US10745005B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for inter-vehicle cooperation for vehicle self height estimation. An example vehicle includes an inter-vehicle communication module and a body control module. The body control module broadcasts a request for images via the inter-vehicle communication module. The body control module also performs semantic segmentation on the images, generates a composite image of the vehicle based on the segmented images, and generates a three dimensional representation of the vehicle based on the composite image. Using the three dimensional representation, the body control module determines a height of the vehicle, and based on the height, controls the vehicle to avoid obstacles.
US10745003B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods implemented in algorithms, software, firmware, logic, or circuitry may be configured to process data and sensory input in real-time to determine whether an object external to an autonomous vehicle may be a potential collision threat to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may be configured to deploy one or more bladders positioned external to the autonomous vehicle to absorb forces from an impact to the vehicle by the object. A perception system of the vehicle may receive a sensor signal and generate object data associated with the object. A planner system of the vehicle may process the object data to predict an impact time and an impact location on the vehicle. The planner system may cause a drive system of the vehicle to maneuver the vehicle to position an impact-absorbing structure and/or one or more bladders of the vehicle to coincide with the predicted impact location.
US10744999B2
A control system that controls a driveline of a motor vehicle to operate in a selected one of a plurality of configurations is configured to receive a brake signal responsive to the application of a braking system. The control system causes the driveline to operate in a second configuration and not a first configuration in dependence at least in part on the brake signal. In the first configuration a first group of one or more wheels and in addition a second group of one or more wheels are arranged to be driven by the driveline, and in the second configuration the first group of one or more wheels and not the second group are arranged to be driven by the driveline.
US10744993B2
A method monitoring a pneumatically actuatable brake for motor vehicles, wherein an air gap of the brake is ascertained using measured position values provided by a brake wear sensor, includes ascertaining a reference position value of the brake wear sensor during unbraked travel, determining multiple value pairs of discrete position values and a current brake pressure P at a same point in time during a braking procedure, ascertaining a characteristic function interpolating the value pairs, determining a characteristic position value according to the characteristic function for a selected brake pressure, and determining an actual value of the air gap by subtracting the reference position value from the characteristic position value.
US10744992B2
A reservoir includes at least a container, a cap, a diaphragm, and a sealing device. The container includes a neck portion that extends from a body of the container. The neck portion includes an opening that provides access to an interior of the container. The cap is structured to interact with the neck portion. The cap includes a vent for pressure balancing of the reservoir. The diaphragm includes a slit that communicates with the vent. The sealing device includes a sealed vessel and a holder. The sealed vessel includes a sealing member sealed by a seal. The sealed vessel is movable to at least a first position such that the sealed vessel physically contacts the diaphragm to seal the slit. The sealed vessel is movable to a second position such that the sealed vessel is spaced from the diaphragm to unseal the slit. The holder is configured to bold the sealed vessel in alignment with the cap. The holder maintains a fixed position within the container when the sealed vessel moves from the first position to the second position. The holder maintains a fixed position within the container when the sealed vessel moves from the second position to the first position.
US10744989B2
This brake device is provided with: a brake actuator which applies to a wheel a brake torque depending on the rotation of an electric motor; a booster circuit which boosts a reference voltage outputted from a battery; and a motor control unit which controls the electric motor. Depending on the state of the booster circuit, the motor control unit switches between a first drive process for driving the electric motor by supplying thereto a boost voltage, which is a voltage that has been boosted by the booster circuit, and a second drive process for driving the electric motor by supplying a reference voltage to the electric motor and by performing spark advance control.
US10744984B2
A hydraulic block includes pedal travel simulator for a hydraulic power-assisted vehicle braking system includes a piston that is displaceable in a cylinder, a piston spring that acts on the piston against the displacement, and a stroke limiter limiting the displacement. A characteristic curve of such a pedal travel simulator is set.
US10744982B2
A hydraulic power brake system (1) of a wheeled vehicle or for a vehicle unit has a main brake line (20, 21), in which a setpoint brake pressure can be controlled via a brake valve (4) that is operated via a brake pedal (7), and from which an axle brake line or a wheel brake line (46, 49, 50) branches off. Inlet valves and outlet valves and a pilot control valve of the ABS control system for the vehicle unit or for each vehicle axle are respectively disposed together in an ABS modulator block (69), which also includes a temperature sensor (70, 71, 72) for detecting the oil temperature (T) and a heating element (73, 74, 75) for locally heating the hydraulic oil are disposed in each ABS modulator block (69).
US10744975B2
Provided is a webbing take-up device including (i) a spool onto which webbing worn by an occupant is taken up as a result of the spool being rotated in a take-up direction, (ii) a rotating body that is provided so as to be integrally rotatable with the spool, has plural teeth disposed an interval apart from each other along a circumferential direction of rotation of the spool, and is rotated as a result of a moving member being moved and becoming engaged with the plural teeth so that the spool is rotated in the take-up direction, and (iii) a regulating portion that opposes the plural teeth in an axial direction of rotation of the spool, is provided so as to be integrally rotatable with the rotating body, and regulates movement, in a direction away from the plural teeth, of the moving member engaged with the plural teeth.
US10744962B2
A description is given of the use of a polymer dispersion for producing sound deadener compositions, the polymer dispersion comprising at least one polymer obtainable by emulsion polymerization of radically polymerizable monomers, and the polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of more than 100 000, preferably of more than 100 000 to 350 000. A description is also given of corresponding sound deadener compositions which comprise the polymer dispersion, and of a method for damping oscillations or vibrations of vehicle components.
