US10245516B2
An example information-processing system includes: at least one processor; and an input device configured to receive an input operation performed by a user directed to posting information displayed by a display. The at least one processor is configured to: display first information that is displayed by executing an application on the display, and the posting information that is posted using a posting information sharing service, and that is associated with the application; and reflect the input operation received by the input device in the posting information sharing service.
US10245515B2
A game management device includes a game information storage control unit for storing in a storage device, an each user's game information, the game information storage control unit including an owned object information storage control unit for storing in a storage device, an object owned by each user; a priority setting unit for setting a priority for an object owned by a first user according to a first user's gift destination selecting operation of selecting a second user as a gift destination, the priority setting unit setting the priority based on a second user's game information for recommending the object owned by the first user for a gift to the second user; and a priority notification unit for transmitting to a terminal device of the first user, an information for notifying the priority set for the object owned by the first user.
US10245514B2
Systems and methods for online gaming including virtual placeholder items that can be exchanged for virtual items of value based on a quantitative performance of the users relative other users in events that take place in the online game.
US10245512B2
Techniques for sectional terrain editing are described herein. In some examples, terrain associated with at least part of a virtual area of a video game may be sectioned into a plurality of terrain sections. Each of the terrain sections may have one or more associated data collections that store terrain data related to the sections with which they are associated. This may enable multiple different users to simultaneously edit different portions of terrain with the expectation and confidence that their edits will be successfully saved and will not conflict with edits made by other users. In some examples, each terrain section may have multiple different associated data collections, for example associated with different types of terrain editing operations. This may provide further efficiency by allowing multiple different users to check out and acquire locks on different terrain data for the same terrain section at the same time.
US10245494B1
A trick board training apparatus for training a trick board rider has an apparatus base and upright members connected to the apparatus base in a spaced-apart relationship defining a training zone therebetween. The trick board training apparatus also has a trick board suspension member for suspending a trick board within the training zone. The trick board suspension member has a first rotation mechanism for rotating the trick board about a first axis of rotation and a second rotation mechanism for rotating the trick board about a second axis of rotation, wherein the second axis of rotation is substantially perpendicular to the first axis of rotation when the first axis of rotation is substantially parallel to the ground. In the trick board training apparatus of the present invention, the trick board can be rotated about at least one of the first and second axes of rotation while remaining suspended.
US10245493B2
A tee for supporting a ball. The tee comprising a base, a vertical support extending from the base and a ball support assembly adjustably secured to the vertical support. The ball support assembly is arranged and configured to support a ball and is slidably, pivotably and/or rotatably adjustable within one or more planes defined by the base, vertical support and ball support assembly to adjust the position of the ball support assembly, and thus a ball, in a variety of positions. The tee can also be vertically adjustable along the vertical support.
US10245482B2
A golf club head includes: a sole; a crown; a toe; a heel opposite the toe; a strike face generally bounded by a face perimeter edge, the strike face comprising a geometric center; a rear portion; and a substantially enclosed interior cavity at least partially delimited by the sole, the crown, the strike face, and the rear portion. The golf club head also includes at least one rib having a first portion secured to the strike face, having a second portion secured to the crown, and being positioned such that a location on the strike face laterally spaced toe-ward from the geometric center by no less than 0.4 in is associated with a COR value no less than 0.825.
US10245476B2
A resilient face insert for a golf club head, preferably a putter head, is disclosed herein. In particular, the face insert comprises a plurality of hinge features spaced from a striking surface to ensure consistent ball speed across the striking surface. At least a portion of each hinge feature extends parallel to the striking surface without making contact with the striking surface. In the preferred embodiment, each hinge feature comprises a tab portion that is spaced from the striking surface by a stem portion and that extends parallel to the striking surface. The hinge features may be co-molded with a polymeric backing material having a plurality of parallel grooves in order to further improve performance of the face insert.
US10245466B2
An apparatus for stretching and strengthening the forefoot of a user may include a pair of parallel hollow tubular leg members each having a first and second end and having a cross bore adjacent each of the first and second ends, a barrel bridging and joining the pair of leg members and positioned intermediate the first and second end of each leg member, the barrel providing a support for the arch of a user's forefoot for flexing and strengthening the forefoot over the barrel, a pair of extenders each adapted to removably attach to and extend from one of the leg members, and a removable elastic band or sleeve positionable over the leg members intermediate the first end and the barrel to hold the toes of the user's forefoot over the barrel during flexing of the forefoot.
US10245461B2
An exercise system having a pair of stationary support members, each having a lower portion and an upper portion, the upper portion being at an acute angle relative to the lower portion. Some embodiments have a pair of rotatable support members configured to rotate between a first position wherein the first rotatable support member is generally adjacent to the upper portion of the stationary support members and a second position wherein the first rotatable support member is generally adjacent to the lower portion of the stationary support members. Some embodiments have a first and a second carriage member translatable along at least a portion of the rotatable support members and a barbell coupled with the first and second carriage members.
US10245460B2
The present disclosure relates to a modular strap-based exercise apparatus, kit, and method of use thereof, and more particularly to an apparatus, kit, and method for modularly connecting components of a strap-based exercise device. In an embodiment, the strap-based exercise apparatus includes one or more infinity loops configured to attach various portions of the exercise apparatus together. The exercise apparatus may be provided as a kit including an elongated member, a grip assembly, and one or more mechanisms for adjusting the length of a strap and connecting straps together.
US10245459B1
A physical training system includes a belt for fixing around the waist of a person and that includes a plurality of belt extension straps each adapted for fixing with the belt at any location therearound and preferably adjustable in length. Two shoes are adapted for wearing on the person's feet, each shoe including at least four attachment loops at opposing quadrants of the shoe and optional shoe extension straps. A plurality of elastomeric bands are selectively fixable between any of the belt extensions straps and the attachment loops or shoe extension straps of the shoes. As such, in use, the person while running experiences resistance as each leg extends into a fully extended position, and a reduction or cessation of resistance as each leg retracts into a non-extended position.
US10245457B2
A trampoline assembly (10) comprises a trampoline bed (12); a trampoline frame (14) that supports the trampoline bed (12); and a plurality of spaced apart, resilient members (16) that are attached to and extend substantially between the trampoline bed (12) and the trampoline frame (14) to maintain the trampoline bed (12) in tension. At least one of the resilient members (16) is an adjustable resilient member (216) that can be selectively adjusted while simultaneously connected to both the trampoline frame (14) and the trampoline bed (12) to selectively adjust the tension of the trampoline bed (12). The adjustable resilient member (216) includes a resilient assembly (218); a first connector (220) that is movably connected to the resilient assembly (218); and a second connector (222) that is movably connected to the resilient assembly (218). The resilient assembly (218) is rotatable in a first rotational direction to increase the tension of the trampoline bed (12), and in a second rotational direction to decrease the tension of the trampoline bed (12).
US10245456B1
The present invention is directed towards a composition for decontaminating surfaces contaminated with toxic chemicals/substances, comprising at least one type of metal oxyhydroxide such as zirconium hydroxide, Zr(OH)4, optionally with added water for hydration of the solid, mixed into a carrier liquid used for application to a contaminated surface.
US10245447B2
The invention provides for a medical apparatus (200, 300, 400) comprising: a magnetic resonance imaging system (202), a display (270), a processor (228), and a memory (234) for storing instructions for the processor. The instructions causes the processor to receive a brachytherapy treatment plan (240), acquire (100) planning magnetic resonance data (244), calculate (102) a catheter placement positions (246, 900, 902) and a catheter control commands (248) the brachytherapy catheters. The instructions cause the processor, for each catheter placement position, to repeatedly: acquire (106) guidance magnetic resonance data (250), reconstruct (108) an image (252, 500), display (110) the image and the catheter placement position on the display, receive (114) a catheter inserted signal from a user interface, segment (116) the image to determine the catheter placement position after receiving the catheter inserted signal, recalculate (116) the catheter placement positions for each remaining catheter placement position after receiving the catheter inserted signal, and recalculate (116) the catheter control command for all of the multiple catheters after receiving the catheter inserted signal.
US10245434B2
Systems, methods, and devices for evaluating lead placement based on patient physiological responses
An electrical stimulation is applied to a patient via a lead by increasing a stimulation parameter over time. An anal sphincter response, a bellows response, and a toes response from the patient are detected as a result of the electrical stimulation. A first value of the stimulation parameter associated with the anal sphincter response, a second value of the stimulation parameter associated with the bellows response, and a third value of the stimulation parameter associated with the toes response are determined. A placement of the lead inside the patient is evaluated based on: a chronological occurrence of the anal sphincter response, the bellows response, and the toes response; a comparison of the first value with a predetermined threshold; a deviation of the second value from the first value; a deviation of the third value from the first value; or a deviation of the third value from the second value.
US10245433B2
A spinal cord modulation system is disclosed. While in one embodiment the system is used for the treatment of pain, other embodiments are also provided. In particular embodiments, the spinal cord modulation system generates and delivers an electrical therapy signal at a frequency in the range of from about 1.5 kHz to about 100 kHz to address pain without creating unwanted sensory and/or motor side effects. The system may further include various signal delivery devices to deliver the therapy signal to a patient's spinal cord region.
US10245426B2
A medical patch having an electric potential generating structure which is attachable to a wound to thus regenerate injured skin tissues is provided. The medical patch includes a unit patch having a piezoelectric potential generating structure. The unit patch includes a first layer, a second layer and a piezoelectric nanomaterial disposed between the first and second layers.
US10245425B2
Disclosed is an electronic device for measuring Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal or electronic stimulation, including at least: electrode modules that measures the EEG signal from a subject's head or apply current to the head; a control module that controls each of the electrode modules or applying current thereto; an EEG signal processing module that processes the EEG signal; an electric stimulation module that provides the electrode modules with a current for electric stimulation. The control module is further configured to: control each electrode module for measuring the EEG signal from the subject's head by controlling a switching module such that the each electrode module is connected with the EEG signal processing module; and control the each electrode module for applying current to the subject's head by controlling the switching module such that the each electrode module is connected with the electric stimulation module.
US10245415B2
A medical device assembly includes a catheter with a catheter hub, a housing, a first wing, and a second wing. The housing surrounds the catheter hub, but is spaced from the catheter hub to define a channel. The first wing includes a first hook disposed in the channel to permit rotation of the first wing about the catheter hub. The second wing includes a second hook disposed in the channel to permit rotation of the second wing about the catheter hub.
US10245411B2
A medical elongated body including a tubular main body and a hub connected to the tubular main body. The medical elongated body includes a strain relief supported by a distal portion of the hub. The strain relief surrounds a predetermined range of the proximal portion of the tubular main body. The medical elongated body includes a hydrophilic lubricating coating layer and a temperature responsive lubricating coating layer on the outer surface of the tubular main body, the temperature responsive lubricating coating layer being proximal to the hydrophilic lubricating coating layer. The hydrophilic lubricating coating layer exhibits lubricating characteristics when wet. The temperature responsive lubricating coating layer exhibits hydrophilic characteristics and lubricating characteristics at a temperature lower than a critical temperature when wet and exhibits hydrophobic characteristics and non-lubricating characteristics at a temperature equal to or higher than the critical temperature when wet.
US10245408B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for providing a dynamic wake-up alert. A user's sleep recovery need is determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, mental stress level, physical activity, the individual's sleep history record, and/or data relating to circadian rhythms, recommended sleep times, patterns and cycles. Real-time sleep data, such as that detected by a sleep data detection device, is monitored to determine a real-time gained recovery. Biological, physiological, and/or neurological data relating to the quality of sleep, and/or the amount of sleep obtained is used to calculate the real-time gained sleep recovery of the user and compare the gained recovery to the sleep recovery need. Once the sleep recovery need is satisfied, a dynamic wake-up alert is provided via a user interface.
US10245403B2
A breathing mask arrangement includes an arch body, a sealing lip means for bearing against the surface of the face of a mask user, a respiratory gas conduit means for feeding respiratory gas to a mask internal space which is defined by the arch body and which is in communication with the nose and/or mouth opening of the user of the mask, and an application structure for application of the sealing lip means jointly with the arch body, wherein the application structure has a carrier portion on which a respiratory gas conduit member is releasably coupled.
US10245400B2
A portable handheld pressure support system (10) is configured to provide pressure support therapy to a subject. The pressure support system provides a pressurized flow of breathable gas that is delivered to the airway of the subject to treat COPD and/or dyspnea, hyperinflation, and/or other conditions. The system is configured to adjust an expiratory pressure level of the pressure support therapy responsive to identification of hyperinflation in the subject. The pressure support therapy provided to the subject is configured to be used as needed to rapidly alleviate shortness of breath, hyperinflation, and/or other symptoms. The pressure support system is configured to be small and lightweight so that the subject may carry the system and use the system as needed.
US10245395B2
An apparatus for metering the delivery of an aerosol. The apparatus has a variable acoustic source and a microphone, both acoustically coupled to a volume having a fluid region and an air region. The apparatus may also include a processor to determine a volume of the air region based on signals received from the microphone and the variable acoustic source. A fluid valve is coupled to the processor, and is configured to allow an amount of fluid to exit the fluid region associated with the volume of the air region. An atomizer, coupled to the fluid region, is configured to aerosolize at least a portion of the fluid.
US10245392B2
A wound care device for delivering topical oxygen therapy, negative pressure wound therapy, and a low intensity vacuum therapy for treatment of a wound. The wound care device may include an oxygen supply MEA, an oxygen consuming MEA, a vacuum pump and motor, a pressure sensor, and a power supply and electronic controls. A dressing may be connected to the wound care device for administering topical continuous oxygen therapy and simultaneous negative pressure wound therapy to a wound. A canister or exudate trap may be positioned between the dressing and the vacuum supply port of the vacuum pump to collect and store exudates from the wound. The canister may be combined with the dressing.
US10245377B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of drug delivery. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a drug delivery system that includes a sealed and sterile fluid path attached to a drug-loaded container. The disclosure further relates to methods for sterilizing a portion of the drug delivery system without exposing the drug-loaded container to harmful sterilization parameters.
US10245373B2
Pump cassettes, infusion systems, and methods are described. An example pump cassette may include a rigid body comprising a frame portion, a base portion, a compliant membrane disposed substantially therebetween, two opposing edge sections, and an interface-facing surface. The rigid body may include a positioning feature arranged substantially orthogonal to a general plane of the interface-facing surface. The pump cassette may include a slider coupled to the two opposing edge sections and longitudinally articulable with respect to the rigid body.
US10245371B2
Exemplary embodiments comprise AV fistulas and other anastomotic devices for creating new or reinforcing existing side-branch vessels, and/or bridging neighboring vessels together. An exemplary embodiment may comprise a sidewall port, such as a flanged sidewall port, and/or flow frame design, such as a partially bare, flexible stent or a whisk, for purposes of creating a transmural flow. Another exemplary embodiment may comprise a compliant vessel support to aid in the transition from device to vessel and/or vessel to device, and to promote vessel dilation.
US10245363B1
Apparatus, systems, and methods in which a catheter-based pump is used are disclosed. The catheter-based pump is placed within the inferior vena cava of a patient. The catheter-based pump has a variable obstructor, such as a balloon or some other artificial obstruction, which is sized and dimensioned to compartmentalize the inferior vena cava into an upstream region and a downstream region of the inferior vena cava. The catheter-based pump is configured to pump blood from the upstream region to a fluid line that discharges blood to a discharge location in the downstream region. Thus, a suitable pressure gradient across the organ is provided, which can benefit organ function.
US10245360B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a connector ring assembly to attach a VAD to a heart. The assembly includes a clamp which can rotate completely about the annular wall in a first state and is fixed relative to the annular wall in a second state. The clamp transitions from the first state to the second state via an actuator. The actuator can be configured with an axis of rotation generally parallel to the opening of the annular wall, thereby allowing manipulation of the actuator through the same surgical accessway as that used to implant the connector ring assembly. At least one embodiment provides a connector flange separately from an annular wall to provide greater access to the connector flange during implantation. The annular wall and clamp are attached to the connector flange after the flange is fixed to the heart.
US10245359B2
A handheld tool for providing irrigation and/or suction is provided. In certain embodiments, the tool has a single cannula for providing both suction and irrigation, while in others there are separate suction and irrigation cannulas. In some embodiments, flush water is supplied by actuating a flush button which both pinches closed a suction hose and opens a flush hose. If present, the irrigation cannula may be opened by actuating an irrigation button. In certain embodiments, the irrigation and/or flush button may be provided with blade tips to pinch closed the irrigation or flush hoses in cooperation with a blade extending from the tool housing.
US10245358B2
Body-fluid containers, methods, and systems are presented that include a container that has a container housing formed, at least in part, by a liquid-impermeable, vapor-permeable material. The liquid-impermeable, vapor-permeable material allows water to evaporate and be transmitted outside of the container. The evaporation allows more fluid to be processed by the container than the container could otherwise hold. Other systems, methods, and apparatuses are presented.
US10245351B2
Hybrid hydrogels formed of a plurality of peptides that are capable of self-assembling into a hydrogel in an aqueous solution and a biocompatible polymer that is characterized by high swelling capability, high elasticity and low mechanical strength are disclosed, with exemplary hybrid hydrogels being formed of a plurality of aromatic dipeptides and hyaluronic acid. The hybrid hydrogels are characterized by controllable mechanical and biological properties which can be adjusted by controlling the concentration ratio of the peptides and the polymer, and which average the mechanical and biological properties of the peptides and the polymer. Processes of preparing the hydrogels and uses thereof in pharmaceutical, cosmetic or cosmeceutic applications such as tissue engineering and/or regeneration are further disclosed.
US10245348B2
Described is a process for making a dry and stable hemostatic composition, said process comprising a) providing a first component comprising a dry preparation of a coagulation inducing agent, b) providing a second component comprising a dry preparation of a biocompatible polymer suitable for use in hemostasis, c) providing said first component and said second component in a combined form in a final container, c1) either by filling said first component and said second component into said final container so as to obtain a dry mixture in said final container, c2) or by providing said first component or said second component in said final container and adding said second component or said first component so as to obtain a combination of said first component with said second component in said final container, d) finishing the final container to a storable pharmaceutical device containing said first component and said second component in a combined form as a dry and stable hemostatic composition.
US10245336B2
A system for handling the sterilization of thin-body, pouch-type, flexible containers (1), provides for applying sacrificial closures (200) to the pouches, loading the provisional closed pouches to be sterilized on a transport device (300) for collective transport, to performing the sterilization of the transport device (300) carrying the provisional closed pouches and, finally, separating, in a sterile chamber, the sacrificial closures (200) from the pouches, performing filling and applying an inviolable cap (100).
US10245333B2
A plasma generating apparatus according to embodiments of the inventive concept, which provides plasma to a biological material, includes a housing configured to provide an inner space in which plasma is generated, a ground electrode coupled to one side of the housing, a power electrode coupled to the other side of the housing, and a controller configured to control a generation mode of the plasma. The generation mode includes a first mode in which the plasma is provided to the biological material while generating the plasma and a second mode in which the plasma is generated in the housing, and then the generated plasma is provided to the biological material.
US10245327B2
The present invention relates to a conjugate of cell penetrating peptide and an active ingredient; and its use. Specifically, a conjugate including a cell penetrating peptide which is a peptide comprising any one amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 to SEQ ID NO: 178, a fragment of any one sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 to SEQ ID NO: 178, or a peptide having above 80% homology with the above-mentioned sequence; and a composition comprising the same are disclosed.
US10245326B2
A compound is provided that has the formula (II): where R1 in each occurrence is independently H, or C1-C4 alkyl; R2 is a nullity or CH—CH3, R3 is a nullity or C(O)—R6—NH; R6 is C2-C6 alkyl, (CH2CH2—O)n, or (CH(OH)CH2)n; n is an integer of between 1 and 4; R4 is a nullity or NH—R6—C(O); and R5 is a moiety capable of crossing the blood brain barrier and is as a free compound serotonin, dopamine, blood brain barrier (BBB) peptide, membrane translocating peptide, TAT peptides, endocannabinoids 1 & 2, bradykinin, beta-endorphin, bombesin, calcitonin, cholecystokinin, an enkephalin, dynorphin, insulin, gastrin, substance P, neurotensin, glucagon, secretin, somatostatin, motilin, vasopressin, oxytocin, prolactin, thyrotropin, an angiotensin, galanin, neuropeptide Y, thyrotropin-releasing hormone, gonadotropnin-releasing hormone, growth hormone-releasing hormone, luteinizing hormone, vasoactive intestinal peptide transferrin, glucosyl ester, lactic acid, leucine, tryptophan, glutamic acid.
US10245321B2
The present invention concerns compositions and methods of use of bispecific antibodies comprising at least one binding site for Trop-2 (EGP-1) and at least one binding site for CD3. The bispecific antibodies are of use for inducing an immune response against a Trop-2 expressing tumor, such as carcinoma of the esophagus, pancreas, lung, stomach, colon, rectum, urinary bladder, breast, ovary, uterus, kidney or prostate. The methods may comprising administering the bispecific antibody alone, or with one or more therapeutic agents such as antibody-drug conjugates, interferons (preferably interferon-α), and/or checkpoint inhibitor antibodies. The bispecific antibody is capable of targeting effector T cells, NK cells, monocytes or neutrophils to induce leukocyte-mediated cytotoxicity of Trop-2+ cancer cells. The cytotoxic immune response is enhanced by co-administration of interferon, checkpoint inhibitor antibody and/or ADC.
US10245312B2
New influenza donor strains for the production of reassortant influenza A viruses are provided.
US10245310B2
The invention provides a conjugate comprising an antigen and a carrier molecule, wherein the carrier molecule comprises a BP-2a antigen and a spb1 antigen. BP-2a and spb1 are Streptococcus agalactiae antigens. The conjugate may be used in a method for raising an immune response in a mammal, the method comprising administering the conjugate to the mammal. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, particularly vaccines, comprising the conjugate.
US10245309B2
The invention provides peptide vaccines comprising the signal peptide domain of selected target antigens of intracellular pathogens. The peptide vaccines of the invention contain multiple class II and class I-restricted epitopes and are recognized and presented by the majority of the vaccinated human population. The invention provides in particular anti tuberculosis vaccines. The invention further provides compositions comprising the vaccines as well as their use to treat or prevent infection.
US10245307B2
Methods are described for preventing or reducing ischemia and/or systemic inflammatory response in a patient such as perioperative blood loss and/or systemic inflammatory response in a patient subjected to cardiothoracic surgery, e.g. coronary artery bypass grafting and other surgical procedures, especially when such procedures involve extra-corporeal circulation, such as cardiopulmonary bypass.
US10245304B2
The invention provides methods of treating α-galactosidase A deficiency. Dosage forms, methods of administration, and methods of analyzing human α-galactosidase A are also included.
US10245300B2
The present invention features compositions and methods for treating gluten-related disorders. We describe compositions comprising one or more metabolites produced by Lactobacillus paracasei CBA L74, International Depository Accession Number LMG P-24778 that reduce cellular entry of gliadin peptides. The compositions may include a physiologically acceptable carrier, for example, a food product or a pharmaceutical carrier. The compositions can be administered to a subject having a gluten-related disorder, for example, celiac disease or gluten sensitivity.
US10245299B2
Materials and methods for treatment of pulmonary bulla are provided. A peptide comprising between about 7 amino acids and about 32 amino acids in a solution may be introduced to a target site. A hydrogel barrier may be provided at the target site in order to treat the pulmonary bulla.
US10245295B1
This is a neurological essential oil composition employing oils containing sesquiterpene compounds that cross the blood-brain barrier, such as Vetiver, Black Pepper, Ginger, Ylang Ylang, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Cedarwood, Myrrh, Frankincense, or Lavender, offering calming relief from seizures, migraine, anxiety, tremor, PTSD, and other neurological ailments, minus side-effects often experienced with conventional neurotherapeutics. A case study using FDA guidelines was conducted on the composition by the inventor/nutritionist treating these disorders and more with success, including her own seizure disorder. For neurological stimulation to improve cognitive function, the composition recruits oils such as Coffee, Vanilla, Cinnamon Bark, Clove, Dalmatian Sage, Rosemary, Blood Orange, Lemon, Grapefruit, Peppermint, Lime, Clementine, Spearmint or Coconut. The invention is applied directly to the skin and is also present in other topical administrations such as shampoo, conditioner, lotion, face wash, body wash, bath salts, and in aromatherapy administrations such as candles, nasal inhalers and sprays.
US10245293B1
This disclosure relates to methods of treating anal gland disease in subjects. In particular, the disclosure provides supplement compositions useful for treatment of anal gland disease. Such compositions comprise a probiotic, a fiber source, and an anti-inflammatory agent.
US10245291B2
This invention provides the use of a microorganism capable of improving both lipid metabolism and sugar metabolism. Specifically, the invention relates to: a lipid metabolism and/or sugar metabolism improver comprising, as an active ingredient, a bacterial cell selected from bacteria belonging to the genus Lactobacillus and the genus Bifidobacterium, a treated product of the bacterial cell, or a mixture thereof, having dual-agonistic activities to peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)α and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)γ; to a food or a beverage comprising the improver; and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the improver.
US10245290B2
The present invention relates to at least one probiotic strain chosen from Lactobacillus paracasei, or at least one probiotic strain chosen from Lactobacillus paracaseiin combination with at least one probiotic strain chosen from Lactobacillus plantarum, for use in the treatment or prevention of osteoporosis or for use in increasing the absorption of at Ca2+ ions, in a mammal, preferably in a human.
US10245285B2
The invention relates to treating individuals with cancer by using blood plasma or blood plasma fractions as treatment.
US10245280B2
Use of hyaluronic acid as the sole active ingredient for preparing compositions in particular for topical use for treating oral cavity aphthas.
US10245274B2
This invention relates a controlled release delivery composition for an otorhinolaryngology and otorhinolaryngology-associated pathology, conditions, indications or their combination, Head and Neck associated pathology conditions, indications or their combination, or their combination, using a chitosan-glycerophosphate (CGP) hydrogel and an agent or a bio-materials. Additionally, provided methods of treating an otorhinolaryngology and otorhinolaryngology-associated pathology, conditions, indications or their combination, Head and Neck associated pathology conditions, indications or their combination, or their combination.
US10245269B2
Provided herein is N-((4,6-dimethyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyridin-3-yl)methyl)-5-(ethyl (tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl)amino)-4-methyl-4′-(morpholinomethyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-3-carboxamide hydrobromide. Also provided herein is a particular polymorph form of this compound.
US10245266B2
Provided herein are methods of using compounds and compositions for treating, managing, and/or preventing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Pharmaceutical compositions and dosing regimens for use in the methods are also provided herein.
US10245262B2
The present invention provides ligands which bind to MR1, some of which induce MR1 to bind to MAIT cells thereby activating or inhibiting MAIT cell activation.
US10245261B2
The present invention relates generally to the use of compounds to treat a variety of disorders, diseases and pathologic conditions and more specifically to the use of substituted indol-5-ol derivatives to modulate protein kinases and for treating protein kinase-mediated diseases.
US10245258B2
Provided herein are methods of treating, preventing, managing, and/or ameliorating leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome comprising administering 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-N-((2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)-1-oxoisoindolin-5-yl)methyl)-2,2-difluoroacetamide or a stereoisomer or mixture of stereoisomers, an isotopologue, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer, solvate, hydrate, co-crystal, clathrate, or polymorph thereof to a patient.
US10245247B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture that feature omega-3 fatty acids co-processed with flavonoid and lipophilic antioxidants for improved stability.
US10245239B2
Compositions having synergistic combinations of astaxanthin with a tomato extract lycopene, and optionally with carnosic acid and/or lutein. Compositions having synergistic combinations of the aforementioned compounds, which may be used, inter alia, to inhibit/suppress inflammation via the suppression of the expression of anti-inflammatory mediators or via the suppression of the secretion of anti-inflammatory mediators from macrophages at a site of inflammation.
US10245238B2
Provided is a composition for oral intake, which exhibits improved oral absorbability of curcumin and/or an analog thereof and can be produced conveniently and inexpensively. A complex of curcumin and/or an analog thereof and a water-soluble cellulose derivative is disclosed.
US10245229B2
Compositions comprising mRNA formulated for pulmonary administration and related methods for delivery of the mRNA and/or encoded protein to a non-lung cell or tissue. The compositions and methods may be used to prevent or ameliorate the symptoms of diseases associated with the mRNA encoded protein.
US10245225B2
Provided are compositions that are useful as oil-free emollients and SPF and UV absorption boosters in sunscreen formulations. The emollients are oil-soluble polyalkylene glycols, wherein the polyalkylene glycol comprises units derived from propylene oxide and units derived from butylene oxide, and in certain embodiments are compounds of Formula I: RO—(PO)n—(BO)m—H (I) wherein PO is propyleneoxy, BO is butyleneoxy, R is a linear or branched C8-C20 alkyl, n has an average value of from 5 to 20, and m has an average value of from 4 to 16.
US10245221B2
A composition for coloring and shampooing hair substantially free, preferably totally and completely free, of anionic surfactants, comprising at least one cationic dye, n-methyl alkyl glucamide with a carbon chain length from 8 and 20, inclusive, preferably 8 and 10, an aqueous carrier, and at least one stabilizer of anti-oxidant and free radical scavanger. By weight, (based on the total weight of the composition), the composition comprises 0.0005% to 3.0% cationic dye, 2.5 to 30% n-methyl alkyl glucamide, 30 to 70% water, and 0.01 to 0.5% stabilizers of anti-oxidant and free radical scavenger. The present invention relates to hair cleaning compositions containing at least one cationic dye, a nonionic or amphoteric surfactant, a fragrance, and a stabilizer (antioxidant).
US10245215B2
An apparatus for cutting includes a base, a fixed member attached to the base, where the fixed member includes a first cutting wedge, and a lever arm pivotably attached to the base and/or the fixed member at a pivot point. The lever arm includes a second cutting wedge, where the lever arm is positionable between an open position and a closed position. The first cutting wedge and the second cutting wedge are oriented perpendicular to the pivot point and the lever arm rotates to move the second cutting wedge to contact the first cutting wedge. A cutting surface of the first cutting wedge aligns with a cutting surface of the second cutting wedge when the lever arm is in the closed position.
US10245204B2
A mobility system includes an energy module, an exoskeleton and a mobile base. The exoskeleton has an exoskeleton energy module receptacle that can receive the energy module, and the mobile base has a mobile base energy module receptacle that can also receive the energy module. In addition, the mobile base has an exoskeleton support that can support the exoskeleton on the mobile base so that the mobile base can transport the exoskeleton across a support surface.
