US10720276B2
In a multilayer body including a plurality of laminated insulating material layers on which a plurality of coil patterns are provided, the plurality of coil patterns are connected to each other to form a coil having a coil axis parallel to a lamination direction. A pair of outer electrodes connected to the coil are disposed at both ends in the lamination direction. When a direction orthogonal to the lamination direction is defined in an up-down direction, the coil patterns are disposed within the multilayer body so as to be shifted to an upper side. At least a portion of a vertical projection image of the coil on a virtual plane orthogonal to the lamination direction does not overlap a vertical projection image of the outer electrodes on the virtual plane.
US10720269B2
The present invention is directed to the syntheses of superparamagnetic nanoparticles and the incorporation of the nanoparticles as the magnetic component to form a strongly magnetic nanocomposite. The superparamagnetic nanoparticles possess no hysteresis and are too small to support eddy currents. The invention uses a ligand exchange procedure to produce aminated nanoparticles that are then cross-linked using epoxy chemistry. The result is a magnetic nanoparticle component that is covalently linked and well separated. By using this ‘matrix-free’ approach, it is possible to substantially increase the magnetic nanoparticle fraction, while still maintaining good separation, leading to a superparamagnetic nanocomposite with strong magnetic properties and low magnetic losses.
US10720264B2
The light transmitting conductive film includes a light transmitting substrate and a non-crystal light transmitting conductive layer, wherein the conditions (1) to (3) below are satisfied when the non-crystal light transmitting conductive layer has a carrier density of Xa×1019(/cm3) and a hole mobility of Ya (cm2/V·s); a heated light transmitting conductive layer has a carrier density of Xc×1019(/cm3) and a hole mobility of Yc (cm2/V·s), wherein the heated light transmitting conductive layer is the non-crystal light transmitting conductive layer after going through heating; and a moving distance L is {(Xc−Xa)2+(Yc−Ya)2}1/2: (1) Xa≤Xc (2) Ya≥Yc, and (3) the moving distance L is 1.0 or more and 45.0 or less.
US10720258B2
A method for manufacturing a conductive wire includes conducting a continuous casting of a conductive alloy material at a casting rate of not less than 40 mm/min and not more than 200 mm/min to form a conductive wire with a primary diameter, the conductive alloy material containing not more than 1.0 mass % of an added metal element, reducing a diameter of the conductive wire with the primary diameter to form a conductive wire with a secondary diameter, heat treating the conductive wire with the secondary diameter so that tensile strength thereof is reduced to not less than 90% and less than 100% of tensile strength before the heat treating, and reducing a diameter of the conductive wire with the secondary diameter and the reduced tensile strength to generate a logarithmic strain of 7.8 to 12.0 therein to form a conductive wire with a tertiary diameter.
US10720257B2
Disclosed herein are optical stacks that are stable to light exposure by incorporating light-stabilizers.
US10720252B2
A pellet magazine includes a plurality of pellet bores sized to receive pellets for loading into a fuel rod. A fuel rod loading system includes a plurality of pellet loading stations each designated to load a single pellet type into one or more pellet bores of the pellet magazine, a rod loading station configured to unload pellets from the pellet bores of the pellet magazine into a fuel rod, and a conveyance system configured to transport the pellet magazine to the loading stations and then to the rod loading station in a defined sequence.
US10720249B2
A nuclear reactor cooling system with passive cooling capabilities operable during a reactor shutdown event without available electric power. In one embodiment, the system includes a reactor vessel with nuclear fuel core and a steam generator fluidly coupled thereto. Primary coolant circulates in a flow loop between the reactor vessel and steam generator to heat secondary coolant in the steam generator producing steam. The steam flows to a heat exchanger containing an inventory of cooling water in which a submerged tube bundle is immersed. The steam is condensed in the heat exchanger and returned to the steam generator forming a closed flow loop in which the secondary coolant flow is driven by natural gravity via changes in density from the heating and cooling cycles. In other embodiments, the cooling system is configured to extract and cool the primary coolant directly using the submerged tube bundle heat exchanger.
US10720242B2
A system and method for evaluating an effectiveness of a therapy for a psychological condition includes selecting a therapy to be analyzed relative to psychological pathology. The selected therapy is applied to a model of the psychological condition that includes hyperdopaminergia as a function. A response is determined using an output of the model of the psychological condition. The response is compared to a control to determine a wellness metric and a report is generated indicating an effectiveness of the therapy based on the wellness metric.
US10720233B2
A set of applications can access a specific patient's real-time or historical physiological data from a clinical care unit and calculate new disease specific physiological indicators or be a virtual physiological monitor for that patient. The applications are run on a remote server and push the resulting data to an endpoint device.
US10720229B2
System, computer program products, and methods are disclosed for estimating a degree of ancestral relatedness between two individuals. The haplotype data for a population of individuals is divided into segment windows based on genetic markers, and matched segments for the haplotype data are generated. Each matched segment having a first cM width that exceeds a threshold cM width is included in counting the matched segments in each segment window. A weight associated with each segment window is estimated based on the count of matched segments in the associated segment window. A weighted sum of per-window cM widths for each matched segment is calculated based on the first cM width and the weights associated with the segment windows of the matched segment. The weighted sum of per-window cM widths are used to estimate a degree of ancestral relatedness between two individuals.
US10720220B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a bit line connected to the memory cell, a sense amplifier connected to the memory cell through the bit line, and a control circuit. The sense amplifier includes a sense node connected to the bit line, a first capacitive element connected to the sense node and a sense transistor having a gate connected to the sense node. The control circuit is configured to adjust a voltage applied to a back gate of the sense transistor or a source of the sense transistor to correct a variation of a threshold voltage of the sense transistor.
US10720217B1
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells and a controller. The controller is configured to program each of the memory cells to one of a plurality of program states, and to read the memory cells using a read operation of applied voltages to the memory cells. During the read operation, separations between adjacent ones of the program states vary based on frequencies of use of the program states in the plurality of memory cells.
US10720213B2
The total chip area for a three-dimensional memory device can be reduced employing a design layout in which the word line decoder circuitry is formed underneath an array of memory stack structures. The interconnection between the word lines and the word line decoder circuitry can be provided by forming discrete word line contact via structures. The discrete word line contact via structures can be formed by employing multiple sets of etch masks with overlapping opening areas and employed to etch a different number of pairs of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, thereby obviating the need to form staircase regions having stepped surfaces. Sets of at least one conductive interconnection structure can be employed to provide vertical electrical connection to the word line decoder circuitry. Bit line drivers can also be formed underneath the array of memory stack structures to provide greater areal efficiency.
US10720201B2
Apparatuses for receiving an input signal in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes a signal receiver that receives information signal: a control circuit that provides a plurality of control signals; and a signal receiver replica circuit that receives a first reference signal. The signal receiver replica circuit includes a plurality of receivers. Each receiver of the plurality of receivers receives the first reference signal and a corresponding control signal of the plurality of control signals, and further provides an output signal.
US10720195B2
The present disclosure is directed to efficient memory activation at runtime. A memory module (e.g., a memory riser) being added to a device would typically cause the device to enter system management mode (SMM) to activate the memory module. However, activation (e.g., memory module initialization, hardware training and system reconfiguration) in SMM may substantially delay the resumption of normal operations. Consistent with the present disclosure, at least the memory module initialization and hardware training portions of the activation may be performed by an operating system (OS) in the device, allowing normal device operation to continue during the activation. The OS portion of the activation may generate configuration data. In at least one embodiment, the configuration data may be applied for use in SMM. For example, a system management interrupt (SMI) handler may apply the configuration data during a quiescent period (e.g., a period of inactivity) that occurs during SMM.
US10720190B2
A semiconductor device includes a repeater configured to output latch data as aligned data when the operation control signal is disabled and configured to interrupt the input of the latch data when the operation control signal is enabled for performing a data masking operation of internal data. The operation control signal is enabled according to logic levels of the internal data when a flag signal is enabled and a write data control signal is enabled.
US10720189B2
Systems and methods for authoring and encoding haptic effects are provided for space-dependent content, such as 360-degree videos, three-dimensional videos, or virtual or augmented reality contents. The systems and methods can generate one or more haptic layers for encoding or modifying haptic effects for the content.
US10720188B2
A method includes receiving a plurality of images at an encoder device. The plurality of images is encoded by the encoder device to generate an output video stream. The output video stream includes a plurality of encoded video frames corresponding to the plurality of images. While receiving the plurality of images and while generating the output video stream, the encoder device receives a notification that a particular image of the plurality of images satisfies a thumbnail generation condition based on stream analysis of one or more of the plurality of images. The output video stream is sent concurrently with a supplemental data package to a media server. The supplemental data package comprises a thumbnail and metadata associated with the thumbnail, the thumbnail generated from the particular image responsive to receiving the notification.
US10720175B2
A communication system and a method can be configured to facilitate the performance of a conference. The system can include a conference organizer terminal and at least two participants' terminals each assigned to respective conference participants who each log in to start a conference on the communication system. The communication system can be configured to calculate a decision situation at a particular point in time of the ongoing conference by analyzing the views expressed by the conference participants during the conference and send data relating to the decision situation for that point in time to the conference organizer's terminal and/or other conference participant terminals for use in facilitating the conference. IN some embodiments, such data can be used to assist the conference participants' in recognizing when there is a consensus made on at least one decision to be made during the conference.
US10720173B2
Audio systems and methods are provided that receive a playback signal and produce an acoustic signal based upon the playback signal, and include microphone signal(s) for capturing and processing user voice signals. An echo reference signal is based upon the playback signal, and an echo canceler reduces echo components from the microphone signal(s). Functionality of the echo canceler is modified, such as by freezing an adaptive filter, in response to a non-linear condition in the audio playback, or a likelihood of such a non-linear condition.
US10720170B2
An audio post-processor for post-processing an audio signal having a time-variable high frequency gain information as side information includes: a band extractor for extracting a high frequency band of the audio signal and a low frequency band of the audio signal; a high band processor for performing a time-variable modification of the high frequency band in accordance with the time-variable high frequency gain information to obtain a processed high frequency band; and a combiner for combining the processed high frequency band and the low frequency band. Furthermore, a pre-processor is illustrated.
US10720165B2
A method of authenticating a user based on voice recognition of a keyword includes generating, at a processor, clean speech statistics. The clean speech statistics are generated from an audio recording of the keyword spoken by the user during an enrollment phase. The method further includes separating speech data and noise data from noisy input speech using the clean speech statistics during an authentication phase. The method also includes authenticating the user by comparing the speech data to the clean speech statistics or by comparing the noisy input speech to noisy speech statistics. The noisy speech statistics are based at least in part on the noise data.
US10720157B1
Techniques for providing a standardized voice user interface (VUI) that enables voice to voice natural language understanding (NLU) processing are described. The standardized VUI may be added to speechlets to enable a customer to interact with a business via server(s) using NLU processing. For example, a first user may initiate a first voice interaction using NLU processing with the server(s) and the system may initiate a second voice interaction using NLU processing between the server(s) and a second user. This enables a customer to initiate a transaction (e.g., request information, place an order, make a reservation, etc.) with the business using the speechlet. Thus, the business may use the speechlet to offer services without requiring additional infrastructure or complicated programming to implement.
US10720154B2
Provided is an information processing device including: a collected sound data acquisition portion that acquires collected sound data; and an output controller that causes an output portion to output at least whether or not a state of the collected sound data is suitable for speech recognition.
US10720142B2
An active duct noise control system and a method thereof are provided, including a duct, a noise source speaker, a microphone, a plurality of noise-cancelling speakers, and a plurality of controllers. Wherein, the noise source speaker generates the primary noise, and the microphone is disposed to receive the residual noise. The plurality of noise-cancelling speakers are disposed between the noise source speaker and the microphone and respectively generate noise-cancelling audio frequencies to offset the primary noise and reduce the residual noise. The plurality of controllers are respectively connected to the plurality of noise-cancelling speakers and the noise source speaker and calculate each of the noise-cancelling audio frequencies generated by each of the plurality of noise-cancelling speakers according to the multi-channel inverse filtering principle.
US10720130B2
Aspects of embodiments concerns an apparatus for tuning a drum, the drum comprising a drum shell having an upper skin, the apparatus comprising: an outer static rim that is removably operably coupleable to the inside wall of a drum shell; a diameter adjustment mechanism that is removably operably coupleable with the drum shell, the diameter adjustment mechanism including one or more inner cylindrical shells mountable within the drum shell and being configured for axial displacement whereby an upper rim thereof can be selectively brought into or out of contact with an upper skin of the drum and thereby change an effective diameter of the upper skin.
US10720123B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: detecting two or more users, and determining a location of each of the two or more users with respect to a current configuration of a curved display screen by determining a distance between each user and a respective reference point on the curved display screen, and determining, for each user, an angle between a radius of curvature which extends from the respective reference point on the curved display screen and a line extending between the user and the reference point. The locations of the two or more users are further used to determine an optimal configuration of the curved display screen. One or more instructions to rotate the curved display screen according to the optimal angular position are sent. Moreover, one or more instructions to adjust a curvature of the curved display screen according to the optimal curvature are also sent.
US10720118B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register and a driving method thereof and a gate driving circuit. The shift register comprises an inputting circuit, a first outputting circuit, and a second outputting circuit. The first outputting circuit may comprise a first pulling-up sub-circuit, a first outputting sub-circuit, a first pulling-down sub-circuit, and a switching sub-circuit. A controlling terminal of switching sub-circuit is coupled to a controlling terminal of the first pulling-up sub-circuit. An inputting terminal of the switching sub-circuit is coupled to the outputting terminal of a first outputting sub-circuit. The second outputting circuit may comprise a second pulling-up sub-circuit, a second outputting sub-circuit, and a second pulling-down sub-circuit. An inputting terminal of the second pulling-up sub-circuit is coupled to an outputting terminal of the switching sub-circuit. A controlling terminal of the second outputting sub-circuit is coupled to an outputting terminal of the second pulling-up sub-circuit.
US10720109B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a driver chip. The scan lines are configured to receive scan signals. The data lines are configured to receive data signals. The driver chip is connected with the scan lines and the data lines, and configured to generate the scan signals and the data signals. A plurality of connection lines that are connected the driver chip with the data lines and scan lines are led out from a side of the driver chip.
US10720103B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device whose image quality is improved.A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first display area configured to include a plurality of first pixels which are disposed at least one horizontal line; a second display area configured to include a plurality of second pixels which are disposed in a plurality of horizontal lines; and an infrared (IR) light source configured to overlap the first display area in a plan view. The plurality of first pixels are set to be in a non-emission state during a period when the IR light source is driven.
US10720095B2
A method of potential regulation of display panel, a potential regulation system and a storage apparatus are provided. The method comprising: obtaining a display bias value ΔVth of the display panel; calculating an outputting voltage value Vt=Vi+ΔVth which currently needs according a currently inputting voltage value Vi and the display bias value ΔVth; determining whether the currently inputting voltage value Vi is in regulation range of the potential regulator; if yes, controlling the potential regulator to output correspondingly regulation voltage value according to the outputting voltage value Vt; if no, regulating the regulation range of the potential regulator according to the outputting voltage value Vt. Therefore, it could efficiency improve the problem of potential deviation in the display panel.
US10720088B1
An image display total current prediction method, a display device and a storage medium. The image display total current prediction method includes: obtaining grayscale signals of respective pixels of an image to be displayed, each of the respective pixels including multiple color channels, and the grayscale signal of each of the respective pixels including multiple color grayscale signals corresponding to the multiple color channels, respectively; calculating average grayscale values of respective color channels of the image to be displayed, respectively, according to the grayscale signals of the respective pixels of the image; based thereon, determining current values of the respective color channels, current bias values of the respective color channels and a total current bias value applied for the image to be displayed, respectively; and based thereon, calculating a display total current prediction value of the image to be displayed.
US10720081B2
The present teaching relates to matching users with items. In one example, information related to one or more users is obtained from one or more sources including an online source. The information is transformed into one or more psychological needs of each user. One or more items are obtained. Each item is associated with abilities to satisfy one or more psychological needs. The one or more users are matched with the one or more items based on the users' psychological needs and the items' abilities to satisfy psychological needs to generate a matching result. The matching result is provided.
US10720080B1
A computer-implemented method for determining a quality of driving of a vehicle is presented. Information indicating at least one driving condition may be received from at least one driving condition information indicating device. The at least one driving condition may be different from each of a plurality of driving metrics, and may affect a relationship between the quality of driving and at least one of the plurality of driving metrics. Information indicating the at least one driving metric may be received. At least one indication of the quality of driving of the vehicle may be determined based on the information indicating the at least one driving metric and the received information from the at least one driving condition information indicating device. The at least one indication of the quality of driving may be provided to at least one of the driver, a driving instructor, or an insurance provider.
US10720071B2
Mechanisms for automatically generating a set of test questions for use in generating a test to be administered to human test takers are provided. The mechanisms ingest a document from a corpus of documents to select a potential test question answer from the document and generate a candidate test question based on the potential test question answer. The mechanisms evaluate the candidate test question using a Question and Answer (QA) system to generate a result indicative of whether the candidate test question should be maintained for test generation. The mechanisms store the candidate test question in the set of test questions in response to a result indicating that the candidate test question should be maintained for test generation.
US10720070B2
Various embodiments include methods, devices, and robotic vehicles that adjust a proximity threshold implemented in a collision avoidance system based on whether a payload is being carried. Methods may include determining whether a payload is carried by the robotic vehicle, setting a proximity threshold for collision avoidance in response to determining that a payload is carried by the robotic vehicle, and controlling one or more motors of the robotic vehicle using the proximity threshold for collision avoidance. Some embodiments may include raising the proximity threshold when a payload is not being carried or decreasing proximity threshold when a payload is being carried. Some embodiments may include determining a classification of a payload and setting the proximity threshold based at least in part on the classification.
US10720066B2
Flying lane management systems and methods for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) include, in an air traffic control system configured to manage UAV flight in a geographic region, communicating to one or more UAVs over one or more wireless networks, wherein a plurality of flying lanes are defined and standardized in the geographic region each based on a specific purpose; determining an associated flying lane of the plurality of flying lanes for each of the one or more UAVs; communicating the associated flying lane to the one or more UAVs over the one or more wireless networks; receiving feedback from the one or more UAVs via the one or more wireless networks during flight in the associated flying lane; and providing a new instruction to the one or more UAVs based on the feedback.
US10720064B2
Avionic display systems and methods are provided for generating avionic displays, which include symbology and other graphics pertaining to forecast overpressure events, which are forecast to occur during supersonic aircraft flight. In various embodiments, the avionic display system includes a display device on which an avionic display is produced. A controller architecture is operably coupled to the display device. Storage media contains computer-readable code or instructions that, when executed by the controller architecture, cause the avionic display system to determine whether an overpressure event is forecast to occur due to the predicted future occurrence of a sonic boom, which has a magnitude exceeding a boom tolerance threshold. When the controller architecture determines that an overpressure event is forecast to occur, the avionic display system further generates symbology on the avionic display indicative of or visually signifying the forecast overpressure event.
US10720057B2
A method for generating profile data indicative of time dependence of a time dependent parameter for navigable elements of a navigable network. For the method, a relative value of a time dependent parameter associated with each segment of a set of segments of the electronic map is obtained for each time period of at least one set of time periods. The segments are then clustered into groups of segments based on the relative values of the time dependent parameter obtained for the segments in each time period of the at least one set of time periods. The relative time dependent parameter data associated with the segments of the group is next used to obtain, for each group of segments, an aggregate profile indicative of the time dependence of the relative value of the time dependent parameter for each of the segments of the group of segments.
US10720056B2
A system can receive requests for services from computing devices of users of s network service. For each of the requests, the system can determine a vehicle stopping location for a driver of a vehicle that is to service the request, and transmit an instruction set to the computing device of the driver. The instruction set can indicate (i) the vehicle stopping location for a vehicular portion of the service, and (ii) a path for the driver from the vehicle stopping location to a target location, where the path is to be followed by the driver upon parking the vehicle at the vehicle stopping location.
US10720043B2
Systems and methods for generating a graphical representation of a fire system network and identifying network information for predicting network faults are provided. Some methods can include extracting at least one network parameter from a network board of at least one a plurality of nodes in a fire system network and using the extracted at least one network parameter to generate a topology map that graphically represents a physical connectivity structure of the plurality of nodes.
US10720032B2
An article of apparel, a system, and methods include a fabric configured to conform to a body of a wearer. A plurality of ultrasonic positioning sensors are secured with respect to the fabric at a first set of predetermined locations, each of the ultrasonic positioning sensors configured to emit a sound wave configured to be detected by other ones of the plurality of ultrasonic positioning sensors and output an electronic signal indicative of having emitted or detected a sound wave. A plurality of feedback devices secured with respect to the fabric at a second set of predetermined locations, each of the feedback devices configured to output a feedback signal configured to be detectable by the wearer of the article of apparel.
US10720031B1
A warning light beacon having a base, a lens providing a dome over the base, and a circuit board extending upright from the base perpendicular to the base. The circuit board has two surfaces with mounted light sources, such as LEDs, providing a same or different colors of light. One or more light blocking elements, each preferably a non-operative electrical component, are mounted upon each of the surfaces, each between groups of one or more light sources, to dispose each of the groups to substantially illuminate a different one of a plurality of regions about 360 degrees of the lens. Sequential illumination of each of the regions along the 360 degrees of the lens by at least one light source associated with the region enables perception of rotating light outward via the lens. Such regions along the lens may also be illuminated simultaneously to provide solid-on or flashing patterns.
US10720029B1
An alert is used to inform a user that their blood glucose level has dropped below a threshold (e.g., the user is hypoglycemic) or has increased above a threshold (e.g., the user is hyperglycemic). There is a hierarchy of alerts from lowest priority to highest priority. The alert is communicated by a user device (e.g., a mobile device), which is, for example, a smartphone, smart watch, home automation device, or the like. The alert is modified in order to increase the likelihood that the user receives or acknowledges the alert within a minimal amount of time. An intensity level (e.g., a volume) of an alert is modified based on, for example, whether the user has acknowledged a previous alert. A modality or a sensory channel of an alert is changed if an initial alert does fails to elicit a response from the user.
US10720024B1
A user interface for the display of a parimutuel wagering device, that enables a player to place a combination wager on an upcoming contest, includes: (a) combination indicators that appear in the display, and wherein each of these represents one of the possible winning combinations of the wager, (b) value parameters that appear in the display, and wherein each of these is associated with one the combination indicators, (c) wherein each of the value parameters is a quantitative measure of the likelihood that a wager on its associated combination indicator will yield a return that is greater than the cost of the wager, and (d) wherein this value parameters is calculated from some of the temporally-updated information that is provided by the tote board that controls these parimutuel wagers.
US10720019B2
Wager-based video slot reel games are disclosed where additional prizes or other gains can be awarded after completion of an initial gaming action based upon application of a multi-symbol transformation (MST) tool along a MST target line extending through a gaming action outcome display area. In one embodiment, the MST tool is a virtual razor blade capable of slicing open razor-susceptible initial symbols found along the MST target line where the cutting open action can unleash additional prizes, juices or entertaining effects hidden within the razor-susceptible initial symbols. The availability of the MST tool at the end of a current gaming action or for a next gaming action is signaled to the player in one embodiment to thereby heighten the expectations of the player of winning the additional prizes or other gains due to the multi-symbol transformation action of the available MST tool.
US10720015B2
A method of merging a plurality of games into a single game on a gaming machine. A display displays first and second games. A game controller determines if a wager has been placed, and if the wager placed includes a base game wager and a game enhancement wager. Upon determining that the wager placed includes a base game wager and a game enhancement wager, the game controller merges the first and second games and a plurality of display positions into a merged game. The merged game selects symbols from the first game and the second game.
US10720010B2
The present invention involves methods and devices for controlling many aspects of a player's gaming experience, including game themes presented, game denomination, pay models, content and promotions. Some implementations of the invention provide a casino operator the necessary tools to create subsets of customers, often referred to herein as “communities,” and to control the gaming experiences of players in these communities. In some such implementations, communities may be created and/or modified according to various criteria, some of which may be weighted more heavily than others. Specific marketing messages, promotions, etc., may be provided to attract and retain players having similar characteristics and preferences.
US10720006B2
A mixed reality display system includes a processor circuit, and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to determine a location of a user wearing a mixed reality viewer and generate a live video signal of a real-world scene including a plurality of real-world elements. The machine readable instructions further cause the processor circuit to determine an authorized region within the real-world scene including a plurality of authorized real-world elements that are authorized to be displayed to a third party, and generate a mixed reality including the authorized real-world elements within the authorized region and a first virtual element that obscures one of the plurality of real-world elements of the live video signal that is not within the authorized region of the real-world scene, and generate an output video signal of the mixed reality scene.
US10720005B2
A game of chance is disclosed allowing an outcome determined by the actions of a player. The game of chance comprises a layout defining a plurality of cells. A first portion of the cells each have a winning indicia contained therein, and a remaining portion of the cells each have a non-winning indicia contained therein. The winning and non-winning indicia are initially concealed to a player and are selectively revealable by the player. The player may select a limited number of cells to reveal the indicia contained therein. An object of the game is to maximize a number of winning indicia revealed by the player.
US10719998B2
A vehicle accident reporting system and method identifies, using a sudden event detection processor operatively coupled to non-transient storage and an accelerometer in a vehicle, a sudden event when a measured acceleration of the vehicle sensed by the accelerometer exceeds either a predefined maximum acceleration or a predefined maximum deceleration indicative of an accident. A notification is transmitted, using the sudden event detection processor, over a network to an accident management hub that a sudden event has occurred. A prompt is transmitted over the network to a mobile device associated with an owner or operator of the vehicle, the prompt requesting that the owner or operator photograph a license plate of any other vehicle involved in the accident and record video of the accident scene. The requested image of the license plate and video of the accident scene is receiving from the mobile device.
US10719988B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating an augmented reality display for users of augmented reality devices. Features provided in the AR displays may be used to update a non-augmented reality display. In addition, interactions in the AR displays may also be incorporated into the non-augmented reality display.
US10719982B2
A surface extraction method that includes the steps outlined below is provided. (A) Raw input depth data of 3D child nodes are received that includes positions and distances of first 3D child nodes and positions of second 3D child nodes. (B) The neighboring 3D child nodes are grouped into 3D parent nodes. (C) For each 3D parent nodes, propagated distances of the second 3D child nodes are generated. (D) The 3D parent nodes are treated as the 3D child nodes to perform the steps (B)-(D) to generate a tree including a plurality levels of nodes such that a surface extraction processing is performed on the tree to extract at least one surface of the scene.
US10719980B2
A method of analyzing a tube system in particular by image processing of images of the tube system is provided by the present invention. In order to achieve a simulation of a medium flow through a calculated tube model, the present invention gathers a tube model from a specific tube data set. By defining the necessary parameters of a virtual injection of the medium by the user, the medium flows through the model. Using this displayed simulation for generating at least two images leads to an artificial image sequence that might support a person, which wants to examine a real structure, that corresponds to the calculated model. This might be seen in.
US10719974B1
Apparatus and method for preventing re-traversal of a prior path on a restart. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a ray generator to generate a plurality of rays in a first graphics scene; a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) generator to construct a BVH comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes, wherein the BVH comprises a specified number of child nodes at a current BVH level beneath a parent node in the hierarchy; traversal/intersection circuitry to traverse one or more of the rays through the hierarchically arranged nodes of the BVH to form a current traversal path and intersect the one or more rays with primitives contained within the nodes; and traversal tracking circuitry to maintain a path encoding array to store path data related to the current traversal path, the path data comprising an index of a currently traversed child node; wherein the traversal/intersection circuitry is to prevent one or more subsequent rays from re-intersecting primitives from which they originated and/or avoid re-traversing the current traversal path based on the path data in the path encoding array.
US10719971B2
Examples described herein relate to rendering a full resolution image using a reduced resolution depth pre-pass to pre-populate depth data for culling. A computing device may include a memory, a graphics processing unit (GPU) including a hierarchical depth buffer or full resolution depth data, and at least one processor. The computer device may render an occlusion geometry at a reduced resolution. The computer device may be configured to sample a depth value of pixels of the occlusion geometry. The computer device may pre-populate the GPU depth data based on the sampled depth values. The computer device may cull at least one tile or pixel from a full resolution rendering process in response to a depth of the at least one tile or pixel being further than a corresponding depth value in the GPU depth data. The computer device may perform the full resolution rendering process on remaining tiles or pixels.
US10719953B1
A system tracks poses of a passive object using fiducial markers on fiducial surfaces of a polygonal structure of the object using image data captured by a camera. The system includes an object tracking controller that generates an estimated pose for a frame of the image data using an approximate pose estimation (APE), and then updates the estimated pose using a dense pose refinement (DPR) of pixels. The APE may include minimizing reprojection error between projected image points of the fiducial markers and observed image points of the fiducial markers in the frame. The DPR may include minimizing appearance error between image pixels of the fiducial markers in the frame and projected model pixels of the fiducial markers determined from the estimated pose and the object model. In some embodiments, an inter-frame corner tracking (ICT) of the fiducial markers may be used to facilitate the APE.
US10719950B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus that provides screen information to be displayed on an image display apparatus that is worn by a user on the head or face and used for viewing an image. On the basis of an image of a head mount display (HMD) captured by a camera mounted on an information terminal, the mutual positional relationship and posture between the HMD and the information terminal are grasped, and screen information transmitted from the information terminal is superimposed and displayed in a contents reproducing screen of the HMD being viewed with an appropriate posture at an appropriate position on the reproducing screen. Since only the information terminal is present with the same position and posture as in the real world in the contents reproducing screen, a user can perform a screen operation of the information terminal with the HMD on.
US10719948B2
An apparatus to process a lightfield image of a scene acquired with a lightfield acquisition device comprises means for obtaining a first focal stack and a second focal stack, each comprising images representative of the scene and obtained from a different part of the pixels of the lightfield image. A method of processing the lightfield content is also described.
US10719939B2
Various embodiments describe systems and processes for generating AR/VR content. In one aspect, a method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) projection of an object is provided. A sequence of images along a camera translation may be obtained using a single lens camera. Each image contains at least a portion of overlapping subject matter, which includes the object. The object is semantically segmented from the sequence of images using a trained neural network to form a sequence of segmented object images, which are then refined using fine-grained segmentation. On-the-fly interpolation parameters are computed and stereoscopic pairs are generated for points along the camera translation from the refined sequence of segmented object images for displaying the object as a 3D projection in a virtual reality or augmented reality environment. Segmented image indices are then mapped to a rotation range for display in the virtual reality or augmented reality environment.
US10719928B2
A pattern inspection apparatus includes a transmitted illumination optical system to illuminate change the shape of a first inspection light, a reflected illumination optical system to illuminate a mask substrate with a second inspection light by using an objective lens and a polarizing element, and let a reflected light from the mask substrate pass therethrough, a drive mechanism to enable the polarizing element to be moved from/to outside/inside an optical path, a sensor to receive a transmitted light from the mask substrate illuminated with the first inspection light during stage moving, and an aperture stop, between the mask substrate and the sensor, to adjust a light flux diameter of the transmitted light so that the transmitted light reaching the sensor can be switched between high and low numerical aperture (NA) states with which the transmitted light from the mask substrate can enter the objective lens.
