method includes the following steps: (a) receiving, (i) a first input signal and (ii) at least one of a control voltage using the buffer; (b) generating a threshold voltage using a first reference voltage generator; (c) comparing (i) the threshold voltage with an output of the buffer using at least one of a comparator; (d) determining a phase difference using a phase detector; (e) producing a DC voltage using a loop filter; (f) generating a reference voltage; (g) receiving the DC voltage and the reference voltage using an amplifier; (h) amplifying the difference between (a) said DC voltage, and (b) the reference voltage to obtain a control voltage using the amplifier; and (i) feeding the control voltage to the buffer.
US10171092B2
A time clock signal processing system and method thereof, applicable to an environment of USB synchronous mode audio clock reconstruction, is disclosed. The clock signal processing method employed by the clock signal processing system first uses a first-stage phase-locked loops (PLL) to raise the frequency of the inputted USB start-of-frame (SOF) field, provides clock synchronization and outputs the second-stage PLL; then, the second-stage PLL reduces the timing jitter of the output of the first-stage PLL to below 20 ps.
US10171083B2
A new lower-power gate design for memristor-based Boolean operations. Such a design offers a uniform cell that is configurable to perform all Boolean operations, including the XOR operation. For example, a circuit to perform the AND operation utilizes a first memristor and a second memristor connected in series. The circuit further includes a switch, where a node of the second memristor is connected to the switch. Furthermore, the circuit includes a third memristor connected to the switch in series, where the switch and the third memristor are connected in parallel to the first and second memristors. Additionally, the first voltage source is connected to the first memristor via a first resistor. In addition, a second voltage source is connected in series to the switch and the third memristor. In such a design, the delay is reduced to a single step and the area is reduced to at most 3 memristors.
US10171075B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for biasing a high speed and high voltage driver using only low voltage transistors are described. The apparatus and method are adapted to control biasing voltages to the low voltage transistors such as not to exceed operating voltages of the low voltage transistors while allowing for DC to high speed operation of the driver at high voltage. A stackable and modular architecture of the driver and biasing stages is provided which can grow with a higher voltage requirement of the driver. Capacitive voltage division is used for high speed bias voltage regulation during transient phases of the driver, and resistive voltage division is used to provide bias voltage at steady state. A simpler open-drain configuration is also presented which can be used in pull-up or pull-down modes.
US10171067B2
A waveform shaping filter according to an embodiment includes at least one filter stage and a control circuit. The filter stage includes a differentiation signal generation circuit, a proportional signal generation circuit, and an adder circuit. The differentiation signal generation circuit generates a differentiation signal obtained by amplifying a differentiation component of an input signal. The proportional signal generation circuit generates a proportional signal obtained by amplifying the input signal. The adder circuit outputs an output signal obtained by adding the proportional signal and the differentiation signal. The control circuit compares the output signal and a first detection level, detects at least one of an overshoot and an undershoot of the output signal, and controls a time constant of the filter stage, based on a detection result.
US10171056B2
An apparatus and a method for improving nonlinearity of a power amplifier in a wireless communication system are provided. A transmission apparatus in a wireless communication system comprises: at least one processor; a transceiver; and an amplifier for amplifying a signal provided from the transceiver, wherein if a power of a signal inputted into the transceiver is smaller than a reference value, the transceiver attenuates the power of the signal based on a gain compensation value corresponding to the power of the signal.
US10171054B1
An approach is provided that compares inputs received at a system to a set of rules. The rules include both static rules as well as dynamic rules. The approach retrieves audio adjustments based on the comparison of inputs to the rules. The approach then automatically adjusts an output of an audio system based on the retrieved audio adjustment.
US10171053B2
Apparatus and methods for power amplifiers with an injection-locked oscillator driver stage are provided herein. In certain configurations, a multi-mode power amplifier includes a driver stage implemented using an injection-locked oscillator and an output stage having an adjustable supply voltage that changes based on a mode of the multi-mode power amplifier. By implementing the multi-mode power amplifier in this manner, the multi-mode power amplifier exhibits excellent efficiency, including when the voltage level of the adjustable supply voltage is relatively low.
US10171047B2
A power amplifier circuit comprising a transistor for receiving a signal to be amplified at an input and for outputting an amplified signal at an output; a modulated power supply connected to the transistor output; and a resistive element connected at the transistor output such that a low impedance is maintained at the transistor output across a range of operational frequencies.
US10171046B2
According to an embodiment, a method includes amplifying a signal provided by a capacitive signal source to form an amplified signal, detecting a peak voltage of the amplified signal, and adjusting a controllable impedance coupled to an output of the capacitive signal source in response to detecting the peak voltage. The controllable impedance is adjusted to a value inversely proportional to the detected peak voltage.
US10171035B2
The present invention disclosure provides a multiplier and a power factor correction circuit which the multiplier is applied. The multiplier comprises a Gilbert multiplier circuit comprising a first differential input stage, a second differential input stage and an output stage; a first differential voltage conversion circuit; a second differential voltage conversion circuit; and a bias current generating circuit; Wherein said output stage comprises: a current mirror unit comprising two current input terminals and a current output terminal; and a feedback control unit configured to ensure that the current output terminal does not output current when the voltage difference received by the multiplier is zero. The present invention is advantageous in improving the linearity of the multiplier and the accuracy of the output current of the multiplier output current.
US10171019B1
A controller includes a torque command value calculation module configured to calculate a torque command based on a speed command of the motor, an output voltage controlling module configured to control an output voltage of the power converter based on the torque command calculated by the torque command value calculation module, a voltage command value correcting module configured to correct a voltage command to the power converter based on a measured output voltage from the power converter, a flux estimation module configured to estimate stator flux and rotor flux of the motor in a subsequent control period based on the voltage command by the voltage command value correcting module and a measured current of the stator and a motor speed estimation module configured to estimate a speed of the motor in a subsequent control period based on the flux estimated by the flux estimation module.
US10171009B2
A device and a method for moving an object in a vertical direction are disclosed. The device includes a plurality of piezo-actuators expanding in directions upon activation and in doing so generating pressure forces on an active side, and a hydraulic transmission device that converts the pressure forces of the piezo-actuators into a vertical pressure force for moving the object opposite the direction of gravity and transmits the pressure force with a transmission ratio. The object is lifted after the vertical pressure force has exceeded an oppositely acting spring force of a spring system.
US10171008B2
A vibration wave motor includes a vibrating plate having a rectangular surface; a piezoelectric device bonded to the vibrating plate, and configured to vibrate at high frequency; and a projection provided on the vibrating plate or the piezoelectric device. In the vibration wave motor, a natural vibration mode, which has a resonant frequency equal to or adjacent to a resonant frequency of torsional vibration in a natural vibration mode under a state in which the vibrating plate, the piezoelectric device, and the projection are integrated, is a natural vibration mode of bending vibration in a direction parallel to or orthogonal to a torsion center axis of the torsional vibration in the natural vibration mode. The projection is provided at a position closer to an antinode than to a node, which are in the direction orthogonal to the torsion center axis of the torsional vibration in the natural vibration mode.
US10170999B2
Systems and methods are provided for regulating a power conversion system. An example system controller includes: a signal generator configured to receive a converted signal and a first compensation signal and generate a second compensation signal based at least in part on the converted signal and the first compensation signal, the converted signal being associated with an input signal for a power conversion system; a modulation component configured to receive the second compensation signal and a ramping signal and generate a modulation signal based at least in part on the second compensation signal and the ramping signal; and a drive component configured to receive the modulation signal and output a drive signal based at least in part on the modulation signal to a switch to affect the first current, the drive signal being associated with an on-time period, the switch being closed during the on-time period.
US10170998B2
An apparatus for generating injection current for a fuel cell stack includes a switch configured to retain any one state of an on state and an off state; an inductor configured to output accumulated energy according to a state of the switch; and a converter configured to provide an output of the inductor to a load or convert the output into a predetermined voltage and provide the predetermined voltage to a load.
US10170994B1
The described embodiments include an apparatus that controls voltages for an integrated circuit chip having a set of circuits. The apparatus includes a switching voltage regulator separate from the integrated circuit chip and two or more low dropout (LDO) regulators fabricated on the integrated circuit chip. During operation, the switching voltage regulator provides an output voltage that is received as an input voltage by each of the two or more LDO regulators, and each of the two or more LDO regulators provides a local output voltage, each local output voltage received as a local input voltage by a different subset of circuits in the set of circuits.
US10170993B2
A control system for a DC-DC voltage converter includes a microcontroller having first and second applications. The first application commands the microcontroller to generate a first signal that is received at a first pin on a high side integrated circuit to transition a first plurality of FET switches to an open operational state, and that is received at a first pin on the low side integrated circuit to transition a second plurality of FET switches to the open operational state. The second application commands the microcontroller to generate a second signal that is received at a second pin on the high side integrated circuit to transition the first plurality of FET switches to the open operational state, and that is received at a second pin on the low side integrated circuit to transition the second plurality of FET switches to the open operational state.
US10170992B1
A circuit and a method for power conversion and for generating an output voltage in accordance with a reference voltage are presented. The power converter has a circuit for filtering the output voltage, an error amplifier circuit that compares the reference voltage and the filtered output voltage for generating an error voltage as a result of the comparison. There is a circuit for driving one or more switching devices in dependence on the error voltage. The error amplifier circuit has a first differential circuit and a first bias current generation circuit for generating a first bias current for the first differential circuit, a second differential circuit and a second bias current generation circuit for generating a second bias current for the second differential circuit, and a circuit for redistributing the first bias current to the second differential circuit or redistributing the second bias current to the first differential circuit.
US10170988B2
An operation mode selection unit selects an operation mode of a power converter and generates a mode selection signal indicating the result of selection, in accordance with a load condition and a power supply condition. An operation mode switching control unit generates a mode control signal designating an operation mode of the power converter. When the operation mode currently selected by the mode control signal is different from an operation mode indicated by the mode selection signal, the operation mode switching control unit adjusts a power distribution ratio between a plurality of DC power supplies or an output voltage on an electric power line so as not to change abruptly, and then permits a transition of operation mode.
US10170969B2
A power generation device of the present invention includes: a first magnet member; a second magnet member having its N-pole reversely disposed to an N-pole of the first magnet member; a center yoke capable of horizontally shifting and disposed between the first magnet member and the second magnet member; a coil disposed at the outer circumference of the center yoke; and a drive member horizontally shifting while holding the first magnet member and the second magnet member. The drive member and the center yoke horizontally shift in a first direction. After the horizontal shift of the center yoke in the first direction stops, the drive member further horizontally shifts in the first direction, and the center yoke horizontally shifts in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US10170962B2
A laminated iron core includes laminated iron core pieces, in which coupling parts are formed so as to communicate in a lamination direction of the laminated iron core pieces, and the coupling parts are filled with resins. The laminated iron core satisfies the following formula: (T×S)/η>{(4×E×δ×w×t3)/L3}×n, where T is a strength (N/mm2) of the resin; S is a cross-sectional area (mm2) of the coupling part or the resin; E is a Young's modulus (N/mm2) of the strip material; δ is a distortion amount (mm) of the iron core piece; w is a width (mm) of the iron core piece in a radial direction; t is a plate thickness (mm) of the iron core piece; n is the number of laminated iron core pieces; L is a distance (mm) between the coupling parts adjacent in the circumferential direction; and η is a safety factor.
US10170961B2
A blower motor of a heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a vehicle includes: a base including an introduction path to introduce air into the base and a substrate having a plurality of elements attached to the substrate, and a heat sink formed to have a plate shape in surface contact with one surface of the substrate and having a contact surface contacting the air introduced through the introduction path and configured to guide the introduced air to heat generation parts formed on the contact surface.
US10170959B2
A motor having an axis of rotation is provided. The motor includes a housing, a first shaft coupled to the housing and a second shaft coupled to the first shaft. The motor further includes a stator coupled to the housing and comprising an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface, wherein the inner circumferential surface defines a stator bore around the axis of rotation. A gearbox is coupled to the first shaft and to the second shaft and positioned within the stator bore. The motor includes a rotor coupled to the first shaft and adjacent the stator.
US10170957B2
A controlling device integrated rotating electric machine including a rotating electric machine's main body having a rotor winding and a stator winding, a power converter circuit connected to the rotor winding and the stator winding and having a control board and a power module and a smoothing condenser, a heat sink having a container portion swelling out towards a front side and attached to a rear side of the rotating electric machine's main body, a case, containing the control board and the power module, formed of a power supply wiring and a grounding wiring connected to a battery placed outside, and fixed to a rear side of the heat sink, and a sealing resin body sealing the control board and the power module contained in the case, wherein the smoothing condenser is joined with the power supply wiring and the grounding wiring, and is contained in the container portion.
US10170955B2
A motor includes a motor assembly, an end cap, a flexible insulating sleeve, and a flexible enclosure. The motor assembly includes a stator, a rotor, and wiring connected to the stator. The end-cap is coupled to the motor assembly to produce first sub-assembly. In addition, the end-cap includes an electrical fitting for feeding the wiring externally of the motor. The flexible insulating sleeve fits over at a least a portion the first sub-assembly to produce a second sub-assembly. The flexible enclosure includes a formed housing section and a connecting section. The formed housing section loosely fits over the second sub-assembly prior to tightening of the connecting section and, when the connecting section is tightened, the formed housing section tightly fits over the second sub-assembly compressing the flexible insulating sleeve to produce an insulating seal.
