US10532110B2
The invention relates to chimeric AAV capsids targeted to the central nervous system, virus vectors comprising the same, and methods of using the vectors to target the central nervous system. The invention further relates to chimeric AAV capsids targeted to oligodendrocytes, virus vectors comprising the same, and methods of using the vectors to target oligodendrocytes.
US10532100B2
The invention relates to the use of iron for preparing a medicament for the preventive and/or curative treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or at least one of the symptoms thereof, for a patient requiring such treatment.
US10532091B1
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10532088B2
The invention relates to medical therapy using an agonist of the retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor gamma (RORγ) and provides adoptive cellular therapies using an agonist of RORγ, populations of lymphocyte cells that have been exposed to an agonist of RORγ, populations of dendritic cells that have been exposed to an agonist of RORγ, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for enhancing therapeutic effects of lymphocyte cells and/or dendritic cells in a patient by administering an agonist of RORγ to a patient.
US10532087B2
Disclosed are methods and compositions for treatment of a subject having a biliary disorder. The methods include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a serine protease inhibitor to a subject in need thereof. The biliary disorder include biliary atresia, a biliopathy, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC), Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), and combinations thereof. In certain aspects, the serine protease inhibitor may be a protease inhibitor rC1 Inhibitor.
US10532084B2
Disclosed is a novel peptide capable of preventing or treating ocular surface disease by inhibiting or improving pathological changes caused by neovascularization, opacification, fibrosis and inflammation of the cornea, the peptide having an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 and more particularly, provides a collagen type II α1-based peptide isolated from an animal chondrocyte cell-derived extracellular matrix and use thereof.
US10532078B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an extract of a matrix of vegetable origin, particularly a plant, characterised in that the matrix of vegetable origin undergoes a mechanical treatment consisting in extruding the matrix of vegetable origin in an extruder, in association or not with a heat treatment, in the presence of an aqueous solution containing at least one hydrotrope agent, particularly at a concentration at least equal to the minimum hydrotrope concentration thereof, followed by an operation of recovering the extract.
US10532072B2
Described are methods of producing an autologous composition useful for treatment of damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a mammal. The method comprises preparing an anti-inflammatory/anti-catabolic component of the autologous composition comprising IL-1ra and TIMPs. An anti-inflammatory/anti-catabolic component is prepared comprising: collecting blood from the mammal; delivering the blood to a tube; incubating the blood at a temperature of from about 37° C. to about 39° C. for about 24 hours, preferably in the presence of sodium citrate; centrifuging the blood to separate the blood into a supernatant component and a cellular fraction; and collecting the supernatant component. The method further comprises preparing a regenerative component of the autologous composition comprising: collecting blood from the mammal; delivering the blood to a tube in the presence of about 4% citric acid; centrifuging the blood to separate a platelet-rich plasma component from a whole blood; collecting the platelet-rich plasma component; and mixing the supernatant component with the platelet-rich plasma component to provide the autologous composition. Also provided is a method of treating damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a subject with the autologous composition, an autologous composition for treating damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a mammal and the use of the autologous composition for the treatment of damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a mammal.
US10532065B2
The novel bisphosphonic acid ester derivatives represented by the following formula (1): Y—Cy—(NH)m—(CH2)n—C(X)(PO(OR1)(OR2))2 (1) wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, which has an amino group substituted by a heterocyclic group or a heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen atom, and the acid moiety is esterified with a POM group, an n-butanoyloxymethyl (BuOM) group and the like, exhibit a superior direct or indirect cytotoxicity effect on tumor cells and virus infected cells.
US10532064B2
Aminobisphosphonate pamidronate (PAM) can control Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) associated disorders in humanized mice through a Vγ9Vδ2-T-cell dependent mechanism. This suggests a strong potential for a therapeutic approach using PAM to boost human Vγ9Vδ2-T-cell immunity against EBV associated disorders, such as the lymphoproliferative disease (LPD), posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PLPD), Hodgkin's disease, Burkitt's lymphoma, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).
US10532061B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, or amino acid conjugate thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as described herein. The present invention relates generally to selective FXR agonists and to methods of making and using them.
US10532059B2
This disclosure provides a novel pharmaceutical composition for delivering steroid hormones to a patient in need thereof.
US10532056B2
This invention relates to methods comprising administering a FAK inhibitor and an immunotherapeutic agent such as anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1; that are useful in the treatment of abnormal cell growth, such as cancer, in mammals, especially humans.
US10532052B2
A pharmaceutical composition of 3-(1-{3-[5-(1-Methyl-piperidin-4-ylmethoxy)-pyrimidin-2-yl]-benzyl}-6-oxo-1,6-dihydro-pyridazin-3-yl)-benzonitrile or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or solvate thereof in combination with N-[3-[[2-[4-(4-acetylpiperazin-1-yl)-2-methoxy-anilino]-5-(trifluoromethyl)pyrimidin-4-yl]amino]phenyl]prop-2-enamide.
US10532049B1
A parenteral unit dosage form comprising an aqueous solution of dihydroergotamine or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as a sole active ingredient, one or more pH adjusting agents, and optionally one or more co-solvents, wherein the pH of the aqueous solution is such that it contains substantially lower amount of impurity of Formula I and impurity of Formula II as compared to aqueous solution having a pH of 4.0 or less, when the parenteral unit dosage form is stored at 25° C. and 60% relative humidity for at least three months.
US10532045B2
Compositions and methods are provided for preventing one or more cardiac channelopathies or conditions resulting from irregularities or alterations in cardiac patterns, or both, in a human or animal subject comprising: one or more pharmacologically active agents that causes at least one of IKr channel inhibition or QT prolongation by inhibiting the activity of an ether-a-go-go-related gene (hERG); and one or more liposomes, wherein the liposomes are empty liposomes and administered prior to, concomitantly, or after administration of the pharmacologically active agent.
US10532038B2
The invention relates to the use of selective agonists of beta-3 adrenergic receptors for the treatment and/or prevention of pulmonary hypertension.
US10532032B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a rolled compressed collagen carrier and a process for un-rolling said rolled compressed collagen carrier. Said rolled compressed collagen carrier is ready for use in minimally invasive surgery. The invention also relates to a rolled compressed collagen carrier for use in the prevention or treatment of injury associated with performing minimally invasive surgery.
US10532030B2
Methods and compositions are provided which comprise effective amounts of one or more analgesics, such as hydrocodone or acetaminophen, and an antiemetic, such as promethazine, to treat or prevent pain in a subject, and to reduce or prevent an adverse effect associated with the analgesics.
US10532028B2
A method for preparing solid materials is described. One aspect of the method includes the steps of providing a mixture comprising an organic material in a blend of a solvent and non-solvent for the organic material, distributing the mixture into either droplets or granules, and evaporating the solvent and non-solvent mixture to form particles having an average size of from about 0.5 μm to about 5000 μm.
US10532025B2
The invention relates to a method for contraception and for reducing menstrual problems and inducing amenorrhea, wherein an intrauterine delivery device is used for the controlled release of a combination of progestogen or a drug having a progestogenic activity and at least one therapeutically active substance capable of preventing or suppressing abnormal and/or irregular endometrial bleeding over a prolonged period of time.
US10532017B2
The present disclosure relates to antioxidant compositions comprising a high amount of stabilized neohesperidin dihydrochalcone. The antioxidant compositions may further include additional antioxidants, such as ferulic acid, and tocopherols. The compositions include at least 20 wt. % of one or more water-soluble solvents, such as propanediol, which contribute to the surprising solubility and stability of the compositions. The antioxidant properties of the compositions make them particularly effective for treating and protecting the skin. For example, the compositions are useful for protecting the skin from environmental insult.
US10532008B2
A zirconia ceramic material for use in dental applications is provided comprising an yttria-stabilized zirconia material comprising from 4.5 mol % to 5.1 mol % yttria. Optionally, the zirconia ceramic has a coloring agent that may comprise one or more metals selected from terbium (Tb), chromium (Cr), erbium (Er), and cobalt (Co), and further, may, optionally, comprise alumina, which if present may be in an amount from 0 wt % to 0.25 wt %. The zirconia ceramic materials exhibit both enhanced translucency and a flexural strength of at least 800 MPa when fully sintered.
US10532003B2
The present application discloses a guide robot. The guide robot includes a speed sensor, configured for detecting a user's walking speed; and a driving device, configured for controlling a moving speed of the guide robot based on the user's walking speed so that the moving speed of the guide robot is compatible with the user's walking speed.
US10532000B1
Described is a system for online characterization of biomechanical and cognitive factors relevant to physical rehabilitation and training efforts. A biosensing subsystem senses biomechanical states of a user based on the output of sensors and generates a set of biomechanical data. The set of biomechanical data is transmitted in real-time to an analytics subsystem. The set of biomechanical data is analyzed by the analytics subsystem, and control guidance is sent through a real-time control interface to adjust the user's motions. In one aspect control guidance is sent to a robotic exoskeleton worn by the user to adjust the user's motions.
US10531994B2
A safety system for an aerial vehicle, preferably including: a ballistic subsystem, preferably including one or more rockets operable to adjust motion of the aerial vehicle and a mounting unit that couples the ballistic subsystem to the aerial vehicle; and/or a deployable parachute subsystem. An aerial vehicle, preferably including a safety system. A method for aerial vehicle operation, preferably including activating a safety system.
US10531989B2
The present invention relates to a method for fabricating absorbent article having multiple layers, and deformed zones of targeted performance, and colored regions, the method comprising the steps of forming discrete features on at least one layer, printing colored regions on at least one layer, integrating multiple layers to form an absorbent assembly, and cutting the absorbent assembly into individual absorbent articles, wherein the steps are carried out continuously.
US10531985B2
A device for machining an object by laser radiation, by photodisruption. The device includes an observation device for imaging the object and a laser scanning device by which the laser radiation is passed over a predetermined sector of the object for scanning the sector. The device includes the observation device with a first lens for imaging the object; the laser scanning device with a second lens, through which the laser radiation is guided, in which both lenses with regard to the dimension of the regions to be produced in the images and/or with regard to their focal intercept are different from each other. The device alternately images the respective region of the object in a first operating mode by the first lens and in a second operating mode by the second lens. It is thus possible to use in both operating modes a lens adapted to the intended imaging purpose.
US10531977B2
Thermoresponsive skin barrier assemblies are disclosed. One such wound treatment assembly includes a pump configured to expel a biosealant to a pump output port when subjected to a thermal stimulus, and an adhesive substrate layer for covering the wound. The adhesive substrate layer includes a conduit configured to transport the biosealant from the output port to the wound. The assembly further includes a control module in signal communication with a wound leakage sensor configured to activate a heating element disposed in proximity to the pump when wound leakage is detected.
US10531971B2
Catheter including an inner tubular member, an outer tubular member movable relative to the inner tubular member, and an expandable member coupled to the distal end portion of the inner tubular member. The expandable member having an inner chamber and transitionable between a deflated configuration and an inflated configuration. A pressure chamber is defined by the proximal seal, the distal seal, the exterior surface of the inner tubular member and interior surface of the outer tubular member, with the pressure chamber in fluid communication with a fluid flow port, wherein fluid introduced through the fluid flow port and into the pressure chamber applies a force on the proximal seal to urge the outer tubular member in a proximal direction.
US10531969B2
A stent is disclosed that has an elongated body composed of a bioabsorbable polymer having a proximal end, a distal end, two open spiral channels formed on the exterior surface of the body to provide fluid communication between the proximal end and the distal end. The stent also has a central lumen open at the proximal and distal ends of the stent for the passage of a guide wire. A method for using the stent and a kit containing the stent are also disclosed.
US10531967B2
A walking assistance apparatus may include a driver configured to assist movements of a first joint related to a right leg of a user and a second joint related to a left leg of the user, a sensor configured to measure a first joint angle corresponding to the first joint and a second joint angle corresponding to the second joint, and a controller configured to generate a walking assist profile based on a previous step of the user, modify the walking assist profile based on the first joint angle and the second joint angle, and control the driver based on the modified walking assist profile.
US10531959B2
A knee replacement, a kit for a knee replacement, and a method for performing a knee replacement are provided. A tibial fixed component of the knee replacement is configured to be permanently inserted into a resected tibia of a patient. A tibial modular component of the knee replacement is removably attachable to the tibial fixed component and has an upper surface to interface with a femoral component. The tibial modular component is removable from the tibial fixed component so that in the event that the fit of the knee replacement is not correct, the tibial modular component may be replaced with a differently sized tibial modular component without removing the tibial fixed component from the bone.
US10531953B2
A delivery apparatus for delivering a stent-valve for implantation within the body, the delivery apparatus configured for introduction into the body through an arterial introducer of a type having a stem insertable into the body and a mouth section that remains outside the body, the mouth section including a haemostasis valve, and wherein the delivery apparatus comprises: a first constraining sheath at a stent-valve accommodation region of the apparatus at a distal end of the apparatus, and configured for constraining at least a portion of a stent-valve at the accommodation region in a radially collapsed configuration; a delivery introducer captive on the delivery apparatus, and slidable between a first position surrounding at least a portion of the stent-valve accommodation region, and a second position in which the delivery introducer slides proximally of the stent-valve accommodation region; wherein the delivery introducer is insertable at least partly into the mouth of a said arterial introducer, the delivery introducer configured for introducing the stent-accommodation region through the haemostasis valve.
US10531936B2
A self-ligating orthodontic bracket for installation on a tooth includes a bracket body defining an archwire slot, the bracket body including a lingual surface configured to be mounted on a tooth. One or more posts extend outward from a first surface of the bracket body, and a ligating member is moveable along the first surface between a first, open position which allows access to the archwire slot, and a second, closed position which restricts access to the archwire slot. The ligating member includes projections to contact the one or more posts and maintain the ligating member in at least one of the open position, closed position, and a transition movement between the open position and the closed position.
US10531934B2
A system and method for repositioning teeth in a patient jaw includes an attachment bonded to a tooth. The attachment has at least one force receiving component for receiving a force. A polymeric shell repositioning appliance is positioned over at least some of the teeth in the patient jaw. The polymeric shell has at least one force transmitting component for engaging the force receiving component to form a locus of engagement. The locus of engagement transmits the force and moves but is maintained as the tooth is repositioned. In specific embodiments the locus of engagement is maintained over a substantial range of motion. The force transmitted at the locus of engagement increases in response to the tooth lagging an intended position. A space between the positioned appliance and the tooth permits the tooth to move into an intended position.
US10531930B2
A robot system comprises a base (2), a robot arm (1) connected to the base, a camera (10), at least one objective lens in the camera (10) being movable with the robot arm (1), and a screen (16). A control unit (15) is configured to detect a change in the distance between an object (21) detected by the camera (10) and the objective lens, and to vary the zoom factor of a zoom function of the camera (10) according to the change in distance.
US10531918B2
Electrosurgical forceps for delivering microwave energy into biological tissue from a non-resonant unbalanced lossy transmission line structure located within or formed by the jaws of the forceps. The transmission line structure may be formed across the gap between the jaw element by opposed conductive elements, which are respectively electrically connected to inner and outer conductors of a coaxial cable. Alternatively, each jaw element may comprise its own lossy transmission line, whereby a power splitter is used to divide microwave energy from the coaxial cable. The forceps may be used endoscopically in the gastrointestinal tract or laparoscopically or in open surgery.
US10531902B2
A method and apparatus is provided for conducting percutaneous surgery using a cable passer device 200, a crimping device 100, a screwdriver device 120, a cable tensioning device 130, and a cutting device 300. The percutaneous cable passer device 200 is for inserting into an incision during percutaneous surgery having a cable 110 for making a loop around the bone. The crimping device 100 is for threading the tip of the cable 110 through an opening in crimping device 100. The cannulated screwdriver device 120 has a tip 126 for threading the tip of the cable 110 through the tip 126, and an exit port 124 for pulling the cable 110 while pushing said screwdriver device 120 towards the bone. The cable tensioning device 130 has an internal passage way 132 for threading the tip of the cable 110 through it. The screwdriver device 120 is rotatable while holding the cable tensioning device 130, thus deploying the crimping device 100. The cable cutting device 140 has a tip for threading the cable 110 through the tip of the cable cutting device 300 for cutting the cable 110 when it is touching the crimping device 100.
US10531894B2
Method and system for treating a patient using a compressible, pressure-attenuating device. According to one embodiment, the system is used to treat urinary tract disorders and comprises an access device, a delivery device, a pressure-attenuating device, and a removal device. The access device may be used to create a passageway to an anatomical structure, such as the patient's bladder. The delivery device may be inserted through the passageway created by the access device and may be used to deliver the pressure-attenuating device to the anatomical structure. The removal device may be inserted through the passageway created by the access device and may be used to view the bladder and/or to capture, to deflate and to remove the pressure-attenuating device.
US10531882B2
Methods and devices are disclosed herein that allow for infusion and aspiration through a single device. The device can be used to treat a stroke by delivering the device to the site of a blood clot and simultaneously or sequentially infusing a thrombolytic or other drug into the clot and aspirating the dissolving clot from the patient. The methods and devices can advantageously permit more efficient thrombolytic infusion and clot aspiration. Modular systems are also disclosed, as are methods of treating subdural hematoma or other conditions.
US10531879B2
Clamping devices for occluding a blood vessel comprise a pair of jaws for receiving the blood vessel therebetween, one or more inflatable membranes within the jaws and at least one handle coupled to the pair of jaws via a hollow arm. The at least one handle comprises an actuator coupled to the one or more inflatable membranes via the hollow arm for inflating the one or more inflatable membranes to occlude the blood vessel.
US10531876B2
Systems and methods are provided for delivering and mechanically detaching embolic coils. The systems disclosed herein comprise a mechanical detachment mechanism to intravascularly release an embolic coil. The methods disclosed herein comprise a various triggering mechanisms to detach embolic coils.
US10531867B2
The sinus venosus atrial septal defect (“ASD”) treatment device includes has a generally tubular or funnel shaped configuration. A first end of the device can have a diameter that is less than a diameter of a second end of the device. The device can be inserted in the right upper right pulmonary vein PV. The second end of the device is configured to expand in a skirt-like configuration once the device is positioned in the right upper right pulmonary vein PV. In this manner, the device closes the upper sinus venosus hole and diverts anomalous pulmonary venous drainage into the left atrium.
US10531863B2
A quick disconnect assembly including a tubular housing. The housing includes a cam pin secured to the housing and a nut positioned within the housing cannulation. The nut has a first threaded channel adapted to engage a threaded shaft, a second, non-threaded channel extending at an angle to the first channel, and an arcuate groove formed on an outer surface of the nut. When the cam pin of the housing engages the groove at about a distal end of the nut, the nut is positioned in a loading position where the second channel extends approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing. When the cam pin engages the groove at about a proximal end of the nut, the nut is positioned in a locking position where the first channel extends approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing.
US10531862B2
A biopsy collecting device includes a needle unit comprising a biopsy specimen. Also, the biopsy collecting device includes an activator unit operatively coupled to the needle unit and including a channel at a bottom surface of the activator unit, wherein the channel is configured to detachably couple the biopsy collecting device to an attaching unit of a spectroscopy system.
US10531858B2
A method of presenting a suggested path for an ultrasound probe along a patient's surface includes obtaining a three-dimensional, non-ultrasound image of the patient and an ultrasound image of the patient. A treatment area is defined within the within the three-dimensional, non-ultrasound image, and using the images, defining a scanning site contour of an anatomical structure of interest within the patient and an external contour of the patient's surface. A preferred path of the ultrasound scan is projected onto the external contour such that an operator can reproduce the ultrasound scan without knowledge of the anatomical structure of interest.
US10531851B2
Methods and apparatus for grading coronary calcium, including an example apparatus that includes a set of logics and a memory that stores a set of radiographic images. The set of logics includes an image acquisition logic that acquires a set of radiographic images of a region of tissue, the set of radiographic images including a low-energy reference x-ray image and a higher-energy floating x-ray image, a registration logic that produces a set of registered images from a plurality of members of the set of radiographic images, an enhancement logic that produces a set of calcium-enhanced images from the set of registered images, a post-enhancement logic that produces a bone image from the set of calcium-enhanced images, and a grading logic that computes a coronary heart disease prediction score based, at least in part, on the bone image and a set of features extracted from the bone image.
US10531844B1
Described are apparatus and methods of operation for three dimensional fluence modulation and scatter shielding for dedicated computed tomography (CT). Through the disclosed invention, the number of incident photons on the field of view (FOV) of the imaging system becomes proportional to the path length of the photon through the anatomy of interest. The apparatus is comprises a patient specific x-ray fluence modulation unit and a scatter shield unit. The fluence modulation unit reduces radiation dose differences across the anatomical part and the dynamic range requirements for the x-ray detector. The scatter shield unit is intended for preventing the scattered beams from reaching the x-ray detector. The internal structures of each unit are composed of elements with adjustable positions dependent on the specific shape of the object in the field-of-view (FOV). Method of operation are also provided.
US10531834B1
A connector for connecting a pressure sensing catheter to charger is provided. The connector can include a first engagement portion engageable with a charger engagement portion of the charger to displace a pressure transmission medium in the charger engagement portion to charge one or more balloons of the pressure sensing catheter. The connector can have a handle that includes a tab terminating in an end surface engageable with an engagement surface of the charger when the first engagement portion engages with the charger engagement portion. The connector includes a distal abutment portion that engages with a portion of the charger engagement portion to provide an audible or tactile feedback, so as to prevent inadvertent overcharging of the balloons.
US10531829B2
A chain segment having wires that connect various electrical devices and connectors together. The wires are arranged in a pattern to facilitate strain relief. The wires, electrical devices, and connectors are encased in an injection molded material, and they are preferably coupled with a flexible material such as a fabric that can be stitched into a garment. The chain segment facilitates collection of movement data when stitched into an article of clothing. A method of manufacturing the chain segment that is modular to enable different configurations and different lengths of chains.
US10531818B2
Method and instrument for analysing a tissue sample. Localized concentrations of an analyte are measured at a plurality of spaced apart locations around a controlled depth. Spatial variance of the analyte is calculated based on the measured analyte concentrations. The procedure is repeated while varying the controlled depth to obtain the spatial variance as a function of depth. Tissue at a particular depth may be evaluated as tumour tissue when the spatial variance is below the threshold. For example, a section distance is calculated between the tissue surface and a depth where the measured spatial variance crosses a predetermined threshold variance. Feedback can be provided based on a comparison between a calculated section distance and a pre-set minimum section margin.
US10531816B2
Implementations described herein include surgical distraction devices having a distal movement assembly having a pusher plate comprising a first slot extending along a first axis disposed in a first side and a second slot extending along a second axis disposed in a second side thereof. The first axis is oriented at an angle of from about 60 to about 160 degrees from the second axis. The device further includes a first and second paddles, each paddle having a corresponding engagement mechanism for movably coupling the respective first or second paddle to the pusher plate when engaged in the respective slot. Rotational actuation of the proximal drive assembly causes proximal or distal movement of the pusher plate, causing the first and second engagement members to move relative to their respective slots, thereby moving the first paddle and the second paddle in opposing directions. Methods of using such surgical distraction devices to determine size of an intervertebral space are also described.
US10531815B2
A method, system, and program product are provided for user-steered, on-the fly path planning in an image-guided endoscopic procedure, comprising: presenting, on a display, a 2D sectional image showing a region of interest from a preoperative CT scan; defining a control point on the 2D sectional image within a patient's body lumen responsive to a first user input; centering the control point; adjusting a viewing angle about the control point to show a longitudinal section of the body lumen responsive to a second user input; identifying a second point on a planned path within the body lumen responsive to a third user input; extending a planned path connecting the control point and the second point; redefining the second point as a new control point; and repeating the presenting adjusting, identifying, extending, and the redefining steps until the planned path reaches a procedure starting point within the patient's body.
US10531813B2
Collecting and processing reliable ECG signals and gating pulses in a magnetic resonance environment
An electrocardiogram (ECG) electrode patch (10) system (50) for use in a magnetic resonance (MR) environment includes a flexible patch material (12) configured for attachment to human skin, and a plurality of electrodes (20). The electrodes (20) Care attached to the patch material (12) and configured to sense a plurality of ECG signals with different amplitudes across pairs of electrodes in at least two different directions.
US10531796B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a system for wirelessly and passively measuring temperature and devices forming the system. The method includes: receiving an energy feedback radio frequency (RF) signal by a temperature measuring end; converting the energy feedback RF signal into electric energy and storing the electric energy; and starting the temperature measuring end after obtaining the electric energy, and transmitting a RF signal under the current temperature to a terminal, and calculating the current temperature through the terminal. The method, the system and the devices forming the system provided in the present disclosure are capable of activating the crystal oscillator or the ceramic oscillator wirelessly and passively, therefore, the method, the system and the devices can be used to wirelessly and passively measure temperature, which is convenient.
US10531795B1
In certain embodiments, vision defect information may be generated via a dynamic eye-characteristic-based fixation point. In some embodiments, a first stimulus may be displayed at a first location on a user interface based on a fixation point for a visual test presentation. The fixation point for the visual test presentation may be adjusted during the visual test presentation based on eye characteristic information related to a user. As an example, the eye characteristic information may indicate a characteristic of an eye of the user that occurred during the visual test presentation. A second stimulus may be displayed during the visual test presentation at a second interface location on the user interface based on the adjusted fixation point for the visual test presentation. Vision defect information associated with the user may be generated based on feedback information indicating feedback related to the first stimulus and feedback related to the second stimulus.
US10531793B2
A monitoring system for monitoring the visual behavior of a wearer of a head-mounted device, the monitoring system includes: —a least one wearer's visual behavior sensor configured to sense at least one wearer's visual behavior data relating to the visual behavior of the wearer of the head-mounted device, —a communication unit associated with the at least one wearer's visual behavior sensor and configured to communicate the visual behavior data to a wearer information data generating unit, —a wearer information data generating unit configured to: —receive the wearer's visual behavior data, —store the wearer's visual behavior data, and —generate an wearer information data indicative of at least one of: wearer's vision or general health condition of the wearer or wearer's activity or wearer's authentication based, at least, on the evolution over time of the wearer's visual behavior data.
US10531787B2
A multilumen catheter shaft body includes a proximal end segment with a first durometer and a first longitudinal length dimension. A proximal intermediate segment is fixedly joined to a distal end of the proximal end segment and includes a second durometer and a second longitudinal length dimension. A distal intermediate segment is fixedly joined to a distal end of the proximal intermediate segment and includes a third durometer and a third longitudinal length dimension. A distal terminal end segment is fixedly joined to a distal end of the distal intermediate segment and includes a fourth durometer and a fourth longitudinal length dimension. The first durometer is greater than at least the second and third durometers. The fourth durometer is greater than at least the second and third durometers. A plurality of parallel longitudinal lumens extends through the body, providing a structure useful in a cholangioscope or other endoscopic applications.
US10531786B2
A capsule endoscopic device with movement control is disclosed. The capsule endoscopic device comprises a capsule housing, one or more electrodes disposed fixedly through the capsule housing, a signal generation/signal driver unit, an interface circuit and a switch module. The electrodes apply electrical stimulus to living body tissue in a patient's gastrointestinal track. The signal generation/signal driver unit generates the electrical stimulus for the electrodes. The switch module is coupled to the electrodes, the signal generation/signal driver unit and the interface circuit. Furthermore, the switch module is configured to connect the electrodes to the signal generation/signal driver unit or the interface circuit depending on an operation mode. The switch module, the signal generation/signal driver unit and the interface circuit are inside the capsule housing.
US10531777B2
A cleaner includes: a suction unit that guides dust and air; a main body that includes a dust separation unit for separating dust from air guided through the suction unit; a main body terminal mounted on the main body; a handle unit that is slide-coupled to the main body; and a handle terminal mounted on the handle unit and is connected to the main body terminal when the handle unit is slide-coupled to the main body.
US10531759B2
In various embodiments, a masticating juicer may include a housing defining a compression chamber with an inner wall, at least one inlet, at least one juice outlet, and at least one pulp outlet. An auger may be rotatably mounted within the compression chamber and may include upstream and downstream ends and an auger surface in between. The auger may be rotatable about an axis of rotation to masticate and convey material in a downstream direction. The auger may be sized so that a cavity is formed between the auger surface and the inner wall of the compression chamber. An elastic restrictor may extend circumferentially around an interior of the compression chamber to at least partially span the cavity. The elastic restrictor may be shaped to provide variable resistance to material conveyed by the auger depending on a relative position of the material between the inner wall and the auger surface.
US10531753B1
A beverage can holding apparatus for holding a beverage can includes a cam lever having a hook end engaging a pull tab and a clamping end defining a bore. A pin is positioned in the bore for pivotal movement of the cam lever thereabout. A cam handle member includes an actuator end coupled to the pin and an opposing finger ring, the actuator end having an irregular shape having narrow and expanded portions acting as a cam. A clamp is coupled to the cam handle member for engaging an outer surface of the lip of the beverage can. The cam handle member is a cam that selectively locks the cam lever onto the beverage can. A cover assembly is removably coupled to the cam lever, the cover base having a lip portion operable for engaging the lip of the beverage can and covering the drink opening of the beverage can.
US10531751B2
Embodiments of the disclosure disclose an intelligent picture frame, and a method for switching an image acquisition device in the intelligent picture frame. In this solution, there are a plurality of presentation states of the intelligent picture frame, where a plurality of image acquisition devices for finding a view in the respective presentation states are arranged on frame edges of the intelligent picture frame. An image acquisition device for finding a view is arranged separately on a frame edge of the intelligent picture frame in each presentation state, and when the intelligent picture frame in use transitions to whichever presentation state, switching can be made to the corresponding image acquisition device, so that there is a dedicated image acquisition device to find a view for the intelligent picture frame in whichever presentation state.
US10531748B2
This disclosure provides designs for inexpensive devices that can be sturdy, pleasing to the eye, light in weight, and attractively padded, to form an enclosure around an infant or neonate that is open at its bottom. These devices protect neonates from injury during bed-sharing or co-sleeping with other individuals. These enclosures include roll-over bars to protect infants and neonates from being injured or asphyxiated by weight of a co-sleeper inadvertently moving on top of a roll-over bar. Devices can be shaped to allow for easy placement and removal of the infant, or to place the enclosure with the respective roll-over bar(s) over an infant. Roll-over bar(s) can be hinged or intercalated with pivots to deflect frame base portions when an infant body part finds itself accidentally caught under them. The rotation can be limited to an angle that still allows for the roll-over bar to be above an infant's body when frame base portion(s) are raised above the sleeping surface by the pressure and forces exerted on a roll-over bar when a co-sleeper inadvertently moves over a roll-over bar.
US10531747B1
Movement limiting system for a walker that limits movement of the walker includes an elongate, adjustable length armature having first and second opposite end regions and a coupler that couples the first end region of the armature to the walker. When the second end region of the armature is coupled to an object, the walker is limited in its movement relative to the object by the armature. The second end region of the armature includes attachment structure that couples the armature to the object. The armature preferably includes multiple sections that telescope relative to one another to provide the armature with its adjustable length.