US10719921B2
A method of providing a medical image of a ROI of a patient, the method comprising: acquiring a first medical image of a region of interest (ROI) of a patient, the medical image characterized by a first signal to noise ratio (SNR); determining for a given pixel in the first image a plurality of different first image patches in the first image, each having a pixel that is coincident with the given pixel; determining for each first image patch a similar second image patch having a second SNR greater than the first SNR; determining an enhanced pixel value for the given pixel having an enhanced SNR greater than the first SNR responsive to pixel values of pixels in the determined second image patches; and using the determined pixel value to generate a second medical image of the ROI having an enhanced SNR greater than the first SNR.
US10719917B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies, at an image post-processor, unresolved surface data and identifies, at the image post-processor, control data associated with the unresolved surface data. Additionally, the technology may resolve, at the image post-processor, the unresolved surface data and the control data into a final image.
US10719914B2
Techniques are disclosed for digital content zooming. In one example case, the hypotenuse of the digital content (or a combination of both height and width values of the content) is initially set to provide the 100% zoom level and is subsequently used to resize or zoom that content. In particular, an arbitrary constant that is independent of the content itself is used to define the initial or 100% zoom level at which the content is initially displayed. The arbitrary constant may be, for example, a hypotenuse size in pixels, or a specific combination of height and width in pixels. In one specific example, the arbitrary constant can be selected based on, for instance, an average of current physical screen and/or virtual viewing window resolutions' hypotenuse sizes, in pixels. In any case, the arbitrary constant can be used to set the initial size of the content, and to compute zoom steps.
US10719906B2
A graph processing system may include at least one auxiliary memory configured to store graph data including phase data and attribute data, a main memory configured to store a portion of the graph data, a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs) configured to process the graph data received from the main memory and perform synchronization and including cores and device memories, and a central processing unit (CPU) configured to manage query processing associated with the graph data performed by the GPUs and store, in the auxiliary memory, updatable attribute data of a result of the query processing.
US10719899B1
It is an object of the present invention to provide a predictive traffic law enforcement profiler apparatus and method which incorporates a means to determine current location, time, velocity and also incorporates a means to utilize a database derived from historic traffic law enforcement records, crowd sourced records and historical traffic data and also incorporates a predictive processing means to provide historic traffic law enforcement records and estimates of enforced speed limits and enforcement profiles, patrol locations and schedules of traffic law enforcement to a driver.
US10719898B2
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing documents. In one implementation, a computer implemented method is provided for analyzing a patent application and providing a visual representation. According to the method, a selection is received from a user to view claims of the patent application in a claim tree hierarchy and a computer displays the claims in the claim tree hierarchy on a display. The claim tree hierarchy visually depicts relationships between the claims. The method identifies one or more words of at least one of the claims that constitutes an element and displays, in the claim tree hierarchy, the words constituting the element in association with the claim.
US10719896B2
The present invention relates to systems, methods and computer program products for an a la carte amenity, special service, food/beverage and accommodation feature search and booking engines. Aspects of the present invention allow customers to identify, via arbitrary search, amenities and/or special services (including food/beverage) available at lodging facilities, restaurants clubs/lounges/bars, dwellings and travel accommodation venues. Customers are thereby presented with goods and services matching or related to their query items and are permitted to select and confirm desired feature options and book, reserve or purchase their selection; optionally including the booking of an accommodation such as a room or table at a restaurant as well.
US10719895B2
A computer-implemented method of splitting whole building energy consumption includes collecting sensor data from a plurality Variable Air Volume (VAV) boxes in a building, an electric meter in the building, and a gas meter in the building. The total heating energy consumption is split across a plurality of zones within the building using the sensor data, thereby yielding heating energy consumption for each zone. The total cooling energy consumption is split across the plurality of zones using the sensor data, thereby yielding cooling energy consumption for each zone and the total ventilation energy consumption is split across the plurality of zones using the sensor data, thereby yielding ventilation energy consumption for each zone. Zone energy consumption by aggregating the heating energy consumption for the zone, the cooling energy consumption for the zone, and the ventilation energy consumption for the zone.
US10719892B2
In some embodiments, a system may include a communication badge device including a communication device. The communication device can include a touchscreen interface and at least one sensor configured to generate a signal related to an orientation of the communication badge device. The communication device may further include a processor coupled to the touchscreen interface and the at least one sensor. The processor may be configured to determine a first mode and a second mode based on the orientation. The processor can be further configured to provide name tag data to the touchscreen interface in the first mode and to provide a user interface to the touchscreen interface in the second mode.
US10719891B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining the intent of a recommendation made by a user of a mobile application where the application includes a plurality of separable components, any one or more of which the recommendation can apply to. An application in which a user recommendation control is provided for presentation to a user also includes a tag indicating how a recommendation of the application should be interpreted with respect to the components included therein. The tag can be set by the application developer and can be in the form of text (e.g., a keyword or term) or a uniform resource locator (URL). Where a tag references multiple components of an application, a recommending user can be presented with a recommendation intent query. The recommendation intent query allows a user to designate one or more components of the application to which the user's recommendation should be attributed.
US10719889B2
A system, apparatus, and method are provided for implementing secondary profiles for members of an online application or service. Each member has a corresponding primary profile populated by the member, and a secondary profile populated with information from data sources other than the member. Each fact or entry in the secondary (or inferred) profile is accompanied by a confidence score reflecting confidence in the source of the fact, confidence that the fact is correctly associated with this member, and/or other factors. A given fact may be obtained or extracted from multiple sources, with each copy or version assigned a separate confidence score. In response to a request to identify members having a particular attribute, in addition to identifying members that have the attribute in their primary profiles, members having the attribute in their secondary profiles may be identified if the corresponding confidence scores are greater than a threshold.
US10719884B2
Appearance data of a target entity is collected as appearance data, where the target entity comprises a physical entity capable of accessing, as a member, a blockchain. The appearance data is registered in a distributed database associated with the blockchain as an identity of the target entity. A target transaction initiated by a member node device in the blockchain is received, where the target transaction comprises the appearance data of the target entity that is collected by the member node device and a service event that is related to the target entity and that is detected by the member node device. A smart contract that corresponds to the service event is invoked. Based on the identity indicated by the appearance data of the target entity, service logic stated in the smart contract is executed.
US10719883B2
Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus and computer program code for creating and administering virtual affinity groups are provided. Pursuant to some embodiments, a computer implemented processing method is provided which includes receiving, at an insurance processing platform, information identifying at least a first characteristic of a virtual affinity group, receiving, at the insurance processing platform, information identifying at least a first feature of the virtual affinity group and at least a first insurance related benefit to be offered to the virtual affinity group, automatically identifying at least a first individual matching the at least first characteristic, and communicating to the at least first individual information allowing the at least first individual to participate in the virtual affinity group.
US10719876B2
A computer-implemented method for generating a financial product that is configured to be used for one or more payment transactions. The method includes receiving a selection of a plurality of core accounts for providing financial backing for the financial product, and generating the financial product based on one or more control parameters that define use restrictions for the financial product.
US10719870B2
Disclosed is system and method for mixed reality world that incorporates a holographic button (e.g., a 3D object) that can be downloaded from the website of a provider of a good, data content, or a service (item). The holographic button enables a user in the mixed reality world to order the item by interacting with the holographic button. The user in the mixed reality world can place the holographic button relative to a relevant real-world object. Whenever the user interacts with the real-world object through their mixed reality world (i.e., virtual interaction with the real-world object), the holographic button can appear with that real-word object, allowing the user to order the item associated with the holographic button.
US10719867B2
A battery replacement assisting system includes a server configured to determine, from a plurality of battery packs including a recycled battery pack, a battery pack serving as a replacement candidate for a battery pack mounted on the vehicle. The server is configured to: acquire a state of deterioration of the battery pack; select a battery pack having a life longer than a period until the planned time from the plurality of battery packs by calculating a distance (life) in which the vehicle can travel until a capacity maintenance ratio of the battery pack reaches a threshold value (Qth); and determine the replacement candidate using a result of the selection and the expense information. The battery replacement assisting system further includes a display configured to notify the user of the replacement candidate determined by the server and the expense information of the replacement candidate.
US10719865B2
Various aspects of a method and system to provide a recommendation for selection of a merchant store are disclosed herein. The method includes reception, by a server, of a recommendation request for selection of one or more merchant stores from a plurality of merchant stores. The recommendation request is associated with a beneficiary. The method further includes determination, at the server, of a score associated with each of the plurality of merchant stores based on a plurality of weighted parameters associated with the beneficiary. The method further includes generation of a recommendation, at the server, for the selection of the one or more merchant stores based on the determined score associated with each of the plurality of merchant stores.
US10719851B2
A transaction account provider may obtain transaction information from consumer transactions and information from a consumer browsing a transaction account provider website, collectively first-party data. A web server may obtain second-party data from a consumer's use of a merchant website. Additional third-party data may be purchased from a third-party data source. An ad server may use the first-party data, the second-party data, and the third-party data to select a relevant personalized banner ad to be displayed to the consumer.
US10719837B2
Systems and methods for tracking user interaction in a presentation may be provided. A presentation may be augmented to include user interaction tracking features, which facilitate tracking of a user's clickstream and browser session data generated during the playback of the presentation. A player may be configured to play the presentation and to track the user's browser session and clickstream data. The presentation player may be configured to dispatch this tracking data to a tracking server system. The server may be configured to facilitate calculation of an engagement score based on the tracking data, which indicates the user's level of engagement with the presentation. The engagement score and at least portions of the tracking data can be transmitted to a third party system, such as a marketing automation system, to trigger a responsive event. The responsive event may be generated based at least in part on the engagement score.
US10719829B2
Certain exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for processing PIN-inclusive transactions in connection with an electronic device or terminal, e.g., where PIN code encryption keys are not necessarily stored on the electronic device or terminal, and/or where payment instrument data is maintained in a separate system from PIN code data at least until certain elements are combined in a highly secure system for submission to an electronic funds transfer network. One or more separate or physically separated systems may be used in this regard, e.g., taking advantage of more prevalent computer networks such as the Internet. Similarly, the ability to provide less expensive terminals or electronic devices at a point-of-sale, point-of-purchase, etc., may be advantageous. The interchange rate is not necessarily driven up in certain example instances.
US10719828B2
A method of encrypting a passcode is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes: receiving an indication of a portion of the passcode; calculating a plaintext value based at least in part on the indication, wherein the plaintext value represents an encoded portion of the passcode; encrypting the plaintext value into ciphertext using a homomorphic encryption system; and updating a cumulative encryption string by executing a cumulative operation to aggregate the ciphertext corresponding to the encoded portion into the cumulative encryption string computed for a previous portion of the passcode, wherein the cumulative operation is dictated by a homomorphic property of the homomorphic encryption system.
US10719821B2
A merchandise sales data processing apparatus includes a code reading unit configured to read a code of a customer purchasing a merchandise, an electronic receipt issuing instruction unit configured to receive an instruction for issuing electronic receipt information associated with merchandise sales data, an electronic receipt generation unit configured to generate the electronic receipt information in correlation with the code of the customer when the instruction for issuing the electronic receipt information is received by the electronic receipt issuing instruction unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit a company code indicating a company and the electronic receipt information generated by the electronic receipt generation unit to an electronic receipt server, and a receipt printing unit configured to print a paper receipt associated with the merchandise sales data when the instruction for issuing the electronic receipt information is not received by the electronic receipt issuing instruction unit.
US10719815B1
Remote deposit of checks can be facilitated by a financial institution. A customer's general purpose computer and image capture device may be leveraged to capture an image of a check and deliver the image to financial institution electronics. Additional data for the transaction may be collected as necessary. The transaction can be automatically accomplished utilizing the images and data thus acquired.
US10719813B1
Diagnosing vehicle anomalies efficiently is dependent upon the expertise of the repair technician, but also the availability of resources. As vehicles have become increasingly computerized, repair technicians have become increasingly specialized in a smaller number of vehicle models. Dealerships and large repair shops have an advantage in that they can more easily afford to obtain specialized electronic tools. However, repair technicians in smaller repair shops often are more skilled, but are unable to afford access to advanced electronic tools and software. A system for using remotely located resources to improve the diagnosis and resolution of vehicle anomalies, including the use of expert technicians and vehicle-specific databases, is disclosed.
US10719801B2
An inventory receptacle can include a body that includes a plurality of walls arranged to at least partially bound a storage volume. A computer-readable identifier connected with the body may be associated with an electronically-stored record about items registered as being present in the storage volume. A cover may be detachably coupled with the body so as to at least partially bound the storage volume in an arrangement that blocks access to the computer-readable identifier and to the storage volume. The cover may be configured for detachment from the body so as to allow access to the computer-readable identifier and the storage volume.
US10719782B2
A method includes: performing a machine learning process using information for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) materials to be used for an EOR process on a defined oil reservoir; determining EOR materials suitable for a condition of the oil reservoir; listing the EOR materials; and outputting an indication of the EOR materials. The materials comprise a first complex fluid to be introduced into the oil reservoir. Determining the EOR materials suitable for the condition is based on similarities between a first set of vector values for the first complex fluid, a second set of vector values for a second complex fluid already in the oil reservoir, and geological data, each of the vector values of the first set being defined by parameters of the first complex fluid and each of the vector values of the second set being defined by parameters of the second complex fluid and the geological data.
US10719779B1
System and means generates synthetic forms of social media data such as data from microblogging services (e.g., Twitter) and social networking services (e.g., Facebook). This system and means jointly generate interaction graph structures and text features similar to input social media data. First, an interaction graph is generated by mapping social network interactions in input (real) social media data to graph structures. This interaction graph is fitted to a social network model (or a composite model) by minimizing the distance between the input and the synthetic interaction graphs (of potentially different sizes). The distance is measured statistically or based on the performance of social media analytics. Various patterns (such as anomalies), interaction types and temporal dynamics are generated synthetically. Second, text features are extracted from input social media data with topic modeling and statistical analysis of word tuple distributions. Based on these features, synthetic social media text is generated. Third, synthetic graph structures and text features are combined to generate the synthetic social media data. The system is particularly useful in generating data to be used for developing and testing new social media analytics or for generating or analyzing social bot network behavior and campaigns in social media, and for sharing test data with others without rate and privacy concerns.
US10719768B1
A system for detecting an unknown undesirable event comprises an input device configured to receive a dataset comprising a plurality n of multidimensional datapoints (MDDPs), a processor configured to embed the MDDPs in an lower dimension embedded space to obtain embedded MDDPs, and a detection engine configured to calculate distributions of distances Dnni, i=1, . . . , n of each embedded MDDP from a plurality of nearest-neighbors (nn) to compute a threshold Dnnt and to classify a particular MDDP of the dataset or a newly arrived MDDP (NAMDDP) as an abnormal MDDP based on comparison with threshold Dnnt, wherein the classification is automatic and unsupervised without relying on a signature, rules or domain expertise and wherein the particular MDDP classified as abnormal is indicative of the unknown undesirable event.
US10719765B2
The present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity using conditional behavioural biometrics.The present invention seeks to provide an enhanced method of authenticating and/or identifying a user identity using conditional behavioural biometrics.According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of generating a user profile for use in identifying and/or authenticating a user on a device, the device equipped with one or more sensors, the method comprising: generating a set of data points from sensory data collected by the one or more sensors; clustering the set of data points to produce a set of data clusters; developing a first classifier for the data clusters, the first classifier being operable to assign a further data point derived from a further user interaction with the computing device to one of the data clusters; and developing one or more further classifiers for at least one of the data clusters, the further classifier operable to identify and/or authenticate a user identity based on the further data point.
US10719753B2
The invention relates to a label comprising an electronic chip for applying to a bottle of liquid, said label comprising; a first layer (S), called a support layer (S), a second layer (E), called an electronic chip layer (E), comprising at least an electronic chip and an antenna connected to the electronic chip, and a third layer (P), called customization layer (P), in which each layer (S, E, P) has two faces, and the three layers (S, E, P) are placed one above the other in a stacking direction, and in which the customization layer (P) comprises at least one sublayer (C5), called metal sublayer (C5), made of a metal material, the thickness of the metal sublayer (C5) along the stacking direction being less than or equal to 35 μm.
US10719751B2
The present disclosure provides an anti-removal monitoring circuitry, applied to an electronic tag. The circuitry includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal. The circuitry further includes: a shutdown circuit, configured to control the electronic tag to be in a shutdown state in response to connection between the first input terminal and the second input terminal; and a starting-up circuit, configured to control the output terminal to output a pulse voltage signal in response to disconnection between the first input terminal and the second input terminal, in such a manner that the electronic tag generates an alarm signal in response to the pulse voltage signal.
US10719747B2
Surgical articles, such as sponges, are provided in a pack which contains individual surgical articles having UHF RFID or other electronic labels which provide both (a) unique identification information for each article as well as (b) unique identification information for all articles in the pack. Prior to the surgical procedure, the labels are scanned and the identification information for all articles in the pack uploaded to a processor to create a list of available individual surgical articles. At the end of the surgical procedure, the surgical articles are collected and the electronic labels read and compared to the initial list to determine if there are any unaccounted individual surgical articles. The UHF RFID tag may then be used to determine a location of the unaccounted article outside the patient's body.
US10719746B2
Ink containing metal particles is ejected from a print head, in accordance with a plurality of print ratios corresponding to a plurality of scans of the print head relative to a unit region of a print medium. At least one of the plurality of print ratios is set as a high print ratio which is higher than others. A height of the high print ratio, in a case where a scan corresponding to the high print ratio is a Lth (L: integral number) scan in the plurality of print scans, is higher than a height of the high print ratio, in a case where a scan corresponding to the high print ratio is a Nth (N>L; N: integral number) scan in the plurality of print scans.
US10719739B1
A method for learning an automatic labeling device for auto-labeling a base image of a base vehicle using sub-images of nearby vehicles is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device inputting the base image and the sub-images into previous trained dense correspondence networks to generate dense correspondences; and into encoders to output convolution feature maps, inputting the convolution feature maps into decoders to output deconvolution feature maps; with an integer k from 1 to n, generating a k-th adjusted deconvolution feature map by translating coordinates of a (k+1)-th deconvolution feature map using a k-th dense correspondence; generating a concatenated feature map by concatenating the 1-st deconvolution feature map and the adjusted deconvolution feature maps; and inputting the concatenated feature map into a masking layer to output a semantic segmentation image and instructing a 1-st loss layer to calculate 1-st losses and updating decoder weights and encoder weights.
US10719738B2
In some embodiments, an exemplary inventive computer-implemented method may include steps, performed by a processor, of: obtaining training real representations of a real subject; obtaining a training synthetic representation having a visual effect applied to a synthetic subject; training a first neural network and a second neural network by: presenting the first neural network with training real representation and candidate meta-parameters of latent variables for the visual effect to generate a training photorealistic-imitating synthetic representation of the real subject with the visual effect; presenting the second neural network with the training photorealistic-imitating synthetic representation and the training synthetic representation to determine actual meta-parameters of the latent variables of the visual effect, where the actual meta-parameters are meta-parameters at which the second neural network has identified that the training photorealistic-imitating synthetic representation is realistic, and presenting to the first neural network another real representation and the actual meta-parameters of the latent variables of the visual effect to incorporate the visual effect into another real subject.
US10719736B1
A device may receive a feature submission identifying a candidate feature for a software application. The device may pre-process the feature submission to reformat data associated with the candidate feature to match a data format associated with stored information regarding past feature submissions. The device may perform natural language processing on the data associated with the candidate feature to determine a semantic meaning of the candidate feature. The device may compare the semantic meaning of the candidate feature with an index of past feature submissions. The device may provide a response indicating whether the candidate feature matches the past feature submissions wherein the response comprises an indication that the candidate feature does not match any past feature submission or information identifying one or more past feature submissions associated with a threshold semantic similarity to the candidate feature.
US10719733B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems and processes for artificially rendering images using interpolation of tracked control points. According to particular embodiments, a set of control points is tracked between a first frame and a second frame, where the first frame includes a first image captured from a first location and the second frame includes a second image captured from a second location. An artificially rendered image corresponding to a third location is then generated by interpolating individual control points for the third location using the set of control points and interpolating pixel locations using the individual control points. The individual control points are used to transform image data.
US10719722B2
A driving oriented digital video recorder (DVR) system may comprise a camera; a memory; and a control circuit. The occurrence of a predefined driving event type may be determined based on received data. An event object that includes details of the determined event may be generated, including the type of the determined event and a time association with a segment of captured driving video. Metadata tags may be generated, which contain the type of the determined event and the location of the event object in the memory of the DVR. The DVR may retrieve segments of the driving video by identifying the metadata tag as having the same event type as a query parameter and, in turn, identify the event object using the location of the event object included in the metadata tag. The driving video segment may then be located via the association with the event object.
US10719715B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method and system for adaptively switching supervised detection strategy for watermarked and non-watermarked real time televised video advertisements. The televised video advertisements are present in a live stream of a media content of a broadcasted channel. The method includes selection of a set of frames per second from the media content. The method includes checking for one or more watermarked features in each selected frame of the media content. The method includes switching to a first detection strategy. The first detection strategy is associated with detection of a first ad in the live stream of the media content when the one or more watermarked feature are present in each checked frame in the selected set of frames.
US10719712B2
An apparatus for classifying an action in a video of a sports event including receiving a first video segment and a second video segment in the sports video, wherein the second video segment is the segment after next of the first video segment; receiving a predetermined play state of the first video segment and a different predetermined play state of the second video segment, locating a play object in one of a predetermined set of regions in a field of the sports event in the second segment; determining a role of a player interacting with the play object when the play object is located one of the predetermined set of regions in the second video segment; and classifying the action in the first video segment based on the located play object and the determined role.
US10719708B1
A computer-implemented method for processing images to determine EI site status is provided. The method includes image processing of an aerial image by two EI feature recognition models. A first EI feature recognition model recognizes a first EI feature and a second EI feature recognition model recognizes a second EI feature. The results of each model are further used to determine a composite indication of EI site status.
US10719704B2
The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable appropriate imaging with the front camera of a smartphone or the like in the dark.A visible light image and an infrared light image are captured. A face image is recognized from the infrared light image, and images of respective organs are extracted from the face image. The images of the respective organs are corrected in accordance with each extracted organ, using the visible light image and the infrared light image. The corrected images of the respective organs are combined. The present disclosure can be applied to smartphones.
US10719703B2
A line-of-sight analysis method, performed by a computer, includes: identifying, when a selection event with respect to a first object out of a plurality of objects is detected, a second object different from the first object, based on a detection status of line-of-sight relative to the objects in a most recent time period of the selection event; and outputting information indicating the identified second object.
US10719702B2
Embodiments describing an approach to evaluate text and image consistency. Receiving one or more images. Receiving one or more text documents. Identifying relevant text in the one or more text documents. Determining the consistency between the one or more images and the one or more text documents. Creating one or more image and text consistency scores based on the determined consistency between the one or more images and the one or more text documents, and outputting the one or more image and text consistency scores for evaluating text and image consistency.
US10719701B2
Implementations for optical character recognition of a language script can include actions of receiving an image comprising a graphical representation of a word written in the language script, segmenting the word into two or more segments, each segment being determined based on one or more of a variation in a height of the word and a variation in a width of the word, and including at least one character, providing a boundary for each segment of the two or more segments, the boundary enclosing the at least one character of a respective segment, each boundary having an edge with respect to an axis of the image, normalizing boundaries of the two or more segments by aligning edges of the boundaries, and labeling each segment of the two or more segments with a respective label, the respective label indicating a language character within the respective boundary.
US10719697B2
A gesture judgment device includes a reference part detection unit that outputs reference part information indicating a reference part region, a movement extraction unit that outputs movement information indicating a movement region, a reference part disappearance judgment unit that generates a reference part disappearance information, a timing judgment unit that judges whether first timing indicated by the reference part disappearance information and second timing of occurrence of a frame in which the movement region overlaps with the reference part region indicated by the reference part information are synchronized with each other or not and outputs a timing judgment result as the result of the judging, and an operation judgment unit that judges contents of a gesture operation performed by an operator based on the timing judgment result and the movement information.
US10719695B2
Provided are a method for pushing a picture, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes the follows. An image containing a facial expression of a user is acquired, when a screen is lit; the image is analyzed to determine an emotion type of the user; and a target picture is pushed according to the emotion type of the user.
US10719692B2
Subepidermal imaging of a face may be used to assess subepidermal features such as blood vessels (e.g., veins) when the device is attempting to authenticate a user in a facial recognition authentication process. Assessment of the subepidermal features may be used to distinguish between users that have closely related facial features (e.g., siblings or twins) in situations where the facial recognition authentication process has less certainty in a decision about recognition of the user's face as an authorized user.
US10719679B2
A method, system for encoding or decoding information in physical properties of an object. A tangible product comprises a three dimensional tangible object having modified physical properties; and wherein the modified physical properties are a modification of physical properties, wherein the modification encodes information. A method comprising: obtaining a representation of a three dimensional object having physical properties; obtaining information to encode; determining modified physical properties by modifying the physical properties to encode within the modified physical properties the information; and producing a tangible product, wherein the tangible product is the three dimensional object having the modified physical properties.
US10719676B2
A camera is provided that comprises an image sensor for detecting image data from a detection region and a reception optics arranged in front of the image sensor, a focus adjustment unit having a thread for changing the position of focus of the reception optics by way of a rotary movement and a front screen. In this connection the reception optics has a front region having an inner contour that is accessible via the front screen in order to rotate the reception optics from the outside in the thread and to thus adjust the focus.
US10719664B2
A cross-media search method using a VGG convolutional neural network (VGG net) to extract image features. The 4096-dimensional feature of a seventh fully-connected layer (fc7) in the VGG net, after processing by a ReLU activation function, serves as image features. A Fisher Vector based on Word2vec is utilized to extract text features. Semantic matching is performed on heterogeneous images and the text features by means of logistic regression. A correlation between the two heterogeneous features, which are images and text, is found by means of semantic matching based on logistic regression, and thus cross-media search is achieved. The feature extraction method can effectively indicate deep semantics of image and text, improve cross-media search accuracy, and thus greatly improve the cross-media search effect.
US10719655B2
The present disclosure provides a system and a method for quickly diagnosing, classifying, and sampling in-line defects based on a CAA pre-diagnosis database. The method includes the steps of obtaining a design layout of an object and a defect data of an important process stage of the object, obtaining a pre-diagnosis data group related to the design layout from a CAA pre-diagnosing database, and judging a killer defect index and a failure risk level of the defect data according to the pre-diagnosis data group.
US10719653B2
A computer implemented method of routing a net of an electronic circuit is disclosed. The net connects a plurality of pins of the electronic circuit. The method includes selecting, using one or more computer systems, first and second main spine routing tracks for respective first and second groups of pins of the net. The method also includes generating, using one or more computer systems, a first main spine wire on the selected first main spine routing track and a second main spine wire on the selected second main spine routing track. A router configured to perform the method is also disclosed.
US10719645B1
A computer-based model having executable semantics may be used to simulate the behavior of a system. A substructure of interest is sliced from the model and analyzed to determine a transformation of the slice while preserving some context of the model. The transformed slice may be further manipulated outside of the model, integrated back into the model in place of the original slice, or used in other ways.
US10719635B2
A computer implemented digital bridge that reduces the time and costs associated with designing and configuring hardware and/or logic for an application while also reducing the potential for errors during the process.
US10719629B1
Provided is a strategy based feature disablement that includes determining a device/browser combination based on an indication that a user device is attempting to access a resource. The device/browser combination is compared to a database of device/browser combinations. Access to the resource is allowed based on a determination that the device/browser combination is not included in the database of device/browser combinations. Alternatively, the resource is reconfigured based on a determination that the device/browser combination is included in the database of device/browser combinations.
US10719627B2
A computer implemented method for data anonymization comprises: receiving a request for data that needs anonymization. The request comprises at least one field descriptor of data to be retrieved and a usage scenario of a user for the requested data. Then, based on the usage scenario, an anonymization algorithm to be applied to the data that is referred to by the field descriptor is determined. Subsequently, the determined anonymization algorithm is applied to the data that is referred to by the field descriptor. A testing is performed, as to whether the degree of anonymization fulfills a requirement that is related to the usage scenario. In the case, the requirement is fulfilled, access to the anonymized data is provided.
US10719622B2
A cybersecurity system includes a controller that functions as a gateway between an end user device and an offline data storage device. When the end user device wants to access a file on the offline data storage device the controller severs a connection between a temporary storage memory and the end user device, establishes a connection with the offline data storage device, pulls the data from the offline data storage device to a temporary storage memory, then severs the connection with the offline data storage device, then establishes the connection with the end user device and communicates the data from the temporary storage memory to the end user device before overwriting the data in the temporary storage memory.
US10719613B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (i) identifying a neural network that comprises an interconnected set of nodes organized in a set of layers represented by a plurality of matrices that each comprise a plurality of weights, where each weight represents a connection between a node in the interconnected set of nodes that resides in one layer in the set of layers and an additional node in the set of interconnected nodes that resides in a different layer in the set of layers, (ii) encrypting, using an encryption cipher, the plurality of weights, (iii) detecting that execution of the neural network has been initiated, and (iv) decrypting, using the encryption cipher, the plurality of weights in response to detecting that the execution of the neural network has been initiated. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10719608B2
This disclosure provides for patch monitoring and analysis, such as in an industrial process control and automation system. A method includes discovering at least one connected device by a risk manager system, including a software module for the connected device and installed patch information for the software module. The method includes identifying current patch information for the software module by the risk manager system. The method includes populating a patch definition file according to the device, the software module, the installed patch information, the current patch information, by the risk manager system. The method includes analyzing the patch definition file. The method includes producing an output based on the analysis by the risk manager system, the output including the software module, the installed patch information, the current patch information, and the status of the software module with respect to the installed patch information.
US10719601B2
A Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Central Processing Unit (CPU) comprises a network core and a system core. The network core receives and validating hardware trust certificates from external circuitry that obtains the hardware trust certificates using a read-only hardware trust identifier that is physically-embedded in the external circuitry. The system core executing an NFV Virtual Network Function Component (VNFC) and generating VNFC data for the external circuitry. The system core calls an Application Programming Interface (API) for a hardware trusted communication with the external circuitry and transfers the VNFC data to the network core. In response to the API call, the network core transfers the VNFC data to the external circuitry when the network core successfully validates the hardware trust certificates from the external circuitry. The network core blocks the user data when the network core did not successfully validate the hardware trust certificates from the external circuitry.
US10719600B1
Techniques are provided for client application authentication and include receiving a request to authenticate an application and, based on the received request to authenticate the application, sending a request to perform a push communication, including a short-term shared key, to a digital distribution system, wherein the digital distribution system is a distribution source of the application. The digital distribution system attempts to send the push communication including the short-term shared key to the application. The techniques may proceed by receiving a request for resources from the provider client application and determining whether the application has the short-term shared key. When it is determined that the application has provided the short-term shared key, the requested resources to the application may be provided, otherwise, the requested resources may be denied.
