US10538110B2
A printing method includes providing metadata, image information, and coding data. The method also includes, based at least in part on the metadata, selecting a local region at which the coding data is to be arranged in the image when the image is printed, generating coded printed-image information, and directly printing a printed image on the container based on the coded printed-image information. Generating the coded printed-image information includes modifying the printed-image information based on the coding data. A location of the printed-image information is selectively modified based at least in part on the selected local region. Metadata includes information representative of the container's geometry. The printed-image information includes data representing a printed image to be applied to the container. The coding data includes information to be applied to the container in steganographically-coded form.
US10538109B2
A scanning path of light includes a synchronization detection area A where a synchronization detection sensor 47 detects scanning light and an image writing area B where writing of the image data to a photosensitive drum 11 is performed by the scanning light, and a light amount change unit 100 is configured to reduce a change amount of a light amount in the synchronization detection area A as compared with the image writing area B.
US10538107B2
From among a plurality of elements included in a printing head and arrayed in a predetermined direction, a faulty element that is unable to form dots properly on a printing medium is identified. At least one of correction processing for increasing a value of multi-valued input image data corresponding to the faulty element and correction processing for decreasing a threshold in a quantization process for the faulty element is performed. Complementary dot data is generated for the faulty element by taking the dot data generated for the identified faulty element as dot data corresponding to an element near the identified faulty element in the predetermined direction.
US10538092B2
A liquid supplying mechanism includes: a tank including a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid, and a liquid injection port configured to inject the liquid into the liquid storage section; and a bottle configured to replenish the liquid into the tank. The bottle includes: a bottle section configured to store the liquid; and a protruding section, which protrudes from the bottle section, and is insertable into the liquid injection port so as to inject, into the liquid storage section, the liquid stored in the bottle section. The liquid injection port includes: a protruding section insertion portion into which the protruding section of the bottle is insertable; and a protruding section fixing portion, which is engageable with the protruding section of the bottle, to thereby be capable of fixing the bottle to the tank.
US10538067B2
A polymer film for packaging at least one microorganism culture medium includes at least one layer of polyethylene terephthalate and at least one heat-sealing layer, such as polyethylene. The polymer film has an average water vapour permeability of between 10.0 g/m2×24 hours and 80.0 g/m2×24 hours.
US10538064B2
A timber composite with timber layers and an adhesive matrix, wherein the timber layers include a wood grain with both summer wood grain and spring wood grain, wherein at least one surface of the timber composite includes raised portions and depressed portions, wherein the raised portions correspond to the summer wood grain and the depressed portions correspond to the spring wood grain.
US10538058B2
A composite body of the present invention includes a base and an oxide layer arranged on the base, the oxide layer containing more than 45% by volume of a perovskite-type oxide phase. The composite body may include a first member, a second member, and a joining portion that joins the first member and the second member, at least one of the first member and the second member serving as the base, and the joining portion serving as the oxide layer. The composite body may include the base and a covering portion that covers the whole or part of a surface of the base, the covering portion being formed of the oxide layer.
US10538054B2
A heat-dissipating film comprising a heat-conductive layer obtained by burning a mixture layer of flaky carbon and a binder resin to carbonize or burn off the binder resin, and plastic films covering the heat-conductive layer, the heat-conductive layer having a density of 1.9 g/cm3 or more and thermal conductivity of 450 W/mK or more, is produced by (1) sandwiching a mixture layer of flaky carbon and a binder resin with a pair of first plastic films to form a laminated film; (2) heat-pressing the laminated film to densify the mixture layer; (3) burning the mixture layer to carbonize the binder resin in the mixture layer; (4) pressing the resultant burnt layer to form the heat-conductive layer; and (5) sealing the heat-conductive layer with second plastic films.
US10538048B2
Disclosed herein are an electric press and a method for calibrating the electric press, which can implement a rapid calibration operation. An electric press (10) includes a ram location information storage unit (63) and a load control unit (64). The ram location information storage unit (63) stores ram location information, corresponding to actual load values and representing locations to which a ram is moved, in advance. The load control unit (64) applies an actual load, corresponding to at least one location which belongs to the locations represented by the ram location information and to which the ram is moved, to a compression target by moving the ram to the location. Accordingly, the load value output by the detection unit is calibrated based on the actual load value applied to the compression target.
US10538047B2
A pneumatic tire manufacturing method is provided in which raw cover molding is suitably performed with no, or a minimal amount of, down-stitching in the manufacture of SOT-structure pneumatic tires; also provided is a pneumatic tire. This pneumatic tire manufacturing method involves a first cover molding step for molding a first cover having a sidewall, an inner lining, a ply, beads and a tread-side edge, a tread ring forming step for forming a tread ring having a breaker, a band and a tread center part, a shaping step for pressure-bonding the tread ring and the first cover to mold this to the shape of the raw cover, and a turn-up step for bonding the side wall to the lateral surface of the first cover, wherein the tread-side edge is formed in a position adjacent to the end of the tread center portion in the shaping step, and in the turn-up step, the tread-side edge and the tread center part are bonded together.
US10538045B2
A method and apparatus for molding non-pneumatic wheels is provided. The exemplary method and apparatus allow for the use of the same molding system to manufacture wheels with different hub constructions. Different configurations of removable mold elements are utilized within the same molding system to provide wheels with different hub constructions.
US10538044B2
Provided is a method for producing a V-ribbed belt having a plurality of V-shaped ribs extending in a longitudinal direction and arranged in a width direction. The method includes: setting a shaped structure having a plurality of ridges arranged adjacent to one another in a belt mold including a plurality of compressed rubber layer-shaping grooves arranged adjacent to one another on an inner peripheral surface of the mold; molding a belt slab by crosslinking the shaped structure set in the mold, while compressed rubber layer-forming portions face radially outward and are fitted in the compressed rubber layer-shaping grooves, the compressed rubber layer-forming portions comprised of a surface rubber layer and a core rubber layer which are to constitute surface and inner portions, respectively; and cutting the belt slab into ring-shaped pieces having two or more of the compressed rubber layer-forming portions.
US10538037B2
A composite laminate reinforcing tool may be used to form a reinforced joint at a bond line of a composite laminate structure. The tool may hold one or more clips having posts, and the tool may be positioned along the bond line between at least two composite laminate elements. Joint sections of the clip may be heated to increase a pliability of the joint section, and the tool may be actuated to drive the post through the at least two composite laminate elements. The posts may be deflected toward a base of the clip, thereby to seat the clip. The reinforced composite laminate structure may then be cured.
US10538032B2
Provided in one example herein is a three-dimensional (“3D”) printing method, comprising: (A) forming a layer comprising particles comprising a thermoplastic; (B) disposing over at least a portion of the layer a coalescent agent, which is radiation-absorbing and has a thermal decomposition temperature lower than or equal a melting temperature of the thermoplastic; (C) forming an object slice of a 3D object by exposing the coalescent agent to a radiant energy such that at least some of the coalescent agent thermally decomposes while causing at least some of the particles to fuse, wherein the object slice comprises the fused particles, and wherein the thermally decomposed coalescent agent is not radiation-absorbing; and (D) repeating (A) to (C) to form the 3D object comprising multiple object slices bound depth-wise to one another.
US10538029B2
A liner includes dome sections having outer surfaces along an uniform stress surface at both ends in an axial direction, and nozzles are mounted on the dome section by introducing nozzle flanges into pedestal sections of apexes of the dome sections. Then, ring-shaped caps having the same linear expansion coefficient as the liner and inner surfaces in a curved surface shape of outer surfaces of the dome sections and the nozzle flanges are mounted on boundary portions between the nozzle flanges and the pedestal sections. In forming a fiber layer after that, a helical winding layer is formed first by winding a fiber bundle disposed at the dome sections to cover the dome sections while including the nozzle flanges.
US10538024B2
The invention relates to an extrusion tool (10) for a film blow head (1) of a tubular extrusion system for extrusion of a tube (2) from a plastic melt (3) with a tool body (11), which comprises a melting channel (12) for a configuration of a tube (2), wherein the tool body (11) comprises a collar area (13) with an outlet opening (14) for the tube (2).
US10538023B2
A hot runner injection molding apparatus, and method of use, is disclosed in which strain gauges are provided in the temperature zones of the hot runner injection molding apparatus and a hot runner controller creates a target strain profile, detects deviations from the target strain profile in any temperature zone based on the strain readings provided by the strain gauges in each temperature zone, and instructs correction of deviations from the target strain profile in any deviating temperature zone by adjusting the heat produced by a heater or heaters in the deviating temperature zone. The target strain profile may be based on a median or average of strain readings provided over time by the strain gauges in each temperature zone. A hollow installation tube for placing the strain gauges in the hot runner injection molding apparatus is also disclosed.
US10538022B1
A polymer injection-molding mold having a polymer injection-molding mold having a core insert and a cavity insert; at least two rear-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates, one of the rear-wall insulation plates being inset into a rear-exterior wall of the core insert and one of the rear-wall insulation plates being inset into a rear-exterior wall of the cavity insert; at least two side-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates, one of the side-wall insulation plates being inset into a side-exterior wall of the core insert and one of the side-wall insulation plates being inset into a side-exterior wall of the cavity insert; the at least two rear-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates and the at least two side-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates being inset into each of their respective walls such that a substantially planer surface of each insulation plate is substantially flush with an exterior planar surface of the respective wall into which it is inset; the rear-wall and side-wall glass-filled polyimide insulation plates having the following physical properties: i) thermal conductivity of about 0.30 W/mk; ii) a coefficient of expansion (in length and width) of about 11×10−6 1/K; iii) a compressive strength of about 750 N/mm2 at 23° C.; iv) a compressive strength of about 500 N/mm2 at 200° C.; v) a bending strength of about 720 N/mm2 at 23° C.; and vi) a density of about 2 g/cm3; the rear-wall and side-wall glass-filled insulation plates having a thickness ranging from 3 to 5 millimeters; the cavity insert and core insert having a plurality of cooling holes, the cooling holes having a diameter ranging from 3 to 6 millimeters; a plurality of substantially cylindrical fluid-cooling channels that are respectively positioned within the cavity insert and core insert at a relative distance from a cavity-insert molding surface or a core-insert molding surface, wherein the relative distance for each fluid-cooling channel is substantially equal to the fluid-cooling channel's cross-sectional diameter, wherein the relative distance is also the shortest distance between a fluid-cooling channel's wall and a cavity-insert molding surface or a core-insert molding surface; and a temperature-sensing thermocouple that is located within the cavity insert or core insert in a position that is substantially adjacent to an estimated last volume of space to be filled by polymer-mold flow.
US10538019B2
The surface of a tooling insert is coated with a polymer layer having a low surface energy in order to cover surface irregularities and thereby provide a smooth surface against which a composite part may be compression molded.
US10538016B2
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from recycled polymer. In various embodiments, the method includes: (1) reducing recycled polymer material into polymer flakes; (2) cleansing the polymer flakes; (3) melting the flakes into a polymer melt; (4) removing water and contaminants from the polymer melt by dividing the polymer melt into a plurality of polymer streams and exposing those streams to pressures below 5 millibars; (5) recombining the streams; and (6) using the resulting purified polymer to produce bulked continuous carpet filament.
US10538004B2
An attachment of an electric hair trimmer according to the present disclosure is mountable on an electric hair trimmer, and a cutting length which is a length of hair introduced between a fixed blade and a movable blade is adjustable. The attachment of the electric hair trimmer according to the present disclosure includes: a mounting portion which is mounted on a head portion so as to cover a head portion; a slide portion which is mounted on the mounting portion in a slidable manner with respect to the mounting portion such that the cutting length is changed; and a comb which is provided on the slide portion so as to guide hair between the fixed blade and the movable blade.
US10537995B2
When teaching a robot, at least one processor brings a first object and a second object into contact with each other with a first force by using the robot, and generates teaching data based on the contact. When causing the robot to perform an operation according to the teaching data, the at least one processor causes the first object and the second object to be fitted to each other with a second force greater than the first force, by using the robot.
US10537982B2
A wedge anchor driver for driving an anchor having a bolt into a surface such that a portion of the bolt is exposed, the wedge anchor driver having a flute extending between a top end and a shaft, the flute housing a plurality of cavities having a first cavity configured to fit onto a first nut, the first cavity having a first socket size; a second cavity configured to fit onto a second nut, the second cavity having a second socket size smaller than the first socket size; and a third cavity configured to receive the portion of the bolt; wherein the anchor driver shaft is lockable into a hammer drill, such that a user can drive the anchor into a corresponding hole with the hammer drill in a hammer mode, and then tighten the first nut or the second nut by switching the hammer to a drill mode.
US10537981B2
An apparatus for picking up and positioning an item includes a vacuum assembly capable of applying a suction force to the item. The apparatus further includes an item engaging plate positioned adjacent the vacuum assembly. The apparatus still further has a blocking member positioned adjacent the vacuum assembly. The blocking member is capable of interrupting the suction force. The blocking member is positionable in a first position allowing the item to be picked up and in a second position interrupting the suction force to assist disengagement of the item.
US10537976B2
Provided is a formed rotary dresser that has regions in which diamond abrasive grains are scattered and arranged on an outer circumferential surface thereof brought into contact with a grindstone, and slit regions in which the diamond abrasive grains are not arranged on the outer circumferential surface thereof. The plurality of slit regions are provided to be inclined with respect to a rotational axis. A plurality of octahedral diamond abrasive grains are arranged along downstream edges of the slit regions in a rotating direction such that any face of an octahedron is parallel with the outer circumferential surface.
US10537973B2
A method of fabricating a polishing pad using an additive manufacturing system includes receiving data indicative of a desired shape of the polishing pad to be fabricated by droplet ejection. The desired shape defines a profile including a polishing surface and one or more grooves on the polishing pad. Data indicative of a modified pattern of dispensing feed material is generated to at least partially compensate for distortions of the profile caused by the additive manufacturing system, and a plurality of layers of the feed material are dispensed by droplet ejection in accordance to the modified pattern.
US10537965B2
Embodiments described herein relate to the rapid thermal processing of substrates. A fiber coupled laser diode array is provided in an optical system configured to generate a uniform irradiance pattern on the surface of a substrate. A plurality of individually controllable laser diodes are optically coupled via a plurality of fibers to one or more lenses. The fiber coupled laser diode array generates a Gaussian radiation profile which is defocused by the lenses to generate a uniform intensity image. In one embodiment, a field stop is disposed within the optical system.
US10537963B2
A system and method of forming a sapphire component. The method may include disposing an absorptive-barrier layer on a first surface of a sapphire substrate, performing a cut in the sapphire substrate using a laser beam incident on the absorptive-barrier layer, and forming and removing molten sapphire from the cut. The method may also include shielding a region of the first surface that is adjacent to the cut from the molten sapphire using the absorptive-barrier layer, and removing the absorptive-barrier layer from the first surface of the sapphire substrate.
US10537961B2
Methods are provided for manufacturing an orthopedic prosthesis by resistance welding a porous metal layer of the orthopedic prosthesis onto an underlying metal substrate of the orthopedic prosthesis. The resistance welding process involves directing an electrical current through the porous layer and the substrate, which dissipates as heat to cause softening and/or melting of the materials, especially along the interface between the porous layer and the substrate. The softened and/or melted materials undergo metallurgical bonding at points of contact between the porous layer and the substrate to fixedly secure the porous layer onto the substrate.
US10537959B2
A consumable assembly for use in an arc welding apparatus is provided that includes a nozzle assembly having a nozzle body, an insulator disposed within the nozzle body, and a nozzle insert disposed within the insulator. The nozzle insert includes an internal gas diverter. A contact tip is disposed within the nozzle assembly and includes at least one aperture extending from an exterior portion to an internal cavity, an exit orifice, a distal end face, and an exterior surface extending between the at least one aperture and the distal end portion of the contact tip. The internal gas diverter directs a flow of shield gas exiting the at least one aperture along the exterior surface of the contact tip.
US10537947B2
In an embodiment, a cutting tool includes a holder and a cutting insert. The holder is elongated and includes an insert pocket that is located on a side of a first end. The cutting insert is secured to the insert pocket. The cutting tool further includes a clamp that fastens the cutting insert in the insert pocket, and a screw that comes in contact with the cutting insert and is secured to the insert pocket. The screw includes a first surface including a first engagement portion on a first surface that is located on a side of the first end. The first engagement portion is located within a through-hole included in the screw in a front view of the first end.
US10537944B2
A milling device having a first milling station with a first workpiece spindle capable of rotating about a first spindle axis A1 intended to receive a first lens blank and with a first milling tool with first cutters capable of rotating about a first milling axis FA1 intended for machining a received first lens blank. At least one second milling station with a second workpiece spindle capable of rotating about a second spindle axis A2 receives a second lens blank, and with a second milling tool with second cutters capable of rotating about a second milling axis FA2 machining the received second lens blank, the spindle axes A1, A2 being aligned parallel to one another, the milling axes FA1, FA2 being aligned parallel to one another, and obliquely aligned to the spindle axes A1, A2. The invention also includes a method for the operation of the milling device.
US10537943B2
The invention relates to a modular rotary tool, which extends along an axis of rotation (6) in the longitudinal direction and which has a carrier provided with flutes as well as a cutting head exchangeably secured on said carrier, wherein the carrier has on the end surface a coupling receiving means for receiving a coupling pin of the cutting head, wherein in the carrier, a coolant channel is formed, which terminates at a first outlet opening in the coupling receiving means, and wherein a branch channel is provided, which is spaced apart from the coupling receiving means and which opens into the coolant channel at one end and terminates at a second outlet opening in the flute at the other end.
US10537940B2
A method measures an edge of a workpiece by scanning. The scanning is performed by a scanning tool mounted on a moving head of an edge-facing machine while that moving head is moved along the edge to be measured before, during or after an edge facing tool of the edge-facing machine that faces the edge. The method can be performed by an edge-facing machine that includes at least one edge facing tool and that further includes a scanning tool mounted on a movable head of the machine, which head is movable along an edge of a workpiece.
US10537917B2
A propulsion apparatus using sound radiation force according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an ultrasound generation unit which is installed at one side of an object to be operated, generates ultrasound, and provides propulsive force to the object to be operated by using sound radiation force of the ultrasound; and an ultrasound control unit which is coupled to one side of the ultrasound generation unit, and increases propulsive force to be provided to the object to be operated by controlling intensity of the ultrasound generated by the ultrasound generation unit.
US10537916B2
An electromagnetic acoustic transducer includes a flux guide surrounded by one or more permanent magnets abutting side faces of the flux guide. The magnetic field from the permanent magnets enters the flux guide where repulsion between the magnetic fields directs at least a portion of the magnetic fields toward a test face abutting a test object. The flux density at the test face is greater than the flux density within the originating permanent magnets. An active portion of a coil disposed between the flux guide and the test object contains conductors that are substantially straight, parallel and carry current in the same direction in order to provide substantially mode pure and uni-directionally polarised excitation of shear waves within the test object.
US10537910B2
A method of applying a coating to at least a portion of a surface of a structure using reusable master path rules. The surface of the structure is identified to form surface data. A framework for the surface of the structure is generated using the surface data. The framework comprises a plurality of points. Reusable master path rules are created for a master path connecting the plurality of points. The master path is a continuous line representing a universal route for applying coatings to the surface. The coating is applied to the at least a portion of the surface of the structure using the reusable master path rules.
US10537909B2
A powder coating apparatus for attaching powder to a film includes a forwarding roll which forwards the film; a take-up roll which is arranged on the downstream side of a conveyance direction of the film with respect to the forwarding roll and which takes up the film; a film-forming nozzle which is arranged between the forwarding roll and the take-up roll in the conveyance direction so as to be opposed to the film and which jets the powder; a first casing or a second casing which accommodates the forwarding roll and the take-up roll; an apparatus casing which accommodates the film-forming nozzle, the first casing, and the second casing; and a pressure adjustment unit configured to set an internal pressure of the first casing and the second casing to be higher than an internal pressure of the apparatus casing.
US10537898B1
A medical waste processing device includes an outer housing, material intake chamber having a passageway through which material passes, and cutting members contained within the housing that cuts and shreds the waste material before entering a waste receptacle that is located in the lower portion of the housing. A vacuum filter system is further provided to capture and filter potentially harmful aerosols that may be emitted during operation of the device. A method is also provided for reducing the volume of waste material through operation of the electrical shredding device.
US10537887B2
The present invention provides a novel adsorbent composition for recovering biomolecules from a fluid. The composition comprises positively and negatively charged microparticles in the form of ground particles. The adsorbent is particularly useful for purification of biomolecules from the cell culture.
US10537873B2
The present invention discloses the Synthesis and application of MOFs/natural polymers composite beads adsorbents. To overcome the drawback of MOFs, in an embodiment, both novel MOFs/sodium alginate (MOFs/SA) and MOFs/chitosan (MOFs/CS) composite beads were prepared and characterized. Each composite beads include one or more of MIL-101 (Cr), MIL-100 (Cr), MIL-53 (Al), MIL-100 (Al), NH2-MIL-101 (Al), UIO-66, ZIF-8, ZIF-68, ZIF-67, and ZIF-9-67 nanoparticles. Adsorption of anionic contaminants onto the two composite beads was investigated and compared with pristine sodium alginate beads (SA) and chitosan beads (CS). The novel MOFs/SA beads all exhibit much higher adsorption capacity than SA beads; the novel MOFs/CS beads all exhibit much higher adsorption capacity than CS beads, which indicates that MOFs played a key role in the adsorption of anionic contaminants. The porous composite beads disclosed herein and related methods and devices may be used in adsorption technologies.
US10537861B2
A system and method of wellbore operations that uses an eductor unit for introducing additives into a moving fluid stream to form a mixture. The mixture is used as a completion drilling fluid for drilling through plugs installed in a wellbore. Example additives include polymers, such as friction reducers, viscosifiers, potassium chloride, polysaccharide, polyacrylamide, biocides, lubricants, long chain polymer molecules, and the like. The fluid is primarily fresh water and/or brine water, and acts as a motive fluid in the eductor unit for drawing the additive into the eductor unit. Forming the mixture in the eductor unit which is injected into the wellbore.
US10537860B2
Nanoscale emulsions can be made by means of condensing a liquid vapor onto another liquid. The precise size, chemical composition, and density of emulsions may be controlled through varying the experimental parameters, such as surfactant concentration, time of condensation, humidity, and temperature.
US10537853B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to methods of separating volatile compounds from a liquid feed mixture comprising an emulsion. In various embodiments, the method includes contacting a first side of a first membrane with a liquid feed mixture including an emulsion having a polymer, and at least one volatile compound. The method can also include contacting a second side of the first membrane with a sweep medium including at least one a sweep fluid to produce a permeate mixture on the second side of the first membrane and a retentate mixture on the first side of the first membrane, wherein the permeate mixture is enriched in the volatile compound, and the retentate mixture is depleted in the volatile compound.
US10537852B2
An exhaust-gas-purifying system of an internal combustion engine of the present disclosure sets a reduction treatment necessity flag to ON when an input gas temperature of an exhaust gas introduced into an exhaust-gas-purifying catalyst is higher than a reference temperature. Then, it is determined whether reduction treatment execution conditions in which the reduction treatment necessity flag has been set to ON and the input gas temperature has decreased and falls within a preset temperature range up to a reference temperature or lower are satisfied. Then, when it is determined that reduction treatment execution conditions are satisfied, a reduction treatment in which an air-fuel ratio of an intake gas supplied into the engine is adjusted to be richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio is performed, and the reduction treatment necessity flag is set to OFF.
US10537848B2
A gas separation asymmetric membrane includes a porous layer having gas permeability; and a compact layer having gas separation capability which is formed on the porous layer in which the gas separation asymmetric membrane is formed using a polyimide compound which has a structural unit represented by Formula (I) and at least one structural unit selected from a structural unit represented by Formula (II) or a structural unit represented by Formula (III) and in which the viscosity, at 25° C., of a solution obtained by dissolving the polyimide compound in N-methylpyrrolidone at a concentration of 5% by mass is in a range of 2.2 to 22.0 mPa·sec, in the formula, X1 represents a group having a structure represented by Formula (I-a) or (I-b).
US10537844B2
Disclosed is a system in which saturated mercury adsorbent in a gas mercury removal unit is dehydrated in a LNG, LPG or cryogenic gas plant using a regeneration gas stream. Spent regeneration gas stream is then condensed and the water is removed therefrom to form a renewed regeneration gas stream in a closed loop. The regeneration gas stream is compressed and recycled to a location in the plant upstream of an acid gas removal unit or upstream of a regeneration gas dehydration unit such that the regeneration gas stream is not sent to a flare. A dehydration unit having a pair of dehydration vessels, arranged in parallel, alternating between absorption and regeneration modes, receives gas from the compressor. Conventional plants can be retrofitted to achieve improved process efficiencies, cost savings and environmental benefits.
US10537841B2
A method for manufacturing a filter (1) for gas masks includes providing a flat paper and folding the paper into a pleated preform. The filter element (2) is separated from the pleated preform (6) and is inserted into a housing (3). The inserted filter element (2) is connected to the housing (3) at least at some points. This filter elements (2) may have a polygonal outer contour, upon separating the element from the pleated filter preform (6). A foam and/or an adhesive is applied to an outer edge of the filter element (2), arranged on the circumference of the filter element, for an at least partial sealing of an edge (5). This establishes a connection to the housing (3) in at least some sections.
US10537836B2
A filter medium for an air filter includes a pre-collection member, a first porous film, and a second porous film arranged in order from the side that is upstream of the air current. Each of the first porous film and the second porous film has a pressure loss of 30 Pa or more and 90 Pa or less when air is passed through each porous film at a flow rate of 5.3 cm/s, and has a collection efficiency of 95% or more and 99.9% or less for NaCl particles having a particle diameter of 0.3 μm when air containing the NaCl particles is passed through each of the porous films at a flow rate of 5.3 cm/s. The pre-collection member has a pressure loss of 5 Pa or more and less than 55 Pa when air is passed through the pre-collection member at a flow rate of 5.3 cm/s, has a collection efficiency of 15% or more and less than 85% for NaCl particles having a particle diameter of 0.3 μm when air containing the NaCl particles is passed through the pre-collection member at a flow rate of 5.3 cm/s, and has a thickness of more than 0.4 mm.
US10537835B2
A fully automatic magnetic filter includes an apparatus barrel, magnetic rollers, scrapers, and a motor. The number of the magnetic rollers is four and corresponds to the number of the scrapers. The magnetic rollers are located in the apparatus barrel, and each includes an outer layer and an inner core. The outer layer is sleeved onto the inner core. The inner core has a magnetic region and a non-magnetic region. The outer layers of the magnetic rollers are driven and connected through a gear. The outer layer of one of the magnetic rollers is connected with the motor and driven by the motor. Each scraper corresponds to the outer layer of a corresponding one of the magnetic rollers. When the iron filings adsorbed on the outer layer are rotated to the non-magnetic region, the iron filings can be scraped off by the scrapers.
US10537825B1
A high-pressure pre-heating system is provided for use in a spray dryer system. The high-pressure pre-heating system may include a heat exchanger(s) configured for high-pressure and high velocity product flow, with the heat exchanger(s) preheating liquid product immediately before spray drying. This arrangement reduces heat exposure time of the liquid product that flows at high velocity through the high-pressure heat exchanger(s), which correspondingly reduces the likelihood of fouling surfaces of the heat exchanger(s) or overheating the liquid product.
US10537815B2
A system and method for enabling social dancing. The system comprising a movement registration module configured to monitor and identify movements by a participant; and a tactile feedback actuator configured to supply tactile feedback to the participant based on a determination by a logic module. The method performed by a computerized device, the method comprising: monitoring movements by a participant; determining feedback in response to the movements; and instructing a tactile feedback actuator to supply the feedback to the participant.
US10537813B2
Provided is a social game capable of, when a new group is created, allowing such a group to progress a game smoothly. A server device that provides a game, in which a plurality of players can participate, is connected to terminal devices operated by the players via a communication line, and comprises: an information storage unit; and a control unit. The information storage unit stores information on a first group, in which the players participate, and information on a second group, in which the players are supposed to participate; the control unit receives notification on acceptance of participation in the second group from the terminal devices, and when it is determined that the number of players in the second group reaches a certain number, stores the second group as a new first group at the information storage unit.
US10537806B2
Advertisements are displayed in a fantasy sports contest application in conjunction with fantasy sports contest information and may be interactive in nature. The advertisements may be used to inform the user of prizes being awarded for performance in the fantasy sports contest based on real-time action in a related sports broadcast. The advertisements may be intelligently scheduled around events in a related sports broadcast. The advertisements may be selected according to a user's demonstrated interests. The advertisements may be targeted to the user's specific geographic location. The advertisements may also be used to inform a user of an awarded prize, and to enable the user to claim the awarded prize.
US10537803B2
Present systems and methods are directed to an interactive gaming system that includes a first game environment that includes user input devices that receive first user inputs indicative of team/individual performance of a first set of players, and a second game environment that includes user input devices that receive second user inputs indicative of team/individual performance of a second set of players. The interactive gaming system includes a controller that receives the first and second user inputs, accesses dynamic user profiles that correspond the first and the second set of players, updates the dynamic user profiles based on the first and second user inputs, selects a third set of players from the first and second set of players to qualify for a third game environment, and instructs the third game environment based on a subset of the dynamic user profiles that correspond to the third set of players.
US10537801B2
In one embodiment, payoffs to an actor during the strategic game according to a solution concept is simulated a predetermined number of times. A machine learning tool is used to predict a payoff based on the predetermined number of payoffs according to the solution concept, wherein the machine learning tool is trained with plurality of pairs, each pair comprising a set of simulated payoffs and an actual payoff, wherein the simulated payoffs are predetermined number of payoffs determined in accordance with the solution concept. In another embodiment, a process tree representative of a strategic game involving actors is obtained. The process tree may comprise computational nodes, and leaf nodes which define payoff based on computations of the computational nodes. The process tree is reduced to a game tree representing the strategic game by simulating routes in the process tree.
US10537798B2
The server apparatus is applied to a game system which has a storage unit storing gaming dynamic images different from each other in association with a stream ID for identifying each gaming dynamic image. The game system acquires a playing dynamic image photographed by a portable phone and a stream ID of the playing dynamic image via a network. Base on the acquisition result, the game system determines the gaming dynamic image whose stream ID corresponds to the stream ID of the playing dynamic image acquired as a target gaming dynamic image, and provides a dynamic-image delivery service so that a delivery screen is displayed at each personal computer, the delivery screen including a composite dynamic image where the playing dynamic image and the target gaming dynamic image are synthesized.
US10537796B2
An apparatus for viewing virtual reality content is discussed in the present application. The apparatus may include a collapsible body and a pair of collapsible hood elements that are coupled to the body. The body may include a pair of lenses. Each of the hood elements may be collapsible into or onto the body. In a collapsed configuration of the apparatus, the hood elements may be collapsed into or onto the body, and a combined body structure that includes the body and the collapsed hood elements may be collapsed into or onto itself.