US10245202B2
In at least one embodiment the present invention provides a mobile storage system including a container having a first end, second end, first side, second side, ceiling and floor defining a rectangular prismatic cavity, an access door that corresponds with an access opening positioned on at least one of the longitudinal sides between the first end and the second and of the container, a climate control unit for cooling the container, a rack unit positioned within one of the first end and the second end of the container and adapted to slidably yet releasably receive a tray in a stowed position, and a mobile stretcher adjustable from a first height to a least a second height and adapted to securely yet releasably receive the tray.
US10245195B2
An armchair comprising a seat chassis supported on a support chassis by a pair of support columns, a chair back structure pivotally attached to a rear end of the seat chassis and to the support chassis, and a leg support structure pivotally attached to a front end of the seat chassis and connected to a beam, wherein the beam is attached the chair back structure. A first actuating device is mounted to the chair back, where a protracting end of the first actuating device is connected to the seat chassis. The armchair further comprises a second actuating device mounted to the support chassis, a footrest connected to a protracting end of the second actuating device, a third actuating device attached to the seat chassis, and a seating structure connected to a protracting end of the third actuating device and mounted above the seat chassis, wherein the seating structure includes an operative position projecting upwards and forwards by the third actuating device at a tilting angle from the seat chassis.
US10245186B2
The illustrative systems, methods, and dressings for applying reduced pressure to a tissue site are presented that involve quickly removing fluids from the tissue site to reduce or avoid maceration of the epidermis. One dressing includes a dressing material for transferring the reduced pressure to the tissue site and a drape covering at least a portion of the dressing material. The dressing material includes a hydrophobic tissue-interface layer adapted to contact the tissue site. The dressing material also includes a manifold adapted to distribute reduced pressure. The manifold may be a hydrophobic layer. The dressing material also includes one or more absorbent layers adapted to absorb liquid from the tissue site via the tissue-interface layer and the manifold. Other aspects are disclosed.
US10245171B2
A hand support including a base component arranged for securing to at least a portion of a hand, an anchor element adjustably connected to the base component and arranged for grasping a thumb, and a counterforce device connecting to the base component and the anchor element. The counterforce device arranged to generate a counterforce in combination with or against the base component and anchor element. The hand support may be arranged to provide traction for an extended period to remedy complications of the hand and associated joints.
US10245162B2
A system and method for allowing any surgeon, including those surgeons who perform a fewer number of a replacement procedure as compared to a more experienced surgeon who performs a greater number of procedures, to provide an improved likelihood of a favorable outcome approaching, if not exceeding, a likelihood of a favorable outcome as performed by a very experienced surgeon with the replacement procedure.
US10245152B2
The present invention is directed to a surgical implant for the fusion of two adjacent vertebrae with an upper plane for contacting an upper vertebral body and a lower plane for contacting a lower vertebral body and a tubular structure, wherein the tubular structure is formed by a plurality of tubes running from the upper plane to the lower plane and in substantially horizontal direction throughout one side of the surgical implant straight to the opposite side of the surgical implant. This tubular structure has the advantage that the formation and ingrowth of new bone is promoted and advantaged and that the degree of formation and ingrowth of new bone is detectable by X-ray measurements.
US10245151B2
Disclosed herein are orthopedic implants having a medial portion and a lateral portion, each of the medial and lateral portions having a proximal surface and a distal surface opposite the proximal surface. An intermediate portion joins the medial and lateral portions, wherein the intermediate portion has a proximal surface angled to the proximal surfaces of the medial and lateral portions about a longitudinal axis of the orthopedic implant. The proximal surface of the medial portion is stepped from the proximal surface of the lateral portion about the longitudinal axis. The proximal surfaces of the medial and lateral portions are configured to receive corresponding medial and lateral inserts.
US10245150B2
In one embodiment a method of implanting a prosthetic includes implanting a first member including a concave articulation surface portion defined by a first radius of curvature in a first bone, implanting in a second bone a second member including a first convex articulation surface portion defined by a second radius of curvature and a second convex articulation surface defined by a third radius of curvature, wherein the second convex articulation surface is defined by the lemon portion of a spindle torus and each of the second radius of curvature and the third radius of curvature has a length that is different from the length of the first radius of curvature by less than 0.05 millimeters and wherein the origin of the second radius of curvature is not coincident with the origin of the third radius of curvature, and bringing the first member into slidable contact with the second member.
US10245147B2
A bone void plug includes a plug body that extends along a longitudinal axis between a proximal face and a distal opening and a recessed opening that extends from the distal opening toward the proximal face. The recessed opening is configured to receive a bone void filler.
US10245140B2
Techniques and mechanisms to facilitate implantation of an ophthalmic device in an eye. In an embodiment, the ophthalmic device includes multiple housing structures (housings), where components of the ophthalmic device are variously disposed in respective ones of such housings. The housings are flexibly coupled each to a respective other one of such housings. One or more flexible interconnects of the device allow for articulation of the housings during implantation in an eye. In another embodiment, first circuitry disposed in one housing facilitates operation of the ophthalmic device to sense a condition at the eye or to assist sight with the eye. Second circuitry, disposed in another of the housings, is electrically coupled with the first circuitry via a flexible interconnect.
US10245139B2
An instrument for clamping and trimming the bone tendon portion of a graft to a desired size, comprising a pair of elongated handles each having jaws at one end; the handles being hinged together at a pivot point allowing the jaws to open and close in a scissor arrangement, the jaws defining a generally U-shaped trapezoidal receptacle when the jaws are closed about the bone tendon portion of the graft to be trimmed and the jaws comprising respective upper guide surfaces along their upper edges whereby, when a bone tendon portion is positioned in the U-shaped trapezoidal receptacle, the upper guide surfaces function as a guide for a blade of a saw to trim any excess portion of the bone tendon portion protruding above the upper guide surfaces.
US10245135B2
A segmented skirted surgical mesh for use in reconstructing a soft tissue defect, the segmented skirted surgical mesh comprising: a base layer of surgical mesh, the base layer of surgical mesh comprising an outer edge; and a segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh comprising an outer edge and an inner edge which defines a central opening, the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh being secured to the base layer of surgical mesh at the outer edge of the continuous skirt of surgical mesh, and the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh comprising a plurality of slits formed in the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh, wherein the plurality of slits extend outwardly from the inner edge of the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh, whereby to form a plurality of flaps of surgical mesh in the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh, such that at least one of the flaps of surgical mesh can be lifted away from the base layer of surgical mesh and secured to soft tissue without causing distortion of the base layer of surgical mesh.
US10245129B2
A tooth bleaching device provided with: a production device that produces an active component for bleaching a tooth; a mouthpiece in which a supply opening, through which the active component produced by the production device is supplied inside the oral cavity, is formed; and a connecting part that connects the production device and the mouthpiece.
US10245119B2
Provided herein are systems, devices, assemblies, and methods for localization of a tag in a tissue of a patient. For example, provided herein are systems, devices, and methods employing an implantable tag that emits sidebands at defined frequencies upon activation by a magnetic field generated by a remote activating device, and a plurality of witness stations configured to detect such sidebands. Also provided herein are herein are systems, devices, and methods employing a detection component that is attached to or integrated with a surgical device.
US10245118B2
Provided herein are systems, devices, assemblies, and methods for localization of a tag in a tissue of a patient. For example, provided herein are systems, devices, and methods employing a detection component that is attached to or integrated with a surgical device, where the detection component detects a signal from a tag in a patient, where the tag is activated by remote introduction of a magnetic field.
US10245117B2
Tissue expanders and methods of use. In some embodiments the tissue expanders are adapted to reduce wear on one or more components.
US10245109B2
A stereotactic surgical instrument for use in stereotactical therapy and surgery and a coupling mechanism for such an instrument is disclosed. The stereotactic surgical instrument includes a semi-circular arc part and a head frame. The head frame is arranged for fixation to a head of a patient by pins or screws. The arc part includes coupling members shaped as rings arranged at a fixed distance from each other for attaching and locking the arc part to the head frame. The head frame includes support members formed as rings for receiving corresponding coupling members. Each coupling member includes a pivotable clamp element arranged to partly surround a respective support member circumferentially when the arc part is coupled to the head frame. The coupling members include locking elements arranged to receive a tip portion of the respective clamp element and adjustable locking knobs for tightening and locking respective coupling member to respective support member.
US10245105B2
The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for in vivo treatment of cell proliferative disorders. Included is a method of treating tissue with electrical energy, the method comprising: delivering electrical energy to tissue using one or more electroporation devices comprising one or more electrodes; and cooling the tissue, surrounding tissue, one or more of the electrodes, or one or more of the electroporation devices to minimize heating. In embodiments, the invention can be used to treat solid tumors, such as brain tumors, and in some embodiments, exemplary methods rely on non-thermal irreversible electroporation (IRE) to cause cell death in treated tumors.
US10245101B2
A surgical instrument is provided and includes a housing having a shaft. An end effector assembly operatively connects to the shaft and has a pair of first and second jaw members. A jaw insert is operably associated with the first and second jaw members. The jaw insert includes one or more cam slots defined therein configured to receive a cam pin that upon movement thereof rotates the first and second jaw members from an open position to a clamping position and an opening defined therein configured to securely house a pivot pin that provides a point of pivot for the first and second jaw members. The jaw insert is manufactured from an insulative medium to dielectrically isolate the first and second jaw members.
US10245094B2
A torque-limiting device may include a shaft extending axially through upper and lower shanks and a spring to connect to a nut. The upper and lower shanks may be under a force from the spring and further configured to selectively engage within a predetermined torque limit and disengage at above the predetermined torque limit. Accordingly, the shaft may receive torque up to the predetermined limit as provided by a user operating a handle of the torque-limiting device. The torque-limiting device may be disposable, reusable, economical, and have high torque capabilities.
US10245093B2
A surgical elevator device that can be used in the reduction of bone fractures, particularly facial bone fractures, and even more particularly zygomatic arch fractures. The elevator device enables accurate measurement of the depth of insertion of the device into tissue space and provides tactile control of fracture location and reduction. In one embodiment, the elevator device comprises a groove on an elevator element for receiving a bone structure. The groove can be formed by a pair of parallel ridges. A projection extending from the elevator provides a pivot point for applying a controlled force to the bone to reduce the fracture. A preferred embodiment further comprises a method of reducing a bone fracture, such as a zygomatic arch fracture.
US10245080B2
A system that includes a cervical plate and an intervertebral cage, the cervical plate having a mounting section that renders the cervical plate mountable to a reference feature located on the front wall of the intervertebral cage, the reference feature being positioned to set a distance between an eyelet of the cervical plate and an edge of the front wall to position the eyelet over a mounting location on a vertebra when the mounting section is mounted to the reference feature.
US10245076B2
A spinal implant assembly comprising an intervertebral device configured to be installed in a spinal disc space, the intervertebral device having a head component and a body component, the spinal implant assembly further comprising a coupling body for coupling the head component of the intervertebral device and an elongate member, the coupling body and head component each having a longitudinal axis, wherein the head component can be received by the coupling body with its longitudinal axis at a selected angle within a predetermined range of angles relative to the longitudinal axis of the coupling body.
US10245075B2
In a nondestructive means of ectopic pregnancy management, a baby is delivered with the gestational sac intact and then submerged in an incubator containing ventilating fluid; the baby is placed in an absorbable transfer capsule and transcervically transferred to the uterine cavity; the capsule dissolves after a period of time to leave the gestational sac abutted to the endometrium so the baby can reattach. To maintain the baby's life support, the means includes fluidic ventilators and ventilation catheters to perfuse the gestational sac with ventilating fluid during such times as delivery, incubation, transfer, and reimplantation. Advantageously, the transfer capsule protects the baby during transfer and serves as a convenient vehicle for placing devices such as the ventilation catheter in the uterus along with the baby. An exemplary transfer capsule is flexible like a soft contact lens; hydrates with a solution containing nutrients and factors to promote the biomechanical interactions of implantation; and, being based on a hyaluronan hydrogel, dissolves in the uterine cavity to provide the baby and mother with hyaluronan which is known to benefit implantation. Hard shell absorbable transfer capsules are also provided for when structural support is needed.
US10245065B2
An ultrasonic surgical blade includes a body having a proximal end, a distal end, and an outer surface. The distal end is movable relative to a longitudinal axis in accordance with ultrasonic vibrations applied to the proximal end. At least a portion of the outer surface of the body comprises a lubricious coating adhered thereto. The lubricious coating has a coefficient of friction that is less than the coefficient of friction of the outer surface of the body.
US10245060B2
[Problem] To provide a medical cutting tool with low impalement resistance. [Solution] The edged medical cutting tool comprising a knife, trocar or cutting suture needle has a sharp edge (1) for incising living tissue and a flat part (2) that configures the edge, and the color of the portion of the flat part (2a) along the edge (1) differs from the color of the rest of the flat part (2b). The difference in color results from a difference in the thickness of an oxide film. Another edged medical cutting tool is configured of austenite stainless steel and has a sharp edge (1) for incising living tissue and a flat part (2) that configures the edge. The chrome content of the portion of the flat part (2a) along the edge is higher than the chrome content of the rest of the flat part (2b).
US10245055B2
Devices for tracheal tubes include: (a) a mouthpiece sized and configured to allow an endotracheal tube to extend outwardly therefrom; and (b) a handle including a cutting member that can attach to the mouthpiece. The mouthpiece can include at least one outwardly projecting substantially rigid short tube defining an open channel. The handle can releasably attach to the short tube.
US10245053B2
A tissue retrieval system can include a tissue retrieval bag with an elongate profile. The tissue retrieval bag can have a relatively large volume, but be rollable to a stowed configuration to fit in a relatively small diameter introducer. The tissue retrieval system can include one or more support arms coupled to the tissue retrieval bag, the support arms biased to position the tissue retrieval bag in an access position once deployed from the introducer. A tissue retrieval system can have a hybrid tissue retrieval bag including material properties that vary along the depth of the bag from an open end to a closed end. A tissue retrieval bag can be used in conjunction with an introducer, or as a stand alone tissue retrieval bag.
US10245046B2
Systems and apparatuses including apparatuses that can be used in a knee replacement procedure are disclosed. According to one example, an assembly for a knee replacement surgery is disclosed. The assembly can comprise an adjustment member, a carrier assembly, a posterior slope housing assembly, and a boom. The carrier assembly can be configured to selectively couple with the adjustment member such that the carrier assembly is moveable relative to the adjustment member to a desired position. The posterior slope housing assembly can be connected to the adjustment member and can be configured to pivot the adjustment member relative to a portion of the posterior slope housing and a tibia. The boom can be coupled to the posterior slope housing assembly and can be configured to couple with a mounting component to mount the posterior slope housing assembly, the carrier assembly and the adjustment member relative to the tibia.
US10245031B2
A surgical stapling apparatus includes a housing and an end effector secured to the housing. The housing supports a knife assembly including a knife. The end effector has first and second jaw members. One or both of the first and second jaw members define a knife channel. The first jaw member defines fastener slots and the second jaw member defines fastener pockets. One or more of the knife channel, the fastener slots, and the fastener pockets includes lateral recesses. Fasteners are disposed in the fastener slots and formed by the fastener pockets. One or more surgical buttresses have a body that overlies one or both of the fastener slots and the fastener pockets. Portions of the body of the one or more surgical buttresses are disposed within the lateral recesses to secure the one or more surgical buttresses to one or both of the first jaw member and the second jaw member.
US10245029B2
A surgical instrument comprising an elongate shaft assembly that defines a shaft axis. The surgical instrument includes a surgical end effector that has a distal end and a proximal end. The proximal end is pivotally coupled to the elongate shaft assembly for selective pivotal travel about an articulation axis that extends transversely relative to the shaft axis. The surgical end effector is selectively pivotable about the articulation axis from an unarticulated position wherein the distal end of the surgical end effector is located an unarticulated distance from the articulation axis to articulated positions wherein the distal end of the surgical end effector is located a corresponding articulated distance from the articulation axis that is less than the unarticulated distance.
US10245027B2
A surgical instrument that includes an elongate channel that is configured to operably support a surgical staple cartridge therein. In at least one form, an anvil is pivotally coupled to a proximal end of the elongate channel such that the anvil is pivotal about a discrete, non-movable anvil axis defined by the elongate channel. A firing member is configured for axial travel within the elongate channel in response to an application of firing motions thereto. The firing member is configured to movably engage the anvil and the elongate channel to space the anvil relative to the elongate channel at a desired spacing as the firing member is axially driven through the elongate channel. A closure member is configured to move the anvil from an open position to closed positions relative to the elongate channel upon application of closure motions to the closure member.
US10245025B2
A packaged antimicrobial suture. The packaged antimicrobial suture includes an inner package having a source of antimicrobial agent, the source of antimicrobial agent comprising a plurality of patches, each patch having a pair of antimicrobial material reservoirs; at least one suture positioned within the inner package, the at least one suture comprising one or more surfaces; and an outer package having an inner surface, the outer package having the inner package positioned within; wherein the at least one suture, the inner package and the inner surface of the outer package are subjected to time, temperature and pressure conditions sufficient to transfer an effective amount of the antimicrobial agent from the antimicrobial agent source to the at least one suture and the inner package, thereby substantially inhibiting bacterial colonization on the at least one suture and the inner package. A method of making a packaged antimicrobial suture having is also provided.
US10245022B2
In accordance with the present invention there is provided a suturing device. The suturing device includes a length of suture that will be delivered to the site of the PFO and placed through the tissue adjacent the opening to close the PFO. As described in greater detail below, the suture is advanced through the tissue surrounding the opening by a pair of needles that penetrate the tissue adjacent to the opening. A knot is then loosely tied with the length of suture and advanced to the site of the PFO. The tails of the suture extending from the knot are then cut and removed. It is also contemplated that a pre-formed or pre-tied knot may be disposed on the device, wherein after deployment of the suture through the tissue adjacent to the PFO and removal of the device a loop of suture having a pre-tied knot will remain, wherein the pre-tied knot may then be tightened to close the PFO. Further still it is contemplated that other means may be utilized to retain the sutures. For example, it is contemplated that a suture clip or other clip like device may be utilized to retain the suture in a position such that the PFO is closed.
US10245021B2
A suturing device is made of two hypodermic needles allowing one or more sutures (at the same time) and a retrieval probe to be advanced into a cavity (e.g., a stomach cavity) of the patient. Both the suture and retrieval probes comprise magnets of opposite polarities on their leading ends. Thus, after the suture and retrieval probe are inside the stomach cavity, the suture and retrieval probe may mate and the suture may be transferred from one hypodermic needle to the other using magnetic attraction. In doing so, the suture forms a loop through the stomach. Once removed, this loop, having two ends that are positioned outside the patient's body, can be pulled tight in order to pull the stomach wall closer to the surface of the patient's body. With the stomach wall close to the surface of the patient's body, it is easier to insert a gastrostomy device.
US10245019B2
Various self-cinching suture anchors, self-cinching suture anchor systems, and methods of use are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a suture anchor is provided that includes an outer member and an inner member configured to be received within the outer member. The inner and outer members can define a gap that allows a suture to be movably disposed within the outer member, e.g., within the gap, when the inner member is disposed within the outer member. The inner member can be configured to be secured within the outer member by a knot of the suture having a diameter greater than a width of the gap so as to fix the inner member within the outer member, while still allowing uni-directional tensioning of the suture.
US10245014B2
Provided is a device of automatic mechanical wound opener for head and neck surgery. The device includes a wound opener including: a fixed unit and a plurality of drawing units, and at least one of the drawing units being movably connected on the fixed unit, wherein each of the drawing units includes a first arm, a second arm, and a blade connected to the second arm; wherein the first arm is connected to the fixed unit by one end thereof and to the second arm by the other end thereof; the second arm can be adjusted to an needed included angle relative to the first arm; and at least one of the blades includes an extension plate connected to an end of a plate part of the blade, and the extension plate is connected to the second arm for shortening the spacing between two blades.
US10245013B2
A medical device that includes a plurality of members forming a body that can transition from a delivery configuration to a deployed configuration. The plurality of members form a plurality of openings each with a long axis extending substantially longitudinally relative to a longitudinal axis of the medical device in a delivery configuration. A plurality of end portions are associated with a distal portion of the medical device, the end portions extending towards the longitudinal axis in a deployed configuration.
US10245011B2
Disclosed is a hemostatic agent applicator capable of effectively placing a fluid hemostatic agent on an incision surface. The present invention is a hemostatic agent applicator for use in disposing a fluid hemostatic agent, including a tool body in which a hollow part surrounded by a wall part is formed and which includes an open end part on a downstream side of the wall part, and an inlet provided to a portion of the wall part of the tool body to communicate with the hollow part. This hemostatic agent applicator is useful in medical settings relating to surgical procedures, particularly for surface bleeding of a liver and internal organ surgery such as a spleen and fibroid enucleation. An applicator further reduced in size can be applied not only in abdominal surgery, but in endoscopic surgery as well.
US10245000B2
A method and apparatus for defining a volume of interest in a physiological image based upon an anatomical image. The method and system acquires an anatomical image of a volume of interest using a first imaging modality. A physiological image is acquired using a second imaging modality different from the first imaging modality. An outline of the volume of interest is defined on the anatomical image and applied to the physiological image to define the volume of interest m the physiological image. Based upon the outline, the system and method assigns binary values to voxels within the outline to more accurately define the volume of interest.
US10244995B2
Disclosed herein is a mobile x-ray imaging apparatus having an improved structure to prevent breakage of or damage to an x-ray detector. One or more damping units are installed at base plates of one or more slots. The one or more damping units minimize an impact that may be applied to one or more x-ray detectors in a process of storing the one or more x-ray detector in the one or more slots.
US10244991B2
The present disclosure is related to a method and apparatus for providing recommendation for a medical surgical procedure, including acquiring, using circuitry, a plurality of multispectral images representing a portion of an anatomy of a patient, performing image processing on each of the plurality of multispectral images to form a plurality of value maps, each value map identifying aspects of the portion of the anatomy by assigned values, combining the plurality of value maps into a single recommendation map, determining optimal points for performing the medical surgical procedure based on the single recommendation map, and displaying the optimal points for the medical surgical procedure by overlaying the optimal points on an original image of the portion of the anatomy or applying the optimal points to a robotic medical surgical procedure.
US10244988B2
A method, apparatus and computer program wherein the method includes: obtaining, from a detector, a detection of at least one bio-signal of a user of an apparatus; determining a mode of operation of the apparatus when the at least one bio-signal occurred; and correlating the at least one detected bio-signal of the user with the determined mode of operation in a bio-signal profile of the user of the apparatus.
US10244987B2
A physiological detection system including a light source module, a photo sensor and a processor is provided. The light source module is configured to provide light to illuminate a skin region. The photo sensor is configured to detect emergent light passing the skin region with at least one signal source parameter and output an image signal. The processor is configured to calculate a confident level according to the image signal to accordingly adjust the at least one signal source parameter.
US10244973B2
Bodily fluid sample transport systems, devices, and method are provided. In at least one embodiment described herein, methods are provided for the physical transport of small volumes of bodily fluid in liquid form from one location to another location. By way of nonlimiting example, the samples are collected in liquid form at a collection site, transported in liquid form, and arrive at an analysis site in liquid form. In many embodiments, the liquid form during transport is not held in a porous matrix, wicking material, webbing, or similar material that prevents sample for being extracted in liquid form at the destination site. In one embodiment, small volume of sample in each sample vessel is in the range of about 1 ml to about 1 microliter.
US10244951B2
Methods of measuring Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) including advancing a sensor delivery device within a guiding catheter to a location of interest, the sensor delivery device comprising a distal sleeve including a distal sensor and a proximal sensor, advancing only a distal portion of the distal sleeve outside of the guiding catheter such that the distal sensor is outside of the guiding catheter and downstream of the location of interest and the proximal sensor is inside of the guiding catheter, measuring a distal fluid pressure with the distal sensor distal to the location of interest, measuring a reference fluid pressure with the proximal sensor inside of the guiding catheter, and calculating FFR. One or both of the proximal and distal sensor may be comprised of a material having a low thermal coefficient.
US10244948B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking physiological states and parameters for calorie estimation. A start of an exercise session associated with a user of a wearable computing device is determined. Heart rate data is measured for a first period of time. An onset heart rate value of the user is determined based on the measured heart rate data, the onset heart rate value associated with a lowest valid heart rate measured during the first period of time. A resting heart rate parameter (RHR) of a calorimetry model is associated with at least one of the onset heart rate value, a preset RHR, and an RHR based on user biometric data. Energy expenditure of the user during a second period of time is estimated based on the calorimetry model and a plurality of heart rate measurements obtained by the wearable computing device during the second period of time.
US10244947B2
An introducer having a dilator positioned in a sheath is inserted into a first blood vessel and, thereafter, only the dilator tube is drawn out of the first blood vessel and the sheath while the sheath remains in the first blood vessel. A diagnostic instrument having an outer diameter smaller than a maximum outer diameter permitting insertion into the sheath tube is inserted into the second blood vessel, and a stenosis of the second blood vessel is diagnosed. While keeping the sheath indwelling in the first blood vessel, a therapeutic instrument or a catheter permitting the therapeutic instrument to be inserted therein, which therapeutic instrument or catheter has a maximum outer diameter permitting insertion into the sheath tube, is inserted into the second blood vessel, and the second blood vessel is treated.
US10244946B2
In order to provide a temperature sensor or a temperature measuring apparatus having a temperature sensor, which enables direct temperature measurement, in particular even during treatment, in particular even with HF surgical devices, it is proposed that the temperature sensor includes a sensor element with a medium which can be excited to luminescence, in particular fluorescence, and an optical waveguide which is optically connected to the sensor element and is intended to supply light to the medium at an excitation wavelength and/or to pick up and conduct light at a luminescence wavelength of the medium which can be excited to luminescence.
US10244944B2
An illumination device that has an orange light, with LEDs having a wavelength in the range of 580-620 nm, and/or a red light with LEDs having a wavelength of light in the range of 620-650 nm for side-transillumination of the veins. Orange light has been found to be beneficial for transillumination of superficial veins, while red light has been found to be beneficial for transillumination of deeper veins. In addition, the device has white light which is used for illumination of the surface of the skin. The illumination device contains a manual or automatic switch or switching mechanism that allows the user to easily switch between the orange light/red light and the white exam light by simply pressing a button or moving the device.
US10244940B2
An optical coherence tomograph that provides wavelength tunable source radiation and an illumination and measurement beam path, a dividing element that divides source radiation into illumination radiation and reference radiation, and collects measurement radiation. The illumination and measurement beam path has scanner. A detection beam path receives measurement radiation and reference radiation and conducts them onto at least one flat panel detector in a superposed manner. A beam splitter separates the measurement radiation from the illumination radiation. The beam splitter conducts the separated measurement radiation to the detection beam path and sets the numerical aperture of the illumination of the illumination field in the eye. An optical element sets the numerical aperture with which the measurement radiation is collected in the eye and a multi-perforated aperture defines the size of an object field and a number of object spots, from which the measurement radiation reaches the flat panel detector.
US10244934B2
A drive assembly for driving an imaging catheter has a rotatable fiber and a rotatable drive shaft. The drive assembly includes a fiber optic rotating junction and a motor configured to rotate the rotatable portion of the fiber optic rotating junction. In some embodiments, the drive assembly includes a sensor configured to detect a rotational position of the fiber optic rotating junction and a processor configured to obtain the detected rotational position and stop the motor only when the fiber optic rotating junction is in a predetermined rotational position. In some embodiments, the motor includes a hollow shaft through which at least a portion of the fiber optic rotating junction extends.
US10244931B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods of and for an ophthalmic illuminated infusion line are provided. An example ophthalmic illuminated infusion line may include an infusion arrangement having a first flexible elongate member and a flow tube. The first flexible elongate member may have a lumen configured to deliver a fluid to an eye of a patient during a surgical procedure. The flow tube may be sized to penetrate the eye of the patient and deliver the fluid to an interior of an eye to maintain intraocular pressure during a surgical procedure. The ophthalmic illuminated infusion line may also include an optical fiber coupled to the infusion arrangement and configured to penetrate the eye of the patient with the flow tube and transmit light to illuminate the interior of the eye during the surgical procedure at the same time that the flow tube delivers the fluid to the interior of the eye.
US10244929B2
An in vivo endoscope illuminates tissue using multiple sources. Light from a short-range source exits a tubular wall of the endoscope through a first illumination region that overlaps an imaging region, and the light returns through the imaging region after reflection by tissue, to form an image in a camera. Light from a long-range source exits the tubular wall through a second illumination region that does not overlap the imaging region. The endoscope of some embodiments includes a mirror, and light from an emitter for the short-range source is split and reaches the first illumination region from both sides of an optical axis of the camera. Illuminating the first illumination region with split fractions of light results in greater uniformity of illumination, than illuminating directly with an un-split beam. The energy generated by each source is changed depending on distance of the tissue to be imaged.
US10244921B2
The present embodiments provide apparatus for facilitating endoscopic resection of tissue. The apparatus comprises proximal and distal barrels. The proximal barrel is adapted to be coupled to an endoscope. A cutting member is disposed within a lumen of the distal barrel and configured to resect a segment of tissue. In one embodiment, a central longitudinal axis of the proximal barrel is radially offset from a central longitudinal axis of the distal barrel, thereby allowing the cutting member to be centered relative to the working lumen of the endoscope. Additionally, the cutting member may comprise at least one viewing window that permits endoscopic visualization of tissue distal to the distal barrel when the cutting member is disposed within the distal barrel.
US10244917B1
The dustpan cover is a cleaning device. The dustpan cover is configured for use in collecting debris from a horizontal surface. The dustpan cover comprises a dustpan, a lid, and a fastener. The fastener attaches the lid to the dustpan. The lid is a barrier that controls access to the dustpan. The dustpan is a traditional cleaning tool used to collect debris from a horizontal surface such as a floor. The lid rotates relative to the dustpan such that the dustpan opens and closes for the collection and disposal of debris.
US10244916B2
The present application discloses a cleaning robot including a primary robot having a first controller configured to control a plurality of first sensors, a first communication module, a first moving apparatus, and a first cleaning assembly; and at least one secondary robot having a second controller configured to control a plurality of second sensors, a second communication module, a second moving apparatus, and a second cleaning assembly.
US10244914B2
A floor polishing or grinding pad assembly is provided. In one aspect, a polishing or grinding pad assembly employs a fibrous pad, a reinforcement layer or ring, and multiple floor-contacting disks. In another aspect, the reinforcement layer includes a central hole through which the fibrous pad is accessible and the fibrous pad at the hole has a linear dimension (x) greater than a linear dimension (y) of one side of the adjacent reinforcement layer. In yet another aspect, at least one of the floor-contacting disks has an angle (α) offset from that of a base surface of the disk, the fibrous pad and/or the reinforcement layer. A further aspect employs a smaller set of disks alternating between and/or offset from a larger set of the disks. In another aspect, the reinforcement layer includes a wavy or undulating internal edge shape.