US10719596B1
Methods, systems, and computer-accessible mediums are described to authenticate a user using a user's handwriting style rather than using the user's signature through adaptive handwriting challenges which are verified using the machine learning technique of a generative adversarial network. An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium can include, for example, receiving at a first entity, a request for authentication of a user associated with a user identifier; sending from the first entity to the user, a first adaptive phrase; receiving at the first entity, a digital representation of a human transcription of the first adaptive phrase; performing an artificial-intelligence based comparison between the received digital representation of the human transcription of the first adaptive phrase and a user-specific computer-generated discriminator or user-specific computer-generated model of the first adaptive phrase; generating a first score based on the comparison; sending from the first entity (i) an authentication message if the first score is equal to or above a pre-determined threshold or (ii) a failure message if the first score is below a pre-determined threshold.
US10719586B2
Embodiments for determining ownership of intellectual property data by a processor. Various communications provided by one or more contributors relating to the intellectual property data are tracked using one or more immutable ledgers. The communications maintained in the one or more immutable ledgers may be analyzed to identify a degree of contribution by the one or more contributors to the intellectual property. A degree of ownership may be assigned to the intellectual property data for the one or more contributors according to the analyzed content.
US10719583B2
A method, computer system, and computer program for improving communication between a patient and a provider are described. The method, computer system and computer program perform a method that includes: obtaining data related to the health state of a patient; associating a timestamp with the data, encrypting the data and writing the data to a computer readable medium, determining whether the data is in a pre-configured range, and responsive to determining that the data is not in the pre-configured range, sending an alert to a client. This method also includes obtaining a response from the client and writing the response to the computer readable medium, where the response includes a medical recommendation based on the data.
US10719580B2
A method for processing medical images includes analyzing a medical image to detect a medical condition from a list of medical conditions, wherein the list of medical conditions includes aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, and coronary stenosis. Responsive to determining the medical image includes a first medical condition, the method generates a first report that includes information on a detection of the first medical condition. The method identifies, a medical specialist based on availability and medical expertise and sends to the identified medical specialist, the medical image and the first report for a decision on the detection of the first medical condition. Responsive to receiving the decision from the medical specialist, the method sends to a second electronic device, the decision, the medical image, and the first report.
US10719577B2
A system analyzing device according to the present invention includes: a collection unit that collects a plurality of pieces of sensor data of a monitored system; a storage unit that stores a correlation modes based on at least one of a plurality of pieces of sensor data; and a standard contribution acquisition unit that acquires, for a predicted value of an objective variable of a regression equation thereof, a standard contribution indicating a ratio of contribution of each of the data included as explanatory variables.
US10719576B2
Interpolation logic described herein provides a good approximation to a bicubic interpolation, which is generally smoother than bilinear interpolation, without performing all the calculations normally needed for a bicubic interpolation. This allows an approximation of smooth bicubic interpolation to be performed on devices (e.g. mobile devices) which have limited processing resources. At each of a set of predetermined interpolation positions within an array of data points, a set of predetermined weights represent a bicubic interpolation which can be applied to the data points. For a plurality of the predetermined interpolation positions which surround the sampling position, the corresponding sets of predetermined weights and the data points are used to determine a plurality of surrounding interpolated values which represent results of performing the bicubic interpolation at the surrounding predetermined interpolation positions. A linear interpolation is then performed on the surrounding interpolated values to determine an interpolated value at the sampling position.
US10719565B2
Particular embodiments may receive one or more data items associated with a first user of a social-networking system. The one or more data items being related to an entity. One or more data stores may store a social graph of the social-networking system. The social graph may comprise a plurality of nodes and plurality of edges between nodes. The nodes may comprise user nodes corresponding to users of the social-networking system and concept nodes corresponding to concepts. Particular embodiments may identify one or more nodes of the social graph that likely match the entity and associate at least one of the data items to at least one of the identified nodes.
US10719564B2
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, by a search engine of an online social network, web domains external to the online social network. The method includes accessing domain-quality signals associated with each web domain. At least one of the domain-quality signals includes a measure of activations of social plug-ins of the online social network available on webpages of each web domain, a social plug-in being an executable script providing an activable user-interface element for interacting with the online social network from the webpage. The method includes calculating, for each web domain, a domain ranking based at least in part on the domain-quality signals associated with the web domain. The method includes identifying, by the search engine, some of the web domains as low-quality web domains to avoid accessing based at least in part on the domain rankings of the web domains not satisfying a threshold domain ranking.
US10719560B2
The present invention discloses a system for identifying, associating, searching and presenting documents based on relation combination, which builds a computer system-based knowledge management system in a professional field and improves the learning efficiency and utilization of professional knowledge. The technical solution includes finding a series of documents having an inter-document logical relationship with a group of specific keywords from massive documents in a keyword search manner, and naming a relation graph among the specific series of documents with a group of keywords strongly correlated therewith; combining, into one set, a plurality of inter-document relation graphs of which the names have a group of like term keywords and which have specific logical relationships among one another, and naming the same with the group of like term keywords in a certain logic order. On this basis, the inter-document relation graphs mentioned above are presented from multiple perspectives and in multiple layers by means of graphicalization and a set sequence based on a specific logical relationship in a manner complying with the logic of human brain thinking process.
US10719553B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for resolving a meaning of an ambiguous calendar entry and recommending broadcast media based on the meaning. To this end, a media guidance application may detect a calendar entry specific to a user, and determine that the calendar entry is ambiguous with respect to an associated period of time. In response to determining that the calendar entry is ambiguous with respect to the associated period of time, the media guidance application may determine characteristics of the calendar entry and the user, and compute an estimated range of time corresponding to the calendar entry based on the characteristic of the calendar entry and the characteristic of the user. The media guidance application may then generate for display a recommendation of broadcast media based on the estimated range of time.
US10719547B2
An image retrieval assist device that is communicably connected to an investigation assist device for recording captured images of cameras installed at a plurality of intersections respectively in correlation with camera information and intersection information. The image retrieval assist device has a processor, a communication unit; and a storage that stores an extraction condition of an image for each type of event that has occurred at the intersection, the image indicating a situation at a time of occurrence of the event. The processor accepts an input of event information including the type of event. The processor generates an image retrieval key including the extraction condition according to the input event information. The communication unit transmits the generated image retrieval key to the investigation assist device.
US10719540B2
Systems and methods for spotting keywords in data packets are provided. In particular, input data is received to be searched for occurrences of a set of patterns, the input data being divided into multiple segments. Then the input data and the patterns are assigned to first and second pattern matching algorithms, the first pattern matching algorithm is configured to search only within each of the segments, and the second pattern matching algorithm is configured to search across boundaries between adjacent segments. Then the input data is searched using the first and second pattern matching algorithms.
US10719538B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining whether a search query with an observed number of occurrences in a set of search queries is a local search query. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided that comprises determining an expected number of occurrences of a search query and comparing the expected number of occurrences to a threshold. Further, the method includes determining whether the search query is a local search query based, at least in part, on the comparison.
US10719532B2
A client application of a content management system provides instructions for synchronizing content items and placeholder items using a local file journal and updated file journal. The client application compares entries in the updated file journal to entries in the local file journal to determine modifications to make to content items or placeholder items stored in a shared content storage directory on the client device. Based on the result of the comparison, the client application replaces placeholder items with content items or replaces content items with placeholder items.
US10719528B2
A computer system transforms data. A first user builds a flow diagram. Each node in the flow diagram specifies an operation: to retrieve data, to transform data, or to create an output dataset. The flow diagram includes a subgraph having a plurality of nodes. When the first user initiates execution, the system performs the operations in the subgraph sequentially as specified. When the first user requests the system to save the flow diagram, the system stores the subgraph. The system displays a user interface and the subgraph in the user interface. A second user requests the system to build another flow diagram based on the subgraph. In response, the system retrieves the subgraph from memory. When the second user requests the system to execute the flow diagram built by the second user, the system performs the operations of the nodes in the subgraph sequentially as specified in the subgraph.
US10719527B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a computer system and interactive user interfaces configured to enable efficient and rapid access to multiple different data sources simultaneously, and by an unskilled user. The unskilled user may provide simple and intuitive search terms to the system, and the system may thereby automatically query multiple related data sources of different types and present results to the user. Data sources in the system may be efficiently interrelated with one another by way of a mathematical graph in which nodes represent data sources and/or portions of data sources (for example, database tables), and edges represent relationships among the data sources and/or portions of data sources. For example, edges may indicate relationships between particular rows and/or columns of various tables. The table graph enables a compact and memory efficient storage of relationships among various disparate data sources.
US10719525B2
An event limited field picker for a search user interface is described. In one or more implementations, a service may operate to collect and store data as events each of which includes a portion of the data correlated with a point in time. Clients may use a search user interface perform searches by input of search criteria. Responsive to receiving search criteria, the service may operate to apply a late binding schema to extract events that match the search criteria and provide search results for display via the search user interface. The search user interface exposes an event limited field picker operable to make selections of fields with respect to individual events in a view of the search results. In response to receiving an indication of a fields selected via the picker, visibility of selected fields may be updated to control which field and values are included in different views.
US10719523B2
Non-existent domain (NXD) queries may be monitored to determine if a keyword is included in NXD queries for a brand top level domain (TLD). When a predetermined number of NXD queries have been received for a brand domain that include the keyword, an action may be initiated. The action may be related to the registration of a new domain for the brand domain including the keyword.
US10719515B2
Systems and methods of voice activated thread management in a voice activated data packet based environment are provided. A natural language processor (“NLP”) component can receive and parse data packets comprising a first input audio signal to identify a first request and a first trigger keyword. A direct action application programming interface (“API”) can generate a first action data structure with a parameter defining a first action. The NLP component can receive and parse a second input audio signal to identify a second request and a second trigger keyword, and can generate a second action data structure with a parameter defining a second action. A pooling component can generate the first and second action data structures into a pooled data structure, and can transmit the pooled data structure to a service provider computing device to cause it device to perform an operation defined by the pooled data structure.
US10719512B2
A computer-implemented method for a partitioned bloom filter merge is provided. A non-limiting example of the computer-implemented method includes partitioning, by a processing device, a bloom filter into N equal size filter partitions. The method further includes distributing, by the processing device, each of the filter partitions to an associated node. The method further includes merging, by the processing device, the filter partitions in each of the associated nodes. The method further includes redistributing, by the processing device, the merged filter partitions to each of the N nodes. The method further includes joining, by the processing device, the merged filter partitions in each of the N nodes to assemble a complete merged bloom filter.
US10719510B2
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing data. In some embodiments, this includes determining a usage level of a file, wherein the file is stored in a first storage system, moving the file to a second storage system based on the determined usage level of the file updating location information in a catalog based on the movement of the file, and performing at least a portion of a query on the file after updating location information in the catalog.
US10719504B2
A reference data tool helps meet the technical challenges associated with providing important data to an application that needs the data. The tool causes execution of custom reports on an external data platform that extract the data needed by the application from the external data platform. The tool creates a custom data store for the data in a location accessible to the application. After the tool receives the extracted data, the tool automatically writes the data into the proper location in the custom data store.
US10719501B1
The present embodiments relate to systems and methods for using a blockchain to record information related to processes and services in the vehicle industry. The systems and methods may include (1) receiving an indication of vehicle being involved a vehicle collision and a vehicle VIN; (2) accessing, at a memory, a loss history blockchain associated with the vehicle using the VIN as a key; (3) receiving vehicle sensor data generated or collected prior to, during, and/or after the vehicle collision; (4) creating a block to add to the loss history blockchain that includes the vehicle sensor data, or otherwise updating the loss history blockchain with the vehicle sensor data associated with the vehicle collision; (5) analyzing the vehicle sensor data to reconstruct the vehicle collision; and/or (6) updating the loss history blockchain to include and/or indicate the reconstructed vehicle collision by including the created block.
US10719497B2
An ordered data object identifier denoted by a value is assigned to each data object grouped to a container object, wherein data object identifiers with successively incremented values are assigned to successive data objects. An ordered container identifier is assigned to each container object with the greatest value of the identifiers of the data objects grouped thereto. A metadata structure with an entry for each container objects is stored. Each entry comprises the ordered container identifier and a reference to the corresponding data. The metadata structure is ordered according to the values of the container identifiers. A request to read a data object contains a corresponding data object identifier. It is determined to which container object the data object is grouped, by locating the first container identifier in the metadata structure with a value greater than or equal to that the requested data object.
US10719494B2
Methods and a system are provided for accelerating an operation in a B+-tree. A method including forming triplets, by a triplet manager. Each of the triplets includes a pointer to a leaf node, a lower bound of a key on the leaf node, and an upper bound of the key on the leaf node. The method further includes performing, by the triplet manager, a lookup operation on the triplets responsive to the operation to avoid traversals of intermediate nodes for the operation. The method also includes executing, by a processor, the operation in the B+-tree while avoiding the traversals of the intermediate nodes for the operation responsive to a result of the lookup operation. The operation is any one of an insertion operation, a deletion operation, and a search operation.
US10719491B2
A data migration system and method are disclosed for migrating data from a source server to a target server. The system includes an index containing a plurality of data migration operations in a normalized data model, each data migration operation being stored in association with an attribute, and a data mover communicably connected to the index. The data mover is adapted to move data from the source server to the target server in accordance with the data migration operations contained in the index. The data mover has an attribute corresponding to the associated attribute of at least one data migration operation contained in the index, the attribute indicating the type of data migration operations that can be performed by the data mover.
US10719490B1
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for generating synthetic data are described. Improved data models for databases may be achieved by improving the quality of synthetic data upon for modeling those databases and for checking the authenticity of existing numerical data. According to some aspects, these and other benefits may be achieved by using numeric distribution information in a schema describing one or more numeric fields and, based on that schema, distribution-appropriate numerical data may be generated. Also, another schema may be used to generate a second set of numerical data having a different distribution that is not expected for the one or more numeric fields. Actual data may be compared against the generated datasets. When the actual data is determined to be statistically similar to the second numerical dataset, an alert may be generated. A benefit includes finding potentially fraudulent datasets using an efficient approach.
US10719488B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for creating and utilizing configuration providers for layered repository facilities. An embodiment operates by creating or loading a custom data structure for a software application, retrieving configuration information from at least one configuration provider, storing the retrieved configuration information in the custom data structure, and associating the custom data structure with the application and a specific layer of a layered repository facility. When this is done across multiple layers of the layered repository for the same software application, configurations can be efficiently managed for different users having different roles and relationships within an enterprise software environment, while maintaining a user experience that is flexible, extensible, dynamic, and yet consistent and familiar across many devices and platforms, even for users having multiple roles and different relationships within the enterprise software environment.
US10719487B2
The invention relates to a method, an apparatus, a computer program product for determining metadata for a data item. The method comprises receiving a data item for processing; analyzing content of the data item; generating a set of metadata values based on the analysis of the content of the data item; and using at least a part of the set of metadata values for defining metadata for the data item.
US10719480B1
A method performed by one or more processing devices that are part of a data storage environment includes the following steps. A data set is obtained. Valuation metadata generated for the data set is obtained. The valuation metadata is bound to the data set. The data set and the bound valuation metadata are processed as a single data storage item within the data storage environment. Processing may include, but is not limited to, storing, scaling, accessing, migrating, and deleting.
US10719471B2
Provided is a storage system in which a switch is logically divided into a plurality of partitions including: a plurality of first partitions which are coupled to a plurality of master devices of a processor unit and to which none of storage devices are coupled; and one or more second partitions which are coupled to a plurality of storage devices and which are not coupled to the processor unit. The switch has an address conversion function which is a function for enabling transfer between different partitions. A virtual master device is provided to each of the second partitions. With respect to each of the second partitions, the virtual master device in the second partition executes initial setting with respect to each of all storage devices coupled to the second partition.
US10719463B1
Disclosed herein are techniques for migrating data from a source memory range to a destination memory while data is being written into the source memory range. An apparatus includes a control logic configured to receive a request for data migration and initiate the data migration using a direct memory access (DMA) controller, while the source memory range continues to accept write operations. The apparatus also includes a tracking logic coupled to the control logic and configured to track write operations performed to the source memory range while data is being copied from the source memory range to the destination memory. The control logic is further configured to initiate copying data associated with the tracked write operations to the destination memory.
US10719461B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a solid state device that includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller includes a processor, a memory, and a direct memory access (DMA) circuitry. The memory comprises a plurality of addresses. The DMA circuitry is configured to receive a first read request for data stored at a first address of the memory; determine whether the first address is an address from the plurality of addresses; when the first address is amongst the plurality of addresses, provide a first response comprising a particular data, without retrieving data stored at the first address; and when the first address is not amongst the plurality of addresses, retrieve the data stored at the first address, and provide a first response comprising the data retrieved from the first address.
US10719459B2
A method for improving write throughput of a storage device includes receiving a data access command targeting an LBA extent and determining that logical execution of the data access command includes reading or writing data logically across an identified high-performance-cost boundary. Responsive to the determination, the data access command is split into two or more separate data access commands that are separately queued in memory for execution.
US10719458B2
A direct memory access (DMA) buffer section configured to store data in a plurality of storage regions in units of DMA transfers, a buffer control section configured to output a first writing permission signal for permitting the DMA transfer on the basis of presence or absence of a free storage region, a smoothing buffer control section configured to output a second writing permission signal for permitting the DMA transfer within a predetermined period, a buffer writing control section configured to execute the DMA transfer according to the first writing permission signal and the DMA transfer according to the second writing permission signal and stored the data to the free storage region, and a buffer reading control section configured to sequentially read the data for each storage region, wherein a predetermined amount of data sequentially acquired by a plurality of DMA transfers is output as a transfer unit.
US10719457B2
A storage device includes an antenna, a first nonvolatile memory that is operable using power generated at the antenna by an electromagnetic induction caused by an external device, and stores lock state information, a first controller configured to change the lock state information in response to a command that is wirelessly transmitted from the external device through the antenna, a second nonvolatile memory, and a second controller configured to allow access to a memory region of the second nonvolatile memory depending on the lock state information stored in the first nonvolatile memory.
US10719454B2
A method includes determining, by a tracker controller of a hardware security module, that a first processor has submitted a first request to access a computing resource. The method also includes determining, by the tracker controller, whether the first request and a second request both request access to the same computing resource. The second request is submitted by a second processor. The method also includes preventing access to the computing resource based on a determination that the first request and the second request do not request access to the same computing resource. The method also includes permitting access to the computing resource based on a determination that the first request and the second request both request access to the same computing resource.
US10719439B2
A method operable with the storage device includes determining a workload to the storage device based on host Input/Output (I/O) requests to the storage device. When the workload is above a threshold, a first portion of the storage device is selected for garbage collection based on the I/O requests. Otherwise, when the workload is below the threshold, a second different portion of the storage device is selected for garbage collection based on a storage ability of the second portion of the storage device.
US10719430B2
A testing system for testing a touch screen graphical user interface is disclosed. The testing system includes a touch screen for displaying the graphical user interface under test and for receiving a first plurality of touch inputs from at least one user, a first module for recognizing the first plurality of touch inputs received by the touch screen as a second plurality of data structures, a second module for receiving the second plurality of data structures from the first module and constructing at least one test model, a third module for generating a third plurality of test cases based on the at least one test model constructed by the second module, and a fourth module for executing the third plurality of test cases generated by the third module.
US10719428B2
A user interface automation framework is described. A system records multiple user interface screenshots during a session of a user interacting with a user interface application executing on a host computer. The system records metadata associated with the host computer during the session. The system executes a test of the user interface application based on the multiple user interface screenshots and the metadata.
US10719424B1
A method for performing a static analysis may include extracting, from a caller function in code, a context-free inter-procedural rule including a callsite and a return value of a callee function. The callsite may invoke the callee function. The method may further include extracting, from the caller function, a context-sensitive parameter mapping rule that maps an input parameter of the callee function to an invocation value provided by the caller function at the callsite, deriving a derived value for the callsite using the context-free inter-procedural rule and the context-sensitive parameter mapping rule, and identifying a defect in the code by performing the static analysis using the derived value for the callsite.
US10719421B2
An example method for monitoring different data storage devices across a network includes receiving data storage access requests made to different data storage devices across a network. A subset of the access requests to a taxon of a taxonomy of access request characteristics. For the taxon, a taxon threshold is determined for a parameter based upon the subset of access requests. The parameter of a sample of observed access requests, made to a data storage device and belonging to the taxon, is compared to the taxon threshold. A notification regarding the data storage device is made based upon the comparison.
US10719413B2
A unified backup workflow process for different hypervisor configurations of virtual machines on different storage of a cluster leverages RCT-based backup functionality so that backup operations can be performed by a single host of the cluster. The process enables backing up together virtual machines that are local, as well as part of CSV or SMB storage using virtual machine level snapshots as checkpoints rather than volume level snapshots that were traditionally used. Backup data is sent to a backup server as a data stream rather than a file, which avoids the necessity of maintaining chains or structures that identify parent-child disks on the server.
US10719411B1
A method of performing error recovery of encrypted data frames is disclosed. A data packet is received, and a decryption operation is performed on the data packet. The data packet is compared with one or more data packets stored in a recovery buffer to identify a duplicate of the data packet when the decryption operation fails. One or more bits affected by one or more bit errors are identified based on a comparison between the data packet and the duplicate of the data packet. Different combinations of bit values for the one or more bits are determined. The decryption operation is performed on the data packet with the different combinations to identify a correct combination of bit values for the one or more bits. The data packet is recovered (e.g., corrected so that it can be decrypted and consumed) based on the correct combination of bit values.
US10719409B2
Cloud-based storage services are provided for storing and/or sharing content across multiple devices, where the content is periodically synchronized between the devices and the storage service. Embodiments are directed to retainment of locally deleted content at the storage service to prevent accidental or nefarious deletions of locally stored content on a device from being propagated to the storage service. For example, a selectable feature to retain locally deleted content, at the storage service may be presented through a display of a client device. A deletion of the content from the client device may be detected. The retained content may be prevented from being downloaded and stored locally on the client device when content at the storage service and the client device are synchronized if the feature was selected. If the feature was not selected, deletion options for the content may be presented through the display.
US10719403B2
Recovery support techniques for storage virtualization environments are described. In one embodiment, for example, a method may be performed that comprises defining, by processing circuitry, a storage container comprising one or more logical storage volumes of a logical storage array of a storage system, associating the storage container with a virtual volume (vvol) datastore, identifying metadata for a vvol of the vvol datastore, and writing the metadata for the vvol to the storage system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10719400B2
An information handling system and method provides basic input/output system (BIOS) recovery. At a baseboard management controller (BMC), a basic input/output system (BIOS) boot failure is detected. A non-volatile memory device a recovery image is obtained. The recovery image comprises instructions to perform a system software management (SSM) task. The instructions to perform the SSM task are executed. The execution comprises loading a BIOS image from a BMC persistent storage memory device, verifying the BIOS image, and writing the BIOS image to a BIOS non-volatile memory device. The system and method may utilize a recovery flash memory device attached to the BMC, a recovery flash memory device attached to a southbridge portion of a chipset, or a combination thereof to perform the BIOS recovery.
US10719396B2
A controller executes a plurality of first read operations and, when receiving a read request from a host, executes a second read operation. The first read operations are executed using, as determination voltage, different candidate values among a plurality of candidate values. In each of the first read operations, the controller executes error correction to acquired data, and acquires a first candidate value on the basis of results of the error corrections in the first read operations. The second read operation is executed using, as the determination voltage, a second candidate value that is ranked higher than the first candidate value.
US10719381B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus that performs control so as to display a first maintenance screen containing a moving image indicating a work content required to resolve a maintenance event on a display unit in a case where occurrence of the maintenance event is detected by an event detection unit configured to detect the occurrence of the maintenance event that has occurred therein. Then, the image forming apparatus performs control so as to display a second maintenance screen containing the moving image indicating the work content required to resolve the maintenance event on the display unit according to a display instruction issued from a user in a case where the occurrence of the maintenance event is not detected by the event detection unit.
US10719371B2
A service control method and a service control apparatus, where the method includes obtaining, a current electricity grid electricity price and a quantity of to-be-executed services, determining an electricity price threshold according to the quantity of the to-be-executed services, decreasing, by the service control apparatus, a quantity of services that are about to be executed by a first quantity when the current electricity grid electricity price is greater than the electricity price threshold, and executing a service according to a reduced quantity of services that are about to be executed, or increasing, by the service control apparatus, a quantity of services that are about to be executed by a second quantity, and executing a service according to an increased quantity of services that are about to be executed when the current electricity grid electricity price is less than the electricity price threshold.
US10719363B2
Techniques for optimizing resource claims for containers is described. In one example, resource utilization data associated with at least one container may be obtained for a period. A set of forecasting models may be trained based on the resource utilization data associated with a portion of the period. Resource utilization of the at least one container may be predicted for a remaining portion of the period using the set of trained forecasting models. The predicted resource utilization may be compared with the obtained resource utilization data for the remaining portion of the period. A forecasting model may be determined from the set of trained forecasting models based on the comparison to optimize resource claims for the at least one container.
US10719360B2
A system may support distributed multiple tier multi-node serverless analytics task execution. At a data ingestion tier, data ingestion serverless tasks may receive detail data for analytic processing. data integration serverless tasks, executing at a data integration and consolidation tier and initiated by the data ingestion serverless tasks, may sort the detail data and identify patterns within the detail data to generate grouped pre-processed data. The data integration serverless tasks may initiate partitioning serverless tasks which may divide the grouped pre-processed data into data chunks. Multi-node analytic serverless tasks at an analytic tier, at least some of which being initiated by the partitioning serverless tasks, may analyze the data chunks and generate prescriptive outputs.
US10719356B1
A system and method for granular redundant multithreading in a high integrity multicore processing environment (MCPE) generates redundant critical application threads incorporating executable instructions and input data relevant to a critical process when a user application running on a homogenous core of the MCPE encounters the critical process and issues a system call. The critical application threads are forked to different processing cores environments for execution, and the result sets of each executed critical application threads are forked to different cores for cross-comparison (different from the cores on which the result sets were generated). The result sets are cross-checked to the desired degree of integrity (e.g., consensus agreement or majority vote of all comparing cores) and the hypervisor returns the execution returned to the calling user application with the final result set (or with a fault, if the evaluation was unsuccessful and the desired level of agreement not reached).
US10719354B2
A system for scheduling the execution of container workloads from a series of applications and a series of containers of each application. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to calculate a conflict penalty matrix including a conflict penalty for each potential combination of container workloads of the plurality of containers, and calculate a minimum total conflict penalty of the container workloads and a number of workload batches for executing the container workloads. The number of workload batches is associated with the minimum total conflict penalty. The instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the system to assign the container workloads to the workload batches based on the minimum total conflict penalty and the number of the workload batches.
US10719351B2
A method for controlling process is provided. The method for controlling process includes the follows. When it is determined that a duration that each of N processes in a kernel space of a terminal device is in an uninterruptible sleep state reaches or exceeds a preset period, whether the N processes have undergone a searched and killed operation within the preset period is detected. N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. When the N processes have undergone the searched and killed operation within the preset period, states of the N processes are changed, and an operating system is controlled to run the N processes according to the changed states of the N processes. Related terminal devices are also provided.
US10719347B2
A control apparatus comprises first to third parts. The first part manages an image, which is information required for execution of a container. The second part requests the third part to start a container corresponding to an image of a predetermined version. The third part instructs the container corresponding to the image of the predetermined version to be created in response to the request from the second part on the basis of the image managed by the first part.
US10719344B2
Prescriptive analytics based compute sizing correction stack for cloud computing resource scheduling
A multi-layer compute sizing correction stack may generate prescriptive compute sizing correction tokens for controlling sizing adjustments for computing resources. The input layer of the compute sizing correction stack may generate cleansed utilization data based on historical utilization data received via network connection. A prescriptive engine layer may generate a compute sizing correction trajectory detailing adjustments to sizing for the computing resources. Based on the compute sizing correction trajectory, the prescriptive engine layer may generate the compute sizing correction tokens that that may be used to control compute sizing adjustments prescriptively.
US10719341B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a managed forwarding element (MFE). At the MFE, the method receives a first packet from a particular tunnel endpoint. The first packet originates from a particular data compute node associated with multiple tunnel endpoints including the particular tunnel endpoint. Based on the first packet, the method stores an association of the particular tunnel endpoint with the particular data compute node. The method uses the stored association to encapsulate subsequent packets received at the MFE and having the particular data compute node as a destination address with the particular tunnel endpoint as a destination tunnel endpoint.
US10719334B2
Methods and systems are disclosed where an FPGA offloads a plurality of processing tasks from a processor. The FPGA can process streaming data received via a network interface, and the FPGA can be controllable in response to control instructions received from the processor. The FPGA comprises resident hardware logic for a plurality of data processing engines that are combinable as a processing pipeline within the FPGA. In response to the control instructions, the FPGA can control which of the data processing engines are activated and which of the data processing engines are deactivated to selectively tap into the streaming data to perform pipelined processing operations on the streaming data via the activated data processing engines. The deactivated data processing engines remain on the FPGA and provide a pass through path for the streaming data whereby the deactivated data processing engines do not perform processing operations on streaming data received thereby.
US10719332B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a multi-component application, including a first and second component. A client device may be provisioned with the application in a manner that, from the point of view of an end user, is similar to access a single component application. A user may use a client device to attempt to access a second component to provide the application. The second component can instruct the client device to first obtain a first component from a different network location. The client device can obtain the first component and execute the first component to use the second component, thereby providing the multi-component application. Other than submission of an initial request to access the application, provisioning of the multi-component application may be programmatic and potentially invisible to an end user, thereby providing an experience similar to accessing a single component application.
US10719331B2
A microcontroller includes a core and a unit for managing the power supply of the core that includes an input for receiving an external signal indicating a leaving of a stand-by mode of operation. A signal intercepting unit intercepts the external signal and transmitting it with a delay to the unit for managing.
US10719330B2
A communication device includes: a communication unit which receives control data; and a main control unit which controls an operation of the communication device, based on the control data received by the communication unit. The communication device operates in a first standby state where the main control unit stops at least a part of operations and where the communication unit detects only an access to a specific port that designates the communication device as a destination, and in a second standby state where the main control unit can execute the operations and controls the operation of the communication device, based on the control data. The communication unit wakes up the main control unit if an access to the specific port is detected in the first standby state.
US10719326B2
In one embodiment, a processor includes: a core to execute instructions, the core including a plurality of mailbox storages and a trust table to store a trust indicator for each of the plurality of mailbox storages; a first core perimeter logic coupled to the core and including a first storage to store state information of the core when the core is in a low power state; and a second core perimeter logic coupled to the first core perimeter logic and the core, the second core perimeter logic including a second storage to store the state information of the core when the first core perimeter logic is in a low power state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10719320B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a component; a voltage generator to supply load current to the component; first one or more circuitries to predict that the load current is to increase from a first time; and second one or more circuitries to, in anticipation of the increase in the load current from the first time, cause the component to execute first instructions during a time period that occurs prior to the first time.
