US10668970B2
A saddle riding vehicle includes: a fuel tank supported by a body frame; a filler opening provided in an upper surface of the fuel tank; a tank cover covering the upper surface of the fuel tank; and a fuel sump collecting fuel overflowing from the filler opening. The saddle riding vehicle includes a shroud covering a side surface of the fuel tank. The fuel sump is placed around the filler opening and under the tank cover. The fuel sump includes a drain pipe discharging fuel downward. The drain pipe extends between the tank cover and the shroud.
US10668948B2
A vehicle steering device includes a steering wheel, an input shaft, an output shaft coupled to the input shaft via a torsion bar, an electric motor, a torque detector that detects a torsion bar torque applied to the torsion bar, a rotational angle detector that detects a rotational angle of the electric motor, and a microcomputer. The microcomputer is configured to estimate a driver torque applied to the steering wheel using at least (i) the torsion bar torque detected by the torque detector, (ii) the rotational angle of the electric motor detected by the rotational angle detector, and (iii) a physical model that is constructed with a torsion bar viscosity and a torsion bar rigidity, and determine whether the steering wheel is operated in a hands-on state or a hands-off state based on the estimated driver torque.
US10668943B2
A heat radiation base body extending in a direction of a rotation shaft of an electric motor close to the rotation shaft is provided at an end surface of a motor housing accommodating the electric motor. A board of one electronic control unit of a redundant system is fixed to the heat radiation base body along the direction in which heat radiation base body extends with thermal conduction allowed. A board of the other electronic control unit of redundant system is fixed to the heat radiation base body along a direction in which the heat radiation base body extends, so as to face the board of one electronic control unit, with thermal conduction allowed. A cover covering these is fixed to an end surface of the motor housing without a bolt. Thus, a housing accommodating the electronic control unit is not necessary. A sealing part is only the connecting portion between the motor housing and cover, thereby eliminating additional structure of the sealing part, sealing component required for seal and bolt.
US10668941B2
An electric power steering apparatus compensates a dead time of an inverter without tuning operation, improves distortion of a current waveform and responsibility of a current control, and suppresses sound, vibration and ripple. The apparatus calculates dq-axes steering-assist command values based on at least a steering torque, calculates dq-axes current command values from the dq-axes steering-assist command values, converts the dq-axes current command values into 3-phase duty command values, driving-controls a 3-phase brushless motor by an inverter of a PWM control, and applies an assist torque to a steering system of a vehicle. Dead time reference compensation values are calculated based on a motor rotational angle. Dead time compensation of the inverter adds dead time compensation values in which the dead time reference compensation values are processed by using a gain, a sign and the like, to dq-axes voltage command values or to 3-phase voltage command values.
US10668938B1
A folding handcart includes: a main body provided with at least one wheel unit for moving at a lower portion thereof and provided with a supporter configured to extend vertically from the lower portion thereof; and a loading plate connected to the supporter of the main body through a hinge unit, folded while being rotated toward the main body by the hinge unit, and stowing an article or a folding box, wherein, when the loading plate is folded while being rotated toward the main body, a predetermined stowing space is provided between the main body and the loading plate in accordance with an area of the supporter such that the folding box is folded and stowed therein.
US10668934B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a roof component of a railway vehicle, and a railway vehicle. The roof component of a railway vehicle includes: two upper boundary beams, the two upper boundary beams being provided at an interval; a camber beam component, the camber beam component being provided between the two upper boundary beams; and a transitional structure, provided on the camber beam component, the transitional structure being connected with at least one of the two upper boundary beams. The technical solution of the present disclosure solves the problem in the conventional art of inconvenient connection between a camber beam component and an upper boundary beam, and a transitional structure of the present application facilitates processing and forming.
US10668930B1
In a method for applying penalties or incentives to a driver of a rented vehicle, an indication that the driver has agreed to terms for renting the vehicle from the vehicle owner is received, with the terms including the potential application of penalties or incentives to the driver based on driving behavior. Telematics data, indicative of operation of the rented vehicle by the driver during a period of time, is also received. By analyzing the telematics data, one or more driving behaviors of the driver during the time period is/are identified. One or more characteristics of the rented vehicle are also determined. One or more penalties or incentives are caused to be applied to the driver, based on the driving behavior(s) and the one or more characteristics of the rented vehicle.
US10668927B2
A method of determining the level of quality of a road from an electronic measurement unit mounted in a wheel of a motor vehicle traveling on the road. The electronic measurement unit includes at least one sensor able to measure the vibrations perceived by the tread of the tire of said wheel. The method includes measuring, using the sensor, the vibrations perceived by the tread of the tire of the wheel, calculating the strength of the vibrations measured at a predetermined vibrational frequency referred to as the distinguishing frequency, comparing the calculated strength with predetermined strength values contained in a table stored in a memory zone, which are characteristic of various road quality levels, and determining the level of quality of the road from the comparison made.
US10668917B2
In a drive system including a battery, a power generation device (PGD) including a generator mounted to an engine shaft, and a drive device (DD) including a motor for driving a driven component, a drive controller performs a drive control for PGD and DD and a switching control for a switching device. During a parallel connection, respective high-voltage side terminals (HVTs) of PGD and the battery are connected to a HVT of DD, and respective low-voltage side terminals (LVTs) of PGD and the battery are connected to LVT of DD. During a series connection, HVT of any one of PGD and the battery is connected to HVT of DD, and LVT of another one of PGD and the battery is connected to LVT of DD, and terminals of PGD and the battery, which are not connected to DD, are connected to each other.
US10668913B2
A wheel chock system includes a chock, a sensor disposed within the chock to sense the proximity to the tire, an outside light box, and an inside control panel. Lamps on the outside light box provide a visual indication as to when the chock is in close proximity to the wheel. Lights on the inside control panel provide a visual indication of the loading dock safety status. The wheel chock system further includes a controller coupled to the inside control panel, programmed to change visual indications of both the outside light signal box and the inside control panel, based at least on the sensor and a loading dock door sensor. The wheel chock system further includes a camera positioned to view the tire and the chock and convey an image of the tire and the chock to a display on or near the inside control panel.
US10668907B2
A bicycle hydraulic operating device is basically provided with a base member, a piston, an operating member and a hydraulic reservoir. The base member includes a cylinder bore. The piston is movably disposed in the cylinder bore. The operating member is coupled to the piston to move the piston within the cylinder bore. The hydraulic reservoir includes a hydraulic reservoir tank and a reservoir lid. The hydraulic reservoir is provided on the base member and is fluidly connected to the cylinder bore by a fluid passage. At least part of one of the base member and the hydraulic reservoir includes a fluid inspection portion making visually perceptible therethrough at least a portion of a hydraulic fluid flow path that includes the hydraulic reservoir, the cylinder bore and the fluid passage.
US10668896B2
A car sharing system includes a car sharing device. The car sharing device includes a key function unit and a user authentication function unit. The key function unit allows a device of a vehicle that is shared with multiple people to operate by performing ID verification through a process similar to an electronic key of the vehicle. When the device of the vehicle is operated with a mobile terminal, the user authentication function unit obtains key information from an external device via the mobile terminal and performs authentication of the key information. When authentication of the key information is accomplished and use of the vehicle is within a reservation time, the user authentication function unit validates the key function unit. The key information is generated as information that is permitted only a temporary use.
US10668885B2
A side airbag device for a rear seat relating to the technique of the present disclosure includes: an airbag module that is provided at an interior of a side garnish that is disposed between a vehicle body side portion and a vehicle transverse direction outer side of a seatback of a rear seat; a tubular flow regulating cloth that is provided at an interior of a side airbag of the airbag module, at a periphery of an inflator; and an airbag door that is provided at the side garnish, and that has a hinge portion and a tear portion at a periphery thereof, and that is pushed by the tubular flow regulating cloth when gas is generated from the inflator, wherein the tubular flow regulating cloth has openings at both ends thereof, and has exhaust holes in a peripheral wall thereof.
US10668883B2
A display system for a vehicle comprises a display device including a screen disposed in a passenger compartment of the vehicle. The display device is configured to tilt relative to the vehicle and comprises an inertial sensor configured to output an acceleration signal. A controller is in communication with the display device and an imager configured to capture image data in a field of view rearward relative to the vehicle. The controller is operable to receive the acceleration signal and identify a direction of gravity from the acceleration signal. The controller is further configured to identify a reference direction from the image data and generate adjusted image data corrected for an angular offset of the display device between the direction of gravity and a vertical axis of the display device.
US10668878B1
A wrap bracket assembly includes a clamp and a push-on nut. The clamp includes a first attachment flange defining a first attachment opening, a second attachment flange defining a second attachment opening. A loop portion is disposed between the first attachment flange and the second attachment flange. The push-on nut defines a receptacle opening having teeth that extend radially inwardly and partially extend across the first attachment opening. The push-on nut includes an outer leg and an inner leg that are clipped to the first attachment flange in an open position. The crimp tab is bent over the second attachment flange to hold the first and second attachment flanges together in a closed position.
US10668869B1
A camera unit for capturing images of the outer region of a motor vehicle includes a housing in which the camera unit is accommodated, a cover element, and a drive unit for moving the camera unit and for moving the cover element. A pivot element is movably mounted about a first axis of rotation and has a first arm, which is motionally connected to the cover element, and a second arm. A lever element, which is movably mounted about a second axis of rotation, is operatively connected to the cover element. A guide element, which is mounted about a third axis of rotation, includes a first guide arm that is operatively connected to the second arm of the pivot element and a second guide arm which is motionally coupled to the camera unit.
US10668867B2
The invention relates to a holding system for a telecommunication device (46) in a vehicle, comprising a receiving part (1) for fastening in a stationary manner and a holder (40) dial can be inserted into die receiving pan (1), on which holder the telecommunication device (46) can be detachably fastened. Said holding system is characterized in that the receiving part (1) has a receiving channel (10) having a slot-shaped entry opening (7), into which receiving channel an attachment (21), which is shaped complementary to the receiving channel (10) and is connected to the holder (40) in the mounted state, can be inserted in an insertion direction and in which receiving channel said attachment can be fastened in the inserted state.
US10668866B2
The present disclosure includes hitch-mounted carriers, including portable bicycle racks. One carrier may include front tire tray assembly; hook arm assembly; pivot assembly; hitch shank ball cam assembly; rear tire tray assembly; and a bike docking assembly. The pivot assembly allowing for adjustment between: storage, trunk access, and use configurations. The bike carrier having first and second wheel supporting tray assemblies for supporting wheels of a loaded bicycle. A hook arm assembly may be pivotally arranged relative to lock at least one wheel and ratchet clamped to at least one wheel. The hook arm assembly may also be configured to extend and retract and is frictionally locked into position. The bike carrier may include a docking assembly having inner and outer clamps configured to the hold a bike into position such that mechanical work may be accomplished at an elevated height.
US10668854B2
A work vehicle includes a vehicle body, a working implement, a camera, and a display control unit. To the vehicle body, front tires are mounted. The working implement is movably coupled to the vehicle body and at least a part thereof is arranged anterior to the front tires. The camera is arranged at a front portion of the vehicle body and shoots an image of an anterior area outside the vehicle body as a shooting area. The display control unit causes a display device to display a shot image shot by the camera and a first guide image which indicates a first projection position obtained by projecting a first site of the working implement on a plane including ground-contacting surfaces of the front tires in a superimposed manner.
US10668841B2
A protective seat backrest cover which can be quickly and easily installed and/or removed consisting of a cover with a seam down one side, allowing it to be opened and wrapped around a seat backrest and then closed and fastened, without removing the headrest.
US10668836B2
A vehicle seatback includes: a first panel; a second panel coupled to the first panel so that a welding stitching pattern is exposed, each welding stitch of the welding stitching pattern accessible from a common direction; and a bracket, wherein at least one welding stitch included in the welding stitch pattern connects the bracket to one of the first or second panels. A vehicle latch system includes: a housing at a first edge of a movable vehicle seatback with a handle to assume an extended position outside the housing in which a flag on the handle is presented, and a retracted position inside the housing in which the flag is not presented; a latch configured for placement at a second edge of the movable vehicle seatback, the second edge opposite the first edge; and a cable connecting the handle and the latch to each other.
US10668835B2
In a seat for a vehicle which comprises a seat body, a slide mechanism, and a lift mechanism, the lift mechanism is configured such that a hip point of a specified physique occupant seated on the seat body draws a track which is approximated to a virtual rotational track of the hip point around a heel point when viewed from a vehicle side, whereby a change quantity of an ankle's angle is restricted below a first threshold and a change quantity of a knee's angle is restricted below a second threshold.
US10668832B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods of controlling of an energy storage unit are detailed herein. A cold plate can be thermally coupled with an energy storage unit for powering the electric vehicle. The cold plate can have a bottom layer. The bottom layer can have a channel spanning across a top surface of the bottom layer to circulate coolant to transfer heat away from the energy storage unit. The top layer can be flush with a bottom surface of the energy storage unit. The top layer can define openings each extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. The cold plate can have inserts sealing the openings. The inserts can have a melting temperature lower than a melting temperature of the top layer to expose at least one opening when heated the melting temperature to allow release of the coolant from the channel onto the energy storage unit.
US10668831B2
A system for powering a hotel load in a vehicle which has a power supply with a positive pole and a negative pole, an alternator connected to the engine and in direct connection with the power supply, a starter connected to the engine and in direct electrical communication with the power supply. The vehicle also has a power inverter in electrical communication with the power supply through a pair of power inverter cables. The alternator, the starter, and the power inverter are connected in parallel and directly to the power supply.
US10668827B2
An electric vehicle includes a frame unit and a vehicle body cover unit. The frame unit includes tread boards extending toward a rear side of a vehicle body. The tread tubes are arranged in a left and right pairwise form as a left tread tube and a right tread tube. The vehicle body cover unit includes a thread board shielding the left tread tube and the right tread tube. A battery box that receives and holds a battery is shaft-supported on the frame unit. The battery box has two sides provided with support shafts. The battery box is shaft-supported on the frame unit by the support shafts in a left-right direction. The battery box is rotatable about a rotation center defined by the support shafts in a front-rear direction to an open position or a storage position so as to facilitate removal of the battery from the battery box.
US10668820B2
A protocol conversion apparatus includes: a first communication unit that communicates with a power conditioner that supports a first charging protocol; a second communication unit that communicates with an electric vehicle that supports a second charging protocol; and a control unit that is a conversion unit placed between the first communication unit and the second communication unit, which receives from the first communication unit a communication signal received from the power conditioner, and upon the reception, converts the received signal to a communication signal that conforms to the second charging protocol to output the resultant signal to the second communication unit, and which receives from the second communication unit a communication signal received from the electric vehicle, and upon the reception, converts the received signal to a communication signal that conforms to the first charging protocol to output the resultant signal to the first communication unit.
US10668814B1
The invention relates to the supplemental generation of energy from a vehicle operation, and specifically to the generation of energy in connection to a vehicle's disc brakes in combination with brushless electric motor-generators. The aim of the invention is to provide a solution making it possible to provide a generator and a disc brake having a compact structure.
US10668811B2
A power supply system (120) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first power supply device (121), a second power supply device (122), and an addition circuit (123). The first power supply device (121) includes a first driving circuit that outputs a first direct current from a first power supply input and a first control circuit that controls the first driving circuit. The second power supply device (122) includes a second driving circuit that outputs a second direct current from a second power supply input and a second control circuit that monitors the first driving circuit and controls the second driving circuit. The addition circuit (123) is connected to an output terminal of each of the first and second power supply devices (121, 122) and outputs a third direct current that is a value obtained by adding the first and second direct currents to a load device (on-board illumination device (110)).
US10668791B2
A carrier component for a vehicle, e.g. in the form of an assembly or module carrier for a vehicle door is provided. The carrier component comprises a sealing channel at least in a protruding region in which a portion for a functional component protruding beyond the edge of the carrier base surface or for a functional component arranged to protrude from the carrier component extends across the sealing channel in cross-section is formed by at least two legs which each define an outer edge of the sealing channel and whose ends lie in a channel plane which extends inclined relative to a carrier plane defined by the carrier base surface, so that the sealing channel is open in a direction in space defining the carrier plane and a seal also can easily be injection-molded to the carrier component in the protruding region.
US10668781B2
A ball joint assembly for use in a vehicle suspension system includes a housing including a first end surface and an opposing second end surface. The housing at least one of includes an outer tie rod of a steering assembly and is configured to be coupled to the outer tie rod of the steering assembly. The housing defines a cavity and also includes an opening defined in the second end surface. The ball joint assembly also includes a ball stud coupled to the housing such that a first portion of the ball stud is positioned in the cavity and a second portion of the ball stud extends through the opening. A wire harness is coupled to the first end surface of the housing and extends away from the housing in a direction opposite the second end surface.
US10668780B2
A vehicle has a frame, driver and passenger seats, two front and two rear suspension assemblies, two front and two rear wheels, and a motor operatively connected to at least two of the wheels. Each rear suspension assembly has a trailing arm having a front end pivotally connected to the frame, a knuckle pivotally connected to a rear portion of the trailing arm, a link having a laterally outward end pivotally connected to the trailing arm and the knuckle and a laterally inward end pivotally connected to the frame, and a fastener fastening the laterally outward end of the link, the knuckle and the trailing arm together.
US10668779B2
In order to provide a functional component attaching member of which durability can be further improved because when a load is applied to a functional component while a vehicle is travelling, the load can also be borne by portions other than a wall portion opposite to a load direction, the present invention provides a rubber functional component attaching member (functional component mounting base 1) for fastening a functional component 29 to an inner surface 70 of a tire, comprising a bottom surface 4 that is fixed to the inner surface 70 of the tire, an attaching portion 2 having a recessed portion 2A to which a functional component-side attaching portion 30 provided to the functional component 29 is attached, and a reinforcing material 20 embedded in a rubber portion on an outer side of the recessed portion 2A.
US10668775B2
A tire 1 comprises a tread portion 2 provided with an outer shoulder main groove 3 in a part closest to an outside tread edge (To) and an outer crown main groove 4 on a side of an inside tread edge (Ti) of the outer shoulder main groove 3 both extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction, and outer transverse grooves 9 connecting between the outside tread edge (To) and the outer crown main groove 4 so that an outer shoulder land region 7A is defined between the outside tread edge (To) and the outer shoulder main groove 3 and an outer middle land region 7B is defined between the outer shoulder main groove 3 and the outer crown main groove 4. A maximum axial width Ws of the outer shoulder land region 7A is larger than a maximum axial width Wm of the outer middle land region 7B.
US10668772B2
A tire has excellent wet performance without leading to a reduction in steering stability. The tire includes a tread portion and a pair of bead portions each with a bead core and a bead filler disposed on the radial outside of the bead core. Tread rubber forming the tread portion includes a rubber composition including a rubber component (A) and, per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component (A), 5 to 50 parts by mass of at least one kind of thermoplastic resin (B) selected from the group consisting of C5-based resins, C5- to C9-based resins, C9-based resins, terpene-based resins, terpene-aromatic compound-based resins, rosin-based resins, dicyclopentadiene resins, and alkylphenol-based resins, and 20 to 120 parts by mass of a filler (C) including silica. The dynamic storage modulus (E′) of the bead filler exceeds 50 MPa.
US10668770B2
A motor vehicle wheel bearing assembly includes a hub configured to be supported by at least one rolling-element bearing and to provide a seat for a wheel. The hub includes a first hollow-cone-shaped element manufactured from light metal and having a first axial end section having a first diameter and a second axial end section having a second, larger, diameter and at least one bearing raceway or raceway support at the first axial end section. The hub also includes a second element extending radially from an end of the first hollow-cone-shaped element, the second element having a radially inner section and a radially outer section. The second axial end section of the first element is connected to the radial outer section of the second element, for example, at a joint.
US10668763B2
A PET synthetic paper is composed of a PET substrate and a soft ink absorbing coating coated on the PET substrate. The soft ink absorbing coating includes an acrylic coating and a polyurethane coating embossed on the acrylic coating. The acrylic coating has excellent printability and the polyurethane coating has velvety-soft tactility.
US10668762B2
A system for performing substrateless and/or local donor Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT), comprising a reservoir (9) comprising at least one opening and an energy source configured to deliver energy to a donor material within said reservoir, characterized by at least one of: said reservoir is embedded into a medical device; said reservoir is in fluid connection with a medical device; said reservoir is incorporated into a medical device; said reservoir contains at least one biologically active substance; and, said reservoir is in fluid connection with at least one source of at least one biologically active substance. This system enables deposition of material by LIFT without any need for a donor substrate. Methods of substrateless and local donor LIFT, in particular for medical and biological applications, are also disclosed.
US10668754B2
An inkjet module includes: first and second opposite end brackets; a print module slidably mounted between the end brackets for raising and lowering the print module relative to the end brackets, the print module having a front face, a rear face and an elongate printhead positioned at a lower surface of the print module; and a cable array including a plurality of laterally arranged cables connected to the print module. The cables of the cable array extend in a common plane parallel to the rear face of the print module and follow a curved path such that an outer cable is longer than an inner cable.
US10668752B2
An inkjet printer is provided that is configured to store a plurality of pieces of gap information respectively corresponding to a plurality of examined sections discretely arranged along a head moving direction on a recording sheet, each of the plurality of examined sections including a corresponding one portion of top portions and bottom portions on the recording sheet, and calculate interpolation gap information to be interpolated over a whole width in the head moving direction of at least one of a plurality of segments, each of which has a width in the head moving direction defined by two adjacent sections of the plurality of examined sections, based on the stored gap information.
US10668748B2
Systems and methods where a delay time between a first card processing mechanism, such as a drop-on-demand printer that prints with UV curable ink, and a second card processing mechanism, such as a UV curing station, can be altered to adjust the travel time of the card from the first card processing mechanism to the second card processing mechanism. First and second card buffers can be provided between the first card processing mechanism and the second card processing mechanism. Each of the first and second card buffers is independently logically controlled to permit independent control of the transport time of a card through each card buffer. Alternatively, a single card buffer or more than two card buffers can be provided between the first card processing mechanism and the second card processing mechanism.
US10668744B2
A printing method is provided and includes: ejecting a photo-curable ink from a head onto a print medium by an ejection amount v2 required of matte-finish printing; irradiating a light after a standby time t2 is passed to cure the photo-curable ink in a manner that a matte finish is obtainable; ejecting a transparent-photo-curable ink from the head onto the print medium by an ejection amount v3 greater than the ejection amount v2 and less than or equal to an ejection amount v1 required of glossy-finish printing; and irradiating the light after a standby time t3 shorter than a standby time t1 is passed to cure the transparent-photo-curable ink which is ejected.
US10668740B2
A fabric printing apparatus includes a body and a cloth holder that holds a cloth and is movable in a moving direction. A receiver is disposed inside the body. The receiver removably holds the cloth holder. A printing device prints an image on the cloth placed on the cloth holder held by the receiver. A guide rail is mounted on both lateral ends of one of the cloth holder and the receiver in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the cloth holder. The guide rail engages and holds both lateral ends of another one of the cloth holder and the receiver in the direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the cloth holder.
US10668739B2
Using an acoustic signal to monitor a transfer of a puck that is holding and centering a container as it is being transferred from a first to a second transport-element includes using a sensor to capture an acoustic signal generated by the transfer. This acoustic signal indicates that the puck has been received at a treatment station associated with said second transport-element.
US10668725B2
Printheads for jetting a print fluid. In one embodiment, a printhead includes a main body configured to attach to a stack of plates, where the stack of plates forms a row of jetting channels configured to jet droplets of a print fluid. The main body includes a supply manifold configured to provide a fluid path for the print fluid to the row of jetting channels. The supply manifold comprises a primary manifold duct and a secondary manifold duct that extend in parallel in alignment with the row of jetting channels. The primary manifold duct is fluidly isolated from the secondary manifold duct at end sections of the primary manifold duct, and is fluidly coupled to the secondary manifold duct toward a midsection of a length of the primary manifold duct. The secondary manifold duct is fluidly coupled to the row of jetting channels.
US10668722B2
A printhead includes an address line, data lines, a fire pulse line, and a plurality of primitives, each primitive corresponding to a different data line and including a plurality of activation devices, each activation device corresponding to a different address of a set of addresses. A buffer receives data packets, each data packet including address data representative of an address of the set of addresses and print data for each primitive corresponding to the address. For each data packet, the buffer directs the address data to address logic and places the print data on the respective data line, and the address logic encodes the address represented by the address data onto the address line. For each primitive, the activation device corresponding to the address on the address bus activates a corresponding primitive function based on the corresponding print data when a fire pulse is present on the fire pulse line.
US10668720B2
In some examples, a fluid ejection device includes a nozzle to dispense fluid, and a recirculation controller to control recirculating of the nozzle. The recirculation controller is to receive, from a fluid ejection controller, an indication corresponding to a start of a sampling time interval, determine, during the sampling time interval, whether a firing event corresponding to firing of the nozzle has occurred, and in response to determining that the firing event has not occurred, cause activation of a recirculation pump to recirculate fluid through a chamber of the nozzle.
US10668718B2
An inkjet recording apparatus has a head, a first board, and a second board. The head has a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of driving elements. The first board includes a control circuit and a sensing circuit unit. The second board includes a driving voltage generator and a driver circuit. The driver circuit makes ink ejected. The driving voltage generator and the driver circuit are connected together via a first power supply line. The sensing circuit unit is connected to the first power supply line and outputs a first sensing signal. Based on the first sensing signal, the control circuit senses an abnormality in power supply on the second board.
US10668707B2
A method for fabricating an object using an additive manufacturing process. The method involves a computer-controlled apparatus including a fabrication head for selectively fabricating material and a build area for receiving the fabricated material, and comprises the steps of the apparatus receiving computer instructions relating to the object geometry, and moving the fabrication head and the build area relative to each other, and selectively operating the fabrication head, to fabricate at least one bead of material in the build area corresponding with the object geometry, whereby the at least one bead has non-uniform thickness.
US10668704B2
In a packaging body provided with at least an inner layer composed of a thermal-adhesive polyolefin based resin and a barrier layer composed of a metal foil, in which metal terminals are sealed by the thermal-adhesive resin with unconnected ends of the metal terminals protruding outside, an adhesive sheet for sealing metal terminals of a flat electrochemical cell which is not only able to prevent a short circuit between the barrier layer and the metal terminals but high in a layer-to-layer adhesive strength and a low possibility of a reduction in battery performance to be caused due to invasion of moisture is provided. In the adhesive sheet for sealing a metal terminal part of a flat electrochemical cell according to the invention, a fibrous sheet or a porous sheet is covered by the inner layer and an acid-modified polyolefin based resin layer having adhesive properties.
US10668699B2
A core layer is provided which is suitable for a multilayer composite that includes at least one cover layer and the core layer. The cover layer is arranged so as to at least partially cover the core layer and be fixedly connected thereto. The multilayer composite includes the core layer, the core layer having layers which have corrugated wooden elements. The corrugated wooden elements are arranged in an oriented manner in at least one layer.
US10668697B2
Included are removing an outermost layer or outermost layers on one side or both sides of liquid crystal polymer film; and a molding step of performing thermocompression molding on liquid crystal polymer film and metal foil stacked on the side of liquid crystal polymer film whose outermost layer is removed. A heating temperature in the molding step is in a range from a temperature equal to a melting start temperature, of the liquid crystal polymer film, measured by using a rigid body pendulum type viscoelasticity measuring device to a temperature 60° C. higher than the melting start temperature inclusive.
US10668687B2
A protection tape for a printed circuit board (PCB) includes an insulating base plate, a conductive layer over the insulating base plate, and an adhesive layer over the conductive layer, the adhesive layer including a main part having a first thickness and a subsidiary part having a second thickness less than the first thickness, the main part corresponding to at least a center portion of the insulating base plate and the subsidiary part being arranged at an outside of the main part.
US10668684B1
A hydraulic powered press for hand tool repair is mounted to a wall and powered by an electric motor. A plurality of adjustable holders is secured about the side frame of the jack.
US10668680B2
A device and method are provided for manufacturing a cylindrical member. By inserting an edge of the forming drum on one side in a width direction between an arm and a projection of a holding unit disposed opposite one another and bringing the arm and the projection closer together in a direction in which a separation distance is reduced, a first end of the rubber member disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the forming drum is disposed between the arm and the projection, pressed by the arm, and held on the outer circumferential surface, and a holding unit attached to the forming drum is rotated about a drum shaft together with the forming drum; and the rubber member is wound around the outer circumferential surface and formed into a cylindrical shape.
US10668677B2
A nanoimprint lithography method includes disposing a pretreatment composition on a substrate to form a pretreatment coating. The pretreatment composition includes a polymerizable component. Discrete imprint resist portions are disposed on the pretreatment coating, with each discrete portion of the imprint resist covering a target area of the substrate. A composite polymerizable coating is formed on the substrate as each discrete portion of the imprint resist spreads beyond its target area. The composite polymerizable coating includes a mixture of the pretreatment composition and the imprint resist. The composite polymerizable coating is contacted with a template, and is polymerized to yield a composite polymeric layer on the substrate. The interfacial surface energy between the pretreatment composition and air exceeds the interfacial surface energy between the imprint resist and air or between at least a component of the imprint resist and air.
US10668663B2
A head is disclosed for use with a manufacturing system. The head may have a housing configured to discharge a tubular structure reinforced with at least one continuous fiber and having a three-dimensional trajectory, and a cure enhancer operatively connected to the housing and configured to cure a liquid matrix in the tubular structure during discharge. The head may also have a nozzle configured to discharge a fill material into the tubular structure, and a wand extending from the housing to the nozzle.
US10668659B2
The present invention relates to an integrally blow-moulded bag-in-container (2) and preform (1, 1′) for blow-moulding the bag-in-container. An inner layer (11) and an outer layer (12) are used, wherein the preform forms a two-layer container upon blow-moulding, and wherein the obtained inner layer of the container releases from the thus obtained outer layer upon introduction of a gas at a point of interface (14) between the two layers. At least one of the inner and outer layers includes at least one additive allowing both inner and outer layers to reach their respective blow-moulding temperatures substantially simultaneously.