US10537795B2
A hand-held controller includes a handle extending in a longitudinal direction. The handle is shaped and dimensioned to be grasped by a user's hand. A ring is attached to an end of the handle and surrounds a thumb of the user when the handle is grasped by the user's hand. The ring has an annular surface that defines a plane that forms a predetermined angle with respect to the longitudinal direction, and a curved outer surface. Light sources are mounted on the curved outer surface and configured to emit light to be captured by an imaging device for tracking a position or orientation of the hand-held controller. The light is emitted in a direction normal to the curved outer surface.
US10537790B2
A system configured to be coupled with a participant of an activity. The system comprises: a participant activity monitoring unit configured for monitoring a performance of the activity by the participant; an activity information module configured for storing performance information corresponding to the activity; and a participant performance correlator configured for delivering comparative performance data based on the monitored performance of the activity by the participant and the stored performance information.
US10537785B2
A table game system is provided that includes a plurality of association tables, each of which makes it possible to obtain the correlation between codes attached to shuffled playing cards and the ranks thereof, and prevents the correlation between the codes of the shuffled playing cards and the ranks thereof from being known by a person who intends to commit cheating by changing the association table used as appropriate. A card shoe apparatus of the table game system of the present invention includes a barcode reader that reads a barcode attached to a shuffled playing card set, and thereby reads a shuffled card ID that can uniquely identify the shuffled playing card set. The shuffled card ID of the shuffled playing cards to be used is subjected to a process of association to identify one of association table numbers or database numbers, and the rank and the suit of a card that are attached to the card are identified based on a code with an association table. If the code does not match a code defined in the association table, an error occurs and it is determined that cheating may be committed.
US10537776B2
A golf club head cover. Implementations may include a body portion defining an internal cavity for receiving a golf club head, a first flap disposed on the body portion and including a first magnetic fastener, and a second flap disposed on the body portion and including a second magnetic fastener. The first magnetic fastener and second magnetic fastener may substantially align with each other and may be aligned substantially parallel with the internal cavity of the body portion. Particular implementations may include a notch adjacent to the internal cavity and/or reentrant openings on both a side of the first flap and on a side of the second flap.
US10537772B2
A golf putter is disclosed having a head having a forward face, a back face, a top surface, and a bottom surface, the top surface defining a leading edge of the head and a trailing edge of the head. A back flange extends rearward from the back face of the head. In an example, a plurality of angled alignment lines are formed in the top surface of the head. In an example, a first straight alignment line is formed in the top surface of the head, the straight alignment line is centered between the plurality of angled alignment lines. In an example, a second straight alignment line is aligned with the first straight alignment line. In an example, a plurality of grooves are formed in the forward face of the head.
US10537771B2
Provided are a golf club head and a method for producing the golf club head. The golf club head comprises a striking face that in turn comprises a recurrent texture pattern that has a period T and that is defined by a plurality of depressions, each depression having an average depth no greater than 0.10 mm. The striking face also comprises a plurality of scorelines that at least partially intersect the recurrent texture pattern and that have a scoreline pitch Ps such that T/Ps is greater than 1.0, each scoreline having an average depth no less than 0.10 mm.
US10537770B2
Described herein is a golf club head comprising a faceplate, and a body, at least one of the faceplate and the body comprising a material having a specific strength and/or a specific flexibility greater than the specific strength and specific flexibility of known golf club heads, wherein the specific strength is measured as the ratio of the yield stress to the density of the material, and the specific flexibility is measured as the ratio of the yield stress to the modulus of elasticity of the material.
US10537768B2
A method for detecting a lost club includes detecting an orientation characteristic of a golf club with a detection unit, transmitting the orientation characteristic from the detection unit to a mobile device, determining a distance between the golf club and the mobile device based on a signal transmitted from the detection unit to the mobile device and determining a lost club state based on the orientation characteristic of the golf club and the distance between the golf club and the mobile device.
US10537767B2
A system and method for generating feedback on exercise technique. The system comprises a sensor and readout device to generate sensor data based on the exercise technique, e.g. pressure signal exerted by a foot. A data processor processes the sensor data to calculate a feedback value. A color mapper maps the feedback value onto a color map to transform the feedback value into a color value. A wearable feedback device comprising a light source generates a variable color light output based on the color value. For example, a mode selector provides selection between a plurality of feedback modes, wherein the selection of a feedback mode result in selection of a feedback algorithm for the data processor and selection of a color map for the color mapper.
US10537764B2
A control mechanism includes a friction brake assembly. The friction brake assembly includes a push rod and a friction pad connected to the push rod. The control mechanism also includes a magnetic resistance assembly. The magnetic resistance assembly includes a rotatable sleeve, a movable housing in contact with the rotatable sleeve, and at least one magnet disposed within the movable housing. The control mechanism also includes a knob in mechanical communication with both the push rod and the rotatable sleeve.
US10537750B2
A radiation detection system and method for a neutron capture therapy system, which may increase the accuracy of neutron beam irradiation dose of the neutron capture therapy system and find out a fault position in time. The neutron capture therapy system includes a charged particle beam, a charged particle beam inlet allowing the charged particle beam to pass through, a neutron beam generating unit which may generate a neutron beam after a nuclear reaction occurs between the neutron beam generating unit and the charged particle beam, a beam shaping assembly for adjusting the flux and the quality of the neutron beam generated by the neutron beam generating unit, and a beam outlet adjacent to the beam shaping assembly, the radiation detection system includes a radiation detection device for real-time detection of γ rays instantly emitted under neutron beam irradiation.
US10537746B2
An automated external defibrillator (AED) is described which spends an increased proportion of a rescue in a CPR mode. This is accomplished by use of a single shock protocol which causes the AED to spend less time in shock analysis and delivery activities as compared with the typical multiple shock protocol. An AED of the present invention preferably is configured such that the rescue protocol can be modified or changed easily without the need to remove the battery or use specialized hardware or software. Preferably the shock waveform of the single shock is a biphasic waveform delivering at least 150 Joules of energy and more preferably at least 200 Joules of energy.
US10537742B2
A pacing system, which is particularly suitable for implantable leadless pacemakers, applies passively-balanced voltage-based pacing pulses, and periodically performs capture verification (evoked response detection) by following a pacing pulse with a current-based active balancing pulse, and then measuring any evoked response provoked by the pacing pulse. The active balancing pulse reduces residual charge on the electrodes used for pulsing, and thereby reduces polarization artifacts that could obscure measurement of the evoked response at the electrodes. The amplitude and pulse width of the active balancing current pulse are defined by measurements made in a few preceding pulses. The pacemaker preferably detects indicia of cardiac contractility, and performs capture verification only when contractility indicates that the patient is physically inactive and emotionally stable.
US10537741B2
A method of selecting a subset of electrodes in a stimulator device implanted in a patient for further clinical evaluation is disclosed. The method comprises measuring at least first and second measurement for each of the plurality of electrodes that are indicative of the ability of the electrode if activated to provide useful therapy to the patient in which the stimulator device is implanted A weight is then determined for each of the measurements. The weight is then applied to each electrode measurement, which measurement may be normalized, and the weighted measurements for each electrode are preferably summed to arrive at a value which itself is indicative of a particular electrode's ability to provide useful therapy to the patient. These values can then be used to determine a subset of the electrodes useful for further clinical evaluation in the patient, which improved the accuracy and speeding determining appropriate patient therapy.
US10537739B2
A method, including the action of executing a first evaluation including evaluating first interactions of respective current spreads with one another for a plurality of first electrodes implanted in a recipient resulting from energizement thereof with at least one second implanted electrode disabled, wherein the second electrode, if enabled and energized at about the same level as at least one of the first electrodes, would result in current spread to at least one of the plurality of first electrodes, and one of disabling at least one third electrode of the plurality of first electrodes based on the evaluation or maintaining an enablement of the nondisabled electrodes based on the evaluation.
US10537722B2
A microneedle including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, at least one piercing projection projecting from the first surface of the substrate and being surrounded by an outer peripheral region of the substrate when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first surface, and surface-defining structures positioned in the outer peripheral region and including three or more surface-defining structures each having a surface-defining section which is one of a surface-defining projection and a surface-defining recess. The surface-defining projection protrudes from the first surface and has a tip which serves as the surface-defining section, the surface-defining recess is recessed from the first surface and has a bottom serving as the surface-defining section, and the piercing projection has a tip that extends beyond a plane including the surface-defining sections of three surface-defining structures among the surface-defining structures.
US10537715B2
Intravascular devices, systems, and methods are provided. In some embodiments, the intravascular devices are catheters with a plurality of openings in a distal portion to facilitate taking pressure measurements from within a lumen of the catheter. The intravascular device includes a tubular member that has a proximal portion and a distal portion; a lumen extending from the proximal portion to the distal portion along a longitudinal axis of the tubular member, the lumen sized and shaped to receive a pressure sensing device; and openings spaced along the distal portion of the tubular member, the openings sized and shaped to provide fluidic communication between the lumen and a region surrounding the tubular member to allow the pressure sensing device to measure an ambient pressure of the region surrounding the tubular member from within the lumen. An intravascular system and a method for obtaining pressure measurements are also provided.
US10537693B2
The present invention is a collapsible/expandable and disposable spacer for use with a metered dose inhaler (‘MDI’). One embodiment of the invention is a spacer collapsible into a substantially flat configuration for storage and expandable into a spacer volume for use with a metered dose inhaler (MDI) wherein the spacer comprises: (a) a collapsible and expandable panel arrangement internally located within the spacer volume to divide the spacer volume into a MDI medicament delivery chamber and an inhalation/exhalation chamber when the spacer is in an expanded configuration; (b) a medicament delivery opening adapted to receive a MDI in a MDI medication delivery end of the MDI medicament delivery chamber; (c) an inhalation opening in a mouthpiece end of the inhalation/exhalation chamber; (d) an exhalation opening in the inhalation/exhalation chamber; and further wherein the panel arrangement comprises an aperture off-set from the medicament delivery opening with the proviso that the aperture is not a valved aperture.
US10537686B2
A dual chambered syringe includes: an inner barrel defining a first inner chamber, the inner barrel having an apertured stopper at its distal end, the inner barrel being open at its proximal end; a shaft adapted to fit within the inner barrel, the shaft having a distal end which is engageable with the aperture of the stopper; a device for controlling engaging and disengaging of the distal end of the shaft with the aperture of the stopper; an outer barrel concentric with the inner barrel defining a second inner chamber, the outer barrel having a distal end for receiving and dispensing fluids and a proximal end into which the distal end of the inner barrel is insertable into the second inner chamber; the apertured stopper engages the second inner chamber of the outer barrel and selectively prevents or permits the passage of fluids between the outer barrel second chamber and the inner barrel first chamber; the inner barrel having an engageable surface on its outside surface; and, the outer barrel having operatively associated therewith an engaging device for selective engagement and disengagement with the engageable surface on the inner barrel.
US10537685B2
A dosing mechanism for an injection device includes a dose-setting element with a first element coupled thereto, which, during dose setting, is rotatable relative to a second element about a main rotation axis in a first direction and, during dose discharge, is fixed in rotation relative to the second element. The first and the second elements are coupled via a sleeve-shaped stop element, which forms a stop abutment. The dosing mechanism includes a stop, and the stop abutment, during the rotation of the first element in the first direction, executes a movement to a stop position where the stop abutment strikes the stop and prevents rotation of the first element relative to the second element in the first direction of rotation. The sleeve-shaped stop element is rotatable about a secondary rotation axis, which is offset parallel to or offset at an angle to the main rotation axis.
US10537683B2
A finger grip for receiving and retaining a syringe body of an injection syringe. The finger grip is easily pressed directly onto the syringe and employs a centering feature and a pair of one way, flexible latches that allow easy attachment to a syringe body yet ensures retention during normal and abnormal use. If a high horizontal component force is applied during normal or abnormal use, the finger grip will not become disconnected in an uncontrolled fashion from the syringe body, which might cause injury and/or damage to a patient being injected. The flexible latches may prevent detachment of the finger grip from the syringe below separation force of about 25 lbs.
US10537682B2
An injector may include a container having a wall with an interior surface and a seal assembly with an interior surface, the interior surfaces of the wall and the seal assembly defining a closed sterile reservoir filled with a drug product, including a granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). The injector may also include a fluid delivery system comprising a clean, unsheathed, rigid container needle having a point disposed only partially through the seal assembly in a storage state, and disposed through the interior surface of the seal assembly into the sterile reservoir in a delivery state. Further, the injection may include an actuator that is adapted to move the container needle from the storage state to the delivery state.
US10537676B2
A fluid sensing system (30) including a fluid channel (32) with an inlet (34) and an outlet (36). A thermal device (38) is operably coupled thereto at a first position whereby thermal energy is transferable with fluid in the channel. A section of the fluid channel downstream of the first position has a predefined cross section and flow path. A thermal imaging device (46) is positioned to capture a thermal image of at least a portion of the downstream section. A processor (48) coupled with the thermal imaging device is configured to determine at least one output value representative of a property of the fluid medication or fluid flow using the thermal image. The output value may be the flow volume. In some embodiments, the fluid channel also defines a section upstream of the first position with the thermal imaging device capturing an image that includes at least portions of both the upstream and downstream sections.
US10537651B2
Tin-117m somatostatin analogues or antagonist are used to treat tumors and symptoms associated with these tumors which express somatostatin receptors, such as gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. The tin-117m somatostatin receptor binding compounds can be administered at a dosage which is effectively apoptotic and not necrotic. Also, if desired, it can be administered at a dose that is necrotic and/or induces necrosis, but only to cells within 290 microns of the tin-117m atom. A novel somatostatin analogue is also disclosed, as well as novel methods to produce the tin labeled analogues and antagonists.
US10537649B2
Provided are aromatic compounds, phospholipid-polymer-aromatic conjugates comprising the aromatic compounds, and liposome compositions including the phospholipid-polymer-aromatic conjugates. The liposomal compositions may be useful for imaging of Alzheimer's Disease, for example, imaging of the amyloid-β plaque deposits characteristic of Alzheimer's Disease.
US10537642B1
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising an NSAID such as meloxicam and/or rizatriptan in combination with a cyclodextrin and/or a carbonate or a bicarbonate. These compositions may be orally administered, for example, to improve the bioavailability or pharmacokinetics of the NSAID for the treatment of pain such as migraine, arthritis, and other conditions. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating pain, such as migraine, comprising administering meloxicam and rizatriptan to a human being suffering from pain, such as migraine. For migraine, these methods may be particularly useful when the meloxicam and rizatriptan are administered while the human being is suffering from an acute attack of migraine pain or migraine aura. In some embodiments, the combination of meloxicam and rizatriptan may be administered in a manner that results in a Tmax of meloxicam of 3 hours or less.
US10537640B2
Enhanced delivery of compositions for treatment of skin tissue with photoactive plasmonic nanoparticles and light, with embodiments relating to delivery devices using, for example, ultrasound. Treatments are useful for cosmetic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
US10537637B2
Checkpoint regulator antagonists that bind specifically to TIGIT, PD-1 and/or PD-L1 are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the checkpoint regulator inhibitors, including monospecific, bispecific and trispecific checkpoint regulator antagonists thereof.
US10537636B2
The present document describes a method of inhibiting cancer tumor growth in a patient in need thereof, comprising at least a first treatment comprising steps a) and b): a) administering to the patient an immune adjuvant in combination with a therapeutic monoclonal antibody specific for a tumor associated antigen; and b) administering to the patient the immune adjuvant; and a final treatment consisting of administering to the patient the therapeutic monoclonal antibody specific for a tumor associated antigen, wherein time between step a) and step b) is a time sufficient for treatment of the patient with the immune adjuvant, and wherein time between the step b) and the final treatment is from about 10 to about 14 weeks.
US10537625B2
Engineered dendritic cell vaccines, and methods of forming and applying same, that may be used as effective immunotherapies for cancers.
US10537623B2
Provided is a method for inducing immunity for therapy of a cancer(s). The method includes the step of administering to an individual with cancer at least one polypeptide selected from the polypeptides (a) or (b) below, and/or a recombinant vector(s) that comprise(s) a polynucleotide(s) encoding the at least one polypeptide, the recombinant vector(s) being capable of expressing the polypeptide(s) in vivo: (a) a polypeptide in any one of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 2, 4, 22, or 24; and (b) a polypeptide having a sequence identity of not less than 95% to the polypeptide (a). Further, an in vitro method for preparing an antigen-presenting cell is provided. The method includes the step of contacting the antigen-presenting cell with the at least one polypeptide selected from: (a) a polypeptide in any one of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 2, 4, 22, or 24; and (b) a polypeptide having a sequence identity of not less than 95% to the polypeptide (a).
US10537617B2
The invention relates to modified Factor IX coding sequence, expression cassette, vectors such as viral (e.g., lenti- or adeno-associated viral) vectors, and gene transfer methods and uses. In particular, to target Factor IX nucleic acid to cells, tissues or organs for expression (transcription) of Factor IX.
US10537616B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for increasing the stability of a Factor VIII molecule after purification, lyophilization and reconstitution, comprising preventing proteolytic cleavage of the Factor VIII molecule into a first fragment comprising essentially the A1 domain and the A2 domain and a second fragment comprising essentially the A3 domain, the C1 domain and the C2 domain throughout manufacturing the Factor VIII molecule. The disclosure further pertains to a method for improving the bioavailability of Factor VIII after intravenous and non-intravenous injection.
US10537612B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a lyophilized formulation having improved storage stability of hepatic growth factor compared to conventional lyophilized formulations.The present invention provides a lyophilized formulation comprising (1) a hepatic growth factor, (2) trehalose and (3) one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of arginine, histidine, lysine, meglumine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, proline, creatine, creatinine, tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US10537593B2
Provided are a method, target and application for NO accumulation to decrease invasiveness of Pseudomonas aeruginosa; achieving NO accumulation by means of external NO donors or disruption of internal NO metabolism in an environment where Pseudomonas aeruginosa is growing or being cultured, in order to decrease production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa of the invasion factor pyocyanin. Utilizing even micro-quantities of NO can significantly inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginosa PCN (PCN synthesis down 82% with 60 μM SNP treatment); by inhibiting NO reductase, an enzyme related to NO metabolism, PCN synthesis can be significantly inhibited (the PAO1-Δnor strain has 84% PCN reduction). Using NO donors or inhibiting enzymes involved in Pseudomonas aeruginosa NO metabolism as a means of combating bacterial infectious disease does not affect the body's normal microflora like traditional antibiotics.
US10537590B2
The present invention relates to compounds of general formula I, wherein the groups R1, R2 and R3 are defined as in claim 1, which have valuable pharmacological properties, particularly are modulators of STING.
US10537588B2
A phosphodiesterase type III (PDE III) inhibitor or Ca2+-sensitizing agent or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof is provided for the preparation of a medication for the reduction of the heart size of a patient suffering from heart failure.
US10537584B2
The present invention relates to monolithic intravaginal rings comprising progesterone, methods of making, and uses thereof. The intravaginal rings comprise progesterone, a polysiloxane elastomer, and a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrocarbon or glycerol esters of a fatty acid.
US10537581B2
According to various embodiments of this disclosure, pharmaceutical compositions comprising solubilized estradiol are provided. In various embodiments, such compositions are encapsulated in soft capsules which may be vaginally inserted for the treatment of vulvovaginal atrophy.
US10537576B2
Methods of treating breast cancer are provided where a quantitative Her2 assay is used to identify whether a breast tumor will be responsive to treatment with anti-Her2 therapeutic agents such as lapatinib and trastuzumab, followed by selection of a suitable treatment regimen and administration of the regimen. A specific Her2 fragment peptide is precisely quantitated by SRM-mass spectrometry directly in breast tumor cells collected from breast tumor tissue that was obtained from a cancer patient and compared to a reference level in order to determine if the breast cancer patient will positively respond to treatment with a therapeutic agent that specifically targets the Her2 protein.
US10537572B2
The present disclosure relates to the use of GnRH receptor antagonists used in the treatment of endometriosis or uterine fibroids. In particular, the present disclosure describes a method of treating endometriosis or uterine fibroids, where the method involves the administration of elagolix, and where the method may further involve the co-administration of rifampin or ketoconazole.
US10537568B2
The methods and formulations include, but are not limited to, methods and formulations for delivering effective concentrations of levocetirizine and montelukast to a patient in need. The methods and formulations can comprise conventional and/or modified-release elements, providing for drug delivery to the patient. The combination can be useful during and following radiation exposure to ameliorate the inflammatory response.
US10537566B2
The present invention relates to combinations and pharmaceutical compositions comprising siponimod and laquinimod, and the use of said combinations and/or compositions for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, particularly secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.
US10537561B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula I; wherein R1 is an alkyl pyrazole or an alkyl carboxamide, and R2 is a hydroxycycloalkyl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and compositions containing these compounds, for use to treat a brain tumor, particularly glioblastoma. The invention provides effective treatment of a brain tumor and can be used by oral administration of a compound of Formula I as further described herein. The invention also provides a method to treat a subject having a brain tumor such as glioblastoma, wherein the method comprises administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound of Formula I. Gene signatures correlated with successful treatment using these methods are also disclosed.
US10537549B2
The present invention provides a dihydroisoxazole of formula: or a salt thereof, for use in the control of sea lice in fish.
US10537545B2
The invention provides a compound of formula (I): (I) wherein R1-R4 have any of the values defined in the specification, as well as compositions comprising a compound of formula (I) and methods for treating diseases (e.g. cancer).
US10537540B2
A pharmaceutical composition for promoting nerve injury restoration and a use thereof are disclosed. Each unit of the pharmaceutical composition contains 0.5 to 8 g of L-ornithine, 1 to 5 g of aspartic acid, 3 to 10 g of arginine and 3 to 10 g of vitamin B6. The pharmaceutical composition can significantly promote recovery of the spinal nerve function, and particularly has a good therapeutic effect on acute myelitis.
US10537536B2
A formulation and method for delivery of bioactive substances when applied to, or within, the skin or other exterior region of a mammal. for example, a patient, includes a vasoactive agent; an osmolyte; and an active ingredient. The formulation is sufficiently hygroscopic so as to create a condition of hypertonicity when absorbed by the skin. When the formulation is applied to the skin, the vasoactive agent can be delivered to the dermis so as to contact the vasculature of a patient.
US10537535B2
Provided herein are compounds that act as histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, and can affect expression of genes in vivo and in vitro. These HDAC inhibitors are generally volatile compounds that can be administered as a gas or vapor. Such inhibitors can be used as therapeutics for numerous disease conditions, such as a variety of cancers, neural degenerative diseases, neurological diseases, senescence, and infectious diseases.
US10537531B2
This disclosure relates to nanoparticle drug delivery systems composed of casein (CN) coated nanoparticles, e.g., iron oxide nanoparticles coated with an inner layer and an out layer comprising the milk protein casein. In certain embodiments, drug molecules are incorporated into an inner polymeric layer coating the nanoparticles, which are subsequently coated with a casein containing outer layer, i.e., a layer-by-layer (LBL) construction. Oral administration of these casein coated nanoparticles are contemplated as experiments indicated sufficiently stability in conditions that simulate the conditions of the gut. Drugs that were loaded into the nanoparticle systems were released when the casein outer layer was gradually degraded in the presence of an intestinal protease meant to simulate conditions of the intestine.
US10537521B2
A method of treating pain, e.g., acute post-operative pain, by administering to a human patient(s) a therapeutically effective dose of tramadol intravenously in a dosing regimen which includes one or more loading doses administered at shortened intervals as compared to dosing at steady-state is disclosed. In certain embodiments, the dose of tramadol about 25 mg and the second (and optionally) third doses are intravenously administered at intervals of about 2 hours, and thereafter the tramadol is intravenously administered at a dosing interval of about 4 hours, until the patient no longer requires treatment with tramadol.
US10537520B2
The present invention relates to stable, liquid parenteral formulations of Melphalan or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Further this invention also describes process of preparing such formulations.
US10537516B2
A composition for treating skin pigmentation, a method of forming the composition, and a method of treating skin pigmentation are disclosed. The composition comprises at least one pharmaceutically acceptable additive. The composition further comprises at least one melanin production inhibitor, which may be a depigmentation agent. The melanin production inhibitor is present in an amount effective to inhibit melanin production in human skin cells of a subject that is administered the composition. The melanin production inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of cyclovirobuxine D, lipoic acid, nuciferine, peimisine, oleuropein, Rhodiola algida extract, Rhodiola kirilowii (Regel) Maxim extract, Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma extract, Cirsii japonici herba extract, Platycladi semen extract, Synotis erythropappa extract, Astragali complanati semen extract, Plantaginis semen extract, Lycopi herba extract, Euryales semen extract, Cuscutae semen extract, Amomi fructus extract, Tara seed extract, Platycladi cacumen extract, Eucommiae cortex extract, Dioscoreae rhizoma extract, Cirsii herba extract, and combinations thereof.
US10537510B2
The present invention relates to a composition for dyeing keratin fibres, in particular keratin fibres such as the hair, comprising: at least one oxidation base 3-(2,5-diaminophenyl)-1-propanol and/or acid salts thereof and/or solvates thereof such as hydrates; at least one particular coupler; optionally at least one fatty substance; optionally at least one basifying agent; and optionally at least one chemical oxidizing agent. The invention also relates to a process for dyeing keratin fibres such as the hair using the composition of the invention, and to a multi-compartment device for using the composition of the invention.
US10537509B2
A nail glue composition contains Beta-methoxyethyl cyanoacrylate, octyl cyanoacrylate, and polymethyl methacrylate. The nail glue composition is substantially odorless and has increased softness.
US10537508B2
Subject matter of the present disclosure is a conditioning shampoo containing (A) a mixture of the mono-, di- and tri-esters of a fatty acid mixture (F1) and glycerine, and (B) a mixture of the mono- and di-esters of a fatty acid mixture (F1) and a polyethylene glycol having a mean molecular mass of from 200 to 800 g/mol, wherein the fatty acid mixture (F1) is a mixture of fatty acids which has the same fatty acid composition as a plant-based oil, and, relative to the total weight of the shampoo, the total quantity of all the plant-based oils included in the shampoo, which are not the same as the tri-esters of the fatty acid mixture (F1) and glycerine, is a value of maximum 0.25 wt. %, and the total quantity of all the silicone compounds included in the shampoo is a value of maximum 0.25 wt. %.
US10537504B2
An oral care composition comprising zinc phosphate, stannous fluoride, an anionic polymer, and a basic amino acid, as well as methods of using the same.
US10537499B2
A beauty care product is provided. The beauty care product has a multi-layered barrier patch with a non-foamed first layer and a foamed second layer. The non-foamed first layer has a non-foamed polymer film with a first surface and a thickness from 5 microns to 250 microns. The foamed second layer has a foamed polymer film comprising a Mean Void Volume Percentage from 45% to 80% and a thickness of from 10 microns to 250 microns. The beauty care product also has a cosmetic composition with an effective amount of a skin active agent and a pressure sensitive adhesive.
US10537497B2
An inkjet recording device includes an image forming section and a controller. The image forming section includes a recording head, and forms an image on a package of medication. The controller includes a first determining section and an applying section. The first determining section determines a scent indicating a person taking medication. The applying section applies the scent determined by the first determining section to the package of the medication.
US10537492B2
An aeration nozzle for spraying water infused with air into an above-ground water cavity defined by a wall, comprising a nozzle body having at least a first internal conical portion including an upstream end and a downstream end, the downstream end being smaller than the upstream end, a water way extending through the nozzle body and the first internal conical portion, an air way extending through the nozzle body, the air way intercepting the water way within the nozzle body downstream of the first internal conical portion, and a check valve disposed along the air way that permits air to be pulled through the air way and into the water way by way of a vacuum force caused by water flowing within the water way through the first internal conical portion and prevents water from entering the air way.
US10537484B2
A wheel chair lifting device with a stationary platform, a movable lift assembly, four motorized scissors jacks, a foot stand platform, a battery power supply and a wireless lift controller and receiver. The four scissors jacks each placed on one corner of the stationary platform. The movable lift assembly is attached at each corner to the for scissors jacks. The movable assembly can of be lifted and lowered by the four scissors jacks. The scissors jacks are powered by the battery power supply. The motors of the lift jacks are activated by a wireless hand held controller. The base of the movable lift assembly is level with the stationary platform so that no ramp is required for rolling a wheel chair onto the lift assembly.
US10537477B2
A snow goggle device includes a composite lens and a spectacle frame fastened to a periphery of the composite lens. The composite lens includes a multi-layer sheet, a protective sheet spaced apart from the multi-layer sheet, and a combining layer connecting the multi-layer sheet and the protective sheet. The multi-layer sheet includes an anti-UV layer, an anti-fog layer, and a photochromic layer, the latter two of which are respectively disposed on an inner surface and an outer surface of the anti-UV layer. The photochromic layer has an adjustable transmittance that is changed when a UV light travels through the photochromic layer. The anti-UV layer can reflect a UV light to the photochromic layer. The multi-layer sheet, the protective sheet, and the combining layer jointly define an air layer that is configured to slow down the transference of an outer temperature of the protective sheet to the multi-layer sheet.
US10537474B2
An ocular implant for treating glaucoma is provided, which may include any number of features. More particularly, the present invention relates to implants that facilitate the transfer of fluid from within one area of the eye to another area of the eye. One feature of the implant is that it includes a proximal inlet portion and a distal inlet portion adapted to be inserted into the anterior chamber of the eye, and an intermediate portion adapted to be inserted into Schlemm's canal. Another feature of the implant is that it can be biased to assume a predetermined shape to aid in placement within the eye.
US10537461B2
Disposable elements for use in ostomy. In one embodiment a cap with an integral bag is provided. In another embodiment a sealable bag is provided with means for sealing. In another embodiment, the ostomy port itself is disposable.
US10537460B2
An apparatus with a limb component configured to be couplable to a body component to immobilize and secure a distal extremity. The body component includes a belt strap and an over-the-shoulder strap. An attachment mechanism configured to couple the limb component to the body component and the attachment point is located above a user's heart when the apparatus is worn by the user.
US10537451B2
What is disclosed are medical devices comprising a rounded, thin-walled, expandable metal structure (“ballstent”) and a flexible, elongated delivery device (“delivery catheter”) and systems and methods of use for treating saccular vascular aneurysms with the medical devices. Ballstents comprised of gold, platinum, or silver that can be compressed, positioned in the lumen of an aneurysm, and expanded to conform to the shape of the aneurysm are disclosed. The external surface of ballstents can be configured to promote local thrombosis and to promote the growth of tissue into and around the wall of the ballstent in order to seal the aneurysm and fix the ballstent in place in the aneurysm. The wall of the ballstent can also be configured to release drugs or pharmacologically active molecules, such as those that promote thrombosis, cell proliferation, extracellular matrix deposition, and tissue growth.
US10537450B2
A method of loading an expandable stent into a delivery device may include positioning a middle portion of the expandable stent in a collapsing fixture including a passage extending therethrough, radially compressing the middle portion of the expandable stent in the passage before any other portion of the expandable stent while a first end of the expandable stent is disposed outside of the passage, moving the collapsing fixture relative to the expandable stent, radially compressing the expandable stent from the middle portion toward the first end of the expandable stent, and inserting the first end of the expandable stent followed by the middle portion of the expandable stent into a distal end of an elongate outer sheath of the delivery device.