US10170953B2
A planar composite structure (PCS) for use in an axial flux motor or generator may include a conductive layer disposed on a dielectric layer, with the conductive layer comprising conductive traces that form portions of at least two windings that, when energized, generate magnetic flux for at least two corresponding phases of the motor or generator. A PCS may additionally or alternatively include a first conductive layer comprising first conductive traces that form a first portion of a winding that, when energized, generates magnetic flux for a first phase of the motor or generator, and a second conductive layer, which is different than the at least one first conductive layer, comprising second conductive traces that form a second portion of the winding. The first portion of the winding may be connected in series with the second portion of the winding, and the first and second portions of the winding may be configured and arranged such that a same amount of current flows through each of the first and second portions of the winding.
US10170947B2
A laminated core 10 including a plurality of laminated iron core pieces, each of the iron core pieces being connected in a laminating direction by filling resin in a plurality of resin holes penetrating the laminated core 10 in the laminating direction, and a method for manufacturing the laminated core 10, by making a junction area of an iron core piece (A) 13 and resin larger than a junction area of an iron core piece (U) 14 and resin, the iron core piece (A) 13 being provided on an end in an axial direction, the iron core pieces (U) 14 being arranged at positions other than the end in the axial direction, or by providing locking portions at tip portions of resin, acquired joint strength of the iron core piece (A) 13.
US10170946B2
An apparatus includes a motor having a rotor; and a stator, where the rotor is located at least partially in a rotor receiving area of the stator, where the stator includes at least one coil winding and teeth, where the at least one coil winding is located on at least some of the teeth, where the teeth include a first set of the teeth and a second set of the teeth, where the teeth of the first set of teeth are longer in a radial direction from the rotor receiving area than the teeth of the second set of teeth.
US10170940B2
A load-independent Class EF inverter may maintain ZVS operation, and produce a constant output current, rather than a constant output voltage, regardless of the load resistance. A constant output current allows the inverter to operate efficiently for a load range from zero resistance (short circuit) to a certain maximum load resistance, making the inverter more suitable as a coil driver for an IPT system. The resonant frequency of the resonant circuit may be tuned to a non-integer multiple of a switching frequency.
US10170928B2
A charging combination includes a power output device which is configured to output electric energy constantly or adjustably and a power input device which is configured to receive electric energy from the power output device. The power output device includes a power supply module for storing electric energy or obtaining electric energy from an external power grid as an energy source, a first USB connector for being connected with the power supply module and at least configured to transfer electric energy, and a first control module having a first controller which is at least configured to control an output voltage of the first USB connector when supplying electric energy. The power input device comprises a second USB connector at least configured to be electrically coupled to the first USB connector for transferring electric energy, and a second control module comprising a second controller at least configured to communicate with the first controller and to control the second USB connector. The first USB connector provides an output voltage which is greater than or equal to 5V.
US10170926B2
A method for transmitting wireless power in a wireless charging system is provided and includes receiving at least one of information on an available maximum temperature and maximum voltage value information of a back end of a rectification unit from at least one wireless power receiving unit (PRU) from among a plurality of PRUs, receiving at least one of information on a current temperature and current voltage value information of the back end of the rectification unit from each of the plurality of PRUs, and determining a dominant PRU among the plurality of PRUs based on the at least one of information.
US10170922B1
An electronic circuit is disclosed. The electronic circuit includes a GaN substrate, a first power supply node on the substrate, an output node, a signal node, and an output component on the substrate, where the output component is configured to generate a voltage at the output node based at least in part on a voltage at the signal node. The electronic circuit also includes a capacitor coupled to the signal node, where, the capacitor is configured to selectively cause the voltage at the signal node to be greater than the voltage of the first power supply node, such that the output component causes the voltage at the output node to be substantially equal to the voltage of the first power supply node.
US10170920B2
Each charging member in a group identifies a docking connection. Each charging member, responsive to identifying the docking connection, transmits information to other charging members in the group and receives information transmitted from another charging member in the group. Each charging member generates a list using the information transmitted to the group and received from the group. Each charging member also includes a ranking component for filtering, sorting, and ranking entries in the list according to a predefined selection filter and/or ranking filter. Each entry in the list is associated with a charging member with a docking connection and in the group. Each charging member determines based on a predefined indication filter that an entry in the list that is associated with the charging member is ranked at a predefined position in the list and provides an indication.
US10170910B2
An energy baselining system is provided that performs validation, estimation, and editing (VEE). The system includes a facility model processor, a post VEE readings data stores, a VEE configuration engine, and a global model module. The facility model processor is configured to employ one or more interval based energy consumption streams corresponding to a facility to develop and maintain weather-normalized baseline energy consumption data for the facility, where the weather-normalized baseline energy consumption data is derived from training data for the facility. The post VEE readings data stores is configured to provide a plurality of tagged energy consumption data sets that are each associated with a corresponding one of the one or more interval based energy consumption streams, each of the plurality of tagged energy consumption data sets comprising first groups of contiguous interval values tagged as having been validated and second groups of contiguous interval values tagged as having been edited. The VEE configuration engine is configured to read the post VEE readings data stores upon initiation of an event and, for the each of the plurality of tagged energy consumption data sets, is configured to create a plurality of anomalies having a plurality of different durations using only the first groups of contiguous interval values, and is configured to generate a plurality of estimates for the plurality of anomalies by employing a plurality of estimation techniques and, for each of the plurality of different durations, is configured to select one of the plurality of estimation techniques for subsequent employment when performing VEE of subsequent energy consumption data for the corresponding one of the one or more interval based energy consumption streams. The global model module is configured to receive the weather-normalized baseline energy consumption data and post VEE readings data, and is configured to generate and display comparisons of the weather-normalized baseline energy consumption data with the post VEE readings data.
US10170893B1
An example method includes stacking a plurality of laser diode bars proximate an alignment plate. Each respective laser diode bar has a front edge through which the respective laser diode bar emits light. The alignment plate has a first side that provides a common plane for aligning the front edges of the laser diode bars and a second side opposite the first side. The alignment plate has a plurality of microholes extending between the first and second sides. The method also includes applying suction to the plurality of laser diode bars through the plurality of microholes. The suction draws the front edges of the laser diode bars against the first side of the alignment plate such that the front edges of the laser diode bars are aligned in the common plane. Conductive plates used to clamp the plurality of laser diodes therebetween may be aligned in a similar fashion.
US10170890B2
A surface-emitting semiconductor laser has a semiconductor structure that includes a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, and a side surface that extends from the second side to the first side; a first electrode provided on the first side of the semiconductor structure; and a second electrode provided on the first side of the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a substrate, a first stacked semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, an active layer disposed on the first stacked semiconductor layer, and a second stacked semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer. The first stacked semiconductor layer includes a first distributed Bragg reflector, and the second stacked semiconductor layer includes a second distributed Bragg reflector. The semiconductor structure side surface has at least an upper surface that is free of chipping.
US10170883B1
The present architecture utilizes a Nonlinear Scattering Aperture Combiner that does not need to be optically multiplexed and then drives a Direct Compressor stage that produces a large temporal compression ratio to pump a Fast Compressor. This eliminates the need for a separate array of ATDMs, multiplexing optical elements, and, at the approximate 107 joule energy output required for ICF, reduces the number of mechanical elements and gas interfaces from the order of 103 to about 10. In addition, this provides a large reduction of the volume of the gas containment region. In order to accomplish this, a technique for transversely segmenting by color and/or polarization of the optical extraction beams of the Direct Compressor has been invented. In particular, it emphasizes the simplicity and uniqueness of design of the Direct Compressor. The Direct Compressor is unique in terms of high fluence, high temporal compression ratios, and high stage gain, leading to a very large reduction in laser costs. It may separately have many other applications than ICF.
US10170879B2
A power distribution unit (PDU) having a connector to connect to an input power supply and a plurality of power outlet sockets for receiving plugs having a number of pins. Each power outlet socket has a mechanical locking mechanism movable between a locked position and an unlocked position when a plug is inserted into the power outlet socket to lock and unlock a plug pin in the power outlet socket. Absent actuation the locked position is adopted. Each power outlet socket includes an externally, manually actuatable, first release element, and an internally, electrically actuatable, second release element. A power sensor detects whether or not power is being drawn and, for power outlet sockets which currently host a plug and are not drawing power, the second release element is actuated by the PDU so as to unlock the mechanical locking mechanism, thereby freeing up the associated plugs for removal.
US10170875B2
The embodiments relate to an apparatus allowing for the insertion and removal of multiple like and/or unlike connectors simultaneously without requiring permanent connector modification. The apparatus includes at least a first housing and a second housing. The first housing receives a first connector and the second housing receives a second connector. The first housing has a first variable aperture and the second housing has a second variable aperture. The first aperture is adjusted by a first retainer to hold the first connector in the first housing. The second aperture is adjusted by a second retainer to hold the second connector in the second housing. The first housing has a first exterior wall sized to receive and secure a second exterior wall of the second housing to form an assembly of the connectors.
US10170867B2
An electrical connector includes an insulation body having a base and a tongue located in a front end of the base, terminals arranged in upper and lower rows, and a middle grounding plate disposed in the base and extending to the tongue. Terminals in the upper and lower rows are arranged on upper and lower surfaces of the tongue, respectively. The middle grounding plate is located between the upper and lower rows of terminals, and having at least one first hole. An edge of each of two lateral sides of the middle grounding plate is inwardly depressed to form a first groove. The first hole is located between the two first grooves. The insulation body has a first insulation post and a second insulation post, the first insulation post protrudes into the first hole, and the second insulation post protrudes into the first grooves on the lateral sides.
US10170865B2
The electric shielded wire connection structure includes: a lower side case that accommodates a rotary electric machine; an upper side case that is positioned immediately above, and facing, the lower side case and accommodates an inverter; a plurality of electric wires that is arranged in a state where one end thereof is connected to a lower side terminal block immediately under the upper side case, the other end thereof is connected to an upper side terminal block at a wall surface side end part of the upper side case, and the plurality of electric wires is bent from the position immediately under the upper side case so as to face the wall surface; and a braided shielding member that shields the plurality of electric wires and is arranged for the plurality of electric wires only at the side opposite to the surface facing the upper side case.
US10170859B2
In an interface apparatus, when a load is applied to a base member and a connector part is pushed onto an external connector, a spring contracts so that an interval between the base member and a holder is reduced. An inclined surface of a coupling member is separated from an inclined surface of the holder so that fixing of the holder by the coupling member is released and the coupling member can move freely inside a hollow section. As a result, the holder and the connector part can move freely in X-Y directions relative to the base member, and a terminal of a connector can be finely adjusted in the X-Y direction, thus being precisely aligned with the external connector.
US10170846B2
In electrocardiography (ECG) system, a patient cable connecting one or more electrodes to a processing device for processing ECG signals may include one or more electrode connectors mechanically keyed to respective electrodes and/or a device connector mechanically and/or electronically keyed to a cable connector of the processing device. In some embodiments, keying between the cable and electrode is achieved, for example, with an electrode including a hollow-post portion that defines a bore in conjunction with a post protruding from an arm of the electrode connector that is sized to fit within the bore.
US10170836B2
In a coil antenna device, a multilayer structure includes non-magnetic sheets and magnetic sheets stacked on each other. A coil conductor is provided in the multilayer structure such that a portion of the magnetic material defines a magnetic core and such that a coil axis extends along a principle surface of the multilayer structure. The coil conductor includes a plurality of line conductors each of which extends on one principle surface side of the magnetic material, a plurality of line conductors each of which extends on the other principle surface side of the magnetic material, and a plurality of via-hole conductors extending in a thickness direction of the multilayer structure so as to be surrounded with the magnetic material. The plurality of via-hole conductors defines a coiled structure together with the line conductors.
US10170829B2
An antenna array including a radiating structure formed from an array of radiating elements forming self-complementary patterns, the radiating surface separated from a ground plane by a dielectric layer, the antenna comprises an array of metallized vias passing through the dielectric layer between the radiating surface and the ground plane, each via being positioned facing a given point, referred to as the particular point, of a radiating element. The particular points may be located between two consecutive electrical supply points of a radiating element.
US10170808B2
A battery pack including a plate-shaped cooling plate; a plurality of battery modules, the plurality of battery modules being mounted on a top surface of the cooling plate; and at least one bracket on one lengthwise side of the cooling plate.
US10170806B2
A battery cooling system includes: a housing in which an inlet duct from which air is introduced and an outlet duct through which the air is discharged are mounted; a first battery mounted in the housing and disposed between the inlet duct and the outlet duct; and a low voltage battery disposed between the first battery and the inlet duct.
US10170803B2
A controller for a lithium ion secondary battery, includes an electronic control unit configured to: detect an SOC of a lithium ion secondary battery that is a controlled object; set an upper limit SOC and lower limit SOC of a range of use of the lithium ion secondary battery on the basis of the SOC of the lithium ion secondary battery; record a charge history and discharge history of the lithium ion secondary battery; determine whether the lithium ion secondary battery is in an excessive charging state or an excessive discharging state on the basis of the charge history and the discharge history; and raise the lower limit SOC when the lithium ion secondary battery is in the excessive charging state or lower the upper limit SOC when the lithium ion secondary battery is in the excessive discharging state.