US10744950B1
This invention is constructed of strong lightweight durable material like synthetic thermoplastic resin 5 mm thick or another material with similar characteristics. The material is cut into panels of a specific shape and dimension and bonded together with a proprietary adhesive process. The worktable surface is rectangular. Underneath the work table are two rectangular panels, each attached vertically at a 50° opposing angle, apart 6½″ at the top and 15.5″ at the bottom. These are referred as the angled gravity studs. Underneath and 14″ from the top is a rectangular panel, which is attached horizontally from side to side. This is the stabilizing bar. At the bottom top side of the worktable is a rectangular panel, attached horizontally and from side to side. This is the shelf panel. The work table is grasped by two hands and lifted up and over the crown of the steering wheel. As the work table is directed toward the windshield and then down until the angled gravity studs each come in contact with the steering wheel on either side at approximately 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock thereby securing the table from side to side movement and preventing downward movement. The stabilizing bar contacts the steering wheel at two points on either side of the lower semicircle at approximately 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock. This bar prevents its work table from rocking and in addition serves to lift up the bottom of the work table causing the angled panels to tilt upward creating an angle at the point of contact with the steering wheel which serves to provide a more secure grip on the steering wheel. The work table is now very stable and secure on the steering wheel. The shelf panel or bar serves as a lip or shelf to hold work supplies and work tools. The rectangular tab located underneath at top of the work table between the gravity studs facilitates transport.
US10744946B2
The invention relates to an actuator device comprising at least one retaining means on which rearview means can be secured or is secured and which are mounted in a movable manner relative to a housing component of a rearview device and comprising at least one adjusting unit with at least one second adjusting means for moving the retaining means relative to the housing component. The first adjusting means and the second adjusting means each comprise at least one shape-memory element, and the first adjusting unit and the second adjusting unit are arranged between the housing component and the retaining means so as to be mechanically connected in series. The first adjusting unit has a first maximum travel path, and the second adjusting unit has a second maximum travel path which is different from the first maximum travel path. The invention also relates to a rearview device with an actuator device according to the invention.
US10744945B2
The present invention relates to a backlight unit (10) for an outside mirror of an automobile, comprising: a case (20) provided with an inner space for accommodating a stacked assembly (95) of components, and having a side opening (22) through which the stacked assembly (95) can be inserted; and a light source unit (30) mounted into the inner space of the case (20) and capable of emitting light when power is supplied, wherein the stacked assembly (95) comprises: a light guide plate (40) for diffusing, across the entire area thereof, the light emitted from the light source unit; and a reflection plate (50) stacked on the rear surface of the light guide plate and reflecting, to the front surface of the light guide plate, the light emitted from the rear surface of the light guide plate.
US10744943B1
A vehicle maneuvering system comprises at least one image device configured to capture image data and a controller. The controller is configured to identify a coupler position of a trailer in the image data and control motion of the vehicle navigating a hitch ball of the vehicle toward the coupler position. The controller is further configured to monitor a coupler distance extending from the coupler position and the hitch ball. In response to the coupler distance being less than or equal to the distance threshold, the controller is configured to classify a plurality of portions of the image data as trailer portions and non-trailer portions and identify the coupler position by processing the image via a feature extraction operation.
US10744932B2
A control circuit includes a first light source, a second light source, an input channel for receiving an input signal, at most two output channels each configured to control one of the first light source and the second light source, where the control circuit is configured to use at most two cables, and is capable of permanently powering on one of the first light source and the second light source while, at the same time, flashing on and off the other of the first light source and the second light source.
US10744930B2
An illumination module for a vehicle includes first, second and third LEDs, and first, second and third masks aligned in with respective ones of the first, second and third LEDs. Light emitted by the first LED that passes through the first mask is a first color and light emitted by the second LED that passes through the second mask is a second color and light emitted by the third LED that passes through the third mask is a third color. When the LEDs are electrically powered to emit light, light emitted by the LEDs passes through the respective masks to project first, second and third projected images at a ground area adjacent the vehicle, each projected image having the respective color. The projected images overlap at the ground area and, combined, establish a multi-color logo or indicia at the ground area adjacent the vehicle.
US10744929B2
Devices, systems, and methodologies for transportation vehicle fit-up can include a tuning assembly for tuning the spatial relationship between an accessory and adjacent portions of the transportation vehicle.
US10744926B2
An in-vehicle light apparatus for monitoring a region in a first direction outside a vehicle, including: a lamp unit including a light source and a reflector; a radar unit including a circuit board disposed such that a board surface extends substantially along the horizontal direction on a lower side or an upper side of the lamp unit and a plurality of antenna elements disposed in the hoard surface of the circuit hoard to transmit an electromagnetic wave in the first direction; and the plurality of the antenna elements are arranged in an array on the first direction side relative to the reflector in plan view, and an array direction of the plurality of antenna elements is a direction intersecting the first direction and non-parallel to an extending direction of an end portion on the side of the first direction of the reflector in plan view.
US10744919B2
An operator seat system is provided that includes an operator seat and an armrest control center with an I/O (input/output) system that is connected to and moves with the operator seat. An armrest control center mount system may include a seat mount and an armrest control center mount that are attached to each other with an adjustment system that allows adjustment of the armrest control center with respect to the operator seat.
US10744917B2
What is new about this invention is the concept of installing these rubber types of air inflatable inner tubes in the interior of the operators' seat frame construction. These tubes would be installed beneath the operators' seating location and also the lumbar position of the frame seating area. The air filling valve locations would be placed to the rear of the seat construction frame or also could be altered due to the type of product construction being used.
US10744913B2
Active vibration isolation (AVI) systems are becoming more available in various markets, one such market being vehicle operator seating. Unfamiliarity with the performance of such systems may cause users initial perceptions of system performance to be unfavorable. AVI systems can include a demonstration system capable of providing simulations too users of various types of vibration isolation systems under various input conditions, so that users can be introduced to the system benefits over other systems before using an AVI equipped product in its intended application.
US10744896B2
A charging rescue system and method for all-electric vehicles comprises: a rescue vehicle APP, a charging rescue vehicle, a rescued vehicle APP, and a rescue platform. The rescue vehicle APP comprises a user module, an order module, a monitoring module, and a communication module. The charging rescue vehicle comprises a controller, a GPS device, a direct current battery charger, an alternating current battery charger, and a measuring module. The rescued vehicle APP comprises a user module, an order module, a payment module, and a communication module. The rescue platform comprises an access module, an order execution module, a vehicle selection module, a rescue vehicle monitoring module, a bill management module, and a user authentication module.