US10244902B1
A back scrubber for use with a variety of different washcloths includes an elongate shaft, a frame attached to a distal end of the shaft and a set of flexible teeth extending from the frame toward the center of the frame. The frame defines an inner area over which the washcloth wraps to define a back scrubbing surface. The tips of the teeth form an opening through which an excess portion of the washcloth that wraps over the inner area and the frame enters to be in contact with an under side of the back scrubbing surface of the washcloth.
US10244898B2
Disclosed is an invention in the field of automated food preparation. The present invention particularly relates to a system and method to prepare food items by automatically placing food items on a food preparation surface utilizing a multi-axis robot. Upon loading predetermined coordinates into a computing device, a computer program calculates the instructs the robot via a controller to load the required food items via one or more food ingredient dispensing heads automatically.
US10244897B2
A spatula is disclosed that is used to implement a food preparation method having the object of forming a roll of ice-cream, in which a quantity of food product in liquid or creamy state, consisting of a basic preparation for ice-cream, is spread on a controlled cooling plane at a temperature of about −18° C., to form in a few seconds a layer of ice-cream, changed into solid or pasty state, which is subsequently scraped away by the spatula, the latter having an upper side from which a protrusion emerges that, during scraping, meets the scraped-away ice-cream and deflects the ice-cream, promoting the rolling up thereof.
US10244895B2
An automated grill cleaning system for automatically cleaning a grill in a cooker includes a cooking unit that may be used to cook. The cooking unit has a housing and a grill is positioned in the housing. The housing has an outer wall. A cleaning unit is coupled to the cooking unit and the cleaning unit is positioned on the outer wall. The cleaning unit selectively engages the grill. The cleaning unit urges itself to travel along the grill to abrade debris from the grill.
US10244890B2
A beverage preparation device, in particular a coffee maker, including at least one water pump for supplying water to a first continuous-flow heater (17), which is embodied for generating hot water, and to a second continuous-flow heater (18), which is also embodied for generating hot water and/or for generating steam, and having a control unit for controlling the at least one pump as well as the continuous-flow heaters (17, 18) for realizing different operating modes. According to the invention, provision is made for the first continuous-flow heater (17) to be connected to a first inlet (3) of a manifold valve (21) via a first connecting line (20) and for the second continuous-flow heater (18) to be connected to a second inlet (1) of the same manifold valve (21) via a second connecting line (22), and for the manifold valve (21) to be embodied in such a manner that the first inlet (3) and the second inlet (1) are fluidically connected to separate outlets in a first switch position and that the first inlet (3) as well as the second inlet (1) are fluidically connected to a common outlet in a second switch position.
US10244884B2
A method and device for producing a beverage from a capsule containing at least one beverage ingredient are disclosed. The device is configured to carry out the method by feeding a first volume of water into the capsule for prewetting the at least one beverage ingredient, interrupting the flow of water into the capsule for a predetermined waiting time, feeding a second volume of water into the capsule for extracting the at least one beverage ingredient, and dispensing the produced beverage.
US10244879B1
A beverage carafe comprises a beverage reservoir and a channel for directing a flow of liquid from the reservoir when the carafe is tilted for dispensing the liquid. The channel has a floor and an elongated protrusion projecting upward from the floor. The protrusion is transverse to the flow of the liquid through the channel and has a curved distal face and curved sides.
US10244878B2
A sleeping support assembly for reposing in a prone position includes a first cushion that is configured to support a torso of a user. A second cushion is coupled to and extends from a first end of the first cushion. A penetration is positioned through the second cushion. The penetration is substantially ovally shaped. The penetration is configured to support a head of the user who is pronely positioned upon the first cushion such that a spine of the user is aligned. The arms of the user are positioned such that blood flow to the arms is unimpaired.
US10244877B2
A flexible pillow device is provided that is formed of a plurality of pillow members connected in an aligned arrangement. The pillow members are connected along their sides and are pivotable relative to one another to form either a flat or arch configuration. The device is useful for serving as a one of a flat pillow, one that can conform to an underlying shape, or one that can form a free-standing arch shape with an open interior. In one embodiment, the pillow members include a first side portion that is aligned with an adjacent pillow member, and with a second side portion that is faceted inward to allow adjacent pillows to form against one another when in an arch configuration. Another embodiment contemplates rounded pillow members. When in an arch configuration, the open interior accommodates a user's arm for sleeping on one's side or when sleeping with a partner.
US10244874B2
An anti-theft display hanger comprising a foldover which when engaged allows for the display of fashion jewelry, traditionally necklaces, pendants and necklaces, to be more secure, harder to steal, and permanently held in a desired position until disengaged while still presently enclosed merchandise in the most aesthetically, desirable manner for the consumer.
US10244871B2
A cushion is provided, including: a first recoverable layer, having a first flow passageway; a second recoverable layer, having a second flow passageway; a separation layer, located between the first and second recoverable layers, one of two ends of the separation layer having a passage, the first flow passageway, the passage and the second flow passageway forming a circulation flow passageway, the first and second recoverable layers being connected with the separation layer; a outer layer, encompassing and being connected with the first recoverable layer, the second recoverable layer and a side portion of the separation layer.
US10244867B2
A slide rail mechanism includes a slide rail, a resilient member, and an adjusting device. The slide rail includes a front portion and a rear portion. The resilient member is located between the front portion and the rear portion of the slide rail and includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is fixed with respect to the slide rail. The adjusting device is configured for adjusting the height of the second portion with respect to the first portion.
US10244863B2
A storage apparatus with a shelf having first and second planar members hingeably coupled to each other by a hinge mechanism, and first and second walls spaced apart from each other, wherein each of the first and second walls have a means for holding the shelf at a location between the first and second walls, wherein the shelf is configured so that the first and second planar members are pivotable at angles relative to each other about the hinge mechanism for insertion into and removing from the location between the first and second walls.
US10244859B2
A broom attachment is provided for a rotary sweeper assembly that includes a broom mount and a broom unit mountable to the broom mount. The broom attachment includes a plurality of broom attachment bristles and a support member having a retained portion and a retaining portion. The plurality of bristles extend from the retaining portion and the retained portion is operatively mountable to at least one of the broom mount and the broom unit. A broom assembly includes at least one broom attachment. When the broom attachment is operatively mounted to the broom mount, the broom attachment bristles are positioned at a greater radial distance away from an axis of rotation than the cleaning bristles of the broom unit. A method of assembling a broom attachment to a broom mount includes operatively mounting the retained portion to the broom mount.
US10244857B2
A mechanically tapered bristle filament for an oral care implement. The filament is characterized by a long thin tapered end portion. The tapered end portion has a taper length and tip diameter comparable to chemically tapered filaments. The areal surface roughness of the tapered end portion however is greater than chemically tapered filaments thereby producing increased scrubbing action against the surfaces of the teeth. The foregoing taper and roughness characteristics of the present filament enhance inter-dental cleaning effectiveness.
US10244851B1
A bag carrier having an adjustable shoulder strap affixed to a ring positioned at about the user's hips. The carrier has a clip that removably attaches to the ring. The carrier has one or more hooks to support the handles of a shopping bag. The hooks may have protrusions to hold the shopping bags better on the hooks. One or more surfaces of the carrier may have recesses to lighten the bag carrier.
US10244843B2
A cosmetic container includes an enclosure including an opening; a cup shaped mount including an externally and internally extending rim disposed on the opening for partially disposing the mount in the opening, at least one port adjacent to a bottom portion, at least one valve each disposed in the port, and a main portion; a spring biased plunger partially disposed in the mount and including an annular flange on an outer surface, an inner case partially disposed in the main portion, a first channel defined by the inner case, an outer case extending outward from the flange, and a second channel defined by the outer case; a fibrous applicator including an application head and a cylindrical fastening member disposed in the second channel, and a tunnel extending through the fastening member into the application head; and a cap. The inner case can open or close the valve.
US10244841B2
A structure of a hand-carrying portion provides a method for excellent durability to use a bag for years. According to the present invention, a hand-carrying portion (14) attached to a bag main body (12) includes an outer side hand-carrying member (50) and an inner side hand-carrying member (70) overlapped to an inner side of the outer side hand-carrying member in a hand-carrying region (A1); ends of the inner side hand-carrying member are attached to an outer surface of the bag main body; and the outer side hand-carrying member has one and another ends attached to an outer side of the bag main body with an appropriate interval between attachment portions (72, 74), which the inner side hand-carrying member attached to the bag main body, in an extended region extended in a bottom direction of the bag main body from a region overlapped with the inner side hand-carrying member.
US10244838B2
A protective case for a portable electronic device. The protective case including a plurality of storage compartments for retaining a series of items. The protective case includes a removable upper portion allowing unobstructed access to the portable electronic device camera and includes a plurality of corner accessories disposed within and forming the corners of the protective case.
US10244837B2
An expendable and transportable bag is disclosed. In one embodiment, a stretchable reusable bag hidden inside a lanyard keychain is now readily available to carry goods in a moment's notice of under 5 seconds. An attachment device enables the Sneakey-Bag to consistently be with the consumer, for example, with the consumer's keys or ID card and can be put away entirely in the lanyard in 3 to 5 seconds.
US10244829B2
A lock for a zipper, the zipper comprising a chain and a slider, the chain being moveable to adopt an open and a closed configuration through movement of the slider with respect to the chain, the lock adapted to retain the slider with respect to the chain by abutting a surface of the slider.
US10244822B2
A lace routing pattern for a lacing system for an article of footwear is described. The lacing system is moved between opened and closed positions by applying tension to segments of a lace connected to a tensioning assembly of a tensioning system. Each of the lace segments are arranged to extend between opposite sides of a lacing area according to a different lace routing pattern. The lace routing patterns have equal total closure distances for each of the lace segments so that tension applied by the tensioning system will be uniformly distributed through the lacing system and the article of footwear.
US10244821B2
A sole structure of an article of footwear has a support assembly structure including a flexure element and an upper support element. The flexure element may have a central portion located between first and second ground-contacting or lower regions, wherein the central portion may have a downwardly concavely-curved shell-like region. The flexure element also may have first and second flanges extending upward from the first and second lower regions, respectively. The upper support element is positioned above the central portion and between the first and second flanges of the flexure element. When a vertical compressive load is first applied to the upper support element, the upper support element moves vertically relative to the first and second flanges. An article of footwear having the sole structure attached to an upper is also provided.
US10244812B2
A system for mitigating an impact force is provided. The system a helmet having a face mask attached thereto, and the face mask includes a first portion; and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion are separated by a gap and held together via a biasing member. A force received by the first portion is at least partially transferred to the second portion via the biasing member, wherein a fraction of the transferred force is returned to the first portion, the fraction being less than the force received.
US10244810B2
Systems, methods, and devices for protecting a user head are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise receiving, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a set of data detected by one or more sensor embedded within the helmet device. The computer-implemented method can also comprise adjusting, by the system, a pressure condition within a first set of inflatable cells of the helmet device based on the set of data.
US10244801B2
Articles of athletic garments, particularly sports bra and methods of treating the athletic garments with a shear thickening fluid (STF) are disclosed. The athletic garment comprises a STF treated fabric. The STF treated fabric in contact with the wearer's body part restricts movement of the body part when the shear stress exceeds the shear stress threshold value and stretches and conforms to the wearer's body part when the shear stress is less than the shear stress threshold value. The STF treatment method may include immersing the untreated fabric in a diluted STF bath, metering an amount of the fluid on the fabric, and removing the diluent from the treated fabric.
US10244789B2
A liquid vessel which allows a user to mount and utilize an electric vaping device as a handle. The liquid vessel includes a beverage container, a handle bridge, and a mounting hole. The beverage container holds and dispenses liquid. The handle bridge receives the electric vaping device. The handle bridge is positioned offset form a base of the beverage container and is laterally connected to the beverage container. The mounting hole traverses through the handle bridge and is positioned parallel to a central axis of the beverage container. Additionally, the mounting hole is positioned offset from the beverage container in order to provide a clearance space for the electric vaping device. A tank system of the electric vaping device is positioned within the mounting hole and a battery case of the electric vaping device is mounted to the handle bridge.
US10244776B2
A granulated phosphate composition that provides sufficient nutritional value as well as enhanced bioavailability of organic phosphorous present in a main feed ingredient. The granulated phosphate composition includes a phosphate source, such as monocalcium phosphate, mono-dicalcium phosphate, or dicalcium phosphate, and one or more feed enzymes such as phytase. When the phosphate composition is compounded and pelleted with a main feed ingredient into a feed pellet, and consumed by a non-ruminant, the phytase component of the phosphate composition liberates otherwise unavailable phosphorous present in the main feed ingredient.
US10244772B2
A chocolate mold is provided for the creation of a layered chocolate body. The chocolate mold has a tubular shell connected to a primary platform. A food-safe platform is formed within the tubular shell and atop the primary platform, serving as a base for the layered chocolate body. A shaft is connected to the food-safe platform, with the layered chocolate body being formed about the shaft. A lid and handle are attached to the shaft atop the tubular shell. An elongated slit allows the tubular shell to easily be peeled away from the layered chocolate body, while clamping mechanisms seal the tubular shell during molding of the layered chocolate body. A tilt mechanism is used to angle the primary platform and create angled chocolate layers which are visually appealing. The layered chocolate body is formed by sequentially pouring and solidifying layers of chocolate to the tubular shell.
US10244763B2
The present invention provides an antibacterial layer-attached base material which has excellent light resistance and includes an antibacterial layer exhibiting an antibacterial action within a short period of time, an antibacterial sheet, a radiation photographing device, and a touch panel. The antibacterial layer-attached base material of the present invention is an antibacterial layer-attached base material including: a base material; and an antibacterial layer which is disposed on at least a part of the surface of the base material, in which the antibacterial layer contains at least one antibacterial agent containing silver, and the amount of silver ions per a unit area measured in an extraction test is 15 to 50 ng/cm2.
US10244746B1
Improvements in an arm rest for a fishing pole is disclosed. The arm rest in this disclosure utilizes a replacement reel seat and handle attachment bracket which are installed around the rod blank using epoxy. The replacement reel seat fits onto the outside diameter of the pole and engages into the reel to transfer forces from the reel to the arm rest. A forearm cup is used to distribute loads across a wider area of the arm. The further distance from the reel, the forces are reduced by virtue of distance from the pivot point. Some adjustment allows for accommodating variation in user preference and arm geometry to minimize fatigue. The handle attachment bracket can be combined with a fore grip so the user can install any style of reel seat and in front of the reel body prior to installing the forearm cup or handle.
US10244733B1
An adaptable fence extension assembly integrates into a fence having metal T-posts and wooden posts. The assembly fixedly attaches to the termini of the fence posts. The assembly comprises an arc-shaped member that increases the height, depth, and visibility of the fence. The arc-shaped member has an interior channel having a spine that runs along the length of the interior channel. A longitudinal slot and tine enable fastening to the fence posts. When integrated into a metal T post, the longitudinal slot receives a metal T post terminus for fastening thereto. Cleats protruding from the tines, provide slots for the securing of the assembly with wire to a metal t-post. The slots provide a channel for screws and nails when attaching the assembly to wooden post. A concave side of the arc-shaped member includes a U-shaped cavity having an inlet and a narrow cavity terminus for retaining electric cable.
US10244732B2
A milking device, including: a platform that is rotatable in a direction of rotation and includes an edge and a plurality of milking stations, and a milking mechanism for milking a dairy animal; a plurality of feeding troughs which are distributed along the edge, outside next to the platform on a fixed world frame and within reach of the dairy animals on the milking stations. The feeding troughs do not have to be made unnecessarily complicated and movable or foldable, so that reliability of in particular the feed portion of such a milking device can be improved.
US10244726B2
The invention provides seed and plants of pea line SV6844QG. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of pea line SV6844QG and to methods for producing a pea plant produced by crossing a plant of pea line SV6844QG with itself or with another pea plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of pea line SV6844QG, including the seed, pod, and gametes of such plants.
US10244721B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PQNE01 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PQNE01, cells from soybean variety 5PQNE01, plants of soybean 5PQNE01, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PQNE01. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PQNE01 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PQNE01, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PQNE01, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PQNE01. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PQNE01 are further provided.
US10244720B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PESH71 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PESH71, cells from soybean variety 5PESH71, plants of soybean 5PESH71, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PESH71. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PESH71 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PESH71, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PESH71, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PESH71. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PESH71 are further provided.
US10244718B1
A novel maize variety designated PH2FNV and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2FNV with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2FNV 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 PH2FNV or a locus conversion of PH2FNV with another maize variety.
US10244715B2
The invention provides seed and plants of spinach hybrid SVVC8155 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SVVC8155 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another spinach plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the leaf and gametes of such plants.
US10244696B2
Hybrid tomato variety ‘H1538’ is described. The ‘H1538’ tomato variety is a field-culture hybrid tomato variety suitable for machine harvest.
US10244684B2
A rectangular baler including a baling chamber, an intake duct, a pick-up mechanism for picking up crop material and introducing it into the intake duct, and a stuffer mechanism to selectively execute a packer stroke to advance crop material partially along the intake duct and a stuffer stroke to transfer the crop material accumulated in the intake duct into the baling chamber. The stuffer mechanism includes a tine bar extending between two stuffer assemblies at each side of the baler. Each stuffer assembly includes a first stuffer arm connected at a first pivot point to a first crank arm of a first drive mechanism, a second stuffer arm connected at a second pivot point to a second crank arm of a second drive mechanism, and a coupling plate pivotally mounted around a stationary pivot point. The coupling plate couples the first stuffer arm with the second stuffer arm.
US10244683B2
A combine harvester including an axial flow crop processor fed by a tangentially impelling feed beater mounted for rotation on a substantially transverse axis, and a multi-speed beater drive system that includes a beater shaft upon which the beater is mounted via bearings to permit relative rotational movement, and a secondary shaft arranged parallel to the beater shaft. To achieve a first beater drive speed a first drive path is closed between the beater shaft and the beater. To achieve an alternative, second beater drive speed a second drive path is closed between the secondary shaft and the beater. Both the beater shaft and the secondary shaft are driven simultaneously during operation.
US10251318B2
A cooling system is provided which includes, for instance, a coolant supply manifold, a multifunction coolant manifold structure, and multiple cooling structures. The multifunction coolant manifold structure includes a coolant-commoning manifold and an auxiliary coolant reservoir above and in fluid communication with the coolant-commoning manifold. The multiple cooling structures are coupled in parallel fluid communication between the coolant supply and coolant-commoning manifolds to receive coolant from the supply, and exhaust coolant to the coolant-commoning manifold. The coolant-commoning manifold is sized to slow therein a flow rate of coolant exhausting from the multiple cooling structures to allow gas within the exhausting coolant to escape the coolant within the coolant-commoning manifold. The escaping gas rises to the auxiliary coolant reservoir and is replaced within the coolant-commoning manifold by coolant from the auxiliary coolant reservoir.
US10251313B2
Disclosed is the redirection of air flow in a sub-plenum using a multi-directional plume that is attached to the bottom surface of an air-grate floor panel. The air-grate floor panel 102 has openings which allow redirected air to flow in an upward direction to cool computer equipment, including servers. The multi-directional plume has a series of vanes that are disposed in various different directions to deflect a flow of air conditioning air through a sub-plenum in a vertical direction to flow through openings in the air-grate floor panel. Since the multi-directional plume is capable of redirecting air from various different directions in the sub-plenum, the air-grate floor panels do not have to be repositioned to capture air flow from any particular direction.
US10251307B2
There is provided a device for cooling a component, including a support configured to receive a component to be cooled, the support including a fluid network configured for liquid circulation therein, the network including a first cavity, a second cavity, and a first channel connecting the first cavity to the second cavity, a first deformable membrane and a second deformable membrane configured to form a mobile wall of the first cavity and a mobile wall of the second cavity respectively, the device further including an actuating device configured to actuate the first membrane and the second membrane, and a thermal conducting element close to the channel or in contact with the channel.
US10251295B2
A first main body portion and a second main body portion of an electronic package are mounted on a mount portion of a support body, first metal projections are caused to enter first receiving recesses, and second metal projections are caused to enter second receiving recesses. When a clip member is mounted in the a first direction, the first metal projections are pressed by first pressing portions of the clip member, the second metal projections are pressed by second pressing portions of the clip member, and an elastic piece is pressed against a rear side of the support body. Thus, the electronic package is secured.
US10251294B2
A load board includes an electronic component and first wiring connected thereto. A power supply board includes a DC/DC converter and second wiring connected thereto. A bus block includes prismatic block-shaped conductors arranged with a gap interposed therebetween and fixed. The bus block is held between the first plate member and the second plate member such that the end faces of the block-shaped conductors are in contact with the load board and the power supply board. The bus block is connected to the first wiring and the second wiring such that current flows in a direction from the power supply board to the load board in one of two adjacent block-shaped conductors and that current flows in a direction from the load board to the power supply board in the other block-shaped conductor.
US10251292B2
A head-mounted display configured to enhance the ease of wearing work and the stability of wearing is provided. A wearing band has an extending section and a movable section that is movable relative to the extending section in the length direction of the wearing band. A locking mechanism M is capable of switching the wearing band between an unlocked state in which the movements of the movable section in the extending direction in which the length of the wearing band is increased and in the retracting direction in which the length of the wearing band is decreased are allowed and a locked state in which the movement of the movable section in the extending direction is restricted. The movable section is urged at least in the retracting direction in an unlocked state.
US10251291B2
An electronic device may include a window member and a display module disposed on a rear surface of the window member. The display module may include a display panel with a non-bending region and a bending region, a first circuit substrate disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, a second circuit substrate electrically connecting the display panel to the first circuit substrate, a first adhesion member disposed on a rear surface of the first circuit substrate to combine the first circuit substrate with a first member different from the first circuit substrate, and a second adhesion member disposed on a rear surface of the second circuit substrate to combine the second circuit substrate with a second member different from the first circuit substrate.
US10251288B2
Tamper-respondent assemblies, electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which incorporate a vent structure. The tamper-respondent assembly includes an electronic enclosure to enclose, at least in part, an electronic component(s) to be protected. The electronic enclosure includes an inner surface, and an air vent. A tamper-respondent electronic circuit structure is provided which includes a tamper-respondent sensor disposed to cover, at least part, the inner surface of the electronic enclosure, and define, at least in part, a secure volume about the electronic component(s). The vent structure includes at least one air passage coupling in fluid communication the secure volume and the air vent of the electronic enclosure to allow air pressure within the secure volume to equalize with air pressure external to the tamper-respondent assembly.
US10251287B2
A magnetic stand for a tablet device is disclosed. The magnetic stand is configured to rigidly hold a portion of the tablet device in place and to shield the magnetic field from adversely affecting nearby devices susceptible to strong magnetic fields. The shielding portion of the magnetic stand allows for significant increases in magnetic field strength when compared to similarly configured, unshielded products.
US10251262B2
A stretchable wiring board includes: a stretchable base; at least one stretchable wiring provided on the stretchable base; and a poorly stretchable member provided so as to overlap at least part of the stretchable wiring in a thickness direction looking at the stretchable base in planar view. The poorly stretchable member suppresses change in a resistance value of the stretchable wiring associated with stretching deformation of the stretchable base. As a result, stable operability can be secured without affecting an operating voltage of an electronic component.
US10251259B2
A circuit board includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a first insulating layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, wherein the first conductive layer includes a signal line, the second conductive layer includes a ground line, and the ground line of the second conductive layer includes a pattern area patterned in a meander shape.
US10251256B2
The present invention provides a heat dissipating structure with high heat dissipation performance while reducing the electric resistance. A heat dissipating structure includes: a heat sink having a base portion, and a plurality of heat dissipating fins provided upright on a first surface of the base portion; a first heat generating component provided on a side of the first surface of the base portion while being in contact with at least one heat dissipating fin of the plurality of heat dissipating fins; a circuit board joined to a second surface, opposite to the first face, of the base portion while being electrically connected to the first heat generating component; a second heat generating component provided on the circuit board, the second heat generating component generating a smaller amount of heat than the first heat generating component; and a connector electrically connecting the first heat generating component and the second heat generating component. The connector has a first outlet into which a first connecting terminal on a side of the first heat generating component is insertable, and a second outlet into which a second connecting terminal on a side of the second heat generating component is insertable.
US10251251B2
An electrostatic dissipation device with static sensing is applicable to dissipate electrostatic charges on an object, comprising an ion transmitting unit, an ion generating unit, and astatic sensing unit. The static value of the object is provided as feedback to the ion generating unit by the static sensing unit, and the ions with polarity opposing to the static value of the object are generated by the ion generating unit, by which adequate air flow generated by the ion transmitting unit is blown to the object for ion neutralization, so that the static can be dissipated. When the static of the object is dissipated, the operation of the ion transmitting unit and the ion generating unit are ceased, so the power of the electrostatic dissipation can be saved.
US10251247B2
Techniques are described for providing a smart-mesh socket. The smart-mesh socket may be sized and shaped to be engaged with any convention light socket to provide power to one or more circuits housed within the smart-mesh socket. These circuits may include, for example, a main circuit that includes at least a dual processor for controlling the operation and communications of at least two communication circuits. The dual processors may execute instructions for an operating system, thus allowing the smart-mesh socket to provide enhanced capabilities for networked devices. The first communication circuit may include a transceiver that allows the first communication circuit to send and receive communications with other devices over a wireless network. The second communication circuit may include a passive receiver that allows the second communication circuit to track and monitor devices as those device move through a smart-mesh network.
US10251214B2
A cooktop appliance includes a bimetallic switch is positioned adjacent an electrical heating element. A first electrical conduit is coupled to a first terminal of the electrical heating element and is configured to operate at a first voltage, L1, with respect to ground. A second electrical conduit is configured to operate at a second voltage, L2, with respect to ground. A relay is configured such that the relay connects the second electrical conduit to a second terminal of the electrical heating element when the bimetallic switch is in the first configuration and is also configured such that the relay connects a neutral electrical conduit to the second terminal of the electrical heating element when the bimetallic switch is in the second configuration.
US10251208B2
A method for connection management by a user equipment includes transmitting a re-establishment request for a first connection of a first protocol layer in response to determining that a connection re-establishment condition is met, receiving a re-establishment response indicating if a re-establishment of the first connection of the first protocol layer is allowed, and completing the re-establishment of the first connection of the first protocol layer when the re-establishment of the first connection of the first protocol layer is allowed, wherein a context of a second protocol layer of the user equipment is unchanged.
US10251207B2
In order to enable wireless communication to/from an intended partner user's portable wireless communication device to be reliably established, provided is a portable wireless communication device, including first attitude information acquisition means for acquiring first attitude information indicating a roll angle or a pitch angle of the portable wireless communication device; second attitude information reception means for receiving, via wireless communication, second attitude information indicating a roll angle or a pitch angle of a partner communication device from the partner communication device; and determination means for determining whether or not to establish a communication connection to the partner communication device based on a bearing of each of the portable wireless communication device and the partner communication device, the first attitude information, and the second attitude information.
US10251203B2
A computer-implemented technique includes initiating, at a first computing device including one or more processors, communication with a second computing device via a short-range wireless communication protocol. The technique includes receiving, at the first computing device, a set of information from the second computing device via the short-range wireless communication protocol, the set of information including a port address for communication with a first application currently executing in a foreground at the second computing device via another wireless communication protocol. The technique also includes automatically configuring, at the first computing device and in response to receiving the set of information from the second computing device via the short-range wireless communication protocol, communication between a second application at the first computing device and the first application executing at the second computing device via the other wireless communication protocol using the set of information.
US10251202B2
A wireless communication system includes a first node as a source node having a wireless communication function, a second node as a destination node having a wireless communication function, and one or more third nodes configured to relay wireless communication between the first node and the second node. While a communication path through which data is sent from the first node to the second node is not established, the first node and the one or more third nodes send data in broadcast. After determining a destination in at least a part of the communication path from the first node to the second node, a node out of the first node and the one or more third nodes which has the determined destination sends data to the determined destination in unicast.
US10251201B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a method performed by an apparatus and also relate to an apparatus. The method includes transmitting to a communication device a burst including a subframe; receiving from the communication device a HARQ values associated with the subframe; and determining a random backoff contention window size based on the received HARQ values and also based on previously unused HARQ feedbacks. The apparatus is configured to perform the method steps described above.
US10251197B2
Uplink control information may not be transmitted if a CCA of the unlicensed SCC fails. Thus, the present disclosure provide a solution in which uplink control information for an unlicensed SCC may still be transmitted when a CCA of the unlicensed SCC fails. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus generates uplink control information. The apparatus also attempts to perform a CCA of a carrier for an uplink burst. In addition, the apparatus determines a failure of the CCA. In addition, the apparatus performs one of the following when it is determined that the CCA has failed: transmitting the PUCCH transmission on the carrier in a later subframe of the uplink burst, transmitting the PUCCH transmission on the carrier in a different uplink burst, or transmitting the PUCCH transmission on a different carrier.
US10251196B2
A mobile ad hoc network communication system is disclosed with a medium access control (MAC) protocol that combines features of contention and reservation to provide a hybrid MAC protocol. Gaining initial access to a channel is achieved using random access, such as a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) type protocol, in which contention for a channel occurs among users only over available (non-reserved) channels. Once communication between nodes is established over an available channel, the channel is reserved by indicating its use in packet headers, and other users do not attempt transmission over the channel until it is released. Communication on reserved channels does not require backoff or delay, creating a virtual pipe that improves throughput and delay over standard multiple-access protocols.
US10251192B2
The present disclosure provides a scheduling assignment indicating method and device-to-device (D2D)-enabled wireless device. The method is used by D2D-enabled wireless devices communicating with each other via multiple SA periods, each of which including a SA pool and a data pool, wherein the SA pool is used for transmitting SA for assigning data resource of the data pools, the method comprising: selecting SA resources in SA pools of more SA periods to transmit SA to assign the same data resource for the D2D-enabled wireless device. The SA indicating method and D2D-enabled wireless device according to the present disclosure can increase the capacity of the SA pools, avoid SA and/or data transmission collisions, and increase the robustness of the SA transmission.
US10251189B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method at a central coordination node for coordinating resources among a plurality of operating networks that is communicatively connected to the central coordination node. The method comprises receiving blanking determination related information reported from the plurality of operating networks and determining a blanking pattern for at least one of the plurality of operating networks based at least on the blanking determination related information. The method also comprises distributing the blanking pattern to the at least one of the plurality of operating networks.
US10251184B2
A 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE) is provided. A method and apparatus which perform communication in a wireless communication system using an unlicensed band, and a method in which a base station controls a clear channel assessment (CCA) timing in a wireless communication system using an unlicensed band are provided. The method includes determining whether to change CCA timing by comparing a number of at least one of continuous successes or continuous failures in a CCA with a predetermined threshold value and when it is determined that the CCA timing is to be changed, randomizing the CCA timing.