US10537443B2
A dilation introducer for orthopedic surgery is provided for minimally invasive access for insertion of an intervertebral implant. The dilation introducer may be used to provide an access position through Kambin's triangle from a posterolateral approach. A first dilator tube with a first longitudinal axis is provided. An access cannula may be introduced over the first dilator tube. A drill may be inserted through the access cannula and used to perform a foraminoplasty. Surgical instruments may pass through the access cannula to operate on an intervertebral disc and/or insert an intervertebral implant.
US10537439B2
An orthopedic joint replacement system is shown and described. The system includes a number of prosthetic components configured to be implanted into a patient's knee. The system also includes a number of surgical instruments configured for use in preparing the bones of the patient's knee to receive the implants. A method or technique for using the surgical instruments to prepare the bones is also disclosed.
US10537438B2
Stand-alone interbody fusion devices for engagement between adjacent vertebrae. The stand-alone interbody fusion devices may include frames and one or more endplates coupled to the frame. The frame may be configured and designed to provide the apertures which are designed to retain bone fasteners, such as screws or anchors, and secure the implant to the adjacent vertebrae.
US10537425B2
The invention provides a multi-component (modular) percutaneous valve device that includes a valve module having valve leaflets and a valve frame. The valve frame includes one or more, for example two, ring members and a plurality of masts. Also provided is a valve frame having specially designed pivot points at the connection between masts and first and second ring members to assist folding the valve module and minimizing delivery diameter. The valve frame may also include wire guides to facilitate combining the valve module with a support module. The masts or a ring of the valve frame may also include locking members, such as shafts for closing the valve module and securing the valve module to the support module. The support module includes corresponding locking members, such as spears that align with the shafts on the valve module for assembly and locking the valve module to the support module.
US10537419B2
Examples of prostheses are provided having an internal branch. A tubular graft body of the prosthesis defines a main lumen extending between an inflow end and an outflow end of the graft body. A stent structure is coupled along the graft body. A trough is at least partially defined by a trough wall extending into the main lumen from a sidewall of the graft body. A side branch defines a branch lumen and extends from the trough within the main lumen towards one of the inflow or outflow ends of the graft body. A branch lumen facing surface of the trough wall is a continuous surface with an outer surface of the sidewall of the graft body. A boundary of the trough may be configured to provide a smooth transition surface between the trough and the sidewall.
US10537417B2
A density gradient biopolymeric matrix implant is disclosed. The implant includes a first homogeneous matrix layer and a second homogeneous matrix layer having a density different from that of the first homogeneous matrix layer. Biopolymeric fibers at the surface of the first homogeneous matrix layer are physically in contact with and cross-linked to the biopolymeric fibers at the surface of the second homogeneous matrix layer. Also disclosed is a three-dimensional density gradient biopolymeric matrix implant that includes a first homogeneous matrix surrounding a second homogeneous matrix having a different density. Biopolymeric fibers at an inner surface of the first homogeneous matrix are physically in contact with and cross-linked to biopolymeric fibers at an outer surface of the second homogeneous matrix. Furthermore, methods for preparing the density gradient biopolymeric matrix implant and the three-dimensional density gradient biopolymeric matrix implant are provided.
US10537416B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for treating urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and other pelvic defects or dysfunctions, in both males and females, using one or more lateral implants to reinforce the supportive tissue of the urethra. The implants can be configured as a sling device having at least one extension arm and a tissue support portion having an eyelet, wherein a portion of the at least one extension arm is adapted to slide through and adjustably attach with the eyelet.
US10537408B2
A dental implant includes an anchoring region (12) for anchoring in a bone, which preferably includes a thread (14) for screwing in the bone, and a fastening region (22) for attaching a supra-construction, wherein an abutment region (16) adjoins the anchoring region (12), the abutment region (16) having a guide structure with a plurality of outwardly projecting ridges (18) provided thereon, and preferably, grooves (20) being formed between the ridges (20). The guide structure of the anchoring region (12) allows a better osseointegration and counteracts peri-implant bone loss.
US10537407B2
A method for correcting a malocclusion in the mouth of a user including the steps of: providing an appliance having an upper body and a lower body, wherein the upper body has an anterior portion having an angled surface and a lingual tab and a posterior portion having an elevated occlusal surface, and wherein the lower body has an anterior portion, a trough and a shield configured to surround the user's lower teeth when the lower body is placed in the user's mouth; positioning the upper body of the appliance relative to the user's tongue to achieve contact therebetween, wherein the lingual tab of the upper body is configured to contact a palate as the appliance is worn in the user's mouth; and positioning the anterior portion of the lower body relative to the user's lips to achieve contact therebetween and to push the lower teeth in a rearward direction within the user's mouth.
US10537403B2
A wearable, wireless and battery-free continuous health monitor includes an RFID tag used as an On-Off Keying Device to measure the heart rate. The tag's returned signal strength variations are used to calculate the respiration rate. Machine learning algorithms are employed to determine the health parameters.
US10537401B2
The present disclosure provides a vitreous visualization system including a vitreous illuminator including a vitreous visualization light source and a vitreous visualization tool that transmits lights from the vitreous visualization light source into an eye having vitreous, a pupil, and a vitreous-pupil axis. The vitreous visualization system further includes a general illuminator, which may include a general light source and a general illumination tool that transmits light from the general light source into the eye. The present disclosure further provided a vitreous visualization system including only a vitreous illuminator that transmits light from the vitreous visualization light source into an eye having vitreous, a pupil, a vitreous-pupil axis, and a retina at an angle B with the vitreous-pupil axis of the eye such that the brightness of vitreous in the eye is higher than the brightness of the retina of the eye.
US10537397B2
A robotic surgical system comprising a surgical instrument. The surgical instrument includes an elongate, hollow shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and a flexible section. The surgical instrument also includes a sensor apparatus comprising an electromagnetic sensor. The robotic surgical system also includes a force transmission mechanism coupled to the proximal end of the shaft and a processor communicatively coupled to at least the sensor apparatus. The processor is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor apparatus and to use the sensor data with mechanical property data for the surgical instrument and material property data for the surgical instrument to determine external force information for the surgical instrument.
US10537386B2
A microwave antenna has a radiating portion connected by a feedline to a power generating source, e.g., a generator. Proximal and distal radiating portions of the antenna assembly are separated by a junction member. A reinforcing member is disposed within the junction member to increase structural rigidity.
US10537383B2
A surgical instrument has an end effector mounted on the end of an elongate shaft extending from a handle. The end-effector grasps, cuts, and seals and/or coagulates tissue, and one of the operations is controlled by a trigger mechanism. The trigger mechanism has an actuator, drive shaft and flanged component for transferring movement of the actuator to the drive shaft whose movement controls the end effector. The actuator has a collar portion arranged to receive and retain the component. The component is free to rotate within the collar and has a keyhole-shaped arrangement, with a wider upper portion, and narrower lower portion to provide a sliding fit to the component main body. The component can be inserted into the wider upper portion, and then the main body of the component lowered into the narrower lower portion, with the flange of the component helping the component to be retained therein axially.
US10537375B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.
US10537371B2
The present disclosure describes various embodiments of a plate and guide that enable fixation of a fractured bone while reducing damage to tissue in the vicinity of the fractured bone. The plate may be sized and dimensioned such that the plate may be slid underneath a muscle or other tissue and positioned into a proper location for providing fixation of the plate to the fractured bone without requiring cutting of the muscle or other tissue. The guide may be sized and dimensioned to interface with the plate such that the guide is place over the top of the muscle or other tissue, thereby enabling the guide to be used for providing screws or other devices (e.g., rods, K-wires, etc.) to the plate in a proper orientation to provide fixation to the fractured bone without requiring cutting of the muscle or other tissue.
US10537366B2
A spinal screw assembly providing an adjustable securement of a fixation rod across at least two vertebrae. The assembly includes a pedicle screw having a spherical head portion, a threaded shaft portion and a tool engagement surface in the head portion for use in driving the screw into a vertebrae. The head portion of the screw is positioned in a body member adjacent a curvilinear surface disposed about an aperture in the end of the body member such that the shaft portion of the screw extends therethrough and the curvilinear inner surface abuts and mates with the head portion of the screw so as to define a ball joint therewith. The body member additionally defines a pair of opposed parallel slots therein adapted to receive a portion of the fixation rod and a locking cap bears against the fixation rod to releasably secure the rod within the assembly.
US10537365B2
A spinal screw assembly providing an adjustable securement of a fixation rod across at least two vertebrae. The assembly includes a pedicle screw having a spherical head portion, a threaded shaft portion and a tool engagement surface in the head portion for use in driving the screw into a vertebrae. The head portion of the screw is positioned in a body member adjacent a curvilinear surface disposed about an aperture in the end of the body member such that the shaft portion of the screw extends therethrough and the curvilinear inner surface abuts and mates with the head portion of the screw so as to define a ball joint therewith. The body member additionally defines a pair of opposed parallel slots therein adapted to receive a portion of the fixation rod and a locking cap bears against the fixation rod to releasably secure the rod within the assembly.
US10537363B2
A device that uses an anatomic landmark or fiduciary point to establish a point of origin for device orientation in space is provided. The device controls the direction and depth of delivery of a needle, wire, trocar or cannula utilized for diagnostic or therapeutic intervention. The device guides the percutaneous delivery of a needle, wire, trocar or cannula to a target spatial location on or within tissue.
US10537359B2
An overtube includes a slider within an overtube body, which guides an endoscope and a treatment tool into a body cavity. An endoscope-coupled part and a treatment tool-coupled part are provided in the slider, and the slider has a dead zone where the forward and backward movement of either the endoscope or the treatment tool does not interlock with the movement of the other and a sensing zone where the forward and backward movement of either the endoscope or the treatment tool interlocks with the movement of the other. A fluid-supplying connector that is provided on a base end surface of the overtube body, and has an axial direction that is made parallel to a longitudinal axis of the overtube body, and is detachably connected to an air supply tube for sending fluid into the body cavity through an internal space of the overtube body.
US10537358B2
A sterile drape, a surgical system with the drape, and a draping method are provided. In one embodiment, a sterile drape includes a plurality of drape pockets, each of the drape pockets including an exterior surface to be adjacent a sterile field for performing a surgical procedure and an interior surface to be adjacent a non-sterile instrument manipulator coupled to a manipulator arm of a robotic surgical system. The drape further includes a plurality of flexible membranes at a distal face of each of the drape pockets for interfacing between outputs of an instrument manipulator and inputs of a respective surgical instrument, and a rotatable seal adapted to couple a proximal opening of each of the drape pockets to a rotatable element at a distal end of the manipulator arm.
US10537351B2
A surgical instrument comprises a shaft assembly; a handle assembly; a battery assembly; a first driver configured to drive movement of at least a first component of the surgical instrument; a second driver configured to drive movement of at least a second component of the surgical instrument; a motor powered by the battery assembly and configured to selectively actuate the first driver or the second driver using an output of the motor; and a controller for the motor, configured to: perform a first limiting operation to the output of the motor when the motor actuates the first driver and a first limiting condition is met, and perform a second limiting operation to the output of the motor when the motor actuates the second driver and a second limiting condition is met.
US10537339B2
A surgical tool that includes a nose through which a cutting accessory extends. The nose is formed with an enclosed channel through which irrigating fluid is flowed. The enclosed channel has a helical shape such that as the channel extends longitudinally along the nose, the channel curves around the nose and the cutting accessory disposed in the nose.
US10537326B2
A surgical stapling apparatus includes a cartridge assembly, a firing assembly, and a lockout assembly. The cartridge assembly is configured to house a plurality of sets of surgical fasteners. The firing assembly is configured for repeated actuation wherein, upon each actuation, the firing assembly is moved from a first position to a second position to at least partially eject a set of surgical fasteners. The firing assembly further configured to translate from the second position back to the first position to reset the firing assembly for subsequent actuation. The lockout assembly is configured to permit a predetermined number of actuations and is configured to transition from a first condition, wherein subsequent actuation is permitted, to a second condition, wherein subsequent actuation is inhibited, when a number of previous actuations of the firing assembly is equal to the predetermined number of actuations.
US10537321B2
Described herein suture passer apparatus (devices and systems) that may be used to suture tissue within a narrow, confined space. In particular, described herein are suture passers having an elongate body and a lower jaw member that houses a tissue penetrator that is adapted to extend laterally from the lower jaw member and be deflected by a second jaw member? The second jaw member typically deflects the tissue penetrator either distally or proximally.
US10537308B2
A catheter for prevention of stroke by diverting and filtering the blood flow to carotid and vertebral arteries is provided. The catheter includes at least one balloon with an outer mesh cover that expands upon the balloon inflation and stays expanded after the balloon is deflated. The inflation of the balloon in the aortic arch or head vessels provides the deflection of embolic particles from the cerebral circulation and expands the outer mesh that provides for filtering and deflection of cerebral emboli after the balloon is deflated. An associated method of prevention of cerebral emboli and embolic stroke is provided.
US10537307B2
An information providing method which is implementable by using an ultrasound apparatus includes obtaining ultrasound image data which relates to an object; displaying, on a first area of a screen, a gain setup window for setting a gain of the obtained ultrasound image data; receiving a gain which is set by a user on the gain setup window; and displaying, on a second area of the screen, an ultrasound image of the object to which the set gain is applied.
US10537298B2
An extra-oral imaging apparatus is intended to obtain a cephalometric image of a portion of a head of a patient. Exemplary apparatus embodiments of cephalometric functionality of such extra-oral imaging apparatus can include a cephalometric support mounted to a base of the imaging system that is configured to position a cephalometric sensor about a cephalometric imaging area so that x-rays impinge the cephalometric sensor after radiating the cephalometric imaging area. A cephalometric patient positioning unit mounted to the cephalometric support can be positioned between an x-ray source of the x-rays and the cephalometric sensor. A cephalometric alignment sight can be mounted to patient positioning unit to provide a visual indication of alignment between the x-ray source and the mounted alignment sight/cephalometric sensors. Exemplary methods are provided that can use such exemplary cephalometric alignment sights and/or install cephalometric functionality to imaging systems using the same.
US10537289B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining respiration information from physiological signals such as PPG signals. A physiological signal is processed to generate at least one respiration information signal and an autocorrelation sequence is generated based on the at least one respiration information signal. In some embodiments, a respiration peak is identified based on the autocorrelation sequence and a composite peak is generated based on the identified peak and at least one previous respiration peak. Respiration information is calculated based on the composite peak. In some embodiments, a determination is made whether the autocorrelation sequence includes an undesired harmonic. When the autocorrelation sequence includes an undesired harmonic, the autocorrelation sequence may not be used in the calculation of respiration information.
US10537286B2
A catheter having a distal assembly with multiple spines with proximal ends affixed to the catheter and free distal ends. The spines have different lengths so distal ends of the spines trace different circumferences along an inner tissue surface of a tubular region to minimize risk of vein stenosis. The spine lengths can be configured so that the distal ends trace a helical pattern. The distal assembly may have a plunger which deflects the spines when moved longitudinally relative to the distal assembly. The catheter may include a second distal assembly distal of a first distal assembly wherein the first and second distal assemblies are separated by a fixed distanced or an adjustable distance.
US10537285B2
A patient monitor can noninvasively measure a physiological parameter using sensor data from a nose sensor configured to be secured to a nose of the patient. The nose sensor can include an emitter and a diffuser. The diffuser is configured to generate a signal when detecting light attenuated by the nose tissue of the patient. An output measurement of the physiological parameter can be determined based on the signals generated by the diffuser.
US10537283B1
The present invention includes two embodiments of a tethered ankle-foot prosthesis, one with a single toe to provide plantarflexion and with two independently-actuated toes that are coordinated to provide plantarflexion and inversion-eversion torques. An end-effector was designed which is worn by a subject, and which was integrated with existing off-board motor and control hardware, to facilitate high bandwidth torque control. The platform is suitable for haptic rendering of virtual devices in experiments with humans, which may reveal strategies for improving balance or allow controlled comparisons of conventional prosthesis features. A similar morphology is also effective for autonomous devices.
US10537280B2
The present invention is directed to an integrated system and a method for utilizing the system to detect and remove blood-borne factors of interest, such as pathogens and/or toxins and/or cytokines, from blood or serum (blood) by contacting the blood with a solid, essentially nonporous substrate which has been surface treated with molecules or chemical groups (the adsorbent media or media) having a binding affinity for the pathogens and/or toxins to be removed (the adsorbents). The invention can be used to remove virulence factors, e.g. toxins, that are released from various pathogens. In one aspect, the invention is for the treatment of sepsis and infection, such as infections associated with battle field trauma.
US10537279B2
A method of operating a CPAP apparatus in which the interface pressure is controlled to rapidly drop at the start of expiration by an expiratory relief pressure (ERP) that is independent of instantaneous respiratory flow, following which the pressure rises to an inspiratory level at or shortly before the end of expiration, or at the onset of an expiratory pause, if any. The ERP is an increasing function of the inspiratory pressure. The expiratory pressure follows a template that is a function of the expected expiration time, the magnitude of the template being equal to the ERP. The current estimated proportion of expiration is determined by comparing the expiration time of the breath in progress to low-pass filtered expiratory durations measured for a number of the preceding breaths.
US10537277B2
The subject matter described herein relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media for visualization of a resection target during epilepsy surgery and for real time spatiotemporal visualization of neurophysiologic biomarkers. One exemplary method includes a real time neurophysiologic biomarker visualization system implemented by at least one computer, receiving, as input, a pre-electrode-implantation MRI of an epilepsy patient's brain.
US10537276B2
A system and method of detecting eye movements of a subject for the diagnosis of neurological disorders. The method includes tracking eye movements of the subject, identifying microsaccades from the tracked eye movements, and characterizing microsaccade dynamics of the identified microsaccades to determine one or more parameters, such as microsaccade direction, microsaccade velocity, microsaccade magnitude, microsaccadic peak velocity-magnitude relationship, microsaccade duration, and intersaccadic intervals. The method also includes comparing the one or more determined parameters with a corresponding control parameter, assessing the comparison to determine differences between the one or more determined parameters and the corresponding control parameters, and generating a report including the diagnosis of neurological disorder based on the assessment.
US10537275B2
A system and a method is provided for assessing motion of a biological tissue of a subject including one or more superficial biological layers and a targeted biological layer. An optical perturbation is introduced within the one or more superficial biological layers but not within the targeted biological layer. A set of optical signal data is acquired preceding, during, or following the optical perturbation and, using the set of optical signal data, a set of optical characteristics is determined that is representative of light transiting the biological layers. Using the set of optical characteristics and a model of the biological layers, a target optical signal consistent with a target biological layer is separated and a movement of the desired biological tissue is determined using the target optical signal.
US10537274B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing a standardized pressure value representing a transient pressure event within a region of interest within a living body. An air-charged catheter is configured to record pressure data representing the region of interest. A measurement assembly includes a parameter calculation component configured to calculate at least a peak pressure representing the transient pressure event and a time to peak pressure, representing the time necessary to reach the peak pressure, from the recorded pressure data. A standardization component is configured to calculate the standardized pressure value as a function of the peak pressure and the time to peak pressure. A user interface is configured to display at least the standardized pressure value at an associated display.
US10537263B2
An atrial fibrillation detection system and associated methods of use are disclosed for analyzing and identifying atrial fibrillation signs of a user. In at least one embodiment, the system includes an at least one computing device configured for receiving and processing an at least one biosignal associated with heart activity of the user as captured by an at least one beat detector, and subsequently transmitting said processed at least one biosignal, as a plurality of sequence segments, making up an at least one interbeat interval sequence of the biosignal, to an at least one classifier configured for determining a probability of the at least one interbeat interval sequence of the biosignal being an atrial fibrillation rhythm or a non-atrial fibrillation rhythm.
US10537261B2
A system for facilitating display of cardiac information includes a display device configured to present a cardiac map; and a processing unit configured to: receive electrical signals and indications of measurement locations corresponding to the electrical signals; generate, based on the electrical signals, the cardiac map, which includes annotations representing cardiac signal features; and determine a set of interesting cardiac signal features. The processing unit also may determine, based on the set of interesting cardiac signal features, a region of interest; and facilitate display, via the display device, of the cardiac map and a representation of the region of interest. The representation of the region of interest includes a first display parameter value that is different from a second display parameter value, where the second display parameter value is associated with at least one cardiac signal feature that is not included within the region of interest.
US10537257B2
While there are various methods for acquiring biological information based on pulse waveforms, none of the methods have been implemented in a biological information reading device that can be constantly operated stably. Provided is a biological information reading device which has achieved high accuracy by removing disturbance components from a pulse signal acquired by means of a multi-axis pressure sensor or a plurality of single-axis pressure sensors, and which can be attached to an examinee at all times for continuous observation taking advantage of the small and light-weight feature of the pressure sensors.
US10537250B2
Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for cardiac monitoring. In particular, the systems, devices, and methods described herein may be used to conveniently sense the presence of an intermittent arrhythmia in an individual. The systems, devices, and methods described herein may be further configured to sense an electrocardiogram.
US10537241B1
The unsuitability of the retina of the eye as a reflective projection screen for image observation causes objective optometry to be expensive and of limited accuracy. The subjective assessment of image quality is the only way to make full use of the resolution capability of the eye. A subjective optometer for home use is disclosed with ample accuracy and confidence for mail order of prescription glasses. It overcomes the disadvantages of subjective optometry and is able to measure the refractive errors to the resolution limit of the eye, which is of great importance for the present state and relief of ametropia. Electronic recording and connectivity can be provided as an option.
US10537233B2
To suppress sudden changes in brightness due to a disturbance in a captured image, provided is a medical observation device, including: an acquisition section that acquires a sensing result of a brightness of an image of a subject in a living organism; and a control section that decides, according to a first interval in which the brightness sensing result indicates a value inside a certain range, a second interval in which to maintain an exposure of an imaging section at an exposure corresponding to a value included in the range.
US10537225B2
A marking method includes: a step of irradiating, with first light (narrow band light) from an endoscope, an observation target site not suitable for spray of a coloring agent in a subject; a step of picking up an image of, through the endoscope, second light (reflected light of the narrow band light) generated at the observation target site through irradiation of the observation target site with the narrow band light; a step of displaying an image in which a site suspected to be a tumor is highlighted by generating the image based on the second light received through the endoscope; and a step of providing a tissue denatured portion around the site suspected to be a tumor by using an energy radiation device while the displayed image is observed.
US10537216B2
A hand vacuum cleaner has an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet. A cyclone chamber positioned in the air flow path has a cyclone air inlet and a cyclone air outlet. A pre-motor filter is positioned downstream of the cyclone air outlet and a suction motor is positioned in the air flow path downstream of the pre-motor filter. The pre-motor filter is vertically spaced from the cyclone axis of rotation when the upper end of the hand vacuum cleaner is positioned above the lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner, and air travels generally rearwardly from the pre-motor filter to the suction motor.
US10537215B1
An ice scraper comprising a handle and a scraper head connected to the handle. The scraper head includes a proximal end, a distal end having a scraping edge, a scraping side, a chipping side, and at least three chipping teeth for chipping ice, hard snow, or frost from a curved surface. The chipping teeth extend outwardly from the chipping side. Each chipping tooth has a contact edge. At least one of the contact edges is offset forward or rearward of contact edges of two of the other chipping teeth so that at least one point of each contact edge can simultaneously contact the curved surface regardless of the scraper's position relative to the curved surface and regardless of a direction of the scraper.
US10537214B2
The present invention is a western style toilet seat and lid assembly, containing an integral urinal. The most basic embodiment presented herein features a front opening in a modified toilet lid, positioned directly over a rigidly attached urine pan, forming a urine receptacle conveniently located for standing users. Another embodiment features a removable and collapsible “dry” urinal cartridge, and a self-engaging lid braking system that allows users to quickly adjust the urinal position to their height. Other embodiments presented herein incorporate water rinse systems, supplied through concealed plumbing, and operated by manual or automatic pneumatic controls. The comprehensive designs integrate numerous user-friendly features including a self-opening cartridge, funnel spout seals that prevents drips during seated use, debris screening, odor control accommodations, and rotational dampening systems. For each embodiment presented herein, the toilet seat and lid operate just as conventional components, providing all the benefits of traditional seat and lid assemblies.
US10537209B2
A food processor apparatus. The apparatus may include: a base having a motor; a processing bowl that is releasably couplable to the base; a lid for the processing bowl having a feed tube. A pusher device, having a body and a safety rail that extends from the body, cooperates with the feed tube. A longitudinal slot, is located about the feed tube, and has a pilot opening that is located about the top of the longitudinal slot for receiving the safety rail. A linkage assembly is located about the longitudinal slot. The safety rail engages the linkage assembly when the safety rail is at least partially inserted into the longitudinal slot. A majority of the longitudinal slot, as located below the pilot opening, has a full width of the longitudinal slot directly exposed to an interior of the feed tube.
US10537206B2
It is disclosed a machine for coffee-based beverages. The machine comprises a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic circuit, a volume flowmeter and a processing unit. The processing unit receives a pressure dispensing profile signal indicating the trend of a configured pressure of a pressurized water during the dispensing cycle. The dispensing profile signal comprises a first volumetric portion having a first pressure trend in a first volumetric interval and comprises a second volumetric portion having a second pressure trend in a second volumetric interval. The processing unit generates a configuration signal as a function of the first and second pressure trend so as to drive the hydraulic pump, receives the volume measurement signal indicating the measure of the volume of the water at the end of the second volumetric interval and checks whether it is equal to the volume of a dose.
US10537199B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for a digital power supply that can provide independent power control, and control variable power, for two or more electrical loads. Disclosed embodiments may reduce the magnitude of harmonic currents and/or flicker introduced into a power system. Embodiments include a microprocessor that delivers power to electric loads using phase-controlled AC current. The microprocessor may calculate a power array corresponding to a requested power for each electric load. Logic is provided for populating the power array in a pattern that reduces the magnitude of harmonic currents and flicker.
US10537195B1
A monitoring system is configured to monitor a property. The monitoring system includes a package holder device that is configured to receive a package at the package holder device. The package holder device is configured to secure the package. The package holder device is configured to arm the package holder device. The monitoring system includes a monitoring control unit that is configured to receive, from the package holder device, data indicating that the package holder device secured the package and that the package holder device armed. The monitoring control unit is configured to communicate, to a user device of a resident of the property, a package delivery confirmation notification indicating that the package holder device received and secured the package.
US10537194B2
In one embodiment, a controller determines a particular compartment of a smart postal box in which a package is to be delivered. The controller associates the particular compartment with an authorized entity. The controller provides the authorized entity access to the particular compartment by aligning rolling doors of the smart postal box with the particular compartment.
US10537191B2
A shelf system includes first and second support rails, a wall panel disposed between the first and second support rails, first and second electrical supply rails disposed within a front surface of the wall panel and electrically insulated from the first and second support rails, a power supply electrically connected to the first and second supply rails, and at least one LED light fixture mounted on the first and second support rails, such that the light fixture is electrically connected with the first and second electrical supply rails to provide electrical current from the power source.
US10537189B2
A reception system for receiving objects comprises at least one reception device for receiving objects, a conveyor device, which has at least one conveyor belt section for conveying objects in a conveyance direction in the at least one reception device, and a sensor device, which is arranged on the at least one reception device, for detecting objects in the at least one reception device. It is provided in this case that the sensor device is designed to emit sensor signals along different signal paths over the reception device, to conclude a fill level of the reception device on the basis of an interaction of at least one of the sensor signals with objects conveyed into the reception device. In this manner, a reception system for receiving objects is provided, which enables further automation, in particular in the conveyance of objects into a reception device.
US10537182B2
A method and apparatus include attaching a lighted cup holder to a seating arrangement. The lighted cup holder includes a cup holder body and a light-producing light source, with the cup holder body being attached to the seating arrangement and having a cup receptacle therein, the light-producing source being disposed within the cup receptacle for illuminating the receptacle. A light-sensitive element operatively connected to the light source selectively controls production of light by the light source in such a manner that illumination of the cup holder is provided only under conditions where visibility is reduced to the point that it becomes difficult to locate the cup holder. The light-sensitive element is mounted on a master lighted cup holder and controls illumination of the master lighted cup holder and one or more slave lighted cup holders operatively connected to the master lighted cup holder.
US10537181B2
The present invention relates to a chair having a subframe, a seat part supported thereon and having a seat surface and a backrest which is disposed in the region of an edge of the seat part at least approximately perpendicularly to the seat surface and contains a contact surface for the back of a person sitting on the chair, wherein the backrest is designed such that it can pivot laterally about a pivot spindle extending at least approximately perpendicularly to the contact surface of the backrest.
US10537174B2
A magnetic leg glide apparatus for holding an outdoor furniture article against a ground surface in windy weather conditions includes a base member that includes a mounting plate constructed of a magnetic material and having a circular and planar configuration and that includes a fastener having a linear configuration extending away from a bottom side of the base member. The magnetic leg glide apparatus includes a glide member having a bottom wall constructed of a magnetic material of an opposite polarity to the magnetic material of the base member, the glide member having a side wall extending upwardly from a peripheral edge of the bottom wall, the side wall defining an open top and an interior area accessible via the open top for operably receiving a leg of the outdoor furniture article. The base member and the glide member are magnetically attracted to one another.
US10537172B2
A single-column conference table includes a base, a table top, and a lifting mechanism. The lifting mechanism includes an upright column having a bottom portion fixed to the base. A first accommodating chamber is defined inside the upright column. A lifting sleeve is provided in the first accommodating chamber. A second accommodating chamber is defined inside the lifting sleeve. The lifting sleeve is fixed to the table top. A driving unit is provided in the second accommodating chamber. The driving unit is a gas spring. A bottom of the gas spring is fixed to the base together with the upright column. A top of the gas spring is fixed to the support seat. The table top connected with the support seat can be lifted or lowered through the gas spring. The conference table is more stable and reliable during the lifting operation and can prevent the table top from rotating.
US10537168B1
A tumbler sleeve for holding a beverage container includes a first panel, a second panel, and a third panel. The first panel and the second panel are coupled along lateral edges to form a sleeve. The third panel is coupled to the first panel. The sleeve may form an upper opening and a lower opening. The upper opening is configured to receive a beverage container. The interior surface of the sleeve is configured to engage the beverage container in an interference fit when the beverage container is received by the sleeve. A handle is coupled to the sleeve in a pivoting engagement such that a user may hold the tumbler sleeve while maintaining the beverage container upright. The lower opening allows the lower end of a beverage container to directly contact a surface.
US10537166B2
A wearable eyeglass holder that holds a temple of a folded pair of eyeglasses in a manner that resists the inadvertent unfolding of the held temple and the wearer's loss of the eyeglasses. The eyeglass holder has a connector that enables it to be attached, in a pendulous manner, to the wearer's neck, clothing, or other object. The eyeglass holder has an oblong body with a double convex shape and a longitudinal inner channel with two oblong openings on the same face of the body. A temple of a pair of eyeglasses, inserted through the upper opening, comes to rest upon a waist extending between the openings. The eyeglasses rest on the waist and a foot of the body provides a second contact point with the temple that maintains it in a closed position.