US10744879B2
The present disclosure generally relates to operating an electric vehicle (EV) during a fault condition. The EV drive system comprises a motor configured to provide motive force to the EV. The EV processing system can to run a diagnostic routine to monitor the drive system for the fault condition. In response to identifying that the drive system is in the fault condition, the processing system can determine whether the fault condition was caused a three-phase short circuit or a three-phase open circuit. The processing system can estimate a motor torque for the motor based at least partly on the motor speed and on whether the fault condition was caused by the three-phase short circuit or the three-phase open circuit, and can use the estimated motor torque to control the drive system to provide motive force to the EV while operating in the fault condition.
US10744878B2
An energy storage module arranged in a vehicle comprises an energy storage cell arranged in a casing, an inflatable element arranged between the casing and the energy storage cell and to at least partly cover a surface portion of the energy storage cell, and an inflating unit in communication with a detection unit arranged to determine a crash severity in the event of an accident for the vehicle. The inflating unit is arranged to inflate the inflatable element when the crash severity exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10744874B2
A vehicle, such as a hybrid vehicle, according to one aspect of the present invention is configured such that: a propeller shaft rotated by an engine is arranged so as to extend in a vehicle body front-rear direction; a drive gear provided at a rear end portion of the propeller shaft and a driven gear configured to rotate together with a differential case of a differential device mesh with each other; a motor or a generator is connected to the differential case so as to transmit power to the differential case; the motor or the generator is arranged at one of vehicle width direction right and left sides of an axis of the propeller shaft; and the differential case is arranged at the other of the vehicle width direction right and left sides of the axis of the propeller shaft.
US10744871B2
A lock pin is arranged so as to be projected from a side wall of a concave region, in which a fuel filler port of a vehicle is arranged, toward the inside of the concave region. In addition, a retainer placed around the lock pin on an inner side of the side wall of the concave region and a protector supported by the retainer so as to be placed in a region close to the lock pin are provided. The protector has a detent pin to prevent the retainer from rotating relative to the lock pin.
US10744870B2
Operating fluid container made of thermoplastic for a motor vehicle, with the following features: the operating fluid container has two openings in opposite container walls of the operating fluid container, and a stiffening element extending through both openings; and two stiffening element ends engage behind the container walls from the outside, such that the stiffening element counteracts a deformation caused by internal pressure of the operating fluid container, wherein the operating fluid container is characterized by the following features: a stabilizing element is arranged between at least one stiffening element end and a container wall; the stabilizing element has a through-opening through which the stiffening element extends; the stabilizing element has a first and a second thermoplastic; and the stabilizing element is welded to a container wall.
US10744868B2
A hybrid driveline assembly for a vehicle includes an engine, an electric motor, and a transmission having an input and an output. The transmission input is selectively coupled to the engine and electric motor. The transmission is shiftable between a plurality of drive modes. The driveline assembly further includes a final drive assembly operably coupled to the transmission output. The final drive assembly has a front final drive operably coupled to a rear final drive.
US10744861B2
The weather strip for an automobile includes an extrusion formed portion and a molding formed portion and each includes an attaching base portion and a sealing portion. The attaching base portion includes an attaching base portion bottom side portion which faces the outer peripheral portion of the opening and closing member for the opening of the vehicle body or the outer peripheral brim of the opening. A core removing slit is formed at the attaching base portion bottom side portion extending in a longitudinal direction and a connecting sheet provided for covering an outer surface of the attaching base portion bottom side portion by crossing over the core removing slit, The connecting sheet is formed by an olefin system resin and a surface of the connecting sheet facing the attaching base portion bottom side portion is fusion-bonded to the outer surface of the attaching base portion bottom side portion.
US10744860B2
An outer skin module of a vehicle door has a side impact support for stiffening the vehicle door, a shell-shaped outer skin having a shell edge, and a peripheral mounting frame on its edge, which is connected to the shell edge of the outer skin for fixing the outer skin to a door shell of the vehicle door. The mounting frame and the side impact support are designed as one-piece module components.
US10744857B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an air conditioning system for a vehicle including the steps of:calculating a water collection quantity in an evaporator during the operating period of a cooling mode of the air conditioning system,calculating a quantity of drainage water from the evaporator,determining a quantity of water present in the evaporator at a certain point in time, andcomparing the determined quantity of water in the evaporator with a predetermined limit value at the point in time of starting the vehicle or at the point in time of starting the ventilation mode of the air conditioning system.The cooling mode of the air conditioning system is activated if the limit value is exceeded and otherwise the ventilation mode of the air conditioning system is activated.
US10744848B2
An actuator system which may incorporate a motor, a motor controller connected to the motor, a processor connected to the motor controller, and a switch connected to the processor for engaging the motor to open and close an actuator shaft. The switch may have a position which is a test mode. Selecting the position of test mode may cause the motor to move the actuator shaft to a certain position to verify operation of the actuator shaft. The actuator shaft may stay in the certain position while the switch is in a position of test mode. The system may also incorporate a spring attached to the actuator shaft. If power fails to the motor, then the actuator spring or another mechanism may return the actuator shaft to a fail safe position. The test mode may alternatively be selected at a controller via the communications bus to the processor.
US10744836B2
Composite suspension components are disclosed. The components are made from resin containing elongated fibers (8). The arms of the suspension components may receive reinforcement (40) using different devices and methods. A composite torque rod also incorporates a tunable compliance feature.
US10744831B2
A spreader sprayer system includes a frame member defining a frame body that has a first side, a second side, a front portion, and a rear portion, a first walking member pivotably coupled to the first side of the frame body, a second walking member pivotably coupled to the second side, a first and second plurality of drive wheels, and at least one spray container. The first plurality of drive wheels are disposed on the first side of the frame body and are operatively coupled to the first walking member. The second plurality of drive wheels are disposed on the second side of the frame body and are operatively coupled to the second walking member. Each spray container is coupled to at least one of the first walking member or the second walking member.