US10668651B2
A method for molding a component. The method includes: providing a mold tool having a sprue and a cavity; heating the mold tool to a predetermined mold temperature; placing the heated mold tool into a pressure vessel; pouring a material through the sprue into the cavity of the heated mold tool; prior to complete polymerization of the material in the cavity of the heated mold tool, elevating an internal pressure of the pressure vessel to a predetermined pressure to apply a force to the material in the heated mold tool; completely polymerizing the material in the cavity in heated mold tool to form the molded component; and removing the molded component from the mold tool.
US10668649B2
A method of manufacture of a carbon fiber article comprises providing a preform mold having a region that is shaped to compliment a shape of a preform part that is to be produced the surface being provided with at least one bore or groove that is connected to at least one conduit that passes through the mold to a manifold, laying a sheet of release material onto the surface covering at least some of the plurality of holes, applying reduced pressure to the manifold to cause the sheet to be sucked down onto the mold surface, laying carbon fiber material into the mold on top of the sheet of release material, applying an increase pressure to the manifold to push the preform free from the mold surface, and removing the preform from the mold.
US10668647B2
A prepreg comprising a layer of impregnated reinforcing fibers comprising at least one layer of reinforcing fibers impregnated by a resin composition comprising at least a thermosetting resin, a curing agent and an accelerator, such that the accelerator has a gradient concentration which is more concentrated in the resin composition in the vicinity of the reinforcing fibers than further away. The resin composition comprising a first resin composition impregnates the reinforcing fibers to provide a layer of impregnated reinforcing fibers and a surface layer comprising a second resin composition is formed on the layer of impregnated reinforcing fibers, wherein the first resin composition has at least one peak exotherm occurring at a time earlier than and/or at a temperature lower than any peak exotherm of the second resin composition. The heat generation from the first resin composition is tailored to initiate or speed up the curing of the second resin composition, leading to a substantial reduction of cure cycle time of the prepreg. Excellent handling and processing abilities of the uncured prepreg and excellent physical, thermal and mechanical properties when cured are achieved.
US10668646B2
Behavior of a flow of foam ejected to a gypsum slurry can be stabilized, and a relatively large amount of foam can be homogeneously or uniformly dispersed in the slurry. A mixer has a mixing area for preparing gypsum slurry, a slurry delivery section for delivering the slurry from the mixing area, and a feeding port for feeding foam to the slurry in the mixing area and/or the slurry delivery section under pressure. The slurry having the foam mixed therein is supplied to a production line for forming gypsum boards or gypsum-based boards. The feeding port is provided with a partition member dividing an ejecting region. The ejecting region is divided into a plurality of openings, which simultaneously eject the foam to the slurry.
US10668643B2
The invention relates to a machining device, in particular for machining workpieces of wood, wood materials, plastic or the like, comprising a workpiece table with a workpiece holder for holding at least one workpiece, and a feeding device for supplying at least one workpiece to the workpiece table, wherein the workpiece can be positioned in three dimensions with respect to the workpiece table. The invention further relates to a corresponding method.
US10668640B1
An apparatus for punching holes in posts in a transportation environment where the offset between the holes in the post and a vehicle running surface of a vehicle is constant over a transportation route. The apparatus has a frame and a hole forming assembly separate from one another, such that the hole forming assembly may be adjusted relative to the frame. The hole forming assembly can be adjusted relative to the frame and can be set at a specific offset between a location where the holes are to be formed in a post and the vehicle running surface. Once the offset is set, the apparatus maintains this offset for every post punched along the transportation route, so that there is a constant offset between the holes punched in the posts and the vehicle running surface.
US10668635B2
A stationary blade for a hair cutting appliance and a method of forming the stationary blade includes providing tooth components obtained from metal material, where the tooth components are arranged in a substantially flat fashion and are at least partially tapered towards a tip end. The method further includes arranging the tooth components next to each other to form a series of spaced apart teeth, where neighboring tooth components are arranged at a distance from one another; providing a blade base acting as a support receptacle, arranged to receive the tooth components; and interconnecting the tooth components and the blade base in a direct or mediate fashion, thereby forming teeth of the stationary blade.
US10668634B2
A shaver head assembly includes at least one cutting head component having a housing, an inner cutting blade mounted to the housing and configured and adapted to rotate about an axis and an outer cutting disc coaxially mounted about the axis. The outer cutting disc is configured to oscillate about the axis through positive and negative predetermined angular sectors of rotation, and is configured to cooperate with the inner cutting blade to cut hair.
US10668633B2
A surgical cart assembly may comprise a base portion. The base portion also includes a plurality of wheels coupled to the base portion and arranged to permit wheeled movement of the surgical cart assembly. The cart also includes a column extending vertically from the base portion, and a manipulator arm coupled to an end portion of the column opposite to a location of the base portion. The cart further comprises a stabilization assembly coupled to the base portion, the stabilization assembly may include a piston assembly moveable between a retracted position and a deployed position, and an actuation device operably coupled to the piston assembly to actuate the piston assembly between the retracted position and the deployed position. The piston assembly in the retracted position is retracted away from a ground surface on which the cart assembly is supported, and the piston assembly in the deployed position is in contact with the ground surface.
US10668629B2
Various stabilization devices for a robotic end of arm tool, such as a robotic gripper, are described. The stabilization device is provided in a palm area of the end of arm tool and serves as a backstop against which actuators of the end of arm tool can push a compliant or slick target object. The stabilization device may take many any of a variety of shapes, depending on the application. Based on the shape of the stabilization device and the action of the robotic gripper on the target object, the target object can be moved or rotated in a more stable configuration, thus allowing the actuators to apply less force while still maintaining a firm grasp of the object.
US10668622B2
Maintenance carriers can include one or more tools to perform a maintenance operation. These carriers may include removable cartridges that include the tool or consumables, such as a cleaning fluid, compressed gas, or disposable items. Maintenance carriers can also be configured to move along with other carrier traffic in the automation system and may be selectively deployed.
US10668615B2
A service robot and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The service robot comprises a main body (101) and a base (102). A motor (1021), a transmission mechanism (1022) and a wheel (1023) are provided in an inner cavity of the base (102). The transmission mechanism (1022) is connected with the motor (1021) and the wheel (1023) respectively. The wheel (1023) is disposed below the transmission mechanism (1022). A space for the transmission mechanism (1022) to move up and down is formed in the inner cavity of the base (102). After the motor (1021) is started, the transmission mechanism (1022) is driven to move in the inner cavity of the base (102, 26) according to a predetermined stroke, and the transmission mechanism (1022) drives the wheel (1023) while the transmission mechanism (1022) is moving so that the wheel (1023) can retract into the inner cavity of the base (102) or extend out of the inner cavity of the base (102).
US10668613B2
A power tool includes a slide switch which is configured to provide variable speed control of the rotational velocity of a drive member as well as provide ON/OFF functionality for the tool 10 based on the position of the switch. The slide switch eliminates the need for a separate switch for turning the tool on and off.
US10668610B2
Methods and apparatus for a chipping hammer adapter handle generally comprising an elongated shaft and a hammer receiver. The elongated shaft is coupled to the hammer receiver. The hammer receiver comprises a hammer handle housing configured to receive a chipping hammer handle, and at least one secure arm to secure a chipping hammer. The adapter handle further comprises a knee guard and at least one vacuum hose guide. The adapter handle allows a user to remain in a standing position while using a chipping hammer for tile removal. The more ergonomic position may prevent fatigue and health issues for the user.
US10668609B2
A hand tool includes a trigger manually operated by an operator, a tool body configured to movably support the trigger, a biasing member configured to generate a biasing force for biasing the trigger in a direction opposite to a operation direction of the trigger, and a contacting member operated by a biasing force of the biasing member to act on the trigger or tool body. The biasing member and the contacting member are assembled integrally with the tool body or the trigger.
US10668601B2
The invention relates to a tool for applying torque to a hammer union having a hammer union wing with wing nuts. The tool comprises a wrench having an arcuate or circular shaped wrench head that can be placed around the hammer union wing, the wrench head having wing nut cavities in the inner surface for receiving the hammer union wing nuts, and sockets around the outer surface for receiving one or more lever members such as a torque bar and/or hammer lug for applying torque to rotate the wrench head. The lever member(s) may be positioned in any of the sockets in the wrench head, thereby allowing the lever member(s) to be repositioned during use with respect to the wrench head without having to remove the wrench head from the hammer union. The wrench head may be held in place on the hammer union wing using magnets.
US10668600B1
A wrench has a roller motion transmission mechanism that changes reciprocating motion of a driving member to unidirectional rotational motion of a driven member. The wrench as a head with an inside cylindrical wall surrounding a body with a plurality of protrusions. Each protrusion has a ramp inclined toward the cylindrical wall. A wedging member comprising a cylindrical roller engages each ramp and inside cylindrical wall of the head. A cage anchored to the protrusions retains the wedging members in engagement with the ramps and the inside cylindrical wall of the head.
US10668598B2
A coated abrasive article comprising a backing, an adhesive layer disposed in a discontinuous distribution on at least a portion of the backing, wherein the discontinuous distribution comprises a plurality of adhesive contact regions and at least one shaped abrasive particle is disposed on a majority of each of the discrete adhesive contact regions, wherein at least 50% of the shaped abrasive particles comprise a predetermined side orientation and have a tilt angle of at least 45 degrees, wherein the shaped abrasive particles comprise a polycrystalline material and are free of binder, wherein the first plurality of discrete adhesive contact regions comprise a predetermined two-dimensional shape as viewed from above, and wherein each of the discrete contact regions comprises a length, a width, or a combination thereof that substantially corresponds to a dimension of the at least one abrasive particle.
US10668597B2
A nonwoven abrasive wheel includes a nonwoven abrasive body having opposed first and second major surfaces and a moisture barrier layer arranged on at least one of the first and second major surfaces. Methods of making are also described.
US10668592B2
A method of planarizing a wafer includes pressing the wafer against a planarization pad. The method further includes moving the planarization pad relative to the wafer. The method further includes conditioning the planarization pad using a pad conditioner. Conditioning the planarization pad includes moving the planarization pad relative to the pad conditioner. The pad conditioner includes abrasive particles having aligned tips a substantially constant distance from a surface of substrate of the pad conditioner.
US10668588B2
A fixture for machining wheel outer rim without trace includes a positioning and clamping portion and a flexible support portion. A base is fixed on a bottom plate, and a screw is configured to compress an expanding pressure plate during being tightened so that the outer circumference of an expanding sleeve expands a center hole of a wheel; and the positioning columns are inserted into bolt holes of the wheel. A lower pressure plate is fixed on the base, and limiting columns and an upper pressure plate are installed on the lower pressure plate, with steel balls and rubber strip being enclosed in a space formed by the lower pressure plate and the upper pressure plate. The fixture meets the requirement for machining the wheel outer rim without trace, has the characteristics of simple structure, convenient manufacture, stable performance and precision, and meets the requirements of automatic production.
US10668583B2
In order to hold a long member without using a fixing jig and without deforming the long member in holding the long member, a long member assembling device is provided with: multiple hand parts for gripping a long member; and arm parts and trunk parts for moving the hand parts to adjust the positions of the hand parts gripping the long member. The hand parts have a configuration such that, when the positions thereof are adjusted by the arm parts and the trunk parts, the hand parts are capable of moving in the longitudinal direction of the long member while gripping the long member.
US10668582B1
A tool and method of using the tool for positioning electrical outlet boxes and data transmission outlet boxes for installation behind or within walls during construction or renovation of commercial buildings. The tool can be used to install one, two or three electrical outlet boxes at a desired wall height and horizontal spacing from a wall stud with efficiency, ease and precision. With the tool, the outlet boxes can be accurately installed at heights ranging from twelve to fifty two inches, and even as high as eighty inches above the floor. The tool provides a beveled edge template for the marking of a single gang or two gang outlet on a sheetrock wall, affording accuracy in tracing and then cutting of the holes needed to install the outlet boxes. The tool also can fit within a sheet metal floor track, and stands vertically in flush contact with the sheetrock wall.
US10668569B2
Disclosed herein is a laser processing apparatus including a controller. The controller includes a target pattern detecting section performing matching between patterns formed in each device imaged and a key pattern to thereby detect a target pattern included in each device, a spacing detecting section detecting the spacing in a Y direction between the target pattern and an ablation groove formed along each division line by ablation, and a map creating section creating a map showing the spacing in the Y direction between each target pattern and the ablation groove for the plural devices arranged along the ablation groove.
US10668564B2
The present disclosure relates to an industrial device, such as a drill bit that may be fabricated by performing a first coupling process that includes activating an attachment material between a first cutter element and a first recess of a bit body, monitoring a temperature associated with the first cutter element by a camera, and adjusting one or more parameters associated with the laser in response to output from the camera. The process may be repeated for a plurality of cutter elements. The disclosure further includes the process and a system to perform the process.
US10668561B2
An apparatus for cutting brittle material comprises an aspheric focusing lens, an aperture, and a laser-source generating a beam of pulsed laser-radiation. The aspheric lens and the aperture form the beam of pulsed laser-radiation into an elongated focus having a uniform intensity distribution along the optical axis of the aspheric focusing lens. The elongated focus extends through the full thickness of a workpiece made of a brittle material. The workpiece is cut by tracing the optical axis along a cutting line. Each pulse or burst of pulsed laser-radiation creates an extended defect through the full thickness of the workpiece.
US10668555B2
A welding tip (20) for spot welding a first part (22) formed of conductive metal, for example aluminum, to a second part (24) formed of aluminum or another conductive metal, such as steel, is provided. The welding tip (20) includes a notch (30) at a distal end (38) and a convex contact surface (28) extending radially outwardly and upwardly from the notch (30) for engaging a surface of the first part (22). The rotating welding tip (20) forms a depression (32) on the surface of the first part (22) during the welding process. The notch (30) creates a pin (34) in the center of the depression (32) which provides a fixed axis of rotation for the rotating welding tip (20) and prevents the welding tip (20) from moving radially relative to the fixed axis, thereby improving the quality of the final spot weld (36) and reducing process time.
US10668550B2
The invention relates to the field of construction, particularly to welding of above- and underground high-strength pipelines with controlled heat input. Application of the invention will increase the load-bearing capacity of the pipelines made with the use of butt-welded pipes, pipe spools, pipe strings. The method includes joining of two or more cylindrical metal pipes, pipe spools and pipe strings by the welded ring butt with the use of the arc welding for the whole perimeter of the pipe. Criteria for a high-quality welded joint include optimal selection of parameters of the welding thermic cycle. The suggested welding method allows to have the optimal structure, high strength and viscoplastic properties in areas of the welded joint, to provide for the required load-bearing capacity of the pipeline and its reliability during operation.
US10668548B2
A device and associated system for threading, cutting, and reaming pipe ends. The device and system utilize a brushless DC electric motor. The devices also include on-board electronics and operator interface(s) to provide sophisticated control and information as to the various operations. Methods of operating the devices and several different modes for performing various operations.
US10668547B2
A saw blade for cutting stalk crops, such as for example maize or millet, has a planar flank and a facet flank and a sawing edge with a succession of saw teeth. The saw teeth are provided with a wear protection zone, the wear resistance of which is greater than that of a material of the base body of the saw blade. The wear protection zone is respectively located on the planar flank of each saw tooth. The saw teeth in the region of the tooth face have a cutting facet, starting from the facet flank. The cutting facet is configured at a distance from the planar flank of the saw tooth to form a blunt tooth cutting edge and, in a preferred embodiment, the cutting facet and the facet flank are configured without a wear protection zone.
US10668543B2
A machine is disclosed for use in duplicating features of an existing key within a key blank. The machine may have an identification module configured to capture data associated with the features of the existing key, a fabrication module configured to cut the features in the key blank based on the data, a user input device, and a controller in communication with the identification module, the fabrication module, and the user input device. The controller may be configured to regulate operation of the identification module and the fabrication module, and to receive input from a user via the user input device. The input may be indicative of the user being a first type of user or a second type of user. The controller may also be configured to selectively implement one of a first mode of operation or a second mode of operation based on the input.
US10668541B2
A cutting tool includes a tool holding system having a clamping portion. The clamping portion includes an integrally formed one-piece inner coupling member that at least partially forms a clamping sleeve portion having a clamping bore for clampingly receiving a cutting insert. The clamping portion also includes an integrally formed one-piece outer coupling member that is circumferentially disposed about at least a portion of the inner coupling member. The tool holding system also has a mounting portion that is connected to one of the inner and outer coupling members. The inner and outer coupling members are captively and non-releasably engaged with each other via inter-engaged first and second engagement surfaces that are slidingly displaceable with respect to each other.
US10668513B2
A pig receptacle is provided. The pig receptacle provides a first circular member and a second circular member attached to at least one elongated rod. The first circular member and the second circular member are sized so that they can receive a pig therethrough. A mesh cage is wrapped around the first circular member and the second circular member so that debris can be gathered during the pigging process. The mesh cage defines apertures that are sized so that large pieces of debris are held in an interior cavity formed by the mesh cage, while small pieces of debris can pass through. In this way, debris is transported through the pipeline and is not lost due to abnormalities in the flow rate through the pipeline.
US10668506B2
A sorting device for sorting articles, comprising a conveyor which is movable in a conveying direction along a conveying path, the conveyor comprising a number of sorting units, each sorting unit comprising a carriage and at least one load-carrying element connected to the carriage for supporting articles, wherein the load-carrying elements are movable with regard to an associated carriage for unloading articles from the load-carrying elements at predetermined unloading positions, at least two of the sorting units being coupled together, a gap being formed between two adjacent load-carrying elements of two sorting units that are coupled together, the gap being covered by an intermediate element adapted to support an article, the sorting device comprising a stationarily arranged removal device for moving a selected article in a transverse direction off the conveyor at a predetermined removal position, wherein the removal device comprises a support element, the support element being movable along a longitudinal direction extending parallel to the conveying path, a first drive means being adapted to move the support element with a speed and in a transversal position corresponding to the selected article, the removal device further comprising a pushing element supported by the support element, a second drive means being adapted to move the pushing element in the transverse direction in order to remove the article from the conveyor.
US10668499B2
The invention provides a method for dispersing particles within a reaction field, the method comprising confining the particles to the reaction field using a standing wave. The invention also provides a system for coating particles, the system comprising a reaction zone; a means for producing fluidized particles within the reaction zone; a fluid to produce a standing wave within the reaction zone; and a means for introducing coating moieties to the reaction zone. The invention also provides a method for coating particles, the method comprising fluidizing the particles, subjecting the particles to a standing wave; and contacting the subjected particles with a coating moiety.
US10668495B2
The systems and methods described herein relate to basting food-related items. The food-related items may include baked goods, baking sheets, cake pans, cupcake pans, and the like. The food items may include pastries, baked good, pies, etc. The item to be basted, glazed, or otherwise deposited with a fluid is placed in a target area. A movable head is then able to move along a track and distribute a fluid over the fluid-related item. The item is stationary during the process.
US10668480B1
Systems and methods for the use of highly reactive hydrated lime (HRH) in circulating dry scrubbers (CDS) to remove sulfur dioxide (SO2) and other acid gases from the flue gas.
US10668476B2
Enclosures for vertical pulverizer systems are disclosed. The enclosure may include a vertically oriented cylindrical body forming an internal cavity. The enclosure may also include a cover positioned above the cylindrical body. The cover may have a curved surface. Additionally, the enclosure may include an inlet channel formed through the cover, where the inlet channel may be in fluid communication with the internal cavity of the cylindrical body, and an outlet channel formed through the cover, adjacent the inlet channel. Furthermore, the enclosure may include a base component positioned within the internal cavity of the cylindrical body, opposite the cover, the base component having a curved surface, a journal opening formed through the cylindrical body between the cover and the base component, and a journal opening cover coupled to the cylindrical body. The journal opening cover may cover the journal opening.
US10668473B2
A reagent preparation assembly includes a body and a reaction chamber adjacent the body, the reaction chamber includes a reagent therein, such as a lyophilized reagent. An access port extends into the reaction chamber, and the access port is configured to receive an instrument. A seal extends across a portion of the reaction chamber and the access port. A reconstitution assembly is movably coupled with the body. The reconstitution assembly includes a plunger, a syringe and a piston. The plunger is movably coupled with the body. The syringe is selectively engaged with the plunger. The syringe includes a solution reservoir containing a solution, and movement of the syringe pierces the seal. The piston is selectively engaged with the plunger, and the piston is movably coupled within the syringe. Movement of the piston pushes the solution into the reaction chamber.
US10668468B2
A sample holding device for use in transverse illumination of a sample or sub-components of a sample comprising: a support substrate comprising a sample well adapted to contain and be compatible with said sample wherein said well is provided on at least one wall with an angled reflective surface adjacent said sample well which when in use directs a transverse light beam from a light source through a sample contained within said sample well to provide substantially transverse illumination of a sample contained therein and imaging the sample using a single objective.
US10668465B2
The present invention relates to a component separator capable of guaranteeing the purity of a subject component such as isolated blood or stem cells while simplifying a process compared with a conventional technique, and preventing air contamination during a component separation process, the component separator comprising: a hollow main body having a communication pipe, through which a body fluid communicates, formed at one end portion, and a main body female screw part disposed at the other end portion; a plunger for varying a main body space while moving forward and backward inside the main body; and an operation member having a pressing tube having a pressing male screw part capable of being screwed with the main body female screw part, and a plunger coupling tube having a tube screw screwed with a plunger screw part at the lower part of the plunger by coming into contact with or retracting from the inside of the pressing tube.
US10668463B2
Methods for regenerating and/or rejuvenating catalysts, particularly dewaxing catalysts, as well as methods for performing dewaxing of diesel or distillate boiling range feeds with the regenerated and/or rejuvenated catalyst are provided herein. The regeneration and/or rejuvenation methods can include calcining spent catalyst followed by contacting the calcined catalyst with a solution comprising a complexing agent, which can restore hydrotreatment (HDT) activity and dewaxing activity of the spent catalyst such that it may be reused during hydroprocessing.
US10668459B2
An exhaust gas purification catalyst is provided for which a purification performance is excellent and particle growth of a catalyst metal is suppressed. The exhaust gas purification catalyst is provided with a substrate and a catalyst layer formed on the substrate. The catalyst layer contains a catalyst metal that functions as an oxidation and/or reduction catalyst and contains a support that supports the catalyst metal. The support is constituted of a porous ceramic that, in its volumetric pore diameter distribution measured based on a nitrogen gas adsorption method, has a pore diameter P10 corresponding to a cumulative 10% from a small pore side and a pore diameter P90 corresponding to a cumulative 90% from the small pore side that are both in a range from 5 to 50 nm.
US10668456B2
A titanium oxide particle includes a metal having a hydrocarbon group, which is bonded to a surface of the titanium oxide particle through an oxygen atom, and absorbs light having a wavelength of 450 nm and light having a wavelength of 750 nm, wherein an element ratio C/Ti between carbon C and titanium Ti in a surface of the titanium oxide particle is from 0.3 to 1.2, and a reduced amount of C/Ti on the surface of the titanium oxide particle before and after irradiation with an ultraviolet ray having a wavelength of 352 nm and at an irradiation intensity of 1.3 mW/cm2 for 20 hours is from 0.1 to 0.9.
US10668454B2
The preparation of an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst comprising Mo, V, Nb and Te using a hydrothermal step. In some embodiments, the activity and reproducibility of the catalyst is improved by conducting the hydrothermal step while permitting gaseous products to leave the reactor. In some instances a condenser may be upstream of the outlet of the reactor.
US10668453B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a composite material and also the composite material itself. The composite material contains a bismuth-molybdenum-nickel mixed oxide or a bismuth-molybdenum-cobalt mixed oxide and a specific SiO2 as pore former. The present invention also relates to the use of the composite material according to the invention for producing a washcoat suspension and also a process for producing a coated catalyst using the composite material according to the invention. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a coated catalyst which has a catalytically active shell comprising the composite material according to the invention on a support body. The coated catalyst according to the invention is used for preparing [alpha],[beta]-unsaturated aldehydes from olefins.
US10668443B2
The invention provides a curing system that is useful for curing materials that consume carbon dioxide as a reagent. The system has a curing chamber that contains the material to be cured and a gas that contains carbon dioxide. The system includes apparatus that can deliver carbon dioxide to displace ambient air upon loading the system, that can provide carbon dioxide as it is needed and as it is consumed, that can control carbon dioxide concentration, temperature and humidity in the curing chamber during the curing cycle and that can record and display to a user the variables that occur during the curing process. A method of curing a material which requires CO2 as a curing reagent is also described.
US10668442B1
The hydroprocessing reactor internals (HRI) have reduced height compared to standard HRI designs. The HRI height reduction is achieved by a more open design of a rough liquid distribution tray so that the required spaces above and below the tray for vapor flow are reduced. The hydroprocessing reactor quench zone internals comprise a collection tray, a rough liquid distribution tray, and a vapor-liquid distribution tray. Fluid mixing occurs above both the collection tray and the rough liquid distribution tray.
US10668438B2
A fluid supply pipe according to an embodiment of the invention includes a first internal structure, a second internal structure, and a pipe body configured to house the first internal structure and the second internal structure, and the pipe body has an inlet and an outlet. The first internal structure includes a head portion comprising a plurality of spiral vanes, and a body portion positioned downstream from the head portion and comprising a plurality of protrusions on its outer circumferential surface. The second internal structure formed in a hollow shaft shape includes a head portion comprising a plurality of spiral vanes, and a body portion positioned downstream from the head portion and comprising a plurality of protrusions on its outer circumferential surface. At least a part of the first internal structure is housed in the hollow of the second internal structure.
US10668436B2
Provided are monolithic structures comprising one or more suspended, nanoporous membranes that are in contact with one or more fluidic cavities, methods of making same, and exemplary uses of same. The monolithic structures can be formed using a transmembrane etch. The monolithic structures can be used, as examples, as filters and filtration modules in microfluidic devices, dialysis devices, and concentration devices in laboratory, industrial, and medical processes.
US10668435B2
Two-dimensional material based filters, their method of manufacture, and their use are disclosed. In one embodiment, a membrane may include an active layer including a plurality of defects and a deposited material associated with the plurality of defects may reduce flow therethrough. Additionally, a majority of the active layer may be free from the material. In another embodiment, a membrane may include a porous substrate and an atomic layer deposited material disposed on a surface of the porous substrate. The atomic layer deposited material may be less hydrophilic than the porous substrate and an atomically thin active layer may be disposed on the atomic layer deposited material.
US10668431B1
A free standing liquid membrane is disclosed that can selectively separate objects based on the kinetic energy value of the objects such that either an object having a first kinetic energy value can pass through the free standing liquid membrane while retaining the membrane and/or an object having a second kinetic energy value is prevented from passing through the membrane while retaining the membrane. Advantageously, the free standing liquid membrane can remain intact for seconds to hours with multiple objects passing through the membrane.
US10668424B2
The inventive semi-finished product for a filter, particularly an air filter, comprises a filter medium, wherein said filter medium comprises a nonwoven having fibrous structure produced in a melt-spinning process and at least partially arranged in pleated layers.
US10668416B2
Provided is a granular filtration media comprising a mixture of granular filtration media and less than 5% of nanofibers based on the dry weight, method of making the same and uses of the same for removing contaminants from water, including metals, heavy metals, synthetic or natural organic matters, colloidal or suspended particles to improve the chemical safety and purity of water for the purpose of water purification, specifically, one embodiment of the present invention disclosed is use of the granular filtration media to remove particulate lead from high pH water.
US10668413B2
An endless elongate structure adapted to circulate around a path. The endless elongate structure comprises a central longitudinal portion and two lateral longitudinal portions on opposed sides of the central longitudinal portion for supporting the central longitudinal portion therebetween. The central longitudinal portion and two lateral longitudinal portions are connected together by joiners. The central longitudinal portion is adapted to be assembled into a movable tubular formation which is adapted to be continuously assembled at one end thereof and continuously disassembled at another end thereof during movement of the elongate structure along the path. The central longitudinal portion has two longitudinal edge sections adapted to be releasably connected together for assembling the tubular formation by a slidably interlocking connector. The slidably interlocking connector is integrated with the two longitudinal edge sections by joiners.
US10668407B2
This invention relates to methods and apparatus of a combination of laser wave mixing technology with diagnostic flow technologies with embodiments describing supercritical fluid chromatography. The combination of these technologies along with minute detection levels have not yet been seen in the field.
US10668379B2
A three-dimensional virtual space is photographed by a virtual camera to generate a first image and a second image different from the first image. The first image synchronously displays the state of the virtual space, and the second image is displayed asynchronously with the first image. The first image and the second image are obtained by photographing the three-dimensional virtual space in parallel.
US10668370B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that determines a pattern for a mouse pad, wherein the mouse pad comprises an electronic paper display and a processor and transmits the pattern to the mouse pad to enable the processor to present the pattern on the electronic paper display. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10668364B2
Automatic card shufflers may include a card input mechanism for inputting cards into the card shuffler, a card storage device for receiving cards from the card input mechanism and temporarily storing cards within the card shuffler, and a card output mechanism for outputting cards from the card shuffler.
US10668362B2
A card shuffler that moves cards one at a time to randomly designated single-card receptacle in a receiving or dealing rack, and a method for shuffling and for dealing cards.
US10668356B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to protective garments and systems that include a protective garment for protecting one or more body regions of an individual wearing the protective garment.
US10668355B2
A signaling device, and in particular a signaling device for a striking implement such as a tennis racket, a golf club or the like, for generating signals during a movement of the signaling device (10), including a resonant body and a holding device, wherein the resonant body and the holding device are to be connected to one another or connectable to one another, so as to attach the resonant body by way of the holding device to a striking implement or the like, wherein the resonant body furthermore includes a cavity for generating an acoustic signal during a movement, wherein the resonant body has a single opening which has a fluidic operative connection to the cavity and by way of which the cavity is fluidically connected to the surrounding area.
US10668348B1
A striking apparatus for all fighting art forms such as boxing to improve a user's fighting skills. The striking apparatus includes a timing ball having a link disposed thereon; an elongated adjustable rope; a swivel mounted to a swivel plate, the swivel plate being mounted to a backboard; the backboard being optionally attached to a frame; the link disposed on the timing ball being attached to the elongated adjustable rope, the rope being attached to the swivel; and the timing ball configured to be struck by the knuckles of a user's fist. Another embodiment of the invention includes a punching apparatus station for all fighting art forms which generally includes the same configuration as the striking apparatus referenced-above. Importantly, the striking apparatus advantageously is a cross between a speed bag, a double end bag, and a maze ball but is beneficially more effective than all three.
