US10226686B2
A playing card handling device is disclosed. The device includes a first side and a second opposite side. Components of the device include a card infeed tray, a card output tray and a card handling zone. The card infeed tray and card output tray are on the same first side of the device and an upper surface of the card infeed tray and an upper surface of the card output tray are in the same plane. Card handling devices of the present invention also include a touch screen display, as well as a movable card gate.
US10226684B2
An apparatus for installing and removing glass panels and methods of using the apparatus includes a base portion, a back support structure secured to the base portion, and a glass adjustment system moveably coupled to the back support structure. The glass adjustment system couples to the glass panels. The apparatus is used to install and remove glass panels from, for example, ice rink boards.
US10226682B2
A ball safety netting system for use between a field and spectators and above an access/egress gate includes, for example, a main netting defining an opening over an access/egress gate, a gate netting positionable over the opening of the main netting, and wherein the gate netting is disposable in a first position operable to cover the opening in said main netting above the access/egress gate, and disposable in a second position operable to uncover the opening above the access/egress gate.
US10226679B2
A training apparatus arranged to be portable, collapsible, and able to be configured into different arrangements for different nets and/or different sports-related activities. The training apparatus comprises a support portion, base poles pivotally coupled to the support portion, base brackets coupled to the base poles opposite the support portion, extensions coupled to the base brackets, first and second flexible rods removably coupled to the support portion, and a net configured to be received by the flexible rods. The net is configured to bend the first and second flexible rods from a linear state to an arcuate state, such that a net tension holds the net upright.
US10226677B2
An enclosed disc-golf court (10) with multiple holes (24). Each hole has a disc throwing lane (32) between a tee-off area (26) and a target basket (30). Boundary walls (36) on each side of the lane extend from a floor (14) to or near a roof (16). At least one hole has an obstacle (52A-M) partially blocking the lane. A player attempts to manually throw a disc (28) through an unblocked area (56, 60) in or beside the obstacle to hit the target basket. At least one target basket may have a sheath (62) that blocks entry of the disc except through a disc-access hole (66) in the sheath. A player can try repeatedly from where the disc lands after each throw until it enters the target basket up to a maximum number of tries per hole. The lowest score among multiple players wins a round.
US10226676B2
The present disclosure provides a beer pong game system comprising a game table, a plurality of game cups, and at least one game ball, the game table being equipped with an RFID reader and a plurality of RFID antennas, the RFID antennas one-to-one corresponding to to-be-detected positions of the game cups; an electronic tag being affixed at a bottom of a game cup; an electronic tag being inlaid inside the game ball; the beer pong game system being characterized in comprising a make detecting unit that identifies, at predetermined to-be-detected positions of game balls, the electronic tags of the game balls by scanning corresponding RFID antennas, thereby determining a make result and prompting a first landing mode; and a cup-removal scoring unit that identifies, at to-be-detected positions of all game cups, electronic tags of the game cups by scanning all RFID antennas, thereby inferring a second landing mode and correspondingly scoring.
US10226672B2
A lacrosse head pocket and a related method of manufacture are provided to facilitate consistent, repeatable and/or custom manufacture of lacrosse equipment. The pocket can be constructed from multiple different sections joined with one another, or can be knitted, weaved or otherwise assembled on an automated assembly machine from strands, and/or can be formed as a unitary textile material having regions/sections with different physical and/or mechanical properties. The pocket can be integrally molded within portions of a lacrosse head to eliminate manually constructed connections between the pocket and lacrosse head. The lacrosse head can be integrally molded with a lacrosse handle to provide a one-piece unitary lacrosse stick. Related methods of manufacturing also are provided.
US10226670B2
Golf balls comprising a multi-layer core and a cover are disclosed. The multi-layer core comprises at least three layers, including at least one thermoset layer and at least one thermoplastic layer. At least one core layer has a plurality of projections disposed thereon.
US10226667B2
Athletic data may be recorded and displayed using a computing device such as a mobile communication device during performance of physical activity. In some examples, the device may provide options for defining and recording athletic activity performed by the user. Such options may include various content item selection and rendering controls. Additionally or alternatively, route selection and controls may be provided through the device. Recorded activity data may further be transmitted to a remote site through a network.
US10226664B2
An exercise machine includes a frame, a seat selectively movable with respect to the frame, and a resistance mechanism connected to the frame. The seat is adjustably positioned between an upright position that orients a user in an upright orientation with respect to a pedal assembly when the exercise machine is in an upright exercise mode and a recumbent position that orients the user in a recumbent orientation with respect to the pedal assembly when the exercise machine is in a recumbent cycling exercise mode.
US10226661B2
An upper wall mount bracket configured for use with a foldable weightlifting rack assembly including a central panel, a top wall mount panel and a bottom wall mount panel. The top wall mount panel and the bottom wall mount panel are substantially planar and offset from the central panel. The top wall mount panel and the bottom mount panel are positionable to overlie a wall surface, and including at least one slot extending therethrough configured to receive a fastener therethrough to, in turn, couple the upper wall mount bracket to the wall surface. The central panel has a first side mounting region proximate to a first end thereof and a second side mounting region proximate a second end thereof. An upper rack mount assembly may be configured for use in association with the foldable weightlifting rack assembly and the upper wall mount bracket.
US10226659B2
A clamping device for securely engaging one or more objects through an application of pressure. The clamping device includes a primary member having opposed interior and exterior surfaces. The primary member has a generally cylindrical shape such that the interior surface defines a generally circular space about a center point of the primary member. The clamping device can receive an elongated member through the generally circular space circumscribed by the primary member. The primary member is adapted for clamping and releasing such that the clamping device may releasably engage the elongated member. The elongated member is securely retained by the clamping device through the application of pressure.
US10226657B2
A stationary exercise machine in accordance with some examples herein may include a frame, a crankshaft rotatably supported by the frame, an upper moment-producing mechanism and a lower moment-producing mechanism both operatively engaged to the crankshaft to cause the crankshaft to rotate. The lower moment-producing mechanism and the upper moment-producing mechanism may be resiliently coupled to one another, such as via a resilient coupling between a crank arm of the lower moment-producing mechanism and a link or virtual crank arm or the upper moment-producing mechanism. The exercise machine may further include a measurement apparatus which may be configured to measure differential forces between the upper and lower mechanisms.
US10226647B2
The present disclosure relates to agents for dyeing keratin fibers, in particular human hair, containing, in a cosmetic carrier, (a) at least one direct dye of formula (I), and (b) at least one anionic surfactant.
US10226643B2
A control circuit utilizes patient information and treatment-platform information to optimize a radiation-treatment plan by permitting isocenters of various radiation-treatment fields as comprise parts of a same treatment plan to not be coincidental with one another to thereby yield an optimized treatment plan. The patient information can pertain to one or more physical aspects of the patient as desired. By one approach, the foregoing can comprise scattering the isocenters of the various radiation-treatment fields around a predetermined point (such as, for example, the center of the treatment volume and/or some or all of the beams). This approach can comprise causing an area of highest energy flux for a given field to be non-coincident for at least some of the radiation-treatment fields as are specified by the radiation-treatment plan.
US10226634B2
The technology disclosed herein relates to a system and method for analyzing medical device programming parameters. One aspect of the current technology is a method where an overall performance metric is detected for a cardiac medical device that is outside of a threshold at a first cardiac location in a patient. Processing circuitry identifies a first operating condition and sensing circuitry measures a first sensor response during the first operating condition. An adjustment is proposed to one or more programming parameters of the medical device based on the performance metric, the first operating condition, and the sensor response to the operating condition.
US10226633B2
A system for controlled sympathectomy procedures is disclosed. A system for controlled micro ablation procedures is disclosed. Methods for performing a controlled surgical procedure are disclosed. A system for performing controlled surgical procedures in a minimally invasive manner is disclosed. An implantable device for monitoring and/or performing a neuromodulation procedure is disclosed.
US10226632B2
Embodiments for controlling an implantable cardiac device by one or more processors are described. Data from at least one wearable device sensor is received. The implantable cardiac device is controlled based on the data.
US10226622B2
This accessory comprises a remotely steerable catheter (40) extended by a tip (50) comprising a base (52) to which the catheter (40) connects to and a cylindrical portion (54) defining a volume (56) suitable for housing the capsule (10). A sub-catheter (30) and the capsule are telescopically extendable with respect to the catheter between i) a retracted position and a deployed position wherein the capsule is removed from the connector and is carried by the distal end of the sub-catheter, and the distal end of sub-catheter and the proximal region (18) of the capsule being provided with disconnectable means of attachment (20, 36). The tip presents, between its base (52) and its cylindrical portion (54), a flexible portion (58) providing, between the base and the cylindrical portion, an elastic deformability in bending and compression.
US10226610B2
A wound treatment system includes a housing. A processor is located in the housing. A pressure monitoring system is coupled to the processor. A power delivery system is located in the housing and coupled to the processor. An oxygen concentrator is located in the housing and coupled to the power delivery system. The oxygen concentrator includes a plurality of oxygen outlets. The processor is configured to receive pressure information from the pressure monitoring system that is indicative of a pressure in a restricted airflow enclosure provided by a dressing and located adjacent a wound site; and use the pressure information to control the power provided from the power delivery system to the oxygen concentrator in order to control an oxygen flow created by the oxygen concentrator and provided through one of the plurality of oxygen outlets to the restricted airflow enclosure.
US10226605B2
Various systems and methods are provided for reducing pressure at an outflow of a duct, such as the thoracic duct or the lymphatic duct, for example, the right lymphatic duct. A catheter system can be configured to be at least partially implanted within a vein of a patient in the vicinity of an outflow port of a duct of the lymphatic system. The catheter system includes first and second selectively deployable restriction members each configured to be activated to at least partially occlude the vein within which the catheter is implanted and to thus restrict fluid within a portion of the vein. The catheter system includes an impeller configured to be driven by a motor to induce a low pressure zone between the restriction members by causing blood to be pumped through the catheter when the restriction members occlude the vein.
US10226604B2
Various systems and methods are provided for reducing pressure at an outflow of a duct, such as the thoracic duct or the lymphatic duct, for example, the right lymphatic duct. A catheter system can be configured to be at least partially implanted within a vein of a patient in the vicinity of an outflow port of a duct of the lymphatic system. The catheter system includes first and second selectively deployable restriction members each configured to be activated to at least partially occlude the vein within which the catheter is implanted and to thus restrict fluid within a portion of the vein. The catheter system includes an impeller configured to be driven by a motor to induce a low pressure zone between the restriction members by causing blood to be pumped through the catheter when the restriction members occlude the vein.
US10226601B2
A non-compliant fiber-reinforced medical balloon comprises a first fiber layer and a second fiber layer embedded in a continuous matrix of thermally-weldable polymer material defining a barrel wall, cone walls and neck walls. The fibers of the first fiber layer have a pattern of different lengths and are divisible into a first group and a second group based on length. The length of the fibers of the second group varies progressively in accordance to their proximity to the fibers of the first group; the fibers of the second group closest to the fibers of the first group being longer than the fibers of the second group further from the fibers of the first group. The fiber of the second fiber layer winds circumferentially around the longitudinal axis of the balloon substantially over the entire length of the balloon.
US10226593B2
A lighting system for improving the alertness of a person comprising: one or more light sources (101) arranged to emit light into an environment, at least one of the one or more light sources being arranged with a primary function comprising providing illumination into the environment; and a controller (103) configured to cause at least one of the at least one light sources to provide a secondary function of emitting at least a first light pulse (503) having a duration of between 1 ms and 50 ms, wherein there is an idle period (505) lasting at least 0.1 s on either side of the first light pulse.
US10226585B2
Injection devices are provided which include a handpiece capable of housing a cartridge containing an injectable composition, and a head coupled to the handpiece and housing a plurality of retractable needles and a dosing mechanism. Methods of treating skin surfaces are also provided.
US10226583B2
An apparatus includes a medicament container, a first elastomeric member, a second elastomeric member and a stopper. The first and second elastomeric members are disposed within the medicament container. The first elastomeric member, a first portion of the medicament container and the second elastomeric member collectively define a medicament volume. The stopper is coupled to a distal end portion of the medicament container. The second elastomeric member, a second portion of the medicament container and the stopper collectively define a vent volume. A first retainer of the stopper is configured to engage a first portion of a carrier to limit movement of the medicament container when in a first position. A second retainer of the stopper is configured to engage a second portion of the carrier to limit movement of the medicament container when in a second position.
US10226572B2
Some embodiments of a portable medical device, such as an infusion pump, can receive an external reference signal (e.g., a radio, cellular and/or satellite signal) to provide an automatic time-setting and maintenance operation. In these circumstances, the medical device can maintain accurate time and date information even in the event of a power interruption, a time-zone change and/or an internal clock error, for example. In this manner, the portable medical device provides safe operation and added convenience to the user.
US10226568B2
An example method includes receiving, within a graphical user interface (GUI) of a medical fluid injection system, a selection of a particular user, providing, within the GUI, a display of a plurality of selectable options, each option including at least a respective graphical symbol, wherein each respective graphical symbol comprises a respective non-textual icon that is a graphical representation of a respective anatomical location associated with the medical procedure, each respective anatomical location comprising one of a left coronary artery, a right coronary artery, or a left ventricle and aorta, retrieving one or more customized injection parameters that have respective values customized for the particular user based on one or more preferences of the particular user, and displaying, within the GUI, the one or more customized injection parameters.
US10226547B2
The invention relates to an implant derived from intestinal tissue and to an improved method for producing an implant from intestinal tissue. According to the invention, intestinal tissue comprising a tubular segment of intestine with at least part of its associated vasculature intact is processed by: perfusing the vasculature through a vessel thereof with at least one decellularizing medium; and separately perfusing the tubular segment of intestine through its lumen with at least one decellularizing medium. The new method greatly improves tissue processing as compared with the methods previously known in the art, in which decellularization solutions were perfused into the tissue via the vasculature only, relying on diffusion to decellularize and purify the small bowel tissue. In contrast, the invention provides for separate decellularization and purification protocols for the vascular and tubular intestinal components, which are designed to optimize decellularization and purification of each of these tissue structures while preserving certain tissue-specific three-dimensional structures. The resulting scaffold is substantially decellularized and provides an excellent implant for repair and regeneration of bowel tissue.
US10226545B2
A new-generation GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) compliant hygienic fluid particle diffuser allowing to release the particles of fluids such as bottled drugs, extracts and natural oils by generating a particular pressure without any heating process without degrading the essence of the fluid thanks to a disposable fluid chamber.
US10226543B2
There is provided an allergen inactivating agent having less lowering in performance due to fluctuation in pH, and being capable of not only adsorbing and removing an allergen, but also inactivating and removing the allergen itself. In addition, there is provided a house dust treatment agent, spray, and sheet, capable of effectively removing house dust, without any disadvantages upon use such as generation of stains.
US10226539B2
Disclosed herein is a selective delivery molecule comprising: (a) an acidic sequence (portion A) which is effective to inhibit or prevent the uptake into cells or tissue retention, (b) a molecular transport or tissue retention sequence (portion B), and (c) a linker between portion A and portion B, and (d) cargo moieties (portion DA and DB).
US10226537B2
This invention relates to transduction of cargo molecules into living cells, such as protein transduction, in particular a delivery molecule for transduction of a cargo into a cell comprising: a cargo-binding molecule and/or a cargo; a glycosaminoglycan (GAG) binding element, which is capable of binding to GAG on the surface of the cell; and a protein transduction domain. Methods of transduction, methods of producing or modifying cargo for transduction, delivery molecules for transduction and methods of treatment using transduction, or using transduced cells are also provided.
US10226535B2
An auristatin compound conjugate is provided herein. The conjugate comprises a protein based recognition-molecule (PBRM) and a polymeric carrier substituted with one or more -LD-D, the protein based recognition-molecule being connected to the polymeric carrier by LP. Each occurrence of D is independently an auristatin compound having a molecular weight ≤5 kDa. LD and LP are distinct linkers connecting the auristatin compound and PBRM to the polymeric carrier respectively. Also disclosed are polymeric scaffolds useful for conjugating with a PBRM to form a polymer-auristatin compound-PBRM conjugate described herein, compositions comprising the conjugates, methods of their preparation, and methods of treating various disorders with the conjugates or their compositions.
US10226531B2
A method of treating atherosclerosis comprises removing AGE-modified cells from a patient. The AGE-modified cells include erythrocytes, intima cells, endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, macrophages, and foam cells. A variety of techniques, such as ultrasound and binding with an anti-AGE antibody, may be used to identify and remove the AGE-modified cells.
US10226528B2
Disclosed herein is a vaccine comprising an antigen and one or more bimolecular adjuvant. Also disclosed herein are methods for increasing an immune response in a subject. The methods may comprise administering the vaccine to the subject in need thereof.
US10226526B2
Improved anti-HPV immunogens and nucleic acid molecules that encode them are disclosed. Immunogens disclosed include those having consensus HPV39 E6E7 and HPV45 E6E7. Pharmaceutical composition, recombinant vaccines comprising DNA plasmid and live attenuated vaccines are disclosed as well methods of inducing an immune response in an individual against HPV are disclosed.
US10226524B2
The invention provides proteins from Staphylococcus aureus including amino acid sequences and the corresponding nucleotide sequences. The proteins are useful for vaccines, immunogenic compositions, diagnostics, enzymatic studies and also as targets for antibiotics.
US10226523B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include vaccine compositions comprising a TcdB toxin or toxoid derived therefrom. The TcdB toxin may be derived from a hypervirulent strain of C. difficile. A further embodiment is directed to a method of conferring an active immunity against a C. difficile infection in a subject by administering the vaccine composition to the subject.
US10226516B2
The present invention is related to the field of tissue regeneration. It concerns more particularly new processes, tubes and devices for thrombin, platelet concentrate and wound healant preparations, alone or in combination with cell extracts, cell compositions and uses thereof.
US10226513B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods of using compositions comprised of undenatured cartilage in the form of an isolated native Type II collagen that may be combined in a synergistic blend with one or more edible metals with acceptable chemical counter-ions or other health promoting ingredients to be orally consumed as a method for preventing and improving symptoms of musculoskeletal distress degeneration, including symptoms selected from temporary loss of range of motion, temporary inflammation, temporary muscle soreness, and combinations thereof. The synergistic compositions of the present invention also protect, promote and improve recovery from and prevention of cartilage and ligament wear, thinning and damage to bone, and repetitive motion injuries and stress resulting from intense periods of activity or workout routines that contribute to such musculoskeletal distress degeneration symptoms.
US10226511B2
The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for topical or transdermal delivery, including treatment and prevention of learning and memory disorders, and enhancement of learning or memory. In some cases, the composition may include nitric oxide and/or peptides such as thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and/or GnRH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone). The nitric oxide and/or peptide may be present within a first phase comprising a lecithin, such as phosphatidylcholine. In certain embodiments, the lecithin is present in liposomes, micelles, or other structures containing nitric oxide and/or peptide. The composition can take the form of a gel, a cream, a lotion, an ointment, a solution, a solid “stick,” etc., that can be rubbed or sprayed onto the skin. Other aspects of the present invention are generally directed to methods of making or using such compositions, methods of promoting such compositions, kits including such compositions, or the like.
US10226500B2
Disclosed is a use of the Chinese medicine composition and Dianxianning in the preparation of a medicament for preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease. As indicated by the experiments, the Chinese medicine composition and Dianxianning have a significant inhibiting effect on palsy phenotype in pathological models of animals with Alzheimer's disease, and this indicates that the Chinese medicine composition and Dianxianning can be used to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease.
US10226494B2
The present invention relates to an antioxidant composition containing an extracellular polysaccharide produced using Ceriporia lacerata, or a mycelium culture of Ceriporia lacerata comprising the same, or a dry powder or an extract thereof as an active ingredient. The composition can be used as an antioxidant for preventing or treating various diseases such as brain diseases such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, etc., heart diseases, ischemia, arteriosclerosis, skin damage, inflammation, rheumatism, autoimmune diseases, etc. including cancers as well as aging, or as a health functional food, a cosmetic material or a feed composition having an antioxidant effect.
US10226492B2
The present invention relates to a new probiotic with immune modulating properties and to a new biomarker.
US10226491B2
The present invention is related to the field of bioprotection, in particular to an antimicrobial composition comprising a Lactobacillus rhamnosus strain and/or a Lactobacillus paracasei strain. Furthermore, the present invention concerns uses for such an antimicrobial composition, food, feed and pharmaceutical products comprising such an antimicrobial composition, a method of manufacturing such food, feed and pharmaceutical products and a method for reducing the content of unwanted microorganisms of such food, feed and pharmaceutical products.
US10226490B2
A probiotic composition for inducing or supporting weight loss in a subject, the probiotic composition including an effective amount of a bacteria selected from the genus Bacteroides and a carrier for delivering the bacteria to the subject.
US10226481B2
Described herein are pharmaceutical compositions composed of low molecular weight sulfated hyaluronan.
US10226480B2
The present invention relates to a biomaterial, specifically a hydrogel, based on the extracellular matrix of the umbilical cord for its application in regenerative medicine. The invention particularly relates to a biomaterial made up of glycosaminoglycans present exclusively in the Wharton's jelly of the umbilical cord (which can optionally be combined with cells as a combination therapy), and also to the methods for the production and use thereof.
US10226473B2
The present disclosure is drawn to pharmaceutical compositions and oral dosage capsules containing testosterone undecanoate, as well as related methods. The capsule includes a capsule shell and a capsule fill. The capsule fill can include a solubilizer and about 14 wt % to about 35 wt % testosterone undecanoate based on the total capsule fill. The oral dosage capsule is such that when a single oral administration to a male subject of one or more capsules with a total testosterone undecanoate daily dose of about 350 mg to about 650 mg it provides a ratio of serum testosterone Cmax to serum testosterone Cave of about 2.7 or less. In yet another embodiment, a method for providing a serum concentration of testosterone within a target serum testosterone concentration Cave range for a male subject is provided.
US10226471B2
The present invention relates to methods for weight management that utilize modified-release dosage forms comprising (R)-8-chloro-1-methyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-3-benzazepine salts and crystalline forms thereof. The present invention further relates to (R)-8-chloro-1-methyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-3-benzazepine salts, crystalline forms thereof and modified-release dosage forms comprising them.
US10226470B2
Methods are provided for treating autoimmune disease in a subject by inhibiting the activity of DGAT1.
US10226458B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising sorbitan esters of carboxylic acids that are useful for the delivery of anti-psychotic drugs.
US10226456B2
Abuse-resistant opioid compounds, drug delivery systems, pharmaceutical compositions comprising an opioid covalently bound to a chemical moiety are provided. Methods of delivering an active ingredient to a subject and methods of preventing opioid abuse are also provided.
US10226451B2
The invention relates to substituted bicyclic compounds, which are useful for inhibition of BET protein function by binding to bromodomains, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and use of the compounds and compositions in therapy.
US10226449B2
Heterocyclic modulators of lipid synthesis are provided as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; and methods of treating conditions characterized by dysregulation of a fatty acid synthase pathway by the administration of such compounds and combinations of such compounds and other therapeutic agents.
US10226446B2
The present invention relates to an FK506 derivative which has reduced immunosuppressive activity but maintains nerve regeneration activity, a preparing method thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same for preventing or treating nervous system diseases. A composition comprising 9-deoxo-prolyl-FK506, 31-O-demethyl-FK506, or 9-deoxo-31-O-demethyl-FK506 can promote nerve regeneration and has reduced immunosuppressive activity, thereby reducing side effects in the treatment of nervous system diseases.
US10226443B2
Methods, agents and compositions thereof for treating psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are encompassed herein.
US10226442B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a lithium salt of an N-substituted glycine compound and a carrier, wherein the lithium salt of the N-substituted glycine compound is of Formula (I): in which R1, R2, and R3 each are independently hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, carbocyclyl, aryl, or heteroaryl, or one of R1, R2, and R3 is absent. Also provided in the present invention is a method of mitigating at least one symptom of a neuropsychiatric disorder, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof the lithium salt of an N-substituted glycine compound of Formula (I).
US10226436B2
The inventive subject matter is directed to compositions and methods for ready-to-inject norepinephrine compositions with improved stability. Most preferably, compositions presented herein are substantially antioxidant free and exhibit less than 10% isomerization of R-norepinephrine and exhibit less than 5% degradation of total norepinephrine.
US10226432B2
Described herein are enteric soft capsules comprising gastric resistant polymers and gelatin and methods for manufacturing the same. The enteric soft capsules described herein have enhanced enteric and elastic properties and are simpler to manufacture and produce.
US10226431B2
Microbiota restoration therapy (MRT) compositions (e.g., oral MRT compositions) and methods for manufacturing MRT compositions are disclosed. An example method for manufacturing an MRT composition may include collecting a stool sample, purifying the stool sample to form a purified sample, stabilizing the purified sample to form a stabilized sample, converting the stabilized sample to a solid, adding one or more additives and/or excipients to the solid to form a treatment composition, and encapsulating the treatment composition.
US10226429B2
An oral creatine formulation includes soluble creatine and polyethylene glycol, coated with an enteric coating. The most preferred soluble creatine is creatine HCl. The most preferred polyethylene glycols have an average molecular weight of from 3150 to 3685, although for particular formulation formulations and particular uses, the average molecular weight polyethylene glycols may range from 190 to 9000.
US10226421B2
The present invention relates to drug formulations in dry powder form for administration by inhalation and indicated for the treatment of obstructive airway syndromes such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In particular, the invention relates to an inhalable pharmaceutical composition comprising a first powder consisting of budesonide, or one of its pharmaceutically allowable salts, in a quantity greater than 5% w/w of said first powder, leucine in a quantity in the range of 5 to 70% w/w of said first powder, and lactose in a quantity in the range of 20 to 90% w/w of said first powder; a second powder consisting of formoterol, or one of its pharmaceutically allowable salts, in a quantity greater than 1% w/w of said second powder, leucine in a quantity in the range of 5 to 70% w/w of said second powder, and lactose in a quantity in the range of 20 to 90% w/w of said second powder; and a third powder consisting of leucine in a quantity in the range of 5 to 70% w/w of said third powder, and lactose in a quantity in the range of 20 to 90% w/w of said third powder. Said composition has a fine particle fraction (FPF) greater than 60% and a delivered fraction (DF) greater than 90%.
US10226419B2
Pharmacologically active implants, in particular subcutaneous implants, intrauterine devices, and intravaginal rings, are provided herein. Methods for forming an active ingredient-containing core are described. Methods for laminating an active ingredient-containing core to form a rate-controlling sheath are also described.
US10226416B2
The disclosure concerns a hair conditioning composition for permanent and semi-permanent hair color applications wherein the hair conditioning composition comprises a solvent; a water-soluble, oligo-peptide from a natural proteinous raw-material source containing Sulfur; alkaline or alkaline earth metal ions; a multidentate ligand or chelating agent and optionally a redox-active inorganic or organic component.
US10226414B2
Soluble fluoride ion stability is increased in certain dentifrice formulations with the use of carrageenan, particularly under alkaline pH conditions.
US10226411B2
The subject of the present invention is a composition for dyeing human keratin fibers such as the hair, comprising: (a) at least one oxidation dye precursor; (b) at least one first amphoteric or zwitterionic surfactant; (c) at least one second non-ionic or anionic surfactant; (d) one or more fatty substances; (e) at least one cationic polymer; (f) at least one non-ionic guar gum; (g) at least one oxidizing agent other than atmospheric oxygen. The present invention also relates to a process for dying human keratin fibers, in which this composition is applied to said fibers, and also to a suitable multicompartment device.
US10226410B2
Certain alkaline dentifrice compositions with relatively high level of water and calcium-containing abrasive, a basic amino acid, and a relatively low level of humectant, have a surprisingly high fluoride uptake.
US10226404B2
Disclosed is a method of preparing a hair care composition comprising a step of injecting antidandruff agent, perfume and/or silicone, to an emulsion. The method of the present invention provides reduced agglomeration of the antidandruff agent selected from metal pyrithiones.
US10226402B2
A vent system for a liquid container having a container body with a top dispensing opening and a bottom portion having coupling elements and a bottom opening, the vent system including a solid closure member for closing the bottom opening; a sealing member disposed in the closure member, the sealing member including a sealing element configured to seal a rim of the container bottom opening and having a bore, and a one-way valve sealing the bore against liquid passage from the container and selectively permitting air passage through the bore into the container; complementary coupling elements on the closure member for coupling to the coupling elements on the bottom portion of the container, configured so that ambient air can enter between the container body and the closure member; and an air conduit extending from the coupling elements to a space in the vent system which is in operative communication with the bore, and a method for making it.
US10226401B2
A closed path vial fill system includes a bulk product vial, a peristaltic pump operated by a stepper motor, a dispensing manifold assembly to which may be coupled at least one final product vial, an optional quality check station, and an optional waste collection system. A concentration, activity, and volume (CAV) sensor may be incorporated into the system to receive a radiopharmaceutical product directly from a synthesizing unit. A control system may be integrated into the system to provide automated control of various aspects of the radiopharmaceutical dispensing process. The system is used to aseptically dispense finished radiopharmaceuticals into receiving vessels, such as a Quality Control vial, a sterility vial, and/or final product vials, while providing users an efficient means for removing and discarding contaminated disposable components.
US10226400B2
A multi-cell container includes a bag of substantially flat shape made of flexible film, a partition wall as a separable seal welding opposite inner surfaces of the bag and dividing an inner space of the bag into a plurality of compartments and an inlet-outlet port located at a periphery of the bag so as to be opened to one of the plurality of compartments for introduction and/or discharge of liquid. The partition wall has a horizontal section extending in a direction along the bottom of the bag and a vertical section bent therefrom and extending to the topside of the bag. A first larger volume compartment is formed on one side of the partition wall adjacent the bag bottom and a second smaller volume compartment is formed on the other side of the partition wall. The inlet-outlet port is opened to the first chamber.