US10744830B2
A vehicle includes an engine, a front frame, a rear frame, an intermediate frame, a front propeller shaft, a rear propeller shaft, and a brake. A pair of right and left front lower arms are swingably mounted to the front frame. A pair of right and left rear lower arms are swingably mounted to the rear frame. The intermediate frame is located between the front frame and the rear frame. The front propeller shaft extends forward from the engine and the rear propeller shaft extends rearward from the engine. The brake is located outside the engine in the front-rear direction and within a region defined by the intermediate frame and brakes a rotation of the front propeller shaft.
US10744829B2
An amphibious vehicle power train having an engine (2) with an output shaft (4), driving an input member (6) of a variable speed change transmission (11). The speed change transmission, which may be a continuously variable transmission is arranged to drive road wheels through an output member (8). The engine also drives a marine propulsion unit (24). The axis of the output member (8) is above the axis of the input member (6). Four wheel drive may be provided (FIG. 2).
US10744819B2
A wheel for a displacement truck having a wheel body and removable ribs is provided. The ribs are segmented into at least two parts to facilitate removal from the wheel body.
US10744816B2
A vehicle wheel for a vehicle has a plurality of spokes, lamellac, blades, wheel segments or similar which are arranged on an outer side of the vehicle wheel, a kinematic system, via which the contour of the outer side of the vehicle wheel can be changed, and a slide element which is adjustable between an inner position and an outer position. The spokes, lamellae, blades, wheel segments or similar are hinged on the slide element and are adjustable together with the slide element.
US10744814B1
The present invention is etch a sketch tool that are used by sketchers for preparing various sketches and when one sketch is prepared sketcher/user can remove sketches without destructing etch a sketch tool which can then be re-used. Etch a sketch tool includes a lower enclosure, a glass resting frame, a hinge connection, a lower gasket, a glass, an upper gasket, an upper enclosure, a pair of knobs and a locking system. Upper enclosure is unlocked from lower enclosure. Upper enclosure is lifted, upper enclosure is spaced apart from lower enclosure and glass is removed therefrom. Glass is thus carefully removed from etch a sketch tool and a new glass can be replaced. Once new glass is replaced, upper enclosure can be locked with lower enclosure. Thus, etch a lock tool can be re-used again.
US10744813B2
A writing instrument system including an elongated tip having a firm, felt or plastic nib and a piercing tip. The elongated tip includes a curvature that resembles a shape of a dolphin and the nib is positioned at a first-end of the elongated tip for distributing ink to a surface in a controlled manner. The elongated tip is in fluid communication with the nib. The elongated tip also includes the piercing tip which is able to penetrate an ink cartridge or tube of a pen and be removably affixed to a pen. The piercing tip is in fluid communication with the elongated tip and allows ink to flow from a penetrated ink cartridge or tube through the elongated tip to the nib where it can be applied to a surface.
US10744809B2
A multifunction rotary tool for milling and roughening backs of blocks of pages to be bound by a bookbinding machine comprises a cylindrical base defining a rotation axis, a first annular member adapted to be secured to the cylindrical base and having an outer edge, a crown of milling blades formed in the first annular member proximate to its outer edge and defining a cutting plane perpendicular to the rotation axis, and a plurality of roughening inserts securable to the cylindrical base along a circular area radially offset from the crown of milling blades. Each insert comprises a cylindrical body with a hook-shaped end portion defined by an upper edge with a sharp tip designed to penetrate the block back in a perpendicular cut. The end portion comprises a recessed surface adapted to tear and push downwards the cut material without removing it.
US10744804B2
An inkjet printing apparatus includes a mounting unit where a recording medium is mountable, a head unit that ejects ink droplets to the recording medium, a planar direction driving unit that drives at least one of the head unit ejecting the ink droplets and the mounting unit to move in a planar direction and that changes a relative positions of the head unit and the mounting unit in the planar direction, and a height direction driving unit that changes a relative positions of the head unit and the mounting unit in a height direction perpendicular to the planar direction. The planar direction driving unit has a moving speed changing mechanism that changes a carriage speed between the head unit and the mounting unit in the planar direction. The height direction driving unit has a distance changing mechanism that changes a distance between the head unit and the mounting unit.
US10744798B2
A tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a rear wall, a front wall, and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape included at least partially within the housing and configured to be fed along a tape feed path extending to the tape feed exit, and a first indicator aperture positioned on the front wall and a second indicator aperture position on a rear portion of the bottom surface. A position of the first indicator aperture on the front wall indicates a type of the tape included within the housing. A position of the second indicator aperture indicates a color of characters.
US10744795B2
A liquid discharge system includes a pretreatment execution device to perform pretreatment on a medium and a liquid discharge head to discharge liquid onto the medium based on image information on an image to be output. The liquid discharge system further includes circuitry configured to control a manner of the pretreatment based on the image information.
US10744791B2
An optical print head that performs optical writing to a photoreceptor includes: a light transmissive substrate; a light emitting unit including light emitting element groups, each of which includes two or more light emitting elements disposed on a first main surface of the substrate; a lens array including lenses that correspond one-to-one to the light emitting element groups; light detection units disposed above the second main surface of the substrate in one-to-one correspondence to the light emitting element groups and that detects the light from each of the light emitting elements; and correction unit that corrects light amounts of the light emitting elements of the light emitting element group based on detection of the light detection units.
US10744782B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores program instructions for an information-processing apparatus including a processor. The program instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the information-processing apparatus to perform: determining whether selected printing devices all have the same type; and generating and outputting, on the basis of determination results, screen data representing a screen regarding settings of reference values for the selected printing devices. Each of the reference values is used to determine whether a replenishment condition for the corresponding printing device is met. When all of the selected printing devices have the same type, the generating generates first screen data representing a first screen through which a single instruction common to all to the reference values can inputted. When not all of the selected printing devices have the same type, the generating generates second screen data representing a second screen through which the single common instruction cannot be inputted.
US10744781B2
A liquid discharge device is configured to display, on a display, an S_Empty notification screen in a state where a low level signal is not received from a liquid level sensor and a count value SN2 reaches a second threshold value Nth2. The liquid discharge device is configured to erase the S_Empty notification screen in a state where the low level signal is received after receiving a high level signal is received from an installation sensor.