US10170799B2
An electrochemical cell includes a negative electrode having at least two active metals, a positive electrode having a metal or alloy, and an electrolyte having a cation of each of the active metals. The electrolyte defines first and second interfaces with the positive electrode being in contact with the first interface and the negative electrode being in contact with the second interface. The electrolyte is configured to allow the cations of the active metals to be transferred from the negative electrode to the positive electrode during discharging and to be transferred from the positive electrode to the negative electrode during charging. The electrolyte exists as a liquid phase and the negative electrode and the positive electrode exist as liquid or partially liquid phases at operating temperatures of the electrochemical cell.
US10170792B2
Synthesis and electrochemical properties of a new class of low-glass-transition-temperature electrochemical cell polymers based on polyalkoxysiloxanes is described. Unlike ethyleneoxide (EO)-based polymers, these materials are oxidatively stable above 4.2 V, the operating voltage of high energy cells that use cathode materials such as nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (NCA) and nickel cobalt manganese oxide (NCM). Use of these electrochemical cell polymers as catholyte alternatives to PEO in high voltage cells is described.
US10170778B2
A thermal management system of a fuel cell vehicle includes a cold start loop which heats a coolant that flows through a fuel cell during a cold start of the fuel cell, and a cooling loop which moves a coolant that cools the fuel cell.
US10170772B2
A fluid flow plate for an electrochemical fuel cell assembly comprises a first plurality of fluid flow channels extending across an area of the flow plate to define a flow field of the fluid flow plate. An array of first fluid transfer points is disposed along an edge of the flow field for communicating fluid into to or out of the fluid flow channels. A gallery has a first peripheral edge portion bounded by the array of first fluid transfer points and at least two second peripheral edge portions each bounded by an array of second fluid transfer points disposed along fluid access edges of the fluid flow plate. The at least two second peripheral edge portions are disposed at oblique angles to the first peripheral edge portion such that the total length of the array of second fluid transfer points is at least as long as, and preferably longer than, the length of the array of first fluid transfer points. Disposing the at least two second peripheral edge portions at oblique angles to the first peripheral edge portion enables the lengths of the second peripheral edge portions of each gallery to be increased compared to the length of the first fluid transfer points (i.e. width of the active flow field area) which optimizes fluid distribution into the channels of the flow plate.
US10170771B2
The present invention provides a catalyst comprising a layer of metallic palladium implant¬ed with an inert gas ions, an electrochemical system containing thereof, a palladium-inert gas alloy stable in the normal conditions, use thereof and a fuel cell containing thereof.
US10170766B2
The present application relates to a cathode for a lithium-sulfur battery and a method of preparing the same. More specifically, the cathode for a lithium-sulfur battery according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application includes: a cathode active part including a sulfur-carbon composite; and a cathode coating layer including an amphiphilic polymer provided on at least one portion of a surface of the cathode active part and including a hydrophilic portion and a hydrophobic portion.
US10170758B2
A composite oxide with x wt.—parts Li2TiO3, preferably in its cubic modification of space group Fm-3m, y wt.—parts TiO2, z wt.—parts of Li2CO3 or LiOH, u wt.—parts of a carbon source and optionally v wt.—parts of a transition or main group metal compound and/or a sulphur containing compound, wherein x is between 2 and 3, y is between 3 and 4, z is between 0.001 and 1, u is between 0.05 and 1 and 0≤v<0.1 and the metal of the transition or main group metal compound is selected from Al, Mg, Ga, Fe, Co, Sc, Y, Mn, Ni, Cr, V or mixtures thereof. Also, a process for the preparation of a composition of non-doped and doped lithium titanate Li4Ti5O12, including secondary agglomerates of primary particles, using the composite oxide and its use as anode material in secondary lithium-ion batteries.
US10170753B2
The present invention relates to a nano-silicon composite negative electrode material, including graphite matrix and nano-silicon material homogeneously deposited inside the graphite matrix, wherein the nano-silicon composite negative electrode material is prepared by using silicon source to chemical-vapor deposit nano-silicon particles inside hollowed graphite. The nano-silicon composite negative electrode material of the present invention has features of high specific capacity (higher than 1000 mAh/g), high initial charge-discharge efficiency (higher than 93%) and high conductivity. The preparation process of the present invention is easy to operate and control, and has low production cost and is suitable for industrial production.
US10170742B2
Disclosed herein is a battery pack including an electrically insulative pack case. The battery pack includes a plate-shaped battery cell having an anode terminal and a cathode terminal formed at one side thereof including a sealed surplus portion, the battery cell being formed to have a planar quadrangular structure, a protection circuit module (PCM) electrically connected to the electrode terminals of the battery cell to control operation of the battery pack, the PCM being loaded on the sealed surplus portion of the battery cell, and a pack case applied to the sealed surplus portion of the battery cell, the PCM, and opposite sides of the battery cell in a thermally molten state and solidified, the pack case being configured to have a structure to cover the sealed surplus portion of the battery cell, the PCM, and the opposite sides of the battery cell in a state in which the top and bottom of the battery cell are open.
US10170734B2
The present application provides a top cover of a power battery, including a top cover plate, a first electrode unit and a second electrode unit, the top cover plate is provided with a deformable plate connecting hole and an insulation piece accommodating portion, the first electrode unit includes a deformable plate, a conductive plate and a first insulation piece, the deformable plate seals the deformable plate connecting hole, the conductive plate is located underneath the deformable plate, the first insulation piece includes a top cover plate connecting portion and a conductive plate connecting portion, the top cover plate connecting portion extends into the insulation piece accommodating portion and is fixed thereof, the conductive plate is insulated and fixed with the top cover plate through the conductive plate connecting portion. The present application further provides a power battery, including the top cover of the power battery.
US10170731B2
A mask for forming a pattern on a substrate is provided. The mask includes an anodic oxide film formed by anodizing metal, at least one transmission hole configured to vertically penetrate the anodic oxide film and formed in a corresponding relationship with the pattern, a plurality of pores formed in the anodic oxide film so as to have a smaller diameter than the transmission hole, and a magnetic material provided in each of the pores.
US10170727B2
An organic electroluminescent device with a touch sensor including: a first substrate; a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate; an organic EL element layer arranged above the first substrate; a first sealing film arranged toward the second substrate of the organic EL element layer, covering the organic EL element layer, and including a first inorganic layer; plural first detection electrodes extending in one direction, and arranged in parallel toward the second substrate of the first sealing film; a second sealing film arranged toward the second substrate of the first detection electrodes, and including a second inorganic layer; plural second detection electrodes extending in another direction different from the one direction, and arranged in parallel toward the second substrate of the second sealing film; and a touch sensor control unit controlling a potential to detect a touch with a display surface.
US10170726B2
A display device in which reliability of a display element is improved is provided. Alternatively, a display device in which reliability of a transistor is improved is provided. Alternatively, a display device in which an increase in an area of a periphery region is suppressed is provided. A display device includes a display region including a display element between a first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate in which the display region is surrounded by a first continuous sealant, the first sealant is surrounded by a second continuous sealant, and the second sealant is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and on at least one of a side surface of the first substrate and a side surface of the second substrate.
US10170722B2
Organic light-emitting device having low work function metal halide compound in hole injection layer
Provided is an organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, the organic layer including a low work function metal compound.
US10170715B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a vertical organic field-effect transistor, in which a vertical organic field-effect transistor with a layer arrangement is produced on a substrate, said layer arrangement including transistor electrodes, namely a first electrode (23; 24), a second electrode (23; 24) and a third electrode (32), electrically insulating layers (25; 34) and an organic semiconductor layer (28). In addition, a vertical organic field-effect transistor is provided, which includes a layer arrangement with transistor electrodes on a substrate (21).
US10170710B2
Provided is an organometallic complex which emits light with a short wavelength and has high emission efficiency and high heat resistance. The organometallic complex includes a central metal; and a first ligand, a second ligand, a third ligand, and a fourth ligand which are coordinated to the central metal. The first ligand includes a triazole skeleton including nitrogen bonded to the central metal. The second ligand includes an indolo[3,2-b]carbazole skeleton whose 6-position is bonded to the central metal or a pyrido[2,3-b:6,5-b′]diindole skeleton whose 6-position is bonded to the central metal. The third ligand includes a benzene skeleton whose carbon is bonded to the central metal. The fourth ligand includes a pyridine skeleton whose nitrogen is bonded to the central metal or a benzene skeleton whose carbon is bonded to the central metal.
US10170705B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode; wherein the electron transport region includes a condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1 below:
US10170700B2
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to fabrication of correlated electron materials used, for example, to perform a switching function. In embodiments, precursors, in a gaseous form, may be utilized in a chamber to build a film of correlated electron materials comprising various impedance characteristics.
US10170686B2
There is provided an electric energy generator system comprising: an ultrasonic-wave emission device configured to generate an ultrasonic-wave and emit the ultrasonic-wave; and an electric energy generator device configured to generate an electric energy upon a receipt of the emitted ultrasonic-wave.
US10170684B2
A tuning fork type crystal blank includes a base part, a pair of vibrating parts which extend from the base part parallel with each other, an auxiliary part including a support part located on one side of an alignment direction of the pair of vibrating parts relative to the base part and pair of vibrating parts and extending parallel with the pair of vibrating parts, and a holding part which is located on the opposite side to the pair of vibrating parts relative to the base part and connects the base part and the support part. When viewed in a planar view direction perpendicular to the alignment direction and to the direction in which the pair of vibrating parts extend, cut away part is formed in a side surface of the auxiliary part.
US10170677B2
A thermoelectric generator system according to the present disclosure includes first and second thermoelectric generator units, each including tubular thermoelectric generators. Each of the generators has a flow path defined by its inner peripheral surface, and generates electromotive force in an axial direction thereof based on a temperature difference between its inner and outer peripheral surfaces. Each unit further includes: a container housing the generators inside; and electrically conductive members providing electrical interconnection for the generators. The container has fluid inlet and outlet ports through which a fluid flows inside, and openings into which the generators are inserted. A buffer vessel is arranged between the first and second units, and has a first opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the first unit and a second opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the second unit.
US10170676B2
An embodiment relates to a light emitting device package and a lighting apparatus having the same. According to the embodiment, a light emitting device package includes a first lead frame; a second lead frame spaced apart from the first lead frame; a body coupled to the first lead frame and the second lead frame and includes a first cavity which exposes a portion of the upper surface of the first lead frame, a second cavity which exposes a portion of the upper surface of the second lead frame, and a spacer which is disposed between the first lead frame and the second frame; at least one light emitting device disposed in the first cavity; and a protection device disposed in the second cavity. The second cavity is disposed on a first inside surface of the first cavity and the first inside surface is connected to an upper surface of the spacer, and an area of a bottom surface of the first cavity is equal to or less than 40% of entire area of the body.
US10170662B2
A method for manufacturing a circuit board includes a first process, a second process, a third process, and a fourth process. The first process includes a step of providing a circuit and an electrode over a first surface of a first substrate. The second process includes a step of providing a reflective layer on the first surface side of the first substrate or a second surface side of a second substrate. The third process includes a step of attaching the first surface and the second surface to each other with a bonding layer therebetween to face each other so that the reflective layer overlaps with the electrode and the reflective layer surrounds part of the electrode. The fourth process includes a step of irradiating at least part of the reflective layer with laser light from a side opposite to the electrode.
US10170656B2
The present disclosure provides a multijunction solar cell that includes: a first sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a first set of one or more solar subcells; a graded interlayer adjacent to said first sequence of layers; a second sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a second set of one or more solar subcells; and a high band gap contact layer adjacent said second sequence of layers, wherein the high band gap contact layer is composed of p++ type InGaAlAs or InGaAs.
US10170652B2
A semiconductor device structure having increased photogenerated current density, and increased current output is disclosed. The device includes low bandgap absorber regions that increase the range of wavelengths at which photogeneration of charge carriers takes place, and for which useful current can be collected. The low bandgap absorber regions may be strain balanced by strain-compensation regions, and the low bandgap absorber regions and strain-compensation regions may be formed from the same ternary semiconductor family. The device may be a solar cell, subcell, or other optoelectronic device with a metamorphic or lattice-mismatched base layer, for which the low bandgap absorber region improves the effective bandgap combination of subcells and current balance within the multijunction cell, for higher efficiency conversion of the solar spectrum.
US10170649B2
Disclosed are metal chalcogenide nanoparticles forming a light absorption layer of solar cells including a first phase including copper (Cu)-tin (Sn) chalcogenide and a second phase including zinc (Zn) chalcogenide, and a method of preparing the same.
US10170644B2
A photovoltaic device is provided that includes a semiconductor substrate including a p-n junction with a p-type semiconductor portion and an n-type semiconductor portion one lying on top of the other, wherein an upper exposed surface of the semiconductor substrate represents a front side surface of the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of patterned antireflective coatings is located on the front side surface to provide a grid pattern including a busbar region and finger regions. The busbar region includes at least a real line interposed between at least two dummy lines. A material stack including at least one metal layer located on the semiconductor substrate in the busbar region and the finger regions.