US10226399B2
An object of the present invention is to automatically identify a direction, a posture and characteristics such as a shape, a size, a type and an expiration date of a medicine and store the medicine with ensuring a high degree of freedom. A medicine supplying apparatus 1 includes an identifying part and a storing part. A storing area is defined at the time of storing the medicine according to a size of a medicine contained in characteristics of the medicine identified by the identifying part. The medicine is stored in the storing part in a state that identification information of the medicine is associated with the storing area. Further, the medicine supplying apparatus has a determination processing part which can determine whether or not the medicine is a target to be treated based on the characteristics of the medicine identified by the identifying part.
US10226398B2
Disclosed is an optical needle comprising a coupling seat, a needle body in connection with the coupling seat and at least an optical fiber. The needle body comprises a lightguide groove extended along the length direction of the needle body to accommodate a portion of the optical fiber. The coupling seat provides a junction plane to couple a light source. An end of the lightguide groove is aligned with the junction plane, so to align an end of the optical fiber with the junction plane. The optical needle is characterized in that the long axis of the optical fiber reduces from a section aligned with the junction plane to an end adjacent to the needle body. A method for preparation of the optical needle is also disclosed.
US10226397B2
A system for treating soft tissue of a patient. The system includes a treatment head and a computer portion. The treatment head includes a probe and an electrode operably coupled to the probe. The probe and electrode are configured to respectively deliver a mechanical force impulse and an electrical stimulation to the soft tissue when placed in operable contact with the soft tissue. The computer portion includes a CPU and is configured to coordinate the delivery of the mechanical force impulse and electrical stimulation relative to each other. The system is configured to sense a shockwave in the soft tissue of the patient, the shockwave resulting from the mechanical force impulse delivered to the soft tissue via the probe. The system is also configured to analyze a characteristic of the sensed shockwave and configure the electrical stimulation to be delivered to the soft tissue via the electrode based on the characteristic analysis of the sensed shockwave. The characteristic may be at least one of frequency of the sensed shockwave, amplitude of the sensed shockwave, and/or wave shape (form) of the sensed shockwave.
US10226394B2
A stretching device comprises a wearable body harness with an adjustable central hold arranged around the upper body connected with an adjustable extension strap configured to engage a foot at a distal end. The extension strap is slidably connected to the central strap to move along the length of the central strap. The extension strap comprises a non-elastic material, divided by a single elastic segment. The extension strap having incremental markings designating amount of adjustment. The device and method of using the device provides a comfortable tension, facilitates hands free stretching in the supine position, improving duration of stretching and range of motion. An independent adjustable stretching strap for upper body and shoulder stretching, further comprises a non-elastic material looped at each distal end, divided by a discrete elastic segment and having incremental visual markings designating amount of adjustment.
US10226384B2
An anisotropic wound drape for treating a wound on a patient includes a flexible sheet for placing over a tissue site. The flexible sheet includes a first isotropic zone, and a second isotropic zone. The first isotropic zone and the second isotropic zone are configured to provide the flexible sheet with anisotropic stretching properties. The anisotropic drape may used as part of a reduced-pressure wound treatment system. Other systems and methods are also presented.
US10226381B2
By adapting femtosecond micromachining approaches developed in hydrogels, we can perform Intra-tissue Refractive Index Shaping (IRIS) in biological tissues. We reduced femtosecond laser pulse energies below the optical breakdown thresholds to create grating patterns that are associated with a change in the refractive index of the tissue. To increase two-photon absorption, we used a two (or more)-photon-absorbing chromophore.
US10226374B2
A neck support apparatus (10) has a base portion (21) for positioning on the torso (18) of the user (11) and a support portion (23) extending from the base portion and having a rest (25) upon which the mandible (17)) of the user (11) can rest when the head (13) of the user is at the forwardmost tilted position. The rest (25) has two rest members (27) configured to receive the mandible (17), typically adjacent the underside of the posterior mandibles (17a) of the user (11). The support portion (23) further comprises two struts (31) which are mounted on the base portion (21) and on which the rest members (27) are mounted. The two struts (31) are adapted to be disposed angularly with respect to each other.
US10226368B2
A delivery system for delivering a prosthesis includes a sheath, a slide shaft having a threaded outer surface, and a handle. The handle includes an internal spring assembly for selectively engaging and disengaging the handle with the threaded outer surface of the slide shaft. The internal spring assembly includes at least one spring arm, a head coupled to the spring arm and having a circumferentially rounded threaded inner surface, and a ring slidably disposed over the spring arm. When the ring is in a first longitudinal position, the threaded inner surface of the head is spaced apart from the threaded outer surface of the slide shaft. When the ring is in a second longitudinal position, the threaded inner surface of the head is threadedly engaged with the threaded outer surface of the slide shaft. The handle may include a resilient cover to provide the internal spring assembly with a biased or nominal operational position.
US10226367B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for filling a therapeutic substance or drug within a hollow wire that forms a stent. The stent is placed within a chamber housing a fluid drug formulation. During filling, the chamber is maintained at or near the vapor-liquid equilibrium of the solvent of the fluid drug formulation. To fill the stent, at least a portion of the stent is placed into contact with the fluid drug formulation until a lumenal space defined by the hollow wire is at least partially filled with the fluid drug formulation via capillary action. After filling is complete, the stent is retracted such that the stent is no longer in contact with the fluid drug formulation. The solvent vapor pressure within the chamber is reduced to evaporate a solvent of the fluid drug formulation. A wicking means may control transfer of the fluid drug formulation into the stent.
US10226366B2
Medical devices that include a tubular member with a plurality of braided filaments, each filament crossing another of the filaments at a respective crossing point forming sidewall and a plurality of pores in the sidewall that are sized to inhibit flow of blood through the sidewall into an aneurysm to a degree sufficient to lead to thrombosis and healing of the aneurysm when the tubular member is positioned in a blood vessel and adjacent to the aneurysm, the pores have an average pore size that is less than or equal to about 500 microns when the tubular member is in an expanded state, the filaments possessing antithrombogenic surfaces to increase antithrombogenicity of the medical device with pores substantially free of webs formed by antithrombogenic material, such that fewer than 5% of the crossing points have webs formed by antithrombogenic material thereby permitting the pores to be substantially free of webs.
US10226364B2
A prosthesis stem includes a stem body for receiving an amputation stump and an insertion aid apparatus, which facilitates the insertion of the amputation stump into the stem body, wherein the insertion aid apparatus comprises an insertion inlay which is connected in the proximal edge region thereof to a holding apparatus which is fixed to the stem body. The insertion inlay has an insertion stocking, which is movable between an outer position, in which the insertion inlay is at least partially located outside of the stem body, and an inner position, in which the insertion stocking covers the stem body.
US10226360B2
A spinal implant formed from a hinged distractor having an upper and lower support body that is hinged by use of pinions. An insert body is constructed and arranged to slide between the section to expand both in height and width, and to maintain a space therebetween. The insert body includes a leading edge that is tapered to allow ease of insertion. A trailing edge that extends beyond a front edge of the upper support body will cause the insert body to be locked into position. A trailing edge engages the rear of the upper support body to prevent over insertion. A lower surface of the insert body may include locking surfaces.
US10226356B2
An expandable medical implant is provided with an implantable cage body. Methods for stabilizing and correcting the alignment of a spine with an expandable medical implant are provided. The proximal and distal ends of the cage body may each be provided with a plug for causing expansion of the ends of the implant and therefore the bone engaging surfaces of the implant. The proximal plug member may be configured to move longitudinally such that the proximal end of the cage body resiliently expands. The distal plug member may be configured to move longitudinally such that the distal end of the cage body resiliently expands. The proximal and distal plug members are moved longitudinally independently from one another to allow for independent expansion and contraction of each of the proximal and distal ends of the cage body itself.
US10226345B2
A modular femoral prosthesis for use during performance of a hip revision procedure includes a proximal body component, a distal stem component, and a locking bolt. Surgical instruments and methods for use in implanting such a modular femoral prosthesis are disclosed.
US10226341B2
For some applications, apparatus is provided for facilitating implantation of a prosthetic valve at a native heart valve of a subject, the apparatus comprising a prosthetic valve support, the prosthetic valve support (a) being configured to be transluminally-deliverable to the native valve and to be deployable at the native valve, and (b) comprising one or more tissue-engaging elements, configured to couple the prosthetic valve support to leaflets of the native valve without eliminating check valve functionality of the native valve. Other embodiments are also described.
US10226337B2
The invention provides a device for fine adjustment of a prosthetic valve device and a method of adjusting the position of a prosthetic valve after implantation. The adjustment mechanism includes complementary structures on a valve member and device frame that cooperate to provide relative axial and/or angular motion between the valve member and device frame (and thus the native vessel). The adjustment mechanism of the invention may also include a means for selectively maintaining the relative position of the valve member and device frame. The device and method are particularly applicable for use with a modular prosthetic valve device that is assembled in the body lumen.
US10226332B2
A prosthetic heart valve includes a stent extending in a longitudinal direction, the stent being formed of a plurality of struts forming cells and having a plurality of commissure features, a collapsed condition and an expanded condition. A valve assembly may be secured to the stent, the valve assembly including a cuff and a plurality of leaflets. The cuff may be formed of a fabric and a second material different from the fabric, the cuff having commissure peaks and a plurality of midpeaks disposed between the commissure peaks. Each of the leaflets may have a free edge.
US10226326B2
A foldable lens comprises an outer refractive surface portion comprising a first plurality of convexly curved refractive profile regions having positive optical power to converge light energy with refraction toward a focus on the retina. The convexly curved refractive profile regions of the outer region may correspond to at least about a quarter of the refractive power of the lens, such that the lens thickness is decreased substantially and the folded lens can fit through a small incision. The outer refractive surface portion focuses light with refraction, in focus images viewed through the outer portion of the lens can appear sharp to the patient. The outer refractive surface portion also comprises a second plurality of concavely curved refractive profile regions having negative optical power disposed between the first plurality, so as to diverge the light energy substantially away from the focus on the retina, such that visual artifacts are inhibited.
US10226325B2
A tendon repair implant delivery system and methods incorporating a guide member having a temporary fixation member on or adjacent to the distal end. The point of fixation defines a target site for placement of the tendon repair implant which is subsequently affixed to the tendon.
US10226324B2
Delivery devices are described. In one embodiment, a delivery device includes a catheter and a sealing pad coupled to an outer surface of the catheter. The delivery device may further include a recess formed in an outer surface of the catheter. The sealing pad may be coupled in the recess.Methods for delivering a tubular device are described. In one embodiment, a method may include inserting a distal end of a catheter into a lumen of a tubular device. The catheter may include a sealing pad coupled to an outer surface of the catheter. The method also includes positioning the sealing pad inside a drawstring coupled circumferentially to the tubular device, and cinching the drawstring around the catheter at the sealing pad to couple the tubular device to the catheter.
US10226323B2
The present disclosure provides for a double cone filter and a delivery apparatus for deploying the filter within the body. The filter may have superior and inferior rings connected to each other by a plurality of connectors. The rings may have a first degradation rate, and the connectors may have a second degradation rate. The second degradation rate may be faster than the first degradation rate, such that the connectors degrade faster than the rings. In this way, the filter has a filtering state when the connectors are present. After the connectors degrade or partially degrade, the rings may relax against the vessel wall in an open state. After a sufficient length of time, the rings also degrade such that the filter is completely removed from the body.
US10226318B2
A method of treating urinary incontinence includes providing a device having a cuff configured to coapt a urethra of a patient in treating diagnosed urinary incontinence, a pump, and a tube attachable between the cuff and the pump. The method includes providing the tube with a first lumen separated from a second lumen by a wall internal to the tube, and providing at least a portion of an exposed exterior wall of the second lumen to expand to provide the second lumen with an inflatable storage compartment.
US10226317B2
An artificial urinary sphincter system has a pressure reservoir attachable to a pump and a conduit attachable between the pump and a cuff. The cuff is formed as a one-piece monolithic polymer structure that is substantially circular in radial cross-section. The cuff has an interior wall connected by a pair of opposing end walls to an exterior wall and includes a closed cavity located between the interior wall and the exterior wall. The cuff has a part line that allows for placement of the cuff around a urethra of a user.
US10226315B2
A multi-component housing having a length and comprising at least a first component comprising a first plastic material, a second component comprising a second plastic material, and a third component comprising a third plastic material. The housing includes at least one tolerance-elimination element made of the second plastic material and longitudinally attached to the first component along the housing's longitudinal axis. The tolerance-elimination element has an average length extending parallel to the housing's longitudinal axis, which average length is at least ten times less than the length of the housing. The third component at least partially forms an outer surface of the housing, so that the tolerance-elimination element is at least partially overmolded by the third plastic material.
US10226307B2
Robotic debridement apparatuses, related systems, and methods of using the same are disclosed herein. The robotic debridement apparatuses are configured to facilitate debridement of tissue from a wound region. For example, the robotic debridement apparatuses can include one or more of at least one debriding tool configured to debride tissue, at least one tissue disposal tool configured to dispose of substances in the wound region, to the wound region. The systems disclosed herein can include a plurality of robotic debridement apparatuses. The systems disclosed herein can include a dressing associated with the plurality of robotic debridement apparatuses. The dressing can be associated with the robotic debridement apparatuses in a manner that facilitates operations of the robotic debridement apparatuses.
US10226297B2
A medical instrument includes two jaw members, at least one of which creates conditions of frustrated total internal reflection at a tissue-contacting surface when tissue is grasped between the two jaw members. The first jaw member may include an optical element having a tissue-contacting surface. The medical instrument also includes a light source that provides a light beam for sealing tissue. The light source is positioned so that the light beam is totally internally reflected from an interface between the tissue-contacting surface and air when tissue is not grasped by the jaw members. When tissue is grasped by the jaw members, at least a portion of the light beam is transmitted through that portion of the tissue-contacting surface that is in contact with the tissue. The light source may be movably coupled to a jaw member to scan the light beam and/or to change the incident angle based on optical properties of the tissue.
US10226284B2
Disclosed are laminoplasty devices and systems, kits that include such laminoplasty devices or systems or components thereof; and methods of assembling and using such laminoplasty devices and systems. In particular, articulating laminoplasty devices are provided that allow lamina plates to be adjusted angularly and transitionally with respect to a cage connecting the lamina plates. Also provided are laminoplasty plates that are configured so as to be assembled with a bone graft housing, and which provide an opening configured to facilitate bone graft insertion into the housing. Further provided are expandable laminoplasty fixation systems that include a lateral mass plate, a lamina plate and a set screw that when screwed and unscrewed, allows one to contract and expand the plates with respect to one another.
US10226282B2
A bone anchor assembly includes a bone anchor, a receiver member for receiving a spinal fixation element to be coupled to the bone anchor, a compression member positioned within the receiver member, and a closure mechanism including an outer set screw and an inner set screw. The outer set screw delivers a distal force to the compression member to fix the bone anchor relative to the receiver member. The proximal surface of the compression member has a shape configured to restrict deformation of the compression member arms including motion of the compression member arms relative to each other. The distal surface of the outer set screw has a shape that is complementary to the shape of the proximal surface of the compression member.
US10226275B2
Devices, systems, and methods are employed to restore patency to arterial lesions, e.g., by debulking restenosis in a blood vessel or within a stent or coil.
US10226271B2
A surgical apparatus comprises a transducer assembly and a shaft assembly. The transducer assembly is operable to convert electrical power into ultrasonic vibrations. The shaft assembly comprises an ultrasonic waveguide, a sheath, a shroud, and a torque transfer assembly. The waveguide is configured to couple with the transducer assembly. The waveguide is disposed within the sheath. The sheath extends through the shroud. The torque transfer assembly is contained within the shroud. The torque transfer assembly is configured to transfer a predetermined range of torque from the shroud to the waveguide to thereby couple the waveguide with the transducer assembly. The torque transfer assembly is further configured to prevent transfer of torque from the shroud to the waveguide beyond an upper limit of the predetermined range.
US10226255B2
A medical anastomosis device (100), having a firing assembly (50), a staple anvil (30), a staple anvil assembly (34), and a staple cartridge assembly (32); the firing assembly (50) includes a staple cartridge push rod (54) provided with a stop pin (542) thereon; the staple anvil (30) is provided with a safety block (38) therein capable of coordinating with the stop pin (542); the safety block (38) is provided with a clamping groove (384) thereon; when the anastomosis device (100) is in an initial status, the safety block (38) and the stop pin (542) do not contact each other; when the anastomosis device (100) is in a firing status, the movement of the safety block (38) is restricted, and the clamping groove (384) is located on a movement route from the distal end of the medical anastomosis device (100) to the proximal end; and when the anastomosis device (100) returns to the initial status after being fired, the stop pin (542) is clamped in the clamping groove (384), and the safety block (38) limits the stop pin (542) in the direction from the proximal end of the medical anastomosis device (100) to the distal end. The three status jointly compose the complete firing process of the staple cartridge assembly (32), preventing a second firing of the staple cartridge push rod (54) to ensure operation safety.
US10226253B2
A surgical instrument includes a body, a shaft assembly, a stapling head assembly, and a drive assembly. The shaft assembly includes an actuator. The stapling head assembly is operable to drive an annularly arranged array of staples into tissue in response to translation of the actuator along a first axis relative to the body. The drive assembly is operable to translate the actuator along the first axis. The drive assembly comprises first and second rotary members. The first rotary member is rotatable about a second axis. The second axis is non-parallel with the first axis. The second rotary member is rotatable about a third axis. The third axis is non-parallel with the first axis and non-parallel with the second axis. The first rotary member is operable to drive the second rotary member to rotate about the third axis to thereby drive the actuator along the first axis.
US10226251B2
A surgical instrument includes an end effector with a staple cartridge. The staple cartridge includes a deck, a terminal driver assembly, and a wedge sled. The terminal driver assembly is positioned adjacent to a distal tip of the staple cartridge. The terminal driver assembly is configured to receive a first terminal portion of staples in the staple cartridge. The terminal driver assembly at least partially defines a storage space therebelow within jaw of the end effector. The wedge sled is configured to longitudinally slide proximate to the deck and engage the terminal driver assembly and force the terminal portion of the plurality of staples toward the anvil for formation in tissue. At least a majority of the wedge sled is configured to fit within the storage space and not slide distally beyond the terminal driver assembly when the wedge sled is in the distal sled position.
US10226249B2
A cover for an articulation joint that is supported in an elongate shaft assembly of a surgical instrument that is operably coupled to a surgical end effector that includes at least one end effector conductor therein. The cover includes at least one electrically conductive pathway that extends from the distal end of the cover to form an electrically conductive pathway from the end effector conductor to a shaft conductor on the elongate shaft assembly while facilitating operation of the articulation joint. Various conductor arrangements facilitating the passage of electrical current between an end effector to a control system across the articulation joint are also disclosed.
US10226247B2
An exemplary surgical staple may include a base including a first end and a second end; a single tine extending from the second end of the base; and a barb extending from the base at a location between the first end of the base and the second end of the base. An end of such a staple may be frangibly affixed to a feeder belt. Another exemplary surgical apparatus may include at least one staple including a base including a first end and a second end, a first tine extending from the second end of the base, and a second tine extending from the base at a location between the first end of the base and the second end of the base.
US10226244B2
Embodiments of an implant that is configured with materials to prevent degradation or corrosion. The implant can comprise an elongate body and a degradation-delaying element disposed thereon, where the degradation-delaying element can be configured to reduce or retard corrosion of the elongate body.
US10226243B2
A knotless suture anchor may include an anchor body with a proximal end, a distal end, an interior longitudinal passageway, a proximal opening communicating with the longitudinal passageway nearer the proximal end, and a distal opening communicating with the longitudinal passageway nearer the distal end. A first suture portion extends within the longitudinal passageway between the proximal opening and the distal opening, a second suture portion is contiguous to the first portion and extending out of the anchor body, a third suture portion is contiguous to the second portion and extends within the longitudinal passageway proximally to distally, and a fourth suture portion is contiguous to the third portion, extending along the exterior surface distally to proximally. A proximal member may be joined to the anchor body by a frangible connection and may have a proximal member axial passage containing an interference member coaxially aligned with the longitudinal passageway.
US10226242B2
In one embodiment, an adjustable implant system includes a bone anchor having first and second ends, a bone engagement surface adjacent the first end, and a housing extending between the first and second ends. The adjustable implant system can further include a non-invasively actuatable driving element within the housing and coupled to an adjustment component configured to couple to a flexible elongate tension member which is capable of engaging a patient's soft tissue (e.g., rotator cuff or ACL). Non-invasive actuation of the driving element can cause the adjustment component to change the amount of tension on the flexible elongate tension member and consequently on the patient's soft tissue. The adjustable implant system can include an external adjustment device configured to be placed on or adjacent the patient's skin and comprising at least one energy transferring component configured to energize/actuate the driving element inside the housing of the adjustable implant.
US10226238B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to non-invasive methods and compositions for collecting detecting, measuring, and identifying target molecules. In some embodiments, methods and compositions relate to target molecules in gastrointestinal lavage fluid or feces.
US10226235B2
The present invention provides a method and a system for medical imaging and information display. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is proposed a method (10) of medical imaging and information display, comprising: acquiring (11) imaging data of each point of a plurality of points in an imaging plane or imaging volume of a subject in each mode of a plurality of different imaging modes of a medical imaging apparatus; deriving (12), for said each point, a value by applying the imaging data of the point in said each mode and the imaging data of at least one other point of said plurality of points adjacent to the point in said each mode to a predetermined model, wherein the predetermined model is selected in accordance with a clinical medical application related to the subject; constructing (13) an image based on all the derived values; and displaying (14) the constructed image to a user. Accordingly, the novel method of medical imaging and information display may reduce the burden of doctors, and provide them with an image with a higher definition compared to the conventional ROI method.
US10226226B2
The invention relates to a filtering apparatus (15) for filtering an ultrasound signal, which is influenced by an electrical unit and comprises a first part including information about an object (4) from which the ultrasound signal has been received and a second part not comprising information about the object. A correction signal determination unit (17) determines a correction signal being indicative of the influence of the electrical unit on the ultrasound signal from the second part of the ultrasound signal and a correction unit (18) corrects the first part of the ultrasound signal based on the determined correction signal for filtering the influence of the electrical unit out of the ultrasound signal. Since the correction signal is indicative of the influence of the electrical unit, wherein the correction signal is used for correcting the ultrasound signal, unwanted interference visible in the unfiltered ultrasound signal can be filtered out.
US10226223B2
The present disclosure describes a method for determining spinal instability, more particularly, a method for quantifying the type and extent of spinal instability in a standardized way. The disclosure also describes a method comprising measurement of the intervertebral rotation and intervertebral translation between a vertebrae pair using simple images, and from these measurements, determining if one or more vertebrae pair of the spine is unstable. Finally, the disclosure describes software that may be used to quantify the type and extent of spinal instability.
US10226222B2
According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus which can improve operability is provided. This apparatus comprises a top configured to move, a bed including the top, an X-ray tube configured to generate X-rays applied to an object placed on the top, a peripheral unit used around the bed, and control processing circuitry configured to generate a control signal. The peripheral unit moves in a self-propelled manner between a first position and a second position by a motor. The control processing circuitry generates a control signal for controlling the movement of the peripheral unit.
US10226221B2
A medical imaging data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to obtain a first imaging data set comprising a set of pixels or voxels, the first imaging data set being reconstructed from first measurement data representative of measurements of a measurement volume obtained by relative rotation of a medical scanner and the measurement volume by a first range of angles during a first scanning time period; obtain a second imaging data set comprising a set of pixels or voxels, the second imaging data set being reconstructed from second measurement data representative of measurements of the measurement volume obtained by relative rotation of the medical scanner and the measurement volume by a second range of angles during a second scanning time period, wherein the second scanning time period overlaps the first scanning time period such that some angles are included in both the first range of angles and the second range of angles; transform the first imaging data set to obtain a first transformed data set that is representative of the first measurement data as a function of at least one of angle or time; transform the second imaging data set to obtain a second transformed data set that is representative of the second measurement data as a function of at least one of angle or time; and determine at least one angle of the first range of angles and/or second range of angles based on differences between the first transformed data set and second transformed data set.
US10226220B2
A method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy is provided. The method includes receiving cardiac data and determining a cardiac index based upon the cardiac data. The method includes determining an increased risk of death associated with epilepsy if the indices are extreme, issuing a warning of the increased risk of death and logging information related to the increased risk of death. Also presented is a second method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy comprising receiving at least one of arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data and determining an arousal index, a responsiveness index or an awareness index, where the indices are based on arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data respectively. The second method includes determining an increased risk of death related to epilepsy if indices are extreme values, issuing a warning of the increased risk of death and logging information related to the increased risk of death. A computer readable program storage device is also provided. Also provided is a method for receiving body data, determining a cardiac, an arousal, a responsiveness, or a kinetic index, determining an increased or increasing risk of death over a first time window relating to a patient with epilepsy and issuing a warning and logging relevant information.
US10226207B2
Methods, device and system for providing a sensor insertion assembly including an inserter housing, an introducer including a body portion having a proximal end and a distal end and a shaft portion comprising a channel and a distal end, the shaft portion extending downwardly from an edge of the body portion, the shaft portion including a holding member disposed along a length of the channel, the holding member configured to substantially releasably retain a sensor, an on-body electronics unit, wherein the introducer is configured for insertion of the sensor through an aperture in the on-body electronics unit prior to insertion through skin and a drive mechanism included in the inserter housing and operatively coupled to the introducer, wherein the drive mechanism drives the introducer and retained sensor through the skin are provided.
US10226202B2
This contact-angle measurement method is a contact-angle measurement method for measuring a contact angle (γ) between a droplet that is supplied to a sample curved surface and the sample curved surface. This method includes an apparent contact-angle calculation step of calculating an apparent contact-angle (α) of the droplet by using a captured image of the droplet supplied to the sample curved surface and the sample curved surface; an inclination angle calculation step of calculating an inclination angle (β) of the sample curved surface at an outer periphery portion of a contact portion between the droplet and the sample curved surface by using the captured image; and a contact-angle calculation step of calculating the contact angle (γ) by correcting the apparent contact angle (α), using the inclination angle (β).
US10226196B2
A method and apparatus for the quantitative determination of an individual's risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) is described. Risk stratification is accomplished (and may have a sensitivity and specificity of greater than about 90%) by determining the presence in any individual being tested for SCD risk of sequences identified herein to correlate quantitatively with SCD risk. Both the number of such sequences present and their alignment scores (similarity) with the SCD risk sequence ensemble are used to calculate quantitative SCD risk.
US10226193B2
Disclosed is a system that includes pressure sensors to assist in monitoring pressure at a selected location. Pressure sensors may be applied to or incorporated into catheters and/or shunts positioned within a patient. A monitoring system may then receive signals from the pressure sensors to monitor pressure at the location over time.
US10226188B2
Various methods and systems for blood pressure monitoring are provided. A device for monitoring blood pressure may include a memory storing instructions for receiving one or more signals representative of one or more patient parameters, wherein at least one of the one or more signals comprises a plethysmography signal. The memory also stores instructions for determining a change in a pulse shape metric of the plethysmography signal and determining a change in a blood pressure signal over a period of time based on the one or more signals. The memory also stores instructions for determining a confidence level of the blood pressure signal based at least in part on a correlation between the change in the blood pressure signal and the change in the pulse shape metric over the period of time. The device also includes a processor configured to execute the instructions.
US10226186B2
A method for measuring reactive hyperemia in a subject is disclosed. The method includes performing a first segmental cuff plethysmography to generate a baseline arterial compliance curve and/or a baseline pressure-area (P-A) curve, performing a second segmental cuff plethysmography to generate a hyperemic arterial compliance curve and/or a hyperemic P-A curve, and calculating an area between the baseline and the hyperemic curves. The size of the area can be used as an indication of endothelial dysfunction (ED) and ED-related diseases.
US10226182B2
Provided is a photoacoustic probe. The photoacoustic probe is configured to control light emitted from an optical unit by using a shutter that is switched between a state in which the shutter is opened to allow light to pass therethrough and a state in which the shutter blocks the light according to whether an inspection starts.
US10226177B2
Systems, apparatuses, devices, and methods for monitoring mobility aids are provided. An example apparatus includes a wheel attachment assembly, a motion sensor, and a transceiver. The wheel attachment assembly is configured to removably attach to a wheel of a mobility aid. The motion sensor is configured to measure rotation of the wheel attachment assembly. The transceiver is in electronic communication with the motion sensor and configured to transmit data based on measurements from the motion sensor. An example system includes a monitoring device and a stationary communication node. The monitoring device is configured to removably attach to a mobility aid and includes a transceiver and a motion sensor configured to measure motion of the monitoring device. The stationary communication node is configured to communicate with the monitoring device. An example method generates alerts based on data from an attachable monitoring device.
US10226172B2
Devices and methods are provided herein for aiding in the early diagnosis and remediation of conditions that range from unpleasant to disabling. Images are presented to viewers in an assembly that also eye-tracks their eyes during that process and executes software to identify visual signatures of conditions in the responses of the eyes. Also, responsive treatment for a thus-identified presentation of the condition can be effected in real time providing the patient with both a cause-and-effect perception of the presentation of the condition and means for correcting related ocular behaviors right when they occur.
US10226168B2
A medical image formation apparatus includes laser emitting elements which emit laser light rays different in wavelength, an image selection circuit to select a kind of observation image, a light source controller which controls the laser emitting elements, in accordance with an observation mode corresponding to the selected kind, an imager which images return light ray from an observation target and then outputs the return light ray as an image signal, and an image processor which forms the observation images. A first laser emitting group is controlled when the kind of selected observation image is a first observation image. A second laser emitting group is controlled when the kind of selected observation image is a second observation image. The first laser emitting group and the second laser emitting group include a first common laser emitting element.
US10226164B2
The invention relates to a dental scanning device characterized in that it is essentially formed by two bodies, the first body or scanner body (1) housing a moving scan head (3) consisting of a longitudinal mobile element ending in the scanning head (4), and the second body or bite body (2) consisting of a casing for receiving the scanning head (4); in addition to the element that allows the patient to hold and position the device by means of the force or pressure exerted by the patient's bite.