US10744779B2
A bottle set includes a bottle and a lid member. The bottle has an ink container, a nozzle and a joint portion integrally formed with the nozzle and having a thread configured to engage the nozzle with the ink container. The lid member is attachable to and detachable from the bottle. An outflow port is formed in the nozzle. The outflow port is configured such that the ink in the ink container flows out from the outflow port. The lid member has a tubular barrel, a top plate that closes a barrel end of the tubular barrel, and a plug projecting from the top plate toward the nozzle. A distance from the barrel end of the tubular barrel to a distal end of the plug being shorter than a distance from a nozzle end of the nozzle to the joint portion.
US10744756B2
A conveyance device includes a conveyor to convey a conveyed object, a head unit to perform an operation on the conveyed object being conveyed at a first conveyance speed, a sensor to acquire data of the conveyed object, a gauge to output a measured travel amount of the conveyed object, and a processor. The processor includes a calculator to calculate a detection result including at least one of a position, a speed of travel, and a calculated travel amount of the conveyed object based on the data acquired by the sensor; and an adjusting unit to adjust a timing of acquisition of the data acquired while the conveyed object is conveyed at the first conveyance speed, based on the detection result and the measured travel amount of the conveyed object being conveyed at a second conveyance speed lower than the first conveyance speed.
US10744753B2
A print assembly for use in an additive manufacturing system to print three-dimensional parts, which includes a coarse positioner, a fine positioner, and a liquefier assembly, where a portion of the liquefier assembly is operably mounted to the fine positioner such that the fine positioner is configured to move the portion of the liquefier assembly relative to the coarse positioner.
US10744752B2
An information processing apparatus includes a provision unit configured to provide a screen via which a plurality of condition items indicating features of a three-dimensional object can be specified, a reception unit configured to receive, via the screen, a specification of a condition item indicating an feature of an object desired to be molded by a user, and a determination unit configured to determine settings to be used for molding of the object desired to be molded by the user, based on the received specification of the condition item, wherein the settings to be used for the molding determined by the determination unit include molding settings for molding specified with respect to a molding apparatus.
US10744734B2
A sealing element of flexible foam which includes at least three sealing tape sections which are arranged next to each other in a functional direction of the sealing element. At least one first barrier layer section and at least one second barrier layer section are each accommodated between two adjacent sealing tape sections. The barrier layer sections connect the adjacent sealing tape sections to each other. The first barrier layer section forms a loop in an area of the bottom surface of the sealing element and the second barrier layer section forms a loop in an area of the top surface of the sealing element.
US10744725B2
Systems and methods are provided for utilizing support tools for forming laminates. One embodiment is a system that includes a pair of dies that hold a multi-layer laminate over a gap, a male die that presses the laminate into the gap causing the laminate to change shape, and a support tool inserted into the gap beneath the laminate. The support tool includes a base that extends in a lengthwise direction, struts fixedly attached to the base that project upward from the base and are distributed along the lengthwise direction, and a cap that is slidably attached to the struts, and that covers the struts to form an upper surface of the support tool. Each of the struts rises from the base to the cap.
US10744724B2
Composite tooling systems and methods of manufacturing composite stringers of aircraft are provided herein. A composite tooling system includes a layup tool and an articulating stringer mandrel. The layup tool has a contoured surface with portions having different surface complexities. The articulating stringer mandrel includes two rigid mandrel elements and a cable. The first rigid mandrel element defines a first aperture, a first stringer surface, and a first bottom surface. The second rigid mandrel element is adjacent to the first rigid mandrel element and defines a second aperture, a second stringer surface, and a second bottom surface. A first length of the first rigid mandrel element cooperates with the surface complexity and a second length of the second rigid mandrel element cooperates with the surface complexity at the second rigid mandrel element so that a gap between the rigid mandrel elements does not exceed a predetermined gap threshold.
US10744719B2
A direct bonding method of metal and resin comprises a first step where the metal material is subjected to electrolytic treatment by using a carboxylic acid to form a new surface, which is then coated with the carboxylic acid to obtain a carboxylic acid-coated metal material; a second step where the resin material and the carboxylic acid-coated metal material are laminated to form an interface to be bonded; a third step where the interface is heated to Tg of the resin material or higher by heating means to remove water from the interface, the decomposition of the resin material generates a carboxyl group, and the new surface is exposed on the surface of the carboxylic acid-coated metal material by removal of the carboxylic acid; and a fourth step where the interface is cooled below the Tg to form a bonded part by bonding the carboxyl group and the new surface.
US10744706B2
A relay terminal that is connected to a forming apparatus that forms a three-dimensional object and accepts a forming request provided to the forming apparatus from a client terminal executes a process for displaying, on a display of the client terminal, a reforming UI for accepting a reforming request for a three-dimensional object that has already been formed, accepts a reforming request for the three-dimensional object that has been input on the displayed reforming UI on the display of the client terminal, executes, if a difference is present between the current setting of the forming apparatus and the setting of the forming apparatus upon the previous forming of the three-dimensional object as a target of the accepted reforming request, a process for displaying, on the display of the client terminal, a screen providing information related to the difference, and provides an instruction for reforming the three-dimensional object to the forming apparatus.
US10744701B2
A method for molding composite material such as a spar formed with a curved corner part is provided with: a first shaping step of shaping a laminate so that the board thickness of the laminate is reduced from the outside of the corner part toward the inside thereof, the laminate having the corner part curved at a first bending angle and comprising fiber sheets laminated to each other; and a second shaping step of curving the corner part of the laminate to form a second bending angle smaller than the first bending angle, and shaping the laminate so that the board thickness of the laminate is reduced from the inside of the corner part toward the outside thereof.