US10170635B2
A semiconductor device includes a base; a gate electrode to which a gate voltage is applied; a source electrode and a drain electrode through which an electric current is generated according to the gate voltage being applied to the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer made of an oxide semiconductor; and a gate insulating layer inserted between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a channel-forming region and a non-channel-forming region; the channel-forming region is in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode, and the non-channel-forming region is in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US10170631B2
The manufacturing method of oxide thin film transistors (TFTs) includes: providing a substrate and forming an oxide semiconductor active layer on the substrate; depositing an insulation dielectric layer on the active layer; and applying an annealing process to components formed after the insulation dielectric layer is deposited. After depositing the gate insulation layer on the oxide semiconductor active layer, the annealing process is applied to the formed component, which eliminates the difference of the component performance caused by the insulation dielectric layer formed by different film formation processes such that the reproducibility of the film formation processes may be enhanced.
US10170625B2
Methods of forming a compact FinFET OTP/MTP cell and a compact FDSOI OTP/MTP cell and resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include providing a substrate having a BOX layer; forming fins on the BOX layer with a gap in between; forming first and second gates, laterally separated, over and perpendicular to the fins; forming at least one third gate between the first and second gates and contacting the BOX layer through the gap, each third gate overlapping an end of a fin or both fins; forming a S/D region in each of the fins adjacent to the first and second gates, respectively, remote from the at least one third gate; utilizing each of the first and second gates as a WL; utilizing each third gate as a SL or connecting a SL to the S/D region; and connecting a BL to the S/D region or the at least one third gate.
US10170623B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor device includes a plurality of fin shaped structures, a trench, a spacing layer and a dummy gate structure. The fin shaped structures are disposed on a substrate. The trench is disposed between the fin shaped structures. The spacing layer is disposed on sidewalls of the trench, wherein the spacing layer has a top surface lower than a top surface of the fin shaped structures. The dummy gate structure is disposed on the fin shaped structures and across the trench.
US10170615B2
A semiconductor device includes a source region and a drain region of a first conductivity type. The source region and the drain region are arranged in a first direction parallel to a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a layer stack having a drift layer of the first conductivity type and a compensation layer of a second conductivity type. The drain region is electrically connected with the drift layer. The semiconductor device also includes a connection region of the second conductivity type extending into the semiconductor substrate, the connection region being electrically connected with the compensation layer, wherein the buried semiconductor portion does not fully overlap with the drift layer.
US10170613B2
A semiconductor device includes a transistor, a semiconductor layer, an active region and a conductive layer. The active region is in the semiconductor layer. The conductive layer is configured to maintain a channel in the active region when the transistor is triggered to be conducted.
US10170612B2
Embodiments include epitaxial semiconductor stacks for reduced defect densities in III-N device layers grown over non-III-N substrates, such as silicon substrates. In embodiments, a metamorphic buffer includes an AlxIn1-xN layer lattice matched to an overlying GaN device layers to reduce thermal mismatch induced defects. Such crystalline epitaxial semiconductor stacks may be device layers for HEMT or LED fabrication, for example. System on Chip (SoC) solutions integrating an RFIC with a PMIC using a transistor technology based on group III-nitrides (III-N) capable of achieving high Ft and also sufficiently high breakdown voltage (BV) to implement high voltage and/or high power circuits may be provided on the semiconductor stacks in a first area of the silicon substrate while silicon-based CMOS circuitry is provided in a second area of the substrate.
US10170610B1
In certain aspects, a pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) comprises a substrate layer, a bottom barrier layer on the substrate layer, a channel layer on the bottom barrier layer, an upper barrier on the channel layer, and a source and a drain on the upper barrier layer. The source and the drain each has a cap layer, an Ohmic contact layer on the cap layer, and a metal contact layer on the Ohmic contact layer. The Ohmic contact layer has a smaller bandgap than the cap layer. The pHEMT further comprises a gate metal stack on the upper barrier layer.
US10170609B2
A semiconductor device includes a first source/drain region a second source/drain region, and a gate region interposed between the first and second source/drain regions. At least one nanowire has a first end anchored to the first source/drain region and an opposing second end anchored to the second source/drain region such that the nanowire is suspended above the wafer in the gate region. At least one gate electrode is in the gate region. The gate electrode contacts an entire surface of the nanowire to define a gate-all-around configuration. At least one pair of oxidized spacers surrounds the at least one gate electrode to electrically isolate the at least one gate electrode from the first and second source/drain regions.
US10170607B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate including a first conductivity-type drift layer, a second conductivity-type base layer disposed in a surface layer portion of the drift layer, and a second conductivity-type collector layer and a first conductivity-type cathode layer disposed opposite to the base layer with respect to the drift layer. In the semiconductor substrate, an IGBT region and a diode region are alternately and repetitively arranged. The IGBT region and the diode region are divided by a boundary between the collector layer and the cathode layer. The collector layer is defined as a first collector layer. The semiconductor device includes a second collector layer having a second conductivity-type impurity concentration higher than that of the first collector layer, at a surface of the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the first collector layer and the cathode layer.
US10170601B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a collector element formed in or over a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a semiconductor element over the collector element, and the semiconductor element has a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface. The semiconductor device structure further includes an emitter element over the top surface of the semiconductor element. In addition, the semiconductor device structure includes a base element over the collector element and in direct contact with the side surface of the semiconductor element.
US10170599B2
In a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor, the amount of oxygen vacancies is reduced. Moreover, electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor are improved. The semiconductor device includes a transistor including a gate electrode over a substrate, a gate insulating film covering the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film overlapping with the gate electrode with the gate insulating film provided therebetween, and a pair of electrodes in contact with the oxide semiconductor film; and over the transistor, a first insulating film covering the gate insulating film, the oxide semiconductor film, and the pair of electrodes; and a second insulating film covering the first insulating film. An etching rate of the first insulating film is lower than or equal to 10 nm/min and lower than an etching rate of the second insulating film when etching is performed at 25° C. with 0.5 weight % of hydrofluoric acid.
US10170595B2
A method of forming an arrangement of active and inactive fins on a substrate, including forming at least three vertical fins on the substrate, forming a protective liner on at least three of the at least three vertical fins, removing at least a portion of the protective liner on the one of the at least three of the at least three of vertical fins, and converting the one of the at least three of the at least three vertical fins to an inactive vertical fin.
US10170588B1
A method of forming a vertical transport fin field effect transistor is provided. The method includes forming a doped layer on a substrate, and forming a multilayer fin on the doped layer, where the multilayer fin includes a lower trim layer portion, an upper trim layer portion, and a fin channel portion between the upper and lower trim layer portions. A portion of the lower trim layer portion is removed to form a lower trim layer post, and a portion of the upper trim layer portion is removed to form an upper trim layer post. An upper recess filler is formed adjacent to the upper trim layer post, and a lower recess filler is formed adjacent to the lower trim layer post. A portion of the fin channel portion is removed to form a fin channel post between the upper trim layer post and lower trim layer post.
US10170573B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a metal gate on the substrate, and a first inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer around the metal gate. A top surface of the metal gate is lower than a top surface of the ILD layer thereby forming a recessed region atop the metal gate. A mask layer is disposed in the recessed region. A void is formed in the mask layer within the recessed region. A second ILD layer is disposed on the mask layer and the first ILD layer. A contact hole extends into the second ILD layer and the mask layer. The contact hole exposes the top surface of the metal gate and communicates with the void. A conductive layer is disposed in the contact hole and the void.
US10170564B2
Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including a vertical MOSFET having a planar gate. The manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes forming a n-type gallium nitride layer on a gallium nitride monocrystalline substrate, and forming an impurity-implanted region that contains impurities at a uniform concentration in a direction parallel to a main surface of the gallium nitride monocrystalline substrate, by ion-implanting the impurities into the n-type gallium nitride layer, where the impurities include at least one type selected from among magnesium, beryllium, calcium and zinc. Here, at least part of the impurity-implanted region serves as a channel forming region of the vertical MOSFET.
US10170561B1
In one embodiment, a diamond semiconductor device includes a first diamond semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type which has a main surface, a second diamond semiconductor layer of an i-type or a second conductivity type which is provided on the main surface of the first diamond semiconductor layer, and has a first side surface with a plane orientation of a {111} plane, a third diamond semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type which is provided on the first side surface, and a fourth diamond semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type which is provided on the main surface of the first diamond semiconductor layer and on a side surface of the second diamond semiconductor layer at a side opposite to a side of the third diamond semiconductor layer.
US10170560B2
A method for making a semiconductor device may include forming a plurality of stacked groups of layers on a semiconductor substrate, with each group of layers including a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The method may further include implanting a dopant in the semiconductor substrate beneath the plurality of stacked groups of layers in at least one localized region, and performing an anneal of the plurality of stacked groups of layers and semiconductor substrate and with the plurality of stacked groups of layers vertically and horizontally constraining the dopant in the at least one localized region.
US10170559B1
An RC-IGBT includes a semiconductor body formed having a base region incorporating a field stop zone where the base region and the field stop zone are both formed using an epitaxial process and the field stop zone has an enhanced doping profile to realize improved soft-switching performance for the semiconductor device. In alternate embodiments, RC-IGBT device, including the epitaxial layer field stop zone, are realized through a fabrication process that uses front side processing only to form the backside contact regions and the front side device region. The fabrication method forms an RC-IGBT device using front side processing to form the backside contact regions and then using wafer bonding process to flip the semiconductor structure onto a carrier wafer so that front side processing is used again to form the device region.
US10170556B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes preparing a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, forming a semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type over a main surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a plurality of first ditches in an upper surface portion of the semiconductor layer such that the first ditches are arranged in a first direction extending along an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a plurality of second ditches in bottom surface portions of each of the first ditches such that the second ditches are arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and covering a side wall of each of the first ditches with a first insulating film and a side wall and a bottom surface of each of the second ditches with a second insulating film thicker than the first insulating film.
US10170555B1
A method includes etching a substrate to form a first semiconductor strip. A first dummy gate structure is formed over a first channel region of the first semiconductor strip. First and second recesses are etched in the first semiconductor strip on either side of a first dummy gate. An intermetallic doping film is formed in the first recess and the second recess. A dopant of the intermetallic doping film is diffused into the first semiconductor strip proximate the recesses. Source/drain regions are epitaxially grown in the recesses. A device includes semiconductor strips and a plurality of gate stacks. A first epitaxial source/drain region is interposed between a first two of the plurality of gate stacks. A first dopant diffusion area surrounds the first epitaxial source/drain region and has a first concentration of a first dopant greater than a second concentration of the first dopant outside the first dopant diffusion area.
US10170552B2
Nanosheet semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming a first stack in a first device region, the first stack including layers of a first channel material and layers of a sacrificial material. A second stack is formed in a second device region, the second stack including layers of a second channel material, layers of the sacrificial material, and a liner formed around the layers of the second channel material. The sacrificial material is etched away using a wet etch that is selective to the sacrificial material and the second channel material and does not affect the first channel material or the liner. The liner protects the second channel material from the wet etch.
US10170545B2
The invention includes semiconductor constructions having trenched isolation regions. The trenches of the trenched isolation regions can include narrow bottom portions and upper wide portions over the bottom portions. Electrically insulative material can fill the upper wide portions while leaving voids within the narrow bottom portions. The trenched isolation regions can be incorporated into a memory array, and/or can be incorporated into an electronic system. The invention also includes methods of forming semiconductor constructions.
US10170540B2
Back end of the line (BEOL) capacitors and methods of manufacture are provided. The method includes forming wiring lines on a substrate, with spacing between adjacent wiring lines. The method further includes forming an air gap within spacing between the adjacent wiring lines by deposition of a capping material. The method further includes opening the air gap between selected adjacent wiring lines. The method further includes depositing conductive material within the opened air gap.
US10170539B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a stacked structure and contact vias. The stacked structure includes a plurality of conductive layers, and two adjacent conductive layers are isolated from each other with at least one dielectric layer. The contact vias have different heights, and partially through the stacked structure. Each of the plurality of contact vias is electrically connected to a corresponding conductive layer.
US10170538B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an MIS capacitor, including: a lower electrode formed with a semiconductor substrate having electrical conductivity and through which an electrical signal passes at a lower surface thereof; an insulating layer formed on the lower electrode; an upper electrode formed on the insulating layer and through which the electrical signal passes at an upper surface thereof; and a first conductive layer formed on side surfaces of the lower electrode so that the electrical signal passing the lower surface and an upper surface of the lower electrode passes along the side surfaces of the lower electrode, wherein the first conductive layer has electro conductivity higher than the electro conductivity of the lower electrode.
US10170530B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including as insulating substrate with a first through hole, a pad electrode positioned above the insulating substrate, and a signal line electrically connected to the pad electrode, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, a sealant which adheres the first substrate and the second substrate, a line substrate including a connection line and disposed below the insulating substrate, and a conductive material which electrically connects the pad electrode and the connection line, wherein the sealant is less absorptive than is the insulating substrate as to a wavelength less than 350 nm.