US10226161B2
A lifting device for a holder for items to be washed of a water-bearing domestic appliance includes a driving apparatus configured to generate a supporting force to assist a manual movement of the holder into a washing container of the water-bearing domestic appliance as the holder is lowered and to generate a supporting force to assist a manual movement of the holder out of the washing container as the holder is raised. The driving apparatus is activated by a control apparatus so as to generate the supporting force during the manual movement of the holder.
US10226158B2
A vacuum cleaner capable of ensuring communication between a suction port and a dust collecting unit even in a state that a body portion of a cleaning unit has pivoted along an up/down direction relative to a main casing. The body portion is provided on the main casing to be pivotable along the up/down direction. A sliding-contact surface portion is provided in the body portion and curved along a pivoting direction of the body portion. A curved surface portion is provided in the communicating section body and curved along the pivoting direction of the body portion to be brought into sliding contact with the sliding-contact surface portion by pivoting motion of the body portion. A communicating opening is opened in the curved surface portion to communicate with the dust collecting unit.
US10226156B2
An apparatus capable of moving a toilet seat from one position to another in a number of ways including, but not limited to, a switch, voice recognition software, infrared remote control, a motion detector, and a mobile device application. A lifting structure is attached under the seat and is connected to a housing containing a motor and/or a microprocessor.
US10226154B2
A thawing rack. The thawing rack includes a base including a plurality of parallel oriented rods, a first end, and an opposing second end. A pair of outermost rods of a first rack are in sliding engagement with a pair of outermost rods of the base at the first end thereof, and a pair of outermost rods of a second rack are in sliding engagement with the pair of outermost rods of the base at the second end thereof. One or more springs are configured to bias the first rack away from the second rack. The first and second racks can be compressed and slid inwardly toward one another and then released when the thawing rack is positioned within a sink basin. The force exerted by the springs causes feet disposed on the distal ends of the first and second racks to frictionally engage the sidewalls of the sink basin.
US10226152B2
An apparatus for dispensing a predetermined volume of a warm liquid includes a heater, a pump and a temperature sensor sensitive to the temperature of the liquid upstream of the heater. A controller is arranged to receive upstream temperature data from the temperature sensor, calculate the amount of energy required to reach a desired final temperature, energize the heater for a calculated period of ON time, and dispense liquid for a calculated period of time that is at least partly contemporaneous with the calculated period of ON time. After the heater has been de-energized, the dispensed liquid removes residual heat so that the average temperature after dispensing the predetermined volume is the desired final temperature.
US10226140B2
A dish assembly includes a pair of folding panels and a support platform. A bottom of the pair of folding panels are retained in the support platform. Each pair of folding panels includes a first vertical member and a second vertical member. At least one slot opening is formed in each vertical member. At least one slot opening is formed in the first and second vertical member. Each slot opening has an upper curved surface and a stability straight lower surface. The upper curved surface has at least a portion of which is a segment of an arc. The upper curved surface is located opposite the substantially straight lower surface. The upper curved surface having a height from a top end therefore to the substantially straight lower surface.
US10226138B2
An improved hook for use with a pegboard is provided. The improved hook has a vertical central body, an L-shaped upper anchor, a U-shaped lower anchor, and a horizontal rod for hanging tools and objects. The L-shaped upper anchor and U-shaped lower anchor are configured to secure the hook on the pegboard such that the hook does not get accidently dislodged from the pegboard. A lever on the U-shaped lower anchor is provided to release the anchor and hook from the pegboard.
US10226136B2
A device assists infants and toddlers while they learn to walk while preventing posture fatigue for the parent or caregiver of the infants and toddlers. The device includes a crossbar for the parent or caregiver to hold on to and two rings for the infants and toddlers to grasp. The rings can adjust in their distance from the crossbar and are attached to the crossbar via a rope or webbing. The device requires no straps or harnesses and is easily collapsible and portable.
US10226125B2
The present invention relates to an effect control system of a screening facility chair and a method thereof, and the effect control system includes an input device for transmitting chair angle control information or effect control information input from a user to a management server; the management server for transmitting the chair angle control information or the effect control information to a corresponding motion chair; and the motion chair for adjusting a slope according to the chair angle control information or providing an effect synchronized with an image according to the effect control information.
US10226119B1
A tabletop elevation adjustment mechanism includes a fixed outer tube, a movable inner tube vertically movable in the fixed outer tube, and a plurality of corrugated sheet members equiangularly fastened to a bottom of the movable inner tube. Each of the corrugated sheet members has a plurality of first and second ridge portions respectively protruding toward two opposite sides thereof. The first ridge portions elastically stopped against an outer surface of the movable inner tube and the second ridge portions elastically stopped against an inner surface of the fixed outer tube.
US10226118B2
An oral care implement having a multi-component handle is disclosed. In one aspect, the oral care implement comprises: a handle comprising a first component constructed of a first material and a second component constructed of a second material; the first component comprising: first, second and third depressions formed into an outer surface of the first component; and a first through-hole extending from a floor of the second depression to a floor of the third depression, the first through-hole extending through sidewalls of the first depression; and the second component comprising: a first portion disposed within the first depression, a second portion disposed within the second depression, and a third portion disposed within the first depression; and the first, second and third portions connected together to form an integral mass of the second material.
US10226114B2
There is provided a cutter for a double-edged eyelid-forming tape or thread. After the tape or thread has been attached to an eyelid, the cutter can perform a cutting action on an extra portion of the tape or thread. A cut is formed in a metal plate to extend from its front end to an intermediate position. By bending a pair of cut pieces in opposite directions, a cutting part is formed on the first end side of a cutter piece. A holding part on the second end side of the cutter piece is embedded in a gripping piece and is secured. Each cut piece is formed with a curved surface on the first end side from the terminating part of the cut through a bent front end to a bent width end. The cut piece is extended from the bent width end to a front end edge.
US10226107B2
A reusable zipper system for allowing a zipper to be installed and removed onto different objects interchangeably. The reusable zipper system generally includes an inner member and an outer member. The inner member is removably secured to an object via adhesive around an opening to be fitted with the present invention. The outer member is removably secured over the inner member. After cutting a slit through the inner member, a zipper assembly which includes zipper tracks and a zipper head may be used to selectively open or close the flaps. When desired, the inner and outer members may be removed from the object to be used elsewhere.
US10226105B2
A strap connector of a body fitting device generally includes a connector body, which includes a first movement space and a second movement space that is separated from the first movement space; a first movable block, which is slidably mounted to the connector body and is received in the first movement space and is reciprocally slidable upon being acted upon by an external force; a second movable block, which is slidably mounted to the connector body and is received in the second movement space and is reciprocally slidable upon being acted upon by an external force; and an elastic assembly, which is in contact engagement with and positioned between the connector body and the second movable block to provide an elastic cushioning force to the second movable block.
US10226102B2
A bowling shoe sole fastening system of structures that allows a variety of outsoles to be attached to and detached from the midsole that improve the consistency of the flex of the show throughout a bowler's stride, which allow the bowling shoe to be adjusted to achieve consistent stopping and sliding characteristics over a variety of bowling lane conditions and maintain consistent performance in the flex of the shoe across cycles of attachment, detachment, and reattachment.
US10226088B1
A wearable disposable waste device includes: a body portion including a pocket formed therein; an open end formed in the body portion for receiving a hand of a wearer through the end; a closed end of the body portion that is distal from the open end, the closed end shaped to conform around fingertips of the wearer, the closed end having a middle section and shorter end sections formed on opposing sides of the middle section corresponding to the wearer's first and fifth digits when worn on the hand of the wearer; and a pair of opposing tabs extending from the open end formed in the body portion, the pair of opposing tabs spaced apart such that the middle section of the closed end may fit between the pair of opposing tabs when the closed end is located adjacent to the open end of an adjoining wearable disposable waste device.
US10226087B2
A multipurpose memento is provided. The multipurpose memento includes a body made of a woven fabric material. The body includes an upper edge, a lower edge opposite the upper edge, a first side edge and a second side edge opposite the first side edge. The body may be in the shape of a rectangle. A first sleeve is formed along the first side edge and a second sleeve is formed along the upper edge. A post may fit within either the first sleeve or the second sleeve, allowing the present invention the use as a crowd friendly flag/banner and to convert from a flag to a banner.
US10226084B2
The device is an invention that attaches to the strings of the top to a bikini bathing suit. It provides cushion support to the neck area, and prevents the strings of the top to the bikini bathing suit from painful gouging into the skin due to the weight of the breasts.
US10226081B2
A size adjustment arrangement for a garment comprises a base member, a ratchet member, a line, a spool, and an actuator. The line is wound on the spool with the line extending through at least one channel in the garment. The actuator is selectively rotatable in a first direction and a second direction without activation of any release mechanism. When a first force is applied to rotate the actuator in the first direction, the line is wound upon the spool. When a second force is applied to rotate the actuator in the second direction, the line is unwound upon the spool. The ratchet member and the spool are blocked from rotation when neither the first force nor the second force is applied to the actuator.
US10226073B2
A smoking article is provided, having a component housing including a power source, and a tubular housing having a first end and a longitudinally-opposed second end, wherein the first or second end is configured to receive the component housing. The tubular housing includes an outer wall defining a cylindrical cavity. An aerosol-generating element is configured to be received within the cylindrical cavity, wherein the aerosol-generating element is configured to produce an aerosol in response to heat. An associated aerosol-generating element and related production methods are also provided.
US10226071B2
The present disclosure provides a smoking apparatus and assembly that may be used with a variety of standard sized bottles, and which comprises a non-toxic, easily cleaned or disposable straw and bowl. The present disclosure allows a person to utilize common, recyclable and/or natural materials to inhale cooled/filtered smoke from burnt plant leaves in a conservative and efficient manner.
US10226067B2
A smoking composition for inclusion in a combustible smoking article includes a combustible organic material, such as tobacco and/or tobacco substitutes and at least one alkanoylated glycoside for enhancing the flavor of mainstream smoke. Optionally, dry hops extract can also be included in the smoking composition.
US10226064B2
Provided herein are bacterial strains that are capable of degrading nitrite and/or TSNAs. Also provided herein are methods of using such bacterial strains to degrade nitrite and/or TSNAs.
US10226052B2
A poultry chiller includes a tank and an auger rotatably held in the tank. The auger includes a first auger section and a second auger section. The first auger section includes a first auger shaft and a first auger flight. The first auger flight includes a first helical portion on the first auger shaft and a first flight extension that extends away from the first helical portion. The second auger section includes a second auger shaft coupled to the first auger shaft and a second auger flight. The second auger flight includes a second helical portion on the second auger shaft and a second flight extension that extends away from the second helical portion. The chiller includes a hanger bearing assembly between the first and second auger sections and extending to an upper portion of the tank.
US10226045B2
The present invention relates to azoline compounds of formula I wherein A, B1, B2, B3, G1, G2, X1, R1, R3a, R3b, Rg1 and Rg2 are as defined in the claims and the description. The compounds are useful for combating or controlling invertebrate pests, in particular arthropod pests and nematodes. The invention also relates to a method for controlling invertebrate pests by using these compounds and to plant propagation material and to an agricultural and a veterinary composition comprising said compounds.
US10226034B2
A device that is inserted within a bait container or typical five (5) gallon bucket to subdivide said container or bucket into two (2) compartments. Additionally, the insert will allow water to flow through it and provide any bait oxygenated water in the newly created compartments from one (1) oxygen source (aerator).
US10226033B2
The invention discloses methods for the generation of chimaeric human—non-human antibodies and chimaeric antibody chains, antibodies and antibody chains so produced, and derivatives thereof including fully humanized antibodies; compositions comprising the antibodies, antibody chains and derivatives, as well as cells, non-human mammals and vectors, suitable for use in the methods.
US10226017B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 41-607 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 41-607 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 41-607 RZ.
US10226012B1
A novel maize variety designated PH42AJ and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH42AJ with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH42AJ through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH42AJ or a locus conversion of PH42AJ with another maize variety.
US10226005B1
A novel maize variety designated PH2S5H and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2S5H with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2S5H through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH2S5H or a locus conversion of PH2S5H with another maize variety.
US10226003B2
A novel maize variety designated PH2TNK and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2TNK with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2TNK through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH2TNK or a locus conversion of PH2TNK with another maize variety.
US10225997B1
A sprinkler system is controlled to ensure that a given geographic area receives sufficient watering without being over-watered. The sprinkler system, capable of being programmed to deliver a desired amount of water in accordance with a desired daily watering schedule, is programmed to deliver the desired amount of water every day unless interrupted. Rainfall information is received, and a signal is sent to interrupt the sprinkler system, causing the sprinkler system to: a) follow a predetermined watering schedule when there is no rain, in which case the sprinkler system delivers the desired amount of water following a predetermined number of days, n, without watering, or b) increase n by 1 or more days if the rainfall information indicates at least one significant rain event capable of providing the desired amount of water, and c) return to a) when n expires.
US10225996B1
A control module for a water harvesting system can be operatively connected to a water level sensor in a water collection cistern, the pump/master valve (P/MV) output port of an irrigation controller, a pump start relay that controls a pump coupled to the cistern, and a pair of master valves that are coupled to station valves for delivering water to a plurality of sprinklers. The control module uses a processor, a plurality of switching circuits, and an operational program stored in a memory to cause the landscape vegetation to be watered with water from the water collection cistern or a municipal water supply, depending on the level of water detected in the water collection cistern. The control module can include a display that can indicate a graphic depiction that represents an actual level of the water in the water collection cistern.
US10225995B2
This disclosure relates to agricultural canopies used primarily to control the amount of light, moisture and heat reaching growing plants within the canopy footprint. More specifically, it relates to mechanisms for pulling a flexible canopy over a support structure and then for removing the canopy to uncover the structure and the plants below. The mechanisms include an arm mounted rotationally on a base. When the arm is rotated in one direction the canopy is pulled over the support structure and when the arm is rotated in the other direction the canopy is pulled off the support structure.
US10225987B2
An agricultural harvester discharge guide includes a porous apparatus adapted for mounting to a discharge end of the agricultural harvester for guiding crop residue discharged from the agricultural harvester.
US10225985B2
Pick-up devices of a forage implement such as a round baler may include stripper bands that define slots between the stripper bands to allow tines to pass through during rotation of the tines. The pick-up device may include a back-plate for attaching stripper bands that includes chambers to receive the bands.
US10225980B2
The present invention is directed to a hand tool that includes an implement, a tang extending from the implement, and a handle secured tot the tang. The handle includes an opposing surface facing away from the implement, and a portion of the tang is configured to engage a portion of the opposing surface to mechanically lock the handle and tang together. The present invention is also directed to a multi-blade garden transplanter tool that includes at least three blades extending outward along a center axis from a free end to a handle end, and a handle is secured to the handle end.
US10225976B2
A particulate dispersing apparatus is provided that includes a vessel configured to contain particulate material having a ridge circumferencing an inside of the vessel, an insert having a similar shape as the vessel and when inserted into the vessel adapted to engage and removably attach to the ridge, and a dispersing mechanism that disperses the particulate material.
US10231361B2
In some embodiments, a rack system is configured to comprise a removable fan system. The fan system enables thermal management of the rack system. The removable fan system includes a replaceable fan tray that can be assembled in the rack system by engaging a connecting mechanism and connecting a connecting cable. The fan tray is engaged with the connecting mechanism to be securely attached to the rack system. The fan tray is connected to a bus bar to receive power or necessary data to be operated. The fan tray can be disassembled from the rack system while the bus remains active, and enables access to the server or the rack system. The replaceable fan tray enables easy replacement of the fan system and access to the rear side of the rack system.
US10231358B1
A trim cooling assembly provides a sensible trim cooling capability for intake air provided to a downstream computing pod that includes an air cooling system that provides cooling air to computer systems in the pod. The air cooling system can evaporatively chill received intake air to provide the cooling air. The trim cooling assembly is mounted externally to the computing pod and upstream of the air cooling system and includes one or more trim cooling units that can be individually controlled to provide adjustable sensible chilling of the intake air. The trim cooling units and an evaporative cooling unit in the air cooling system can be controlled to provide various levels of sensible and evaporative cooling to maintain conditions of air downstream of the evaporative cooling unit within certain ranges. Trim cooling units can be progressively activated and de-activated in stages to provide progressively adjusted sensible cooling.
US10231356B2
A cold plate, an electronic assembly including a cold plate, and a method for forming a cold plate are provided. The cold plate includes an interface plate and an opposing plate that form a plenum. The cold plate includes a plurality of active areas arranged for alignment over respective heat generating portions of an electronic assembly, and non-active areas between the active areas. A cooling fluid flows through the plenum. The plenum, at the non-active areas, has a reduced width and/or reduced height relative to the plenum at the active areas. The reduced width and/or height of the plenum, and exterior dimensions of cold plate, at the non-active areas allow the non-active areas to flex to accommodate surface variations of the electronics assembly. The reduced width and/or height non-active areas can be specifically shaped to fit between physical features of the electronics assembly.
US10231344B2
Forming a conductive film comprising depositing a non-conductive film on a surface of a substrate, wherein the film contains a plurality of copper nanoparticles and exposing at least a portion of the film to light to make the exposed portion conductive. Exposing of the film to light photosinters or fuses the copper nanoparticles.
US10231343B2
In a method for manufacturing ceramic substrates and module components, an unfired mother ceramic substrate is cut at predetermined positions for division into separate unfired ceramic substrates. The cut unfired mother ceramic substrate is pressed such that pressure is applied parallel or substantially parallel to its main surfaces so that the cross-sectional end surfaces created in the cutting step are joined. The unfired mother ceramic substrate including end surface junctions, resulting from joining of the cross-sectional end surfaces, is fired. The fired mother ceramic substrate is broken along the end surface junctions to divide it into separate ceramic substrates.
US10231338B2
Methods of forming a package structures comprising a trench are described. An embodiment includes a first die disposed on a first substrate, and at least one interconnect structure disposed on a peripheral region of the first substrate. A molding compound is disposed on a portion of the first substrate and on the first die, wherein a trench opening is disposed in the molding compound that is located between the at least one interconnect structure and the first die.
US10231331B2
A multilayer wiring board includes: a multilayer body including a plurality of insulating layers; a lower outer electrode provided on a lower surface of the multilayer body; a first via conductor connected at one end to the lower outer electrode; a first in-plane conductor connected to another end of the first via conductor; a second via conductor provided within the multilayer body on a surface of the first in-plane conductor on the opposite side from a surface of the first in-plane conductor in a position distanced from the first via conductor viewed in a direction orthogonal to a layering direction of the multilayer body, one end of the second via conductor being connected to the first in-plane conductor; and a second in-plane conductor connected to another end of the second via conductor. A line width of the first in-plane conductor is narrower than that of the second in-plane conductor.
US10231324B2
Some novel features pertain to an integrated device that includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer includes a first set of regions. The first set of regions includes a first netlist structure for a power distribution network (PDN) of the integrated device. The second metal layer includes a second set of regions. The second set of regions includes a second netlist structure of the PDN of the integrated device. In some implementations, the second metal layer further includes a third set of regions comprising the first netlist structure for the PDN of the integrated device. In some implementations, the first metal layer includes a third set of regions that includes a third netlist structure for the PDN of the integrated device. The third set of regions is non-overlapping with the first set of regions of the first metal layer.
US10231321B2
Systems and methods for state-based adjustment of power and frequency are described. A primary generator of a system includes a primary power supply for supplying a primary radio frequency (RF) signal to an electrode. The primary generator further includes an automatic frequency control (AFC) to provide a first frequency input to the primary power supply when a pulsed signal is in a first state. A secondary generator of the system includes a secondary power supply for supplying a secondary RF signal to the electrode. The secondary generator also includes an AFC to provide a second frequency input to the secondary power supply when the pulsed signal is in the first state. The secondary generator includes an AFC to provide a third frequency input to the secondary power supply when the pulsed signal is in a second state. The system includes a digital pulsing source for generating the pulsed signal.
US10231311B2
A method for operating an optoelectronic assembly which includes at least one component string having at least one section, wherein the section includes at least one light emitting diode element, is provided. According to the method, the section is supplied with electrical energy, the supply of the section with electrical energy is interrupted, an input of the section is electrically coupled to an output of the section, wherein the section is short-circuited via the electrical coupling of the input to the output, a maximum value of an electrical discharge current which flows via the section is detected, and the fact of whether the section of the component string has a short circuit is determined depending on the detected maximum value.
US10231309B2
A light source is provided that includes at least two semiconductor light-emitting elements that emit light of different color, a light guide, an electronic control unit, and a light sensor. The light emitted by the elements is injected, at least partially, into the light guide and exits laterally from the light guide. The brightness of the elements can be adjusted by the electronic control unit. The light sensor is arranged to receive the light injected by the elements and laterally exiting from the light guide. The electronic control unit accumulates sensor signals from the light sensor over an integration time interval and compares the accumulated signals with a target value or range to determine a difference, changes a brightness of the elements in response to the difference, and changes the integration time interval in response to the difference or to a change in the target value.
US10231293B2
A multi-mode microwave heating device includes a heating chamber, a plurality of microwave transmitters, a plurality of longitudinal-polarized rectangular waveguides, a plurality of transverse-polarized rectangular waveguides, and a plurality of half-wave-rectified power supplies. The heating chamber has a holder for holding a to-be-heated object. The holder is connected to a rotating and an elevating mechanism. The microwave transmitters are connected to the heating chamber through the longitudinal-polarized rectangular waveguides as well as connected to the transverse-polarized rectangular waveguides for transmitting microwaves into the heating chamber and to excite multiple cavity modes of the heating chamber, so as to achieve uniform microwave heating. An industrial three-phase alternating current (AC) power source offers multi-phased electricity to the half-wave-rectified power supplies, by which the microwave transmitters are powered, such that the multiple modes are decoupled and uniform microwave heating are achieved.
US10231289B2
In certain embodiments described herein, a heated line forming system includes a heating coil system configured to produce a heated line on a surface of a metal part. The heated line forming system also includes an air knife cooling system configured to maintain a dry area for the heated line, and to direct a coolant (e.g., cooling water, liquified gases such as liquid argon, solidified gases such as carbon dioxide snow, and so forth) around the heated line via a spray mechanism such that the coolant does not flow or splash into the heated line on the metal part. In certain embodiments, the heated line forming system includes multiple induction coils arranged along a line and spaced a short distance apart, but which, when operated simultaneously together, form a heated line on a surface of a metal part.
US10231281B2
The disclosed subject matter provides techniques for managing negotiation of extended idle mode discontinuous reception eDRX parameters between a usr equipment (UE) and core network device of a wireless communication network. In this regard, a method is provided that includes establishing, by a device comprising a processor, a wireless communication link with a network device of a wireless network. The method further includes determining, by the device, based on a determination that an idle mode retry protocol for the device is enabled, a number of times the network device has previously instructed the device to use a network value for an idle mode parameter instead of a device value for the idle mode parameter in association with the device operating in an idle mode.
US10231279B2
There is discussed a Device-to-Device (D2D) enabled node for a wireless communication network. The D2D enabled node is adapted for determining that a D2D resource grant expected by the D2D enabled node is not received from a network node, wherein the D2D enabled node is further adapted for performing one or more actions in response to the determining that the grant is not received. There are also discussed related nodes and methods.
US10231277B2
The present invention is to process a request of an application layer in an electronic device, and a method for operating the electronic device comprises transmitting a request signal through a first interface, and, when a response signal corresponding to the request signal is not received before a timer expires, retransmitting another request signal through a second interface. The request signal and the another request signal correspond to a single request signal generated in the electronic device. Also, the present invention includes other embodiments than the described embodiments.
US10231276B2
In a communication system according to an embodiment, a base station transmits first information for establishing a second data bearer, to a user terminal in a state where a predetermined data bearer is established. The predetermined data bearer is a first data bearer passes through the base station without passing through an access point. The second data bearer: passes through the base station and the access point; and is for aggregation in which the cellular communication and the WLAN communication are used to communicate data of the user terminal. The first information includes a bearer identifier indicating the predetermined data bearer and type information associated with the bearer identifier. The user terminal starts control to change the predetermined data bearer from the first data bearer to the second data bearer if the type information indicates a change from the first data bearer to the second data bearer.
US10231273B2
A system and method of managing short-range wireless communications between a vehicle and a plurality of personal mobile devices, wherein the method comprises: establishing a first short-range wireless communications (SRWC) connection between a wireless communications device installed in a vehicle and a first personal mobile device using a first wireless protocol, wherein the wireless communications device transmits and receives wireless signals via the first wireless protocol; operating vehicle electronics of the vehicle using the first personal mobile device as a primary connected device; receiving a wireless signal from a second personal mobile device using a second wireless protocol; and based on the wireless signal received from the second mobile device, then carrying out a primary connected device switchover process, wherein the primary connected device switchover process includes operating the vehicle electronics using the second personal mobile device as the primary connected device.
US10231270B2
A datacenter, a communication apparatus, a communication method, and a communication control method in a communication system are provided that can enhance the versatility of a datacenter and a virtual network constructed therein. A communication system includes: a plurality of wireless communication facilities owned by a plurality of network operators, respectively; and a datacenter in which a virtual core network is constructed, wherein the virtual core network implements mobile communication functions by using the plurality of wireless communication facilities.
US10231266B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a device for communication according to a specific communication protocol includes a processor for generating a connection request frame for requesting a connection to other device based on the communication protocol. The connection request frame includes a predetermined field. The processor initiates data communication at predetermined timing in a given time interval in the case of setting the predetermined field of the connection request frame to a predetermined value and receiving a connection assignment frame for accepting the connection request from the other device.
US10231257B2
The present invention relates to a base station, a small cell, and a method for scheduling a communications link resources. A first small cell reports load information and channel state information of a channel between the first small cell and a neighboring second small cell to a base station. The first small cell receives link pre-scheduling signaling from the base station. The link pre-scheduling signaling includes wireless resource occupation information that indicates an occupancy of a wireless resource of the first small cell by a backhaul link. The first small cell allocates a first wireless resource in available wireless resources to the backhaul link according to the channel state information and the wireless resource occupation information, and allocates a second wireless resource in the remaining available wireless resources to an access link used for data transmission between the first small cell and a user equipment device.
US10231253B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives a time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) communication schedule. The TSCH communication schedule is divided into a plurality of macrocells, each macrocell comprising a plurality of TSCH cells. The device receives a packet from a routing protocol child node of the device during a particular macrocell of the TSCH communication schedule that is associated with propagation of the packet through the network. In response to receiving the packet, the device claims a token associated with the particular macrocell that authorizes the device to transmit during one or more cells of the macrocell. The device transmits the received packet to a second node in the network during the authorized one or more cells of the particular macrocell.
US10231252B2
A method and apparatus for prioritizing one of a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) reception or a device-to-device (D2D) reception in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) prioritizes one of the MBMS reception or the D2D reception when the UE cannot support both the MBMS reception and the D2D reception simultaneously, and indicates a result of the prioritization to a network. The result of the prioritization indicates either that the MBMS reception is prioritized over the D2D reception or the D2D reception is prioritized over the MBMS reception.
US10231249B2
Disclosed is a signal transmission method. The signal transmission method includes the steps of: setting a default value for generating a beamforming vector to be used for precoding; performing a calculation process of an outer layer for determining whether an accuracy of an energy efficiency satisfies a first threshold value range during a dual layer calculation process for maximizing an energy efficiency of a base station; performing a calculation process of an inner layer for calculating a predetermined second threshold value on which deterministic equivalence of a channel gain matrix coverage; generating a beamforming vector on the basis of values used in the calculation process of the outer layer and the calculation process of the inner layer, when the accuracy of the energy efficiency satisfies the first threshold value range in the calculation process of the outer layer; generating a transmission signal using the beamforming vector; and transmitting the generated transmission signal.
US10231244B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for processing Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, a D2D communication device and an Evolved Node B (eNodeB). Wherein, the method includes that: resources configured for Scheduling Assignment (SA) and/or data of D2D communication are divided into M resource groups, each resource group including X ResourceUnits (RUs) formed by N time-domain RUs*K frequency-domain RUs, each RU including O symbols on a time domain and including P subcarriers on a frequency domain, the X RUs in each resource group being configured to configure T logical channels, each logical channel including Num RUs according to a number Num of sending times and locations of each logical channel in the resource groups being determined according to a preset rule; and D2D communication processing is performed according to a determined resource configuration.
US10231243B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for allocating a resource unit on the basis of a container in a wireless LAN. The method for allocating a resource unit in a wireless LAN comprises the steps of: generating, by an AP, a PPDU to be transmitted to a plurality of STAs; and transmitting, by the AP, the PPDU to the plurality of STAs through at least one container allocated on the entire frequency band, wherein the PPDU includes MU/SU transmission indication information and resource allocation information for each container, the MU/SU transmission indication information includes information on whether an SU-based transmission or an MU-based transmission is carried out on the entire bandwidth, and the resource allocation information for each container can include information on the number of STAs allocated to each of the at least one container.
US10231241B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a training symbol for hybrid beamforming. A method for transmitting a training symbol for estimating an analog beam in a wireless access system which supports hybrid beamforming according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of repeatedly transmitting a training symbol a number of times equivalent to the number of analog candidate beams; and a step of repeatedly transmitting a broadcasting channel a number of times equivalent to the number of analog candidate beams. A training symbol section, where the training symbol is transmitted, can be allocated to the same subframe as a subframe to which the repeatedly transmitted broadcasting channel is allocated.
US10231240B2
A mobile communications network includes one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface for communications devices. The wireless access interface provides plural communications resource elements across a host frequency bandwidth, and includes, within the host frequency bandwidth, first communications resource elements within a first frequency bandwidth for allocation preferably to reduced capability devices to receive signals representing the data transmitted by the transmitter unit within the first bandwidth forming a first virtual carrier, the reduced capability devices each having a receiver bandwidth which is greater than or equal to the first frequency bandwidth but less than the host frequency bandwidth. Communications devices of different capabilities can be allocated communications resources within different frequency ranges according to their capability, which can relieve congestion on a center frequency of communications resources in which communications devices with a minimum bandwidth capability must receive communications resources for receiving down link signals.