US10531745B2
In one example, this disclosure describes an adjustable bed system that includes first and second adjustable foundations, at least one first motor to adjust the first adjustable foundation, at least one second motor to adjust the second adjustable foundation, a configurable device having a first state and a second state, and a central controller in communication with the device, the controller configured to receive an input representing one of the first state and the second state, the controller including a processor configured to control the at least one first motor and the at least one second motor based on the received input.
US10531742B2
A portable, folding chair. Two front leg supports are pivotally connected to a seat frame and extend downward from the seat frame. Two rear leg supports are also pivotally connected to the seat frame. A majority of the length of each rear leg support is positioned above the seat frame. Two individually adjustable front legs extend downward from the front leg supports and two individually adjustable rear legs extend downward from the rear leg support. A front foldable leg brace is connected between the two front leg supports and a rear foldable leg brace is connected between the two rear leg supports. In preferred embodiments, the chair may be utilized in a variety of seating arrangements, such as: bleacher seating, concrete stadium seating, slope seating, flat surface seating and uneven surface seating.
US10531740B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a collapsible chair having a collapsible lateral support rod, a pair of front legs, a pair of front chair support rods, and a pair of mechanical junctions configured to couple with an associated pair of poles, such that the collapsible chair is adapted to collapse into an easy-to-carry volume. In an illustrative example, the mechanical junctions may be releasably and/or shock-cord-coupled to various support rods and/or legs. The mechanical junctions may include locking mechanisms to lock the associated poles into a fixed position relative to the mechanical junctions, for example. The collapsible chair may include gear loops for hanging of gear from the collapsible chair. In various embodiments, a collapsible chair may advantageously provide a full size, lightweight chair configured for compact storage in a stowage bag for high portability during outdoor hiking.
US10531734B1
The mobile tray for a bed or a chair is adapted for use with a furniture item selected from the group consisting of a bed or a chair. The mobile tray for a bed or a chair mounts on a wheeled base. The mobile tray for a bed or a chair is a table that mounts on a vertically telescopic stanchion such that the vertical span of the table from a supporting surface is adjustable. The table pivots for storage. The support of the mobile tray for a bed or a chair is designed to fit underneath the furniture item while the table is accessible from the item of furniture.
US10531730B2
A portable plans table configured to be used with a utility cart. The table top can be a non-fold table top, a mono-fold table top, or bi-fold table top that is large enough to support building plans, blueprints and the like. Each table top comprises leg members. The leg members can be panel leg members, a rotatable leg assembly, separate legs, or tubular folding legs. The embodiments of the plans table comprise various combinations of the different table tops and leg members. Each plans table embodiment can easily fold and be carried from one site to another.
US10531727B2
There is provided a method of manufacture of a hair brush. The method has the steps, in the sequence of, i) forming a base layer in the form of a mesh by way of a first molding step, the base layer defining an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface, made of a first material selected from a group consisting of polypropylene (PP), nylon, polyoxymethylene (POM) and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), and including a plurality of recesses with apertures at the upper surface, ii) forming a substrate layer for supporting bristles of the hair brush by a second molding step of overmoulding a finishing layer over the base layer, the finishing layer made of a second material; iii) installing the bristles to the substrate layer at the recesses through the apertures; and iv) assembling the substrate layer installed with the bristles to a casing of the hair brush.
US10531725B2
Modular and flexible interchangeable brush system to scrub a container. The brush system includes a handle having a first core and a second core. A sleeve is provided into which the first core and the second core are disposed. A flexible stem is removably connected to the first core of the handle. The flexible stem has at least one gap into which a resilient material is disposed. The location of the gap is at a bend location along a longitudinal axis of the handle. A first brush is operatively connected to the flexible stem, and a second brush is operatively connected to, and received within, the second core of the handle.
US10531724B2
A belt clip for use with a power tool. The power tool includes a tool housing, a battery receptacle positioned adjacent the tool housing, and a battery selectively received within the battery receptacle. The belt clip includes a body with a first member that has a first portion and a connecting portion. The first portion is received in a complementary groove on an interior surface of the battery receptacle, and the connecting portion is substantially perpendicular to the first portion and is configured to extend between the battery receptacle and the battery. The body also includes a second member that is coupled to the first member. The second member is configured to be spaced apart from an exterior of the power tool.
US10531722B2
An adjustable applicator including an application member and an actuator. The application member comprises a flexible support and a plurality of application elements on its surface. The application member has one free end and one fixed end. The fixed end is fixedly connected to a stem. The free end of the application member is connected to a distal end of the transmission member. The actuator is actuated for moving the transmission member along a longitudinal axis of the adjustable applicator to cause progressive modification in shape of the application member.
US10531717B2
A pliable assembly and method for restraining and curling hair serves to wrap strands of hair about an elongated panel and then fold a pair of annular members about the ends of the elongated panel to restrain and curl the hair. Further, an elastic retaining band extends between the annular members and intermeshes with the notches in the annular members, so as to securely retain the annular members in the folded arrangement around the strands of curled hair. An elongated body comprises a first end, a second end, and a central slot disposed centrally along the length of the panel. The central slot receives a strand of hair for wrapping around the panel, or an object for stowage. The annular members comprise an outer circumference defined by a junction gap and an inner circumference defined by notches. The restraint band holds annular members in folded arrangement to restrain hair.
US10531703B2
The disclosure relates to a ski boot shell having a notch in the rear upper portion thereof, a rear bearing element movably connected relative to the shell, the rear bearing element has a first position in which it abuts against at least one surface of the shell to at least partially close the notch when skiing, and a second position withdrawn backward to allow the leg of a skier to be straightened when walking.
US10531694B2
Certain aspects of present invention relate to an electronic cigarette having tamper-proof locking mechanisms. In certain embodiments, the electronic cigarette may include: an electronic cigarette body, a tamper-proof mouthpiece connector locking mechanism threadedly connected to electronic cigarette body, and a tamper-proof power connector locking mechanism threadedly connected to electronic cigarette body. When a user pushes tamper-proof mouthpiece connector locking mechanism towards electronic cigarette body, tamper-proof mouthpiece connector locking mechanism is locked such that the user is able to remove a mouthpiece connector from electronic cigarette body to refill e-liquid for the electronic cigarette. When user pushes tamper-proof power connector locking mechanism towards electronic cigarette body, tamper-proof power connector locking mechanism is locked such that user is able to remove a power connector from electronic cigarette body to replace a vaporizer, a heater for the vaporizer, and e-liquid storage medium of the electronic cigarette.
US10531691B2
Smoking articles, and methods for forming such smoking articles, such as an electronic smoking article, are provided. An exemplary smoking article comprises a control body portion having a control body engagement end, and having a first control component therein. A cartridge body portion includes a cartridge body engagement end configured to removably engage the control body engagement end of the control body portion. The cartridge body portion further includes a consumable arrangement comprising at least an aerosol precursor composition and at least one heating element operably engaged therewith, and a second control component. At least the consumable arrangement is configured to be in communication with the first control component upon engagement between the cartridge body and control body portions.
US10531682B2
The present invention relates to frozen liquid egg whites in which are admixed 0.01-0.4 parts of egg yolks for every 100 parts of egg whites, wherein 0.1-2 parts inclusive of α-cyclodextrin are added for every 100 parts of liquid egg whites, and the turbidity H1 (degrees) calculated by means of the belowmentioned formula (1) is 18 or more: H1=H2−H3 . . . (1). Here, H2 indicates the turbidity (degrees) of the frozen liquid egg whites measured immediately after being defrosted, and H3 indicates the egg-derived turbidity y (degrees) calculated by means of the belowmentioned approximation formula (2): y=−380.75x2+272.42x+17.257 . . . (2). Here, x indicates the admixed amount (parts) of egg yolks for every 100 parts of liquid egg whites.
US10531667B2
A particulate duster system includes a duster used to apply particulate matter to a food product moving along a conveyor positioned beneath the duster. The duster is used to uniformly dispense particulate matter onto a moving product conveyor for carrying a food product to be dusted.
US10531665B2
The present invention relates to the use of heteropolyoxometalates for disinfecting purposes and in antimicrobial surfaces, paints or coatings and intermediates for their preparation.
US10531664B2
A method of stabilizing aqueous solutions of antimicrobial silanol quaternary ammonium compounds (SQACs) from premature polymerization where the stabilizing agent is selected from a list of antimicrobial, naturally occurring, renewable, volatile, liquid phytochemical essential oils that easily form crystal clear microemulsions when water is added to the concentrated SQAC/essential oil mixture. These non-foaming oil-in-water microemulsions have excellent long term storage stability, remain very low in viscosity and do not phase or precipitate for many months. Many essential oils found to be useful in this process are non-toxic food additives having pleasant scents, have low flammability yet are volatile enough to evaporate upon cure down of the SQAC, resulting in a higher concentration of SQAC in the cured, antimicrobial film. Economically shippable concentrations of stabilized SQACs can be further diluted with water to application concentrations without losing any stabilizing properties and remain storage stable at these lower concentrations indefinitely.
US10531658B2
A liquid nonaqueous composition is disclosed. The composition includes: a pesticide in form of suspended particles, a water soluble solvent, an inorganic thickener, and an alkoxylate. A method for the preparation of the composition is also disclosed. The method includes contacting the pesticide with the water soluble solvent, the inorganic thickener, and the alkoxylate. The method may further include contact with a block polymer surfactant and/or a nonionic cosurfactant. A method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired plant growth and/or undesired attack by insects or mites and/or for regulating the growth of plants, wherein the composition is allowed to act on a particular pest, their habitat or plants to be protected from the particular pest, on soil and/or on undesired plants and/or useful plants and/or their habitat.
US10531652B2
A nesting deterrence device for elevated infrastructure is designed to be mounted within a deterrence area on elevated infrastructure, such as cell and data towers, utility poles, sports lighting, and the like, in order to deter raptors (i.e., Osprey) and other birds with relatively long wingspans, greater than 33 inches (84 centimeters), from entering into a deterrence volume immediately above the deterrence area. Birds are deterred from flying through the deterrence volume by a plurality of deterrence rods, spaced and oriented within the deterrence volume, which would interfere with bird flight. Because birds would be prevented from freely flying through the volume, they would be unable to alight and nest in the deterrence area below.
US10531650B2
A reel for a fly rod is described. The reel includes a frame and a spool for holding a supply of fly line. The spool is rotatable about an axis relative to the frame. The reel includes a drag assembly coupled to the spool and the frame. The drag assembly is configured to control resistance to rotation of the spool relative to the frame. The drag assembly includes a first thrust plate that includes at least one ramp surface and a second thrust plate. At least one curved member is carried by the second thrust plate. The at least one curved member is configured to ride along the at least one ramp surface, such that rotation of the second thrust plate about the axis causes movement of the first thrust plate along the axis so as to control the resistance to rotation of the spool relative to the frame.
US10531649B2
A spinnerbait fishing lure having an ellipsoidal weighted body with a molded-in hook, transverse spinner assembly, and V-shaped vertical spinner assembly. The eye of the hook protrudes from the top front part of the body. The longitudinal axis of the body is perpendicular to the shank of the hook. The transverse spinner assembly has a horizontal crossbar that passes through and is rigidly attached to the eye and that is oriented perpendicular to a plane formed by the bend of the hook. First and second side spinner blades are connected to the crossbar to form rotatable connections between the blades and the crossbar. The V-shaped vertical spinner assembly has a lower leg that is molded into and extends from the front of the body, an upper leg, and an attachment loop that is formed into a vertex of a V-shaped bend between the lower leg and the upper leg.
US10531647B2
A tipping bow has at least one articulated connection to a vessel behind and is connected to an anchoring. The tipping bow has a structural member attached to one or more attachment points at the bottom edge of the tipping bow. The anchoring is attached to an anchor attachment positioned behind and lower than the balance point of the tipping bow.
US10531638B2
A game feeder having a recessed game feed spinner plate, which discharges game feed through a relatively narrow opening. The spinner plate is rotated by an electric motor, which is housed in a protective enclosure within the game feeder, along with the battery and timer, and protected from animals. The narrow discharge opening minimizes feed loss by animals accessing the spinner plate. The game feeder may sit on the ground, or may be mounted on a support such as a pole or tree with mounting hooks and a bracket, and when mounted is especially resistant to feed loss or feeder damage by bears, feral hogs and the like.
US10531636B2
Animal litter compositions having relatively low densities are described herein. Methods of manufacturing such litter compositions are also described.
US10531629B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072223. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072223. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072223 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072223 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10531621B1
A soybean cultivar designated 61364961 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 61364961, to the plants of soybean cultivar 61364961, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 61364961, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 61364961. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 61364961. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 61364961, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 61364961 with another soybean cultivar.
US10531619B1
A soybean cultivar designated 66020504 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 66020504, to the plants of soybean cultivar 66020504, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 66020504, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 66020504. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 66020504. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 66020504, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 66020504 with another soybean cultivar.
US10531608B2
A knife drive assembly for use with a header of an agricultural harvester is provided. The knife drive assembly includes a housing, a rotatable driver having at least one curved channel or sloped lateral side, at least one wobble arm engaging the curved channel and a at least one mounting bar that engages the wobble arm and a cutter bar such that when the rotatable driver is rotated, the cutter bar engages in substantially linear oscillating motion.
US10537050B2
A module installation assembly for installing a module into a socket of a land grid array includes a tool having a mounting bracket for connecting the tool to an adjacent fixture, an alignment member connected to the mounting bracket, and cavity defined at least partially by the alignment member. The cavity is substantially aligned with a socket of the land grid array such that the module is configured to pass through the cavity when being connected to the socket.
US10537045B2
A device has an electronics housing and a tube cooler with a tube formed in one piece from a single material. The tube has a tube coil and a first tube portion, between which the electronics housing is arranged, and a first connecting portion. The first connecting portion fluidically connects the first tube portion to a first side of the tube coil. The first tube portion is connectable to a coolant supply and arranged laterally offset with respect to the tube coil. The tube coil and the first tube portion extend on a common side of the first connecting portion. The first connecting portion is inclined with respect to the tube coil and to the first tube portion and/or is curved from the tube coil to the first tube portion.
US10537044B2
A heat dissipating component comprising: a main body formed from a first material; a heat dissipating sheet that is formed from a second material having higher thermal conductivity than the first material, that is provided at the main body, and that includes a plurality of fins thermally connected to each other at positions other than apexes and a connecting portion thermally connecting the plurality of fins to an electronic component; and a covering portion that covers at least a portion of a bottom portion of a groove between the plurality of fins.
US10537041B2
A heat dissipation system with air sensation function includes a chassis, multiple fans, multiple air sensation units and an external control device connected to the fans. The chassis has an installation face for installing the fans thereon. The air sensation units are respectively disposed on the fans for detecting the air state of the corresponding fans to generate an air sensation signal. The external control device serves to receive the air sensation signal transmitted from the air sensation units and compare the data contained in the air sensation signal with preset data so as to control/adjust the rotational speed of the corresponding fans. Accordingly, a uniform airflow flows out of the fans to effectively lower the noise.
US10537039B2
Mechanisms for providing inductance-based user interface elements are provided. Some implementations of such inductance-based devices may feature very small gaps between the housing and the inductive coil, as well as various features to aid in improving sensor sensitivity and reducing the possibility of false button-push events.
US10537034B2
Control boxes with segregated low- and high-voltage components are described. Service technicians (or others) requiring access to one set of components may do so without necessarily accessing the other set. Dual user interfaces may be utilized, further, with one interface being present at the control box and the other being remote therefrom.
US10537033B2
The present invention relates to a display device (1) for a motor vehicle, which includes: a display module (3) comprising a flat screen (7) provided on the rear surface thereof with mounting feet (17), each mounting foot (17) including a tapped hole for receiving a mounting screw (21); and a housing (9) holding the display module (3), said housing (9) having a bottom wall (23) and on which the mounting feet (1) of the flat screen (7) are mounted by screwing, characterised in that it also comprises a membrane made of resilient material (29) arranged between the mounting feet (17) and covering each mounting foot (17) so as to be inserted between the mounting feet (17) and the bottom wall (23) of the housing (9), and in that the mounting screws (17) of the flat screen (7) pass through the bottom wall (23) and the membrane made of resilient material (29) so as to engage with the tapped hole of each foot (17).
US10537025B2
A capacitor includes a body, first and second external electrodes, and first and second auxiliary external electrodes. The body includes first and second internal electrodes each having first and second lead portions exposed to one surface of the body. The first and second external electrodes are disposed on the one surface of the body and electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The first and second auxiliary external electrodes are electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes, respectively, and cover portions of surfaces of the body connected to the one surface of the body.
US10537014B2
Provided is a composition for obesity treatment comprising a liquid-phase plasma. More particularly, provided is a method for producing a liquid-phase plasma for inhibiting adipocyte differentiation or proliferation, a pharmaceutical composition for obesity prevention or treatment using a liquid-phase plasma produced according to the method, and a method for obesity prevention or treatment using the liquid-phase plasma.
US10537011B1
A modular coordinated lighting system comprising one or more wireless lighting devices that can communicate over a network and coordinate their operation to provide illumination to an area is provided. Wireless control present in one wireless lighting device can be used to propagate the wireless control of that wireless lighting device to an entire of group of lights in a lighting system. In this manner, a user can easily install wireless lighting devices that work in coordination to illuminate an area as if they are one lighting device. A networked wireless lighting device may also be configured through the user input method to operate different groups of wireless lighting modules such that lighting groups may be created. Multiple lighting groups allow a user to configure lighting provided by the modular coordinated lighting system based on their preference.
US10537010B2
The invention describes a coded light modulation arrangement (1), adapted to be connected between a driver (31) and a LED (3), which coded light modulation arrangement (1) comprises input terminals (10) adapted to connect to the driver (31) and to receive a drive current (IDRIVE), an energy storage arrangement comprising a number of energy storage devices (E1, E2); a data input interface (12) realized to receive a data stream (D), said data stream (D) comprises a sequence of binary symbols comprising a logic high and a logic low; a switch arrangement comprising a number of switches (S1, S2) arranged to connect the energy storage devices (E1, E2) of the energy storage arrangement and to modulate the drive current such that, in a charging switch configuration corresponding to the logic low, a negative modulation current (INEG) is diverted from a drive current (IDRIVE) of the LED (3) to the energy storage arrangement; and, in a discharging switch configuration corresponding to the logic high, a positive modulation current (IPOS) is drawn from the energy storage arrangement and added to the drive current (IDRIVE) of the LED (3); and output terminals (11) adapted to connect to the LED (3) and to provide the modulated drive current directly to the LED (3) to emit the low and high radiant flux level as coded light (Lcoded) to be received by a photosensor of a coded light receiver device. The invention further describes a method of performing coded light modulation for light emitted by a LED (3); a luminaire; and a coded light communication arrangement (5).
US10537009B2
A lighting device (100) arranged for rendering a light output is disclosed. The lighting device (100) comprises at least one light source (102) arranged for emitting light. The lighting device (100) further comprises a receiver (104) arranged for receiving at least one signal from at least one further device (110), which at least one signal is representative of a current location of the lighting device (100). The lighting device (100) further comprises a processor 106 arranged for controlling the light output of the at least one light source (102). The processor (106) is further arranged for determining the current location of the lighting device (100) based on the received at least one signal and for accessing a memory (108) storing associations between locations and light settings. The processor (106) is further arranged for comparing the current location to at least one stored location so as to determine whether a first similarity criterion is met, and for controlling, if the first similarity criterion is met, the light output of the lighting device (100) according to a light setting associated with the stored location. This allows a user to move the lighting device (100) between locations, and for each location the previously set light setting associated with that location may be applied to the lighting device (100). The processor (106) is further arranged for associating the current location with a current light setting if the first similarity criterion is not met, and the processor (106) is further arranged for storing the association in the memory (108).
US10537008B2
An apparatus for driving LEDs using high voltage includes two LED driving circuits and two switches controlled by a universal controller so as to connect the two LED driving circuits in two different configurations. Each LED driving circuit has an LED unit formed by a plurality of LED segments. Each LED segment has an associated bypass switch controlled by an LED controller to bypass or connect the LED segment in the LED unit. When an input voltage ranges from rectified 90 volt AC to rectified 140 volt AC, the two switches are controlled to connect the two LED driving circuits in parallel. When the input voltage ranges from rectified 180 volt AC to rectified 265 volt AC, the two switches are controlled to connect the LED segments of the LED unit in one LED driving circuit in series with the other LED driving circuit.
US10537004B2
A system and method may include receiving, at a first node of a circuit electrically coupled to a light emitting diode, a pulsed electrical signal that includes signal current pulses. The system and method may also include enabling discharging of a capacitor electrically coupled to the first node at an enable time that is during a particular time period between two particular signal current pulses of the pulsed electrical signal.
US10537001B2
A single chip multi-voltage or multi-brightness LED lighting device having at least two LED circuits. Each of the at least two LED circuits having at least two LEDs connected together in series. Each of the at least two LED circuits are electrically unconnected to each other in a parallel relationship, have a forward operating drive voltage of at least six volts and are monolithically integrated on a single substrate. A method of manufacturing a single chip with two or more LED circuits configurable by means of connecting the circuits so as to provide optional operating voltage level and/or desired brightness level wherein the electrical connection may be achieved and/or completed at the LED packaging level when the single chips are integrated into the LED package. Alternatively, the LED package may have external electrical contacts that match the integrated chips within. Optionally allowable, the drive voltage level and/or the brightness level select-ability may be passed on through to the exterior of the LED package and may be selected by the LED package user, the PCB assembly facility, or the end product manufacturer.
US10536998B2
A switch power supply having active power factor correction is provided, including a power factor correction (PFC) circuit, a filter circuit, a main power stage, a first capacitor and an indicating circuit. The indicating circuit consists of a light emitting diode (LED) and an inductor; and the current direction of power supplied from the PFC circuit to the main power stage through the inductor is opposite to the conduction direction of the LED. The filter circuit at least comprises an electrolytic capacitor. When the electrolytic capacitor is normal, the LED does not emit light. When the equivalent series resistance (ESR) of the electrolytic capacitor sharply rises, the exciting current appears in the inductor. When a power transistor in the main power stage is switched off, the exciting current passes through the LED for freewheeling and enables the LED to emit light.
US10536996B1
A system for applying microwave energy to a product and having a first microwave oven, a relaxation tunnel connected to the first microwave oven, and a second microwave oven connected to the relaxation tunnel. The microwave ovens may have a cross-sectional area that is at least twice the size of the cross-sectional area of the relaxation tunnel. Generally, no microwave energy is applied to the product while travelling through the relaxation tunnel. Preferably, the product spends at least twice as much time within the relaxation tunnel as the first or second microwave ovens. The microwave ovens preferably apply the microwave energy directly to the product.
US10536995B2
An induction heating arrangement (1000) including four coils of a smaller diameter (1100, . . . , 1400) and a coil having a larger diameter (1500) is provided. The coils are arranged on a first plane (2100) and on a second plane (2200). In order to adapt a cooking area (1600) to the size of a pot, either the larger coil (1500) or one or more of the smaller coils (1100, 1400) are operated. A power supply circuitry (2400) is shared between the coils of the two planes. A selector (2300) disconnects a respective coil of the plane of coils that is not operated in order to avoid coupling, interference and loss of energy. Guiding elements of the magnetic flux (1110, 1115, 1540) confine the magnetic field in the area of the pot. A method of operating the induction heating arrangement is also provided.
US10536994B2
A pane, having at least one first pane with an outer face and an inner face is described. The pane has at least one electrically conductive transparent coating which is arranged on the outer face and/or the inner face of the first pane, and at least two busbars which are provided for connecting to a voltage source and which are connected to the electrically conductive transparent coating such that a current path for a heating current is formed between the busbars. The electrically conductive transparent coating has at least three regions with decoated structures.
US10536992B2
The resistance method is a process for conditioning of an electric current and subjecting it to manipulated resistance levels to cause an effect on a substance as the current passes through. The method has two basic functions. One is to condition the electric current. This takes place during the series of steps that manipulate the frequency, voltage, and amps to provide a combination suitable for a predetermined threshold or action. The other is to manipulate the resistance of a substance. This is done by manipulating the atmospheric pressure, pH, salinity, and temperature of the substance, all of which takes place in a reactor. The reactor provides an isolated, enclosed environment for the manipulation to take place. The method also utilizes an electronic control system. The electronic control system simultaneously measures and manipulates the variables of the process, thereby creating an environment within the reactor that either increases or decreases the amount of resistance to which the electric current is subjected.
US10536988B2
A channel access process method in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes: generating, by a station, a backoff counter value; then performing, by the station, a backoff operation after receiving a first trigger frame, where the backoff operation includes: deducting, from the backoff counter value, a quantity N of subchannels for random access, to obtain a new backoff counter value; and when the new backoff counter value is 0 or a negative number, randomly selecting, by the station, one subchannel from the subchannels for random access, and then accessing the subchannel to send an uplink frame. The present application further provides a corresponding channel access apparatus. Applying the method and the apparatus of the embodiments of the present application improves system access efficiency and avoids a waste of system resources.
US10536981B2
Long-term evolution assisted new radio initial access and mobility for 5G or other next generation networks are provided herein. A method can include transmitting, by a first network device of a wireless network and comprising a processor, a first timing synchronization signal and first acquisition information of the first network device to a mobile device. In response to the transmitting and based on a transmission received from the mobile device, a connection between the mobile device and a radio resource control of the wireless network can be facilitated. In addition, in response to the mobile device determining the location of the second timing synchronization signal based on the data indicative of the location of the second timing synchronization signal, the second network device can transmit, to the mobile device, the second timing synchronization signal and second acquisition information of the second network device.
US10536979B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates with a base wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver, and a processor. The processor is configured to set an integer selected from a range of 0 to a value equal to or smaller than an OFDMA Contention Window (OCW) as a counter for random access, receive a trigger frame for triggering random access using one or more resource units (RUs) allocated for the random access from the base wireless communication terminal using the transceiver, decrement a value of the counter based on the one or more RUs allocated for the random access, randomly select one RU based on the one or more RUs allocated for the random access when the value of the counter is 0 or reaches 0, and attempt transmission to the base wireless communication terminal using the selected RU.
US10536978B2
A wireless communication device determines its class, and identifies a logical channel identifier (LCID) value that is associated with the determined class within a radio access node. The device then generates a radio resource control (RRC) message including the identified LCID value, and transmits the generated RRC message to the radio access node. Upon receiving the LCID value, the radio access node determines whether the received LCID value is associated with a non-standard class of wireless communication device, and in response to determining that the received LCID value is associated with the non-standard class of wireless communication device, identifying the wireless communication device as belonging to the non-standard class of wireless communication device, and transmitting information to the wireless communication device based on the non-standard class identification.
US10536971B2
A data transmission method, an electronic device and a device having a base station function, wherein, a channel sensing sub-frame is arranged in a frame structure used only for downlink transmission frequency division duplexing; within any period, downlink data is sent via a downlink sub-frame in the frame structure when the channel sensing sub-frame senses that the downlink channel is in an idle state, or otherwise downlink data is not sent. Therefore, on the premise that normal operation of the LTE system by means of the supplemental downlink mode in the unlicensed frequency band can be ensured, the LTE system is prevented from generating significant interference with regard to other systems when operating in the unlicensed frequency band.
US10536960B2
The present invention provides a method for transmitting or receiving an uplink signal between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system, and a device supporting the same. More particularly, the present invention provides: a configuration wherein when various numerologies are applied, a terminal receives downlink data from a base station and transmits uplink control information corresponding to the received downlink data; and a corresponding operation configuration of the base station.
US10536958B2
Provided are a resource selection method for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) operation of a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. The method comprises: monitoring physical sidelink control channels (PSCCHs) for other terminals in a first subframe; and transmitting, in a second subframe, a V2X message by using a resource which is not overlapped with a resource scheduled by the PSCCH for another terminal.
US10536955B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for coordinating UE capabilities across RATs. In some cases, a UE may provide an indication of one or more first sets of capabilities of the UE to operate in a first RAT network that are compatible with one or more second sets of capabilities of the UE to operate in a second RAT network. Indicating the sets of capabilities may require less signaling overhead than explicitly signaling all possible combinations of capabililites.
US10536945B2
In some examples, a non-transitory machine-readable medium can include instructions executable by a processing resource of a network device to: receive a first message on a communication band from a first wireless client device; determine a capability complying with a particular wireless specification of the first wireless client device based on information in the first message; split communication channels on the communication band into a first communication channel group and a second communication channel group; and operate the first communication channel group in accordance with the particular wireless specification and the second communication channel group in accordance with other wireless specifications.
US10536944B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication at a wireless device. One method includes identifying a priority of the wireless device for a transmission interval of a radio frequency spectrum band shared by a plurality of network operating entities; identifying an absence of a predetermined transmission type in each of a number of clear channel assessment (CCA) slots of the transmission interval, in which each of the number of CCA slots is associated with a higher priority than the identified priority of the wireless device; and communicating over the radio frequency spectrum band based at least in part on the identified absence of the predetermined transmission type in each of the number of CCA slots associated with the higher priority than the priority of the wireless device.
US10536937B2
An AP downlink multi-user transmission method in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating a DL MU PPDU, wherein the DL MU PPDU comprises resource allocation information for uplink MU transmission by a station (STA); transmitting the DL MU PPDU to the STA; and, on the basis of the DL MU PPDU, receiving a UL MU PPDU generated by the STA, wherein the UL MU PPDU comprises a first part having a first IDFT/DFT cycle, and a second part having a second IDFT/DFT cycle that is four times the first IDFT/DFT cycle, wherein the first part may be received through at least one 20 MHz channel in a position corresponding to a frequency resource indicated by the resource allocation information, and the second part may be received by using the frequency resource indicated by the resource allocation information.
US10536924B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method for operating of a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an exemplary embodiment includes: receiving signals from other terminals; selecting another terminal which has proximity to the terminal from among the other terminals based on reception powers of the signals and information related to the signals; and determining a location of the terminal based on location information of the other terminals.
US10536919B2
A method and apparatus are described for processing service layer detach commands and attach notifications. A services capability server (SCS) may request a core network to perform a network initiated detach of a device. This procedure may be used when the SCS knows that the device will not be needed for a long time or when the SCS detects some event that may warrant a detach, (e.g., theft, disallowed location, integrity validation failure). The SCS may be asked if the device may be allowed to attach at this time. If the SCS indicates that the attach may be rejected, the device may not be allowed to attach until a later time, thus avoiding additional activity on control and user planes. The SCS may be informed when a device is attached based on various subscription fields stored in a home subscriber server (HSS).
US10536916B2
There is provided a communication control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a reception timing at which a second radio communication device receives a downlink signal from a base station performing radio communication with a first radio communication device or the second radio communication device, and a decision unit configured to decide a transmission timing at which the second radio communication device transmits a signal to the first radio communication device through inter-device communication based on the reception timing. The decided transmission timing is a timing later than a timing at which the second radio communication device transmits an uplink signal.
US10536910B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a transmission power is prioritized between an access channel and a second channel. Additionally, the access channel and the second channel are transmitted simultaneously. Each of the access channel and the second channel are transmitted at a transmission power determined based on the priority. Further, a method, apparatus, and computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which information is received regarding first resources to use for transmitting an access channel with an acknowledgment and second resources for transmitting the access channel with a negative acknowledgment. Further, the access channel is transmitted on the first or second resources.