US10170527B2
An organic light emitting display device comprises a common voltage line formed over a peripheral region of a substrate; a passivation layer formed over a pixel region of the substrate and the peripheral region; pixel electrodes formed over the pixel region; and a pixel defining layer formed over the pixel region and the peripheral region. The pixel defining layer defines pixel openings overlapping the pixel electrodes, respectively. The device further comprises organic light emitting layers formed over the pixel region, and disposed in the pixel openings and over the pixel electrodes, respectively; and a common electrode formed over the pixel and peripheral regions. The common electrode is disposed over the pixel defining layer and the organic light emitting layers. The common electrode contacts the common voltage line. The passivation layer comprises a portion overlapping the common voltage line but not overlapping the pixel defining layer.
US10170523B2
The present invention relates to a touch sensitive display, which includes an upper substrate with a mask layer placed thereon, a touch sensing layer, a lower substrate, and an organic light-emitting assembly. The touch sensing layer is disposed below the upper substrate, and the lower substrate is disposed by facing with the upper substrate. The organic light-emitting assembly is disposed above the lower substrate with facing to the touch sensing layer. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing the touch sensitive display is provided.
US10170521B2
An organic light-emitting diode display device according to an embodiment includes a substrate on which red, green and blue sub-pixel regions are defined, first electrodes in the red, green and blue sub-pixel regions, respectively, and first, second and third light-emitting layers on the first electrodes in the red, green and blue sub-pixel regions, respectively. The organic light-emitting diode display device further includes a second electrode on the first, second and third light-emitting layers, and red, green and blue color filters disposed on the second electrode and corresponding to the red, green and blue sub-pixel regions, respectively, wherein a thickness of the first light-emitting layer is smaller than a thickness of the second light emitting layer.
US10170510B2
A color separation element array, an image sensor including the color separation element array, and an electronic device including the color separation element array are provided. The color separation element array includes a plurality of color separation elements configured to separate an incident light into a color light according to wavelength bands in a transparent layer, the plurality of color separation elements including a first element and a second element having different refractive indices, and the first element and second element being arranged in a horizontal direction.
US10170508B2
An optical package structure is provided. The optical package structure includes a substrate, a frame layer, an optical unit, a bonding layer, a transparent plate and an encapsulation layer. The frame layer formed on the substrate surrounds a cavity where the optical unit is located. The bonding layer covers a portion of an upper edge of the frame layer and exposes the other portion of the upper edge of the frame layer. The transparent plate mounted on the bonding layer extends across the optical unit and extends beyond an outer edge of the bonding layer. The encapsulation layer covers a lateral edge of the transparent plate and the outer edge of the bonding layer.
US10170502B2
A transistor array panel is manufactured by a method that reduces or obviates the need for highly selective etching agents or complex processes requiring multiple photomasks to create contact holes. The panel includes: a substrate; a buffer layer positioned on the substrate; a semiconductor layer positioned on the buffer layer; an intermediate insulating layer positioned on the semiconductor layer; and an upper conductive layer positioned on the intermediate insulating layer, wherein the semiconductor layer includes a first contact hole, the intermediate insulating layer includes a second contact hole positioned in an overlapping relationship with the first contact hole, and the upper conductive layer is in contact with a side surface of the semiconductor layer in the first contact hole.
US10170499B2
A plurality of semiconductor fins is formed on a surface of an insulator layer. Gate structures are then formed that are orientated perpendicular and straddle each semiconductor fin. A dielectric spacer is then formed on vertical sidewalls of each gate structure. Next, an etch is performed that removes exposed portions of each semiconductor fin and a portion of the insulator layer not protected by the dielectric spacers and the gate structures. The etch provides semiconductor fin portions that have exposed vertical sidewalls. A doped semiconductor material is then formed from each exposed vertical sidewall of each semiconductor fin portion, followed by an anneal which causes diffusion of dopants from the doped semiconductor material into each semiconductor fin portion and the formation of source/drain regions. The source/drain regions are present along the sidewalls of each semiconductor fin portion and are located beneath the dielectric spacers.
US10170493B1
Some embodiments include a method in which an assembly is formed to have voids within a stack, and to have slits adjacent the voids. Peripheral boundaries of the voids have proximal regions near the slits and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. A material is deposited within the voids under conditions which cause the material to form to a greater thickness along the distal regions than along the proximal regions. Some embodiments include an assembly having a stack of alternating first and second levels. The second levels include conductive material. Panel structures extend through the stack. The conductive material within the second levels has outer edges with proximal regions near the panel structures and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. Interface material is along the outer edges of the conductive material and has a different composition along the proximal regions than along the distal regions.
US10170489B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of high-voltage insulated-gate field-effect transistors arranged in a matrix form on the main surface of a semiconductor substrate and each having a gate electrode, a gate electrode contact formed on the gate electrode, and a wiring layer which is formed on the gate electrode contacts adjacent in a gate-width direction to electrically connect the gate electrodes arranged in the gate-width direction. And the device includes shielding gates provided on portions of an element isolation region which lie between the transistors adjacent in the gate-width direction and gate-length direction and used to apply reference potential or potential of a polarity different from that of potential applied to the gate of the transistor to turn on the current path of the transistor to the element isolation region.
US10170488B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a floating gate memory cell. The floating gate memory cell includes an erase gate structure disposed on the substrate, a first floating gate structure, a second floating gate structure, a first word line, a common source, a second word line, a first spacer and a second spacer. The first floating gate structure and the second floating gate structure are recessed in the substrate at two opposite sides of the erase gate structure. The first word line and the second word line are respectively adjacent to the first floating gate structure and the second floating gate structure. The common source is disposed in the substrate under the erase gate structure. The first spacer and the second spacer are respectively disposed between the first floating gate structure and the first word line and between the second floating gate structure and the second word line.
US10170481B2
A semiconductor memory device and a method of forming the same, the semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a plurality of bit lines, a gate, a spacer layer and a first spacer. The substrate has a memory cell region and a periphery region, the a plurality of bit lines are disposed on the substrate, within the memory cell region, and the gate is disposed on the substrate, within the periphery. The spacer layer covers the bit lines and a sidewall of the gate. The first spacer is disposed at two sides of the gate, covers on the spacer layer.
US10170470B2
A switching device may include a semiconductor substrate; gate trenches; bottom insulating layers covering bottom surfaces of the gate trenches; gate insulating layers covering side surfaces of the gate trenches; and gate electrodes arranged in the gate trenches. The gate insulating layers in a center portion may have a first thickness and a first dielectric constant, and one or more of the gate insulating layers in a peripheral portion may have, within at least a part of the peripheral portion, a second thickness thicker than the first thickness and a second dielectric constant greater than the first dielectric constant. The semiconductor substrate may include a first region being in contact with the gate insulating layers, a body region being in contact with the gate insulating layers under the first region, and a second region being in contact with the gate insulating layers under the body region.
US10170469B2
Various embodiments disclose a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure including a plurality of vertical transistors each having different threshold voltages. In one embodiment the method includes forming a structure having at least a substrate, a source contact layer on the substrate, a first spacer layer on the source contact layer, a replacement gate on the first spacer layer, a second spacer layer on the replacement gate, and an insulating layer on the second spacer layer. A first trench is formed in a first region of the structure. A first channel layer having a first doping concentration is epitaxially grown in the first trench. A second trench is formed in a second region of the structure. A second channel layer having a second doping concentration is epitaxially grown in the second trench. The second doping concentration is different from the first doping concentration.
US10170464B2
Structures and methods are provided for fabricating a semiconductor device (e.g., III-V compound semiconductor device) having buried resistors formed within a buffer layer of the semiconductor device. For instance, a semiconductor device includes a buffer layer disposed on a substrate, a channel layer disposed on the buffer layer, and a buried resistor disposed within the buffer layer. The buffer and channel layers may be formed of compound semiconductor materials such as III-V compound semiconductor materials. Utilizing the buffer layer of a compound semiconductor structure to form buried resistors provides a space-efficient design with increased integration density since the resistors do not have to occupy a large amount of space on the active surface of a semiconductor integrated circuit chip.
US10170459B1
Methods to forming low trigger-voltage ESD protection circuit in FinFET IC devices and resulting devices. Embodiments include providing a substrate including a first-type well area in an ESD region; forming a base junction of the first-type along the perimeter of the ESD region; forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) region adjacent the base junction; forming alternate emitter and collector junctions of a second-type adjacent the STI region, parallel to and spaced from each other by parallel additional STI regions; forming at least one gate perpendicular to and over a collector junction; and forming a floating ESD nodes of the first-type in the collector junction adjacent one side of the at least one gate.
US10170457B2
Chip on wafer on substrate structures and methods of forming are provided. The method includes attaching a first die and a second die to an interposer. The method also includes attaching a first substrate to a first surface of the first die and a first surface of the second die. The first substrate includes silicon. The first surface of the first side is opposite to the surface of the first die that is attached to the interposer, and the first surface of the second die is opposite to the surface of the second die that is attached to the interposer. The method includes bonding the interposer to a second substrate.
US10170452B2
A pixel unit structure, as well as a manufacturing method thereof, is provided. The pixel unit structure includes a display medium module and an active switching element. The display medium module includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a display medium. The first electrode and the second electrode are separated from each other, and the display medium is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The active switching element is electrically connected to the first electrode, for allowing the first electrode and the second electrode to change the state of the display medium. The active switching element includes a wafer portion and a transistor portion, which is formed on the wafer portion. Therefore, the active switching element can be manufactured independently without the restriction from the display medium module.
US10170450B2
A method for bonding and interconnecting two or more IC devices arranged on substrates such as silicon wafers is disclosed. In one aspect, the wafers are bonded by a direct bonding technique to form a wafer assembly, and the multiple IC devices are provided with metal contact structures. At least the upper substrate is provided prior to bonding with a cavity in its bonding surface. A TSV (Through Semiconductor Via) is produced through the bonded wafer assembly and an aggregate opening is formed including the TSV opening and the cavity. After the formation of an isolation liner on at least part of the sidewalls of the aggregate opening (that is, at least on the part where the liner isolates the aggregate opening from semiconductor material), a TSV interconnection plug is produced in the aggregate opening.
US10170448B2
Apparatuses for supplying power supply voltage in a plurality of dies are described. An example apparatus includes: a circuit board; a regulator on the circuit board that regulates a first voltage; a semiconductor device on the circuit board that receives the first voltage through a power line in the circuit board. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate on the circuit board, stacked via conductive balls, that receives the first voltage from the power line via the conductive balls; a plurality of dies on the semiconductor device, stacked via bumps, each die including a first conductive via that receives the first voltage via the bumps; a plurality of pillars between adjacent dies and couple the first conductive vias of the adjacent dies; and a sense node switch circuit that selectively couples one first conductive via of one die among the plurality of dies to the regulator.
US10170446B2
A method forming an interconnect structure includes depositing a first solder bump on a chip; depositing a second solder bump on a laminate, the second solder bump including a nickel copper colloid surrounded by a nickel or copper shell and suspended in a tin-based solder; aligning the chip with the laminate; performing a first reflow process to join the chip to the laminate; depositing an underfill material around the first solder bump and the second solder bump; and performing a second reflow process at a temperature that is lower than the first reflow process to convert the first solder bump and the second solder bump to an all intermetallic interconnect; wherein depositing the underfill material is performed before or after performing the second reflow process.
US10170445B2
A method for electrically coupling a pad and a front face of a pillar, including shaping the front face pillar, the front face having at least partially a convex surface, applying a suspension to the front face or to the pad, wherein the suspension includes a carrier fluid, electrically conducting microparticles and electrically conducting nanoparticles, arranging the front face of the pillar opposite to the pad at a distance such that the carrier fluid bridges at least partially a gap between the front face of the pillar and the pad, evaporating the carrier fluid thereby confining the microparticles and the nanoparticles, and thereby arranging the nanoparticles and the microparticles as percolation paths between the front face of the pillar and the pad, and sintering the arranged nanoparticles for forming metallic bonds at least between the nanoparticles and/or between the nanoparticles and the front face of the pillar or the pad.
US10170442B2
A mount structure includes two members that are bonded to each other with a bonding material layer having a first interface layer and a second interface layer at the interfaces with the two members. The bonding material layer contains a first intermetallic compound and a stress relaxation material. The first intermetallic compound has a spherical, a columnar, or an oval spherical shape, and the same crystalline structure as the first interface layer and the second interface layer, and partly closes the space between the first interface layer and the second interface layer. The stress relaxation material contains tin as a main component, and fills around the first intermetallic compound.
US10170440B2
A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor die, comprising a stacking structure, a first bonding pad, and a second bonding pad on a top surface of the stacking structure, wherein a shortest distance between the first bonding pad and the second bonding pad is less than 150 μm; a carrier comprising a connecting surface; a third bonding pad and a fourth bonding pad on the connecting surface of the carrier; and a conductive connecting layer comprising a current conductive area between the first bonding pad and the third bonding pad and between the second bonding pad and the fourth bonding pad.
US10170431B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic circuit package includes a substrate having a power supply pattern, a first electronic component mounted on a first region of a front surface of the substrate, a mold resin that covers the front surface of the substrate so as to embed the first electronic component therein and has a concave portion above the first region, a magnetic film selectively provided in the concave portion, and a first metal film that is connected to the power supply pattern and covers the mold resin.