US10231237B2
A method of transmitting uplink data is provided. The method includes establishing connections with a first serving cell and a second serving cell, determining, by a user equipment (UE), a time period for a device-to-device (D2D) discovery signal communication via the second serving cell, determining, by the UE and based on an uplink grant received via the first serving cell, a first subframe associated with an uplink signal to an evolved NodeB (eNB) associated with the first serving cell, and in response to determining that the first subframe overlaps in time with the time period, refraining from transmitting the uplink signal in the first subframe, and transmitting, based on a retransmission timing, the uplink signal.
US10231236B2
A wireless device receives a broadcast message comprising first parameters identifying a first set of subframes on a first carrier as almost blank subframes. The wireless device receives at least one unicast control message comprising: second parameters identifying a second set of subframes on a second carrier as almost blank subframes, a first measurement subframe allocation bitmap identifying a first measurement subframes, and a second measurement subframe allocation bitmap identifying a second measurement subframes. The wireless device transmits first channel state information (CSI) being measured on the first measurement subframes and second CSI being is measured the second measurement subframes.
US10231235B2
A method and apparatus for performing time/frequency tracking in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a configuration of a frequency or a carrier for a time/frequency tracking reference carrier, and performs time/frequency tracking in an unlicensed carrier based on the received configuration.
US10231232B2
Embodiments describe example radio access networks where uplink and downlink communications operate asymmetrically. In one embodiment, an inverse fast Fourier transform and an add cyclic prefix operation is performed on a downlink communications by a baseband unit. In an uplink communication using the same baseband unit, a corresponding fast Fourier transform and a remove cyclic prefix operation are performed at a remote radio unit. This generates different levels of traffic on a physical communication link between the baseband unit and the remote radio unit for uplink and downlink communications with similar characteristics.
US10231229B2
The present disclosure describes a communication method, including: sending, by a user equipment (UE), a request message to a micro network node, so that the micro network node sends an indication message to a macro network node; receiving an uplink resource sent according to the indication message by the macro network node; and sending uplink signaling or uplink data to the macro network node according to the uplink resource. The present disclosure further describes a corresponding device and system. The micro network node participates in accessing the user equipment (UE) to a network so that a UE can rapidly access the network and reduce access delay.
US10231219B2
A method and a user equipment (UE) for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system are discussed. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving a parameter which indicates whether transmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and a sounding reference signal (SRS) in one subframe is configured; if the parameter is true, transmitting, in a primary component carrier (CC), the PUCCH, which coincides in a same subframe as the SRS, by using a shortened PUCCH format carrying at least one of the HARQ-ACK and a positive scheduling request (SR); and if the parameter is false, transmitting the PUCCH by using a normal PUCCH format, while not transmitting, in a secondary CC, the SRS which coincides in the same subframe as the PUCCH. The shortened PUCCH format is a shortened PUCCH format 1/1a/1b or a shortened PUCCH format 3.
US10231217B2
Provided is a method for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system and a terminal using said method. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a network, information indicating transmission necessity of a terminal-to-terminal control message; receiving, from the network, a setting regarding transmission of the terminal-to-terminal control message; and transmitting, to another terminal, the terminal-to-terminal control message on the basis of the setting.
US10231211B2
Provided is a method for transmitting paging information in a cellular system. An object of the method is transmitting paging information which can improve applicability of a limited radio resource by variably and flexibly setting up and mapping a transport channel and a physical channel in order to transmit information notifying start of downlink information from a base station to a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The method includes the steps of: forming a paging channel (PCH) in a transport channel corresponding to generation of paging information; setting a paging indication channel (PICH) based on the paging information and forming the paging indication channel in a radio resource of a physical layer; and allocating the paging channel to the radio resource of the physical layer.
US10231209B2
The disclosure relates to methods, devices, and computer programs in mobile communications. More specifically the disclosure relates to a method, performed in a network node, for paging a wireless device. The method comprises determining parameters for a paging transmission, obtaining two or more possible paging transmission formats, selecting one of the two or more possible paging transmission formats, based on the determined parameters and transmitting the paging transmission using the selected paging transmission format. The disclosure also relates to methods is a wireless for receiving a paging and to corresponding devices and to a computer program for executing the proposed methods.
US10231206B2
Apparatus and methods for identifying a wireless signal-emitting device are disclosed. The apparatus is configured to sense and measure wireless communication signals from signal-emitting devices in a spectrum. The apparatus is operable to automatically detect a signal of interest from the wireless signal-emitting device and create a signal profile of the signal of interest; compare the signal profile with stored device signal profiles for identification of the wireless signal-emitting device; and calculate signal degradation data for the signal of interest based on information associated with the signal of interest in a static database including noise figure parameters of a wireless signal-emitting device outputting the signal of interest. The signal profile of the signal of interest, profile comparison result, and signal degradation data are stored in the apparatus.
US10231201B2
Synchronizing the local time of beacons. Systems and methods discipline a high-stability local clock of a designated beacon within a geographic region to a network time, and synchronize a local clock of another beacon within the geographic region to the network time.
US10231200B2
A mobile station (MS), a base station subsystem (BSS), and various methods are described herein that enable a positioning node (e.g., Serving Mobile Location Center (SMLC)) to improve the accuracy of estimating a position of the mobile station.
US10231195B2
A method and an apparatus for scheduling uplink transmissions according to a maximum transmission power and Power Headrooms (PHs) reported by a User Equipment (UE) are provided. A method for reporting the PHs for carriers used by a terminal in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation includes generating a message including the PHs along with indicators indicating whether a real transmission is scheduled on an uplink data channel of corresponding carrier, and including, when the real transmission is scheduled, a maximum transmission power used for calculating the PHs in the generated message.
US10231183B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling access devices including WI-FI and dual radio communications between an access control database and one or more access devices in a facility. The systems and methods allow real time communications between the database and the access devices utilizing existing communications WI-FI infrastructure in the facility while minimizing loss of battery life of the access devices by employing the radio network to target all or a portion of the access devices for communications when needed.
US10231178B2
A mobile transceiver having multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and a method of selection is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of operating a mobile transceiver, comprising: activating a cellular transceiver using a first SIM card in a plurality of SIM cards, wherein the first SIM card is a last used SIM card in the plurality of SIM cards; searching, via the cellular transceiver, for available wireless services associated with the first SIM card; and switching from the first SIM card to a second SIM card in the plurality of SIM cards when a wireless service for the first SIM card is not available.
US10231175B2
A general sensor comprising at least one sensor, a short range communications interface, a long range communications interface and a controller, wherein said controller is configured for: detecting a first access point through said short range communications interface; receiving operating instructions for said at least one sensor from said first access point; causing said at least one sensor to operate according to said operating instructions; receiving sensor data from said at least one sensor; and for reporting said sensor data through said long range communications interface.
US10231163B2
The present application is directed to a system and method for allocating a Track in a 6T1SCH network. The method includes the step of receiving a Track computation request in PCEP from a first PCE proxy on a first Backbone router. The method also includes the step of calculating an optimal Track between a source LLN device and a destination LLN device. Further, the method includes the step of sending a Track assignment message to one or more LLN devices in the optimal Track. The present application also is directed to a system and method for reporting TSCH schedule information to a PCE. Further, the present application is directed to a LLN device.
US10231157B2
The present invention relates to a device-to device (D2D) operation method executed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: acquiring a public land mobile network (PLMN) list for a first service; acquiring a PLMN list for a second service; determining frequency priorities on the basis of the PLMN list for the first service and the PLMN list for the second service; and performing cell re-selection on the basis of the frequency priorities, wherein said determining of the frequency priorities comprises determining, as a top priority, a frequency for a PLMN which is commonly included in the PLMN list for the first service and the PLMN list for the second service.
US10231149B2
A 3GPP LTE protocol enhancement may realize the full benefit of dual connectivity in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks by providing a mechanism to carry Radio Resource Control (RRC) messages and/or Information Elements (IE)s from a Secondary Evolved Node B (SeNB) to User Equipment (UE) via Master Evolved Node B (MeNB) RRC messages. Novel downlink (DL) Common Control Channel (CCCH) and Dedicated Control Channel (DCCH) messages, and augmented messages having Information Elements (IE)s for relaying RRC messages from a SeNB to a UE via a MeNB, are defined. Modifications to ASN.1 program coding of LTE 3rd Generation Partnership Project specifications to enable RRC messages from the MeNB to relay RRC information from the SeNB to the UE are provided. In one embodiment, the UE receives, from a MeNB, an RRC message comprising information relayed from a SeNB and interprets the RRC message for control channel and radio resource configuration information from the SeNB.
US10231140B2
A method for improving performance in a residential/community WiFi network is implemented on a self-optimizing network (SON) server and includes: receiving current configuration details and local performance statistics from SON clients installed in access points (APs) in the residential/community WiFi networks, where at least one of the APs is a residential AP configured to provide WiFi connectivity to both authorized users of the residential AP and a community of WiFi users not associated with the residential AP, analyzing at least the current configuration details and local performance statistics to identify performance issues in the residential/community WiFi network, determining remedial actions based on the analyzing, and instructing the access points to perform the remedial actions via the SON clients.
US10231139B2
There is provided a node for use in a network, the node comprising: communication circuitry to communicate with a management server. Bootstrap circuitry initially identifies an intermediate node from at least one available node in the network in response to the communication circuitry being unable to communicate with the management server directly. The communication circuitry is arranged to communicate with the management server indirectly via the intermediate node when unable to communicate with the management server directly. Role assignment circuitry assigns a role to be performed by the node in the network based on whether the communication circuitry communicates with the management server directly, or indirectly via an intermediate node.
US10231134B1
Network planning based on collected crowd-sourced access point quality and selection data can optimize access point frequency and/or bandwidth selection. A cloud-based application can be utilized in conjunction with a mobile device to build a database of access point quality and thresholds suitable for real-time and other jitter-sensitive services. The mobile device jitter measurements and selection thresholds can be collected at a cloud platform, which creates an access point performance and selection threshold profile from which the network can facilitate access point frequency and/or bandwidth selections.
US10231133B2
A method for modeling a cell site with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) includes causing the UAV to fly a given flight path about a cell tower at the cell site, wherein a launch location and launch orientation is defined for the UAV to take off and land at the cell site such that each flight at the cell site has the same launch location and launch orientation; obtaining a plurality of photographs of the cell site during about the flight plane, wherein each of the plurality of photographs is associated with one or more location identifiers; and, subsequent to the obtaining, processing the plurality of photographs to define a three dimensional (3D) model of the cell site based on the associated with one or more location identifiers and one or more objects of interest in the plurality of photographs.
US10231128B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for proximity-based device access. In some implementations, a first electronic device receives, over a wireless communication link, a message from a second electronic device in proximity to the first electronic device. The first electronic device determines that the second electronic device has been previously associated with the first electronic device as an authentication factor for accessing the first electronic device. The first electronic device receives an encrypted form of a password from the second electronic device over the wireless communication link. The first electronic device determines the password from the encrypted form of the password and provides the password to software executing on the first electronic device to enable access to the first electronic device.
US10231124B2
The invention provides an anti-theft method and client for a mobile terminal. Wherein, the anti-theft method for a mobile terminal comprises: receiving a background anti-theft opening instruction from a server, wherein the background anti-theft opening instruction carries verification information of the mobile terminal; parsing the background anti-theft opening instruction, obtaining the verification information and performing verification; and opening the anti-theft function in the background according to the background anti-theft opening instruction if the verification is passed. The embodiment of the invention can open the anti-theft function of a mobile terminal after the mobile terminal is lost, and then perform a corresponding anti-theft operation according to an anti-theft instruction, which achieves the beneficial effects of guaranteeing the security of the mobile terminal and fighting against theft crimes more reasonably and effectively.
US10231120B2
In one implementation, traffic in a mobile network is offloaded to a security as a service server or a cloud server. A mobile access gateway (MAG) in the mobile network identifies one or more mobile nodes that are configured for communication on the mobile network. The MAG receives a message that includes an address of a mobile node and sends a request based on the message to the security as a service server. The MAG forwards traffic flows to the security as a service server according to the message, which is configured to detect an indication of malicious software in the traffic flows and/or filter content of the traffic flows according to a user profile.
US10231116B2
A communication access server may provide a client service for communication access services. The communication access server may authenticate a user having an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) and registering user credentials. The communication access server may activate a communication interception service at a communication service provider (CSP) system for the IMSI. The communication access server may receive an intercepted communication from the CSP system and send the intercepted communication to the client service for access by a user.
US10231112B1
Disclosed herein is a method for emitting pilot beacons. The method includes a base station system emitting a pilot beacon on a first air interface protocol. The base station system wirelessly receives a registration message for a mobile station that detected the pilot beacon on the first air interface protocol. The registration message includes a registration request seeking registration of the mobile station under the first air interface protocol with the base station system. In response to the received registration message, the base station system makes a determination that the mobile station is capable of operating on a second air interface protocol different from the first air interface protocol. In response to the determination, the base station system emits at least one pilot beacon on the second air interface protocol.
US10231109B2
A method for improved handling of emergency calls in a roaming scenario includes: a voice call being initiated by the user equipment via the user equipment transmitting a first message directed to a network node of the home telecommunications network, the first message comprising the specific emergency call telephone number; wherein a second message is transmitted to the network node of the home telecommunications network, the second message comprising an emergency call information, the emergency call information being indicative of the use of a valid emergency call telephone number in relation of the voice call; and a third message being generated by the node of the home telecommunications network, wherein the third message is transmitted to a network node of the visited telecommunications network, and forwarded, as a fourth message, to the user equipment to trigger an emergency call procedure.
US10231107B2
Provided are a resource subscription processing method and device. The method includes: a Common Server Entity (CSE) receiving a resource subscription request sent by a subscriber, the resource subscription request carrying content of a notification and/or an object to which the notification is to be sent, the notification is for indicating an operation to a subscribed resource; and the CSE sending a notification message to the subscriber and/or the object to which the notification is to be sent according to the content of the notification.
US10231104B2
The disclosed technology includes a health engine that monitors and modifies customer-premises equipment (CPE) devices. The health engine can detect patterns in CPE device behavior, identify problems with CPE devices, and adjust CPE device configurations proactively or reactively to address problems or prevent problems. In some implementations, the health engine can instruct a CPE device or gateway to restart, update its software or firmware, notify a user of the CPE device of an unhealthy behavior pattern in a CPE device. The health engine can modify a CPE device prior to a user using the device or when the CPE device is inactive.
US10231100B2
The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for sharing information related to a location also referred to herein as a “spot,” such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on recipient mobile electronic devices proximately located to such location (e.g., spot). Users of the system can create spot alerts in which designated recipients can receive messages, such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on respective recipient mobile electronic devices, when located within a proximity of a defined location (e.g., spot).
US10231092B2
Numerous mobile devices report their respective locations to a server which collects the location reports to provide real-time pedestrian traffic information, e.g., as a map that shows locations of individual mobile devices. Distribution of mobile devices in a geographic area more closely represents overall population locations and densities. Each device is identified by a digital fingerprint, formed from a number of system and device configuration parameters. Each mobile device is configured to periodically report its location, e.g., at a predetermined time interval and/or whenever the mobile device determines its location for another reason. A known location of a wireless network access point to which a mobile device is connected can serve as an estimated location of the mobile device.
US10231089B2
A method for managing an area of a terminal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method for performing, by a terminal, location area update in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: transmitting, to a network node, a first request message including an additional cell list comprising one or more neighboring cells of a serving cell of the terminal; receiving, from the network node, a first accept message including information indicating acceptance of the use of the additional cell list; and, when a changed serving cell of the terminal belongs to a tracking area configured to the terminal and does not belong to the additional cell list, performing a cell-based area update procedure.
US10231076B1
A method may include receiving, from a customer device, contextual location information about a customer and an interaction type, determining a location-based recommendation and an urgency level for the customer using the contextual location information, generating a routing protocol for communication with the customer based on the interaction type and the urgency level, and providing a communication to the customer according to the routing protocol, the communication including the location-based recommendation.
US10231075B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for joining a conference call on an electronic device. The exemplary methods include steps of receiving a communication and determining at least one replacement conference call phone number based on information in the communication. The exemplary methods further include steps of determining that the replacement conference call phone number is a preferred conference call phone number. The exemplary methods further include steps of initiating a dialing sequence using the preferred conference call phone number.
US10231074B2
Systems and method for requesting audio content that is stored in a cloud network and accessed by many different audio devices where each of the audio devices may have an optimal type of audio encoding, format, and characteristic in addition to being located in different types of listening environment that are considered by a cloud audio server when preparing audio content for transmission to a requesting audio device.
US10231073B2
The methods and apparatus described herein optimally represent full 3D audio mixes (e.g., azimuth, elevation, and depth) as “sound scenes” in which the decoding process facilitates head tracking. Sound scene rendering can be modified for the listener's orientation (e.g., yaw, pitch, roll) and 3D position (e.g., x, y, z). This provides the ability to treat sound scene source positions as 3D positions instead of being restricted to positions relative to the listener. Sound scene rendering can be augmented by encoding depth to a source directly. This provides the ability to modify the transmission format and panning equations to support adding depth indicators during content production. Unlike typical methods that apply depth cues such as loudness and reverberation changes in the mix, this method would enable recovering the distance of a source in the mix so that it can be rendered for the final playback capabilities rather than those on the production side.
US10231053B1
Embodiments relate to cancelling crosstalk vibrations due to the use of multiple bone conduction transducers by modifying bone conduction signals sent to the bone conduction transducers. The bone conduction signals are modified using an adaptive filter with its coefficients adjusted based on the vibrations generated at a bone conduction transducer and crosstalk vibrations sensed at a vibration sensor assembly. The bone conduction transducer for generating the calibration vibrations and the vibration sensor assembly for detecting the crosstalk vibrations may be placed at opposite sides of the user's head.
US10231048B2
Various techniques are provided to implement and use an earpiece having an attachment mount. In one example, an earpiece includes an arcuate rib having a lobe disposed on an upper end thereof and configured to engage with a crus of a helix and an antihelix of a user's ear. The earpiece also includes a mount extending from the arcuate rib and comprising a snap clip configured to engage and position an audio device in contact with the user's ear. Other implementations and related methods are also provided.
US10231046B1
An audio system includes a transducer assembly, an audio sensor, and a controller. The transducer assembly is coupled to a back of an auricle of an ear of the user. The transducer assembly vibrates the auricle over a frequency range to cause the auricle to create an acoustic pressure wave in accordance with vibration instructions. The acoustic sensor detects the acoustic pressure wave at an entrance of the ear of the user. The controller dynamically adjusts a frequency response model based in part on the detected acoustic pressure wave, updates the vibration instructions using the adjusted frequency response model, and provides the updated vibration instructions to the transducer assembly.
US10231045B2
In order to achieve the above-mentioned object or another objective, a portable acoustic device according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: a man body housing having an opening at a first surface thereof; an acoustic output unit provided inside the main body housing; an ear housing having a first end portion connected to the opening at the first surface of the main body housing, and having an acoustic hole formed at a second end portion; and a rotating module for rotating the ear housing relative to the main body housing, wherein the portable acoustic device can be carried by being inserted into the ear of a user, can be worn in either the left ear or the right, and increases wearing sensation by being wearable since the angle thereof is changed to be suitable for the ears of the user.
US10231042B2
Provided is a speaker device in which reproduction sound pressure is increased, and heat resistance and water resistance are improved. The speaker device includes: a diaphragm formed of a film containing polyimide; and a frame for supporting the diaphragm. A cross-section passing the center of the diaphragm and parallel to a sound emission direction includes sequentially from an inner periphery to an outer periphery of the diaphragm along the sound emission direction: a first bent plate portion having a concave arc; a second bent plate portion having a convex arc; a third bent plate portion having a concave arc; and a fourth bent plate portion having a convex arc. An area of the first bent plate portion is larger than any of areas of the second, the third, the fourth bent plate portions.
US10231023B2
Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify broadcast media, such as television shows and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and/or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user might receive information identifying a product in an advertisement, identifying an actor on screen in a movie at a particular time, or other such information. In some embodiments, the user can receive access to a digital copy of the captured media, such as the ability to download a copy of a program in which a user expressed interest. Since a user might capture media information after the point of interest, a device can buffer a window of recently captured media in order to attempt to identify the intended media.
US10231021B2
Apparatus and methods for providing enhanced consumer access to information sources and controllable entities. An Access device can be a stand alone device such as a DVD player in which the DVD disk contains the back-end information network. Other Access devices obtain the back-end information network from remote sources. By way of a specific example, the consumer can then view a game and interactively select every television camera located at the game venue.
US10231016B2
A network cooperation-based low power type charged broadcasting set-top box and a controlling method therefor, the set-top box sub-dividing a standby mode of the set-top box into an active standby mode, in which only background functions are processed without processing a main function, and a passive standby mode, in which no functions are processed; extending the passive standby mode occupation time to more than that of the active standby mode; and including a way of transitioning between operating modes by exchanging information regarding the set-top box through an inter-cooperation between a charged broadcasting network and the set-top box, thereby reducing the power consumption of a processor (SoC) which processes multimedia contents and minimizing the power consumption while the set-top box is in standby mode.
US10231012B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems to collect audience measurement data are disclosed. A disclosed example system including means for collecting audience identification data and first media identification data during a first time period, the means for collecting to stop performing data collection after audience member behavior data has been developed based on the first media identification data and the audience identification data, means for accessing second media identification data during a second time period, the second media data collected via a service provider, means for developing the audience member behavior data based on the first media identification data and the audience identification data, and means for identifying an audience member associated with the second media identification data based on the audience member behavior data.
US10230990B2
A chroma interpolation method, including: 1) determining a pixel accuracy for interpolation; 2) determining coordinate positions of interpolated fractional-pel pixels between integer-pel pixels; and 3) performing two-dimensional separated interpolation on the interpolated fractional-pel pixels by an interpolation filter according to the coordinate positions. The invention also provides a filter device using the above method for chroma interpolation.
US10230985B2
The present invention is related to a method for moving the position of a base view from an arbitrary GOP (Group Of Pictures) start position to implement an efficient encoding structure in multi-view video encoding. The existing multi-view video encoding method exhibits low encoding efficiency when correlation between the base view and a dependent view is low, since the base view is assumed to be fixed. Moreover, in case the view in a live broadcasting program desired by a producer changes from the base view to another, the user has to consume more bit streams and decoder complexity than those consumed when decoding is performed with respect to the base view. Therefore, to alleviate the drawbacks of the existing multi-view video encoding method, the present invention provides a method for designing syntax elements by which the base view can be moved, thereby supporting an efficient encoding structure.
US10230982B2
N (N≥2) time stretch units receive N channels of second image data which are obtained by dividing each line of first image data by N and are composed of a first number of bits. Each N time stretch unit arranges pixels of the N channels in the order of the pixels of the corresponding line of the first image data within a period which is obtained by stretching a one-line period of the second image data. The N time stretch units generate third image data including N lines of the first image data. N encoders encode each coding target pixel of the third image data outputted from the N time stretch units using a difference between the target pixel and a peripheral pixel to generate encoded data composed of a second number of bits which is smaller than the first number of bits.
US10230970B2
In one embodiment a method of video processing is disclosed. The method may include receiving by a processing device a first portion of compressed pictures of a bitstream, the first portion of compressed pictures corresponding to a first picture resolution format (PRF), the first portion of the compressed pictures comprising at least one picture compressed at a first encoding level, the first portion of the compressed pictures having an intended picture output as a sequence of pictures in the first PRF; determining a size of the largest picture of the first encoding level; determining a first number of picture buffers corresponding to the largest picture; allocating a linear memory based on the first number of picture buffers and size of the largest picture; determining a ratio of a picture size of the at least one picture of the first portion of the compressed picture and the largest picture size of the first encoding level; determining a second number of picture buffers based on the determined ratio; and mapping the second number of picture buffers in the first number of picture buffers.
US10230967B2
A multi-layer video encoding/decoding method and a multi-layer video encoding/decoding apparatus are provided. In the multi-layer video encoding method, image data is encoded to a multi-layer encoded image, at least one of encoded layers of a target output layer set is determined as an output layer, an index of at least three output layer subsets including at least one output layer from among the encoded layers of the target output layer set are generated based on the determined output layer, and a bitstream including the generated index and the multi-layer encoded image is generated.
US10230966B2
Multilayer video encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses are provided. A multilayer video decoding method includes: obtaining inter-layer prediction allowance information from a bitstream; obtaining single layer use information from the bitstream when the inter-layer prediction allowance information indicates that inter-layer prediction is usable; determining at most only one layer among at least one layer, to which a current picture refers, as a reference layer when the single layer use information indicates that at most one picture is used for inter-layer prediction; and performing inter-layer prediction on the current picture by using a picture belonging to the reference layer.
US10230964B2
An image processing apparatus, including processing circuitry configured to decode a bit stream to generate quantized data. The bit stream includes a flag, for each block, that specifies whether or not a difference quantization parameter is present in the bit stream. The flag is included in a first layer that is higher than a second layer in which the difference quantization parameter is set. The processing circuitry is configured to set, according to the flag, a current quantization parameter for a current sub block formed by block partitioning, which splits a block into smaller sub blocks. The processing circuitry is configured to inversely quantize the generated quantized data using the set current quantization parameter.
US10230960B2
An inter-frame mode selection method for video coding and apparatus, and video coding method are disclosed, and the inter-frame mode selection method includes: step (a): determining a current optimum coding mode and coding overhead of a coding unit CUDepth in a current depth Depth; step (b): dividing CUDepth into multiple coding subunits having a depth Depth+1, recursively performing step (a) to (d) for each of coding subunits to determine an optimum coding mode and coding overhead of each coding subunit; step (c): comparing a sum of coding overheads of the multiple coding subunits with the current coding overhead of CUDepth; and step (d): if the current coding overhead of CUDepth is greater than the sum, determining that an optimum coding mode of CUDepth is an optimum coding mode after dividing CUDepth into multiple coding subunits; otherwise, determining that an optimum coding mode of CUDepth is an optimum coding mode before dividing CUDepth into multiple coding subunits.
US10230959B2
A method of performing compression of image data for at least one image is described. The method comprises receiving image data of at least a part of the at least one image, encoding the received image data into at least one compressed data block, applying at least one bandwidth limit to the at least one compressed data block, and outputting the at least one bandwidth limited compressed data block to a buffer. The method further comprises dynamically updating the at least one bandwidth limit applied to the at least one compressed data block base at least partly on a fill level of the buffer.
US10230955B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for determining one or more attributes of each frame of a plurality of frames of a video. The method includes evaluating a first set of pre-defined values for the each frame of the plurality of frames, determining a second set of pre-defined values for the each frame of the plurality of frames based on a second pre-determined criterion, computing a third pre-defined value for the each frame based on a third pre-determined criterion, and identifying the one or more attributes of the each frame. The identified one or more attributes is utilized for stabilizing a rate control model of an encoder. The evaluating is based on a first pre-determined criterion.
US10230951B2
A system, method and computer program product for improving video codec performance, including a pre-processing stage configured for downscaling by a variable amount an uncompressed video signal before sending such downscaled, uncompressed video signal to an input of a video codec; and a complimentary post-processing stage configured for upscaling the decompressed video signal received from an output of the video codec back to its original resolution before transmitting the decompressed video signal. The system, method and computer program product provide improved rate-distortion performance compared to direct use of the video codec alone.
US10230947B2
A camera system captures images from a set of cameras to generate binocular panoramic views of an environment. The cameras are oriented in the camera system to maximize the minimum number of cameras viewing a set of randomized test points. To calibrate the system, matching features between images are identified and used to estimate three-dimensional points external to the camera system. Calibration parameters are modified to improve the three-dimensional point estimates. When images are captured, a pipeline generates a depth map for each camera using reprojected views from adjacent cameras and an image pyramid that includes individual pixel depth refinement and filtering between levels of the pyramid. The images may be used generate views of the environment from different perspectives (relative to the image capture location) by generating depth surfaces corresponding to the depth maps and blending the depth surfaces.
US10230945B2
A system may receive an instruction to execute a test represented by code in a test file. The system may initialize a first process instance associated with executing the test. The system may initialize a second process instance associated with loading the test file and executing the test. The second process instance may be different from the first process instance. The system may load the test file using the second process instance. The system may execute the test using the first process instance, the second process instance, and the test file without loading the test file into the first process instance. The system may update the test file during execution of the test without interrupting execution of the test.
US10230942B2
A pixel array, a display device and a display method are provided. The pixel array comprises: a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a row direction and a column direction, the plurality of sub-pixels being defined by a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines intersecting with each other, the data lines extending along the row direction, and the gate lines extending along the column direction, wherein, each row of sub-pixels include a plurality of repeating units arranged sequentially, the repeating unit including sub-pixels of three different colors; for each column of the sub-pixels, any two adjacent sub-pixels are of different colors; and each of the sub-pixels has a length L along the row direction and a height H along the column direction, the length being less than or equal to the height, and in any two adjacent sub-pixels in each column of the sub-pixels, a lower row sub-pixel shifts by a distance D with respect to a previous row sub-pixel along the row direction, where −L
US10230940B2
A method for determining the complex amplitude of the electromagnetic field associated with a scene, comprising a) capturing a plurality of images of the scene by means of a photographic camera, the images being focused in planes of focus arranged at different distances, wherein the camera comprises a lens of focal length F and a sensor arranged at a certain distance from the lens in its image space, taking at least one image pair from the plurality of images and determining the accumulated wavefront to the conjugate plane in the object space corresponding to the intermediate plane with respect to the planes of focus of the two images of the pair.
US10230939B2
A system, method and software for producing 3D effects in a video of a physical scene. The 3D effects can be observed when the video is viewed, either during a live stream or later when viewing the recorded video. A reference plane is defined. The reference plane has peripheral boundaries. A live event is viewed with stereoscopic video cameras. The stereoscopic camera viewpoints are calculated that enable the event to be recorded within the peripheral boundaries of the reference plane. The footage from the stereoscopic video cameras is digitally altered prior to being imaged. The altering of the footage includes bending, tapering, stretching and/or tilting a portion of the footage in real time. Once the footage is altered, a common set of boundaries are set for superimposed footage to create a final video production.