US10668343B2
A method is disclosed for collaboratively playing golf in an optional selective shot format by a group of golf players on a golf course using a single set of golf clubs and a single golf ball. Players use a novel golf tee configured particularly for team golf to inhibit side spin of the golf ball upon impact by the golf club.
US10668340B2
A putter-type golf club head includes a striking face with a plurality of grooves having a variable depth profile and a variable pitch. Groove variation is tailored to correspond to the golf club heads' moment-of-inertia, mass, or another attribute. A surface treatment method includes selecting a variable depth profile and a variable pitch for a plurality of grooves and surface milling a striking face of a golf club head to form the plurality of grooves.
US10668335B2
A golf club head includes a face, a crown, a sole, and defines a bore that is configured to receive and to selectively retain an elongate weight. The bore is aligned on a longitudinal axis that intersects the face. An elongate weight is insertable into the bore. The elongate weight is rotatable between a first angular position and a second angular position. The golf club head can further include a compliant stop positioned to contact a protrusion of the elongate weight, such that a torque threshold must be overcome to rotate the elongate weight.
US10668330B2
Multi-piece golf balls having a multi-layered solid core and multi-layered cover are provided.
US10668329B2
Golf balls comprising a core having at least one layer and a cover having at least one layer are provided. At least one of the layers is made from a thermoplastic composition preferably comprising a telechelic ionomer derived from alkyl-cis-cyclooctene and cis-cyclooctene. The telechelic ionomer composition also may be used to form intermediate layers. Blends of telechelic ionomers and polybutadiene rubbers or ethylene acid copolymers can be prepared. The telechelic ionomer compositions can be used to make a cover layer having good impact durability and shear resistance and that also helps provide the ball with high resiliency.
US10668327B2
The present invention provides a method for arranging dimples on a golf ball surface in which the dimples are arranged in a pattern derived from at least one irregular domain generated from a regular or non-regular polyhedron. The method includes choosing control points of a polyhedron, generating an irregular domain based on those control points, packing the irregular domain with dimples, and tessellating the irregular domain to cover the surface of the golf ball. The control points include the center of a polyhedral face, a vertex of the polyhedron, a midpoint or other point on an edge of the polyhedron and others. The method ensures that the symmetry of the underlying polyhedron is preserved while minimizing or eliminating great circles due to parting lines.
US10668326B2
Swimming goggles in accordance with the present invention comprises a first lens frame, a second lens frame, and a connection element, characterized in that: each of the first lens frame and the second lens frame is composed of a lens portion, a protective pad, and a frame portion. The lens portion comprises a lens, a peripheral surface, a circular groove, a positioning flange, and an embedding groove. The protective pad comprises a circular body, a face contact circumference, and a circular lip. The frame portion comprises a hard frame body and a soft frame foot. Therefore, the swimming goggles provide a wearer to select the first and second lens frames by free match for favorite colors and suitable degrees of myopia, as being a customized assembly, and provide a fit to a temple of an outline of the wearer for wearing comfort, water resistance reduction, and waterproof.
US10668307B2
A safety breathing apparatus has a sensor for measuring the difference in pressure between two point in the gas delivered to a head unit. The sensor is used to measure the difference in the pressure of the gas supplied through the apparatus between the two points in the gas flow, and the pressure difference is then used to calculate the gas flow rate.
US10668304B2
A deformable radiotherapy phantom can be produced using an additive manufacturing process, based on a medical image of the patient. The deformable phantom can include dosimeters for measuring radiation dose distribution. A smart material can allow deformation in response to an applied stimulus. Among other things, the phantom can be used to validate radiation dose warping, a radiotherapy treatment plan, to determine a maximum acceptable deformation of the patient, to validate a cumulative accuracy of dose warping and deformable image registration, or the like.
US10668301B2
A simple metric, the mean absolute dose deviation (“MADD”), for characterizing dose-volume histograms (“DVH”) is disclosed. The MADD facilitates the use and the comparison of DVHs. The MADD is defined as the average of absolute differences between all points of a DVH and a dose point of a specified reference dose range. The MADD is a generalized metric free from distribution assumptions, and it is directly applicable to all types of structures.
US10668297B2
The present invention relates to a magnetic stimulation (MS) and preferably transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) coil arrangement designed for use as a placebo treatment. Accordingly, the purpose of the invention is to reduce or remove the effect of the magnetic field generated in use by a magnetic stimulation coil arrangement whilst the appearance presented remains as expected from a MS coil arrangement. The invention comprises a radially wound conductive element having a plurality of turns forming at least one winding. There is further provided at least one conductive magnetic field disrupting element at least partially positioned adjacent to the at least one winding for disrupting a magnetic field generated in operation by the at least one winding. The conductive magnetic field disruptive element accordingly attenuates the generated magnetic field beneath the coil arrangement.
US10668296B2
A handheld defibrillation device is disclosed, operated by a single battery cell, and configured to deliver a defibrillation pulse to a subject via defibrillation pads. The defibrillator comprises an energy storage unit comprising a plurality of capacitive elements, a plurality of charger units, each charger unit being electrically connected to the battery cell for electrically charging a respective one of the capacitive elements, and a pulse delivery unit configured and arranged to discharge the electrical charges of the capacitive elements through the defibrillation pads. The charging units and the pulse delivery unit, and various other parts of the defibrillator are specially designed to permit compactly packaging the defibrillator inside a handheld pocketsize housing.
US10668294B2
Implantable medical devices such as leadless cardiac pacemakers (LCP) may be configured to be delivered to a target location within the heart over a guide wire. In some cases, using a guide wire for delivery facilitates placement of devices in regions not otherwise easily reached. An LCP may include a housing and a wire lumen disposed relative to the housing. The wire lumen may be configured to allow the LCP to slide over a guide wire. In some cases, the guide wire may include a guide wire electrode that may be used to test potential implantation sites.
US10668290B2
A method and system for delivering cardiac pacing therapy that includes sensing electrical activity of tissue of a patient from a plurality of external electrodes during delivery of a non-ambulatory pacing therapy from a pacing device and determining an optimal electromechanical (EM) response time from an optimal electrical activation determined from electrical heterogeneity information obtained during non-ambulatory pacing therapy. During delivery of subsequent ambulatory pacing, the pacing sensing an EM signal from an EM sensor of the pacing device, determines a current EM response time in response to the sensed EM signal, and adjusting a pacing parameter setting of the ambulatory pacing therapy in response to comparing the current EM response time to the optimal EM response time.
US10668282B2
A system is provided for a Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve or Electrical Muscle Stimulation. The system generally includes at least two electrodes carried on a single substrate adapted to be disposed in electrical contact with a body surface, and an electrical stimulation unit configured to deliver electrical pulses to muscle groups or nerve endings adjacent a body surface that is in electrical contact with the at least two electrodes. The electrical stimulation unit includes an on-board controller configured for controlling the stimulation unit to deliver electrical pulses for pain relief and/or muscle relaxation.
US10668281B2
In order to make advanced gait training easy and effective, an electrical spinal cord stimulator for gait training used in gait training for those who have difficulty in walking due to hemiplegia includes: first and second electrodes attached to a rehabilitant; a detector which detects a gait-related physical movement of the rehabilitant; and an electrical sensory nerve stimulation generator which generates, according to a detection result of the detector, electrical stimulation to be applied through the first and second electrodes to a nerve root of a sensory nerve which communicates with a spinal cord.
US10668276B2
The present disclosure involves a method of setting stimulation parameters for neurostimulation. A plurality of stimulation parameters available for bracketing is displayed. The stimulation parameters are selected from the group consisting of: stimulation current amplitude, pulse width, frequency, and contact location. Thereafter, in response to an input from a user, at least a subset of the stimulation parameters is selected for bracketing. A respective initial value is then obtained for each of the stimulation parameters in the selected subset. Thereafter, a bracketing process is used to generate a plurality of bracketed values for each of the stimulation parameters in the selected subset. The bracketed values are generated as a function of the initial value. A plurality of stimulation pulses is then delivered to a patient through a neurostimulator that is automatically programmed with a different combination of the bracketed values for the stimulation parameters for each stimulation pulse.
US10668275B2
A process for manufacturing an electrical lead having one or more electrodes includes providing an elongate member having at least one polymeric region and further having at least one electrical conductor that extends along at least a part of a length of the elongate member and that is contained in a wall of the elongate member. A length of the at least one electrical conductor is accessed at the at least one polymeric region. An electrically conductive adhesive is applied to the length of the at least one electrical conductor that has been accessed.
US10668273B2
A device is described that includes a neural interface and a lead body. The lead body and the neural interface are formed from a flexible circuit. The flexible circuit includes an exposed electrode. The lead body includes an elongate planar strand that is coiled about a central axis of the lead body. The elongate planar strand includes a conductive trace extending between the exposed electrode and a distal end of the elongate planar strand.
US10668271B2
A surgically implanted lead stabilizer used to stabilize leads is described herein. A lead stabilizer may include a plate that is permanently or semi-permanently surgically installed on a patient's skull under their skin via screws. The plate may hold one or more lead in place. In further embodiments, the plate has two hinged halves that may be affixed fully closed or may include a slotted arm allowing the two hinged halves to be affixed partially open. The plate may include apertures through which electrical leads may pass. Example leads may be guided through one or more surface channels on the top surface of the plate causing the leads to lay flat along the patient's skull. In an example use, a burr hole may be formed in a patient's skull with one or more leads threaded therethrough; a surgeon may open a hinged half of a plate and clamp one or more leads within one or more of the lead holes of the plate, close the hinged halves partially or entirely, affix the plate to the skull, and snap the leads into the surface channels.
US10668261B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet-like piece comprising; a base sheet comprising an elastic material; a reservoir layer provided on the surface of said base sheet which contains a physiologically active substance and comprises micro needles; a adhesion layer which is formed in a mesh form on said base sheet and; a adhesion assisting layer which is formed on the surface of opposite side of said base sheet to the surface formed said reservoir layer. As a result, the sheet for promoting hair growth which may restore the state of thin hair to a state before thinning, a whitening and wrinkle ameliorating agent having whitening effect and wrinkle improving effect, and sheet-like piece used for these are provided.
US10668257B2
The present disclosure is directed toward a composite balloon comprising a layer of material having a porous microstructure (e.g., ePTFE or expanded polyethylene) and a thermoplastic polymeric layer useful for medical applications. The layers of the composite balloons become adhered through a stretch blow-molding process. Methods of making and using such composite balloons are also described amongst others.
US10668256B2
A balloon dilation assembly for use in balloon valvuloplasty is disclosed, which includes at least three outer balloons arranged around a central balloon and fixed to the central balloon, wherein each balloon has a supply tube for inflation and flow channels are provided between each adjacent pair of outer balloons, whereby at least one of the outer balloons is shorter in length than the remaining outer balloons and the central balloon.
US10668255B2
A medical device includes a catheter, an expandable balloon on the distal portion of the catheter, and a sheath that is configured to enclose and protect the expandable balloon. The sheath extends within a sheath lumen of the catheter and out from the catheter through a distal opening of the sheath lumen. When in a deployed configuration, the sheath extends proximally to enclose at least a portion of the expandable balloon. The sheath may be axially movable within the sheath lumen of the catheter to actuate from the deployed configuration to a retracted configuration. In moving to the retracted configuration, the sheath may expose the outer surface of the expandable balloon.
US10668244B2
An apparatus and method for use in treating tinnitus, employs a sound processing unit, a tactile unit, and an interface therebetween. The tactile unit comprises an array of stimulators each of which can be independently actuated to apply a tactile stimulus to a subject, and an input for receiving a plurality of actuation signals from the interface and directing individual actuation signals to individual stimulators. The sound processing unit receives an audio signal at an input, analyses the signal with a digital signal processor to generate the actuation signals which are representative of the audio signal, and provides the plurality of actuation signals to the interface. In a preferred embodiment the digital signal processor divides the audio signal into a series of frames in the time domain, performs a transform on each frame to generate a set of coefficients representing said frame, and maps the set of coefficients to a set of actuation signals to be applied to the array.
US10668238B2
An oscillating positive expiratory pressure apparatus having a housing defining a chamber, a chamber inlet, a chamber outlet, a deformable restrictor member positioned in an exhalation flow path between the chamber inlet and the chamber outlet, and an oscillation member disposed within the chamber. The deformable restrictor member and the oscillation member are moveable between an engaged position, where the oscillation member is in contact with the deformable restrictor member and an disengaged position, where the oscillation member is not in contact with the deformable restrictor member. The deformable restrictor member and the oscillation member move from the engaged position to the disengaged position in response to a first exhalation pressure at the chamber inlet, and move from the disengaged position to an engaged position in response to a second exhalation pressure at the chamber inlet.
US10668233B2
A method of manufacturing a flavor cartridge for a flavor inhalator, the method comprising the steps of filling a predetermined amount of a flavor generating material capable of emitting a flavor component in a frame compressing the flavor generating material in the frame by applying pressure thereto by a pusher and fixing a lid to the frame, wherein the flavor generating material contains a tobacco material obtained by shredding or pulverizing tobacco leaf, and the lid has air permeability.
US10668222B2
An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided comprising a screw member comprising a thread, the thread including at least two consecutive portions, the portions having different leads. The device further includes a nut member. The assembly is configured such that, in a first portion of the thread, the nut member includes a first position with respect to an axis transversal to the rotational axis and in a second portion of the thread, the nut member includes a second position with respect to the axis transversal to the rotational axis. The nut member is configured to perform a tilting movement from the first position into the second position when the nut member passes from the first portion to the second portion. Furthermore, a drug delivery device comprising the assembly is described.
US10668220B2
A medicament delivery device is presented having a housing that is arranged to accommodate a medicament container, a drive unit operably arranged to act on the medicament container upon activation, an activation mechanism operably arranged to be operated by a user, an activation preventing mechanism operably arranged to prevent the activation mechanism to be activated, an usage management module arranged to be operated by a user, which usage management module is designed as an attachable unit to the medicament delivery device. First keying elements are arranged on the device and on the usage management module designed to interact with each other when attaching said usage management module, such as to cause a deactivation of the activation preventing mechanism to allow operation of the activation mechanism. The usage management module can include a monitoring circuit arranged to monitor the use of the medicament delivery device.
US10668217B2
An autoinjector includes a body (1; 1010), a reservoir containing fluid product, a piston, a needle, a piston rod (5 5; 1005) that is displaceable between a loaded position and an injection position, and an injection spring (8; 1008) to stress 10 the piston rod towards the injection position. The autoinjector also includes an injection lock having a control sleeve (4; 1004) containing the piston rod and the injection spring. The piston rod includes a radial recess (50; 1050) receiving a substantially spherical blocking element (7; 1007) mobile between a blocking position and an unblocking position, stressed radially towards the exterior by the piston rod, and held in the blocking position by a blocking member (23; 1004) that is displaceable relative to the piston rod to release the blocking element.
US10668211B2
Pending medication orders are presented on the controller of an infusion pump to which a patient has been identified. All pending medication orders are displayed on the screen of the controller and any may be selected by the clinician. Selecting a pending order at the controller that involves an infusion to the patient also results in automatic programming of the infusion pump in accordance with that order. Selection of an oral medication at the controller results, as does selection of any other order, in notification to the healthcare facility server that the order is being administered. Such notification resolves open controlled item transactions as well as provides information that may be relevant to a patient's EMAR. Selection of a pending order may occur manually or automatically through identification of a medication.
US10668203B2
A system for cardiopulmonary bypass, including: a cardiopulmonary bypass reservoir configured to store a blood; a pump in fluid communication with the cardiopulmonary bypass reservoir configured to provide pressure to the system; an oxygen source including a pressure regulator configured to regulate an oxygen pressure; an oxygenator fluidly connected to the pressure regulator of the oxygen source via an sweep gas inlet, wherein the sweep gas inlet is configured to have a subatmospheric pressure and the oxygenator is configured to oxygenate the blood; a vacuum regulator fluidly connected to the oxygenator via an sweep gas outlet, and configured to provide the subatmospheric pressure; a flow restrictor fluidly connected to the sweep gas inlet and configured to allow for a pressure drop from the oxygen source to the oxygenator; and an arterial filter fluidly connected to a blood outlet of the oxygenator and to the cardiopulmonary bypass reservoir.
US10668202B2
Parallel modules for in-line recharging of sorbent materials using alternate duty cycles for a sorbent cartridge. The sorbent cartridge can have two or more modules contained therein having connectors connecting each of the modules. One or more of the modules can be reusable and the sorbent materials therein can be recharged.
US10668201B2
A dialysis system includes a filtration system capable of filtering a water stream, a water purification system capable of purifying said water stream in a non-batch process, a mixing system capable of producing a stream of dialysate from mixing one or more dialysate components with the water stream in a non-batch process, and a dialyzer system. The dialyzer may be a microfluidic dialyzer capable of being fluidly coupled to the stream of dialysate and a blood stream.
US10668198B2
A blood treatment apparatus having an extracorporeal circuit has a dialyzate circuit with a dialyzer, having a blood-side chamber, and a dialyzate-side chamber separated from the blood-side chamber by a membrane. The blood-side chamber is in fluid communication with the extracorporeal circuit and the dialyzate-side chamber is in fluid communication with the dialyzate circuit, and the apparatus has a preparation unit for online preparation of a solution. The apparatus has a first means for carrying out a priming mode and a second means for carrying out an initial treatment mode. The first means is configured to control the preparation unit to prepare a flushing solution having a pH of ≥7.3, with the extracorporeal circuit being filled with the flushing solution. The second means is configured to control the preparation unit to prepare the dialyzate having a pH of ≥7.3, with the dialyzate circuit being filled with the dialyzate.
US10668191B2
Devices, systems, and methods for treatment of an eye alter aspiration flow from the eye in response to an occlusion of the aspiration conduit pathway. Where aspiration is drawn from the eye using a volumetric pump, the pump can be reversed so as to induce fluid reflux from the aspiration conduit pathway into the eye to help clear the occlusion. The pump may vary the reverse flow in response to sensed aspiration pressure or the like, and the reverse flow may be halted before the pressure within the aspiration conduit pathway adjacent the eye significantly exceeds the irrigation fluid pressure and/or the pressure within the eye. Reflux may alternatively be generated by modulating a vent valve disposed between an irrigation conduit pathway and the aspiration conduit pathway.
US10668190B2
Disclosed are hydrogels polymerized with or around a solid biofunctional moiety, biodegradable or permanent, designed to be implantable in a mammalian body, intended to block or mitigate the formation of tissue adhesions, and intended to aid in functional healing. The hydrogels of the present invention are characterized by comprising multiphasic structural elements: a) at least one gel phase, b) at least one solid phase, c) optional polymeric chains connecting gel and solid phases, d) optional shape designs that provide for an interpenetrating geometry between gels and solids, e) optional shape designs that enhance a tissue-hydrogel interface, and f) optional shape designs that provide a biofunctional aspect. The hydrophobicity of the various phases is chosen to reduce tissue adhesion and enhance tissue healing. The morphology of the polymers comprising the gel phase is typically of high molecular weight and has morphology that encourages entanglement. Useful polymeric structures include branching chains, comb or brush, and dendritic morphologies.
US10668184B2
The present invention provides a magnetically-actuated articular cartilage regeneration system for efficiently and nonsurgically regenerating articular cartilage.
US10668169B2
Provided are a micelle composition for nucleic acid delivery using a temperature-sensitive polymer, and a method for producing the micelle. For example, provided is a polyion complex comprising a temperature-sensitive copolymer and a nucleic acid, wherein the temperature-sensitive copolymer comprises a cationic block and a temperature-sensitive block, the cationic block optionally carrying a hydrophilic block linked thereto, and the polyion complex is obtained by mixing the temperature-sensitive copolymer with the nucleic acid under temperature conditions equal to or lower than the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the temperature-sensitive copolymer.
US10668164B2
The present invention relates generally to glycoconjugates comprising a saccharide covalently conjugated to a carrier protein through a spacer containing ((2-oxoethyl)thio)). In an aspect the invention provides oxo-eT linked glycoconjugates comprising a saccharide covalently conjugated to a carrier protein through a ((2-oxoethyl)thio) spacer having the formula (I): (I) wherein: A is a group (C═X)m wherein X is S or O and m is 0 or 1; B is a bond, O, or CH2; and when m is 0, B can also be (C═O); R is a C2-C16 alkylene, C2-C16 heteroalkylene, NH—C(═O)—C2-C16 alkylene, or NH—C(═O)—C2-C16 heteroalkylene, wherein said alkylene and heteroalkylene are optionally substituted by 1, 2 or 3 groups independently selected from COOR′ where R′ is selected from H, methyl, ethyl or propyl. The invention further relates to immunogenic compositions comprising such glycoconjugates, and to methods for the preparation and use of such glycoconjugates and immunogenic compositions.
US10668162B2
A first aspect of the disclosure relates to a method for preparing cell-targeting conjugates by coupling at least one functional moiety, such as a therapeutic compound, diagnostic compound or chelating agent to a targeting moiety. A second aspect of this disclosure relates to the cell-targeting conjugates obtainable with this method. A third aspect of the disclosure described herein relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the cell-targeting conjugates.
US10668154B2
A method of stabilizing an aqueous protein or antibody formulation is disclosed herein. Additionally, stable pharmaceutical formulations are contemplated which comprise a biologically active protein, a destabilizing concentration of preservative and a stabilizing concentration of osmolyte.
US10668152B2
This disclosure provides methods for treating cancer in a subject comprising administering to the subject an anti-PD-1 antibody and an anti-CD27 antibody. In some embodiments, the cancer is colorectal cancer, rectal cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, melanoma, ovarian cancer, head and neck cancer, or any combination thereof.
US10668143B2
The invention provides a conjugate of a Neisseria meningitidis serogroup X capsular polysaccharide and a carrier molecule. The conjugate is typically made by (a) oxidising a primary hydroxyl group in the capsular polysaccharide, to give an oxidised polysaccharide with an aldehyde group; and (b) coupling the oxidised polysaccharide to a carrier molecule via the aldehyde group, thereby giving the conjugate. The conjugate may be part of an immunogenic composition. This composition may comprise one or more further antigens, particularly capsular polysaccharides from serogroups A, W135, C and Y and conjugated forms thereof. The composition may be in an aqueous formulation. The composition is useful as a vaccine, e.g. for raising an immune response in a mammal. The invention also provides processes for making the conjugate.
US10668142B2
An injectable immunogenic composition comprising capsular saccharides from at least two of serogroups A, C, W135 and Y of Neisseria meningitidis, wherein said capsular saccharides are conjugated to carrier protein(s) and/or are oligosaccharides, and wherein (i) the composition comprises <50 μg meningococcal saccharide per dose, and/or (ii) the composition further comprises an antigen from one or more of: (a) serogroup B N. meningitidis; (b) Haemophilus influenzae type B; and/or (c) Streptococcus pneumoniae. Saccharide antigens in the compositions are generally conjugated to a carrier.
US10668132B2
A method for treating, remedying, or preventing psoriasis by administering a therapeutically effective dose of at least one CGRP antagonist compound in a pharmaceutically acceptable formulation. The method for treating, remedying, or preventing psoriasis by administering topically and to the pre-psoriatic rim a therapeutically effective dose of at least one CGRP antagonist compound in a pharmaceutically acceptable formulation.
US10668131B2
This invention relates to treatment of neuroinjury in a post-acute window or in a chronic period following neuroinjury.
US10668125B2
Disclosed is a peptide of the following (a) or (b): (a) a peptide containing an amino acid sequence including a sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1, 2, 3, and 4; and (b) a peptide containing an amino acid sequence including a sequence having at least 60% identity with a sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1, 2, 3, and 4, the peptide having highly-shifted accumulation to pancreatic cancer cells and tissues.
US10668124B2
A method of reducing inflammation in skin is disclosed. The method can include topically applying to skin in need thereof a composition comprising 0.001 wt. % to 5 wt. % of a kakadu plum fruit extract to reduce TNF-α production in human epidermal keratinocytes of the skin, and 0.001 wt. % to 5 wt. % of an acai berry fruit extract to reduce TNF-α production in human epidermal keratinocytes of the skin, wherein topical application of the composition reduces inflammation in the skin.
US10668122B2
The Toona sinensis extract of the present invention is prepared using supercritical fluid technique, wherein the method includes steps of: (a) drying the leaves of T. sinensis; (b) pulverizing the leaves as particles; and (c) extracting the particles with supercritical carbon dioxide to obtain the T. sinensis extract. This supercritical T. sinensis extract not only can decrease blood sugar level, but also promotes lipid degradation, inhibits the formation of huge lipid droplet and improves the metabolic symptoms. Accordingly, the T. sinensis extract further is able to be prepared as food supplement and pharmaceuticals.
US10668117B2
The present invention relates to composition derivable from a bifidobacteria, methods and uses thereof, for use in modulating the immune system in a subject by affecting viral action and/or viral effects in said subject. Furthermore, said composition may also be used in reducing the risk of development and exacerbation of chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and COPD in a subject; preferably by modulating the immune system in the subject by affecting viral action and/or viral effects in said subject.
US10668116B2
The present disclosure provides methods, systems, compositions, and kits to address the need for microbiome-related treatment of health conditions and disease. The present disclosure provides for treatment of metabolic conditions using microbial compositions.
US10668115B2
Stable probiotic composition containing Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 and method of detection thereof
Disclosed is a stable probiotic composition containing Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 exhibiting increased viability over wide range of pH and the use of flow cytometry method to enumerate the viable count of Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 under various environmental conditions.
US10668111B2
The present invention relates to treatment of pulmonary fibrosis with umbilical mesenchymal stem cell.
US10668109B2
A method of conditioning a subject in need of transplantation of progenitor cells in suspension of a tissue of interest is disclosed. The method comprising: (a) administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent capable of inducing damage to the tissue of interest, wherein the damage results in proliferation of resident stem cells in the tissue; and subsequently (b) subjecting the subject to an agent which ablates the resident stem cells in the tissue. A method of transplanting progenitor cells in suspension of a tissue of interest to a subject in need thereof is also disclosed.
US10668105B2
The present invention provides novel stem cell compositions having significant therapeutic and practical advantages, as well as methods of preparing and using such compositions for the treatment and prevention of injury and disease in patients. The invention may be applied to stem cell populations isolated from a wide variety of animals, including humans, and tissues. In particular applications, the invention is used to prepare a stem cell composition from a collagen-based tissue, such as adipose tissue, isolated from a patient, and the stem cell composition is subsequently provided to a site of actual or potential injury in the patient. The invention further includes related kits comprising the stem cell compositions, which are remarkably stable and retain viability and efficacy during storage and shipment.
US10668104B2
Methods and therapeutics are provided for treating metabolic disorders by increasing activation of brown adipose tissue. Generally, the methods and therapeutics can increase activation of brown adipose tissue to increase energy expenditure and induce weight loss. In one embodiment, a method for increasing activation of brown adipose tissue includes modifying brown adipocytes to express a gene that activates brown adipocytes, such as uncoupling protein 1. In another embodiment, a method for increasing brown adipose tissue activation includes increasing the number of brown adipocytes. This can be accomplished by inducing proliferation of adipocytes in vivo or expanding adipocytes ex vivo, transplanting adipocytes into brown adipose tissue depots or elsewhere and inducing differentiation of adipocyte progenitor cells, such as MSCs, adipocyte progenitor cells, pre-adipocytes and adipocyte precursor cells.
US10668099B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating and preventing conditions characterized by infection and/or inflammation, especially of the eyes, ears, nose, and/or throat. The methods of the invention involve administering hypohalous acid to the patient, such as in the form of a composition described herein.
US10668095B2
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a first anti-acne compound, a second anti-acne compound, and an anti-photoaging compound are described. Methods for the treatment of acne and photoaging using the compositions are also described.
US10668092B2
The present invention relates to methods of treating infectious, inflammatory and post-traumatic disorders by administering various compounds newly discovered to have TLR4 inhibitory activity. In addition to methods of treatment, the present invention further provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, together with a suitable pharmaceutical carrier.
US10668086B2
The invention relates to a capsule consisting of a shell and a filling, which contains plant sterol ester and/or plant stanol ester and emulsifier. The capsule is suitable for lowering serum LDL cholesterol level.
US10668084B2
The present invention relates to lower dosage strength pernasal testosterone gel formulations for intranasal administration and treatment methods for using the lower dosage strength pernasal testosterone gel formulations for treating a female subject with anorgasmia and/or hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
US10668083B2
Provided is a pharmaceutical composition which contains fulvestrant in an amount of 4.5% by mass to 10.0% by mass with respect to the entire mass of the pharmaceutical composition, at least one kind of polyhydric alcohol selected from propylene glycol or 1,3-butylene glycol in an amount of 8% by mass to 23% by mass with respect to the entire mass of the pharmaceutical composition, benzyl alcohol in an amount of 5% by mass to 24% by mass with respect to the entire mass of the pharmaceutical composition, benzyl benzoate in an amount of 8% by mass to 19% by mass with respect to the entire mass of the pharmaceutical composition, and castor oil, and in which a content of ethanol is less than 1% by mass with respect to the entire mass of the pharmaceutical composition, and a content of benzoic acid is less than 1% by mass with respect to the entire mass of the pharmaceutical composition.
US10668082B2
Disclosed herein is, among other things, a soft gel vaginal pharmaceutical composition and dosage form containing solubilized estradiol for the treatment of vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) and female sexual dysfunction (FSD).
US10668081B2
Prostamide-containing biodegradable intraocular implants, prostamide compounds, prostamide-containing pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for making and using such implants and compositions for the immediate and sustained reduction of intraocular pressure and treatment of glaucoma in an eye of a patient are described.
US10668079B2
The present disclosure provides a composition consisting of ceftriaxone sodium and sulbactam sodium, a pharmaceutical formulation comprising the same and the application thereof. The composition is characterized by having an X-ray powder diffraction pattern with peaks at specific angles. The pharmaceutical formulation according to the present disclosure have better antibacterial activity and stability compared with known compositions, and are thus very suitable for the treatment of bacterial infections, especially for the treatment of refractory urogenital system infections caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae which has drug-resistance to a variety of antibiotics (β-lactams, tetracyclines, macrolides, fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides).