US10170428B2
Embodiments are generally directed to cavity generation for an embedded interconnect bridge utilizing a temporary structure. An embodiment of a package includes a substrate; a silicon interconnect bridge including a plurality of interconnections, the interconnect bridge being embedded in the substrate; and a plurality of contacts on a surface of the substrate, the plurality of contacts being coupled with the plurality of interconnections of the interconnect bridge. The interconnect bridge is bonded in a cavity in the substrate, the cavity being formed by removal of at least one temporary structure from the substrate.
US10170416B2
A method is presented for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes depositing an insulating layer over a semiconductor substrate, etching the insulating layer to form trenches for receiving copper (Cu), selectively recessing the Cu at one or more of the trenches corresponding to circuit locations requiring electromigration (EM) short-length, and forming self-aligned conducting caps over the one or more trenches where the Cu has been selectively recessed. The conducting caps can be tantalum nitride (TaN) caps. The method further includes forming a via extending into each of the trenches for receiving Cu. Additionally, the via for trenches including recessed Cu extends to the self-aligned conducting cap, whereas the via for trenches including non-recessed Cu extends to a top surface of the Cu.
US10170413B2
A device is disclosed that includes a memory bit cell, a first word line, a pair of metal islands and a pair of connection metal lines. The first word line is disposed in a first metal layer and is electrically coupled to the memory bit cell. The pair of metal islands are disposed in the first metal layer at opposite sides of the word line and are electrically coupled to a power supply. The pair of connection metal lines are disposed in a second metal layer and are configured to electrically couple the metal islands to the memory bit cell respectively.
US10170404B2
A 3D-IC includes a first tier device and a second tier device. The first tier device and the second tier device are vertically stacked together. The first tier device includes a first substrate and a first interconnect structure formed over the first substrate. The second tier device includes a second substrate, a doped region formed in the second substrate, a dummy gate formed over the substrate, and a second interconnect structure formed over the second substrate. The 3D-IC also includes an inter-tier via extends vertically through the second substrate. The inter-tier via has a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first end of the inter-tier via is coupled to the first interconnect structure. The second end of the inter-tier via is coupled to one of: the doped region, the dummy gate, or the second interconnect structure.
US10170402B2
A semiconductor device includes a wiring substrate having an upper surface, a plurality of terminals formed on the upper surface, and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface, a first semiconductor chip having a first main surface, a plurality of first electrodes formed on the first main surface, and a first rear surface opposite to the first main surface, and mounted over the upper surface of the wiring substrate such that the first rear surface of the first semiconductor chip faces the upper surface of the wiring substrate, and a plurality of wires electrically connected with the plurality of terminals, respectively.
US10170397B2
A semiconductor device includes a via structure penetrating through a substrate, a top metal layer and an electronic component over the via structure, and a bottom metal layer and another electronic component below the via structure. The via structure includes a through hole penetrating from a first surface to an opposite second surface of a substrate, a filling insulating layer within the through hole, a first conductive layer, which is within the through hole and surrounds the filling insulating layer, wherein a portion of the first conductive layer is below the filling insulating layer and at the bottom of the through hole. The via structure further includes a first insulating layer, which is on the sidewalls of the through hole and surrounds the first conductive layer.
US10170367B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: patterning a plurality of mandrels over a mask layer; forming an etch coating layer on top surfaces of the mask layer and the mandrels; depositing a dielectric layer over the mask layer and the mandrels, a first thickness of the dielectric layer along sidewalls of the mandrels being greater than a second thickness of the dielectric layer along the etch coating layer; removing horizontal portions of the dielectric layer; and patterning the mask layer using remaining vertical portions of the dielectric layer as an etching mask.
US10170364B2
A method for forming strained fins includes etching trenches in a bulk substrate to form fins, filling the trenches with a dielectric fill and recessing the dielectric fill into the trenches to form shallow trench isolation regions. The fins are etched above the shallow trench isolation regions to form a staircase fin structure with narrow top portions of the fins. Gate structures are formed over the top portions of the fins. Raised source ad drain regions are epitaxially grown on opposite sides of the gate structure. A pre-morphization implant is performed to generate defects in the substrate to couple strain into the top portions of the fins.
US10170360B2
A reflow enhancement layer is formed in an opening prior to forming and reflowing a contact metal or metal alloy. The reflow enhancement layer facilitates the movement (i.e., flow) of the contact metal or metal alloy during a reflow anneal process such that a void-free metallization structure of the contact metal or metal alloy is provided.
US10170358B2
A method of forming an electrical transmission structure that includes forming an opening through an interlevel dielectric layer to expose at least one electrically conductive feature and forming a shield layer on the opening. A gouge is formed in the electrically conductive feature through the opening using a subtractive method during which the shield layer protects the interlevel dielectric layer from being damaged by the subtractive method. A contact is formed within the opening in electrical communication with the at least one electrically conductive feature.
US10170353B2
Devices and methods of fabricating integrated circuit devices for dynamically applying bias to back plates and/or p-well regions are provided. One method includes, for instance: obtaining a wafer with a silicon substrate, at least one first oxide layer, at least one silicon layer, and at least one second oxide layer; forming at least one recess in the wafer; depositing at least one third oxide layer over the wafer and filling the at least one recess; depositing a silicon nitride layer over the wafer; and forming at least one opening having sidewalls and a bottom surface within the filled at least one recess. An intermediate semiconductor device is also disclosed.
US10170350B2
The variability of an etchant concentration in an immersion processes for treatment of semiconductor devices can be significantly lowered by continuously measuring the conductivity of an etchant solution and comparing against predetermined thresholds. The etchant concentration can be maintained by a feed and bleed process based on conductivity measurements of the etchant solution and the conductivity measurements being correlated with premeasured pH values of an etchant solution.
US10170344B2
A washing device includes: a plurality of spindles which holds a substrate and rotates the substrate about a central axis of the substrate as a rotary axis; and a single tube nozzle which discharges a washing liquid toward an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the single tube nozzle discharges the washing liquid so that the washing liquid lands in front of the center of the substrate and the landed washing liquid flows on the upper surface of the substrate toward the center of the substrate. A liquid flow on the upper surface of the substrate after landing of the washing liquid discharged from the single tube nozzle passes through the center of the substrate.
US10170341B1
A method includes forming a release film over a carrier, attaching a device over the release film through a die-attach film, encapsulating the device in an encapsulating material, performing a planarization on the encapsulating material to expose the device, detaching the device and the encapsulating material from the carrier, etching the die-attach film to expose a back surface of the device, and applying a thermal conductive material on the back surface of the device.
US10170335B1
A process for chemical mechanical polishing a substrate containing cobalt and TiN to at least improve cobalt: TiN removal rate selectivity. The process includes providing a substrate containing cobalt and TiN; providing a polishing composition, containing, as initial components: water; an oxidizing agent; alanine or salts thereof; and, colloidal silica abrasives with diameters of ≤25 nm; and, providing a chemical mechanical polishing pad, having a polishing surface; creating dynamic contact at an interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; and dispensing the polishing composition onto the polishing surface at or near the interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; wherein some of the cobalt is polished away such that there is an improvement in the cobalt: TiN removal rate selectivity.
US10170333B2
Among other things, one or more semiconductor arrangements and techniques for forming such semiconductor arrangements are provided. A semiconductor arrangement comprises a first guard ring surrounding at least a portion of a device, and a first poly layer formed over the first guard ring.
US10170317B1
Semiconductor device structures having metal gate structures with tunable work function values are provided. In one example, a first gate structure and a second gate structure formed on a substrate, wherein the first gate structure includes a first work function metal having a first material, and the second gate structure includes a second work function metal having a second material, the first material being different from the second material, wherein the first gate structure further includes a gate dielectric layer, a self-protective layer having metal phosphate, and the first work function metal on the self-protective layer.
US10170316B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor device and resulting structures for controlling a threshold voltage on a nanosheet-based transistor. A nanosheet stack is formed over a substrate. The nanosheet stack includes a first nanosheet vertically stacked over a second nanosheet. A tri-layer gate metal stack is formed on each nanosheet. The tri-layer gate metal stack includes an inner nitride layer formed on a surface of each nanosheet, a doped transition metal layer formed on each inner nitride layer, and an outer nitride layer formed on each doped transition metal layer.
US10170311B2
A method including: providing a structure comprising: a spalled layer having a first side and a second side; and a tape layer provided on the first side of the spalled layer, wherein the tape layer is provided at below a first temperature range; applying a temporary substrate layer to the second side of the spalled layer, wherein the temporary substrate layer is applied at a second temperature range, and wherein at least a portion of the second temperature range is lower than the first temperature range; and after applying the temporary substrate layer, separating the tape layer from the spalled layer.
US10170305B1
A method includes etching a portion of a semiconductor material between isolation regions to form a trench, forming a semiconductor seed layer extending on a bottom surface and sidewalls of the trench, etching-back the first semiconductor seed layer until a top surface of the semiconductor seed layer is lower than top surfaces of the isolation regions, performing a selective epitaxy to grow a semiconductor region from the semiconductor seed layer, and forming an additional semiconductor region over the semiconductor region to fill the trench.
US10170303B2
A system and method for growing a gallium nitride (GaN) structure that includes providing a template; and growing at least a first GaN layer on the template using a first sputtering process, wherein the first sputtering process includes: controlling a temperature of a sputtering target, and modulating between a gallium-rich condition and a gallium-lean condition, wherein the gallium-rich condition includes a gallium-to-nitrogen ratio having a first value that is greater than 1, and wherein the gallium-lean condition includes the gallium-to-nitrogen ratio having a second value that is less than the first value. Some embodiments include a load lock configured to load a substrate wafer into the system and remove the GaN structure from the system; and a plurality of deposition chambers, wherein the plurality of deposition chambers includes a GaN-deposition chamber configured to grow at least the first GaN layer on a template that includes the substrate wafer.
US10170291B1
An apparatus for on-line monitoring particle contamination in special gas includes a single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (sp-ICPMS) and a gas exchange device (GED). The gas exchange device is coupled to the sp-ICPMS. The gas exchange device includes a corrosion resistant outer tube and a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) inner tube. A gap is formed between the corrosion resistant outer tube and the PTFE inner tube. The length of the PTFE inner tube is 1 meter or more. The argon gas flows in the gap, and the special gas flow in the PTFE inner tube.
US10170270B1
An ion source device for producing an ion beam may include a housing having an opening, a first electrode, and a second electrode. A portion of the first electrode and the second electrode may be located within the housing. The first electrode may have a first side facing the opening and may be configured to provide an electric field toward the opening. The second electrode may be configured to provide an electron presence between the first electrode and the opening at least at times when the first electrode is not providing the first electric field. The ion source device may include a magnet and may produce a magnetic field generally perpendicular to the electric field provided by the first electrode. The ion source device may provide an ion beam with low turn on delay, which may be on the order of one microsecond or less, and low turn on jitter.
US10170266B2
The present invention relates to a wire-wound fuse resistor, which has: an insulating rod which has a first end and a second end; one metal wire having a wire head and a wire tail, being helically wound around the insulating rod from the first end to the second end, and being cut at a middle portion thereof to form a first winding wire and a second winding wire, which are separated from each other; a connection part disposed at the cut portion for electrical connection between the first winding wire and the second winding wire, in which the melting temperature of the connection part is lower than that of the one wound metal wire, wherein the connection part is cut off depending on a predetermined melting temperature or melting speed of the wire-wound fuse resistor.
US10170258B2
A method is for controlling a change of an electromechanical component between a first operating state and a second operating state. The method may include changing from the first operating state to the second operating state by generating a first current flowing through the electromechanical component, prior to the generation of the first current, charging a capacitor, and simultaneously with the generation of the first current, partial discharging the capacitor through the electromechanical component to cause an additional current to flow in the electromechanical component, the additional current being added to the first current. The method may include changing from the second operating state to the first operating state by generating a second current flowing in a direction opposite to the first current in the electromechanical component, and prior to the flowing of the second current, discharging the capacitor.
US10170256B2
The invention relates to a medium-, high-, or very high-voltage circuit breaker, comprising at least one arc-control chamber and an outer casing in which the arc-control chamber is arranged. The circuit breaker includes a discharge cap (40) forming a portion of the outer wall external of the arc-control chamber (12), the discharge cap being situated inside the outer casing and internally defining a gas-flow chamber (31). In the invention, the discharge cap (40) includes at least one portion (40′) that is movable under the effect of the gas pressure in the gas-flow chamber (31), in such a manner that its volume is extensible.
US10170254B1
The present invention relates to a key structure, including a flexible key cap, a conducting plate, a switch circuit board capable of generating a key signal, and an elastic element. The conducting plate is fixed on an inner surface of the flexible key cap and in contact with a plurality of inner sidewalls of the flexible key cap. The switch circuit board is disposed below the conducting plate, and the elastic element is disposed between the conducting plate and the switch circuit board. When the flexible key cap receives the pressing force, the conducting plate twists due to deformation of the flexible key cap, and pushes the plurality of inner sidewalls of the flexible key cap, so as to conduct a pressing force to a corner of the flexible key cap.