US10251175B2
The present disclosure discloses a sub-frequency band sharing method, a base station and a user terminal. The method includes: assigning a unique terminal sequence code to a user terminal, and sending the terminal sequence code to the user terminal; receiving a user data packet sent by a core network; parsing the user data packet to acquire a destination user terminal to which the user data packet is to be sent; acquiring a terminal sequence code corresponding to the destination user terminal; acquiring an idle sub-frequency band in a frequency band; and modulating the user data packet and the acquired terminal sequence code to the idle sub-frequency band according to a predetermined sequence to form modulated data, wherein upon completion of the transmission of the modulated data, the sub-frequency band occupied by the modulated data is released.
US10251170B2
There is provided a management server including a holding unit for holding a location/frequency list in which location information and frequency information are associated, a list creation unit for creating an available frequency list by extracting, from the location/frequency list, frequency information corresponding to location information received from a base station, and a list transmission unit for transmitting the available frequency list created by the list creation unit to the base station.
US10251166B2
The present invention is designed to improve spectral efficiency in a radio communication system which can use non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). Steps are provided in which a radio base station configures one of a plurality of transmission mode including a first transmission mode, which groups a plurality of transmission methods including a transmission method to employ non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and multiple-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO), and a second transmission mode, which groups a plurality of transmission methods including a transmission method to employ this NOMA and open-loop transmit diversity, and transmits a downlink signal for this user terminal based on the configured transmission mode.
US10251161B2
Disclosed is a method for determining, by a terminal, a transmission resource pool in device-to-device (D2D) communication. The method for determining a transmission resource pool comprises the steps of: indexing resource blocks within a resource block pool; and mapping the indexed resource blocks to physical resource blocks, wherein the indexed resource blocks are arranged in order of increasing resource block index, the resource block pool is used to transmit D2D signals, and information about the configuration of the resource block pool can be indicated by upper layer signaling.
US10251155B2
Aspects described herein relate to communicating using multicast in a wireless network. A connection with an access point can be established using a cellular radio access technology. An internet protocol request for multicast communications can be transmitted to the access point over the connection. Multicast data can be received from the access point over resources corresponding to over-the-air multicast communications based on the internet protocol request.
US10251154B2
Certain features relate to configuring a remote unit in a distributed antenna system (DAS) to switch between a baseband mode of operation and a measurement receiver mode of operation. In the baseband mode of operation, the remote unit can transmit a subset of baseband channels to a head-end unit or an extension unit of the DAS. The subset of baseband channels can carry wireless communication information. In the measurement receiver mode, the remote unit can transmit wideband data to the head-end unit or the extension unit of the DAS. The wideband data can include one or more of a measurement data for additional baseband channels other than the subset of baseband channels and information for use by the head-end unit to modify a configuration of the distributed antenna system.
US10251144B2
Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments where wireless nodes are arranged in a wirelessly connected environment to support a variety of remote management operations, including location tracking, status monitoring, and remote control. In an example embodiment, the wireless nodes can be deployed in a retail store and provide remote management and control over any combination of product display assemblies, locks, power strips, display shelves, display hooks, and other node types.
US10251142B2
User Equipment and method for time and frequency synchronization, the method includes: a UE measuring a primary measurement reference signal transmitted on at least one basic sub-band, where the at least one basic sub-band has a preset carrier numerology and a preset waveform configuration; calculating a first time deviation and a first frequency deviation between the UE and a base station on the at least one basic sub-band, based on a measurement result obtained by measuring the primary measurement reference signal; and keeping the UE in time and frequency synchronization with the base station on the at least one basic sub-band, based on the first time deviation and the first frequency deviation. Accordingly, time and frequency synchronization between UE and base station in a 5G system can be achieved.
US10251141B2
A communication apparatus communicating with a plurality of another communication apparatuses through a network, includes a processor; and a communication device, in which the communication apparatus and the plurality of the other communication apparatuses are separated for each synchronous system, the processor generates a first time slot including a plurality of slots for communicating a synchronous message used in a first synchronous system, and generates a second time slot including a plurality of slots for communicating a synchronous message used in a second synchronous system, and the communication device transmits the synchronous message in a multicast manner in a first slot of the first time slot in the first synchronous system, and transmits the synchronous message in the multicast manner in a second slot different from the first slot of the second time slot in the second synchronous system.
US10251134B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling transmission power to remove symbol level interference when forming differentiated beams in a wireless system. A terminal, according to the present invention, may receive, from each of M resource blocks, M reference signals, and determine a power ratio between the reference signals and data signals for each of the M reference signals, wherein the beam width for each of the M reference signals may differ depending on the index of the resource blocks, and wherein the power ratio may be determined on the basis of beam width parameters corresponding to the index of the resource blocks.
US10251128B2
A system of mobile devices, smartwatches, wearable devices, beacon devices and implemented method that make use of embedded network connection module capable of short distance connection range and low power consumption, and invented concepts of virtual service channel, virtual band, virtual user group and virtual poster, to create proximity based ad hoc inter-device communication systems such as building real-time inter-resident communication system, media information display-broadcasting system, remote emergency help request activation system, indoor short message communication system, mobile poster slideshow display stand system, object monitoring system, virtual device searching system, virtual coupon based marketing system, virtual media source exchange system, object activity alert system and waiting list registration system.
US10251126B2
A communication control method according to the present embodiment is used in a mobile communication system that supports a D2D proximity service. The communication control method comprises: an operation step of performing an operation for energy saving by a base station managing a cell in which a fixed-type user terminal, whose movement is restricted, exists; and a switching step of switching an operation mode from a normal mode to a power saving mode, by the user terminal, so that power consumption of an operation in the D2D proximity service is reduced, when the base station performs the operation for energy saving.
US10251124B2
A method for extending sleep mode in a first tag may include: determining a next transmission time to transmit data to the first tag via a communication network based on a reception schedule associated with the first tag and a paging schedule associated with the communication network, wherein the first tag is configured to transition between sleep mode and active mode based on the reception schedule associated with the first tag and the paging schedule associated with the communication network; receiving data destined for the first tag; and in response to determining that a current time does not correspond to the next transmission time to transmit data to the first tag, extending sleep mode in the first tag by storing the data destined for the first tag in a first queue associated with the first tag.
US10251115B2
Artificial intelligence-based, intelligent agent (IA) services may include an IA server assisting users of a wireless network in various communication scenarios (e.g., calls, texts, chats, etc.). A user may specify rules for managing communications directed to a User Equipment (UE) of the user. Examples of such rules may include intercepting an incoming call to the user, managing the call based on whether the user is available, determining a reason for an incoming call and notifying the user about the reason, inviting the user to join the call, adding other users to the call, recording portions of the call, providing requested information, taking notes, scheduling meetings, and providing other assistant-type services, etc. The IA services may also include monitoring, interpreting, and responding to information that is sent to, or by, the user, during a communication, in addition to implementing Machine Learning procedures for self-improvement.
US10251112B2
A user terminal according to an embodiment includes a controller configured to select a target cell to be used as a serving cell from among a plurality of cells operated at different frequencies. The controller is configured to measure qualities of neighbor cells adjacent to a current serving cell at a predetermined timing even when a quality of the current serving cell satisfies predetermined quality criteria.
US10251104B2
Base stations as well as Radio Access Network (RAN) controllers have embedded communication agents that are responsible from control messaging between these entities that enable creation and management of RAN Slices. At a given time, it is possible that multiple active RAN slices co-exist on the same base station, where each RAN slice may run its own scheduler, its own admission control and have its own handoff management parameter values.
US10251103B2
Traffic associated with user equipment that are served by a first radio access network is steered to a second radio access network based on a rate of congestion criterion. Network load is monitored by an access point to determine rate of congestion data associated with the access point. As an example, the rate of congestion represents a change in network load of the access point over a defined time period. The rate of congestion data is then transmitted to one or more neighboring access points that can utilize the rate of congestion data to facilitate traffic steering, load balancing, and/or neighbor relationship management.
US10251100B2
Methods, source network node and target network node for handover of a wireless communication device
A method performed by a source network node for handover of a wireless communication device in a first wireless communications network using a first RAT is provided. The handover is to be performed from the source network node to a target network node. The wireless communication device is configured to communicate with the source network node directly and to communicate with the source network node via a radio access node in a second wireless communications network using a second RAT.The source network node provides (401) the target network node with information about parameters relating to a communication between the wireless communication device and the source network node via the radio access node.The source network node receives (402) a feedback from the target network node. The feedback comprises an indication of whether or not the radio access node was able to keep a context of the wireless communication device in the second wireless communications network. The context comprises an identity of the wireless communication device in the second wireless communications network, and information required to interact with the wireless device in the second wireless communications network.
US10251092B1
A device may include one or more processors. The one or more processors may identify a set of network tunnels or network sessions for which a teardown is to be performed. The set of network tunnels or network sessions may be associated with a set of identifiers. The one or more processors may generate a signaling message associated with causing the teardown to be performed on the set of network tunnels or network sessions. The signaling message may include two or more identifiers of the set of identifiers. The one or more processors may transmit the signaling message to cause the teardown to be performed on two or more network tunnels or network sessions, of the set of network tunnels or network sessions, corresponding to the two or more identifiers.
US10251091B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a traffic offloading method and apparatus. The method includes: calculating, by a first network node, a first packet loss rate of a first forwarding tunnel in a preset period; when the first packet loss rate is higher than a first preset threshold, reducing a rated bandwidth of the first forwarding tunnel by a first preset bandwidth, so as to obtain a first available bandwidth; and when traffic forwarded over the first forwarding tunnel exceeds the first available bandwidth, offloading excess to-be-forwarded traffic to the second data link for forwarding. Because the first available bandwidth is less than an original available bandwidth of the first forwarding tunnel, the to-be-forwarded traffic exceeds the first available bandwidth at an earlier time, traffic is offloaded by the first network node in advance, and a serious packet loss is less likely to occur before traffic offloading.
US10251088B2
Load balancing is facilitated utilizing geographical location and mobility speed. An example method includes receiving, by a first cell device including a processor and associated with a first cell, from a device of devices, information indicative of whether the device has detected cell type information from a second cell device associated with a second cell, wherein at least a portion of the second cell is located within a first boundary of the first cell. The method also includes: determining, by the first cell device, a mobility characteristic of the device, wherein the devices comprise respective mobility characteristics; and selecting, by the first cell device, the device of the devices to associate with the second cell based on the mobility characteristic of the device.
US10251083B2
A method includes determining that a first receiver of a node of a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is in an electromagnetic contested environment for a first frequency. The method also includes scanning a frequency coverage range of a second receiver of the node for unused frequencies. The method additionally includes selecting a frequency from the unused frequencies, the selected frequency to be used for communication of messages from another node of the MANET to the node via the second receiver. The method further includes transmitting, to the other node, a message including information of the selected frequency via the transmitter.
US10251076B2
A customer self-service tuning system assists a mobile device user in adjusting his network settings and device configuration. Device, network and performance metrics are stored for a population. Over time all of these suggest changes in the device or network that change measured performance. The potential improvement(s) are presented to the user for selection. Performance measurements are taken and the user can choose to go forward with the new configuration or to revert. Each time a user requests self-care service, a new cohort is extracted from the then current overall population and analyzed for similarity to the user at that point in time. Each time an improvement is selected, the history of device states and network states is augmented. Identified variances are transformed into an action plan specific to a user and implemented on the device or network upon concurrence.
US10251072B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to antenna adjustment for unsynchronized MU-MIMO communication. A device may determine a first signal associated with a first antenna of the device. The device may determine a second signal associated with a second antenna of the device. The device may cause to send the first signal and the second signal to one or more first devices. The device may identify a feedback message from at least one of the one or more first devices. The device may determine one or more antenna adjustments associated with at least one of the first antenna or the second antenna.
US10251071B2
An incremental scheduling scheme is proposed in a wireless communication system with beamforming. In an initial stage (stage-1), coarse scheduling plan is granted via control beam transmission. In a second stage (stage-2), fine scheduling plan is granted via dedicated beam transmission. Such incremental scheduling scheme provides load balancing for overhead channels on control/dedicated beams via stage-2 scheduling. It utilizes dedicated beam transmission that is more resource efficient and more UE-specific. Furthermore, it provides UE natural power-saving opportunities via stage-1 scheduling.
US10251056B2
Electronic device with gesture actuation of companion devices, and corresponding systems and methods
An electronic device includes a biometric sensor, such as a fingerprint sensor, to identify biometric input. One or more processors are then operable to identify at least one paired device and at least one companion device operating within a wireless communication radius. The paired device then detects and identifies a simple gesture, communicating this in an electronic communication to a wireless communication circuit of the electronic device. The one or more processors then identify at least one authentication agent operating on the at least one companion device and select at least one authentication credential for the at least one authentication agent. The wireless communication circuit then delivers an authentication credential in response to the predefined gesture input.
US10251050B2
A method and an apparatus for providing, setting, maintaining, and releasing a packet data network (PDN) connection on the basis of a local area in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving the PDN subscription information on the basis of the local area from a business operator server, inspecting whether the current location information for the terminal exists in the PDN subscription information on the basis of the local area, and starting a procedure for setting the PDN on the basis of the local area when the current location information exists therein.
US10251046B2
It is possible to achieve fast high-frequency link discovery by communicating location parameters identifying a spatial location of a mobile device over a low-frequency interface to a low-frequency access point (AP). The location parameters are then used to identify antenna configuration parameters (e.g., precoders, etc.) for communicating discovery signals between the mobile device and a high-frequency access point. In one embodiment, the low-frequency AP relays the location parameters to the high-frequency AP, which uses the spatial location of the mobile device to perform link discovery. In another embodiment, the low-frequency AP communicates high-frequency antenna configuration parameters to the mobile device over the low-frequency interface.
US10251043B2
A charging device includes an integrated broadband transceiver that is operable to communicate wireless signals at a power level that is below a spurious emissions mask. The wireless signals are communicated over a designated frequency spectrum band via one or more antennas. The wireless signals convey data between the charging device and a communication device via one or more usable channels within the frequency spectrum band utilized by the integrated broadband transceiver. Concurrent with the communicating, charging of the communication device occurs. One or more usable channels within the frequency spectrum band utilized by the integrated broadband transceiver may be detected. The charging and the communication of the wireless signals occurs currently on the same ones or different ones of the one or more antennas. The detected one or more usable channels may be aggregated and utilized for the communication by the integrated broadband transceiver.
US10251040B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a communication circuit configured to perform short range communication with a mobile device by using a first communication channel and perform wireless communication with an external output device by using a second communication channel and a control circuit configured to, when the mobile device is located on or in close proximity to the housing, obtain content that is being output by the mobile device through the first communication channel and transmit the obtained content to the external output device through the second communication channel.
US10251039B2
If an information processing apparatus obtains a plurality of pieces of connection from a near field communication tag, the information processing apparatus displays a selection screen via which a piece of connection information is selected from among the plurality of pieces of connection information. If a piece of connection information is selected, the information processing apparatus establishes wireless communication based on the selected connection information.
US10251037B2
A computing device, such as a smartphone, can replace the hardware of various instruments to overcome the cost issue in designing universal smart instruments. Distinguished from traditional instruments, a universal smart instrument takes the maximum advantage of the latest smart phone or mobile computing devices. The instrument control panel is realized on the smartphone by applying the interactive graphical representation of control and indicator elements common in real instruments such as knobs, buttons, dials, graphs and the like. Universal smart instruments unify heterogeneous measurement probes on the market into a single device that can be readily modified or expanded when new technologies need to be added to the existing system or current measurement requirement change. Universal smart instruments also make use of the internet to publish and share data, which was unable to be achieved in conventional propriety instruments.
US10251026B2
A system, computer program product, and method for displaying a warning graphic for traffic congestion is provided. The method begins with determining a mobile device approaching a zone comprising traffic congestion. Next a first warning graphic of the traffic congestion is displayed to the at least one mobile device approaching that zone, the warning graphic displayed on the one mobile device. A location of the mobile device is tracked overtime approaching that zone. The mobile device approaching is updated that zone regarding a progress of the traffic congestion indicated in the first warning graphic by displaying at least one follow-up warning graphic on the at least one mobile device, provided prior to the traffic congestion being cleared.
US10251019B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for determining a position indicator are presented. In some embodiments, position data indicating a position of a mobile device is obtained. A position indicator is determined based on at least one region of a map. The position of the mobile device is located within the at least one region. The position indicator indicates a map-feature-dependent region of the map. The position indicator is provided.
US10251008B2
An audio system that adjusts one or more beam patterns emitted by one or more loudspeaker arrays based on the preferences of users/listeners is described. The audio system includes an audio receiver that contains a listener location estimator, a listener identifier, and a voice command processor. Inputs from the listener location estimator, the listener identifier, and the voice command processor are fed into an array processor. The array processor drives the one or more loudspeaker arrays to emit beam patterns into the listening area based on inputs from each of these devices. By examining the location, preferred usage settings, and voice commands from listeners, the generated beam patterns are customized to the explicit and implicit preferences of the listeners with minimal direct input. Other embodiments are also described.
US10251003B2
An external component including a vibratory portion configured to vibrate in response to a sound signal to evoke a hearing percept via bone conduction and including a coupling portion configured to removably attach the external component to an outer surface of skin of a recipient of the hearing prosthesis while imparting deformation to the skin of the recipient at a location of the attachment, in a one-gravity environment, of an amount that is about equal to or equal to that which results from the external component having mass.
US10250994B2
Embodiments are directed to a micro transducer array comprising a shared motor system having a base plate and mounting interfaces to a frame of a portable electronic device; a first transducer comprising a first magnet disposed between the base plate and a first top plate, and a first diaphragm projecting sound out of a surface of the portable device; a second transducer comprising a second magnet disposed between the base plate and a second top plate, and a second diaphragm projecting sound of an opposite surface of the portable device; a first pair of input terminals inputting a first audio signal to the first transducer; and a second pair of input terminals inputting a second audio signal to the second transducer.
US10250992B2
The present disclosure discloses a speaker. The speaker includes a fixing unit and a vibration unit; the fixing unit includes a frame, a lower clamping plate, a main magnet, an auxiliary magnet and an upper clamping plate, the lower clamping plate and the frame are assembled to define accommodating space to accommodate the main magnet, a magnetic gap is defined between the main magnet and the auxiliary magnet, and the upper clamping plate fixes the auxiliary magnet in the accommodating space; the upper clamping plate includes body portion and bendings, the body portion matches the auxiliary magnet in shape, the auxiliary magnet is clamped between the body portion and the lower clamping plate, the auxiliary magnet is recessed with respect to each of the bendings to define avoiding portions at an outer side of the auxiliary magnet, and each of the bendings passes through one of the avoiding portions.
US10250986B2
A production work flow optimized multichannel virtual reality microphone that has its own rendering software allowing for the recording, rendering, and playing back of immersive, head-trackable positional audio for 360 video, gaming, and virtual reality applications. The multichannel microphone used to record multiple binaural sound perspectives, has eight microphones coupled to a rotatable disc frictionally mounted on the outside of a truncated spherical shell, an internal, detachable clamp for attaching the shell to a vertical pole stand, and easily accessible microphone output connections configured as four stereo microphone pairs, spaced closely to an average set of human ears. The microphone output connections are located on an internal support member. These are accessible through upper and lower lids and a door. Four small baffles simulating the pinna of the human ear reside on the disc, separating the paired microphones.
US10250971B1
The present application discloses a speaker box. The speaker box includes a lower cover; an upper cover engaging with the lower cover for forming an accommodating space; a speaker accommodated in the accommodating space, and including a diaphragm with a dome attached to the diaphragm; a front sound cavity formed by the diaphragm and the upper cover; an air adsorbent plate attached to the dome; and an auxiliary film attached to the dome. The dome forms a through-hole communicating with the front sound cavity, and the air adsorbent plate strides over the through-hole, while the auxiliary film covers the through-hole on another surface of the dome.
US10250955B2
A system of sensor nodes is combined with an RF hub that transmits RF power to the sensors and receives data therefrom. The sensor nodes contain: one or more sensors for measuring indoor conditions, an antenna, an energy storage element, and electronics for powering the system via harvesting RF energy, reading sensor data, and communicating sensor data. The sensors, antenna, and other components on the nodes can be fabricated conventionally, or via printing. They may be fabricated as “flexible hybrid electronics”, in which conventional components are bonded onto flexible substrates. The RF hub consists of one or more antennas capable of transmitting RF power electronics for steering the center of radiation of the RF power in at least one direction or in more than one direction electronics for receiving a demodulating RF data signal. The RF hub may be powered directly from the building.
US10250954B2
An electronics module for coupling to a module arrangement, in particular valve island, in a line-up direction, comprises a casing which comprises a front side, a back side, an upper side, a bottom side and two opposite lateral surfaces extending along the line-up direction in relation to a state mounted on the module arrangement. In the casing an electronics is accommodated and at least a first bus connection and two second bus connections are provided, which are connected to the electronics within the casing. The at least one first bus connection is arranged either on the upper side or on the bottom side, while a second bus connection is arranged on each of the lateral surfaces, respectively. A module assembly comprises a module arrangement, in particular a valve island, and an electronics module, wherein the electronics module directly abuts on the module arrangement in the line-up direction, and is detachably connected thereto in a non-destructive manner.
US10250951B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for planning, executing, reviewing, and reporting the results of an advertising campaign to be run on TV. A demand-side platform receives ad slot opportunities from TV programming sources, and analyzes the ad slots to produce a prioritized list of placement opportunities for the advertising campaign to be presented to advertiser/clients. Each ad slot is analyzed with respect to past viewership data and with respect to desired targeting characteristics that may include conventional age and gender targeting, or additionally strategic targeting characteristics. Scores are established for each ad slot with respect to numbers of projected on-target impressions and/or a cost for projected on-target impressions. The scores are sorted to produce the prioritized list. Projected results can be viewed with respect to any or all of network, day, and daypart. After a campaign has completed, viewership data representing actual results is acquired, processed, and reported.
US10250950B2
Techniques for use in determining redress measures for a television (TV) service outage based on impact analysis are described. A TV service outage may be associated with a TV system apparatus including a TV user interface (UI). In one illustrative example, one or more subscribers impacted by the TV service outage are determined. An impact score is determined for each one of the subscribers. A redress measure for each one of the subscribers is then determined in accordance with their corresponding impact scores. An impacted subscriber and/or an impact score may be determined based at least in part on subscriber TV usage data or subscriber TV UI usage data.
US10250944B2
A multi-platform television comprises at least one television signal interface to receive premium television services from at least two different television service providers. The television further comprises a programmable conditional access system to enable conditional access to the premium television services received by the at least one television signal interface from the at least two different service providers.
US10250943B2
A method and apparatus for managing content, where content received or generated in a device is automatically grouped and managed in real-time, and a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method which includes detecting whether content is received or generated by a device, grouping the received or generated content with another received or generated content, and displaying the grouped content on the device, wherein the another content includes at least one content received or generated before the detected received or generated content.
US10250942B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to detect shapes are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include determining a first likelihood of detection for a reference shape at a first distance from an image capturing device, and storing the reference shape in a first group of a plurality of groups in the database based on a comparison of the first likelihood of detection with a first threshold, the first group associated with the first distance. Disclosed examples also include selecting reference shapes of the first group to compare to an object outline detected in an image in response to a query, the query including a depth value associated with the detected object outline, the selecting of the reference shapes of the first group based on the depth value.
US10250940B2
A video stream control method, system, and a computer program product include analyzing a video stream to identify a section of the video stream where a condition will occur, delivering a notification that the condition will occur in the section of the video stream and modifying the video stream before the section of the video stream is played, and selecting a type of delivery of the section of the video stream based on a set of rules factoring the condition and user data at a time of the notification.
US10250927B2
A method for synchronizing playback of a program including a video and associated first audio at a first electronic device with playback of a second audio associated with the program at a second electronic device that also receives the first audio, the method comprising: decoding, by a first audio decoder in the second electronic device, the first audio, and outputting the decoded first audio; decoding, by a second audio decoder in the second electronic device, the second audio and outputting the decoded second audio for playing back by the second electronic device; receiving a user command to synchronize the playback of the video at the first electronic device and playback of the second audio at the second electronic device; responsive to the user command, the method further comprising capturing, by a capturing device in the second electronic device, the playback of the first audio at the first electronic device; determining, by the second electronic device, an offset between the outputted decoded first audio and the captured first audio; and adjusting outputting of the decoded second audio according to the offset, so that the playback of the first audio at the first electronic device is synchronized with the playback of the second audio at the second electronic device.
US10250920B2
An image transmission apparatus includes a processor that superimposes a marker image for visualizing a connection status of a plurality of links between a transmission side and a reception side on an image displayed at the reception side at a specific position of an image frame, interleaves an image on which the marker image is superimposed for a predetermined pixel unit to divide the image into a plurality of signal streams, and transmits the signal streams via the plurality of links.
US10250915B2
A system, method, and software for mobile video display and management includes acquiring a plurality of streams of video data from a plurality of cameras. The plurality of streams of video data are stored and plurality of selected streams of video data that includes at least one stream of recorded video data and at least one stream of live video data are presented in a graphical user interface of a remote device.
US10250906B2
An image processing apparatus comprising a supply unit configured to supply image data one piece of pixel data at a time, and an encoding unit configured to encode the image data supplied by the supply unit, the encoding unit selecting, as prediction pixel data, locally decoded data of one pixel out of n pixels (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2) that were encoded immediately before a pixel to be encoded and have been locally decoded, and encoding a difference between the prediction pixel data and data of the pixel to be encoded, wherein the supply unit supplies pixel data to the encoding unit in a predetermined order according to which all of the n pixels are pixels that are adjacent to the pixel to be encoded.
US10250902B2
The present invention relates to a method for encoding a video and a method for decoding a video in a multilayer structure, and an apparatus using the same. The method for decoding the video according to the present invention comprises the steps of: specifying a current layer reference location for specifying a current block from a current layer; specifying a reference layer reference location corresponding to the reference location of the current layer, from the reference layer; inducing motion information from the reference layer reference location based on the size of motion information saving units; and scaling the induced motion information and inducing the same into a motion vector used for recovering a picture in the current layer.
US10250901B2
Provided is a transmitting device including a hierarchical classification section that classifies image data of each picture constituting moving image data into a plurality of layers, an image coding section that codes the classified image data of each layer, and generates a video stream holding the coded image data of each layer, and a transmitting section that transmits a container in a prescribed format that includes the generated video stream. The image coding section performs coding so that a referenced picture belongs to a layer of referencing image data and/or a layer lower than the layer of the referencing image data.
US10250899B1
In one example, a device for accessing image data includes a memory configured to store image data and one or more processors configured to code a plurality of bit length values for a plurality of block fixed length code length (bflc_len) values for a plurality of blocks of a tile or sub-tile of an image, the bit length values representing numbers of bits used to code the blfc_len values, code the bflc_len values for each of the plurality of blocks such that the bflc_len values have numbers of bits indicated by the respective bit length values, code the codewords for each of the plurality of blocks such that the codewords have the numbers of bits indicated by the bflc_len values for corresponding blocks of the plurality of blocks, and access the bit length values, the bflc_len values, and the codewords in the memory.
US10250895B2
A system for encoding and/or decoding a video bitstream that includes a base bitstream and enhancement bitstreams representative of a video sequence. The receiver receives a video parameter set and a video parameter set extension, where the video parameter set extension includes decoder picture buffer parameters.
US10250894B1
Multiple videos having individual time durations may be obtained, including a first video with a first time duration. The videos may include visual information defined by one or more electronic media files. An initial portion of the first time duration where the one or more electronic media are to be transcoded may be determined, including determining whether the first time duration is greater than a predefined threshold and if the first time duration is greater than the predefined threshold, determining the initial portion to be an initial time duration that is less than the first time duration. One or more transcoded media files may be generated during the initial portion. A request for the first video may be received from a client computing platform. In response to receipt of the request, the one or more transcoded media files may be transmitted to the client computing platform for display.
US10250888B2
An electronic device includes an operation processor for encoding image data that is generated by capturing an object, and a communication circuit for communicating with an external device. The operation processor divides an image represented by the image data into a first region and a second region based on an information signal that is received from the external device, encode first image data corresponding to the first region by a first encoding manner, and encode second image data corresponding to the second region by a second encoding manner. An outline of the first region varies depending on a shape of a display device of the external device.
US10250884B2
Techniques and systems are provided for encoding and decoding video data. For example, a method of decoding video data includes obtaining an encoded video bitstream comprising one or more layer sets and one or more additional layer sets. The encoded video bitstream includes a video parameter set defining parameters of the encoded video bitstream. The one or more layer sets are defined in a base part of the video parameter set, and the one or more additional layer sets are defined in an extension part of the video parameter set. The method further includes decoding one or more syntax elements from the video parameter set. The one or more syntax elements include rate information for the one or more layer sets defined in the base part of the video parameter set and for the one or more additional layer sets defined in the extension part of the video parameter set.
US10250881B2
A video encoding/decoding apparatus and method are disclosed. The video encoding/decoding apparatus includes: a video encoder for generating predicted subblocks by predicting subblocks into which macroblock is divided, generating residual subblocks by subtracting predicted subblocks from subblocks, generating quantized transform coefficients by transforming and quantizing residual subblocks by using transform selected according to subblock size, and generating encoded video data by using different context tables according to the macroblock and subblocks when using CABAC to encode the quantized transform coefficients; and a video decoder for reconstructing information of partition type, motion, transform type and quantized transform coefficients by decoding encoded data by using a CABAC and different context tables according to a macroblock and subblocks, reconstructing residual subblocks by inverse-quantizing/inverse-transforming the quantized transform coefficients by using a transform identified by the transform type information, generating predicted subblocks, reconstructing the subblocks, and reconstructing the macroblock based on the subblocks.
US10250880B2
The present invention relates to video encoding/decoding methods and device, wherein the video encoding method according to the invention comprises the following steps: acquiring information of peripheral blocks; setting the information about a current block based on the information of the peripheral blocks; and encoding the current block based on the set information, wherein the current block and the peripheral blocks may be a CU (coding unit).
US10250868B1
This disclosure describes techniques for synchronizing data streams. In some instances, a computing device couples to multiple sensors, such as cameras, and applies accurate timestamp information to the individual frames of sensor data from the independent sensors. After aligning these data streams by applying these accurate timestamps, the computing device may, in some instances, encode and transmit these timestamped data streams to one or more entities for further processing. In one example, a first camera (e.g., a depth camera configured to generate a depth map) may capture images of an environment, as may a second camera (e.g., an Red-Green-Blue (RGB) camera configured to generate color images). The resulting images may be temporally aligned with one another via the timestamping, and the resulting aligned images from both the depth sensor and the RGB camera may be used to create a three-dimensional (3D) model of the environment.