US10668068B2
Embodiments of the invention find application in the field of cancer therapy. Receptor protein kinases (RPTKs) transmit extracellular signals across the plasma membrane to cytosolic proteins, stimulating formation of complexes that regulate key cellular functions. Over half of the known tyrosine kinases are implicated in human cancers and are therefore highly promising drug targets.
US10668067B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I), as defined in the specification, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are inhibitors of voltage-gated sodium channels, in particular Nav 1.7. The compounds are useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of sodium channels such as pain disorders, cough, or itch. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds of the present invention.
US10668063B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating a cancer characterized by expressing a mutant form of a RAS protein. Some embodiments relate to treatment of cancer by administering Plinabulin to a subject in need thereof.
US10668062B2
A method of increasing the insulin sensitivity of a mammalian cell by contacting the cell with a protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) inhibitor having the structure (I).
US10668051B2
Disclosed are novel calcium release-activated calcium (CRAC) channel inhibitors, methods for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of treatment using them. The present disclosure also relates to methods for treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with CRAC inhibitors, and to methods for identifying therapeutics for treating and of diagnosing cancer.
US10668049B2
The present invention provides methods of treating epilepsy and other neurological disorders. The methods generally involve administering to an individual in need thereof an effective amount of an agent that blocks a transforming growth factor-beta pathway.
US10668037B2
A method of treating chronic kidney disease in a mammalian subject by administering a composition that includes L-arginine, glycine, L-glutamine, L-histidine, L-aspartic acid L-glutamic acid, and L-carnosine.
US10668031B2
Provided herein are methods for treating certain conditions, including diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic diseases, disorders or conditions by administrating a composition comprising a biguanide or related heterocyclic compound, e.g., metformin. Also provided herein are biguanide or related heterocyclic compound compositions, and methods for the preparation thereof for use in the methods of the present invention. Also provided herein are compositions comprising metformin and salts thereof and methods of use.
US10668026B2
The present invention discloses a hair growth stimulating dressing having advantages of simple manufacturing processes, low manufacture cost and reasonable selling price. To fabricate the hair growth stimulating dressing, it is firstly took mesoporous silica nanoparticles doped with lanthanide elements and at least one polymer matrix as raw materials to fabricate a plurality of biological fibers; and subsequently, the biological fibers are weaved to a biological textile. Particularly, the hair growth stimulating dressing can indeed show a promotion effect of hair growth on the heads of BALB/c nude mice after being covered onto the head of the nude mice. Therefore, compared to the fact that the commercial hair growth promoting products only just can show apparent hair growing effect on user's head after being continuously used for at least 4 months, this hair growth stimulating dressing only takes 7 days to exhibit positive hair growing effect on user's head.
US10668021B2
Provided are a metformin hydrochloride osmotic pump tablet and a preparation method therefor. According to the preparation method, a hetero-type stamping-prepared metformin hydrochloride tablet core is used, and a controlled-release coating is wrapped outside the stamped metformin hydrochloride tablet core, such that the metformin hydrochloride osmotic pump tablet is prepared.
US10668020B1
Solid dosage pullulan-based buccal tablets containing a polyvinyl pyrrolidone and vinpocetine (e.g., lyophilized polyvinyl pyrrolidone vinyl acetate and vinpocetine), when administered via the buccal mucosa, provide increased bioavailability of the active agent. The formulations may be used to treat a variety of indications for which vinpocetine has been shown to have beneficial activity, and have particular utility in the treatment of cerebral degenerative diseases.
US10668003B2
The disclosure relates to a cosmetic composition for the temporary shaping of hair, containing a combination of two specific anionic acrylate copolymers. The cosmetic composition provides an extremely good moisture resistance.
US10667999B2
The disclosure relates to an agent for the dyeing of keratinic fibers, in particular human hair, containing in a cosmetic carrier(a) at least one direct-acting dye,(b) at least one amphoteric surfactant, in particular at least one alkyl betaine, and(c) at least one alkyl polyglycoside, in particular at least one alkyl polyglucoside,wherein the weight-related total amount of amphoteric surfactant (b) in the agent, based on the weight of the agent, is less than the weight-related total amount of alkyl polyglycoside (c) or equal to the weight-related total amount of alkyl polyglycoside (c). The disclosure also relates to the use of the agent for the dyeing of keratinic fibers, and to a method in which the agent for the dyeing is applied to the keratinic fibers.
US10667998B2
The subject matter of the present disclosure is a method for blonding and/or lightening keratinous fibers, which permits a multi-tone coloration with lighter (“highlights”) sections (strands) to be produced, wherein the use of solid, flat separating aids, more particularly from solid materials, such as aluminum, paper or Styrofoam and similar materials, is not required. In addition, an entire keratinous fiber ensemble can be blonded and/or lightened, wherein the release of ammonia and the drying of the blonding or lightening agent are reduced.
US10667992B2
A method for enhancing optical properties of sintered, zirconia ceramic bodies and zirconia ceramic dental restorations is provided. The porous or pre-sintered stage of a ceramic body is treated with two different yttrium-containing compositions and sintered, resulting in sintered ceramic bodies having enhanced optical properties. The enhanced optical properties may be substantially permanent, remaining for the useful life of the sintered ceramic body.
US10667990B2
In some embodiments, a face soaking device may have a vessel, a vessel neck gasket, and a breathing apparatus. The vessel may be configured to hold a liquid to submerge a face of a user or a portion thereof. The vessel neck gasket may be (removably) joined to the vessel. The vessel neck gasket may be configured to comfortably accommodate a front portion of the user's neck. The breathing apparatus may be in removable contact with: the vessel, with a head rest subassembly, and/or with the user. The breathing apparatus may be configured to permit the user to breathe while the user's face may be submerged within the liquid. When the vessel may be filled with the liquid to at least a sufficient level, the user may soak the face or the portion thereof, such that the skin being soaked receives a benefit.
US10667986B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for treating a human or animal body by mechanical strokes, wherein an applicator for being placed on the patient's body surface has a basically oblique front area portion in an angle between 30° and 60° to the stroke direction.
US10667983B2
A device (900) includes a leg engaging section (101) and a foot engaging section (102 intersecting at a heel receiver (103). The leg engaging section and the foot engaging section defining a leg insertion aperture (104). A first compression wrap member (301) and a second compression wrap member (302) extend from the leg engaging section. An inflatable bladder (501) can be disposed along the leg engaging section between the leg insertion aperture and a compressible cushion layer (902). The inflatable bladder can be selectively inflatable through a connection tube (502) exiting the inflatable bladder at a non-orthogonal angle (504) relative to an edge (507) of the inflatable bladder. The leg engaging section can define at least one channel (1002) to permit the connection tube to exit the device.
US10667976B2
The present disclosure relates to a medical imaging chair.
US10667974B2
A flexible fabric sling for use by two attendants in lifting and transporting a person with limited mobility, the sling including a thigh band releasably securable about the person's thighs, a torso band releasably securable about the person's torso, a dorsal strap extending between the thigh band and the torso band, and handles graspable by the attendants. The length of the dorsal strap is adjustable to accommodate persons of different heights.
US10667971B2
A lift and tilt support apparatus includes opposed scissor lift assemblies. Each scissor lift assembly includes a base, an upper frame, and scissored first and second legs, each having opposed top and bottom ends. The bottom end of the first leg is pivoted to the base, and the top end of the first leg is mounted to the upper frame for reciprocal movement. The top end of the second leg is pivoted to the upper frame, and the bottom end of the second leg is mounted to the base for reciprocal movement. The top end of the first leg reciprocates in a direction skewed from the top end of the second leg. The bottom end of the second leg reciprocates in a direction skewed from the bottom end of the first leg.
US10667966B2
A floor lift system includes a stationary floor assembly and a translational floor assembly. The stationary floor assembly includes a base, a plurality of motors, and a rail system. The base is secured to a floor of the vehicle. The translational floor assembly includes a tray assembly and a floor lift assembly. A first of the plurality of motors moves the translational floor assembly horizontally from a stowed position out of a door of the vehicle to an extended position. A second of the plurality of motors moves the floor lift assembly horizontally out of the tray assembly. A third of the plurality of motors lowers the floor lift assembly.
US10667964B2
A reusable holder for absorbent material for absorbing menstrual flow is made from a liquid permeable inner layer affixed to an outer liquid impermeable layer at the peripheral edges to form a pouch between the two layers. An opening in the inner layer provides access to the pouch so that disposable or reusable absorbent material such as paper or cloth may be placed in the pouch to absorb menstrual flow. After use, the absorbent material may be removed from the pouch via the opening so that the used absorbent material may be disposed of or washed for re-use. Wings extending from the sides of the reusable holder allow the holder to be fastened around an undergarment to keep the holder in place. Alternatively, strings are attached to the reusable holder to allow it to be worn like a g-string.
US10667949B2
A laser eye surgery system includes a computer which scans a focused laser beam in a trajectory over a reticle or target and determines beam quality via laser light reflected from the target. The target may have a grid pattern of lines, with the diameter of the focused laser beam determined based on a time interval for the scanned beam to move onto a line of the grid pattern. Methods for measuring beam quality in a laser eye surgery system provide a direct, quantitative quality measurement of the focused laser beam, and may be performed quickly and automatically. Using scanning mirror position information together with signals resulting from laser light reflected from the target, the laser eye surgery system may also be calibrated.
US10667941B1
An exercise device includes a belt and a shoulder harness, the latter attachable to a user about the thorax. The belt is extensible about a user below user's chest or thorax. Two bungee cords are attachable one at its ends to the user's hands, and the other at its ends to the user's feet. An elongate strip has a pair of parallel adjacent channels, the hand bungee traversing the upper channel and the feet bungee traversing the lower channel. The two channels are connected a back portion of the shoulder harness. Two shoulder straps are each fixed at one end to the belt and are continuous with the back portion of the shoulder harness.
US10667940B2
Disclosed are systems and methods correction of spinal deformity that overcome current limitations by utilizing a dynamic, multi-segment torso orthosis that allows motion during wear. The disclosed embodiments utilize a series of elastically coupled segments that conform to the circumference of the torso of a patient. Adjustable elastic coupling mechanisms are utilized to create and alter forces and moments that are applied to the torso through the segments. These elastic coupling mechanisms also allows each circumferential segment to move relative to the other segments giving the brace dynamic capability.
US10667939B2
The present disclosure relates to a leg protector. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, disclosed is a leg protector which can protect a wearer's foot and leg and is made of an elastic material, the leg protector comprising: a bottom plate part for supporting a wearer's foot; and a protection part connected to the upper side of the bottom plate part, extending upward therefrom, and formed to cover at least a part of the side and rear portions of the wearer's foot and leg, wherein the protection part includes, on both the left and right sides of the ankle portion thereof, an opening part through which regions corresponding to the wearer's malleoli are exposed to the outside.
US10667935B2
The invention provides methods to prepare protein conjugates from proteins having at least two cysteines. In one embodiment, a protein with a disulfide linkage is reduced to provide two free cysteines for reaction with a 1,3-dihaloacetone or similar reactant, linking the sulfur atoms of the two cysteines together. The ketone inserted between the sulfur atoms is then used to form a Schiff base to an aminated payload molecule, thus conjugating the protein to a payload. In another embodiment, two cysteine residues are tied together by reaction with a 1,3-dihaloacetone or similar reactant. The linkage between the sulfur atoms in each case holds the protein or peptide in a constrained conformation, while also providing a convenient place for attaching a payload with good specificity and efficiency.
US10667934B2
A tool for use in loading a transcatheter valve prosthesis within a delivery catheter includes a body portion, a pivotable element and a biasing element. The body portion includes a central passageway extending form a proximal end to a distal end of the body portion. The central passageway is configured to receive a distal portion of a delivery catheter therethrough. The pivotable element is attached to the body portion and is configured to secure a tether during loading of a transcatheter valve prosthesis within the delivery catheter. The biasing element compresses the pivotable element against the body portion such that the pivotable element holds a second end against the delivery catheter and secures the tether thereto. The pivotable element may be two or more pivotable elements.
US10667933B2
A delivery system is equipped with a self expanding stent for implantation into a blood vessel, in particular in the region of the aortic arch. The stent has a hollow cylindrical body which is radially compressed for implantation. A pull-back sheath which surrounds the stent and which radially compresses it is also provided for positioning and releasing the stent in the blood vessel. The pull-back sheath has a highly flexible front section which surrounds the stent and which maintains said stent in its compressed state, and has further a more rigid rear section which is connected to the front section and which is designed to transmit torsional and traction forces to the front section.
US10667931B2
The present invention relates to an implantable apparatus and methods of use thereof for treating congestive heart failure. An apparatus of this invention may be anchored by implantation of a section of the apparatus within in a branch pulmonary artery, for example the left pulmonary artery, which then positions and anchors another section, for example a device frame section of the apparatus within the main pulmonary artery. A medical device may be attached to the anchored device frame.
US10667927B2
An expandable fusion cage system includes an expandable fusion cage having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a hinge portion coupling the lower portion and the upper portion at their distal ends. Positioned between the upper and lower portions is an expansion element that when moved in the proximal direction causes the cage to expand at its proximal end. The system can also include inserter instruments, expandable distraction instruments, and bone funnels.
US10667919B2
The present disclosure provides knee prostheses that replicate at least a portion of the function of an individual patient's anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). An exemplary knee prosthesis includes a femoral component configured to be implanted on the distal end of the patient's femur and a tibial component configured to be implanted on the proximal end of the patient's tibia. In extension, the femoral component and the tibial component may cooperate to limit anterior movement of the tibial component relative to the femoral component. In flexion, the femoral component may be free to rotate relative to the tibial component.
US10667914B2
The devices and methods described herein may be used to restore left ventricular function to address mitral valve regurgitation. One variation of an implant comprises a plurality of tethered anchors and a plurality of force-distribution members slidably disposed on the tether between the anchors. One or more of the force-distribution members can comprise a bioabsorbable material. Methods comprise deploying the implant to cardiac tissue, cinching the implant to its hard stop (e.g., where further cinching does not cause further tissue tightening), providing a pre-selected amount of slack to the implant after it has been cinched to its hard stop configuration, and securing a lock member on the tether. Also disclosed herein are lock member deployment catheters that provide a pre-selected amount of tether slack as it secures a lock member on the tether.
US10667910B2
Methods and devices for transvascular prosthetic chordae tendinea implantation are disclosed. A catheter is advanced into the left atrium, through the mitral valve, and into the left ventricle. A ventricular anchor is deployed from the catheter and into a wall of the left ventricle, leaving a ventricular suture attached to the ventricular anchor and extending proximally through the catheter. A leaflet anchor is deployed to secure a mitral valve leaflet to a leaflet suture, with the leaflet suture extending proximally through the catheter. The leaflet suture is secured to the ventricular suture to limit a range of travel of the leaflet in the direction of the left atrium. Also disclosed is an assembled in situ mitral valve leaflet restraint, having a neo papillary muscle and a neo chordae tendinea.
US10667909B2
A percutaneous device including a temporary valve attached to a sheath, the sheath having an inverting section for delivery and removal thereof from a blood vessel. The sheath is inverted for delivery, housing the valve between inverted layers thereof. To deploy said valve, the sheath is everted to position the temporary valve on an outer surface thereof. The temporary valve and sheath are reversibly movable between inverted and deployed configurations. Upon eversion, the temporary valve assumes a radially expanded canopy shape having an outer diameter selected to contact the vessel wall and allow blood flow in only one direction. The temporary valve may be removed by releasing one end of the valve from the sheath, flattening the temporary valve along the longitudinal axis of the sheath. Also provided is a temporary valve system comprising a dilator for inverting and everting the sheath, said dilator being removably connected to the sheath.
US10667908B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to prosthetic valves and methods of use thereof. In one implementation, a prosthetic valve may include an annular valve body and a plurality of ventricular anchoring legs configured to extend radially outward from the annular valve body. At least one ventricular anchoring leg may include a first concave portion situated between the valve body and a terminal end of the leg, and a second concave portion situated between the first concave portion and the terminal end of the leg. The first concave portion may face radially outward, while the second concave portion may face radially inward. At least one of the first concave portion and the second concave portion may be angularly aligned with a point of connection between the at least one leg and the valve body.
US10667905B2
Apparatus and methods are described herein for use in the delivery and deployment of a prosthetic mitral valve into a heart. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a catheter assembly, a valve holding tube and a handle assembly. The valve holding tube is releasably couplable to a proximal end portion of the catheter assembly and to a distal end portion of the handle assembly. The handle assembly includes a housing and a delivery rod. The delivery rod is configured to be actuated to move distally relative to the housing to move a prosthetic heart valve disposed within the valve holding tube out of the valve holding tube and distally within a lumen of the elongate sheath of the catheter assembly. The catheter assembly is configured to be actuated to move proximally relative to the housing such that the prosthetic valve is disposed outside of the lumen of the elongate sheath.
US10667903B2
A bioanalogic implantable ophthalmic lens (“BIOL”) capable of replacing the natural crystalline lens (NCL) in its various essential functions after the NCL having been removed and BIOL implanted into the posterior eye chamber and placed into the capsular bag vacated from the NCL. At least the posterior surface of the lens has a convex shape and is made from a transparent flexible hydrogel material. At least the anterior and posterior optical surfaces are defined by rotation of one or more conic sections along the main optical axis and the surfaces defined by the rotation will include a plane perpendicular to the axis and conical surface symmetrical by the axis.
US10667902B2
The present invention provides a keratoprosthesis assembly comprising a central optical core; and a peripheral skirt comprising at least one porous biocompatible layer and methods of using it in keratoprosthesis procedures.
US10667895B2
Described are various embodiments of surgical procedures, systems, implants, devices, tools, and methods, useful for treating pelvic conditions in a male or female, the pelvic conditions including incontinence (various forms such as fecal incontinence, stress urinary incontinence, urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, etc.), vaginal prolapse (including various forms such as enterocele, cystocele, rectocele, apical or vault prolapse, uterine descent, etc.), and other conditions caused by muscle and ligament weakness, the implants that are useful for anchoring an implant to tissue.
US10667890B2
A teeth cleaning device for simultaneously cleaning multiple teeth, of a user includes a mouth insert for inserting into the mouth of the user, a plurality of cleaning structures attached to the mouth insert or integrally formed together with the mouth insert, a coupling element attached to the mouth insert; and a drive device. The drive device includes a vibration motor, which can be connected to the coupling element such that the vibration motor vibrates the mouth insert during the operation of the teeth cleaning device, and a cleaning program selection element for selecting a cleaning program that defines a vibration frequency of the vibration motor within a specified frequency range and/or a vibration amplitude of the vibration motor within a specified amplitude range. The disclosure further relates to a method for producing such a teeth cleaning device.
US10667867B2
A computer process including receiving first patient bone data of a patient leg and foot in a first pose, the first pose comprising a position and orientation of the patient leg relative to the patient foot as defined in the first patient bone data. The computer process may further include receiving second patient bone data of the patient leg and foot in a second pose, the second pose comprising a position and orientation of the patient leg relative to the patient foot as defined in the second patient bone data. The computer process may further include generating a 3D bone model of the patient leg and foot. Finally, the computer process may include modifying the 3D bone model of the patient leg and foot such that the plurality of 3D bone models are reoriented into a third pose that matches the second pose.
US10667866B2
Apparatus and methods are provided herein for providing treatment plan in which a position of a heat source and a treatment order are optimized.An example treatment support apparatus includes a processor and a storage device connected to the processor. The storage device hold image information of tissue in a living body of a treatment target. The processor may extract a blood vessel structure of the inside of the living body from the image information, calculate positions of one or more heat sources for thermal treatment on a treatment scheduled region including at least a part of the extracted blood vessel structure on the basis of the extracted blood vessel structure, and output data for displaying an image including the calculated positions of the one or more heat sources.
US10667857B2
Tissue may be cut and extracted from an interior location in a patient's body using a probe or tool which both effects cutting and causes vaporization of a liquid or other fluid to propel the cut tissue through an extraction lumen of the cutting device. The cutting may be achieved using an electrosurgical electrode assembly, including a first electrode on a cutting member and a second electrode within a cutting probe or tool. Thus, over a first cutting portion, radio frequency current may help cut the tissue and over a second or over transition region, the RF current may initiate vaporization of the fluid or other liquid to propel the tissue from the cutting device.
US10667844B2
A method and apparatus of limiting at least one degree of movement between a superior vertebrae and an inferior vertebrae of a patient includes advancing a distal end of a stabilization device into a pedicle of the inferior vertebrae. A proximal portion of the stabilization device is positioned such that the proximal portion limits at least one degree of movement between a superior vertebrae and an inferior vertebrae by contacting a surface of the superior vertebrae.
US10667841B2
A method may include inserting, through a slotted cannula, a first anchor assembly into a first spinal segment. The first anchor assembly may be attached to a suture at a first end of the suture. The method may include inserting, through the slotted cannula, a second anchor assembly into a second spinal segment. The method may include extruding, through the slotted cannula, a graft construct to permit the graft construct to extend from the first spinal segment to the second spinal segment. The graft construct may be connected to the suture. The method may include attaching, using the slotted cannula, a second end of the suture to the second anchor assembly to permit a spinal fusion of the first spinal segment and the second spinal segment using the graft construct.
US10667830B2
Device for safely and precisely causing micro-injuries to the dermis to stimulate collagen production a skim remodeling. Specifically, needles on the device pierce the epidermis and basal cell layer into the dermis. The device incorporates safety features for the operator to be able to operate the device with one hand while keeping the other had free during procedures. Additionally, the device incorporates single use safety controls to help prevent cross contamination between patients.
US10667820B2
In a method for intermittently occluding the coronary sinus, in which the coronary sinus is occluded using an occlusion device, the fluid pressure in the occluded coronary sinus is continuously measured and stored, the fluid pressure curve is determined as a function of time, and the occlusion of the coronary sinus is triggered and/or released as a function of at least one characteristic value derived from the measured pressure values. The pressure increase and/or pressure decrease per time unit each occurring at a heart beat are used as characteristic values.
US10667814B2
A surgical stapling apparatus including a releasable buttress material includes a cartridge assembly, an anvil assembly, a knife, and a buttress material. The cartridge assembly includes a plurality of staples and a tissue contacting surface defining staple retaining slots. The anvil assembly includes a tissue contacting surface defining staple pockets for forming staples expelled from the staple retaining slots of the cartridge assembly. The knife is disposed within a knife slot formed in the tissue contacting surface of the cartridge assembly. The buttress material includes at least one weld joining the buttress material to the tissue contacting surface of the cartridge assembly. The at least one weld is positioned across the knife slot.
US10667813B2
A joint assembly of an adapter defines a first longitudinal axis and includes first and second hinges, first and second rings, a joint cover, and a biasing mechanism. The joint cover has first and second cover portions. The first ring is pivotally coupled to the first hinge and the first cover portion is pivotally coupled to the first hinge to define a first joint center. The second ring is pivotally coupled to the second cover portion and the second hinge is pivotally coupled to the second ring to define a second joint center that is spaced from the first joint center. The first and second joint centers define a cover axis of the joint cover. The biasing mechanism is engaged with the first ring and the joint cover to bias the joint cover towards an aligned configuration in which the cover axis is aligned with the first longitudinal axis.
US10667811B2
An anvil for a surgical end effector is disclosed. The anvil can have a staple-forming surface having a plurality of pockets defined therein. The pockets can be nested. A first pocket can include a proximal cup, a distal cup, and a pocket axis can extend between the proximal cup and the distal cup. The pocket can be asymmetric relative to the pocket axis. A central axis can transect the pocket between the proximal cup and the distal cup. The pocket can also be asymmetric relative to the central axis. The pockets can be obliquely oriented relative to a longitudinal axis of the anvil.
US10667809B2
A surgical instrument is disclosed comprising a cartridge jaw and a series of windows in the cartridge jaw configured to permit a clinician to observe the firing progress of the surgical instrument.
US10667807B2
Shape memory tissue engagement elements (15) are created using shape memory alloys or shape memory (SM) composite sheets (33, 36) with one or more SM material sheets (20, 32). Arrays of the tissue engagement elements may then be inserted or molded into flexible base materials forming pads for tissue engagement. In certain embodiments, the composite sheets incorporate two SM material layers (20, 32) having differing transition temperatures to allow activation of one layer for tissue engagement and activation of the second layer for tissue release. In exemplary embodiments, insertion of interconnected tissue engagement elements (46) into a base layer (19) with slots (48) provides a completed pad array. In alternative exemplary embodiments, vacuum forming of composite sheets (51) with cutting of corrugated sides (53) to form tissue engagement elements allow production of complete arrays of tissue engagement elements. Overmolding the arrays with a flexible base material (19) provides a completed pad.
US10667806B2
An applicator instrument having a reconfigurable handle for dispensing surgical fasteners includes a housing having a proximal end and a distal end, an elongated shaft extending from the housing, a handle coupled with the proximal end of the housing, and a trigger coupled with the handle. The applicator instrument has a firing system including an energy storing assembly that is disposed within the housing, and a gear train disposed within the handle and coupled with the trigger. The trigger is squeezed for commencing a firing cycle and storing energy in the energy storing assembly. The applicator instrument includes a handle reconfiguration actuator having a first position for locking the handle in place relative to the housing and a second position for enabling the handle to rotate relative to the housing between a pistol configuration and an in-line configuration. The applicator instrument dispenses surgical fasteners with the handle in the pistol configuration, the in-line configuration, and at angles located between the pistol and in-line configurations.
US10667791B2
The embodiments described herein relate generally to an elastography method and system for obtaining ultrasound images of an excited tissue over a certain time period, then computationally determining one or more mechanical properties of the tissue within a real time refresh rate. This method can perform elastography in real time as only a thin volume of the excited tissue is imaged and processed. The thin volume includes a desired cross-sectional plane of the tissue and at least two adjacent planes that are adjacent to the desired cross-sectional plane. A maximum number of adjacent planes is selected so that a computer system is capable of computationally determining mechanical properties within a real time refresh rate.
US10667777B2
Systems and process are provided to make X-ray radiographs sufficiently quantitative and standardized for bone and other biological material or non-biologic material density evaluations. The X-ray radiograph methodology and system provide a cost effective diagnostic tool that may be used with existing X-ray radiography sources already present in many clinics and hospitals to ultimately produce large volumes of scientifically valid data and useful diagnostic and prognostic information. A calibration bar is added to a conventional X-ray film cartridge and images thereof subsequently incorporated into radiographs for interpretation or a cartridge is designed to integrate a calibration function. The calibration standard affords a standard against which material density is measured. A software program is provided to interpret tissue densities (including bone) to ultimately identify values compared to preselected thresholds.
US10667775B2
A method of evaluating a vessel of a patient is provided. The method includes outputting, to a display device, a screen display including: a visualization based on pressure measurements obtained from a first instrument and a second instrument positioned within the vessel of the patient while the second instrument is moved longitudinally through the vessel and the first instrument remains stationary within the vessel; and a visual representation of a vessel; receiving a user input to modify the visualization to simulate a therapeutic procedure; and updating the screen display, in response to the user input, including modifying the visualization based on the user input. A system for evaluating a vessel of a patient is also provided. The system includes first and second instruments sized and shaped for introduction into the vessel of the patient; and a processing system communicatively coupled to the first and second instruments and a display device.
US10667773B2
A mobile medical imaging robot is disclosed. The robot comprises a medical imaging device, and a vehicle configured to carry the medical imaging device. The vehicle is motorized so as to move on a surface, such the floor of an examination room. The robot further comprises a cable designed to link said vehicle to a wall of a room, such as a medical examination room. In at least one non-limiting embodiment, motorized robot movements along the surface are controlled manually by a user.
US10667763B2
A biological information processing device includes a controller programmed to obtain biological information indicating a body condition, and associate different kinds of the biological information with respective specific graphical elements. Each of the respective specific graphical elements constitute a respective specific appearance of a graphical figure, with one of the respective specific graphical elements representing a surface count of a polyhedron which changes in relation to a numerical change in the biological information. The controller is further programmed to set value to the specific graphical element depending on degree of the biological information for at least one specific graphical element associated with the biological information obtained, and generate indicating data of a biological figure on the basis of the value set, the biological figure being an aggregate of the specific graphical elements.
US10667759B2
A method for analysing physiological measurement values of a user is proposed. The method comprises at least one data acquisition step, wherein, during the data acquisition step, physiological measurement values of the user are acquired at different measurement times and stored in a measurement data record; at least one pattern selection step, wherein, during the pattern selection step, measurement values acquired during one comparison time interval are selected as at least one comparison pattern; and at least one pattern recognition step, wherein, during the pattern recognition step, patterns corresponding to the comparison pattern are sought after in the measurement data record.
US10667758B2
A target frequency band to be processed in a detected signal of a heartbeat sensor is controlled according to a detected signal of an inertial sensor.
US10667756B2
Disclosed are an optical spectroscopy system using a matched filter-based broadband signal receiver for stable data extraction, and a method for controlling the optical spectroscopy system. The optical spectroscopy system may comprise: a light transmission unit for irradiating light on a particular region of a subject by means of a plurality of light sources, wherein the light irradiated from the plurality of light sources is code-modulated by means of the Walsh codes and then irradiated; and a light receiving unit for detecting emergent light which has passed through the particular region, wherein the light source is identified by demodulating the light by means of the Walsh codes.
US10667750B2
A method of detecting a presence and/or concentration of a marker, e.g., a marker, in a liquid, e.g., a liquid, is disclosed. The method comprises: contacting the liquid with a sensor having an immobilized affinity moiety interacting with the marker and being configured to generate a detectable signal responsively to the interaction. The method further comprises washing the liquid off the sensor, and detecting the presence and/or concentration of the marker based on a detectable signal received from the sensor within a time-window beginning a predetermined time period after a beginning time of the washing.
US10667745B2
Implantable sensors for determining bone health are described that can be utilized in conjunction with orthopedic implants. The sensors can include passive strain gauges or passive chemical sensors that can be read by radiographic imaging techniques. Sensors can be affixed to implantable support devices so as to non-invasively monitor the effect of load on the implant for instance to provide a quantitative assessment of when a fracture is sufficiently healed to allow safe weight-bearing upon the limb. Alternatively, sensors can monitor the health of a local implant area, for instance to monitor the implant area of early stage infection or healing of a fusion procedure.