US10537164B1
A cosmetic container with an anti-contamination function for a wiper is provided, where a ring member guides the introduction and discharge of a brush while being moved along the inner surface of a wiper by the pressure applied from a brush rod when the brush rod is introduced into and discharged from a cosmetic container. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the inner surface of the wiper from being contaminated by the contents such as mascara adhered to the brush and to ensure simplified use of the contents such as mascara. Further, since the inner surface of the wiper is not contaminated by the contents such as mascara, it is possible to ensure easy application of the contents such as mascara, which is adhered to the brush passing through the wiper.
US10537156B2
Disclosed herein are a shock-absorbing devices and shoes. In one aspect, the shoe encompasses an upper; a sole; and at least one shock-absorbing assembly, the shock-absorbing assembly including: a support frame connected to at least a portion of the upper or sole, and a plurality of shock-absorbing members having first and second opposed ends, the first ends of the shock-absorbing members being connected to a portion of the support frame. Also disclosed herein are methods for dampening an applied force to a joint during walking using the disclosed devices and shoes.
US10537148B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for use in reducing the impact to the head during sporting activities. The present disclosure provides a helmet cap that covers an underlying hard shell helmet. The helmet cap has a durable, energy absorbing outer shell, which lessens the initial impact to the helmet. The outer shell is formed into segments of padded material that may deform on impact. The outer shell has an inner surface that allows the outer shell to slide over the surface of a helmet thereby reducing forces applied to a wearer. The helmet cap may be securely attached to helmets without modification of the helmets. The helmet cap may include an adjustable fastener that allows the helmet cap to be securely attached to helmets of varying dimensions.
US10537145B2
An article of swim gear consisting of a cap for protecting the hair during the practice of recreational swimming or other aquatic sports. The cap comprises a main body whose tripartite structure allows the accommodation of the hair without squeezing it, thus maintaining the shape of the hairdo. The cap also comprises an internal positioning-blocking unit consisting of an annular band attached to the rim of the cap by only one of its edges, which gently holds the cap to the user's head, and a seepage-prevention strip cantilevered over the outer face of the annular band, which stops and absorbs the water that could seep under the edge of the cap in the areas of neck and temples. Three embodiments of the cap are described and graphically illustrated.
US10537143B2
A workwear unit for detecting, documenting, analyzing, monitoring and/or teaching processes has a portable control system and at least one functional module that is detachably connected with the control system. The functional module comprises at least a sensor module and/or a peripheral device. The unit includes at least a glove and/or a bracelet which can be worn on the hand or on the arm and fastens the control system and/or the functional module to the user's body.
US10537142B2
A garment extender including: a body provided with an attachment at each side thereof, each of the attachments defining a channel and a slit leading laterally into the channel. When the attachment is operatively secured to a garment slide fastener of a garment, a gripped portion of one of the stringer tapes of the garment slide fastener is inserted in the slit and the channel receives thereinto teeth that are supported by the stringer tape adjacent the gripped portion.
US10537134B1
A portable aspiration device includes an aspiration member and a bracelet member. The bracelet member includes a wristband, a base, and a locking structure. The base includes a receiving room for receiving the aspiration member and an accommodating room in communication with the receiving room. The wristband is fixed to the base and sleeve on a hand bowl to conveniently carry the aspiration member. The locking structure is accommodated in the accommodating room to lock the aspiration member, and includes a locking portion, a resetting portion, and a switching portion. The locking portion is inserted into the socket to lock the aspiration member in the base. The switching portion is pressed to drive the locking portion to disengage from the socket so that the aspiration member may be taken out from the base. The resetting portion is adapted to reset the locking portion and the switching portion.
US10537131B2
Electrically heated cigarettes used in an electrical smoking system include a flavoring-release additive and sorbent effective to remove one or more gas-phase constituents of mainstream tobacco smoke. The flavoring-release additive includes gamma cyclodextrin and at least one flavoring. Flavoring is released in a cigarette upon the flavoring-release additive reaching at least a minimum temperature during smoking. The flavoring-release additive can have various forms including, for example, powder and films.
US10537130B2
A method of forming a material structure from structural units contained within a liquid solution in a spray head is described. The liquid solution includes a solvent and a solute, the solute comprising a plurality of the structural units, the structural units including monomer units, oligomer units, or combinations thereof. The method comprises forming droplets of the liquid solution including the structural units, and spraying the droplets on a substrate, thereby substantially increasing the reactivity of the structural units within the droplets relative to the structural units within the liquid solution in the spray head. The increase in reactivity can result from the droplets containing an excess of a particular ion, the ion excess resulting from a voltage applied to conductive walls of the device which dispenses the droplets. The material structure is then formed on the substrate from the more highly reactive structural units within the droplets.
US10537128B2
A yeast extract containing 0.2% or more of γ-Glu-Abu based on dry weight of the yeast extract is produced by culturing a yeast, such as Saccharomyces cervisiae or Candida utilis, in a medium containing a compound selected from Abu (L-2-aminobutyric acid) and γ-Glu-Abu (L-γ-glutamyl-L-2-aminobutyric acid), and preparing a yeast extract from the obtained cells.
US10537122B2
The present application provides systems and methods for analyzing animal feeds and for adjusting animal feeds to improve the digestibility of animal feed components. Digestibility of animal feed can be determined by performing in vitro digestion of the feed and analyzing concentrations of residual components in the digested feed by NIR spectroscopy. Animal feed compositions can be adjusted to improve digestibility of components in the feed. The systems and methods of the present application can be used to determine the effect of an additive on the digestibility of feed.
US10537117B2
The present invention relates to a product comprising: a container (1) having a volume Vc, sealed by a sealing (6), and a dairy composition (2), having a volume Vd, which is comprised in the sealed container, characterized in that the dairy composition comprises caseinomacropeptide (CMP) and 0.60
US10537107B2
Gelatinous materials combined with the Colloidal Silver additive to formulate an antimicrobial product having cushioning properties. Embodiments of the present invention can include gelatinous materials selected from a group consisting of thermosetting polymer, Styrene-Ethylene-Butadiene-Styrene polymer (SEBS), Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE), and Polyurethane (PU) gelatin with and without a raised geometry on an outer surface.
US10537106B2
A gold nanoparticle-based assay for the detection of a target molecule, such as Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA in serum samples, that uses positively charged gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in solution based format. The assay has been tested on 74 serum clinical samples suspected of containing HCV RNA, with 48 and 38 positive and negative samples respectively. The developed assay has a specificity and sensitivity of 96.5% and 92.6% respectively. The results obtained were confirmed by Real-Time PCR, and a concordance of 100% for the negative samples and 89% for the positive samples has been obtained between the Real-Time PCR and the developed AuNPs based assay. Also, a purification method for the HCV RNA has been developed using HCV RNA specific probe conjugated to homemade silica nanoparticles. These silica nanoparticles have been synthesized by modified Stober method. This purification method enhanced the specificity of the developed AuNPs assay. The method can detect a target molecule, such as HCV RNA in serum, by employing modified silica nanoparticles to capture the target from a biological sample followed by detection of the captured target molecule using positively charged AuNPs. The assay is simple, cheap, sensitive and specific. Another aspect of the invention is anisotropic silver nanoparticles and methods of their use.
US10537101B2
The present invention relates to a method for reducing the phytotoxicity of systemic fungicides, mainly triazoles, in susceptible cultivars, mainly soy cultivars. The present method makes it unnecessary to develop new diversified fungicide formulations and to add specific substances to reduce the toxicity of these products.
US10537100B2
The present invention relates to a pesticide composition comprising at least one pesticidal active ingredient and at least one methylendioxyphenyl derivative compound of Formula (I), wherein R1 is a linear (C4-C6)alkyl.
US10537093B2
An electronic gas dispenser control system having backflow and pressure sensors is described.
US10537088B2
A system for storing and cooling milk includes a cooling tank to store milk, a first sensor monitoring the filling level of milk in the cooling tank, and a cooling system cooling the milk in the cooling tank including a cooling device, a second sensor, and a control device. The cooling device includes an evaporator, a varying-capacity modulated scroll compressor connected with its suction side to the evaporator, a condenser connected to the high pressure side of the compressor, and an expansion valve interconnected between the condenser and the evaporator. The second sensor monitors a parameter indicative of the pressure at the suction side of the compressor. The control device is operatively connected to the first sensor to receive the monitored filling level, the second sensor to receive the monitored parameter, and the compressor to control the capacity thereof in response to the monitored filling level and the monitored parameter.
US10537078B1
A soybean cultivar designated 78221232 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 78221232, to the plants of soybean cultivar 78221232, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 78221232, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 78221232. 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 78221232. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 78221232, 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 78221232 with another soybean cultivar.
US10537069B2
Adjustment device for automatic adjustment of a spacing between a first and a second cutting blade. The adjustment device includes a connector extending through a recess in the respective first and second cutting blades at right angles to the first and second contact surfaces and arranged to guide the movement of the displaceable cutting blades relative to the other cutting blade. The adjustment device further includes a first stop fixed to one end of the connector and arranged in contact with the outer surface of the second cutting blade, and an adjustment means located at the opposite end of the connector and arranged to apply a pre-tensioning force on the outer surface of the first cutting blade and maintain first and second contact surfaces of the first and second cutting blades in contact.
US10537066B1
A continuous baler having a movable section having an open mode and a closed mode. In the closed mode, the movable section is joined to a baling half chamber and a tying half chamber to form a baling chamber and a tying chamber, respectively. In the open mode, the movable section is moved away from the baling half chamber and tying half chamber, in order to allow passage of a bale formed in the baling chamber from the baling half chamber to the tying half chamber.
US10537065B2
An adjustable vane system for use with a rotor cage of a threshing system of an agricultural harvester includes a vane. The vane includes: a generally helically curved inner profile; a surface being an outer profile that is opposite the inner profile and is generally helically curved over a portion of the vane, the outer profile being configured to be positioned closer to the rotor cage than the inner profile; and a flat portion located midway along the outer profile.
US10537063B2
A head for an agricultural machine includes a frame with a center segment defining a first longitudinal axis and a wing defining a second longitudinal axis. The head also includes a motion control assembly connecting the center segment and the wing such that the wing is movable relative to the center segment between a deployed position and a non-deployed position. The motion control assembly is configured to maintain the second longitudinal axis in a parallel relationship with the first longitudinal axis as the wing moves between the deployed position and the non-deployed position, and the wing is movable from the deployed position to the non-deployed position along a continuous arc.
US10537061B2
A system and method for monitoring and coordinating harvest operations is disclosed. The system and method includes a control system to real time monitor the grain capacity of one or more harvesters to optimize harvest operations. The control system may also monitor harvest and offload vehicle positions and provide instructions for optimizing harvest operations.
US10537060B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for detecting stalks processed by a combine harvester, for measuring stalk diameters, and for displaying harvest metrics and yield data to a user based on stalk locations and stalk diameters.
US10537057B2
A spool assembly includes a spool formed of a central section including a core wall containing a core and passages extending through the core wall, an upper flange located at an upper portion of the central section, a lower flange located at a lower portion of the central section, and a protrusion section integral with the central section and extending above the upper flange. The protrusion section includes a cut-out formed inside the protrusion section, the cut-out having a non-circular shape adapted to be securely engaged to a drive member of a motor.
US10537056B2
A header for an agricultural harvester comprising a frame and an epicyclical drive operatively connected to the frame. The epicyclical drive includes a first rotatable wheel having a first central rotational axis and a first flange. The first flange includes a first eccentric axis rotatable about the first central rotational axis, and a first output shaft spaced from the first eccentric axis. The epicyclical drive further includes a second rotatable wheel having a second central rotational axis and a second flange. The second flange includes a second eccentric axis rotatable about the second central rotational axis, and a second output shaft spaced from the second eccentric axis. The header further includes a first cutter bar directly connected to the first output shaft and a second cutter bar directly connected to the second output shaft. Operation of the epicyclical drive results in substantially linear oscillating motion of the cutter bars.
US10537055B2
An agricultural planter row unit has a gauge wheel supported by a gauge wheel arm, to control planting depth. An actuator drives movement of a mechanical stop that bears against a gauge wheel support arm to position the gauge wheel support arm to obtain a desired planting depth. A seed depth control system generates a force estimate indicative of a force to make a planting depth adjustment. The control system automatically controls actuation of the seed depth actuator to exert the estimated force.
US10537053B2
An agricultural implement has a hitch frame, a center frame pivotally attached rearward of the hitch frame about a hitch pivot axis. Wing frames are pivotally attached to ends of the center frame and a center actuator is pivots the center and wing frames from a rearward extending operating position to an upward extending transport position. Caster wheels are pivotally mounted on front sides of the wing frames about caster and transport axes. In the operating position, the caster axes are oriented vertically and the transport axes are oriented horizontally, and in the initial transport position, the caster axes are oriented horizontally, perpendicular to the hitch pivot, the transport axes are oriented vertically, and caster wheel actuators pivot the caster wheels 90 degrees about the transport axes to align the caster axes with the hitch pivot axis. The caster wheels support the wing frames in both operating and transport positions.
US10542650B2
A data processing device which processes electronic data used by a board working machine is disclosed. The data processing device includes a status information processing section which performs at least one of writing processing, editing processing, and reading processing of status information, with respect to the electronic data. The status information at least illustrates whether or not the electronic data has not been completed. Preferably, the status information illustrates any of (1) the electronic data has not been completed, (2) the electronic data has been completed, and is waiting for a test by the board working machine, (3) the electronic data has been tested by the board working machine, and is waiting for authorization, and (4) the electronic data has been authorized.
US10542645B2
A wrappable textile sleeve for protecting a conductive elongate member against at least one of EMI, RFI or ESD and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a plurality of warp filaments and at least one weft filament woven with one another to form a woven substrate. The woven substrate has opposite sides extending lengthwise between opposite ends. The opposite sides are wrappable about a central longitudinal axis into overlapping relation with one another to circumferentially enclose the elongate member within a cavity of the sleeve. At least some of the warp filaments are provided as generally flat, thin conductive filaments shield the conductive elongate member against the effects of EMI, RFI and/or ESD.
US10542643B2
A shield can assembly is described. In one or more implementations, a frame is installed on a printed circuit board (PCB) by using a cross-bar connected to opposing sides of the frame to place the frame on the PCB. Subsequent to installation of the frame on the PCB, the cross-bar is removed from the frame. Once the cross-bar is removed, one or more flexible printed circuits (FPCs) are installed on the PCB. Then, a lid is connected to the frame to from a shield can over the FPCs.
US10542636B2
A cooling structure for large electronic boards with closely-spaced heterogeneous die and packages is disclosed. The assembly includes a frame having a plurality of openings. The assembly further includes a cold plate mounted to the frame. The cold plate includes at least one inlet and at least one outlet and fluid channels in communication with the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet. The assembly further includes a heat sink mounted within each of the plurality of openings which in combination with sidewalls of the openings of the frame and the cold plate form individual compartments each of which are in fluid communication with the fluid channels.
US10542631B2
Provided is a cable retention device to facet attachments and projections onto an enclosure. The device includes an inner and outer planar layer which include an inner and outer cutout respectively. The inner and outer planar layers are attached and aligned so the inner and outer cutouts overlap. The inner planar layer includes a pair of vertical slotted cutouts connected by a center cutout to form a plurality of pinch points. Each vertical slotted cutout includes an inner edge and an outer edge.
US10542629B2
Convenience in operating an electronic apparatus is improved for the purpose of protection of the electronic apparatus in a state mounted to the electronic apparatus. Therefore, an electronic apparatus cover includes a cover portion that covers at least a part of a display surface of an electronic apparatus, the cover portion including an operation position specifying recess that makes it easy to specify an operation position and a base being a portion other than the operation position specifying recess, at least a part of a circumferential portion of the operation position specifying recess being an operated portion, the operated portion being thinner than the base, a contact operation for causing the electronic apparatus to execute a specific function being performed on the operated portion. When such an electronic apparatus cover is mounted to the electronic apparatus, convenience in operating the electronic apparatus can be improved while ensuring protection of the electronic apparatus.
US10542625B2
A wiring substrate includes a first wiring layer; a first insulation layer including a reinforcement material and a first opening extending through the reinforcement material and exposing a partial region of an upper surface of the first wiring layer, in which an end of the reinforcement material projects in the first opening; a second insulation layer not including a reinforcement material, covering an upper surface of the first insulation layer, a wall surface of the first opening, and a first part of the partial region and an entire surface of the reinforcement material projecting in the first opening, and including a second opening exposing a second part of the partial region; and a second wiring layer including a wiring portion formed on an upper surface of the second insulation layer and a via portion formed in the second opening and connecting the wiring portion to the first wiring layer.
US10542624B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed relating to 3D-printed structures. An example method of building a sensor with a 3D printer includes building a first conductive substrate and building a second conductive substrate. The example method also includes building a dielectric structure between the first conductive substrate and the second conductive substrate, the dielectric structure including a first latticed structure including a first plurality of legs extending inwardly at a first angle and a second latticed structure including a second plurality of legs extending inwardly at a second angle.
US10542621B2
A conductive pattern includes an organic insulating layer, a first conductive layer provided on the insulating layer and including at least a first sub-conductive layer, and an additional conductive layer provided between the insulating layer and the first conductive layer, or on the first conductive layer, wherein the additional conductive layer includes a metal nitride.
US10542612B2
A device (1) for providing an amount of power to a gas discharge lamp (2) comprises a control circuit (3) for controlling a supply circuit (4) for supplying the power according to a power versus voltage graph (10). A calculator (30) calculates a boundary voltage value as a function of a measured voltage value of a voltage signal that has been measured after a predefined time-interval from a cold start of the gas discharge lamp (2). A more accurate boundary voltage value results in more stability and in less time required to reach a steady state. The calculator (30) may be arranged for calculating the boundary voltage value as a function of a minimum voltage value of the voltage signal and of a steady state voltage value of the voltage signal. A memory (31) may store voltage values of the voltage signal and a processor (32) may update these voltage values.
US10542607B2
An occupancy sensor includes a housing and one or more sensing elements. The occupancy sensor also includes one or more wireless radios. In addition, the occupancy sensor can include an interface element configured to control activation or deactivation of the one or more wireless radios upon interaction with the interface element.
US10542602B2
Disclosed is an individually accessible LED light system in which color and luminosity of the LED lights are individually controlled. Each of the LED lights can comprise an LED light bank, which can contain any number of lights. The primary colors can be used in the LED bank to create any desired color. The LED light bank can also be incorporated on a single chip with an address and control circuit.
US10542595B2
An LED lamp power supply includes a power conversion module, an AC/DC control module, a dimming control module, and an auxiliary control module. The auxiliary control module further includes a sampling unit, a starting range value preset unit, a protection value preset unit, and a control unit. The sampling unit is configured to continuously collect the value of the output supply voltage. The control unit causes the dimming control module to be in a standby mode of operation when the value of the collected output supply voltage falls outside the normal stable operating voltage range and is greater than the highest voltage value. The control unit causes the dimming control module to be in a protection mode of operation when the value of the collected output supply voltage is less than or equal to the highest voltage value. The LED lamp power supply can solve the short circuit or overload of the whole circuit and the technical problems of the flashing of the LED lamp during the dimming process, thereby providing the light-emitting effect of the LED lamp to meet the needs of the user.
US10542592B2
A method of driving an LED can include: (i) controlling a main power switch by a control circuit of an LED driver; (ii) turning on an auxiliary power switch when the main power switch is turned on such that a DC bus voltage is provided to the main power switch through the auxiliary power switch, and the main power switch outputs a driving current to a load; (iii) charging a capacitor by the DC bus voltage through the auxiliary power switch when the main power switch is turned off, where the capacitor is charged until a voltage across the capacitor reaches a predetermined stable voltage; (iv) clamping the voltage across the capacitor at the predetermined stable voltage; and (v) using the clamping voltage across the capacitor as a supply voltage for the control circuit.
US10542582B1
The present disclosure generally relates to wireless devices, and more particularly, to battery powered wireless devices and methods of operating said devices using a scheduled communication time. A first device and a second device of a building control system may communicate wirelessly during scheduled communication times. The second device may enter a listening state during the scheduled communication times, and may enter a non-listening state between at least some of the scheduled communication times. A plurality of user inputs may cause a corresponding communication between the first device and the second device. The user inputs may identify active periods of a day that user input is more likely to occur, and inactive periods of the day that user input is less likely to occur. The second device may be maintained in the listening state more during active periods than during inactive periods.
US10542576B2
In this invention, we disclose methods for enabling ad hoc cellular base station functionality within a user equipment when the connection quality between a base station and the user equipment is limited or nonexistent. These methods include measuring a connection quality between a user equipment and its serving base station. If the connection quality is below a threshold, the user equipment can enable its internal ad hoc cellular base station functionality. This is done by running a software within the user equipment that (a) checks the connection quality periodically, and (b) enables ad hoc cellular base station functionality of the connection threshold dips below a certain value. In one embodiment, that threshold could be the same threshold value that a user equipment would use if it were making a decision to handoff to another base station based on poor connection quality.
US10542567B2
Certain embodiments disclose a method in a wireless device. The wireless device receives a location of a time and/or frequency resource of a first Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) from a network node. The wireless device receives a location of a time and/or frequency resource of a second PRACH. Furthermore, the wireless device transmits a first random access attempt via the first PRACH and transmits a second random access attempt via the second PRACH. The first PRACH and the second PRACH each have an associated preamble, and wherein the second PRACH preamble has a different length than the first PRACH preamble.
US10542560B2
A method and apparatus for sending uplink control information by a multi-mode wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) capable of operating on multiple component carriers of a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) for multi-RAT operation are disclosed. The WTRU may generate uplink control information (UCI) pertaining to a first RAT and a second RAT, wherein the UCI may include a first plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgements (HARQ-ACKs) pertaining to a plurality of downlink (DL) transmissions of the first RAT and a second plurality of HARQ-ACKs pertaining to a plurality of DL transmissions of the second RAT. The WTRU may multiplex at least part of the generated UCI pertaining to the first RAT and at least part of the generated UCI pertaining to the second RAT onto a physical channel on a component carrier of the second RAT.
US10542551B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for wireless devices to improve wireless communication technology coexistence characteristics using narrow band use awareness in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may attach to a serving cell according to a first radio access technology. A frequency range in active use by the wireless device for communication according to the first radio access technology may be determined. The frequency range may include less bandwidth than the system bandwidth of the serving cell. An indication of the frequency range may be provided from a portion of the wireless device implementing the first radio access technology to a portion of the wireless device implementing a second radio access technology. It may be determined whether to modify operation of the wireless device with respect to the second radio access technology based at least in part on the indication of the frequency range.
US10542544B2
Embodiments of the present application provide an information transmission method, includes: receiving a beam indication signal on at least one beam that is sent by a base station, where the beam indication signal carries identity information of the beam on which the signal is located; determining the identity information of the at least one beam according to the beam indication signal on the at least one beam; determining, according to signal quality of the at least one beam, a primary beam used when the base station sends a downlink signal to the UE; and sending a first beam report message to the base station, where the first beam report message carries identity information of the primary beam.
US10542540B2
A network device for a wireless local area network, wherein the network device is operable to wirelessly communicate with a neighbouring device according to a schedule which allocates timeslots to communication between neighbouring devices. The network device has: a wireless receiver operable to receive a request from a child neighbouring device for at least one timeslot for communicating a first amount of data to the network device; a processor configured to allocate timeslots in a schedule to communication between the network device and the child neighbouring device.
US10542531B2
Disclosed is a 5G or a pre-5G communication system provided to support a higher data transmission rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. A method and an apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting, on a first resource region, a detection signal indicating that a downlink control channel is transmitted; and transmitting a signal of the downlink control channel on a search space related to the first resource region.
US10542527B2
There is provided a terminal device that communicates with a base station device. The terminal device includes a reception unit that receives downlink control information which is used for scheduling of a physical uplink shared channel and includes first information used to trigger a report of channel state information using the physical uplink shared channel, a higher layer signal including second information used to indicate two subframe sets, and the higher layer signal including third information. The third information is used to indicate a subframe set of the two subframe sets for which the report of the channel state information is triggered in a case that the report of the channel state information is triggered by a first value of a field of the first information, the third information is used to indicate a subframe set of the two subframe sets for which the report of the channel state information is triggered in a case that the report of the channel state information is triggered by a second value in the field of the first information, and the third information is used to indicate a subframe set of the two subframe sets for which the report of the channel state information is triggered in a case that the report of the channel state information is triggered by a third value in the field of the first information.
US10542525B2
Various aspects related to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to protect downlink (DL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform DL communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to communicate regarding uplink (UL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to an allocation vector. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to random access. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform UL communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.
US10542523B2
A device-to-device user equipment (D2D-UE) and a method for use by a device-to-device user equipment (D2D-UE) is provided. The method comprises: determining, according to a non-UE specific resource allocation configuration, a plurality of available channels within a resource pool; selecting a primary channel of the plurality of available channels for the transmission of data; determining one or more transmission (TX) opportunities and one or more reception (RX) opportunities associated with the selected primary channel, wherein the transmit opportunities comprise a transmit subframe and an associated transmit resource block which are allocated for data transmission, and the reception opportunities comprise a transmit subframe which is not allocated for data transmission; transmitting a scheduling assignment (SA) on a TX opportunity of the TX opportunities; and receiving, an SA of another D2D-UE on an RX opportunity of the RX opportunities.
US10542522B2
An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a channel use continuation unit configured to execute channel use confirmation for confirming that the communication channel is usable by continuously monitoring the detection process by the radar detection unit for a predetermined time.
US10542519B2
A terminal positioning method and a network device, where the network device obtains radio signal sampling information of a first terminal at a current moment. The first terminal is any terminal in a target region, and the target region is a preset geographic region. The network device obtains position information of the first terminal at the current moment by prediction based on the radio signal sampling information of the first terminal at the current moment and a predictive model of the target region. The predictive model is obtained by extensive data training in the target region, has relatively strong error tolerance and error-correction capabilities, and can accurately reflect a relationship between radio signal sampling information and position information of a terminal. Terminal positioning accuracy is effectively improved.
US10542500B2
Methods and corresponding systems for determining a transmit power in a mobile device include receiving, in the mobile device, a cell-wide power control parameter related to a target receive power at a serving base station. Thereafter, a transmit power is calculated in response to the cell-wide power control parameter and an implicit mobile-specific power control parameter. The mobile device then transmits using the transmit power. The cell-wide power control parameter can be a cell target signal to interference-plus-noise ratio, or a fractional power control exponent. The implicit mobile-specific power control parameter can be a modulation and coding level previously used by the mobile device, or a downlink SINR level measured by the mobile device.
US10542495B2
The embodiments of the disclosure include methods and apparatus that allow dynamic configuration of discontinuous reception (DRX) mode based on conditions associated with device use. For example, a device may be operating in a first mode of DRX having short and long DRX cycles that provide a level of user experience that is balanced with a level of power conservation. During operation, changing conditions of device use may indicate that the first configuration of the DRX may be changed to a second configuration by removing the short DRX cycle to conserve power without affecting the user's experience. For example, a user may move out of proximity of the device and may not be affected by a slower speed of data downloading. Based on the changed conditions of device use, the DRX may be changed to operate in a second configuration that may download data slower but consumes less power.
US10542492B2
Provided are a method for discontinuous reception (DRX) in an unlicensed band, and a device using the same. The device is converted from a sleep state to an active state, and attempts downlink synchronization during a synchronization period. If the device does not obtain the downlink synchronization during the synchronization period, downlink data is received in the unlicensed band on the assumption that the modulation order of the downlink data scheduled in the active state is not greater than a specific value.
US10542491B2
Techniques described herein use a wakeup signal to indicate to a user equipment (UE) whether an upcoming control channel signal resource includes information relevant to the UE. In this way, the UE can wake up to perform complex control channel signal processing only when the control channel includes signals relevant to the UE, thereby conserving battery power and resources of the UE. Such techniques are particularly suited to MTC UEs, NB-IoT UEs, and/or the like, which may communicate with a network only occasionally, and which may be located in remote locations where changing or recharging a battery is difficult.
US10542487B2
An edge device comprising access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) features is disclosed. An edge device can be a device located at a logical edge of a wireless network. An edge ANDSF component can rank access network resources. The rank can be based on characteristics of an access network resource, a user profile, device resource demands, or a user behavior model. The user profile can comprise information facilitating pre-authentication of a device to an access network resource. Further, the user profile can be considered portable with regard to localized aspects of edge ANDSF components. The user profile provides improved ANDSF feature performance.
US10542485B2
A base station transmits first discovery signals in different transmission directions from the base station through beamforming; transmits, for one or more first transmission directions corresponding to one or more first discovery signals reported from the mobile station, second discovery signals in second transmission directions within a predetermined range from the first transmission direction; and, for transmitting the second discovery signal, transmits the second discovery signal by multiplying, by a correction precoding vector for adding, to the first transmission direction, a transmission angle difference between the first transmission direction within the predetermined range from the second discovery signal and a second transmission direction of the second discovery signal to be transmitted, and by performing beamforming for the second discovery signal to which the correction precoding vector is multiplied, using a first weight matrix for beamforming in the first transmission direction within the predetermined range from the second discovery signal.
US10542476B2
An agent is configured to receive queries from an application server in a communication network. The queries are directed to one or more devices in the communication network. The agent selects a communication path for a device from a plurality of communication paths from the application server to the device. The communication path is selected based on a data size that is to be sent to the device as part of the query, a number of devices that are to receive the query, or a combination thereof. The agent transmits the query via the selected communication path. The communication path can be selected based on one or more of a time criticality of the query, a subscription class of a user of the device, a category of a type of the device, an operator-defined influence factor, network conditions along the communication path, a broadcast flag in the query, or a combination thereof.
US10542472B2
A terminal and a method for configuring such a terminal are provided for a user subscribed to an operator of a communication network, referred to as the nominal network, in order to access a communication service. The terminal is configured to access a first communication service via a first network access point. When the terminal is connected to a communication network other than the nominal network, referred to as a visited network, the terminal obtains data indicating whether the terminal can access a second communication service via said first network access point. In the case where the terminal cannot access the second communication service via the first network access point, the terminal determines a second network access point to be used by the terminal in order to access the second communication service and configures itself to be able to access the second communication service via the second network access point.
US10542469B2
The present disclosure relates to 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication systems for supporting higher data transfer rates, following the 4th generation (4G) communication systems, such as long term evolution (LTE). A method for supporting handover with multi-connectivity in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes sending a measurement report message including information of at least one small base station (eNB) to a macro cell eNB, receiving information of a new small eNB in a target cell from the macro cell eNB based on the measurement report message, and performing a random access procedure with the new small eNB in the target cell based on handover.
US10542466B1
A method of providing a wireless communication link to a mobile communication device. The method comprises providing a first wireless communication link by a first WiFi access point (AP) to the mobile device, where the first AP broadcasts a first SSID, establishing a communication session between the mobile device and a destination communication device via the first wireless communication link, determining locations of the mobile device by a server, and, based on a change of the locations of the mobile device, sending a WiFi handoff command by the server to a second WiFi AP, where the WiFi handoff command comprises authentication credentials of the mobile device. The method further comprises providing a second wireless communication link based on the authentication credentials by a second AP to the mobile device, where the second AP broadcasts the first SSID and the communication session is continued over the second wireless communication link.