US10719315B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for automatically determining developer team composition. One of the methods includes obtaining a reference set of snapshots for a code base, each snapshot comprising a representation of source code of the code base at a particular time and being associated with a particular project and a particular developer of a team of developers of the code base; selecting a subset of snapshots; dividing the subset into a plurality of time windows; for each time window and for each developer that committed a snapshot to the reference collection of snapshots during the time window, determining a normalized rating of the developer's skills in each of a plurality of developer activity metrics; and aggregating, for each time window, the normalized ratings for each developer to generate a developer team composition for the fixed period of time.
US10719310B1
Embodiments of systems and methods for reducing Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (KVM) downtime during firmware update or failover events are discussed. In some embodiments, a chassis may include: a plurality of Information Handling Systems (IHSs); a first Enclosure controller (EC); and a second EC coupled to the first EC, where the first and second ECs comprise program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the chassis to: establish a KVM session with a selected IHS via the first EC; in response to the first EC receiving a firmware update command, update and restart the second EC; notify the first EC, by the second EC, that the update and restart is completed; trigger by a first KVM process in the first EC, a second KVM process in the second EC; and take control, by the second EC, of the KVM session.
US10719302B2
A first set of code origination data which corresponds to a first computing object and a second set of code origination data which corresponds to a second computing object may be detected for utilization to develop a streaming application in the stream computing environment. Based on the first and second sets of code origination data, a code assembly arrangement with respect to the first and second computing objects may be determined. Based on the first and second sets of code origination data, a consistent region may be determined to utilize for the code assembly arrangement. The code assembly arrangement may be established, in the consistent region, with respect to the first and second computing objects to develop the streaming application.
US10719289B2
A method and system is provided for controlling a display in a machine operating in a work area whereby a plurality of views are displayed on a screen with each of the plurality of views corresponding to a plurality of functions and having one or more of the views independently available on another display.
US10719284B2
Provided is a display system or a display device that is suitable for increasing in size. The display system includes a first display panel, a second display panel, a detection means, and a compensation means. The first display panel includes a first display region. The second display panel includes a second display region. The first display region and the second display region include a first region where they overlap. The detection means has a function of detecting the size of the first region. The compensation means has a function of compensating an image displayed on the first display region in accordance with the change in the size of the first region.
US10719272B2
Multi-channel accessing of non-volatile memory. A controller uses three kinds of tables to manage cross-channel accessing areas and, accordingly, to access the non-volatile memory through multiple channels. Each cross-channel accessing area includes M storage units, where M is an integer greater than 1. For each cross-channel accessing area, the first table marks whether there is a need for storage unit substitution and points to substitution information. The substitution information is stored in the second table and the third table. For each cross-channel accessing area marked in the first table, the second table stores M bits corresponding to M storage units of the marked cross-channel accessing area for substitution indication, and related substitute storage unit indication is stored in the third table.
US10719264B2
A solid state drive (SSD) device includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices and a SSD controller. The SSD controller is configured to allocate a resource of the SSD device based on workloads of a plurality of streams and to control operations of the nonvolatile memory devices. Accordingly, the resources of the SSD device are adjusted according to the workloads of the streams so that the SSD device may support a multi stream system with reducing performance deterioration.
US10719257B1
Implementing time-to-live (TTL) license management in an active/active (A/A) replication session is provided. In one aspect, a first host is assigned as a replication session manager, and is tasked with performing A/A replication management functions. The functions include granting a TTL license to a first and second storage array, providing IO requests to the arrays during a lifespan of the TTL license, and upon determining a communication failure occurred between the arrays, selecting one of the arrays as a winner and another as a loser; suspending the TTL license to the loser; and notifying the winner to suspend replication to the loser. Another aspect includes monitoring, by a second host, a communication connection between the first and second hosts. An aspect also includes upon determining the communication connection has failed between the first second hosts, reassigning the second host as the replication session manager to take over the management functions.
US10719245B1
In one embodiment, a storage system includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions for execution, and an IO tagging module executed by the processor to determine a plurality of child IO requests required to complete a plurality of received IO request transactions and to tag the IO request transaction and/or the associated child IO requests with a tag identifier uniquely identifying the IO request transaction. The system includes an IO scheduler module executed by the processor to prioritize the IO request transactions according to a policy by grouping the child IO requests based on the associated tag identifier. The grouped child IO requests of the IO request transactions are serviced by a plurality of storage devices of the storage system for an optimal performance.
US10719244B2
Event detection logic detects events which may be associated with a change in risk of potential data loss in a data replication system. Mode selection logic is responsive to detection of such an event to select a data replication mode such as a synchronous data replication mode, for example, as a function of a detected event for initiation of a switch to the selected mode. In one embodiment, upon detecting that the event which lead to initiation of a switch to the synchronous mode has been completed or otherwise resolved, the mode selection logic can initiation of a switch of the data replication mode of multi-mode data replication logic back to an asynchronous mode so that data is replicated in the asynchronous data replication mode. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
US10719238B1
A first endpoint comprises a fabric attach point for attachment to a memory fabric, a first media controller, and a first non-volatile memory media. The memory fabric comprises a reliability zone comprising the first endpoint and at least a second endpoint. The first media controller is configured to receive, from at least one processor coupled to the first endpoint via the at least one fabric attach point, a memory fabric store command to store an object in the reliability zone. The first media controller is further configured to store the object in the first non-volatile memory media, to receive from the second endpoint a message indicating that the same object has been stored by the second endpoint, and to send to the at least one processor a single acknowledgement indicating that the at least one object has been stored in both the first and second endpoints of the reliability zone.
US10719237B2
Apparatuses and methods for performing multithread, concurrent access of different partition of a memory are disclosed herein. An example apparatus may include a non-volatile memory array comprising a plurality of partitions. Each of the plurality of partitions may include a respective plurality of memory cells. The apparatus may further include a plurality of local controllers that are each configured to independently and concurrently access a respective one of the plurality of partitions to execute a respective memory access command of a plurality of memory access commands responsive to receiving the respective memory access command. The example apparatus may further include a controller configured to receive the plurality of memory access commands and to determine a respective target partition of the plurality of partitions for each of the plurality of memory access commands. The controller may be further configured to provide each of the plurality of memory access commands to a local controller of the plurality of local controllers associated with the respective target partition.
US10719230B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: displaying a continuous content stream of individually actionable content items; automatically recognizing, while the continuous content stream is being displayed, a mode change from a control mode to a signal mode; receiving a touch input after the mode change is recognized and, in response, using a neural network to generate output data indicating a gesture classification for the touch input, wherein the touch input is received in relation to a particular actionable content item that is in a visible portion of the continuous content stream; performing, according to the output data, an action for the particular actionable content item; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
US10719222B2
A method and workstation for generating a transcript of a conversation between a patient and a healthcare practitioner is disclosed. A workstation is provided with a tool for rendering of an audio recording of the conversation and generating a display of a transcript of the audio recording using a speech-to-text engine, thereby enabling inspection of the accuracy of conversion of speech to text. A tool is provided for scrolling through the transcript and rendering the portion of the audio according to the position of the scrolling. There is a highlighting in the transcript of words or phrases spoken by the patient relating to symptoms, medications or other medically relevant concepts. Additionally, there is provided a set of transcript supplement tools enabling editing of specific portions of the transcript based on the content of the corresponding portion of audio recording.
US10719219B1
The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for combining dual volatility measurements on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer system. The method may include receiving, via the GUI, a user selection for an anchor point, selecting a time window including the anchor point, calculating, using a volatility processor, a set of past volatility values based on the time window and the anchor point, calculating, using the volatility processor, a set of future volatility values based on the time window and the anchor point, and generating a dual volatility display for the GUI including the set of past volatility values and the set of future volatility values.
US10719212B2
A user interface for rotating imagery among a plurality of canonical views of a geographic area of interest is disclosed. The interface includes at least one rotation control icon for rotating the imagery among a plurality of canonical views of the geographic area, and a direction indicating portion that indicates a compass direction associated with the canonical view presented on the display device. In particular implementations, the interface can be configured to come into view over the imagery whenever a user navigates to a particular view of the imagery where a plurality of canonical views is available. The motion of the navigation control interface appearing into the imagery is intended to draw attention to the control interface to inform the user that additional canonical views are available.
US10719207B2
A portable terminal having a touch screen and a method for processing an image therein are provided. The portable terminal includes a camera unit for photographing an image, a touch screen for displaying the photographed image, a controller for generating, if a substantially continuous drawing motion is detected on the touch screen, a partial area in the displayed image according to the drawing motion, and a memory unit for storing the partial area of the displayed image. Accordingly, the portable terminal may more easily perform image photographing and editing, thereby increasing user convenience.
US10719203B2
Recording medium storing program with version updates, information processing device, display method
A program is installable in an information processing device. A processor acquires version information for each function provided in a current version of the installed program, the version information indicating that the function is different from a function provided in an older version. A display unit displays a UI element for allowing selection of a function provided in a new version. The display unit displays a UI element corresponding to a function identical to the older version in a first mode and displaying a UI element corresponding to the function different from the older version in a second mode different from the first mode, based on the acquired version information.
US10719202B2
A system for dynamically rendering a graphical user interface is disclosed. The system is configured to receive a login information associated with a user. The system then identifies a persona associated with the user based on the received login information. The identified persona is associated with a set of action commands and each action command includes a condition and a content item identifier. The system proceeds to identify the action commands associated with the identified persona, evaluate the conditions associated with the identified set of action commands, and determine the conditions that are satisfied based on the evaluating. Next, the system identifies the content item identifiers associated with the satisfied conditions and retrieves the content items associated with the identified content item identifiers. Then, the system renders the retrieved content items in a graphical user interface.
US10719193B2
Systems, methods and computer storage media for providing three-dimensional content within search are provided. In particular, three-dimensional content is provided in combination with two-dimensional search results in response to a search query. The three-dimensional content is rendered such that it can be interacted with by a user. User interactions with either the three-dimensional content or the two-dimensional search results cause updated three-dimensional content and/or two-dimensional search results to be rendered.
US10719183B2
A method of detecting an input of an input marking apparatus includes generating and outputting a number signal to be written to the input marking apparatus, detecting the input marking apparatus in which the number signal is written, by detecting a response signal output from the input marking apparatus, and detecting a position of the input of the input marking apparatus of which the response signal is detected.
US10719174B2
An optical touch apparatus and a width detecting method thereof are provided. The optical touch apparatus includes at least two sensing components, a light emitting component, and a width detecting module. The sensing components are configured to sense a touch object located on a touch plane. The light emitting component is configured to be a light source of the touch plane and is disposed adjacent to one of the sensing components. The width detecting module is coupled to the light emitting component and the other of the sensing components. The light emitting component is controlled by the width detecting module to emit a light. The other of the sensing components is controlled by the width detecting module to sense intensity of the light. The width detecting module detects a distance between the sensing components according to the sensed intensity of the light.
US10719173B2
A transcription engine transcribes input received from an augmented reality keyboard based on a sequence of hand poses performed by a user when typing. A hand pose generator analyzes video of the user typing to generate the sequence of hand poses. The transcription engine implements a set of transcription models to generate a series of keystrokes based on the sequence of hand poses. Each keystroke in the series may correspond to one or more hand poses in the sequence of hand poses. The transcription engine monitors the behavior of the user and selects between transcription models depending on the attention level of the user. The transcription engine may select a first transcription model when the user types in a focused manner and then select a second transcription model when the user types in a less focused, conversational manner.
US10719172B2
A display device with a built-in optical image sensor includes a display panel, a cover substrate, and an optical image sensor. The cover substrate has light transmissivity and covers the display panel. The optical image sensor is coupled to the display panel and senses an image of a body of a user using light reflected from the body of the user in contact with the cover substrate. The display panel includes a base substrate, a pixel portion, an encapsulation film, and a touch sensing layer. The touch sensing layer includes the touch electrode portion and is disposed on the encapsulation film covering a pixel portion. A plurality of pinholes are defined in at least one layer having light absorptivity or light reflectivity of the pixel portion. The plurality of pinholes overlap the optical image sensor. Further, openings overlapping the plurality of pinholes are defined in the touch electrode portion.
US10719171B2
A projection type image display device correctly detects the position of contact of an electronic pen and a finger on a manipulation surface without the provision of a touch sensor. Light containing an image is projected, illuminating light that is different from the light containing the image is projected onto a manipulation surface which at least partially overlaps an image projection surface onto which the light has been projected, and an image of the manipulation surface is captured. A first detection process detects the position at which a first object being manipulated, a distal end of which emits light, touches the manipulation surface, a second detection process detects the position at which a second object being manipulated, which does not emit light, touches the manipulation surface, and at least part of the image being displayed is changed on the basis of the detection result from either detection process.
US10719164B2
Disclosed herein is a display device with a touch sensor, including: a plurality of display pixel electrodes; a common electrode configured to be provided opposed to the display pixel electrodes; a display function layer configured to have an image display function; a display control circuit configured to apply a display voltage between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal and carry out image display control so that the display function of the display function layer be exerted; and a touch detection electrode configured to be provided opposed to the common electrode and form capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the common electrode.
US10719161B2
Systems and methods for providing a touch sensor include a dynamic suspension system to enable the touch sensor to emulate the tactile sensation that a user feels when using pushbutton switches, wherein a touch sensor is combined with at least one snap dome and a post inside the snap dome to keep the touch sensor rigid until the touch sensor is allowed to be displaced when a force is applied, and then the post is retracted or released to enable movement of the touch sensor and the snap dome are disclosed. Also disclosed are systems and methods for a clickable touchpad that enables the clickable function to be selectively locked or unlocked in accordance with detected or sensed conditions are disclosed.
US10719159B2
A processing system includes a sensor module and a determination module. The sensor module is configured to perform a capacitive scan using electrodes disposed in a display device in a first area. The determination module is configured to determine, using the capacitive scan, a bending response of an input surface covering the first area and a second area. The bending response results from an input force being applied to the input surface in the second area. The determination module is further configured to determine, using the bending response, a force estimate of the input force, and determine, based on the force estimate, whether to perform an interface action.
US10719142B2
A stylus includes an elongated housing, a tip extending from a first end of the elongated housing and a tri-axial force sensor mounted on a second end. A first wireless transmitter transmits a signal via the tip based on which the tip interacts with a digitizer sensor of a touch screen. The tri-axial force sensor senses contact force applied by a user pressing against the tri-axial sensor. A second wireless transmitter transmits output sensed by the tri-axial force sensor. The stylus further includes a controller that controls transmission of the first wireless transmitter and the second wireless transmitter.
US10719141B2
A mouse for communication with a processor-based device. The mouse may include a housing having a base surface. The base surface may be configured to face a tracking surface on which the mouse may be placed on. The mouse may further include a plurality of mouse foot protrusions projecting from the base surface. A distal end of at least one of the plurality of mouse foot protrusions may be configured to contact the tracking surface on which the mouse may be placed on and the distal end may include a first color. An intermediate portion of the at least one of the plurality of mouse foot protrusions between the distal end of the at least one of the plurality of mouse foot protrusions and the base surface may include a second color, which may be different from the first color.
US10719131B2
An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.
US10719129B2
There is described a method of operating a tactile feedback actuator with a controller. The tactile feedback actuator has a magnetic hammer guidingly mounted for movement along a hammer path, a damper at a first end of the hammer path, a stopper at a second end of the hammer path, and a coil element. The method generally has receiving data indicative of coil activation instructions for moving the magnetic hammer to generate a sequence of haptic effects that simulate a real world event, the coil activation instructions including: a first instruction for generating a first haptic effect in which the magnetic hammer is accelerated towards the stopper, and a second instruction for generating a second haptic effect in which the magnetic hammer is accelerated towards the damper; and activating the coil element upon processing the data indicative of the coil activation instructions to generate the sequence of haptic effects.
US10719128B2
A device and method for an operator controlled element with haptic feedback dependent on the detection direction are provided. The device includes a base; an actuating part movably supported on the base; an electrical actuator which is attached to the base and acts on the actuating part in order to drive in a moving manner the actuating part in an excitation direction by means of an electrical excitation signal for generating a haptic feedback; a means for detecting an actuation of the actuating part in two detection directions which in each case include a different angular amount with the excitation direction; an evaluation unit, which is configured, if an actuation in one of the two detection directions is detected, to drive the actuator with a specific electrical excitation signal, depending on the result relating to in which of the two detection directions the actuation was carried out.
US10719119B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of fingerprint recognition, and a control method thereof. A mobile terminal according to the present disclosure may include a terminal body, a display unit disposed on a front surface of the body, a sensing unit configured to receive a user's touch input to recognize the user's fingerprint, and a controller configured to display preset screen information on the display unit while the user's touch input is applied to the sensing unit based on the authentication of the recognized user's fingerprint.
US10719111B2
A multiport connector and a power control method are provided. The multiport connector comprises a power output port and multiple power input ports. The power output port is connected to an electronic device. The power input ports are connected to multiple power adapters to form multiple power transmission paths. Each power transmission path comprises a power line, a detecting circuit and an impedance component connected to the detecting circuit in series. Therefore, when the electronic device is connected to the multiport connector, the electronic device detects the equivalent impedance formed by the impedance components on the detecting circuits to adjust an upper limit of load power.
US10719110B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing an in-system measurement of power consumption without exclusive use of an in-line current-sense resistor. Indeed, these systems and methods may take advantage of existing parasitic resistances in an electronic device—such as resistances that might vary over time and under different operating conditions. To perform an in-system measurement, a digital value of a first voltage caused by an unknown amount of current flowing into a power-consuming component over an unknown resistance may be measured. Before or afterward, a current source may be activated to add or subtract a known amount of current to the unknown amount of current, resulting in a second voltage over the unknown resistance, and a digital value of the second voltage over the unknown resistance may be measured. The power consumption by the power-consuming component can then be calculated from these values.
US10719108B2
A sensor (10) is provided that has at least one sensor functional group (12), a heating device (14, 22), and a heating control (14, 20) to control a heating power (Pheating) of the heating device (14, 22). In this respect, the heating control (20) is configured to adapt the heating power (Pheating) to a power consumption (Psensor) of the sensor functional group (12).
US10719105B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a display disposed in a first housing, an input device comprising input circuitry disposed in a second housing arranged to face the display device, a first sensor module disposed in at least a portion of the first housing, a second sensor module disposed in at least a portion of the second housing, a communication module comprising communication circuitry, and a processor electrically connected with the display, the input device, the first sensor module and the second sensor module. The processor may be configured to determine whether sensing data received from the first sensor module and sensing data received from the second sensor module meet a predetermined condition, and to operate the input device in an external input mode if the sensing data provided by the first sensor and the sensing data provided by the second sensor meet the predetermined condition.
US10719095B2
A voltage clamping circuit includes a first detection circuit, a second detection circuit, and a discharge circuit. The first detection circuit detects a voltage level of a power voltage during a first operation period of a semiconductor apparatus. The second detection circuit detects the voltage level of the power voltage during a second operation period of the semiconductor apparatus. The discharge circuit changes the voltage level of the power voltage based on the detection results of the first and second detection circuits.
US10719093B2
The present invention is directed to a direct-drive fan system and a variable process control system for efficiently managing the operation of fans in a cooling system such as a wet-cooling tower or air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE), HVAC systems, mechanical towers or chiller systems. The present invention is based on the integration of key features and characteristics such as tower thermal performance, fan speed and airflow, motor torque, fan pitch, fan speed, fan aerodynamic properties, and pump flow. The variable process control system processes feedback signals from multiple locations in order control a high torque, variable speed, permanent magnet motor to drive the fan. Such feedback signals represent certain operating conditions including motor temperature, basin temperature, vibrations, and pump flow rates. Other data processed by the variable process control system in order to control the motor include turbine back pressure set-point, condenser temperature set-point and plant part-load setting. The variable process control system processes this data and the aforesaid feedback signals to optimize the operation of the cooling system in order to prevent disruption of the industrial process and prevent equipment (turbine) failure or trip. The variable process control system alerts the operators for the need to conduct maintenance actions to remedy deficient operating conditions such as condenser fouling. The variable process control system increases cooling for cracking crude and also adjusts the motor RPM, and hence the fan RPM, accordingly during plant part-load conditions in order to save energy.
US10719086B2
A system and method for dynamically updated vehicle navigation planning for a second UV based on navigation feedback of a first UV. The first UV navigates based on a first navigation plan and the second UV navigates based on a second navigation plan. The system includes: a processing circuitry; and a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the system to: receive the navigation feedback of the first UV, wherein the navigation feedback of the first UV includes telemetry data indicating at least a divergence event and a location of the divergence event, wherein the divergence event is a divergence of the first UV from the first navigation plan; and dynamically update the second navigation plan based on the navigation feedback of the first UV when the second navigation plan includes the location of the divergence event.
US10719084B2
A method and a device for vehicle platooning in which a leader vehicle of a group of vehicles provides a control signal and one or more follower vehicles in the group travel according to the control signal, the method can include determining a communication state of the group of vehicles; and adjusting, by the leader vehicle, a distance between at least two vehicles included in the group of vehicles based on the communication state of the group of vehicles.
US10719079B2
A hybrid of initial time consuming phase of a Single Directional Dijkstra's Algorithm is embodied on an unclocked CMOS logic chip using a parallelized approach with Asynchronous Digital Logic (ADL). The chip includes a a plurality of addressable configurable cells arranged as a multidimensional orthogonal array. The cell array only executes mathematical operations based on a communication between immediately adjacent cells.
US10719076B1
A system may include a follower aircraft including a processor configured to: determine a follower aircraft location at a time t0; receive a real-time kinematics (RTK) update from a lead aircraft, the RTK update including information associated with: a lead aircraft location at the time t0, the lead aircraft location at a time t1 relative to the lead aircraft location at the time t0, and an object location at the time t1 relative to the lead aircraft location at the time t1; perform RTK processing to determine the follower aircraft location at the time t0 relative to the lead aircraft location at a time t0; determine the follower aircraft location at a time t2 relative to the follower aircraft location at the time t0 by utilizing time relative navigation (TRN); and determine the object location at time t2 relative to the follower aircraft location at the time t2.
US10719072B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to method and apparatus for system problem diagnosis and recovery. According to embodiments of the present invention, problem symptom information in a system can be automatically monitored and collected BY a monitoring apparatus (or referred as to “agent”) deployed at the system side. Upon after receiving such information, the diagnosis apparatus, for example, may automatically determine a root cause of the problem by querying a backend knowledge repository, and possibly generate an executable software package for recovering the problem. If the diagnosis apparatus determines that the currently available information is insufficient to determine a creditable enough root cause and/or is insufficient to generate the software package for recovering the problem, the diagnosis apparatus may interactively control the monitoring apparatus to collect desired additional information. In this way, the efficiency and accuracy of problem diagnosis and recovery may be improved.
US10719071B2
Approaches for using a device-based authentication certificate to obtain data access to a cloud-based destination application are provided. Using an edge manager device, a token and data access request is received from a machine. The edge manager device is configured to administer data access to one or more cloud-based applications.
US10719055B2
A control device for a technical process, having at least two devices for detecting a respective input signal and at least one manipulated variable output device. The output device forms a difference between a reference variable and a controlled variable and ascertains a manipulated variable therefrom. The control device additionally has at least one internal signal processing system for influencing the time response and damping behavior of a control loop formed by the control device and technical process. At least two filter devices provide signal processing. A first filter device interacts with the process such that the control loop time response can be influenced by a filter device property change, and at least one amplification element interacts such that the control loop damping behavior can be influenced by an amplification element amplification factor change and such that the second filter device and the I element can be activated individually.
US10719048B2
The disclosure provides an image forming apparatus for accommodating photosensitive assembly having first assembly shaft. The image forming apparatus includes casing, fixing mechanism and cover plate. The casing has first guide groove, and the first assembly shaft is configured to be slidably disposed in the first guide groove. The fixing mechanism is movably mounted on the casing so as to be movable between a blocking state and a releasing state. The cover plate is movably connected the casing so as to be movable between an opened position and a closed position. When the cover plate is moved to the closed position, the cover plate forces the fixing mechanism to move to the blocking state to block the first guide groove and cover a bottom surface of the first guide groove so as to retain the first assembly shaft of the photosensitive assembly between the fixing mechanism and the bottom surface.
US10719042B2
An image heating apparatus including a rotatable heating member, a first motor configured to rotationally drive the rotatable heating member, a belt unit, a position detecting portion, a tilting mechanism, including a second motor for tilting the belt unit, a jam detecting portion, and a controller. When the occurrence of the jam is detected by the jam detecting portion during a tilting operation of the belt unit, the controller stops drive of the first motor and drive of the second motor in response to detection of the occurrence of the jam by the jam detecting portion.
US10719038B2
An apparatus includes a photosensitive member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image as an image by using toner, an image bearing member to which the image is transferred, a detecting unit including a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit light toward the image bearing member and a light-receiving element that receives light reflected from a detection target, and a control unit that adjusts an image forming condition. The control unit adjusts a light-emission ratio between the light-emitting elements based on a difference between a reflected light amount at a first position on the image bearing member and a reflected light amount at a second position.
US10719029B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a charging member, an exposing member, a developer carrying member, a storage member to store a first lifetime threshold for the first image forming mode, a second lifetime threshold for the second image forming mode and a value related to a driving amount of the image bearing member. The image forming apparatus further includes a controller to (i) perform a first determination regarding the lifetime corresponding to the first mode based on the value related to the driving amount and the first lifetime threshold and (ii) perform a second determination regarding the lifetime corresponding to the second mode based on the value related to the driving amount and the second lifetime threshold, and a notifying unit to perform a notification based on a result of the first or second determination to the image bearing member.
US10719028B2
A process cartridge includes a developer carrier including a dielectric portion and a conductive portion on a surface thereof, a regulation member, and an image carrier disposed so as to come into contact with the developer carrier. The developer carrier and the image carrier are rotationally driven such that a surface of the developer carrier and a surface of the image carrier move at linear velocities different from each other at a contact portion, and the developer remaining on the image carrier after the developer image is transferred from the image carrier, is collected by the developer carrier at the contact portion.
US10719020B2
An extreme ultraviolet radiation source apparatus includes a chamber including at least a droplet generator, a nozzle of the droplet generator, and a dry ice blasting assembly. The droplet generator includes a reservoir for a molten metal, and the nozzle has a first end connected to the reservoir and a second opposing end where molten metal droplets emerge from the nozzle. The dry ice blasting assembly includes a blasting nozzle, a blasting air inlet and a blaster carbon dioxide (CO2) inlet. The blasting nozzle is disposed inside the chamber. The blasting nozzle is arranged to direct a pressurized air stream and dry ice particles at the nozzle of the droplet generator.
US10719012B2
A curable composition includes: an α-type oxytitanium phthalocyanine pigment; and a curable compound. A method of manufacturing a curable composition includes a step of dispersing an α-type oxytitanium phthalocyanine pigment and a pigment other than an oxytitanium phthalocyanine pigment in the presence of a solvent. A film, an infrared cut filter, and an infrared transmitting filter are formed using the curable composition. A pattern forming method includes: a step of forming a curable composition layer on a support using the curable composition; and a step of forming a pattern on the curable composition layer using a photolithography method or a dry etching method. The device is a solid image pickup element, an infrared sensor, or an image display device including the film.
US10719005B2
Provided is a projection screen. The screen includes: a base layer; a cylindrical lens layer formed on a side of the base layer close to a viewer, a Fresnel structure formed on a side of the base layer facing away from the viewer, a reflective layer formed on a side of the Fresnel structure facing away from the base layer, including reflective particles and configured to scatter and reflect, in a solid angle range corresponding to a particle size of the reflective particles, incident light incident from the Fresnel structure, to form reflected light; and a light-absorbing layer formed on a side of the reflective layer facing away from the Fresnel structure. The cylindrical lens layer includes a plurality of cylindrical lenses each having an axis perpendicular to a horizontal direction, and scatters light from the Fresnel structure to increase a viewing angle in the horizontal direction.
US10719002B2
A projection display device includes a light source module, a switch unit, and micro-scanning mirrors. The light source module provides a light beam. The switch unit receives the light beam and switches a transmission direction of the light beam to the corresponding one of the micro-scanning mirrors during each of periods. The micro-scanning mirrors cause the light beam to scan over projection surfaces to form images. The projection display device can project the images on the projection surfaces without image brightness loss.
US10719001B2
A smart lighting device includes an illumination module, an image projection module, a camera module, a sensing module and an identifying module. The illumination module is configured to provide illumination light beams. The image projection module is configured to project an image frame. The sensing module has a specific sensing area and is configured to sense an operation action of a user within the sensing area. The identifying module is electrically connected to the image projection module, the camera module and the sensing module. The camera module is configured to shoot a content to be identified to form an image to be identified. The identifying module is configured to identify the image to be identified. The image projection module is configured to display information acquired by the identifying module in the projected image frame. A control method for the smart lighting device is also provided.
US10718999B2
The DMD assembly in present disclosure includes a base mounted on a first side of a driver board; a chip substrate; a DMD chip mounted on the chip substrate; and a fixing frame fixed with driver board on the first side; a second side of the base includes a mounting groove configured to mount the chip substrate; the fixing frame includes an insertion hole, and the base is received in the insertion hole; an elastic protrusion is positioned beside the inserting hole, and the elastic protrusion comprises a fixing portion and a pressing portion, the fixing portion is connected to the fixing frame on a side of the fixing frame facing away from the driver board, the pressing portion is positioned on the fixing portion; a surface of the pressing portion facing the chip substrate contacts the chip substrate to clamp the chip substrate against the base.
US10718998B2
An illumination device includes a light source section, an optical element, and a driver. The light source section includes a laser light source. The optical element includes a periodic structure, and is disposed in an optical path of light emitted from the light source section. The driver vibrates the optical element to cause a vibration direction to be inclined to a periodic direction of the periodic structure of the optical element.
US10718987B2
An optical device comprising a stack of the following layers: a capping layer (16) having a high refractive index for guiding incident light; a layer of light absorber material (10), preferably a phase-changing material; and a reflective layer (12), wherein the refractive index of the capping layer is at least 1.6.
US10718984B2
A repair method of a display panel comprises: disposing a repair line on a non-display area; dividing the repair line into a first, a second, and a third segments sequentially connected; electrically connecting the first end of the target data line to an input end of the gate driving chip through the first segment; dividing the second segment of the repair line into a first and second parts, wherein the second part electrically connects the operational amplifiers (OPAs) of the gate driving chip for amplifying the repair signal transmitted through the repair line, and the first part electrically connects two gate driving chips; electrically connecting the last output end of the gate driving chip to the second end of the target data line through the third segment, for transmitting the repair signal amplified by the (OPA) to the breakpoint through the second end of the target data line.