US10536901B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a hub having one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in a wireless network architecture. The system includes a plurality of sensor nodes each having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the hub in the wireless network architecture. The one or more processing units of the hub are configured to execute instructions to determine a first scheduled timing of causing the transmitter to be operable to transmit and causing the receiver to be operable to receive for each wireless device based on a periodic beacon signal of the hub.
US10536899B2
First data units associated with one or more power-constrained sensor devices are transmitted in a wireless network, and second data units associated with offload of cellular telephone data are transmitted in the wireless network. Priority is given to transmission of the first data units over transmission of the second data units with regard to access to a wireless medium. Transmissions in the wireless network are permitted at a plurality of different channel bandwidths including a minimum channel bandwidth, and transmissions in the wireless network corresponding to offload of cellular telephone data are permitted only using a channel bandwidth, among the plurality of different channel bandwidths, that is greater than the minimum channel bandwidth.
US10536898B2
The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for reducing power consumption of a receiver in a mobile communication network comprising a sender transmitting packet data on a downlink channel to one or more receivers over a radio interface. Inactive time instants and listening time instants are defined according to provided rules. The receiver is arranged to listen for information from the sender during the listening time instants and to sleep during the inactive time instants. Thus, less power will be consumed during the inactive time instants.
US10536895B2
A method and apparatus for receiving a downlink message in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives scheduling information for a downlink message via a dedicated common search space (D-CSS) in a first narrowband from a network, and receives the downlink message in the second narrowband from the network. The D-CSS may schedule resources for random access response (RAR)/Msg4 and initial configuration of UE-specific configurations before UE-specific narrowband (NB) is configured. CSS in UE-specific NB may schedule resources for RAR/Msg4/paging and reconfiguration of UE-specific configurations after UE-specific NB is configured.
US10536892B2
A method and a device for data transmission are provided. A transmission device determines a plurality of wireless links through which data is to be transmitted between the transmission device and a reception device, and transmits physical-layer transmission blocks including identical data packets to the reception device through the determined wireless links.
US10536891B1
A method for operating a node in a wireless network is provided that includes computing an estimated time drift between the node and a parent node of the node, and using the estimated time drift and a number of hops between the node and a root node of the wireless network to determine a keep alive period for the node.
US10536885B2
A method for a network node of a cellular communication network is disclosed. The network node and at least some other network nodes of the cellular communication network are each adapted to support a plurality of beams of a signal beam-forming scheme and to communicate with a wireless communication device using at least one of the plurality of beams. The method comprises identifying one or more candidate beams, causing transmission of a reference signal on each of the candidate beams, causing reservation of an uplink resource of at least one of the candidate beams (wherein the uplink resources are for conveying a report from the wireless communication device, and wherein the report is indicative of a result of measurements of the reference signals), and causing the communication with the wireless communication device to use a target beam (wherein one of the candidate beams is selected as the target beam based on the conveyed report). A corresponding method for a wireless communication device is also disclosed, as well as a computer program product, respective arrangements for a network node and a wireless communication device, a network node and a wireless communication device.
US10536884B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for supporting a connected mode enhanced pruning procedure. A UE may select, while operating in connected mode with a first radio access technology (RAT), measurement candidates for a potential handover based on one or more criteria, maintain an active list including the selected measurement candidates, perform at least one measurement based, at least in part, on the active list, and take one or more actions based, at least in part, on the at least one measurement.
US10536878B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives a radio bearer configuration. The UE also configures, based on the received radio bearer configuration, a radio bearer including a first logical channel on a first carrier and a second logical channel on a second carrier. The UE further determines whether to activate the radio bearer to perform duplication. In response to a determination to activate the radio bearer to perform duplication, the UE communicates a first packet on the first logical channel and communicates a duplicated first packet on the second logical channel.
US10536872B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method which includes: sending a first channel quality measurement report, wherein the first channel quality measurement report indicates a channel noise value measured in a first time period by a first station in a second antenna mode when a third station and a fourth station communicate with each other in a first antenna mode; and receiving an grant frame sent by the AP based on the first channel quality measurement report, wherein the grant frame carries first instruction information and/or second instruction information. A success rate of space-shared communication between station pairs can be increased.
US10536868B2
A measurement method by a user equipment (UE) including receiving a first measurement list from a base station, the first measurement list including one or more measurement candidates, and measuring signal quality of at least some of the one or more measurement candidates independent of corresponding one or more measurement periods, the one or more measurement periods being periods determined for the at least some of the one or more measurement candidates may be provided.
US10536867B2
Systems, methods, and devices of the various aspects enable detecting a malfunction caused by radio frequency (RF) interference. A computing device processor may identify a location of the computing device based on a plurality of real-time data inputs received by the computing device. The processor may characterize an RF environment of the computing device based on the identified location and the plurality of real-time data inputs. The processor may determine at least one RF emissions threshold based on the characterization of the RF environment. The processor may compare the characterization of the RF environment to the at least one RF emissions threshold, and may perform an action in response to determining that the characterization of the RF environment exceeds the at least one RF emissions threshold.
US10536862B2
Embodiments herein relate to a radio network node for handling signaling in a wireless communication network. The radio network node is configured to transmit synchronization signals with a first periodicity for wireless devices in a service area of the radio network node. The radio network node is further configured to detect one or more wireless devices being in a connected mode and incoming from a handover, or moving to the connected mode within the service area or within a neighborhood of the radio network node; and to trigger in response to detecting the one or more wireless devices, a transmission of additional reference signals for performing measurements on.
US10536859B2
Methods and apparatus for providing quasi-licensed spectrum access within an area or venue. In one embodiment, the quasi-licensed spectrum utilizes 3.5 GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) spectrum allocated by a Federal or commercial SAS (Spectrum Access System) to a managed content delivery network that includes one or more wireless access nodes (e.g., CBSDs and APs) in data communication with a controller. In one variant, the controller dynamically allocates (i) spectrum within the area or venue within CBRS bands, and (ii) MSO users or subscribers to CBRS bands or WLAN (e.g., public ISM) bands in to manage interference between the coexisting networks, and maximize user experience. In another variant, the controller cooperates with a provisioning server to implement a client device application program or “app” on MSO user or subscriber client devices which enables inter-RAT access.
US10536854B2
In order to facilitate access to multiple networks, an electronic device may first authorize a portable electronic device to access a radio-access network associated with a network operator. In particular, the electronic device may provide a request with a first identifier for a portable electronic device to an authentication/authorization server for access to the radio-access network. After receiving first authorization information from the authentication/authorization server for the portable electronic device to access the radio-access network, the electronic device may provide a second request with a second identifier of the portable electronic device to a second server for access to a second network associated with the second server and an entity. Based on the subsequent response from the second server, the electronic device may provide access information to a radio node that allows the portable electronic device to access the radio-access network, or radio-access network and the second network.
US10536852B2
A sleep detector is configured to detect sleep. At least one processor is configured to perform a first user authentication when the sleep detector does not detect the sleep, and perform a second user authentication when the sleep detector detects the sleep, the second user authentication being different from the first user authentication.
US10536847B2
Data in a portable electronic device is protected by using external and internal status detection means to determine if the device is misplaced, lost, or stolen. The device then takes, singly or in combination, one of several actions to protect the data on the device, including declaring its location to an owner or service provider, locking the device or specific functions of the device to disable all data retrieval functionality, erasing or overwriting all the stored data in the device or, where the data has been stored in the device in an encrypted format, destroying an internally-stored encryption key, thereby preventing unauthorized access to the encrypted data in the device.
US10536844B2
The present invention may provide a method for downloading a profile by an electronic device and the electronic device performing the same, the method comprising: transmitting, to a routing server, profile download request-related information including profile server indication information; transmitting, to the routing server, a profile download request message including profile download identification information; and receiving a profile from the routing server, wherein the profile download request message is transmitted to a profile server, which provides a profile of the electronic device, via the routing server on the basis of the profile server indication information. Further, the present invention may provide a routing server which operates with the electronic device and an operation method of the routing server.
US10536843B2
An information request describing an attribute of necessary data is distributed from a center server to a mobile terminal via an edge server; the mobile terminal transmits data, which is requested in the information request, to the edge server; the edge server notifies the center server to the effect that the data, which is requested in the information request, has been acquired; the center server distributes, with respect to data acquired by the edge server from the mobile terminal, non-necessity information indicating that collection of the data is unnecessary to the edge server and to the mobile terminal via the edge server; and when the mobile terminal receives the non-necessity information, the mobile terminal suspends acquisition of data, of which collection is deemed unnecessary in the non-necessity information, and, when the data is stored, discards the data.
US10536835B2
A system and method of wirelessly communicating data originating at a central facility between a plurality of vehicles using vehicle-to-vehicle short-range wireless communications includes wirelessly receiving, at a seed vehicle, one or more data files that have been encoded into data chunks from a central facility; storing the data chunks included in the received data file(s) at the vehicle; receiving interest messages for the data file(s) at the seed vehicle from each of a plurality of other vehicles via a short-range wireless broadcast, wherein the interest messages include one or more data file names and, for each data file name, the identity of the data chunks requested; identifying data files and data chunks existing in more than one received interest message; and transmitting the data chunks to the plurality of vehicles via the short-range wireless broadcast.
US10536827B2
Programmable telematics systems, methods and apparatus for two-way transmission of data and information between fleet vehicles and a fleet management system. The systems and methods employ a programmable telematics communications unit (TCU) configured to connect to the OBD II port of a vehicle, enabling two-way transmission of data and information between a fleet management system and vehicles in the fleet. The TCU device includes cellular data connectivity enabling communication with the management system through existing cellular telephone networks. The programmable TCU may be toggled between multiple operating modes, wherein the TCU provides different functionality, such that a single vehicle may participate in multiple vehicle programs at different points in time, including separate vehicle rental and vehicle sharing programs.
US10536824B2
The present disclosure provides a band usage information generating and reporting method, a charging method, an eNB, a ON, a MME and a UE. The eNB and the UE can generate band usage information for charging, and report the band usage information to the CN, wherein the band usage information involves band usage of at least a first band and a second band, and traffic is assigned to respective bands by the eNB. The Counting entity at the eNB or UE can count the data volume of each band or ratio of data volume via different bands as the band usage information based on the scheduling information of the data. The Charging system located in the CN can process the charging and generate a bill according to the reported band usage information.
US10536812B2
The present disclosure enables an improved location determination and subsequent content providing. In one aspect, a method includes assigning a geographical tile to a tracking device, the geographical tile representing a geographical location in which the tracking device is currently located; activating at least one sensor on-board the tracking device, the at least one sensor of the tracking device being used to collect location data and determine displacement information of the tracking device on the tracking device; receiving the displacement information as well as at least one satellite based location update from the tracking device; determining at least one zone of interest in the tile at which the tracking device is currently located based on the displacement information and at least one satellite based location information of the tracking device; and providing at least one content associated with the at least one zone of interest to the tracking device.
US10536809B1
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may include an imager, an inertial measurement unit, and a processing system. The imager may be configured to capture an image. The inertial measurement unit may have an output. The processing system may be configured to collect positional information indicating a position of the computing device in response to the output from the inertial measurement unit. Further, the processing system may be configured to determine a selected structure captured in the image. Further, the processing system may be configured to identify information corresponding to the selected structure based on the positional information.
US10536796B2
An Automatic Emergency Call Initiator (AECI) initiates an automatic emergency call protocol on a mobile communication system, which can be done using signaling messages. The user uses the AECI to initiate the call on a mobile station. GPS or other location data is automatically determined. Data is stored on an Emergency Notification Server (ENS) associated with an event identifier for easy retrieval or notification to emergency responders. The ENS generates an automated call to a call center and also supports the automatic emergency call protocol by storing GPS and identifying info on mobile stations meeting location criteria of the AECI initiated call. The ENS can also tag a mobile station to continue tracking mobile stations coming within a specified distance of the mobile station. A security alert protocol for predetermined mobile stations detected by a network can also be implemented using the ENS.
US10536790B2
An audio system comprising a plurality of speaker devices allows seamless transitioning of playing audio between speakers in different locations. A mobile device may be used to determine a location for which the associated speakers should be used for playback. The speaker devices at the different locations may be synchronized to a common clock in order to allow the audio playback to be transitioned seamlessly from one location to another.
US10536786B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for an augmented environmental awareness system to present new and important sounds to a user in an enhanced auditory experience. In one aspect, a method includes detecting a new sound that was not present in a current auditory environment before the detection, adjusting electrical input signals that are determined to be characteristic of the new sound to generated adjusted electrical signals, generating electrical output signals from the adjusted electrical signals and from the electrical input signals that are not determined to be characteristic of the new sounds, and providing the electrical output signals to audio output transducers.
US10536782B2
A hearing enhancement device using wave amplification in the outer ear cavities of a user and transducer placement to provide frequency based enhancement of speech and music sounds without blocking the user's auditory canal.
US10536772B2
Described embodiments generally relate to an audio system comprising at least one display device configured to display images; at least two speakers configured to generate audio output; housing structure configured to accommodate the at least one display device and the at least one speaker, the housing structure defining at least one sound delivery aperture extending at least partially along at least two sides of a perimeter of the at least one display device; and a waveguide defined within the housing structure and configured to guide the audio output generated by the at least one speaker through the at least one sound delivery aperture.
US10536768B2
An optical sensor module for detecting and/or measuring physiological information that can be integrated into a wearable device, such as a headset, a wristband, a ring, etc., includes a housing supporting an optical source and an optical detector. The housing overlies the optical source and optical detector and includes a first light guide comprising light transmissive material in optical communication with the optical source and a second light guide comprising light transmissive material in optical communication with the optical detector. The first and second light guides define respective first and second axial directions that are outwardly diverging. When the sensor module is in use and placed adjacent the skin of a user, light rays emanating from the optical source and directed into the skin of the user cannot overlap with light rays returning through the skin of the user.
US10536759B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing point-to-point fiber insertion within a passive optical network (“PON”) communications system. The PON communications system, associated with a first service provider or a first service, might include an F1 line(s) routed from a central office or DSLAM to a fiber distribution hub (“FDH”) located within a block or neighborhood of customer premises, via at least an apical conduit source slot, an F2 line(s) routed via various apical conduit components to a network access point (“NAP”) servicing customer premises, and an F3 line(s) distributed, at the NAP and from the F2 Line(s), to a network interface device or optical network terminal at each customer premises via various apical conduit components (e.g., in roadway surfaces). Point-to-point fiber insertion of another F1 line(s), associated with a second service provider or a second service, at either the NAP or the FDH (or outside these devices).
US10536757B2
Methods and apparatus to synthesize reference media signatures based on constituent media signatures generated by metered media devices are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a collector to collect first constituent media signatures from a first media device that identify a first portion of media, a collector to collect second constituent media signatures from a second media device that identify a second portion of the media, and a synthesizer to combine the first constituent media signatures from the first media device and the second constituent media signatures from the second media device to form a reference media signature that represents the media, the reference media signature for comparison with third constituent media signatures collected from a third media device to detect consumption of the media at the third media device.
US10536755B1
A method for ad delivery placements to consumer devices within managed service provider networks. Real-time, targeted video advertisements delivery to at least one consumer device is provided across multiple content delivery services accessible to viewers. A unified system capable of simultaneous targeting and delivery of a video advertisement is supported across multiple content delivery platforms to one or more consumer devices. Delivery of the targeted video advertisements is supported to managed service provider devices. Efficient IP delivery of video advertisements is supported to service provider managed networks of consumer devices. Real-time targeted advertisements to all IP connected devices and managed consumer devices are supported based on targeting criteria.
US10536748B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for behavioral modeling based on content genre and utilizing results for content recommendation and other network handling and storage of the content. Viewing events with respect to a content item are aggregated. An affinity is calculated based on the viewing events. Additional viewing events occurring during the delivery of the content item and associated with other content items are also selected. A sampling bonus is added to the affinity if these additional viewing events have a duration below a threshold and the other content items share a same genre as the content item.
US10536742B2
A display apparatus, including a display configured to display a multi-window screen image comprising a plurality of windows; and a controller configured to control the display to change an appearance of at least one window of the plurality of windows based on a setting provided by a user, and to display the at least one window using the changed appearance.
US10536734B1
Disclosed herein is a system and method for rejoining a traffic log mode after a breakout in a broadcasting environment. One example method involves (i) receiving a traffic log including traffic log entries, each corresponding to a VC and a start time; (ii) operating in a traffic log mode; (iii) receiving a breakout-mode request; (iv) responsive to receiving the breakout-mode request, (a) terminating operation of the traffic log mode, (b) generating a simulation log, and (c) operating in a breakout mode; (v) receiving a rejoin request; (vi) determining a breakout termination time based on the received rejoin request; (vii) proximate the breakout termination time, terminating operation of the breakout-mode, and operating in a custom log mode; (viii) determining a rejoin position of the traffic log based on the received rejoin request; and (ix) operating in the traffic log mode.
US10536728B2
A method includes operating a content crawler over a machine communication network to form a set of input content; operating a mapper on a machine memory comprising the input content to form non-transitory machine logic comprising genes for the content, wherein operating the mapper comprises the application of previously mapped genes for the input content to the mapping of subsequent genes for the input content; and applying the genes to a machine memory storing a database of content from which user recommendations are formed.
US10536726B2
In a video coding system, an encoder may include a coding engine to predictively code input video, a decoder to reconstruct reference pictures generated by the coding engine, a reference picture cache to store the reconstructed reference pictures, a patch cache to store prediction patches generated from other sources, and a prediction search unit to search among the reference picture cache and the patch cache to generate prediction references for use by the coding engine while coding input video. The prediction patches may be assembled from a variety of sources including: predefined image content, reference pictures being evicted from the reference picture cache, image content of prior coding sessions and image data stored by applications on a common terminal where the encoder resides. A decoder may store prediction patches in its own patch cache for synchronous decoding.
US10536719B2
A system utilizing a high throughput coding mode for CABAC in HEVC is described. The system may include an electronic device configured to obtain a block of data to be encoded using an arithmetic based encoder; to generate a sequence of syntax elements using the obtained block; to compare an Absolute-3 value of the sequence or a parameter associated with the Absolute-3 value to a preset value; and to convert the Absolute-3 value to a codeword using a first code or a second code that is different than the first code, according to a result of the comparison.
US10536702B1
Systems and methods for utilizing on-device sensor information to improve video encoding quality are discussed herein. Specifically, the systems and methods may utilize on-device sensor information to efficiently determine whether to encode a particular frame within a set of frames as an intra frame. When captured on video, a particular arrangement of a group of pixels within a frame may comprise a visual representation of an object within the frame. When encoding video footage, motion information characterizing motion of an image capturing device over time may be used to predict the modification of an arrangement of a group of pixels between frames. These predictions may be used to efficiently determine whether to encode a particular frame as an intra frame.
US10536696B2
To reduce the occurrence of an excessive encoding amount or an insufficient encoding amount and reduce the fluctuation range of the bit rate even when there is a change in the area of a region-of-interest or the properties of an image. An image encoding device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a block-of-interest determining unit configured to determine whether or not a block is a block-of-interest including a pixel-of-interest; a region-of-interest area-ratio calculator configured to calculate a region-of-interest area ratio based on a determination result obtained by the block-of-interest determining unit; a rate controller configured to decide a region-of-interest quantization parameter and a non-region-of-interest quantization parameter based on at least a bit rate of compression data and the region-of-interest area ratio; and a compressor configured to compress an image input in accordance with a predetermined encoding method by using the block-of-interest, the region-of-interest quantization parameter, and the non-region-of-interest quantization parameter.
US10536689B2
A projection display system includes a spatial modulator that is controlled to compensate for flare in a lens of the projector. The spatial modulator increases achievable intra-frame contrast and facilitates increased peak luminance without unacceptable black levels. Some embodiments provide 3D projection systems in which the spatial modulator is combined with a polarization control panel.
US10536678B2
Approaches for optimized computer display rendering for user vision conditions are provided. A computer-implemented method includes: detecting, by a computer device, a user at the computer device; sending, by the computer device, data associated with the user to a server; receiving, by the computer device, settings from the server; and automatically rendering, by the computer device, a display of the computer device using the settings.
US10536674B2
A low earth orbiting spacecraft (LEO spacecraft) operable in a first earth orbit includes a main body, a data collection payload, and a first directional antenna, each of the data collection payload and the first directional antenna being coupled with the main body. During a first period of time, the main body is oriented such that the data collection payload views a region of interest on the earth. During a second period of time, the main body and the first directional antenna are oriented such that the first directional antenna is directed toward a first ground station. During a third period of time, the main body and the first directional antenna are oriented such that the first directional antenna is directed toward a second spacecraft operating in a second orbit.
US10536662B2
A content zapping method for accessing multimedia contents rapidly and easily by accessing the multimedia contents on a browser basis, includes receiving a screen change command for at least one broadcast channel or at least one content; and changing a screen to a browser which provides the at least one broadcast channel or the at least one content corresponding to the received screen change command, in an order of a pre-stored list.
US10536660B2
A method for parameterising the responsiveness of an electronic device observed after the electronic device receives a command emitted by a nearby testing system including a plurality of control buttons, includes establishing a usage profile of the nearby testing system by an operation to analyze operations of pressing the control buttons of the nearby testing system; and adapting a parameter of the responsiveness of the electronic device in accordance with the established usage profile.
US10536658B2
An electronic device includes a first integrated circuit die having formed therein photodiodes and readout circuitry for the photodiodes, with the readout circuitry including output pads exposed on a surface of the first integrated circuit die. A second integrated circuit die has formed therein storage capacitor structures for the photodiodes and digital circuitry for performing image processing on data stored in the storage capacitor structures, with the storage capacitor structures including input pads exposed on a surface of the second integrated circuit die. The first and second integrated circuit die are in a face to face arrangement such that the output pads of the first integrated circuit die face the input pads of the second integrated circuit die. An interconnect couples the output pads of the first integrated circuit die to the input pads of the second integrated circuit die.
US10536657B2
An imaging device with low power consumption is provided. It includes a pixel capable of outputting difference data between two different frames, a circuit determining the significance of the difference data, a circuit controlling power supply, an A/D converter, and the like; obtains image data and then obtains difference data; and shuts off power supply to the A/D converter and the like in the case where it is determined that there is no difference, and continues or restarts the power supply to the A/D converter and the like when it is determined that there is a difference. Determining the significance of the difference data can be performed row by row in a pixel array or at nearly the same time in all the pixels included in the pixel array.
US10536651B2
An inspection apparatus includes: a first scanning member scanning an object by reciprocating illumination light in a main scanning direction; a second scanning member scanning the object at a constant speed in a sub-scanning direction; a scanning control unit allowing the first and second scanning members to perform 2D scans of the object with the illumination light in first and second fields within a data acquisition area; and a data acquisition unit acquiring data based on the illumination light returned from the first and second fields. The scanning control unit sets the second field by shifting the first field by a predetermined amount in the sub-scanning direction, the predetermined amount determined such that the closer to the scanning center in the main scanning direction within the data acquisition area, the more regular the interval between the first and second fields in the sub-scanning direction.
US10536639B2
Video information generated by an image sensor for a capture period and motion information of the image sensor during the capture period may be obtained. The video information may define images of a video based on light received within a field of view of an image sensor during the capture period. Relative positions of the image sensor between different moments within the capture period may be estimated based on the motion information. Depth information for a portion of an environment of the image sensor may be determined based on the video information generated at the different moments and the relative positions of the image sensor between the different moments, or based on stereo depth mapping. Translational motion correction may be applied to one or more of the images based on the depth information and the relative positions of the image sensor to warp the image(s) and stabilize the video.
US10536630B2
The disclosure describes systems and methods for a stabilization mechanism. The stabilization mechanism may be used in conjunction with an imaging device. The method may be performed by a control system of the stabilization mechanism and includes obtaining a device setting from an imaging device. The method may also include obtaining a configuration of the stabilization mechanism. The method includes determining a soft stop based on the device setting, the configuration, or both. The soft stop may be a virtual hard stop that indicates to the stabilization mechanism to reduce speed as a field of view of the imaging device approaches the soft stop. The method may also include setting an image stabilization mechanism parameter based on the determined soft stop.
US10536629B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a photographing method. The method includes: detecting a first operation performed on the mobile terminal; determining whether the first operation meets a first preset condition; supplying electrical power to hardware components of the mobile terminal that are involved in performing the photographing operation when the first operation meets the first preset condition, and pre-allocating an application resource for the photographing operation; detecting a second operation performed on the mobile terminal; determining whether the second operation meets a second preset condition; and performing the photographing operation when the second operation meets the second preset condition.
US10536622B2
An apparatus and method for improving camera depth estimations for a moving subject in the camera field of view. The camera utilizes a generative adversarial network (GAN) to predict future frames from a current frame(s). These predicted future frames are then utilized as a target for determining a depth map from which lens focusing direction and distance are determined for moving the camera into proper focus and thus reducing focusing errors on captured frames as target and/or camera motion progresses.
US10536620B2
A lens barrel of the invention includes: an imaging optical system including a focus adjustment lens; a driver that drives the focus adjustment lens in a direction of an optical axis; a transceiver that transmits and receives a signal to and from a camera body; and a controller that controls the transceiver to repeatedly transmit a first image plane transfer coefficient which is determined in correspondence with a position of the focus adjustment lens included in the imaging optical system and a second image plane transfer coefficient which does not depend on the position of the focus adjustment lens to the camera body at a predetermined interval, and, when the controller repeatedly transmits the second image plane transfer coefficient to the camera body, the controller varies the second image plane transfer coefficient over time.
US10536615B2
An underwater housing comprises a laterally offset back-to-back dome configuration. A dual-lens camera having laterally offset back-to-back lenses is mounted within the housing such that the optical axes of the camera lenses align with the optical axes of the domes. This configuration beneficially minimizes effects introduced by the dome on field of view and focus.
US10536611B2
Examples associated with printer authentication are described. One example print container includes a space for a supply of print material and an interface for delivering the print material to a printer to which the print container is connected. An authentication module provides an authentication signal to a decrypted module embedded in firmware of the printer. The decrypted firmware module is kept in an encrypted state until decrypted by a decryption module embedded in the firmware of the printer. The decrypted module is decrypted after the decryption module receives a decryption key after release of the printer.
US10536606B2
A server system may, in a case where first identification information for identifying a first apparatus is inputted to a first terminal device, receive the first identification information from the first terminal device, in a case where the first identification information is received from the first terminal device, store the first identification information in a first memory, after the first identification information has been stored in the first memory, receive second identification information for identifying a second apparatus from the second apparatus, in a case where it is determined that the second identification information is identical to the first identification information due to the second apparatus being identical to the first apparatus, register service information in a specific memory, the service information including information for a user of the first apparatus identified by the first identification information to receive provision of the specific service from the server system.
US10536601B2
A controller of an information processing device changes a current state among standby states including a first standby state, a second standby state, and a third standby state, in which power consumption decreases in this order. When the non-operation duration runs for a first period, the controller changes the current state from the first standby state to the second standby state. When the non-operation duration subsequently runs for a second period, the controller changes the current state from the second standby state to the third standby state. When the sensor detects a detection target in the second standby state or the third standby state, the controller changes the current state to the first standby state. When the non-operation duration runs for a third period starting from state change, the controller changes the current state from the first standby state to the previous standby state.
US10536599B2
A reader CPU stops a lead motor in a case in which a discharge sensor cannot detect reaching of a leading edge part of an original D even though the original is conveyed by a first amount (LP3+LM1) or a second amount (LP3+LM2) which is smaller than the first amount from when a lead sensor detects the original, when a reader image processing portion (leading edge detection portion) cannot detect the leading edge part of the original from image data of a first face of the original.
US10536595B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus that includes an input unit to which given function selection and information are input, a display unit that displays a plurality of display items each including a function selection item, a language selection unit that selects a user selection language understandable to a user and a manager selection language understandable to a manager, and a display switching unit that switches a language of the display items displayed on the display unit through selection input to the input unit. Two-language simultaneous display, in which each of the display items displayed on the display unit is displayed by using both languages of the user selection language and the manager selection language, and single-language display, in which each of the display items is displayed by using only the user selection language, are switchable.
US10536593B2
A setting device sets a print page to be clear-coated. When print data is obtained, the setting device displays a preview of a print page image represented by the print data (step S1040). The setting device further receives a designation for a print page image of which preview is displayed, and sets a print page corresponding to the print page image of which designation has been received as a print page to be clear-coated (step S1050).
US10536592B2
An information processing device includes a detection unit configured to detect a movement of the information processing device, and a display unit configured to display a print image in which a layout has been changed in accordance with a detected movement of the information processing device.
US10536590B2
A display control apparatus transmits change information for changing display provided by a predetermined device included in data acquired by the display control apparatus to the predetermined device. In response to a predetermined response to the transmission of the change information, the display control apparatus displays, on its own display device, a predetermined screen corresponding to display provided by the predetermined device changed by the change information.
US10536586B2
An image processing apparatus that communicates with at least one server includes: a hardware processor that: receives an input of a schedule of maintenance on the server; transmits information to the server; prohibits transmission processing of information to the server during a maintenance period on the basis of the schedule received by the hardware processor; and a storage that stores information indicating prohibition of the transmission processing by the hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor transmits the information stored in the storage to the server after completion of maintenance of the server on the basis of the schedule.
US10536578B2
A method for mapping ready agents to incoming transactions has steps for (a) placing incoming transactions in a first queue managed by software executing from a machine-readable medium on a computerized appliance; (b) issuing a determined number of invitations in a period of time to agents known to be available to consider an invitation to interact with an incoming transaction; (c) placing identification of ready agents, who have accepted an invitation to interact, in a second queue managed by the software; (d) mapping transactions from the first queue to agents from the second queue; (e) monitoring changes in state of both the first and the second queues in the time period; and (f) adjusting determined number of invitations in step (b) in a manner to drive a chosen system performance metric toward a desired target value.
US10536576B1
A test device for measuring load coils in a network using a pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) based technique is disclosed. The test device may comprise a transmitter to transmit a plurality of test signals at a test point in a network. The test device may comprise a receiver to receive a plurality of response signals at the test point. The test device may also comprise a processor to analyze the plurality of response signals and perform at least one load coil measurement. The processor may achieve this by applying a transformation calculation to generate a plurality of terms of the transformation calculation simultaneously, converting the plurality of terms of the transformation calculation into a plurality of impedances, converting the plurality of impedances into polynomials using a conversion technique, analyzing the polynomials for poles and zeros, and estimating at least one load coil measurement based on the poles and zeros of the polynomials.
US10536573B2
A mobile terminal including a display including a first area and a second area extended in at least one direction of the first area; a wireless communication processor configured to wirelessly communicate with an external device; and a controller configured to display, in the second area, visual information corresponding to at least one replay file executed when the mobile terminal was previously connected to the external device, based on the mobile terminal being connected to the external device when the first area and the second area are non-activated, and execute the at least one replay file, based on a predetermined touch input applied to the second area.