US10230937B2
A method and apparatus for a three-dimensional or multi-view video encoding or decoding system utilizing unified disparity vector derivation is disclosed. When a three-dimensional coding tool using a derived disparity vector (DV) is selected, embodiments according to the present invention will first obtain the derived DV from one or more neighboring blocks. If the derived DV is available, the selected three-dimensional coding tool is applied to the current block using the derived DV. If the derived DV is not available, the selected three-dimensional coding tool is applied to the current block using a default DV, where the default DV is set to point to an inter-view reference picture in a reference picture list of the current block.
US10230936B2
A device for determining the surface topology and associated color of a structure, such as a teeth segment, includes a scanner for providing depth data for points along a two-dimensional array substantially orthogonal to the depth direction, and an image acquisition means for providing color data for each of the points of the array, while the spatial disposition of the device with respect to the structure is maintained substantially unchanged. A processor combines the color data and depth data for each point in the array, thereby providing a three-dimensional color virtual model of the surface of the structure. A corresponding method for determining the surface topology and associate color of a structure is also provided.
US10230926B2
The present invention provides a wireless video signal transmitter, a receiver, a transmission system and a display system, which relates to the technical field of WiGig wireless transmission. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the wireless video signal transmitter comprises a frequency multiplication unit and a wireless transmitting unit. The frequency multiplication unit is operable to implement the frequency multiplication of a video signal, so as to obtain a first signal and transmit the first signal to the wireless transmitting unit. The wireless transmitting unit is operable to process the first signal to obtain a second signal suitable for wireless transmission, and to transmit the signal wirelessly. The display system of the present invention may receive and process the ultra high-definition video signal processed and transmitted by the wireless video signal transmission system.
US10230925B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing and disseminating video data. A video disseminating portal is provided to show orders for video data, including status information of each order. A control in the portal is provided to launch a video display interface to preview or play an ordered video data. A video cropping tool in the video display interface allows a user to define one more areas within the ordered video data. The cropped video is generated along a pan path. In some embodiments, the cropped video is generated with variable zoom and orientation. The one or more defined areas are used to generate corresponding one or more cropped videos, which are derived from the ordered video data. The location and area of a cropped video is displayed in context of the ordered video and can be previewed using the video display interface. A cropped video is also displayed as an entry in the portal in relation to the entry for the ordered video data.
US10230912B2
An imaging system whose Field of View FOV experiences occasional motion in relation to viewed scenes may be configured to reduce Fixed Pattern Noise (FPN) of acquired image data. FPN may be reduced by developing a pixel by pixel FPN correction term through a series of steps including blurring the image, identifying pixels to exclude from some calculations, a motion detector and an FPN updater for frames under motion and an FPN decay element for frames that are still.
US10230910B2
Various techniques are disclosed for providing an infrared imaging module that exhibits a small form factor and may be used with one or more portable devices. Such an infrared imaging module may be implemented with a housing that includes electrical connections that may be used to electrically connect various components of the infrared imaging module. In addition, various techniques are disclosed for providing system architectures for processing modules of infrared imaging modules. In one example, a processing module of an infrared imaging module includes a first interface adapted to receive captured infrared images from an infrared image sensor of the infrared imaging module. The processing module may also include a processor adapted to perform digital infrared image processing on the captured infrared images to provide processed infrared images. The processing module may also include a second interface adapted to pass the processed infrared images to a host device.
US10230901B2
Disclosed herein are systems, device, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for enabling semi-manual media capture. Semi-manual media capture can involve calculating optimal exposure settings in an auto-exposure loop, displaying a scene with optimal exposure settings in real time, receiving a manual adjust gesture, and adjusting the scene, in real time, based on the manual adjust gesture.
US10230900B2
A system for controlling exposure of a multi-view camera is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of cameras having different views, a single image-based camera parameter calculator calculating single image-based camera parameters for each of the plurality of cameras; an image intensity ratio calculator calculating an image intensity ratio corresponding to an image intensity difference in an overlapped region between image data obtained from the plurality of cameras; and a multi-image-based camera parameter calculator calculating multi-image-based camera parameters for correcting intensity differences between images of the plurality of cameras on the basis of the single image-based camera parameters and the image intensity ratio.
US10230890B2
Systems and methods for controlling camera settings of a camera to improve detection of faces in an uncontrolled environment are described. A first image is received from the camera, where the first image is captured by the camera at a first set of camera settings. A face is detected in the first image. The camera is adjusted to a second set of camera settings based on the detected face, where the second set of camera settings different from the first set of camera settings. A second image is received from the camera, where the second image is captured by the camera at the second set of camera settings. The face is detected in the second image. A quality metric of the face in the second image is determined where the quality metric is indicative of an image quality of the face in the second image. The camera is adjusted to a new set of camera settings to increase the quality metric of the face in subsequent images, the new set of camera settings different from both the first set of camera settings and the second set of camera settings. Once a sufficient quality metric of the face is achieved, the face is acquired, or otherwise captured, by the camera or other sensors.
US10230888B2
An apparatus includes an initializer configured to adjust one or more settings of a camera prior to initialization of the camera. The one or more settings are adjusted based on an indication of motion detected using at least one measurement performed by a sensor device. The apparatus further includes a processing device configured to execute a camera application to initialize the camera after adjustment of the one or more settings.
US10230883B2
An imaging unit images an object in a state where first to third infrared lights are each selectively and sequentially projected so as to generate first to third frames. An electronic shutter controller controls a period and timing in which the imaging unit is exposed such that an interval between a first timing, which is the middle point of the period in which the imaging unit is exposed in the state where the second infrared light is projected, and a second timing, which is the middle point of the period in which the imaging unit is exposed in the state where the first or third infrared light is projected, is set shorter than an interval between the first timing and a third timing, which is the middle point of the one frame period of the first or third frame.
US10230881B2
The disclosure relates to a camera, comprising a housing, an electronics unit comprising a processor, and an image sensor unit comprising an image sensor and a lens support, the electronics unit being fixed inside the housing, the image sensor unit being slidable inside the housing, the housing being provided with a window through which a scene is viewable for the image sensor, the image sensor unit being slidable relative to the housing so as to allow adjustment of a distance between the image sensor and the window along an adjustment direction, wherein the electronics unit and the image sensor unit are connected to each other via a flexible cable for transmittal of digital image sensor output from the image sensor to the processor in the electronics unit.
US10230863B2
An information processing device comprising: a data sharing unit causing an application to process data output from a data output source application; a communication interface configured to perform communication with an external device; and a processor that, when executing the instructions, performs operations comprising: acquiring an image data set from the external device through the communication interface; defining plural image data groups, each of the plural image data groups including at least one of the plurality of image data included in the image data set; selecting a plurality of the applications each of which is corresponding to each of the plural image data groups, respectively; and causing the data sharing unit to perform a sharing process of making each of the plurality of the selected applications process the at least one of the plurality of image data included in each of the plural image data groups, respectively.
US10230853B2
A terminal device including a detection unit that detects a sound, and an output unit that outputs information regarding a detection method of detecting the sound by the detection unit.
US10230851B2
Identifying call features and associations to detect call traffic pumping and take corrective action
A system and method for monitoring telephone calls to detect call traffic pumping activity and take corrective action is described. The system receives a group of training telephone calls having associated call audio content and associated information, and the system analyzes the training telephone calls to generate and store a classification model that correlates call features and associations with a probability of call traffic pumping activity. The system receives a subsequent monitored telephone call to be analyzed. The system analyzes the monitored telephone call to identify features present in the audio content of the monitored telephone call and other associated information. The system then compares the features and associated information to the stored classification model in order to determine a probability that the monitored telephone call is associated with call traffic pumping activity. If the assessed probability of call traffic pumping activity exceeds a threshold, the system takes appropriate corrective action, such as terminating or flagging the monitored call.
US10230850B2
A method for scheduling a meeting using an email client that is part of an email system includes receiving a request at the email client to schedule the meeting. The request may include an indication of the resources that are to be provided by a conferencing system for the meeting. The method also includes communicating the request to a conference bridge that is part of the conferencing system and receiving from the conference bridge an access code associated with the meeting. The method also includes appending the access code to a meeting invitation associated with the meeting and providing the meeting invitation to an email server that is part of the email system. The method also includes sending the meeting invitation to users invited to participate in the meeting.
US10230846B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can cause a voice communication between a computing device and an automated answering system to be established. A set of options that are available for selection through the automated answering system during the voice communication can be determined. The set of options can be provided for presentation on a display screen of the computing device, wherein at least some of the options in the set are labeled with information that visually describes the options.
US10230840B2
A method of using a system processing phone call routing, the method including: automatically capturing, by a computer system, call data for each of a plurality of phone calls utilizing a toll free number and routed as referrals to a service, which engages accounting software to automatically track compensation for the referrals by generating an association of the captured phone call data for each of the referrals with compensation for connecting the referrals so as to distinguish the service from phone call referral data and compensation for a plurality of other services receiving other referrals, the engaging initiating digital reporting, via an Internet address, which includes generating, from the association, call referral information related to the service and said compensation for the referrals to the service.
US10230835B2
In a method for verifying statements during a call that uses a telecommunication device, a statement made during the call is detected at the telecommunication device. The statement forms an in-call fact statement. Data of a portion of the call is saved, where the portion is related to the statement. The part of the statement is asserted as being true in the statement. A result of a verification of a part of the statement is received. The result is evaluated to determine that the part of the statement is false. In response to the evaluating, the processor in the telecommunication device, is used to cause a change to occur in the call.
US10230822B2
An information processing apparatus including a data provision unit configured to provide, to a client apparatus, a first template corresponding to a selection request from the client apparatus, and a data processing unit configured to, in the case where a factor included in the first template and a factor included in a second template corresponding to a switching request from the client apparatus are common, associate data associated with the factor included in the first template with the factor included in the second template.
US10230821B2
A system and method of classifying a set of internet protocol network data traffic as likely or unlikely to contain constant-packet-rate data or VoIP traffic using frequency spectrum analysis of data packet arrival times. The method is performed with an apparatus connected in-line on the network link from which the set of network data traffic is obtained. The network data traffic is presorted by packet size, source IP address, destination IP address, source port number, destination port number, or transport-layer protocol to limit the required analysis. A sliding window function is used to provide the time-domain input data to the frequency spectrum analysis. A threshold function is used to detect peaks in the calculated frequency spectrum that indicate constant-packet-rate traffic. An automated system preferably captures the network data traffic from one or more network links, immediately performs the frequency spectrum analysis on the data traffic and stores the results in memory for later access.
US10230820B2
Analytics driven update notifications can be provided. An agent on a managed device can monitor which applications are being used on the managed device and can provide a report of these application usage details along with other details of components on the managed device to a management server. The management server can evaluate reports received from a number of agents to generate rankings of applications and components that are based at least partially on usage. The management server can then identify available updates and present recommendations for deploying the updates based on the rankings.
US10230819B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing based on content popularity information are provided. A client computer transmits a request for content from a content provider. The content provider utilizes executable code, such as translation request code, for facilitating request routing utilizing popularity information. The translation request code, may direct a client computing device to request further translation request code and/or translation information. Thereafter, the client issues a DNS query with the translated information including popularity information. The content delivery network service provider can then either resolve the DNS query with an IP address of a cache component or transmit another alternative resource identifier that will resolve to the content delivery network service provider. The process can repeat until a DNS nameserver resolves a DNS query from the client computing device.
US10230816B2
Disclosed aspects relate to communication management in a social networking environment. A source communication with respect to a topic may be received by the social networking environment. In response to receiving the source communication, a response communication by a first user may be detected. The response communication may relate to the topic. Using a set of topic expertise data for the first user with respect to the topic, a trust factor for the user with respect to the topic may be determined. Based on the trust factor, a communication arrangement may be established in the social networking environment.
US10230805B2
One or more communications between two or more users are monitored. An activity by a first user is determined. The activity is related to one of the communications. A degree of awareness of the first user is determined. The degree of awareness is based on the determined activity.
US10230802B2
In various systems and methods, there can be received a request for a network service. A query for the network service can be formulated based on the request. A remote access device can be instructed to interrogate remote devices coupled to the remote network access device for the network service. Access parameters related to the network service can be received in response to the interrogation. The user device can be configured to access the network service based on the access parameters.
US10230798B2
Techniques are described for distributed processing of Internet of Things (IoT) device data by edge systems co-located within a globally-distributed set of co-location facilities deployed and managed by a co-location facility provider. For example, a method includes selecting, by at least one of a plurality of edge computing systems co-located within respective co-location facilities each deployed and managed by a single co-location facility provider, a selected edge computing system of the plurality of edge computing systems to process data associated with events generated by an IoT device. The method also includes provisioning, at the selected edge computing system, an application programming interface (API) endpoint for communication with the IoT device, receiving, by the selected edge computing system at the endpoint, the data associated with the events generated by the IoT device, and processing, by the selected edge computing system, the data associated with the events generated by the IoT device.
US10230792B2
The present invention is notably directed to a method for synchronizing proprietary data in an external cloud provided by a cloud service provider with data of a private storage system. The method comprises, at a synchronization system: copying outward data from a flow of outward data sent from a private cloud to the external cloud, the outward data being proprietary data of an entity that owns data of the private cloud. Next, and in parallel to copying outward data: the synchronization system compares copied outward data with data stored on the private storage system, to determine whether the compared outward data are already replicated in the private storage system. Finally, if it is determined that the compared outward data are not yet replicated in the private storage system, it instructs to store the compared outward data on the private storage system. The present invention is further directed to related systems and computer program products.
US10230791B2
An electronic device and a method are provided. The electronic device includes a communication unit configured to transmit and receive data; and a controller configured to, when a state of the electronic device that satisfies a condition for termination of a running application is detected while the application is in progress, control discovery of at least one external electronic device and transmit data of the running application to at least one electronic device selected from the discovered external electronic devices through the communication unit with an instruction for the at least one selected electronic device to process the data of the running application.
US10230787B2
Methods and systems for managing distributed group identity may involve exchanging, at a node in a group, node identifiers with another node in the group, sorting the node identifiers, selecting an identifier from the sorted identifier, proposing the selected identifier as a persistent group name, setting the persistent group name based on the proposed identifier, setting a user administered name based on the proposed identifier, determining that the user administered name is consistent across the group, and updating the user administered name to resolve the inconsistency. The persistent group name is common across the group.
US10230785B1
Methods and apparatus for post data synchronization in live migration of domains. Host devices on a network may implement virtual machines (VMs) as domains in an execution environment, and may provide local persistent storage for data of the VMs. A migration technique for moving a domain including the persistent data from one host device to another host device is described in which the VM is instantiated on the target device, and the domain is switched to the target device. Synchronization of the VM's data from the persistent storage on the source device to the target device is then initiated, for example according to a distributed replicated storage technique that makes the target device's persistent storage the primary storage and the source device's persistent storage the secondary storage for the VM. Once the data is synchronized, the VM and its respective storage on the source device are released.
US10230778B2
A system and method for providing seamless consumption of media content and managing playlists for seamless consumption of media is described. One embodiment includes receiving a request for media content; determining a mode of consumption for the media content; determining a media content service to provide the media content; and providing the media content according to the preferred mode of consumption and from the preferred service and managing playlists to integrate reproduction of media content from multiple services.
US10230776B2
Managing access to a conference call includes obtaining, via a calendar application, a list of participants, the list of participants includes a number of participants to be included in a conference call, identifying, from the list of participants, a first portion of the participants that have personal passcodes, generating guest passcodes for a second portion of the participants associated with the list of participants that do not have the personal passcodes, and permitting, based on the personal passcodes or the guest passcodes, each of the participants to participate in the conference call.
US10230773B1
In one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a data server, a VoIP server, and a processing circuit. The VoIP server routes VoIP calls to and from a plurality of telecommunication devices associated with respective user accounts. The VoIP server stores data generated by the plurality of telecommunication devices on the data server. The user accounts each have a settings file associated with the user account. In response to a set of criteria indicated in the settings file of one of the user accounts being satisfied, the processing circuit logs into a data server remote to the VoIP server using login credentials included in the settings file. In further response to the set of criteria being satisfied, the processing circuit copies one or more data files associated with the user account from the data server to the remote data server.
US10230772B2
A method for processing telephony sessions of a network including at least one application server and a call router, the method including the steps of assigning a primary Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and at least a secondary URI to an application; mapping a telephony session to the primary URI; communicating with the application server designated by the primary URI using an application layer protocol; receiving telephony instructions from the application server and processing the telephony instructions with the call router; detecting an application event; and upon detecting the application event, communicating with the application server designated by the secondary URI.
US10230769B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices, of activating lawful interception. According to the present disclosure, a gateway comprises a controller for controlling, using a flow control protocol, the flow of packets through a switch controlled by the gateway. The switch receives (S11), from the controller, a lawful interception activation request, comprising a target identity; activates (S12), in response to said request, lawful interception on a target identified by the target identity; duplicates (S13), in the switch, packets targeting the target; encapsulates (S14) the duplicated packets with an additional header; and forwards (S15) duplicates from the switch directly to the lawful interception service provider entity (1) for further distribution to a Lawful interception Agency.
US10230767B2
A system and method for identifying distributed attacks, such as, but not limited to, distributed denial of service attacks and botnet attacks, in a first network serviced by a first carrier and configured to alert a second network serviced by a second carrier that is different from the first carrier is disclosed. Once an attack has been identified, an attack alert is generated and provided to the second network or other aspects of the first network, or both. The attack alerts may be distributed dynamically with the second network via diameter based security protocol Rs. Such system and method may mitigate distributed malicious attacks by sharing destination internet protocol and bad international mobile subscriber identity information across carriers.
US10230764B2
Various embodiments of the present technology include methods of assessing risk of a cyber security failure in a computer network of an entity. Some embodiments involve using continual or periodic data collecting to improve inferential analysis, as well as obtaining circumstantial or inferential information from social networks. Machine learning may be used to improve predicitive capabilities. Some embodiments allow for identification of an entity from circumstantial or inferential information based on the machine learning and comparative analyses.
US10230752B2
The disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for improving security in a computer network. The system can include a planner and a plurality of controllers. The controllers can be deployed within each zone of the production network. Each controller can be configured to assume the role of an attacker or a target for malicious network traffic. Simulations of malicious behavior can be performed by the controllers within the production network, and can therefore account for the complexities of the production network, such as stateful connections through switches, routers, and other intermediary devices. In some implementations, the planner can analyze data received from the controllers to provide a holistic analysis of the overall security posture of the production network.
US10230751B2
A first collection including a first feature vector and a Q&A feature vector is constructed. A second collection is constructed from the first collection by inserting noise in at least one of the vectors. A third collection is constructed by migrating, at least one of a vectors of the second collection with a corresponding vector of a fourth collection. The second and the fourth collections have a property distinct from one another. Using a forecasting configuration, a vector of the third collection is aged to generate a changed feature vector, the changed feature vector containing feature values expected at a future time. The changed feature vector is input into a trained neural network to predict a probability of the cyber-attack occurring at the future time.
US10230743B1
Evaluating computers, devices, or endpoints on a network, such as a large network of computers in an enterprise environment. Detecting computers, devices, or endpoints that may present a security risk to the network or may be compromised in some way. Generating network traffic that, in some cases, should be ignored or should prompt specific, known responses. Detecting endpoint(s) that respond to such network traffic in an anomalous way, or otherwise attempt to perform certain operations based on such network traffic.
US10230728B2
An environment manager in a computer executes multiple environments concurrently. A user management framework (UMF) virtual machine on the computer runs an authentication domain that supports user profile management of the multiple environments.
US10230719B2
Embodiments of a system and method for securely displaying media using a pair of goggles are generally described herein. A method may include playing secure media using a lens of the pair of goggles, monitoring a plurality of gaskets mounted on the pair of goggles to determine whether a breach has occurred, and detecting, using a camera mounted on the pair of goggles, whether inorganic matter is present within a field of view. The method may include issuing an alert in response to detecting the breach or detecting inorganic matter, and ceasing playback of the secure media in response to the alert.
US10230714B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to tokenized account information with integrated authentication. In some embodiments, a shared secret key is used for tokenization and authentication. In some embodiments, a payment device stores an encrypted version of the secret key and decrypts the secret key based on a user-provided password. In some embodiments, the payment device uses the secret key and a moving factor to generate a limited-use password. In some embodiments, the payment device uses the limited-use password to modify a first identifier of an account of the user. In some embodiments, the authentication system retrieves a stored version of the secret key and a copy of the account number using a second identifier. In some embodiments, the authentication system generates the limited-use password based on the stored secret key and a moving factor, de-tokenizes the modified first identifier, and compares the result with the retrieved copy of the account number.
US10230710B2
One embodiment of the invention is directed to a computer-implemented method comprising, receiving registration information for one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) at a registrar computer system associated with a federated network of computing devices. The method further comprises generating a unique address for each API included in the registration information. The method further comprises generating a token confirming the registration of the APIs where the token identifies a trust relationship within the federated network of computing devices. The method further comprises receiving a request for the token from another registrar computer system that includes a canonical address for a particular API of the one or more APIs. The method further comprises providing the token to establish a secure connection with the federated network of computing devices.
US10230704B2
System and method for providing cloud computing services are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a cloud computing environment comprising resources for supporting cloud workloads, each cloud workload having associated therewith an internal cloud address; and a routing system disposed between external workloads of an external computing environment and the cloud workloads, the routing system for directing traffic from an external address to the internal cloud addresses of the cloud workloads. A designated one of the cloud workloads obtains one key of a first pair of cryptographic keys, the first pair of cryptographic keys for decrypting encrypted storage hosted within the cloud computing environment.
US10230701B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that provides a selective encryption technique that encrypts all of the fields in a profile, and selectively enables consumers of the profile information to decrypt specific fields in the profiles. This is accomplished by encrypting each field in the profile using a randomly generated symmetric key, and then encrypting the symmetric key for each field with public keys belonging to individuals who are authorized to access each field. These encrypted public keys are stored in a header of the profile to enable individuals to use their corresponding private keys to decrypt symmetric keys for the specific fields that they are authorized to access.
US10230690B2
A method and system for improving a digital media content transfer blocking process is provided. The method includes detecting a request for access to digital media content from a digital media provider system. Network traffic across the network is identified and it is verified that the digital media content is comprised by the network traffic. In response, investigation platform software code is executed and a database system associated with the digital media provider system is queried. A system determines if a legitimate connection based relationship exists between a user device and the digital media provider system and the digital media content is monitored. The digital media content is determined to be unauthorized for use by said user and in response the digital media content is disabled from executing functions with respect to the user device of a user.
US10230686B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for correlating information associated with one networking transmission protocol, such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), to information associated with a different networking transmission protocol, such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv4). More specifically, when resolving an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with a requesting device to a network, the system may base the resolved destination on one or more attributes of a known address to build a network mapping of the received IP address. In one specific example, an IPv6 address is received and associated with a known IPv4 address to map the network.
US10230684B2
A method, an apparatus, and an edge node controller for selecting an edge node. The edge node controller receives a service request message including a subscriber identifier; obtains the subscriber identifier in the service request message; queries a first mapping relationship between the subscriber identifier and an edge node address according to the subscriber identifier to obtain an edge node address corresponding to the subscriber identifier; and returns a service response message including the edge node address. A subscriber identifier carried in a service request message is used to query a first mapping relationship to obtain an edge node address, and a service response message carrying an address of an edge node selected for a subscriber is delivered, thereby reducing a processing process of identifying different edge nodes by an external server, improving the processing efficiency, and reducing the implementation complexity.
US10230680B2
A method, system and computer program product for improving readability and understandability in messages posted on a social media website. The messages posted on a social media website, such as the user's social networking feed, are scanned. The scanned messages are analyzed for topics, meaning and/or tenses using natural language processing. The text in the scanned messages are split into message segments based on topic, meaning, tenses, punctuation, custom identifiers, hashtags and/or @ symbols. These message segments are then grouped based on relatedness of the topics, meaning and/or tenses. The message segments are ordered in each group of message segments, such as based on timestamps. The ordered message segments are then displayed to the user. By displaying these message segments in separate groupings in a logical order, the user will be able to view the messages posted on the user's social media website in a more readable and understandable manner.
US10230677B2
An approach is described for identifying an entity associated with a communication in an online environment. An associated system may include a processor and a memory storing an application program, which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation. The operation may include receiving a communication within the online environment. The communication may include a plurality of sequential messages. The operation further may include facilitating parsing, via natural language processing, of language in the communication corresponding to an entity and one or more sentiments associated with the entity. The operation further may include determining whether the entity is unambiguously identifiable. Upon determining that the entity is not unambiguously identifiable, the operation may include identifying the entity based upon Bayesian inference. According to an embodiment, determining whether the entity is unambiguously identifiable may include determining whether the entity is among a plurality of participants in the communication.
US10230661B2
Systems and methods for performing distributed virtual network embedding are disclosed. A resource orchestrator may receive a virtual network request specifying a set of virtual nodes, a set of virtual links, each connecting two virtual nodes in a mesh topology, and resource requirements for some virtual nodes. The orchestrator may partition the virtual network request into multiple sub-requests, each specifying a linear topology for a subset of the virtual nodes and links within the mesh topology. The sub-requests may collectively include all virtual links within the mesh topology with no overlapping links. Resource orchestrators may collaborate to compute, independently for each sub-request, a respective chaining solution in which each virtual node is mapped to a physical node having resources sufficient to implementing the virtual node. A resource orchestrator may combine the respective chaining solutions for each of the sub-requests to generate a mapping solution for the virtual network request.
US10230660B2
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a domain controller for a network. The domain controller includes functionality to manage the provisioning of paths in the network in order to enable content to be streamed across the network.
US10230659B2
A method implemented to provide a virtual network to tenants requiring bandwidth in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The method starts with receiving a request for a task at a network device, the request including a first parameter indicating VMs required, a second parameter indicating bandwidths the required VMs need, a third parameter indicating a duration of the task, and a fourth parameter indicating a deadline of the task. The network device then selects a starting time and a bandwidth allocation of the task, where the bandwidth allocation is shrank to be smaller than the second parameter indicating, and where the selection aims at minimizing a measurement of cloud resource utilization considering consumptions of both VMs and bandwidth. Then the network device allocates VMs for the request at the starting time with the bandwidth allocated at a particular location in the cloud computing environment.
US10230652B2
A communication system includes a transmit (TX) device and a receive (RX) device. The TX device is configured to transmit data over a communication link. The RX device is configured to receive the data transmitted by the TX device over the communication link, to buffer the received data in an RX buffer, to assess a fill level of the RX buffer, to select, depending on the fill level of the RX buffer, either a pause-resume flow-control scheme or a credit-based flow-control scheme, and to apply the selected flow-control scheme in coordination with the TX device.
US10230649B2
Storage area network (SAN) load balancing process is disclosed. The load balancing process can include monitoring an input/output workload within the SAN. The input/output workload of a first source to first destination is monitored by an analyzing unit. The analyzing unit gathers a source identifier (S_ID) and a destination identifier (D_ID) to determine the location of a first source and a first destination. An input/output workload of the first source and the first destination can be tracked by the analyzing unit. The analyzing unit can be used to determine if the first input/output workload is above an upper threshold. A first condition can be logged based on the determination of the first input/output workload being above the upper threshold. The determination of the first condition is communicated to a first user.
US10230641B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a call volume for an office that serves as a protecting site for another office in a packet network are disclosed. For example, the method collects one or more customer registration counts from one or more session border controllers located in a first office, determines if the one or more customer registration counts have reached or exceeded a threshold. The method directs all of said one or more session border controllers located in said first office to enact one or more throttling rules if the one or more customer registration counts have reached or exceeded the threshold.
US10230635B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a buffer memory, ingress ports, egress ports, at least one processor, and logic integrated with and/or executable by the at least one processor. The logic is configured to communicate with a software-defined network (SDN) controller, store a look-up table in a first portion of the buffer memory, receive a packet using an ingress port of the apparatus, start an egress timer upon receipt of the packet, process the packet in order to finish processing prior to the egress timer expiring, determine an egress port for the packet, determine a packet size from information in a header of the packet when packet size information is available in the header, begin to route the packet via the egress port once the egress port is determined, and send the packet to the egress port upon expiration of the egress timer without further processing.
US10230624B2
Integration of a land mobile radio (LMR) communications system and other wireless IP based systems such as LTE by way of a multi bearer router. The LMR system may be either trunked or conventional. The multi bearer router maintains LMR IDs and also IP addresses for base stations, multi bearer terminals and other components of the integrated system.
US10230622B2
An integrated wireless and wireline access system that uses software defined networking is provided to deliver communication services to user equipment via a variety of network access technologies. The software defined networking system can dynamically choose which network access technology to use to deliver services to the user equipment based on network conditions, quality of service concerns, and user equipment context. The user equipment can have different addresses based on the network access technology, and the software defined networking can redirect communications that are directed to a first address associated with the device on a first network to a second address associated with the same device on a second network.
US10230618B2
The present disclosure discloses a path request method. The method includes: receiving, by a stateful path computation element Stateful PCE, a path computation request message sent by a path computation client PCC, where the path computation request message includes first attribute information, and the first attribute information is used to designate an acquisition manner of a path requested by the PCC; acquiring, by the Stateful PCE, information of a path that conforms to a request of the PCC according to the first attribute information; and sending a path computation reply message to the PCC, where the path computation reply message includes the information of the path that conforms to the request of the PCC. Embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a stateful path computation element and a path computation client.
US10230607B2
System and method for supporting intra- and inter-subnet address resolution in a network environment using the same linear forwarding tale (LFT) for both the intra- and inter-subnet forwarding. Subnet prefix values in global route headers (GRHs) are used for linear forwarding table (LFT) lookup in a high performance computing environments. An exemplary can provide for use of an Inter Subnet Route Number (ISRN) embedded in the subnet prefix values in the GRHs for LFT lookup in a network switch environment in a high performance computing environment such as a network having an InfiniBand (IB) architecture. A method can provide, at a computer environment, including a network fabric, one or more subnets, each of which subnets are associated with one or more network switches or hosts. The system and method is compatible with legacy switches and nodes that are not conversant with the ISRNs.