US10250865B2
A dual image capture assembly for acquiring and transmitting images from a binocular scope for three-dimensional (3D) viewing on a user computing device. The dual image capture assembly includes a pair of eyepiece adaptors each configured to attach on the pair of eyepieces of a binocular scope, and a dual-camera apparatus including a pair of image capture devices respectively coupled with the pair of eyepiece adaptors. The dual-camera apparatus also includes a linker connecting the first and second camera components.
US10250856B2
Laser safety systems, devices, and methods for use in laser projectors are described. A laser projector includes any number of laser diodes that each emit laser light, a shared laser diode power source, a photodetector to detect a power/intensity of a portion of the laser light, a beam splitter to direct a first portion of the light towards the photodetector and a second portion of the light towards an output on the projector, and a laser safety circuit responsive to signals from the photodetector. The laser safety circuit selectively electrically couples/uncouples the laser diodes from the power source depending on the power/intensity of the laser light detected by the photodetector. Particular applications of the laser safety systems, devices, and methods in a wearable heads-up display are described.
US10250850B2
A private conversation request is received from a first communication apparatus, and a region of fixed range based on the position of a first user is set as a first conversation-listening area. Based on a position management database, a second communication apparatus positioned inside the first conversation-listening area from among one or a plurality of second communication apparatus is detected as a first evacuation communication apparatus, and an evacuation order causing the first evacuation communication apparatus to be evacuated from the first conversation-listening area is transmitted to the first evacuation communication apparatus.
US10250847B2
A video endpoint and related methods are disclosed. A video endpoint includes a control circuit configured to provide a user interface configured to enable a user to communicate with another user of another video endpoint with text during video communications with the other user. The user interface is also configured to enable the user to select from text strings stored in a database. A method of operating the video endpoint includes transmitting data corresponding to a selected one of the text strings stored in the database to the other video endpoint during the video communications responsive to the user selecting the selected one of the text strings. A method of transforming a computing device into a video endpoint includes storing computer-readable instructions directed to performing the functions of the control circuit on one or more servers, and transmitting the computer-readable instructions to the computing device.
US10250839B2
A mobile terminal includes: a display unit; a sensing unit configured to detect an input signal; and a control unit configured to display a 360-degree video on the display unit and control the sensing unit to detect the input signal. In correspondence to a first input signal for playing the 360-degree video at a first playing angle, the control unit displays a first image played at the first playing angle on the display unit. When a second input signal for changing a playing angle of the 360-degree video to a second playing angle different from the first playing angle is detected, the control unit displays a second image played at the second playing angle as a main screen on the display unit and displays the first image played at the first playing angle as a PIP screen on the display unit.
US10250834B2
Methods and device for a readout circuit according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a storage device selectively coupled to an input signal having a voltage value within a first voltage range. A comparator may compare the voltage value of the input signal to a predetermined threshold voltage. A level-shifting circuit may shift the first voltage value of the input signal to a second voltage value within a second voltage range if the first voltage value of the input signal is greater than the predetermined threshold voltage.
US10250833B2
Using the same image sensor to capture a two-dimensional (2D) image and three-dimensional (3D) depth measurements for a 3D object. A laser point-scans the surface of the object with light spots, which are detected by a pixel array in the image sensor to generate the 3D depth profile of the object using triangulation. Each row of pixels in the pixel array forms an epipolar line of the corresponding laser scan line. Timestamping provides a correspondence between the pixel location of a captured light spot and the respective scan angle of the laser to remove any ambiguity in triangulation. An Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in the image sensor operates as a Time-to-Digital (TDC) converter to generate timestamps. A timestamp calibration circuit is provided on-board to record the propagation delay of each column of pixels in the pixel array and to provide necessary corrections to the timestamp values generated during 3D depth measurements.
US10250828B1
An image sensor has global shutter imaging pixel cells, each including an anti-blooming transistor gate for modifying electric charge within a photodiode and for setting the photodiode to a selected potential. The sensor also has a row decoder circuit providing readout signals to each row of the imaging cells during both a readout interval and during a calibration interval for each row and providing to the anti-blooming transistor drain a selectable potential supply voltage. A mode select switch within the row decoder circuit applies either a standard drain supply voltage or an adjustable low voltage to the anti-blooming transistor drain. A programmable function logic circuit determines the timing of operation of the mode select switch to provide knee-point calibration to minimize photo conversion variations that lead to fixed pattern noise.
US10250814B2
An image signal processor apparatus according to an embodiment is provided with a first image signal processor apparatus configured to receive first image data as input and a second image signal processor apparatus configured to receive second image data as input, in which the second image signal processor apparatus, using a first signal that the first image signal processor apparatus uses for first image processing to adjust pixel values of the first image data, performs the first image processing to adjust pixel values of the second image data.
US10250809B2
A system and method for stabilizing video using a census kernel having test points. A subset form a connected circle centered on the kernel's center point. For each candidate pixel, a signature is calculated based on the relative brightness of the candidate pixel and of the pixels corresponding to test points when the kernel overlays the image with the center point over the candidate pixel. A candidate pixel is designated to be a corner pixel by processing the signature to determine that the candidate pixel is significantly brighter or darker than the test point pixels. For each corner pixel, a corresponding pixel in the previous frame is identified by comparing the signature of the corner pixel with signatures of pixels in the previous frame, and a corresponding motion vector is established. A motion model is calculated based on the motion vectors and applied to the digital frame.
US10250806B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, and particularly, to an electronic device and a method for controlling image shooting and image outputting. To this end, the present disclosure provides a method for controlling image shooting and image outputting in an electronic device. The method includes: determining whether the electronic device is in an image shooting or image outputting; and controlling a function associated with the determined image shooting or image outputting to be performed through a single lens contained in the electronic device.
US10250787B2
A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, a light sensor arranged on the circuit board and electrically coupled to the circuit board, and a camera module. The camera module includes a connector arranged on the circuit board and electrically coupled to the circuit board. Projections of the light sensor and the connector on a plane parallel to the first side and the second side are fully or partially overlapped with each other. A related terminal is also provided.
US10250785B2
An electronic apparatus capable of performing efficient dissipation of heat generated within the apparatus, thereby making uniform the exterior temperature of the apparatus, without increasing the manufacturing costs and size of the apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a circuit board having an electric component as a heat source mounted thereon, a thermal connection member forming part of a battery chamber, a heat pipe having one end connected to the electric component and the other end thermally connected to the thermal connection member, and a battery insertion part forming part of the battery chamber. The battery insertion part is disposed closer to a battery insertion port than the thermal connection member is. The battery insertion part is formed of a material lower in thermal conductivity than the thermal connection member.
US10250784B2
An imager assembly for a vehicle is disclosed. The assembly comprises an optic lens comprising a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, and a longitudinal axis extending there between. An imager circuit is in conductive connection with an imager connector. The imager connector is configured to communicatively connect the imager circuit to the vehicle. A lens holder of a conductive material forms a shielded cavity configured to receive the proximal end portion of the optic lens and the imager circuit. The lens holder is configured to align the imager with the longitudinal axis of the optic lens.
US10250781B1
An instrument for locating noise in a CATV system is disclosed. The instrument comprises an electrical circuit assembly moveable within an outer body. The electrical circuit assembly includes a filter configured to suppress noise frequencies in the CATV system. The instrument also includes a mechanical biasing element coupled to the electrical circuit assembly to bias the electrical circuit assembly in a position relative to the outer body.
US10250779B2
The image processing apparatus (10) includes an image matching unit (14) that performs a process of matching a positional relationship between read image data which is any one of the first read image data (24) and second read image data obtained by color conversion of the first read image data (24) and original document image data (20) of the target printed matter (22); a statistical processing unit (16) that generates statistical information that reflects a distribution of read image signal values of the read image data in each image region of the read image data corresponding to an image region having the same original document image signal values in the original document image data (20); and a mismatching detection unit (18) that detects color mismatching between the original document image data (20) and the target printed matter (22) on the basis of the statistical information.
US10250773B2
An image reading device includes: light receiving sensors configured to read an image of a document conveyed in a sub-scanning direction and be arranged with an interval in a main scanning direction; one pair of document conveying rollers configured to be provided in front and back of the light receiving sensors in a document conveying direction; a detection unit configured to detect an image overlap amount in an image overlap area and/or an image missing amount in an image missing area; an adjustment amount determination unit configured to determine an adjustment amount for adjusting a distance between the document and the light receiving sensors based on the image overlap amount and/or image missing amount detected; and a drive unit configured to adjust a distance between the document and the light receiving sensors by displacing one of the document conveying rollers and light receiving sensors according to the adjustment amount.
US10250769B2
An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit, an image forming unit, and a controller. The reading unit is configured to acquire image data by reading an image on a first sheet. The image forming unit is configure to form an image from the image data on a second sheet using a first color material and a second color material. The controller is configured to perform text recognition on the image data, cause the image forming unit to form text from the image data on the second sheet using the second color material, and cause the image forming unit to form portions of the image data other than the text on the second sheet using the first color material.
US10250768B2
A user interface of a printer displays instructions to use the printer's document scanner for scanning a sheet of print media (of a stack of print media being added to the paper drawer) in response to a drawer sensor detecting the opening of the paper drawer. The document scanner generates an electronic image of the sheet of print media from the scanning of the sheet of print media. The processor evaluates the electronic image of the sheet of print media to identify the media type and color of the stack of print media being added to the paper drawer. For example, this is done by evaluating the size, color characteristic, transparency, and reflection characteristic of the electronic image of the sheet of print media. Then, the electronic memory records that the paper drawer contains the stack of print media having a specific media type and color.
US10250763B2
An input device includes a display on which an operation screen is displayed, at least one protrusion displayed along an outer edge of the display, and a detector in which a display region of the display is set as a detection region. In a case where a continuous operation input in a direction provided with the protrusion is detected, a function corresponding to the continuous operation input is enabled faster than in a case where a continuous operation input in a direction different from the direction is detected.
US10250754B2
The disclosure relates to a network resources brokering system, comprising: a communication network with at least one enforcement function for preferential treatment and charging; and a brokering entity, configured to receive requests from a plurality of network entities for providing preferential treatment during usage of chargeable resources within a predefined charging period, each request comprising an electronic bid value competing with other network entities for preferential treatment during the usage of chargeable resources in the charging period, wherein the brokering entity is configured to rank each network entity from the plurality of network entities into one of a multiplicity of success classes based upon their electronic bid values offered and to interwork with the at least one enforcement function for preferential treatment and charging.
US10250751B2
A mobile conference system including a first mobile master hands-free unit and a second mobile slave hands-free unit, each having a microphone, a loudspeaker, a battery unit, an operating unit, a lighting unit, and a first transmitting/receiving unit for bidirectional wireless communication between the first and second mobile hands-free units. The first mobile hands-free unit includes a second transmitting/receiving unit for wireless bidirectional audio communication with an external unit. The first mobile hands-free unit is configured to wirelessly transmit audio signals received from the external unit via the second transmitting/receiving unit to the second mobile hands-free unit via the first transmitting/receiving unit, to mix audio signals received from the second mobile hands-free unit via the first transmitting/receiving unit with audio signals recorded via the at least one microphone of the first hands-free unit, and to wirelessly transmit said audio signals to the external unit via the second transmitting/receiving unit.
US10250748B1
Systems and methods for unified calling are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method may include (1) using a soft phone application executed by a computer processor, communicating, to a telephony server, an agent status indicating a readiness of the agent to manually make a telephone call; (2) receiving, on a computer terminal, an indication of a telephone number to call; and (3) manually dialing the telephone number using a telephone. The soft phone application emulates an analog connection with the telephony server.
US10250740B2
An echo path monitoring system for controlling an adaptive filter configured to estimate an echo of a far-end signal comprised in a microphone signal, the system comprising a comparison generator configured to compare the microphone signal with the estimated echo to obtain a first comparison and compare an error signal, which represents a difference between the microphone signal and the estimated echo, with the estimated echo to obtain a second comparison, and a controller configured to combine the first and second comparisons to form a parameter indicative of a state of the microphone signal and, in dependence on said parameter, control an operating mode of the adaptive filter.
US10250725B2
In an aspect, the disclosure is directed to a method and device for generating, by a higher L2 sublayer before receiving an UL grant, PDUs of the higher L2 sublayer, wherein each PDU of the higher L2 sublayer includes one or more SDUs of the higher L2 sublayer; generating, by a lowest L2 sublayer before receiving the UL grant, subheaders for each of SDUs of the lowest L2 sublayer, wherein each SDU of the lowest L2 sublayer is equivalent to each PDU of the higher L2 sublayer; performing, by the lowest L2 sublayer, a LCP procedure for the SDUs in response to receiving the UL grant; and generating, by the lowest L2 sublayer based on a result of the LCP procedure, a PDU of the lowest L2 sublayer by multiplexing a portion of the SDUs of the lowest L2 sublayer and the subheaders of the portion of the SDUs.
US10250718B2
An architecture (system) and method is provided for transcoding codec information to be sent in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling stream for rendering rich digital media content. The method is implemented on a computer infrastructure and includes: determining a codec associated with content to be sent to one or more requesting devices; determining that at least one of the one or more requesting devices do not have the codec associated with the content to be sent to the one or more requesting devices; providing codec information to the at least one of the one or more requesting devices; and sending the content to the one or more requesting devices.
US10250712B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a server for configuring a scenario mode. The method includes: acquiring device information of a plurality of smart device bound to a user account; pushing, according to the device information of the smart devices, at least one predefined scenario mode template to a controlling device bound to the user account; receiving, from the controlling device, scenario mode template selection information indicating a selected scenario mode template; and defining, according to the scenario mode template selection information, a scenario mode corresponding to the selected scenario mode template for the smart devices, wherein the smart devices comprise at least one first smart device and at least one second smart device, and the scenario mode represents an operation mode for controlling actions of the at least one second smart device according to a status parameter collected by the at least one first smart device.
US10250706B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first network usage data for user devices indicating activity by the user devices on webpages, determining first-level cluster centroids based on the first network usage data, and assigning each user device to at least one first-level cluster centroid. The method also includes determining second-level cluster centroids based on the first network usage data for user devices assigned to a particular first-level cluster centroid, and assigning each user device previously assigned to the particular first-level cluster centroid to at least one second-level cluster centroid. The method further includes determining clusters based on the first-level cluster centroids and the second-level cluster centroids, assigning each user device to at least one cluster, and sending one or more first notifications to user devices associated with a particular cluster.
US10250701B2
The disclosure is directed to determining an actual point-of-interest (POI). For example, using at least one computing device, a first set of probable POIs corresponding to a first geographical location and first POI category information may be determined. The at least one computing device may also be used to determine a second set of probable POIs corresponding to a second geographical location and determine second POI category information. By analyzing the first and second POI category information, the actual POI from the first and second set of probable POIs may be determined.
US10250700B2
Methods and devices for notifying an authorization update are provided. In a method for notifying an authorization update, a home network Proximity-based Services (ProSe) functional entity of an announcing terminal receives a notification message from a ProSe application server, where the notification message is used for notifying the home network ProSe functional entity of the announcing terminal that authorization information changes (S302); and the home network ProSe functional entity of the announcing terminal notifies a home network ProSe functional entity of a monitoring terminal that a ProSe code and/or filter corresponding to the announcing terminal become/becomes invalid or are/is updated (S304).
US10250696B2
Stateful network connections between a first virtual machine and at least a second virtual machine are preserved during a suspend and resume cycle. The virtual machines are interconnected by a network. A control instance is provided to manage a routing of network traffic of the virtual machines to the network. In case of a suspend operation, the control instance tracks network addresses of each virtual machine, whereas in case of a resume operation, the control instance sets up a router for each virtual machine and requests new network addresses for each router. The control instance configures a network address translation on the router assigned to each virtual machine to map the new network addresses to the network addresses used before suspending the virtual machines.
US10250693B2
A method, machine, and computer-readable medium is provided for managing transactional sets of commands sent from a client to a server for execution. A server receives, from a client in a second session, a request that identifies a set of commands that were sent by the client in a first session. The set of commands comprises one or more transactions. The server determines that at least one transaction of the one or more transactions in the set of commands has not committed. Based at least in part on determining that the at least one transaction of the one or more transactions has not committed, the server blocks, from the second session, completion of the at least one transaction in the first session to prevent committing of the at least one transaction in the first session.
US10250689B2
A method and system for securing a controlled area network (CAN) of a vehicle is disclosed, where the CAN has a number of electronic control units (ECUs) that control vehicular systems. An on-board diagnostic port of the vehicle is monitored for suspicious activity which does not fit within the baseline profile of the destination ECU. If suspicious activity is detected, countermeasures are taken to minimize harm, such as placing the vehicle in safe mode, reducing the functionality or disabling non-critical ECUs, resetting the targeted ECU, and notifying the driver and non-targeted ECUs.
US10250682B2
A method of sharing data in a subsea network includes a plurality of nodes interconnected by a plurality of data connections arranged to carry data to and from equipment in subsea installations, the method includes: storing data in a mass subsea data store provided across one or more nodes in the subsea network configured to act as a subsea data server; and on receiving, at the subsea data server, a request for access to data stored in the mass subsea data store, the subsea data server retrieving the requested data from the data store and causing the requested data to be sent over the subsea.
US10250676B2
A modular system including a set of functionality tiles and a control tile storing a storage structure, an initialization file, and operation instructions. The method for operating a custom device made using the modular system includes: sending operation settings for each tile to the respective tile upon device initialization; operating each tile based on the operation settings; writing the output from each tile to the storage structure; monitoring data streams within the storage structure for a trigger event; reading data off the storage structure in response to occurrence of the trigger event; and processing the read data according to a processing function specified by the operation instructions.
US10250673B1
At a first client-side component of a storage service, a metric of a storage workload directed from the first client-side component towards server components of the storage service is determined. The metric is transmitted to a particular server component, which is configured to propagate the metric to a different client-side component of the storage service. The first client-side component receives, from a server component, a different metric of a storage workload of a second client-side component. The first client-side component reschedules at least one storage request based at least in part on the different metric.
US10250667B2
An Internet infrastructure delivery platform operated by a provider enables HTTP-based service to identified third parties at large scale. The platform provides this service to one or more cloud providers. The approach enables the CDN platform provider (the first party) to service third party traffic on behalf of the cloud provider (the second party). In operation, an edge server handling mechanism leverages DNS to determine if a request with an unknown host header should be serviced. Before serving a response, and assuming the host header includes an unrecognized name, the edge server resolves the host header and obtains an intermediate response, typically a list of aliases (e.g., DNS CNAMEs). The edge server checks the returned CNAME list to determine how to respond to the original request. Using just a single edge configuration, the CDN service provider can support instant provisioning of a cloud provider's identified third party traffic.
US10250653B2
Methods, systems, and devices are describe for signaling protocols for proximity service functions in a wireless communication system. A first wireless device may identify a group identity parameter associated with a multicast transmission of multimedia content. The first wireless device may map the identified group identity parameter to an identification parameter associated with at least one proximity service (ProSe) relay wireless device. The first wireless device may receive the multicast transmission of the multimedia content via the at least one ProSe relay wireless device based on the mapping of the identified group identity parameter to the identification parameter.
US10250648B2
In general, this disclosure describes techniques for initiating a communication session when a user indicates she or he is available to participate in the communication session. In one example, a method includes receiving, by a first communication device, an indication that a user is available to participate in a communication session that enables communication between different communication devices. Responsive to receiving the at least one signal, the communication session may be initiated in an inactive mode at the first communication device. The first communication device may receive a request from a second communication device to participate in the communication session. Responsive to receiving the request, the communication session may be switched from the inactive mode to an active mode.
US10250645B1
A controlled-environment facility resident interface runs on top of, or as part of, an operating system of a controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media device. Application programs (apps) available for use by a resident of the controlled-environment facility operating the device are presented on the device, via the interface. The interface may provide functionality to enable switching between apps by the resident, such as selectable open application program indicator(s) displayed on a screen of the device, and/or the interface may assign a function to device hardware button(s) to provide a mechanism for switching between apps. The app switching functionality may also resolve conflicts between apps for device resources and apply such resolutions as a result of the resident switching between apps. Also, the resident may be logged into one or more resident-selected apps using stored app login information for resident-selected apps in the interface, in combination with identity verification.
US10250642B2
A method includes receiving from a user via a user interface an activation of at least one element to set a privacy policy specifying the maximum amount of confidential data that is authorized to be leaked to a sink, tracking movement of confidential data through an application, determining based on the tracked movement of the confidential data that the confidential data is leaked to the sink by the application, comparing the confidential data that is leaked to the sink to the specified maximum amount of confidential data that is authorized to be leaked to the sink, and presenting to the user via the user interface an indication of whether the application complies with the privacy policy set by the user based on the comparison.
US10250634B2
The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a storage device that stores a set of cookies that facilitate authenticating packets received from a node within a network and (2) a processing unit communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processing unit (A) receives at least one packet from the node, (B) identifies a cookie included in the packet received from the node, (C) searches the set of cookies stored in the storage device for the cookie included in the packet received from the node, (D) identifies, during the search of the set of cookies, the cookie included in the packet and (E) protects against a DoS attack by authenticating the legitimacy of the packet based at least in part on the cookie included in the packet being identified in the set of cookies stored in the storage device. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10250631B2
Approaches for modeling a risk of security breaches to a network. Agents gather, from multiple sources across the network, analysis data that identifies observed characteristics of habitable nodes and opaque nodes. Using the analysis data a multi-layer risk model for the network is generated that comprises a first layer that models an inherent risk of security breaches to assets of the network based on the observed characteristics. The model also comprises a second layer that models a present state of the inherent risk to the assets caused by global and temporal events. The model also comprises a third layer that models a change to the risk of security breaches in response to potential mitigative actions. The model may be used to understand how risk of a security breach is distributed and interdependent upon the nodes of the network so as to allow the most valuable preventive measures to be taken.
US10250625B2
An information processing device of the present invention includes: a degree-of-possibility calculation unit that calculates, based on a history of communication between a client and a server, the history including at least an identifier of the server, an identifier of the client, and a user agent character string included in a request header sent from the client, a degree of possibility that indicates a degree of certainty of a practical user agent permitted to operate as a portion of the client, with respect to each user agent that relates to the user agent character string; and a disguise information notification unit that outputs, based on the basis of the degree of possibility, disguise information that is information regarding communication performed by a fake user agent impersonating the practical user agent.
US10250605B2
A risk engine can be configured to produce a total risk score by combining a set of risk factors. A risk policy can define a percentage that is to be assigned to each risk factor that is present in a request to access a web-accessible application. The percentage can represent the amount of risk that can be attributed to the access request when the risk factor is present in the request. The risk policy can also define which mitigating factors apply to each risk factor. Each mitigating factor can also be assigned a percentage by which the mitigating factor will reduce the risk factor when the mitigating factor and risk factor are present in the access request. The risk factors can then be combined to produce the total risk score. The total risk score can be generated as a percentage between 0% and 100%.
US10250598B2
Liveness detection and an identity authentication is included in the disclosure. A user's biological characteristic information is collected and displayed at an initial position on a screen of a computing device. A target position is determined using the initial position, and the target position is displayed on the screen. The user is prompted to move the user's biological characteristic information to cause the displayed biological characteristic to move from the initial position on the screen to the target position on the screen. The user's movement is detected and the display position of the displayed biological characteristic information is determined using the detected user's movement; a judgment is made whether the user is a living being using a relationship between the determined display position and the target position. The biological characteristic information of a living being can be verified, e.g., when the user logs in, thereby improving security.
US10250595B2
The invention relates to a method for computer systems based on the ARM processor, for example mobile devices, wherein the ARM processor provides fully hardware isolated runtime environments for an operating system (OS) and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) including an embedded trusted network security perimeter. The isolation is performed by hardware ARM Security Extensions added to ARMv6 processors and greater and controlled by TrustWall software. The invention therefore comprises an embedded network security perimeter running in TEE on one or more processor cores with dedicated memory and storage and used to secure all external network communications of the host device. The invention addresses network communications control and protection for Rich OS Execution Environments and describes minimal necessary and sufficient actions to prevent unauthorized access to or from external networks. The present invention uses hardware platform security capabilities which significantly increase protection of the embedded network security perimeter itself from targeted attacks, in contrast to existing, and representing an improvement of, end-point software firewalls. In addition, embodiments of the invention do not require any modification to the OS system code or network application software.
US10250592B2
An approach for managing collaboration on IWBs allows users of different third-party collaboration services to participate in collaboration meetings on IWBs. The approach allows the users to use collaboration functionality provided by IWBs, such as annotation, and to communicate with each other, even though the users are using different third party collaboration services. The approach uses a collaboration manager that provides a “single wrapper” application program interface (API) and centralized management of collaboration meetings, including license key and token management, cross-license collaboration, user management and meeting management. The collaboration manager acts as a mediation layer that handles the APIs of different third-party collaboration services and allows users using heterogeneous collaboration clients to participate in collaboration meetings.
US10250589B2
A system and method for protecting access to authentication systems. A mediator may accept original authentication credentials from a client, may process the authentication credentials to provide processed authentication credentials and may forward the processed authentication credentials to an authentication system. Processing original authentication credentials may include encrypting at least one portion of original authentication credentials.
US10250585B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for identity data migration from one organization to another. An authentication service operated by a first organization receives user login information from a client device. The authentication service identifies a second organization for which the authentication service authenticates users. The user login information is verified according to an identity data associated with the second organization. An authentication token is returned to the client device and used by the client device to access resources of a network site operated by the second organization.
US10250583B2
A controller for user authentication and access control, configured to: store data representing a graph having: nodes representing data elements associated with accesses made using an access token; and links among the nodes representing connections between the data elements identified in details of the accesses. In response to receiving details of an access made using the access token, the controller updates the graph according to the details and determines a plurality of measurements of the graph. After computing a score of the graph based on a weighted average of the measurements, the controller authenticates the user of the access and/or controls the access based on the score.
US10250573B2
A client application cryptographically protects application data using an application-layer cryptographic key. The application-layer cryptographic key is derived from cryptographic material provided by a cryptographically protected network connection. The client exchanges the cryptographically protected application data with a service application via the cryptographically protected network connection. The client and service applications acquire matching application-layer cryptographic keys by leveraging shared secrets negotiated as part of establishing the cryptographically protected network connection. The shared secrets may include information that is negotiated as part of establishing a TLS session such as a pre-master secret, master secret, or session key. The application-layer cryptographic keys may be derived in part by applying a key derivation function, a one-way function or a cryptographic hash function to the shared secret information.
US10250572B2
The following description is directed to a logic repository service. In one example, a method of a logic repository service can include receiving a first request to generate configuration data for configurable hardware using a specification for application logic of the configurable hardware. The method can include generating the configuration data for the configurable hardware. The configuration data can include data for implementing the application logic. The method can include encrypting the configuration data to generate encrypted configuration data. The method can include signing the encrypted configuration data using a private key. The method can include transmitting the signed encrypted configuration data in response to the request.
US10250566B2
A wireless communication circuit includes a receiver to receive at least one of a beacon frame and a probe response frame from a first wireless communication apparatus belonging to a first communication group, at least one of the beacon frame and the probe response frame including first security information indicating a first encryption method. The circuit includes a transmitter to transmit an association request frame to the first wireless communication apparatus, the association request frame including second security information indicating a second encryption method which is supported by the wireless communication circuit, after a determination that the second encryption method overlaps with the first encryption method. The transmitter declines to associate with the first wireless communication apparatus if the first encryption method fails to overlap with the second encryption method. The transmitter transmits a data frame including a frame body after a reception of an association response frame.
US10250557B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided by which a second address of user equipment, which is served on a first address in a first network in a first address realm, to be used by the user equipment for a service in a second address realm is detected, the second address is stored together with the first address, and a network policy control element controlling policy in connection with the service in the second address realm is informed about the second address is. In this way, also a single stack user equipment may access services in different address realms.
US10250541B2
A computing system includes a communication unit configured to receive a plurality of message histories, at least one processor, and at least one module. The at least one module is operable by the at least one processor to: determine, based on the plurality of message histories, a plurality of message and response pairs, determine a number of instances of each response for each message from the plurality of message and response pairs, classify each response from the plurality of message and response pairs as having an information type, and store an indication of each unique message from the plurality of message and response pairs, an indication of the information type associated with the respective response associated with the unique message, and a number of responses from the plurality of message and response pairs having the information type.
US10250532B2
Systems and methods for personality consistent automated chatting are provided. The systems and methods track the emotional state of the chat bot, track entity related dispositions of the chat bot and/or track the closeness of the relationship between the chat bot and a user. Accordingly, the systems and methods are able to provide consistent personality and/or points of view by generating replies based on the tracked chat bot emotional state, chat bot entity dispositions, and/or the relationship closeness between the chat bot and the user.
US10250531B2
Monitoring a computer system or framework via a bot integrated into a messaging application is provided herein. A bot is made available as a contact within a messaging application to receive queries on a computer system/framework via messages from users. The bot is communicated with one or more systems or machines in a monitored computing system/framework to execute those queries and return a response to the user via the messaging application or another selected application.
US10250530B2
Communication apparatus includes multiple interfaces configured to be connected to a packet data network for receiving and forwarding of data packets of multiple types. A memory is coupled to the interfaces and configured as a buffer to contain packets received through the ingress interfaces while awaiting transmission to the network via the egress interfaces. Packet processing logic is configured to maintain multiple transmit queues, which are associated with respective ones of the egress interfaces, and to place both first and second queue entries, corresponding to first and second data packets of the first and second types, respectively, in a common transmit queue for transmission through a given egress interface, while allocating respective spaces in the buffer to store the first and second data packets against separate, first and second buffer allocations, which are respectively assigned to the first and second types of the data packets.
US10250524B2
Technologies for increasing the bandwidth of partitioned hierarchical networks is disclosed. If each partition of network groups of a computer network are isolated, then the connections between the network groups of different partitions may go unused. However, careful selection of the network connections between partitions of different network groups may allow for a pseudo-direct connection between two network groups of the same partition using a single non-blocking switch in a network group of a different partition. Such a configuration can increase the effective bandwidth available within a partition without affecting the bandwidth available in another partition.
US10250522B1
A system for performing distributed computing. The system comprises a plurality of compute node resources for performing computations for the distributed computing, a management resource for managing each of the compute node resources in the plurality, and a virtual cloud network. The management resource and the plurality of compute node resources are interconnected via the virtual cloud network.
US10250519B2
A system and method can support a distributed data structure in a distributed data grid. The distributed data grid includes a plurality of buckets, wherein each said bucket is configured with a capacity to contain a number of elements in the distributed data structure. Furthermore, the distributed data grid includes a state owner process, which is configured to hold state information for the distributed data structure and provides the state information for the distributed data structure to a client process.