US10667741B2
A device and methods for using a device, for determining a passing of flatus is described. The device comprises a sleeve comprising a first porous gas-permeable surface, a second surface attached to the first porous gas-permeable surface defining a pocket within the sleeve, and a flatus detector inserted within the pocket of the sleeve and positioned between the first porous gas-permeable surface and the second surface. The flatus detector may be a dry-surface carbon dioxide detector that irreversibly changes colour upon contact with increased concentrations of CO2 gas, a chemiresistor, or a near field communication tag. The chemiresistor or near field communication tag may be modified for detecting target gases. The device may be a patch that is affixed to a patient or attached to a garment that is worn by the patient, or a capsule, with a detector disposed therein.
US10667740B2
A hiding board includes a flat surface; and a plurality of containers arranged in a random fashion on the flat surface and secured thereto, each container being configured to receive a three-dimensional object from a user. A method for neuropsychological assessment includes presenting one or more three-dimensional objects to a participant in a first arrangement on a hiding board; removing the one or more three-dimensional objects from the hiding board; re-presenting the one or more three-dimensional objects to the participant in an arrangement that is different from the first arrangement; and tasking the participant with recreating the first arrangement.
US10667738B2
A brain activity estimation device includes a facial skin temperature acquisition element and a brain activity estimation element. The acquisition element detects a skin temperature of at least part of a human face, and acquires facial skin temperature data including detected temperature data and location data of a detection region in a time series manner. The estimation element estimates human brain activity based on the facial skin temperature data acquired. The estimation element decomposes the facial skin temperature data into a plurality of components, extracts a component as a determination component, and determines whether the determination component is related to the human brain activity based on a presence or absence of a temperature change in a prescribed region of the human face.
US10667737B2
Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring a person for a traumatic brain injury. Aspects include monitoring a gait of the user with one or more accelerometers embedded in the uniform and analyzing, by a processor, one or more characteristics of the gait of the user. Aspects also include determining whether the one or more characteristics of the gait indicate that the user may have suffered the traumatic brain injury and creating an alert that the user of the helmet may have suffered the traumatic brain injury.
US10667733B2
A transcutaneous sensor device configured for continuously measuring analyte concentrations in a host is provided. In some embodiments, the transcutaneous sensor device 100 comprises an in vivo portion 160 configured for insertion under the skin 180 of the host and an ex vivo portion 170 configured to remain above the surface of the skin 180 of the host after sensor insertion of the in vivo portion. The in vivo portion may comprise a tissue piercing element 110 configured for piercing the skin 180 of the host and a sensor body 120 comprising a material or support member 130 that provides sufficient column strength to allow the sensor body to be pushable in a host tissue without substantial buckling. The ex vivo portion 170 may be configured to comprise (or operably connect to) a sensor electronics unit and may comprise a mounting unit 150. Also described here are various configurations of the sensor body and the tissue piercing element that may be used to protect the membrane of the sensor body.
US10667728B2
Measuring the impedance of a human body region at a high frequency (ZHF) and a low frequency (ZLF). ZHF is used to obtain the value of the volume of fluid in the tissues of the region. ZLF is used to obtain the value of the volume of extracellular fluid in the tissues. The increase in the metabolic component in the volume of extracellular fluid is determined by the increase of the volume of all of the fluid in comparison with the previous measurement, determining the increase in the volume of extracellular fluid in comparison with the previous measurement and subsequently calculating the difference between the increases in the volume of all of the fluid and the volume of extracellular fluid. The glucose concentration G(tk) is determined by adding the amount of increase in the glucose concentration and the value of the glucose concentration determined at the previous measuring stage.
US10667727B2
A method of monitoring a patient includes obtaining a first image of an object, obtaining a second image of the object, determining a level of similarity between the first and second images, obtaining a third image of the object, determining a level of similarity between the first and third images, analyzing a time series of values that includes the determined level of similarity between the first and second images and the determined level of similarity between the first and third images, and determining a state of the patient based at least on a result of the act of analyzing.
US10667725B2
One variation of a method for detecting and responding to falls by residents within a facility includes: at a wearable device worn by a resident, writing sensor data from a sensor integrated into the wearable device to a buffer, inputting sensor data into a compressed fall detection model—defining a compressed form of a complete fall detection model and stored locally on the wearable device—to detect a fall event at a first time, and transmitting a corpus of sensor data from the buffer and a cue for confirmation of the fall event to a local wireless hub in response to detecting the fall event; and, remotely from the wearable device, inputting the corpus of sensor data into the complete fall detection model—stored remotely from the wearable device—to confirm the fall event and dispatching a care provider to assist the resident in response to confirming the fall event.
US10667720B2
Systems and methods for integrating and/or registering a shape sensing fiber in or to various instruments are described herein. Registration fixtures and registration techniques for matching the coordinate system of a fiber to the coordinate system of an elongate instrument or other device are provided. Various systems and methods for integrating a shape sensing fiber into an elongate instrument or other device are also described herein.
US10667712B2
The present disclosure relates to a wearable monitor device and methods and systems for using such a device. In certain embodiments, the wearable monitor records cardiac data from a mammal and extracts particular features of interest. These features are then transmitted and used to provide health-related information about the mammal.
US10667708B2
A velocity vector calculating unit 40 obtains velocity vectors at various coordinates in a blood flow, on the basis of signals obtained by transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves, thereby generating a plurality of vector frames, each formed from velocity vectors at a plurality of coordinates. An interpolation processing unit 50 generates interpolated frames by employing an interpolation process between two adjacent vector frames, and adds one or a plurality of such interpolated frames between said vector frames. The interpolation processing unit 50 generates each interpolated frame, formed from interpolated vectors at a plurality of coordinates, by means of an interpolation process based on velocity vectors between the two adjacent vector frames.
US10667702B2
A coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter utilizes coaxial construction incorporating a thin wall guiding catheter technology for the outer lumen and using a strong braided diagnostic technology for the central lumen to accommodate high-pressure injections. The catheter includes a manifold body to provide for connection to each of the dual lumens. The distal end of the coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter tapers to a more flexible portion that is perforated by spiral side holes to provide for more undistorted pressure readings in the left ventricle. The coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter also utilizes proximal straight sideholes at the end of the dual lumen portion and a taper between the dual lumen portion and the single lumen portion.
US10667701B1
In one embodiment, a system for determining physiological parameters from blood flow dynamics includes a catheter configured for insertion into a blood vessel of a subject through which blood flows, a flexible barrier associated with the catheter configured to oscillate in response to changes in pressure of the blood within the catheter, and a pressure field microphone configured to measure a pressure field induced by the oscillation of the flexible barrier and to generate a measured acoustic pressure signal that can be processed to determine the physiological parameters.
US10667698B2
Methods for diagnosing and/or treating a multi-lesion intravascular region are disclosed. The methods may include advancing a pressure sensing device to a first position that is distal of a first lesion and that is distal of a second lesion, proximally retracting the pressure sensing device to a second position that is proximal of the first lesion and that is proximal of the second lesion, calculating a first estimated post-treatment fractional flow reserve based on treatment of the first lesion, calculating a second estimated post-treatment fractional flow reserve based on treatment of the second lesion, and treating the first lesion, the second lesion, or both based on the first estimated post-treatment fractional flow reserve and the second estimated post-treatment fractional flow reserve.
US10667696B1
An oral photography system and method can include: a chassis, the chassis including a chassis base and a vertical chassis extension, the vertical chassis extension extending upward from the chassis base, the vertical chassis extension including a device clamp having a tightening extension coupled to a top clasp and a bottom clasp, the top clasp and the bottom clasp configured to hold an imaging device perpendicular to the vertical chassis extension, a diffusion panel attachment coupled to the vertical chassis extension, and a light panel attachment coupled to the vertical chassis extension; a diffusion panel releasably affixed to the diffusion panel attachment; and a light panel releasably affixed to the light panel attachment.
US10667680B2
Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for forecasting eye condition progression for eye patients. When a patient visits an eye practitioner, the patient (or when appropriate their guardian) may be interested in the current eye condition as well as a prediction of eye condition progression in the future and/or as the patient ages. Aspects of the invention can be used to predict the progress of an eye condition for a patient (e.g., a child) at a number of different post-examination times after an examination. Predicting the progress of an eye condition for a patient over time can be used to assist the eye practitioner in tailoring a treatment plan and/or tailoring a subsequent examination schedule for the patient.
US10667666B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include a device for catching debris may comprise a flat surface for holding debris; a retaining wall surrounding the flat surface and extending vertically from the flat surface, configured to restrict movement of the debris beyond portions of the flat surface; a rigid counter guide configured to fit against a countertop while at least a portion of the flat surface extends below the countertop, wherein the rigid counter guide allows a user to push the retaining wall and the portion of the flat surface against the countertop; and a handle attached to the flat surface at an opposite end from the rigid counter guide, wherein the handle is shaped to fit a hand of a user.
US10667662B2
A cleaner head includes an agitator; a housing defining an agitator chamber and an aperture through which the agitator can be removed from the agitator chamber; and an end cap attachable to the housing to close the aperture, and releasable from the housing to open the aperture. The end cap is attachable and releasable by rotating at least a locking portion of the end cap about a locking axis between locked and unlocked positions relative to the housing. The cleaner head has a latch mechanism configured to prevent rotation of the locking portion to the unlocked position. The latch mechanism has a release member which is provided on the end cap, the release member being operable by hand to release the latch.
US10667655B2
A fluid dispenser includes a dispenser housing, a container for holding a foamable liquid, a foam pump, an outlet in fluid communication with the foam pump, and a vacuum actuated suck-back mechanism in fluid communication with the foam pump and the outlet. The foam pump has a liquid pump portion and an air pump portion. The vacuum actuated suck-back mechanism includes a chamber and a movable member. The chamber has a vacuum port that is in fluid communication with the air pump portion of the foam pump, and a suck-back port that is in fluid communication with the outlet. The movable member of the vacuum actuated suck-back mechanism moves under vacuum pressure to reduce the volume of the chamber. The volume of the chamber increases upon removal of the vacuum pressure.
US10667649B2
A portable, lightweight, disposable kettle-type barbecue grill, a fuel disc for use with the grill, and methods for fabricating, packaging, assembling, and using such a grill and fuel disc, are presented. The grill's components are made of lightweight materials and are configured to be nested inside one another to maximize space efficiency and durability for shipping and storage, and configured for easy unpacking and assembly by the user. Adjustable air vents control the cooking heat and speed. The fuel disc is made from charcoal and optionally includes hardwood chips and lighter fluid. Apertures in the fuel disc work together with the shape of the air vents and the grill to promote even airflow and temperature throughout the grill, resulting in consistent cooking. The grill is inexpensive and is entirely or partly made of recyclable materials, so the user may choose to dispose of the grill after a single use.
US10667645B2
A milk-frothing device may be provided that comprises a mixing chamber which is constructed such that, when the milk flows through the mixing chamber, shear forces act on the milk and lead to mechanical lysis of the proteins contained in the milk and hence effect improved frothing-up of the milk. A drinks preparer may be provided that includes this milk-frothing device. A method may be provided for frothing-up of milk using this milk-frothing device.
US10667641B2
An apparatus for brewing and dispensing beverages such as coffee, said apparatus comprising a water tank comprising a water inlet configured for fresh water supply, and one or more heater elements, said apparatus comprising a water tank outlet, which is connected via a hot water channel to a water faucet a brewing chamber and a dispensing nozzle, wherein said hot water channel has at least one section forming a flow path for hot water, said at least one section of said hot water channel is configured such that it is in direct thermal contact with the periphery of said water tank along the entire length of said at least one section of said hot water channel, and such that said at least one section of said hot water channel extends substantially parallel to the periphery of said water tank.
US10667639B2
A device for processing food items arranged in a receptacle includes a steam-generating unit for generating steam, and a steam supply unit, which is connected to the steam-generating unit, for supplying steam to the receptacle. The steam supply unit has a steam probe having at least one steam-dispensing opening, and also has a steam probe stroke drive for a stroke movement of the steam probe along a stroke axis.
US10667632B2
A display assembly for resting upon a support surface, the display assembly comprising a main body having self-supporting rigidity and substantially disposed in a first plane, the main body having an upper end and a lower end, a collapsible pocket, moveable between a collapsed configuration and an open configuration, the collapsible pocket having four side walls and a bottom wall wherein at least one of the bottom wall and the four side walls includes a fold line, wherein the collapsible pocket is formed of a material having a different thickness than the main body, and a coupler interconnecting the collapsible pocket and the main body, wherein the collapsible pocket in the open configuration and the main body are self-supporting in an upright orientation with the first plane being substantially perpendicular to the support surface.
US10667628B2
Systems for providing on-demand food service material printing for food service are provided herein. A food service material dispenser comprises a roll holder configured to hold a roll of food service material, one or more rollers, and a motor configured to operate to translate the food service material along a path within the dispenser. The dispenser includes a cutting arrangement configured to perform a cut of the food service material to form the sheet of food service material that defines a size associated with a food service order. The dispenser also includes a printer configured to print at least one of order information or personalization information on the food service material that is based on the associated food service order. The dispenser further includes a chute configured to dispense the sheet of food service material, which includes the at least one of order information or personalization information printed thereon.
US10667627B2
Infant support devices and containment devices are described for use with premature and small-for-age infants, and in particular premature babies two kilograms or less, and even babies of one kilograms or less. The devices can be used separately or in combination (whereupon both support and containment are achieved together).
US10667613B2
A therapeutic cushioning assembly and method. The assemble provides structural support to a user's buttocks and spine while the user rests in a sitting position for a prolonged period of time. The cushioning assembly provides a firm rectangular cushion and a firm circular cushion comprising a high-density foam. The cushions detachably mate in a perpendicular disposition via magnets within the cushions. The position of the rectangular cushion and circular cushion can be rearranged to provide support for either the buttocks or spine, depending on the dimensions and comfort of the user.
US10667612B2
A chair includes a seat pan member, a movement support frame, and at least two movement support members operatively connected to the seat pan member and the movement support frame. The at least two movement support members are configured to support the seat pan member in a floating manner for dynamic movement with respect to the movement support frame in at least one degree of freedom in a horizontal seating plane.
US10667611B1
A balancing chair can comprise a support structure, the support structure comprising a top portion, a middle portion, and a bottom portion, wherein the top portion is coupled to a first pad and a second pad, the second pad resting between the first pad and the middle portion, and a base, comprising a first lateral runner and a second lateral runner, the first and second lateral runners coupled to and perpendicular to the bottom portion of the support structure, wherein the first lateral runner and the second lateral runner have first and second lower surfaces, respectively, that collectively define a lower curved surface of the base, the lower curved surface enabling the base to define a rocking motion from side to side.
US10667610B2
The present invention is an adjustable lounge garden swing having a fixed support structure and a seat support pivotally suspended from the support structure on a single pivot axis to provide a pendular movement when in motion. At least one lounge seat is pivotally coupled to the support structure where the lounge seat has a seating portion and a backrest portion that are fixed relative to one another but adjustable relative to the seat support to adjust the reclination angle of lounge seat. In particular, an embodiment of the present invention provides a lounge seat for a garden swing that has an adjustable reclination angle relative to the seat support and is positionable at a selected reclination angle through a reclination adjuster.
US10667604B2
A rack assembly has two support frames and at least one shelf that are secured to the support frames by connecting assemblies. Each connecting assembly comprises a well secured to a medial surface of each vertical tube of the support frame, and a hook that extends from each end of each shelf, with each hook having an opening extending therethrough. The connecting assembly also includes a connector that is seated inside each well, each connector having a top plate that has an elongated opening, the connector also having a body that is sized and configured to fit inside a well, the body defining two wings with a space between the wings, and wherein each wing has a bump positioned in the center of the inner surface of each wing that faces the space. Each hook is inserted through the elongated opening of a corresponding connector with the bump on each wing fitted inside the opening of the hook to retain the hook inside the body of the connector.
US10667603B1
A convertible shelving II unit includes one or more flat board forming a back panel configured to hang on a wall or attach to a metal surface, further includes rear face hinges, thereby allowing back panels to fold back to back. The present convertible shelving II unit includes one or more collapsible shelves hinged to the back panel. A bracket rod attached to shelves rotates down to support upright shelves and rotates up to collapse shelves, thereby allowing convertibility to extend height clearance between shelves. Wall mount holes and high-performance magnets on rear face of back panels configured to hang on a wall and attach to a metal surface. Back panels and shelves collapse parallel to each other includes convertibility to extend height of the shelving unit by attaching additional back panels end edge to end edge. The back panels can be unhinged and used on different surfaces.
US10667585B2
An electronic bead string includes a main bead, a plurality of secondary beads, a displacement sensor, a memory, and a processor. The main bead and the secondary beads are strung together to form a bead string. The displacement sensor is fixed in the main bead to output two-dimensional displacement signals, the memory stores the two-dimensional displacement signals, and the processor determines whether a rotation cycle of the electronic bead string is an approved rotation cycle according to the two-dimensional displacement signals.
US10667570B2
An upper and lower garment disc-like dual connector and suspension device wherein the tucked-in upper garment, such as a shirt or blouse, is draped over and around and captured and held in the disc-like peripheral groove with a retainer device, leaving one disc surface area exposed to the outside of the upper garment for affixing any one of a myriad of fasteners, such as, Velcro, clips, buttons, snaps, hangers, etc., that attaches the upper garment to the lower garment such as pants, trousers, skirts, shorts, etc., behind and below the waistband, so that the upper garment becomes the suspenders of the lower garment. This easy-on, easy-off, transferrable, tucked-in apparel positive connection and suspension concept provides; suspension support of the lower garment, a neat tucked-in appearance at all times, is comfortable to wear, and is not visible from view while maintaining the lower garment in the desired position around the waist.
US10667561B2
An electronic cigarette or vaporizer may include a shell and a cartomizer receivable within a chamber within a portion of the shell. A basin may be included in the cartomizer to hold a vaporizable fluid, dry substance, or other vaporizable substance such as a wax. A heating element may be provided within the basin which may have a flexible non-conductive material and a flexible conductive material.
US10667560B2
Cartridges for use with a vaporizer device are provided. In some implementations, a cartridge having a first end and a second end comprises a mouthpiece, a wick assembly comprising a heating element and a wicking material, a wick housing comprising a base having a hole and a first pair of mating members comprising first and second U-shaped members, a tank, and a tube connected with the hole. The tank includes an end wall proximate to the second end (having a vent) and a second pair of mating members, extending from the end wall towards the first end of the cartridge, comprising third and fourth U-shaped members. The first and second pair of mating members hold the wick assembly within the tank and define a chamber comprising at least part of the wick assembly and a reservoir configured to hold vaporizable material.
US10667558B2
The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.
US10667556B2
The present disclosure is a handheld apparatus that vaporizes plant-based or synthetic compounds, for the purpose of inhalation, or diffusion into an external environment. More specifically, the disclosure describes a handheld apparatus wherein a laser beam from an internal laser unit heats compounds, such as dried plant, tinctures, resins, or essential oils, to the compound's vaporization temperature for inhalation, or diffused as part of aromatherapy or other holistic therapeutic treatments.
US10667554B2
Smoking articles are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a smoking article includes a heat source configured to generate heat upon ignition thereof, a first substrate material having an aerosol precursor composition associated therewith and a first end being fixedly engaged with the heat source, and an aerosol delivery component having opposed first and second ends, the first end of the aerosol delivery component being engaged with the second end of the first substrate material. In some aspects, the aerosol delivery component includes a second substrate material having the aerosol precursor composition associated therewith and being disposed about the first end of the aerosol delivery component and a tobacco material disposed between the second substrate material and the mouthpiece, the aerosol precursor composition associated with the first and second substrate materials being configured to produce an aerosol in response to the heat generated by the ignited heat source.
US10667553B2
An apparatus and method for delivering an aerosol-forming composition and a separate functional composition for generating a functionalized aerosol vapor which emulates the organoleptic characteristics and properties of mainstream smoke experienced by smoking traditional tobacco-based smoking articles. The apparatus comprises an aerosol-forming liquid which is adapted to deliver aerosol-forming liquid to a heating device and a downstream chamber or zone containing an functional composition comprising one or more organoleptic components such as a taste, fragrance and/or nicotine delivery components. The method comprises generating an aerosol from an aerosol forming liquid and functionalizing the aerosol by subjecting the aerosol to a matrix for the purpose of transferring, delivering or imparting one or more organoleptic properties.
US10667550B2
The filter for cigarette product includes a mouthpiece end side-filter material and a front stage-filter material. The mouthpiece end side-filter material has a low air flow-resistance unit that is arranged in a part of a cross section from a front end surface to a rear end surface and having a relatively low air flow-resistance, and a high air flow-resistance unit that is arranged in the remainder of the cross section from the front end surface to the rear end surface and having a higher air flow-resistance than the low air flow-resistance unit. At least on the rear end surface of the mouthpiece end side-filter material, the low air flow-resistance unit is arranged only in one semicircular area, of two parts into which the cross section of the mouthpiece end side-filter material is divided.
US10667546B2
Co-products from juice extraction, in particular for use in beverage and food products to enhance nutrition and sensory attributes of the products, are provided. The co-product has a number average particle size of between 1 and 2000 microns, a total polyphenol content of at least 2500 parts per million, a moisture content of between 70% and 85% by weight, and a combined peel and seed content between 0.01% and 20% by weight.
US10667536B2
The present invention relates to beverage products. In particular, the invention is concerned with a protein system induced by controlled aggregation of milk proteins which imparts outstanding sensory attributes on beverage product, in particular when containing low fat and/or low sugar. A method of producing such beverage and the products obtainable from the method are also part of the present invention.
US10667535B2
Methods for inhibiting mold growth and for inhibiting mold growth on jack-o'-lanterns are presented herein. Applying a pepper based coating to exposed surfaces can reduce and/or hinder mold growth. This concept may advantageously find use in preserving jack-o'-lanterns. In general this idea may be applied to preserving foods and to inhibiting mold growth on surfaces of objects.
US10667533B2
A glove for facilitating grasping a fish while scaling, gutting, cleaning, and cutting the fish. The glove has four elongated finger portions and an elongated thumb portion extending from a palm region. A plurality of fish scaling blades is disposed on several outer surface of the glove. The glove is typically formed from a material typically having a roughened texture and is impervious to the fish cleaning by-products such as fish entrails, fish scales, and the like. An opening allows access of a hand of a wearer to a hollow interior portion and to fingers and the thumb. An optional flashlight and/or sharpening stone may be attached to the glove.
US10667532B2
A chicken wing cutter is provides a safe and sanitary way to cut chicken wings and fry them. The chicken wings cutter is a device that holds chicken wings in place and cut them without having to use a knife. It provides safety measure to cut chicken wings without the use of knives or machinery having to hold and touch the chicken. This will avoid contamination or carrying of such bacteria caused while handling poultry and avoid spills from frying. The device allows you to place the chicken in the cradles. Once secure in the cradles, the chicken cutter cut the chicken in precise pieces in preparation for cooking chicken wings in a fryer. The device has blades within the lid that retracts and closed and oval locked is secure the chicken is ready to cut then after placed on cradle for frying.
US10667525B2
The present disclosure includes proteins toxic to Zebra mussels, its method of production, and uses thereof. The protein was isolated from whole cell broth of Pseudomonas protegens CL145A via anion exchange chromatographic fractionation. The protein was found to be a secondary metabolite with highest expression at the fermentative production harvest stage.
US10667523B2
Materials and methods for improving plant traits and for providing plant fitness benefits are provided. In some embodiments, the materials, and methods employing the same, can comprise endophytes.
US10667518B2
Compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US10667515B2
(S)-5-ethynyl-anabasine and derivatives thereof; composition comprising same and a carrier; methods of treating an animal; method of protecting a plant from a pest; and methods of making compound and derivatives.
US10667514B2
Techniques regarding amine monomers that can form ionene compositions with antimicrobial functionality are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a monomer, which can comprise a molecular backbone. The molecular backbone can comprise a norspermidine structure. The norspermidine structure can comprise a tertiary amino group. Also, the tertiary amino group can comprise a functional group, and an amino group of the norspermidine structure can be capable of being ionized.
US10667512B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising terpenes and hollow glucan particles or cell wall particles and methods for preparing such compositions. The compositions increase terpene stability and activity and provide a suitable carrier for the terpenes. The invention also relates to methods of using such compositions in the medical, veterinary and agricultural fields.
US10667506B2
An insect trap assembly for luring and trapping insects includes a tube that has an upper edge and a lower edge. The tube comprises a translucent material. An adhesive layer is positioned on an outer surface of the tube. The adhesive layer secures insects to the tube when the insects engage the adhesive layer. An illuminating member is mounted to the tube. The illuminating member illuminates the tube when the light emitter is turned on. The illuminating member is positioned in the tube.
US10667498B2
A method of constructing an aviary structure is provided. The method includes steps of forming a foundation and coupling an internal support structure to the foundation. The internal support structure is coupled to the foundation at least in part by coupling a plurality of aviary cages to the foundation, coupling a plurality of peripheral columns to the foundation, and coupling the aviary cages with the peripheral columns using bracing. The method also includes steps of coupling at least one side wall to the peripheral columns, coupling the roof assembly to vertical support members of the aviary cages, and coupling said external paneling to the side wall and the roof assembly.
US10667496B2
A bovine monitoring system may include a rumination sensor, a motion sensor, a posture sensor. The rumination sensor may detect chewing by sensing jaw motion. The motion sensor may detect motion. The posture sensor may detect orientation of the bovine asset through detection of gravitational acceleration, detection of gyroscopic rotation, or a combination of gravitational acceleration and gyroscopic rotation. Using the recorded rumination, motion, and posture sensors, the bovine asset monitoring system may identify aberrations in the estrous cycle or physical or mental health of the bovine assets. A bovine monitoring system may include a thermal scanning device to detect localized heating of the vulva area of the bovine asset, which may be used to identify aberrations in the estrous cycle or physical or mental health of the bovine assets.
US10667492B1
A pet waste collector bag for coupling with two scraper arms for picking up the pet waste includes a bag body and a retaining arrangement coupled to the bag body for retaining the two scraper arms so as to scrape the pet waste into the bag body without needing the scraper arms to touch the pet waste and the hands of the pet owner will not have contact with the pet waste during the pet waste picking operation.
US10667485B2
The invention provides methods for producing seeds in watermelon. In one embodiment methods are provided comprising grafting of a seed parent onto a stress tolerant rootstock, pollinating the seed parent with pollen from a pollen donor, and cultivating the seed parent until seed is formed. In specific embodiments, triploid seeds produced by a method of the invention are rendered conspicuously distinguishable from tetraploid seeds, and thus readily selected manually or by an automated machine. Methods for increasing seed yield and/or quality are also provided.
US10667482B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVPB3195, pepper line SBR8T14-6225, and pepper line SBY8T15-6313. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPB3195, pepper line SBR8T14-6225, and pepper line SBY8T15-6313 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPB3195, pepper line SBR8T14-6225, and pepper line SBY8T15-6313 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US10667476B2
A sustained release irrigation apparatus for effective water management. The sustained release irrigation apparatus includes a reservoir, a support structure, an absorbent surface, a water permeable top layer and a top opening on the water permeable top layer for filling water in the reservoir. The support structure is positioned on the reservoir and designed to support a potted plant thereon. The absorbent surface is positioned on the support structure and includes an absorbent opening. The top opening positioned on the water permeable top layer receives water from a water source and fills water into the reservoir. The water collected in the reservoir flows upwards to the water permeable top layer and then reaches the soil inside a pot thereby making water available to the roots of the potted plant without any wastage.
US10667474B2
In an embodiment, computer processes are programmed to determine planting plans based on planting characteristics data received for an agricultural field and a plurality of management zone delineation options defined for the agricultural field. Each of the planting plans specifies different planting recommendations for the agricultural field. A first graphical representation of the planting plans, and an interactive object is generated and displayed on a computing device. The interactive object is configured to receive input specifying a relative importance ratio between the planting plans for determining a new planting plan for the agricultural field. A particular relative importance ratio is received via the interactive object, and is used to determine the new planting plan, which specifies new planting recommendations for the agricultural field. Information about the new planting plan is displayed on the computer device.
US10667473B2
An apparatus for growing plants in a grow room includes an enclosure having a window. The enclosure contains a grow lamp that is arranged to direct light downward through the widow toward the plants. A blower is coupled with the enclosure to drive a flow of air through the enclosure. A gantry apparatus supports the enclosure in the grow room for movement above the plants.
US10667469B2
A system for growing a plant (1) in an at least partly conditioned environment includes a cultivation base (11) for receiving a culture substrate (3) with a root system (4) of the plant therein. Root temperature control elements (12) are provided which are able and adapted to impose a predetermined root temperature on the root system, and lighting elements (20,21,22) which are able and adapted to expose leaves of the plant to actinic artificial light. Leaf heating elements are also provided, which are able and adapted to impose on the leaf of the plant a leaf temperature varying from an ambient temperature. In a method for growing the plant a carbon dioxide assimilation management of a leaf system of the plant is thus influenced, and a supply of actinic light, the root temperature and the carbon dioxide assimilation management are adapted to each other.
US10667461B2
A disc opener unit for an agricultural implement has a down pressure adjustment device that automatically adjusts the amount of down pressure applied on a furrowing disc based on strain measurements taken by a strain gauge or load cell. The strain gauge, which may be mounted to an arm that is used to set the position of a depth setting gauge wheel, provides feedback to a processor that in turn controls the amount of hydraulic fluid in a hydraulic cylinder to adjust the down force applied on the disc. The amount of down pressure is therefore adjusted in substantially real-time in response to changes in field conditions, which improves furrow depth consistency and reduces wear on the gauge wheel and its components.
US10667456B2
A computer-implemented method for recommending agricultural activities is implemented by an agricultural intelligence computer system in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of field definition data, retrieving a plurality of input data from a plurality of data networks, determining a field region based on the field definition data, identifying a subset of the plurality of input data associated with the field region, determining a plurality of field condition data based on the subset of the plurality of input data, identifying a plurality of field activity options, determining a recommendation score for each of the plurality of field activity options based at least in part on the plurality of field condition data, and providing a recommended field activity option from the plurality of field activity options based on the plurality of recommendation scores.