US10718974B2
A planar light source device having a plurality of light emission devices and a light diffusion plate. For each of the light emission devices, the light beam from among light beams satisfying θ3/θ1<1 that has the smallest emission angle θ1xmin satisfies the relationship Ax
US10718966B2
A liquid crystal display device comprises: a first display panel including a first liquid crystal cell and a pair of first polarizing plates sandwiching the first liquid crystal cell; a second display panel including a second liquid crystal cell and a pair of second polarizing plates sandwiching the second liquid crystal cell; and a bonding member bonding one of the pair of first polarizing plates of the first display panel and one of the pair of second polarizing plates of the second display panel together. An end of the bonding member is located inside an end of the first polarizing plate and an end of the second polarizing plate.
US10718958B2
An eye-mountable device is provided that includes electronics encapsulated within a rigid, gas-permeable polymeric material. The eye-mountable device includes an electroactive lens that can be operated to control an overall optical power of the eye-mountable device to restore an amount of visual accommodation of an eye to which the device is mounted. A method for fabricating the eye-mountable device is provided that includes applying an adhesive to secure lenses of the electroactive lens together and to maintain an amount of liquid crystal in the space between the lenses. The rigid, gas-permeable polymeric material can then be formed around the electroactive lens, electronics, or other elements of the eye-mountable device. The rigid, gas-permeable polymeric material can be mountable to a corneal surface of an eye or can be disposed on or within a soft polymeric material that is mountable to the corneal surface of the eye.
US10718949B1
A display apparatus includes a plurality of housings connected by adjustable device for setting spacing between centers of the plurality of housings, each housing including: first image source mounted to side of housing; second image source mounted to housing angularly offset from first image source, wherein second image source includes higher resolution and narrower image field of view than first image source; optical combiner positioned in housing between first and second image sources, on which first image from first image source and second image from second image source are superimposed and made visible to user's eye; magnification lens for magnifying second image to increase image field of view; eyepiece lens for reducing focal distance between the optical combiner and the user's eye; and controller configured to control output of second image source to render colors to compensate for distortion and chromatic aberrations introduced by magnification lens.
US10718948B2
A head-mounted display apparatus including an image display unit configured to display a display object image and a pointer image, a head movement detection unit configured to detect an amount of rotation angle of a head of a user, and a display controller configured to control a display mode of the pointer image, including a movement speed of the pointer image, within a display region of the image display unit. The display controller executes a first display control configured to change the movement speed of the pointer image in accordance with the detected amount of rotation angle so as to display the pointer image.
US10718942B2
An eye tracking system for a NED device includes sensors that are directed toward and angularly offset from a user's eyes in a manner that causes circular features (e.g., irises and/or pupils) of the user's eyes to appear elliptical within sensor planes that correspond to the individual sensors. The eye tracking system determines parameters associated with detected ellipses and then uses these parameters to generate 3D propagations from the detected ellipses back to the user's eyes. By analyzing these 3D propagations with respect to ocular rotation models that represent how the pupils and iris rotate about the center of the eye, the eye tracking system determines pupil orientation parameters that define physical characteristics of the user's eyes. The pupil orientation parameters may then be used to determine interpupillary distance and/or vergence of the user's visual axis that extend from the user's fovea.
US10718940B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic device that includes a peak detection circuit configured to receive a mirror sense signal from an oscillating mirror and to generate peak information for a mirror period as a function thereof. The electronic device includes a mirror control circuit that estimates an opening angle of the oscillating mirror as a function of the peak information, generates a control signal for the oscillating mirror as a function of the estimated opening angle, and resets the peak detection circuit at an end of the mirror period.
US10718931B2
A confocal inspection system can optically characterize a sample. An objective lens, or separate incident and return lenses, can deliver incident light from a light source to the sample, and can collect light from the sample. Confocal optics can direct the collected light onto a detector. The system can average the incident light over multiple locations at the sample, for example, by scanning the incident light with a pivotable mirror in the incident and return optical paths, or by illuminating and collecting with multiple spaced-apart confocal apertures. The system can average the collected light, for example, by directing the collected light onto a single-pixel detector, or by directing the collected light onto a multi-pixel detector and averaging the pixel output signals to form a single electronic signal. Averaging the incident and/or return light can be advantageous for structured or inhomogeneous samples.
US10718929B2
Provided is an optical system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power configured to move during focusing; and a third lens unit, wherein an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during focusing, wherein the first lens unit includes a positive lens arranged closest to the object side and an aperture stop, wherein the second lens unit consists of one negative lens, and wherein a distance on an optical axis from a lens surface closest to the object side in the optical system to an image plane, a focal length of the optical system, a refractive index of a material of the one negative lens, and an Abbe number of the material of the one negative lens are appropriately set.
US10718915B2
A photonic integrated circuit including a beam launching waveguide, a local oscillator waveguide, a target interferometer, and a reference interferometer all integrated on a chip. The beam launching waveguide transmits target electromagnetic radiation off the chip and receives a retroreflection of the target electromagnetic radiation from a target off the chip. The target interferometer interferes the retroreflection with a local oscillator field transmitted from the local oscillator waveguide so as to form a target interference signal. The reference interferometer interferes a portion of the target electromagnetic radiation that does not leave the chip with the local oscillator field transmitted from the local oscillator waveguide to form a reference interference signal. The difference between the reference interference signal and the target interference signal is used to measure a distance to the target from the chip.
US10718910B2
Ruggedized field terminated optical fiber connector systems comprising a field terminated connector assembly including a drop cable coupled to a connector, the drop cable having a custom length. The ruggedized field terminated connector system may further comprise a rugged front portion configured to slide over at least a portion of the field terminated connector assembly, and a rear connector body configured to couple to the rugged front portion. The rear body has a crimp ring and a grommet is slide into said crimp ring, and secured therein.
US10718908B2
An optical fiber array with high reliability, which relates to the technical field of optical fibers is disclosed. The optical fiber array is composed of three parts, namely, optical fiber positioning substrate (1), cover plate (2) and optical fiber ribbon (3). One end of the optical fiber ribbon is striped to be a naked fiber (4). The naked fiber (4) is pressed into the micro-groove array of the optical fiber positioning substrate (1) by the cover plate (2) and glued and fixed with a glue layer (5), and a transitional region between the stripped part and the unstripped part of the optical fiber ribbon (3) is glued and fixed onto a rear half of the optical fiber positioning substrate (1) with the glue layer (5). It has a reasonable and novel structural design. Through frosting of the surfaces of the positioning substrate (1) and the cover plate (2) to be bonded with glue, gluing area between the glue layer and the optical fiber positioning substrate, the cover plate and the optical fiber ribbon can be increase and bonding strength of the glue layer can be enhanced so that it can work in harsh environment of high temperature and humidity without de-bonding to ensure positioning accuracy of optical fibers.
US10718903B1
Structures for a waveguide bend and methods of fabricating a structure for a waveguide bend. A first waveguide core has a first section, a second section, and a first waveguide bend connecting the first section with the second section. The first waveguide core has a first side surface extending about an outer radius of the first waveguide bend. A second waveguide core also has a first section, a second section, and a second waveguide bend connecting the first section with the second section. The second waveguide core has a second side surface extending about an outer radius of the second waveguide bend. The first waveguide bend is spaced from the second waveguide bend in a first non-contacting relationship with a gap between the first side surface and the second side surface. The gap has a perpendicular distance selected to permit optical signal transfer between the first and second waveguide bends.
US10718895B2
According to one embodiment, an illuminating device includes a lightguide plate including a curved emitting surface, and an incidence surface including a side edge curved along the emitting surface, a printed circuit board facing the incidence surface, and light sources mounted on the printed circuit board. Each light source includes a light-emitting center, a pair of connection terminals, and a central axis extending through the connection terminals and the light-emitting center. The light sources are arranged along a curved mounting line extending along the curved side edge of the incidence surface on the printed circuit board. The light-emitting centers are located on the mounting line, and the central axes are parallel to each other.
US10718893B2
A light guide plate (LGP) positioning structure, a backlight module and a display device are provided. The LGP positioning structure includes: a plurality of positioning members disposed between a first surface of a LGP and a back plate. The first surface is adjacent to an incident surface of the LGP. The surface reflectivity of the positioning members near the incident surface is lower than the surface reflectivity of the positioning members away from the incident surface.
US10718887B2
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an antireflection film, including the successive steps of: applying a composition including a curable compound (a1), a plurality of particles (a2), and a solvent on a substrate, and volatilizing the solvent to provide a layer (a), the layer (a) having a portion in which the particles (a2) do not exist, and the portion having a thickness being 0.8 times the average primary particle diameter of the particles (a2) or greater; curing a portion of the curable compound (a1); causing a portion of the curable compound (a1) to permeate the substrate or to be volatilized so as to form an uneven shape; and curing the curable compound (a1) remained in the layer (a).
US10718878B2
Computing device, software and method for balancing forces acting on a piston of a marine vibrator towed in a body of water. The method includes estimating with a management system located on a vessel or a controller located on a marine vibrator, a transient pressure disturbance in the body of water; computing, at the controller, a force correction for the piston of the marine vibrator, based on the transient pressure disturbance; and instructing an actuation system of the marine vibrator to apply the force correction to the piston in anticipation of an arrival of the transient pressure disturbance.
US10718877B2
A method of analyzing measured microseismic events obtained from monitoring induced hydraulic fracturing of underground geological formations, the method involving (a) postulate a geomechanical model for the region bounding the microseismic events, the model including the parameters vertical stress, reservoir pore pressure, minimum horizontal stress and the orthogonal horizontal stress, (b) select a microseismic event and (c) for the selected microseismic event assume an associated slippage plane with a postulated orientation, (d) apply the geomechanical model to the postulated orientation to determine the resulting shear stress and normal stress applied to the postulated orientation, (e) repeat steps (c) and (d) to produce a number of postulated slippage planes each with their own shear stress and normal stress attributable to them, (f) select the fracture plane having the highest ratio of shear stress to normal stress as being the fracture plane most likely to be representative of a real slippage plane consistent with the geomechanical model, (g) repeat steps (b) to (f) to analyze a number of microseismic events to generate a slippage plane most likely to be representative of a real slippage plane for each microseismic event is provided.
US10718876B2
A computer-implemented method is described for a manner of geologic analysis using time-lapse seismic data. The method includes steps of receiving a first seismic attribute volume inverted from a seismic dataset recorded at a first time, a second digital seismic attribute volume inverted from a seismic dataset recorded at a second time, and a range of geological and geophysical parameters possible in the subsurface volume of interest; identifying a layer and area of interest; computing an attribute difference volume from the seismic attribute volumes; performing probabilistic attribute analysis of at least two of the first digital seismic attribute volume, the second digital seismic attribute volume, and the attribute difference volume using the range of geological and geophysical parameters; estimating time-lapse reservoir properties based on the probabilistic attribute analysis; and outputting visual information depicting the time-lapse reservoir properties via a user interface.
US10718872B2
A photonic dosimeter accrues cumulative dose and includes: a substrate; a waveguide disposed on the substrate and that: receives a primary input light; transmits secondary input light from the primary input light to a dosimatrix; receives a secondary output light from the dosimatrix; and produces primary output light from the secondary output light; the dosimatrix disposed on the substrate and in optical communication with the waveguide and that: receives the secondary input light from the waveguide; produces the secondary output light that is communicated to the waveguide; and includes an active element that undergoes conversion from a prime state to a dosed state in response to receipt, by the active element, of a dose of radiation; and a cover layer disposed on waveguide and the dosimatrix.
US10718870B2
Determination of one or more timing (phase) and/or frequency corrections to be made to a local time base of a receiver device to synchronize the local time base with the time of GPS or other highly accurate time base. Timing packets from one or more grandmaster devices whose time bases are substantially the same as that of GPS or the like and/or positioning system signals (e.g., GPS signals) directly from a positioning system are received and manipulated to determine the timing and/or frequency corrections. The corrected time base may be used to assist in acquiring such positioning signals to allow for higher accuracy correction and/or for downstream communication operation. The present utilities are advantageous such as when a sufficient number of channels (e.g., four) from the receiver device to positioning system satellites are unavailable to synchronize the local time base to the GPS or other accurate time base.
US10718869B2
A constellation of satellites and associated methods for Earth Observation are disclosed. One method includes transmitting a set of at least four signals towards the Earth using a constellation of at least four satellites and receiving a set of at least four reflected signals from the Earth using the constellation. The method also includes analyzing, using a set of at least four signal analyzers, the set of at least four signals to generate a set of data. Each satellite in the constellation individually houses a signal analyzer in the set of at least four signal analyzers. The method also includes deriving the set of Earth observations using the set of data. Each satellite receives a signal in the set of at least four signals from every other satellite in the constellation.
US10718865B2
Beamformed sonar data is compressed before communicating the data to a storage step or to a further processing step. At lease some of the beams of the compressed beamformed data have values for at least two different ranges.
US10718863B2
A mobile radar system for visualizing forward looking topography is configured with at least two phased-array antennas to form a forwarding looking phased-array interferometer.
US10718849B2
Techniques for determining an actual position of a portable device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a two-tier triangulation and wireless beacon-enabled luminaire detection approach is implemented. An estimated position of a device is determined using wireless (e.g., wireless beacon) triangulation based on a signal parameter of a signal received from a wireless access point. The field of view of the portable device may be used to estimate positions of luminaires proximate the portable device. The actual position of the luminaires may be determined from the estimated position by querying a database. A second triangulation may be performed using the known position of the luminaires to determine the position of the portable device with respect to the actual position of the luminaire.
US10718838B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing a calibration “pre-scan” prior to acquiring data using a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system performing a multi-spectral imaging (“MSI”) acquisition. Information from the calibration scan is used to optimize the scanning and data collection during the MSI scan. As a result, scan times and motion artifacts are reduced. In addition, image resolution can also be increased, thereby improving image quality. As one example, the MSI acquisition can be a MAVRIC acquisition. In general, the calibration data is used to determine the minimum number of spectral bins required to achieve acceptable image quality near a specific metallic implant or device.
US10718833B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system uses a superconducting magnet having a primary coil structure and a shielding coil layer. The primary coil structure comprises at least three sets of coils with significantly different inner diameters, forming a three-bore magnet structure. The three bores are coaxially aligned with a longitudinal axis, with the largest diameter first bore on one side of the magnet and the smallest diameter third bore on another side of the magnet, as well as a medium diameter second bore located axially between the first and the third bores. The first bore allows access for the head and shoulders and permits the head to enter into the second bore for imaging, while the patient's extremities (hands, legs) may access through the third bore for producing images of the extremity joints. The magnet may also be used for other specialist imaging where use of a whole-body MRI is unwarranted, such as the imaging of neonates. Reinforcing plates can be connected between coil formers to withstand the forces generated by the high magnetic fields.
US10718831B2
A magnetic resonance antenna includes a surface coil and a receive coil. The magnetic resonance antenna includes one or more antenna elements. The magnetic resonance antenna further includes a preamplifier for the antenna element and a coil former for supporting the antenna element. The coil former is formed from a porous material. The antenna is divided into an irradiation zone and at least one reduced radiation zone. The preamplifier for each of multiple antenna elements is located within the at least one reduced radiation zone. The multiple antenna elements are located at least partially within the irradiation zone. The coil former has a perimeter. The irradiation zone extends continuously from a first edge of the perimeter to a second edge of the perimeter. The first edge and the second edge are opposing edges.
US10718813B2
A method of automatically identifying an anomalous condition of an induction motor by normalizing the voltage measured across its terminals relative to the power flow to the motor or the motor's impedance. The starting and/or run current and associated voltage of the motor is measured, and a voltage variation between the measured voltage and the motor's rated voltage is determined. The power flow or impedance at the voltage variation is calculated to determine an expected power flow or impedance at the measured voltage variation. The actual power flow or impedance is compared against a nominal or expected power flow or impedance or a statistical comparison is carried out on a historical set of power flow or impedance values within an expected range at the voltage variation. When the measured values deviate from the expected ones, an alarm is triggered to indicate a potential anomaly with the motor or external thereto.
US10718807B2
The present disclosure provides a test probe and an apparatus for testing a printed circuit board, wherein the test probe comprises a test pin; and an insulating protection sleeve with adhesive attached therein, wherein the insulating protection sleeve is sleeved on the test pin, and wherein a first end of the test pin protrudes from the insulating protection sleeve.
US10718806B2
The present disclosure relates to circuit structures and, more particularly, to circuit structures which detect high speed and high precision characterization of VTsat and VTlin of FET arrays and methods of manufacture and use. The circuit includes a control loop comprised of a differential amplifier, a plurality of FET arrays, and at least one analog switch enabling selection between a calibration mode and an operation mode.
US10718804B2
A system for measuring residual phase noise of a device under test (DUT) includes first and second signal sources, first and second receivers, and a processor. The first signal source generates a first signal to be input to the DUT as a stimulus signal and provides a second signal that is phase coherent with the first signal. The second signal source receives the second signal and generates a reference signal based on the second signal, which is phase coherent with the stimulus signal. The first receiver measures an output signal from the DUT responsive to the stimulus signal, and the second receiver measures the reference signal from the second signal source. The processor mathematically suppresses a carrier of the output signal by determining a difference between the measured output signal and the measured reference signal, and determines the residual phase noise of the DUT based on the difference.
US10718797B2
A current detecting apparatus and a battery management system are provided. In the current detecting apparatus, a positive electrode of a power battery pack is connected to a first terminal of a primary positive circuit, a negative electrode of the power battery pack is connected to a first terminal of a primary negative circuit, and a current sensor is connected in series between the negative electrode of the power battery pack and the first terminal of the primary negative circuit; the current sensor is configured for obtaining and outputting a voltage signal of the power battery pack; a microcontroller unit is configured for implementing current conversion on the voltage signal, transmitting a detected current value, which is obtained by the current conversion, of the power battery pack and receiving a control command for controlling the primary positive and negative circuits to turn on or turn off.
US10718793B2
An oscilloscope is described that has a compensation signal generator configured to generate a compensation signal, a probe connector configured to be connected to the passive probe and a detection unit configured to detect whether the passive probe is connected to the probe connector or not. Further, a test and measurement system and a method are described.
US10718790B2
A testing apparatus with reduced warping of the probe card and a method of reducing warping of a probe card of a testing apparatus are disclosed. The testing apparatus can include a testing head and a platform opposite the testing head, where the testing head and platform move relative to one another to bring a sample into contact with probing tips of the testing apparatus. The testing head can include a probe card printed circuit board, a stiffener, a discontinuous backer and a plurality of probing tips. The stiffener can be coupled to and reinforcing the probe card. The discontinuous backer can extend from the probe card to the stiffener, and can include at least one unfilled void extending from the stiffener to the probe card. The plurality of probing tips can extend from a distal end of the testing head.
US10718789B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a common test board including a socket board, an IP evaluation board, and a common board. To the socket board, a semiconductor device is to be connected. On the IP evaluation board, the socket board is able to be attached. On the common board, the IP evaluation board is able to be attached.
US10718787B2
A system for an aircraft includes a pneumatic sensor, an optical sensor, and a computer system. The pneumatic sensor is configured to sense a value external to the aircraft. The optical sensor is configured to emit an optical signal external to the aircraft and receive an optical response. The computer system is configured to receive the value and the optical response. The pneumatic sensor and the optical sensor do not extend beyond a boundary layer of the aircraft.
US10718777B2
The present invention relates to methods of visualizing targets in histological samples, e.g. biopsy samples, wherein the methods comprise staining of the sample with (i) one or more target specific immunochemical stains, and (ii) a histological stain for specific tissue components e.g. iron, mucins glycogen, amyloid, nucleic acids, etc., e.g. hematoxilyn and/or eosin stains or the like, that is used to enhance contrast in the microscopic image of a tissue sample, highlight morphologic structures in the sample for viewing, define and examine tissues, cell populations, or organelles within individual cells. Methods may further comprise evaluation of expression of one or more targets in the sample. The disclosed methods are useful for medical diagnostics.
US10718773B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods for determining the eligibility of a subject having a malignancy for treatment with an anti-PD therapeutic agent. In certain embodiments, the method includes determining, by immunohistochemistry, the number of PD-L1 positive malignant cells in a tumor tissue section as well as the number of infiltrating non-malignant cells and/or non-malignant cells of the stromal interface area. The infiltrating non-malignant cells and/or non-malignant cells of the stromal interface area are positive for a marker selected from PD-L1, CD8, CD68, and any combination thereof. Compositions and kits or performing the disclosed methods are also provided.
US10718764B2
The present invention is directed to a luminescent immunoassay method for detecting an analyte in a liquid sample with high sensitivity. The invention provides a unique combination of (i) using a probe having a small sensing surface area for binding analyte molecules, (ii) using a high molecular weight branched polymer conjugated with multiple binding molecules and multiple luminescent labels, and (iii) cycling the probe having immunocomplex formed back to the reagent vessel and amplification vessel 1-10 times and repeating the reaction with the reagent and the amplification polymer, to improve the sensitivity of detection level. For each cycling, the luminescent signal is increased significantly over the noise. The present invention is also directed to an electrochemiluminescent detection system for measuring a chemiluminescent signal on a probe tip.
US10718761B2
The present invention relates to a composition for detecting phosphatase or kinase activity and a method of detecting phosphatase or kinase activity. The kinase or phosphatase activity may be quantitatively measured in real time by using the composition of the present invention.
US10718759B2
Disclosed herein are a transparent immunoassay apparatus and method. The transparent immunoassay apparatus includes a sample pad configured to allow a liquid specimen to be dropped thereonto, a first porous pipe configured to move the dropped specimen in a lateral flow manner, an immunobinding reaction unit configured to generate a detectable signal from binding of a previously applied reactant and the specimen between transparent upper and lower plates of the immunobinding reaction unit, a second porous pipe configured to move the specimen, having passed through the immunobinding reaction unit, in a lateral flow manner, and an absorption pad configured to absorb the specimen transferred from the second porous pipe.
US10718756B2
Mitochondria are central to the intrinsic apoptotic pathway of programmed cell death. Commitment to cell death occurs upon mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization, and dysregulation of this vital apoptotic control point is implicated in various pathologies. Provided herein are novel sensors which can detect, in real time and with great sensitivity, the release of protons from intact mitochondria caused by mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization. Embodiments include graphene based ion-sensitive field effect transistors.
US10718751B2
A customizable diagnostic meter is provided. The diagnostic meter includes a meter for performing a diagnostic test, wherein the meter includes a housing having a slot, and a module having one or more functions. The slot is configured to receive and removably secure at least a portion of the module. A customizable diagnostic meter kit including two or more modules configured to be inserted in a meter is also provided.
US10718744B2
Provided herein in some embodiments is a column including a housing assembly and a cartridge assembly. The housing assembly can include a housing top, a housing bottom, and a housing siding. The housing siding can be fixedly coupled to the housing top and the housing bottom forming hermetic seals therebetween. The cartridge assembly can include a cartridge top, an outer frit, and an inner frit disposed within the outer frit. A toroidal space can defined by the cartridge top, the outer frit, the inner frit, and the housing bottom. The toroidal space can be configured to hold a stationary phase for radial flow column chromatography. Also provided herein in some embodiments is a process including assembling the cartridge assembly, assembling the housing assembly about the cartridge assembly, and pressure testing the column. In some embodiments, the process can further include charging the toroidal space with a stationary phase.
US10718742B2
In environments (such as acoustic and bioelectrical environments) characterized by multiple simultaneous sources, effective blind source separation from sensor response mixtures becomes difficult as the number of sources increases-especially when the true number of sources is both unknown and changing over time. However, in some environments, non-sensor information can provide useful hypotheses for some sources. Embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive filtering architecture for validating such source hypotheses, extracting an estimated representation of source signals corresponding to valid hypotheses, and improving the separation of the remaining “hidden” source signals from the sensor response mixtures.
US10718740B2
According to one implementation, an ultrasonic test system includes an ultrasonic propagating body and an optical fiber sensor. The ultrasonic propagating body changes at least one traveling direction of at least one ultrasonic wave which propagates in a test target. The optical fiber sensor detects the at least one ultrasonic wave of which the at least one traveling direction has been changed by the ultrasonic propagating body.
US10718739B2
To provide a surface characteristics inspection method of inspecting a heat treatment on a steel product subjected to a surface treatment in a nondestructive manner. A surface characteristics inspection apparatus is used which includes an alternating-current bridge circuit, an alternating-current power supply that supplies an alternating-current power to the alternating-current bridge circuit, and an evaluation device that evaluates the surface characteristics of a subject, which is a steel product subjected to a heat treatment, based on an output signal of the alternating-current bridge circuit. Coils of a reference detector and an inspection detector in the bridge circuit are energized to produce an alternating-current magnetism to induce an eddy current in a reference subject and the subject, respectively, and the electromagnetic characteristics of the subject obtained in the state where the reference detector detects a reference state is output as a first output signal.
US10718735B2
A gas detection method using a gas detection element obtained by laminating a fixed support, a first electrode (2), a dielectric sensor (3), a second electrode (4), and a gas adsorption film (5), in this order, the method including: a step of applying a first signal resonantly driving the dielectric sensor (3) between electrodes of the first electrode (1) and the second electrode (3), and detecting gas adsorbed on the gas adsorption film based on a change of a resonant frequency of the dielectric sensor; and a step of heating the dielectric sensor (3) by applying a second signal between the electrodes after the detection of gas and desorbing gas adsorbed in the gas adsorption film; a gas detection system capable of performing the method; and a gas desorption method appropriate for applying this gas detection method.
US10718731B2
A cell for electrochemical measurement is a cell for electrochemical measurement used for measurement by an electron beam that passes through an observation window, a MEMS chip for observation which includes a laminate including an electron-transmissive thin film and a substrate and in which a working electrode and a counter electrode are provided on a thin film and an MEMS chip for sealing which is a laminate including an electron-transmissive thin film and a substrate are disposed apart from each other, and there are areas in both laminates in which the substrates are not present, and an observation window including the thin film is formed in the areas, and the working electrode overlaps the observation window in both laminates and has a plurality of through-holes on an observation window in a direction in which an electron beam passes.
US10718730B2
A change in an imaginary part of a complex dielectric constant of an inspection object containing moisture is detected as a change in an oscillation frequency. A sensor device includes an oscillation unit that is formed in a semiconductor integrated circuit and an oscillation frequency detection unit that detects an oscillation frequency of the oscillation unit. The oscillation unit has capacitors that are connected to an inspection object in series and changes the oscillation frequency in accordance with a complex dielectric constant of the inspection object.
US10718729B2
An electrical detection device carried by a rail vehicle traveling on a railway track to detect faults in at least one rail, including a contact support suitable for being mechanically linked to the rail vehicle, at least one reference contact and corresponding measuring contact applied to a rail, and carried by the support, a processing circuit to which each reference contact and measuring contact are connected, suitable for measuring the impedance between the corresponding reference and measuring contacts, means for positioning the contact support facing the surface of the rail in a measurement direction corresponding to the axis of the rail, such that each first reference contact and each corresponding measuring contact relate to the same rail, and at least two measuring contacts transversely offset relative to the measurement direction, wherein the processing circuit includes means for measuring the impedance between at least one reference contact and each measuring contact.
US10718724B2
A method of qualifying physical components using computed tomography (CT) includes obtaining qualified CT data from a CT scanner for at least one qualified physical component. Qualification data is generated based on the qualified CT data, where the qualification data defines a qualification envelope. Candidate CT data is obtained from the CT scanner for a candidate physical component. Comparison data is then generated based on the candidate CT data and the qualification data, where the comparison data indicates whether the candidate CT data is within the qualification envelope defined by the qualification data. An acceptance signal is generated if the comparison data meets acceptance criteria.
US10718721B2
Disclosed is a method for testing quality of powder spreading, including: illuminating, after a powder spreading apparatus completes spreading of a single layer of powder, a forming area successively and separately by light sources, and performing photographing twice to obtain two images of powder spreading; synthesizing the two images of powder spreading; determining an overall gray scale of the synthesized image, and if the overall gray scale is consistent, the powder spreading being successful, and if not, processing the synthesized image by using a method of gray scale threshold segmentation, and marking an area contained in a contour boundary inside the synthesized image as a suspected defect area; and determining whether the powder spreading is successful according to a gray scale value. Also disclosed is a device for testing the quality of powder spreading. The present application realizes a function of testing the quality of powder spreading.
US10718713B2
In a standard process for determining an unknown sample, fluorescent substances are determined from respective fluorescence characteristics and model coefficients are calculated from spectrum ranges of the fluorescence characteristics of the determined fluorescent substances. An unknown sample is measured after reading of the model coefficients, whereby a target value of the unknown sample is obtained.
US10718711B1
A sensing apparatus, system, and use method for selective detection of a target molecule in a gaseous medium with a limit of detection of less than 50 ppm are provided. The sensing apparatus comprises an optical fiber having a core with a tilted grating, and a coating assembly that is both active to surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and reversibly reactive to the target molecule to allow for repeated detection. Upon a compatible light propagating in the optical fiber, surface plasmon waves at an interface between the coating assembly and the medium can be generated to thereby derive information of the target molecule. Signals from core mode optical waves can additionally be used as inherent reference to remove influences of fluctuations from environmental factors and input power level. There is at least one range of concentrations for the target molecule allowing for linear measurement. Multiplexing of a plurality of sensing apparatuses is also disclosed.
US10718709B2
A device for measuring radiation backscattered by a sample including: at least one light source that is configured to emit a light beam, along an axis of incidence, towards a surface of the sample so as to form, on said surface, an elementary illumination zone; an image sensor for forming an image of the radiation backscattered by the sample when the latter is illuminated by the light source, the image sensor lying in a detection plane; a bundle of optical fibres, extending, along an extension axis, between a proximal surface and a distal surface, the proximal surface being applied against the image sensor, the distal surface being configured to be applied against the surface of the sample; wherein the light source is arranged around the bundle of optical fibres, and wherein the distance between the light source and the bundle of optical fibres is less than 1 mm.
US10718704B2
A rubber adhesion test method in accordance with the present embodiment has step(s) in which rubber test member is pressed against prescribed road surface for a prescribed contact time and is thereafter pulled away therefrom, the pulling force acting thereon when this is pulled away therefrom being measured, this being performed a plurality of times, with the contact time being varied each time, and step(s) in which a relational expression relating adhesive force and contact time in correspondence to pulling force is derived based on the results of the plurality of measurements.
US10718700B2
A wear testing device includes a plurality of holding portions that hold rubber samples. The rubber samples held by each of the plurality of holding portions are independently and simultaneously pressed against a circumferential surface of a rotation body in rotation by a pressing mechanism so that abrasion debris of each of the rubber samples produced via this contact falls downward.
US10718694B2
The present disclosure relates to counterstains for staining a biological sample on a single slide in preparation for microscopic examination. The counterstains are used to analyze the sample on the single slide using both brightfield and fluorescent illumination. The counterstains can identify both morphological details and molecular structures within the cells contained in the sample. The counterstains can be used in conjunction with other molecular stains.