US10170245B2
Disclosed herein is a multilayer capacitor comprising: a laminate in which a plurality of first sheets and second sheets are alternately laminated, wherein the first sheets and the second sheets are disposed in a direction perpendicular to a mounting surface; a first inner electrode formed on the first sheets, wherein the first electrode is exposed through upper, lower, and first lateral surfaces of the laminate; a second inner electrode that is formed on the second sheets and has a horizontally symmetrical shape with respect to the first inner electrode; a sealing portion encapsulating the first and second inner electrodes exposed through two lateral surfaces of the laminate; and an external electrode that is electrically connected to the first and second inner electrodes exposed through the upper and lower surfaces of the laminate.
US10170237B2
In various aspects, a plate-shaped leakage structure as an insert in a magnetic core of an inductive component, a magnetic core having a plate-shaped leakage structure, and an inductive component. In illustrative embodiments, a plate-shaped leakage structure is provided as an insert in a magnetic core, which is passed through, along the thickness direction thereof, by at least one spacer having a very low magnetic permeability (as opposed to the rest of the material of the leakage structure). In a magnetic core according to an aspect, core legs are arranged above opposite bearing surfaces of the plate-shaped leakage structure, the plate-shaped leakage structure providing a leakage path between the core legs.
US10170234B2
A coil device includes a magnetic core and terminal electrodes. The terminal electrodes include attachment pieces, wire connection rising pieces, connection pieces, and fillet forming pieces. The wire connection rising pieces are integrally risen from one ends in a longitudinal direction of the attachment pieces along a side surface in the X-axis direction of a flange. The connection pieces are integrally formed with upper end sides of the wire connection rising pieces and have welded balls connected to lead parts of a wire by laser welding. The fillet forming pieces are integrally risen from one ends in a lateral direction crossing the longitudinal direction of the attachment pieces along a side surface in the Y-axis direction of the flange. Laser shielding members are arranged between the welded balls and the flange of a magnetic core.
US10170228B2
A magnetic apparatus includes a first conductive feature. The first conductive feature conducts a current. The first conductive feature directs an electron having an energy ranging from 50 to 250 MeV in response to a magnetic field generated by the current. The first conductive feature includes a first leg and a second leg. The first leg is integrated with the second leg. The second leg and the first leg define a first space, wherein the electron penetrates the first space and is redirected in the first space.
US10170215B2
Vibration resistant cables containing a first conductor and a second conductor, each having a diameter d, are disclosed. The second conductor is twisted around the first conductor at a lay length between 3 feet and 6 feet to eliminate bagging of the vibration resistant cable during installation.
US10170213B2
There is provided a silver powder, which is able to obtain a conductive paste having a high thixotropic ratio and a high Casson yield value and which is able to form a conductive pattern having a low resistance, and a method for producing the same. An aliphatic amine such as hexadecylamine is added to a silver powder, the surface of which is coated with a fatty acid such as stearic acid, to be stirred and mixed to form the aliphatic amine on the outermost surface of the silver powder while allowing the fatty acid to react with the aliphatic amine to form an aliphatic amide such as hexadecanamide between the fatty acid and the aliphatic amine.
US10170209B2
A floating nuclear power reactor including one or two nuclear power reactors positioned in a floating vessel such as a barge or the like. Means is disclosed for flooding the containment structure of the nuclear reactor and for flooding the reactor vessels to cool the same.
US10170200B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device is provided including a plurality of data word memories, a test controller configured to, for each data word memory, read a data word stored in the data word memory, check the read data word to detect an error of the memory device, determine a complementary data word of the data word, store the complementary data word in the data word memory, read the complementary data word from the data word memory and check the read complementary data word to detect an error of the memory device.
US10170189B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, such as an apparatus that includes a string of charge storage devices associated with a pillar (e.g., of semiconductor material), a source gate device, and a source select device coupled between the source gate device and the string. Additional apparatus and methods are described.
US10170184B1
A resistive memory apparatus and a setting method for a resistive memory cell thereof are provided. The setting method includes: performing a first setting operation on the resistive memory cell, and performing a first verifying operation on the resistive memory cell after the first setting operation is finished; determining whether to perform a first resetting operation on the resistive memory cell according to a verifying result of the first verifying operation, and performing a second verifying operation on the resistive memory cell after the first resetting operation is determined to be performed and is finished; and determining whether to perform a second resetting operation on the resistive memory cell according to a verifying result of the second verifying operation, and performing a third verifying operation on the resistive memory cell after the second resetting operation is determined to be performed and is finished.
US10170180B2
A memory cell includes an input coupled to a read line, an output coupled to a circuit ground, a bi-polar memristor, and at least one address switch coupled to an address line to select the memory cell. A memory includes the bi-polar memristor and a one-way current conducting device, wherein the one-way current conducting device is positioned between the memristor cell output and the circuit ground, or between the read line and the memristor cell input.
US10170178B2
Techniques for improving the security of nonvolatile memory such as magnetic random access memory (MRAM) are provided. In one aspect, a method of operating a nonvolatile memory chip is provided. The method includes: overwriting data stored on the nonvolatile memory chip automatically upon the nonvolatile memory chip being powered on. For example, all bits in the nonvolatile memory chip can be written to either i) a predetermined data state (e.g., a logic 1 or a logic 0) or ii) a random data state. A system is also provided that includes: a nonvolatile memory chip; and a writing circuit configured to overwrite data stored on the nonvolatile memory chip automatically upon the nonvolatile memory chip being powered on.
US10170177B2
A design of a non-transistor memory core with corresponding shift register control logic may be all comprised of tunnel diodes and capacitors, and a method for fabricating such memories and control logic may use a stencil and non-lithographic self-aligning semiconductor processing steps to minimize cost. Designs and fabrication processes for I/O pads connected to the memory core and control logic are also presented.
US10170176B2
Various embodiments of the invention relate generally to an electronic device, and more particularly, to a semiconductor memory device and an operating method thereof. A semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells using an optimal input buffer reference voltage may include at least one input buffer receiving data to be stored in the plurality of memory cells, and an input buffer reference voltage control unit setting one of a plurality of internal voltages generated beforehand and having different voltage levels as a reference voltage of the at least one input buffer in response to a control signal received from a controller controlling the semiconductor memory device.
US10170173B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a sensing scheme that extracts the full or nearly full remnant polarization charge difference between two logic states of a ferroelectric memory cell or cells is described. The scheme employs a charge mirror to extract the full charge difference between the two states of a selected memory cell. The charge mirror may transfer the memory cell polarization charge to an amplification capacitor. The signal on the amplification capacitor may then be compared with a reference voltage to detect the logic state of the memory cell.
US10170169B2
Apparatuses and methods involving accessing distributed sub-blocks of memory cells are described. In one such method, distributed sub-blocks of memory cells in a memory array are enabled to be accessed at the same time. Additional embodiments are described.
US10170166B1
The data transmission apparatus includes a prior stage shift register circuit and a plurality of rear stage shift register circuits. The prior stage shift register circuit is coupled to a sense amplifying device of the memory, receives sensed data from the sense amplifying device and outputs a plurality of the readout data in series by bitwise shifting out the sensed data according to a shift clock signal. The plurality of rear stage shift register circuits are coupled to the prior stage shift register circuit and respectively coupled to a plurality of pads. The plurality of rear stage shift register circuits respectively receive the readout data and respectively bitwise transport the readout data to the pads according to a clock signal. Wherein, a frequency of the shift clock signal is less than a frequency of the clock signal.
US10170163B2
An inherent information generating device adapted to an integrated circuit includes a plurality of pairs of source memory cells and a comparison circuit. One of the pairs of source memory cells includes a first source memory cell with a first electrical parameter value and a second source memory cell with a second electrical parameter value. The comparison circuit, coupled to the pairs of source memory cells and configured to generate inherent information of the integrated circuit, includes a first comparator. The first comparator is coupled to the first and second source memory cells, and is configured to compare the first electrical parameter value with the second electrical parameter value, and generate the bit value of a first bit of the inherent information according to the comparison result.
US10170154B2
A method for dividing one 720×1080, 1080×1920, 2K, 4K, 8K or a 12K video segment into two equal segments using a mathematical aspect ratio calculation which by combining two equal 720×1080, 1080×1920, 2K, 4K, 8K or 12K video segments to create one symmetrically mirrored 720×1080, 1080×1920, 2K, 4K, 8K or a 12K video segment to make one three second to thirty minute video to be up loaded and played within video glasses, 3D software and 3D video glasses, 3D parallax software, micro SD memory cards, HD televsions, 3D televisions, virtual reality software and hardware, mobile media applications, computers and all video streaming internet applications including widescreen cinema standard and IMAX theatrical projections.
US10170136B2
A method which includes: detecting phrases in a transcript of an audiovisual file; applying a speech recognition algorithm to the audiovisual file and to a list of words of the phrase, to output a temporal location of each of the words that are uttered in the audio channel; compiling a list of sub-phrases of each of the phrases; creating a temporal sub-phrase map that comprises a temporal location of each of the sub-phrases; extracting the uttered sub-phrases from the audiovisual file, to create multiple sub-phrase audiovisual files; and constructing a database the multiple sub-phrase audiovisual files and of the sub-phrase uttered in each of the files. The method may also include: receiving a phrase; querying the database for audiovisual files which comprise uttered sub-phrases of the phrase; and splicing at least some of the audiovisual files to a compilation audiovisual file in which the phrase is uttered.
US10170131B2
There is provided a method for enhancing dialog in a decoder of an audio system. The method comprises receiving a plurality of downmix signals being a downmix of a larger plurality of channels; receiving parameters for dialog enhancement being defined with respect to a subset of the plurality of channels that is downmixed into a subset of the plurality of downmix signals; upmixing the subset of downmix signals parametrically in order to reconstruct the subset of the plurality of channels with respect to which the parameters for dialog enhancement are defined; applying dialog enhancement to the subset of the plurality of channels with respect to which the parameters for dialog enhancement are defined using the parameters for dialog enhancement to provide at least one dialog enhanced signal; and subjecting the at least one dialog enhanced signal to mixing to provide dialog enhanced versions of the subset of downmix signals.
US10170127B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting multimedia data are provided. A first device, which provides an audio signal to a second device, includes: a control unit that divides an audio signal input to the first device into a plurality of audio frames, compares a current audio frame among the plurality of audio frames with the at least one previous audio frame prestored in the memory of the first device, and selects one of the prestored previous audio frames based on similarity of the prestored previous audio frame and the current audio frame; and a communication unit that transmits an identification value of the selected previous audio frame to the second device.
US10170123B2
This relates to systems and processes for using a virtual assistant to control electronic devices. In one example process, a user can speak an input in natural language form to a user device to control one or more electronic devices. The user device can transmit the user speech to a server to be converted into a textual representation. The server can identify the one or more electronic devices and appropriate commands to be performed by the one or more electronic devices based on the textual representation. The identified one or more devices and commands to be performed can be transmitted back to the user device, which can forward the commands to the appropriate one or more electronic devices for execution. In response to receiving the commands, the one or more electronic devices can perform the commands and transmit their current states to the user device.
US10170122B2
A speech recognition method, an electronic device and a speech recognition system are provided. When a local device is not connected to Internet is determined, a voiceprint comparison between the received voice data and the history voice data stored in the voice database is executed to obtain the corresponding history voice data, and an associated history text data is found from a result database of the local device according to the obtained history voice data.
US10170120B2
A speech recognition server has a speech recognition engine, and a mode control table to hold a speech recognition mode for each call. The speech recognition engine has a mode management unit to designate a speech recognition mode for a decoder, and an output analysis unit to analyze recognition result data speech-to-text converted by speech recognition. The output analysis unit designates the speech recognition mode for the mode management unit in accordance with result of analysis of the recognition result data speech-to-text converted by the speech recognition. The mode management unit designates the speech recognition mode for the decoder in accordance with the designation with the output analysis unit. Upon speech recognition of call data, it is possible to suppress hardware resource consumption while improve users' satisfaction.
US10170117B2
A method and system for teaching an object of a deictic reference to a machine. A processor of the machine teaches the object of the deictic reference to the machine which results in the machine learning the object. The teaching includes: the processor finds an item in a region indicated by a physical pointing gesture, by the user, that points to the object; the processor shines a laser light on the item and in response, the processor receives a negative spoken indication from the user that the item shined on by the laser light is not the object; in response to the negative spoken indication from the user, the processor interacts with the user in an iterative procedure wherein the machine learns the object in a final iteration of the procedure. The processor stores the learned object in a storage repository.
US10170111B2
A vehicular infotainment system, a vehicle and a method of controlling interaction between a vehicle driver and an infotainment system. A multimedia device, a human-machine interface and sensors are used to collect in-vehicle driver characteristic data and extra-vehicle driving conditions. The system additionally includes—or is otherwise coupled to—a computer to convert one or both of traffic pattern data and vehicular positional data into a driver elevated cognitive load profile. In addition, the computer converts the driver characteristic data into a driver mood profile. The system can process these profiles to selectively adjust one or both of the amount of time needed to accept audio commands from a driver and the amount of time needed to provide an audio response to the driver in situations where the system determines the presence of at least one of the elevated cognitive load and a driver mood.
US10170108B2
Systems, methods, and devices are described herein for placing secondary content into a break of unknown duration in a stream of primary content. In one aspect, the described techniques may include streaming a segment of primary content, for example, by a reduce capability client device, such as a mobile device or tablet. The device may receive information indicative of a break in the streaming of the primary content. The device may play secondary content based on receiving the information indicative of the break. The device may determine when a next segment of the primary content is available, and begin streaming the next segment of the primary content upon detecting that the second segment of the primary content is available.