US10536572B2
An emergency lifesaving system is provided. The emergency lifesaving system includes a wireless terminal configured to download a program thereto via the Internet; a downloadable program configured to be downloaded to the wireless terminal via the Internet; a control server configured to communicate with the wireless terminal control part to determine whether a control signal operating the GPS receiver, the microphone, and the camera of the wireless terminal is generated; and a dangerous situation handling terminal including a receiver configured to receive emergency scene information by communicating with the control server, an emergency scene information output unit configured to output the emergency scene information received by the receiver to determine a level of a danger at a scene of emergency, and a situation handling unit configured to handle an emergency situation according to the level of the danger at the scene of emergency.
US10536563B2
Example methods are provided for packet handling based on virtual network configuration information in a software-defined networking (SDN) environment. An example comprises a first host obtaining virtual network configuration information that specifies a first virtual object identifier (ID) and a first address associated with a first virtualized computing instance, and a second virtual object ID and a second address associated with a second virtualized computing instance. In response to detecting an egress packet with an inner header that is addressed from the first address to the second address, the first host may generate an encapsulated packet by encapsulating the egress packet with an outer header that specifies the second virtual object ID; and send the encapsulated packet to the second host to cause the second host to decapsulate the outer header and, based on the second virtual object ID, send the egress packet to the second virtualized computing instance.
US10536561B2
A content delivery node receives data packets carrying content from an upstream source of content, and writes segments of the received content directly to a memory buffer of a memory using direct memory access (DMA) data transfers. The node derives, for each segment, respective segment-specific metadata based on contents of the segment, and stores the respective segment-specific metadata in the memory. The node receives from multiple downstream client devices respective requests for the same content. Each request includes client-specific information. Responsive to the requests, the node: identifies one or more segments that satisfy the requests; generates, for each client device, client-specific metadata using the client-specific information and the segment-specific metadata for the one or more segments; constructs, for each client, a client-specific data packet that includes the one or more segments and the client-specific metadata; and transmits the client-specific data packets to the downstream client devices.
US10536555B2
A technique for enhancing rendering and scheduling of displayable content comprising plural objects is disclosed. In a first method aspect, the method is performed in a user equipment (UE) and comprises prioritizing, based on collected information on object priority, objects responsible for a start rendering time over other objects, and transmitting information concerning the prioritized objects towards an object scheduler in an access network. In a second method aspect, the method is performed in an object scheduler and comprises receiving the information concerning prioritized objects from the UE, wherein objects responsible for a start rendering time have been prioritized over other objects, and scheduling objects to be transmitted to the UE based on the information concerning the prioritized objects.
US10536547B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for reducing redirects of a client device are disclosed. A method for directing a user to a destination page includes detecting, by one or more servers, interaction with a digital component at a client device, identifying, by the one or more servers, a different server to which the one or more servers are to redirect the client device and a destination page being requested through the interaction with the digital component, redirecting, by the one or more servers, the client device to a destination page without redirecting the client device to the different server, and pinging, by the one or more servers, the different server with a request that includes interaction data corresponding to the interaction with the digital component.
US10536542B1
A dynamic content delivery service inserts users into groups based on when they access the service and/or known user interests, and the group provides reactions to videos or other content served to the group. Action rules determine what happens to the group as they interact with the service. For example, based on group reactions at specific time points, some or all users in the group can be switched to a new video or multiple different new videos. User reactions to content can be used to determine where to route the user when action rules indicate they should be redirected.
US10536531B2
A system in which a terminal device communicates with a server and processes data enables the terminal device to continue processing data even when a communication fault occurs.A data processing device has a data storage unit storing data processing device-side master data, connects through a server communication path to a server, updates the data processing device-side master data stored in the data storage unit based on server-side master data stored by the server, connects to a tablet through a process communication path, responds based on the data processing device-side master data stored by the data storage unit to a master data transmission request sent by the tablet, and receives the process information sent by the tablet.
US10536525B2
A method includes a first computing device sending a first set of write requests regarding a set of encoded data slices to storage units. The method further includes a second computing device sending a second set of write requests regarding the set of encoded data slices to the storage units. The method further includes the first computing device receiving a first set of write response ballots from the storage units. The method further includes the second computing device receiving a second set of write response ballots from the storage units. When the first set of write response ballots is favorable, the method further includes the first computing device issuing a first set of finalize commands to the storage units. When the second set of write response ballots is favorable, the method further includes the second computing device issuing a second set of finalize commands to the storage units.
US10536523B2
In various embodiments, methods and systems for providing access to file systems are provided. An SFA-based operation having an operation modifier for a file in a file system is received. The SFA-based operation is defined based on a file-representational state transfer (REST) interface. The SFA-REST interface comprises integrated functionality of an SFA protocol and REST protocol. The SFA-based operation is executed using the operation modifier. A REST-based operation for the file in the distributed file storage is received. The REST-based operation is defined based on the SFA-REST interface. The operation modifier is referenced in order to execute the REST-based operation. The REST-based operation based on the SFA-REST interface. A schema can be implemented for accessing the file system. The schema includes tables to store files, the table comprises fields corresponding to elements of a SFA-REST interface. A snapshot component can be implemented to backup file shares in the file system.
US10536520B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer-accessible storage media for shadowing data stored on a local store to a remote store provided by a service provider. A gateway may be configured as a shadowing gateway on a customer network in response to receiving configuration information. The shadowing gateway may receive reads and writes to the local store. The gateway passes the requests to the local store, and also uploads write data indicated by the writes to the service provider to update a snapshot of the local store maintained by the service provider on the remote store. The write data may be buffered to a write log for uploading, and may be uploaded as blocks according to a block storage format used by the service provider. The shadowing process may be transparent to processes on the customer network. The shadowed data may be used to recover data on the local store.
US10536519B2
Methods, devices and systems for synchronizing actions taken by digital devices in a group wherein the digital devices to use a flocking protocol to establish time or behavior synchronization between individual digital devices within the group. The flocking protocol includes the transmission of synchronization information from one device to neighboring devices within the group and the processing/use of such synchronization information by the devices to synchronize the timing and/or other characteristics of their actions.
US10536511B2
A machine may be configured to generate a digital content feed based on at least explicit feedback from a member of a Social Networking Service (SNS). For example, the machine generates explicit input data describing digital content preferences of a member of the SNS based on a communication including explicit feedback data. The communication is received from a client device associated with the member. The machine accesses feature data pertaining to one or more items of digital content determined to be relevant to the member. The feature data describes one or more characteristics associated with the one or more items. The machine generates a feed of items of digital content for the member based on the explicit input data and the feature data. The machine causes a presentation of the feed of the items of digital content in a user interface of the client device associated with the user.
US10536496B2
Apparatuses for playing signals received from the internet or other information highway or a stored database on one or more speakers are described. The apparatus has a receiver for receiving information from preselected addresses; a processor for interpreting the signals; and at least one speaker for playing signals from the internet. There is at least display device in the form of a holographic projector connected to the receiver for displaying a 3D holographic image received from the internet. The processor selects images that correspond with the signals played by the speaker.
US10536495B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for improving utilization of the satellite communications system through various “deltacasting” techniques for handling content sets (e.g., feeds or websites). Embodiments operate in a client-server context, including a server optimizer, a client optimizer, and, in some embodiments, a pre-positioning client. Within this client-server context, content sets are multicast (e.g., anticipatorily pre-positioned in a local dictionary) to end users of the communications system and are handled at the content set level, according to set-level metadata and/or user preferences. In some embodiments, when locally stored information from the content sets is requested by a user, deltacasting techniques are used to generate fingerprints for use in identifying and exploit multicasting and/or other opportunities for increased utilization of links of the communications system.
US10536493B2
A method and a system for establishing a communication session between a first communication device in a main communication network and a second communication device in a local communication network comprising a wireless network, the second communication device being located in the vicinity of a mobile device, the first communication device contacting an external phone number, wherein the external phone number is assigned to a unique identifier of the mobile device. The method comprises (i) the mobile device sending the unique identifier detectable on the wireless network; (ii) providing the unique identifier of the mobile device) and a local communication identifier to a service provider adapter; (iii) determining the location of the mobile device, associating the mobile device to the second communication device in dependence of its location.
US10536477B1
Disclosed approaches for protecting against attacks on a local network device include establishing an access period associated with one remote network device of a plurality of remote network devices. The router rejects messages from remote network devices of the plurality of remote network devices not having associated access periods. The router forwards to the local network device, a message received from the one remote network device during the access period. The router rejects, in response to expiration of the access period, subsequent messages from the one remote network device to the local network device.
US10536472B2
This disclosure provides for a signal flow analysis-based exploration of security knowledge represented in a graph structure comprising nodes and edges. “Conductance” values are associated to each of a set of edges. Each node has an associated “toxicity” value representing a degree of maliciousness associated with the node. The conductance value associated with an edge is a function of at least the toxicity values of the nodes to which the edge is incident. A signal flow analysis is conducted with respect to an input node representing an observable associated with an offense. The flow analysis seeks to identify a subset of the nodes that, based on their conductance values, are reached by flow of a signal representing a threat, wherein signal flow over a path in the graph continues until a signal threshold is met. Based on the analysis, nodes within the subset are designated as hypothesis nodes for further examination.
US10536471B1
A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method of detecting malware in a virtual machine (VM), the computer-executable method comprising periodically creating snapshots of the VM, analyzing each of the snapshots in comparison to one or more previous snapshots to determine whether anomalies exist, and based on a threshold amount of anomalies detected, scanning the VM to determine whether malware is detected.
US10536466B1
A network interface device can (i) detect electronic communications from a telecommunications network; (ii) extract an access request for protected data; and (iii) extract browser information about a browser on a user device used by a user to initiate the access request. The access request can include a network address of a device from which the electronic communications were transmitted. The browser information can indicate a time zone associated with the browser. The network address and the browser information can be independent of data about the user and of data transmitted from the network interface device. The network address and stored data about network addresses can be used to determine a time zone for the device. A result of comparing the time zones can be used to determine a level of authentication to require before allowing the protected data to be transmitted to the user device.
US10536443B2
A client device can wait for an intermediary device to open a licensing window before transmitting a licensing request to the intermediary device. The intermediary device transmits the licensing request to an authentication server, which responds by transmitting a message indicating approval status of the request back to the intermediary device. The client device receives, from the intermediary device, a licensing response reporting the approval status indicated by the message from the authentication server. The client device communicates with the intermediary device via one network, while the intermediary device communicates with the authentication server via a different network.
US10536442B2
A method, an apparatus, and a device for managing authentication data of a station (STA), where the method includes determining, by a first wireless local area network (WLAN) controller, that a first access point (AP) is an edge AP when a first STA associates with the first AP, where the edge AP is an AP neighboring to another AP, and the other AP and the edge AP are respectively managed by different WLAN controllers, and sending, by the first WLAN controller, authentication data of the first STA to at least one WLAN controller in order to resolve a problem that system performance is affected because relatively much signaling is required by processing when a WLAN controller synchronizes authentication data of a STA when the STA associates with an AP.
US10536441B2
An embedded processor with a cryptographic co-processor operating in a multithreading environment, with inter-thread security for cryptography operations. A secure memory block accessible by the co-processor stores a plurality of key entries, each key entry storing data corresponding to a cryptography key, and a thread owner field that identifies an execution thread is associated with that key. A central processing unit issues a call to the co-processor to execute a cryptography operation along with a key identifier for the key to be used, and a thread identifier indicating the current execution thread. The co-processor compares the thread identifier received from the CPU with the thread owner field of the key entry corresponding to the key identifier. If the thread identifier matches the thread owner in the key entry, the key is retrieved from the secure memory block for use by the co-processor for the cryptography operation.
US10536433B2
Generally, embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, computer readable medium, servers, and systems for deidentified access of data. The deidentified access is permitted with the use of an identifier that uniquely indicates an outcome, the coding of the identifier obscures unaided human interpretation of the outcome, and the identifier uniquely identifies data for remediating performance associated with future outcomes.
US10536429B2
A computer-implemented method, in a content delivery (CD) network. The method includes: receiving a request regarding a first hostname including at least one tag and an encoding of the at least one address; removing the tag and the encoding of the address to form a second hostname; resolving the second hostname to obtain a set of one or more addresses, wherein the set does not include the at least one address; and returning the address set. On a client, the method includes: making a request for resolution of a first hostname; receiving one or more addresses; attempting to connect to at least one of the addresses; generating a modified hostname including at least one tag and an encoding of the at least one address; and requesting resolution of the modified hostname.
US10536421B2
Methods, systems, and techniques for facilitating publication of a media file at a scheduled time. A media aggregation client sends media and a scheduling request to a media scheduling system. The media scheduling system determines when it is time to publish the media and, when the time is appropriate, sends a notification to a media publishing client. In response to the notification, the media publishing client downloads the media to a scheduled publishing application, transfers the media and the metadata to a social network application, and the social network application publishes the media to a social network.
US10536419B2
A method for searching and displaying content related to a post in an activity stream may include presenting, by a processor, an activity stream to a user. The activity stream may include a plurality of posts. The method may also include detecting a user action with respect to a particular post of the plurality of posts and analyzing content of the particular post. The method may additionally include searching at least other posts in the activity stream of the user for related content to the particular post based on the analysis of the content of the particular post. The method may additionally include generating a list of posts including related content to the particular post in response to the search. The method may further include presenting the list of posts comprising the related content. The list of posts provide a history or context leading up to the particular post.
US10536416B2
Aspects include managing distribution of messages from a message queue to a plurality of consumers for processing by maintaining a processing history for the messages in the message queue. The processing history identifies each message in the message queue by a message identifier and consumers having previously failed to successfully process a message in the message queue having the message identifier. Aspects also include considering the suitability of a particular consumer to receive a next message to be processed from the message queue by determining the message identifier of the next message and the consumer identifier of the particular consumer. Aspects further include distributing the next message to be processed to the particular consumer if the consumer identifier of the particular consumer is not present in the checked set of consumer identifiers.
US10536415B2
The present invention relates to 2′-Fluoro-6′-methylene carbocyclic nucleosides, pharmaceutical compositions containing these nucleosides and their use in the treatment or prophylaxis of a number of viral infections and secondary disease states and conditions thereof, especially including Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and secondary disease states and conditions thereof (cirrhosis and liver cancer), Heptatitis C virus (HCV), Herpes Simplex virus I and II (HSV-1 and HSV-2), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV) and secondary cancers which occur thereof (lymphoma, nasopharyngeal cancer, including drug resistant (especially including lamivudine and/or adefovir resistant) and other mutant forms of these viruses, especially HBV.
US10536408B2
Systems and methods consistent with various disclosed embodiments provide for detecting, reporting, removing and cleaning metadata from inbound email attachments. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that may be associated with a client device operated by an electronic message recipient. The system may include a memory storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform one or more operations. The operations may include intercepting an inbound electronic message sent to the recipient and determining that an electronic document attached to the inbound electronic message includes metadata. The operations may also include creating a modified electronic document by removing at least a portion of the metadata from the attached electronic document, generating a report describing metadata included in the attached electronic document, and generating information for sending the report and the inbound electronic message with the modified electronic document to the client device.
US10536407B1
Functionality is disclosed herein for converting shared files to message attachments. A message interface is displayed that allows a user to compose an electronic message and to specify files to attachments. For example, a user may use a messaging client to specify the files to be converted to an attachment. The files that are specified to be attached to the electronic message are stored by a sharing service that is separate from the messaging service. Instead of downloading the specified files to the messaging client, the sharing service communicates the specified files directly to the messaging service. In this way, the amount of data downloaded to the messaging client associated with the computing device is reduced. When the user sends the message, the messaging client sends the message with the attachments to one or more recipients.
US10536403B2
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for controlling enrollment and secure persistent SMS texting account servicing communications. A method is provided that includes receiving, at an enrollment web portal, enrollment data including: enrollment credentials identifying a user for authentication, a phone number of a mobile device associated with the user, and consent by the user to persistently interact with an account servicing system via SMS texting. The method includes: processing the received enrollment data, authenticating the user responsive to processing the received enrollment data, storing the phone number of the mobile device associated with the user in a phone number data storage, and generating, responsive to the authenticating, a revocable token for persistent access to a natural dialogue module via a SMS texting gateway for the mobile device identified by the phone number.
US10536398B2
In an example, there is disclosed an example of a system and method for plug and play in a controller based network. Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a network switch of a fabric network, the network switch configured to detect a connection of a device to the network switch, the device compliant with a remote integrated services engine (RISE) protocol; receive, from the device, a programming instruction for switching compliant with the RISE protocol; and distribute the programming instruction to one or more other network switches of the fabric network.
US10536394B2
An example system includes one or more users, each user having an allocation of each of one or more resources; and one or more resource brokers, each of the one or more users being associated with one of the one or more resource brokers. A first resource broker of the one or more resource brokers, upon detecting an insufficient allocation of a resource to an associated user, obtains additional allocation of the resource from another user of the one or more users through a second resource broker associated with the another user.
US10536393B2
A method resolves a problem of a slow mail downloading speed caused by a fact that an existing dual-mode dual-pass terminal cannot effectively utilize a network resource. The method includes obtaining a first transmission rate of a first network connection and a second transmission rate of a second network connection, obtaining a new mail list from a mail server, where the new mail list includes identifiers (IDs) of N mails and a data size of each mail in the N mails, creating a first download task and a second download task according to a preset rule, the first transmission rate, the second transmission rate, and the new mail list such that download time of the N mails is the shortest, downloading a mail indicated by the first download task using the first network connection, and downloading a mail indicated by the second download task using the second network connection.
US10536388B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for scheduling contention-based data transmission in a network system including an access point (AP) and a plurality of terminals. The method includes determining a contention window (CW) size based on the number of terminals connected to the access point, and transmitting information about the contention window size to any one of the plurality of terminals. The apparatus includes a processor and an RF unit. Here, the processor is configured to determine a contention window (CW) size based on the number of terminals connected to the access point, and transmit information on the contention window size to any one of the plurality of terminals through the RF unit.
US10536387B2
Disclosed aspects relate to window management in a stream computing environment. An indication of congestion may be detected with respect to the stream computing environment. Based on the indication of congestion, a set of window configurations in the stream computing environment may be determined. In response to determining the set of window configurations in the stream computing environment, the set of window configurations may be established in the stream computing environment.
US10536385B2
Examples include sampling a transmit rate of an egress port queue on a destination node, determining a utilization percentage of the egress port queue based on the transmit rate and a total rate capacity of the egress port, and determining a backlog percentage of the egress port queue. Examples also include determining an output rate for a virtual output queue on a source node based on the utilization percentage and the backlog percentage. The virtual output queue is for the egress port queue.
US10536372B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and software for modifying a communication path based on latency. In one example, a method of operating a content node to alter a communication path includes identifying latency data for a plurality of end user devices communicating with the content node, and identifying that the one or more end user devices in the plurality of end user devices exceed a latency threshold based on the latency data. The method further includes, in response to identifying that the one or more end user devices in the plurality of end user devices exceed the latency threshold, modifying the communication path between the content node and the one or more end user devices by modifying a domain name system (DNS) configuration for the content node.
US10536371B2
In a method of using structured communications in an observation platform with cloud computing, a signal from a first communication device is received by a second communication device associated with a first computer system. The second computer system forwards the signal from the first computer system to a second computer system, wherein the second computer system is physically remote from the first computer system and connected with the first computer system via a network. The second computer system derives context information for the signal, the deriving based on a plurality of factors derived from an analysis of the signal, wherein the plurality of factors comprises a speech to text analysis of the signal, and wherein the second computer system is cloud based. The second computer system determines at least one destination for the signal based on the plurality of factors for the context information.
US10536370B2
Embodiments are directed to a process and system for recovering from data link failure in a network, by retaining, in a first provider edge device, path information for a first host coupled to a second host over the network in a control plane, upon indication of withdrawal of the first host from a second provider edge device, starting a timer controlling a period of re-advertisement and re-routing to the first host, removing, in the first provider edge device, the first host from a data plane, and generating, in the first provider edge device, a new route to advertise the first host address to cause other provider edge devices to receive the new route and adjust their respective control plane routes prior to expiration of the timer.
US10536363B2
A computer-implemented system is provided that enables synthetic testing of web applications using monitoring agents instrumented in web content. A playback engine is configured to receive a test script for testing a given web page and initiates loading of the given web page by a web browser. A monitoring agent has a tag embedded into a document object model of the given web page and is a script defined in accordance with the scripting language. During playback of the test script by the playback agent, the monitoring agent determines a performance metric for the given web page. A wait agent has a tag embedded into the markup language of the given web page. During building of the document object model for the given web page, operates to inject the tag for the monitoring agent into the document object model for the given web page.
US10536344B2
In one embodiment, a network assurance service executing in a local network clusters measurements obtained from the local network regarding a plurality of devices in the local network into measurement clusters. The network assurance service computes aggregated metrics for each of the measurement clusters. The network assurance service sends a machine learning model computation request to a remote service outside of the local network that includes the aggregated metrics for each of the measurement clusters. The remote service uses the aggregated metrics to train a machine learning-based model to analyze the local network. The network assurance service receives the trained machine learning-based model to analyze performance of the local network. The network assurance service uses the receive machine learning-based model to analyze performance of the local network.
US10536337B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for assuring tenant forwarding in a network environment. Network assurance can be determined in layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3 of the networked environment including, internal-internal (e.g., inter-fabric) forwarding and internal-external (e.g., outside the fabric) forwarding in the networked environment. The network assurance can be performed using logical configurations, software configurations and/or hardware configurations.
US10536336B2
Improved techniques for controlling operation of a portable electronic device are disclosed. Portable electronic devices which interact with a host electronic device can have their operational settings (e.g., configurations or preferences) remotely controlled. As a result, a host electronic device can offer a more sophisticated user interface and portable electronic devices need less local user interface features because these operational settings can be remotely controlled. The remotely-controlled (i.e., host controlled) operational settings are transferred to the portable electronic devices, whereby the portable electronic devices can thereafter operate in accordance with such settings.
US10536330B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided by which control in a virtual network is performed, in which resources of a network are modeled, wherein a network element is configured to be controlled by a first application control element, the method comprising establishing control information indicating at least one second application control element which is to be enabled to configure and/or control the network element, and sending the control information to a network control element. This network control element forwards the configuration information to a network element controller controlling the network element to accept configuration messages from the second application control element.
US10536313B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for generating and communicating reference signals. Certain aspects provide a method for communicating reference signals. The method includes selecting a reference sequence of a plurality of reference sequences to transmit in a cell in a synchronization signal block (SSB) based at least on a logical value, wherein the logical value is determined based on a SSB index indicating a location of the SSB within a set of resources of a plurality of sets of resources and at least one of a cell ID of the cell, a set index indicating a location of the set of resources within the plurality of sets of resources, or a second value based on system information corresponding to the cell; and transmitting the selected reference sequence in the SSB.
US10536301B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and apparatus for an interface. The interface may be configured as a low-voltage, bi-directional channel redriver having a transmitter and a receiver that share input pads and output pads. The interface may provide for selective biasing of the transmitter and receiver using a switching circuit and a resistance circuit connected to the channel's input and output pads.
US10536290B2
A management device that transmits data to a plurality of terminal devices by way of communication relay devices on a connected communication network and controls the plurality of terminal devices includes a transmission data storage section and a communication control section. The transmission data storage section stores transmission data. The communication control section controls communication with the terminal devices. The communication control section issues start notification of data transmission in one-to-one communication to each terminal device that is a transmission target of the terminal devices, and receives a response from the terminal device in response to the start notification, starts transmission of the transmission data in one-to-multiple communication after the start notification, and issues, after completion of the transmission of the transmission data, a transmission request of a reception status of the transmission data in one-to-one communication to a terminal device that has responded to the start notification.
US10536289B1
A device may receive meeting data associated with a first meeting, the first meeting having previously occurred. The device may obtain, based on the meeting data, data identifying at least one individual associated with the first meeting and data identifying at least one topic associated with the first meeting. In addition, the device may identify a second meeting based on the at least one individual or the at least one topic, the second meeting having not yet occurred. The device may provide, to a user device associated with the second meeting and based on identifying the second meeting, at least a portion of the meeting data associated with the first meeting.
US10536285B2
In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a first provider edge (PE) device of a layer 3 network, configuration data configuring the PE device to provide, via an Ethernet segment with an edge device, active-active multi-homing layer 2 (L2) virtual bridge connectivity to the edge device using an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) instance; receiving, by the first PE device, a multicast Join message for multicast traffic, the multicast Join message identifying a second PE device that also participates in the EVPN instance; processing, by the first PE device, the multicast Join message to generate multicast forwarding state; and forwarding, by the first PE device based at least on the multicast forwarding state, the multicast traffic.
US10536284B2
The present disclosure discloses a data transmission method and apparatus. User equipment (UE) measures and transmits a transmission delay to a group communication service application server (GCS AS), or the GCS AS itself determines a transmission delay, so that the GCS AS may determine, according to the transmission delay, a time of sending a packet on a multicast path or a unicast path. Therefore, a problem of out of order of packets or a loss of a packet due to a transmission delay is resolved, and continuity of a communication service is maintained.
US10536281B2
A magnetic random access memory (MRAM) physically unclonable function (PUF) device that uses the geometric variations in magnetic memory cells to generate a random PUF response is described herein. Within the MRAM, one or more magnetic memory cells can be used for the PUF. The PUF response is generated by destabilizing the one or more magnetic memory cells and then allowing them to relax. The MRAM PUF has also a relatively small footprint among all other silicon PUFs. Timing and control signals for the MRAM PUF are also described along with power and delay characteristics for use with field and spin transfer torque driven destabilization operations.
US10536280B2
The invention relates to an RFID tag adapted to access a service of interest from an access terminal, said RFID tag (1) comprising an integrated circuit (3) configured to: enable a cryptographic authentication of the RFID tag (1) by said access terminal (7) using a current cryptography key shared by the RFID tag (1) and the access terminal (7), said authentication allowing access to said service of interest, and enable the RFID tag (1) to recover a new current cryptography key updated by an NFC smartphone after said NFC smartphone has authenticated the RFID tag (1), using an initial cryptography key previously shared between the RFID tag (1) and said smartphone.
US10536279B2
Pseudonym digital certificates (160p) are generated for devices (110/150) by a Pseudonym Certificate Authority (PCA), which communicates with devices via another entity—registration authority (RA)—so that the PCA and RA cannot associate certificates with devices. Each certificate is associated with a public signature key, and with a public encryption key used by PCA to encrypt the certificate to hide it from the RA. Both keys are derived by PCA from a single key. For example, the signature key can be derived from the public encryption key rather than generated independently. However, high security is obtained even when the PCA does not sign the encrypted certificate. Reduced bandwidth and computational costs are obtained as a result. Other embodiments are also provided.
US10536278B1
Systems and methods provide the generation of signed recordings of audio and video calls. The signed recordings include information that may be used to verify the integrity of a purported copy of the recording. The recording may be generated by capturing the audio and/or video from a monitored communication and streaming the captured data to a recording. As the captured data is streamed to the media file used for the recording, a hash value is calculated for each segment of the received data. Information describing the context of the communication may be used to generate another hash value. A digital signature for the recorded call may be generated based on the two combined hash values. Operating in this manner, a signed recording of the communication may be generated while a recording of the communication to a media file is being made, rather than by post-call processing of a stored file.
US10536276B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to identifying identical fields encrypted with different keys. A first field of a first data set is identified for encryption. A first hash value is generated for the first field. The first field is encrypted with a first encryption key to generate a first encrypted value. A second field of a second data set is identified for encryption. A second hash value is generated for the second field. The second field is encrypted with a second encryption key to generate a second encrypted value. The first hash value is compared to the second hash value, and in response to a determination that the first and second hash values are identical, the first and second data sets are associated. The association between the first and second data sets is stored.
US10536275B2
In some embodiments, a verification service receives a description for a combination of a set of ranges within content available for download. The set of ranges are not sequentially located in the content that a client device has downloaded. The verification service determines if a first portion of the combination of the set of ranges has been received in a prior request. When the first portion has been received, the verification service retrieves a first set of verification values that represent subsets of content corresponding to the first portion. When at least a second portion of the combination of the set of ranges has not been received, the verification service generates a second set of verification values using subsets of content corresponding to the second portion. One or more of the first set of verification values and the second set of verification values are sent to the client device.
US10536272B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with encryption are described. In one embodiment, a method comprises selecting a secret key for encryption and encrypting the secret key by applying a first pass of Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data (AEAD) using first keys generated from a random seed value. The random seed value is encrypted by applying a second pass of the Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data (AEAD) using second keys generated from the encrypted secret key. A wrapped key is generated by combining the encrypted secret key and the encrypted random seed value.
US10536271B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating one or more hardware reference keys (HRK) on a computing device, and for attesting to the validity of the hardware reference keys. An initial hardware reference key can be a silicon attestation key (SIK) generated during manufacture of a computing system, such as a system-on-a-chip. The SIK can comprise an asymmetric key pair based at least in part on an identifier of the processing system type and a unique identifier of the processing system. The SIK can be signed by the computing system and stored thereon. The SIK can be used to generate further HRKs on the computing device that can attest to the processing system type of the computing device and an operating system version that was running when the HRK was generated. The computing device can generate an HRK attestation (HRKA) for each HRK generated on the computing system.
US10536267B2
The solution herein describes a software module that works in combination with certain hardware (e.g., a particular chipset) to obtain the level of security provided by an HSM. The software module can be implemented on a commodity server. The software module can utilize an HSM or key custodian to obtain cryptographic keys. The cryptographic keys may be stored on the commodity server within a secure memory space managed by the commodity server's chip set. While stored, access to the cryptographic keys may be managed by the chip set. The chip set can ensure that only protected applications associated with the cryptographic keys may access said keys.
US10536265B2
The present application discloses methods and systems to receive a data storage instruction including data to be stored and an identifier of the data; identify a blockchain corresponding to the identifier, the blockchain stored on blockchain network storage nodes of a data access system; identify a key pair corresponding to the identifier, the key pair comprising a private key and a public key; encrypting the data based on the public key to provide encrypted data; updating the blockchain by storing the encrypted data in the blockchain; and storing the updated blockchain in a particular blockchain network storage node of the blockchain network storage nodes, the particular blockchain network storage node associated with a data storage device.
US10536259B1
A sub-rate (such as half-rate I and Q) phase-interpolator based CDR architecture is configured to receive serial data signals and multiple sub-rate clock signals (such as generated by a VCO either integrated or external). The CDR includes multiple phase interpolators to generate, from respective sub-rate clock signals, respective PI (phase-interpolated) sub-rate clock signals. A CDR loop is configured to receive the input data and the PI sub-rate clock signals, and to generate multiple PI control signals, each to control a respective phase interpolator to align the PI sub-rate clock signals to the data edges. A skew-correction loop includes skew detection circuitry to generate a skew error signal from the PI sub-rate clock signals corresponding to a skew error between the PI sub-rate clock signals, and skew-correction offset circuitry to generate, from the skew error signal, a skew-correction offset signal to modify a selected PI control signal.
US10536258B2
Multi-domain clock generation with skew compensation is based on free-running counters in each of the multiple clock domains. Multi-domain clock generation circuitry provides at least first and second domain clocks generated with randomization, each based on an input clock with an input clock frequency, the domain clocks having a relative clock skew that is varied over time in magnitude and direction. A first circuit in a first clock domain, configured for operation with the first domain clock, includes a first free-running counter with a pre-defined first selected roll-over count, to generate a first free-running count (N1(k)) based on the first domain clock. A second circuit in a second clock domain is configured for operation with the second domain clock, and includes a second free-running counter with a pre-defined second selected roll-over count, to generate a second free-running count (N2(k)) based on the second domain clock.