US10250517B2
A computing device comprises a processor and memory. A throttling application stored in the memory that is executed by the processor is configured, in response to a new server request from a first application, to determine whether performing the new server request exceeds a predetermined number of requests in progress; if performing the new server request does not exceed a predetermined number of requests in progress, estimate a completion time for the new server request; insert the new server request and the completion time in a request queue; and send the new server request and a time to live field to a server, wherein the time to live field is equal to the completion time minus a current time that the new server request is sent to the server.
US10250500B2
A first device may receive first route information, from a second device, identifying a first route to the second device for a packet to be provided toward a destination via the second device. The first device may generate second route information identifying a second route to the first device for the packet. The first device may provide the second route information to a third device. The packet is to be received by the first device. The first device may receive the packet from the third device via the second route after providing the second route information to the third device. The packet is to be provided to the second device by the first device. The first device may perform a service on the packet based on being identified by the second route information as a next hop for the packet and prior to providing the packet to the second device.
US10250486B2
An IP router capable of isochronous switching of a packetized media stream. According to an example, the IP router parses the RTP header within an incoming IP datagram to extract the RTP time stamp, which provides a time value for a unique IP Flow. By inspecting the header, the IP router can switch the flow at the point in time that the RTP time stamp value changes, or matches a target value. In one aspect, the IP router looks for the change in the RTP time stamp value and performs the switch based on the detected change. In another aspect, the IP router performs the switch at a specified time stamp value that can be unique to a group of signals or based on a common “sync” value published to all the ports of the IP router.
US10250477B2
A method which includes: obtaining, by a controller, at least two transmission paths between a first edge node and a second edge node; obtaining, by the controller according to bandwidths of the at least two transmission paths, a maximum bandwidth provided by a cluster system, where a bandwidth of each of the transmission paths is equal to a smallest bandwidth in bandwidths of all transmission links in the transmission path, and the maximum bandwidth is less than a sum of bandwidths of at least two transmission links connected to the first edge node; and announcing, by the controller, the maximum bandwidth to a node outside the cluster system by using the first edge node and/or the second edge node. According to the method, accuracy of a maximum bandwidth that is announced by a cluster system to a node outside the cluster system can be improved.
US10250474B2
In one implementation, data is communicated along a communications route in a network. A mediatrace request is generated for the communications route. Responses to the mediatrace request are received from along the communications route. The hop-by-hop latency is passively measured, from the responses, with one-way delay along the communications route in the network.
US10250473B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are included for processing one or more buffers in a networking queue. An example method includes receiving one or more transmit requests or receive requests from a guest running on a virtual machine. The method also includes detecting that a networking backend has stopped processing buffers from a networking queue, each queued buffer corresponding to a transmit request or receive request. The method further includes in response to detecting that the networking backend has stopped processing buffers from the networking queue, flushing one or more buffers stored in the networking queue. A buffer corresponding to a receive request may be flushed by storing a set of dummy packets into the buffer. In contrast, a buffer corresponding to a transmit request may be flushed by discarding the buffer.
US10250471B2
An analysis apparatus compares first code describing a plurality of first components with second code describing a plurality of second components, to extract difference components. The analysis apparatus sends a plurality of requests to an execution apparatus on which the plurality of second components are deployed, obtains first log information indicating the execution state of each difference component, and specifies relevant requests related to the execution of the difference components. The analysis apparatus sends the specified relevant requests to the execution apparatus and obtains second log information indicating the execution state of each of the plurality of second components. The analysis apparatus generates path information about second components executed in response to each relevant request among the plurality of second components, on the basis of the second log information.
US10250470B1
A monitoring device responds to status data pushed from a network device, and also manages a link with another network device, the link allowing the monitoring device to pull status data from the second network device. The monitoring device receives packets including status, the data indicating activity for one or more clock ticks. The monitoring device can compute statistical measures, rather than the network device. The monitoring device maintains the status data in a buffer. The monitoring device lags actual activity, but has is more likely to capture delayed packets. The network device sends packets as wrappers, each wrapper indicating sets of status information. When the information in a wrapper crosses a clock tick boundary, the monitoring device allocates reported activity among clock ticks, assuming that activity follows a uniform distribution.
US10250469B2
An apparatus and method for monitoring activity of a device. The method includes associating one or more monitoring devices with an electronic device. Rules that have been established to define acceptable content that can be accessed by the electronic device are accessed. Requested content, which is requested by the electronic device, is identified. The requested content is compared to the established rules. An alert condition is generated when the requested content violates the established rules. An alert signal is provided to the one or more monitoring devices based on the alert condition.
US10250459B2
Bandwidth usage for an existing communication tunnel between a first device and second device is monitored. A determination is made that additional bandwidth is required for communication between the first network device and the second network device. A determination is made that for the addition of the additional bandwidth would exceed available bandwidth for the existing tunnel. Additional bandwidth is established between the first network device and the second network device.
US10250457B2
A node availability estimation service can be used at a service layer of an M2M/IoT network. Value-added services can leverage this node availability information to improve the operation intelligence, quality of service, communication overhead as well as energy efficiency for M2M/IoT systems. A Real-time Data Collection (DC) component can collect real-time data from input sources at service layer (e.g., other existing CSFs). A Data Processing for Estimating Node Availability component (DP) can execute data processing for estimating node availability based on the data collected by DC. A Node Availability Service Provisioning component (SP) can store the estimated node availability results from DP and expose them to service clients in terms of “node availability estimation services”.
US10250456B2
Techniques for managing operation in cloud computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving data representing a guaranteed value of a performance metric of a cloud service and an error budget and deriving a switching threshold based on a combination of the value of the performance metric and the error budget. The method also includes determining a current value of the performance metric of the cloud service and causing the cloud computing system to selectively switch between operational modes for providing the cloud service based on a comparison between the determined current value of the performance metric and the switching threshold.
US10250451B1
A services platform acts as an intermediary between an existing enterprise analytic environment, and one or more underlying cloud service providers. The platform provides enterprise “big data-as-a-service,” by which an enterprise can seamlessly and easily provision new capacity for processing its analytic workload, and migrate data sources (e.g., data warehouse marts, enterprise data warehouses, analytic sandboxes, and the like) to the cloud for processing. The platform provides end-to-end enterprise class manageability of enterprise data assets, from data collection, aggregation, movement, staging and processing, all while providing service levels, security, access and governance. The platform integrates directly but seamlessly into the enterprise analytic stack, and existing analytics applications work as normal. The platform provides a way for the enterprise to translate its workloads into clusters of compute resources that meet its service level requirements.
US10250450B2
Some embodiments provide a method for performing a multi-point capture of packets in a network. The method identifies multiple nodes for the multi-point capture in the network. The method configures each node of the multiple nodes to capture a set of packets. The method receives multiple captured packet sets from the multiple nodes. The method analyzes the multiple captured packet sets.
US10250429B2
Methods for communicating are disclosed. A method includes obtaining at least one input communication symbol selected from a set of communication symbols, converting the at least one input communication symbol into at least one transmittable waveform using at least one defined spiral waveform function, and transmitting the at least one transmittable waveform over a communication channel. Example spiral waveform functions include spline-based piecewise functions and Archimedes spiral functions.
US10250424B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast, signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals includes processing input streams into BB frames in PLPs; encoding data of the PLPs; building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded data of the PLPs; and modulating data in the built signal frame by OFDM method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein at least one of the BB frames includes a stuffing field and a first indicator describing whether the stuffing field is included in the BB frame.
US10250423B2
A modem apparatus is configured to provide wireless network access in accordance with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communications scheme. The apparatus comprises a hardware subsystem comprising baseband processing components (302) and Radio Frequency processing components (304). The baseband processing components (302) comprise a first converter component (314) arranged to convert between time and frequency domains in accordance with the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communications scheme, and a second converter component (316) arranged to convert between parallel and serial data formats, the second converter (316) being operably coupled to the first converter (314). The Radio Frequency processing components (304) comprise a cyclic prefix processing component (318) responsive to control information. A digital interface (306) is disposed between the baseband processing components (302) and the RF processing components (304), the digital interface (306) being operably coupled to the second converter (316) and the cyclic prefix processing component (318).
US10250412B2
A method for routing a call associated with a private dialing plan includes receiving a call directed to a destination endpoint associated with a private dialing plan (PDP), receiving an internal egress path identifier associated with the destination endpoint, and routing the call to an egress path identified by the egress path identifier. A system for routing a call including a destination number associated with a PDP including a routing engine operable to route the call to a PDP call resolution server, and a first switch operable to receive an egress path identifier and a PDP telephone number from the PDP call resolution server, the egress path identifier identifying an egress path for routing the call to a destination endpoint associated with the destination number, and the PDP telephone number identifying a selected PDP destination endpoint and a second switch operable to receive the call based on the egress path identifier and route the call to the selected PDP destination endpoint using the PDP telephone number.
US10250408B2
A communication device includes a plurality of controllers, a plurality of buses that transmit transmission information, and a gateway to which the plurality of buses are collectively connected. Each of the plurality of controllers has a pattern table that defines, for each piece of the transmission information, a transmission bus pattern, and controls the input and output of the transmission information according to the pattern table. Each of the plurality of controllers is connected to at least two buses, and outputs, to the gateway via all of the connected buses, check information for a confirmation of connections to the connected buses. The gateway determines an interrupted bus from which no check information is input, and outputs, to each of the plurality of controllers, a route switch instruction instructing use of a pattern table that does not include the interrupted bus(es).
US10250398B2
In a mobile terminal and method, the mobile terminal and method calculate a usage amount of data for each application executed in the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes: a communication unit to communicate to a server; a recognition unit to recognize an application sending a data communication connection request; a calculation unit to calculate a usage amount of data communicated by the application sending the data communication connection request; and a control unit to control the mobile terminal based on the calculation and of data usage for the application.
US10250394B1
A data furnisher may append, to a furnisher blockchain, an interoperability smart contract comprising a cryptologic committal. The cryptologic committal may include logic configured to cause a data receiver to commit token data to the receiver blockchain based on a pre-commit authorization. The data furnisher may encrypt, based on a committal key, a pre-commit authorization to transfer token data stored on the furnisher blockchain to the receiver blockchain. The data furnisher may transmit the pre-commit authorization to the data receiver. After transmission of the pre-commit authorization, the data furnisher may receive a pre-commit acknowledgement of the pre-commit authorization. The data furnisher may lock the token data on the furnisher blockchain in response to verification that the token data is appended to the data receiver blockchain. The data furnisher may send the predetermined committal key to the data receiver to commit the token data to the data receiver blockchain.
US10250388B2
Methods, networks and nodes for dynamically establishing encrypted communications between a first node having a first identification and a first private key and a second node having a second identification and a second private key. A first signal comprising information indicative of the first identification of the first node is transmitted, then, upon receipt of the first signal by the second node, a second signal comprising information indicative of the second identification of the second node and a first portion of a symmetric key is transmitted, then, upon receipt of the second signal by the first node, a third signal comprising a second portion of the symmetric key is transmitted.
US10250384B2
The present invention discloses a visible light encryption method, a decryption method, a communication device and a communication system. The method includes: receiving a visible light signal from a transmit end, where the visible light signal is encrypted at the transmit end by using a key; and obtaining the key, and decrypting the visible light signal according to the key, where the obtaining the key includes: obtaining a key corresponding to a state of a state machine of a receive end; or, obtaining indication information according to the visible light signal and obtaining the key according to the indication information, where the indication information is used to obtain the key. The present invention solves a problem of decryption failure in visible light encryption and decryption, and improves accuracy of decryption.
US10250382B2
A cryptography service allows for management of cryptographic keys in multiple environments. The service allows for specification of policies applicable to cryptographic keys, such as what cryptographic algorithms should be used in which contexts. The cryptography service, upon receiving a request for a key, may provide a referral to another system to obtain the key.
US10250380B2
Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for synchronization channel design and signaling in wireless communications systems (e.g., a 5th Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) system). In an aspect, a method includes identifying a frequency band supported by a user equipment (UE), identifying one or more frequency locations based on the identified frequency band, and the one or more frequency locations are a subset of synchronization raster points used for synchronization signal transmission. The method further includes searching for at least one synchronization signal based on the one or more identified frequency locations.
US10250361B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting a data unit comprising guard intervals having different lengths. A method for transmitting a data unit in a wireless LAN comprises the steps of: a transmission STA generating a PPDU; and the transmission PPDU transmitting the PPDU to one or more reception STAs, wherein the PPDU sequentially comprises a first signal field, a second signal field, and a training field, wherein the first signal field is generated on the basis of a first IFFT size and is transmitted in a first OFDM symbol, the second signal field is generated on the basis of the first IFFT size and is transmitted in a second OFDM symbol, and the training field is generated on the basis of a second IFFT size and is transmitted in a third OFDM symbol.
US10250355B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of multi-user (MU) wireless communication. For example, a wireless station may generate a MU Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including a header field and a plurality of Spatial Streams (SSs) of Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) to a plurality of users, the header field including an indication of a plurality of modulation schemes corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of users; and process transmission of the MU PPDU to the plurality of users over a wireless communication band.
US10250352B2
An optical receiver that receives a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal is disclosed. The optical receiver implements two or more PD elements each receiving an optical signal contained in the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal, a switch that selects one of photocurrents output from the PD elements, an I/V converter that converts the photocurrent into a voltage signal by a variable resistor whose resistance is adjusted for respective photocurrent, and a digital-to-analog converter. The optical receiver estimates the power of the optical signals from look-up-tables correlating the power of the optical signals with the digitally converted photocurrents at the selected resistance of the variable resistor.
US10250349B2
An example technique includes receiving, by a user device, a first signal including a first user device-specific signal from a base station and one or more interfering signals, the first user device-specific signal being received based on a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS), determining, by the user device, whether the user device can perform interference cancellation for the one or more interfering signals, sending, by the user device to the base station, an interference cancellation feedback message including at least, for each of the one or more interfering signals, an interference cancellation capability indication that indicates whether or not the user device can perform interference cancellation for the interfering signal, receiving an updated MCS, wherein the updated MCS is based, at least in part, on the interference from the interference cancellation feedback message, and receiving, by the user device based on the updated MCS, a second signal.
US10250348B2
In the optical transport system a transport frame generator divides a transport frame accommodating plural client signals into plural transmission signals. Subcarrier transmission units convert the signals into optical signals using different optical carriers and transmit the converted optical signals. Subcarrier reception units receive the transmitted optical signals and convert the optical signals into reception signals. A transport frame termination unit combines the reception signals to restore the transport frame. A time-demultiplexing processor time-demultiplexes the restored transport frame to be separated into the client signals. A time slot control unit determines a new time slot allocation when time-multiplexing the client signals in the transport frame and stops supply of electric power to a subcarrier transmission unit and a subcarrier reception unit that transmit and receive an optical signal to which the client signals are not allocated.
US10250340B1
A wireless relay performs Radio Frequency (RF) testing at geographic azimuths. In the wireless relay, a wireless access point wirelessly exchanges user data with wireless user devices and exchanges the user data with Relay Equipment (RE). In the wireless relay, the RE exchanges the user data with the wireless access point and wirelessly exchanges the user data with a wireless communication network. The RE wirelessly receives a directional RF test instruction indicating geographic azimuths. The RE performs a directional RF test at the geographic azimuths based on the directional RF test instruction. The RE transfers RF test results for the geographic azimuths to the wireless communication network.
US10250335B2
A photonic integrated chip device having a common optical edge interface is provided and specifically a device comprising: a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising: an optical circuit; and an electrical interface configured to receive electrical signals for controlling the optical circuit; and, a common optical interface side of the PIC chip comprising: at least one input configured to receive light into the PIC chip to the optical circuit; and at least one output configured to convey at least one optical signal from the optical circuit out of the PIC chip, the electrical interface located on one or more electrical interface sides of the PIC chip different from the common optical interface side.
US10250330B1
A photonic switch device accepts a data modulated RF signal and outputs the data modulated RF signal or a frequency converted version thereof at one or more outputs of the switch device. Tunable laser(s) is/are controlled to cause peak wavelength(s) of the optical signal(s) emitted therefrom. An EOM receives the accepted data modulated RF signal and optical signal(s) produced using the tunable laser(s), and the EOM outputs an optical data signal modulated to include the data modulated RF signal. A WDM receives the optical data signal output by the EOM and the optical data signal received by the WDM demultiplexer is output at one or more outputs thereof based on peak wavelength(s) of the optical data signal. Photodetectors optically coupled to respective outputs of the WDM demultiplexer convert optical signals back to electrical signals. Related methods and system are also described herein.
US10250329B1
An LED light fixture includes one or more optical transceivers that have a light support having a plurality of light emitting diodes and one or more photodetectors attached thereto, and a processor in communication with the light emitting diodes and the one or more photodetectors. The processor is constructed and arranged to generate a communication or data transfer signal.
US10250324B1
An optical trunk switch supporting an Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) includes a transmit switch configured to provide an input signal to one or more of a primary fiber path and a standby fiber path; a receive switch configured to provide an output signal from one of the primary fiber path and the standby fiber path; and an OTDR connection configured to provide one or more OTDR signals to monitor an inactive path of the primary fiber path and the standby fiber.
US10250323B2
A method for monitoring an optical fiber link comprises generating a monitoring signal used for monitoring the optical fiber link, combining the generated monitoring signal with a data signal to be transmitted over the optical fiber link, detecting backscattering of the monitoring signal from the optical fiber link, detecting a change in characteristic of the detected backscattered monitoring signal, and determining, from the detected change in characteristic, at least one location along the optical fiber link where the monitoring signal is modified, and signal loss at this location.
US10250316B2
A method using energy harvesting including receiving, by a relay node, first information signals transmitted from a source node and second information signals transmitted from a destination node, harvesting, by the relay node, energy using energy signals transmitted from the source node while bi-directionally relaying the first information signals and the second information signals; receiving, by the source node, information signals transmitted by the relay node; and receiving, by the destination node, the information signals relayed by the relay node. The source node, the relay node, and the destination node are devices for performing communication in a full-duplex mode.
US10250308B2
The teachings herein present a method and apparatus that implement and use a factorized precoder structure that is advantageous in terms of performance and efficiency. In particular, the teachings presented herein disclose an underlying precoder structure that allows for certain codebook reuse across different transmission scenarios, including for transmission from a single Uniform Linear Array (ULA) of transmit antennas and transmission from cross-polarized subgroups of such antennas. According to this structure, an overall precoder is constructed from a conversion precoder and a tuning precoder. The conversion precoder includes antenna-subgroup precoders of size NT/2, where NT represents the number of overall antenna ports considered. Correspondingly, the tuning precoder controls the offset of beam phases between the antenna-subgroup precoders, allowing the conversion precoder to be used with cross-polarized arrays of NT/2 antenna elements and with co-polarized arrays of NT antenna elements.
US10250307B2
For setting cooperation parameters of a communication system including a plurality of node devices interconnected by links and adapted to be respectively configured according to said cooperation parameters, a cooperation phase comprises: gathering measurements data representative of measurements of the random variables; optimizing the figure of merit for determining said cooperation parameters, on the basis of the obtained measurements. At least one link implying quantization operations relying on a codebook for gathering said measurements data and/or for providing said cooperation parameters, a pre-processing phase comprises beforehand: obtaining statistics data relative to a probability distribution of said random variables; and determining every codebook on the basis of the figure of merit, such that the figure of merit is statistically optimized according to the obtained statistics.
US10250304B2
Provided is a method of transmitting and receiving a frame for a multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication in an access point (AP), the method including determining at least one transmission station (STA), transmitting, to the transmission STA, an uplink multi-user poll (UL MU poll) frame requesting a data frame, receiving the data frame from the at least one transmission STA simultaneously, and transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) frame to the at least one transmission STA in response to the receiving.
US10250291B2
A method is provided for noise distribution shaping of signals, particularly for the application in receivers for CDMA signals. The method includes the acts of generating a blanking control signal by comparing a received signal with at least one blanking threshold, adapting the at least one blanking threshold or the received signal according to an offset value depending on the amplitude of the received signal, and modifying the noise distribution of the received signal by applying blanking of the received signal under control of the blanking control signal.
US10250290B2
This disclosure relates generally to radio frequency (RF) front-end circuitry for different types of carrier aggregation, along with methods of operating the same. In one embodiment, the RF front-end circuitry includes a first diplexer, a second diplexer, first antenna selection circuitry, and second antenna selection circuitry. In order to maintain adequate isolation between high bands and low bands but provide carrier aggregation, the first antenna selection circuitry is configured to selectively couple each of a first plurality of RF ports to any one of a first low band port in the first diplexer and a second low band port in the second diplexer, while the second antenna selection circuitry is configured to selectively couple each of the second plurality of RF ports to any one of a first high band port in the first diplexer and a second high band port in the second diplexer.
US10250289B2
An electronic device may have a display cover layer mounted to a metal housing. Electrical component layers such as a display layer, touch sensor layer, and near-field communications antenna layer may be mounted under the display cover layer. An antenna feed may have a positive feed terminal coupled to the electrical component layers and a ground feed terminal coupled to the metal housing. The electrical component layers may serve as an antenna resonating element for an antenna. The antenna may cover cellular telephone bands and may receive satellite navigation system signals. A system-in-package device may be mounted to the metal housing. A flexible printed circuit may extend between the electrical component layers and the system-in-package device. A mounting bracket for the system-in-package device may be provided with electrical isolation to enhance antenna performance in bands such as a satellite navigation system band.
US10250282B2
A structure for radiofrequency applications includes: a semiconducting supporting substrate, and a trapping layer arranged on the supporting substrate. The trapping layer includes a higher defect density than a predetermined defect density. The predetermined defect density is the defect density beyond which the electric resistivity of the trapping layer is no lower than 10,000 ohm·cm over a temperature range extending from −20° C. to 120° C.
US10250274B2
A sample and hold system, for capturing and reading at least one input signal. The system comprises a readout device, a controller, an array of segments comprising a plurality of unit cells and a dummy unit cell, and segment switches between the segments and the readout device. The controller is adapted for controlling the system such that: during an acquisition phase a trace of samples is taken from the input signal and held in the unit cells; during a readout phase the samples in the unit cells or in the dummy unit cells of a segment are read out by readout device; after opening or closing the segment switches the dummy unit cell, is the first cell which is read out by the readout device.
US10250269B2
An oscillator system includes a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit. The VCO circuit includes an output for providing an oscillation signal and input to receive a voltage that controls the frequency of the oscillation signal. The oscillator system includes a frequency to voltage circuit that receives the oscillation signal and produces a voltage that is dependent upon the frequency of the oscillation signal. The oscillator system includes a comparison circuit including an amplifier. The amplifier includes an inverting input, a non inverting input, and an output. During a first phase of the comparison circuit, the non inverting input receives a reference voltage and the inverting input is coupled to the output of the amplifier via a switch and to a capacitor wherein the capacitor samples the voltage of the output. During a second phase of the comparison circuit, the non inverting input receives the voltage produced by the frequency to voltage circuit and the switch between amplifier output and inverting input is open wherein the inverting input is coupled to the capacitor to receive the sampled voltage value. During the second phase, the output of the amplifier is provided to the input of the VCO circuit.
US10250268B2
A PLL circuit includes a voltage control oscillator, a frequency difference detector, a phase difference detector, and an outputter. The frequency difference detector detects a frequency difference between a reference signal and the oscillation signal and outputs a first control value based on the detected frequency difference. The phase difference detector detects a phase difference between the reference signal and the oscillation signal, and outputs a second control value based on the detected phase difference. The outputter outputs the control voltage based on the first control value and the second control value to the voltage control oscillator while the second control value does not exceed a predetermined range, and outputs the control voltage based on a corrected value obtained by correcting the first control value and the second control value to the voltage control oscillator while the second control value exceeds a predetermined range.
US10250257B2
Digital circuits are disclosed that may include multiple transistors having controllable current paths coupled between first and second logic nodes. One or more of the transistors may have a deeply depleted channel formed below its gate that includes a substantially undoped channel region formed over a relatively highly doped screen layer formed over a doped body region. Resulting reductions in threshold voltage variation may improve digital circuit performance. Logic circuit, static random access memory (SRAM) cell, and passgate embodiments are disclosed.
US10250255B2
A semiconductor device and a circuit arrangement are provided so as to reduce an on resistance. A first power MOS transistor and a second power MOS transistor are formed on the same semiconductor substrate. A first power MOS transistor formed in a first element formation region has a columnless structure including no columns. The second power MOS transistor formed in a second element formation region has an SJ structure including columns.
US10250254B2
The present disclosure provides a system for controlling a power device including one or more power elements, one or more drive modules configured to provide a drive signal with respect to the one or more power elements through a signal line and provided with a first wireless module, and an upper level controller configured to a control signal with respect to the one or more drive modules through a signal line and provided with a second wireless module corresponding to the first wireless module, wherein each of the one or more drive modules transmits state information of the one or more power elements and the one or more drive modules to the second wireless module through the first wireless module, and the upper level controller transmits a control signal corresponding to the state information to the first wireless module through the second wireless module.
US10250251B1
An RF switch includes series-coupled RF switch cells coupled between an RF input and ground, a transistor including a first current node coupled to a first load resistor, a second current node coupled to ground, and a control node coupled to an internal switch node, and a filter having an input coupled to the first current node of the first transistor and an output for providing a DC voltage corresponding to the RF power present at the internal switch node.
US10250249B1
A circuit and method are provided for recuperating energy and decreasing driver power consumption in a switching converter. An inductor is directly connected between a gate driver and a gate electrode of a switch. A first burst pulse signal is generated, wherein energy from a power source is stored in the inductor and transferred to a parasitic capacitance of the switch. A driving pulse signal is subsequently generated to the gate electrode of the switch, wherein the gate voltage is equal to the supply voltage and no balancing current flows through the inductor. After the driving pulse signal is terminated a second burst pulse signal is generated, wherein energy is accumulated in the inductive element and returned to the power source. The energy provided from the power source during the first burst pulse signal is equal to the energy returned to the power source during the second burst pulse signal.
US10250231B2
An acoustic wave device includes: a support substrate; a first piezoelectric substrate bonded to a first principal surface of the support substrate, the first piezoelectric substrate being a single crystal substrate, a first acoustic wave resonator located on an opposite surface of the first piezoelectric substrate from a surface to which the support substrate is bonded, the first acoustic wave resonator including an IDT; a second piezoelectric substrate bonded to a second principal surface of the support substrate opposite from the first principal surface, the second piezoelectric substrate being a single crystal substrate; and a second acoustic wave resonator located on an opposite surface of the second piezoelectric substrate from a surface to which the support substrate is bonded, the second acoustic wave resonator including an IDT.
US10250230B2
A filter includes: a piezoelectric substrate; one or more series resonators that are located on the piezoelectric substrate and are connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal; at least one series resonator that is connected between a first node and a second node, is included in the one or more series resonators, and includes a reflector that is grounded, the first node and the second node being located between the input terminal and the output terminal; and a cancel line that is connected in parallel with the at least one series resonator between the first node and the second node, and cancels a signal outside a passband propagating through the at least one series resonator from the first node to the second node.
US10250220B2
An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode, wiring, a pad, an under bump metal, a first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer. At least a portion of the IDT electrode includes a first electrically conductive film, at least a portion of the wiring includes a multilayer body including the first electrically conductive film and a second electrically conductive film, and at least a portion of the pad includes the second electrically conductive film. The second dielectric layer covers the region other than the contact region between the second electrically conductive film and the under bump metal. Consequently, the second electrically conductive film is covered with the second dielectric layer and the under bump metal and is not exposed to air.
US10250218B2
A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode located on the substrate; a piezoelectric film, at least a part of the piezoelectric film being sandwiched between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, the piezoelectric film including a discontinuous portion in which the piezoelectric film discontinues in at least a part of a region surrounding a center region that includes a center of a resonance region where the upper electrode and the lower electrode face each other across the at least a part of the piezoelectric film.
US10250217B2
Each of a first high frequency power supply and a second high frequency power supply of a plasma processing apparatus is configured to selectively output a continuous wave, a modulated wave and a double-modulated wave. A first average value which determines an impedance at a load side of the first high frequency power supply and a second average value which determines an impedance at a load side of the second high frequency power supply are obtained by using any one of two averaging methods depending on a first high frequency power output from the first high frequency power supply and a second high frequency power output from the second high frequency power supply. An impedance matching of each of a first matching device and a second matching device is performed based on the first average value and the second average value.
US10250210B2
An amplifier comprising a differential amplifier configured to be provide a comparator function, and a gain trimming circuit is electrically configured to provide gain trimming using a T-network comprising a varistor element. In addition, a method of trimming the gain of a differential amplifier, comprising the steps of a first step, (a) providing the differential amplifier comprising resistors in both of its paths, a second step, (b) providing a varistor in a T-network between both said paths; and lastly, a third step, (c) trimming the gain of the differential amplifier by adjusting the varistor's resistance.
US10250205B2
An outphasing power amplifying device includes a switching signal generating circuit configured to generate a switching pulse signal for switching a class-D power amplifier from two types of sinusoidal wave generated based on amplitude and phase of a modulated wave to be transmitted. The switching signal generating circuit includes: a sin calculation unit and a cos calculation unit for converting phase information of the two types of sinusoidal wave into a quadrature format; a DA converter for converting the quadrature-format phase information; a first filter for removing an aliasing component from the analogue signal; an analogue quadrature modulator for generating a sinusoidal wave from the analogue signals by using a local signal; a second filter for allowing a radio frequency and a component in the vicinity thereof to pass therethrough; and a comparator for converting the sinusoidal wave into a switching pulse signal by comparison with a reference voltage.
US10250198B2
A current feed-back instrumentation amplifier (CFIA) comprises a differential pair with degeneration for amplifying small differential voltages in the presence of large common-mode voltages. The CFIA includes input and feedback transconductors and a trimming circuit that trims the back-bias voltages of the transistors in each transconductor. The trimming circuit includes a plurality of selectable resistors disposed in the signal path of the tail current in each transconductor. Each of the plurality of selectable resistors has a switch coupled to it. When a switch is closed, only the resistors up to the respective switch are in the signal path of the bulk-to-source voltage of the differentially paired transistors. The resistor trimming circuit reduces the mismatch between transconductances of the respective differential pair transistors, in turn reducing mismatch of the overall transconductances of the transconductors, and thereby reducing the CFIA's gain error.
US10250190B2
A method for biasing a power amplifier using a transmission signal having a time-varying envelope is provided. The method comprises producing a time-varying signal indicative of an amplitude of the envelope of the transmission signal and comparing the time-varying signal to a plurality of distinct threshold voltages. The method further comprises, for each of the plurality of distinct threshold voltages exceeded by the time-varying signal, providing a respective bias voltage to a respective input of a summing device and producing, using the summing device, an output bias voltage that is at least a sum of the respective bias voltages provided to the respective inputs of the summing device. The method further comprises biasing the power amplifier with the output bias voltage and amplifying the transmission signal using the power amplifier biased at the output bias voltage.