US10667453B2
An agricultural motor vehicle able to connect to a variety of agricultural implements, and comprising a structural set having four parts: a lower chassis, an intermediate structure, a front complementary structure, and a rear complementary structure. The set is supported over a set of front traction wheels and a set of smaller rear wheels and also houses a vibrating sieve, above which is located a beating cylinder, the front edge of which connects to a concentrating guiding roller and a hinged inlet nozzle, as well as a cockpit and a grain dumper located over the set. Preceding the grain dumper is a clean grain collection gutter, a motor power set, a suction cleaning set, a clean grain elevator and lastly, a retractable side belt, whose lower edge is hinged at its midpoint and located on the upper edge of the intermediate structure.
US10674649B2
A fiber composite component with integrated active electromagnetic shielding includes a fiber composite layer having reinforcing fibers, and an electric conductor, which extends on the fiber composite layer along the fiber composite layer and produces an electromagnetic field during operation, wherein a proportion of the reinforcing fibers is designed as conduction fibers, which are arranged to follow the electric conductor within the fiber composite layer and are designed to produce an opposing electromagnetic field during operation which attenuates the electromagnetic field of the electric conductor.
US10674648B2
Provided is a high-frequency module capable of improving a shielding performance for a specific component. In a high-frequency module 1a, a component 3c that is mounted on a top surface 20a of a multilayer wiring board 2 is surrounded by a shield film 6 coating a surface of a sealing-resin layer 4, a plurality of metallic pins 5a arranged in the sealing-resin layer 4 so as to surround the component 3c, an outer electrode 8c formed on a bottom surface 20b of the multilayer wiring board 2 so as to be located at a position that overlaps with the component 3c when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the top surface 20a of the multilayer wiring board 2, and a plurality of connection conductors (via conductors 10b and pad electrodes 11) connecting the metallic pins 5a and the outer electrode 8c to one another.
US10674644B1
The electromagnetic shielding of an enclosable building structure is provided by applying a shielded covering to overlay optical openings in the building structure. The shielded covering comprises a metal-coated woven substrate and a shielding coupling. The metal-coated woven substrate has a woven substrate and a metal coating. The woven substrate may be organic and comprise threads of intermingled fibers such as silk fibers. The metal-coated woven substrate may also have a protection feature such as transparent resin, of barriers of glass or transparent polymeric material. The shielded coupling connects the shielded covering to other shielding components of a shielded building structure to preserve shielding continuity over the interface between shielding components.
US10674642B2
According to one embodiment, an electrical equipment housing includes a first storage room, an air conditioner, a second storage room, a temperature sensor, and a heater. The first storage room contains a power converter converting electrical power. The air conditioner adjusts a temperature inside the first storage room. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit. The indoor unit is provided inside the first storage room. The outdoor unit is provided outside the first storage room. The second storage room contains the outdoor unit. The temperature sensor senses a temperature inside the second storage room. The heater heats inside the second storage room when the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor is a lower limit or less.
US10674634B2
An electronic equipment enclosure includes a frame structure and a customizable side air dam kit. The frame structure includes a front frame, a rear frame, front-to-back frame members connecting corners of the front and rear frames together, reinforced bracket structures located near ends of the cross members, and extruded horizontal mounting rails parallel to, but inward from, the front-to-back frame members. The ends of the horizontal mounting rails are connected to the reinforced bracket structures. Panels are installed in longitudinal slots in the front-to-back frame members and horizontal mounting rails, each of which is extruded. The customizable side air dam kit includes a framework of horizontal and vertical frame pieces, adapted to connect to the frame structure, and a customizable air dam panel supported by the framework. A plurality of the frame pieces are provided to an installer for use in constructing the framework to fit the specific frame structure.
US10674633B2
A plug assembly includes a lower cover, an upper cover mounted on the lower cover, and a circuit board. The upper cover is equipped with a heat-conducting element. The circuit board is mounted between the upper cover and the lower cover. The circuit board has two first contact portions contacting with the lower cover and the upper cover, and a plurality of second contact portions. The circuit board is equipped with a chip. The chip is mounted on and covers the plurality of the second contact portions. The chip contacts with the heat-conducting element. The circuit board opens at least one perforation. At least one of the lower cover and the upper cover protrudes towards the circuit board to form at least one fastening portion passing through the at least one perforation and contacting with the at least one of the upper cover and the lower cover.
US10674625B1
A rack sideplane for interconnecting devices is disclosed. In an embodiment, the system includes a vertical connection interface sideplane and a mounting adapter. The sideplane is configured to be removably attached to the mounting adapter. The sideplane is configured to route one or more connections between devices mounted on a network rack via a protected channel in between the vertical connection interface sideplane and the mounting adapter.
US10674624B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained in the housing, a carrier associated with an electronic package therein to be loaded into the housing, a load plate pivotally mounted by one end of the housing for downwardly abutting against the electronic package for assuring mechanical and electrical connection between the electronic package and the contacts, and a dust cover detachably attached to the carrier during shipping while being removed from the carrier when the electronic package is loaded unto the housing and downwardly pressed by the load plate in a later time.
US10674621B1
A common carrier for different device cards for installation in a server is disclosed. The common carrier has a base module that includes side walls and a bottom panel. The bottom panel has a plurality of registration features, each of the registration features corresponding to one of a plurality of different device cards. A top cover includes side walls that is assembled with the base module. A device card of the plurality of different device cards is positioned between the base module and the top cover by at least one of the registration features.
US10674617B2
A carrier apparatus is adapted to carry a flexible substrate. The carrier apparatus includes two carrier plates, two adhesive layers, and two supporting units. The carrier plates have a gap with respect to each other, and each of the carrier plates has a first region and a second region, wherein the second regions of the carrier plates are adjacent to each other and are located between the first regions. The adhesive layers are respectively disposed in the first regions of the carrier plates. The supporting units are respectively disposed in the second regions of the carrier plates and are coplanar with the adhesive layers, wherein the flexible substrate is fixed on the carrier plates through the adhesive layers, and the supporting units are detachably attached to a bending zone of the flexible substrate by attractive force. A display including the carrier apparatus and a flexible display panel is provided.
US10674616B2
Disclosed is a display device which is capable of being selectively placed in a desk-mounted manner or a wall-mounted manner so that it has a good utility. The display device includes: a display screen on which a first mounting member and a second mounting member are provided; and a mounting base on which a wall-mounted member is provided. The display screen may be supported by the mounting base in a horizontal plane when the mounting base is connected to the first mounting member on the display screen via a first connecting member, and the display screen may be supported by the mounting base in a wall plane with its wall-mounted member being connected to the wall when the mounting base is connected to the second mounting member on the display screen via a second connecting member.
US10674615B2
A method for manufacturing a wiring board includes preparing a core substrate having first and second surfaces, forming a first build-up structure including interlayer insulating layers and conductor layers on the first surface of the substrate, and forming a second build-up structure including interlayer insulating layers and one or more conductor layers on the second surface of the substrate. The forming of the first structure includes laminating the insulating layers and metal layers on first surface side of the substrate and forming the conductor layers from all of the metal layers on the first surface side, and the forming of the second structure includes laminating the insulating layers and metal layers on second surface side of the substrate, forming the one or more conductor layers from one or more of the metal layers on the second surface side, and entirely removing the other metal layers on the second surface side.
US10674607B2
An electronic device including an interposer is provided. The electronic device includes a first circuit board having a first connection terminal formed thereon, an application processor (AP) connected to the first connection terminal and deployed on the first circuit board, an interposer having a via formed therein and having a first surface attached to the first circuit board, the interposer at least partly surrounding at least a partial region of the first circuit board and a first end portion of the via being electrically connected to the first connection terminal, a second circuit board having a second connection terminal formed thereon and attached to a second surface of the interposer in an opposite direction to the first surface, the second connection terminal being electrically connected to a second end portion of the via and the second circuit board forming an inner space together with the first circuit board and the interposer, a communication processor (CP) connected to the second connection terminal and deployed on the second circuit board, and an antenna electrically connected to the CP.
US10674606B2
A display panel used for coupling to another display panel in a side by side manner is disclosed, which includes: a first substrate, including a first hole, a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a first conductive layer disposed on the first surface of the first substrate; a first circuit layer disposed on the second surface of the first substrate; a first connecting element disposed in the first hole and connecting the first conductive layer and the first circuit layer; and a first sealing layer disposed on the first conductive layer, wherein the first hole at least partially overlaps the first sealing layer. In addition, a display device comprising two display panels disposed adjacent to each other is also disclosed.
US10674605B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate including a display region configured to display an image, and a pad region positioned around the display region; and a first pad unit positioned on the pad region, wherein the first pad unit includes a first terminal region including a plurality of first pad terminals arranged in a first pattern, and a second terminal region including a plurality of second pad terminals arranged in a second pattern different from the first pattern.
US10674594B2
A method for generating atmospheric pressure cold plasma inside a hand-held unit discharges cold plasma with simultaneously different rf wavelengths and their harmonics. The unit includes an rf tuning network that is powered by a low-voltage power supply connected to a series of high-voltage coils and capacitors. The rf energy signal is transferred to a primary containment chamber and dispersed through an electrode plate network of various sizes and thicknesses to create multiple frequencies. Helium gas is introduced into the first primary containment chamber, where electron separation is initiated. The energized gas flows into a secondary magnetic compression chamber, where a balanced frequency network grid with capacitance creates the final electron separation, which is inverted magnetically and exits through an orifice with a nozzle. The cold plasma thus generated has been shown to be capable of accelerating a healing process in flesh wounds on animal laboratory specimens.
US10674592B2
Provided is a plasma generation apparatus including: a housing in which a window is defined at one side in a first direction; a stick type plasma source provided in the housing to generate plasma toward the window; and a driving unit coupled to the plasma source to allow one end of the plasma source to perform a reciprocating movement in a second direction that is a longitudinal direction of the window.
US10674586B1
The present invention discloses a universal LED tube including a metal pin, an automatic dividing frequency network, a high-frequency driver, a low-frequency driver, a isolation circuit and a LED lighting set. The universal LED tube has the advantages of strong universality and high level of safety.
US10674585B1
A driver circuit for lighting applications that includes a power input circuit for receiving power; a light emitting diode (LED) output current circuit for interfacing with a light source; and a light emitting diode (LED) power supply circuit for controlling current to the light emitting diode (LED) output current circuit. A controller circuit is present in the circuit for signaling the light emitting power supply (LED) to control current to the light emitting diode (LED) output current circuit. The controller is reset by removing power to the controller. A smoothing capacitor is present for stabilizing at least an output voltage. The circuit further includes a current rectifying circuit that prohibits back current traveling from the smoothing capacitor to the controller circuit when the AC power is off.
US10674578B1
A circuit includes: a communication interface configured to receive data; a plurality of output terminals; a bank of input registers coupled to the communication interface; a bank of buffer registers; a bank of output registers; a signal generator configured to generate a plurality of output signals based on respective registers of the bank of output registers at respective output terminals; and a conversion stage configured to: when data is received by the bank of input registers from the communication interface, sequentially convert content of the input registers of the bank of input registers and store the converted content into corresponding buffer registers of the bank of buffer registers based on a conversion function, and when the conversion stage finishes storing the converted content into the buffer registers, simultaneously copy content from the buffer registers into corresponding output registers of the bank of output registers.
US10674572B2
A display device and/or an electronic device including the same, according to various embodiments of the present invention, may comprise: a window member; an optical adhesive layer applied on an inner surface of the window member; a display panel bonded on the inner surface of the window member with the optical adhesive layer interposed therebetween; a bonding region which is disposed at at least one edge of the display panel such that a portion of the display panel extends beyond the optical adhesive layer to directly face the window member; a first space, formed between the window member and the bonding region, at least corresponding to the thickness of the optical adhesive layer; and a sealing member at least partially filled in the first space. The electronic device as above may vary according to embodiments.
US10674568B2
Provided are a heating unit, an imaging unit that captures an image of an interior of a heating chamber, a setting unit that sets heating control details, and a storage that registers the captured image and the set heating control details in association with each other. Further provided area plural-article determination unit that determines whether a plurality of types of foods are present, a similarity determination unit that determines a degree of similarity of a plurality of images, a control detail identification unit that identifies heating control details corresponding to a food included in a captured image in accordance with a determination result obtained by the similarity determination unit, and a controller. The controller presents heating control details indicating each food on a display unit in accordance with a number of the foods. This configuration can provide a heating cooker capable of facilitating heating control setting.
US10674566B2
Provided is a planar heater in which a carbon wire heat generator is housed in along quartz glass housing portion, and the planar heater suppresses disconnection of the carbon wire heat generator by limiting a contact region between the carbon wire heat generator and the long housing portion, and capable of efficient radiation heating. In the planar heater, the plurality of long housing portions is disposed on the same plane, and heat is generated by energizing the carbon wire heat generator, each of the plurality of long housing portions is formed in a polygonal circular arc shape in which a plurality of linear portions is connected at a bent portion, respectively, and the plurality of long housing portions is disposed along the circumferences of a plurality of concentric circles.
US10674565B2
A delivery node alternately connects to a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal. When a first packet with a virtual IP address of the second wireless terminal as a destination IP address is output from a first application to a virtual network interface, the first wireless terminal encapsulates the first packet with the use of an encapsulation header and transmits to the delivery node. The delivery node encapsulates the first packet obtained by decapsulating the received encapsulation packet again, and transmits to the second wireless terminal. The second wireless terminal transmits the first packet obtained by decapsulating the received encapsulation packet to a second application through a virtual network interface.
US10674560B2
A method and system that support re-establishing a dropped call or communication is disclosed. A terminal may publish its parameters to other terminals through in-band or out-of-band signaling. Token values may then be determined by a weighted sum of parameters, where the terminal having the largest weighted sum possesses the token. If the call or communication drops, the terminal possessing the token then initiates communication to the other terminals. In addition, a plurality of tokens may be used when there are more than two terminals in a call. The terminals may be partitioned into groups, where one of the terminals in each group possesses a token.
US10674557B2
A wireless technology device and method for securely communicating a status of a wireless technology device to a non-paired device, includes detecting a status changing event of the wireless technology device, locking the wireless technology device from an unauthorized pairing with another device, in response to detecting the status changing event, sending an encrypted data regarding the status changing event to at least one non-paired device, which is received in a buffer of the at least one non-paired device, wherein, in response to receiving the encrypted data, the at least one non-paired device automatically communicates the encrypted data to a centralized computing network for decrypting the encrypted data, and unlocking the wireless technology device when an authorized pairing attempt is successful.
US10674551B2
There is provided a communication system that performs a service based on ProSe under management of a communication operator. A process based on a procedure such as an announcement request, a monitoring request, or match reporting for discovering a proximity terminal is performed based on authentication of a server device operated by the communication operator. The communication operator includes means for requesting that the process based on the procedure such as the announcement request, the monitoring request, or the match reporting is stopped based on a policy of the communication operator.
US10674537B2
A method of accessing a channel in a wireless LAN system is disclosed. A method of accessing a channel in a terminal includes receiving TIM information included in a beacon transmitted by an access point, determining a channel access slot allocated to the terminal based on the TIM information, transmitting a data transmission request to the access point in the channel access slot, and receiving data transmission slot allocation information corresponding to the data transmission request from the access point. Accordingly, a time slot can be prevented from unnecessarily wasting.
US10674533B2
The present invention discloses a data transmission method, apparatus, and system, and an access point. The method includes: transceiving data of a data portion in an uplink OFDMA PPDU scheduled by an access point AP on a corresponding allocated frequency resource unit RU, determining one or more fundamental channel units on which the allocated frequency resource unit RU is located, and transceiving at least some fields in a common signaling portion in the uplink OFDMA PPDU on the determined one or more fundamental channels. In this way, one or more fundamental channels for transceiving at least some fields in a common signaling portion in an uplink OFDMA PPDU are determinate, and another user can transceive data on another idle fundamental channel, thereby improving channel utilization. In addition, multiple users can simultaneously transceive data on multiple fundamental channels, thereby improving a service transmission rate.
US10674530B2
Provided is a method for transmitting, by a terminal, a Buffer Status Report (BSR). The method includes: monitoring whether a regular BSR or a periodic BSR is triggered; determining that a BSR format is a long BSR when there is data available for uplink transmission in one or more Logical Channel Groups (LCGs); and transmitting, to a base station, a BSR for all LCGs having the data available for uplink transmission, which is configured in the long BSR format, when the regular BSR or the periodic BSR is triggered, and an apparatus thereof.
US10674527B2
Method performed by a first network node (111) for handling scheduling of wireless devices. The first network node (111) obtains information about a first type of time resource used by HD-FDD wireless devices (151). The first network node (111) also obtains information about a second type of time resource not used by the HD-FDD wireless devices (151) due to a transition at the HD-FDD wireless devices (151) between UL and DL. The first network node (111) schedules a first wireless device out of FD-FDD wireless devices (152) during the second type of time resource, based on the obtained information about the second type. The first network node (111) decides whether or not to schedule a second wireless device out of the FD-FDD wireless devices (152) during the first type of time resource, based on the obtained information about the first type, and further based on whether first conditions are met.
US10674526B2
Technology for a signal booster is disclosed. The signal booster can identify a current location of the signal booster. The signal booster can determine one or more bands in which signals are permitted to be boosted by the signal booster based on the current location of the signal booster. The signal booster can boost signals in the one or more bands that are permitted to be boosted by the signal booster for the current location of the signal booster.
US10674518B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for optimizing transmission power levels for wireless communications. Dynamic uplink power control of wireless device transmissions may be controlled. Conditions in a source cell and neighboring cells may be monitored and uplink transmission power levels may be dynamically adjusted based on those conditions. Transmission power levels may be increased or decreased gradually, and conditions of source cell and neighboring cells may be monitored to determine optimized power levels.
US10674517B2
The disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate after a 4G communication system, such as LTE. A method for a terminal is provided. The method includes receiving bandwidth information from a base station, generating resource block (RB) index mapping information based on the bandwidth information and subcarrier interval information, receiving RB indexing information indicating resource information from the base station, and identifying the location of the resource information based on the RB indexing information, the subcarrier interval of the resource information, and the RB index mapping information, and a terminal performing the method. Furthermore, the disclosure may provide a method for a base station to operate with the terminal and a base station operating with the terminal.
US10674508B2
A notification regarding a transition of a User Equipment (UE) from a standby operating mode to an active operating mode is exchanged between a UE and a network element in a communication network. The notification could be an uplink notification that is transmitted by the UE to the network element in response to an operating mode transition criterion for the UE being met at the UE, or a downlink notification that is transmitted by the network element to the UE in response to an operating mode transition criterion for the UE being met at the network element. The UE transitions from the standby operating mode to the active operating mode in response to the operating mode transition criterion being satisfied. The transmitter of the notification, which could be the UE or the network element, could also perform grant-free transmission of data without first receiving a response to the notification.
US10674502B2
A wireless communication terminal capable of increasing the utilization efficiency of ACK/NACK resources and suppressing unnecessary PUSCH band reduction while avoiding ACK/NACK collision. The wireless communication terminal has a configuration provided with: a reception unit for receiving a control signal including ARI via an E-PDCCH set from among one or a plurality of E-PDCCH sets; a control unit for determining an offset value indicated by the ARI on the basis of whether or not a resource region that may be taken by a dynamic ACK/NACK resource corresponding to the E-PDCCH set that has received the control signal and a resource region that may be taken by a dynamic ACK/NACK resource corresponding to another E-PDCCH set overlap, and imparting an offset to the ACK/NACK resource according to the value of the ARI; and a transmission unit for transmitting the ACK/NACK signal using the determined ACK/NACK resource.
US10674498B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide various procedures and methods for accelerated secondary cell (SCell) activation when carrier aggregation (CA) is configured. A scheduling entity receives, from a network entity, an indication of anticipated data for a user equipment (UE) in an idle mode. The scheduling entity determines supplemental wake-up information based on the carrier aggregation capability of the PCell. The scheduling entity transmits a wake-up message to the UE. The wake up message is configured to cause the UE to wake up in a CA configuration using the PCell and one or more SCells, based on the supplemental wakeup information.
US10674496B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a control channel resource transmission method including: obtaining, by a user equipment, a configuration parameter in a candidate control channel set according to a preset protocol and/or higher-layer signaling sent by a base station, where the higher-layer signaling is used to notify the configuration parameter; determining an antenna port according to the obtained configuration parameter; receiving, by using the antenna port, a control channel or a control channel element sent by the base station; and determining, by the base station, the antenna port according to the same configuration parameter as that of the user equipment, and sending, by using the antenna port, the control channel or the control channel element to the user equipment. The embodiments of the present invention are applicable to control channel resource transmission.
US10674490B2
A method for informing a relay node when to receive data. The method includes the relay node being informed of a fixed point in a subframe of data when an access node will begin transmitting relevant data over a physical downlink shared channel. The method further includes the relay node beginning to receive data at approximately the fixed point.
US10674487B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting an uplink control channel of a terminal in a wireless communication system that supports a use change of radio resources. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving offset information for a second physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource region associated with a second type subframe and a third type subframe, the second PUCCH resource region being set on the basis of a first PUCCH resource region for a first type subframe; and transmitting, to a base station, an acknowledgement/negative-ACK (ACK/NACK) for at least one downlink subframe, using the second PUCCH resource region designated according to the offset information.
US10674484B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing uplink transmission in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method includes the UE monitors a plurality of occasions for a DL control channel within a DL data region within one subframe, wherein a first control channel in a first occasion corresponds to a first UL data channel with a first duration, and wherein a second control channel in a second occasion corresponds to a second UL data channel with a second duration.
US10674468B2
A device performs registering with a first access network to generate a first registration, detecting a triggering event, and registering with a second access network to generate a second registration while maintaining the first registration with the first access network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10674462B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for facilitating synchronization between a base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system. The UE receives a synchronization signal originated by the BS. The synchronization signal is encoded with a selected cyclically permutable (CP) codeword. Encoding of the synchronization signal is facilitated by a repetitive cyclically permutable (RCP) codeword derivable from the selected CP codeword. The RCP codeword has a plurality of codeword elements each associated with a value, the value of at least one codeword element in the RCP codeword being repeated in another codeword element position in the RCP codeword. And the synchronization signal is decoded in accordance with repetitive structure of the RCP codeword.
US10674461B2
A method for transmitting a synchronization signal block by a base station in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes: mapping a plurality of synchronization signal blocks onto a plurality of symbols within a predetermined time unit; and transmitting, to a terminal, the plurality of synchronization signal blocks mapped onto the plurality of symbols, wherein at least one synchronization signal block is mapped onto each one-half time unit which has half the length of the predetermined time unit.
US10674454B2
The disclosure provides for a compressed mode transmission gap in wireless communications. A user equipment (UE) may receiving a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) having a slot-format and a spreading factor during a first compression interval. The downlink DPCH may not include a compressed-mode transmission gap during the first compression interval. The UE may receive the downlink DPCH having the same slot-format and the same spreading factor during a second compression interval. The UE may determine that the downlink DPCH includes a compressed-mode transmission gap during the second compression interval. A set of slots of the downlink DPCH during the transmission gap may be punctured. The UE may decode the downlink DPCH for the second compression interval based on a set of remaining slots received during the second compression interval. In an aspect, the UE may estimate a SIR based on a TPC command in a last slot of the transmission gap.
US10674453B2
Techniques for performing path loss (PL) compensation in coordinated multipoint (CoMP) systems are provided. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes selecting, from a plurality of transmission points involved in uplink (UL) coordinated multipoint (CoMP) operations with the UE, a transmission point to associate with for path loss (PL) compensation, and adjusting power of one or more transmissions based on path loss measured based on the selected transmission point.
US10674451B2
In one example, a wearable device includes one or more processors, a plurality of communication components, one or more motion sensors configured to detect motion of the wearable device and generate, based on the detected motion, motion data, and a storage device configured to store at least one module. The at least one module may be operable by the one or more processors to: responsive to determining that the wearable device is not connected to the computing device using the first communication technology, determine, based on the motion data, whether the wearable device is currently being worn, and responsive to determining that the wearable device is currently being worn, establish the wireless connection to the computing device using the second communication component.
US10674450B2
A method for operating a wake-up radio (WUR) receiver of a receiving device includes receiving, from a transmitting device, information conveying a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation, wherein the first mode of operation is used for operating the WUR receiver of the receiving device when the transmitting device does not transmit any WUR beacons and the second mode of operation is used for operating the WUR receiver of the receiving device when the transmitting device transmits WUR beacons periodically, and determining, by the receiving device, that the transmitting device does not transmit any WUR beacons, and based thereon, operating, by the receiving device, the WUR receiver of the receiving device in accordance with the first mode of operation.
US10674447B2
There are provided an information transmitter and an apparatus including the same. The information transmitter includes a signal generator configured to output an information signal including pulses changed from a first state to a second state or a third state and subsequently changed from the second state or the third state to the first state. A time period in which some of the pulses are changed from the first state to the second state or the third state may be shorter than a time period in which some of the pulses are changed from the second state or the third state to the first state. The information transmitter also includes a transmitting coil configured to receive the information signal and generate a magnetic field based on the information signal.
US10674446B1
Embodiments for a module for scheduling sleep/wake intervals for a first one or more communication devices are disclosed. The module includes a computer readable medium having instructions thereon. The instructions, when executed by one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to obtain a coverage prediction for the first one or more communication devices. The coverage prediction indicates intervals during which a second one or more communication devices are predicted to be within range of the first one or more communication devices. The instructions also cause the one or more processing devices to generate sleep intervals and wake intervals for the first one or more communication devices based on the coverage predictions.
US10674437B2
Methods and apparatuses disclosed herein involve network-side operations that include adjusting scheduling or reporting times of a wireless device, to accommodate acquisition of neighbor-cell System Information, SI, by the device while operating under conditions of enhanced coverage with respect to the neighbor cell. Further disclosed are network-side operations that include determining the repetition level to be used for transmitting SI, for providing enhanced coverage to one or more wireless devices. Additionally, disclosed device-side operations include configuring the autonomous gaps used in a SI acquisition procedure, in dependence on the number of repetitions determined to be needed for acquiring the SI of a neighbor cell, while the device is operating under enhanced coverage with respect to the neighbor cell.
US10674417B2
A method for a hitless handover in a hitless handover of communications in a Radio Frequency (RF) network is disclosed. The method including: providing a terminal comprising a first demodulator, a second demodulator and a phased array antenna; receiving communications via a first outroute signal in a first coverage area with the phased array antenna over a first outroute and processed by the first demodulator; transmitting a first inroute signal in the first coverage area with the phased array antenna over a first inroute; determining that the first outroute is setting when the terminal is imminently leaving the first coverage area and that a second outroute is rising when the terminal is entering a second coverage area; acquiring a second outroute signal in a second coverage area with the phased array antenna over the second outroute and processed by the second demodulator; sending a request to receive the communications over the second outroute, while the terminal is disposed in an overlap of the first coverage area and the second coverage area; establishing communications via the second outroute; and handing over communications from the first outroute to the second outroute while the terminal is disposed in the overlap, where the communications are received by the terminal without interruption, without a pause and without replication over the first outroute and the second outroute.
US10674408B2
A method of allocating bandwidth to co-existence groups of a connected set in a spectrum access system (SAS) is provided. The method comprises: receiving data about co-existence groups in the connected set of the SAS, where such data includes a number of the co-existence groups, G, in the connected set, and a number of radios, ni, in each co-existence group; determining an allocated bandwidth for each of the G co-existence group by subtracting a splitting disincentive bandwidth for a co-existence group from a co-existence incentive bandwidth for the co-existence group; and sending the determined allocated bandwidths for the co-existence groups.
US10674404B2
A network node for a wireless communication system is provided. The first network node comprises a processor configured to obtain channel quality information for a user device, obtain a load information for first radio access resources, determine a first association of the first radio access resources to the user device based on the channel quality information and the load information, the first association being valid during a first validity time period, compute first user data rates for the first radio access resources based on the channel quality information, determine a utilization of the first radio access resources based on the first association and the first user data rates. A corresponding method, a wireless communication system, a computer program, and a computer program product are also provided.
US10674396B2
Various solutions for handling compression error with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may transmit a compressed protocol data unit (PDU) to a network node. The apparatus may receive a negative acknowledgement (NACK) message from the network node. The apparatus may restore a compressed service data unit (SDU) to original data. The apparatus may transmit the original data with an uncompressed format to the network node.
US10674392B2
A reception unit 11 receives transmitted packets. A first available band calculation unit 12 and a second available band calculation unit 13 calculate an available band for a transmission source of the packets. A calculation means determination unit 14 determines, on the basis of the reception states of the packets transmitted at predetermined time intervals in the reception unit 11, whether the first available band calculation unit 12 calculates the available band or the second available band calculation unit 13 calculates the available band. The first available band calculation unit 12 calculates the available band on the basis of a reception interval between the packets. The second available band calculation unit 13 calculates the available band on the basis of a time required for the reception of the transmitted series of packets and the sizes of the series of the packets.
US10674387B2
Methods for monitoring quality metrics of a video session that uses traffic transmitted over a mobile video delivery network facility are disclosed. A method for monitoring quality of a video system that uses traffic transmitted over a mobile video delivery network facility may include monitoring the mobile video delivery network facility that handles at least a portion of the video traffic for the video session for information about the video traffic at a location of the mobile video delivery network facility and monitoring at least one user mobile device that plays the video delivered by the mobile video delivery network facility using a software development kit (SDK) that reports at least one media delivery quality metric.
US10674384B2
According to certain embodiments, a method (400) by an Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM) system (210) is provided for configuring a network node (115) to prioritize the collection of data. A configuration (250) for collecting performance management (PM data) is transmitted to the network node. The configuration (250) includes PM counters and priority information associated with at least one of the PM counters. Each PM counter is associated with a parameter to be measured by the network node (115). A report of data collected by the network node (115) is received. The report includes data collected based on the configuration transmitted by the OAM system (210) to the network node (115).
US10674370B2
A dual band LTE small cell base station communicates on both licensed bands and unlicensed bands. The small cell base station modifies the communication protocol utilized by the licensed band to enable communication over an unlicensed band. This modification involves replacing the physical (PHY) layer of the licensed band communication protocol with the PHY layer of a to-be-used protocol in an unlicensed band.