US10536252B2
The present invention relates to the field of mobile communications technologies, and in particular, to a method for sending and receiving information. The user equipment in embodiments of the present invention may determine a frame structure of a serving cell, where in addition to an uplink subframe and a downlink subframe, the frame structure in the embodiments of the present invention further includes a first subframe, and the first subframe includes a first symbol used for downlink transmission, a first GP, and a second symbol used for uplink transmission. More symbols used for downlink transmission and more symbols used for uplink transmission than those in a frame structure in the prior art are introduced by introducing the first subframe, thereby improving downlink transmission and effectively reducing a value of k, that is, reducing a service delay in feeding back a HARQ-ACK.
US10536251B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) of a user equipment in a carrier aggregation system. The method includes: assigning first and second control regions as search spaces for a specific cell; detecting scheduling information with respect to the specific cell from the first control region and/or second control region; receiving a data channel from the specific cell on the basis of the scheduling information; and transmitting ACK/NACK indicating a reception acknowledgement for the data channel, wherein if the scheduling information is detected from the first control region, the ACK/NACK is transmitted using a radio resource linked to another radio resource used to receive the scheduling information, and wherein if the scheduling information is detected from the second control region, the ACK/NACK is transmitted using a pre-set radio resource through a higher layer signal.
US10536250B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing measurement based on discovery signals. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from cells, discovery signals based on cell-specific reference signals (CRSs); and performing measurement based on the CRS-based discovery signals for a predetermined measurement period. If a measurement bandwidth is six resource blocks (RBs), the predetermined measurement period can be determined by 5*the measurement occasion periodicity of the discovery signals. If the measurement bandwidth is 25 resource blocks (RBs), the predetermined measurement period can be determined by 3*the measurement occasion periodicity of the discovery signals. Also, the discovery signals can be received for a discovery signal occasion duration defined by N consecutive subframes.
US10536249B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for uplink pilot reuse and user-proximity detection in wireless networks. In one embodiment, a wireless system is disclosed for use in a wireless network having a plurality of user terminals (UTs), where at least two UTs of the plurality of UTs have pre-assigned user uplink pilot codes and are allocated common pilot resources over at least two concurrent slots, the system comprising a UT-proximity detection processor to determine which UT channels the UT-proximity detection processor can resolve among a group of UTs transmitting pilots in identical pilot resources, the UT-proximity detection processor operable to resolve a UT channel of a UT by determining the UT is in proximity of the system and no other UT in the group of UTs transmitting pilots that has transmitted a pilot on the identical pilot resources is in proximity of the system.
US10536245B2
A base station communicates with a terminal, for which an uplink component carrier and downlink component carriers are configured. The base station adjusts a payload size of control information, transmitted in a downlink control channel, based on a basic payload size, and maps the control information onto a search space in at least one of the downlink component carriers. The basic payload size of the control information mapped onto a search space in a primary downlink component carrier is based on a number of information bits obtained from a bandwidth of the primary downlink component carrier, and on a number of information bits obtained from a bandwidth of the uplink component carrier. The basic payload size of the control information mapped onto a search space in a non-primary downlink component carrier is based on a number of information bits obtained from a bandwidth of the non-primary downlink component carrier.
US10536241B2
A reception apparatus including a tuner and circuitry is provided. The tuner is configured to receive a transmission frame. The circuitry is configured to detect a last symbol of a first part of the transmission frame. The circuitry is configured to extract first signaling information, from the last symbol of the first part of the transmission frame, to decode a second part of the transmission frame. The circuitry is configured to remove a guard interval of a symbol of the second part of the transmission frame based on the guard interval indicated by the first signaling information. The circuitry is further configured to recover payload data from a third part of the transmission frame based on second signaling information included in the second part of the transmission frame. The first part is a bootstrap portion, the second part is a preamble portion, and the third part is a payload portion.
US10536237B2
An optical transceiver includes: a wavelength-tunable transmitter transmitting an optical transmission signal; a wavelength-tunable receiver receiving an optical reception signal; a wavelength table storing a plurality of wavelengths; an input terminal inputs a wavelength selection signal; and a control unit that identifies one of the optical transmission signal and the optical reception signal as a target based on the wavelength selection signal, selects the wavelength from the wavelength table based on the wavelength selection signal, performs transmission wavelength control in which the selected wavelength is set in the wavelength-tunable transmitter as a wavelength of the optical transmission signal in the case that the optical transmission signal is identified as the target, and performs reception wavelength control in which the selected wavelength is set in the wavelength-tunable receiver as a wavelength of the optical reception signal in the case that the optical reception signal is identified as the target.
US10536226B1
Systems and methods for detecting faulty elements in an active planar antenna array of an extremely high frequency (EHF) wireless communication device. A planar antenna array having a matrix of dual-polarization modulated scattering probes is disposed within a near-field region of the antenna under test (AUT). Electromagnetic energy received from the AUT is converted to a complex electrical signal that is modulated by an electrical modulation signal and radiated as a scattering signal. The resulting electromagnetic scattering signal, received and converted to an electrical signal by another antenna, is used in a holographic image reconstruction operation via a backward-propagation transformation to reconstruct the signal spectrum radiated from the surface of the AUT. A comparison of this reconstructed signal spectrum with a reference signal spectrum radiated from the surface of a known good antenna array enables detection of faulty antenna elements within the AUT.
US10536225B2
Circuits and systems may be operable to provide improved wireless networking performance in the presence of a high speed wired interface. Filter circuits may be applied to wired interface leads to suppress frequency content that may interfere with wireless home networking. High speed digital wired interface systems on a chip may similarly be altered to suppress interfering frequency content before it leaves the chip. Systems with reduced radiated energy from wired interface circuits in frequencies of interest to wireless networking have improved wireless range and throughput characteristics.
US10536220B2
A method of RF signal processing comprises receiving an incoming RF signal at each of a plurality of antenna elements that are arranged in a first pattern. The received RF signals from each of the plurality of antenna elements are modulated onto an optical carrier to generate a plurality of modulated signals that each have at least one sideband. The modulated signals are directed along a corresponding plurality of optical channels with outputs arranged in a second pattern corresponding to the first pattern. A composite optical signal is formed using light emanating from the outputs of the plurality of optical channels. Non-spatial information contained in at least one of the received RF signals is extracted from the composite signal.
US10536219B1
Disclosed are structures and methods for a monolithic silicon (Si) coherent transceiver with integrated laser and gain elements wherein an InP chip is bonded to the Si chip in a recess formed in that Si chip.
US10536217B2
An optical transmission module includes: a bias current drive circuit to drive a bias current of a light-emitting element, on a basis of an input bias current setting value; a modulation current drive circuit to drive a modulation current of the light-emitting element, on a basis of an input modulation current setting value; a light-receiving element to measure an optical output power of the light-emitting element; a determiner to determine whether a difference between a target value of the optical output power and the optical output power measured by the light-receiving element is equal to or more than a threshold; and a controller configured to perform a correction control to the bias current drive circuit so that the bias current is reduced in accordance with the difference, when it is determined that the difference is equal to or more than the threshold by the determiner.
US10536215B2
An apparatus and a method for a carrier aggregation (CA) operation using a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) carrier and a Time Division Duplex (TDD) carrier in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving downlink signals via downlink FDD TDD CA using a first carrier operated in an FDD mode and a second carrier operated in a TDD mode and transmitting, via the first carrier, uplink signals corresponding to the downlink signals received via the first and second carriers.
US10536213B2
Various communication systems may benefit from the use of relayed packet data connection. Moreover, such communication systems may benefit from methods and systems for the establishment of a packet data network connection for a proximity services user equipment via a relay user equipment. A method can include establishing a packet data network connection between a relay user equipment and a packet data network gateway. The method can also include establishing a relay connection between a proximity services user equipment and the packet data network gateway. The relay connection can be a connection within the packet data network connection.
US10536212B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, an analog surface wave multi-point repeater includes a first launcher configured to transmit and receive first guided electromagnetic waves that propagate on an outer surface of a first segment of a transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. A transceiver includes a splitter coupled to a second launcher and the third launcher and a low noise amplifier configured to receive a second microwave signal from the second launcher and the third launcher via the splitter. A directional coupler is configured to couple the second microwave signal from the second launcher and the first microwave signal to the splitter to facilitate transmission of the second guided electromagnetic waves by the second launcher on the second segment of the transmission medium and to further facilitate transmission of the third guided electromagnetic waves by the third launcher on the third segment of the transmission medium.
US10536203B2
The present invention is designed to provide a radio base station, a user terminal, a radio communication method and a radio communication system of novel structures that can achieve improved throughput and system capacity. A radio base station transmits downlink reference signals that are specific to a plurality of transmission beams, a plurality of user terminals feed back coarse channel state information that is acquired by channel estimation, to the radio base station, the radio base station selects a plurality of user terminals to make feed back accurate channel state information based on the coarse channel state information, a plurality of user terminals that are selected feed back accurate channel state information, the radio base station determines a plurality of user terminals to non-orthogonal-multiplex, per transmission beam, based on the accurate channel state information, and non-orthogonal-multiplexes downlink signals, and a plurality of user terminals that are determined, after having canceled interference between the transmission beams by means of a linear filter, cancels downlink signals for other terminals, from the downlink signals that are non-orthogonal-multiplexed in each transmission beam.
US10536195B2
Techniques for overlapping cluster architecture for coordinated multipoint (CoMP) are provided. According to certain aspects, a method of wireless communication by a transmission point is provided. The method generally includes receiving, from a first base station, a first signal for a first user equipment (UE) to transmit over the air, receiving, from a second base station, a second signal for a second UE to transmit over the air, and combining the first and the second signals from the first and second base stations and transmitting the combined signal to the first and second UE.
US10536194B2
The present invention is related to an apparatus and method for signaling information exchanging in CoMP (Coordinated Multi-Point). According to an embodiment of the present invention, in a method for signaling information exchanging, a service TP (Transmission Point) and at least one neighboring TP provide the CoMP to at least one UE (User Equipment). The method comprises receiving by the service TP a precoder feedback from at least one UE, wherein the precoder is specific to one of the least one neighboring TP. The service TP decides if the precoder should be sent to the specific neighboring TP. If affirmative, the service TP compresses an indicator indicating the precoder and sends the compressed indicator to the specific neighboring TP.
US10536186B1
An apparatus includes a plurality of impedance matching networks, a common port, a first switch circuit and a second switch circuit. The impedance matching networks may be (i) connected in series between an input port and an output port and (ii) configured to generate a power detection signal in response to a radio-frequency signal. The radio-frequency signal may be a transmit signal or a receive signal. The common port may be (i) connected to the impedance matching networks and (ii) connectable to an antenna. The first switch circuit may be configured to switch the input port and a circuit ground potential. The second switch circuit may be configured to switch the output port and the circuit ground potential.
US10536185B2
The systems and methods described herein are directed to techniques for improving battery life performance of end devices in resource monitoring systems which transmit data using low-power, wide area network (LPWAN) technologies. Further, the techniques include providing sensor interfaces in the end devices configured to communicate with multiple types of metrology sensors. Additionally, the systems and methods include techniques for reducing the size of a concentrator of a gateway device which receives resource measurement data from end devices. The reduced size of the concentrator results in smaller, more compact gateway devices that consume less energy and reduce heat dissipation experienced in gateway devices. The concentrator may comply with modular interface standards, and include two radios configured for transmitting 1-watt signals. Lastly, the systems and methods include techniques for fully redundant radio architecture within a gateway device, allowing for maximum range and minimizing downtime due to transmission overlap.
US10536180B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a communication node having a modem that receives first data streams from a source communication node via a first plurality of twisted pair transmission lines. A multiplexer selects a first subset of the first data streams and a second subset of the first data streams. A wireless transceiver wirelessly transmits the first subset of the first data streams as radio frequency signals via an antenna to at least one device. A distribution point unit transmits the second subset of the first data streams on a second plurality of twisted pair transmission lines to a destination communication node of a distributed antenna system.
US10536177B2
A radio communication receiver and a method performed by the radio communication receiver for configuring a Notch filter of the radio communication receiver. The method comprises retrieving stored and previously determined filter coefficients from a set of filter coefficients, where the retrieved filter coefficients constitute a fraction of the total number of filter coefficients; and setting the rest of the filter coefficients to one. The method further comprises normalising the retrieved filter coefficients; and transforming the filter coefficients such that the Notch position ends up at the one or more frequencies to be filtered out.
US10536174B1
Communication circuitry having efficient utilization of transceiver and channel resources is described. The communication circuitry may dynamically reallocate transceiver resources assigned to protocol circuitry, such that it becomes available for other circuitry or for the interface of the transceiver circuitry. Multiplexers of the transceiver circuitry may be used in the reallocation of resources.
US10536156B1
Various embodiments relate to analog-to-digital converter (ADC) controllers. An ADC controller may include a number of input channels and an ADC selectively coupled to each input channel of the number of input channels. The ADC controller may further include a number of contexts operatively coupled to the ADC, wherein each context of the number of contexts is associated with an input channel of the number of input channels. Further, each context may include at least one register for storing at least one configurable parameter. The ADC controller may also include a sequencer operatively coupled to the number of context and configured to perform a programmed conversion sequence on one or more input channels of the number of input channels based on one or more configurable parameters of one or more contexts of the number of contexts.
US10536149B1
An example apparatus includes a memory device comprising a plurality of banks of memory cells. A particular bank of memory cells among the plurality of banks includes a system processor resident on a particular bank of the plurality of banks.
US10536147B1
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus including level shifter circuitry configured to convert a voltage between one or more multi-voltage domains. The apparatus may include an integrated circuit having a cross-coupled latch including a first weak transistor cross-coupled with a second weak transistor. The integrated circuit may further include a first strong transistor in parallel with the first weak transistor and a second strong transistor in parallel with the second weak transistor. The integrated circuit may further include an inverter configured to toggle at least one of the first weak transistor and the second weak transistor.
US10536146B2
An edge detector includes an output node selectively coupled to a first voltage node through a first transistor, the first voltage node having a first voltage level, and a second transistor configured to continuously couple the output node to a second voltage node having a second voltage level. A capacitor includes a first terminal coupled to a gate of the first transistor and a second terminal configured to receive an input signal.
US10536141B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device that is small and has diagnosability, and that can quickly recover from power source malfunctions. Provided is a semiconductor device that includes: a control signal generation circuit that generates control signals which differ according to the fluctuation time of power-source voltage; and a control circuit that changes an operation sequence according to the differences in the control signals.
US10536136B2
The present invention relates broadly to a method of digitally filtering a signal, such as an audio signal, using a digital filter. The digital filter includes a plurality of neighbouring sample points broken into zones having different frequency content or frequency ranges. The zones adjacent one another may have neighbouring sample points in common. Generally each zone has at least same distinct frequencies compared with other zones. That is, the zones are roughly dependent on the frequency content. The invention in its preferred form involves combining values for two or more of the neighbouring sample points for select of the zones depending on its frequency content. The values are combined so as to provide a modified zone having substantially the same number of sample points as the select zone. The modified zones together provide a modified filter to be applied to the signal.
US10536133B2
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) device includes: a base substrate; a piezo-electric material layer; at least one interdigitated electrode pair disposed on the piezo-electric material layer; and an acoustic wave suppression layer disposed between the piezo-electric material layer and the base substrate, the acoustic wave suppression layer being configured to suppress an acoustic wave propagating in a direction from the piezo-electric material layer to the base substrate.
US10536131B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a surface acoustic wave device that includes a thermally conductive layer configured to dissipate heat of the surface acoustic wave device. The surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer and an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric layer. The thermally conductive layer can be thinner than the piezoelectric layer. Related radio frequency modules and wireless communication devices are disclosed.
US10536122B2
A circuit for amplifying signals from a Micro Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) capacitive sensor is provided. First and second input nodes receive a sensing signal applied differentially between the input nodes. A first amplifier stage and a second amplifier stage, respectively, produce a differential output signal between first and second output nodes. A common mode signal is detected at the output nodes. A voltage divider having an intermediate tap node is coupled between the first output node and the second output node. A feedback stage is coupled between the intermediate tap node of the voltage divider and the inputs of the first amplifier stage and the second amplifier stage, where the feedback line is sensitive to the common mode signal at the output nodes.
US10536118B2
A circuit containing a first cascode circuit and a second cascode circuit is proposed. The first circuit and the second cascode circuit are stacked between two power supply terminals. An output signal terminal of the circuit is coupled to a node connecting the first cascode circuit and the second cascode circuit. A first signal path is provided between the first cascode circuit and a common ground terminal and a second signal path is provided between the second cascode circuit and the common ground terminal.
US10536117B1
Methods, circuits, and apparatuses that provide Buffer Amplifier, containing Amplifiers and Buffer Drivers, one or more of the following: ultra low power Buffer Amplifier, capable of having high gain, low noise, high speed, near rail-to-rail input-output voltage span, high sink-source current drive capability for an external load, and able to operate at low power supply voltages. Methods, circuits, and apparatuses that provide regulated cascode (RGC) current mirrors (CM) capable of operating at low power supply and having wide input-output voltage spans.
US10536115B2
A crystal driver integrated circuit with external oscillation signal amplitude control including an amplifier core, an input pin and an output pin, an adjustable capacitor, and a controller. The controller operates the amplifier core in any one of multiple operating modes including an oscillator mode and a bypass mode. During the bypass mode, the controller disables the amplifier core and adjusts the adjustable capacitor so that an amplitude of an oscillation signal received via the input pin from an external oscillator has a target amplitude. The external oscillation signal may be capacitively coupled for capacitive voltage division or directly coupled for impedance attenuation. An available voltage may be provided as a source voltage to the external oscillator via the output pin. An internal voltage regulator and/or switch may be included to re-provision the output pin to provide the source voltage during the bypass mode.
US10536114B2
An oscillator circuit includes an oscillator having a source node and a sink node, the oscillator being configured to generate a pulse signal having an output voltage that corresponds to a charging or discharging operation of a capacitor, a first bias current generating circuit coupled to the source and the sink nodes of the oscillator and configured to supply a first bias current to the oscillator, the first bias current being adjustable, and a second bias current generating circuit coupled to the source and the sink nodes of the oscillator and configured to supply a second bias current to the oscillator, the second bias current being adjustable. The first bias current and the second bias current are used to tune a frequency range of the oscillator.
US10536101B2
In a MG control device, a standard voltage calculation part calculates a d-axis standard voltage Vd_std and a q-axis standard voltage Vq_std to be supplied to a MG. A first magnetic flux change amount estimation value calculation part calculates a first magnetic flux change amount estimation value Δϕ1 based on a deviation of a specific value from the q axis standard voltage Vq_std, where the specific value is obtained by multiplying a ratio (Vd_std/Vd_real) with a q-axis real voltage Vq_real, where Vd_real represents a d-axis real voltage. A second magnetic flux change amount estimation value calculation part calculates a second magnetic flux change amount estimation value Δϕ2 based on a deviation of the q-axis real voltage Vq_real from the q-axis standard voltage Vq_std. The calculation switching part selects one of Δϕ1 and Δϕ2 based on an operation state of the MG.
US10536096B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling phase currents (iU_WR1, iv_WR1, iw_WR1) of a three-phase inverter (WR1), the phase currents (iU_WR1, iv_WR1, iw_WR1) of the inverter (WR1) being controlled by way of a direct hysteresis current control and a selected phase of the inverter (WR1) being additionally switched depending on a zero system current (i0_WR1) of the inverter (WR1).
US10536095B1
A programmable, high efficiency resonant converter includes a resonant cell including a first capacitor and a first inductor, the resonant cell having a voltage output VOUT coupled to the first capacitor with a first switch and a first feedback input coupled to the first inductor; and a hard switching cell including a second capacitor and a second inductor, the hard switching cell having a second feedback input coupled to the second capacitor and a voltage output VX coupled to the second capacitor and to the first feedback input of the resonant cell, whereby a negative current is applied to the resonant cell.
US10536092B1
Systems and methods for power conversion are described. Symmetric topologies and modulation schemes are described that may reduce common-mode noise. For example, a system may include a transformer including a first secondary winding and a second secondary winding; a rectifier, including a set of switches, that connects taps of the first secondary winding and the second secondary winding to a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the rectifier is symmetric with respect to the first secondary winding and the second secondary winding; a battery connected between the first terminal and the second terminal; and a processing apparatus that is configured to control the set of switches to rectify a multilevel voltage signal on the transformer, including: selecting a modulation scheme from among two or more modulation schemes based on a measured voltage level of the battery.
US10536088B2
In some embodiments, upon detecting a fault condition, switching in a switched mode power supply is disabled only after a current switching cycle of the switched mode power supply is completed.
US10536085B2
The power supply apparatus includes a switching element connected to a primary winding of a transformer to which an input voltage is applied; a feedback unit configured to output a first feedback voltage according to an output voltage, the output voltage induced in a secondary winding of the transformer and output to a load; a current detection unit for detecting a current flowing to the switching element and output a second feedback voltage according to the current detected; a limiting unit for limiting the first feedback voltage so that the current flowing to the switching element is below a predetermined current value; an output unit for outputting a driving signal for the switching element based on the first feedback voltage limited by the limiting unit and on the second feedback voltage; and a control unit for controlling the switching element according to the driving signal output from the output unit.
US10536084B2
The power supply apparatus, when a switching element is driven at a second frequency lower than a first frequency, determines a duty of a pulse signal according to a predetermined voltage so that a frequency of the pulse signal input to a feedback unit is equal to or more than a predetermined frequency.
US10536068B2
A systematic procedure for the synthesis of hybrid feedforward control architectures for pulse-width modulated (PWM) switching converters is provided. In this hybrid feedforward control architecture selected converter variables are sensed and utilized in a particular way based on the converter open-loop characteristics to determine the duty-cycle needed to achieve a control objective. Compared to standard feedback control techniques, advantages can include simpler controller implementation, more convenient sensing, and improved static and dynamic regulation. An example systematic procedure for developing hybrid feedforward controllers is illustrated by first considering a previously known example of hybrid feedforward control: hybrid feedforward control of a boost power factor correction (PFC) rectifier operating in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). The hybrid feedforward control synthesis principles are also used to realize new hybrid feedforward control architectures, such as a four switch buck boost converter.
US10536067B2
A rotary machine cools a cooling target inside a rotor rotatable around a rotational axis, includes a condenser section disposed outside the rotor and condenses a gas phase cooling medium into a liquid phase cooling medium; an evaporator section disposed inside the rotor, and evaporates the liquid phase cooling medium generated by condensation in the condenser section into the gas phase cooling medium, by heat exchange between the cooling target and the liquid phase cooling medium; and a coupling pipe flows the liquid phase cooling medium and the gas phase cooling medium between the evaporator section and the condenser section, wherein the coupling pipe has a pipe structure in which a liquid phase cooling medium passage flows the liquid phase cooling medium generated by the condensation in the condenser section and a gas phase cooling medium passage flows the gas phase cooling medium generated by evaporation in the evaporator section.
US10536063B2
The present invention discloses a vibration motor and a portable device. The motor comprises: a housing, comprising an upper cover and a lower housing connected to each other, an FPCB being inserted in the lower housing, a cavity being arranged inside the housing, and a coil and a vibration system being accommodated in the cavity, wherein the vibration system comprises a vibrator and an elastic support, a magnetic gap is arranged in the vibrator, a first end of the elastic support is connected to the vibrator, and a second end of the elastic support is connected to the housing; and a first end of the coil is fixed at the lower housing, a second end of the coil is inserted in the magnetic gap, and the coil is in signal connection with an external circuit through the FPCB.
US10536054B2
A mounting structure includes at least one first hole formed in a first component of the gear motor, at least one second hole formed in a second component of the gear motor, arranged coaxially with the first hole, and at least one expansion member extending into the first and second holes. The expansion member has an interference fit with one of the first and second holes, and has a transition fit with the other of the first and second holes. The present invention can effectively prevent falling off of the expansion member, and reduce the assembly difficulties of the gear motor as well as the degree of deformation of the expansion member during the assembly process.
US10536049B2
An object of the present invention is to reduce an inductance of a power circuit, reduce a switching loss and a noise level and improve a voltage-use ratio of a battery power in a redundant-type electronic control device.An electronic control device that controls a motor has power modules 11a, 11b to drive the motor. Power terminals 32pua, 32pva and 32pwa of the power module 11a are arranged in positions that are close to and face power terminals 32nub, 32nvb and 32nwb of the power module 11b, which are opposite to the power terminals 32pua, 32pva and 32pwa of the power module 11a in polarity. Power terminals 32nua, 32nva and 32nwa drawn from a longitudinal end portion 311 of the power module 11a are arranged in positions that are close to and face power terminals 32pub, 32pvb and 32pwb drawn from a longitudinal end portion 311 of the power module 11b which are opposite to the power terminals 32nua, 32nva and 32nwa of the power module 11a in polarity.
US10536037B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of load shedding techniques for a guided surface wave power delivery system. In one embodiment, among others, a guided surface waveguide probe is configured to transmit a guided surface wave along a lossy conducting medium; and a load shedding controller device is configured to send load shedding instructions to a plurality of user devices. The load shedding instructions regulate user device consumption of electrical energy provided by the guided surface wave amongst the plurality of user devices by spreading out activation and deactivation of load shedding conservations amongst the plurality of user devices.
US10536035B2
A wireless power transmitter (101)) comprises a resonance circuit (201) comprises a transmitter inductor (103) for generating a power transfer signal for wirelessly transferring power to the power receiver (105). A driver (203) generates a drive signal for the resonance circuit (201) and a resonance modification circuit (505) aligns the resonance frequency of the resonance circuit (201) with the drive frequency of the drive signal by slowing a state change for resonance circuit (201) for a fractional time interval of cycles of the drive signal. A load estimator (509) generates a load estimate reflecting an equivalent load resistor for the transmitter inductor (103) reflecting the loading of the power transfer signal. A drive frequency adapter (511) then adapts the drive frequency in response to the load estimate. The invention may in particular improve load modulation communication quality.
US10536030B2
A UPS circuit, comprising a rectification phase leg (PL1) for rectification, which is used for converting a received alternating current into a direct current; inversion phase legs (PL21, PL22, PL23) for inversion, which are used for inverting the direct current output by the rectification phase leg into an alternating current; a failure detection device (D) which is used for detecting whether an inversion phase leg has failed; a redundant inversion phase leg (PL2a), with an input end thereof being connected to an output end of the rectification phase leg; and a control device which is used for receiving a signal sent by the failure detection device and is also used for enabling the redundant inversion phase leg to replace the inversion phase leg which has failed when a failure occurs.
US10536029B2
A power conversion system includes a power conversion device, a connector, and a processing module. The power conversion device is connected to a power system. The attached state and the unattached state of the connector relative to a connecting port that is provided in an apparatus having a battery mounted therein can be selected. The processing module is configured to determine that a malfunction has occurred when a voltage is applied to a portion that electrically connects the connector and the connecting port in a period in which transmission of electric power with respect to the battery is stopped.
US10536025B2
The present invention realizes a relay device that can prevent malfunction due to occurrence of reverse flow of current in any of paths. A control unit that is provided in a relay device functions as a switching control unit, keeps an ON state of a first relay unit and a second relay unit if both of currents flowing through a first conduction path and a second conduction path flow in a normal direction (direction toward a load, and if the current flows in the reverse direction in one of the paths, switches one relay unit that is provided in a reverse flow path in which the current flows in a reverse direction to an OFF state.
US10536022B2
An electrical combination. The electrical combination comprises a battery pack configured to be interfaced with a hand held power tool, a control component, and a semiconducting switch. The transfer of power from the battery pack to the hand held power tool is controlled by the control component and the switch based on one of a battery pack state of charge and a respective state of charge of one of a plurality of battery cells. A discharge current of the battery pack is regulated based on the switch being controlled into one of a first state and a second state by the control component to selectively enable the transfer power from the plurality of battery cells to the hand held power tool.
US10536019B2
A process of charging or discharging a Li—S battery or cell is provided. A device for carrying out the process of charging or discharging the Li—S battery or cell is also provided. A process for manufacturing the Li—S battery is provided.
US10536015B2
A fast charging high energy storage capacitor system jump starter is described. The jump starter apparatus incorporates a method of using extracted energy from a battery pack, such as a battery pack used with a portable power tool. The extracted energy is stored at a higher DC potential level by the capacitor system after being boosted or stepped up by a boost/convertor circuit. The stored energy is then available for use in starting a motor vehicle whose vehicle battery as become depleted such that it does not provide enough energy for its intended purposes. The disclosed system and method provide for the motor vehicle battery, combined with a fast charging high energy capacitor bank, to enable the rapid and effective way to jump start a vehicle.
US10536011B2
An auxiliary power system for electrical substations is provided. The auxiliary power system enables both AC and DC equipment to be powered during prolonged power outages, and utilizes a substation fuel cell to provide a backup power source for designated black start cranking path substations.
US10536009B2
A dual cell protection IC and a battery module have a FET as an external type that are configured to protect a plurality of battery cells with one IC when an abnormal state caused during charge/discharge occurs.
US10536007B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of an electrical energy storage unit, a control system, and applications thereof. In an embodiment, the electrical energy storage unit (which may also be referred to as a battery energy storage system (“BESS”) includes a battery system controller and a plurality of battery packs. Each battery pack of the plurality of battery packs has a plurality of battery cells, a battery pack controller that monitors the plurality of battery cells, a battery pack cell balancer that adjusts an amount of energy stored in each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells, and a battery pack charger. The battery pack controller operates the battery pack cell balancer and the battery pack charger to control a state-of-charge of each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells. In an embodiment, the battery cells are lithium ion battery cells.
US10536006B2
The present disclosure provides a device to be charged and a charging method. The device to be charged includes: a charging interface; a first charging circuit, coupled with the charging interface, configured to receive an output voltage and an output current of an adapter via the charging interface and to directly apply the output voltage and the output current of the adapter to both ends of a plurality of battery cells coupled in series in the device to be charged, so as to perform a direct charging on the plurality of battery cells. With the present disclosure, heat generated in the charging process can be reduced while ensuring the charging speed.
US10536000B2
A grid independent operation control unit includes a load current estimator to estimate a load current supplied to stand-alone power system in accordance with an output current of the inverter and an output voltage, and a feedback controller configured to PWM control the inverter at a duty ratio feedback calculated to cause the inverter to output an output voltage command value in accordance with the output voltage and the load current. The feedback controller is configured to PWM control the inverter at a duty ratio feedback calculated for output of a normalized output voltage command value obtained by normalizing the output voltage command value with the DC bus voltage in accordance with normalized output voltage obtained by normalizing the output voltage with the DC bus voltage and normalized load current obtained by normalizing the load current with the DC bus voltage.
US10535983B2
An electrical cabinet includes circuit breakers that can be snap-fitted onto a door hinged to a body of the cabinet and equipped with electrical connectors connected to portions of electrical circuits inside the door. The portions connect to fixed portions of the electric circuit, via other connectors, when the cabinet is closed.