US10250189B1
A circuit having a first Gilbert cell mixer of a first type configured to receive phases of first and second signals and output a first current pair to a first node and a second node; a first Gilbert cell mixer of a second type configured to receive output a second current pair to the first node and the second node; a second Gilbert cell mixer of the first type configured to receive phases of the first and second signals and output a third current pair to the first node and the second node; a second Gilbert cell mixer of the second type configured to output a fourth current pair to the first node and the second node; a cross-coupling inverter pair configured to cross couple the first node and the second node; and a load placed across the first node and the second node and configured to resonate at a frequency approximately equal to either a sum of a frequency of the first signal and a frequency of the second signal or a difference of the frequency of the first signal and the frequency of the second signal.
US10250188B2
A voltage controlled oscillator includes a resonance unit, coupling unit and source degeneration unit. The resonance unit includes two first inductors and two first variable capacitors. The first inductor is electrically connected to the first variable capacitor. The coupling unit includes a first transistor and a second transistor. Power supply input terminals of the first and second transistors are electrically connected to the resonance unit. The source degeneration unit includes two adjustable inductors, two fourth inductors and two second variable capacitors. The adjustable inductors are connected to power supply output terminals of the first and second transistors, respectively. The second variable capacitor is electrically connected to the adjustable inductor and the fourth inductor, wherein equivalent inductance of the adjustable inductor is adjusted, such that input impedance looking in the direction away from the resonance unit from the power supply input terminal is featured by negative capacitance.
US10250179B2
A power converter for converting an electric power for a motor that has three-phase winding wires includes an inverter and a controller. The controller controls the electric power supplied for the three-phase winding wires. The controller either (i) sets a two-phase modulation period for performing a two-phase modulation control when a third-order harmonic frequency that is calculated as triple the frequency of a fundamental frequency of the phase currents is smaller than an audible lower limit frequency of a human audible frequency range, or (ii) performs a three-phase modulation control, when the third-order harmonic frequency is equal to or greater than the audible lower limit frequency. In such manner, a heat generation from the maximum heat generating portion of the power converter is mitigated, and acoustical noise that is generated in the audible frequency range is reduced.
US10250175B2
A field winding synchronous machine drive system includes a field winding synchronous machine having a stator and a rotor and a drive apparatus configured to drive the field winding synchronous machine. The stator has N m-phase stator coils wound on a stator core to create a rotating magnetic field, where N is an integer not less than 2 and m is an integer not less than 3. The rotor has at least one main field winding wound on a rotor core to create field magnetic flux. The drive apparatus includes N inverters each of which supplies m-phase alternating current to a corresponding one of the N m-phase stator coils. Specifically, each of the inverters supplies the corresponding m-phase stator coil with the m-phase alternating current which includes a fundamental-wave current and a time-harmonic current superimposed on the fundamental-wave current; the time-harmonic current has a shorter period than the fundamental-wave current.
US10250169B2
A robot system includes a motor, an inverter, a first control portion, and a second control portion. The motor includes stator windings for three phases. The inverter includes series-connection bodies of a high-side switch and a low-side switch for three phases. A connection point of the high-side switch and the low-side switch for each of the phases is connected with the corresponding stator winding. One of the high-side switch and the low-side switch for each of the phases works as a brake switch. The first control portion and the second control portion performs a driving control of the brake switches. Each of the first control portion and the second control portion has a function of monitoring the robot system, and turns on the brake switches for at least two phases when detecting that an abnormality occurs in the robot system.
US10250158B2
An AC/DC conversion circuit, including: four bidirectional switches forming an H bridge; a capacitor connected between input nodes of the bridge; a capacitor connected between output nodes of the bridge; and a control circuit capable of controlling the bridge alternately to a first configuration where first and second diagonals of the bridge are respectively conductive and non-conductive, and to a second configuration where the first and second diagonals are respectively non-conductive and conductive, the control circuit being capable, during a phase of transition between the first and second configurations, of: turning off the switches of the first diagonal; and for each switch of the second diagonal, turning on the switch only when the voltage thereacross takes a zero value.
US10250151B1
A flyback converter with a secondary side control includes a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, a rectifier switching device in the secondary side configured to provide a rectifier path and a switching path, a secondary side control circuit configured to detect the output voltage or current value and to control the states of the rectifier switching device according to the variations between the pre-set voltage or current value and the output voltage or current value, a primary side switching device in the primary side configured to switch between on and off states, an auxiliary winding coupled to the secondary winding for providing power and detecting the states of the secondary side rectifier switching device, and a primary control circuit configured to control the primary side switching device based on the detected output state of the secondary winding from the auxiliary winding.
US10250136B2
A method for controlling a DC-DC converter including an energy accumulation element, an energy storage element and a switching element, said control method including the following steps implemented by a control unit: a step of generating a control signal for the switching element with a duty cycle α that is a function of information relating to the output electrical conditions of said converter; a step of controlling said switching element by means of said control signal; a step of compensating said control signal for a continuous conduction mode; a step of compensating said control signal for a discontinuous conduction mode; and a step of estimating the current operating mode of said converter in order to control the implementation either of the compensation step or of the compensation step as a function of the estimated current operating mode. The invention further relates to a DC-DC converter for implementing said control method.
US10250134B2
An improved power manager includes a power bus (410) and multiple device ports (1-5), with at least one device port configured as a universal port (3 and 4) to be selectively connected to the power bus over an input power channel that includes an input power converter (510) or over a output or universal power channel (412, 416) that includes an output power converter (440, 442). The universal power channel (412) allows the input port (4) to be selected as an output power channel instead of an input power channel (i.e. operated as a universal port) for outputting power to device port (4) over power converter (440). The improved power manager (500) includes operating modes for altering an operating voltage of the power bus (505), to minimize overall power conversion losses due to DC to DC power conversions used to connect non-bus voltage compatible power devices to the power bus.
US10250132B2
A voltage system and a method of operating a voltage system are provided. The voltage system includes an oscillator and a pump device. The oscillator is configured to provide an oscillation signal exhibiting a first frequency when a voltage level of a supply voltage is greater than a reference voltage level, and to provide the oscillation signal exhibiting a second frequency greater than the first frequency when the voltage level of the supply voltage is less than the reference voltage level. The pump device is configured to provide the supply voltage, based on a frequency of the oscillation signal provided by the oscillator, by performing a charging operation.
US10250127B2
A power converter comprises a power structure receiving, as input, an AC voltage comprising at least one phase and delivering, as output, a DC voltage, the output power of the power structure being regulated by a multiplier receiving, as input, a current control signal and a signal proportional to the output voltage of the power structure, the current control signal being generated by a current correction module receiving, as input, a signal proportional to the difference between the output current of the power structure and a current setpoint signal. Electrical network comprising such a power conversion circuit is also provided.
US10250118B1
A power supply is disclosed. The power supply includes a switch to regulate an input voltage and a current sense transistor to sense current through the switch. The power supply further includes a switching control to control a switching frequency of the switch. A programmable pulse skip circuit coupled to the switching control is also included. The switching control is configured to alter the switching frequency based on a pulse skip control signal received from the programmable pulse skip circuit. The programmable pulse skip circuit produces the pulse skip control signal based on an external control signal inputted to the programmable pulse skip circuit and the sensed current by the current sense transistor.
US10250117B2
The present disclosure provides a converter controlling apparatus including a plurality of switching devices capable of controlling a pulse width modulation (PWM), the converter controlling apparatus including: an efficiency determiner configured to variably change resistance of a gate terminal, wherein a PWM signal for controlling the PWM of the switching device is applied to a gate terminal based on an amount of current flowing through the converter.
US10250115B2
A phase leg in an inverter bridge has an upper transistor with upper gate, collector, and emitter terminals, wherein the upper gate and emitter terminals are arranged to create an upper common source inductance. A lower transistor has lower gate, collector, and emitter terminals, wherein the lower gate and emitter terminals are arranged to create a lower common source inductance. An upper diode is coupled across the upper collector and emitter terminals and substantially in parallel with the upper common source inductance. A lower diode is coupled across the lower collector and emitter terminals and substantially in parallel with the lower common source inductance. Thus, the diodes substantially bypass the common source inductances when carrying commutation current when one of the transistors is switching off. This allows the phase leg to possess significant common source inductance at the gate terminals while avoiding “shoot-through” issues.
US10250113B2
An electric motor includes: a rotor having a rotor yoke and a magnet; and a stator formed by stacking, in a rotation axis direction of the rotor, a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheet layers in each of which a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets each having two teeth is annularly arranged. A core of a coil provided in the stator is formed of the teeth stacked in the rotation axis direction, there are two types of phases for arrangement of a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets in one electromagnetic steel sheet layer, and the stator includes the electromagnetic steel sheet layers having the two types of phases.
US10250110B2
A method of assembling a rotating rectifier having multiple radially spaced bus bars with a corresponding fastener to an electrical machine having at least one machine with a stator and a rotor mounted on a rotating shaft, the method includes inserting the rotating rectifier into a hollow portion of the rotating shaft, axially aligning the fasteners with a corresponding radial opening in the rotating shaft, inhibiting an inward radial movement of the fasteners by inserting an inhibiting tool into an interior defined by the multiple radially spaced bus bars, and at least partially securing the fasteners to a corresponding fastener on at least one of the rotor and rotating shaft while the inhibiting tool resides in the interior.
US10250108B2
A motor driving device is equipped with a printed board, a plurality of secondary voltage elements mounted on the printed board and which are used only with a secondary voltage, a plurality of primary voltage elements disposed on a surface on a side opposite to a surface on which the plurality of secondary voltage elements are mounted on the printed board, and which are used only with a primary voltage that is higher than the secondary voltage, and first conductive materials, which extend from an upper portion of the printed board to control terminals (command signal input portion) of the primary voltage elements, for the purpose of transmitting command signals from the secondary voltage elements to the primary voltage elements.
US10250101B2
A balanced planetary gearbox including an assembly having an input stage and an output stage. The assembly includes two grounds, each with ground rollers and ground rings. The two grounds are fixedly attached to one another. The assembly includes a sun gear and planet sub-assemblies between the two grounds. The planet sub-assemblies include at least one input planet gear and one output planet gear. The sun gear and the input planet gears include rollers. An abutment of rollers in the gearbox keeps the sun gear and the planet gears in alignment. The output gear meshes with an output ring disposed in between the two ground rings, such that a combination of the at least one input planet gears from each of the plurality of planet sub-assemblies provides a structural symmetry to the planetary gearbox.
US10250100B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a starter that includes a motor with an armature that is coupled to a pinion. In some embodiments, the starter can include a main field coil that can be configured and arranged to produce a main magnetic field flux. Some embodiments include at least one auxiliary flux assembly arranged in close proximity with the main field coil and electrically disconnected from it. In some embodiments, a control system can operatively power the main field coil to produce a magnetic field flux. In some embodiments, the at least one auxiliary flux assembly can provide a supplementary field flux adding to the main magnetic field flux that interacts with the armature.
US10250098B2
The invention relates to a drive device, particularly comprising an internal rotor motor, with a motor housing, a stator for a winding and a rotor having at least one permanent magnet, wherein the motor housing has a housing part extending substantially radially on one side of the stator and the rotor has two rotor bearings. The rotor bearings are arranged on the substantially radially extending housing part or on a part connected thereto which extends substantially axially.
US10250090B2
A rotor, motor, pump and a cleaning apparatus are provided. The rotor includes a shaft and two magnets fixed to the rotary shaft. Each magnet comprises a radial outer surface, a radial inner surface, and two connecting surfaces that connect the radial outer surface and the radial inner surface at opposite ends of the magnet. The radial outer surface has an arc section. The radial inner surfaces of the two magnets cooperatively define an inner bore for the shaft to pass therethrough. A ratio of a pole arc angle of each magnet to a 180-degree angle is in the range of 0.75 to 0.95.
US10250087B2
Disclosed is an asynchronous rotating electric machine in which none of the electrical windings is rotating, said machine having a homopolar compound structure. The machine comprises: a rotor including magnetic flux return parts; and a stator formed by a pair of armatures and a magnetic wedge connecting the armatures and providing the magnetic flux in the direction of the axis of rotation, an annular induction coil being supplied with alternating current and housed between the air gap and the wedge, and one or two armature coils being received by one or both of the armatures generating an alternating magnetic flux.
US10250075B2
Provided is a power receiving apparatus including: a contact power receiving unit configured to receive power with use of a wired transfer path via a connecting terminal; a contactless power receiving unit configured to receive power with use of a wireless transfer path via contactless coupling with a power supply apparatus; and a control unit configured to determine whether or not power is receivable by the contact power receiving unit and the contactless power receiving unit to control charging of power supply. According to the above embodiment, in a case where power is receivable by both the contactless power receiving unit and the contact power receiving unit, the control unit controls a rechargeable battery to be allowed to be charged with power received by the contact power receiving unit, and communication with the power supply apparatus to be allowed via the contactless coupling with the power supply apparatus.
US10250074B2
To prevent an overvoltage from being applied to a load in a power reception circuit of a power supply system. A power supply system is provided which includes a power supply device equipped with a power supply coil, and a power reception device equipped with a power reception coil. When a resonance circuit is in a resonance state, a peak voltage value of a voltage generated in the power reception coil is set higher than a prescribed voltage value. When the resonance circuit is in a non-resonance state, the peak voltage value of the voltage generated in the power reception coil is set lower than the prescribed voltage value.
US10250070B2
A line power control method and system for a unified power flow controller includes outer loop line power control, inner loop valve side current control, and converter valve control. Series-side converter valve side current reference values Isedref and Iseqref are calculated by means of the outer loop line power control according to line power instructions Pref and Qref that are input, a measured line power UL, and measured line power Pline and Qline; a converter output voltage reference value Ucref is calculated by means of the inner valve side current control according to the valve side current reference values that are output by means of the outer loop power control, a measured valve side current, and a measured valve side voltage; and finally, a converter outputs, according to the voltage reference value, a corresponding voltage to control line power to achieve a reference value.
US10250068B2
A solar powered device comprising a solar radiation collection portion, wherein the solar radiation collection portion includes: a solar panel to collect solar radiation, a concentrator surrounding the solar panel to concentrate the solar radiation, and a charge controller coupled to the solar panel, a base portion, a plurality of legs, and a connection portion operably connecting the solar radiation collection portion to the base portion, the connection portion including a connection member having a first end and a second end is provided. Furthermore, an associated method is also provided.
US10250060B2
An adaptive charge control circuit configured for a switching charger can include: an input voltage control circuit configured to receive an input voltage signal of the switching charger and an input voltage reference signal, and to generate a first error signal; an input current control circuit configured to receive an input current signal of the switching charger and an input current reference signal, and to generate a second error signal; a charging current control circuit configured to receive a charging current signal of the switching charger and a charging current reference signal, and to generate a third error signal; and a charging voltage control circuit configured to receive a charging voltage signal of the switching charger and a charging voltage reference signal, and to generate a fourth error signal.
US10250059B2
A charging circuit comprises a power node electrically connectable to a power supply unit, a battery node electrically connectable to a battery, a device node electrically connected to a device load, a reversible buck-boost converter operatively intermediate the power node and the battery node, a first switch operatively intermediate the power node and the device node, a second switch operatively intermediate the battery node and the device node; and logic operatively connected to the first switch, the second switch, and the reversible buck-boost converter. The logic is configured to operate the first switch, the second switch, and the reversible buck-boost converter based on a plurality of different conditions.
US10250056B2
A jump-start kit includes a control unit with a safety circuit and a portable power bank. The power bank and control unit are capable of jump-starting a 12 V car battery as well as charging at least one 5 V portable electronic device. The safety circuit includes a jump-start relay operatively connecting a power supply of the portable power bank to positive and negative jumper cable jacks, a microprocessor, and a voltage input analyzer of the control unit to enable or disable the jump-start relay.
US10250052B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for battery charging are provided. The apparatus determines a level of a charge current for charging a battery based on a user preference. The apparatus determines a number of rest periods in the charge current, wherein during the rest periods, the apparatus is configured to perform at least one of setting the charge current to zero or discharging the battery. The apparatus charges the battery with the determined level of the charge current and the determined number of rest periods.
US10250050B1
The charger includes a housing with a base wall opposite a face wall. A male electric power plug has prongs which extend from the face wall to connect to an AC power output receptacle. Intermediate walls extend from the base wall to the face wall including a top wall, a bottom wall and a pair of side walls. Lateral edges are located between the intermediate walls. A USB port, a cord, or other power outlet is located along at least one of these lateral edges, and in some embodiments multiple outlets extend from multiple edges. The charger can thus be utilized in one AC power output receptacle within an array of AC power output receptacles without blocking adjacent AC power output receptacles, and provide one or more sources of DC power to power and/or recharge portable electronic devices.
US10250049B2
A charging device for one or more input modules for a touch-screen device is described. The charging device comprises a charging mechanism and portions which are shaped to receive an input module. The charging mechanism comprises a power input and a power output. The power input is configured to receive power from an external power source and the power input is configured to provide power to one or more input modules which are attached to the charging device.
US10250046B2
An apparatus and method for blocking electromagnetic interference, EMI is presented. In particular, the present invention relates to a switched mode power supply provided with an electromagnetic interference protection circuit with low power dissipation. There is provided an adiabatically-switched electromagnetic interference protection circuit. The protection circuit contains a first charge storage element and a second charge storage element. A switching regulator operates with a switching cycle having an on-time and an off-time; and the control signal is arranged to cause a transition between the first mode and the second mode to start during the off-time of a switching cycle of the switching regulator.
US10250028B2
An electrical switch is disclosed for switching an electric current between a feed and an outgoer. The electrical switch can be mounted in a switchgear assembly and as a result electrical contact can be made with the electrical switch by a feed and an outgoer of the switchgear assembly. In one embodiment, the electrical switch includes an internal voltage tap for supplying power to a switch-internal electronics system and a changeover switch. The changeover switch adjusts the electrical connection between the feed or the outgoer and the internal voltage tap.
US10250024B2
There is provided a cable breakout support, comprising a clamp for clamping to a trunking, and a clip for clipping to a cable breakout of a cable bundle supported in the trunking. Each clamp comprises at least two trunk fittings for fitting to at least two respective bulbous longitudinal edges of the trunking; and a clip fitting for connecting to a respective clip.
US10250018B2
An electrical distribution apparatus includes a backplane for supporting a plurality of electrical devices, a bus bar assembly coupled to the backplane, and a frame that supports the backplane. The electrical distribution apparatus also includes at least one positioning member that facilitates positioning the backplane relative to the frame. The at least one positioning member at least partially supports the backplane such that the backplane is positionable between a first position and a second position. The backplane contacts the frame in the second position.
US10250017B2
An adapter for contacting a circuit breaker to a busbar system, with a casing having a first mounting side to attach and electrically contact the adapter to at least one busbar of a busbar system and a second mounting side to attach and electrically contact a circuit breaker to the casing, characterized in that, on the second mounting side, at least one rotary disk with several sets of threaded inserts for attaching a circuit breaker is fitted so that it can pivot around a rotational axis perpendicular to the mounting sides, wherein each set of threaded inserts is equipped for mounting a particular type of circuit breaker so that for each position of the rotary disk one of the sets of threaded inserts is positioned in a mounting position for a particular type of circuit breaker.
US10249988B2
A substrate configured to be mated with an electrical connector having improved performance data is achieved by reducing the length of the electrical signal contact pads of the substrate with respect to the length of electrical signal contact pads of conventional substrates that are configured to be mated with the electrical connector.
US10249982B2
Provided is a power supply device capable of improving workability during assembly and mounting. Accommodating a power source side connector by a cylindrical portion of a case makes a portion where the power source side connector of the harness is provided not pulled out to the outside of the case. Thus the workability at the time of assembling the power feeding device itself can be improved. Also, it is unnecessary to dispose the power source side connector where the passenger unlikely steps on, and simply mating the mating connector with the source side connector makes the workability at the time of mounting the power supply device on the vehicle improved.
US10249978B2
A connector assembly is provided that includes a carrier embedded within a molded frame. The carrier further includes an aperture positioned within an opening formed in the carrier configured to receive a boss formed on a connector housing. A connector module having a plurality of electrical terminals retained in the housing and secured to the frame. The connector module aligned to the frame by the carrier by the boss formed in the housing engaging the aperture. The carrier adding rigidity to the frame and providing a precise alignment of the connector modules to the frame.
US10249962B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing antenna structures to optimize transmission and reception of wireless signals from ground-based signal distribution devices, which include, but are not limited to, pedestals, hand holes, and/or network access point platforms. Wireless applications with such devices and systems might include, without limitation, wireless signal transmission and reception in accordance with IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ad/af standards, UMTS, CDMA, LTE, PCS, AWS, EAS, BRS, and/or the like. In some embodiments, an antenna might be provided within a signal distribution device, which might include a container disposed in a ground surface. A top portion of the container might be substantially level with a top portion of the ground surface. The antenna might be communicatively coupled to one or more of at least one conduit, at least one optical fiber, at least one conductive signal line, or at least one power line via the container.
US10249960B2
The present invention relates to a distributed antenna system for transmitting and/or receiving radio frequency, RF, signals, wherein said antenna system comprises at least one elliptical waveguide which comprises a plurality of openings. The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing a distributed antenna system of the aforementioned type.
US10249955B2
One embodiment discloses an antenna structure. An antenna structure comprises: a ground plane; a transmit balanced to unbalanced (BALUN) circuit comprising a first transmit connector coupled to a combined transmit port, and a second transmit connector coupled to the combined transit port; a receive BALUN circuit comprising a first receive connector coupled to a combined receive port, and a second receive connector coupled to the combined receive port; a transmit antenna element comprising a first transmit antenna sub-element coupled to the first transmit connector and a second transmit antenna sub-element coupled to the second transmit connector; a receive antenna element independent from the transmit antenna element and comprising a first receive antenna sub-element coupled to the first receive connector and a second receive antenna sub-element coupled to the second receive connector, wherein the transmit antenna element and the receive antenna element are orthogonally-polarized with respect to each other.
US10249952B2
The present invention refers to an antenna less wireless handheld or portable device comprising a communication module including a radiating system capable of transmitting and receiving electromagnetic wave signals in a first frequency region and in a second frequency region, wherein the highest frequency of the first frequency region is lower than the lowest frequency of the second frequency region. The radiating system comprising a radiating structure and at least one internal port, wherein the input impedance of the radiating structure at the/each internal port when disconnected from the radiofrequency system has an imaginary part not equal to zero for any frequency of the first frequency region; and wherein said radiofrequency system modifies the impedance of the radiating structure, providing impedance matching to the radiating system in the at least two frequency regions of operation of the radiating system.
US10249949B2
A microwave modulation device includes a first radiator; a second radiator disposed on the first radiator; a third radiator disposed on the second radiator; a support structure disposed between the first radiator and the second radiator; and a modulation structure disposed between the second radiator and the third radiator. A microwave-transmission layer is located among the space defined by the first radiator, the second radiator, and the support structure. The microwave-transmission layer is gas, substantially vacuum, liquid or insulating material.
US10249948B2
An aircraft includes a fuselage, wings coupled to the fuselage, and a transceiver. The aircraft further includes a plurality of planar phased array antennas coupled to the transceiver and fixedly attached to the fuselage or to at least one of the wings. The plurality of planar phased array antennas include a first planar phased array antenna having a first normal vector and a second planar phased array antenna having a second normal vector. The first normal vector is not parallel to the second normal vector.
US10249942B2
A two-wheeled motor vehicle having a main frame on which a metal structure is mounted, and first and second antennas, disposed outside the main frame in a vehicle width direction, for road-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. The first and second antennas are opposite to each other and are separated by the metal structure of the main frame.
US10249932B1
A bollard light fixture comprises a housing including a longitudinal, vertical hollow portion; and a plurality of directional antennas disposed within the vertical hollow portion, the antennas are configured to radiate RF signals outwardly from inside the housing and receive RF signals.
US10249924B2
Techniques and mechanisms to provide a compact arrangement of vias extending through at least a portion of a printed circuit board (PCB) or other substrate. In an embodiment, the substrate includes a dielectric material and a sidewall structure forming a hole region that extends at least partially through the dielectric material. The hole region adjoins each of a first via and a second via, and is also located between the first via and second via. In another embodiment, the first via is coupled to exchange a first signal of a differential signal pair, and the second via is coupled to exchange a second signal of the same differential signal pair.
US10249922B2
In an example embodiment, a waveguide device comprises: a first common waveguide; a polarizer section, the polarizer section including a conductive septum dividing the first common waveguide into a first divided waveguide portion and a second waveguide divided portion; a second waveguide coupled to the first divided waveguide portion of the polarizer section; a third waveguide coupled to the second divided waveguide portion of the polarizer section; and a dielectric insert. The dielectric insert includes a first dielectric portion partially filling the polarizer section. The conductive septum and the dielectric portion convert a signal between a polarized state in the first common waveguide and a first polarization component in the second waveguide and a second polarization component in the third waveguide.
US10249918B2
A battery pack includes a case, a battery device, an intervening member and a temperature detection device. The battery device may be disposed within the case and include a cell holder configured to accommodate a plurality of battery cells. The intervening member may be provided between the cell holder and at least one of the plurality of cell holder. The temperature detection device may be disposed between the intervening member and at least one of the plurality of cell holder, so that the temperature detection device directly contacts at least one of the battery cells for detecting a temperature thereof. At least one of the cell holder and the intervening member may have an elasticity, so that the temperature detection device may be directly pressed against at least one of the battery cells due to an elastic deformation of the least one of the cell holder and the intervening member.
US10249894B2
A fuel cell system includes: a first fuel cell stack; and a second fuel cell stack with lower output voltage than the first fuel cell stack, a pre-switching stack configured by the first fuel cell stack or the second fuel cell stack, a step-up stack configured by the first fuel cell stack or the second fuel cell stack, a post-switching stack configured by at least the first fuel cell stack, and steps up voltage of the step-up stack with the pre-switching stack connected to the load and then switches to a connection state where the post-switching stack is connected to the load.
US10249884B2
The present disclosure provides compositions including thermo-electro-chemical converter, methods of converting thermal energy into electrical energy, and the like. In general, embodiments of the present disclosure can be used to convert thermal energy into electrical energy by way of a chemical process.
US10249883B2
A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) includes a solid oxide electrolyte with a zirconia-based ceramic, an anode electrode, and a cathode electrode that includes a ceria-based ceramic component and an electrically conductive component. Another SOFC includes a solid oxide electrolyte containing a zirconia-based ceramic, an anode electrode, and a cathode electrode that includes an electrically conductive component and an ionically conductive component, in which the ionically conductive component includes a zirconia-based ceramic containing scandia and at least one of ceria, ytterbia and yttria.
US10249880B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a current collector provided with a conductive layer that can keep a high resistance only at a high temperature. The method includes dispersing a carbon material in an organic solvent to prepare a carbon material dispersion solution, dispersing polyvinylidene fluoride in an organic solvent to prepare a resin dispersion solution, mixing the carbon material dispersion solution, the resin dispersion solution, and water, to prepare a composition for conductive layer formation, and forming a conductive layer on a surface of a current collector by applying the composition for conductive layer formation and thereafter drying the composition.
US10249871B2
A composite including: at least one selected from a silicon oxide of the formula SiO2 and a silicon oxide of the formula SiOx wherein 0
US10249867B2
A flat-shaped winding electrode body in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are wound with a separator interposed therebetween includes a positive electrode tab portion and a negative electrode tab portion at one end in a direction in which a winding axis of the winding electrode body extends. Two pieces of the flat-shaped winding electrode body are housed in a prismatic outer body so that the winding axis of each piece is disposed in a direction perpendicular to a sealing plate, and the positive electrode tab portion and the negative electrode tab portion are located on one end of the winding electrode body closer to the sealing plate than the other end.
US10249866B2
A storage battery module includes a storage battery group, first and second end plates, a coupling band, and a pressing device. The storage battery group includes storage batteries stacked in a stacking direction and has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end in the stacking direction. The first and second end plates are provided at the first and second ends, respectively. The coupling band couples the first and second end plates to each other. The pressing device includes pin-shaped members pressing the storage batteries in a pressing direction and a fixing portion fixing the pin-shaped members to the coupling band.
US10249864B2
A spacer includes: a first projection being in contact with the battery cell; a second projection being in contact with the battery cell; a third projection adjacent to the first projection, and being in contact with the battery cell; a first inclined portion connecting the first projection and the third projection; a fourth projection adjacent to the second projection, and being in contact with the battery cell; a second inclined portion connecting the second projection and the fourth projection; and a fifth projection and a sixth projection being out of contact with the battery cells between the third projection and the fourth projection. When the battery cells expand, the fifth and the sixth projections come into contact with the battery cells.
US10249859B2
A battery built-in board includes a battery component comprising a battery and an insulation part covering the battery, a first insulation layer in which the battery component is placed, and a second insulation layer formed on the first insulation layer and covering the battery component. Rigidity of the insulation part is lower than that of the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer.
US10249856B2
An assembled battery has a battery block configured by stacking a plurality of single batteries, and fixing components fixing the plurality of the single batteries. The fixing components include a pair of end plates disposed at both ends in a stacked direction of the plurality of the single batteries, and a metal band making the plurality of the single batteries in a compressed state by coupling end parts of the pair of the end plates each other. Each of the pair of the end plates has a peripheral part and a central part. The pair of the end plates respectively contact both end single batteries located at both ends in the stacked direction at the peripheral parts, and are respectively separated from both end single batteries at the central parts.
US10249852B2
There is provided a secondary battery including a case having an internal space, an electrode assembly inserted into the case and including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, an electrode tab electrically connected to the electrode assembly, a cap plate sealing the case, a current collector electrically connected to the electrode tab, an electrode terminal electrically connected to the current collector and configured to pass through the cap plate to protrude toward the outside, and a connector having an end coupled to the electrode assembly and an other end coupled to the current collector.
US10249851B2
A stacked battery includes a first current collecting case, a second current collecting case, and a third current collecting case, a first electrode body and a second electrode body. Each of The first current collecting case and the second current collecting case includes a positive electrode wall portion. Each of the second current collecting case and the third current collecting case includes a second negative electrode wall portion.
US10249849B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a first electrode and a second electrode on a substrate, the first electrode being opposite to the second electrode; and at least one emission part between the first electrode and the second electrode, the at least one emission part including at least one organic layer, wherein the at least one organic layer comprises a peak wavelength of electroluminescence (EL) spectrum (PWES) structure where a moving range of a peak wavelength of an EL spectrum emitted from the at least one emission part is set.