US10718693B2
Disclosed embodiments concern histochemical process compositions comprising at least one nanoparticle in an amount effective to reduce or substantially eliminate the average number of spots per slide that result from a sample staining protocol. The nanoparticle can be any of various nanoparticles, or combinations thereof, including metals, metal alloys, metal oxides, ceramics, functionalized metals or metalloids, and other miscellaneous nanoparticles, such as carbon nanoparticles and diamond nanoparticles. Typically, the nanoparticle concentration is from greater than zero to at least about 25 parts per million, more typically from about 2 parts per million to about 20 parts per million. Embodiments of a method for using process nanosolutions also are disclosed. One embodiment concerns applying a histochemical process composition to a sample, followed by performing a staining protocol on the sample. Particular embodiments concern automated histochemical processes comprising dispensing a nanosolution onto a sample using an automated system, heating the sample, and performing a sample staining process on the sample.
US10718692B2
A system and method for providing a bi-directional, valve-less sampling port for use with gas sampling bags, wherein the valve-less sampling port has few parts and no moving parts, the sampling port is coupled to a gas sampling bag using a base component that has a portion inside and outside of the gas sampling bag, a cap that is disposed over the base to make an interference fit, an O-ring between the base and the cap that applies a sealing force to hold the gas sampling bag against the base, and a dome seal inside the base and held in place by the cap, wherein the dome seal functions as a one-way check valve to prevent flow out of the gas sampling bag until a sampling adapter is inserted through the cap and the dome seal to provide access to the gas sampling bag for extraction of gas.
US10718691B2
A tire air filling mechanism in a tire testing device includes an air supply source which supplies air into a tire to be mounted between a pair of rims attached to ends of tire shafts. An injection direction of the air supplied into the tire from the air supply source is set at a direction inclined with respect to a radial direction of the tire, so that the air supplied from the air supply source can be turned inside the tire.
US10718684B2
The invention relates to a device for detecting a leak in a sealed enclosure, comprising an organic light-emitting diode intended to be placed inside the enclosure; and a device for measuring a value representative of at least one of the following parameters: a) the luminous efficacy of the diode; and b) the impedance of the diode.
US10718682B2
In a method for calibrating at least one sensor having at least one signal-conducting connection to at least one signal converter, a sensor characteristic is recorded by the determination of at least one measurand at at least two different temperatures, the extent of the influence of a further value influencing the sensor is determined from the sensor characteristic by means of a functional relation, the extent of the influence of the further influencing value is considered in the calibration and the influence of the further influencing value is balanced in the calibration. As a result, the influence of a further influencing value acting on the sensor is corrected. The sensor can be a structure borne sound sensor which may have a membrane with a sensor element arranged on the membrane. Vibrations on the membrane can be captured by the sensor element, such as a piezoresistive element.
US10718661B2
An integrated microfabricated vapor cell sensor includes a transparent sensor cell body. The cell body has a cavity for a sensor fluid vapor which is covered by a first plate attached to the cell body. The sensor has a first signal path extending from a first signal emitter, through the cell body, through the cavity, through the cell body again, and to a first signal detector, and a second signal path extending through the cavity. The second signal path intersects the first signal path in the cavity. The second signal path may extend through the cell body, or may extend through the first plate. The signal emitters and signal detectors are located in the integrated microfabricated vapor cell sensor.
US10718659B2
An interferometric vibration observation device includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit and a signal processing unit. The transmitting unit transmits a transmission signal toward an observation object. The receiving unit receives a reflection wave from the observation object with a plurality of receiving antennas and generates a reception signal for each of the receiving antennas. The signal processing unit obtains a phase plane of the reflection wave to an antenna plane from a phase difference between the reception signals, identifies an arrival direction and a signal strength of the reflection wave, calculates a phase variation of the reflection wave from a certain direction, and generates an observation signal representative of a vibration of the observation object or a certain site of the observation object.
US10718658B2
An optical fiber sensor includes: a transmitting unit configured to output two lights into an optical fiber, wavelengths of the two lights being different from each other at a specific time, and at least one of the wavelengths of the two lights varying with time; and a measuring unit configured to receive back-scattered light output from the optical fiber and detect a temporal variation of an optical phase at an arbitrary interval in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber by measuring measure an interference state of the two lights.
US10718654B2
A system and method for determining a liquid level in a vessel is described. Embodiments of the system can include a liquid level measuring assembly, a user device, and a vessel. The liquid level measuring assembly can include an ultrasonic sensor assembly, a control module, and a mount body configured to place the ultrasonic sensor assembly proximate a bottom of a vessel. Typically, the system can be implemented with a vessel having a substantially cylindrical shape and including a chime. The mount body can be adapted to removably couple to the inside of the chime of the vessel.
US10718651B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to dosing dispensers and in particular to dosing dispensers that may be operated using one hand by raising and filling a dosing chamber followed by lowering and dispersing a product from the dosing chamber and wherein the dose may be selected or adjusted and a user may visually confirm that the proper dose is being loaded and delivered by the dispenser.
US10718649B2
A vibratory meter (5) including a multi-channel flow tube (130) is provided. The vibratory meter (5) includes a meter electronics (20) and a meter assembly (10) communicatively coupled to the meter electronics (20). The meter assembly (10) includes the multi-channel flow tube (130, 330, 430, 530) comprising two or more fluid channels (132, 332, 432, 532) surrounded by a tube wall (134, 334, 434, 534). The two or more fluid channels (132, 332, 432, 532) and tube wall (134, 334, 434, 534) comprise a single integral structure. A driver (180) is coupled to the multi-channel flow tube (130, 330, 430, 530). The driver (180) is configured to vibrate the multi-channel flow tube (130, 330, 430, 530). The two or more fluid channels (132, 332, 432, 532) and tube wall (134, 334, 434, 534) are configured to deform in the same direction as the single integral structure in response to a drive signal applied to the driver (180).
US10718637B2
A torque and angular sensor includes a differential angle sensor to precisely measure a differential angle between an input shaft and an output shaft and an angular position sensor to measure the angle of at least one of the shafts over a full angular range. The differential angle sensor measures an output rotation angle of an output target and an input rotation angle of an input target using changing voltages in taps on the input and output coils, which each carry an AC excitation current and which are each inductively coupled with teeth on targets fixed to rotate with one of the shafts. Input shaft rotation angle region is combined with the input angular position as a rotation angle composite. A raw torque angle is determined based on the difference between the input and output rotation angles. Rotational and Linear compensation provides a high-precision torque angle.
US10718628B2
Provided is a host vehicle position estimation device capable of accurately estimating the position of a host vehicle on a map even if there is no landmark that can be referred to on an image photographed using a camera. A host vehicle position is estimated on the basis of intermediate information about a landmark name and landmark distance for an intermediate object extracted from a photographed image of the surroundings of a host vehicle, distance information about the distance to the intermediate object, and landmark information stored beforehand about the landmark name and position.
US10718623B2
A preferred route may be determined from an origin location to a destination location. The determination is made by processing directed links (e.g., one-way edges) in a graph that includes one or more links and two or more nodes. The determination of a preferred route may include an estimate of the time required at one or more intersections along alternative. Individual routing preferences, such as a preference of a rural over an urban route, also may be considered. Techniques are described that may help reduce the time required to identify a preferred route, including the identification and removal of no outlet routes before processing the directed links and techniques using particular data formats.
US10718619B2
The present disclosure discloses a navigation method and an apparatus, and a storage medium and a device. The method comprises: obtaining a navigation start instruction for a set function; searching a navigation rule corresponding to the set function and locating a current position of a terminal according to the navigation start instruction; and forming a navigation route according to the current position and the navigation rule. The navigation method provided by the present disclosure, by obtaining a navigation start instruction for a set function, searching a navigation rule corresponding to the set function and locating a current position of a terminal according to the navigation start instruction, forms a navigation route according to the current position and the navigation rule. The navigation rule for the set function is set in advance, therefore, the users does not need to select origin and destination by clicking, or perform other operations, so that the navigation route may be formed quickly and navigation time is saved.
US10718601B2
An optical coherence tomography device provided with: an OCT optical system configured to output OCT signal; and an analysis processing unit configured to process the OCT signal and generate motion contrast data of the specimen. The analysis processing unit is provided with: a first image data generation unit configured to process multiple OCT signals to generate first image data representing phase difference information of the multiple OCT signals, and a second image data generation unit configured to process the OCT signal to generate second image data representing amplitude information of the OCT signal. The analysis processing unit generates the motion contrast data based on the phase difference information in the first image data and the amplitude information in the second image data.
US10718594B2
Removable vehicle window security shield assemblies and related methods of use and/or installation. In some embodiments, an insert-shield assembly may comprise an insert-shield with or without a separate inner shield, one or both of which may comprise a ballistic-rated, transparent material. The assembly may be mounted in and/or to one or more existing windows or other openings of a vehicle. In some embodiments, an inner shield of the shield assembly may be removeable from the assembly. In some embodiments, the entire assembly or a portion thereof may be removed to allow an officer or other user to use the removed portion as a portable shield. The removed portion may be returned to the vehicle following use to enhance the protection of the vehicle. In some embodiments, a personal shield may be inserted into and held by a holster that is positioned within the window frame of a vehicle.
US10718583B2
A high capacity magazine for high powered rimfire cartridges comprises a header portion that has a form factor to be received in a rotary magazine receptacle and an arcuate cartridge bank portion that holds a column of cartridges. A pair of clamshell halves define an arcuate cartridge bank and a lower portion of the header potion. A header caps the upper ends of the clamshell haves securing the clamshell halves together. The head and clamshell halves define the cartridge pathway to the magazine exit to be fed into the rifle chamber.
US10718582B2
A magazine for small arms is disclosed including box (1), bottom lid (2) with opening, ammunition (3), magazine follower (4), coil spring (6), where between the follower (4) and the coil spring (6) a disk (5) with a rectangular through hole (17) is made, which presses the upper end of the coil spring (6) to the follower (4), the ammunition stream separator (7). In addition there are grooves (8) along the wide side walls of the magazine box (1), on the inner surfaces facing the ammunition (3) a ground surface (9) is made, wherein in the lower part of the box of the magazine, on the outer surface there is a triangular ledge (12), and in upper part of magazine box (1) on wide side walls there are rigidly fixed plate inserts (10), on which the feeding projections (14) are made, the polished section (15) and the conical section (16).
US10718577B1
Disclosed herein is a modified rifle bolt carrier allowing a selectively openable vent/valve at the location where exhaust gas is pressurizing the bolt carrier to control carrier speed under suppressed fire in a first valve position or unsuppressed fire in a second valve position. A valve core is disclosed which may be rotated 180° to a first “open” setting for non-suppressed fire from its position in a “closed” position for suppressed fire, and a third “median” position. The modified bolt carrier will allow an operator of the firearm to adjust for a suppressor without changing the gas block or having to modify or adapt the front end or barrel end of the firearm.
US10718572B2
The present disclosure is to provide a heat sink capable of improving cooling efficiency of a heat radiation fin and exhibiting excellent cooling performance with respect to a cooling target regardless of an installation posture of the heat sink, and capable of being installed even in a narrow space.The heat sink includes: a heat transport member having a heat receiving portion thermally connected to a heat-generating element and including a first wick structure; a tube body connected to a heat insulating portion or a heat radiating portion of the heat transport member and including a second wick structure; and a heat radiation fin group which is thermally connected to the tube body and in which a plurality of heat radiation fins are arranged, in which, the heat transport member has an integral internal space that communicates from the heat receiving portion to a connection portion with the tube body and is sealed with a working fluid, the internal space of the heat transport member communicating with an internal space of the tube body, and the first wick structure includes a branch portion branched in a thickness direction of the heat transport member and multi-stage stem parts extending from the branch portion in a predetermined direction.
US10718571B2
This invention relates to a process for forming polymer including: polymerizing a monomer dissolved in a solvent in the presence of a catalyst system under conditions to obtain a first effluent stream including a solution of the polymer and the solvent; heating the first effluent stream in at least one spiral heat exchanger to produce a second effluent stream, where the first effluent stream flows through the spiral heat exchanger in a cross-flow direction relative to spirals of the spiral heat exchanger and performing a separation on the second effluent stream to produce: a third effluent stream including polymer substantially free of the solvent; and a recycle stream including the solvent and unreacted monomer. Processes for devolatilizing a polymer stream are also provided herein.
US10718568B2
A sample heating device includes: a rail-shaped disposal rail extending in one direction in a horizontal plane so that sample boats after heating are arranged and placed in a straight line; a disposal tray that houses the sample boat pushed-out from one end of the disposal rail; a sample boat conveying portion that places the sample boat after the heating at a predetermined placing position on the disposal rail; and a sample boat push-out portion that is positioned closer to the other end side of the disposal rail than the placing position when the sample boat is placed on the disposal rail and that is displaced toward the one end side of the disposal rail after the sample boat is placed at the placing position to slide the sample boats on the disposal rail toward the one end side.
US10718560B2
Disclosed are a refrigerator and a control method thereof. The refrigerator according to one aspect includes a main body having a storage chamber; a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant; a condenser configured to condense the refrigerant compressed by the compressor; an evaporation expander configured to depressurize the refrigerant condensed by the condenser; a first evaporator configured to evaporate the refrigerant depressurized by the evaporation expander and thus to cool the storage chamber; a condensing expander installed between the condenser and the evaporation expander and configured to depressurize the refrigerant condensed by the condenser; and a subsidiary condenser installed between the condensing expander and the evaporation expander and configured to condense the refrigerant depressurized by the condensing expander.
US10718558B2
An auxiliary thermosiphon has an auxiliary refrigerant conduit with an auxiliary evaporation segment in thermally conductive connection to an interior wall of the freezer. The auxiliary refrigerant conduit contains an auxiliary refrigerant that is isolated from the primary refrigerant of the primary cooling apparatus. The auxiliary refrigerant conduit also extends upward to an auxiliary condensation segment of the auxiliary refrigerant conduit at an elevation above the auxiliary evaporation segment. A thermal bridge is in physical thermal contact with the auxiliary condensation segment and in physical thermal contact with a portion of a primary evaporation segment of the primary refrigeration apparatus. Heat is transported through the thermal bridge from the auxiliary thermosiphon to the primary refrigerant conduit and consequently to the primary refrigeration apparatus for removal from the freezer.
US10718557B2
A portable cooling unit is disclosed for cooling perishable items such as strawberries at a worksite such as a field where the strawberries are harvested. The cooling unit includes a conveyor trailer for receiving pallets of perishable items and conveying the pallets through a number of cooling chambers within the conveyor trailer. The cooling unit further includes a refrigeration trailer for supplying independent cold air flow paths to the different cooling chambers of the conveyor trailer. The conveyor and refrigeration trailers may operate as a self-sustained cooling unit, without any external connections to power or working fluid.
US10718553B2
A refrigeration and heating system includes a refrigeration circuit which includes in the direction of flow of a circulating refrigerant: at least one compressor; a refrigeration circuit side of a coupling heat exchanger; at least one gas cooler; at least one gas cooler bypass line and at least one gas cooler bypass valve assembly allowing to bypass the at least one gas cooler; at least one expansion device and at least one evaporator. The refrigeration and heating system includes a heating circuit which includes in the direction of flow of a circulating heating fluid: a heating circuit side of the coupling heat exchanger and at least one heating device.
US10718551B2
A hybrid Vapor Compression (VC) and Thermoelectric (TE) heat transport system is provided that maintains a set point temperature range of a chamber and includes a VC system and a TE system. The VC system includes a compressor, a condenser-evaporator connected to the compressor, a first valve connecting the compressor to an evaporator-condenser, and a second valve connecting the evaporator-condenser to a thermal expansion valve. The TE system includes TE modules, a first heat exchanger thermally connected with a first side of the TE modules which connects the first valve and the second valve, and a second heat exchanger thermally connected with a second side of the TE modules which connects the first valve and the second valve. In this way, the VC system and the TE system can be operated individually, in series, or in parallel to increase the efficiency of the hybrid VC and TE heat transport system.
US10718549B2
A heat pump water heater has a tank, a heat source, and a heat pump system. The heat pump system has a refrigerant path, at least a portion of which is in thermal communication with the water tank volume so that heat transfers from refrigerant to the water tank volume. A fan causes air to flow through a housing, and another portion of the refrigerant path includes an evaporator in the housing. The fan is within the housing and may further be within a second housing. The first housing may comprise a baffle to direct air flow. The fan may be a variable speed fan in communication with a controller, so that the controller controls the fan speed depending on a temperature of the refrigerant.
US10718541B2
A control system for managing operation of a plurality of thermostats includes a server comprising a processor, a memory, and a communication interface. The memory device stores instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to display, on a display device of a computing device, a visual representation for each thermostat of the plurality of thermostats and one or more groups into which each of the plurality of thermostats is grouped, and further to assign an operating schedule to a group, apply the assigned operating schedule to each thermostat of the plurality of thermostats located in the group, and move one thermostat of the plurality of thermostats from a first group to a second group in response to a user dragging and dropping a visual representation of the thermostat on the display device from the first group to the second group.
US10718533B2
Provided herein are a fan assembly having improved cooling and heating performance and an air conditioner having the same. The fan assembly provided in an air conditioner includes a plurality of rotating fans provided to be rotatable about the same rotating shaft and at least one fixed fan fixed between adjacent two rotating fans of the plurality of rotating fans.
US10718529B2
Provided is a method for controlling the operation of a cooking appliance, such as an oven range. The cooking appliance includes a door with multiple spaced apart glass panels. The method uses an interlocking mechanism that interferes with the installation of at least one of the plurality of glass panels in the door if at least one of the glass panels is not installed properly. The method further uses a switch with a plunger can be installed in the door, which allows the appliance to operate only when a failsafe electrical circuit is closed corresponding to a selected position of the plunger when the door is closed. The plunger is prevented from retaining that selected position if at least one of the glass panels is improperly installed or if a top cap is not properly seated or installed above the glass panels.
US10718526B2
An illumination system for a cooking appliance is capable of illuminating generally downwardly onto the cooktop burners of the cooking appliance using multiple illumination schemes. One illumination scheme may be used to indicate which cooktop burner is controlled by a particular burner control that a user is interacting with prior to activation of the cooktop burner, e.g., to indicate to a user that a burner control that the user has touched or is otherwise proximate to controls a particular cooktop burner. Another illumination scheme may be used to indicate which cooktop burner is being adjusted when a user is adjusting a particular burner control, e.g., to indicate to a user that a burner control that the user is currently manipulating is changing the output of a particular cooktop burner.
US10718523B2
A fuel injector includes a frame and a pair of fuel injection bodies coupled to the frame. The frame has interior sides that define an opening for passage of a first fluid. Inlet flow paths for the first fluid are defined at least between the interior sides of the frame and the respective fuel injection bodies. Each fuel injection body defines a fuel plenum and includes at least one fuel injection surface that defines a plurality of fuel injection holes in communication with the fuel plenum. An outlet member is located downstream of, and in fluid communication, with the inlet flow paths. The outlet member is configured to produce discrete outlet flow paths exiting the outlet member via struts, flow diverters, and/or separate outlet members.
US10718509B2
A light fixture and directional assistive listening device includes a portable lamp fixture, a parabolic sound membrane, and a light and acoustic transducer assembly. The portable lamp fixture includes a stand, a light socket, and a primary power cord. The primary power cord is electrically connected to the light socket through the stand. The parabolic sound membrane is concentrically attached to the light socket. The light and acoustic transducer assembly is electrically connected to the light socket and concentrically positioned within the parabolic sound membrane. When the light and acoustic transducer assembly is communicably coupled with an external audio device, the light and acoustic transducer is able to output greater clarity of speech and directionality of sound due to the configuration and positioning of the light and acoustic transducer assembly and the parabolic sound membrane.
US10718507B2
An underwater light having a sealed polymer housing includes a rear housing component formed at least in part from a thermally conductive and electrically insulative material, an electronic assembly having at least one light-emitting element mounted thereto, the electronic assembly in thermal communication with the rear housing component, and a lens mounted to the rear housing component and forming a watertight seal therebetween, the lens and the rear housing component enclosing the electronic assembly. At least a portion of the rear housing component conducts heat away from the electronic assembly to cool the electronic assembly.
US10718505B2
Illumination device which comprises multiple illumination modules, each provided with a corresponding group of light sources. A liquid cooling plant is connected to the light sources in order to dissipate heat generated by the latter. The cooling plant is provided with a heat exchanger comprising a manifold provided with a passage channel having an inlet branch and an outlet branch. The heat exchanger further comprises a transmission block, which carries the illumination modules mounted thereon and is provided with multiple cooling tracks, which are hydraulically connected, parallel to each other, to the inlet branch and to the outlet branch of the passage channel of the manifold. Each cooling track is arranged at a respective illumination module in order to transfer the heat generated by the light sources of such illumination module to a coolant fluid which traverses the cooling track.
US10718503B2
A touch controllable light-emitting film is provided. It comprises a flexible, formable, foldable, stretchable and/or bendable light-emitting and/or light transmitting active layer. It also comprises at least two conductive or semi-conductive electrodes positioned on each side of the light-emitting active layer and/or light-blocking layer, wherein at least one electrode comprises HARMs (High Aspect Ratio Molecular structures), Monolayer Crystalline Surface (MCS) structures, transparent conductive oxides, conductive or semiconductive polymers and/or a metal mesh.
US10718482B2
A vehicular lamp includes: a plate-like lens body including a front surface and a rear surface; and a light source provided at the rear of the lens body and emitting light rays of uniform luminance which are irradiated forward through the lens body to form a predetermined light distribution pattern. The front surface includes front lens cuts; the rear surface includes rear lens cuts facing the front lens cuts, respectively; the rear lens cuts are provided in respective inclined postures so that the output directions of light rays having entered the lens body while being refracted by the respective rear lens cuts and having been outputted through the respective front lens cuts are the same as one another; and distances between the rear lens cuts and the front lens cuts are adjusted so that the luminances of light rays outputted through the respective front lens cuts are made uniform.
US10718474B1
A lighting fixture includes a housing, substrate within the housing, a plurality of closely spaced LED components mounted on the substrate and forming an array, an optical component arranged at an output end of the housing, and at least one circuit electrically connected to a power supply for powering the LED components. The LED components are arranged in multiple color groups, each color group having multiple LED components, and each LED component positioned a distance no greater than 1.0 mm from an adjacent LED component.
US10718465B2
This invention provides for a pyramidal free-standing upright support for a taxidermy mount. The support body is formed by a plurality of trapezoidal-shaped substantially planar body panels and a flat top panel detachably securable together. The top panel is provided with a central opening, which receives an attachment assembly. The attachment assembly, in turn, holds the taxidermy mount above the top panel when in use. The body panels and the top panels can be transported flat and assembled on site.
US10718462B2
The application relates to a method for producing a double-walled pipe (1) and a pipe (1) of this type, hating an outer pipe (3) which is press-fitted with an inner pipe (2) consisting of a corrosion-resistant alloy, wherein an adhesive (4) is inserted at least in regions between the outer pipe (3) and the inner pipe (2), wherein, after adhering the inner pipe (2) with the outer pipe (3), the inner pipe (2) and the adhesive layer (4) are removed at the pipe ends, and the inner side of the outer pipe (3) is plated via an integral connection with the inner pipe (2).
US10718461B2
An inflatable plug for sealing a pipeline includes a tubular member, a first indicator, and a second indicator. The tubular member has an inner surface and an outer surface that extends in an axial direction from a first end to a second end. The tubular member defines a central chamber configured to inflate to a predetermined pressure so that the outer surface of the tubular member expands to contact an inner surface of the pipeline. The contact between the outer surface of the tubular member and the inner surface of the pipeline define a contact length that extends in the axial direction. The first indicator and the second indicator are positioned on the outer surface of the tubular member. The first indicator is spaced from the second indicator in the axial direction by a predetermined length. The predetermined length is substantially equal to the contact length.
US10718452B1
The hose coupler has a sleeve defining a passageway between a first hose section and a second hose section, and includes a plurality of barbs each having an angled surface. In an embodiment, a collar can be fitted over the hose after it is pulled up onto the sleeve. The collar also has a plurality of barbs with angled surfaces corresponding to the angle of the barbs on the sleeve. The collar is adapted to substantially surround the first hose section disposed over the plurality of the barbs on the sleeve and the each barb on the sleeve generally aligns with the each barb on the collar.
US10718448B2
A reelable pipeline includes a pipe-in-pipe section and a single pipe section coupled to the pipe-in-pipe section. The single pipe section has a bending stiffness that is different from the bending stiffness of the pipe-in-pipe section. The reelable pipeline includes a transition piece connected between the pipe-in-pipe section and the single pipe section and having a bending stiffness that varies along its length.
US10718441B2
A valve seat for use in a fluid end of a fracturing pump that includes a first body portion having an inner wall and an outer wall, wherein the inner wall forms a fluid bore and outer wall is configured to contact an inside surface of a fluid passageway of a fluid end of the fracturing pump for support therein. The seat further includes a second body portion extending from the first body portion, the second body having a frustro-conical portion forming a seating surface for receiving a valve. A portion of the first and second body portion includes a hardened material insert forming a portion of the seating surface and a portion of the inner wall of the first body, and further includes a metallic body portion affixed to the hardened material insert, the metallic body portion forming at least a portion of first body portion outer wall.
US10718426B2
An electro-hydraulic control system for a multispeed transmission having a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms includes a controller for operably controlling the transmission, a fluid source for supplying hydraulic fluid, and a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms being operably selected between an applied and an unapplied state to achieve a plurality of ranges including at least one reverse, a neutral, and a plurality of forward ranges. The system includes a plurality of trim systems having pressure control solenoids and trim valves. The system may also include one or more shift valves disposed in fluid communication with the fluid source and being capable of moving between stroked and de-stroked positions. In any given range, only two of the plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms may be applied. Moreover, three of the plurality of pressure control solenoids are normally high solenoids, and the remaining solenoids are normally low solenoids.
US10718415B2
A dual clutch transmission which can reduce the overall length of a transmission and improve mountability in the vehicle by simplifying the constituent elements of the transmission, is configured by reducing the number of synchronizers and external gears and shafts, and a drive motor is not disposed on the same axle as other constituent elements to reduce the overall length of the transmission, reducing cost and weight of the transmission to improve mountability of the transmission in the vehicle.
US10718412B2
A sensor target of the present invention is mounted to a movable part (24), which is arranged in parallel with an output shaft (10a) of a motor (10), and is configured to perform a linear motion in a direction parallel to the output shaft (10a). The sensor target includes a magnet (73) and a magnet holder (74) configured to hold the magnet (73). One pair or a plurality of pairs of fitting claws (741) capable of being fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the movable part (24) are formed on the magnet holder (74).
US10718411B2
A power transmission apparatus in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises at least one gear that transmits an inputted driving force to at least one output part; at least one shaft that supports the at least one gear; a displacement portion configured to be mechanically interlocked with a displacement gear among the at least one gear and displaced in association with the displacement gear; a housing that houses the at least one gear and the at least one shaft; and an abutting portion that is disposed in the housing and configured to restrict a possible displacement range of the displacement portion by abutting the displacement portion. The abutting portion is configured so as not to be displaced along with a rotation of the at least one gear and is disposed in the housing at a location spaced apart from the at least one shaft.
US10718405B2
Devices and methods for loading a cable in order to create a desired distribution of the load among the cable's constituent strands. Strand terminations are applied to many—and possibly all of—the cable's strands. The ultimate goal is to connect the strand terminations to a collector in order to create an overall cable termination. The relationship between each strand termination and the collector is allowed to “float” using the inventive process while the cable is tensioned and an appropriate spatial relationship between each strand tensioner and the collector is determined. Once the appropriate relationship is found, it is configured to be repeatable (such as by recording its position for later application to the same or similar collector).
US10718401B2
An intermediate member is configured to include first and second intermediate members. Connecting portions that respectively extend outward from the first or the second intermediate plates are coupled with each other at two positions on the same circumference as pinion gears by two rivets (total six rivets at three connecting portions) as viewed in a central axis of the damper device. Such an arrangement enables spaces between the pinion gears to be used effectively, increases spaces for the first spring, the second spring and the inner spring and improves a vibration damping performance of a damper device.
US10718396B2
A suspension limiter includes a diaphragm element configured to be placed in operable communication with a suspension such that a rate of increase in load per unit travel of compression of the suspension is reduced near a full travel of the suspension than would exist for the suspension if the diaphragm element were not present, the diaphragm element arranged to deform only elastically through the full travel of the suspension. Suspension arrangements and methods of loading suspension arrangements are also described.
US10718393B2
A spring of a caliper of a brake disc is capable of avoiding knocking of the pad against the rests of the caliper body and suitable to be arranged astride a disc of a brake disc. The spring includes a sheared and bent laminar body and is mounted on a caliper between an edge of a support plate of a pad, and at least one wall of a caliper body. The laminar body includes a tab portion bent as a spring, a first hooking portion having at least one C-shaped portion to be arranged astride the plate edge, and a second hooking portion resting on a radially outer portion of the plate edge.
US10718387B2
A clutch, including: inner and outer races; a wedge plate; an electromagnetic actuator including a coil and an attenuating circuit. The coil is arranged to be energized by a power source to switch the wedge clutch between: a locked mode in which the inner and races are locked in a circumferential direction and a free-wheel mode in which the inner race is rotatable with respect to the outer race in the circumferential direction. The attenuating circuit includes a capacitor parallel with the coil and a switch wired to the capacitor. During the free-wheel mode: the switch is arranged to connect the capacitor to an electrical ground; and the electrical power source is arranged to energize the coil and charge the capacitor with a voltage. Following initiation of the locked mode: the switch isolates the capacitor from the electrical ground; and the capacitor discharges the voltage through the coil.
US10718382B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic bearing system comprising an axial bearing rotating flywheel arranged so as to magnetically interact with at least one fixed axial stop. The system includes a cooling fluid path configured so as to send the flow to the flywheel in a direction of flow being in a substantially radial plane relative to the axis of rotation of the flywheel.
US10718380B2
Methods and apparatus for manufacturing a circular laminated component are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method comprises stamping an inlet stock of material to form a line of arc segments, the line of arc segments having: a plurality of notches along a first edge; a first longitudinal end; and a second longitudinal end opposite the first longitudinal end; wrapping the line of arc segments to form a circular segment having the first edge along an inner-circumferential diameter of the circular segment; joining the first longitudinal end to the second longitudinal end to form a circular laminate layer; and stacking a plurality of circular laminate layers to form a laminate disc.
US10718376B2
A wheel bearing device equipped with: an inner member including an outer ring (2), a hub ring (3), and at least one inner ring (4) press-fitted into the hub ring (3); multiple rows of rolling bodies (5a/5b); a magnetic encoder (9) provided on an end portion of the inner ring; a cover (10) fitted onto the outer ring (2); and a magnetic sensor (11) provided on the cover. The cover includes a large-diameter cylindrical section (10a) fitted onto the outer ring, a step section (10b) protruding toward the inside in the radial direction and contacting an end surface of the outer ring, and a small-diameter cylindrical section (10c) extending in the axial direction from the step section. A portion of the ground-surface side of the small-diameter cylindrical section forms a protruding circumferential surface (S), and a drain hole (10e) is formed in the protruding circumferential surface (S).
US10718374B2
Downhole tools such as bearing assemblies and stabilizers are described for withstanding abrasive and erosive wear in operation. These stabilizers and bearing assemblies employ wear-resistant hard materials such as TSP, PCD, leached WC, and SCD composite materials. A bond between a braze material and wear tiles constructed of a hard phase material may include a non-planar interface with the braze material. Self-lubricating materials may be provided within the braze material or the hard material in some instances.