US10230605B1
The present technology is directed to a scalable solution for end-to-end performance delay measurement for Segment Routing Policies on both SR-MPLS and SRv6 data planes. The scalability of the solution stems from the use of distributed PM sessions along SR Policy ECMP paths. This is achieved by dividing the SR policy into smaller sections comprised of SPT trees or sub-paths, each of which is associated with a Root-Node. Downstream SID List TLVs may be used in Probe query messages for signaling SPT information to the Root-Nodes Alternatively, this SPT signaling may be accomplished by using a centralized controller. Root-Nodes are responsible for dynamically creating PM sessions and measuring delay metrics for their associated SPT tree section. The root-nodes then send the delay metrics for their local section to an ingress PE node or to a centralized controller using delay metric TLV field of the response message.
US10230589B2
The disclosed subject matter describes herein methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for configuring service networks. According to one aspect, the method includes collecting parameters defining a network service. In another aspect, the method includes generating a plurality of flow interfaces for modeling the network service based on the collected parameters, wherein each of the flow interfaces is associated with a logical device. In another aspect, the method includes generating at least one packet virtual network (PVN) including at least a portion of the plurality of generated flow interfaces. In another aspect, the method includes visually outputting, in a service network user interface, a graphical representation of the network service based on interface connectivities between the plurality of generated flow interfaces.
US10230578B2
A computer-implemented method for scanning computer infrastructure within a computer network includes a first host device and a second host device having distinct operating systems. The host devices are coupled to a controller server. The method includes deploying a first scan program to the host devices. The method includes installing a first tool set on the first host device, installing a second tool set on the second host device, executing the first scan program on the first host device for gathering and storing a first set of inventory data on the first host device, executing the first scan program on the second host device for gathering and storing a second set of inventory data on the second host device, collecting the first set of inventory data from the first host device and the second set of inventory data from the second host device.
US10230573B2
An apparatus and a method are provided by which, in an apparatus for setting up and maintaining network functions, identities of first type network functions and second type network functions are stored, wherein the first type of virtual network functions are configured to select one or more of the second type network functions, and, for each first type network function, information regarding second type network functions which are selectable by the corresponding first type network function based on information regarding physical conditions of the first type network functions and the second type of virtual network functions are maintained.
US10230572B2
The information processing platform (100, 200) includes: an auxiliary web server (11, 110); a back-end server (12, 120); wherein the auxiliary web server is configured to: receive information relating to a web client (10, 150) query; and forward the information to the back-end server, and wherein the back-end server is configured to: process the information according to instructions codified in a configuration file (14, 140); and store the processed information in the data storage.
US10230567B2
A multiple storage control network management system includes a plurality of controllers, each coupled to a respective system control network to provide a respective controller environment. A controller manager is coupled to each of the plurality of controllers. The controller manager is operable to monitor the respective controller environment provided by each of the plurality of controllers. The controller manager is also operable to move personas between respective controller environments. The controller manager is also operable to start and stop personas across a plurality of the respective controller environments. The controller manager is also operable to receive a first change object from a first controller of the plurality of controllers, compare the first change object to a previously received change object from the first controller, determine the changes between object elements in the first change object and the previously received change object, and store the determined changes.
US10230561B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). For example, an apparatus may include circuitry and logic configured to cause a wireless station to transmit a first PPDU to a second wireless station, the first PPDU including a preamble, a header, and a first PLCP Service Data Unit (PSDU), the header including a synchronization (sync) indicator to indicate that the second wireless station is to synchronize a second PPDU to the first PPDU; and to receive the second PPDU from the second wireless station, the second PPDU spaced from the first PPDU by less than a Short Inter Frame Space (SIFS), the second PPDU including a Byte Count, and a second PSDU, the second PPDU including no preamble or a short preamble, which is shorter than the preamble of the first PPDU.
US10230547B2
A method of designing a digital filter for example for use in an FBMC/OQAM telecommunications system, with a target overlapping factor and meeting a specified signal to interference ratio is described, whereby a candidate filter design defined by an impulse response, satisfying the Nyquist criterion and having an overlapping factor higher than the target is selected, and the time and frequency coefficients of its impulse response inverted to define a new filter design; andtruncating the impulse response defining said new filter design to the minimum number of coefficients achieving said specified signal to interference ratio.
US10230545B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method, system and apparatus for logging into a communication client. The method comprises receiving a registration request from a first communication client, the first communication client being registered in association with a device group. The method further comprises, responsive to a determination that there does exist a second communication client registered in association with the device group, provisioning the first communication client and the second communication client according to the registration request.
US10230544B1
A method for efficient data forwarding in a networked device is provided. The method includes receiving a first packet from a first VLAN into a load balancer of the networked device and forwarding the first packet from the load balancer to a second VLAN internal to the networked device, wherein an identity of the first VLAN is unknown as a result of forwarding the packet from the first VLAN to the second VLAN. The method includes determining the identity of the first VLAN, based on a source IP address of the first packet and a map of IP addresses and VLANs. The method includes sending a second packet from one of a plurality of nodes, in response to the receiving, with the source IP address of the first packet as a destination IP address of the second packet and with a field of the second packet identifying the first VLAN.
US10230539B2
A communications device includes a master unit and a block of slave units including a plurality of slave units control by the master unit. Each of the slave units include first and second ports to which different communications lines are connected, respectively, and a relay disposed between the first port and the second port and open/closed depending on whether power is supplied.
US10230538B2
A control server, or similar central processor, manages the distribution of data (including audio and video), voice, and control signals among a plurality of system components connected via a wired and/or wireless communications network. The system components include audio/visual components (such as, televisions, monitors, PDAs, notepads, notebooks, MP3, portable stereo, etc.) as well as household appliances (such as, lighting, ovens, alarm clocks, etc.). A portable controller allows a user to access and control the system components from any location within a controlled residential and/or non-residential environment, including its surrounding areas. The portable controller includes a user and management interface that contains customized control screens for the system components. The control screens are stored in a hierarchical architecture that is searchable by region or component type.
US10230537B2
A home gateway system has a transceiver (70) capable of establishing a wireless local loop connection (72). A voice processing system (74) is coupled to the transceiver (70). The voice processing system (74) is capable of storing a message from an incoming call.A caller identification processing system (76) is coupled to the transceiver (70). The caller identification processing system (76) determines a telephone number of the incoming call and routes the incoming call to the voice processing system (74), if the telephone number belongs to a screened group of telephone numbers.
US10230536B2
A communication apparatus is disclosed. A home appliance includes a driving unit to drive a component of the home appliance, a controller configured to control the driving unit, a display to display a network connection related indicator and a smart grid related indicator, and a communication unit to connect to an access point apparatus, the communication unit to connect to a server via the connected access point apparatus, and the communication unit to receive a power information signal from the server, wherein the controller to control operation of the driving unit based on the received power information signal. Accordingly, it is possible to conveniently recognize a smart grid mode.
US10230535B2
In general, the disclosure describes techniques for communicating multicast group leave requests between two or more load-balanced, multi-homed PE routers included in an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN). The techniques of the disclosure enable the two or more PE routers to synchronize IGMP state and routing information amongst one another to ensure that the one of the multi-homed PE routers elected as the designated forwarder (DF) ceases forwarding the multicast group traffic to the CE router, even if it is not the PE router that receives the IGMP leave request.
US10230532B2
There is provided an entity authentication method for a network including a first entity and a second entity, the method including: selecting, at the first entity, one or more pieces of data processed by the first entity to be used for authenticating the second entity; tagging, at the first entity, each of the one or more pieces of data selected with a respective tag generated based on a first secret key of the first entity; sending, from the first entity, a set of authentication data comprising the one or more pieces of data and the respective tags to the second entity; and authenticating, by the first entity, the second entity using a challenge-response authentication technique based on the set of authentication data and the first secret key. There is also provided a corresponding system with entity authentication for a network, and an entity in a network with entity authentication.
US10230527B2
The authenticity of a program executed by a processor is determined by a security element that computes a hash code over re-ordered segments of a known-to-be-authentic copy of a program executed by the processor. The authenticity of the same segments are re-ordered by and provided by the processor to the security element, which computes a second hash code for the re-ordered segments received from the processor. If the hash values for the segments are identical, the program segments are identical. If the hash values for any segment are different, the two programs are different. When a processor's program is determined to be different from a known good copy, the processor can be stopped or an alarm signal generated.
US10230523B2
In a computer implemented method for generating a random seed with high entropy as an entropy source a machine instruction ‘compare-and-swap’ -CAS- is used to calculate a random seed.
US10230521B2
The present invention relates to a test method of a circuit, comprising: acquiring a plurality of value sets comprising values of a physical quantity linked to the activity of a circuit to be tested when the circuit executes an operation of a set of distinct cryptographic operations applied to a secret data, selecting at least a first subset in each value set, for each value set, counting by a processing unit occurrence numbers of values transformed by a first surjective function applied to the values of the first subset of the value set, to form an occurrence number set for the value set, for each operation of the operation set, and each of the possible values of a part of the secret data, computing a partial operation result, computing cumulative occurrence number sets by adding the occurrence number sets corresponding to the operations of the operation set, which when applied to a same value or equivalent value of the possible values of the part of the secret data, provide a partial operation result having a same transformed value resulting from the application of a second surjective function, merging according to a selected merging scheme, cumulative occurrence numbers in the cumulative occurrence number sets, and analyzing the merged cumulative occurrence number sets to determine the part of the secret data.
US10230513B2
A control channel transmission/reception method and apparatus is provided. The base station of the present invention transmits configuration information on a control channel to a terminal, checks an aggregation level for use in transmitting the control channel, maps Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) to resource elements in a resource block depending on the aggregation level, determines, when the resource elements of the DMRS correspond to a first resource element set, whether to map the DMRS to resource elements corresponding to a second resource element set in the resource block, and transmits the DMRS and control channel to the terminal according to the determination result.
US10230504B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of Multi User (MU) Fine Timing Measurement (FTM). For example, a wireless station may be configured to transmit a trigger frame including a resource allocation of a plurality of resource slots to a plurality of wireless stations; to process a plurality of Non-Data Packet (NDP) transmissions from the plurality of wireless stations according to the resource allocation; to transmit an NDP; and to transmit a MU FTM message including timing information corresponding to the NDP and timing information corresponding to the plurality of NDP transmissions from the plurality of wireless stations.
US10230496B2
A method and an apparatus for processing a control message for a request of retransmission are provided. The method includes generating a First Missing Serial number (FMS) describing a serial number of a data unit having a lowest serial number among data units which are not received, determining whether a data unit having a serial number greater than the serial number described in the FMS exists due to an out of sequence among data units which are previously received, generating a bitmap indicating a reception of a plurality of data units having a serial number greater than the FMS, if a data unit which is out of sequence exists, and connecting and transmitting the FMS and the bitmap.
US10230493B2
A method for performing code block segmentation for wireless transmission using concatenated forward error correction encoding includes receiving a transport block of data for transmission having a transport block size, along with one or more parameters that define a target code rate. A number N of inner code blocks needed to transmit the transport block is determined. A number M—outer code blocks may be calculated based on the number of inner code blocks and on encoding parameters for the outer code blocks. The transport block may then be segmented and encoded according to the calculated encoding parameters.
US10230490B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods described herein provide a method for padding a signal extension of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. A transceiver may obtain a plurality of data symbols for transmission, and determine that a number of information bits for a last symbol of the plurality of data symbols is not an integer value. A special padding rule may be applied to add padding bits to the last symbol. A number of coded bits for the last symbol may be determined when the number of information bits for the last symbol has changed, and the plurality of data symbols for data transmission may be encoded based on the determined number of coded bits for the last symbol.
US10230489B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive modulation and coding method and an apparatus, which relate to the communications field and can improve accuracy of MCS selection, thereby improving a system throughput rate. The method includes: acquiring scheduling information of first user equipment in a first cell; acquiring scheduling information of second user equipment in a second cell; acquiring a SINR predictor of the first user equipment according to the scheduling information of the first user equipment in the first cell and the scheduling information of the second user equipment in the second cell; obtaining a SINR adjustment value of the first user equipment according to the SINR predictor and a SINR adjustment amount; and determining, according to a correspondence between a SINR and a modulation and coding scheme MCS, an MCS corresponding to the SINR adjustment value of the first user equipment.
US10230473B2
An optical transmitter includes photonic integrated circuits configured to respectively output optical transmission signals in different wavelength ranges. A photonic integrated circuit may include emitters configured to emit beams having different wavelengths; drivers configured to respectively provide power to the emitters, and a wavelength division multiplexer configured to transmit the beams emitted by the emitters. A photonic integrated circuit may include a switch device that controls the drivers, and light detectors configured to detect intensities of the beams emitted from the emitters. The switch device may selectively operate at least one driver of the plurality of drivers based on information associated with intensities of the beams. The switch device may selectively operate a driver connected to an emitter, based on a determination that an intensity of a beam emitted by another emitter is less than a threshold intensity value.
US10230472B2
A system and method including polarization modulation of supervisory signals for reducing interference with data signals in a wavelength division multiplexed optical communication system. At least one supervisory signal for monitoring a transmission path and/or elements coupled to the transmission path is fast polarization modulated and launched with data signals onto the path. Polarization modulating of the supervisory signal reduces impact of the supervisory signal on the data signals and improves system performance.
US10230462B2
An optical transmission characteristic measurement method includes starting transmission of an optical signal from a transmitting node to a receiving node; receiving a bit error rate value measured by the receiving node and relates to the optical signal; determining whether the bit error rate value is higher than a given threshold; adjusting input power of the optical signal to lower until it is determined that the bit error rate value is higher than the given threshold when it is determined that the bit error rate value is not higher than the given threshold; estimating an optical signal to noise ratio from the bit error rate value when it is determined that the bit error rate value is higher than the given threshold; and calculating an optical signal to noise ratio based on the estimated optical signal to noise ratio and an amount of lowering of the input power.
US10230459B2
A system for testing continuity of a cable assembly includes an optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) device selectively coupled to an input connector of a cable and a design database storing cable data. The cable data indicates at least a length of the cable. The system includes a processor and memory in communication with the processor. The processor is configured to execute instructions stored on the memory which cause the processor to receive the cable data from the design database, receive OTDR data associated with the cable from the OTDR device, and calculate a distance-to-fault based on the OTDR data. In response to the distance-to-fault being less than the length of the cable, the processor determines that a connectivity failure has occurred with the cable and generates fault data indicating the connectivity failure.
US10230453B2
Example methods and systems for adjusting the beam width of radio frequency (RF) signals for purposes of balloon-to-ground communication are described. One example method includes determining, based on respective locations of a plurality of balloons and areas covered by respective ground-facing communication beams of the balloons, a contiguous ground coverage area served by the plurality of balloons, where the communication beam of a balloon defines a corresponding individual coverage area within the ground coverage area, determining a change in position of at least one of the balloons, based on the change in position of the at least one balloon, determining an adjustment to a first of the individual coverage areas in an effort to maintain the contiguous ground coverage area after the change in position of at least one of the balloons, and adjusting a width of the ground-facing communication beam of the balloon corresponding to the first individual coverage area in order to make the determined adjustment to the first individual coverage area.
US10230443B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for feeding back channel state information, a user equipment, and abase station, to improve feedback precision of channel state information. The method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by a base station; selecting a precoding matrix W from a codebook according to the reference signal, where a column vector of the precoding matrix W may be expressed as α[V ejϕv]T, v=[1 ejθ]; and sending a precoding matrix indicator PMI to the base station, where the PMI is corresponding to the selected precoding matrix W. The present invention may further improve quantization precision and achieve balance between overheads and the quantization precision. The base station performs precoding on a sent signal according to a fed back precoding matrix indicator, which can improve precoding precision, thereby improving a data transmission rate and system throughput.
US10230441B2
A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and an apparatus for transmitting cell status information (CSI) in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes receiving configuration information for a plurality of channel status information reference signals (CSI-RSs), generating feedback information by measuring at least one of the CSI-RSs based on priority information, and transmitting the feedback information. The priority information is associated with a non-precoded CSI-RS, a cell-specific beamformed CSI-RS and a user equipment (UE)-specific beamformed CSI-RS.
US10230438B2
In a closed-loop wireless communication system, a codebook-based feedback mechanism is provided to enable non-unitary precoding for multi-stream transmission, where in each stream is optimized with suitable transmission power allocation and AMC. The codebook-based feedback mechanism uses a precoding codebook having a power allocation matrix which is constrained to specify that beamforming always applies full power to a predetermined beam. With this constraint, a one-bit power allocation feedback index may be used to switch between beamforming and spatial multiplexing.
US10230431B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for supporting multi-point transmission. In one embodiment, a system for downlink multi-point transmission are disclosed, comprising: a first base station in radio frequency proximity to a user device and with a established control connection with the user device; a second base station also in radio frequency proximity to the user device; and a coordinating node coupled to the first and the second base station for coordinating transmissions to the first and the second base station to the user device, the coordinating node configured to: select the second base station based on selection criteria, the selection criteria including latency of each base station and perceived signal strength of each base station at the user device; and send scheduling instructions to each of the first and the second base stations to transmit data to the user device.
US10230424B2
A monolithic integrated circuit for use in a microwave backhaul system may comprise a plurality of microwave transceivers and outdoor-unit to indoor-unit (ODU/IDU) interface circuitry. The monolithic integrated circuit may be configurable into an all-outdoor configuration in which the ODU/IDU interface circuitry is disabled. The monolithic integrated circuit may be configurable into a split-indoor-and-outdoor configuration in which the ODU/IDU interface circuitry is enabled to communicate signals between an outdoor unit of the microwave backhaul system and an indoor unit of the microwave backhaul system. While the monolithic integrated circuit is configured in the split-indoor-and-outdoor configuration, the ODU/IDU interface circuitry may be configurable to operate in at least a non-stacking mode and a stacking mode.
US10230423B2
System and method embodiments are provided for implementing balanced passive cancellation of self-interference (SI) for full-duplex (FD) communications. In an embodiment, a transceiver circuit for FD communications comprises an antenna comprising a first port and a second port, a transmitter, and a power divider coupled to the transmitter and comprising a first output and a second output. The transceiver circuit further comprises a receiver, a power combiner coupled to the receiver and comprising a first input and a second input, and a first circulator coupled to the first output of the power divider, the first port of the antenna, and the first input of the power combiner. The transceiver circuit also comprises a second circulator coupled to the second output of the power divider, the second port of the antenna, and the second input of the power combiner.
US10230419B2
In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include receiving a first analog radio frequency signal including a signal of interest and an interference signal caused by a second analog radio frequency signal transmitted in full duplex over a channel from which the first analog transmission is received; adjusting at least one of the first analog radio frequency signal and a portion of the second analog radio frequency signal to enable at least one of a reduction or an elimination of the interference signal in an output analog radio frequency signal; combining the first analog radio frequency signal and the portion of the second analog radio frequency signal to generate the output analog radio frequency signal characterized by at least the reduction or the elimination of the interference signal included in the output analog radio frequency signal; and providing the output analog radio frequency signal. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US10230416B2
A method and apparatus for carrying a portable communication device. The portable communication device includes a housing, a screen supported by the housing, and a speaker supported by the housing. A carrier releasably supports the portable communication device. The carrier includes a body having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a surface extending between the first and second ends. The screen of the portable communication device faces the surface of the body. The surface is spaced apart from me screen to form an acoustic tunnel between the screen and the surface. The speaker of the portable communication device directs sound into the acoustic tunnel.
US10230412B2
A flexible multi-channel diversity wireless audio receiver system for routing, processing, and combining multiple radio frequency (RF) signals containing audio signals received on respective antennas is provided. The wireless audio receiver system provides flexible routing of multiple RF signals in different selectable modes, and low latency uninterrupted reception of signals in harsh RF environments by combining multiple RF signals to maximize signal-to-noise ratio. The audio output may be generated in an uninterrupted fashion and mitigate multipath fading, interference, and asymmetrical noise issues. Received RF signals may also be cascaded by the wireless audio receiver system to allow daisy chaining.
US10230410B2
A system for interference mitigation including a transmit coupler that samples the RF transmit signal to create a sampled RF transmit signal; a transmit analog canceller that transforms the RF transmit signal to an RF interference cancellation signal, according to a first configuration state; a first receive coupler that combines the RF interference cancellation signal and the RF receive signal to generate a composite RF receive signal; a sampling analog interference filtering system that, in order to remove interference in the transmit band, filters the sampled RF transmit signal to generate a cleaned transmit signal; a first frequency downconverter that converts the transmit signal to a BB transmit signal; a second frequency downconverter that converts the composite RF receive signal to a composite BB receive signal; and an analog-to-digital converter that converts the transmit signal to a digital transmit signal.
US10230408B2
A transmitter includes a power amplifier coupled to amplify an input signal and provide an output signal. A radio frequency coupler is coupled to receive the output signal and provide a measured signal on a coupler output. A measurement receiver multiplexor is coupled to receive the measured signal on the coupler output to produce either a non-phase adjusted signal or a phase adjusted signal on one of a plurality of multiplexor outputs. Multiple receiver paths are coupled to the plurality of multiplexor outputs to receive either the non-phase adjusted signal or the phase adjusted signal. Receive path processing circuitry is configured to produce in-phase and quadrature phase digital signals based on the plurality of multiplexor outputs to digital processing circuitry to cancel 3rd or 3rd and 5th order measurement receiver distortions.
US10230403B2
A soft input decoding method and a decoder for generalized concatenated (GC) codes. The GC codes are constructed from inner nested block codes, such as binary Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem, BCH, codes and outer codes, such as Reed-Solomon, RS, codes. In order to enable soft input decoding for the inner block codes, a sequential stack decoding algorithm is used. Ordinary stack decoding of binary block codes requires the complete trellis of the code. In one aspect, the present invention applies instead a representation of the block codes based on the trellizes of supercodes in order to reduce the memory requirements for the representation of the inner codes. This enables an efficient hardware implementation. In another aspect, there is provided a soft input decoding method and device employing a sequential stack decoding algorithm in combination with list-of-two decoding which is particularly well suited for applications that require very low residual error rates.
US10230394B2
A method for compressing IQ data for high speed transport link and an associated device. The method comprises: determining, based on dynamical statistical distribution of the IQ data, one or more parameters of a companding function for a nonlinear companding operation (S310); applying the companding function with the determined one or more parameters on the IQ data (S320); performing uniform quantization on the IQ data to generate compressed IQ data (S330); and transmitting the compressed IQ (S340). And a method for decompressing compressed IQ data for high speed transport link, and an associated device.
US10230392B2
Techniques and apparatus for parallel decompression are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus to provide parallel decompression may include at least one memory and logic for a decompression component, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to determine decompression information of a compressed data unit, annotate the compressed data unit with at least a portion of the decompression information to generate an annotated data unit, parallel-decode the annotated data unit to generate a plurality of intermediate elements, and decode and merge the plurality of intermediate elements to generate a decompressed data unit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10230389B1
Superconductor analog-to-digital converters (ADC) offer high sensitivity and large dynamic range. One approach to increasing the dynamic range further is with a subranging architecture, whereby the output of a coarse ADC is converted back to analog and subtracted from the input signal, and the residue signal fed to a fine ADC for generation of additional significant bits. This also requires a high-gain broadband linear amplifier, which is not generally available within superconductor technology. In a preferred embodiment, a distributed digital fluxon amplifier is presented, which also integrates the functions of integration, filtering, and flux subtraction. A subranging ADC design provides two ADCs connected with the fluxon amplifier and subtractor circuitry that would provide a dynamic range extension by about 30-35 dB.
US10230386B2
A method of offset calibration in a SAR ADC is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises determining a number of bits of an analog input signal (VIN), detecting if a binary code determined from the analog input signal (VIN) matches at least one trigger code, using at least one setting code to determine a calibration bit (B*LSB; B*MSB), analyzing a bit of the digital signal (COUT) and the calibration bit (B*LSB; B*MSB), determining an indication of a presence of offset error, and calibrating the offset error. As the determination of the calibration bit (B*LSB; B*MSB) requires only one additional comparison, when compared to the normal operation, the normal operation does not need to be interrupted. Therefore, the calibration can be done in the background and thus can be performed frequently thereby taking into account time-varying changes due to environmental effects.
US10230378B2
The disclosure relates to a phase shifter having a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation, the phase shifter comprising a mixer stage configured to mix an oscillator signal with an analog signal to provide a phase shifted signal, switching circuitry and a controller arranged to provide the analog signal to the mixer stage as a voltage in the first mode of operation and as a current in the second mode of operation.
US10230375B2
The present invention discloses a configurable gate array comprising three-dimensional printed memory (3D-P). It comprises an array of configurable computing elements, an array of configurable logic elements and a plurality of configurable interconnects. Each configurable computing element can selectively realize a basic function in a math library. It comprises a plurality of 3D-P arrays storing the look-up tables (LUT) for the basic functions in the math library.
US10230364B2
A device comprises a first diode and a second diode connected in series between a first terminal and a second terminal of a switching element, wherein an anode of the first diode is directly connected to an anode of the second diode, a third diode connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the switching element and a first switch connected in parallel with the first diode.
US10230350B2
Bandpass filters and methods of designing bandpass filters are disclosed. A bandpass filter includes a plurality of series acoustic resonators connected in series between an input and an output, and a plurality of\ shunt acoustic resonators, each shunt acoustic resonator connected between a ground and one of the input, the output, and a junction between two of the plurality of series acoustic resonators. A first shunt resonator of the plurality of shunt resonators has a motional resonance frequency higher than and adjacent to an upper edge of a passband of the bandpass filter.
US10230348B2
Reflectionless low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, band-stop, all-pass, and all-stop filters, as well as a method for designing such filters is disclosed, along with a method of enhancing the performance of such filters through the use of sub-networks to further modify and improve the frequency response. These filters preferably function by absorbing the stop-band portion of the spectrum rather than reflecting it back to the source, which has significant advantages in many different applications. The sub-networks preferably offer additional degrees of freedom by which the leakage through the parent filter may be cancelled or reinforced to alter cutoff sharpness, stop-rejection, or other measures of performance.
US10230317B2
A fan and a motor thereof are provided. The motor includes a motor drive device. The motor drive device includes a printed circuit board. A control management unit and a voltage converter are arranged on the printed circuit board, the control management unit classifies target rotation speed signals provided by an ECU into multiple rotation speed intervals, with each rotation speed interval corresponding to a fixed duty ratio. The control management unit receives a target rotation speed signal transmitted from the ECU in a real-time manner, and outputs a pulse width modulation signal having a duty ratio corresponding to the rotation speed interval to which the target rotation speed signal transmitted from the ECU belongs. The voltage converter is connected between the power source and the winding, and is configured to regulate a voltage outputted to the winding in response to the pulse width modulation signal having the fixed duty ratio outputted from the control management unit, to control a rotation speed of the motor. The motor drive device performs segment control on the rotation speed of the motor, thereby reducing the cost.
US10230311B2
A method prevents shoot-through currents and reduces body-diode conduction time in an inverter circuit by changing dead times for transistors in the inverter circuit. A sensing resistor senses temperatures of transistors in the inverter circuit. A delay generator changes delay times in response to receiving the temperatures of the transistors from the sensing resistor. A dead time generation unit changes the dead times for the transistors in response to changes in the delay times.
US10230309B2
A synchronous bridge rectifier comprises a plurality of synchronously switched elements and a plurality of controller circuits, one for each of the synchronously switched elements. The synchronously switched elements may be field-effect transistors. Each controller circuit is configured to sense voltage across the corresponding synchronously switched element to control opening and closing of the synchronously switched element so as to rectify the alternating current input signal to form a direct current output signal.
US10230306B2
A power conversion device, which includes an insulation type full bridge converter and can switch a power transmission direction at a high speed, is provided. A DC/DC converter (10) constitutes a power conversion device, which operates as a first type converter that converts a voltage within a first range applied to a first input/output terminal pair into a voltage within a second range and outputs the voltage from a second input/output terminal pair or a second type converter that converts a voltage within the second range applied to the second input/output terminal pair into a voltage within the first range and outputs the voltage from the first input/output terminal pair, as a device that performs a specific state transition of the DC/DC converter (10) after a change rate of a magnitude of a current flowing through a winding of a primary or secondary side of a transformer (TR) with respect to time reaches a value within a predetermined change rate range.
US10230304B2
System and method for regulating a power conversion system. An example system controller for regulating a power conversion system includes a signal generator and a driving component. The signal generator is configured to receive a feedback signal associated with an output signal of a power conversion system and a current sensing signal associated with a primary current flowing through a primary winding of the power conversion system and generate a modulation signal based on at least information associated with the feedback signal and the current sensing signal. The driving component is configured to receive the modulation signal and output a drive signal to a switch based on at least information associated with the modulation signal.
US10230292B2
A magnet machine may translate or rotate with one element stationary and another element moving. One element has mounted thereon a plurality of magnets arranged in a sequenced array extensive in the direction of operation, the magnets fixed with N-pole magnet faces opposing S-pole magnet faces across gaps between the magnets, and side faces arranged in a plane. A second element has a single or integrated magnet mounted with one pole face positioned parallel to, and gapped apart from the plane of the plurality of magnets. This pole face is disrupted by an array of spaced apart grooves. The direction of motion is in the plane. A solenoid may be mounted within one or more of the grooves so provide a staring force or a braking force to the moving element.
US10230291B2
In a method for producing stacks of laminations, in which at least one adhesive is applied onto annular laminations with at least one application head and laminations are stacked into a stack of laminations, the lamination is rotated about its axis in the application area of the application head and/or the application head is moved about the axis of the lamination in order to apply the adhesive onto the lamination. A system for carrying out the method features at least one punching tool, with which laminations are punched out of a sheet metal material, wherein at least one station for cleaning and/or for activating and/or for applying an adhesive onto the laminations is arranged downstream of the punching tool.
US10230290B2
A fluid circulating assembly includes a fan impeller having an inlet ring and a rear plate that together define a central fan chamber. The fluid circulating assembly also includes an electrical machine having a rotor assembly, a stator assembly, and a housing. The rotor assembly is attached to the fan impeller rear plate such that the electrical machine is located entirely outside the central fan chamber. The housing includes an annular center section and at least two extension portions extending radially outward from the annular center section.