US10744699B2
Plate having a bottom wall having an outer perimeter, an upper surface, and a lower support surface defining a horizontal reference plane. The plate further includes a sidewall extending upwardly and outwardly from the outer perimeter at an angle “a” of between about 30° to about 35° relative to a vertical axis perpendicular to the horizontal reference plane. Extending laterally outwardly from an upper edge of the sidewall is a rim. Extending downwardly from an outer edge of the rim and terminating at a free end is a turndown flange. The plate comprises a monolithic structure of polyethylene terephthalate foam. Method of forming the plate is also provided.
US10744698B2
A device, and a corresponding method, for supporting and/or guiding a plastics profile in a calibration station and/or other downstream devices, has at least one support unit in the calibration station and/or in at least one of the downstream devices. The support unit has at least one support element, and the support element is disposed on a beam and can be moved in a parallel manner toward or away from the theoretical central axis, the extrusion axis.
US10744694B2
A machine for forming a plurality of oral products includes an extruder, pairs of forming rollers, and a cutting device. The extruder is configured to form an extrudate. The pairs of forming rollers include a first pair of forming rollers and a second pair of forming rollers. The first pair of forming rollers cooperate to define a first passage therebetween. The first passage is configured to receive the extrudate from the extruder. The second pair of forming rollers cooperate to define a second passage therebetween. The second passage is configured to receive the extrudate from the first pair of forming rollers. The cutting device is configured to receive the extrudate from the first pair of forming rollers and cut the extrudate.
US10744693B2
A control device of an injection molding machine, for controlling operations of multiple elements operating during the period of mold closing or mold opening, includes: an operation starting condition setting unit for, concerning at least part of the elements, setting an operation starting condition of one of the elements that operates in conjunction with another one thereof by an operator operating an operation unit; a group setting unit for classifying the elements based on the operation starting conditions so that elements operating in conjunction with each other belong to the same group; an operation sequence setting unit for setting order of the operations of the elements belonging to the same group based on the operation starting conditions; and a drive command generator for generating drive commands for driving the injection molding machine so as to cause the elements belonging to the same group to operate in the set order.
US10744692B2
An extrusion molding machine for manufacturing the spiral bicolor LED hose light just needs a single process and equipment to greatly increase the production efficiency and save the equipment investment costs. The input channel terminal of the second flow channel connected with a first horizontal channel is gradually smaller, and the transportation end terminal of the first horizontal channel connected with a second horizontal channel of larger diameter is gradually larger. The transportation end terminal of the second extruder is connected with the input terminal of the third flow channels. The light strip input channel inputs the LED light strip to pass through the first and second flow channel, which the transparent molten plastic squeezed by the first extruder wraps and covers the LED light strip and the molten plastic with the other color squeezed by the second extruder is spirally wounded on the surface of the transparent molten plastic.
US10744687B2
In general, in various embodiments, the present disclosure is directed systems and methods for producing a porous surface from a solid piece of polymer. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to systems that include a track assembly, mold assembly, press assembly, and methods for using the same for producing a porous surface from a solid piece of polymer. In some embodiments, the present systems and methods are directed to processing a polymer at a temperature below a melting point of the polymer to produce a solid piece of polymer with an integrated a porous surface.
US10744681B2
A method for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament, the method comprising: (1) reducing a chamber pressure within a chamber to below about 5 millibars; (2) after reducing the chamber pressure to below about 5 millibars, providing a polymer melt to the chamber; (3) separating the polymer melt into at least eight streams; (4) while the at least eight streams of the polymer melt are within the chamber, exposing the at least eight streams of the polymer melt to the chamber pressure of below about 5 millibars; (5) after exposing the at least eight streams of the polymer melt to the chamber pressure of below about 5 millibars, recombining the at least eight streams into a single polymer stream; and (6) forming polymer from the single polymer stream into bulked continuous carpet filament.
US10744680B2
A method for reclaiming bio-based plastic material is disclosed, including providing a bio-based plastic article, the article including an identifier, determining article content information from or via the identifier, and recycling the article based on article content information. Further, a system for reclaiming bio-based plastic material is disclosed, including an apparatus or device configured to obtain or determine a bio-based material content associated with a plastic article, and an apparatus or device configured to sort the plastic article based upon the bio-based material content of the plastic article. A bio-based plastic article comprising recycled bio-based material is also disclosed.
US10744679B2
Method for recycling scrap that contains one or more heat resistant fibers and from 25 to 60 wt. %, based on the total weight of the scrap, of an at least partially uncured to fully uncured two component thermosetting resin mixture of (i) one or more thermosetting resins, and (ii) a solid hardener, the methods comprising shredding the scrap to an average size of from 3 to 50 mm, mixing the shredded scrap, preferably after preheating the scrap, to provide a fluid material charge and then compression molding the fluid material charge to make a cured composite material.
US10744673B2
A sprayed article is prepared by thermally spraying ceramic particles of rare earth oxide or fluoride or metal particles of W, Mo or Ta onto an outer or inner surface of a cylindrical carbon substrate to form a sprayed coating, and burning out the carbon substrate, thus leaving the ceramic or metal-base sprayed coating of cylindrical shape having a wall thickness of 0.5-5 mm.
US10744672B2
An arthroscopic or other surgical cutter has features which facilitate fabrication by ceramic molding. The arthroscopic cutter includes a cutter body having a longitudinal axis and a window, an interior channel, and a plurality of cutting edges extending radially outwardly from an outer surface thereof. The features include non-helical, longitudinally aligned cutting edges, controlled thicknesses of the cutting edges, controlled heights of the cutting edges, controlled areas of the windows, controlled diameters of the internal channels, controlled rake angles of the cutting edges, and other parameters.
US10744665B2
An apparatus for producing a microporous plastic film comprising a pair of vertical columns; a pair of stationary frames each fixed to each vertical column such that they are positioned inside the vertical columns; a pair of movable frames rotatable under the stationary frames; a pattern roll rotatably supported by the stationary frames at a fixed position; an anvil roll movable up and down along first vertical guide rails of the stationary frames; and a lower backup roll movable up and down along second vertical guide rails of the movable frames; the pattern roll being in parallel with the anvil roll; the first and second vertical guide rails being distant from the vertical columns on one side, such that rotating movable frames and lower backup roll do not come into contact with the vertical columns; with the lower backup roll inclined to the anvil roll in a horizontal plane, large numbers of fine pores being formed on the plastic film by the high-hardness, fine particles of the pattern roll.