US10674365B1
A two-part security method and system is provided to prevent unauthorized access to a secured resource via a relay attack that uses at least one intermediary device to relay signaling from an authorized access device to the secured resource despite the access device being out-of-range of the secured resource. The first part involves detecting a relay attack by encrypting signaling between the access device and the secured resource, and by detecting when the signaling is modified as a result of an intermediary device inserting data or modifying the data of the signaling exchanged between the access device and the secured resource. The second part involves detecting a relay attack based on environmental data from the access device that identifies a feature of an environment in which the access device is located, and the environmental data mapping to a location that is not within a specified location of the secured resource.
US10674348B1
A traffic hub system comprising a roaming data module to send and receive data for a roaming wireless network for a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a service utilizing a high-speed data network, a home data module to send and receive data for a home wireless network for the mobile device, the home wireless network being a different network than the roaming wireless network, the home wireless network comprising a packet data network gateway. The traffic hub system in one embodiment provides a static policy-based HTTP redirection. The traffic hub system in one embodiment, provides a dynamic policy based redirection. The traffic hub system in on embodiment, provides a seamless captive portal access. The traffic hub system in one embodiment provides data-offloading.
US10674343B2
A communication apparatus includes a location information acquisition unit that acquires location information of a terminal, a reception unit that receives a call request transmitted by the terminal, a service identification unit that identifies a service of the request based on the location information of the terminal and a destination telephone number of the request, and a transmission unit that transmits a response to the terminal, when the service corresponding to the request cannot be provided.
US10674341B2
A communication device may include a first type of interface and a second type of interface. The communication device may execute the communication of object data with a mobile device using the second type of interface after executing a specific process for causing the communication device to shift to a communication-enabled state, in a case where it is determined that the communication device is not currently in the communication-enabled state. Also, the communication device may execute the communication of the object data with the mobile device using the second type of interface without executing the specific process, in a case where it is determined that the communication device is currently in the communication-enabled state.
US10674337B2
The provided are a method and device for processing one or more operations for a device peripheral. The method includes that: a transaction including the one or more operations for the device peripheral is acquired, wherein the transaction includes operation content of the one or more operations for the device peripheral and a preset control parameter of the one or more operations for the device peripheral; the one or more operations for the device peripheral are executed according to the operation content; and operation execution information of the one or more operations for the device peripheral is determined according to the preset control parameter. The present disclosure solves the problem in related art, thereby achieving the effect of processing the one or more operations for the device peripheral in time and effectively improving the transaction execution efficiency.
US10674336B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure receive a call from a device associated with a caller and determine whether the caller is eligible for biometric authentication via the device by sending, via a communications network, an eligibility determination request to an issuer of the device. In response to the caller being eligible for biometric authentication, a request to initiate a biometric authentication process on the device is sent to an issuer of the device, where biometric credentials are received by the device and an indication of whether the biometric credentials were verified is received from the issuer of the device.
US10674334B2
A vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication system, and method of communication in the V2X communication system is provided. The method includes: selecting, at a first V2X device, a control channel of a control channel resource pool; transmitting, on the selected control channel, sidelink control information (SCI) to a second V2X device; monitoring, at the first V2X device, an SCI acknowledgement (SCI-ACK) resource pool for an SCI-ACK indicator (SCI-ACK-IND) corresponding to the transmitted SCI; and in response to receiving a positive SCI-ACK-IND corresponding to the transmitted SCI, transmitting data to the second V2X device in a data resource pool according to the SCI.
US10674331B1
Technology for indoor location estimation of wireless stations is described. In one embodiment, a processing device identifies a plurality of wireless stations that support a signal round-trip-time measurement protocol. The processing device associates the plurality of wireless stations with one another to form a logical grouping of the plurality of wireless stations and provides an indication of the plurality of wireless stations in the logical grouping to each of the plurality of wireless stations. The processing device receives a first round-trip-time measurement value for a signal transmitted between a first wireless station and a second wireless station of the logical grouping and a second round-trip-time measurement value for a signal transmitted between the first wireless station and a third wireless station of the logical grouping. These round-trip-time measurement values indicate a distance between the wireless stations, respectively. The processing device determines, using the first distance and the second distance, a position of the first wireless station relative to the second wireless station and the third wireless station.
US10674328B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a plurality of devices, determining a relative location of each of the plurality of devices, and assigning visualization data to each of the plurality of devices, based on the relative location of each of the plurality of devices, wherein determining the relative location of each of the plurality of devices includes performing relative localization on each of the plurality of devices by performing a constrained nonlinear optimization in order to reconstruct relative locations of each of the plurality of devices, using distributed observations received from the plurality of devices in order to determine a co-located group of the devices.
US10674327B1
In order to enable a dynamic handshake procedure, a device may be configured with a list of handshake contributors. Contributors with connection handshake properties may be added to the contributor list. To perform handshake, the contributor list is processed to extract the connection handshake properties of each contributor to the handshake. Handlers for handling the connection handshake properties may also be dynamically added and invoked when a handshake is received.
US10674324B2
Methods, systems, and universal interface to perform operations comprising initiating, at a first communication system, a call to a second communication system over a 4-wire E&M interface of the first communication system by adjusting, at the first communication system, a state of an e-lead of the first communication system to a closed state; in response to the initiating, triggering, at an interface board, a solid state relay to switch signaling from the first communication system to the second communication system; and in response to the triggering, establishing the call with the second communication system over an auxiliary audio interface of the second communication system.
US10674317B2
Systems for muster include an entrance receiving device in a location adapted to receive a plurality of beacon broadcasts from one or more of a plurality of mobile beacons, each associated with a worker and broadcasting an identification ID of the worker, to create an on-site record of workers entering or exiting the location. The system includes a muster site receiving device at a muster site to record an identification ID from beacon broadcasts of workers at the muster site. The on-site record is compared to the recorded muster site IDs to determine if all workers have mustered. Alarms may be triggered if not.
US10674314B2
A mobile terminal position detection device detects an existence position of a mobile terminal by acquiring a signal strength of a radio wave from the mobile terminal received by each of a plurality of receivers. The mobile terminal position detection device requests one receiver to connect to the mobile terminal; acquire connection information; output the connection information to an unconnected receiver; acquire the signal strength of the radio wave from the mobile terminal; and detect the existence position of the mobile terminal based on the signal strength.
US10674306B2
A mobile computing device that provides location information through directional sound is described herein. The mobile computing device includes a location detection system that provides location signals corresponding to a user location and a destination location, such as a vehicle location or a vertex of a predefined travel route, to a spatial audio generation system to define a spatial audio signal based on a direction from the user location to the destination location. The spatial audio signal is provided to an audio device of the mobile computing device that outputs the spatial audio signal as directional sound having a locus at the destination location.
US10674305B2
The disclosed technology provides multi-dimensional audio output by providing a relative physical location of an audio transmitting device relative to an audio outputting device in a shared map of physical space shared between the audio transmitting device and the audio outputting device. An orientation of the audio outputting device relative to the audio transmitting device is determined and an audio signal received from the audio transmitting device via a communication network is processed using the determined orientation of the audio outputting device relative to the audio transmitting device and the relative physical location of the audio transmitting device to create an augmented audio signal. The augmented audio signal is output through at least one audio output on the audio outputting device in a manner indicating a relative physical direction of the audio transmitting device to the audio outputting device in the shared map of the physical space.
US10674303B2
Method and system for maintaining accuracy of voice recognition are described herein. The audio system reproducing sound using a loudspeaker array that is housed in a loudspeaker cabinet may selection from a number of sound rendering modes and changing the selected sound rendering mode based on the current playback volume set on the audio system. The sound rendering modes include at least one of: a number of free space modes and a number of complex modes. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US10674292B2
A hearing instrument and a method for operating a hearing instrument is provided. The hearing instrument and/or the method includes receiving and manipulating an audio signal at a signal processor to create a manipulated audio signal, providing a tinnitus relief sound having an operational level based on a present volume level from an audio signal, and generating an output signal based on the manipulated audio signal and the tinnitus relief sound.
US10674291B2
A hearing device includes a frame for insertion into a housing and for retaining hearing device components. The frame includes two frame parts being joined together or to be joined together, substantially along a partition plane and being mechanically interconnected or to be mechanically interconnected by a connecting clip. In a first variant, the connecting clip has two spaced apart and parallel pins engaging into corresponding recesses in the respective frame parts for holding the frame parts together by form-locking engagement transversely to the partition plane. In a second variant, each frame part has a pin engaging into a respective corresponding recess in the connecting clip for holding the frame parts together by form-locking engagement transversely to the partition plane. This permits the frame to be produced particularly efficiently. A connecting clip for a hearing device is also provided.
US10674276B2
The present disclosure provides a speaker assembly, including an upper cover and a lower cover forming an accommodation space, and a speaker fixed in the accommodation space. The upper cover includes a side wall, and the speaker divides the accommodation space into a front chamber and a rear chamber. The speaker assembly further includes an insertion plate located in the rear chamber. The speaker assembly includes a first limit structure, and one end of the insertion plate is inserted in the first limit structure for forming a sound absorbing chamber filled with sound absorbing material. The insertion plate includes a first part from the first limit structure and a second part. The speaker assembly is equipped with an insertion plate to enlarge the area of the sound absorption channel and further to improve the performance of the speaker assembly.
US10674267B1
A method may include monitoring a sensor associated with a first location of an automobile seat, where the first location corresponds to a first transducer embedded within the automobile seat, and the automobile seat includes a second transducer at a second location within the automobile seat. The first and the second transducers may be configured to generate tactile feedback upon receiving an activating signal. The method may also include detecting an event triggering the activating signal to be sent to the first transducer, and based on a reading from the sensor indicating that an occupant of the automobile seat is not in contact with the first location, modifying the activating signal such that the first transducer primarily produces an audible sound rather than tactile feedback.
US10674263B1
An audio circuit includes an amplifier, a voltage sensor, a current sensor, and an excursion control circuit. The voltage sensor is coupled to an output of the amplifier. The current sensor is coupled to the output of the amplifier. The excursion control circuit is coupled to the amplifier, the voltage sensor, and the current sensor. The excursion control circuit includes back electro-magnetic force (EMF) measurement, a back-EMF model, and excursion protection. The back-EMF measurement is to measure back electro-magnetic force of a speaker based on voltage measurements received from the voltage sensor and current measurements received from the current sensor. The back-EMF model is updated based on measurements of the back-EMF and is converted to an excursion model. The excursion protection is to limit amplitude of audio signal provided to the amplifier based on the excursion model of the speaker and amplitude of an audio input signal.
US10674262B2
Apparatus for mixing at least two audio signals, at least one audio signal associated with at least one parameter, and at least one second audio signal further associated with at least one second parameter, wherein the at least one audio signal and the at least one second audio signal are associated with a sound scene and wherein the at least one audio signal represent spatial audio capture microphone channels and the at least one second audio signal represents an external audio channel separate from the spatial audio capture microphone channels, the apparatus comprising: a processor configured to generate a combined parameter output based on the at least one second parameter and the at least one parameter; and a mixer configured to generate a combined audio signal with a same number or fewer number of channels as the at least one audio signal based on the at least one audio signal and the at least one second audio signal, wherein the combined audio signal is associated with the combined parameter.
US10674259B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include establishing and implementing a virtual microphone. The method may include receiving an input specifying a location for a virtual microphone that is configured to capture audio as if located in the specified location. The method may next include initializing physical microphones to begin capturing audio as if located at the specified location. The physical microphones may be electronically or physically oriented to listen from the specified location. The method may then include combining audio streams from the physical microphones to generate a combined audio signal that sounds as if recorded at the specified location. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10674257B1
A head-mounted wearable device incorporates a transducer into a nosepiece. Vibrations from the user's speech are transferred through the bridge of the nose and are detected by the transducer to produce an audio signal. In one implementation, a nose plate with a pair of attached nosepieces is mounted to a transducer, such as an accelerometer. The nose plate may be affixed to a front frame of the head-mounted wearable device using a motion limiter mechanism.
US10674254B1
A portable electronic device includes a housing that at least partially defines an internal volume. The portable electronic device further includes a cover secured to the housing and that is and capable of enclosing the internal volume. The cover having a cover opening capable of passing an audible sound provided by an audio module located within the internal volume. The audible sound passing from the audio module to the cover opening along an audible sound path. The portable electronic device further includes a bracket assembly positioned in the internal volume and having: (i) a bracket opening that is aligned with and between the audio module with the cover opening, and (ii) a fin element that spans the bracket opening, the fin element having at least a portion positioned within the audible sound path.
US10674241B2
Systems and methods of Ethernet path selection in a modular network element including one or more ingress line modules, a plurality of switch modules in a chassis, and one or more egress line modules, wherein the one or more ingress line modules and the one or more egress line modules are located separate from one another and connected to the chassis via cabling. The method includes distributing one or more Ethernet flows from the one or more ingress line modules to the one or more egress line modules via the plurality of switch modules; receiving fabric state information at the one or more ingress line modules from the core chassis out-of-band via the cabling; and, responsive to congestion on a path through the plurality of switch modules, selecting a new path by an ingress line module for an Ethernet flow.
US10674228B2
Audio data processor, having: a receiver interface for receiving encoded audio data and metadata related to the encoded audio data; a metadata parser for parsing the metadata to determine an audio data manipulation possibility; an interaction interface for receiving an interaction input and for generating, from the interaction input, interaction control data related to the audio data manipulation possibility; and a data stream generator for obtaining the interaction control data and the encoded audio data and the metadata and for generating an output data stream, the output data stream having the encoded audio data, at least a portion of the metadata, and the interaction control data.
US10674224B2
A method includes receiving, by a processor, metrics relating to a plurality of program channels. The plurality of program channels are distributed via at least one multicast stream. The method also includes modifying, by the processor, the at least one multicast stream. The modifying is based at least on the received metrics, and the modifying changes which programs are distributed via the at least one multicast stream. The method also includes transmitting at least one program channel via the modified at least one multicast stream.
US10674219B2
A content reproducing method and system for performing seamless playback of contents between devices is provided. The contents reproducing system includes a portable device which, when a short distance communication with a remote control which is configured to control an electronic device occurs during reproducing of contents, generates data required by the electronic device for reproducing the contents that are being reproduced, and which transmits the generated data to the remote control; the remote control which receives the data from the portable device and which transmits the received data to the electronic device, in conjunction with the occurrence of the short distance communication with the portable device; and the electronic device for receiving the contents from a contents provider and reproducing the contents.
US10674217B2
A device for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The device includes an input device with which a user selects from which position of the guidance is to be reproduced; and a player configured to, where a designated step corresponding to the position selected by the user from among the steps is a particular step, jump a playback progress to the position selected to play the guidance, the particular step being an initial step of steps having not yet been performed completely, and, where the designated step is not the particular step, jump the playback progress to a position of the particular step to play the guidance.
US10674211B2
A television set top box (STB) or similar receiver device uses information obtained from a wireless interface to automatically detect when the device has been moved to a different location. The device may initially obtain a list of wi-fi zones or in-range wireless devices that can be quantified or stored for later comparison. If the device later finds that the original zones/devices are no longer present or that substantial numbers of new zones/devices are present, then the device can recognize that it has been moved to a new location. The device may respond to the detected location change by disabling premium content, by reporting back to a security service, by simply recording the change in location, or by taking other actions as appropriate.
US10674210B2
Provided herein are novel systems and methods of digital content delivery designed to be easy, instant, and minimally disruptive for the user. The novel systems and methods of the invention can provide the device user with an instant and ephemeral snippet of entertaining media, in a metered presentation controlled by the user. The system is minimally disruptive in that the user can summon a video clip or other media content with a simple input, whereupon a clip is instantly played for the user. Upon reaching the end of the media presentation, the media player window self-closes and returns the user's device to the exact state it was in prior. In this way, a user can enjoy a short, entertaining pause without substantially interrupting their previous activity on the device.
US10674208B2
Methods and systems for automatically evaluating an audio description track of a media asset include initializing a rating of an audio description track of a media asset to a default value; receiving a first video frame and a second video frame of the media asset; detecting an object in the first video frame and the second video frame; determining that a difference in a characteristic of the object between the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold difference; determining that an audio characteristic in a portion of the audio description track that corresponds to the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a threshold audio characteristic; and increasing the rating of the audio description track by a unit.
US10674196B2
A method for providing of a portion or segment of content extracted from a larger content, for example, for sharing with users as a clip of the larger segment of content or as an action replay. One particular method of providing a portion of content includes receiving data including the content; transmitting the received data; storing a portion of the received data corresponding to a given time period; and responsive to a request, block transmitting the stored portion of the received data stream.
US10674194B2
Systems and methods are described for seamlessly connecting devices based on relationships between the users of the respective devices. A media guidance application may determine that a first user has entered an environment (e.g., his/her mother's home) and may determine a frequency with which the first user enters the environment (e.g., daily). In response to determining that the first user visits frequently, the media guidance application may identify a second device in the environment (e.g., a smart TV) that a second user (e.g., the first user's mother) is authorized to grant access rights for. The media guidance application may determine a likelihood that the second user will grant the access rights for the second device to the first user, based on interaction data between the first user and the second user. In response to determining a high likelihood, the media guidance application may transmit the access rights.
US10674184B2
A system for rendering media having content displayed comprises a receiving unit to receive media, a scanner to detect an object in the media for placing a placeholder, a checker to provide the placeholder to a user for feedback and receive the feedback. The system also includes a template generator to generate a template indicating the placeholder in the media. The system also includes a rendering unit in communication with the template generator to render, upon receiving a request for watching the media, the media having content to display to the user, based on at least one of a storage space and a processing capacity.
US10674164B2
Parallel processing concepts such as wavefront parallel processing, are realized with a reduced end-to-end delay by giving up the usual slice concept according to which slices are either coded/decoded completely independent from areas of the picture outside of the respective slice, or at least independent from areas outside the respective slice as far as the entropy coding is concerned, namely in favor of slices of different modes, namely ones called dependent slices which allow for interdependencies across slice boundaries, and others which do not, called normal slices, for example. Combined with the aspect or not, WPP processing concept is made more efficiently by using the slices' start syntax portions to locate WPP entry points.
US10674163B2
An improved color space (YHB model) for compressing image files is provided. An example method includes storing a sum of an unweighted first color value and an unweighted second color value for each pixel in a plurality of pixels of an image as a first channel, sub sampling, among the plurality of pixels, a difference between the first color value and the second color value as a second channel, sub sampling, among the plurality of pixels, a third color value as a third channel, and storing the first channel, the second channel, and the third channel as the compressed image. In some implementations, the original image may be split into a low frequency version and a high frequency version. The system may apply the YHB model to the high frequency version and apply a conventional model or a second variation of the YHB model to the low frequency version.
US10674139B2
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for detecting and recognizing human gestures or activity in a group of 3D volumes using integral imaging. In exemplary embodiments, a camera array including multiple image capturing devices captures multiple images of a point-of-interest in a 3D scene. The multiple images can be used to reconstruct a group of 3D volumes of the point-of-interest using the images. The system detects spatiotemporal interest points (STIPs) in the group of 3D volumes and assigns descriptors to each of the plurality of STIPs. The descriptors are quantized into a number of visual words to create clusters of the group of 3D volumes. The system builds a histogram for each of the visual words. Each 3D volume is classified using the histogram of the plurality of visual words, implying the classification of a human gesture in each 3D volumes.
US10674137B2
A display control apparatus includes circuitry to acquire a user image including a manually-drawn image, extract a character image corresponding to the manually-drawn image from the user image, generate an image of a first user object that is a three-dimensional object of the character image to be appeared in a display area that is to be displayed as a display image with a display, and cause the image of the first user object to move on a railroad track on the display area. The circuitry couples the image of the first user object to an image of a second user object in response to determination indicating a distance between the images of the first and second user objects on the railroad track satisfies a predetermined condition, and separates the image of the first user object from the second user object at a fork according to a predetermined condition for changing a course.
US10674136B2
A device for capturing a stereoscopic image includes a first image sensor including a first light-sensitive layer for capturing a first image, a second image sensor including a second light-sensitive layer for capturing a second image, a first lens including a first image-side principal plane, which first lens images points lying in a first area sharply onto the first light-sensitive layer of the first image sensor, and a second lens including a second image-side principal plane, which second lens images points lying in a second area sharply onto the second light-sensitive layer of the second image sensor. The distance between the first image-side principal plane of the first lens and the first light-sensitive layer of the first image sensor and the distance between the second image-side principal plane of the second lens and the second light-sensitive layer of the second image sensor are different.
US10674133B2
Disclosed is an image display device or an image signal output device. The image display device or the image signal output device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a receiver for receiving an image; an input unit for receiving a user input to select a display mode or an image signal output mode; a determiner for determining the selected display mode; a depth map generator for generating a depth map for the received image having depth information corresponding to a predefined curvature if the result of determination indicates that the selected display mode is a 3D curved image mode; a 3D image frame generator for generating a left-eye image frame and a right-eye image frame from the received image on the basis of the generated depth map; and an output unit for outputting the generated left-eye image and right-eye image frames.
US10674128B2
The present disclosure provides a white balance processing method including processing an image to obtain a color of a light source contained in a scene corresponding to the image; determining whether the color of the light source is identical to a natural color of an object contained in the scene; when the color of the light source is identical to the natural color of the object, determining a type of the scene and performing a white balance processing on the image according to the type of the scene; and when the color of the light source is different from the natural color of the object, determining color temperature of the light source contained in the scene according to the color of the light source and performing the white balance processing on the image according to the color temperature of the light source.
US10674104B2
Disclosed is an image adjustment apparatus including a receiver which is configured to receive a first input image of an object which is time-synchronously captured and a second input image in which a motion event of the object is sensed time-asynchronously, and an adjuster which is configured to adjust the first input image and the second input image.
US10674096B2
Various methods and systems are disclosed for near-infrared video compositing techniques and an associated immersive video environment. In an example, a system includes: a system having a visible light sensor and an infrared sensor to capture light from a field of view, and a display screen to reflect a video output projected from a display source. In this system configuration, the display screen is arranged relative to the system to allow infrared light and visible light from a field of view to travel through the display screen and reach the sensors of the camera system, for example, using a hot mirror, a cold mirror, or a beam-splitter.
US10674095B2
An image processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify a protection region for protecting privacy, a setting unit configured to set, as an image to be used as a background image, an image selected from existing images based on a user operation, and an image combining unit configured to combine a protection image with the protection region identified by the identifying unit and included in the background image set by the setting unit to generate a privacy protection image.
US10674094B2
A system and method for generating an infinite number of isolated image sequences using a single camera, wherein an X-, Y-coordinate system is generated for the area and an image sequence within the field of view of a camera within the area is captured. By tracking the movements and positions of at least two assets in the field of view of the camera relative to the X-, Y-grid, at least one individual image sequence for each of the at least two assets using the image sequence captured by the camera, wherein each individual image sequence has one asset from the at least two assets as a focal point of the individual image sequence.
US10674092B2
An image processing apparatus comprises an acquisition unit that acquires images of a plurality of continuous frames obtained by shooting a subject; and a synthesis unit which generates a second image by performing lighten composite on first images of a plurality of continuous frames acquired with a first exposure amount out of the plurality of frames of images, acquires a fourth image by performing gain processing on a third image acquired with a second exposure amount which is lower than the first exposure amount so that the fourth image has a same exposure level as the first images, and generates a composite image showing a trail of the subject by performing lighten composite on a difference image, obtained by subtracting the fourth image from the second image, and the third image.
US10674086B2
Image processing method and device are disclosed. The image processing method is inclusive of a step of obtaining a target image; a step of performing motion estimation on the target image so as to attain motion paths; a step of determining, on the basis of the motion paths, whether there exists a fluctuation meeting a predetermined requirement in the target image; and a step of taking, if there exists a fluctuation meeting the predetermined requirement in the target image, the target image as a reference image. The reference image is utilized to carry out inter frame motion estimation with respect to the respective images acquired.
US10674074B2
An image processing apparatus includes at least one processor operatively coupled to a memory, and serving as a determiner configured to determine a weight coefficient of a first region in each of a plurality of parallax images, and an image generator configured to synthesize the plurality of parallax images based on the weight coefficient to generate an output image. In one aspect, the weight coefficient is set to reduce a blur of a second object that is at a closer range side than a first object in the first region. In another aspect, a sum of the weight coefficients of the plurality of parallax images is constant in the first region.
US10674063B2
Time-of-flight cameras may be synchronized where the fields of view of the time-of-flight cameras overlap. The time-of-flight cameras may be programmed within intervals of time for illuminating their respective fields of view that do not conflict with one another. When a first time-of-flight camera illuminates a first field of view that overlaps with a second field of view of a second time-of-flight camera, and the second time-of-flight camera detects reflected light from the illumination, the second time-of-flight camera may determine a time to illuminate the second field of view based on the reflected light. In this manner, any number of time-of-flight cameras may be synchronized with one another without requiring a direct connection between the time-of-flight cameras.
US10674062B2
A multimedia synchronization method is performed by an aircraft that is wirelessly connected to a plurality of mobile terminals. After receiving a first authorized-user identifier sent by a first mobile terminal, the aircraft receives an aircraft operation command and a photographing command sent by the first mobile terminal. The aircraft performs aircraft flight control according to the aircraft operation command and collects multimedia data in a target photographing region according to the photographing command. Finally, the aircraft stores the multimedia data for which the first authorized-user identifier is used as an index identifier. The aircraft synchronizes the multimedia data to the first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal that accesses the multimedia data.
US10674053B2
A vehicular camera includes a lens accommodated in a lens barrel, a lens holder that accommodates at least part of the lens holder, and a printed circuit board with an imager disposed thereat. After the lens is optically aligned with the imager, the adhesive is initially curable to an initially-cured state in an initial curing process for an initial-cure time period. The initially-cured adhesive is further curable to a further-cured state in a secondary curing process for a further-cure time period that is longer than the initial-cure time period. As further cured, the further-cured adhesive maintains optical alignment of the lens with the imager for use of the vehicular camera in a vehicle. The further-cured adhesive maintains at least 70% strength of bond after being exposed for 1000 hours to a temperature of 85 degrees Celsius and a humidity of 85% RH.
US10674045B2
Implementations disclose mutual noise estimation for videos. A method includes determining an optimal frame noise variance for intensity values of each frame of frames of a video, the optimal frame noise variance based on a determined relationship between spatial variance and temporal variance of the intensity values of homogeneous blocks in the frame, identifying an optimal video noise variance for the video based on optimal frame noise variances of the frames of the video, selecting, for each frame of the video, one or more of the blocks having a spatial variance that is less than the optimal video noise variance, the one or more frames selected as the homogeneous blocks, and utilizing the selected homogeneous blocks to estimate a noise signal of the video.
US10674043B2
In some examples, a print cartridge includes a memory device comprising quantized coefficients derived from a lossy compression, at a selected step size, of a difference color table including a plurality of difference nodes in which each difference node represents a difference value that is a difference of a value of a node of a color table and a value of a corresponding node of a reference table, the quantized coefficients useable to produce a reconstructed difference color table including a first set of difference nodes each representing a difference value that is within an error threshold at the selected step size, and a second set of difference nodes each representing a difference value that is outside an error threshold at the selected step size. The memory device further comprises corrective information to correct the second set of difference nodes of the reconstructed difference color table.
US10674042B2
A color measurement apparatus includes a color measurement portion, a carriage, and a movement mechanism the color measurement portion starts color measurement after a predetermined initialization process, a moving section between patches from a point P1 to a point P3 overlaps an initialization section where the spot moves at the time of performing the initialization process, and the moving section between the patches is a section between a forward point having a distance as a radius of the spot with respect to the X direction and a backward point having a distance as a radius of the spot with respect to the X direction, based on a boundary of the patches.
US10674035B2
Included are: a platen on which documents to be read are placed; an image input unit configured to read in one or a plurality of documents placed on the platen at one time; a storage unit configured to store entire image data including individual images of the documents read in at one time; an outer frame region removing unit configured to remove, from the entire image data, image data of an outer frame region at a perimeter edge portion of the platen, having a predetermined width; and an individual image cropping unit configured to crop individual images of one or a plurality of documents, from the entire image data after the image data of the outer frame region has been removed.
US10674033B2
An information acquisition method includes steps of selecting, transmitting, and determining. The selecting step is a step of selecting one function demanding an input of a destination. The transmitting step is a step of transmitting information indicating one or more destinations from a mobile terminal to a multifunction device. The determining step is a step of determining at least one destination corresponding to the one function.
US10674032B2
An image reading apparatus includes: a conveying roller; a conveyance guide configured to guide an original to a conveyance path, the conveyance guide including a hole in which the conveying roller is disposed; a first image reading portion configured to read an image on a first side of the original; a second image reading portion configured to read an image on a second side of the original, the second image reading portion disposed below the conveyance guide; a transparent member provided on a position apart from the second image reading portion; and a dustproof member configured to trap a foreign substance falling through a gap between the conveyance guide and the conveying roller at the hole, wherein the dustproof member partitions a space between the conveyance guide and the second image reading portion.
US10674022B2
A server may receive a specific signal including specific information from a terminal device via the Internet, the specific information being obtained by using relative information related to a peripheral device that is used by a user of the terminal device, the peripheral device being different from the terminal device, and the relative information including at least one of identification information for identifying the peripheral device and model information indicating a model of the peripheral device; acquire output data corresponding to the relative information by using the specific information included in the specific signal received from the terminal device, and send the acquired output data to an external device via the Internet.
US10674018B2
Provided is a scene-based vibration feedback method, including: step A of presetting scenes in an application as specific scenes; step B of presetting vibration senses corresponding to the specific scenes; and step C of monitoring a scene currently occurring in the application in real time while the application is running, and providing a corresponding vibration sense when the monitored scene is one of the specific scenes. The step B further comprises: presetting vibration sense information corresponding to the vibration senses; and presetting a correspondence between the specific scenes and the vibration sense information. The step C further comprises: acquiring, when the monitored scene is one of the specific scenes, vibration sense information corresponding to the one specific scene according to the correspondence; and driving a motor built in a terminal to vibrate in accordance with the vibration sense information acquired in the step C1.