US10535980B2
An atomic oscillator device includes an atomic oscillator, a controlled oscillator, a resonance controller, and a cold-atom clock output. The atomic oscillator comprises a two-dimensional optical cooling region (2D OCR) for providing a source of atoms and a three-dimensional optical cooling region (3D OCR) for cooling and/or trapping the atoms emitted by the 2D OCR. The atomic oscillator comprises a microwave cavity surrounding the 3D OCR for exciting an atomic resonance. The controlled oscillator produces an output frequency. The resonance controller is for steering the output frequency of the controlled oscillator based on the output frequency and the atomic resonance as measured using an atomic resonance measurement. The cold-atom clock output is configured as being the output frequency of the controlled oscillator.
US10535972B2
An electronic component package includes: a metal plate; a metal wall that is disposed on the metal plate; a metal frame that is disposed on the metal plate so as to be opposed to the metal wall; a through hole that is formed in the metal wall; an opening hole that is formed in the metal frame so as to be opposed to the through hole; and a lead that is hermetically sealed with a sealing portion provided in the through hole, and that is inserted into the opening hole and the through hole. The metal frame includes: a side plate that is opposed to the metal wall; a bent portion that is connected to the side plate and has a round shape; and a welding portion that is connected to the bent portion and to which a lid member is to be bonded.
US10535971B2
An electrical connector includes a contact leadframe of unitary construction including first contacts extending to second contacts via corresponding leads, and an overmolded contact module housing formed over the leadframe, forming a connector module. The connector further includes the housing embedding the leads and surrounding the first contacts, the second contacts extending from the housing. The connector further includes a first surface of the first contacts in contact with the housing, and an opposed second surface of the first contacts being exposed. The connector includes a plurality of connector modules positioned in an aligned arrangement.
US10535961B2
A cable for communicating digital or analog signals between connectors at its opposite ends has means for indicating to an installer who has access to one end of the cable which connector is connected at the opposite end of the same cable. A light source is mounted in each connector that is powered by a battery in the connectors and can be turned on from a switch in the connector at the opposite end. The light source is configured to radiate light both transversely from its connector for an indicator function and also longitudinally from its connector for an illumination function. Implementation with logic circuits, microcontrollers and/or other semiconductor devices allows for a variety of embodiments.
US10535952B2
A lever (11) swings from a fitting start position to a fitting completion position on a housing (10) and has a cam groove (68). In the swinging process, a cam follower (21) of a counterpart housing (14) and cam (55) of a moving plate (13) advance a fitting operation between the housings (10) and (14) to move the moving plate (13) from a moving start position to a moving completion position. A detachment regulating portion (69) locks the cam (55) at the fitting start position to regulate detachment of the moving plate (13) from the hood (26). The lever (11) is swung from the fitting start position in an opposite direction of the fitting completion position, and has a detachment allowing position separating the cam (55) from the detachment regulating portion (69) to allow the moving plate (13) to detach from the hood (26).
US10535948B2
A fitting connector includes a female connector provided with a female terminal and a female-side insulating member, and a male connector provided with a male terminal and a male-side insulating member. The male-side connecting body has a male-side space part into which an inner cylindrical body in a cylindrical shape having insulating property is inserted on the same cylindrical axis, and the female-side insulating member has a finger touch preventing body having a columnar or cylindrical shape arranged in the female-side space part on the same axis line as the cylindrical axis of the female-side space part, and inserted into a first space part formed inside the outer cylindrical body and a second space part formed inside the inner cylindrical body when the female-side connecting body and the male-side connecting body are in an inserted and fitted state.
US10535943B2
The invention relates to an electric plug connector socket (1) comprising a cylindrical socket sleeve (2), wherein the socket sleeve (2) is formed with a receiving space (20) in which a cylindrical lamination cage (3) having a multiplicity of contact laminations (31) running in parallel is pushed, wherein the lamination cage (3) has a first and second end-side encircling collar web (32a, 32b), between which the contact laminations (31) run, characterized in that the lamination cage (3) is clamped and/or fastened at the one (first) end at least axially and preferably also non-rotatably in the socket sleeve (2), and an axial and rotatable plain bearing in relation to the socket sleeve (2) is provided at the other (second) opposite end.
US10535942B2
A spring connector includes a movable pin, a conductive tube accommodating a base portion of the movable pin, a spring provided in the conductive tube so as to urge the movable pin in a direction, in which the movable pin protrudes from the conductive tube, and a plate spring contact including a plurality of plate springs that electrically connect the movable pin and the conductive tube to each other. The plurality of plate springs are provided around an entire circumference of the movable pin and are in elastic contact with an inner circumferential surface of the conductive tube, respectively.
US10535939B1
A connector assembly including a connector and first and second cables is described. The connector includes an insulative housing and a circuit board partially disposed in the housing. The circuit board includes a mating section and a termination section. The mating section includes a plurality of first contact pads and the termination section includes a plurality of second contact pads electrically connected to the first contact pads. The first and second cables include conductors having front ends terminated at the second contact pads. The housing is overmolded onto and encapsulates at least the front ends of the conductors and the termination section of the circuit board. The circuit board includes a back surface at a rear end of the circuit board and the housing includes a back surface at a cable end of the housing which may be substantially coplanar with the back surface of the circuit board.
US10535937B2
A connector comprises a first member and a second member. The first member has a lock spring portion, a lock portion and a regulated portion. When the connector and a mating connector are in a mated state where the connector and the mating connector are mated with each other, the lock portion locks the mated state together with a locked portion of the mating connector. The first member is configured so that, when the mating connector is forced to be unmated from the connector under the mated state, the lock spring portion is resiliently deformed so that each of the lock portion and the regulated portion is moved in a combined direction of upward in an up-down direction and a first horizontal direction. The second member has a deformation-preventing portion provided with a regulating portion. A range of the movement of the regulated portion is defined by the regulating portion.
US10535936B2
The invention relates to a system for retaining a component to a surface which includes a surface; a component; and at least two elements. Each element has a base connected to the surface, the at least two elements provide means for retaining the component to the surface, wherein a first means is biased to a first position in which the first means extend beyond an edge of a first base such that when the component is placed on the surface the first means are configured to move to a second position in order to retain the component in its position relative to the surface. The component provides at least one cavity defined by at least two inner faces, and wherein upon placement of the component on the surface, the base of each element is situated solely within the at least one cavity of the component.
US10535932B2
An electrical contactor a casing formed of an electrically insulating material and at least one connection terminal mounted in the casing configured to establish and maintain a contact between an electrical conductor inserted in the connection terminal and an electrical link bar mounted in the casing to ensure an electrical connection between the electrical link bar and the electrical conductor. The connection terminal having a contact spring configured so that the contact between the electrical conductor and the electrical link bar results from a force insertion of the electrical conductor in opposition to the action of the contact spring and is automatically maintained by the contact spring after insertion of the electrical conductor. The casing has a peripheral wall and a cover configured to be assembled together along a mounting direction substantially parallel to the direction in which the electrical conductor is inserted in the connection terminal.
US10535931B2
A wire connection device includes an electrical wire, an insulation displacement terminal and a stress relaxation member. The electrical wire includes a conductor and an insulation coating on an outer periphery of the conductor. The insulation displacement terminal has a slot in which the electrical wire is fitted. The insulation displacement terminal is connected to the electrical wire by both side portions of the slot being in direct contact with the conductor and pressing the conductor elastically and plastically. The stress relaxation member is fitted in the slot of the insulation displacement terminal to suppress deterioration of a stress applied to the electrical wire.
US10535925B2
Example antenna configured to be coupled to a first conductive structure having a first portion and a second portion, the antenna including: a second conductive structure having a first portion and a second portion; wherein the first portion of the second conductive structure is configured to be coupled to the first portion of the first conductive structure; a first feed point configured to be coupled to the second portion of the first conductive structure; wherein the first portion of the first conductive structure is configured to carry the RF signal current with a first current density; wherein the first portion of the second conductive structure is configured to carry the RF signal current with a second current density; wherein the first and second current densities are different.
US10535921B2
There is disclosed a reconfigurable antenna device having a substrate incorporating a first groundplane, a two-arm antenna having first and second arms each having a proximal portion and a distal portion, a first unbalanced antenna located generally between the distal portions and adjacent to the proximal portions of the first and second arms, a second unbalanced antenna located generally adjacent to the first arm and a third unbalanced antenna located generally adjacent to the second arm. The antenna device may be configured with four or five feed points, and may drive from four up to ten signal ports.
US10535916B2
The present invention relates to a watch-type mobile terminal, comprising: a main body; a first band and a second band which are connected one side and the other side of the main body; a main board located inside the main body; a first antenna module mounted on the first band and connected to the main board to transmit and receive wireless signals; a second antenna module mounted on the second band and connected to the main board to transmit and receive wireless signals; and a control unit for maintaining the connection state between the second antenna and the main board when wireless communication is performed through the first antenna module, thereby using the second antenna module as the ground of the first antenna module. The watch-type mobile terminal can enhance the efficiency of the antennas by minimizing interferences among a plurality of antennas.
US10535913B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a package structure includes an RFIC chip. an insulating encapsulation, a redistribution circuit structure, an antenna and a microwave director. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the RFIC chip. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the insulating encapsulation and electrically connected to the RFIC chip. The antenna is disposed on the insulating encapsulation and electrically connected to the RFIC chip through the redistribution circuit structure. The antenna is located between the microwave director and the RFIC chip. The microwave director has a microwave directivity enhancement surface located at a propagating path of a microwave received or generated by the antenna.
US10535911B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a guided wave switch that selectively aligns an end of the first dielectric core of a first conductorless guided wave cable with an end of a selected one of a plurality of second dielectric cores of at least one second conductorless guided wave cable to facilitate coupling of the first guided waves from the first dielectric core to a selected one of the plurality of second dielectric cores. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10535909B2
Methods of forming flipped radio frequency (RF) filter components are provided. An example method for miniaturizing conventional planar RF filters comprises: determining radio frequency (RF) filtering characteristics of a conventional planar microstrip RF filter or a conventional stripline RF filter, determining distributed RF filter elements for emulating the RF filtering characteristics of the conventional planar microstrip RF filter or the conventional stripline RF filter, creating each distributed RF filter element on a substrate, laminating a stack of the distributed RF filter elements into a single solid RF filter module; and mounting the single solid RF filter module on a horizontal substrate to vertically dispose the distributed RF filter elements of the stack. The methods create laminated stacks of distributed RF filter elements that provide a dramatic reduction in size over the horizontal planar RF filters that they replace. Deposited conductive traces of an example flipped RF filter stack provide various stub configurations of an RF filter and emulate various distributed filter elements and their configuration geometries.
US10535905B2
A cooling device, which cools a battery by effectively dissipating heat generated from the battery, which is used, for example, in eco-friendly vehicles, is provided to increase the rate of battery charging and the reliability of the battery. The cooling device includes a pair of coolant pipes that introduce and discharge a coolant and a cooling channel that connects the coolant pipes to each other to move the coolant from a first coolant pipe to a second coolant pipe. Additionally, a heat transfer plate is coupled to the cooling channel and has a contact surface configured to be in surface contact with a heat-emitting element.
US10535900B2
A monolithic ceramic electrochemical cell housing is provided. The housing includes two or more electrochemical sub cell housings. Each of the electrochemical sub cell housing includes an anode receptive space, a cathode receptive space, a separator between the anode receptive space and the cathode receptive space, and integrated electron conductive circuits. A first integrated electron conductive circuit is configured as an anode current collector within the anode receptive space. A second integrated electron conductive circuit is disposed as a cathode current collector within the cathode receptive space.
US10535891B2
A redox flow battery comprising a two-electron, redox active, bridged, multi-cyclic compound (“TRBMC”) comprises a non-aromatic, bridged cyclic portion fused to an aromatic cyclic portion.
US10535890B2
Provided are a polymer electrode membrane including a porous support including a web of nanofibers of a first hydrocarbon-based ion conductor that are arranged irregularly and discontinuously; and a second hydrocarbon-based ion conductor filling the pores of the porous support, the first hydrocarbon-based ion conductor being a product obtained by eliminating at least a portion of the protective groups (Y) in a precursor of the first hydrocarbon-based ion conductor represented by Formula (1), a method for producing the polymer electrolyte membrane, and a membrane electrode assembly including the polymer electrolyte membrane: wherein m, p, q, M, M′, X and Y respectively have the same meanings as defined in the specification.
US10535888B2
A membrane electrode assembly of an embodiment includes: a first electrode having a first base, and a first catalyst layer provided on the first base, the first catalyst layer including a plurality of first catalyst units with a laminated structure, and the laminated structure including void layers; and an electrolyte membrane being in direct contact with both first surfaces of the first catalyst units facing each other among the first catalyst units, and second surfaces of the first catalyst units on the opposite side from the first base side. A portion is included where the electrolyte membrane exists over a region being at least 80% of a thickness of the first catalyst layer from the second surfaces of the first catalyst units toward the first base.
US10535886B2
The invention relates to a fuel cell arrangement (1) and a motor vehicle having a fuel cell arrangement (1). In order to be able to produce the fuel cell arrangement (1) in a compact manner and to be able to operate said fuel cell arrangement in an efficient manner, it is provided in accordance with the invention that an exhaust gas flow path (3a) of the fuel cell arrangement (1) extends through a jet pump (4).
US10535883B2
A protection arrangement including the first coating and another coating on metal structure of solid oxide cells, each solid oxide cell having at least two fuel cell structure plates made of metal to arrange gas flows in the cell, and an active electrode structure, which includes an anode side, a cathode side, and an electrolyte element between the anode side and the cathode side. The protection arrangement can include: a first metal oxide coating on a metallic structure in a first thermal spraying coating process of a liquid precursor being from at least one of nitrates and acetates based substances fed into thermal flame; and at least one other metal oxide coating formed at least partly simultaneously with the first coating process on the previously deposited metal oxide coating from a liquid precursor.
US10535882B2
A fuel cell has an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer. The cathode contains a main component containing a perovskite oxide which is expressed by the general formula ABO3 and includes at least one of La and Sr at the A site. The solid electrolyte layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode. The cathode includes an interface region that is within 5 μm from a surface near to the solid electrolyte layer. The interface region contains a main phase containing the perovskite oxide, and a secondary phase containing strontium oxide. An occupied surface area ratio of the secondary phase in a cross section of the interface region is greater than or equal 0.05% and less than or equal to 3%.
US10535876B2
The present invention provides an anode material for a lithium-ion battery comprising a carbon particle having a particle size of 5 μm to 30 μm, and including defective portions on a surface of the carbon particle, the defective portions being grooves formed by cathodically exfoliating graphene layers from the carbon particle.
US10535875B2
A positive electrode active material, which has a crystallite size α/crystallite size β ratio (α/β) of 1 to 1.75 or less, wherein the crystallite size α is within a peak region of 2θ=18.7±1° and the crystallite size β is within a peak region of 2θ=44.6±1°, each determined by a powder X-ray diffraction measurement using Cu-Kα ray, and has a composition represented by formula (I) below: Li[Lix(NiaCobMncMd)1-x]O2 (I) wherein 0≤x≤0.2, 0.3
US10535872B2
A negative electrode active material that includes negative electrode active material particles that contain a silicon compound that contains a Li compound. The silicon compound is at least partially coated with a carbon coating, and the negative electrode active material particles are coated with a coating composed of at least one of a compound having a boron-fluorine bond and a compound having a phosphorous-fluorine bond on at least a part of the surface of either or both of the silicon compound and the carbon coating. The negative electrode active material particles contain a boron or a phosphorous element in a range of 10 to 10000 ppm by mass with respect to the total amount of negative electrode active material particles. These features can provide for a negative electrode active material that can increase battery capacity and improve cycle performance in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
US10535863B2
A film includes a film body including graphite, and at least one fragment including graphite and formed on one or more surfaces of the film body. The film has a water contact angle of 50 degrees or greater and a glossiness of 20 or lower.
US10535861B2
A flowing electrolyte battery can be quickly and safely electrically stripped using electrolyte. The battery includes: a stack comprising a plurality of electrodes; a negative electrolyte circuit coupled to the stack, for circulating negative electrolyte through the stack; a positive electrolyte circuit coupled to the stack, for circulating positive electrolyte through the stack; and a valve coupling the positive electrolyte circuit and the negative electrolyte circuit. The valve includes a closed configuration that prevents flow of electrolyte between the positive electrolyte circuit and the negative electrolyte circuit, and an open configuration that enables flow of electrolyte from at least one of the positive electrolyte circuit and the negative electrolyte circuit to the other of the positive electrolyte circuit and the negative electrolyte circuit. The valve is opened and closed by changes in pressure differences between the positive and the negative electrolyte circuits.
US10535860B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a conductive outer can, an electrode body in the outer can, a conductive seal plate tightly closing an open end of the outer can, and a cathode external terminal on the seal plate. The battery further includes a current cutoff mechanism (CID). The CID is located on the electrical conduction pathway between the cathode external terminal and the electrode body and interrupts the electrical coupling therebetween in response to an increased internal pressure in the battery. The CID includes a thin portion of the seal plate and a diaphragm. The diaphragm deforms to interrupt the electrical coupling between the cathode external terminal and the electrode body in response to the increase in the internal pressure in the battery. A cathode collector lead electrically couples the electrode body and the seal plate, and the seal plate connects the diaphragm and the cathode collector lead.
US10535852B2
A rechargeable battery comprises a chassis including a lower fixation plate, and a plurality of battery cells on the lower fixation plate. The lower fixation plate includes at least one flow channel positioned to collect condensate from the battery cells and move the collected condensate away from the battery cells.
US10535835B2
A display apparatus includes a protective film, a display panel, a cushion unit, and a first adhesive layer. The display panel is formed on the protective film, and includes a substrate and a display apparatus formed on the substrate. The cushion unit is formed on the protective film opposite to the display panel, and includes a cushion layer, a first cover layer, and a second cover layer. The first adhesive layer is formed between the first cover layer and the protective film. The cushion layer includes a plurality of pores formed on a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface thereof. The first cover layer is formed on the first surface. The second cover layer is formed on the second surface.
US10535831B2
A planar light source emits planar light by power supplied from a mounting member. The planar light source includes an engaging part, a planar-light-emitting panel having a light-emitting surface, and a connecting unit disposed between the engaging part and the planar-light-emitting panel. The engaging part forms a portion of a power supply path for supplying power from the mounting member to the planar-light-emitting panel. The planar-light-emitting panel includes a planar-light-emitting tile and a translucent plate, where one main surface of the planar-light-emitting tile includes a light-emitting region. The planar-light-emitting panel emits, in a lighting state, the planar light from the light-emitting region of the planar-light-emitting tile through the translucent plate. An output of the planar light from the planar light source is adjusted by pressing the light-emitting surface.
US10535825B2
Provided is a flexible display that can be folded in multiple directions. The flexible display is flexible and includes multiple bending sections extended in directions intersecting with each other. The multiple bending sections are each formed to connect different end portions of the flexible display, and a through hole is provided at a fold center portion where the bending sections intersect with each other.
US10535818B2
A resistance change memory device is provided. The resistance change memory device includes a lower electrode, a tunneling barrier layer disposed on the lower electrode, a resistance switching layer disposed on the tunneling barrier layer, an oxygen vacancy reservoir layer disposed on the resistance switching layer, and an upper electrode disposed on the oxygen vacancy reservoir layer. The oxygen vacancy reservoir layer is electrically conductive.
US10535806B2
A component includes a carrier having a front side facing towards a semiconductor body and a rear side facing away from the semiconductor body, each of which is formed at least in places by a surface of a shaped body, a metal layer contains a first sub-region and a second sub-region, wherein the first sub-region and the second sub-region adjoin the shaped body in a lateral direction, are electrically connectable in a vertical direction on the front side of the carrier, are assigned to different electrical polarities of the component and are thus configured to electrically contact the semiconductor body, and the carrier has a side face running perpendicularly or obliquely to the rear side of the carrier and is configured as a mounting surface of the component, wherein at least one of the sub-regions is electrically connectable via the side face and exhibits singulation traces.
US10535805B2
A light emitting device (LED-Filament) comprises: a light-transmissive substrate; at least one blue LED chip mounted on the light-transmissive substrate, for instance mounted on a face thereof; and a photoluminescence material at least partially covering the at least one blue LED chip. The photoluminescence material comprises narrow-band red phosphor particles that generates light with a peak emission wavelength in a range of 600 nm to 640 nm and a full width at half maximum emission intensity of 50 nm to 60 nm. The light emitting device is characterized by CRI Ra greater than or equal to about 90. The narrow-band red phosphor particles can comprise at least one Group IIA/IIB selenide sulfide-based phosphor material such as for example CaSe1-x Sx:Eu (CSS phosphor). The LED-filament can be incorporated in a lamp, with a yellow to green-emitting phosphor that generates light with a peak emission wavelength in a range of 520 nm to 570 nm, to provide light with a color temperature in a range of 1500 K to 4000 K or 1500 K to 6500 K and a General Color Rendering Index (CRI Ra) greater than or equal to about 90 and a CRI R9 greater than or equal to about 50.
US10535800B1
A micro-light emitting diode (LED) includes an epitaxial structure having a mesa and a top portion on the mesa. The epitaxial structure further includes quantum wells within the mesa configured to emit light, claddings surrounding the quantum wells, and a light emitting surface on a side opposite the mesa and top portion. A reflective contact is on the top portion of the epitaxial structure. Light emitted from the quantum wells are transmitted through the mesa and the top portion in first directions, and reflected by the reflective contact back through the top portion and the mesa in second directions toward the light emitting surface. The top portion allows the quantum wells to be positioned at a parabola focal point of the mesa without limiting cladding thickness.
US10535793B2
Heterostructures for use in optoelectronic devices are described. One or more parameters of the heterostructure can be configured to improve the reliability of the corresponding optoelectronic device. The materials used to create the active structure of the device can be considered in configuring various parameters the n-type and/or p-type sides of the heterostructure.
US10535781B2
The disclosure provides a thin film transistor and a fabricating method thereof, and an array substrate. The thin film transistor includes a gate, a first active layer, a second active layer, a first source, a first drain, a second source and a second drain which are provided above a base substrate. The first active layer is located at a side of the gate facing the base substrate, and the second active layer is located at a side of the gate facing away from the first active layer. The first source and the first drain are located at a side of the first active layer facing away from the gate and are connected with the first active layer. The second source and the second drain are located at a side of the second active layer facing away from the gate and are connected with the second active layer.
US10535779B2
A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode. The thin film transistor further includes an oxide semiconductor layer which includes at least indium and is usable as a channel layer, wherein a region of the oxide semiconductor layer closest to the gate electrode includes fluorine. The thin film transistor further includes a gate insulating layer between the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer. The thin film transistor further includes a fluorine-including layer which includes fluorine and is between the gate electrode and the gate insulating layer.
US10535764B2
Fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a first gate trench and a second gate trench in an epitaxial layer overlaying a semiconductor substrate; depositing gate material in the first gate trench to form a first gate and depositing gate material in the second gate trench to form a second gate; forming a body; forming a source; forming an active region contact trench that extends through the source and the body, and a gate contact trench within the second gate; forming an island region under the active region contact trench and disconnected from the body, the island region having an opposite polarity as the epitaxial layer; and disposing a first electrode within the active region contact trench and a second electrode within the gate contact trench.
US10535752B2
In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a pair of source/drain regions disposed in a semiconductor substrate, where the source/drain regions are laterally spaced. A gate electrode is disposed over the semiconductor substrate between the source/drain regions. Sidewall spacers are disposed over the semiconductor substrate on opposite sides of the gate electrode. A silicide blocking structure is disposed over the sidewalls spacers, where respective sides of the source/drain regions facing the gate electrode are spaced apart from outer sides of the sidewall spacers and are substantially aligned with outer sidewalls of the silicide blocking structure.
US10535748B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to forming an effective metal diffusion barrier in sidewalls of epitaxy source/drain regions. In an embodiment, a structure includes an active area having a source/drain region on a substrate, a dielectric layer over the active area and having a sidewall aligned with the sidewall of the source/drain region, and a conductive feature along the sidewall of the dielectric layer to the source/drain region. The source/drain region has a sidewall and a lateral surface extending laterally from the sidewall of the source/drain region, and the source/drain region further includes a nitrided region extending laterally from the sidewall of the source/drain region into the source/drain region. The conductive feature includes a silicide region along the lateral surface of the source/drain region and along at least a portion of the sidewall of the source/drain region.
US10535747B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming a transistor with one or more additional gate spacers. The additional spacers may be formed between the gate and original gate spacers to reduce the parasitic coupling between the gate and the source/drain, for example. In some cases, the additional spacers may include air gaps and/or dielectric material (e.g., low-k dielectric material). In some cases, the gate may include a lower portion and an upper portion. In some such cases, the lower portion of the gate may be narrower in width between the original gate spacers than the upper portion of the gate, which may be as a result of the additional spacers being located between the lower portion of the gate and the original gate spacers. In some such cases, the gate may approximate a “T” shape or various derivatives of that shape such as -shape or -shape, for example.
US10535744B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a first nitride semiconductor layer; a second nitride semiconductor layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer; a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on or above the first nitride semiconductor layer; a gate electrode above the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a gate insulating layer, the gate insulating layer including a silicon oxide film and an aluminum oxynitride film, the aluminum oxynitride film disposed between the first nitride semiconductor layer and the silicon oxide film, a first atomic ratio of nitrogen relative to a sum of oxygen and nitrogen at a first position in the aluminum oxynitride film being higher than a second atomic ratio of nitrogen relative to a sum of oxygen and nitrogen at a second position in the aluminum oxynitride film, and the second position being closer to the silicon oxide film than the first position.
US10535743B2
A vertical power semiconductor component includes a semiconductor chip, the semiconductor chip having a top main surface and a bottom main surface. Each of said top main surface and said bottom main surface is in a heat exchanging relationship with a top metallization layer and a bottom metallization each of which serving as a heat sink. Each of said top metallization layer and said bottom metallization layer have a layer thickness of at least 15 μm and have a specific heat capacity per volume that is at least a factor of 1.3 higher than the specific heat capacity per volume of the semiconductor chip. Each of said top metallization layer and said bottom metallization layer serving as a heat sink contacts the respective main surface via a respective diffusion barrier layer.
US10535737B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a channel structure, and a gate structure. The channel structure is over the substrate and extends along a first direction, in which the channel structure has plurality of first portions and plurality of second portions alternately stacked, and a width of the first portions is smaller than that of the second portions in a second direction different from the first direction. The gate structure is disposed over the substrate and crossing the channel structure along the second direction, in which the gate structure is in contact with the first portions and the second portions.
US10535728B2
Provided is a highly conductive crystalline multilayer structure including a corundum-structured crystalline oxide thin film whose resistance has not increased even after annealing (heating). The crystalline multilayer structure includes a base substrate and the corundum-structured crystalline oxide thin film disposed directly on the base substrate or with another layer therebetween. The crystalline oxide thin film is 1 μm or more in a thickness and 80 mΩcm or less in an electrical resistivity. A semiconductor device includes the crystalline multilayer structure.
US10535725B2
An organic light emitting display (OLED) device includes a substrate comprising a display region and a peripheral region. The OLED device further includes a conductive layer disposed in the peripheral region on the substrate and including an opening portion exposing at least a portion of the substrate, the conductive layer having an undercut shape. The OLED device additionally includes an insulation layer disposed on the conductive layer, the insulation layer including an opening that exposes the opening portion. The OLED device further includes a common layer disposed in both the display region and the peripheral region on the insulation layer and on the substrate exposed by the opening portion. The common layer disposed on the substrate exposed by the opening portion is spaced apart from the common layer disposed on the insulation layer.
US10535723B2
A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a thin film transistor with a bottom gate structure and a thin film transistor with a top gate structure on a same substrate. A gate electrode of the thin film transistor with the top gate structure is provided in a same layer as a wire layer. A method of manufacturing a display device according to the present disclosure, the display device including a thin film transistor with a bottom gate structure and a thin film transistor with a top gate structure on a same substrate, includes: forming a gate electrode of the thin film transistor with the top gate structure in a same layer as a wire layer.
US10535722B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus includes forming a semiconductor layer on a substrate; forming a gate electrode on the semiconductor layer; forming an interlayer insulating film on an entire surface of the substrate to cover the gate electrode; forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on the interlayer insulating film; and forming a pixel electrode and a pixel-defining film on the source electrode and the drain electrode, wherein the forming of the pixel electrode and the pixel-defining film includes forming the pixel electrode and the pixel-defining film by using one mask.
US10535719B2
The disclosure provides a color film substrate for a WOLED display, comprising: a first substrate; a plurality of color photoresist layers are provided on the first substrate, and the color photoresist layers are set at intervals between each other; a first pixel definition layer is provided within an interval; a reflective film layer is provided on the first pixel definition layer. The disclosure further provided the WOLED display. the reflective film layer is formed at the junction of the color film substrate and the driving light-emitting substrate, so as to prevent an emitting light of each OLED functional layer from leaking to each adjacent OLED functional layer, and avoid the phenomenon of the light leakage and the color mixing between adjacent OLED functional layers.
US10535717B2
A plurality of light emitters emitting different colors of light in a light-emitting device is provided on a surface of a substrate along two dimensions. Each light emitter includes a first electrode, a first charge injection/transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an intermediate layer, a second charge injection/transport layer, and a second electrode. The intermediate layer includes a fluoride of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal. Among the first electrode and the second electrode, one electrode is light reflective and another electrode is light transmissive. Among the first charge injection/transport layer and the second charge injection/transport layer, one charge injection/transport layer is disposed between the light-emitting layer and the light reflective electrode, and thickness of the one charge injection/transport layer included in the first light emitter is different from thickness of the one charge injection/transport layer included in the second light emitter.
US10535702B1
An image sensor includes a first photodiode formed in a first substrate. A first deep-trench isolation (DTI) structure is in the first substrate and surrounds the first photodiode. A first inter-dielectric layer having a first circuit structure is formed on the first substrate. A bonding layer is between the first inter-dielectric layer and a second inter-dielectric layer. The second-inter dielectric layer having a second circuit structure is on the bonding layer. A connection wall is disposed in the first inter-dielectric layer, the bonding layer, and the second inter-dielectric layer to physically connect the first circuit structure and the second circuit structure. A second substrate is disposed on the second inter-dielectric layer. A second photodiode is formed in the second substrate. A second DTI structure is in the second substrate and surrounds the second photodiode.
US10535687B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device that can achieve a higher resolution while increasing sensitivity. In a pixel array unit, pixels are formed with a combination of a first pixel that performs photoelectric conversion on light of a first color component with a first photoelectric conversion unit, and photoelectric conversion on light of a third color component with a second photoelectric conversion unit; a second pixel that performs photoelectric conversion on light of the first color component with a first photoelectric conversion unit, and on light of a fifth color component with a second photoelectric conversion unit; and a third pixel that performs photoelectric conversion on light of the first color component with a first photoelectric conversion unit, and on light of a sixth color component with a second photoelectric conversion unit. The first color component and the sixth color component are mixed, to generate white (W).