US10744663B1
A tomato dicing assembly and method for making tomato cubes from a tomato includes a cutting guide member, support member, and spike tube member that each has a tubular shape configuration that fit together concentrically. The cutting guide member includes a tubular wall extending longitudinally between proximal and distal ends, the cutting guide member including a cutting member defining a plurality of first cutting slots and body section defining second cutting slots transverse to the plurality of first cutting slots. The support member includes a continuous side wall defining having a closed upper end defining a plurality of holes spaced apart in a predetermined pattern and an open lower end. The spike tube member has a closed top including a plurality of spikes extending outwardly and are received through the plurality of holes when the spike tube member is received into the support member.
US10744654B2
A gripper control device includes a controller, the controller is configured to conduct: a grasp quality evaluation process to obtain a grasp quality contribution degree for each of a plurality of contact positions at which fingers that support the object are in contact with the object; a finger-to-be-moved determination process configured to determine, as a finger-to-be-moved, the finger corresponding to one of the contact positions at which the grasp quality contribution degree is low; and a finger movement control process configured to send a control command to a finger driving apparatus, wherein the grasp quality contribution degree for each of the multiple contact positions is defined using at least one of the following elements: relative positions of the plurality of contact positions related to the object; and friction coefficients between the object and the fingers at the plurality of contact positions.
US10744645B2
A measurement system includes a plurality of reflectors of a robot, a measurement apparatus having a laser head which emits a laser beam toward the reflectors and which receives a reflected light from the reflectors, a head driving device which changes orientation of the laser head, and a robot control apparatus which controls the robot based on the calibration operation program and which sequentially places the distal end portion of the robot at a plurality of measurement positions for conducting calibration. The robot control apparatus conducts a head drive control process of receiving controller coordinate data of any one of the plurality of reflectors, which is used at the time of sequentially placing the distal end portion of the robot at plurality of measurement positions, and sending a control signal for changing the orientation of the laser head to the head driving device by using the received controller coordinate data.
US10744641B2
A guidance robot comprises a driving unit that includes wheels and a motor for moving; a body that is provided on the driving unit and includes sensors for autonomous driving; a display unit that is coupled to the body; a stationary unit that is coupled to the top of the body; a circular rotary unit that has an opening and is provided over the stationary unit to rotate about the central axis of the stationary unit; and a stopper that extends upward from the stationary unit through the opening of the circular rotary unit.
US10744627B2
A press tool employs a drive system that allows a first portion to be displaced relative to a second portion. A drive surface is supported by the second portion. A receiving member defines an engaging surface and a receiving cavity. The receiving member is supported by the first portion along a drive axis extending through the drive surface. Operation of the drive system displaces the drive surface relative to the receiving member.
US10744624B2
A device, for rotationally driving an element, including a rotationally-driven member at a front of the device and engageable with, to transmit rotational drive to, the element. A formation is shaped to contact, to transmit a reaction torque to, an attachment. A rearward-facing portion is at the rear, or rearward, of the formation. An arrangement engages, to act between, the rearward-facing portion and the attachment to rearwardly urge the attachment.
US10744621B2
A clamp device is equipped with a clamp body, a piston rod, a link mechanism, a detection mechanism for detecting a state of rotary motion of a clamp arm, and a determination unit for determining whether a state of clamping exists. The detection mechanism includes a first proximity sensor, and a knuckle joint having a first sloped surface. The determination unit, on the basis of a comparison of an output signal from the first proximity sensor to a clamp threshold value, determines whether a state of clamping exists, and on the basis of a comparison to a clamping force generation threshold value, determines whether a state of generation of clamping force exists.
US10744615B2
The present invention provides a method for polishing a wafer including, after unloading and before loading to hold a next wafer to be polished: measurement to measure a depth PDt of a concave portion of a template after taking out a polished wafer; calculation to calculate a difference ΔPD between the measured depth PDt of the concave portion and a depth PD0 of the concave portion of the template before being used for polishing; and adjustment to adjust polishing conditions for a next wafer to be polished in accordance with the calculated difference ΔPD. Consequently, there are provided the method for polishing a wafer and a polishing apparatus which enable adjusting a fluctuation in flatness of each wafer caused due to a fluctuation in numerical value of a pocket depth of a template.
US10744612B2
To provide a rotary table device that can prevent the occurrence of malfunction before it happens. A rotary table device equipped with both or one of a clamping mechanism and purge mechanism which operate by way of working fluid, the rotary table device including: a detection unit that detects a pressure or flow rate of the working fluid; a transition information storage unit that acquires and stores transition information related to transition of a pressure value or flow rate value of the working fluid detected by the detection unit; a judgment value storage unit that stores in advance a plurality of sets of judgment value information related to judgment values for judging a pressure value or flow rate value of the working fluid; and a notification unit that notifies of notification information according to the pressure value or flow rate value of the working fluid, based on the transition information stored in the transition information storage unit and the plurality of sets of judgment value information stored in the judgment value storage unit.
US10744610B2
A rotary table for a machine tool comprising a stator unit, a rotor unit rotatable at least about a rotational axis, wherein the rotor unit comprises at least one receiving unit for the reception of a workpiece, a first bearing unit for the mounting of the rotor unit in the stator unit, and an electromagnetic motor drive for the motorized driving of the rotor unit. The rotor unit, at least in the region of the motor drive and/or of the first bearing unit, has at least one rotor-cooling apparatus, comprising a cooling medium and at least one cooling surface, for the cooling and/or absorption of waste heat from the motor drive and/or from the first bearing unit.
US10744605B2
An automatic manufacturing device for vehicle body parts includes at least one program-controlled manufacturing means and a processing zone (configured to sequentially receive at least two different load accepting means. A detection device detects a type designation of one of the load accepting means, and a control device ascertains the type of the load accepting means on the basis of the detected type designation. The control device then and selects and executes a control program for the manufacturing means on the basis of the ascertained type.