US10542449B2
The present invention relates a 5-th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system provided to support a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The present invention relates to a method for transmitting or receiving a signal in a mobile communication network, the method comprising the steps of: detecting a traffic characteristic of a traffic provided to a terminal; determining, on the basis of the traffic characteristic, a first radio access technology (RAT) to be applied to an uplink of the terminal and a second RAT to be applied to a downlink of the terminal; and controlling the uplink and the downlink of the terminal on the basis of the first RAT and the second RAT.
US10542446B2
A system for measuring and reporting wireless network service quality using remote devices, has been devised. The system comprises a central analysis and control server comprising at least a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a network-connected computing device; a mobile wireless test device comprising at least a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a network-connected computing device, which may be an application on an end-user device or a dedicated device.
US10542445B2
The present invention discloses a method for performing radio link monitoring by a user equipment in a wireless communication system and device for supporting the same. Particularly, the present invention discloses a method for performing radio link monitoring by a user equipment when a base station supports at least one beam and device for supporting the same.
US10542444B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a methods and apparatus for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication comprises receiving, by a long term evolution unlicensed (LTE-U) device, a plurality of signals from an access point on an unlicensed communication spectrum. The method further comprises determining, by the device, whether a signal of the plurality of signals comprises a discovery signal. The method further comprises monitoring a radio link based on, the signal if the signal is determined to comprise the discovery signal.
US10542443B2
A method for testing an air interface device using emulated noise in unassigned uplink resource blocks (RBs) includes, in a network equipment test device including at least one processor, receiving a first downlink signal transmission from an air interface device under test. The method further includes identifying unassigned uplink resource blocks. The method further includes transmitting an uplink signal to the air interface device under test with emulated channel noise in at least one of the unassigned uplink resource blocks. The method further includes receiving, after transmission of the uplink signal to the air interface device under test, a subsequent downlink signal transmission from the air interface device under test. The method further includes determining an effect of the emulated channel noise on resource block assignments.
US10542439B2
A method implemented in a wireless device includes receiving an uplink grant from a network node indicating to the wireless device at least one data subframe and at least one control subframe. The at least one data subframe is one where the wireless device is scheduled to transmit a channel for carrying a data stream and optional control data, and the at least one control subframe is one where the wireless device is scheduled to transmit a channel for carrying control data only. The method further includes transmitting in at least one of the at least one data subframe and the at least one control subframe indicated by the uplink grant.
US10542424B2
Aspects of the invention include receiving, using a processing system, an actual user location trajectory that includes a plurality of geographic locations of places visited by a user. It is determined that at least one of the plurality of places visited by the user has been identified as a sensitive place. An obfuscated user location trajectory is created that preserves the privacy of the sensitive places that is consistent with the actual user location trajectory that conforms to a valid street route on a map, preserves spatiotemporal correlation between geographic locations, and is consistent with geographic locations visited by the user in the past. Contents of the obfuscated user location trajectory are output to an application in place of contents of the actual user location trajectory.
US10542422B2
A data backup method according to the present invention includes steps of: when a first account is logged in, obtaining information of a SIM card; registering a second account when determining that the SIM card of a terminal is changed from a first SIM card to a second SIM card; executing a predetermined data backup process so as to back up data corresponding to the first account to the second account; and sending a deletion instruction to a server for instructing the server to delete the data corresponding to the first account.
US10542413B2
In some examples, a computer-readable medium includes instructions. The instructions may be executable by a processing resource to maintain a default roaming restrictions database that stores default roaming restriction attributes specific to roaming classes of service defined by a network operator. The default roaming restriction attributes may be specific to the roaming classes of service independent of mobile country code and mobile network code. The instructions may also be executable by the processing resource to perform a lookup into the default roaming restrictions database to identify a particular default roaming restriction attribute specific to a particular roaming class of service defined by the network operator.
US10542408B2
In order to establish a mesh network, an electronic device may iteratively identify one or more mesh-network nodes and may determine associated duty-cycle ratios based on communication with the one or more mesh-network nodes. In particular, the electronic device may select candidate mesh-network nodes based on estimated throughput metrics of their communication with a root device in the mesh network. Then, for each of the candidate mesh-network nodes, the electronic device may associate with a given candidate mesh-network node, and may measure the throughput of the given candidate mesh-network node during a time interval by communicating packets. Based on comparisons of the measured throughputs, the electronic device may identify the one or more mesh-network nodes in the candidate mesh-network nodes and may determine the associated duty-cycle ratios. Subsequently, the electronic device communicates information with the root device via the one or more mesh-network nodes based on the duty-cycle ratios.
US10542405B2
Methods for aggregating Bluetooth profiles for faster connection and configuration are disclosed, including transmitting, subsequent to establishing a connection, a request message to a peer device that indicates support of a fast connection protocol for Bluetooth profiles configuration and receiving a response message from the peer device that indicates the peer device supports the fast connection protocol. After pairing with the peer device, a first list of profile descriptors for a plurality of Bluetooth profiles supported by the device may be transmitted to the peer device and a second list of profile descriptors for a plurality of Bluetooth profiles supported by the peer device may be received. A configuration of a plurality of Bluetooth profiles base, at least in part, on a comparison of the first list of profile descriptors to the second list of profile descriptors may be determined and transmitted to the peer device.
US10542394B1
A method for optimized short message service (SMS)-based Internet of things (IoT) device triggering. One method includes receiving, at a machine type communications interworking function (MTC-IWF), a request for sending a trigger message to an IoT device. The method further includes generating, at the MTC-IWF, an SMS message for triggering the IoT device. The method further includes identifying a serving node for the IoT device. The method further includes transmitting, by the MTC-IWF, the SMS message to the serving node for the IoT device and thereby bypassing an SMS-service center. The method further includes receiving, by the MTC-IWF, from the serving node, and in response to successful delivery of the SMS message to the IoT device, confirmation of delivery of the SMS message.
US10542390B2
The present invention defines a share group, and enables a content generated during an activity period to be automatically shared in the share group during the activity period. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an automatic content share method comprises, in a content share method, the steps of: setting a share group to share the content, an activity and an activity period; and sharing the generated content on the basis of the share group to share the content, the activity and the activity period, wherein the share group is formed on the basis of a proximity discovery.
US10542376B2
Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for consumer interfaces including ambient map displays are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system with one or more servers. The one or more servers may be configured to generate a consumer interface including an ambient map display with a graphical representation of a map. The ambient map display may further include merchant location indicators within the map. The merchant location indicators may indicate the activity level for merchant locations that are determined to be near a consumer device, such as through a variable blink rate or other indicator. The activity level may represent, for example, the number of consumers at a particular venue or the rate of a particular consumer activity, such as transaction activity. The system may be configured to provide real-time merchant data to consumer device based on tracking the consumer device location.
US10542375B2
A method and a system for an external device with information about a task being performed by a user device are provided. The method includes receiving information about the task being performed by the user device, identifying a plurality of external devices located near a wearable device of a user of the user device, determining a first external device to continuously perform the task from among the plurality of external devices based on the information about the task and characteristics information about the identified external devices, and transmitting the information about the task to the first external device.
US10542372B2
A method and system are described for determining a location of a consumer within a retail establishment, or other geographical proximity. The method and system use a portable computing device (“PCD”) such as, but not limited to, a mobile phone. The system and method may leverage existing infrastructure, such as wireless routers, to assist the PCD and a remote server in communication with the PCD to determine a location of a consumer in possession of the PCD within a retail location. The system may comprise a PCD running a geo-network discovery (“GND”) module, a server running a service set identifier (“SSID”) verification and rules (“V/R”) module, a telecommunications network, and a wireless router configured to broadcast a unique SSID.
US10542362B2
A detecting device includes a turntable, a rotating device, a sound generating device, and a processing device. The turntable has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the first surface is used to dispose a device to be tested. The rotating device is connected to the second surface of the turntable for driving to rotate the turntable. The sound generating device is used to emit a test audio toward the device to be tested. The processing device is connected to the rotating device and the sound generating device. Among them, the processing device controls a rotational speed of the rotating device to rotate the device to be tested, and controls the sound generating device to emit the test audio to the device to be tested such that the device to be tested may receive the test audio at different angles.
US10542360B2
An audio processing device has an information extractor that extracts identification information from a first audio signal in a first frequency band that includes an audio component of a sound for reproduction and an audio component including the identification information of the sound for reproduction and a signal processor that generates a second audio signal that includes the identification information extracted by the information extractor and that is in a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band, with a sound represented by the second audio signal being emitted from a sound emission device.
US10542354B2
A hearing device includes: an input module for provision of a first input signal, the input module comprising a first microphone; a processor for provision of a processor output signal based on the first input signal; a suppressor for provision of a first suppressor output signal based on one or more suppressor input signals including a first suppressor input signal; a first adder coupled to the suppressor, the first adder configured for provision of a first adder output signal based on at least a part of the processor output signal and the first suppressor output signal; and a receiver for converting an output signal based on the first adder output signal to an audio output signal; wherein the suppressor is configured to apply a first delay and a first filter with a first gain to at least a part of the first suppressor input signal.
US10542347B2
A speaker cabinet to effectively amplify an acoustic guitar, comprising of: two chambers, two speaker drivers, a port, and a tube within the port. One speaker driver is mounted onto front of tube to radiate sound outwards, while the rear sound waves radiate through same tube into ported resonant chamber. The second chamber is sealed, is next to ported chamber, and utilizes a second speaker driver. The front sound waves of second driver radiant into ported resonant chamber, while the rear waves radiate into the sealed chamber. The two distinct sound waves now inside ported chamber mix with each other, then flow around the tube and through the port. All three sound waves mix in front of the cabinet. Other embodiments include: Sound deflectors, horn-loading the port, a passive radiator on the sealed chamber to radiate a fourth sound wave, and a guitar shape inside the ported resonant chamber.
US10542338B2
An electronic device includes a concealed electrical connector positioned within a speaker opening defined by an enclosure of the electronic device. A mating connector is configured to fit through the speaker opening and couple to the concealed electrical connector to form a bidirectional communications path with circuitry within the electronic device.
US10542336B2
A method and apparatus for optimizing optical transport using a software defined network (SDN) controller are disclosed herein. The SDN controller may define a margin optimization function based on at least one optical system performance metric. The function may include at least one related initiation criterion. Further, the SDN controller may collect at least one measurement for the performance metric. The measurement may include an assessment of deployed carriers not carrying client data. The SDN controller may determine whether the initiation criterion is met based on at least one collected measurement. The SDN controller may select a system margin optimization mechanism and define a system margin optimization threshold criterion on a condition that the initiation criterion is met. The SDN controller may determine whether the optimization threshold criterion is met. The SDN controller may implement one or more optimization events on a condition that the optimization threshold criterion is met.
US10542332B2
In some examples, a system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) having at least one sensor configured to generate a stream of usage data; and an analytical stream processing component comprising: a communication component that receives the stream of usage data; a memory configured to store at least a portion of the stream of usage data and at least one model for detecting a safety event signature, wherein the at least one model is trained based as least in part on a set of usage data generated by one or more other articles of PPE of a same type as the article of PPE; and one or more computer processors configured to: detect the safety event signature in the stream of usage data based on processing the stream of usage data with the model, and generate an output in response to detecting the safety event signature.
US10542327B2
A server version of an interactive application executed by a processing device of a first mobile device communicatively connected to a main video rendering device collects first data generated by a first client version of the interactive application executed by the processing device. The server version of the interactive application generates first displayable content relating to the first client version of the interactive application based on the first data, wherein the first displayable content is rendered on a display of the first mobile device. The server version of the interactive application generates second displayable content based in part on the first data and additional data relating to the server version of the interactive application, wherein the first displayable content is different from the second displayable content. The server version of the interactive application, transmits the second displayable content to the main video rendering device to be rendered on a main video display.
US10542318B2
Systems and methods for, while a user is consuming a first media asset, generating for the user a recommendation of a second media asset based on a viewing history of the user. In some aspects, the systems and methods determine that a user is consuming only video of a first media asset, determine a first category for the first media asset, and retrieve a viewing history corresponding to the user. The viewing history comprises media assets consumed simultaneously with a media asset corresponding to the first category. The systems and methods select a second category corresponding to a highest number of media assets in the viewing history, select a second media asset based on the second category. Alternatively, the user can select the second media asset manually. The systems and methods generate for output the audio of the second media asset for simultaneous consumption with the video of the first media asset.
US10542317B2
A communication method and system for providing a secure communication pathway between a user and a third-party is described. The system uses a telecommunications provider which has a controller for distributing and controlling electronic communications between a database, a translation server, a third-party provider of content and public identification information (PII), and at least one television of a user. The at least one television has a set-top box (STB) and a remote control. The STB has a unique electronic identifier (STB-ID). The STB communicates with the controller and the at least one television utilizing the STB-ID to ensure secure communications between the user, the telecommunications provider and the third-party.
US10542314B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a processing system facilitates performance of operations including obtaining content for presentation to audience members, generating versions of the content, storing the versions in a library, and configuring a presentation of the content at a presentation device. The system detects characteristics of the audience members; if an appropriate version for an audience member is not available in the library, the system generates a customized version. A set of versions is presented simultaneously to the audience members, each of whom accordingly experiences a presentation version. The system receives data regarding real-time reactions of each audience member to the presentation version. An alternate presentation version, which can include a real-time adjustment of the content, is provided based on the reaction data of an audience member and presented to the audience member. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10542312B1
The system can utilize a standard high speed FPGA interface for a non-traditional use to facilitate the processing of high amounts of streaming digital data or the method can be implemented in other high speed data transfer systems. This system and method include the use of training/calibration pattern techniques implemented in a FPGA, or other system, to calibrate numerous multi-arm demultiplexers. The training/calibration sequence data rate being slower than the input data rate. In one example, the system and method utilized a mono-bit receiver capable of digitizing signals of at least 40 GHz with at least 20 GHz of instantaneous bandwidth.
US10542298B2
A method for generating ad hoc video stream channels is implemented on at least one computing device and includes: receiving a multiplicity of incoming user video feeds, where schedules for the incoming user video feeds are unknown; classifying the multiplicity of incoming user video feeds according to at least a genre; selecting at least one incoming video feed from among the multiplicity of incoming user video feeds for inclusion in at least one video stream channel, where the selecting is according to selection criteria, and the selection criteria are based at least on the classifying; generating at least one outgoing video stream for the at least one video stream channel according to the selecting; and delivering the at least one outgoing video stream to presentation devices.
US10542293B2
A video encoding device 10 includes: an entropy encoding unit 11 for entropy-encoding at least a quadtree split flag, a skip flag, a binary tree split flag, and a binary tree split direction flag; and an entropy encoding control unit 12 for controlling the entropy encoding unit 11, wherein the entropy encoding control unit 12, in the case where the skip flag of a block of an end node in a quadtree structure indicates that the binary tree split flag succeeds, causes the entropy encoding unit 11 to entropy-encode the binary tree split flag and the binary tree split direction flag, and in the case where the skip flag of the block oft the end node in the quadtree structure indicates that the binary tree split flag does not succeed, causes the entropy encoding unit 11 not to entropy-encode the binary tree split flag and the binary tree split direction flag.
US10542277B2
A method of video encoding is provided. The method includes downscaling a block of a frame of a video to generate a downscaled block. The method includes downscaling a reference block of a reference frame of the video to generate a downscaled reference block. The method includes processing the downscaled block to calculate first compression efficacy data indicative of a first efficacy of encoding the block using intra-frame prediction. The method includes processing the downscaled block and the downscaled reference block to calculate second compression efficacy data indicative of a second efficacy of encoding the block using inter-frame prediction. The method includes based on at least one of the first compression efficacy data or the second compression efficacy data, determining that the block is to be encoded using inter-frame prediction. Other methods of video encoding and a video encoder system are also provided.
US10542276B2
A data caching method for a video decoder includes: receiving a data request from the video decoder, wherein the data request is for requesting one or more reference pixel blocks to decode a present pixel block, and the data request contains one or more reference motion vectors each corresponding to a reference pixel block; determining, for each reference motion vector in the data request, whether the reference pixel block corresponding to the reference motion vector has been cached in a cache memory which caches a plurality of reference pixel blocks; and if the reference pixel block corresponding to the reference motion vector has not been cached in the cache memory: A) determining an expected usage number and a historical usage condition for each reference pixel block which has been cached in the cache memory, wherein the expected usage number indicates how many times the cached reference pixel block will be used in decoding of a predetermined number of subsequent pixel blocks after the present pixel block, and the historical usage condition indicates a least recently used record of the cached reference pixel block; and B) selecting and deleting one of the cached reference pixel blocks according to the expected usage numbers and historical usage conditions of the cached reference pixel blocks, caching a reference pixel block corresponding to the reference motion vector from an external memory into the cache memory, and providing the reference pixel block to the video decoder.
US10542263B2
The way of predicting a current block by assigning constant partition values to the partitions of a bi-partitioning of a block is quite effective, especially in case of coding sample arrays such as depth/disparity maps where the content of these sample arrays is mostly composed of plateaus or simple connected regions of similar value separated from each other by steep edges. The transmission of such constant partition values would, however, still need a considerable amount of side information which should be avoided. This side information rate may be further reduced if mean values of values of neighboring samples associated or adjoining the respective partitions are used as predictors for the constant partition values.
US10542256B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for determining a transform block size, and can improve image compression efficiency. The method includes: obtaining, according to image block information and a splitting manner of an image block, a parameter of a transform block corresponding to the image block; and obtaining a transform block size according to the parameter of the transform block and the splitting manner of the image block. In the embodiments of the present invention, during determination of a transform block size, the transform block size is obtained according to a splitting manner of an image block and a parameter of a transform block corresponding to the image block. Therefore, a transform block matching the splitting manner of the image block can be used, improving image compression efficiency.
US10542254B2
The disclosure discloses a video bit rate control method and a video coding device. The method includes: according to a pre-set first bit rate value and a code size generated in a previous period of time, a first quantization parameter is generated (S1); according to a pre-set second bit rate value and the code size generated in the previous period of time, a second quantization parameter is generated (S2); the first quantization parameter is composed with the second quantization parameter (S3); if the first quantization parameter is greater than or equal to the second quantization parameter, an image frame in a current period of time is coded by using the first quantization parameter (S4); and if the first quantization parameter is less than the second quantization parameter, the image frame in the current period of time is coded by using the second quantization parameter (S5).
US10542250B2
A light field display apparatus includes a display panel and a micro lens array. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix. The micro lens array is disposed on the display panel. The micro lens array includes a plurality of micro lenses. Each of the plurality of sub pixels emits light of a single color, of a set of primary colors. The arrangement of the micro lens array, relative to the display panel, causes the light of certain sub pixels, of the plurality of sub pixels to be emphasized. The micro lens array is arranged, relative to the display panel, so that sub pixels of each primary color are emphasized to a same extent.
US10542249B2
A stereoscopic video generation method based on 3D convolution neural network is disclosed, which is able to convert existing 2D video sources into stereoscopic videos. The method includes preparing the training data, dividing the training video sources into left eye view sequences and right eye view sequences; and then processing the left eye image sequences through shot segmentation via fuzzy C-means clustering method, calculating a mean image of all left eye images, subtracting the mean image from the left eye images, taking the right eye images as a training target; training the obtained 3D convolution neural network through the training data; processing the 2D video sources which need to be converted into stereoscopic videos in the same way as training set, inputting to the trained 3D convolution neural network to obtain the right eye view image sequences of the 2D videos; and finally combining the two to be stereoscopic videos.
US10542244B2
A vision system for a vehicle includes a plurality of cameras and a processor operable to process image data captured by the cameras to generate images derived from image data captured by at least some of the cameras. The processor generates a vehicle representation. A display screen, viewable by a driver of the vehicle, displays the generated images and the vehicle representation as would be viewed from a virtual camera viewpoint exterior to and higher than the vehicle itself. A portion of the vehicle representation is rendered as displayed to be at least partially transparent to enable viewing at the display screen of an object present exterior of the vehicle that would otherwise be partially hidden by non-transparent display of that portion of the vehicle representation.
US10542242B2
A display apparatus which processes and displays an image signal and a method of controlling the same are provided. The method includes receiving an image data, dividing the received image data into an image signal into an image signal and a metadata, and acquiring information relating to an area of interest by using the metadata and performing a high dynamic range (HDR) processing with respect to the area of interest by using the acquired information relating to the area of interest.
US10542237B2
A system can be provided that allows a user of a device to easily navigate through other users connected on a network. More particularly, the system can present or otherwise display indicators representing other users, and can allow a user of the device to manipulate (e.g., via scrolling, panning, gesturing, and the like) the display to traverse through the various indicators. In at least one embodiment, a level or a mode of communication between on the device and the devices represented by the indicators can be modified (e.g., upgraded or downgraded) depending on whether those indicators are currently being displayed in a display area of the device. This can simplify and maintain stability in the management of a large scale system of users.
US10542235B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a back cover accommodating the display panel, and a sound output unit including at least one sound output module disposed to overlap the display panel. The at least one sound output module includes a support plate including an uneven surface and a piezoelectric element attached on the uneven surface of the support plate and has a shape corresponding to the uneven surface of the support plate. Accordingly, a sound having a straight characteristic within an audible frequency domain may be output, thereby enhancing a sense of reality and an immersion of a viewer watching an image displayed by the display apparatus.
US10542234B2
An electronic apparatus includes solar cells, an accumulation portion that accumulates power generated by the solar cells, an electronic apparatus main body portion that is operated by using power accumulated in the accumulation portion, and an operation control circuit that performs control so that, in a case where a voltage of the accumulation portion increases, an operation of the electronic apparatus main body portion is started if the voltage of the accumulation portion exceeds a first threshold voltage, and, in a case where a voltage of the accumulation portion decreases, an operation of the electronic apparatus main body portion is stopped if the voltage of the accumulation portion is less than a second threshold voltage which is smaller than the first threshold voltage.
US10542225B2
Embodiments facilitate in-time registration of temporally separated image acquisition sessions to obtain highly comparable images without physical restraint of the camera and/or subject. For example, while displaying a live view being acquired of a subject in real time in a viewfinder window of an image acquisition system, a live position of the system can be measured, a real-time offset can be computed between the live position and a guide position (corresponding to a position from which a prior image of the subject was acquired at a prior acquisition time), and a guide can be overlaid on the viewfinder window to indicate a real-time positional offset between the live view and the prior image according to the real-time offset. A present image of the subject can be acquired when the guide indicates an in-time registration between the live view and the prior image.
US10542221B2
A method of Light-based Communication (LCom) using camera frame-rate based light modulation is provided. The method includes receiving light having modulated light properties that vary at a first frequency from a LCom-enabled luminaire by an image capture device using a global shutter image capture process, comparing light properties received at the image capture device over sequential image capture instances, and determining, from the compared light properties, data encoded by the modulated light.
US10542219B2
In one embodiment, an information collecting apparatus has a sensor, an arm, an arm drive mechanism, and a processor. The processor controls the arm drive mechanism to make the arm operate, and thereby makes the sensor move in the vicinity of an article arranged in a shelf. The processor acquires information indicating a state of the article to be measured by the sensor.
US10542214B2
A control apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to measure an elapsed time after start of recording movie, a set movie creation unit configured to create a set of movies from a plurality of movies, a display control unit configured to perform control so as to display a plurality of sections respectively corresponding to the set of movies, and to display a section corresponding to a recorded movie in a first display appearance, and to display a section corresponding to a not-recorded movie in a second display appearance, wherein the display control unit is further configured to perform control to display, a portion indicating a rate of an elapsed time in the first display appearance, and a remaining portion in the second display appearance.
US10542211B2
A method is used to evaluate a camera-related subsystem in a digital network, e.g., aboard a vehicle or fleet, by receiving, via a camera diagnostic module (CDM), sensor reports from the subsystem and possibly from a door sensor, rain/weather sensor, or other sensor. The CDM includes data tables corresponding to subsystem-specific fault modes. The method includes evaluating performance of the camera-related subsystem by comparing potential fault indicators in the received sensor reports to one of the data tables, and determining a pattern of fault indicators in the reports. The pattern is indicative of a health characteristic of the camera-related subsystem. A control action is executed with respect to the digital network in response to the health characteristic, including recording a diagnostic or prognostic code indicative of the health characteristic. The digital network and vehicle are also disclosed.
US10542210B2
A display control apparatus includes circuitry configured to obtain information indicating a period to generate a panoramic image generated by a plurality of captured images, the period being specified by a user, to display a range in accordance with the obtained information on a user interface of a display unit, and to generate the panoramic image corresponding to the range displayed on the user interface.
US10542195B2
A device for measuring strain and volume of a soil sample including an enclosure adapted to receive a soil sample within another enclosure. A base adapted to hold the sample enclosure. The device also has a plurality of moveable arms located between the enclosures which may be a spaced distance apart and adapted to move around the sample. Cameras as included on the arms.
US10542193B1
A method of performing non-uniformity correction for an imaging system includes receiving image data from a detector. The method also includes retrieving stored correction coefficients from the memory. The method also includes retrieving a stored factory calibration reference frame. The method also includes acquiring an operational calibration reference frame. The method also includes computing updated correction coefficients based on the stored correction coefficients, the stored factory calibration reference frame, and the operational calibration reference frame. The method also includes computing the non-uniformity correction based on the updated correction coefficients. The method also includes forming a corrected image by applying the non-uniformity correction to the image data. The method further includes outputting the corrected image.
US10542185B2
A look-up table for use in a printing system is created. The printing system prints an input image in a print color space. The look-up table is created by accessing a predetermined look-up table representing a mapping of color values of an input color space to ink-vectors of a print color space; applying a p-by-q halftone threshold matrix to each ink-vector of the predetermined look-up table to generate a p-by-q halftone cell for each ink-vector; and creating a further look-up table which maps, at least a sample of, the color values of input color space to the at least one halftone cell.
US10542174B2
A flatbed scanner document scanner includes a large format document scanner body accommodating a rectangular rigid frame with an upwardly facing plane face and a rectangular transparent plate for supporting a large format document. The rectangular transparent plate overlies the upwardly facing plane face all around the metal frame. The scanner also includes a movable carriage configured to move along and below the rectangular transparent plate and carrying a line camera extending across the rectangular transparent plate. The rectangular transparent plate and the metal frame are bonded together by a hard glue seam that runs on the upwardly facing plane face of the metal frame. A predetermined deflected shape can be formed when the bonded plate and frame are turned upside-down. The rectangular metal frame can deform under its own load to a cambered shape, a flat shape or a less deflected shape when turned upright in a normal position.
US10542173B2
An information processing apparatus including a transmission function of transmitting data receives data including at least a destination field and a data field set to be transferred. Setting is performed so that a setting included in a field in the received data is added to a setting previously set as a setting for the transmission function. Data is transmitted to destinations that have been set as settings for the transmission function.
US10542172B2
A supply item has toner for use in an imaging device. A chip has memory storing quanta indicating allowed usage of the supply item over its lifetime and a multiplier correlating the quanta to toner mass. The imaging device requires quanta to conduct imaging operations and loads the quanta and multiplier by way of a certificate stored in the memory. The imaging device retrieves quanta from the chip over time and both devices keep tally. Initialization between the supply item and imaging device includes providing encrypted and unencrypted instances of firmware versions and certificates from the supply item that the imaging device can compare for security. Alternatively, the supply item defines a fuser assembly, imaging unit, intermediate transfer member, or other component installed for use in the imaging device.
US10542169B2
The image forming apparatus includes an image reading section and a control section. The image reading section reads a document placed on a contact glass to generate image data. The control section decides whether or not the document is present at a specified position of the contact glass and, upon deciding that the document is present at the specified position, erases handwritten images from the image data of the document read by the image reading section.
US10542168B2
An image reading device includes a turning unit and a reading unit having a reader and a reading glass. The reader reads, through the reading glass, an image on a sheet placed on the reading glass. The turning unit can turn with respect to the reading unit. The turning unit includes a pressing plate, a communication unit, and an attachment part. The pressing plate presses a sheet on the reading glass against the reading glass when the turning unit is at a position closing the reading glass. The communication unit receives data from outside the image reading device by wireless communication. The communication unit is detachably mounted within the turning unit. The attachment part attaches the communication unit and has a weight mounting portion capable of mounting a weight.
US10542167B2
Method and systems of automated document processing described herein include activating in sequence a plurality of illumination modules of an illumination source to illuminate a document, where the plurality of illumination modules are located at different positions relative to the document. The document can be imaged each time the document is illuminated by an illumination module to provide a plurality of images. A shadow profile of the document can be obtained based on the plurality of images. One or more of a boundary of the document and presence of a fastener attached to the document can be identified using the shadow profile. Any fasteners present may be removed using a robot arm.
US10542166B2
An image reading apparatus including a controller configured to perform an update processing for updating shading correction data stored in a memory by a generation processing of generating shading correction data based on an image signal of a reference member and perform a size determination processing for determining a size of a document based on an image signal of the document, wherein, when the document on the document platen is read, the controller performs the generation processing before the document is read, and an image processing portion performs the shading correction using the shading correction data generated before the document is read, and wherein, when the size determination processing is performed, the image processing portion performs the shading correction using the shading correction data stored in the memory, and the update processing is not performed.
US10542164B2
An operation console used in relation to an apparatus as an object of control operated by a user operation includes: a display device having a display area for displaying information to the user; an input device for the user to input a request; and a display control device displaying, if a request for displaying specific information on said display device is input through the input device, the specific information on the display device. The input device includes a plurality of operation buttons for inputting a plurality of requests, corresponding to respective requests, arranged in the vicinity of the display area. Among the plurality of operation buttons, an operation button corresponding to the request for displaying the specific information is provided closest to the display device.
US10542163B2
An image forming device includes: a post processor that performs post processing for folding or forming crease on an adjustment sheet including a reference mark and an adjustment pattern filled in with black, across the adjustment pattern based on a predetermined reference position; an image reader that reads an image of the adjustment sheet under a condition that an orientation of the adjustment sheet is changed according to the post processing type or characteristics of the adjustment sheet which is placed on the platen so that the reference mark is in a predetermined direction; a position identifying unit that identifies a fold line or crease position based on the fold line or crease that appears in the adjustment sheet; and a position adjusting unit that adjusts a fold or crease position of the post processor based on a difference between the fold or crease position and the reference position.
US10542150B1
A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) server is configured to provide VoIP services to a plurality of VoIP-capable endpoint devices. The VoIP server receives, from applications running on the plurality of VoIP-capable endpoint devices, location updates identifying geographic locations of the plurality of VoIP-capable endpoint devices. The VoIP server modifies a location database to include entries specifying the geographic locations of the plurality of VoIP-capable endpoint devices. Telephone calls are routed based upon the entries specifying geographic locations of the plurality of VoIP-capable endpoint devices. Based upon input parameters, a set of periodic update timings are generated and sent to the plurality of VoIP-capable endpoint devices.