US10535684B2
Provided is a digital circuit (30) that comprises: a switching circuit (31) having first transistors (32, 33) supplied with power supply potentials (VDD, VSS); correcting circuits (34, 36) connected between an input terminal (IN) inputted with an input signal and control terminals (gates) of the first transistors; capacitors (C2, C3) connected between the control terminals and the input terminal; diode-connected second transistors (35, 37) that are provided between nodes (N5, N6) between the capacitors and the control terminals and the power supply potentials and have the substantially same threshold voltage as the first transistors; and switches (SW2, SW3) connected in series with the second transistors.
US10535673B2
A memory device that includes: a memory controller; a control unit; and a memory cell array that includes memory blocks, each memory block comprising: memory cells, word lines respectively coupled to the memory cells, signal lines to transfer signals to perform programming operations to one or more memory cells of the memory cells, a first metal layer coupled to a first group of lines and configured to route the first group of the lines to the control unit, the lines comprising the word lines and the signal lines, and a second metal layer coupled to a second group of the lines and configured to route the second group of the lines to the control unit, wherein the memory controller is configured to: control the control unit to (i) select particular memory cells and (ii) program data to the particular memory cells is disclosed.
US10535669B2
Embodiments of 3D memory structures and methods for forming the same are disclosed. A method for forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory structure includes forming a dielectric layer on a substrate and forming a first plurality of openings in the dielectric layer at a staircase region of the 3D memory structure. The method also includes forming a second plurality of openings in the dielectric layer at a peripheral device region of the 3D memory structure and forming at least one hard mask layer in the first plurality of openings of the staircase region and in the second plurality of openings of the peripheral device region. The method further includes etching the dielectric layer using the at least one hard mask layer to form first and second pluralities of via extension regions in top portions of the respective first and second pluralities of openings. The method further includes disposing a first conductive material in the first and second pluralities of openings to form respective first and second pluralities of contact wires. The method also includes disposing a second conductive material in the first and second pluralities of via extension regions to form first and second pluralities of contact pads and forming first and second pluralities of lead wires on the first and second pluralities of contact pads, respectively.
US10535667B1
A memory array and a semiconductor chip are provided. The memory array includes memory cells, each includes: first and second pull-up transistors, first and second pull-down transistors, and first and second pass-gate transistors. A source/drain of the first pull-up transistor is coupled to a source/drain of the first pull-down transistor. A source/drain of the second pull-up transistor is coupled to a source/drain of the second pull-down transistor. Gates of the second pull-up and pull-down transistors are coupled to the first node. Gates of the first pull-up and pull-down transistors are coupled to the second node. The first and second pass-gate transistors are respectively coupled to the first and second nodes. The first and second pull-up transistors respectively include a first active structure having a bottom portion including a strained semiconductor material and a top portion including an unstrained semiconductor material. The first active structures continuously extend across the memory array.
US10535660B1
The present disclosure provides a DRAM cell structure. The DRAM cell structure includes a substrate, a gate structure disposed in the substrate, a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region disposed in the substrate respectively at two sides of the gate structure, a landing pad disposed over the second source/drain region, a plurality of conductive pillars disposed on the landing pad, a conductive layer disposed over the plurality of conductive pillars, and a dielectric layer disposed between the conductive layer and the plurality of conductive pillars. The plurality of conductive pillars have at least a first width and a second width, and the first width and the second width are different from each other.
US10535658B2
Some embodiments relate to a memory device including first and second conductive lines extending generally in parallel with one another within over a row of memory cells. A centerline extends generally in parallel with the first and second conductive lines and is spaced between the first and second conductive lines. A first plurality of conductive line segments is over the first conductive line. Conductive line segments of the first plurality of conductive line segments are coupled to different locations on the first conductive line. A second plurality of conductive line segments are disposed over the second conductive line, and are coupled to different locations on the second conductive line.
US10535649B2
An enhanced layout for a multiple-finger ESD protection device has several embodiments. In these embodiments, the base contacts of the NPN (or PNP) transistors utilized as voltage clamps in the multiple-finger NPN-based (or PNP-based) multiple-finger ESD protection device are disposed at opposite edges of the multiple-finger ESD protection device and oriented perpendicularly to the orientation of the fingers in the multiple-finger ESD protection device. Similarly, the body contacts of the NMOS (or PMOS) transistors utilized as voltage clamps in the multiple-finger NMOS-based (or PMOS-based) multiple-finger ESD protection device are disposed at opposite edges of the multiple-finger ESD protection device and oriented perpendicularly to the orientation of the fingers in the multiple-finger ESD protection device.
US10535646B2
Methods disclosed herein form semiconductor devices having minimum spacings that correlate with spacer widths. An exemplary method includes forming a target layer over a substrate, forming a patterning layer over the target layer, and etching the target layer using the patterning layer as an etch mask. The patterning layer includes a first pattern feature, a second pattern feature spaced a first distance (corresponding with a first width of a first spacer fabricated during a first spacer patterning process) from the first pattern feature, and a third pattern feature spaced a second distance (corresponding with a second width of a second spacer fabricated during a second spacer patterning process) from the first pattern feature and a third distance (corresponding with a third width of a third spacer formed during the second spacer patterning process) from the second pattern feature.
US10535638B2
A link device with a large density routing is attached to a package in order to provide a high-density interconnect pathway to interconnect semiconductor devices. In an embodiment the package is an integrated fan out package. The link device may be bonded on either side of the package, and the package may optionally comprise through package vias. The link device may also be an integrated passive device that includes resistors, inductor, and capacitor components.
US10535635B2
An integrated circuit includes a first semiconductor wafer, a second semiconductor wafer, a first interconnect structure, an inductor, a second interconnect structure and a through substrate via. The first semiconductor wafer has a first device in a front side of the first semiconductor wafer. The second semiconductor wafer is bonded to the first semiconductor wafer. The first interconnect structure is below a backside of the first semiconductor wafer. The inductor is below the first semiconductor wafer, and at least a portion of the inductor is within the first interconnect structure. The second interconnect structure is on the front side of the first semiconductor wafer. The through substrate via extends through the first semiconductor wafer. The inductor is coupled to at least the first device by the second interconnect structure and the through substrate via.
US10535619B2
Tamper-proof electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which include a glass substrate. The glass substrate is stressed glass with a compressively-stressed surface layer. Further, one or more electronic components are secured to the glass substrate within a secure volume of the tamper-proof electronic package. In operation, the glass substrate is configured to fragment with an attempted intrusion event into the electronic package, and the fragmenting of the glass substrate also fragments the electronic component(s) secured to the glass substrate, thereby destroying the electronic component(s). In certain implementations, the glass substrate has undergone ion-exchange processing to provide the stressed glass. Further, the electronic package may include an enclosure, and the glass substrate may be located within the secure volume separate from the enclosure, or alternatively, the enclosure may be a stressed glass enclosure, an inner surface of which is the glass substrate for the electronic component(s).
US10535618B2
Tamper-proof electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which include a glass substrate. The glass substrate is stressed glass with a compressively-stressed surface layer. Further, one or more electronic components are secured to the glass substrate within a secure volume of the tamper-proof electronic package. In operation, the glass substrate is configured to fragment with an attempted intrusion event into the electronic package, and the fragmenting of the glass substrate also fragments the electronic component(s) secured to the glass substrate, thereby destroying the electronic component(s). In certain implementations, the glass substrate has undergone ion-exchange processing to provide the stressed glass. Further, the electronic package may include an enclosure, and the glass substrate may be located within the secure volume separate from the enclosure, or alternatively, the enclosure may be a stressed glass enclosure, an inner surface of which is the glass substrate for the electronic component(s).
US10535606B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a first source/drain trench and a second source/drain trench over a first and second source/drain region, respectively; forming a first silicon dioxide layer in the first source/drain trench and a second silicon dioxide layer in the second source/drain trench; forming a first source/drain contact over the first source/drain region, the first source/drain contact including a first tri-layer contact disposed between the first silicon dioxide layer and a first conductive material; and forming a second source/drain contact over the second source/drain region, the second source/drain contact including a second tri-layer contact disposed between the second silicon dioxide layer and a second conductive material; wherein the first tri-layer contact includes a first metal oxide layer in contact with the first silicon dioxide layer, and the second tri-layer contact includes a second metal oxide layer in contact with the second silicon dioxide layer.
US10535600B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a lower wiring, a first interlayer insulating film disposed on the substrate and including a first region and a second region over the first region, an etch stop film on the first interlayer insulating film, a second interlayer insulating film on the etch stop film, a first upper wiring in the second interlayer insulating film, the etch stop film, and the second region of the first interlayer insulating film and the first upper wiring is spaced apart from the lower wiring and a via in the first region of the first interlayer insulating film, and the via connects the lower wiring and the first upper wiring, wherein the first upper wiring includes a first portion in the second interlayer insulating film, and a second portion in the etch stop film and the second region of the first interlayer insulating film, and a sidewall of the second portion of the first upper wiring includes a stepwise shape.
US10535597B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package device, which includes an interposer die. The interposer die includes a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of through-silicon-vias (TSVs) extending through the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor package device also includes a semiconductor die spaced apart from the interposer die, a first redistribution layer disposed on a first side of the interposer die and electrically coupling the interposer die with the semiconductor die, and a second redistribution layer on a second side of the interposer die opposite the first side.
US10535594B2
A semiconductor device comprises an interposer with extruded feed-through vias and a semiconductor die. The interposers includes a substrate having a plurality of through-vias. A dielectric liner lining said through-vias. A plurality of feed-thru electrically conducting features provided by a plurality of extruded metal wires within said dielectric liner. A semiconductor die attached to said interposer.
US10535585B2
In one general aspect, an integrated passive device (IPD) die includes at least one passive component that is embedded in an insulator material disposed on a front surface of a substrate. The IPD die includes a through-substrate via (TSV) extending from the backside of the substrate toward the front surface of the substrate. The TSV defines interconnect access to at least one passive component embedded in the insulator material disposed on the front surface of the substrate. The substrate has a thickness less than three-quarters of an original thickness of the substrate.
US10535580B2
A die includes a semiconductor substrate, a through-via penetrating through the semiconductor substrate, a seal ring overlying and connected to the through-via, and an electrical connector underlying the semiconductor substrate and electrically coupled to the seal ring through the through-via.
US10535577B2
In a semiconductor device, a plurality of semiconductor chips included in an upper-arm circuit are connected in parallel between a pair of upper-arm plates, while a plurality of semiconductor chips included in a lower-arm circuit are connected in parallel between a pair of lower-arm plates. In each of the arm circuits, the plurality of semiconductor chips are arranged in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which emitter electrodes and pads are arranged, the pads are disposed on the same side of the emitter electrodes, and signal terminals extend in the same direction. A series-connecting part between the upper- and lower-arm circuits includes a joint part 20 continued to respective side surfaces of the corresponding upper- and lower-arm plates. Each of inductances of respective parallel-connecting parts of the upper- and lower-arm plates which connect the semiconductor chips in parallel is smaller than an inductance of the series-connecting part.
US10535574B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to an integrated circuit (IC) comprising a floating gate test device with a cell-like top layout, as well as a method for forming the IC. In some embodiments, the IC comprises a semiconductor substrate and the floating gate test device. The floating gate test device is on the semiconductor substrate, and comprises a floating gate electrode and a control gate electrode overlying the floating gate electrode. The floating gate electrode and the control gate electrode partially define an array of islands, and further partially define a plurality of bridges interconnecting the islands. The islands and the bridges define the cell-like top layout and may, for example, prevent process-induced damage to the floating gate test device.
US10535572B2
An assembly includes a wafer having a top wafer surface and a wafer circumference and a device arrangement structure. The device arrangement structure includes a first surface having a perimeter, the perimeter being encircled by the wafer circumference in a plan view. The device arrangement structure also includes an array of devices, each device of the array of devices having an electrical contact on the first surface. The assembly has an adhesive element that affixes the device arrangement structure in a stationary position relative to the wafer.
US10535570B1
Methods for forming cointegrated III-V and Ge channels for vertical field effect transistors are described. Aspects of the invention include forming a first fin and a second fin on a substrate, wherein the first fin includes a first material including a first semiconductor material at a first concentration level, and wherein the second fin includes a second material including a second semiconductor material at a second concentration. A condensation oxidation is performed to increase the first concentration level to a targeted first final concentration level and increase the second concentration level to a targeted second final concentration level. The second fin is replaced with a third fin including a third material including a combination of a group III element with a group V element.
US10535552B2
A semiconductor wafer suitable for fabricating an SOI substrate is provided by: producing a first layer of polycrystalline semiconductor on a top side of a semiconductor carrier; then forming an interface zone on a top side of the first layer, wherein the interface zone has a structure different from a crystal structure of the first layer; and then producing a second layer of polycrystalline semiconductor on the interface zone.
US10535548B2
A substrate holding apparatus that holds a substrate is provided. The apparatus comprises a rotary shaft which rotates about a vertical axis and includes a suction path leading from an upper end of the rotary shaft, and a holding unit which includes a suction hole formed in a rotation center, is fixed at the upper end of the rotary shaft such that the suction hole communicates with the suction path, and holds the substrate by sucking the substrate, wherein a plurality of vent holes for introducing an external gas into a space between the holding unit and the substrate are formed at positions rotationally symmetric with respect to the rotation center of the holding unit with an angle to face a back surface of the substrate placed on the holding unit.
US10535547B2
A semiconductor diode includes an engineered substrate including a substantially single crystal layer, a buffer layer coupled to the substantially single crystal layer, and a semi-insulating layer coupled to the buffer layer. The semiconductor diode also includes a first N-type gallium nitride layer coupled to the semi-insulating layer and a second N-type gallium nitride layer coupled to the first N-type gallium nitride layer. The first N-type gallium nitride layer has a first doping concentration and the second N-type gallium nitride layer has a second doping concentration less than the first doping concentration. The semiconductor diode further includes a P-type gallium nitride layer coupled to the second N-type gallium nitride layer, an anode contact coupled to the P-type gallium nitride layer, and a cathode contact coupled to a portion of the first N-type gallium nitride layer.
US10535544B2
Implementations described herein provide a substrate support assembly which enables both lateral and azimuthal tuning of the heat transfer between an electrostatic chuck and a heating assembly. The substrate support assembly comprises a body having a substrate support surface and a lower surface, one or more main resistive heaters disposed in the body, a plurality of spatially tunable heaters disposed in the body, and a spatially tunable heater controller coupled to the plurality of spatially tunable heaters, the spatially tunable heater controller configured to independently control an output one of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters relative to another of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters.
US10535542B2
Various embodiments provide a wafer box. The wafer box may include a housing with a receiving space for receiving at least one wafer arranged above a housing base, at least one fixing structure which is connected to the housing base and which extends from the housing base, and at least one fixing device which is fastenable to the at least one fixing structure at a variable distance from the housing base. The fixing device and the fixing structure are designed such that the at least one wafer for arrangement in the receiving space can be fixed in a position by means of the at least one fixing device fastened to the fixing structure.
US10535538B2
A system and/or method for heat treatment of substrates. The system includes a housing that defines a heating chamber and a door assembly that encloses an opening of the heating chamber. The door assembly may be opened and closed. When opened, the door assembly defines a loading slot for loading substrates into and unloading substrates from the heating chamber. The door assembly is coupled to a first actuator and a control unit is coupled to the actuator to move the door assembly between a plurality of loading positions. The system may also include a loading assembly mounted to the door assembly to facilitate insertion and removal of substrates from the heating chamber.
US10535523B1
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method of fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming an opening in a substrate and depositing a conformal metal layer in the opening. The depositing includes performing one or more deposition cycles. The deposition includes flowing a first precursor into a deposition chamber and purging the deposition chamber to remove at least a portion of the first precursor. The method also includes flowing a second precursor into the deposition chamber to form a sublayer of the conformal metal layer and purging the deposition chamber to remove at least a portion of the second precursor. The method further includes performing a metallic halide etching (MHE) process that includes flowing a third precursor into the deposition chamber.
US10535516B2
A method for depositing a semiconductor structure on a surface of a substrate is disclosed. The method may include: depositing a first group IVA semiconductor layer over a surface of the substrate; contacting an exposed surface of the first group IVA semiconductor layer with a first gas comprising a first chloride gas; and depositing a second group IVA semiconductor layer over a surface of the first group IVA semiconductor layer. Related semiconductor structures are also disclosed.
US10535509B2
The present disclosure provides an ion migration tube and a method of operation the same. The ion migration tube includes an interior space and an ion gate disposed within the interior space, the interior space includes an ionization region having an absolute value of potential V1 and a migration region. An ion gate is disposed between the ionization region and the migration region and includes a first ion gate grid having an absolute value of potential V2 and a second ion gate grid having an absolute value of potential V3, the migration region comprises at least a first migration region electrode having an absolute value of potential V4 and a second migration region electrode having an absolute value of potential V5. When the ion gate is opened, a potential well is formed for ionized ions between the first ion gate grid and the first migration region electrode so as to compress an ion group entering the migration region.
US10535508B2
Mass spectrometry systems and methods including ionization devices are provided. The ionization device includes either a gas pulse valve or a piezoelectric striker. The ionization device is configured to direct force to the back of a substrate, where an analyte of interest is deposited on the front of the substrate. The impact ionizes the analyte and the ions are directed into a mass spectrometer for analysis.
US10535507B2
A data processing device (1) is provided with: a data base storage region (32c) for storing MSn mass spectra of a great number of known compounds in advance; an acquisition unit for acquiring the MSn mass spectrum of an unknown compound (31a); and a score calculation unit (31d) for finding respective scores indicating similarities between the MSn mass spectrum of the unknown compound and MSn mass spectra of the great number of known compounds. The data processing device (1) is characterized by being further provided with: an intensity score calculation unit (31b) for classifying the peaks in the MSn mass spectrum of the unknown compound and the peaks in the MSn mass spectra of the known compounds into intensity scores of several ranks depending on the dimensions of the ion intensities, respectively; and a position score calculation unit (31c) for finding the respective position scores indicating error in the mass-to-charge ratio for each peak, wherein the score calculation unit (31d) adds up the intensity score of each peak in the MSn mass spectrum of a known compound, the intensity score of the corresponding peak in the MSn mass spectrum of the unknown compound and the position score, and calculates as a score the sum total of the values that have been added up for all peaks.
US10535505B2
A method for suppressing arcing in helium distribution channels of an electrostatic chuck in a plasma processing chamber, wherein the electrostatic chuck is connected to a voltage source for providing a chucking voltage and wherein the plasma processing chamber comprises a process gas source, and a plasma power source for transforming the process gas into a plasma is provided. A gas is flowed through the helium distribution channels of an electrostatic chuck to a back side of a wafer. The gas comprises helium and an electronegative gas.
US10535501B2
A film forming apparatus includes a first supply unit configured to supply a first reaction gas into the reaction vessel under an environment of a first pressure, a second supply unit configured to supply a second reaction gas into the reaction vessel under an environment of a second pressure lower than the first pressure, a first vacuum exhaust mechanism connected to the reaction vessel through a first exhaust path in order to create the environment of the first pressure within the reaction vessel, a second vacuum exhaust mechanism connected to the reaction vessel through a second exhaust path in order to create the environment of the second pressure, the second vacuum exhaust mechanism being lower in an operation pressure zone than the first vacuum exhaust mechanism, and a switching unit configured to switch exhaust destinations of the reaction vessel between the first path and the second path.
US10535494B2
A particle beam system includes a particle source to produce a first beam of charged particles. The particle beam system also includes a multiple beam producer to produce a plurality of partial beams from a first incident beam of charged particles. The partial beams are spaced apart spatially in a direction perpendicular to a propagation direction of the partial beams. The plurality of partial beams includes at least a first partial beam and a second partial beam. The particle beam system further includes an objective to focus incident partial beams in a first plane so that a first region, on which the first partial beam is incident in the first plane, is separated from a second region, on which a second partial beam is incident. The particle beam system also a detector system including a plurality of detection regions and a projective system.
US10535492B2
An electron energy loss spectrometer is described having a direct detection sensor, a high speed shutter and a sensor processor wherein the sensor processor combines images from individual sensor read-outs and converts a two dimensional image from said sensor into a one dimensional spectrum and wherein the one dimensional spectrum is output to a computer and operation of the high speed shutter is integrated with timing of imaging the sensor. The shutter is controlled to allow reduction in exposure of images corresponding to the individual sensor readouts. A plurality of images are exposed by imaging less than the full possible exposure and wherein the plurality of images are combined to form a composite image. The plurality of images can be comprised of images created by exposing the sensor for different exposure times.
US10535489B2
An anode has a base member, on which an X-ray active layer is applied. A first cooling circuit with a first cooling medium extends at least in part in the base member beneath the X-ray active layer. A second cooling circuit with a second cooling medium is arranged beneath the first cooling circuit. The anode exhibits distinctly improved thermo mechanical properties.
US10535488B2
A slow waveguide for travelling wave tube includes a central plate comprising a beam slip hole, rectilinear in the same direction as the longitudinal axis of the central plate, a bottom plate and a top plate closing the waveguide, respectively arranged on and under the central plate, and a slit folded in the form of a snake having its folds in the direction of the thickness of the guide.
US10535474B2
A porous coordination polymer-ionic liquid composite according to the present invention includes an insulating structure composed of a porous coordination polymer, and an ionic liquid retained inside pores of the porous coordination polymer. The porous coordination polymer preferably has a main chain containing a typical metal element.
US10535473B2
A capacitor that includes a conductive metal base member having a porous portion in a first main surface, a dielectric layer that entirely covers the first main surface and entirely covers side surfaces disposed along a direction orthogonal to the first main surface, an electrode layer covering the dielectric layer, a second extended electrode covering the electrode layer, a first extended electrode covering a second main surface of the conductive metal base member opposite the first main surface, and an insulation layer that insulates the electrode layer and the conductive metal base member from each other.
US10535471B2
A method of forming an electrolytic capacitor is provided. The method includes obtaining an unverified mineral sample from a mine site, analyzing the unverified mineral sample via quantitative mineralogical analysis and comparing data collected during the quantitative mineralogical analysis for the unverified mineral sample to data in a database that corresponds to quantitative mineralogical analysis collected for verified mineral samples sourced from one or more mine sites from a conflict-free geographic region to determine if the unverified mineral sample is sourced from one or more mine sites from the conflict-free geographic region. If it is determined that the unverified mineral sample is sourced from one or more mine sites from the conflict-free geographic region, the method then involves converting the unverified mineral sample into an anode for the electrolytic capacitor. The electrolytic capacitor can be a solid electrolytic capacitor or a wet electrolytic capacitor.
US10535470B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes a capacitance forming unit and a cover. The capacitance forming unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers and mainly containing nickel. The cover covers the capacitance forming unit from the first direction. The side margin covers the multi-layer unit from a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The internal electrodes each include an oxidized area adjacent to the side margin and intensively including a metal element that forms an oxide together with nickel. The capacitance forming unit includes a first portion adjacent to the cover and a second portion adjacent to the first portion in the first direction and including the oxidized area having a smaller dimension in the second direction than that of the oxidized area of the first portion.
US10535463B2
A cylindrical superconducting coil assembly has multiple individual coil units stacked together and retained in place by retaining structures, each coil unit having a resin-impregnated annular superconducting coil bonded at its axial extremities to respective rings of non-ferromagnetic material.
US10535460B2
Provided is a reactor with enhanced strength. The reactor includes a coil, a magnetic core, an interposed member interposed between the coil and the magnetic core, and a resin mold portion. The interposed member includes a frame portion that has a first through hole, and a plate-shaped portion. The resin mold portion includes an interposed resin portion that is formed by a constituent resin of the resin mold portion being filled inside the first through hole, an inner side resin portion is formed by the constituent resin being filled inside a portion of a coil interior space, and an outer side resin portion. The plate-shaped portion includes an interposed wall portion, and a second through hole that is provided locally in a portion other than the interposed wall portion, and inside of which the constituent resin is filled.
US10535459B2
A coil component includes: a body having coil portions disposed therein and exposed to one or more of surfaces of the body opposing each other in a width direction; external electrodes disposed on external surfaces of the body and connected to the coil portions; and insulating layers further disposed on the exposed coil portions.
US10535458B2
Methods and systems are provided for operating an electromagnetic coil assembly. As one example, a method comprises responsive to energization of an electromagnetic coil of an electromagnetic coil assembly, translating the electromagnetic coil along a central axis of the electromagnetic coil assembly toward a magnetic armature while maintaining the armature fixed along the central axis. The electromagnetic coil assembly may be utilized within various clutching, braking, or lever applications.
US10535456B2
A permanent magnet includes at least two antiferromagnetic layers and at least two first ferromagnetic layers. A magnetization direction of each first ferromagnetic layer is set, by an exchange coupling, with one of the antiferromagnetic layers of the stack, parallel to and in the same direction as the magnetization directions of the other first ferromagnetic layers. The permanent magnet also includes at least one second ferromagnetic layer. A magnetization direction of each second ferromagnetic layer is pinned only by RKKY (Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida) coupling with at least one of the first ferromagnetic layers or with at least one other of the second ferromagnetic layers.
US10535454B2
Provided is a compressed powder core that can suppress a decrease in the inductance even when a high magnetic field (of greater than or equal to 40 kA/m) is applied to the compressed powder core while suppressing an iron loss and a decrease in the strength of the compressed powder core. The compressed powder core 1A has soft magnetic particles 11A and aluminum nitride layers 12A formed on the surface layers of the respective soft magnetic particles 11A. The compressed powder core 1A has a ratio of the first differential relative permeability μ′L to the second differential relative permeability μ′H satisfying a relationship of μ′L/μ′H≤6, and has a magnetic flux density of greater than or equal to 1.4 T when a magnetic field of 60 kA/m is applied. The soft magnetic particles of the compressed powder core 1A contain Si in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 mass % and have, when analyzed using XRD, a peak area ratio Sal/Sfe of greater than or equal to 4%, the peak area ratio Sal/Sfe being the ratio of the area Sal of a peak waveform derived from AlN to the area Sfe of a peak waveform derived from Fe.
US10535446B2
A joint between an insulative sidewall of a medical electrical lead subassembly and an underlying fluoropolymer layer includes an interfacial layer. A first section of the interfacial layer is bonded to the fluoropolymer layer and is formed by a thermoplastic fluoropolymer; a second section of the interfacial layer extends adjacent the first section and is bonded to the insulative sidewall. The insulative sidewall, of the subassembly, and the second section, of the interfacial layer, are each formed from a material that is not a fluoropolymer. A recess is formed in the first section of the interfacial layer and the second section of the interfacial layer extends within the recess.
US10535439B2
A system and method for drying cavities containing spent nuclear fuel is devised. The invention utilizes a non-intrusive procedure that is based on monitoring the dew point temperature of a non-reactive gas that is circulated through the cavity. In one aspect, the invention is a system for drying a cavity loaded with spent nuclear fuel comprising: a canister forming the cavity, the cavity having an inlet and an outlet; a source of non-reactive gas; means for flowing the non-reactive gas from the source of non-reactive gas through the cavity; and means for repetitively measuring the dew point temperature of the non-reactive gas exiting the cavity.
US10535435B2
It is possible to achieve self-support of the fuel assembly without an upper grid plate when the fuel assembly is mounted or replaced, and it is also possible to prevent the fuel assembly from floating during a reactor operation. According to the present invention, the lower portion of the lower tie plate 7 as a part of the fuel assembly 3, which is inserted into the fuel support 9, extends, and a stable member 21 is provided around the extension portion 20, and thereby it is possible to achieve the self-support of the fuel assembly without the upper grid plate. In addition, since an increase in a weight due to extension of the lower portion of the lower tie plate 7 can prevent the floating during the reactor operation, a floating preventing mechanism using the upper grid plate is not necessary. Hence, it is possible to achieve the self-support of the fuel assembly without an upper grid plate when the fuel assembly is mounted or replaced, and it is also possible to prevent the fuel assembly from floating during the reactor operation.
US10535430B1
A method and system for grouping medical claims data, including outpatient medical claims, into medical events for further analysis is disclosed. Historical outpatient medical claims data is first aggregated by one or more categorization schemes, and then grouped by patient and date. Once the outpatient medical claims data is aggregated and grouped, the methods disclosed build outpatient events by further grouping together disparate medical claims data records that represent a single encounter with an outpatient healthcare system. The outpatient events may be used for analyzing aspects of outpatient care.
US10535426B2
A method of administering insulin includes receiving blood glucose measurements of a patient at a data processing device from a glucometer. The blood glucose measurements are separated by a time interval. The method also includes receiving patient information at the data processing device and selecting a subcutaneous insulin treatment from a collection of subcutaneous insulin treatments. The selection is based on the blood glucose measurements and the patient information. The selection includes one or more of a subcutaneous standard program, a subcutaneous program without meal boluses, a meal-by-meal subcutaneous program without carbohydrate counting, a meal-by-meal subcutaneous program with carbohydrate counting, and a subcutaneous program for non-diabetic patients. The method also includes executing, using the data processing device, the selected subcutaneous insulin treatment.
US10535407B2
Adaptive write operations for non-volatile memories select programming parameters according to monitored programming performance of individual memory cells. In one embodiment of the invention, programming voltage for a memory cell increases by an amount that depends on the time required to reach a predetermined voltage and then a jump in the programming voltage is added to the programming voltage required to reach the next predetermined voltage. The adaptive programming method is applied to the gate voltage of memory cells; alternatively, it can be applied to the drain voltage of memory cells along a common word line. A circuit combines the function of a program switch and drain voltage regulator, allowing independent control of drain voltage of selected memory cells for parallel and adaptive programming. Verify and adaptive read operations use variable word line voltages to provide optimal biasing of memory and reference cells during sensing.
US10535404B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for word-line path isolation in a phase change memory (PCM) device. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory cell of a memory device, a bit-line coupled to the memory cell, a word-line coupled to the memory cell, a bit-line electrode coupled to the bit-line, a word-line electrode coupled to the word-line, current-limiting circuitry of a selection module coupled to one of the word-line electrode and the bit-line electrode having a lower potential, the current-limiting circuitry to facilitate a selection operation of the memory cell by the selection module, sensing circuitry coupled to the one of the word-line electrode and the bit-line electrode having the lower potential, the sensing circuitry to perform a read operation of the memory cell, and write circuitry coupled to the one of the word-line electrode and the bit-line electrode having the lower potential, the write circuitry to perform a write operation of the memory cell. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10535394B2
A memory device includes a first switch for switching a first power voltage and transmitting the first power voltage to a common node of a first power rail. A second switch switches a second power voltage and transmits the second power voltage to the common node. A control logic generates a first control signal for controlling the first switch during initial driving of the memory device. A masking circuit controls the first switch to maintain a turn on state in at least a partial period of the initial driving period of the memory device by providing a first masking control signal obtained by masking the first control signal to the first switch.
US10535393B1
An electronic device including a memory functional block having multiple ranks of memory and a memory controller functional block coupled to the memory. The memory controller includes refresh logic that detects, based on buffered memory accesses for each rank of memory of the ranks of memory, two or more ranks of memory for which a refresh is to be performed during a refresh interval. Based at least in part on one or more properties of buffered memory accesses for the two or more ranks of memory, the refresh logic determines a refresh order for performing refreshes for the two or more ranks of memory during the refresh interval. The memory controller then performs, in the refresh order, refreshes for the two or more ranks of memory during the refresh interval.