US10718364B2
A clamping system which holds fast to a rigid elongated structure that is tubular in nature, but not circular in circumference. The clamping system achieves stability by compressive forces generally in a constrictive fashion. However, the clamp does not completely encircle the rigid elongated structure. Further, this clamping system utilizes the striations and/or noncircular nature of the elongated structure to hold fast. The clamping system is temporary and requires no modification to original hardware. The clamping system provides at least one mounting point for accessories. This clamp is installed and removed by hand or with common hand tools, depending on the style of clamp.
US10718346B2
A compressor system includes a first compressor assembly including at least one first impeller. The first compressor assembly defines at least one first volute configured to receive a first working fluid from the at least one first impeller at a first pressure and a first temperature. The compressor system also includes a second compressor assembly rotatably coupled to the first compressor assembly. The second compressor assembly includes at least one second impeller rotatably coupled to the at least one first impeller. The second compressor assembly defines at least one second volute configured to receive a second working fluid from the at least one second impeller at a second pressure. Further, at least one of the following conditions exist, i.e., the first pressure is different from the second pressure and the first temperature is different from the second temperature.
US10718342B2
A centrifugal fan includes an impeller, a motor and a fan frame. The motor is connected with the impeller and configured to drive the impeller. The fan frame includes a base plate, a top plate, a sidewall and air deflectors. The impeller is disposed between the base plate and the top plate. The sidewall is disposed on the base plate between the base plate and the top plate. A flow channel is between the impeller and the sidewall. The air deflectors are directly connected to the base plate and the top plate, and disposed toward an air outlet and sequentially at different radial positions outwardly from the sidewall along a forward circumferential direction toward an air outlet with respect to the impeller to sequentially expand the flow channel outwardly in a radial direction at different circumferential positions along the forward circumferential direction with respect to the impeller. The airflow entry tunnels are formed by the air deflectors between the base plate and the top plate.
US10718340B2
In a gas turbine manufacturing method for manufacturing a derivative gas turbine having a different cycle from a reference gas turbine including a reference compressor, a compressor of the derivative gas turbine is designed to add at least one additional stage further on an upstream side than a last stage of the reference compressor and on a downstream side of a bleed slit of a bleed chamber of the reference compressor, the compressor of the derivative gas turbine is manufactured on the basis of the design, and the derivative gas turbine is manufactured. Consequently, it is possible to manufacture a gas turbine that can secure a surge margin of a compressor with respect to fluctuation in the composition of fuel.
US10718333B2
A scroll compressor includes a first scroll member, a second scroll member, and an aerostatic thrust bearing. The aerostatic thrust bearing forms a layer of gas between the second scroll member and a fixed supporting member to support the second scroll member as the second scroll member rotates and/or orbits. Also disclosed is a method of supporting a rotating/orbiting scroll member in a scroll compressor. The method including supplying pressurized gas to an aerostatic thrust bearing such that a layer of gas is formed between the rotating/orbiting scroll member and a fixed supporting member.
US10718330B2
A compressor may include a shell, first and second compression mechanisms, and first and second motor assemblies. The first compression mechanism may include first and second compression members that are rotatable relative to the shell about first and second rotational axes, respectively. The first motor assembly may be disposed within the shell and may include a first rotor attached to the first compression member. The second compression mechanism may include third and fourth compression members that are rotatable relative to the shell about third and fourth rotational axes, respectively. The second motor assembly may be disposed within the shell and may include a second rotor attached to the third compression member.
US10718323B2
A synthetic jet pump and a method of pumping fluid using such a synthetic jet pump are disclosed. The synthetic jet pump includes a plurality of first stacks disposed in a series arrangement relative to each other, and a plurality of first valves. A first stack of the plurality of first stacks includes a plurality of first connector pairs coupled to a first support structure and a plurality of first bimorph pairs. The first connector pairs and the first bimorph pairs are disposed in a parallel arrangement relative to each other respectively. A bimorph of one of the first bimorph pairs is coupled to a corresponding first connector pair. The plurality of first valves is disposed at an upstream end of the plurality of first stacks. A valve of the plurality of first valves is movably coupled to a corresponding connector of the plurality of the first connector pairs.
US10718321B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a motor-integrated intake apparatus, and the motor-integrated intake apparatus includes: a flow path which is formed in an annular shape in a circular housing; an inlet unit which is installed at one side of the housing and guides a flow of a fluid into the flow path; a discharge unit which is installed at the other side of the housing and guides a discharge of the fluid which is introduced into the inlet unit and passes through the flow path; a piston unit which is made of a magnetic material and compresses the fluid, which is introduced through the inlet unit, while rotating along the flow path; and a coil unit which is installed on the housing and provides rotational power to the piston unit by forming a magnetic field.
US10718317B2
Apparatus for treating a surface of a wind turbine blade (14), comprising an expandable structure (22) that is deployable from a collapsed state into an expanded state in which the structure defines an elongated treatment zone (32) into which a blade (14) is receivable in use. The apparatus includes treating means (52) arranged to apply a treatment in the treatment zone. Also provided is a method for treating a wind turbine blade (14) including: positioning a wind turbine blade in a substantially vertical orientation; locating an expandable structure (22) adjacent the wind turbine blade; deploying the expandable structure (22) about the blade (14) such that the expandable structure (22) defines an elongated treatment zone (32) which receives at least part of the blade (14); and applying surface treatment to the surface of the blade (14) using the expandable structure (22).
US10718312B2
A wind turbine comprising a support structure for supporting a rotatable, substantially vertical hub wherein at least one substantially horizontal support arm is connected to the hub. At least one wind trap is connected to each of the at least one support arm, and each of the at least one wind trap supports at least one petal that may move between an open position, wherein wind is not blocked by the at least one petal, and a closed position, wherein the at least one petal blocks the wind thereby causing the wind to move the at least one wind trap and rotate the hub.
US10718309B2
An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine has a primary coil and a secondary coil, a case, a high voltage connection terminal, and a conduction terminal. The high voltage connection terminal is accommodated in the case in a state being sealed by a filling resin. The high voltage connection terminal is disposed in a state inclined an aligned direction of the secondary coil and the conduction terminal, and is configured to be elastically deformable. The conduction terminal includes an engaging part for engaging a terminal distal end portion of the high voltage connection terminal and a supporting part for supporting a terminal intermediate portion of the high voltage connection terminal which is a portion closer to a connecting portion with the secondary coil than the terminal distal end portion is. In the aligned direction, the terminal distal end portion contacts with the engaging part from a side opposite to a secondary coil side, and the terminal intermediate portion contacts with the supporting part from the secondary coil side.
US10718308B2
There is provided an internal-combustion-engine starting apparatus that eliminates the restriction that the portion of the output axle at the axial-direction anti-motor side needs to be narrower than the inner diameter of an inner ring portion and that eliminates the requirement that a member for restricting the output axle from traveling toward the axial-direction anti-motor side is added as an extra component. An internal-combustion-engine starting apparatus is characterized in that the outer helical spline includes an outer ridge portion, in that an inner helical spline includes a both-side opened recess groove portion and a one-side opened recess groove portion in that the outer ridge portion engages with the one-side opened recess groove portion, and in that the axial-direction length of the inner small-diameter portion is the same as or larger than the axial-direction length of the outer ridge portion.
US10718301B2
A method for operating a solenoid valve coupled to the inlet valve of a fuel injection pump comprises adjusting a pull-in electrical energy of the solenoid valve based on a fuel injection pump volumetric efficiency.
US10718287B2
An injection control device controls a fuel injection valve driven by an electric power. The injection control device includes a current detection unit to detect a driving current supplied to a solenoid of the fuel injection valve, an identification unit to identify a theoretical model of the driving current in a state where a movable core moved by an electromagnetic force generated by the solenoid is at rest, and a state detection unit to detect a state of the movable core. The state detection unit detects the state of the movable core, based on a deviation between the driving current detected by the current detection unit and the theoretical model.
US10718283B2
Various embodiments include a method for identifying an inlet and an outlet valve stroke phase difference comprising: measuring pressure oscillations during operation; generating a corresponding signal; determining a corresponding crankshaft phase angle; applying a discrete Fourier transformation to the pressure signal to determine amplitudes of selected frequencies in relation to the crankshaft phase angle; determining lines of equal amplitudes of the frequencies based on the amplitudes depending on the phase differences using reference lines; determining an intersection of the lines by projection into a common plane; and determining the inlet valve stroke phase difference and the outlet valve stroke phase difference from the determined common intersection point of the lines of equal amplitudes of the selected signal frequencies.
US10718271B2
A power extraction and amplification system for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. In various embodiments, the power extraction and amplification system includes a low spool tower shaft configured for engagement with a low speed spool, a high spool tower shaft configured for engagement with a high speed spool, a first motor, a generator, a differential gear box operably coupled to the low spool tower shaft, to the first motor and to the generator, and a second motor operably coupled to the generator and the high spool tower shaft.
US10718270B2
A non-contact seal assembly is provided. The non-contact seal assembly includes a plurality of seal shoes arranged about a centerline in an annular array, the seal shoes including a first seal shoe extending axially along the centerline between a first shoe end and a second shoe end; a seal base circumscribing the annular array of the seal shoes; and a plurality of spring elements, each of the spring elements radially between and connecting a respective one of the seal shoes with the seal base, where the seal base and the plurality of spring elements are formed of a first material and the plurality of seal shoes are formed of a second material, where the first and second materials are joined together and the second material has a density lower than the first material.
US10718261B2
A turbocharger having a swing vane nozzle assembly—VGT—is provided. The turbocharger includes a turbine housing and a bearing housing. The swing vane nozzle assembly includes a front nozzle ring, a rear nozzle ring, and a plurality of pivotable gas flow control vanes arranged between the front nozzle ring and the rear nozzle ring. The rear nozzle ring is radially guided by the turbine housing, a radially outer portion of the front nozzle ring is clamped between the bearing housing and the turbine housing thus forming an axial guidance of the front nozzle ring, and an inner periphery of the front nozzle ring is arranged at a distance from the bearing housing.
US10718254B2
The present disclosure relates to a coolant circuit (1) for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine (3). The coolant circuit (1) having a plurality of coolant passages (10-1, 10-2, 10-3). A coolant distribution chamber (11) is provided in the coolant circuit (1). The coolant distribution chamber (11) has opposing first and second walls (12, 13) and a sidewall (14) extending between said first and second walls (12, 13). A coolant inlet (15) is disposed in the first wall (12) and a plurality of coolant outlets (17-1, 17-2, 17-3) are disposed in the sidewall (14). The coolant outlets (17-1, 17-2, 17-3) are each connected to a respective one of said coolant passages (10-1, 10-2, 10-3). A guide (18) is disposed in the coolant distribution chamber (11) for guiding coolant introduced into the coolant distribution chamber (11) through the coolant inlet (15) outwardly towards said coolant outlets (17-1, 17-2, 17-3). The coolant distribution chamber (11) may comprise a toroidal chamber. The present disclosure also relates to an internal combustion engine (3) and a cylinder head (2) comprising a coolant circuit (1). The present disclosure also relates to a vehicle (4).
US10718252B2
The present invention relates to an exhaust gas dispersion device for an agricultural working vehicle, comprising: a dispersing body into which an exhaust gas discharged from an exhaust port of the agricultural working vehicle flows; a deceleration part coupled to the distributing body to reduce the speed of the exhaust gas flowing into the dispersing body; and a plurality of dispersing holes formed through the dispersing body at positions spaced apart from each other so that the exhaust gas decelerated by the deceleration part is dispersed and discharged out of the dispersing body.
US10718249B2
Various embodiments may include a method for regenerating a particle filter comprising: increasing a measured exhaust-gas temperature from a normal operation level to above a desorption start temperature defined by initiating release of sulfur compounds accumulated in the particle filter; monitoring a particle mass in the exhaust-gas flow downstream of the particle filter; comparing the particle mass to a predefined threshold value above which the formation of white smoke can be expected; if the threshold value is exceeded, setting the exhaust-gas temperature to a desorption temperature for release of sulfur compounds until the particle mass falls below the threshold; if the particle mass threshold value is not exceeded, setting the exhaust-gas temperature to a regeneration temperature for burning-off of the particle loading of the particle filter for a predetermined time period; and after the time period has elapsed, ending the regeneration by lowering the temperature to the normal operation level.
US10718243B2
The temperature of exhaust gas discharged from a compact air-cooled engine used as a power source for an engine-driven working machine is reduced. An engine has a muffler mounted directly to the exhaust opening of the cylinder, and a resin muffler cover covering the muffler. An exhaust gas restriction member is provided to a wall surface of the muffler, and two exhaust passages serving as outlets for exhaust gas are formed in the exhaust gas restriction member. The exhaust passages are arranged independent of each other, and the streams of discharged exhaust gas are discharged to be slightly separated from each other as the streams flow away from the exhaust openings. The separated streams of discharged exhaust gas form a negative pressure space between the streams promoting the introduction of a cooling air stream into the negative pressure portion. Thus, the temperature of the exhaust gas can be reduced.
US10718241B2
An engine housing component is provided, the housing component defining two or more drain channels configured to receive oil separated from a crankcase ventilation system and to drain said oil through the housing component, wherein the engine housing component comprises two or more drain features, each of the drain features corresponding to one of the drain channels, wherein each of the drain features is configured to allow an oil drain pipe to be coupled to the drain feature such that the oil drain pipe is in fluid communication with the corresponding drain channel, wherein a first drain feature differs from the or each of the other drain features, such that a particular oil drain pipe configured to couple to the first drain feature is not couplable to the other drain features. An engine housing assembly and kit of oil drain pipes is also provided.
US10718240B2
The cam follower roller device provides a tappet body, a pin mounted into the tappet body, and a roller mounted on the pin and provided with an outer surface and with end faces, axially delimiting the outer surface. At least one lubricant supply through-hole is formed into the thickness of the tappet body and locally faces an edge of the roller delimited between the outer surface and one of the end faces.
US10718230B2
A unison ring assembly for a gas turbine engine has a unison ring and a plurality of levers extending from the unison ring. Each lever has a pin at one end that inserts through a bore of a respective bush mounted in the unison ring. Each bush is formed as separate first and second parts which are mounted to their through-hole by inserting the first part into the through-hole from one side of the unison ring and the second part into the through-hole from the opposing side of the unison ring. Each part has a respective stop which prevents that part from inserting into the through-hole by more than a predetermined amount. When both parts are inserted by their predetermined amounts, their ends join together to form the bush and prevent the parts being retracted from the through-hole.
US10718228B2
System for electrical energy generation from steam comprising at least one stage, each stage including: a steam-driven rotating toroidal ring; a housing comprising a toroidal cavity for containing the rotating toroidal ring, the housing further comprising at least one steam inlet, the housing further comprising a plurality of steam outlets for removing pressurized steam from the channels for at least a second portion of rotation of the rotating toroidal ring within the toroidal cavity; at least one bearing arrangement comprised by or attached to the housing within the toroidal cavity; and at least one pair of electrical coils, each electrical coil located on the outer surface of the housing at locations diagonally opposite from the other coil of each pair across the axis of the minor radius of the toroidal cavity and within the specific region where a time-varying magnetic field will occur as the rotating toroidal ring rotates.
US10718222B2
A diffuser-deswirler for a gas turbine engine is provided. The diffuser-deswirler includes an inner shell and an outer shell spaced apart and configured for receiving a flow of compressed air from a compressor of a gas turbine engine. A plurality of vanes extend between the inner shell and the outer shell to define a plurality of fluid passageways and a splitter extends along the circumferential direction between adjacent vanes to split the flow of compressed air passing through the each fluid passageway. All of these components are manufactured as a single monolithic piece and are configured for diffusing and deswirling compressor air before passing it to a combustor for an improved combustion process.
US10718211B2
A method of controlling a reciprocating internal combustion engine comprising: a cylinder defining a cavity having a first end and a second end; and a piston moveable within the cavity of the cylinder between the first end and the second end, the method comprising: controlling injection of a quantity of liquid air, without fuel, into the first end of the cavity at a first time when the piston is closer to the first end than the second end to cause the piston to perform a first power stroke; and controlling injection of fuel into the first end of the cavity at a second time when the piston is closer to the first end than the second end to cause the piston to perform a second power stroke.
US10718201B2
A system and method for installing casing in a blind horizontal well for blind horizontal directional borings. The system and method may include an example of an offset transmitter sonde assembly that contains an open central passage through which well casing can be inserted, and an example of a drill bit assembly that may be remotely uncoupled from a drill string, leaving the bit in the bore created. Remote uncoupling of the drill bit assembly tends to allow a casing to be installed in the bore while the drill string and bit remain in the bore for support during casing installation. After installation of the casing the drill bit assembly may be uncoupled from the drill string, allowing the drill string to be withdrawn from the bore, with the drill bit assembly remaining in the bore.
US10718199B2
Real time monitoring of a predetermined set of downhole parameters related to downhole status of a well comprises deploying a casing module as part of a casing string to a first predetermined location downhole, the casing module comprising a set of components, deploying a tubing module as part of a tubing string, typically within the casing string, where the tubing module comprises a set of tubing module components, and deploying a power generator to a distance within the well, typically as part of the tubing string and typically as part of the tubing module, and operatively connecting the power generator to the tubing module to effect power transmission from the power generator, generated downhole, to the tubing module and from the tubing wireless power transfer transmitter to the casing module. Data related to a predetermined set of downhole parameters related to downhole status of the well are transmitted from the casing module via a wireless data short hop transceiver to a tubing module wireless short hop data transceiver, the data the data and then from a surface data transceiver to a surface location.
US10718198B2
Described is a system for estimating a trajectory of a borehole. The system processes signals of sensor streams obtained from an inertial sensor system. Using the set of processed signals, the system determines whether a drill is in a survey mode state or a continuous mode state, and a measured depth of the borehole is determined. A set of survey mode positioning algorithms is applied when the drill is stationary. A set of continuous mode navigation algorithms is applied when the drill is non-stationary. Using at least one Kalman filter, results of the set of survey mode positioning algorithms and the set of continuous mode navigation algorithms are combined. An estimate of a borehole trajectory and corresponding ellipse of uncertainty (EOU) is generated using the combined results.
US10718192B2
Systems and methods for controlling the inflow of materials into a production well during recovery of hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon-containing reservoir. The system includes a flow control device configured to limit steam flow and hot water flow from the hydrocarbon-containing reservoir.
US10718176B2
The present invention discloses a drilling speed improvement device capable of producing both hydraulic pulse and impact vibration. The device has a pressure transfer rod that is arranged at an upper end of a lower joint. A spring chamber is formed among a drill body, the pressure transfer rod and the lower joint. A spring is arranged in the spring chamber. A communicating hole is formed in the drill body. A piston is arranged at an upper end of the pressure transfer rod. A pressure bearing head is arranged at an upper end of the piston. A pressure bearing base is arranged on the inner side of an upper joint. Drill bit impact loads and drilling fluid pulse jets are modulated by the longitudinal vibration energy of a drill stem, the rock breaking efficiency of a drill bit is improved by both dynamic and static loads, and harm caused by vibration of the drill stem is reduced.
US10718173B2
A method and apparatus for an anchor for use downhole. In one embodiment, the anchor includes an upper portion and a lower portion. In a run-in position, the anchor has a smaller outer diameter and in a set position, the anchor has a larger outer diameter. A slip assembly includes at least one slip, the slip having a longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the anchor and rotatable relative to the anchor along its longitudinal axis.
US10718166B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of laser-leaching polycrystalline diamond (PCD), devices for performing such methods, and to laser-leached PCD and elements and drill bits containing laser-leached PCD.
US10718159B2
Example architectural opening coverings powered by rotary motors are described. An example an architectural covering comprises a rotatable member, a covering mounted to said rotatable member, a motor to rotate a drive shaft, and a drive shaft coupling structured to: couple the drive shaft to said rotatable member to rotate said rotatable member to raise said covering when said motor is energized to rotate the drive shaft in a first direction, and substantially prevent the drive shaft from applying torque to said rotatable member when said motor is energized to rotate the drive shaft in a second direction to lower said covering.
US10718146B2
A damper assembly for a hinge includes a damper unit (10) with a piston arranged to be moveable over a working stroke within a cylinder (15) containing damping fluid. The damper unit (10) is mounted on a bracket (11) and retained in position by a housing (12). A mechanism is provided for converting rotational movement of the hinge in at least part of one direction into actuation of the damper unit (10) on its working stroke. The movement converting mechanism is arranged to act on the cylinder (15) at a position substantially outside the range of movement of the piston on its working stroke. The arrangement minimises the transmission of radial forces from the movement of the door to the cylinder (15).
US10718129B2
A housing for a digital assistant is disclosed. The housing includes; a body holding the digital assistant; attachments for an overhead mounting system. Within the housing there is at least one electrical input; and at least one electrical output; along with a digital current limiter. The digital assistant is capable of receiving and implementing instructions via voice commands or a personal control device. The digital current limiter receives instructions from the digital assistant and in response to those instructions, regulates the current to components in communication with the digital assistant. A method for using the housing and digital assistant to create a smart garage system by regulating access to connected components is also disclosed.
US10718127B2
Apparatus and techniques for indicating loading of filters are described. The apparatus and techniques are especially (although not necessarily exclusively) useful in connection with automatic pool cleaners with on-board filters and pumps. Indicators identifying clogging of the filters may be included in or on the cleaners or transmitted as information to users for further action.
US10718123B2
The invention relates to a device for dismountably connecting two intersecting formwork beams, which comprises a single-component elastic structure with two arms joining together respective areas for pressing the two beams together in support areas, and which can longitudinally slide over one of the beams until it reaches the other beam, the device being elastically deformed by means of pressure or impact thereon, so as to clamp or hold both beams and press them together.
US10718119B2
An automated sanding system that includes a robotic arm and a sanding end effector coupled at the distal end of the robotic arm, with the sanding end effector configured to sand a target surface. The system can further include a computing device executing a computational planner that generates instructions for driving the sanding end effector and robotic arm to perform at least one sanding task that at least includes the sanding end effector sanding a target surface, the generating based at least in part on obtained target surface data; and drives the end effector and robotic arm to perform the at least one sanding task.
US10718117B2
Panel support systems that allow for adjustability are not necessarily as robust as some non-adjustable systems. The present invention is a system for adjusting alignment of a flat panel 1 that includes at least one pair of resilient barrier units 21 configured to be placed in a trough 3 at opposing ends of an adjustment part 11. Liquid resin 29 may then be inserted between the barrier units 21 and allowed to harden.
US10718107B2
Pyramidal housing autonomous and suitable for different environmental conditions. Its pyramidal structure (1) is made up of metal profiles (10) that include corner pillars (10a), side pillars (10b), beams or cross structures of mezzanine (17)(19) and rafters that form the openings (4), being the pillars anchored to the foundation beam (13); over this structure, the outer covers (15) that form the pyramidal walls (15a) are mounted; in the blind sections of the outer cover (15) of the upper floor there are mounting supports (32) for arrangements of solar panels (30), while at the apex (12) there is a wind energy generator; other blind sectors allow the mounting of a solar heater (50).
US10718100B2
A hydraulic system for a feed delivery unit according to the present disclosure may include a pump configured to supply a total flow, the pump including at least one suction port configured to be connected to a reservoir and at least one outlet port configured to be connected to a supply line, a control valve fluidly coupled to the pump and including a plurality of valve sections, the control valve being coupled to the pump such that the total flow supplied by the pump is distributed among the plurality of valve sections, and wherein each valve section of the plurality of valve sections is configured to control a direction of flow of a portion of the total flow, and a plurality of hydraulic motors fluidly coupled to the pump via the control valve, each of the motors being configured to drive a respective auger of the feed delivery unit.
US10718097B2
A mining machine includes a frame, a boom coupled to the frame, a handle coupled to the frame and a dipper coupled to the handle. The handle includes an extension, and a bail is coupled directly to the extension, such that the bail is isolated from the dipper.
US10718092B2
A height-adjustable operating platform of a compact paver comprising a machine frame, a drive motor, travel units, a receiving container at the front in relation to the paving direction for receiving paving material, a longitudinal conveying device with which the paving material can be conveyed from the receiving container in a rearward direction in relation to the paving direction, a transverse distribution device that is height-adjustable in relation to the machine frame and with which the paving material can be distributed on the ground surface transversally to the paving direction, a paving screed that is height-adjustable in relation to the machine frame for compacting and smoothing the paving material distributed on the ground surface behind the transverse distribution device in the paving direction, an operating platform mounted on the machine frame and arranged behind the receiving container in the paving direction and a method for operating a compact paver.
US10718079B2
The present invention relates to a coupling system for fitting and attaching of a removable internal basket for a washing machine. The washing machine comprises a removable washing compartment configured to be mounted in the washing machine. The washing machine includes at least one convex protrusion or at least one concave groove across a portion of an inner side surface, and the removable washing compartment includes the other of at least one convex protrusion or at least one concave groove across a portion of an outer side surface. The balancing device includes a smooth surface portion across a portion of the inner side wall and the removable washing compartment includes a complimentary smooth surface portion across a portion of an outer side surface. When the removable washing compartment is mounted in the washing machine, the smooth surface portion on the inner side wall aligns with the smooth surface portion on the outer surface of the removable washing compartment and the at least one convex protrusion nests with the at least one concave groove such that the surface of the convex protrusion contacts the surface of the concave groove.
US10718066B2
Provided are compositions and methods for preparing and identifying antibodies having CDR3s that vary in sequence and in length from very short to very long which in certain embodiments may bind to a carbohydrate moiety or the active site of an enzyme. Libraries coding for antibodies with the CDR3s are also provided. The libraries can be provided by modifying a pre-existing nucleic acid library.
US10718065B2
Provided is a silicon-based molten composition including silicon, carbon, and a metal in which a solubility parameter (Csisol) defined by Equation (1) below is less than −0.37, wherein a SiC single crystal is formed by a solution method: Csisol=A−B+μ1−μ2 Equation (1) in Equation (1) above, A is a first energy (A) of a first evaluation lattice including silicon atoms, a carbon atom, and metal atoms in a silicon crystal lattice including metals and carbons, B is a second energy (B) of a second evaluation lattice including silicon atoms and metal atoms in a silicon crystal lattice including metals, μ1 is a constant of −5.422, and μ2 is a constant of −9.097.
US10718063B2
A method for chemically modifying a surface of a metallic substrate material being made of a first metallic material includes the steps of a) bonding an alloy material made of the first metallic material and a second metallic material onto the substrate material; and b) etching away at least some of the first metallic material from the bonded substrate material to obtain a modified substrate material, wherein the modified substrate material has an increased specific surface area. A substrate for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) includes a modified substrate material.
US10718051B2
An example method for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of thin films includes providing a deposition zone in a reaction chamber having a fixed showerhead assembly that introduces CVD reactive gases under positive pressure into the deposition zone. The example method also includes moving a substrate carrier beneath the showerhead assembly in the reaction chamber, the substrate carrier supports and transports at least one substrate within the reaction chamber so as to be subjected to a CVD process by the CVD reactive gases. The example method also includes providing a liner assembly shrouding the deposition zone and including at least one partial enclosure around the deposition zone isolating the deposition zone and the substrate carrier, whereby solid reaction byproducts are plated onto material in the liner assembly and gaseous reaction byproducts flow radially outward, the liner assembly being mounted on the substrate carrier for motion with the substrate carrier.
US10718050B2
Provided is a concentration control apparatus that, without reducing maintainability, can shorten piping to improve responsiveness. The concentration control apparatus is one adapted to introduce carrier gas into a storage tank storing a material, and control the concentration of material gas that is led out of the storage tank as mixed gas with the carrier gas and results from vaporization of the material. Also, the concentration control apparatus includes: a first unit that controls the flow rate of the carrier gas to be introduced into the storage tank; and a second unit that detects the concentration of the material gas led out of the storage tank.
US10718048B2
A sputtering target structure includes a body having a first side and an opposing second side. A first sputtering target is coupled to the first side of the body. The first sputtering target includes a first material. A second sputtering target is coupled to the second side of the body. The second sputtering target includes a second material. A rotation mechanism is coupled to the body and is configured to allow rotation of the body from a first orientation to a second orientation.
US10718045B2
A zinc-coated steel may be produced by performing a pre-alloying heat treatment after galvannealing the steel and prior to the hot stamping the steel. The pre-alloying heat treatment is conducted at a temperature between about 850° F. and about 950° F. in an open coil annealing process. The pre-alloying heat treatment allows for shorter time at the austenitization temperature to form a desired α-Fe phase in the coating by increasing the concentration of iron. This also decreases the loss of zinc, and a more adherent oxide exists after hot stamping.
US10718040B2
The present invention provides a hot-rolled steel sheet capable of preventing softening of the strength of a sheet-thickness central portion of the steel sheet in thermal treatment, even in the case where an amount of working performed on the steel sheet is small and a work hardening rate is low.A hot-rolled steel sheet of the present invention consists of chemical components of, in mass %, C: 0.040 to 0.150%, Si: 0 to 0.500%, Mn: 0.10 to 1.50%, P: 0 to 0.050%, S: 0 to 0.020%, Al: 0.010 to 0.050%, N: 0.0010 to 0.0060%, Nb: 0.008 to 0.035%, Cu: 0 to 0.10%, Ni: 0 to 0.10%, Cr: 0 to 0.02%, Mo: 0 to 0.020%, V: 0 to 0.020%, Ca: 0 to 0.0100%, B: 0 to 0.0050%, and the balance: Fe and impurities. The hot-rolled steel sheet contains 0.005 to 0.030% dissolved Nb. An area fraction of ferrite structure is 85% or more, the balance is cementite and/or pearlite structure, and an average crystal grain size of ferrite is equal to or more than 5 μm and equal to or less than 20 μm.
US10718036B2
A method for hydrometallurgical extraction of rare earth elements and niobium from a an ore or a flotation concentrate containing rare earth elements, niobium, iron and alkali earth metals, the method comprising removal of the alkali earth metals using an acidic solution of a pH in a range between about 1 and about 6, leaching the rare earth elements; precipitation of the rare earth elements from a resulting pregnant leach solution using sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate; physically separating metal hydroxides from a resulting leach residue containing metal hydroxides, iron oxide, silicate, and pyrochlore; removing the iron oxide by physical beneficiation and then by atmospheric acid leaching; and recovering niobium from a clean solid residue by pressurized acid leaching.
US10718034B2
A composition based on quick calcium-magnesium compounds in the form of briquettes is shown, as well as a method for the preparation and use thereof. The composition of the briquettes contains quicklime in the form of milled particles at a concentration of at least 10% by weight and at most 100% by weight relative to the weight of the composition. The compositions in the form of briquettes have a Shatter test index of less than 10%.
US10718021B2
The present invention relates to methods of determining if a subject has an increased risk of suffering from memory impairment. The methods comprise analyzing the gene expression profile from peripheral blood leukocytes taken from the subject and comparing the value of the subject's gene expression profile with the value of a normal gene expression profile. A change in the value of the subject's gene expression profile, above or below normal values is indicative that the subject has an increased risk of suffering from memory impairment compared to a normal individual.