US10542149B2
A customer serving control system includes: a customer information acquiring unit acquiring customer information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit causing the customer information to be presented to a first operator; a serving information generating unit generating, based on operation of the first operator, first serving information indicating a serving content according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving control unit causing the first operator to serve the customer through the customer serving apparatus by instructing the customer serving apparatus to serve the customer based on the first serving information; an operator emotion identifying unit identifying an emotion of the first operator; and a serving determining unit determining, based on an emotion of the first operator, whether to maintain a state where the first operator is serving the customer through the customer serving apparatus.
US10542131B1
A system and method for use with an assisted user's communication device that includes a display. The method includes providing a user communication device including a processor that is programmed to perform the step of, upon disconnection of an emergency call to a hearing user in which a captioning service has provided text transcription of voice messages from the hearing user, maintaining a link to the captioning service for a predetermined period of time. The processor also is programmed to perform the step of recognizing the call as an emergency call upon placement of the call, and the captioning service is automatically initiated upon the processor performing that recognition.
US10542128B2
In order to achieve the above or other objectives, a mobile terminal according to an aspect of the present invention comprises, a first body; a second body rotatably connected to a first direction side of the first body; a hinge part which is placed between the first body and the second body so as to rotatably connect the second body to the first body; and a flexible display unit, one side of which is placed on one surface of the first body and the other side of which is placed on one surface of the second body, wherein the flexible display unit is bent according to a change in the angle of the hinge part. The mobile terminal has an advantage in that the flexible display unit is slidably coupled to at least one of the bodies so as to be slidingly moved according to a rotation of the hinge part, and thus no folding occurs in the surface of the flexible display unit placed on the hinge part.
US10542124B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of implementing rate limiting in a representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) system. A method of operating an instance of a REST API server, includes: receiving a REST API request that matches a rate limit rule associated with the instance of the REST API server; preparing a REST API response that includes rate limiting response headers. The method includes determining whether a rate limit violation exists that corresponds to the rate limit rule and, when it does, adding an error message to the REST API response. Otherwise, the REST API request is fulfilled and corresponding data is added to the REST API response. The method includes sending the REST API response including the rate limiting response headers and either the error message or the corresponding data.
US10542117B2
Embodiments relate to systems, devices, and computer-implemented methods for providing secure access to a shared registration system of a domain name registry by generating authorization information associated with a domain name, storing the authorization information in an archive, receiving, from a non-registrar service provider, a request for access to functionality of a shared registration system of the domain name registry, where the request is associated with the domain name and includes authorization information, determining whether the received authorization information is valid using the archived authorization information, and allowing the non-registrar service provider access to the functionality of the SRS based on a determination that the second authorization information is valid.
US10542116B2
A communication device is described comprising a receiver configured to receive data comprising information representing a required quality of service of the transmission of the data, hardware resources configured to perform a processing of the data and a controller configured to set a speed of the processing of the data by the hardware resources based on the determined required quality of service.
US10542114B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for adding conversation context from detected audio to contact records. An audio stream is received through a microphone of a personal computing device. Context analysis is performed of the audio stream to detect conversation context in the audio stream. A request is received to associate the conversation context with a selected contact person. A determination is made of conversation context detected from a segment of the audio stream received during a period of time from when the request was received. The conversation context determined for the period of time is included in a contact record for the selected contact person. The contact record is stored in a contact database including a plurality of contact records for a plurality of contact persons, wherein the contact records include conversation context and location information associated with the contact persons.
US10542113B2
A method includes receiving one or more social networking updates, identifying update information corresponding to each of the one or more social networking updates, wherein update information includes at least user information, interaction information, and time information, calculating a prioritization score for each of the one or more social networking updates according to the identified update information, prioritizing the one or more updates based on the calculated prioritization scores, and displaying the one or more updates according to the prioritization. A computer program product and computer system corresponding to the method are also disclosed.
US10542108B2
A method and federated publish/subscribe system for data transfer in the federated publish/subscribe system. The federated publish/subscribe system includes a processor, a first message broker, and a second message broker. The second message broker transmits, via the processor, a message A to a first subscribing application and a message (A+Δ) to a second subscribing application. The message (A+Δ) differs from the message A by changes Δ. The first subscribing application and the second subscribing application are different subscribing applications. Prior to the transmitting by the second message broker, the second message broker receives, from the first message broker via the processor, either (i) a message (A, Δ) comprising the message A and the changes Δ or (ii) the message A and a message Δ comprising the changes Δ.
US10542099B2
A gateway device that accesses to an information processing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to when the data corresponding to the search key information, transmit the search key information to a first gateway device; when the search key information from a second gateway device is received and the received search key information is not included in the search key information, transmit the search key information; when the data corresponding to the search key information is not included in the search key information that has been transmitted to the information processing device, transmit the search key information corresponding to plural pieces of data; and determine whether or not continue to transmit the search key information to first gateway device based on a first ratio and a second ratio when the gateway device transmits the search key information to the first gateway device.
US10542098B2
An method for M2M communications and an M2M node are disclosed. The M2M node provides a communication management function for communication between a first service layer in a first network and a second service layer in a second network. The M2M node receives a first message from a first application in the first service layer. The first message encapsulates a second message. The M2M node determines based on at least a first attribute identifying an expiration time after which the communication management function does not facilitate communication, that the communication management function is available to process the first message. The M2M node determines based on at least a second attribute defining an access control list identifying applications in the first service layer for which the communication management function may provide processing, that the communication management function is available to process the first message from the first application.
US10542095B2
A measurement system includes a controller which is connected to a first network, and a plurality of sensor units of which is connected to the first network and is provided with a synchronous signal transmitter, and the controller includes a setting section that sets at least one of the plurality of sensor units as a first node which transmits a synchronous signal to the first network.
US10542093B2
Embodiments of a sensor network system provide surveillance capabilities in multiple contexts/environments (e.g., military, commercial, scientific, civic, urban, wilderness, etc.). Network nodes may include devices such as sensors, network routers, network controllers, etc. Network sensors may be configured so that power management objectives are maximized. Network sensors (both individually and as a group) may be capable of intelligent and cooperative information gathering, so that the output of the sensor network does not contain high levels of irrelevant information. The network nodes may communicate among one another via one or more communication links, and in some cases, multiple routes between any two network nodes may be available. The sensor network may include aspects of both high data rate and low data rate network features. One or more network controllers may provide various network management capabilities, including management of network routing, information collection, information exportation, network configuration, etc.
US10542089B2
In one embodiment a plurality of open channel solid state drives (SSDs) are implemented over a network comprised of a network switch having a plurality of nodes, a remote host connected to a first node of the network switch, a metadata server connected to a second node of the network switch, and an abstracted memory structure comprised of at least part of one of the plurality of open channel SSDs. In one embodiment, the remote host is configured to communicate with the metadata server by issuing a command identifying data related to the abstracted memory structure. In another embodiment, the metadata server is configured to communicate with the remote host by responding to the command and identifying a physical address corresponding to the identified data.
US10542081B2
A design apparatus is provided for designing a probability that a delivery server or a delivery route is selected for content delivery in response to a delivery request from a user. The design apparatus receives, as input parameter values, a parameter related to a network and an estimated amount of demand for delivery requests generated by users for content, and designs a selection probability that a cache server is selected as a delivery server for content delivery or a selection probability that a delivery route is selected, using model predictive control. The model predictive control uses an objective function for reducing the number of excessive delivery requests, each of which is a delivery request generated by a user for a content item and then rejected, and said delivery route is a combination of the delivery server and a delivery path on which the content is delivered by the delivery server.
US10542080B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and apparatus for load-balancing image-processing jobs based on the number of pixels in the images and/or the nature of the processing that is requested on those pixels. For example, a set of machines may run software to provide various types of image processing services, such as format conversion, recompression, resizing, cropping, among others. These are referred to as image servers. In accordance with the teachings hereof, the load on each image server can be calculated based on the number of pixels in the images that are waiting to be processed in the image server's processing queue, adjusted by the type of processing that is requested on each image. The adjustment typically reflects and adjusts for the relative time needed to perform various types of processing. Load scores can be further adjusted based on the processing capabilities of each image server, in some embodiments.
US10542077B1
In one example, a cloud exchange comprises an interconnection platform of a network data center to configure a plurality of interconnection assets of the network data center to interconnect customer networks of a plurality of customer networks co-located in the network data center, the interconnection platform comprising: a network event unit controller configured to receive an indication of a network event of an interconnection asset of the plurality of interconnection assets; generate, in response to the network device report message, one or more network event messages based on the network event, wherein each of the network event messages includes an indication of the network event; and send the one or more network event messages to one or more customer systems for respective customer networks of the plurality of customer networks, wherein the one or more customer systems are affected by the network event.
US10542074B2
A transmission stream is generated. In the transmission stream, a first transmission packet where transmission media is included in a payload and a second transmission packet where information relating to the transmission media is included in the payload are time division multiplexed. The transmission stream is transmitted to a receiving side through a predetermined transmission path. If the transmission media included in the payload of the first transmission packet is file data configuring the predetermined contents, information relating to the predetermined contents is inserted into a header thereof. At the receiving side, the first transmission packet including the file data configuring the predetermined contents can be acquired easily and accurately based on the information.
US10542067B2
Systems and methods for allocating bandwidth between a coordinator device and a user equipment (UE). In the system, the UE includes a communication interface configured to communicate with the coordinator device. The UE also includes a processor configured to receive an initial resource price from the coordinator device, determine an initial resource request, and transmit the initial resource request to the coordinator device.
US10542061B2
Systems and methods for automatically generating top level index files for use in adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the method of the invention includes receiving a request from a playback device at a playback server, where the request identifies a piece of content, retrieving a list of assets associated with the identified piece of content using the playback server, filtering the list of assets using at least one predetermined criterion using the playback server, generating a top level index file describing each asset in the filtered list of assets using the playback server, and sending the top level index file to the playback device using the playback server.
US10542057B2
A method of multicasting real-time video is described. The method begins by establishing a multicast network of machines capable of ingress, forwarding and broadcasting traffic, together with a mapping infrastructure. The multicast network preferably comprises a portion of an overlay network, such as a content delivery network (CDN). A video stream is published to the multicast network by (a) using the mapping infrastructure to find an ingress node in the multicast network, and then receiving the video stream from a publisher at the ingress node. One or more subscribers then subscribe to the video stream. In particular, and for subscriber, this subscription is carried out by (a) using the mapping infrastructure to find an egress node for the requesting client, and then delivering the video stream to the subscriber from the egress node. Preferably, the publisher and each subscriber use WebRTC to publish or consume the video stream, and video stream is consumed in a videoconference.
US10542056B2
A communication system can include terminal devices that communicate with a social network or a computer server device for scheduling use of conference resources and/or for using conference appliances that may be located in a conference room being used for a video conference or teleconference. The communication system can be configured to permit a user to use such resources without having to have a user's device be physically and directly connected by wiring to a conference appliance or communication device. The communication system can also be configured to validate participants to help ensure that only authorized personnel are properly attending a scheduled conference based on audio and/or video input received for the different participants and can also be configured to allow screen sharing to be performed during a video conference or teleconference.
US10542045B2
The secure management of attachments is described. In one example, a message is received by a device management computing environment from a client computing device. The message can include an addressee list, a resource locator to a file, and a schedule associated with an event, for example. The message is intended for distribution to a number of other client devices along with the file according to the addressee list. However, the file is not directly attached to the message. Instead, the distribution of and access to the file is managed separately and securely by the device management computing environment. The device management computing environment can cause the file to be accessible through the client devices using the resource locator based on the schedule associated with the event. Further, after the event, the device management computing environment can cause the file to be inaccessible and/or removed from the client devices.
US10542042B2
The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A SECURE RESOURCE ACCESS AND PLACEMENT PLATFORM (“SRAP PLATFORM”) provides a secure supporting infrastructure within a corporate network framework and applications based thereon for use and placement of corporate resources. A non-trusted device may be authorized to access and use corporate resources, and the corporate network server may manage the placement of resources via the SRAP PLATFORM.
US10542031B2
Embodiments described herein may be directed to systems, methods, apparatuses, devices, computer program products, computer-executable instructions, and/or applications for providing a remote cloud browsing session. A remote cloud browsing session may receive a request for Internet content from a user device, access the Internet content from an Internet content source, and transmit second Internet content to the user device based on the requested Internet content.
US10542030B2
An approach for enforcing standards regarding security vulnerabilities for an endpoint user device associated with a user includes collecting, at an inline frame implemented with a web application, endpoint health data of the endpoint user device in response to the user interfacing with the web application through the endpoint user device, generating endpoint health intelligence from the endpoint health data, the endpoint health intelligence indicating endpoint security health of the endpoint user device, generating a first endpoint health notification comprising the endpoint health intelligence, and notifying an administrator of network with the first endpoint health notification.
US10542026B2
Data surveillance techniques are presented for the detection of security issues, especially of the kind where privileged data may be stolen by steganographic, data manipulation or any form of exfiltration attempts. Such attempts may be made by rogue users or admins from the inside of a network, or from outside hackers who are able to intrude into the network and impersonate themselves as legitimate users. The system and methods use a triangulation process whereby analytical results pertaining to data protocol, user-behavior and packet content are combined to establish a baseline for the data. Subsequent incoming data is then scored and compared against the baseline to detect any security anomalies. A centroid representing the normal population of the data packets is identified. The design allows establishing the context of various events of interest in the organization, thus enabling dynamic management of security policies.
US10542025B2
An approach is provided that automatically classify network traffic of web applications and services based on a dynamic analysis. The approach scans a resource that corresponds to a named network application and receives, as a result of the scan, network resource identifiers that are accessed by the named network application. Network traffic between users and network resources is monitored, with the monitoring resulting in a set of visited network resource identifiers. The set of resource identifiers is found by matching the visited network resource identifiers with the network resource identifiers returned by the scan. Each of the set of resource identifiers is then matched with the named application.
US10542024B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for detecting anomalies in computer network traffic with fewer false positives and without the need for time-consuming and unreliable historical baselines. Upon detection, traffic anomalies can be processed to determine valuable network insights, including health of interfaces, devices and network services, as well as to provide timely alerts in the event of attack.
US10542000B2
System and method are disclosed for providing authentication of a terminal device. One embodiment includes a method implemented by a first terminal device. The method may include receiving first location information and receiving a first predetermined signal. The method may also include transmitting status information and the first location information to a server upon receiving the first predetermined signal to allow the server to compare the first location information with second location information received from a second terminal device and to allow the server to transmit the status information to the second terminal device. The status information may indicate that the first terminal device is authenticated and the first location information may indicate a current location of the first terminal device.
US10541988B2
Techniques for managing privileged accounts via a privileged access management service are provided. In some examples, the service may be configured with a plug-in framework for accessing secure resources. In some aspects, a log-in request that includes authentication information and corresponds to the service may be received. Session access to at least one secure resource may be provided when a user is authenticated. In some examples, a request to perform an action associated with the secure resource may be received during the session. Additionally, in some examples, the plug-in framework may be implemented to determine whether the user is allowed to perform the action. Further, performance of the action may be allowed or denied during the session based on the determination.
US10541981B1
A message relay service receives, from a third-party mass delivery service, an electronic message that includes an electronic address of an entity and obscured data, where the plaintext data of the obscured data is unattainable by third-party mass delivery service. The message relay service identifies, based at least in part on the entity's electronic address and the obscured data, permissions usable to determine if the entity is authorized to transmit the electronic message. If the entity is authorized to transmit the message, the message relay service de-obscures the obscured data to obtain the plaintext data. The message relay service transmits the electronic message including the plaintext data to a recipient specified in the electronic message.
US10541974B2
A translation management system in a computer environment. A preferred embodiment of the invention automatically detects when a document, data stream, or non-text file in the master language has been updated and notifies the user which corresponding documents, data streams, or non-text files in the other languages require translation which are then staged and dynamically routed and sequenced to individual translation resources where the actual translation is performed. Management status, reporting, scheduling, and accounting information is sent to the user as the translation process ensues. The user is notified of the completion of translation and the invention coordinates the delivery of the translated documents, data streams, or non-text files back to the user's site for installation and optional review. The invention makes a variety of translation resources instantly available to the user which include both automated translation tools as well as human translators. The translation resources are connected to the invention using a flexible architecture that can be deployed on intranets as well as the Internet.
US10541973B2
A translation management system in a computer environment. A preferred embodiment of the invention automatically detects when a document, data stream, or non-text file in the master language has been updated and notifies the user which corresponding documents, data streams, or non-text files in the other languages require translation which are then staged and dynamically routed and sequenced to individual translation resources where the actual translation is performed. Management status, reporting, scheduling, and accounting information is sent to the user as the translation process ensues. The user is notified of the completion of translation and the invention coordinates the delivery of the translated documents, data streams, or non-text files back to the user's site for installation and optional review. The invention makes a variety of translation resources instantly available to the user which include both automated translation tools as well as human translators. The translation resources are connected to the invention using a flexible architecture that can be deployed on intranets as well as the Internet.
US10541967B2
A system and method to estimate and to limit usage time of network applications by a centrally located router is provided. The router first modifies the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol's Time To Live (TTL) values to a fix value, then it counts the number of DNS queries for an application. Number of queries multiplied by the fixed TTL value gives estimated duration of the application.
US10541957B2
Message prioritization may be provided. First, a message may be received and a priority level may be calculated for the message. If the message is not rejected for having a priority lower than a predetermined threshold, the message may be placed in a first priority queue. Next, the message may be de-queued from the first priority queue based upon the calculated priority level for the message. Distribution group recipients corresponding to the message may then be expanded and the priority level for the message may be re-calculated based upon the expanded distribution group recipients. Next, the message may be placed in a second priority queue. The message may then be de-queued from the second priority queue based upon the re-calculated priority level for the message and delivered.
US10541940B2
Embodiments for performance management in a computing storage environment. At least one of a plurality of performance characteristics associated with a quality of service (QoS) between a storage system and a host is dynamically controlled by uploading code of a QoS logic, from the host to the storage system, for determining and specifying the at least one of the plurality of performance characteristics, thereby reducing overhead of QoS management data required to be stored within or communicated to the storage system.
US10541936B1
A computing device of a data zone includes a persistent storage and a processor. The persistent storage includes a data source. The processor obtains a global computation request, instantiates a global computation based on the global computation request, and instantiates an intermediate computation in a second data zone based on the instantiated global computation.
US10541930B2
Systems and methods for a flow-based data processing can begin with receiving a selection of a plurality of data processor blocks and a configuration mapping corresponding to the inputs and outputs of each data processor block. At a first compute node associated with a selected data source, an automated data flow can be initiated, wherein the automated data flow is generated from the configuration mapping and comprises a continuous sequence of one or more of the selected plurality of data processor blocks. Data from the selected data source is ingested into the automated data flow and is transformed by the continuous sequence of data processor blocks. The transformed ingested data is transmitted from the automated data flow to a second compute node associated with a selected data destination, via a data accelerator.
US10541928B2
Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to enforcing application-specific quality of service (QoS) requirements over a storage network. The method for enforcing application-specific quality of service (QoS) requirements over a storage network includes receiving an input-output (I/O) command from a virtual machine executing an application, wherein the I/O command corresponds to an I/O request generated by the application and is tagged with a QoS classification corresponding to QoS requirements of the application, determining a QoS value corresponding to the QoS classification of the I/O command, and transmitting a data frame including the I/O command and the QoS value to a target network adapter through a switch fabric in a network, the switch fabric having a plurality of switches each configured to forward the data frame based on the QoS value.
US10541927B2
A computing system dedicates one or more processing units, such as cores, for the purposes of packet processing software, wherein other processing units simultaneously run application software. In some examples, the system uses dynamic load information to dynamically increase and decrease the number of processing units dedicated to packet processing. The system may further include a mechanism for establishing shared-memory regions for interacting with other applications' users. The shared memory mechanisms provide an abstraction of per-application “command” and “completion queues”. The system may poll per-application command queues for detecting the arrival of new requests. The mechanism also provides detection of application termination, as well as an ability for an application to expose portions of its address space for the reception and transmission of data. In some examples, the system further includes a framework for executing software-defined handlers inline with threads that run packet processing and transport software.
US10541922B2
The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for predictive delivery of high bit-rate content. The disclosed systems and methods provide an adaptive-bit-rate streaming (ABS) system with more robust information, thereby allowing more intelligent pre-caching of the media content. By providing greater information to the ABS system, the disclosed systems are able to foresee higher bit-rate segments that require greater attention, allowing the system to use such information to improve the playback experience.
US10541915B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for improving the routing of control messages among components of a wireless communications system to control the provision of communications services to endpoint devices within a wireless network. An apparatus may include an interface to the network; a virtual switch to retrieve a device identifier of an endpoint device from a payload of a packet and to select a PCRF component to which to route the packet based on the device identifier, the endpoint device coupled to the network; and the selected PCRF component to grant a data session to the endpoint device based on an indication of a request by the endpoint device for the data session conveyed in the payload, the data session comprising an exchange of data between the endpoint device and the interface device through the network. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10541909B2
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product, and system for data transfer management. The embodiment may include receiving a data packet, by a first server, from a load balancer. The received data packet is part of a data flow. The embodiment may include determining, by the first server, whether the received data packet is part of an existing data flow connection served by the first server. Based on determining that the received data packet is not part of an existing data flow served by the first server, the embodiment may include determining, by the first server, whether the received data packet is part of a new data flow connection. Based on determining that the received data packet is not part of a new data flow connection, the embodiment may include notifying, by the first server, the load balancer.
US10541903B2
A system and method of improving anomaly detection rate in a communication network. A server computer may receive a data set comprising traffic flows communicated over the communication network and group the traffic flows into data categories based on the type of network service such as transport control protocol (TCP) port numbers or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port numbers of the traffic flows, or based on application layer protocols associated with the traffic flows. The server computer may further detect anomalies in each of the data categories based on inconsistencies between at least one common feature associated with a data category and traffic flows in the data category. Different data categories may be associated with different the at least one common feature. The anomaly detection may be supervised or unsupervised.
US10541881B2
According to one implementation, a network supervision system includes one or more computing platform(s) coupled to multiple nodes of a network including the computing platform(s), the computing platform(s) including a hardware processor and a system memory storing a network participant supervising software code and a network participant registry. The hardware processor executes the network participant supervising software code to detect an anonymously administered node of the network, aggregate system log files of the anonymously administered node, and perform an analysis of the system log files using an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to identify an administrator of the anonymously administered node. The hardware processor further executes the network participant supervising software code to generate a registration record associating the administrator with the anonymously administered node, and update the network participant registry using the registration record.
US10541879B2
A system for conserving resources in a multi-channel control system environment is provided. A resource limit that is associated with a content delivery campaign is determined. A prediction of resource usage that is associated with the content delivery campaign and a first content delivery channel is determined. A content request is received through a second content delivery channel that is different than the first content delivery channel. In response, based on data contained within the content request, the content delivery campaign is identified. Also, based on the resource limit and the prediction of resource usage associated with the content delivery campaign and the first content delivery channel, it is determined whether to respond to the content request with data associated with the content delivery campaign.
US10541877B2
A method, implemented by a slice registration server, for dynamic reservation of network slices includes receiving a first request from a client for a network slice including one or more of networks, compute, and storage resources in one or more networks for a time period; determining availability of the network resources based on the first request and a state of the one or more networks; transmitting a response to the client based on the availability; receiving a second request from the client based on the response; and causing instantiation of the network resources and providing an acknowledgment to the client based thereon.
US10541873B2
Example implementations relate to determining whether network invariants are violated by flow rules to be implemented by the data plane of a network. In an example, a verification module implemented on a device receives a flow rule transmitted from an SDN controller to a switch, the flow rule relating to an event. The module determines whether the flow rule matches any of a plurality of network invariants cached in the device. If determined that the flow rule matches one of the plurality of network invariants, the verification module determines whether the flow rule violates the matched network invariant. If determined that the flow rule does not match any of the plurality of network invariants, the verification module (1) reports the event associated with the flow rule to a policy management module, (2) receives a new network invariant related to the event from the policy management module, and (3) determines whether the flow rule violates the new network invariant. The verification module generates an alarm if determined that the flow rule violates any of the network invariants.
US10541870B2
Systems and methods are related to a global ranking for a unified list of tasks. From a plurality of work projects each having one or more tasks, a processor may receive a first set of selections of at least two work projects for generating a work backlog having a unified list of tasks. The processor may generate a list of potential tasks to include in the work backlog from the selected work projects. The processor may receive a second set of selections of one or more of the potential tasks to include in the work backlog. The processor may send signals to display the unified list of tasks of the work backlog based on the potential tasks selected. The unified list of tasks comprises at least two types of tasks from two different work projects having disparate priority metrics.
US10541861B2
A system includes a first switch, a second switch, and a processing device. The first switch detects a failure occurring at a first port, generates failure information on the first port when the failure occurring at the first port is detected, and transmits a failure notification packet including the failure information to another switch through a port other than the first port. The second switch transmits a selection-condition-added packet through a port which is coupled to the processing device, the selection-condition-added packet being obtained by adding, to the failure notification packet, selection condition information indicating a selection condition that a second port is selected as a port to relay a packet, the second port having received the failure notification packet through the another switch. And, the processing device performs a path control of a packet based on selection condition information extracted from the selection-condition-added packet received.
US10541850B2
Signal transmitting/receiving electronic devices or terminals in the present disclosure are configured to conduct per-beam signal synchronization in massive MIMO communication with a signal receiving/transmitting device or base station. During the massive MIMO communication, the devices or terminals are configured to transmit/receive signals via a set of beams to or from the signal receiving/transmitting device or base station. For beam domain signal of each individual beam of the plurality beams, the devices or terminals are configured to determine target time adjustments based on time shifts of the beam domain signals induced by multipath effect and target frequency adjustments based on frequency offsets of the beam domain signals induced by the Doppler effect; adjust time independent variables of the beam domain signals by the time adjustments; and adjust frequency independent variables of the beam domain signals by the frequency adjustments. Further, per-beam synchronized BDMA massive MIMO transmission method is disclosed, which provides a solution to efficient and reliable wireless communications with high mobility and/or high carrier frequency.
US10541843B2
An ultra-low power back-channel receiver is presented that demodulates binary a FSK back-channel signal embedded in 5.8 GHz IEEE 802.11a Wi-Fi OFDM packets. The architecture of the back-channel receiver employs a two-step down-conversion where the first mixing stage downconverts using the third harmonic of the local oscillator for power efficiency. The LP-65 nm CMOS receiver consumes 335 μW with a sensitivity of −72 dBm at a BER of 10−3 and data-rate of 31.25 kb/s. The radio uses a balun and a 250 kHz reference crystal as external components. The receiver uses a 1V supply voltage for analog blocks, and 0.85V for digital blocks including the local oscillator and the frequency-locked loop circuits.
US10541832B2
Method for configuring a functionality of real and/or simulated control units, comprising a functionality belonging to a functionality class, such that the functionality has one or more functions and parameters dependent on the functionality class. The functionality is further assigned to at least one control unit. The functionality class has categories, including an else category and a default category and its functionalities each belong to a category. A predetermined value is stored for parameter and if the functionality is assigned to the default category, the predetermined value is adopted for the parameter. If the predetermined value of the parameter changes, the change is adopted for all functionalities which have already been assigned to the default category. And the control unit assigned to the functionality is configured with the function and the values of the parameters of the functionality.
US10541831B2
The present disclosure describes a control system network architecture for a fluidic control system such as a hydraulic or pneumatic control system. The architecture includes a plurality of clustered control-component nodes with each node being alternatively configurable to independently control the operation of multiple single-acting controlled endpoint devices or a double-acting controlled endpoint device. Each node includes control-components including a solenoid, one or more valve spools independently controllable by the solenoid, and a low-level controller operable to control the solenoid. The solenoid, valve spools, and low-level controller are clustered together and physically co-located as a unit. The nodes are arranged in a control block with each node being uniquely identifiable for data communication via a data communication network. The data communication network may include a Controller Area Network (CAN). Multiple control blocks may be equipped with communication modules and linked for data communication between the control blocks.
US10541824B2
A scalable virtual conferencing system which implements a hub and spoke architecture. For example, one embodiment of a scalable virtual conferencing system comprises: a participant management module to logically group each participant in the virtual conferencing system into a hub or one of a plurality of spokes; and a data flow management module to control communication of information between participants in the spokes and participants in the hub, the data flow management module to limit intercommunication from the spokes to the hub in accordance with the manual user input and/or participant management policy; wherein at least one participant in a first spoke is designated as a spoke leader for the first spoke, the spoke leader logically grouped into both the hub and the first spoke, the data flow management module to allow information generated within the first spoke to be propagated into the hub based on input from the spoke leader.
US10541814B2
The present application describes a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for end-to-end encryption during a secure communication session. According to the present disclosure, a first device receives an invitation to a secure communication session. The invitation includes a token, which the first device transmits to the call initiating device. Next, the first device performs a three-way handshake with the call initiating device to negotiate a first encryption key and a second encryption key for the secure communication session. The first device encrypts first communication data using the first encryption key and transmits the encrypted first communication data to the call initiating device.
US10541813B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method of incorporating multiple authentication systems and protocols. The types of authentication systems and protocols can vary based on desired assurance levels. A Centralized Authentication System together with an authentication policy dictates acceptable authentication systems. Authorization data for each authorization system are captured and packaged into a single Object Data Structure. The authorization data can be compared to data stored in an identity store for authentication. The authorization data can also be used for user and device registration and for transferring an authentication or registration token from a previously authenticated and registered device to a new device.
US10541808B2
Generally ciphers project a fixed measure of security, defined by the complexity of their algorithms. Alas, threat is variable, and should be met with matching security. It is useless to project insufficient security, and it is wasteful and burdensome to over-secure data. Advanced BitFlip comes with threat-adjustable flexibility, established via: (i) smart decoy strategy, (ii) parallel encryption, (iii) uniform letter frequency adjustment—tools which enable the BitFlip user to (a) adjust its ciphertexts to match the appraised threat, and (b) sustain security levels for aging keys. The use of these threat-adjusting tools may be automated to allow (1) AI engines to enhance the security service of the cipher, and (2) to enable remote hard-to-access IoT devices to keep aging keys useful, and preserve precious energy by matching security to the ad-hoc threat level. BitFlip may also be operated in a zero-leakage mode where no attributes of a conversation are disclosed, up to full steganographic levels. BitFlip security is two-dimensional: intractability and equivocation, both may be conveniently increased to meet quantum cryptanalytic attacks.
US10541805B2
In aspects of variable relinearization in homomorphic encryption, a computing device stores homomorphic encrypted data as a dataset, and implements an encryption application that can perform a multiplication operation on a ciphertext in the homomorphic encrypted data, where the multiplication operation contributes to increase a noise component in the ciphertext. The encryption application can determine a relinearization amount by which to relinearize the ciphertext after the multiplication operation, where the determination is effective to optimize a noise increase in the ciphertext based at least in part on projected subsequent multiplication operations on the ciphertext. The encryption application can then relinearize the ciphertext utilizing the determined relinearization amount that optimizes the noise increase in the ciphertext for optimal relinearization performance.