US10535392B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array that includes memory cells, a row decoder that is connected with the memory cell array through word lines, a column decoder that is connected with the memory cell array through bit lines and source lines, and a write driver that outputs a write voltage in a write operation. The column decoder includes switches, which are respectively connected to the bit lines and are respectively connected to the source lines. During the write operation, a selected switch of the switches transfers the write voltage to a selected bit line of the bit lines. Each unselected switch of the switches electrically separates the write driver from a corresponding unselected bit line of the bit lines by using the write voltage.
US10535386B2
Various implementations described herein refer to an integrated circuit having level shifting circuitry and bypass switching circuitry. The level shifting circuitry is arranged for translating an input signal from a first voltage domain to an output signal for a second voltage domain. The bypass switching circuitry is arranged for activating and deactivating the level shifting circuitry based on a bypass control signal.
US10535373B2
At least one video stream that is encoded video information, and a management information file indicating attributes relating to the entire recording medium, are recorded in a recording medium. The management information file includes attribute information indicating whether the dynamic range of luminance of an initial video stream, which is played first out of the at least one video stream when the recording medium is inserted into a playback device, is a first dynamic range, or a second dynamic range that is broader than the first dynamic range.
US10535370B2
A system for creating an output comprises a processing unit, a user input module operably connected to the processing unit, and a video monitor operably connected to the processing unit. The processing unit provides on the video monitor: a grid image comprising multiple cells, each cell representing a duration of time; and a selection area comprising multiple select icons, each select icon representing a source data file. The processing unit is configured such that a user can create a grid layout representing the correlation between individual selected source data files and one or more of the multiple cells. The processing unit produces the output based on the correlation.
US10535364B1
A head-mounted wearable device incorporates a transducer that operates as a bone conduction (BC) microphone. Vibrations from a user's speech are transferred through the head of the user to the BC microphone. An air conduction (AC) microphone detects sound transferred via air. Signals from the BC microphone and the AC microphone are compared to determine if a common signal is present in both. For example, both signals may have a cross-correlation that exceeds a threshold value. Based on the comparison, voice activity data is generated that indicates the user wearing the device is speaking.
US10535360B1
A phone stand includes a phone holder for coupling to a phone conducting a voice session, a plurality of directional speakers positioned to project sound to a focused audio area corresponding to a location where a user is expected to be positioned, other speaker(s), and a system controller. The system controller is configured to receive audio signals of the voice session from the phone, separate the audio signals into speech signals and non-speech signals, obtain output mixing attributes, generate mixed signals by combining the speech signals and the non-speech signals according to the output mixing attributes, and send the mixed signals to the plurality of directional speakers. The other speaker(s) can include non-directional speakers, and the system controller is further configured to send the speech signals in the mixed signals to the plurality of directional speakers and the non-speech signals in the mixed signals to the other speaker(s).
US10535356B2
An apparatus for encoding a multi-channel signal having at least two channels is provided. The apparatus includes a time-spectral converter, converting sequences of blocks of sample values of the two channels into a frequency domain representation having sequences of blocks of spectral values for the two channels, a block of sampling values having an associated input sampling rate, a block of spectral values of the sequences of blocks that has spectral values up to a maximum input frequency related to the input sampling rate; a multi-channel processor to obtain a result sequence of blocks of spectral values having information related to the two channels; a spectral domain resampler to obtain a resampled sequence of blocks of spectral values; a spectral-time converter for converting the resampled sequence of blocks into a time domain representation; and a core encoder for encoding the output sequence of blocks to obtain an encoded multi-channel signal.
US10535350B2
A method for controlling a plurality of environmental factors that trigger a negative emotional state is provided. The method may include analyzing a plurality of user data when a user experiences a plurality of various environmental factors. The method may also include determining an emotional state experienced by the user when each of the plurality of various environmental factors is present based on the plurality of user data. The method may include receiving a plurality of calendar information associated with a user account. The method may also include identifying an upcoming event based on the plurality of calendar information. The method may include identifying an environmental factor within the plurality of various environmental factors is present at the upcoming event. The method may also include, in response to determining the environmental factor causes the user to experience a negative emotional state, executing an accommodation method based on the environmental factor.
US10535345B2
An interactive method/system generates a fictional story. A user interface receives human speech and transmits machine-generated speech. A processor(s) is programmed to execute functions that include parsing the human speech into fragments thereof and identifying a primary fragment from the fragments wherein the primary fragment includes a verb. A generalized intent is associated with the verb and at least one object is associated with the generalized intent. The generalized intent and each object associated with the generalized intent are stored. An open-ended question is generated based on the generalized intent wherein the open-ended question is provided to the user interface for transmission as machine-generated speech. After the above steps are repeated for a number of cycles, a sequence of sentences is generated using each generalized intent and object(s) associated with the generalized intent. The sequence of sentences is transmitted as machine-generated speech from the user interface.
US10535328B2
An automatic playing system may include a damper module for changing a sound generated by the automatic playing system. The damper module may include a damper board, a motion driver, and a supporter. The damper board may be configured to control at least one damper of the automatic playing system. The motion driver may be configured to drive the damper board and operated to perform at least one automatic playing function. The supporter may be configured to couple the damper board with the motion driver when the motion driver is operated.
US10535325B2
A method for updating images displayed on an electronic display of a mobile device includes determining a time interval between successive updates of an image frame. The image frame is displayed on the electronic display, and the mobile device is configured to be in a low power mode between the successive updates. The method also includes receiving one or more application updates within the time interval after a first update of the image frame, and updating the image frame after the time interval based on the one or more application updates.
US10535306B2
A pixel circuit, a display panel, a display device and a driving method are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes: a light-emitting circuit including a plurality of light-emitting sub-circuits (111); and a compensation driving circuit including an output terminal and a driving transistor. The plurality of light-emitting sub-circuits are all electrically connected to the output terminal; and the compensation driving circuit is configured to receive a light-emitting data signal, compensate for a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, and drive any one of the plurality of light-emitting sub-circuits to emit light according to an output signal output by the output terminal.
US10535302B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a pixel circuit, a method for driving the same, and a display apparatus. A driving sub-circuit in the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor and a first storage capacitor. The first storage capacitor has a first terminal electrically coupled to a gate of the driving transistor, and a second terminal coupled to a second electrode of the driving transistor. A writing sub-circuit is coupled to a scanning signal line, a data line, and the gate of the driving transistor, and is configured to write a data voltage into the driving transistor and maintain the driving transistor to be turned on. A reset sub-circuit is configured to supply an initial voltage to the light emitting sub-circuit so as to reset the light emitting sub-circuit. The driving transistor is further coupled to the light emitting sub-circuit to drive the light emitting sub-circuit to emit light.
US10535298B2
Disclosed are a pixel circuit and a method for driving the pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a light-emitting diode; a driving transistor; a first transistor connected between a data line and the driving transistor, a gate electrode of the first transistor being connected to a first scanning line; a second transistor connected between a first power line and the driving transistor, a gate electrode of the second transistor being connected to a second scanning line; a third transistor connected between a gate electrode of the driving transistor and the second transistor, a gate electrode of the third transistor being connected to a third scanning line; and a driving capacitor connected between the gate electrode of the driving transistor and the first power line, in which the driving transistor is further connected to a second power line via the light-emitting diode.
US10535294B2
A method and system control an OLED display to achieve desired color points and brightness levels in an array of pixels in which each pixel includes at least three sub-pixels having different colors and at least one white sub-pixel. The method and system select a plurality of reference points in the pixel content domain with known color points and brightness levels. For each set of three sub-pixels of different colors, the method and system determine the share of each sub-pixel to produce the color point and brightness level of each selected reference point, and select the maximum share determined for each sub-pixel as peak brightness needed from that sub-pixel.
US10535291B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display device and a control method thereof, and a display system. The display device includes a substrate and a pair of sub-pixels disposed on the substrate. The pair of sub-pixels includes a display sub-pixel and an interference sub-pixel, wherein the display sub-pixel and the interference sub-pixel are different in at least one of color or gray scale, wherein the display device has a light outgoing direction intersecting with the substrate; in the light outgoing direction, a projection of the display sub-pixel on a main surface of the substrate at least partially overlaps with a projection of the interference sub-pixel on the main surface of the substrate; and the display sub-pixel and the interference sub-pixel are configured to be capable of respectively emitting light in non-overlapping time periods.
US10535278B2
A knitted or woven garment configured for sensing movement of an adjacent underlying body portion of a wearer of the garment via one or more sensors, the garment including a garment body including a plurality of fibres knitted together to form a layer of the garment, the garment layer for positioning adjacent to the underlying body portion when worn by the wearer; one or more electrical connectors attached to the garment body, the one or more electrical connectors for facilitating receipt and transmission of electrical signals between a controller and the one or more sensors when the controller is connected to the one or more electrical connectors; a conductive pathway consisting of one or more conductive fibres incorporated in the garment layer by knitting as part of the plurality of fibres, the conductive pathway electrically connected to the one or more electrical connectors and to the one or more sensors; each of the one or more sensors incorporated in the garment layer by knitting as part of the plurality of fibres, each of the one or more sensors knitted using a plurality of conductive fibres electrically connected to the one or more conductive fibres of the conductive pathway; wherein the controller is configured to measure changes in at least one of resistance or capacitance of the one or more sensors as representative of the movement of the underlying body portion when positioned adjacent to the one or more sensors.
US10535276B2
Route planning and movement of an aircraft on the ground based on a navigation model trained to improve aircraft operational efficiency is provided herein. A system comprises a memory that stores executable components and a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components that comprise an assessment component, a sensor component, and a route planning component. The assessment component accesses runway data, taxiway data, and gate configuration data associated with an airport. The sensor component collects, from a plurality of sensors, sensor data related to performance data of an aircraft and respective conditions of the runway, the taxiway, and the gate configuration data. The route planning component employs a navigation model that is trained to analyze the sensor data, the runway data, the taxiway data, and the gate configuration data, and generate a taxiing protocol to navigate the aircraft to improve aircraft operational efficiency.
US10535274B2
In operating an aircraft, a situation is displayed at each instant representing a spatio-temporal overview of risk zones around the aircraft. Each direction in space around the aircraft is scanned, and a simulated displacement of the aircraft in each direction is analyzed so as to identify potential zones of interference with the aircraft's path. Anticipated movement of risk zones over a planned time duration of a flight is determined. Such anticipated movement is correlated with an anticipation position of the aircraft over the planned time duration. Accordingly, risk zones initially appearing as a potential hazard may be determined to be safe by the time the aircraft reaches them, and vice versa. Such information is presented to pilots at an outset of the flight and continuously updated throughout the flight, enabling accurate and safe evaluation and strategy decisions.
US10535273B2
Unmanned aerial vehicle and method for reconfiguring geofence region thereof using electronic device
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may include: a flight body; a camera installed on the flight body; a sensor module mounted inside the flight body to sense nearby surroundings; a wireless communication module mounted inside the flight body to wirelessly communicate with an external communication device; a processor mounted inside the flight body and electrically connected with the camera, the sensor module, and the wireless communication module; and a memory electrically connected with the processor. The memory may store instructions that, when the unmanned aerial vehicle is in flight, cause the processor to: identify a first geofence region; broadcast flight information on a periodic basis; receive flight information from a second unmanned aerial vehicle in flight; determine whether there is an overlap between the first geofence region and a second geofence region of the second unmanned aerial vehicle; and if so, reset the first geofence region so that the first geofence region does not overlap with the second geofence region.
US10535270B2
A level of vehicle (LOV) informing device mounted in a vehicle includes: an entrance detector determining whether the vehicle enters an entrance of a parking lot; a current location detector detecting a current location of the vehicle; an atmospheric pressure detector detecting an atmospheric pressure of the current location of the vehicle; a wireless communication unit performing wireless communication with an external device through a wireless communication network; and an LOV detector determining an LOV of the vehicle using a difference between a previous atmospheric pressure previously detected by the atmospheric pressure detector and a current atmospheric pressure currently detected by the atmospheric pressure detector, to determine the LOV of the vehicle at a parking time of the vehicle after the vehicle enters the entrance of the parking lot, and informing a user of the LOV.
US10535261B2
The GPS-based vehicular speed limiting system comprises an on board diagnostic (OBD) interface unit and a GPS unit. The OBD interface unit plugs into the OBD-2 (or equivalent) connector inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle and communicates with one or more vehicle computers. The GPS unit receives signals from GPS satellites to determine the current vehicle location, which it may then display in map form utilizing map data stored in memory within the GPS. If the OBD interface unit determines that the vehicle is traveling faster than the posted speed limit, as determined by information stored in the map data and communicated to the OBD interface unit over the wireless link, the OBD interface unit may command the vehicle computers to limit the speed of the vehicle. Unplugging the OBD interface unit may result in a notification being sent to a smartphone.
US10535258B2
A traffic volume determination system includes a processor configured to: calculate, while taking account of a change between a past traffic volume and a current traffic volume of vehicles passing through an area around a link, an estimated value of the current traffic volume of the vehicles passing through the link from the past traffic volume of the vehicles passing through the link; and determine that the link is closed when a current actual traffic volume of the vehicles passing through the link is smaller than the estimated value of the current traffic volume of the vehicles passing through the link by more than a statistical error.
US10535257B2
A method, system, and computer program product for transferring image data taken by an on-vehicle camera. The image data and nearby-vehicle information on a vehicle are received, where the image data and the nearby-vehicle information are successively transferred from each of a plurality of vehicles capable of making a communication with each other. Furthermore, information on a line of vehicles is generated based on the nearby-vehicle information. The image data is then associated with the information on the line of vehicles. Display data may then be generated using the image data. Furthermore, the display data may be presented on a display device in the vehicle.
US10535249B2
A system, apparatus and method for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, which includes a processor obtaining data from at least one sensor, determining, that the data indicates an emergency condition, based on the determining, obtaining location information and a unique identifier, and communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a node via a network connection.
US10535247B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for providing reminders. A system for providing reminders comprises a communication device configured to receive location information associated with a tracker coupled to an item, a movement pattern database, and a control circuit. The control circuit being configured to: track a current movement pattern of the tracker based on the location information received via the communication device, select an expected movement pattern from the movement pattern database based on the location information associated with the tracker, compare the current movement pattern of the tracker with the expected movement pattern, and generate an alert based on detecting a deviation from the expected movement pattern.
US10535239B2
A merchandise security device is provided. The merchandise security device may include a base configured to be attached to a support surface. The base includes an alarm circuit and a tether, and the tether is configured to be extended and retracted relative to the base and to be coupled to one or more items of merchandise. The alarm circuit is configured to detect removal of the base from the support surface, cutting of the tether, and/or removal of the tether. In addition, the security device includes a lock mechanism configured to lock to the tether for securing the one or more items of merchandise to the tether, wherein one or more items of merchandise are removable from the tether when the lock mechanism is unlocked.
US10535230B2
Some embodiments include receiving, by a computing device from a player, a wager defined by outcomes of a plurality of parlays, in which each parlay includes a respective plurality of games. Some embodiments include for each parlay of the plurality of parlays, determining, by the computing device, whether an outcome of the parlay is a winning outcome for the player based on outcomes of the respective plurality of games. Some embodiments include determining, by the computing device, whether the wager is a winning wager based on a number of winning outcomes for the player determined from the plurality of parlays.
US10535229B2
A gaming machine. A memory stores a first set of symbols including first, second, and third symbols, and a second set of replacement symbols. A symbol selector selects symbols from the set of symbols, displays the selected symbols, and selects a replacement symbol to replace a selected third symbol in response to the third symbol being selected. A value assigner randomly assigns a prize value to a selected first symbol. An outcome evaluator determines if the selected symbols include a defined number of first symbols, and triggers a feature game when a defined number of first symbols are selected. Until an end condition is met in the feature game, the symbol selector causes the display to retain a selected first symbol, remove a selected second symbol, and replace the removed second symbol with a symbol selected from the feature game set of symbols.
US10535225B2
A randomized initial condition gaming system including a gambling game and an entertainment game, where the system applies a randomized initial condition that: triggers a random number generator of gambling game to generate at least one initial condition random value; communicate at least one initial condition that triggers generation of an initial condition within an entertainment game gameplay session, where: the initial condition setting is based upon at least one initial condition random value; at least one payout parameter is determined upon the generation of an initial condition; and communicate a gambling event occurrence detected from the entertainment game that triggers a wager.
US10535223B2
Systems and methods for controlling access to wireless gaming devices and networks are provided. For example, access is controlled through one or more levels of security checks, such as a hard security check instead of or in addition to a soft security check. In a hard security check, the user employs an apparatus such as a card or other physical token that can be used to access the wireless gaming device. Such an apparatus may communicate information that identifies the user to the device or may simply be used to produce a signal without which the device is locked to users. The apparatus may further emit a time varying signal to enhance security.
US10535217B2
An automatic medication dispensing device for bottled medication includes a frame, a medication collection device and medication dispensing units; wherein: the bottled medications are arranged in a single column in the medication container; a medication outlet is set on the bottom wall at the medication discharging end of the medication container; the medication discharging mechanism includes a medication stopper and a push rod; the medication stopper is set at the medication outlet and one end of the medication stopper is hinged to the medication container, and the medication stopper has two working states of blocking the medication outlet and opening and a primary elastic element acts on the medication stopper; the drive device drives the primary pressing portion to act on the medication stopper and the secondary pressing portion acts on the first bottled medication at the medication discharging end.
US10535216B2
The present invention relates to a system for detecting and communicating the position of a pusher assembly on a shelf. In an embodiment, a system includes a control module, a pusher assembly, and a laser scanner. The laser scanner is configured to transmit a swept beam to a mirrored reflective surface located behind the pusher assembly. The control module analyzes the laser beam at the laser scanner to detect the position of the pusher assembly on the shelf. In another embodiment, a system includes a control module, a pusher assembly, and an infrared transceiver that sends and receives infrared signals. The transceiver may be located behind the pusher assembly. The control module analyzes the infrared signals to determine the position of the pusher assembly on the shelf.
US10535215B2
Provided is a switch unit that drastically reduces the effort required to assemble a vending machine. The switch unit includes: a commodity selection part; an illumination part; a price display part; and a control part, wherein the switch unit is communicatively connected to at least one slave switch unit, and the control part includes: a position determination part configured to determine a relative position of the slave switch unit to the switch unit; and a code impartment part configured to impart a code to each of the keys of each of the switch unit and the slave switch unit on the basis of the determined relative position.
US10535203B2
A digital dental mesh segmentation method and a digital dental mesh segmentation device are provided. The digital dental mesh segmentation method includes: receiving a digital dental mesh, including a plurality of teeth; inserting a tooth interface separator at a tooth interface of the digital dental mesh, the tooth interface separator being at a first location; receiving a three-dimensional movement signal and a three-dimensional rotation signal to move and rotate the tooth interface separator from the first location to a second location; and segmenting the digital dental mesh according to the tooth interface separator at the second location to obtain an independent digital teeth model.
US10535200B2
Augmented reality presentations are provided at respective electronic devices. A first electronic device receives information relating to modification made to an augmented reality presentation at a second electronic device, and the first electronic device modifies the first augmented reality presentation in response to the information.
US10535195B2
A virtual reality system includes a drone including a rotor, a display, an audio speaker, a body harness having adjustable straps, and one or more processors in operative communication with the display, the audio speaker, and the drone. The drone may be fixed to the body harness. The one or more processors may be configured to issue audio-visual content to the display and audio speaker and control the rotor based on the issued audio-visual content.
US10535186B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating multi-resolution deferred shading using texel shaders in computing environments. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating computation of shading rate in a first pass in a graphics pipeline, where the shading rate relates to a plurality of pixels. The method may further include facilitating texel shading operations in a second pass using the shading rate, where the first pass is performed separate from and prior to the second pass.
US10535177B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide an interface that includes a first region and a second region, wherein a live content stream being accessed is presented in the first region, and wherein one or more feedback options for interacting with the live content stream are presented in the second region. A determination is made that at least one user accessing the live content stream has selected a feedback option in response to the live content stream. At least one visual feature corresponding to the selected feedback option is displayed in the first region in which the live content stream is being presented.
US10535171B2
One embodiment of the invention disclosed herein provides techniques for processing an evaluation graph associated with a three-dimensional animation scene. An evaluation management system retrieves a first plurality of nodes from a memory. The evaluation management system determines that a first node included in the first plurality of nodes depends on a first output generated by a second node that also is included in the first plurality of nodes. The evaluation management system generates a third node corresponding to the first node and a fourth node corresponding to the second node. The evaluation management system generates an evaluation graph that includes the third node, the fourth node, and an indication that the third node depends on the fourth node. The evaluation management system schedules the third node for evaluation after the fourth node has been evaluated.
US10535170B2
A method may include receiving a selection of a first variation of a consumer product from multiple consumer product variations. Each consumer product variation may include a first and a second surface, each including a depth attribute and a texture map with a sync point (first and second of each, respectively). The method may also include generating a single image of the consumer product as implemented in the first variation based on the first depth attribute and the second depth attribute, where each of the first surface and the second surface may include a texture map including a sync point. For the method, the first and the second sync points may be selected so that transitions between the first surface and the second surface in the single image depict a designated manufacturer matching scheme that matches a pattern feature from the first surface with the second surface.
US10535169B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for overcoming the technical problem of providing an augmented reality that displays an actual image of the item or a proportionally dimensioned representation of the item to a user. To overcome this challenge, two separate approaches can be used: a beacon/tag/sensor-based approach and a marker-based approach.
US10535166B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for PET image reconstruction. The method may include processes for obtaining physiological information and/or rigid motion information. The image reconstruction may be performed based on the physiological information and/or rigid motion information.
US10535162B2
Encoding and decoding of property data, such as colour values, associated with vertices forming 3D objects. From an analysis of connectivity data, a spiral-like scanning path of the vertices within the 3D model is obtained. The colour values are mapped to a 2D image, each attribute value to a pixel. Next, the mapped 2D image is encoded. To increase redundancies in the 2D image, the spiral-like path is split into path segments, each forming a turn in the spiral; each path segment is assigned to a respective line of the 2D image; and the colour values of each path segment are mapped, in the same order, to the respective line of the 2D image. Successive lines in the 2D image thus contain the colour values of neighbouring vertices in the 3D object, and a better encoding can be achieved.
US10535159B2
An in vivo motion tracking device tracking an in vivo motion that is a tracking target included in an ultrasonic image includes an image acquiring unit that is configured to acquire an ultrasonic image, an advance learning unit that is configured to perform advance learning using the ultrasonic image as learning data, and a tracking unit that is configured to track a position of the tracking target in an ultrasonic image including the tracking target after the advance learning performed by the advance learning unit.
US10535153B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are provided for generating an interactive space. One method includes operations for associating a first device to a reference point in 3D space, and for calculating by the first device a position of the first device in the 3D space based on inertial information captured by the first device and utilizing dead reckoning. Further, the method includes operations for capturing images with a camera of the first device, and for identifying locations of one or more static features in the images. The position of the first device is corrected based on the identified locations of the one or more static features, and a view of an interactive scene is presented in a display of the first device, where the interactive scene is tied to the reference point and includes virtual objects.
US10535141B2
Systems and methods described herein may relate to training an artificial neural network (ANN) using a differentiable Jaccard Loss approximation. An example embodiment may involve obtaining a training image and a corresponding ground truth mask that represents a desired segmentation of the training image. The embodiment may further involve applying an ANN on the training image to generate an output segmentation of the training image that depends on a plurality of weights of the ANN and determining a differentiable Jaccard Loss approximation based on the output segmentation of the training image and the ground truth mask. The embodiment also involves modifying one or more weights of the ANN based on the differentiable Jaccard Loss approximation and providing a representation of the ANN as modified to a mobile computing device.
US10535126B2
A color fringe is corrected by detecting a transition region that includes pixels adjacent in a linear direction. A color difference distribution in the transition region is modeled by a logistic function. Pixel color values in the transition region are corrected using the logistic function to maximize a correlation between a correction color and a reference color with respect to the transition region. Color distortion such as color fringes is corrected without corrupting the original colors of the image by modeling the color difference by the logistic function while maximizing the correlation using information of the undistorted region. A calculation cost is reduced by reducing the number of the parameters required to optimize the logistic function.
US10535123B2
A method for replacing image data in a destination region that is divided into sub-pieces along one or more cutting paths, which start and end at two different points on the border, and finding replacement data for the sub-pieces. The cutting paths may be determined as a function of the type of image structured at the start and the end points. The cutting paths may also be determined as a function of the area of the sub-pieces and the lengths of the cutting paths. Optionally, the destination region may be determined by a spot detection algorithm. Further optionally, the spot detection algorithm may comprise calculation of a high pass filter, or detection of areas of luminosity and border-to-volume ratios. A method for moving an image element within an image is also provided.
US10535119B2
Systems and methods of enhancing the resolution of digital terrain models (DTM) for location-based applications and analyses. The DTM enhancement process takes the signature of the input image (e.g., via the input image and a noise surface file with similar characteristics as the sensor used to capture the input image) and applies it to the DTM without including large features such as buildings. The disclosed methods include utilize a process similar to that used for enhancing a DSM based on mapping the changing intensity from the image file to changes in elevation in the DSM using a regression over a local neighborhood of pixels. Further, the disclosed methods do not rely on information about the sensors and are extendable to be able to utilize any types of images. Additionally, the disclosed embodiments are sensor agnostic and can be applied on any type of image collected by any type of sensor.
US10535110B2
The invention disclosed relates to a claim automatically computer-translating device, comprising: a fundamental element noun capturing unit, a definition capturing unit, and a data translation unit, for automatically computer-translating a first language claim into a second language claim.
US10535102B1
A new design strategy based upon finite state machine models is used to develop a policy administration system. The policy administration system comprises a plurality of finite state machined-based households, each of which is defined by a set of states represented by data that describe or relate to various policies associated with each household, a set of events represented by transactions that operate on the data, and/or a set of transition functions represented by transaction logics and/or product rules that govern how the transactions are processed. In this manner, each finite state machine-based household becomes a type of self-contained policy administration system that may be executed and managed concurrently. Each policy may be an insurance policy, such as an auto, home, life, renters, personal articles, or health insurance policy. Each finite state machine-based or virtual household may facilitate managing, updating, or generating insurance policies for the household and/or household members.
US10535101B2
A computer system for processing data related to last survivor life insurance policies includes a processor configured to process data related to a last survivor policy on two or more insureds, associated single life policies on the two or more insureds, and one or more ancillary benefits. The processing of data may include generation of illustrations, processing of applications, underwriting of applications, and generation of policy documents, employing common data for the last survivor policy and the one or more associated single life policies. The ancillary benefits may include payments based on a medical condition of an insured, payments based on longevity of an insured, and payments based on disability of an insured.
US10535097B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating media playback in online auctions. A method may include detecting an indication of an auction event associated with an online vehicle auction for a first vehicle. The method may also include determining current auction information associated with the online vehicle auction. The method may further include determining auction event information associated with the auction event. Additionally, the method may include identifying, based at least in part on the current auction information and the auction event information, one or more media files for playback on a bidder device. The method may also include transmitting, to the bidder device in response to the indication of the auction event, the one or more media files for playback on the bidder device according to a determined sequence, which may result in acoustic output of one or more auctioneer phrases.
US10535087B2
Embodiments for enabling ownership, trade, and marketplace for named geographic locations are provided. Embodiments provide a marketplace for ownership of named location-specifiers. Each named location-specifier corresponds to a latitude/longitude coordinate of a location. Embodiments provide an ownership registry for the named location-specifiers, provide a registry of named location-specifiers that retrieves data based on a user's request for location data related to the named location-specifiers, provide a location data store that stores current location data corresponding to the named location-specifiers, provide a future location data store that stores updated location data and future location data corresponding to the named location-specifiers, and provide a requesting system that allows the user to request location data corresponding to a named location-specifier or to conduct a search related to one or more of the named location-specifiers.
US10535085B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a social platform inquiry from a client; analyzing a current responsibility score associated with the client; recommending one or more social platforms based, at least in part, upon the current responsibility score; and predicting an updated responsibility score for the client based, at least in part, upon the one or more social platforms.
US10535081B2
This disclosure generally covers systems and methods that schedule posts of one or more images, videos, or other digital content items through an account of a social networking system in a way that optimizes user engagement. In particular, certain embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods determine when to post digital content items by calculating data-driven user engagement scores and updating those scores with data tracked by the social networking system.
US10535078B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a coverage area associated with an advertising display device, monitoring presence and motion of a plurality of communication devices with respect to the coverage area to determine a viewing time and a trajectory within the coverage area for each communication device, and associating each device with a user profile that comprises demographic data and preference data. Each user profile is assigned weighting factors based the viewing time and the trajectory for the associated device, thereby generating a weighted user profile for each of a plurality of users. The weighted user profiles are then aggregated to generate a time-dependent audience profile for the coverage area that is associated with an item of advertising content at the advertising display device. The audience profile is analyzed; a new item of advertising content can be selected and displayed. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10535077B2
A method for enabling a value-added transaction involving a vehicle and a merchant via a mobile device is disclosed. Merchant information may be broadcasted from a merchant terminal. Vehicle specific data may be received at the merchant terminal identifying the vehicle in response to the broadcasted merchant information. Transaction data may be provided to the mobile device to initiate an intended transaction. Payment data may be received from the mobile device at the merchant terminal in response to the provided transaction data. Before completing the intended transaction, a value-added transaction offer may be provided to the mobile device. In response to the provided value-added transaction offer, an acceptance of the value-added transaction offer may be received. The intended transaction and the value-added transaction offer may be completed as a single transaction.
US10535076B1
A deal program life cycle system and method is disclosed. The deal program life cycle may oversee the issuance of deals from a deal program to consumers over the life cycle of the deal program. One or more aspects of the deal program may change during different periods of the life cycle of the deal program. For example, the deal program may include deal features, a number of units for deals, and relevance features for the deal program. The deal features, number of units of deals, and/or relevance features for the deal program may change during the different periods of the life cycle.
US10535075B1
The rewards program system and method provide an efficient and effective way for customers to enroll in rewards programs, and accrue and redeem rewards at participating merchants. The system generates promotions, analyzes transaction data to identify whether a customer used a promotion, issued by the system (e.g., promotions provider), with a merchant. When the customer redeems a promotion, the system accrues reward amounts in a customer account, and allows the customer to redeem accrued rewards amounts. The system generates credit card profiles and customer profiles, and offers customers subsequent promotions based on the transaction data and/or the customer's customer profile. The system issues the customer subsequent promotions when the amount credited to the rewards account satisfies a redemption threshold. The subsequent promotions may be redeemable at merchants that have promotions issued by the promotion provider, including the merchant where the promotion was used that resulted in the credited amount.
US10535069B2
A block for an order is received during processing of the order, wherein a reason for the block for the order is associated with the block for the order. A set of actions is identified based on the reason for the block for the order in response to receiving the block for the order. The set of actions is executed with respect to the order in response to identifying the set of actions based on the reason for the block for the order, wherein the set of actions comprises a stage at which processing for the order ceases, restarts, and executes recovery actions, as specified.