US10249848B2
An organic light-emitting panel includes a reflective electrode, a functional layer, having a single or multi-layer structure, located on the reflective electrode, an organic light-emitting layer located on the functional layer, a transparent electrode located above the organic light-emitting layer, a low refractive index layer located on the transparent electrode, and a first thin-film sealing layer located on the low refractive index layer. The low refractive index layer has a lower refractive index than both the transparent electrode and the first thin-film sealing layer. Difference between respective refractive indices of the low refractive index layer and the transparent electrode is 0.4-1.1. Difference between respective refractive indices of the low refractive index layer and the first thin-film sealing layer is 0.1-0.8. The low refractive index layer has thickness of 20-130 nm.
US10249846B2
The present invention provides an OLED packaging method and an OLED package structure. The OLED packaging method of the present invention is such that a silicon-doped diamond-like carbon layer and a diamond-like carbon scattering layer are both provided in an OLED package structure so that the silicon-doped diamond-like carbon layer may provide an effect of blocking external moisture and oxygen and the diamond-like carbon scattering layer is used to provide an effect of increasing light transmission rate, whereby it is possible to greatly extend the service life of the OLED device and also to ensure a relatively high light output efficiency of the OLED device. The OLED package structure of the present invention is such that a silicon-doped diamond-like carbon layer and a diamond-like carbon scattering layer are both provided, so that the silicon-doped diamond-like carbon layer may provide an effect of blocking external moisture and oxygen and the diamond-like carbon scattering layer is used to provide an effect of increasing light transmission rate, whereby it is possible to greatly extend the service life of the OLED device and also to ensure a relatively high light output efficiency of the OLED device.
US10249844B2
A light-emitting display panel is provided. The light-emitting display panel includes a substrate. The substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. A light-emitting display structure is disposed on the display area. A first section wall is disposed on the peripheral area. The first section wall surrounds the light-emitting display structure. An enclosed wall is disposed on the peripheral area. The enclosed wall surrounds the first section wall. The enclosed wall is positioned outside the first section wall. A first inorganic material layer covers the light-emitting display structure. The first inorganic material layer covers the top surface of the array substrate outside the enclosed wall.
US10249839B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes, in order, a first electrode, a hole transport layer, an organic light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a second electrode. The hole transport layer is configured by a coated film. The organic light-emitting layer is configured by a coated film. The organic light-emitting layer has a hole current that is larger than an electron current.
US10249825B2
Provided are a compound capable of improving light emitting efficiency, stability, and lifespan of the element, an organic element using the same, and an electric device for the same.
US10249824B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a condensed-cyclic compound represented by Formula 1, and to an organic light-emitting diode including the same.
US10249821B2
Design of side chains yielding highly amphiphilic conjugated polymers is proven to be an effective and general method to access lyotropic liquid crystalline mesophases, allowing greater control over crystalline morphology and improving transistor performance. The general strategy enables variations in structure and interactions that impact alignment and use of liquid crystalline alignment methods. Specifically, solvent-polymer interactions are harnessed to facilitate the formation of high quality polymer crystals in solution. Crystallinity developed in solution is then transferred to the solid state, and thin films of donor-acceptor copolymers cast from lyotropic solutions exhibit improved crystalline order in both the alkyl and π-stacking directions. Due to this improved crystallinity, transistors with active layers cast from lyotropic solutions exhibit a significant improvement in carrier mobility compared to those cast from isotropic solution. One or more embodiments of the present invention achieve a maximum carrier mobility of 0.61 cm2V−1s−1.
US10249819B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure. The method comprises forming a protective portion of a liner on at least a portion of stack structures on a substrate. The protective portion comprises a material formulated to adhere to the stack structures. A conformal portion of the liner is formed on the protective portion of the liner or on the protective portion of the liner and exposed materials of the stack structures. At least one of the protective portion and the conformal portion does not comprise aluminum. Additional methods of forming a semiconductor structure are disclosed, as are semiconductor structures including the liners comprising the protective portion and the conformal portion.
US10249814B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to protecting the contents of memory in an electronic device, and in particular to systems and methods for transferring data between memories of an electronic device in the presence of strong magnetic fields. In one embodiment, a method of protecting data in a memory in an electronic device includes storing data in a first memory in the electronic device; determining, via a magnetic sensor, a strength of an ambient magnetic field; comparing the strength of the ambient magnetic field to a threshold; transferring the data in the first memory to a second memory in the electronic device upon determining that the strength of the ambient magnetic field exceeds the threshold; and transferring the data from the second memory to the first memory upon determining that the strength of the ambient magnetic field no longer exceeds the threshold.
US10249811B2
A piezoelectric driving device includes a vibrating plate, and a piezoelectric vibrating body including a substrate, and piezoelectric elements provided on the substrate. The piezoelectric element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric body, and the first electrode, the piezoelectric body, and the second electrode are laminated in this order on the substrate. The piezoelectric vibrating body is installed on the vibrating plate so that the piezoelectric element is interposed between the substrate and the vibrating plate. A wiring pattern including a first wiring corresponding to the first electrode and a second wiring corresponding to the second electrode is formed on the vibrating plate, the first electrode and the first wiring are connected to each other through a first laminated conducting portion, and the second electrode and the second wiring are connected to each other through a second laminated conducting portion.
US10249808B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to surface doping of nanostructures. In one aspect a plurality of nanostructures is fabricated with a solution-based process using a solvent. The plurality of nanostructures comprises a semiconductor. Each of the plurality of nanostructures has a surface with capping species attached to the surface. The plurality of nanostructures is mixed in the solvent with a dopant compound that includes doping species. During the mixing the capping species on the surfaces of the plurality of nanostructures are replaced by the doping species. Charge carriers are transferred between the doping species and the plurality of nanostructures.
US10249806B2
A wafer-level process for manufacturing solid state lighting (“SSL”) devices using large-diameter preformed metal substrates is disclosed. A light emitting structure is formed on a growth substrate, and a preformed metal substrate is bonded to the light emitting structure opposite the growth substrate. The preformed metal substrate can be bonded to the light emitting structure via a metal-metal bond, such as a copper-copper bond, or with an inter-metallic compound bond.
US10249805B2
A light emitting diode package can include a substrate; a light emitting diode on the substrate; an electrode electrically connected to the light emitting diode; a frame surrounding the light emitting diode and configured to reflect light emitted from the light emitting diode; and a hole formed to pass through the substrate and configured to connect both upper and bottom surfaces of the substrate, in which a top surface of the frame is higher than a top surface of the light emitting diode, a portion of the frame has an inclined inner surface, the frame includes at least one protruding portion protruding from an imaginary surface where the light emitting diode is disposed, a bottom surface of the at least one protruding portion contacts the substrate, the at least one protruding portion is outside of the light emitting diode, and the hole is vertically overlapped with the light emitting diode.
US10249802B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having a first face, a second face opposing the first face, a plurality of side faces extending between the first face and the second face, a plurality of corners where the second face meets two of the plurality of side faces, and a pair of electrodes on a second face side of the light emitting element; a light transmissive member covering a portion of at least one of the side faces and a portion of an edge where said at least one side face meets the second face such that at least one of the plurality of corners is exposed from the light transmissive member; and a covering member covering the at least one exposed corner of the light emitting element and the exterior of the light transmissive member such that the pair of electrodes are exposed from the covering member.
US10249798B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting structure including a support structure including a first bulk electrode a second bulk electrode disposed on and electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively. A substrate is disposed adjacent to the support structure, wherein each of the first and second bulk electrodes includes an upper region and a lower region with the upper regions of the first and second bulk electrodes being separated from each other by a first distance. The substrate includes a first interconnection portion and a second interconnection portion electrically connected to the first bulk electrode and the second bulk electrode, respectively, and separated from each other by a second distance. The second distance is greater than the first distance.
US10249797B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a high-efficiency light emitting diode (LED). The LED according to an exemplary embodiment includes a substrate, a semiconductor stack arranged on the substrate, wherein the semiconductor stack has a p-type semiconductor layer, an active layer and an n-type semiconductor layer, a first metal layer interposed between the substrate and the semiconductor stack, the first metal layer ohmic-contacted with the semiconductor stack, a first electrode pad arranged on the semiconductor stack, an electrode extension extending from the first electrode pad, wherein the electrode extension has a contact region contacting the n-type semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer interposed between the substrate and the semiconductor stack, wherein the first insulating layer covers a surface region of the p-type semiconductor layer under the contact region of the electrode extension, and a second insulating layer interposed between the first electrode pad and the semiconductor stack.
US10249782B2
An electrical device that includes a material stack present on a supporting substrate. An LED is present in a first end of the material stack having a first set of bandgap materials. A photovoltaic device is present in a second end of the material stack having a second set of bandgap materials. The first end of the material stack being a light receiving end, wherein a widest bandgap material for the first set of bandgap material is greater than a highest bandgap material for the second set of bandgap materials. A zinc oxide interface layer is present between the LED and the photovoltaic device. The zinc oxide layers or can also form a LED.
US10249773B2
A light-emitting diode chip includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and an active layer between them; an dielectric layer having a conductive through-hole array over the lower surface of the light-emitting epitaxial laminated layer; a metal conductive layer over the lower surface of the dielectric layer, which fills up the conductive through-hole, and forms ohmic contact with the light-emitting epitaxial laminated layer; a conductive substrate over the lower surface of the metal conductive layer for supporting the light-emitting epitaxial laminated layer; a first electrode comprising a bonding pad electrode and a finger-shape electrode over the upper surface of the light-emitting epitaxial laminated layer, wherein, a rotation angle is formed between the conductive through-hole array and the finger-shape electrode, which is selected to prevent a preferred number of conductive through-holes from being shielded by the bonding pad electrode and the finger-shape electrode.
US10249769B1
An object of the disclosure is to take a CMOS varactor structure (NMOS in N-well or PMOS in P-well) and turn it in to a three terminal on-chip tuneable diffusion resistor. The diffusion resistor can be made with an n+ diffusion inside the p-substrate, or with a p+ diffusion inside an N-well that lies within the p-substrate. The resistor can be implemented in any existing CMOS or BICMOS silicon technology, without using additional masks. The resistor can be also implemented in a technology with FINFETs.
US10249767B2
A Ga2O3-based semiconductor element includes an undoped β-Ga2O3 single crystal film disposed on a surface of a β-Ga2O3 substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on a same side of the undoped β-Ga2O3 single crystal film, a gate electrode disposed on the undoped β-Ga2O3 single crystal film between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a region formed in the undoped β-Ga2O3 single crystal film under the source electrode and the drain electrode and including a controlled dopant concentration.
US10249759B2
In an active layer over a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor device has a first lateral diffusion field effect transistor (LDFET) that includes a source, a drain, and a gate, and a second LDFET that includes a source, a drain, and a gate. The source of the first LDFET and the drain of the second LDFET are electrically connected to a common node. A first front-side contact and a second front-side contact are formed over the active layer, and a substrate contact electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate is formed. Each of the first front-side contact, the second front-side contact, and the substrate contact is electrically connected to a different respective one of the drain of the first LDFET, the source of the second LDFET, and the common node.
US10249752B2
In one embodiment, the semiconductor devices relate to using one or more super-junction trenches for termination.
US10249746B2
A superjunction bipolar transistor includes an active transistor cell area that includes active transistor cells electrically connected to a first load electrode at a front side of a semiconductor body. A superjunction area overlaps the active transistor cell area and includes a low-resistive region and a reservoir region outside of the low-resistive region. The low-resistive region includes a first superjunction structure with a first vertical extension with respect to a first surface at the front side of the semiconductor body. The reservoir region includes no superjunction structure such that the reservoir region includes the semiconductor body that extends from a region located at the first surface to a drain region.
US10249742B2
A method including forming a non-planar conducting channel of a device between junction regions on a substrate, the substrate including a blocking material beneath the channel, the blocking material including a property to inhibit carrier leakage; and forming a gate stack on the channel, the gate stack including a dielectric material and a gate electrode. A method including forming a buffer material on a semiconductor substrate, the buffer material including a semiconductor material including a different lattice structure than the substrate; forming a blocking material on the buffer material, the blocking material including a property to inhibit carrier leakage; and forming a transistor device on the substrate. An apparatus including a non-planar multi-gate device on a substrate including a transistor device including a channel disposed on a substrate including a blocking material beneath the channel, the blocking material including a property to inhibit carrier leakage.
US10249739B2
A method is presented for forming a nanosheet metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) structure. The method includes forming a heteroepitaxial film stack including at least one sacrificial layer and at least one channel layer, patterning the heteroepitaxial film stack, forming a dummy gate stack with sidewall spacers, and forming a cladded or embedded epitaxial source/drain material along the patterned heteroepitaxial film stack sidewalls. The method further includes removing the dummy gate stack, partially removing the at least one sacrificial layer, and forming a replacement gate stack.
US10249732B1
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes sequentially forming an n− type of layer, a p type of region, and an n+ type of region on a first surface of a substrate, forming a preliminary trench in the n− type of layer by a first etching process and forming a preliminary gate insulating layer by a first thermal oxidation process. The method includes etching the lower surface of the preliminary trench and the preliminary second portion to form a trench by a second etching process and forming a gate insulating layer in the trench by a second thermal oxidation process. The gate insulating layer includes a first and second portion. The preliminary first portion is thicker than the preliminary second portion and the first portion. The first portion thickness is equal to the thickness of the second portion.
US10249728B2
Disclosed are integrated circuit (IC) structures and formation methods. In the methods, a gate with a sacrificial gate cap and a sacrificial gate sidewall spacer is formed on a channel region. The cap and sidewall spacer are removed, creating a cavity with a lower portion between the sidewalls of the gate and adjacent metal plugs and with an upper portion above the lower portion and the gate. A first dielectric layer is deposited, forming an air-gap in the lower portion and lining the upper portion. A second dielectric layer is deposited, filling the upper portion. During formation of a gate contact opening (optionally over an active region), the second dielectric layer is removed and the first dielectric layer is anisotropically etched, thereby exposing the gate and creating a dielectric spacer with a lower air-gap segment and an upper solid segment. Metal deposited into the opening forms the gate contact.
US10249718B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a metal layer; an n-type first silicon carbide region; and a second silicon carbide region of metal containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), and platinum (Pt) and positioned between the metal layer and the first silicon carbide region.
US10249714B2
A semiconductor device including a gate structure on a channel region portion of a fin structure, and at least one of an epitaxial source region and an epitaxial drain region on a source region portion and a drain region portion of the fin structure. At least one of the epitaxial source region portion and the epitaxial drain region portion include a first concentration doped portion adjacent to the fin structure, and a second concentration doped portion on the first concentration doped portion. The second concentration portion has a greater dopant concentration than the first concentration doped portion. An extension dopant region extending into the channel portion of the fin structure having an abrupt dopant concentration gradient of n-type or p-type dopants of 7 nm per decade or greater.
US10249711B2
A FET employing a micro-scale device array structure comprises a substrate on which an epitaxial active channel area has been grown, with a plurality of micro-cells uniformly distributed over the active channel area. Each micro-cell comprises a source electrode, a drain electrode, and at least one gate electrode, with a first metal layer interconnecting either the drain or the source electrodes, a second metal layer interconnecting the gate electrodes, and a third metal layer interconnecting the other of the drain or source electrodes. Each micro-cell preferably comprises a source or drain electrode at the center of the micro-cell, with the corresponding drain or source electrode surrounding the center electrode. The number and width of the gate electrodes in each micro-cell may be selected to achieve a desired power density and/or heat distribution, and/or to minimize the FET's junction temperature. The FET structure may be used to form, for example, HEMTs or MESFETs.
US10249692B2
A display device including a base substrate, a display element disposed on the base substrate, a thin film encapsulation layer covering the display element, a first organic layer disposed on the thin film encapsulation layer, an inorganic layer disposed on the first organic layer, touch electrodes disposed on the inorganic layer, and a second organic layer disposed on the inorganic layer, the second organic layer covering the touch electrodes.
US10249679B2
Method of wireless communication between a first device and a second device, in which, the first device and the second device comprising respectively a first thermoelectric generator and a second thermoelectric generator, the two thermoelectric generators being in thermal coupling, a first signal is generated within the first device, the first thermoelectric generator is electrically powered as a function of the first signal so as to create a first thermal gradient in the said first generator and a second thermal gradient in the second generator, and a second signal is generated within the second device on the basis of the electrical energy produced by the second thermoelectric generator in response to the said second thermal gradient.
US10249676B2
An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device including a light receiving surface, an opposite surface, and an inclined surface, and provided with light receiving surface electrodes formed on the light receiving surface; cover glass joined so as to cover the light receiving surface; and a wiring board including second bond electrodes, wherein back surfaces of the light receiving surface electrodes being exposed to an opposite surface side, extended wiring patterns extended from the respective back surfaces of the light receiving surface electrodes through the inclined surface to the opposite surface, each of the extended wiring patterns including a first bond electrode, and the first bond electrode and the second bond electrode being bonded through a bump.
US10249673B2
A microelectronic unit includes a semiconductor element having a front surface to which a packaging layer is attached, and a rear surface remote from the front surface. The element includes a light detector including a plurality of light detector element arranged in an array disposed adjacent to the front surface and arranged to receive light through the rear surface. The semiconductor element also includes an electrically conductive contact at the front surface connected to the light detector. The conductive contact includes a thin region and a thicker region which is thicker than the thin region. A conductive interconnect extends through the packaging layer to the thin region of the conductive contact, and a portion of the conductive interconnect is exposed at a surface of the microelectronic unit.
US10249659B2
A solid-state image pickup device 1 according to the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate 2 on which a pixel 20 composed of a photodiode 3 and a transistor is formed. The transistor comprising the pixel 20 is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, a pn junction portion formed between high concentration regions of the photodiode 3 is provided within the semiconductor substrate 2 and a part of the pn junction portion of the photodiode 3 is extended to a lower portion of the transistor formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate 2. According to the present invention, there is provided a solid-state image pickup device in which a pixel size can be microminiaturized without lowering a saturated electric charge amount (Qs) and sensitivity.
US10249641B2
A semiconductor memory device according to one embodiment includes a substrate, a stacked body provided on a first-direction side of the substrate, a semiconductor member extending in the first direction, and a charge storage film provided between the stacked body and the semiconductor member. The stacked body includes first insulating films and electrode films stacked alternately along the first direction. A recess is made in a surface of the stacked body facing the semiconductor member every one of the electrode films.
US10249638B2
To downsize a semiconductor device that includes a non-volatile memory and a capacitive element on a semiconductor substrate. In a capacitive element region of a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, fins protruding from the main surface are arranged along the Y direction while extending in the X direction. In the capacitive element region of the main surface of the semiconductor substrate, capacitor electrodes of the capacitive elements are alternately arranged along the X direction while intersecting the fins. The fins are formed in a formation step of other fins which are arranged in a memory cell array of the non-volatile memory of the semiconductor substrate. One capacitor electrode is formed in a formation step of a control gate electrode of the non-volatile memory. Another capacitor electrode is formed in a formation step of a memory gate electrode of the non-volatile memory.
US10249630B2
After forming a first functional gate stack located on a first body region of a first semiconductor material portion located in a first region of a substrate and a second functional gate stack located on a second body region of a second semiconductor material portion located in a second region of the substrate, a ferroelectric gate interconnect structure is formed connecting the first functional gate stack and the second functional gate stack. The ferroelectric gate interconnect structure includes a U-shaped bottom electrode structure, a U-shaped ferroelectric material liner and a top electrode structure.
US10249629B1
The present invention provides a method for forming buried word lines. Firstly, a substrate is provided, having a plurality of shallow trench isolations disposed therein, next, a plurality of first patterned material layers are formed on the substrate, a plurality of first recesses are disposed between every two adjacent first patterned material layers, a second patterned material layer is formed in the first recesses, and using the first patterned material layers and the second patterned material layer as the protect layers, and a first etching process is then performed, to form a plurality of second recesses in the substrate.
US10249626B2
The memory capacity of a DRAM is enhanced. A semiconductor memory device includes a driver circuit including part of a single crystal semiconductor substrate, a multilayer wiring layer provided over the driver circuit, and a memory cell array layer provided over the multilayer wiring layer. That is, the memory cell array overlaps with the driver circuit. Accordingly, the integration degree of the semiconductor memory device can be increased as compared to the case where a driver circuit and a memory cell array are provided in the same plane of a substrate containing a singe crystal semiconductor material.
US10249624B2
Semiconductor structures having a source contact and a drain contact that exhibit reduced contact resistance and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present application, the reduced contact resistance is provided by forming a layer of a dipole metal or metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) oxide between an epitaxial semiconductor material (providing the source region and the drain region of the device) and an overlying metal semiconductor alloy. In yet other embodiment, the reduced contact resistance is provided by increasing the area of the source region and drain region by patterning the epitaxial semiconductor material that constitutes at least an upper portion of the source region and drain region of the device.
US10249622B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes providing regions of epitaxial oxide material on a substrate of a first lattice dimension, wherein regions of the epitaxial oxide material separate regions of epitaxial semiconductor material having a second lattice dimension are different than the first lattice dimension to provide regions of strained semiconductor. The regions of the strained semiconductor material are patterned to provide regions of strained fin structures. The epitaxial oxide that is present in the gate cut space obstructs relaxation of the strained fin structures. A gate structure is formed on a channel region of the strained fin structures separating source and drain regions of the fin structures.
US10249618B2
Switching loss is reduced. A first surface of a semiconductor substrate has a portion included in an IGBT region and a portion included in a diode region. Trenches formed in the first surface include a gate trench and a boundary trench disposed between the gate trench and the diode region. A fourth layer of the semiconductor substrate is provided on the first surface and has a portion included in the diode region. The fourth layer includes a trench-covering well region that covers the deepest part of the boundary trench, a plurality of isolated well regions, and a diffusion region that connects the trench-covering well region and the isolated well regions. The diffusion region has a lower impurity concentration than that of the isolated well regions. A first electrode is in contact with the isolated well regions and away from the diffusion region.
US10249614B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a gate structure, a first doped region of a first conductivity type, a plurality of second doped regions of a second conductivity type, a third doped region of the first conductivity type, and a plurality of fourth doped regions of the second conductivity type. The gate structure is located on a substrate. The first doped region is located in the substrate on a first side of the gate structure. The second doped regions are located in the first doped region. The second doped regions are separated from each other. The third doped region is located in the substrate on a second side of the gate structure. The fourth doped regions are located in the third doped region. The fourth doped regions are separated from each other. The second doped regions and the fourth doped regions are disposed alternately.
US10249612B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The semiconductor body includes a load current component having a load current transistor area and a sensor component including a sensor transistor area. The sensor transistor area has first and third transistor area parts differing from a second transistor area part between the first and third transistor area parts by a sensor transistor area element being absent in the second transistor area part. The second transistor area part is electrically disconnected from a parallel connection of the first and third transistor area parts by the sensor transistor area element being absent in the second transistor area part.
US10249611B1
A diode string for a semiconductor circuit configured with a guard ring silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection. The diode string includes multiple NPN transistor diode structures formed in an N-well structure and electrically coupled in series between a reference voltage node and an I/O pad. Each diode structure may include a P-type retro-well structure including at least one N+ doped region and at least one P+ doped region. The P+ guard ring includes at least one P+ doped structure formed in the N-well structure disposed on either side of the first diode structure and electrically coupled to the reference voltage node. The P+ guard ring forms the SCR with the first diode structure. The diode string is triggered in response to an ESD event, which activates the SCR, and the SCR clamps the I/O pad to the reference voltage node and handles the ESD current.
US10249606B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first domain including a first high power source line, a first low power source line, and a first power clamp circuit; a second domain including a second high power source line, a second low power source line, and a second power clamp circuit; a third power clamp circuit provided between the second high power source line and the first low power source line; a first relay circuit that receives a signal from the first domain and outputs the signal to the second domain; and a second relay circuit that receives a signal from the second domain and outputs the signal to the first domain, wherein the first relay circuit and the second relay circuit have a circuit portion that is connected to the second high power source line and the first low power source line.
US10249604B2
A semiconductor device includes a base substrate and a semiconductor chip on the base substrate, the semiconductor chip including a first layer structure and a second layer structure opposite to the first layer structure, at least one of the first and second layer structures including a semiconductor device portion, and a bonding structure between the first layer structure and the second layer structure, the bonding structure including a silver-tin (Ag—Sn) compound and a nickel-tin (Ni—Sn) compound.
US10249597B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing die recovery in Two-Level Memory (2LM) stacked die subsystems are described. A stacked semiconductor package includes a processor functional silicon die at a first layer of the stacked semiconductor package; one or more memory dies forming a corresponding one or more memory layers of the stacked semiconductor package; a plurality of Through Silicon Vias (TSV s) formed through the one or more memory dies; a plurality of physical memory interfaces electrically interfacing the one or more memory dies to the processor functional silicon die at the first layer through the memory layers via the plurality of TSVs; and a redundant physical memory interface formed by a redundant TSV traversing through the memory layers to the processor functional silicon die at the first layer through which to reroute a memory signal path from a defective physical memory interface at a defective TSV to a functional signal path traversing the redundant TSV.
US10249589B2
The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a conductor layer formed over the semiconductor substrate and having an upper surface and a lower surface; a conductive pillar formed on the upper surface of the conductor layer and having an upper surface, a lower surface, and a sidewall; a protection film covering the upper surface of the conductor layer and having an opening which exposes the upper surface and the sidewall of the conductive pillar; and a protection film covering the sidewall of the conductive pillar. Then, in plan view, the opening of the protection film is wider than the upper surface of the conductive pillar and exposes an entire region of an upper surface of the conductive pillar.
US10249587B1
A semiconductor device is disclosed including semiconductor die formed with functionally redundant main and optional die bond pads. In examples, the optional die bond pad is configured to be optionally redundant to the main die bond pad by forming the optional die bond pad with first and second electrically isolated portions, and electrically interconnecting the main die bond pad with the first portion of the second die bond pad. The second die bond pad may or may not be made redundant to the first die bond pad depending on whether an electrically conductive material is deposited on the first and second portions of the optional die bond pad.
US10249585B2
A stackable semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The stackable semiconductor package includes carrier, first RDL, encapsulation layer, vertical interposers, second RDL, and chip. The carrier has first surface in which the first RDL and the encapsulation layer are formed thereon. The first RDL includes first pads and second pads. The encapsulation layer covers the first RDL and has outer surface. The vertical interposers are disposed in the encapsulation layer to electrically connect with the first RDL. The second RDL is formed on the outer surface to electrically connect with the vertical interposers. The carrier includes terminal holes and chip-accommodating hole. The terminal holes correspondingly expose the second pads. The chip-accommodating hole exposes the first pads. The chip is mounted on the encapsulation layer through the chip-accommodating hole to electrically connect with the first pads.
US10249583B1
A semiconductor die includes a last metallization layer above a semiconductor substrate, a bond pad above the last metallization layer, a passivation layer covering part of the bond pad and having an opening that defines a contact area of the bond pad, an insulating region separating the bond pad from the last metallization layer at least in an area corresponding to the contact area of the bond pad, and an electrically conductive interconnection structure that extends from the bond pad to the upper metallization layer outside the contact area of the bond pad. Corresponding methods of manufacture are also provided.
US10249580B2
In conventional device packages, separate standalone inductors are provided and mounted on an interposer substrate along with a die. Separate inductors reduce integration density, decrease flexibility, increase footprint, and generally increase costs. To address such disadvantages, it is proposed to provide a part of an inductor in a substrate below a die. The proposed stacked substrate inductor may include a first inductor in a first substrate, a second inductor in a second a second substrate stacked on the first substrate, and an inductor interconnect coupling the first and second inductors. The core regions of the first and second inductors may overlap with each other at least partially. The proposed stacked substrate inductor may enhance integration density, increase flexibility, decrease footprint, and/or reduce costs.
US10249572B2
The present invention concerns a method for forming a metal layer for electromagnetic shielding and thermal management of active components, preferably by wet chemical metal plating, using an adhesion promotion layer on the layer of molding compound and forming at least one metal layer on the adhesion promotion layer or forming at least one metal layer on the adhesion promotion layer by wet chemical metal plating processes.
US10249571B2
A thin film transistor comprises an active layer; a light-protection layer disposed above the active layer and/or disposed beneath the active layer, the light-protection layer being configured to absorb light having a predetermined wavelength. By providing a light-protection layer above the active layer, light incident onto the channel region from top of the thin film transistor can be absorbed, while by providing a light-protection layer under the active layer, light incident onto the channel region from bottom of the thin film transistor can be absorbed, thereby effectively avoiding influence of light on the active layer of the channel region and ensuring a relatively strong light stability of the driving transistor in the thin film transistor. A method for manufacturing a thin film transistor and an array substrate comprising the thin film transistor as well as an array substrate and a display device comprising the thin film transistor are further provided.
US10249570B2
An overlay mark includes a first feature of a plurality of first alignment segments extending along a first direction in a first layer, a second feature of a plurality of second alignment segments extending along a second direction in a second layer over the first layer, and a third feature of a plurality of third alignment segments extending along the first direction and a plurality of fourth alignment segments extending along the second direction in a third layer over the second layer. In a plan view, each first alignment segment of the plurality of first alignment segments is adjacent to a corresponding third alignment segment of the plurality of third alignment segments along the first direction, and each second alignment segment of the plurality of second alignment segments is adjacent to a corresponding forth alignment segment of the plurality of fourth alignment segments along the second direction.
US10249567B2
A redistribution layer structure of the semiconductor package includes a dielectric layer having a thickness, at least one upper conductive wire disposed on a first surface of the dielectric layer, at least one lower conductive wire disposed on a second surface of the dielectric layer, and vias penetrating the dielectric layer and connecting the at least one upper conductive wire and the at least one lower conductive wire. Each via has a cross-section at one upper conductive wire. The cross-section has a third width. The ratio of the third width to the thickness of the dielectric layer is less than or equal to 1. The ratio of the pitch between every two adjacent vias to the third width is greater than or equal to 0.5.
US10249561B2
A printed wiring board includes a support plate, and a build-up wiring layer including resin insulating layers and conductor layers and having a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side with respect to the first surface such that the support plate is positioned on the first surface of the build-up wiring layer. The resin insulating layers in the build-up wiring layer include a first resin insulating layer that forms the second surface of the build-up wiring layer, and the build-up wiring layer includes first conductor pads embedded in the first resin insulating layer such that each of the first conductor pads has an exposed surface exposed from the second surface of the build-up wiring layer.
US10249560B2
The object is to suppress rupture of the soldering balls when an atmosphere varying from a high temperature to a low temperature is repeated. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor integrated circuit and a substrate. The semiconductor integrated circuit is, for example, a semiconductor chip. The coefficient of thermal expansion is different between the semiconductor integrated circuit and the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of soldering balls on the opposite surface to the surface where the semiconductor integrated circuit is mounted. The substrate does not have the soldering balls at a position corresponding to at least one side of the fringe of the semiconductor integrated circuit.