US10541802B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method in a wireless communication device that operates in an enhanced coverage mode, the enhanced coverage mode comprising sequential repetition of messages sent from the wireless communication device to a network node. An example method includes: receiving a Timing Advance Command TAC from the network node; and adapting a time at which the TAC is applied, wherein a time difference between the time at which the TAC is applied and a time at which the TAC is received shall be greater than or equal to a specified time depending on a type of the used Radio Access Technology, such that application of the TAC does not occur during a period after a first subframe of a repeated uplink transmission till the end of the repeated uplink transmission.
US10541800B2
Facilitating a signaling framework for configuring different types of reference signals for wireless communication systems is provided herein. A system can comprise: a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise: receiving a reference signal from a user equipment device; based on the reference signal generating a unique identifier from the reference signal; allocating a resource associated with the reference signal based on a reference signal type and a component carrier index list; associating the unique identifier with the resource, the component carrier index list, and the reference signal type in a data structure; and storing the data structure to the memory and transmitting the data structure to the user equipment device.
US10541785B2
A method of a user equipment (UE) for constructing a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook. The method comprises receiving physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) that convey respective downlink control information (DCI) formats, wherein each DCI format includes a counter field and a slot offset field, receiving physical downlink data channels (PDSCHs) that convey data transport blocks, detecting the DCI formats configuring the received PDSCHs, determining locations for HARQ-ACK bits in a HARQ-ACK codebook based on a value of the slot offset field and a value of the counter field in each detected DCI format, determining a time unit for transmission of the HARQ-ACK codebook based on a value of the slot offset field in each detected DCI format, and transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook.
US10541777B2
The present technology relates to a data processing device, a data processing method, and a program capable of realizing low cost of a reception device receiving a GSE packet conforming to DVB-GSE. An sGSE packet structuring unit sets, as a target, only a PDU (Protocol Data Unit) of which a maximum size is restricted to a predetermined restriction size equal to or less than 4096 bytes and structures an sGSE packet which is a GSE packet in which the PDU is deployed in a data field and which conforms to DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)-GSE (Generic Stream Encapsulation). The present technology is applicable, for example, when the GSE packet is transmitted or received.
US10541769B2
The present disclosure discloses a system including a controller and multiple radio heads connected to the controller through communication cables. The controller transmits a synchronization signal to each of the radio heads to synchronize the local clocks in the radio heads to a master clock in the controller. The controller also transmits packets to the radio heads using the communication cables. Each of the radio heads includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), an antenna coupled to an output of the DAC, and a deframer coupled to an input of the DAC. For a radio head, upon detecting that a received packet from the controller includes an error, the deframer alters the received packet to maintain the synchronization between the controller and the radio head and transmits the altered packet to the DAC.
US10541758B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving power delivered over a data fiber cable at an optical transceiver installed at a network communications device and transmitting data and the power from the optical transceiver to the network communications device. The network communications device is powered by the power received from the optical transceiver. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.
US10541756B2
An example imaging system may include a spatial light modulator and a coherent optical receiver. The spatial light modulator may be configured to receive an optical input wave and perform wavefront shaping on the optical input wave to output a shaped wave. The coherent optical receiver may include an optical local oscillator, an optical beam splitter, an optical detector, and processing circuitry. The optical detector may be configured to receive a mixed wave from the optical beam splitter that is based on the mixing of a local oscillator wave with a scattering medium output wave that at least initially comprises a speckle pattern formed by the shaped wave interacting with a scattering medium. The processing circuitry may be configured to perform coherent detection on the mixed wave to extract optical amplitude and phase information, and provide an error signal as feedback to the spatial light modulator for performing iterative wavefront shaping.
US10541750B2
The invention relates to base stations in communication networks. In more particular the invention relates to cellular base stations such as 3G/4G and WLAN base stations. Some or all of the aforementioned advantages of the invention are accrued with a fully photonic base station (200) that powers itself with solar photons, provides radio network access and relays an optical photonic beam (220, 221, 230, 231) through air encoded with the data from radio signals of computer users and mobile phone users to the Internet and the global telecommunication network. A system engineer can build a network with the inventive base stations in a matter of days. He simply walks to the roof of houses and points the optical beams to other base stations in adjacent houses.
US10541749B2
A transmission apparatus includes a demultiplexer configured to demultiplex a multiplexed signal including wavelength multiplexed signals having individual wavelength bands into a wavelength multiplexed signal for each of the wavelength bands, a detector configured to detect a power value of each of the wavelength multiplexed signals for each of the wavelength bands, first compensators configured to compensate for a tilt in the wavelength multiplexed signal based on the power value for each of the wavelength bands, second compensators configured to compensate for a power of the wavelength multiplexed signal for each of the wavelength bands so as to reduce a power difference among wavelength multiplexed signals after the tilt compensation based on the power value for each of the wavelength bands, and a multiplexer configured to multiplex each of the wavelength multiplexed signals after the power compensation and output a multiplexed signal.
US10541728B2
An NFC (near field communication) device can include a resonance unit and an NFC chip. The resonance unit may communicate with an external device through an electromagnetic wave. The NFC chip can provide output data to the resonance unit, receive input data from the resonance unit, and can reduce a Q factor (quality factor) of the resonance unit when a signal receive operation is performed in a card mode, and can maintain the Q factor of the resonance unit in a reader mode and when a signal transmit operation is performed in the card mode.
US10541726B1
A first device provides both power and data to a second device over a power line connection between the two devices. The first device includes a power line extending from a power supply, a ground line extending from a ground, a first impedance in the power line, and a second impedance in the ground line. A modulator comprised of a transistor and modulator impedance is between the first impedance and the second impedance, and a tank capacitor is between the power line and the ground line, outside the first impedance and second impedance. A comparator is coupled between the first and second impedance. A switch may be included to short out the first and second impedance, thereby enabling transmission of only power for period of time, and return to a mode of transmitting both data and power. The first device may also receive data from the second device over the power line connection.
US10541715B1
A wireless transceiver device includes an operation amplification circuit, a transmitter circuit, a receiver circuit, and a transceiver control circuit. The operation amplification circuit, according to a rate parameter and a filtering parameter, filters and amplifies an input signal and outputs a processed signal. The transmitter circuit selectively uses a first ratio or second ratio as the amplification parameter, converts an input signal into an analog signal, inputs the analog signal into the operation amplification circuit, mixes the processed signal with a local oscillating frequency and then output an output signal. The receiver circuit mixes an external signal with another local oscillating frequency, inputs the mixed signal into the operation amplification circuit, and converts the processed signal into a digital signal. The transceiver control circuit selectively and electrically connects the operation amplification circuit with the transmitter circuit or the receiver circuit.
US10541713B2
Multiplexers having hybrid circuits with resonators. In some embodiments, a multiplexer for processing radio-frequency signals can include a plurality of nodes, a common node, and a signal path implemented between each of the plurality of nodes and the common node. Each signal path can include a filter, and each of at least some of the signal paths can further include a resonator coupled with the corresponding filter. A signal path with the resonator provides a sharper notch profile for a radio-frequency signal than a signal path without the resonator.
US10541712B1
Interference caused by passive intermodulation (PIM) can be automatically detected at receivers in a wireless telecommunications network, and the accuracy of PIM detection can be increased by de-weighting or ignoring time slots in which non-PIM interference is detected at a target receiver.
US10541692B1
A delay locked loop includes a control loop receiving reference and feedback clock signals, and generating biasing voltages therefrom. A delay chain receives the reference clock signal and generates N successively delayed versions thereof, each at a successive tap thereof. The Nth delayed version is the feedback clock signal. The control loop has a phase detector asserting an up signal when a phase of the feedback clock signal lags that of the reference clock signal, asserting a down signal when the phase of the feedback clock signal leads that of the reference clock signal. A digital filtering block compares a number of assertions of the up signal during the period of the reference clock signal to those of the down signal, and asserts an up or down command signal based thereupon. A biasing voltage generation circuit receives the up and down command signals and generates the biasing voltages therefrom.
US10541690B2
In a method and device to align phases of a first clock signal and a second clock signal, include a phase detector, a delay generator, and a controller. The phase detector is configured to generate a preceding signal and a succeeding signal with respect to the first clock signal to detect a relationship between phases of the first clock signal and the second clock signal. The delay generator is configured to delay the first clock signal when the second clock signal falls behind the succeeding signal with respect to the first clock signal. The controller is configured to determine whether the phases of the first clock signal and the second clock signal are aligned with each other according to the relationship detected by the phase detector.
US10541689B1
A clock generation circuit arranged in a first system is disclosed. The clock generation circuit includes: a first dual-mode PLL, arranged for generating a first output clock in an integer-N mode or a fractional-N mode selectively, the first output clock being generated based on a first reference clock; and a second dual-mode PLL, arranged for generating a second output clock in an integer-N mode or a fractional-N mode selectively, the second output clock being generated based on the first output clock or a second reference clock selectively. Associated circuitries are also disclosed.
US10541687B2
A device includes a reconfigurable circuit and reconfiguration logic. The reconfiguration logic is to: receive, via a policy interface, a user policy and an image policy; receive a first reconfiguration image via a first configuration interface of a plurality of configuration interfaces; validate the first configuration interface based on the user policy; validate the first reconfiguration image based on the image policy; and in response to a determination that the first configuration interface and the first reconfiguration image are both valid, reconfigure the reconfigurable circuit using the first reconfiguration image.
US10541682B2
A radio-frequency switch includes a pole node, a throw node connected to the pole node via a radio-frequency signal path, the radio-frequency signal path including first, second, third and fourth field-effect transistors connected in series, each of the first, second, third and fourth field-effect transistors having a gate, a first coupling path coupling the gate of the first field-effect transistor to the gate of the second field-effect transistor, a second coupling path coupling the gate of the third field-effect transistor to the gate of the fourth field-effect transistor, and a third coupling path coupling the first coupling path to the second coupling path.
US10541669B2
A bulk acoustic resonator may include a substrate; a resonating portion including a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode layer which are sequentially stacked on the substrate, and partitioned into an active region and a non-active region; and a frame electrode layer including frame electrodes disposed within the active region to be spaced apart from each other along an outer circumference portion of the active region.
US10541665B2
A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes: a substrate; a first BAW resonator including a first air cavity disposed in the substrate, and further including a first electrode, a first piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode stacked on the first air cavity; a second BAW resonator including a second air cavity disposed in the substrate, and further including a first electrode, a second piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode stacked on the second air cavity, wherein the second BAW resonator is connected in parallel to the first BAW resonator and has polarities that are opposite of polarities of the first BAW resonator; and a compensation capacitor circuit connected between the first BAW resonator and the second BAW resonator.
US10541652B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: an amplifier to receive a reference voltage; and calibration logic which is operable to receive a first voltage and to provide the reference voltage to the amplifier, wherein the calibration logic is operable to generate a look-up table (LUT) that maps the first voltage to a drive current.
US10541647B2
Transconductance (gm)-cell based circuitry is well suited for low power, low voltage complementary metal oxide silicon (CMOS) design in deep sub micro technology. This circuitry includes a gm cell as the basic building block. As such, it is desirable to have the transconductance of the gm cell to be constant against temperature and process corners. The present disclosure describes various gm-cell based circuitry having a controllable transconductance. Preferably, the controllable transconductance can be selectively controlled to be equal to the inverse of the value of an on-chip resistor. For example, the gm-cell based circuitry can sense the transconductance of an internal replica unit and can use negative feedback circuitry to cause this transconductance to be approximately equal a value of an on-chip resistor. However, in some situations, a value of this on-chip resistor is not accurately controlled. Therefore, the present disclosure also discloses a manner of calibrating the gm-cell based circuitry against an external resistor with a known accurate value.
US10541636B2
An electric working machine of an example of the present disclosure includes: a motor; a power supply portion; a controller; and a voltage detector. The power supply portion generates a DC voltage to drive the motor by rectifying an AC voltage supplied from an AC power source and smoothing by a capacitor. The controller controls energization of the motor. The voltage detector detects the AC voltage. The controller is configured to interrupt the energization when the voltage detector does not detect the AC voltage.
US10541631B2
This invention relates to a linear type actuator unit, said actuator unit (100), including an electric motor (1) driving a linear actuator (2) of, said motor (1) having a casing (11), a stator (14,15) fixed to the casing, a rotor (13) fixed to a rotary part (10), preferably a rotary motor shaft (10), wherein said rotary part (10) is arranged to be operatively connected to a reduction gear (5) which drives the mechanical output of the actuator (2), a separate magnetic brake unit (3), said magnetic brake (3) including a rotating brake member (30,31) connected to the motor shaft (10), directly or indirectly, and a plurality of fixed brake members (32, 33), wherein said magnetic brake (3) is arranged to produce a torque that will strive to position a rotary member (10, 20) with said rotating brake member (30,31) into one or more specific angular positions in relation to the fixed brake members (32, 33), and wherein said rotating brake member (30,31) is in the form of a separate annulus (30, 31) attached to said rotary member (10, 20) arranged to brake the motor at low rotational speeds and in that the actuator unit (100) is arranged with a circuitry (101) including a short circuiting arrangement (113, 103) arranged to enable braking of the motor (1) at rotational speeds above low rotational speeds.
US10541622B2
An electric motor drive device includes a smoothing capacitor and an inverter, and further includes an overvoltage protection unit for overvoltage protection for the smoothing capacitor, and a phase short-circuit control unit. The overvoltage protection unit includes: a discharge circuit having a discharge resistor and an IGBT connected in series; and a first determination circuit which determines, with determination delay, that smoothing capacitor voltage exceeds first set voltage, and turns on the IGBT. The phase short-circuit control unit is provided in a control device for drive-controlling the inverter and includes a second determination circuit which determines, with a determination period longer than the determination delay of the first determination circuit, that smoothing capacitor voltage exceeds second set voltage lower than the first set voltage, to perform phase short-circuit control for the inverter.
US10541615B1
Techniques and mechanisms for mitigating an overshoot of a supply voltage provided with a voltage regulator (VR). In an embodiment, buck converter functionality of a VR is provided with first circuitry comprising a first inductor and first switch circuits variously coupled thereto. Second circuitry of the VR comprises a second inductor and second switch circuits variously coupled thereto. In response to an indication of a voltage overshoot condition, respective states of the first switch circuits and the second switch circuits are configured to enable a conductive path for dissipating energy with the first inductor, the second inductor, and various ones of the first switch circuits and the second switch circuits. In another embodiment, mitigating the voltage overshoot condition comprises alternately toggling between two different configurations of the second switch circuits.
US10541612B2
A drive circuit for an electric motor of the type which forms part of a pump in a hydraulic braking circuit of a vehicle comprises an input node, an output node and a voltage and current regulating circuit which connects the nodes and which varies the voltage and current supplied to the output node from the input node in response to a modulation strategy, the input node in use being connected to a battery supply of a vehicle and the output node connected to one side of the electric motor. The voltage and current regulating circuit comprises a switch mode power supply circuit capable of providing at the output node a voltage that is either above or below the battery supply voltage at the input node.
US10541609B2
In a power converter system, circuitry generates first and second PWM signals during a PWM cycle for controlling application of power to an inductor. Circuitry generates error signals having AC- and DC-components, the error signals being generated in response to indications of the power applied to or developed by the inductor. Circuitry generates a feedback control signal in response to the error signals. The first and second PWM signals are controlled in response to the feedback control signals.
US10541598B1
A method and system for providing voltage ripple compensation in a DC power generation system. The system includes a permanent magnet generator (PMG) and a passive rectifier in operable communication with the PMG. The system also includes a boost converter in operable communication with the passive rectifier and a controller in electrical communication with the boost converter. The controller is configured to cause the boost converter to supply a DC bus and to control the boost converter based on a voltage compensation signal to the boost converter to reduce voltage ripple on the voltage of the DC bus.
US10541596B2
A displacement device including a stage and a stator, wherein the stator is shaped to provide a working region and the stator includes: a plurality of magnet blocks of the first kind, each magnet block of the first kind including a plurality of first magnets generally linearly elongated in the X-direction, and a plurality of magnet blocks of the second kind, each magnet block of the second kind including a plurality of second magnets generally linearly elongated in the Y-direction. The stage is movably arranged next to the stator in the Z-direction, and the stage includes: a coil block of the first kind, each coil block of the first kind including a plurality of electric conductors generally linearly elongated in the X-direction; and a coil block of the second kind, each coil block of the second kind including a plurality of electric conductors generally linearly elongated in the Y-direction.
US10541592B2
An electromagnetic driving device is provided, which includes a stationary member, an OIS driving circuit, a movable member, and a protection member. The OIS driving coil is disposed on the stationary member. The movable member is disposed in the stationary member and includes a frame and a magnetic element. The frame surrounds a main axis. The magnetic element is disposed on the frame and faces the OIS driving coil in a direction that is parallel to the main axis. The protection element is disposed on a side of the magnetic element that is away from the main axis and is in contact with the magnetic element. In addition, in a direction that is perpendicular to the main axis, the protection element faces the stationary member and is spaced apart from the stationary member by a distance.
US10541591B2
A stator for an axial flux machine includes a back iron, a plurality of stator teeth extending from the back iron, and a plurality of tooth tips attached to the stator teeth. The back iron and the stator teeth include a first material. Each stator tooth has a first end proximate the back iron and a second end. Each tooth tip is attached to the second end of a different stator tooth. The tooth tips include a second material different than the first material.
US10541581B2
An alternator includes an external ignition protection system including a shaft rotatable about an axis. The shaft includes a slip ring end. A slip ring support is mounted at the slip ring end of the shaft. A slip ring cover is mounted to the shaft. The slip ring cover defines a slip ring cavity. A first slip ring end housing supports the slip ring cover. The first slip ring end housing includes a first plurality of openings. A second slip ring end housing is arranged axially outwardly of the slip ring end. The second slip ring end housing includes a second plurality of openings. The first slip ring end housing, slip ring cover and the second slip ring end housing define a labyrinth flow path that provides an air flow through the slip ring cavity and prevents passage of ignition inducing elements from the alternator.
US10541572B2
The stator is used for realization of drives and for generation electric energy in various fields of engineering. It provides reduction of basic and added electric losses in the stator winding at increased power. The stator includes a cylindrical stator pack (1) with a plurality of uniformly distributed slots (2) with an opening on the inner surface of the stator. In the slots (2) are laid double-layer winding composed of one or more than one double-arm sections (4) of wires having a rectangular cross-section, comprising an arm (5) adjacent to opening and an arm (6) to bottom of the slot (2), laid in two slots (2) distant from each other in step Y. The slot (2) is rectangular in one or two stages. The size (b1) in the radial direction of the cross-section of the wire, building at least one elementary double-arm section of the arm (5) near to an opening is at most equal to the size (b) in a radial direction of other wires in the slot (2).
US10541566B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a system (100) for wirelessly transferring electrical power to an electrical load (115) comprising: a feeding device (105) and a device to be fed (110) physically separate and independent from the feeding device; wherein the device to be fed (110) comprises: the electrical load to be fed, a control circuit (125) adapted for generating a clock signal, and a receiving apparatus (120) of the electrical power connected to the electrical load (115); and wherein the feeding device (105) comprises at least one transmission group (135) of the electrical power that includes: a transmitting apparatus (145) adapted for making a non-conductive electrical coupling with the receiving apparatus (120) of the device to be fed (110), a signal management circuit (150) adapted for receiving the clock signal generated by the control circuit (125) of the device to be fed (110) and for generating a pilot signal having a frequency proportional to the frequency of the clock signal, and a power circuit (155) adapted for receiving the pilot signal generated by the signal management circuit (150) and for applying to the transmitting apparatus (145) a voltage wave that is periodically variable over time with a frequency equal to the frequency of the pilot signal.
US10541563B2
The present specification relates to a wireless power transmission device. The present specification provides a wireless power transmission device comprising: a power supply unit for supplying power to the wireless power transmission device; at least one first coil for transmitting power to a wireless power reception device; and first and second condensers configured so as to be connected respectively to different both ends of the power supply unit and the first coil.
US10541548B2
A battery pack includes: a battery including at least one battery cell; a power line communicator connected to a current path to detect a first data signal; and a battery management system (BMS) to receive the first data signal from the power line communicator, and to control the battery according to the first data signal.
US10541540B2
A message specifying any one of a plurality of operation modes is defined between an EMS 200 and a power storage apparatus 140.
US10541539B1
A converter includes a converter circuit including a rectifying section to rectify an alternating current (AC) voltage and a smoothing section to smooth a direct current (DC) voltage rectified by the rectifying section, a diagnostic device configured to diagnose an abnormality of the converter circuit, an inrush current preventing section configured to prevent inrush current from being supplied to the smoothing section, and a switching section configured to supply the AC voltage to the converter circuit through a path different from a voltage supply path of the inrush current preventing section, wherein the diagnostic device determines an abnormal region of the converter circuit by controlling the inrush current preventing section and the switching section.
US10541538B2
A power generator system, including a remaining fuel detector detecting a remaining fuel amount of each of the first generator and the second generator, an operable time calculator calculating a remaining operable time of the each of the first generator and the second generator based on the remaining fuel amount detected by the remaining fuel detector, and a signal output unit outputting a control signal for adjusting outputs of the first generator and second generator to an actuator so that the remaining operable time of the first generator and the remaining operable time of the second generator calculated by the operable time calculator is equalized while keeping a total power of the first generator and the second generator constant.
US10541537B2
A power supply apparatus links to a grid, converts DC power from a distributed power source to AC power, and includes a controller that controls input voltage of the DC power in accordance with current flowing between the power supply apparatus and the grid. Based on communication with another power supply apparatus connected to the power supply apparatus, the controller also sets a standard value of controlling the input voltage.
US10541528B2
A circuit interrupting device including a loop split interrupter for interrupting a loop split circuit, and a quick whip interrupter for interrupting a charging circuit.
US10541520B1
An interlock system includes a number of lock assemblies and a number of keys. Each key is associated with at least one lock assembly. The number of lock assemblies includes a number of actuator lock assemblies and a number of multi-purpose lock assemblies. The number of keys includes a number of actuator keys and a number of multi-purpose keys. At least one lock assembly is operatively coupled to a reliable indicator.
US10541517B2
A spark plug includes: a mounting bracket; a center electrode having a first end portion exposed and extended from first end portion of the mounting bracket; a slant-shape ground electrode that has first end side joined to the first end portion of the mounting bracket, has a surface of the second end side extended to be opposed to the first end portion of the center electrode, and has an extension direction inclined with respect to the center electrode; a convex portion protruding from a base material of the ground electrode on the surface thereof toward the center electrode, inclines toward the center electrode with respect to a protrusion direction, and has a convex portion opposed surface opposed to an end surface of the center electrode; and a precious metal layer formed on at least the convex portion opposed surface out of surfaces of the convex portion.
US10541516B2
A spark plug includes a ground electrode and a center electrode, at least one of which includes an electrode body, an electrode tip, and a weld part formed therebetween. The weld part has an orthogonal projection on a virtual plane perpendicular to a layering direction of the electrode body and the electrode tip. The orthogonal projection includes projecting portions extending in a specific direction. The weld part satisfies a condition that a first line segment is shorter than a second line segment, wherein: the first line segment is a virtual line segment connecting peaks of adjacent two projecting portions; and the second line segment is a virtual line segment that is perpendicular to the first line segment and connects the first line segment to an outer periphery of the weld part at a point farthest from the first line segment.
US10541511B2
A semiconductor light-emitting element includes a laminated structure which has an active layer between a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a first semiconductor layer which includes at least the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer of the laminated structure, an insulation film which is formed on the first semiconductor layer and has an opening, and a second semiconductor layer which is formed on the insulation film and includes at least the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer of the laminated structure. The second semiconductor layer includes a first region facing the opening of the insulation film and a second region not facing the opening, and the second region has a portion with a higher impurity concentration than the first region.
US10541503B2
An improved clamp ring system comprises a clamp ring having a wedge shaped seal face; a reactor having a clamp ring mounting recess; a quartz sleeve disposed within the clamp ring mounting recess; a seal being disposed within the clamp ring mounting recess around the quartz sleeve. The clamp ring is removably attached to the reactor near the clamp ring mounting recess such that the wedge shaped seal face compresses the seal against the quartz sleeve.
US10541476B1
An antenna array system includes a feed antenna and circuit boards. Each circuit board has pickup antenna elements disposed on a curved edge portion of a first edge of the circuit board, radiating elements disposed on a second edge portion of the circuit board, and transmit receive modules disposed between the pickup elements and the radiating elements on the circuit board. The antenna array can be part of an active electronically scanned array (AESA) antenna assembly.
US10541475B2
The present subject matter relates to antenna systems, devices, and methods that provide efficient coverage of low frequency bands (e.g., 700 MHz-bands and 600 MHz-bands) for the new generations of mobile communication. For example, a dual-resonant radiating system can include a ground plane, a radiating coupler spaced apart from but in communication with the ground plane, and a ground plane extension in communication with the ground plane. In this arrangement, one or both of the radiating coupler and the ground plane extension are tunable to tune a dual-resonance frequency response.
US10541471B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an antenna assembly that includes a dielectric antenna having an integrated dielectric feedline and a dielectric antenna element. The integrated dielectric feedline communicates inbound guided waves and outbound guided waves that are bound to the integrated dielectric feedline. The dielectric antenna element transmits outbound free space wireless signals in response to the outbound guided waves and generates the inbound guided waves from received inbound free space wireless signals. An actuated gimbal mount controls an orientation of the dielectric antenna element based on control signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10541469B2
An antenna for motor vehicles is provided having a base member, an antenna device, a radome, and a device for attaching the base member to a vehicle roof inside surface with the antenna device projecting outwards of the vehicle from within through an opening formed in the vehicle. The radome cooperates with the attaching device and the surroundings of the vehicle opening so as to enclose the antenna device in an assembled condition.
US10541455B2
A process for manufacturing an elementary gas electrode electrochemical cell of metal-gas type, configured to be integrated into an electrochemical assembly module of a system for storing energy and including: an electrochemical core including at least one negative electrode and at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode as a gas electrode and at least one positive electrode as a metal electrode or vice versa, the process including: producing the electrochemical core of the cell by winding, folding, and/or stacking a plurality of layers including at least one negative-electrode layer, one positive-electrode layer, and one electrolyte layer, and forming gas flow spaces channeling the gas to the one or more gas electrode layers.
US10541453B2
Provided herein is a battery module for starting the engines of outdoor power equipment such as automobiles, boats, trucks and tractors. The battery module disclosed herein has high performance at low temperature and has a maximum pulse discharging current measured at −30° C. of not less than 15% of the maximum pulse discharging current measured at 25° C. over a pulse discharge period of about 5 seconds. In addition, the battery module disclosed herein has a low self-discharging rate at both room temperature and high temperature. The capacity retention of the battery module is not less than 85% of its initial capacity after 7 months of room temperature storage.
US10541448B2
Articles and methods including additives in electrochemical cells, are generally provided. As described herein, such electrochemical cells may comprise an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, and optionally a separator. In some embodiments, at least one of the anode, the cathode, the electrolyte, and/or the optional separator may comprise an additive and/or additive precursor. For instance, in some cases, the electrochemical cell comprises an electrolyte and an additive and/or additive precursor that is soluble with and/or is present in the electrolyte. In some embodiments, the additive precursor comprises a disulfide bond. In certain embodiments, the additive is a carbon disulfide salt. In some cases, the electrolyte may comprise a nitrate.
US10541438B2
The present disclosure relates to an electrochemical cell comprising a fuel electrode for oxidizing a fuel, an oxidant electrode for reducing an oxidant, and an ionically conductive medium for conducting ions between the fuel and oxidant electrodes to support electrochemical reactions at the fuel and oxidant electrodes. The ionically conductive medium comprises at least one active additive for enhancing (controlling the rate, overpotential and/or the reaction sites for) at least one electrochemical reaction within the cell. The cell further comprises an additive medium in contact with the ionically conductive medium and containing the at least one active additive capable of corroding or dissolving in the ionically conductive medium. The additive medium and/or casing is configured to release the active additive to the ionically conductive medium as a concentration of the active additive in the ionically conductive medium is depleted during operation of the cell.
US10541436B2
A fuel cell purging method is provided to effectively prevent fuel cell deterioration and degradation of durability of the fuel cell by performing hydrogen purging at a point in time at which negative pressure of an anode peaks after a fuel cell vehicle is stopped. The fuel cell purging method includes stopping the driving of a fuel cell vehicle and continuously measuring pressure of an anode of a fuel cell after the fuel cell vehicle is stopped. Additionally, hydrogen is supplied to the anode when the measured pressure of the anode reaches a negative pressure peak time point.
US10541434B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell having an anode and a cathode, a water recovery system configured to recycle water from exhaust from the anode, a heat exchanger configured to transfer heat between exhaust from the cathode and water from the water recovery system, and a saturator having an upper section and a lower section separated by a divider defining an opening configured to allow fuel and steam to pass from the lower section to the upper section. The lower section receives fuel from a fuel source and water from the water recovery unit and the upper section receives fuel from the lower section and water from the heat exchanger.
US10541430B2
A fluid flow plate for an electrochemical fuel cell assembly comprises a first plurality of fluid flow channels extending across an area of the flow plate to define a flow field of the fluid flow plate. An array of first fluid transfer points is disposed along an edge of the flow field for communicating fluid into or out of the fluid flow channels. A gallery has a first peripheral edge portion bounded by the array of first fluid transfer points and at least two second peripheral edge portions each bounded by an array of second fluid transfer points disposed along fluid access edges of the fluid flow plate. The at least two second peripheral edge portions are disposed at oblique angles to the first peripheral edge portion such that the total length of the any of second fluid transfer points is at least as long as, and preferably longer than, the length of the array of first fluid transfer points. Disposing the at least two second peripheral edge portions at oblique angles to the first peripheral edge portion enables the lengths of the second peripheral edge portions of each gallery to be increased compared to the length of the first fluid transfer points (i.e. width of the active flow field area) which optimises fluid distribution into the channels of the flow plate.
US10541428B2
A water-activated power generating device, comprising a first module (100) having a first electrode plate (22) and a second electrode plate (31). The water-activated power generating device further comprises a first supporting structure (11), a second supporting structure (12) and two water storage layers (61, 62). The first electrode plate and the second electrode plate of the water-activated power generating device are fixed with a first fixing component (42), and a first insulating layer (51) is disposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate. The water-activated power generating device further comprises a third electrode plate (21) and a fourth electrode plate (32), wherein the third electrode plate is fixed on the first supporting structure (11) with a second fixing component (41), and the fourth electrode plate (32) is fixed on the second supporting structure (12) with a third fixing component (43).
US10541415B2
A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery includes: a negative active material disposed on a current collector; a negative active material layer including a first binder and a conductive agent; and a protective layer disposed on the negative active material layer, wherein the protective layer is in direct contact with the current collector and includes a nonaqueous or aqueous second binder and an inorganic material, wherein, in the protective layer including the aqueous second binder and the inorganic material, the amount of the inorganic material may be about 65 parts by weight or greater, based on 100 parts by weight of the protective layer, and wherein the protective layer including the nonaqueous second binder and the inorganic material, the amount of the inorganic material may be in a range of about 5 parts to about 25 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the protective layer.