US10718018B2
The present invention relates to non-invasive methods, kits and means for diagnosing and/or prognosing of dilated cardiomyopathy in a body fluid sample from a subject. Further, the present invention relates to set of polynucleotides or sets of primer pairs for detecting sets of miRNAs for diagnosing and/or prognosing of dilated cardiomyopathy in a body fluid sample from a subject. In addition, the present invention relates to sets of miRNAs for diagnosing and/or prognosing of dilated cardiomyopathy in a body fluid sample from a subject.
US10718013B2
Method and sample vessels are provided for amplification and sequencing of nucleic acids in a sample.
US10718010B2
Provided herein is a method of sequencing hydroxymethyated cell-free DNA. In some embodiments, the method comprises adding an affinity tag to only hydroxymethyated DNA molecules in a sample of cfDNA, enriching for the DNA molecules that are tagged with the affinity tag; and sequencing the enriched DNA molecules.
US10718009B2
The technology described herein is directed to methods of determining oligonucleotide sequences, e.g. by enriching target sequences prior to sequencing the sequences.
US10718008B2
Methods of detecting or quantifying short RNA or DNA molecules using split cycle amplification are provided.
US10718003B2
Accurate measurements of the presence or absence of an analyte (e.g., MRSA) in a sample are provided. For example, the sample can be subjected to an activation reagent (potentially after an initial reagent has already been added), which can cause a flash signal that increases and then decreases over time. Signal data points can be measured from the flash signal using a detector. A quadratic regression function that fits the signal data points can be determined. An accuracy of the quadratic fit can be determined, as well as a signal-to-background ratio. A difference between a signal-to-background term and an accuracy term can be used as a score that is compared to a threshold to determine whether the analyte is present in the sample.
US10717988B2
The invention relates to a Brassica plant in particular a Brassica oleracea plant comprising a genetic determinant, which when homozygously present confers high resistance against Thrips tabaci, and which is as found in plants grown from seeds of which a representative sample is deposited with the NCIMB under NCIMB accession number 41760. Preferably, the plant is homozygous for the genetic determinant and resistant against Thrips tabaci. The genetic determinant in the seeds of NCIMB deposit 41760 is located on chromosome 2 and linked to marker BO00200 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and/or marker BO00277 (SEQ ID NO: 2) and/or BO00602 (SEQ ID NO: 5).
US10717986B1
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying, selecting and/or producing a soybean plant or germplasm having brown stem rot (BSR) and/or frogeye leaf spot (FLS) resistance. A soybean plant, part thereof and/or germplasm, including any progeny and/or seeds derived from a soybean plant or germplasm identified, selected and/or produced by any of the methods of the present invention is also provided.
US10717982B2
The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules containing poly (dA:dT) regions which are stabilized in E. coli, methods of propagating such nucleic acid molecules in E. coli, methods of obtaining RNA, peptides or proteins using such nucleic acid molecules and to RNA which is obtained from such nucleic acid molecules and its use. In particular, the poly (dA:dT) regions contain at least one disruption by a sequence not encoding a sequence solely composed of A residues.
US10717975B2
Methods and compositions are described for selecting and identifying orthogonal aminoacyl synthetase-tRNA pairs and their use to incorporate unnatural amino acids in a site-specific manner in proteins. Specifically described is a novel E. coli tyrptophanyl synthetase-tRNA pair that functions as both an opal and amber suppressor and that incorporates tryptophan analogs into proteins.
US10717964B2
A non-naturally occurring microbe capable of growing in a medium comprising methanol is provided. The methanol contributes to a significant percentage (e.g., at least 40%) of the carbon source for the non-naturally occurring microbe, which expresses heterologous methanol dehydrogenase (MDH) and heterologous ribulose monophosphate (RuMP) pathway enzymes. Methods for producing liquid fuels and chemicals by the non-naturally occurring microbe and methods for preparing the non-naturally occurring microbe are also provided.
US10717961B2
A cell culture system having a cell culture vessel, a composition controlling fluid storage vessel, a culture fluid composition controlling means having an inlet and an outlet for a cell culture fluid, an inlet-connected fluid feeding circuit from the cell culture vessel to the inlet of the culture fluid composition controlling means, an outlet-connected fluid feeding circuit from the cell culture vessel to the outlet of the culture fluid composition controlling means, a means which perfuses the cell culture fluid from the inlet-connected fluid feeding circuit to the outlet-connected fluid feeding circuit through the culture fluid composition controlling means, and a means which controls the amount of fluid in the cell culture vessel, in which compositions of the cell culture fluid in the cell culture vessel and compositions of the composition controlling fluid in the composition controlling fluid storage vessel can be controlled in a continuous manner.
US10717956B2
There is disclosed a system and method for processing wine and/or a containing barrel, while keeping a volume of most of the wine in the barrel. The disclosed system and method can provide reduced mixing of different layers of wine in the barrel. An optional scrubbing mechanism cleans an interior surface of the barrel from encrusted matter, and an optional UV sterilization light source sanitizes an interior surface of the barrel that is alongside a cavity in the barrel empty of wine. In some embodiments a pumping and filtering system preserves non-mixing flow of wine in the barrel while effectively filtering wine optionally without the use of a filter cartridge or other interposing medium.
US10717953B2
A single dose pack and methods for producing and using the same are provided. In one embodiment, a single dose pack includes a container, wherein the container comprises a water-soluble film, and a wash composition encapsulated within the container. The wash composition includes a detergent surfactant, water present in an amount of from about 8 to about 40 weight percent, based on the total weight of the wash composition, and a polyethylene glycol (PEG) blend. The PEG blend includes at least one relatively higher molecular weight (MW) PEG having an average MW of about 1500 Daltons or greater in combination with at least one relatively lower MW PEG having an average MW of about 400 Daltons or less and/or at least one mid-MW PEG having an average MW of between about 400 and about 1500 Daltons.
US10717950B2
A laundry care composition including (a) at least one laundry care ingredient and (b) a leuco composition including at least one leuco compound. The leuco compound including a leuco moiety and a polyalkyleneoxy moiety covalently bound to the leuco moiety. The polyalkyleneoxy moiety includes at least one ethylene oxide group and at least one propylene oxide group. A method of treating a textile includes the steps of (a) providing such a laundry care composition; (b) adding the laundry care composition to a liquid medium; (c) placing textile articles in the liquid medium; (d) optionally, rinsing the textile; and (e) drying the textile articles.
US10717947B2
The present invention provides a solid composition comprising (a) a quaternary ammonium compound and (b) between 9 wt % and 77 wt % of a polysaccharide based on the total weight of the solid composition. The solid composition showed excellent stability. The present invention also provides a process for preparing the solid composition and a liquid composition comprising said solid composition, and methods for conditioning a fabric by using the solid composition and the liquid composition as well.
US10717946B2
Methods for adjusting the solubility of a botanical oil in water, along with the resulting modified botanical oil and related products (e.g., treatment compositions, wipes, absorbent articles, etc.) are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes reacting the botanical oil to form a reactive product (e.g., having a hydroxyl group); and attaching a hydrophilic end group (e.g., a carboxylic acid, a carboxylic acid salt, a sugar, etc.) on the reactive product to form a modified botanical oil. The modified botanical oil generally, in most embodiments, has a greater solubility in water than the botanical oil (e.g., a solubility in water of about 10 grams per 100 grams of water or greater, such as completely soluble in water). The botanical oil includes, in one particular embodiment, an essential oil, such as those essential oil that include at least one terpene compound.
US10717929B2
The present invention relates to the use of ionic liquids as flame retardants. The compounds of the invention may be used as flame retardants in various materials without causing damage to the environment and or health of humans or animals. Ionic liquid flame retardants maybe applied alone or in combination with traditional flame retardants. Ionic liquid flame retardants can be applied to finish textile, plastic, leather, paper, rubber or as wild fire flame retardants.
US10717925B2
A method of producing semiconductor nanoparticles is provided. The method includes heating primary semiconductor nanoparticles and a salt of an element M1 in a solvent at a temperature set in a range of 100° C. to 300° C. The primary semiconductor nanoparticles contain the element M1, an element M2, optionally an element M3, and an element Z, and have an average particle size of 50 nm or less. The element M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cu, and Au. The element M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, and Tl. The element M3 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zn and Cd. The element Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of S, Se, and Te.
US10717921B2
The present invention includes a foam-forming composition for use in enhanced oil recovery, and a method of using said foam-forming composition for recovering oil. The foam-forming composition of the present invention comprises a nonionic surfactant, in particular an alcohol-alkoxylate, and an anionic surfactant, in particular an alkyl diphenyloxide (di)sulfonate, where the foam-forming composition promotes a formation of a stable foam formed of a CO2 and water.
US10717918B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for injecting a solid chemical for inhibiting, decreasing or preventing precipitation and/or deposition of foulants and/or contaminants in oilfield tubulars. The use of solid chemicals or highly viscous fluids providing ease of shipment, greater economy in storage, shipment and delivery and increased ease of use.
US10717913B2
A method that includes providing a treatment fluid having an aqueous base fluid and ground drilling cuttings and placing the treatment fluid in a subterranean formation.
US10717910B2
A cold storage material composition includes 1 mol % to 10 mol % of a metal salt; and 0.5 mol % to 5 mol % of an inorganic salt, wherein a eutectic point of the metal salt and water is −75° C. to −40° C., wherein a eutectic point of the inorganic salt and water is −30° C. or higher, and wherein the cold storage material composition is an aqueous solution and has a melting start point within a range from −75° C. to −40° C.
US10717908B2
An abrasive particle includes at most three surfaces and at least one edge which has a corner at at least one end. The abrasive particle may contain a ceramic material, particularly polycrystalline α-Al2O3. Abrasive particles as a whole, methods for producing abrasive particles, moulds, abrasive articles, methods for producing abrasive articles, and methods for abrading a surface are also disclosed.
US10717903B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition and methods of making an adhesive from polystyrene, a terpene, and water.
US10717898B2
The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a polymerized CNSL composition, the method comprising subjecting a raw or technical CNSL to a heat treatment under reflux to obtain the polymerized CNSL composition, wherein the heat treatment is performed until the polymerized CNSL composition has a molecular weight Mw of about 2800 to about 3700, such as from about 2900 to about 3600, or from about 3000 to about 3500 g/mol. The invention further relates to a polymerized CNSL composition, use of a polymerized CNSL composition according to the invention in a bitumen composition, a modified bitumen composition according to the invention and an asphalt composition comprising a modified bitumen composition according to the present invention.
US10717897B2
Polycyclocarbonate compounds and upgraded molecular weight polymers made from such compounds are provided. The polymers have particular utility in coating compositions, especially for use on food and beverage contact substrates that are formed into or will be formed into containers or container components.
US10717886B2
An ink composition includes a first component which is a hydrophilic solvent, a second component which is a hydrophobic solvent, a third component which is an amphiphilic solvent, and a fourth component which includes a solute or a dispersing element, and when the third component evaporates, the ink composition is separated into a phase which mainly includes the first component and a phase which mainly includes the second component.
US10717885B2
A composition includes methyl acetate, dimethyl carbonate, acetone, or a combination thereof, dimethyl sulfoxide, methyl glyoxal, propylene carbonate, gamma butyrolactone, ethylene carbonate, 2-chloro-1-propanol, or a combination thereof, and optionally thiophene, 1,3-dioxolane, thioacetic acid, or a combination thereof. The respective amounts of each solvent are further described herein, and the total amounts of methyl acetate, dimethyl carbonate, acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, methyl glyoxal, propylene carbonate, thiophene, 1,3-dioxolane, and thioacetic acid sum to at least 90 volume percent of the total volume of the composition. The composition can be particularly useful for removal of a coating from a surface. Accordingly, a method of removing a coating from a surface is also disclosed.
US10717884B2
The present invention relates to a resin solution composition containing at least one resin selected from the group consisting of aromatic polysulfones, aromatic polyamideimides, aromatic polyetherimides, aromatic polyimides and aromatic polyamic acids, a sulfone-based solvent, and an ester-based solvent, wherein in this resin solution composition, an amount of the resin, relative to the total mass of the resin solution composition, is at least 10% by mass but not more than 50% by mass, and an amount of the ester-based solvent, relative to the total amount of the sulfone-based solvent and the ester-based solvent, is at least 15% by mass but not more than 85% by mass.
US10717879B2
A shelf-stable aqueous binder composition, a process of preparing the binder composition, and a coating composition comprising the binder composition and having fast drying properties and developing good early resistance to water washout.
US10717877B2
The invention relates to a photocurable coating composition, a coating process using said composition, and coated articles comprising the cured composition. The coated articles are weather and scratch resistant.
US10717872B2
A polyether-polysiloxane block copolymer composition is disclosed. The copolymer composition comprises (A) a polyether-polysiloxane block copolymer having in a molecule structural units as expressed by General Formula (1) below: where a terminal group thereof is an alkenyl group or the like bonded to a polyether portion. The copolymer composition further comprises (B) a liquid monool organic compound, which is (B1) a glycol ether compound having a low degree of polymerization, a terminal hydrogen substituted with a hydrocarbon group, and a secondary alcoholic hydroxyl group provided on another terminal, or (B2) a higher alcohol compound having a branched alkyl group with 12 or more carbon atoms. The copolymer composition generally does not contain a dimethyl polysiloxane at more than the mass of component (A). A manufacturing method, foam stabilizer or the like containing the copolymer composition, and a polyurethane foam are also disclosed.
US10717870B1
A room temperature curable composition is disclosed. The composition can be used as an encapsulation/potting material. The composition comprises: (i) at least one condensation curable silyl terminated polymer having at least one silicon bonded hydroxyl functional group per molecule; (ii) a cross-linker having at least two hydrolysable groups and selected from certain silanes and/or silyl functional molecules; and (iii) a condensation catalyst selected from the group of titanates and/or zirconates. The molar ratio of the sum of moisture present in the composition and total silicon bonded hydroxyl groups:the catalyst (“the molar ratio”) is >7:1. When the molar ratio is from >7:1 to 10:1, the molar ratio of total silicon bonded hydroxyl groups:total hydrolysable groups is between 0.1:1 to 0.3:1. When the molar ratio is >10:1, the molar ratio of total silicon bonded hydroxyl groups:total hydrolysable groups is between 0.1:1 to 0.5:1.
US10717865B2
A polyester elastomer is provided, which includes a product of reacting (a) amide oligomer, (b) polyalkylene glycol, and (c) poly(alkylene arylate). (a) Amide oligomer has a chemical structure of or a combination thereof, wherein R1 is C4-8 alkylene group, R2 is C4-8 alkylene group, and each of x is independently an integer of 10 to 20. (b) Polyalkylene glycol has a chemical structure of wherein R3 is C2-10 alkylene group, and y is an integer of 20 to 30. (c) Poly(alkylene arylate) has a chemical structure of or a combination thereof, wherein Ar is R4 is C2-6 alkylene group, and z is an integer of 1 to 10.
US10717860B2
The present invention provides a polyvinyl chloride-based resin molded product obtained by molding a resin mixture containing 3 to 15 parts by weight of calcium carbonate having an average primary particle size of 0.01 to 0.3 μm and 2 to 4 parts by weight of an impact modifier per 100 parts by weight of a polyvinyl chloride-based resin, wherein a Charpy impact strength at 23° C. is 20 kJ/m2 or more, and a weight reduction ratio is 1.5 mg/cm2 or less when the molded product is immersed in a 93% by weight sulfuric acid aqueous solution for 14 days in accordance with JIS K 6745, and a method for manufacturing the polyvinyl chloride-based resin molded product.
US10717846B2
The present invention relates to a plasticizer composition which includes an epoxidized alkyl ester composition including one or more compounds represented by the following Chemical Formula 1; and a citrate-based material, wherein a weight ratio of the epoxidized alkyl ester composition and the citrate-based material is in a range of 90:10 to 10:90:
US10717836B1
Thermal protective materials suitable for use in a spacecraft include a substrate, such as carbon fibers or carbon felt, and cyanate ester resin or phthalonitrile resin, and cross-linkers. These thermal protective materials have a density of about 0.2 to about 0.35 g/cm3. Methods of making the thermal protective materials include mixing a cyanate ester resin or a phthalonitrile resin and a cross-linker to result in a resin solution, infusing the resin solution into a substrate, and curing the resin to result in the thermal protective material.
US10717833B2
The present invention provides methods of preparing peelable seal layers, methods of preparing multilayer films, peelable seal layers made therefrom, and multilayer films made therefrom. In one aspect, a method of preparing a peelable seal layer comprises (a) providing a first blend comprising (i) from 5 to 98 percent by weight of a reactor grade propylene based plastomer or elastomer having a molecular weight distribution of less than 3.5 and a density of less than 0.89 g/cc and (ii) from 2 to 95 percent by weight of a second polymer selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polybutylene, and styrenic polymer and mixtures thereof; (b) providing at least one linear low density polyethylene; (c) blending the first blend with the at least one linear low density polyethylene to obtain a second blend; and (d) extruding the second blend to form a peelable seal layer, wherein the peelable seal layer has a heat seal initiation temperature less than 120° C. when sealed at a bar pressure of 40 psi with a dwell time of 0.5 seconds.
US10717832B2
The present invention refers to a fiber reinforced polymer composition comprising a polypropylene, carbon fibers and a polar modified polypropylene as coupling agent as well as to an article comprising the fiber reinforced polymer composition.
US10717830B2
Provided is a polyamide resin composition for a slide fastener that includes at least one polyamide resin and reinforcing fibers, wherein a total mass of the polyamide resin and the reinforcing fibers accounts for 90% by mass or more of the composition; wherein poly(m-xylylene adipamide) (MXD 6) accounts for 60% by mass or more of the polyamide resin; wherein reinforcing fibers account for 45 to 70% by mass of the total mass of the polyamide resin and the reinforcing fibers; wherein both first reinforcing fibers having a fiber diameter of from 5 to 7 μm and second reinforcing fibers having a fiber diameter larger than that of the first reinforcing fibers by more than 2 μm account for 90% by mass or more of the reinforcing fibers; and wherein the first reinforcing fibers account for 20% by mass or more and less than 50% by mass of the reinforcing fibers.
US10717822B2
Compositions of matter that have adhesion properties. The presence of a large number of silanols on the molecules described herein creates a solubility or dispersability of these molecules in aqueous solutions that is not obtainable from random hydrolysis of the precursor silanes.
US10717819B2
The present disclosure relates to a polyimide-based block copolymer film. The polyimide-based block copolymer film according to the present disclosure exhibits excellent an ultraviolet shielding property to be suitably used for substrates for displays, protective films for displays, touch panels, and the like.
US10717816B2
The present invention relates to a polyamide molding compound comprising the following components or consisting of these components: (A) 40 to 95 wt % of a specific polyamide mixture consisting of the polyamides (A1) and (A2); (B) 5 to 50 wt % of at least one glass filler having a refractive index in the range from 1.540 to 1.600; (C) 0 to 10 wt % of at least one additive; wherein the weight proportions of the components (A) to (C) add up to 100% wt %; wherein the at least one transparent polyamide (A2) has a transparency of at least 90% and a haze of at most 3%. The present invention additionally relates to molded bodies composed of this polyamide molding compound.
US10717810B2
The present invention provides new classes of phenolic compounds derived from hydroxyacids and tyrosol or tyrosol analogues, useful as monomers for preparation of biocompatible polymers, and the biocompatible polymers prepared from these monomeric hydroxyacid-phenolic compounds, including novel biodegradable and/or bioresorbable polymers. These biocompatible polymers or polymer compositions with enhanced bioresorbabilty and processability are useful in a variety of medical applications, such as in medical devices and controlled-release therapeutic formulations. The invention also provides methods for preparing these monomeric hydroxyacid-phenolic compounds and biocompatible polymers.
US10717806B2
A packaging material is provided. The packaging material includes (a) epoxy silsesquioxane, (b) epoxy resin, and (c) siloxane-imide-containing benzoxazine compound. (a) Epoxy silsesquioxane and (b) epoxy resin have a weight ratio of 0.3:1 to 10:1. The total weight of (a) epoxy silsesquioxane and (b) epoxy resin and the weight of (c) siloxane-imide-containing benzoxazine compound have a ratio of 100:20 to 100:150.
US10717805B2
The invention relates to a process for producing polyisocyanurate plastics, comprising the following steps: (a) providing a polyisocyanate composition A) which contains oligomeric polyisocyanates and is low in monomeric diisocyanates, where the isocyanurate structure content in the polyisocyanate composition A) is at least 50 mol %, based on the sum total of the oligomeric structures from the group consisting of uretdione, isocyanurate, allophanate, biuret, iminooxadiazinedione and oxadiazinetrione structure that are present in the polyisocyanate composition A); (b) catalytically trimerizing the polyisocyanate composition A), where (i) the catalytic trimerization is conducted at ambient temperatures of at least 80° C.; (ii) the catalytic trimerization is conducted within less than 12 hours at least up to a degree of conversion at which only still not more than 20% of the isocyanate groups originally present in the polyisocyanate composition A) are present. Furthermore, the invention relates to a polyisocyanurate plastic obtainable by the process of the invention, to its use for producing coatings, films, semi-finished products and moldings.
US10717799B2
The present invention relates to the use of uncrosslinked copolymers having a backbone comprising i) a plurality of thermo-responsive structural units derived from one or more than one N-alkyl or N,N-dialkyl substituted (alkyl)acrylamide monomer and ii) a plurality of hydrophilic structural units derived from one or more than one second ethylenically unsaturated monomer as excipients in solid mixtures with poorly water-soluble substances for effective solubilization of the latter in aqueous media. Solid dosage forms comprising a solid mixture of such copolymer(s) and poorly water-soluble substance(s) are also within the scope of the invention.
US10717796B2
Extruded films comprising ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) with substantially no blow holes therein, are formed by using a pellet feed to the extruder wherein 90-100 wt. % of the pellets pass through an ASTM size 5 sieve and 0-10 wt. % of the pellets are finer than a number 10 mesh (ASTM Sieve size). Uniform feeding to and through the extruder with a lack of bridging of the EVOH pellet feed have been observed.
US10717795B2
A copolymer having tetrafluoroethylene units, hexafluoropropylene units, and units independently represented by formula in a range from 0.001 to 2 mole percent, based on the total amount of the copolymer. In these units, a is 0 or 1, each b is independently from 1 to 4, c is 0 to 4, d is 0 or 1, and e is 1 to 6. In the —SO2X groups, X is independently —F, —NH2, —OH, or —OZ, wherein Z is independently a metallic cation or a quaternary ammonium cation. The copolymer has a melt flow index in a range from 20 grams per 10 minutes to 40 grams per 10 minutes. The copolymer can be extruded to make articles, such as insulated cables. A method of making the copolymer is also disclosed.
US10717790B2
This invention relates to a catalyst system including fluorided silica, alkylalumoxane activator and a bridged monocyclopentadienyl group 4 transition metal compound, where the fluorided support has not been calcined at a temperature of 400° C. or more, and is preferably, produced using a wet mix method, particularly an aqueous method.
US10717789B2
A polydisperse inulin product has a factor L, defined as a ratio S/D, wherein: S equals the sum of the compounds GF2, F3, and F4 in the inulin product, expressed in wt. % on total carbohydrates; D equals [(Fi/Gi)+1], wherein Fi is the amount of inulin-related fructose in the inulin product, Gi is the amount of inulin-related glucose in the inulin product, whereby Fi and Gi are expressed in wt. % on total carbohydrates, wherein the value of L lies between 2.0 and 3.0 and wherein between 3 and 20 wt. % on total carbohydrates of the inulin product is: GFn compounds wherein n is 10 or greater, and/or Fm compounds wherein m is 11 or greater.
US10717786B2
Provided are compositions comprising newly identified protein fragments of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, polynucleotides that encode them and complements thereof, related agents, and methods of use thereof in diagnostic, drug discovery, research, and therapeutic applications.
US10717782B2
Described herein are compositions, methods, and systems for modulating Notch receptor activation. Aspects of the invention relate to synthetic proteins comprising at least a Notch NRR (Negative Regulatory Region)-binding scFV fused to a transmembrane domain. Another aspect of the invention relates to drug-dependent synthetic proteins. Constructs and engineered cells comprising the synthetic proteins are additionally described herein.
US10717777B2
Peptides suitable for preparation of lung surfactants are described. Examples include one that include a first fragment comprising the amino acid sequence of XWLXRALIKRIQAZI (SEQ ID NO: 1) or a first amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 1 and a second fragment comprising the amino acid sequence of RZLPQLVXRLVLRXS (SEQ ID NO: 2) or a second amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein X is any amino acid but at least one amino acid at the X positions is not cysteine, or Z is any amino acid but at least one amino acid at the Z positions is not methionine. Surfactants that contain such peptides, and related compositions, methods of preparing and using the compositions are also described.
US10717772B2
New recombinant binding proteins, comprising designed ankyrin repeat domain(s) with binding specificity for HER2, and comprising designed ankyrin repeat domain(s) with binding specificity for serum albumin, are disclosed, as well as nucleic acids encoding such recombinant binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such recombinant binding proteins or nucleic acids and the use of such recombinant binding proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
US10717771B2
A system, including methods and compositions, for treatment of ischemia.
US10717756B2
Compositions and methods for the production of derivatives of spinosyns are provided. The method produces spinosyn derivatives that exhibit activity towards insects, arachnids, and/or nematodes and are useful in the agricultural and animal health markets.
US10717753B2
The present invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical chemistry, and relates to a deuterium-modified Brigatinib derivative, preparation method thereof, pharmaceutical composition containing the same and the uses of the deuterium-modified Brigatinib derivative and the pharmaceutical composition thereof in preparing a medicament for treating the disease mediated by anaplastic lymphoma kinase. The deuterium-modified Brigatinib derivative of the present invention has an excellent inhibitory activity on anaplastic lymphoma kinase and has better pharmacodynamic or pharmacokinetic properties relative to Brigatinib.
US10717750B2
PSMA-targeted PET/SPECT agents for imaging PSMA-positive cancer and or tumor neovasculature and PSMA-targeted radiotherapeutic agent for the treatment of PSMA-positive cancer or tumor neovasculature are disclosed. Methods of imaging PSMA expressing tumors, or cells and kits also are disclosed.
US10717747B2
The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of 2-(3-(alkyl or alkenyl)morpholino)-ethan-1-ols by reduction of 8a-(alkyl and alkenyl)hexahydrooxazolo[2,3-c][1,4]oxazines encompassing a process for producing 2-(3-(4-propylheptyl)morpholino)ethan-1-ol with the INN name delmopinol. The invention also relates to 1-chloro-4-propylhept-3-ene, 1-iodo-4-propylhept-3-ene, 8a-(4-5 propylheptyl)hexahydrooxazolo[2,3-c][1,4]oxazine, 8a-(4-propylhept-3-en-1-yl)hexahydrooxazolo[2,3-c][1,4]oxazine and 2-(3-(4-propylhept-3-en-1-yl)morpholino)ethan-1-ol which are intermediates in the delmopinol process.
US10717745B2
The present disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula (I) and methods of their use and preparation, as well as compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I).
US10717743B2
Methods of synthesizing intermediates useful for the synthesis of halichondrin B analogs are described.
US10717740B2
The present application relates to crystalline propylene glycol solvate of acalabrutinib and process for preparation thereof. The propylene glycol solvate of acalabrutinib may be selected from a group of racemic propylene glycol solvate, R-propylene glycol solvate and S-propylene glycol solvate of acalabrutinib. Specifically, the present application relates to crystalline forms RSV1, RSV2, RSV3 and RSV4 of acalabrutinib. Crystalline forms RSV2 and RSV3 are stable in all conditions and has excellent physico-chemical properties. The present application also relates to crystalline form RSVS of acalabrutinib.
US10717739B2
The present invention relates to compounds that bind to and otherwise modulate the activity of bromodomain-containing proteins, to processes for preparing these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and to methods of using these compounds for treating a wide variety of conditions and disorders.
US10717737B2
The present invention is directed to cyclopropylamine derivatives which are LSD1 inhibitors useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US10717733B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds which are capable of inhibiting certain amine oxidase enzymes. These compounds are useful for treatment of a variety of indications, e.g., fibrosis, cancer and/or angiogenesis in human subjects as well as in pets and livestock. In addition, the present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, as well as various uses thereof.
US10717732B2
The invention provides a novel class of compounds as inhibitors of influenza virus replication, preparation methods thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and uses of these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof in the treatment of influenza.
US10717730B1
Compositions containing the compound of general formula I: are disclosed. The compositions be used to prevent or treat hepatitis B virus infection.
US10717727B2
The present invention relates to novel pyridinium compounds, their isomers, steroisomers, atropisomers, conformers, tautomers, polymorphs, hydrates and solvates. The present invention also encompasses process for preparing novel compounds and pharmaceutical composition of said compounds. The invention further relates to the use of the above mentioned compounds for the preparation of medicament for use as pharmaceuticals.
US10717722B2
The aryl sulfonamide compounds of this invention have powerful and cell-type specific Bcl inhibitory activity. Compounds of this invention include compounds according to formula (I): Selected compounds in this class promote apoptosis in senescent cells, and are being developed for treating senescent-related conditions. Selected compounds in this class promote apoptosis in cancer cells, and can be developed as chemotherapeutic agents.
US10717718B2
Disclosed are new compounds of formulae: Wherein: R1 and R2 can be independently H; a C1 to C6 alkyl including methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl; aryl including phenyl, para-methoxyphenyl; or R1,R2 together with the carbon C-6 can be a cyclopentylidene or cyclohexylidene; each of these groups being substituted or not; and R3 can be a C1 to C6 alkyl including methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, tert-butyl, pentyl; or aryl including phenyl, methylphenyl, ethylphenyl, each of these groups being substituted or not. The invention also relates to their method of manufacture and their use for the synthesis of Ara-N3, Kdo-N3 and 4eKdo-N3.
US10717716B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds having histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) in-hibitory activity, stereoisomers thereof or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof the use thereof for the preparation of therapeutic medicaments, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, a method for treating diseases using the composition, and methods for preparing the novel compounds. The novel compounds stereoisomers thereof or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof according to the present invention have histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitory activity and are effective for the prevention or treatment of HDAC6-mediated diseases, including infectious diseases; neoplasms; endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases; mental and be-havioral disorders; neurological diseases; diseases of the eye and adnexa; cardiovascular diseases; respiratory diseases; digestive diseases; diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue; diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue; or congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities.
US10717712B2
Described herein are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to modulate transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 receptor (TRPV1) activity.
US10717705B2
A method for efficiently removing impurities such as sodium ions, fluoride ions, chloride ions and fluorosulfate ions without reducing the yield of a target product, including a fluorine-containing sulfonylamide compound selected from the group consisting of fluorine-containing sulfonylamide, a metal salt thereof, an ammonium salt thereof and a quaternary ammonium salt thereof is washed with an aqueous solution of salt of sulfuric acid.