US10170105B2
An electronic device includes a microphone that receives an audio signal that includes a spoken trigger phrase, and a processor that is electrically coupled to the microphone. The processor measures characteristics of the audio signal, and determines, based on the measured characteristics, whether the spoken trigger phrase is acceptable for trigger phrase model training. If the spoken trigger phrase is determined not to be acceptable for trigger phrase model training, the processor rejects the trigger phrase for trigger phrase model training.
US10170086B2
A support device for a pivotal member of a keyboard instrument, in which opposite ends of a pivotal pin fixed to a pivotal member can be each properly positioned in the center of a pin hole, to thereby enable the pivotal member to perform efficient and stable pivotal motion. The support device that pivotally supports the pivotal member pivotally moved by key depression includes a flange body including two support walls opposed to each other with a predetermined spacing therebetween, and two pin holes which are formed in the respective support walls and in which opposite ends of the pivotal pin are inserted, respectively, and two bearings fixed in the pin holes in an inserted state and having opposite ends of the pivotal pin inserted therein, for pivotally supporting the pivotal. Each bearing is formed by a braid formed in a hollow cylindrical shape.
US10170083B2
A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
US10170082B2
To display an image list stored in a memory with good visibility and to display the image list at a high speed, an image display device reads an image file in an Exif format, extracts a thumbnail image included in the image file in the Exif format, and generates a displayed image having a predetermined size and a square shape, thus displaying it in the image list. It is possible to improve visibility in displaying the image file aligning square-shaped displayed image having the same size while precluding blanks. It is possible to perform high-speed processing in producing an image list using thumbnail images included in image files in the Exif format.
US10170079B2
A method of driving a display panel including a plurality of pixels including a red (R), green (G), blue (B), and white (W) sub-pixels is provided. The method includes receiving image data, converting RGB data included in the image data into RGBW data, and driving the display panel based on the converted RGBW data. The converting includes converting the RGB data into YCbCr data and determining a W value of the RGBW data based on a Y value of the converted YCbCr data.
US10170071B2
According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a display device that displays an image; and a drive circuit that drives the display device. The display device includes a regulator that supplies power based on a predetermined set voltage, a plurality of functional blocks that are operated by the supply of the power from the regulator and are related to operation of the display device, a voltage monitoring circuit that determines whether a level of a power supply voltage of at least one of the functional blocks is high or low based on a predetermined threshold voltage, and a voltage controller that increases the set voltage when the voltage monitoring circuit determines that the power supply voltage of the functional block is lower than the threshold voltage.
US10170061B2
In some implementations, a computing device may include a first display device and a second display device. An embedded controller may determine a first amount of ambient light and a first current associated with the first display device and modify the first current to create a first modified amount of current associated with the first display device. The embedded controller may determine a second amount of ambient light and second current associated with the second display device. The embedded controller may determine a ratio of a first perceived brightness of the first display device to a second perceived brightness of the second display device and modify the second current until the ratio is within a predetermined amount from a target ratio.
US10170060B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is driven in interlaced scan to accommodate for liquid crystal (LC) setting times without sacrificing brightness. The LCD device includes an LCD panel including a first group of (e.g., even) pixel lines and a second group (e.g., odd) pixel lines, a backlight disposed behind the LCD panel to emit light toward the even and odd pixel lines, a shift grating disposed between the LCD and the backlight, the shift grating configured to block the light from the backlight from reaching either the first group of pixel lines or the second group of pixel lines, and a controller. The controller drives the LCD panel using an interlaced scan, coordinates the activation of the backlight (e.g., a strobed backlight), and changes the state of the shift grating to block the light from the backlight from reaching either the first group of pixel lines or the second group of pixel lines.
US10170046B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide an OLED display device and a method for correcting image sticking of an OLED display device. The OLED display device comprises an OLED pixel array; a pixel detecting circuit for detecting aging degrees of respective OLED pixels in the OLED pixel array; wherein respective OLED pixel are aged by displaying an aging image on the OLED pixel array, such that the aging degrees of respective OLED pixels are the same; the brightness of each pixel in the aging image is inversely proportional to the aging degree of the pixel. According to the OLED display device and the method provided by the embodiments of the present invention, various approaches can be applied for detecting the aging degrees of respective OLED pixels in the OLED pixel array, such that the image sticking of the OLED display device can be corrected by adjusting the aging degrees of respective OLED pixels.
US10170040B2
A display device includes a switching element having a first input/output terminal electrically connected to a first signal line, a first wiring electrically connected to a second input/output terminal of the switching element, a transistor having a gate electrode connected to the first wiring, a second wiring electrically connected to a source or drain of the transistor, a pixel electrode connected to the second wiring, a first insulating layer which is arranged between the first wiring and the second wiring and is arranged between the first wiring and the pixel electrode, a second insulating layer between the first insulating layer and pixel electrode, and a conducting layer between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, the conducting layer including a region overlapping the pixel electrode. The conducting layer includes a dividing groove dividing the conducting layer into a plurality of regions at a region overlapping the pixel electrode.
US10170034B2
The present application discloses a graphene display, and a driving method and a driving apparatus for a graphene display, the driving apparatus for a graphene display includes obtaining the grayscale values of the three primary colors of the pixel to be input; determining the color and grayscale values of three dynamic sub-pixels according to the grayscale values of the three primary colors of the pixel and the correspondence relationship of the preset grayscale values of the three primary colors and the grayscale values of the five primary colors; applying the driving voltages to the three dynamic sub-pixels respectively corresponding to the color and grayscale values of three dynamic sub-pixels. By the method described above, the gamut of the display is increased, to increase the display performance of the display and decrease the power consumption of the display.
US10170025B2
The present invention relates to A selection panel (1) for a beverage dispensing device comprising a front window (2) having at least one display zone (3a) designed for displaying a product information label, at least one light source for illuminating the product information label arranged in the display zone (3a) of the front window (2), a reflector means (6) designed for reflecting the light emitted by the light source towards the display zone (3a) of the front window (2), wherein the light source is arranged outside of the contours of the respective display zone (3a).
US10170020B2
A pop-up display apparatus includes a shroud having first and second sheets disposed in opposition to one another, the first and second sheets being connected to one another at a first side by a first joint and at a second side by a second joint. A stop member is disposed between the first and second sheets between the first and second joints and is connected to the first and second joints at a first height of the shroud. The stop member includes first and second stop elements arranged for translational movement in opposite directions relative to one another between a first and a second position. An elastic member, separate from the stop member, is connected to the first and second joints at a second height, the elastic member and being configured to bias the first joint toward the second joint. The first position of the stop member corresponds to a stowed state of the pop-up display and a substantially flat shroud profile and the second position of the stop member corresponds to a deployed state of the pop-up display and a convex shroud profile.
US10170016B2
A health guidance system receives health information from input devices and other sources, tracks one or more health goals, and enforces those goals by acting upon other devices. The health guidance system collects health information to paint a comprehensive picture of the user's health. The system uses the information it collects to interact with a variety of devices to enforce the user's health goals and ensure accountability. Thus, the health guidance system provides a comprehensive software system for collecting health information and using that information to produce positive changes in the health of users.
US10170007B2
Systems and methods for providing trajectory amendments are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include identifying an arrival time slot associated with a landing area. The method can further include providing to one or more second computing devices of a plurality of operators, a first set of data identifying the arrival time slot. The method can include receiving a second set of data indicating that a first operator of the plurality of operators has selected the arrival time slot. The method can further include determining one or more trajectory amendments to allow a first aircraft associated with the first operator to meet the arrival time slot associated with the landing area. The method can include sending one or more trajectory amendments.
US10170004B2
A fleet manager may communicate desired driving behavior, including maximum speed, desired route, areas to avoid, and other information to operators of vehicles in the fleet. The communication may be via an application on a mobile device, vehicle computer, or other device associated with each driver or vehicle. In operation, an administrator, such as, for example, a fleet manager, may communicate instructions to one or more vehicles, for example a vehicle of a fleet of vehicles.
US10170002B2
An in-vehicle lighting apparatus includes a lighting device attached to an instrument panel at a lower part of a vehicle A-pillar in an interior compartment of a subject vehicle. The in-vehicle lighting apparatus has a vehicle information obtainer for obtaining information about a state of the vehicle, and a light controller for controlling the lighting device based on the vehicle information obtained by the vehicle information obtainer. The lighting device includes an indirect lighting part that directs light from a light source toward a surface of the A-pillar, for enabling an effective notification of vehicle information and events to a driver of the subject vehicle.
US10170001B2
A blind zone indicator module for a vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a hollow housing that includes a front end for attaching the indicator module at the rear of a mirror reflective element configured for use by an exterior rearview mirror assembly, a rear end opposite the front end, and an intermediate portion between the front end and the rear end. The hollow housing comprises an inner surface that is white and is diffusely reflective of light incident thereat. A diffuser element is attached at the front end of the hollow housing and closes the front end of the housing. Potting material is disposed at and over a circuit board to seal the circuit board in the module. Light emitted by a light emitting diode, when activated, reflects off the white inner surface of the hollow housing and passes through the diffuser element to exit the indicator module.
US10169994B2
Embodiments for using vehicular collaboration for vehicular parking area availability detection by a processor. An indication, having a degree of certainty according to a plurality of factors for obtaining a vehicular parking area, may be provided upon receiving data capturing one or more vehicular parking areas from one or more devices of at least one of a plurality of collaborative vehicles in substantially close proximity to the one or more vehicular parking areas.
US10169993B1
Data characterizing a system is received at an electronic processor. For example, parking event data from parking sensors of a parking facility is received. The electronic processor constructs a current state for the system (e.g. parking occupancy state of the parking facility) at a current time from the received data. State probabilities at a future time are computed (e.g. occupancy state probabilities are computed for the parking facility) using a continuous-time Markov chain model modified by multiplying the time input to the model by a random variable and scaling the state probabilities by an expectation of the random variable. In parking occupancy forecasting, parking guidance information is generated based at least on the computed occupancy state probabilities, and is transmitted to an electronic device other than the electronic processor (e.g. a parking recommendation transmitted to a vehicle navigation device, or a control signal transmitted to a “lot full” sign).
US10169986B2
Integration of personalized traffic information is provided. Contextual information for a client device is collected. Based, at least in part, on the contextual information, traffic information is received. The traffic information is received from one or more broadcast stations to which the traffic information has been mapped based, at least in part, on classification of the traffic information. A communications device is caused to communicate the traffic information.
US10169977B2
A utensil storage monitoring system comprising a microprocessor, a serving utensil sensor in signal communication with the microprocessor, a clocking circuit and at least one alerting component. The system identifies when a serving utensil is removed from a serving utensil holster or a serving utensil rest and initiates the clocking circuit. The system monitors the status of the serving utensil and the passing time. When the passing time exceeds a predetermined allowable “in-use” time period, the system initiates an alert. The alert can be a visual alert, an audible alert, or any other alert. The alert can escalate if the serving utensil is not returned to the holster/rest in a timely manner. The system can associate a specific serving utensil with the respective monitoring system to avoid cross contamination. The system can additionally include a sterilization component. The system can be integrated into a utensil status and data acquisition system.
US10169974B2
A home security system and method is provided. The method comprises detecting a motion in a monitored room, starting data collection through at least a first sensing device and a second sensing device, transmitting said collected data to a computing device comprising a data analysis unit, detecting a potentially dangerous situation through the data analysis unit by analyzing said collected data, transmitting a relevant snippet of data of said first sensing device to a first randomly selected service center server, evaluating said snippet of data through a first service center operator as being related to “definitely a dangerous situation”, “definitely no dangerous situation” or “unclear”, if “unclear” was chosen, transmitting the snippet of data to a second randomly selected service center server, and transmitting the snippet of data along with the evaluation of the first operator from the second randomly selected service center server to the computing device.
US10169970B2
A location tracking system is provided for tracking the location of a child or other individual. The location tracking system includes a location server and one or more location tracking devices. Communication protocols are provided for communications between the location server and the location tracking devices. The communication protocols provide a low complexity and low cost solution for location tracking applications.
US10169955B2
A gambling hybrid game that provides game world engine driven triggering of gambling events is disclosed. The gambling hybrid game includes an entertainment system engine that provides an entertainment game to a user, a real world engine that provides gambling games to users, and a game world engine that monitors the entertainment game and provides gambling games when appropriate. The entertainment system engine provides an entertainment games that provides values for a set of entertainment game variables. The game world engine receive the values of set of entertainment game variables and determined whether a gambling event in a gambling game is triggered based upon the values one or more entertainment game variables in the set.
US10169953B2
A fungible object award interleaved wagering system includes a plurality of interactive controllers operatively connected to an application controller by a network, each interactive controller configured to: communicate, to an application controller, application telemetry; and receive, from the application controller, an object based on the application telemetry. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: receive a wager request; generate a wager outcome based on the wager request; communicate, to an object controller, the wager outcome. The system also includes the application controller operatively connected to the plurality of interactive controllers and the wager controller, the application controller constructed to: receive; communicate, to the wager controller, the wager request based on the received application telemetry; receive an object, wherein the object is generated by the object controller based on the wager outcome; communicate, to each interactive controller, the object.