US10230284B2
An electric motor assembly includes a rotor, a stator, and a gear assembly. The gear assembly includes a drive gear, a ring gear, and an intermediate gear disposed between and engaging each of the drive gear and the ring gear. The gear assembly further includes a carrier supporting the intermediate gear and being fixed relative to the stator so as to be stationary relative thereto. The ring gear is rotatable relative to the carrier and the stator.
US10230283B2
A adapter for coupling a cable to a motor in a hygienic environment is provided. The hygienic adapter is non-rotatably coupled to and hygienically seals an opening of the motor housing, the hygienic adapter including a port adapted to receive the power supply cable connector such that the connector and cable are oriented parallel to the longitudinal surface of the housing and the connector is accessible to the electrical leads.
US10230282B2
A motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and a bobbin. The bobbin includes upper and lower bobbins covering the stator core from two axial ends. The upper and lower bobbins each include an end face and a side portion. The two end faces overlap two axial ends of the stator core. The side portions are aslant relative to the axial direction of the stator core. Ends of the upper and lower bobbins connected to the end faces form tight fit with the stator core, and the other ends away from the end faces form loose fit with the stator core.
US10230281B2
The present invention facilitates size and weight reduction by enhancing a coil space factor. A rotating electrical machine according to the present invention is provided with a core having a slot that is continuous in the axial direction, a winding provided within the slot, and an insulating member provided between the slot and the winding and is characterized in that a first pyramid-frustum surface of the insulating member that is provided on the side of the insulating member that is inserted into the slot and/or a second pyramid-frustum surface that is provided on the side of the insulating member into which the winding is inserted is provided at an axial end of the core.
US10230280B2
A rotating electric machine includes: a stator 11 including a plurality of salient poles 13, and a plurality sets of three windings 31 for three phases wound around the plurality of salient poles 13, and a rotor 21. Lines 31a from one ends of the windings 31 for each of the three phases are connected in parallel, and lines 31b from the other ends of the windings 31 of each of the plurality of sets are connected at a neutral point. The number of turns of the winding 31 around a first area on each of the salient poles 13 is less than the number of turns of the winding 31 around a second area on the salient pole 13. The neutral points are arranged on one side of the windings 31 to follow the periphery of the stator 11.
US10230250B2
A charging apparatus comprises a charge control unit. The charge control unit charges a secondary battery at a first current value until the voltage of the secondary battery reaches a predetermined first voltage value. The charge control unit, on detecting that the voltage has reached the first voltage value, performs control to charge the secondary battery at a second current value that is lower than the first current value, until a predetermined second voltage value is reached.
US10230242B2
In the present legacy electrical power generation and distribution system, the power quality delivered to end consumers is being degraded by a number of disruptive technologies and legislative impacts; especially with the rapidly increasing myriad of privately owned and operated domestic and commercial distributed energy generation (DEG) devices connected at any point across a low voltage (LV) distribution network. The present invention bypasses this increasing critical DEG problem by offering a solution comprising an energy processing unit (EPU) that is installed at the customer's electrical power point of use (POU). And because of the controlled tightly voltage regulated output of the EPU, significant energy savings can be achieved through dynamic voltage control, utilizing the CVR effect, reduced reactive power demand, and reduced or eliminated peak demand billings.
US10230234B2
This invention describes a method and an electrical circuit for controlling the closing of a three-phase circuit breaker with simultaneous pole operation to mitigate the inrush current resulting from power transformer energization by taking into account the residual magnetic flux in the transformer's magnetic core. It is disclosed a method to perform controlled switching on transformer and therefore mitigate the inrush current. It is disclosed that this method can be applied to any configuration of transformers which can be, but not limited to, Y-Δ, Y-Y, Δ-Δ and Δ-Y with either floating or grounded neutral.
US10230230B2
A sealing unit (120) includes opposing sealing blocks (122) that are biased together. Each sealing block (122) includes a volume of sealant (124) contained between two containment wall sections (125). Each containment wall section (125) defines a plurality of notches (127) of various sizes. The notches (127) of the containment wall sections (125) of each sealing block (122) align with each other to define cable passages across the sealant (124). The sealing blocks (122) can be rotated to mate similarly sized notches (127) to define a cable port (126) leading to a sealing interface between the volumes of sealant (124). An inner diameter of the cable port (126) can be selected based on selecting which notches (127) to mate.
US10230229B2
An electrical floor box assembly includes a box having a bottom wall, a plurality of side walls and a top portion having an opening at a top end thereof for providing access to the electrical box. An adapter has an open top end, an open bottom end and a passage extending between the top end and bottom end. The adapter has an outer dimension complementing a dimension of the opening in the electrical box and is received in the opening for movement between a retracted position and an extended position within the opening. The electrical box and adapter are configured for coupling and fixing the axial movement of the adapter with respect to the electrical box by rotation of the adapter to a locking position. In one embodiment, the electrical box and the adapter have interlocking teeth that mate with each other to prevent axial movement of the adapter. A locking member is provided to fix the position of the adapter relative to the electrical box to prevent rotation of the adapter.
US10230226B1
A network interface device includes a housing. The housing includes a base and a cover, the cover connected to the base and movable relative to the base between an open position and a closed position. The network interface device further includes an insert removably connectable to the base. The insert includes a base plate, and an adapter plate extending from the base plate and defining a subscriber section of the insert and a provider section of the insert. The subscriber section and provider section are opposite each other relative to the adapter plate. The adapter plate defines one or more adapter apertures extending therethrough. The insert further includes an organizer arm which includes a support member, an upper portion extending from the support member, and a lower portion extending from the support member opposite the upper portion.
US10230220B2
A motor control unit (MCU) and methods of operating the same are provided. The MCU includes a housing enclosing a retractable stab assembly (RSA) having stabs attached thereto. The MCU further includes a bracket assembly having a mount for securing the bracket assembly to the RSA, guiderails for slideably engaging the RSA to facilitate the extending and retracting motion, and a lead screw accessible via an opening in the front of the housing. Rotating the lead screw causes the RSA to extend and retract which engages and disengages the stabs. The MCU also includes a motor assembly having a drive motor coupled to a drive shaft. The motor rotates the shaft in response to control signals from a remote-device. The motor assembly attaches to the housing such that the rotation of the shaft in response to the signals rotates the lead screw to engage and disengage the stabs.
US10230219B2
A storage module in which a plurality of storage elements are electrically connected by bus bars includes: a temperature sensor which contacts a surface of the storage element and detects a temperature of the storage element; a pressing member which presses the temperature sensor to the storage element; and a regulation member which regulates a movement of the temperature sensor in a direction orthogonal to a pressing direction of the pressing member.
US10230217B2
A semiconductor laser diode (LD) having an optical grating is disclosed. The LD includes a lower cladding layer that buries the optical grating, an active layer, and an upper cladding layer. The active layer has a multi-quantum well (MQW) structure of barrier layers and well layers alternately arranged. The MQW structure further includes intermediate layers between the barrier layers and the well layers. The intermediate layers have a lattice constant between that of the barrier layers and that of the well layers. Each intermediate layer has a thickness thinner than 1 nm.
US10230212B1
Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for preventing laser kink failures. A laser diode device can include one or more laser diodes configured to emit electromagnetic radiation coherently. The laser diode device can also include one or more submounts upon which the one or more laser diodes are mounted. The one or more submounts can include one or more through vias including one or more fill materials different from a material of the one or more submounts. Further, one or more properties of the one or more through vias in the one or more submounts can be selected to reduce an amount of mismatch between an effective coefficient of thermal expansion of the one or more laser diodes and an effective coefficient of thermal expansion of the one or more submounts.
US10230210B2
A semiconductor laser tuned with an acousto-optic modulator. The acousto-optic modulator may generate standing waves or traveling waves. When traveling waves are used, a second acousto-optic modulator may be used in a reverse orientation to cancel out a chirp created in the first acousto-optic modulator. The acousto-optic modulator may be used with standing-wave laser resonators or ring lasers.
US10230209B2
A laser control device includes: an averaging circuit that applies a primary delay filter to an actual instantaneous value; a data processing unit that applies a primary delay filter to an actual average value H, thereby calculating an actual average value S; a reference value generation unit that generates an reference value; and an output reduction determination unit that determines output reduction. In a case in which pulse on time in the output command value exceeds a sum of the processing period and start-up time of a power supply, if the actual instantaneous value falls below the reference value, it is determined that an output is reduced; and in a case in which the pulse on time is equal to or less than the sum, if the actual average value S falls below the reference value, it is determined that an output is reduced.
US10230206B2
An implantable medical device includes a housing and a header mounted to the housing, the header including a header body having a bore with an electrical contact located within the bore, wherein the electrical contact includes a helical coil spring having an axial bore, wherein the axial bore of the helical coil spring is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the bore.
US10230203B2
A cable tray assembly includes a first shell that defines a hollow interior and a second shell that defines a hollow interior, wherein one of the shells is partially inserted into the other shell so that the two hollow interiors are in communication. The shells each include a face that that is opposite the face on the other shell and the faces support a plurality of connectors. An adjustment system helps control the distance between the two faces so that the cable tray can connect two row of connectors that are a distance apart where the distance is variable.
US10230200B1
A cord retractor for selectively retracting or extending an electrical cord includes a casing having a casing body and a casing lid carried by the casing body. The casing lid is selectively deployable between closed and open positions. A first cord aperture and a second cord aperture are formed in the casing. A rotatable drum is arranged inside the casing. A coil spring engages the drum for rotation. An electrical cord can be wound on the cord drum and selectively extended from the casing through the second cord aperture as the coil spring resists rotation of the cord drum and tends to retract the cord into the casing.
US10230194B2
A protective cap is used when a male inner housing to which male terminals and electric wires are attached is passed through a bellows-shaped tubular portion of a grommet. A male outer housing mounted on an annular seal portion of the grommet and the male inner housing accommodated in the male outer housing in a state where the male inner housing accommodates and holds the male terminals connected to the electric wires constitutes the connector. The protective cap includes a circular cap main body having an accommodating recess that accommodates tab portions of the male terminals protruding more than a front face of the male inner housing, at least a front side of the male inner housing being fitted into the accommodating recess. An outer diameter of the cap main body is smaller than an inner diameter of the bellows-shaped tubular portion.
US10230191B2
A high-current electrical connector includes a female electrical-terminal and a contact-spring. The female electrical-terminal is configured to receive a male electrical-terminal and is formed of a single piece of electrically conductive material. The female electrical-terminal has a first-sidewall and a second-sidewall. The second-sidewall defines a distal-end, a proximal-end, and a medial-zone. The first-sidewall is opposite and parallel to the distal-end of the second-sidewall. The contact-spring is formed of a single piece of electrically conductive material disposed intermediate to the first-sidewall and the second-sidewall. The contact-spring defines a plurality of opposed-pair contact-beams. Each of the opposed-pair contact-beams have a plurality of outer-contact-points and a plurality of inner-contact-points. The plurality of outer-contact-points are in contact with the female electrical-terminal, and the plurality of inner-contact-points contact opposed sides of the male electrical-terminal. Contact is formed between the contact-beam, the female electrical-terminal, and the male electrical-terminal in at least four separate locations.
US10230190B2
A contact terminal is assembled from parts including a base part and a sleeve. The base part has a plurality of contact tongues aligned along a mating axis and configured to contact a male connector pin by contact surfaces on the plurality of contact tongues. The sleeve is configured to be arranged at least partially over the base part, the sleeve having a spring element. The spring element is configured to contact the plurality of contact tongues on a side opposite to the contact surfaces side. The spring element comprises a first arm, a second arm, and a flexible support structure therebetween. The first arm and the second arm protrude from the sleeve along the mating axis inside the sleeve. The flexible support structure undulates from the first arm to the second arm.
US10230184B1
An electrical contact for insertion into a hole of a substrate. The electrical contact includes a compliant portion having an opening extending between contact arms. At least one contact arm of the contact arms has a resilient engagement section which extends into the opening of the compliant portion and resilient contacting sections which extend from the engagement section in a direction away from the opening. Upon insertion of the compliant portion into the hole of the substrate, the resilient engagement section of the at least one contact arm engages an opposed contact arm of the contact arms, causing each of the resilient contacting sections to move independently of the resilient engagement section and other resilient contacting sections. Each of the resilient engagement section and the resilient contacting sections are deformed and generate independent retention forces which are combined to generate the total retention force of the compliant portion.
US10230183B2
The invention relates to an electric interface, in particular an interposer, having a first connection plane with at least one first contact surface pair, each of which has a first and second contact surface, and a second connection plane with at least one second contact surface pair, each of which has a third and a fourth contact surface. For each of a first and second contact surface pair, a first electric connection electrically connects the first contact surface of the first connection plane to the third contact surface of the second connection plane, and a second electric connection electrically connects the second contact surface of the first connection plane to the fourth contact surface of the second connection plane. The first electric connection between the first and third contact surface has a specified first geometric length, and the second electric connection between the second and fourth contact surface has a specified second geometric length, the first and second geometric length being different.
US10230180B2
A connecting component material used as a material constituting a connecting component, wherein the connecting component material is obtained by using a Ni-plated metal plate in which a Ni plating layer is formed on the surface of a metal plate, and the average depth (R) of a surface roughness motif in at least one direction on the surface of the Ni plating layer is 1.0 μm or above, and by forming a Sn plating layer having a thickness of 0.3 to 5 μm on the Ni plating layer of the Ni-plated metal plate; the connection component material makes it possible to reduce friction and minimize abrasion of the material when a connecting component such as an electrical connection terminal is fitted, and to improve the reliability of a stable electrical connection; and the connecting component material can be used in e.g., electrical contact components such as lead frames, harness plugs, and connectors used in electrical and electronic devices and the like.
US10230170B1
A metal lens is provided for length compacting a horn antenna across a frequency bandwidth. The metal lens includes a feed guide segment having an input cross-section, an intermediate segment, and an exit segment. The feed guide segment receives a signal from the horn antenna along a carry direction; an intermediate segment that expands from the input cross-section laterally to the carry direction. The intermediate segment incorporates an intermediate split vane perpendicular to the carry direction to divide the signal along the carry direction. The exit segment incorporates a plurality of terminating split vanes lateral to the carry direction for transmitting the output signals.
US10230163B2
A method including receiving a monopulse transmission by a monopulse antenna determining an angle of arrival of the monopulse transmission, using processing circuitry operably coupled to the monopulse antenna, determining, using the processing circuitry, an angle error for a high gain antenna based on the angle of arrival of the monopulse transmission, and causing the positioning of the high gain antenna based on the angle error.
US10230159B2
Embodiments include an antenna assembly for a wireless microphone, comprising a helical antenna including a feed point and at least one contact pin coupling the feed point to the wireless microphone. The helical antenna is configured for operation in first and second frequency bands. Embodiments also include a wireless microphone comprising a main body having top and bottom ends and an antenna assembly coupled to the bottom end. The antenna assembly comprises a helical antenna configured to transmit and receive wireless signals, an inner core configured to support the helical antenna on an outer surface of the inner core, and an outer shell formed over the inner core and the helical antenna. Embodiments further include a method of manufacturing an antenna assembly for a wireless microphone using a first manufacturing process to form a core unit of the antenna assembly and a second manufacturing process to form an overmold.
US10230155B2
An antenna structure includes a metallic member. The metallic member includes a front frame, a backboard, and a side frame. The side frame defines a slot. The front frame defines a first gap and a second gap. The front frame between the first gap and the second gap forms a radiating section. Current enters the radiating section from the first feed portion, the current flows through the radiating section and towards the first gap and the first radiating portion, thus activating radiating signals in a first frequency band; the current flows through the radiating section and towards the first ground portion, thus activating radiating signals in a second frequency band; the current flows through the radiating section and towards the second gap and the second radiating portion, thus activating radiation signals in a third different frequency band. A wireless communication device using the antenna structure is provided.
US10230152B2
An electronic package is provided, which includes: a substrate; at least an electronic element disposed on the substrate; an antenna structure disposed on the substrate; and an encapsulant formed on the substrate for encapsulating the electronic element and the antenna structure. Therein, the antenna structure has an extension portion and a plurality of support portions connected to the extension portion for supporting the extension portion over the substrate so as to save the surface area of the substrate, thereby meeting the miniaturization requirement of the electronic package.
US10230139B2
A temperature control apparatus for an energy storage system, which includes a battery module, a temperature sensor and an HVAC system, includes a first communication unit configured to receive first temperature information indicating a temperature of the battery module from a battery management system combined with the battery module; a second communication unit configured to receive from the temperature sensor second temperature information indicating a temperature measured by the temperature sensor; and a control unit connected with the first communication unit and the second communication unit. The control unit controls the HVAC system based on the first temperature information while the first temperature information is being received normally, estimates the first temperature information based on the second temperature information while the first temperature information is not being received normally and the second temperature information is being received normally, and controls the HVAC system based on the estimated first temperature information.
US10230138B2
The invention relates to a device and method for maintaining a battery at an operating temperature. Said device for maintaining a first battery at an operating temperature is characterized in that it comprises: a heating circuit (140) capable of heating the first battery; and a monitoring circuit (200) connected to the heating circuit, the monitoring circuit being capable of controlling the operation of the heating circuit according to predetermined programming.
US10230136B2
A monitoring sensor for a sealed secondary battery 1 including a sealed outer casing 21 and an electrode group 22 accommodated in the inside of the sealed outer casing 21, including a polymer matrix layer 3 that is disposed in the inside of the outer casing 21 and a detection unit 4 that is disposed on the outside of the outer casing 21, wherein the polymer matrix layer 3 contains a filler that is dispersed therein and that changes an external field in accordance with deformation of the polymer matrix layer 3, and the detection unit 4 detects change in the external field.
US10230131B2
The present invention relates in a first aspect to a method for producing in the interior of a production equipment a dehydrated liquid mixture for use as a solvent for a conducting salt (e.g. LiPF6) wherein after cleaning the equipment with isopropyl alcohol and providing or preparing a liquid starting mixture in said interior of the production equipment both the isopropyl alcohol content in the mixture and the water content in the mixture is reduced by interaction with a zeolite molecular sieve.
US10230127B2
A fuel cell stack which is amenable to simple manufacturing processes and is thermally and mechanically compliant. The fuel cell stack reduces the number of components by combing fuel cell tubes to form tube sub-assemblies, the tube sub-assemblies comprising end fittings connected to the fuel cell tubes, the end fittings provided with at least one or preferably a plurality of channels to provide equal distribution of fuel throughout the fuel cell tubes.
US10230126B2
A fuel cell stack assembly (101) comprising a fuel cell stack (102) comprising one or more fuel cells and a retaining member (100) comprising a first engaging region (104) that engages a first end face (110) of the fuel cell stack (102), a second engaging region (106) that engages a second opposing end face (112) of the fuel cell stack (102, and a joining region (108) configured to bias the first engaging region (104) towards the second engaging region (106). The retaining member (106) defines a fluid chamber (118) for communicating a fluid to or from the fuel cell stack (102).
US10230118B2
A method for controlling a fuel cell system including a fuel cell, includes measuring an impedance of the fuel cell that includes a solid polymer electrolyte membrane to generate electric power via an electrochemical reaction between a fuel gas and an oxidant gas. An output electric current output from the fuel cell is increased to a threshold electric current value when the impedance is equal to or higher than a threshold impedance value and a target electric current value is larger than the threshold electric current value. The output electric current is maintained at the threshold electric current value. The output electric current is increased from the threshold electric current value to the target electric current value.
US10230117B2
A bipolar plate for a fuel cell, having an anode side and a cathode side. The bipolar plate has two inactive supply regions, having anode gas channels which are each connected to one of two anode gas main channels and an anode gas flow field of an active region; cathode gas channels which are each connected to one of two cathode gas main channels and a cathode gas flow field of the active region; and coolant channels which are each connected to one of two coolant main channels and a coolant flow field of the active region. At least one of the anode gas main channels and the anode gas channels of the supply region connected thereto are arranged so that a length difference between a longest and a shortest anode gas channel of this supply region is at most 50% of the length of the longest anode gas channel.
US10230111B2
The present invention relates to preparation of a highly dispersible graphene powder. Further, the present invention includes providing an electrode for a lithium ion battery having good output characteristics and cycle characteristics by utilizing a highly dispersible graphene powder. The present invention also includes providing a graphene powder having a specific surface area of 80 m2/g or more to 250 m2/g or less as measured by BET measurement, and an oxygen-to-carbon element ratio of 0.09 or more to 0.30 or less as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
US10230109B1
An electrical or electrochemical cell, including a cathode layer, an electrolyte layer, and an anode layer is disclosed. The cathode layer includes a first material providing a cathodic electric transport, charge storage or redox function. The electrolyte layer includes a polymer, a first electrolyte salt, and/or an ionic liquid. The anode layer includes a second material providing an anodic electric transport, charge storage or redox function. At least one of the cathode and anode layers includes the ionic liquid, a second electrolyte salt, and/or a transport-enhancing additive.
US10230107B2
Method of manufacturing cathode active material and cathode active material manufactured by the same
Disclosed are a method of manufacturing a cathode active material and a cathode active material manufactured by the same, and more particularly, a cathode active material which is rinsed by a compound including thiol group, includes residual sulfur on a surface, and has decreased residual lithium and a method of manufacturing the same.
US10230104B2
A cathode active material contains a compound represented by composition formula (1): LixNay{LiαNaβMn(1−α−β−z)Az}O2. In the formula, A represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Fe, and Al, and the following conditions are met: 0.75≤x≤1.0, 0
US10230099B2
In a battery production process, a positive electrode active material having a reaction-suppressing layer that does not easily peel off formed on the surface thereof, and a positive electrode and an all-solid-state battery that use said material are provided. The present invention involves positive electrode active material particles for an all-solid-state battery containing sulfide-based solid electrolyte. The positive electrode active material particles are an aggregate containing two or more particles. The surface of the aggregate is coated with a reaction-suppressing layer for suppressing reactions with the sulfide-based solid electrolyte.
US10230098B2
An active material for a battery includes a mixed phase includes a lithium titanium composite oxide phase and a nonstoichiometric titanium oxide phase. This active material is excellent in lithium absorption/desorption performance, exhibiting high electric potentials in lithium absorption/desorption and high conductivity.
US10230092B2
Disclosed is a secondary battery that may include an electrode assembly; a case to accommodate the electrode assembly; a cap plate to seal the case; and at least one electrode terminal connected to the electrode assembly and passing through the cap plate, wherein the electrode terminal includes a terminal plate positioned on the cap plate and a terminal pin passing through the cap plate and the terminal plate, the terminal plate includes at least two rivet grooves having a predetermined depth from a top surface of the terminal plate, and the terminal pin includes at least two stepped portions protruding from a side surface of the terminal pin to correspond to the at least two rivet grooves.
US10230091B2
A battery includes an electrode assembly; a positive electrode tab and a negative electrode tab both extending from the electrode assembly; an insulation spacer having openings through which the positive and negative electrode tabs extend, and a positive electrode lead and a negative electrode lead coupled to the respective positive and negative electrode tabs in the insulation spacer, wherein each opening has a first opening and a second opening, and wherein the first opening is at a lower region of the insulation spacer and the second opening is at a side region of the insulation spacer.
US10230086B2
The present invention provides an inexpensive separator having excellent heat resistance and causing no contraction even in a high temperature circumstance nor short circuit while maintaining a high porosity. This separator is characterized in that the flat surfaces of scaly particles are oriented in the extending direction of the surface of the separator, the scaly particles being arranged in layers in the thickness direction of the separator, and fibrous materials are interposed among the scaly particles.
US10230069B2
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes providing a substrate, forming a display unit defining an opening portion in a display region over the substrate, forming a thin film encapsulation layer to seal the display unit, forming a touch electrode over the thin film encapsulation layer, forming a touch insulating film covering the touch electrode such that the thin film encapsulation layer and the touch insulating film are sequentially stacked and formed over the substrate in the opening portion, forming a touch contact hole by removing a portion of the touch insulating film to expose a portion of the touch electrode, and removing a portion of the touch insulating film and a portion of the thin film encapsulation layer formed in the opening portion to expose a portion of the substrate during the forming of the touch contact hole.
US10230059B2
An organic compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an organic thin film, a thin film transistor, and an electronic device includes the organic compound.
US10230054B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes a first compound and a second compound. The organic light-emitting device may have a high efficiency and long lifespan.
US10230052B2
A highly efficient light-emitting element capable of providing a plurality of emission colors is provided, which does not easily deteriorate and can minimize a decrease in external quantum efficiency even when a light-emitting layer has a stacked structure. A light-emitting device, an electronic device, and a lighting device which have low power consumption and long lifetime are provided. A light-emitting element includes a plurality of light-emitting layers stacked between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting layers each contain a host material and a guest material. The guest materials of the light-emitting layers are substances which have different HOMO levels but have substantially the same LUMO levels and emit light of different colors. A light-emitting device, an electronic device, and a lighting device are fabricated using the light-emitting element.
US10230049B2
Provided herein are perovskite-polymer films, methods of forming polymer-perovskite films, and devices including polymer-perovskite films. The polymer-perovskite films may include a plurality of methylammonium lead chloride (CH3NH3PbCl3) nanopillar crystals embedded in a polymer matrix. The devices can be optoelectronic devices, such as light emitting diodes, which include polymer-perovskite films. The polymer-perovskite films of the devices can be hole transport layers in the devices. The methods of making films may include spin casting a precursor solution followed by thermal annealing.
US10230048B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) structure includes an organic light-emitting diode having a first electrode, one or more layers of organic material disposed on at least a portion of the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on at least a portion of the one or more layers of organic material. At least a portion of a tether extending from a periphery of the organic light-emitting diode. The organic light-emitting diodes can be printable organic light-emitting diode structures that are micro transfer printed over a display substrate to form a display.
US10230040B2
The present invention generally relates to high frequency piezoelectric crystal composites, devices, and method for manufacturing the same. In adaptive embodiments an improved imaging device, particularly a medical imaging device or a distance imaging device, for high frequency (>20 MHz) applications involving an imaging transducer assembly is coupled to a signal imagery processor. Additionally, the proposed invention presents a system for photolithography based micro-machined piezoelectric crystal composites and their uses resulting in improved performance parameters.
US10230038B2
A technique relates to a superconducting device. A first mixing device has a first mixing port and a second mixing port. A second mixing device has another first mixing port and another second mixing port. The first and second mixing devices are superconducting nondegenerate three-wave mixing devices. The first mixing port and the another first mixing port are configured to couple to a first coupler. The second mixing port and the another second mixing port are configured to couple to a second coupler.
US10230034B2
A light emitting device (100) includes a base member (101), electrically conductive members (102a, 102b) disposed on the base member (101), a light emitting element (104) mounted on the electrically conductive members (102a, 102b), an insulating filler (114) covering at least a portion of surfaces of the electrically conductive members (102a, 102b) where the light emitting element (104) is not mounted, and a light transmissive member (108) covering the light emitting element (104).
US10230024B2
A method of producing an optoelectronic component including a conversion element includes: A) providing a layer sequence having an active layer, wherein the active layer is configured to emit electromagnetic primary radiation; B) providing quantum dots, wherein the quantum dots are functionalized with an organic group and/or the quantum dots dissolved or dispersed in a first solvent and/or are present as a powder; C*) providing a mixture including a precursor of an inorganic matrix material and of a second solvent; D) mixing the mixture obtained in step C*) with the quantum dots of step B); E) drying the mixture; and F) sintering the mixture to form the conversion element.
US10230022B2
A lighting apparatus is presented. The lighting apparatus includes a semiconductor light source, a color stable Mn4+ doped phosphor and a quantum dot material, each of the color stable Mn4+ doped phosphor and the quantum dot material being radiationally coupled to the semiconductor light source. A percentage intensity loss of the color stable Mn4+ doped phosphor after exposure to a light flux of at least 20 w/cm2 at a temperature of at least 50 degrees Celsius for at least 21 hours is ≤4%. A backlight device including the lighting apparatus is also presented.
US10230020B2
Light emitting devices and methods for their manufacture are provided. According to one aspect, a light emitting device is provided that comprises a substrate having a recess, and an interlayer dielectric layer located on the substrate. The interlayer dielectric layer may have a first hole and a second hole, the first hole opening over the recess of the substrate. The light emitting device may further include first and second micro LEDs, the first micro LED having a thickness greater than the second micro LED. The first micro LED and the second micro LED may be placed in the first hole and the second hole, respectively.
US10230012B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for light collection and conversion to electricity are disclosed herein. The disclosed method involves receiving, by at least one concentrating element (e.g., a lens), light from at least one light source, where the light comprises direct light and diffuse light. The method further involves focusing, by at least one concentrating element, the direct light onto at least one concentrator photovoltaic cell. Also, the method involves passing, by at least one concentrating element, the diffuse light onto at least one solar cell of an array of solar cells arranged on a flat plate, where at least one concentrator photovoltaic cell is bonded on top of at least one of the solar cells in the array. In addition, the method involves collecting, by at least one concentrator photovoltaic cell, the direct light. Further, the method involves collecting, by at least one solar cell, the diffuse light.
US10230010B2
A photovoltaic device and method include forming a plurality of pillar structures in a substrate, forming a first electrode layer on the pillar structures and forming a continuous photovoltaic stack including an N-type layer, a P-type layer and an intrinsic layer on the first electrode. A second electrode layer is deposited over the photovoltaic stack such that gaps or fissures occur in the second electrode layer between the pillar structures. The second electrode layer is wet etched to open up the gaps or fissures and reduce the second electrode layer to form a three-dimensional electrode of substantially uniform thickness over the photovoltaic stack.
US10230009B2
A solar cell can include a silicon semiconductor substrate having a first conductive type; a oxide layer on a first surface of the silicon semiconductor substrate; a polysilicon layer on the oxide layer and having the first conductive type; an emitter region at a second surface of the silicon semiconductor substrate opposite to the first surface and having a second conductive type opposite to the first conductive type; a first passivation film on the polysilicon layer; a first electrode connected to the polysilicon layer through an opening formed in the first passivation film; a second passivation film on the emitter region; and a second electrode connected to the emitter region through an opening formed in the second passivation film.