US10541404B2
The present invention relates to a secondary battery. The secondary battery comprises an electrode assembly, which comprises: a first electrode in which a first notching part is provided; a second electrode in which a second notching part is provided; a first separator interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a second separator disposed on a lower portion of the second electrode, wherein the electrode assembly is folded in a width direction in a state in which the first electrode, the first separator, the second electrode, and the second separator are sequentially stacked and folded and bent through the first and second notching parts.
US10541400B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode body and an electrolytic solution, the electrode body including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The separator includes a resin substrate that has a multi-layer structure including a porous polyethylene layer and a porous high melting point resin layer, the porous polyethylene layer including a polyethylene resin and being disposed to face the negative electrode, and the porous high melting point resin layer including a resin having a higher melting point than the polyethylene resin. The porosity of the porous polyethylene layer is 2% to 5%. A ratio of the thickness of the porous polyethylene layer to the total thickness of the resin substrate is 0.048 to 0.091.
US10541393B2
A battery cell assembly in which a plurality of electrically connected battery cells are arranged and first and second outer cover members each having a plate-type structure surrounding an outer surface of the battery cell assembly and coupled to each other by a fastening member in a state in which corners corresponding to each other are in contact with each other. Here, each of the first and second outer cover members includes at least one fastening groove having a slit shape, and the fastening grooves of the first and second outer cover members are perforated at positions corresponding to each other of corners contacting each other, and the first and second outer cover members are coupled to each other in such a manner that both side ends, which face each other, of the fastening member are respectively inserted into the fastening grooves in a clamping manner.
US10541390B2
A flexible power storage unit is obtained. Projections whose ridgelines extend in a first direction are provided on the front and the back of the power storage unit and depressions whose valley lines extend in a second direction are provided on the sides of the power storage unit. The projections and depressions are provided such that the ridgelines of the projections or extended lines of the ridgelines intersect with the valley lines of the depressions or extended lines of the valley lines.
US10541373B2
Disclosed is a flexible display that is slim for flexibility, is controlled in stiffness, and has improved reliability owing to a structure of a non-folding portion thereof.
US10541364B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory cells with asymmetrical electrode interfaces are described. A memory cell with asymmetrical electrode interfaces may mitigate shorts in adjacent word lines, which may be leveraged for accurately reading a stored value of the memory cell. The memory device may include a self-selecting memory component with a top surface area in contact with a top electrode and a bottom surface area in contact with a bottom electrode, where the top surface area in contact with the top electrode is a different size than the bottom surface area in contact with the bottom electrode.
US10541337B2
The invention relates to a method for forming a uniform silicide film using a crystalline semiconductor film in which orientation of crystal planes is controlled, and a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor with less variation in electric characteristics, which is formed over an insulating substrate using the silicide film. A semiconductor film over which a cap film is formed is irradiated with a laser to be crystallized under the predetermined condition, so that a crystalline semiconductor film including large grain crystals in which orientation of crystal planes is controlled in one direction is formed. The crystalline semiconductor film is used for silicide, whereby a uniform silicide film can be formed.
US10541330B2
A method of making a vertical transistor device includes forming a front gate and a back gate opposite a major surface of a substrate. The front gate and the back gate are symmetric and arranged on opposing sides of a channel between the front gate and the back gate. The channel extends from a drain to a source. The method includes disposing a mask to cover the front gate and removing the back gate. The method further includes replacing the back gate with a layer of insulator and another back gate stack. The another back gate stack only covers a junction between the channel and the source, and remaining portions of the back gate are the layer of insulator.
US10541329B2
Techniques related to a boosted vertical field effect transistor and method of fabricating the same are provided. A logic device can comprise a vertical field effect transistor comprising a substrate, a first epitaxial layer and a second epitaxial layer. A bottom source/drain contact can be between a top surface and the first epitaxial layer and a top source/drain contact can be between the top surface and the second epitaxial layer at respective first portions of one or more vertical fins. The logic device can also comprise a boosted bipolar junction transistor. A bipolar junction transistor contact can be between the top surface and the second epitaxial layer at respective second portions of the one or more vertical fins. The respective first portions and the respective second portions can be opposite portions of the one or more vertical fins.
US10541327B2
A semiconductor device includes a trench structure extending into a semiconductor body from a first surface. The trench structure has a shield electrode, a dielectric structure and a diode structure. The diode structure is arranged at least partly between the first surface and a first part of the dielectric structure. The shield electrode is arranged between the first part of the dielectric structure and a bottom of the trench structure. The shield electrode and the semiconductor body are electrically isolated by the dielectric structure. Corresponding methods of manufacture are also described.
US10541325B2
In termination regions of a silicon carbide substrate field zones are formed by ion implantation. By laterally modulating a distribution of dopants entering the silicon carbide substrate by the ion implantation, a horizontal net dopant distribution in the field zones is set to fall from a maximum net dopant concentration Nmax to Nmax/e within at least 200 nm, with e representing Euler's number. The field zones form first pn junctions with a drift layer.
US10541321B2
In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device according to the present invention, a buffer layer including a first nitride semiconductor layer, a channel layer including a second nitride semiconductor layer, and a barrier layer including a third nitride semiconductor layer are sequentially laminated, and a fourth nitride semiconductor layer is further laminated thereover. Then, a laminate of a gate insulating film and a gate electrode is formed over a first region of the fourth nitride semiconductor layer, and a silicon nitride film is formed over the fourth nitride semiconductor layer and the laminate. By bringing the fourth nitride semiconductor layers on both sides of the gate electrode into contact with the silicon nitride film in this way, the function of suppressing 2DEG can be lowered, and the 2DEG that has been eliminated after the formation of the fourth nitride semiconductor layer can be restored. The lowering in the function of suppressing 2DEG is maintained even after the silicon nitride film is removed.
US10541312B2
A transistor includes a channel fin. A gate stack is formed on sidewalls of the channel fin. A top spacer is formed over the gate stack. The top spacer includes dielectric material that fully encapsulates air gaps directly above the gate stack. A top source/drain region formed on the channel fin.
US10541295B2
A display device may include an organic layer, a first metal layer on the organic layer, the first metal layer including a first metal, and a first oxidation resistant layer between the organic layer and the first metal layer, the first oxidation resistant layer including a nitride of the first metal.
US10541280B1
A touch screen configured for optical touch sensing and user identification using organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) is disclosed. In some examples, one or more OLEDs can be used to display one or more images on the device, can be configured to emit light for optical touch sensing, and/or can be configured to detect a reflection of the emitted light. The touch screen can include a spatial filter configured to focus light emitted from the OLEDs and/or reflected light detected by the OLEDs for improved optical touch sensing. Using optical touch sensors, the touch screen can be capable of discerning between water and an object (e.g., finger) and/or noise (e.g., ambient light) and an object. The touch screen can also be capable of identifying (e.g., authenticating) a user using the active area of the device.
US10541267B2
A light-emitting assembly is provided in different embodiments. The light-emitting assembly comprises: a substrate (22); first light-emitting components (31) arranged on the substrate (22) along a first line and emitting first light of a first colour; second light-emitting components (33) arranged on the substrate (22) along a second line and emitting second light of a second colour, wherein the first line runs laterally next to the second line; and multiple optical waveguides (44) for guiding the light, which are arranged over the light-emitting components (31, 33), extend in the direction from the first line to the second line, and cross the first line and the second line.
US10541261B2
An optical sensor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a conversion region to convert an electromagnetic signal into photo-generated charge carriers, a read-out node configured to read-out a first portion of the photo-generated charge carriers, a control electrode, which is formed in a trench extending into the semiconductor substrate, and a doping region in the semiconductor substrate, where the doping region is adjacent to the trench, where the doping region has a doping type different from the read out node, and where the doping region has a doping concentration so that the doping region remains depleted during operation.
US10541251B2
According to one embodiment, it includes a stacked body including N-number of layers (N is an integer of 2 or more) stacked on a semiconductor substrate, opening portions penetrating the stacked body in a stacking direction, columnar bodies respectively disposed in the opening portions, and a slit dividing M-number of layers (M is an integer of 1 or more and (N−2) or less) of the stacked body in a horizontal direction from above, wherein the slit is formed with lateral surfaces respectively having a spatial periodicity in a horizontal plane.
US10541247B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked body, a columnar portion, a first charge storage portion, and a second charge storage portion. The stacked body includes a plurality of electrode layers stacked in a first direction. The plurality of electrode layers includes a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. The columnar portion extends in the first direction in the stacked body. The first charge storage portion provides between the first electrode layer and the columnar portion. The second charge storage portion provides between the second electrode layer and the columnar portion. A first thickness in a second direction intersecting the first direction of the first charge storage portion between the first electrode layer and the columnar portion is thicker than a second thickness in the second direction of the second charge storage portion between the second electrode layer and the columnar portion.
US10541244B1
The present invention provides a layout pattern of a static random access memory (SRAM), comprising at least two inverters coupled to each other for storing data, each inverter comprising an L-shaped gate structure on a substrate, the L-shaped gate structure includes a first portion arranged along a first direction and a second portion aligned along a second direction, wherein the first portion crosses a first diffusion region to form a pull-up device, and the first portion crosses a second diffusion region and a third diffusion region to form a pull-down device, and each of the inverters includes a local interconnection layer, crossing the second diffusion region and the third diffusion region.
US10541242B2
Structures and methods for making vertical transistors in the Embedded Dynamic Random Access Memory (eDRAM) scheme are provided. A method includes: providing an SOI substrate with a buried insulator layer therein, forming a trench through the substrate, filling the trench with a first polysilicon material, and after filling the trench with the first polysilicon material, i) growing a second polysilicon material over the first polysilicon material and ii) epitaxially growing a doped layer over the SOI substrate, wherein the grown second polysilicon material and epitaxially grown doped layer form a basis for a strap merging the doped layer and the second polysilicon material.
US10541234B2
According to one embodiment, an optical semiconductor module is disclosed. The module includes an optical semiconductor. An electrode lead is arranged apart from the optical semiconductor element. A resin holds the optical semiconductor element and the electrode lead. An interconnect layer electrically or functionally connects the optical semiconductor element and the electrode lead. The optical semiconductor element and the electrode lead are embedded in the same surface side of the resin. A part of the interconnect layer is directly provided on the resin or provided on the resin via an insulating layer.
US10541230B2
A semiconductor device includes a first laminated body and a second laminated body. The first laminated body includes sequentially a first element, a first wiring layer, and a first connection layer that includes a first junction electrode, on a main surface of a first substrate. The second laminated body includes sequentially a second element, a second wiring layer, and a second connection layer that includes a second junction electrode, on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate. The first laminated body and the second laminated body are bonded by directly bonding the first junction electrode and the second junction electrode with the two junction electrodes facing each other. A space region is formed at a part of a junction interface between the first laminated body and the second laminated body.
US10541222B2
A conductive composition, which can form bonded portions and is capable of maintaining a thickness of the bonded portions and bonding strength, and which includes: (A) silver fine particles having a number average particle diameter of primary particles of 40 nm to 400 nm, (B) a solvent, and (C) thermoplastic resin particles having a maximal value of an endothermic peak in a DSC chart, determined by a measurement using a differential scanning calorimeter, within a range of 80° C. to 170° C.
US10541217B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device comprises a redistribution structure, a processor die, and a metal post. The metal post has a first end, and a second end. The metal post is connected to the redistribution structure at the first end. The first end has a first width. The second end has a second width. The metal post has a waist width. The first width is greater than the waist width. The second width is greater than the waist width. The metal post has a side surface. The side surface is inwardly curved or outwardly curved.
US10541216B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip mounted over a wiring substrate. A signal wiring for input for transmitting input signals to the semiconductor chip and a signal wiring for output for transmitting output signals from the semiconductor chip are placed in different wiring layers in the wiring substrate and overlap with each other. In the direction of thickness of the wiring substrate, each of the signal wirings is sandwiched between conductor planes supplied with reference potential. In the front surface of the semiconductor chip, a signal electrode for input and a signal electrode for output are disposed in different rows. In cases where the signal wiring for output is located in a layer higher than the signal wiring for input in the wiring substrate, the signal electrode for output is placed in a row closer to the outer edge of the front surface than the signal electrode for input.
US10541212B2
A semiconductor arrangement includes a semiconductor body with a first surface, an inner region and an edge region, the edge region surrounding the inner region, an attachment layer spaced apart from the first surface of the semiconductor body in a first direction, an intermediate layer arranged between the first surface of the semiconductor body and the attachment layer, and at least one first type sealing structure. The sealing structure includes a first barrier, a second barrier, and a third barrier. The first barrier is arranged in the intermediate layer and spaced apart from the attachment layer in the first direction. The second barrier is arranged in the intermediate layer, is spaced apart from the first surface in the first direction, and is spaced apart from the first barrier in a second direction. The third barrier extends from the first barrier to the second barrier in the second direction.
US10541211B2
A method to control warpage in a semiconductor chip package that includes: attaching a semiconductor chip to a semiconductor chip package; attaching a stiffener to the semiconductor chip package so that the semiconductor chip is contained within the stiffener, the stiffener having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) less than that of the substrate on which the chip is assembled; attaching the semiconductor chip package to a laminate substrate; and removing the stiffener.
US10541207B2
At least one opening having a biconvex shape is formed into a dielectric material layer. A void-free metallization region (interconnect metallic region and/or metallic contact region) is provided to each of the openings. The void-free metallization region has the biconvex shape and exhibits a low wire resistance.
US10541204B2
An interconnection structure includes a non-insulator structure, a dielectric structure, and a conductive structure. The dielectric structure is present on the non-insulator structure. The dielectric structure has a trench opening and a via opening therein. The trench opening has a bottom surface and at least one recess in the bottom surface. The via opening is present between the trench opening and the non-insulator structure. The conductive structure is present in the trench opening and the via opening and electrically connected to the non-insulator structure. The conductive structure is at least separated from the bottom of the recess.
US10541202B2
An antifuse is provided that is embedded in a semiconductor substrate. The antifuse has a large contact area, and a reduced breakdown voltage. After blowing the antifuse, the antifuse has a low resistance. The antifuse may have a single breakdown point or multiple breakdown points. The antifuse includes a metal or metal alloy structure that is separated from a doped semiconductor material portion of the semiconductor substrate by an antifuse dielectric material liner. The metal or metal alloy structure and the antifuse dielectric material liner have topmost surfaces that are coplanar with each other as well as being coplanar with a topmost surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US10541181B2
A wafer defect analysis method according to one embodiment comprises the steps of: thermally treating a wafer at different temperatures; measuring an oxygen precipitate index of the thermally treated wafer; determining a characteristic temperature at which the oxygen precipitate index is maximized; and discriminating a type of defect region of the wafer depending on the determined characteristic temperature.
US10541180B2
A system and method are provided for etching semiconductor wafers (integrated circuit substrates) with advanced packaging using a two-step wet etching process. The first etch step uses an etchant that is non-selective to at least the wafer material (silicon) and metals, such as copper and titanium, that are present in the wafer. The second etch step uses an etchant that is selective to the wafer material (silicon) and has low selectivity for the metals, thereby leaving them at least substantially intact.
US10541178B2
A method of evaluating the quality of a thin film layer may include: forming the thin film layer on a substrate; applying a stress to the thin film layer; and evaluating the quality of the thin film layer. A device for evaluating the quality of the thin film layer may include a stress chamber for applying a stress to the thin film layer and a refractive index measuring unit for evaluating the quality of the thin film layer based on a rate of change of a refractive index.
US10541174B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device can have a substrate including dielectric material. A plurality of narrow interconnect openings can be formed within said dielectric material. In addition, a plurality of wide interconnect openings can be formed within said dielectric material. The semiconductor device can include a first metal filling the narrow interconnect openings to form an interconnect structure and conformally covering a surface of the wide interconnect openings formed in the dielectric material, and a second metal formed over the first metal and encapsulated by the first metal to form another interconnect structure within the wide interconnect openings.
US10541173B2
A method for depositing a film to form an air gap within a semiconductor device is disclosed. An exemplary method comprises pulsing a metal halide precursor onto the substrate and pulsing an oxygen precursor onto a selective deposition surface. The method can be used to form an air gap to, for example, reduce a parasitic resistance of the semiconductor device.
US10541167B2
An apparatus including a first device configured to support at least one substrate thereon; and a first transport having the device connected thereto. The transport is configured to carry the device. The transport includes a plurality of supports which are movable relative to one another along a linear path; at least one magnetic bearing which at least partially couples the supports to one another. A first one of the magnetic bearings includes a first permanent magnet and a second magnet. The first permanent magnet is connected to a first one of the supports. A magnetic field adjuster is connected to the first support which is configured to move the first permanent magnet and/or vary influence of a magnetic field of the first permanent magnet relative to the second magnet.
US10541152B2
A bonding element includes a first transient liquid phase (TLP) bonding element including a first material and a second material, the first material having a higher melting point than the second material, a ratio of a quantity of the first material and the second material in the first TLP bonding element having a first value and a second TLP bonding element including the first material and the second material, a ratio of a quantity of the first material and the second material in the second TLP bonding element having a second value different from the first value.
US10541151B1
A conformal disposable absorber is disclosed which is capable of providing efficient heat transfer to an embedded memory device during a localized absorber anneal, without adversary impacting the back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) structure. The disposable absorber is composed of an amorphous carbonitride material that can be designed to have a low reflection coefficient for laser/flash illumination, and a high extinction coefficient for efficient laser/flash illumination absorption. The disposable absorber is formed at a temperature of 400° C. or less.
US10541150B2
Flash lamps connected to short-pulse circuits and flash lamps connected to long-pulse circuits are alternately arranged in a line. The duration of light emission from the flash lamps connected to the long-pulse circuits is longer than the duration of light emission from the flash lamps connected to the short-pulse circuits. A superimposing of a flash of light with a high peak intensity from the flash lamps that emit light for a short time and a flash of light with a gentle peak from the flash lamps that emit light for a long time can increase the temperature of even a deep portion of a substrate to an activation temperature or more without heating a shallow portion near the substrate surface more than necessary. This achieves the activation of deep junctions without causing substrate warpage or cracking.
US10541144B2
A method for etching features into a silicon containing layer comprising performing a plurality of cycles in a plasma processing chamber is provided. Each cycle comprises a deposition phase and an activation phase. The deposition phase comprises flowing a precursor into the plasma processing chamber to form a self-limiting monolayer, wherein the precursor comprises a head group component and a tail group component, wherein the tail group component comprises fluorine and carbon, and stopping the flow of the precursor into the plasma processing chamber. The activation phase comprises flowing an activation gas comprising an ion bombardment gas, into the plasma processing chamber, creating a plasma from the activation gas, providing an activation bias to cause ion bombardment of the self-limiting monolayer, wherein the ion bombardment activates the fluorine from the tail group component to etch the silicon containing layer, and stopping the flow of the activation gas.
US10541143B2
Methods and architectures for self-aligned build-up of patterned features. An initial patterned feature aspect ratio may be maintained or increased, for example to mitigate erosion of the feature during one or more subtractive device fabrication processes. A patterned feature height may be increased without altering an effective spacing between adjacent features that may be further relied upon, for example to further pattern an underlying material. A patterned feature may be conformally capped with a material, such as a metal or dielectric, in a self-aligned manner, for example to form a functional device layer on an initial pattern having a suitable space width-to-line height aspect ratio without the use of a masked etch to define the cap.
US10541134B2
Halometallate-capped semiconductor nanocrystals and methods for making the halometallate-capped semiconductor nanocrystals are provided. Also provided are methods of using solutions of the halometallate-capped semiconductor nanocrystals as precursors for semiconductor film formation. When solutions of the halometallate ligand-capped semiconductor nanocrystals are annealed, the halometallate ligands can act as grain growth promoters during the sintering of the semiconductor nanocrystals.
US10541133B2
Disclosed is a preparation method for a GaAs thin film grown on an Si substrate, said method comprising the following steps: (1) Si (111) substrate cleaning; (2) Si (111) substrate preprocessing; (3) Si (111) substrate oxide film removal; (4) first InxGa1-xAs buffer layer growth; (5) first InxGa1-xAs buffer layer in situ annealing; (6) GaAs buffer layer growth; (7) GaAs buffer layer in situ annealing; (8) second InxGa1-xAs buffer layer growth; (9) second InxGa1-xAs buffer layer in situ annealing; (10) GaAs epitaxial thin film growth. Also disclosed is a GaAs thin film grown on an Si substrate. The GaAs thin film obtained by the present invention has a good crystal quality, an even surface, and a positive promotional significance with regard to the preparation of semiconductor devices, particularly in the field of solar cells.
US10541132B2
The current disclosure describes semiconductor devices, e.g., transistors, include a substrate, a semiconductor region including, at the surface, MoS2 and/or other monolayer material over the substrate, and a terminal structure at least partially over the semiconductor region, which includes a different monolayer material grown directly over the semiconductor region.
US10541130B2
A semiconductor structure, a method, and an apparatus for in-situ sulfur vapor passivation of an interface surface of an indium gallium arsenide layer of the semiconductor structure. A method includes elemental sulfur-vapor passivation of an interface surface of an indium gallium arsenide layer disposed on a substrate. A dielectric layer can be deposited on the sulfur-vapor passivated interface surface. An annealing process can be performed after the deposition of the dielectric layer. The annealing process anneals the indium gallium arsenide layer including the sulfur-vapor passivated interface surface and the dielectric layer disposed on the sulfur-vapor passivated interface surface. The sulfur-vapor passivation, the deposition of the dielectric layer, and the anneal, can be performed in-situ in a vacuum chamber without breaking a vacuum of the vacuum chamber following a III-V material growth process in the vacuum chamber to form the indium gallium arsenide layer.
US10541125B2
A microchannel plate (MCP) 41 in an ion detection section 4 multiplies electrons. An anode 42 detects those electrons and produces a current signal. An amplifier 44 converts this signal into a voltage signal. A low-pass filter 5A acting as a smoothing section 5 is located at the output end of the amplifier 44. A waveform-shaping time adjuster 6 adjusts the time constant of the low-pass filter 5A beforehand according to the response time of the MCP 41, mass-to-charge ratio of an ion species to be subjected to the measurement, and duration of the spread of the ion species which depends on device-specific parameters. A plurality of peaks which sequentially appear in the detection signal corresponding to one ion species are thereby smoothed into a single broad peak. Thus, the distinguishability between signal waves and noise components is improved.
US10541122B2
Apparatus (e.g., ion source), systems (e.g., residual gas analyzer), and methods provide extended life and improved analytical stability of mass spectrometers in the presence of contamination gases while achieving substantial preferential ionization of sampled gases over internal background gases. One embodiment is an ion source that includes a gas source, nozzle, electron source, and electrodes. The gas source delivers gas via the nozzle to an evacuated ionization volume and is at a higher pressure than that of the evacuated ionization volume. Gas passing through the nozzle freely expands in an ionization region of the ionization volume. The electron source emits electrons through the expanding gas in the ionization region to ionize at least a portion of the expanding gas. The electrodes create electrical fields for ion flow from the ionization region to a mass filter and are located at distances from the nozzle and oriented to limit their exposure to the gas.
US10541115B2
In a plasma processing apparatus that can adjust an induction magnetic field distribution of power feeding sections of an induction coil, correct a plasma distribution on a specimen, and apply uniform plasma processing to the specimen, the specimen is subjected to plasma processing, a dielectric window that forms the upper surface of the vacuum processing chamber, a gas lead-in section that leads gas into the vacuum processing chamber, a specimen table that is arranged in the vacuum processing chamber and on which the specimen is placed, an induction coil provided above the dielectric window, and a radio-frequency power supply that supplies radio-frequency power to the induction coil. The plasma processing apparatus includes a flat conductor arranged below the induction coil. The induction coil includes crossing power feeding sections. The conductor is arranged below the power feeding sections.
US10541113B2
Described processing chambers may include a chamber housing at least partially defining an interior region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The chamber may include a showerhead positioned within the chamber housing, and the showerhead may at least partially divide the interior region into a remote region and a processing region in which a substrate can be contained. The chamber may also include an inductively coupled plasma source positioned between the showerhead and the processing region. The inductively coupled plasma source may include a conductive material within a dielectric material.
US10541112B2
A charged particle beam system comprises a particle beam source having a particle emitter at a first voltage, a first electrode downstream of the particle beam source at a second voltage, a multi-aperture plate downstream of the first electrode, a second electrode downstream of the multi-aperture plate at a third voltage, a third electrode downstream of the second electrode at a fourth voltage, a deflector downstream of the third electrode, an objective lens downstream of the deflector, a fourth electrode downstream of the deflector at a fifth voltage; and an object mount at a sixth voltage. Voltage differences between the first, second, third, fourth and fifth voltages have same and opposite signs.
US10541111B2
A distortion measurement method for an electron microscope image includes: loading a distortion measurement specimen having structures arranged in a lattice to a specimen plane of an electron microscope or a plane conjugate to the specimen plane in order to obtain an electron microscope image of the distortion measurement specimen; and measuring a distortion from the obtained electron microscope image of the distortion measurement specimen.
US10541110B2
A multi-beam apparatus for observing a sample with high resolution and high throughput and in flexibly varying observing conditions is proposed. The apparatus uses a movable collimating lens to flexibly vary the currents of the plural probe spots without influencing the intervals thereof, a new source-conversion unit to form the plural images of the single electron source and compensate off-axis aberrations of the plural probe spots with respect to observing conditions, and a pre-beamlet-forming means to reduce the strong Coulomb effect due to the primary-electron beam.
US10541108B2
The disclosure is related to a method and apparatus for transmission electron microscopy wherein a TEM specimen is subjected to at least one thinning step by scratching at least an area of the specimen with an SPM probe, and wherein the thinned area is subjected to an SPM acquisition step, using the same SPM probe or another probe.
US10541101B1
An electric leakage protector includes a reset mechanism, a breaker mechanism, and a current detecting mechanism. The current detecting mechanism is used to control the breaker mechanism which includes a separated elastic member driving the moving contact to descend, and the reset mechanism includes a reset column, a connecting member, a first reset elastic member, a moving seat, and a second reset elastic member. The separated elastic member is coupled to the connecting member through the moving seat, and the reset column has a latch groove for latching the connecting member. The breaker mechanism is used to drive the connecting member to retreat from the latch groove, and the second reset elastic member is used to drive the reset column to ascend. After the reset column descends, the first reset elastic member drives the connecting member to be latched into the latch groove to miniaturize the electric leakage protector.
US10541100B2
A system for electrically operating a circuit breaker remotely and during period of a power outage is provided. The system has a power source, power cable, control unit, control device, and a circuit breaker port for connecting the power source and control unit to the circuit breaker, for actuation of the circuit breaker operating mechanism.
US10541097B2
An electromechanical relay, which can be inserted into a modular terminal in an insertion direction, wherein the relay is arranged in a housing and has two toggle switches, each of which is connected to connecting elements. At least one of the connecting elements leads out of the housing at the side and extends perpendicular to the insertion direction in at least some segments.
US10541089B2
A capacitor has a variable capacitance settable by a bias voltage. A method for setting the bias voltage including the steps of: (a) injecting a constant current to bias the capacitor; (b) measuring the capacitor voltage at the end of a time interval; (c) calculating the capacitance value obtained at the end of the time interval; (d) comparing this value with a desired value; and (e) repeating steps (a) to (d) so as long as the calculated value is different from the set point value. When calculated value matches the set point value; the measured capacitor voltage is stored as a bias voltage to be applied to the capacitor for setting the variable capacitance.
US10541084B2
There is a film capacitor capable of suppressing decrease in the electrostatic capacitance even after a self-healing phenomenon has occurred. A film capacitor includes a dielectric film; and an electrode film disposed on a principal surface of the dielectric film, the dielectric film containing an organic resin and an organic component having a higher volatility than the organic resin. The organic resin is preferably any one of a cyclic olefin-based resin, a polyarylate resin, a polyphenylene ether resin and a polyetherimide resin. The organic component is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of cyclohexane, ethylcyclohexane, toluene, xylene, chloroform, and tetrahydrofuran.
US10541083B2
The present invention relates to a coil unit for a power inductor, a manufacturing method of a coil unit for a power inductor, a power inductor and a manufacturing method of a power inductor. The coil unit includes an insulating substrate and a coil pattern, wherein the coil pattern has a first plating part formed at least one surface among top and bottom surfaces of the insulating substrate, wherein a top side thereof has the shape of a taper and a second plating part formed to encompass the first plating part and to correspond to a shape of the first plating part.
US10541075B2
The present disclosure provides a power inductor, which includes a body, at least one substrate provided inside the body, at least one coil pattern provided on at least one surface of the substrate, and an insulation layer formed between the coil pattern and the body, wherein the insulation layer is formed of parylene.
US10541074B2
A system and a method for the deterministic generation of magnetic skyrmions includes a magnetic strip configured to store and transport skyrmions. The magnetic strip includes one or more spatial inhomogeneities configured to generate a skyrmion at known locations when excited by a current pulse. A current pulse generator is used to inject current pulses into the magnetic strip via contact pads electrically coupled to both the current pulse generator and the magnetic strip. The system also includes a magnetic field source to apply an out-of-plane magnetic field across the magnetic strip to facilitate generation of skyrmions. Skyrmions can be generated by applying an out-of-plane magnetic field to the magnetic strip and injecting a current pulse with sufficient current density towards the spatial inhomogeneities. Once a skyrmion is generated, another current pulse with sufficient current density can be injected to move the skyrmion.
US10541068B2
A connection structure of superconducting wires includes a plurality of superconducting wires are overlapped and connected with each other, each of the plurality of superconducting wires including a substrate and a superconducting layer that are laminated. A non-superconductor is provided at a part of a surface of the superconducting layer of at least one of the superconducting wires and protrudes from the surface.
US10541061B2
The invention relates to a system (100) for generating and collimating an X-ray beam (104), comprising an X-ray tube insert for generating the X-ray beam, the X-ray tube inert being a vacuum tube; a tube housing (102) for containing the X-ray tube insert (101), the tube housing being made of X-ray absorbing material; a collimator (103) for collimating the X-ray beam (104); wherein the collimator (103) is arranged in between the X-ray tube insert (101) and the tube housing (102). The invention also relates to a corresponding apparatus for scanning an object of interest with an X-ray beam (104) comprising the system.
US10541059B2
A digital protection system includes a process protection system having at least two channels and a reactor protection system having at least two trains. The process protection system includes, in one channel, first and second comparative logic controllers of different types that are mutually independent of each other and that respectively receive process variables as inputs and each outputting comparison logic results. The reactor protection system includes, in one train, first and second concurrent logic controllers of different types that are mutually independent from each other and that respectively receive the comparison logic results as inputs and each outputting concurrent logic results. The reactor protection system includes initiation circuits, each circuit including a plurality of relays connected in series and a plurality of relays connected in parallel. One series-connected relay is controlled by one of the two different concurrent logic results, and one parallel-connected relay is controlled by the other.
US10541055B2
A patient monitoring system and method for visual alarm indication on parameter active cables are provided herein. The patient monitoring system includes a plurality of sensors and an active cable coupled to the plurality of sensors to acquire data from the plurality of sensors. The patient monitoring system also includes a host patient monitor coupled to the active cable, wherein the active cable includes a visual alarm that is to indicate an alarm condition using the plurality of sensors.