US10674012B2
Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for generating an electronic communication response for a mobile electronic device in an offline state. A communication server detects various offline conditions, such as explicitly powered off, low/dead battery, dead zone location, and/or other reasons. A sending electronic device, attempting to establish communication with a receiving electronic device that is offline receives an automated reply message from the communication server, indicating that the intended receiving electronic device is offline. In embodiments, an estimated online restoration time for the receiving electronic device is derived and included in the automated reply message. Additionally, a reason for the offline condition such as explicitly powered off, low/dead battery, dead zone location, and/or other reason may also be included in the automated reply message.
US10674008B2
The present disclosure provides details of a system and method for detecting and monitoring a contraband device including communication devices by utilizing a combination of mobile devices, fixed monitoring devices, and a contraband monitoring center. The mobile devices include smart phones or tablets that are borrowed, rented, or purchased by an inmate from a correctional facility. These mobile devices are configured to detect, monitor, and intervene in the communications of target devices. Further, the mobile devices are configured to communicate with fixed monitoring devices located throughout the correctional facility in performing intervention operations. The contraband monitoring center may also be utilized in the coordination, monitoring, and intervention of target devices.
US10673999B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a support capable of fully-automatically performing rotary clamping by means of linkage between a gear and a rack. The support includes a back side base, a bottom supporting arm, a left-side gripping arm and a right-side gripping arm. A left-side vertical spur rack portion and a right-side vertical spur rack portion are disposed on the left and right sides of the bottom supporting arm. A left-side gear engages with the left side of the left-side vertical spur rack portion, and a right-side gear engages with the right side of the right-side vertical spur rack portion. An inner end of the left-side gripping arm is connected to the left-side gear, an inner end of the right-side gripping arm is connected to the right-side gear, the left-side gripping arm rotates with the left-side gear, and the right-side gripping arm rotates with the right-side gear.
US10673984B1
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for allowing a client application to modify failed update requests in an request queue accessible by a mobile device. As a cloud platform may provide offline data services to client applications, a device may need to synchronize a locally stored or otherwise accessible offline store with the cloud platform when connectivity returns. The client application may place failed requests into a request queue, store information about the failed requests in an error archive, and subsequently allow users to directly modify the requests in the request queue for resubmission to the cloud platform. The client application may provide an interface to users to fix the failed requests that is familiar and to the standard interface in the client application.
US10673974B2
A satellite-based very-high-throughput system is provided and a web-caching system based on a high-altitude platform station, an aerostat for example, having the advantage of decreasing the throughput required over the feeder link without however requiring a cache server to be installed on board the satellite.
US10673972B2
Disclosed are a method and device for processing continuous redirection. The method comprises: when a service request that redirection processing needs to be performed is received, the number of redirections corresponding to the service request is determined and it is judged whether the number of redirections reaches a pre-set threshold value; if so, the redirection of the service request is interrupted, and after the redirection of the service request is interrupted, the service request is resumed redirecting to a destination address; and if not, the service request is redirected to the destination address. In the embodiments of the present application, a redirection processing device can avoid error processing (e.g. 404 error) induced by the case where the number of 302 redirections exceeds the number of times restricted by a browser and thus avoid service interruption and service failure, thereby improving the service experience and the user experience.
US10673968B2
In one general aspect, a system and method are described for generating a classification model to determine predictive user behavior. The method may include obtaining data from a mobile network provider. The data including a plurality of utilization metrics pertaining to a plurality of mobile devices carrying out a plurality of network interactions, the plurality of mobile devices being associated with a plurality of users. The method may also include categorizing the data into a plurality of Internet domains associated with the data and determining a plurality of patterns in the data. The method may further include determining an additional pattern in the data, and generating a plurality of rules based on the plurality of patterns and the additional pattern.
US10673965B2
A system and method of adjusting an affinity score between an entity pair in a social network is disclosed. The method may include determining, with a processor, whether a first member of the entity pair is a heavy user member. The method further includes if the first member is the heavy user member, determining, with the processor, an affinity adjustment factor between the first member and the second member, and adjusting, with the processor, the affinity score between the first member and the second member of the entity pair in accordance with the adjustment factor to determine an adjusted affinity score. The method may include determining, with the processor, whether a number of interactions on content items indicates that the first member is the heavy user member. The second member is associated with a content item that is being considered for display to the first member.
US10673963B1
A discovery application may obtain, from a remote storage system configured to host storage structures, first data that identifies relationships among the storage structures. The discovery application may generate, based on the first data, a mapping of the storage structures, store the mapping as one or more configuration items, and provide, to the remote storage system, instructions configured to cause the remote storage system to notify the discovery application of modification events associated with the storage structures. The discovery application may receive, from the remote storage system, a notification of a modification event associated with a particular storage structure of the storage structures and, in response, obtain, from the remote storage system, second data that identifies a modification to the particular storage structure. The discovery application may modify the mapping based on the second data and store the modified mapping by updating the one or more configuration items.
US10673962B2
A request is received at a service manager from a service broker proxy or a service manager aware service registry to create a service instance. Creation of a service instance is requested from a service broker. Details of the created service instance are stored within the service manager. A success or failure status is returned to the service broker proxy.
US10673951B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for migrating a group of user devices associated with an enterprise from a first device-management service to a second device-management service. An example method can include receiving a request to migrate the group of user devices from the first device-management service to the second device-management service. The second device-management service can associate the enterprise support service with the second, rather than the first, device-management service. It can also cause the enterprise support service to install an agent application the user devices in the group. Finally, the second device-management service can remove one or more applications, associated with the first device-management service, from the user devices in the group.
US10673950B2
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things).
US10673947B2
A computerized method for enabling a client device seamless access to a plurality of remote storage devices connected to the client device via a communication network. The method comprises receiving a plurality of physical addresses by a controller communicatively coupled to the client device and to a plurality of storage servers, each of the plurality of storage servers communicatively coupled to at least one storage device, the plurality of physical addresses enabling access by the controller to the remote storage devices. A single virtual storage device having a logical address space is generated on the device, wherein each of the plurality of physical addresses is mapped by the controller to a unique logical address of the virtual storage device.
US10673933B2
The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.
US10673931B2
A synchronization method includes uploading, by a first terminal, data to a server, where the server is associated with at least one second terminal; receiving, by the first terminal, a notification sent by the server, where the notification includes information of the at least one second terminal; determining, by the first terminal according to the notification, that the first terminal and the at least one second terminal are in a same local area network; and sending, by the first terminal, the data to the at least one second terminal by using the local area network. In this way, data synchronization between a source device and a target device is implemented in a local area network in which the source device and the target device are located. Thus, time consumption of synchronization is reduced, and synchronization efficiency is improved.
US10673924B2
The invention combines eSports and mobile Augmented Reality games. A mobile device runs a map. The map shows linkets for Non Player Characters and human players in AR games. Linkets can move on the map. If the user picks a linket, the game is downloaded and run. She becomes a spectator by seeing the Point of View or similar information of the NPC or human. She can meet a nearby human player. Increases social networking appeal of the game. The game can show ads. Having the game installed increases odds that the spectator becomes an active player. The map auctions linket locations and time slots to game companies or others. A winner can resell rights to a location, including subdividing the timeslot. Game companies get more downloads. The map gets user habits from an Intelligent Agent on the mobile device, to decide what linkets to show. When a user gets a route on the map, linkets appear on the route, increasing chances that she will pick a linket and play the game. A ride sharing app shows a map. A user uses the app to get a ride. The app shows linkets in the map. The app knows that the user is not driving a car. Playing the linket game is safer.
US10673918B2
The present disclosure generally provides a system and method for providing a real-time three-dimensional digital impact virtual audience. The system and method may include processing video associated with an event to produce a corresponding data stream, compositing the corresponding data stream with at least one sequence of predictability data stream to create a digital framework, processing the digital framework into at least one full-form representation of at least one object depicted in the video, and transmitting the at least one full-form representation to one or more communication devices associated with one or more virtual audience members, wherein the one or more virtual audience members are viewing the same event using their respective communication devices.
US10673915B1
Systems and methods are provided for a computer-implemented method of implementing an on-demand computing network environment. A network specification is received from a user. Resources from one or more resource providers are provisioned including an audio server resource. The on-demand computing network is configured, where configuring includes assigning a first provisioned resource as a hub device. One or more second provisioned resources are assigned as rim devices, where rim devices are configured to communicate with one another only via the hub device. One rim device is a proxy server to which the user connects using a device having an address, where the audio server transmits audio data to the user via the proxy server without knowledge of the address of the user device.
US10673914B2
Examples of systems and methods for network proxy server for energy efficient video streaming on mobile devices are generally described herein. A proxy server to deliver video content may include a communication module to intercept a request for video content from a mobile device, the request for video content intended for a content server and forward a modified request for the video content to the content server. The communication module may receive the video content from the content server and transfer a portion of the video content to the mobile device using a multipath transport protocol.
US10673900B2
This disclosure provides the ability for a cloud application to specify its security requirements, the ability to have those requirements evaluated, e.g., against a specific cloud deployment environment, and the ability to enable the application to control a cloud-based security assurance service to provision additional security technology in the cloud to support deployment (or re-deployment elsewhere) of the application if the environment does not have the necessary topology and security resources deployed. To this end, the application queries the service by passing a set of application-based security rights. If the security capabilities provided by the security assurance service are sufficient or better than the application's security rights, the application functions normally. If, however, the security environment established by the security assurance service is insufficient for the application, the application is afforded one or more remediation options, e.g., issuing a request to upgrade the security environment, or the like.
US10673899B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for enforcing access-control policies may include (1) detecting, at a network device capable of configuring networks according to access-control policies, an attempt to connect a client to an access-controlled network, (2) identifying an access-control policy that applies to the access-controlled network, (3) configuring the access-controlled network according to the access-control policy, and (4) notifying the client that the access-controlled network is available. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10673897B2
An apparatus for two-tier deep analysis of hypertext transport protocol data, monitors Web traffic, receives a packet of Web traffic from a network to form a received packet, wherein the received packet represents Web traffic, and stores the Web traffic temporarily to form stored Web traffic. The apparatus further determines whether the Web traffic is suspicious using a first tier analysis and responsive to a determination that the Web traffic is suspicious, consumes the stored Web traffic using a deep analysis module. The apparatus further determines whether the stored Web traffic is a case of misuse using a second tier analysis and responsive to a determination that the stored Web traffic is a case of misuse, feeding back data about a malicious connection to an intrusion protection system before returning to monitor the Web traffic.
US10673893B2
A method and associated systems for isolating a source of an attack that originates from a shared computing environment. A computer-security system tags outgoing packets originating from within the shared computing environment in a tamper-proof manner in order to identify which tenant of the shared environment is the true source of each packet. If one of those tenants transmits malicious packets to an external recipient, either because the tenant has malicious intent or becomes infected with malware, the transmitted malicious packets' tags allow the recipient to determine which tenant is the source of the unwanted transmissions. The recipient may then block further communications from the problematic tenant without blocking communications from other tenants of the shared environment.
US10673892B2
Intrusion features of a landing page associated with sponsored content are identified. A feature score for the landing page based on the identified intrusion features is generated, and if the feature score for the landing page exceeds a feature threshold, the landing page is classified as a candidate landing page. A sponsor account associated with the candidate landing page can be suspended, or sponsored content associated with the candidate landing page can be suspended.
US10673891B2
The methods and system described herein automatically generate network router access control entities (ACEs) that are used to filter internet traffic and more specifically to block malicious traffic. The rules are generated by an ACE engine that processes incoming internet packets and examines existing ACEs and a statistical profile of the captured packets to produce one or more recommended ACEs with a quantified measure of confidence. Preferably, a recommended ACE is identified in real time of the attack, and preferably selected from a library of pre-authored ACEs. It is then deployed automatically or alternatively sent to system personnel for review and confirmation.
US10673883B2
In one embodiment, a device receives data indicative of packet arrival times at a plurality of nodes along a path in a deterministic network. The device compares the packet arrival times to their corresponding scheduled delivery intervals in a deterministic communication schedule used by the nodes along the path. The device detects, using a machine learning-based anomaly detector, a time synchronization anomaly based on the comparisons between the packet arrival times and their scheduled delivery intervals. The device causes performance of a mitigation action in the network based on the detected time synchronization anomaly.
US10673880B1
Techniques are described for processing anomalies detected using user-specified rules with anomalies detected using machine-learning based behavioral analysis models to identify threat indicators and security threats to a computer network. In an embodiment, anomalies are detected based on processing event data at a network security system that used rules-based anomaly detection. These rules-based detected anomalies are acquired by a network security system that uses machine-learning based anomaly detection. The rules-based detected anomalies are processed along with machine learning detected anomalies to detect threat indicators or security threats to the computer network. The threat indicators and security threats are output as alerts to the network security system that used rules-based anomaly detection.
US10673877B2
A method and an apparatus for detecting a port scan in a network are disclosed. For example, the method extracts statistics from a message, detects the port scan for a source internet protocol address, determines whether a port scan record exists for the source internet protocol address, creates a port scan record for the source internet protocol address that is extracted when the port scan record does not exist, determines an elapsed time when the port scan record does exist, wherein the elapsed time is determined as a difference between the time stamp that is extracted and a recorded time stamp, sets the recorded time stamp to be the extracted time stamp when the elapsed time is less than an intra-scan time, and determines the port scan has ended for the source internet protocol address when the elapsed time is not less than the intra-scan time.
US10673869B2
A method for identifying malicious encrypted network traffic communicated via a computer network is disclosed. A malicious encrypted traffic detector is also disclosed.
US10673867B1
A system featuring a cloud-based malware detection system for analyzing an object to determine whether the object is associated with a cyber-attack. Herein, subscription review service comprises a data store storing subscription information. The subscription information includes identifier for the customer and one or more identifiers each associated with a corresponding customer submitter operable to submit an object to the cloud-based malware detection system for analysis. The first customer submitter receives credentials provided by the subscription review service to establish communications with the cloud-based malware detection system. The first customer submitter includes a first submitter identifier that comprises (i) enforcement logic that enforces compliance with a plurality of requirements of the subscription to the cloud-based malware detection system and (ii) reporting logic that transmits a result of the analysis of the object by the cloud-based malware detection system in determining whether the object is associated with a cyber-attack.
US10673864B2
A computer-implemented information verification method, system, and computer program product, include verifying a user device is within a proximity of a second device to grant access for the user device to a service available at a second location with the second device, where a trusted user operating the second device attests to a user device location of the user device so that the user of the user device accesses the service available only to users in the second device location of the trusted user independently of activities on the second device.
US10673847B2
There is provided a system for creating a cryptographic non-fungible identity unique token (IUT), comprising code for: obtaining a private key linked to a public address of an electronic wallet, associated with a wallet address, obtaining a digital representation of a hashed genetic sequence of a user and an associated wallet address of the electronic wallet, storing in the cryptographic non-fungible IUT, an IUT identifier, the IUT identifier is an outcome of hashing a subset of the hashed digital representation and a unique password, storing the IUT in a genetic sequence record stored in a block of a blockchain dataset, wherein the genetic sequence record is associated with the IUT, the IUT is associated to the wallet address, wherein the user is authenticated by a match between a computed value of a password and the wallet address provided by the user, and the IUT identifier stored on the blockchain.
US10673842B2
A method is provided. The method includes providing an authentication code onto a reference article associated with a person, determining a signature associated with the authentication code, imaging a candidate article to determine an image signature, and comparing the associated signature with the image signature to determine whether the candidate article is the reference article. A related system and imaging device are also provided.
US10673841B2
Systems and methods for weak authentication data reinforcement are described. In some embodiments, authentication data is received in a request to authenticate a user. In response to detecting weak authentication data, the systems and methods determine whether the user was previously authenticated as a human user. An example embodiment may include initiating an authentication process based on determining that the user was previously authenticated as a human user.
US10673831B2
A security control (SC) system including one or more security control (SC) computing devices for automating security controls between computer networks is provided. The SC system is configured to receive a request to access a service including a system identifier that identifies a computer system requesting access to a service controlled by the one or more SC computing devices, build a token request based on the request, and correlate the token request to at least one security policy associated with the system identifier. The SC system is also configured to generate an access token in response to the token request, wherein the access token is included in an authorization request, and invoke the service using the authorization request. The SC system is further configured to validate the access token using the at least one security policy and authorize access to the service based on the at least one security policy.
US10673811B2
Techniques to facilitate enhanced addressing of local and network resources from a computing system are provided herein. In one implementation, a method of updating a virtual address mapping for an application on a computing system includes identifying a request to update the address mapping from a first mapping to a second mapping, wherein the first mapping maps virtual addresses to local addresses for local resources. The method further includes identifying at least one configuration resource to support the update, and retrieving an update configuration from the at least one configuration resource. Based on the update configuration, the method provides generating the second mapping, wherein the second mapping maps the virtual addresses to second local addresses for the second local resources and network addresses that address network resources accessible over a network.
US10673805B2
A content provider has a plurality of content provider domain names, and a content delivery network (CDN) allocates a plurality of CDN domain names to the particular content provider. The content provider domain names are mapped to the CDN domain names CDN domain names are bound to corresponding CDN clusters. The binding of the of CDN domain names to corresponding CDN clusters is modified.
US10673802B2
A method of associating an electronic message social profile with electronic messages. The method comprises identifying a plurality of users having a social affinity to one another, tagging each of a plurality of electronic messages received at a plurality of messaging accounts of the plurality of users with at least one user behavior tag indicative of a behavioral messaging action performed by one of the plurality of users, identifying a cluster of electronic messages having a common content from the plurality of electronic messages according to a similarity analysis, calculating, using a processor, an electronic message social profile for members of the cluster based on a combination of respective the at least one user behavior tag of the members of the cluster, and associating the electronic message social profile with the members of the cluster.
US10673798B2
A server receives a group message from a first user account in a social networking platform, the group message to be sent to a plurality of user accounts, and determines whether the group message refers to one or more user accounts of the plurality of user accounts. For a respective user account referred to by the group message, the server sends a notification to a terminal associated with the respective user account, wherein the notification is rendered at the terminal in a first manner configured by the respective user account. For a respective user account not referred to by the group message, the server sends a notification to a terminal associated with the respective user account, wherein the notification is rendered at the terminal in a second manner configured by the social networking platform, wherein the second manner is different from the first manner.
US10673786B2
Artificial intelligence systems and methods are disclosed. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, an artificial intelligence system can automatically generate a travel document using a chatbot. In implementations, the artificial intelligence system performs operations including monitoring messaging sessions of users communicatively connected to the messaging system. The operations also include conversing with a user based on one or more keywords used in the messaging session by the user. The operations further include determining, by conversing with the user, that a destination of the user involves a travel document. Additionally, the operations include obtaining, by interviewing the user, information for a localized profile of the user corresponding to the destination, wherein the questions used during the interview are selected by the artificial intelligence system based on the localized profile. Moreover, the operations include generating the travel document using the localized profile and providing it to the user.
US10673784B1
Systems and methods of processing delay predictions based on queue assessments are described herein. In some examples, the queues may correspond to queues for usage and/or access of resources. A central server can manage one or more queues for the resources. Queue elements can correspond to requests for performing a task, which can include a task for using and/or accessing a resource. The queue elements can remain in the queue until processing of the task is initiated.
US10673782B2
Time transfer systems and methods in Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) include, in a node supporting Flexible Ethernet (FlexE), communicating a FlexE group with an adjacent node via a FlexE shim; providing a synchronization message channel to the adjacent node via overhead of the FlexE shim for the FlexE group; and exchanging synchronization messages via the synchronization message channel with the adjacent node. The synchronization messages can be Precision Time Protocol (PTP) messages. A timestamp point for a synchronization message can be a start of a FlexE frame or multi-frame boundary.
US10673777B2
Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing intent-based network services orchestration. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive, over a network, a request for network services from a customer. The request for network services might include desired performance parameters for the requested network services, without information regarding any of specific hardware, specific hardware type, specific location, or specific network for providing the requested network services. The computing system might allocate network resources from one or more networks, based at least in part on the desired performance parameters. Based on a determination that at least one network can no longer provide at least one network resource having the desired performance parameters, the computing system might allocate at least one other network resource from at least one second network, based at least in part on network performance metrics, and based at least in part on the desired performance parameters.
US10673774B2
Described is a low latency re-timer for systems supporting spread spectrum clocking. The re-timer comprises: a first clock frequency estimator to estimate a frequency of a receive clock (RX CLK) and to provide a first timestamp associated with a first clock that underwent spread spectrum; a second clock frequency estimator to estimate a frequency of a transmit clock (TX CLK) and to provide a second timestamp associated with a second clock that underwent spread spectrum; and a comparator to compare the first timestamp with the second timestamp.
US10673773B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for handling state variables of a PDCP entity in wireless communication system, the method comprising: delivering an PDCP SDU associated with a first COUNT to upper layer and starting, by the PDCP entity, a reordering timer, when an out-of-order PDCP PDU with the first COUNT value is received from lower layer; updating a value of a first state variable to the first COUNT value+1, when the reordering timer starts; and when the reordering timer expires, updating, by the PDCP entity, a value of a second state variable based on a second COUNT value of a first PDCP SDU which has not been delivered to upper layers, among PDCP SDUs with COUNT values which are equal to or larger than the first state variable.
US10673769B2
The present disclosure relates to an analysis device configured to analyze a communication sequence. The analysis device includes a memory configured to store a desired communication sequence and a processor. The processor is configured to read out the desired communication sequence from the memory, create a Petri net as a function of the read-out desired communication sequence, compare the communication sequence to the created Petri net, and analyze the communication sequence.
US10673768B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided for transmitting data to a receiving apparatus, the transmitting apparatus comprising: a first network interface configured to transmit data to the receiving apparatus over a first communications path; a transmit buffer forming part of the first network interface, the transmit buffer being configured to store a series of packets of data for transmission over the first communications path; a data compression module configured to compress at least some of the packets of data stored for transmission; a second network interface configured to receive a decompression rate value from the receiving apparatus over a second communications path; and wherein the apparatus is configured to select data packets stored in the transmit buffer for compression based on a compression rate value and a transmission rate value of the transmitting apparatus and a decompression rate value received from the receiving apparatus via the second network interface. A receiving apparatus is also provided.
US10673758B2
Applications of CI processing to ad-hoc and peer-to-peer networking significantly improve throughput, network capacity, range, power efficiency, and spectral efficiency. CI-based subscriber units perform network-control functions to optimize network performance relative to channel conditions, network loads, and subscriber services. CI codes are used to identify and address network transmissions. Channel characteristics of communication links are employed to encode, address, and authenticate network transmissions. CI transceivers used as relays and routers employ unique characteristics of transmission paths to code and decode network transmissions. A central processor is adapted to perform array processing with signals received from, and transmitted by, a plurality of subscriber units in a wireless network.
US10673754B2
Provided is a method of transmitting and receiving a frame for a multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication in an access point (AP), the method including transmitting, to each of a plurality of stations (STAs), an uplink multi-user request (UL MU request) frame requesting transmission of a data frame, and receiving, from each of the plurality of STAs, the data frame during an identical period of time based on an identical reception intensity, wherein the UL MU request frame includes at least one of information on a transmission time of the data frame and information on a reception intensity of the data frame in the AP.
US10673735B2
The system and method of the present disclosure relates to technology for a network system supporting multiple topology transparent zones (TTZs) on an edge node. TTZs have a topology including TTZ nodes consisting of edge nodes and internal nodes connected together by internal links. The edge nodes may also be connected to external nodes outside of the TTZ. The edge node is responsible for generating and distributing link state advertisements (LSAs) to generate virtual paths from the edge node to other edge nodes in each of the TTZs. Each TTZ sharing the edge node and each external node neighboring one of the other edge nodes of the TTZs is virtualized by distribution of the LSAs. However, the internal topology of each TTZ is concealed from each of the other TTZs sharing the edge node and from any neighboring external node connected to one of the other edge nodes.
US10673725B2
A computer-implemented method includes requesting, using a branch controller, an operating status of at least one application of a first plurality of applications executing in a first core site using a first User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ping, the first UDP ping being transmitted to a first network controller included in the first core site through a first VPN connection between the branch controller and the first core site; and receiving, using the branch controller, the operating status of the at least one application of the first plurality of applications using the first UDP ping received through the first VPN connection.
US10673698B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology address the problems of manually identifying and optimizing service chain (SC) performance bottlenecks by providing solutions for automatically identifying and tuning various SC parameters. In some aspects, a SC optimization process of the disclosed technology includes the replication or cloning of a SC for which traffic flow is to be optimized. Traffic flows for the production chain can then be simulated over one or more SC clones to identify and tune individual system parameters, for example, to determine if the simulated changes produce a positive, negative, or neutral change in flow performance. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US10673690B2
Connectivity loss on a storage network may be reliably determined. For one or more host ports connected to a storage system, the frequency with which status communications are received from the host port may be determined. Status communications from a host port then may be monitored to determine if a predefined number of status communications within a predefined period of time have not been received. If so, it may be determined whether a change in storage system permissions concerning use of ports potentially caused the one or more status communications to not be received. If not, it may be determined whether one or more communications associated with a change in configuration of a switch have been received, in which case a predefined amount of time may be allowed to pass to allow the switch change communications to complete; after which status communications from the host port may again be monitored.
US10673683B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed of providing a user application with a notification message. One example method may include receiving a script to setup a message queue, the script may include a database schema and the script may be executed by a processor to apply the database schema to a database that includes the message queue. The method may also include receiving one or more notifications messages having specific notification content that is applied to notification messages. The notifications may be received from a remote device. The message queue may include notification content used to generate notification messages destined for end user devices.
US10673668B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a signal sending method, a signal receiving method, a terminal device, a base station, and a system, to ensure that a signal has a sufficiently large capacity when a PAPR is low, and reduce power consumption of the terminal device. The method in embodiments of the present invention includes: generating, by the terminal device, a first signal; performing, by the terminal device, code division processing on the first signal using a target code division sequence selected from a code division sequence set, to generate a second signal, where any two code division sequences in the code division sequence set meet orthogonality and shift orthogonality; and sending, by the terminal device, the second signal to the base station at a corresponding time-frequency resource location.
US10673662B2
A method for generating M parallel pseudorandom binary sequences (PRBSs), each comprising a 2n−1 sequence of pseudorandom bits, includes loading into the circuit an initial M-bit word, the initial M-bit word comprising M sequential bits selected from a pre-determined PRBS-n sequence, wherein n>1 and M>n. The method includes generating, using a plurality of logic gates of the circuit, a next M-bit word using at least n+1 of the M sequential bits of the initial M-bit word. The method includes repeatedly generating, using the logic gates of the circuit, the next M-bit word from a previous M-bit word using the at least n+1 of M sequential bits of the previous M-bit word, resulting in M parallel sequences of the PRBS-n sequence. The method includes transmitting the generated next M-bit words on an M-bit wide parallel bus.
US10673661B1
Systems, methods, and circuitries enable selected signal components to be isolated in a feedback transmit signal that includes multiple signal components. In one example, a signal component cancellation system for a feedback receiver includes a transmit chain configured to transmit a transmit signal having at least two signal components with offset center frequencies. The system includes measurement circuitry configured to measure a received signal that results from feedback of the transmit signal and cancellation circuitry configured to cancel a selected signal component from the transmit signal to generate a cancellation signal. The system further includes subtraction circuitry configured to combine the cancellation signal with the measured received signal to generate a component signal corresponding to a contribution of the selected signal component to the received signal and provide the component signal to the feedback receiver.
US10673659B2
An iterative two dimension equalizer usable in a receiver of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulated signals is described. In one configuration of the equalizer, a forward path generates, from received time-frequency domain samples and a channel estimate, estimates of data bits and likelihood numbers associated with the estimates of data bits, generated by delay-Doppler domain processing. In the feedback direction, the estimates of data bits are used to generate symbol estimates and autocorrelation matrix estimate in the time domain. In another configuration, a soft symbol mapper is used in the feedback direction for directly generating the feedback input symbol estimate without having to generate estimates of data bits.
US10673655B2
In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals.
US10673649B2
In accordance with various implementations, a method is performed at a gateway with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a data interface. The method includes: obtaining a request to instantiate a tunnel for data from a guest service provider (GSP) to a user device that traverses an operator network; determining whether the request satisfies tunneling criteria, where the tunneling criteria at least includes a first criterion associated with intrinsic information associated with the operator network and a second criterion associated with extrinsic information that characterizes network resources of the network operator based on a relationship between the operator network and the GSP; instantiating the tunnel in response to determining that the request satisfies the tunneling criteria, where instantiating the tunnel includes the gateway transmitting tunnel instructions to other nodes of the operator network; and routing the data through the tunnel to transmit the data to the user device.
US10673647B2
The invention relates to a device for sending and receiving electronic files, which contain metadata having an addressee's electronic address. The device includes an internal module and an external module for sending and receiving electronic files. The external module is associated with a building and placed in a location accessible to an operator, for example integrated into a pre-existing interphone device. These modules are interconnected to receive and transmit data and are commonly powered by Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology. This technology also allows the addressee's electronic address contained in the metadata of the files received by the external module includes a MAC address uniquely associated with the addressee's internal module. In the case of multiple internal modules in the same building, a switch device to which several Ethernet ports are connected routes the file to the correct internal module.
US10673642B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media which perform an operation comprising establishing a video conference between a first application instance and a second application instance, and during the video conference: receiving, by an application server from the first application instance, an indication of a first data element required to prepare a tax return, storing, by a notification server, the indication of the first data element, and publishing, by a notification server, the indication of the first data element to the second application instance, wherein the second application instance is configured to output the indication of the data element for display.
US10673638B2
A secure programming system can receive a job control package having a security kernel and a target payload of content for programming into a pre-defined set of trusted devices. A device programmer can install a security kernel on the trusted devices and reboot the trusted devices using the security kernel to validate the proper operation of the security kernel. The target payload can then be securely installed on the trusted devices and validated.
US10673634B2
Methods and systems described herein create a first addressed account and a second addressed account that each have a common identifier and are each associated with a customer. The system can receive an order for exchanging digital transactional items associated with the first addressed account, where the order is associated with the common identifier. A private key associated with the first addressed account can be used to electronically sign a first transaction to transfer the digital transactional items from the first addressed account to the second addressed account, and the same private key can be used to sign a second transaction. After verifying that the first transaction was signed with the same private key as the first transaction, the system authorizes placement of the order on a cryptographic exchange.