US10230004B2
The present disclosure provides a TFT, an array substrate and a fabricating method thereof and a display device. The TFT includes a gate, an active layer, a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode is arranged at one side of the active layer, the second electrode is arranged at the other side of the active layer, the first electrode, the active layer and the second electrode forms a stacked structure, the gate is arranged to surround the stacked structure, and the gate and the stacked structure are insulated and separated from each other. Under fixed occupation area, the conductive channel of the TFT of the present disclosure has increased width, so drain current in saturation region is increased without impacting aperture ratio of a display panel, which further optimizes performance of the TFT and the array substrate, and improves display effect of the display device.
US10230003B2
A method of evaluating a thin-film transistor (TFT) which is disposed on a substrate, and includes at least: an oxide semiconductor layer which functions as a channel layer; and a channel protection layer disposed above the oxide semiconductor layer. The method includes: measuring a change in a reflectance of a microwave emitted to the oxide semiconductor layer while the oxide semiconductor layer is irradiated with excitation light by pulse irradiation; calculating a decay period which is a period of time taken for the reflectance to decay to 1/e or 1/e2, based on the change in the reflectance obtained in the measuring; and performing determination related to a threshold voltage of the oxide semiconductor layer, based on the decay period calculated in the calculating.
US10230001B2
Disclosed are a field effect transistor and method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The field effect transistor includes: a source and a drain which are spaced apart from each other; a semi-conductor layer arranged between the source and the drain; a first gate layer located on a side of the semi-conductor layer; and a second gate layer located on the other side of the semi-conductor layer. The field effect transistor provided by the present disclosure is less energy-consuming; a method for manufacturing the same is low costing; and a display device using the same is also less energy-consuming.
US10229997B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming high mobility NMOS fin-based transistors having an indium-rich channel region electrically isolated from the sub-fin by an aluminum-containing layer. The aluminum aluminum-containing layer may be provisioned within an indium-containing layer that includes the indium-rich channel region, or may be provisioned between the indium-containing layer and the sub-fin. The indium concentration of the indium-containing layer may be graded from an indium-poor concentration near the aluminum-containing barrier layer to an indium-rich concentration at the indium-rich channel layer. The indium-rich channel layer is at or otherwise proximate to the top of the fin, according to some example embodiments. The grading can be intentional and/or due to the effect of reorganization of atoms at the interface of indium-rich channel layer and the aluminum-containing barrier layer. Numerous variations and embodiments will be appreciated in light of this disclosure.
US10229995B2
A method of fabricating a fin structure with tensile stress includes providing a structure divided into an N-type transistor region and a P-type transistor region. Next, two first trenches and two second trenches are formed in the substrate. The first trenches define a fin structure. The second trenches segment the first trenches and the fin. Later, a flowable chemical vapor deposition is performed to form a silicon oxide layer filling the first trenches and the second trenches. Then, a patterned mask is formed only within the N-type transistor region. The patterned mask only covers the silicon oxide layer in the second trenches. Subsequently, part of the silicon oxide layer is removed to make the exposed silicon oxide layer lower than the top surface of the fin structure by taking the patterned mask as a mask. Finally, the patterned mask is removed.
US10229985B1
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes patterning two or more fins over a top surface of a bottom source/drain layer, the bottom source/drain layer disposed over a substrate. The method also includes forming bottom spacers disposed over the top surface of the bottom source/drain layer between the two or more fins, the bottom spacers having a uniform height on sidewalls of the two or more fins. The bottom spacers comprise dielectric regions disposed adjacent the sidewalls of the two or more fins and at least partially filling divots in the bottom source/drain regions, and liner regions disposed adjacent the dielectric regions. The two or more fins comprise channels for a vertical field-effect transistor (VFET) device.
US10229982B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate disposed over a substrate; a source region and a drain region on opposing sides of the gate; and a pair of trench contacts over and abutting an interfacial layer portion of at least one of the source region and the drain region; wherein the interfacial layer includes boron in an amount in a range from about 5×1021 to about 5×1022 atoms/cm2.
US10229978B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an active layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a p-type doped layer, a gate electrode, a passivation layer, and a field plate. The active layer is disposed on the substrate. The source electrode, the drain electrode and the p-type doped layer are disposed on the active layer. The p-type doped layer is disposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and has a first thickness. The gate electrode is disposed on the p-type doped layer. The passivation layer covers the gate electrode and the active layer. The field plate is disposed on the passivation layer and is electrically connected to the source electrode. The field plate includes a field dispersion portion disposed between the gate electrode and the drain electrode. The passivation layer between the field dispersion portion and the active layer has a second thickness smaller than the first thickness.
US10229973B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, having a first principal surface and a second principal surface, a silicon carbide semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, disposed on the first principal surface, a first electrode disposed on the silicon carbide semiconductor layer, and a second electrode disposed on the second principal surface and forming an ohmic junction with the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device satisfies 0.13≤Rc/Rd, where Rc is the contact resistance between the second principal surface and the second electrode at room temperature and Rd is the resistance of the silicon carbide semiconductor layer in a direction normal to the first principal surface at room temperature.
US10229969B2
A protective diffusion region includes a first protective diffusion region at a location closest to a termination region, and a second protective diffusion region located away from the first protective diffusion region with a first space therebetween. A second space that is a distance between a termination diffusion region and the first protective diffusion region is greater than the first space. A current diffusion layer of a first conductivity type includes a first current diffusion layer located between the first protective diffusion region and the second protective diffusion region and having a higher impurity concentration than a drift layer, and a second current diffusion layer located between the first protective diffusion region and the termination diffusion region. The second current diffusion layer includes a region having a lower impurity concentration than the current diffusion layer.
US10229966B2
Disclosed examples include a resistor comprising a semiconductor structure having a length dimension with first and second ends spaced from one another and an intermediate region between the first and second ends, first and second metal-semiconductor compound structures on the semiconductor structure proximate the first and second ends of the semiconductor structure, the first and second metal-semiconductor compound structures being spaced apart from each other along the length dimension of the semiconductor structure, and at least one intermediate metal-semiconductor compound structure on a portion of the intermediate region of the semiconductor structure between the first and second ends, the intermediate metal-semiconductor compound structure being spaced apart from the first and second metal-semiconductor compound structures on the semiconductor structure.
US10229958B2
Devices including organic and inorganic LEDs are provided. Techniques for fabricating the devices include fabricating an inorganic LED on a parent substrate and transferring the LED to a host substrate via a non-destructive ELO process. Scaling techniques are also provided, in which an elastomeric substrate is deformed to achieve a desired display size.
US10229954B2
An organic light-emitting device, including: a substrate including a blue sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, and a red sub-pixel, each blue sub-pixel, green sub-pixel, and red sub-pixel respectively including an anode, a first common layer, a second common layer, and a cathode, in the blue sub-pixel, a blue light-emitting layer between the first common layer and the second common layer, in the green sub-pixel, a green light-emitting layer between the first common layer and the second common layer, and in the red sub-pixel, a red light-emitting layer between the first common layer and the second common layer, wherein HOMO energy levels of the blue, green, and red light-emitting layers are each lower than a HOMO energy level of the first common layer, and wherein the HOMO energy level of the green light-emitting layer is 0.2 eV or more higher than the HOMO energy level of the blue light-emitting layer.
US10229953B2
A substrate of a transparent flexible display and an organic light-emitting diode display including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the substrate includes a first polymer film having a predetermined color and a second polymer film having an inverse opal structure formed on a surface of the first polymer film.
US10229951B2
A monolithic sensor for detecting infrared and visible light according to an example includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor layer coupled to the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor layer includes a device surface opposite the semiconductor substrate. A visible light photodiode is formed at the device surface. An infrared photodiode is also formed at the device surface and in proximity to the visible light photodiode. A textured region is coupled to the infrared photodiode and positioned to interact with electromagnetic radiation.
US10229950B2
An image sensor includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface, a first device isolation layer disposed in the substrate and defining a plurality of pixels in the substrate, and having a lower surface adjacent the first surface of the substrate and an upper surface adjacent the second surface of the substrate. Each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element, a floating diffusion region adjacent the first surface of the substrate, and a grid pattern on the second surface of the substrate. At least one of the grid patterns is not vertically aligned with the first device isolation layer.
US10229949B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower device and an upper device disposed on the lower device. The lower device includes a lower substrate, a lower plug pad disposed on the lower substrate, and a lower interlayer dielectric layer on the lower plug pad. The upper device includes an upper substrate, an etch-delay structure in a lower portion of the upper substrate, an upper plug pad disposed on a bottom surface of the upper substrate, an upper interlayer dielectric layer on the upper plug pad, and a via plug configured to penetrate the upper substrate and contact the upper plug pad and the lower plug pad. The via plug includes a first portion in contact with the upper plug pad and the first etch-delay structure, and a second portion in contact with the lower plug pad.
US10229944B2
An inventive solid-state imaging apparatus is provided which can improve the efficiency of the electric carrier transfer from a photoelectric conversion portion to an electric-carrier accumulation portion.The solid-state imaging apparatus includes an active region having the photoelectric conversion portion, the electric-carrier accumulation portion, and a floating diffusion, and an element isolation region having an insulator defining the active region. In planer view, the width of the active region in the electric-carrier accumulation portion under a gate of the first transfer transistor is larger than the width of the active region in the photoelectric conversion portion under the gate of the first transfer transistor.
US10229927B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower stack structure including lower gate electrodes and lower insulating layers that are alternately and repeatedly stacked on a substrate. The semiconductor device includes an upper stack structure including upper gate electrodes and upper insulating layers that are alternately and repeatedly stacked on the lower stack structure. A lower channel structure penetrates the lower stack structure. An upper channel structure penetrates and is connected to the upper stack structure. A lower vertical insulator is disposed between the lower stack structure and the lower channel structure. The lower channel structure includes a first vertical semiconductor pattern connected to the substrate, and a first connecting semiconductor pattern disposed on the first vertical semiconductor pattern. The upper channel structure includes a second vertical semiconductor pattern electrically connected to the first vertical semiconductor pattern with the first connecting semiconductor pattern disposed therebetween.
US10229922B2
A first conductive region having a second conductivity type is formed in a first semiconductor over a first dielectric isolation region and having a first conductivity type. A second semiconductor having the first conductivity type is formed over the first conductive region and the first semiconductor. Isolation structures are formed extending through the second semiconductor and the first semiconductor to the first dielectric isolation region, thereby defining a first well of the second semiconductor contained within the isolation structures and a second well of the first conductive region contained within the isolation structures. A charge-storage node is formed over the first well. Source/drain regions having the second conductivity type are formed in the first well adjacent the charge-storage node. A control gate is formed over the charge-storage node. A first contact is formed to the first well. A second contact is formed to the second well through the first well.
US10229917B2
A memory device includes six field effect transistors (FETs) formed with semiconductor nanowires arranged on a substrate in an orientation substantially perpendicular to the substrate. The semiconductor nanowires have bottom contacts, gate contacts separated in a direction perpendicular to the substrate from the bottom contacts, and top contacts separated in a direction perpendicular to the substrate from the gate contacts. The necessary connections are made among the bottom, gate, and top contacts to form the memory device using first, second, and third metallization layers, the first metallization layer being separated in a direction perpendicular to the substrate from the top contacts, the second metallization layer being separated in a direction perpendicular to the substrate from the first metallization layer, and the third metallization layer being separated in a direction perpendicular to the substrate from the second metallization layer. Vias connect the various contacts to the overlying metallization layers as necessary. A method for forming the memory device is also outlined.
US10229908B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of fins comprising a first fin, a second fin, a third fin, a fourth fin and a fifth fin, each of the plurality of protruding from the substrate in a first direction, and spaced apart from one another in a second direction that intersects the first direction and a plurality of trenches comprising a first trench, a second trench, a third trench and a fourth trench, each of the plurality of trenches being formed between adjacent fins of the plurality of fins, wherein variation of a first width of the first trench and a third width of the third trench is smaller than a first variation, wherein variation of a second width of the second trench and a fourth width of the fourth trench is smaller than a second variation, and wherein the second variation is greater than the first variation.
US10229903B2
In a semiconductor device including a resistance element, an electrostatic protection element, including a parasitic bipolar transistor having the resistance element as a component, is provided. That is, instead of providing a dedicated electrostatic protection element in a semiconductor device, a function as an electrostatic protection element is also achieved by using a resistance element provided in a semiconductor device.
US10229900B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory structure including a first integrated circuit chip and a plurality of second integrated circuit chips stacked on each other, the first integrated circuit chip is interposed between a pair of the plurality of second integrated circuit chips, an interface unit disposed on the first integrated circuit chip, the memory structure is connected to a third circuit through the interface unit, and the interface unit transfers operation signals to the first integrated circuit chip and the plurality of second integrated circuit chips, at least one inter-chip interconnector connected with the interface unit and the first integrated circuit chip and the plurality of second integrated circuit chips, and an external interconnector connected with the interface unit and the third circuit.
US10229899B2
A laser liftoff process is provided. A device layer can be provided on a transfer substrate. Channels can be formed through the device layer such that devices comprising remaining portions of the device layer are laterally isolated from one another by the channels. The transfer substrate can be bonded to a target substrate through an adhesion layer. Surface portions of the devices can be removed from an interface region between the transfer substrate and the devices by irradiating a laser beam through the transfer substrate onto the devices. The laser irradiation decomposes the III-V compound semiconductor material. The channels provide escape paths for the gaseous products (such as nitrogen gas) that are generated by the laser irradiation. The transfer substrate is separated from a bonded assembly including the target substrate and remaining portions of the devices. The devices can include a III-V compound semiconductor material.
US10229898B2
Package structures and methods are provided to integrate optoelectronic and CMOS devices using SOI semiconductor substrates for photonics applications. For example, a package structure includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip, and an optoelectronics device and interposer mounted to the IC chip. The IC chip includes a SOI substrate having a buried oxide layer, an active silicon layer disposed adjacent to the buried oxide layer, and a BEOL structure formed over the active silicon layer. An optical waveguide structure is patterned from the active silicon layer of the IC chip. The optoelectronics device is mounted on the buried oxide layer in alignment with a portion of the optical waveguide structure to enable direct or adiabatic coupling between the optoelectronics device and the optical waveguide structure. The interposer is bonded to the BEOL structure, and includes at least one substrate having conductive vias and wiring to provide electrical connections to the BEOL structure.
US10229897B2
Multi-layer semiconductor structure and methods for fabricating multi-layer semiconductor structures
A multi-layer semiconductor device (or structure) includes at least two semiconductor structures, each of the at least two semiconductor structures having first and second opposing surfaces. Additionally, each of the at least two semiconductor structures includes a first section having first and second opposing surfaces and a plurality of electrical connections extending between select portions of the first and second surfaces. Each of the at least two semiconductor structures also includes a second section having first and second opposing surfaces, with the first surface of the second section disposed over and coupled to the second surface of the first section. Methods for fabricating a multi-layer semiconductor structure from a plurality of semiconductor structures are also provided.
US10229893B2
A semiconductor package and a method for making the same are provided. In the method, a clip is used to conduct a lead frame and at least one chip. The clip has at least one second connection segment, at least one third connection segment, and at least one intermediate connection segment. The second connection segment is electrically connected to a second conduction region of the chip and a second pin of the lead frame respectively, and the third connection segment is electrically connected to a third conduction region of the chip and a third pin of the lead frame respectively. The intermediate connection segment connects the at least one second connection segment and the at least one third connection segment, and is removed in a subsequent process. Thereby, the present invention does not need to use any gold wire, which effectively saves the material cost and the processing time.
US10229878B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulating film formed to cover an electric fuse (EF1), an insulating film (IL1), an insulating film (IL2), an electric fuse (EF1), an insulating film (IL1), and an insulating film (IL2). The electric fuse (EF1) includes a fuse-blowing portion (FC1), a first pad portion (PD1), and a second pad portion (PD2). The fuse-blowing portion (FC1) is formed between the first pad portion (PD1) and the second pad portion (PD2) in a first direction and is a rectangular shape having a first short side and a second short side along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The insulating film (IL1) is formed continuously between the first short side and the second short side to cover the surface of the fuse-blowing portion (FC1). The insulating film (IL2) is formed to planarly surround the insulating film (IL1) and is arranged at an interval from the insulating film (IL1). The stress of the insulating film (IL1) and the insulating film (IL2) is greater than a stress of the insulating film covering the insulating films.
US10229869B2
A semiconductor device has a configuration in which a high-side module portion and a low-side module portion overlap each other. The semiconductor device further includes a control-side frame extending across the high-side module portion and the low-side module portion, and having a high-side integrated circuit and a low-side integrated circuit placed thereon. The high-side integrated circuit of the high-side module portion and the low-side integrated circuit of the low-side module portion are placed on one main surface of the control-side frame. At a boundary between the high-side module portion and the low-side module portion, the control-side frame is bent such that the high-side semiconductor chip and the low-side semiconductor chip face each other.
US10229866B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing on-chip capacitance using through-body-vias (TBVs). In accordance with some embodiments, a TBV may be formed within a semiconductor layer, and a dielectric layer may be formed between the TBV and the surrounding semiconductor layer. The TBV may serve as one electrode (e.g., anode) of a TBV capacitor, and the dielectric layer may serve as the dielectric body of that TBV capacitor. In some embodiments, the semiconductor layer serves as the other electrode (e.g., cathode) of the TBV capacitor. To that end, in some embodiments, the entire semiconductor layer may comprise a low-resistivity material, whereas in some other embodiments, low-resistivity region(s) may be provided just along the sidewalls local to the TBV, for example, by selective doping in those location(s). In other embodiments, a conductive layer formed between the dielectric layer and the semiconductor layer serves as the other electrode (e.g., cathode) of the TBV capacitor.
US10229863B2
The invention relates to a phase module (1) for a power converter (2) comprising at least one switching element (10) and a heatsink (13). In order to improve the cooling properties of a phase module (1), it is proposed that the switching element (10) is connected to the heatsink (13), wherein the connection between switching element (10) and heatsink (13) is a non-detachable connection. The invention further relates to a power converter (2) comprising at least one phase module (1) of this type and a method for producing a phase module (1) of this type, wherein in order to produce a connection between the switching element (10) and the heatsink (13), the switching element (10) is soldered, sintered or glued onto the heatsink (13).
US10229862B2
A heat dissipation system, comprising: (a) an electronic device comprising a heat source, wherein the heat source transmits heat to a second component or an external surface of the device; (b) a heat-conducting layer being positioned such that one of its major surfaces is in operative contact with the heat source such that it is interposed between the heat source and the second component or the external surface. The heat-conducting layer comprises at least one graphene oxide-coated graphitic foil laminate which thermally shields the second component or the external surface from heat generated by the heat source, and wherein the laminate is composed of a graphitic substrate/core layer with at least one primary surface coated with a graphene oxide coating layer. This graphene oxide-coated laminate exhibits a combination of exceptional thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, mechanical strength, surface hardness, and scratch resistance, making this the most effective heat dissipation system.
US10229858B2
Conductive paths through a dielectric are described that have a high aspect ratio for semiconductor devices. In one example, a semiconductor device package has a semiconductor substrate having circuitry formed on the substrate. A plurality of conductive connection pads are on the semiconductor substrate to connect to the circuitry. A post is on each of a subset of the connection pads, the posts being formed of a conductive material. A dielectric layer is over the semiconductor substrate including over the connection pads and the posts. Filled vias are over each connection pad that is not of the subset and over each post of the subset of the connection pads and a connector is over each filled via.
US10229856B2
Embodiments are directed to a method and resulting structures for a dual channel complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) having common gate stacks. A first semiconductor fin is formed on a substrate. A second semiconductor fin is formed adjacent to the first semiconductor fin on the substrate. An oxide layer is formed over the first and second semiconductor fins and annealed at a temperature effective to increase a germanium concentration of the second semiconductor fin. The annealing process is selective to the second semiconductor fin and does not increase a germanium concentration of the first semiconductor fin.
US10229855B2
A device includes a first transistor device having a first threshold voltage and including a first gate electrode structure positioned in a first gate cavity. The first gate electrode structure includes a first gate insulation layer, a first barrier layer, a first work function material layer formed above the first barrier layer, a second barrier layer formed above the first work function material layer, and a first conductive material formed above the second barrier layer. A second transistor device has a second threshold voltage different than the first threshold voltage and includes a second gate electrode structure positioned in a second cavity defined in the dielectric layer. The second gate electrode structure includes a second gate insulation layer, a second work function material layer, the second barrier layer formed above the second work function material layer, and a second conductive material formed above the second barrier layer.
US10229854B1
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming dummy gates over a semiconductor fin. An interlayer dielectric is formed around and between the dummy gates. The dummy gates are etched away, leaving gate voids. A first planarizing material is deposited in and over the gate voids. The first planarizing material is removed in a gate cut region. A gate cut plug is deposited in the gate cut region. The remaining first planarizing material is removed to expose the gate voids outside of the gate cut region. A gate stack is formed in the gate voids outside of the gate cut region.
US10229849B2
Disclosed is a substrate processing apparatus including a disc provided so as to be rotatable on its axis, at least one susceptor disposed on the disc such that a substrate is seated on an upper surface thereof, the susceptor being configured to rotate on its axis and to revolve around a center of the disc as the disc rotates on its axis, a metal ring coupled to a lower portion of the susceptor, the metal ring being arranged such that a center thereof coincides with a center of the susceptor, and a magnet provided below the disc so as to be radially arranged on a basis of the center of the disc, at least a portion of the magnet being opposite the metal ring in a vertical direction.
US10229844B2
Throughput of the processing can be improved. A gas supply system includes a plurality of element devices which constitute the gas supply system and a base 212 on which the plurality of element devices are disposed. Some of the element devices are disposed on a surface 212a of the base 212, and the others are disposed on a surface 212b of the base 212, which is opposite to the surface 212a of the base 212. The plurality of element devices may be implemented by, for example, a flow rate controller FD and a secondary valve FV2. The secondary valve FV2 is disposed on the surface 212b, which is opposite to the surface 212a of the base 212 where the flow rate controller FD is disposed.
US10229837B2
A method for performing atomic layer etching (ALE) on a substrate is provided, including the following operations: performing a surface modification operation on a substrate surface, the surface modification operation configured to convert at least one monolayer of the substrate surface to a modified layer, wherein a bias voltage is applied during the surface modification operation, the bias voltage configured to control a depth of the substrate surface that is converted by the surface modification operation; performing a removal operation on the substrate surface, the removal operation configured to remove at least a portion of the modified layer from the substrate surface, wherein removing the portion of the modified layer is effected via a ligand exchange reaction that is configured to volatilize the portion of the modified layer. A plasma treatment can be performed to remove residues from the substrate surface following the removal operation.
US10229836B2
A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide epitaxial substrate includes epitaxially growing a first layer on a silicon carbide single crystal substrate, and forming a second layer at an outermost surface of the first layer. The second layer has a chemical composition or density different from that of the first layer. A ratio of a thickness of the second layer to a thickness of the first layer is more than 0% and less than or equal to 10%.
US10229830B2
The present invention is aimed at providing a method of manufacturing a silicon carbide epitaxial wafer by which a plurality of silicon carbide epitaxial layers of a predetermined layer thickness can be precisely formed. In the present invention, a first n-type SiC epitaxial layer is formed on an n-type SiC substrate so that the rate of change in impurity concentration between the n-type SiC substrate and the first n-type SiC epitaxial layer will be greater than or equal to 20%. A second n-type SiC epitaxial layer is formed on the first n-type SiC epitaxial layer so that the rate of change in impurity concentration between the first n-type SiC epitaxial layer and the second n-type SiC epitaxial layer will be greater than or equal to 20%.
US10229825B2
A mass spectrometer system can include an ion source, a vacuum chamber; a mass analyzer within the vacuum chamber, a transfer tube between the ion source and the vacuum chamber, a transfer tube heater, and a vacuum pump. The mass spectrometer system can be configured to reduce the pump speed of the vacuum pump in response to receiving a transfer tube swap instruction; lower the temperature of the transfer tube to below a first threshold; operating the vacuum pump at the reduced pump speed while the transfer tube is replaced with a second transfer tube; heating the second transfer tube to a temperature above a pump down temperature; and increasing the pump speed of the vacuum pump after the temperature of the second transfer tube exceeds a second threshold.
US10229824B2
A mass spectrometer for analyzing a sample may include an analysis chamber for analyzing the sample and a first vacuum pump operably connected to the analysis chamber, wherein the first vacuum pump operates to create a first vacuum state. The mass spectrometer may also include a sample-preparation chamber operably connected to the analysis chamber and a second vacuum pump that operates to create a second vacuum state, wherein the first vacuum state is a lower pressure than the second vacuum state. The second vacuum pump may be operably connected to the first vacuum pump in a first configuration, and the second vacuum pump may be operably connected to the sample-preparation chamber in a second configuration.
US10229821B2
With regard to an object of the invention, in a tandem type mass spectrometry system including three stages of a QMS, sensitivity of a daughter ion decreases due to loss resulting from destabilization of the daughter ion or a decrease in daughter ion generation rate, and an improvement insensitivity of the daughter ion is a significant issue. To solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention provides a mass spectrometry system having means of decreasing a q value of a parent ion and not decreasing a fundamental vibration frequency of the parent ion. According to the means of the invention, the invention may have effects that a mass number range of a daughter ion that may be stably transmitted is expanded, the number of vibrations of a parent ion is substantially the same as that in a first stage of the QMS, and generation efficiency of the daughter ion does not decrease and can be maintained.
US10229816B2
An eVC including coarse and fine tuning networks. The coarse tuning network includes a circuit: receiving a RF input signal from a RF generator; outputting a RF output signal to a reference terminal or load; and receiving a DC bias voltage. The circuit is switched between first and second states. A capacitance of the circuit is based on the DC bias voltage while in the first state and is not based on the DC bias voltage while in the second state. The fine tuning network is connected in parallel with the coarse tuning network and includes a varactor. The varactor includes: a first diode receiving the RF input signal; and a second diode connected in a back-to-back configuration with the first diode and outputting a RF output signal to the reference terminal or load. A capacitance of the varactor is based on a second received DC bias voltage.
US10229814B2
A plasma processing apparatus has a circular chamber having an opening portion which serves as a plasma ejection port surrounded by a dielectric member, a gas supply pipe for introducing gas into the inside of the chamber, a coil provided in the vicinity of the chamber, a high-frequency power supply connected to the coil, and a base material mounting table.
US10229802B2
A circuit arrangement is described herein. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the circuit arrangement includes at least one output channel configured to be operably coupled to at least one load that is to be driven by the circuit arrangement. In the at least one output channel, the circuit arrangement includes a driver circuit configured to provide a modulated output signal, a current sense circuit configured to sense a load current passing through the load, and a feedback circuit configured to receive the modulated output signal and to determine, based on the modulated output signal, at least one digital value representing an average of the load current.
US10229789B2
A multilayer thin-film capacitor includes a first multilayer body and a second multilayer body spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction by a split layer. The second multilayer body is disposed on a lower surface of the first multilayer body, the first multilayer body constitutes a top capacitor, and the second body constitutes a bottom capacitor. First, second, and third external terminals may be disposed on an upper surface of the first multilayer body and be connected to internal electrode layers of the first and second multilayer bodies.
US10229785B2
An improved capacitor utilizing stacked MLCC's is provided. The capacitor comprising at least one MLCC sandwiched between a first lead and a second lead. Each lead comprises at least one integral lead crimp.
US10229784B2
A rechargeable handheld tool battery includes: at least one rechargeable cell; and at least one inductive charging unit that has at least one inductive charging coil for charging the at least one rechargeable cell. A diameter of the inductive charging coil is greater than a principal extension length of the at least one rechargeable cell.
US10229767B2
The present disclosure relates to thermoplastic electrostatic dissipative (ESD) composites. The disclosed compositions comprise a thermoplastic resin phase and a filler composition comprising a conductive carbon black and a non-conductive polymer, dispersed within the thermoplastic resin phase. Also disclosed are methods for the manufacture of the disclosed composites and articles of manufacture comprising same.
US10229765B2
Various embodiments for shortening the overall length of a pulsed neutron generator having a high voltage power supply are disclosed, including but not limited to, providing the plurality of stages of a high voltage power supply wrapped circumferentially or helically about a radiation generator tube. Various techniques for reducing voltage differentials and mitigating the risk of arcing in these embodiments are also disclosed.
US10229761B2
A system and a method for injecting hydrogen into Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) reactor support systems in operation during reactor startup and/or shutdown to mitigate Inter-Granular Stress Corrosion Cracking (IGSCC). The system may provide hydrogen at variable pressures (including relatively higher pressures) that match changing operating pressures of the reactor supports systems as the reactor cycles through startup and shutdown modes.
US10229760B2
A control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) configured to latch onto the lifting rod of a control rod assembly and including separate latch engagement and latch holding mechanisms. A CRDM configured to latch onto the lifting rod of a control rod assembly and including a four-bar linkage closing the latch, wherein the four-bar linkage biases the latch closed under force of gravity.
US10229747B2
The present invention relates to a display panel and a gate driving circuit of the display panel. The gate driving circuit is disposed on a first substrate and includes a first transistor unit. The first transistor unit is disposed on the first substrate and includes a first gate block, a second gate block, and a first connection portion. The first connection portion is electrically connected to the first gate block and the second gate block. At least a gap is formed between the first gate block and the second gate block. The display panel includes the first substrate, the gate driving circuit, a second substrate, and a sealant. The second substrate is disposed corresponding to the first substrate. The sealant is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US10229740B2
An apparatus of a memory system and an operating method thereof include: memory blocks, each of the memory blocks includes strings, each of the stings has flash cells and select gates thereon, wherein the select gates of each of the strings with a same index number in each of the memory blocks are connected with each other, in each of the memory blocks, the strings are divided into groups, each of the groups includes at least one string, and each of the groups has own read counts management thereof.