US10744604B2
Bed foundation beams are sandwiched by a compression bar extending parallel to the first and second rails and moved towards the first and second rails while being conveyed. Further, the first and second rails and the spacers are sandwiched against spaced fixtures on an endless chain. While being compressed and sandwiched, staple guns fasten the rails and spacers together. The fixtures include front and back stops, with the back stop pivotable about a fixture axis to be movable by a cam moving in a cam track from a pushing position extending perpendicular to the endless chain and abutting with a trailing edge of one of the spacers and a non-intervening position after the staple gun and before the sprocket of the endless chain to reduce the apparatus footprint.
US10744603B2
A heat exchanger has a thermally conductive first plate with a flat first surface for thermal contact with a heat transfer fluid, and a flat second surface for thermal contact with an object to be heated or cooled, such as an electronic component. The first surface is provided with a first surface pattern having a plurality of first grooves, and the second surface is provided with a second surface pattern with a plurality of second grooves. The surface patterns may be configured and applied such that the amount of elongation along the first surface produced by application of the first surface pattern substantially corresponds to or offsets the amount of elongation along the second surface produced by application of the second surface pattern, such that the degree of flatness of the first plate prior to formation of the first and second surface patterns will be preserved, maintained or improved.
US10744602B2
A method and apparatus for assembling a suspension. In one embodiment, a method includes altering a temperature of a first suspension component and then pressing the first suspension component and a second suspension component into engagement while the temperature remains substantially altered.
US10744598B2
An additive manufacturing apparatus and corresponding method for building an object by layerwise consolidation of material wherein the apparatus includes a build enclosure containing a build support for supporting the object during the build, a material source for providing material to selected locations for consolidation, a radiation device for generating and directing radiation to consolidate the material at the selected locations and an acoustic sensing system. The acoustic sensing system may be arranged to detect acoustic signals generated in the build enclosure by consolidation of the material with the radiation. The acoustic sensing system may be a passive acoustic sensing system arranged to detect acoustic signals generated in the build enclosure that are indicative of at least one condition of the building process and/or the object.
US10744594B2
In a method for processing a workpiece (2) using a tool (9), in particular for repairing a surface (4) using a laser, the tool (9) being piloted by a control element (10), the tool (9) is to be controlled via a position of the control element (10) and a pressure which is applied either to the control element (10) or by the control element (10).
US10744588B2
The present invention consists in a method of welding a nickel strength lug with a bronze connecting pin and a brass contact ring in an accelerometer sensor, the strength lug being interleaved between the connecting pin and the contact ring, the welding being effected electrically with the strength lug pressed simultaneously against the connecting pin and the contact ring. Before welding, the strength lug undergoes deformation of its external surface at least on each of two portions of the surface respectively facing the connecting pin and the contact ring, the surface deformation creating on each of the portions asperities intended to come into local contact with the connecting pin and the contact ring, respectively.
US10744587B2
A three stage power source for an electric arc welding process comprising an input stage having an AC input and a first DC output signal; a second stage in the form of an unregulated DC to DC converter having an input connected to the first DC output signal and converts the first DC output signal to a second DC output signal of the second stage; and a third stage to convert the second DC output signal to a welding output for welding wherein the input stage and the second stage are assembled into a first module within a first housing structure and the third stage is assembled into a second module having a separate housing structure connectable to the first module with long power cables. The second module also includes wire feeding systems and electronics.
US10744584B2
A welder power supply and welding method are provided which utilizes a short arc welding method in which the waveforms have a positive polarity portion and negative portion to optimize heat input and provide heat and current control.
US10744581B2
Cutting blade pressure angle changes or corrections in power skiving cutters (20) can be realized without the need tor a tool geometry change. An axial shift (26) of the blade reference point (24) will shift the existing involute on the blade profiles (22, 23) into a different radial location. An accompanying shift (AR) of the reference involute profile (30) by approximately the same amount and in the same direction will re-establish the relationship between work gear and cutter. The resulting work gear geometry has the same radial location of the slots, with the same slot width and the same tooth thickness but with a changed pressure angle.
US10744574B2
Provided is a milling cutter including: a tool body to rotate about an axis; and cutting edges at an outer peripheral part of a front end of the tool body, wherein the cutting edges include a flat face machining cutting edge extending along a virtual plane perpendicular to the axis, and a recessed groove machining cutting edge projecting further toward a front end side in the axial direction than the flat face machining cutting edge, and the recessed groove machining cutting edge has a first inclined portion extending toward the front end side in the axial direction toward an outside in a radial direction, a second inclined portion arranged outside the first inclined portion in the radial direction and extending toward a base end side in the axial direction toward the outside in the radial direction, and a tip portion connecting the first and second inclined portions.
US10744570B2
An actuatable boring bar is configured to place a cutting insert cartridge received onto the boring bar in a cutting position when the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the boring bar about the rotation axis reaches a centrifugal force threshold and in a non-cutting position when the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the boring bar about the rotation axis is below the centrifugal force threshold. The boring bar is further configured so that the cutting insert cartridge can be set-up onto the boring bar in the cutting position.
US10744569B2
The present invention is directed to a surface-coated cubic boron nitride sintered material tool including a cBN substrate and a hard coating layer formed on a surface of the cBN substrate and having an alternate laminated structure of A layer and B layer. A peak of the grain size distribution of cBN grains in the cBN sintered material is present within a range of a grain size from 0.50 to 1.00 μm. The A layer has a composition of (Ti1-xAlx)N (0.4≤x≤0.7 in an atomic ratio). The B layer has a composition of (Cr1-y-zAlyMz)N (0.03≤y≤0.6 and 0≤z≤0.05 in an atomic ratio). An X-ray diffraction peak of a (200) plane is present at a position of a diffraction angle of 43.6 plus or minus 0.1 degrees, and a plastic deformation work ratio of the B layer is 0.35 to 0.50.
US10744568B2
A coated tool include a first surface, a second surface which is adjacent to the first surface, and a cutting edge which is located on at least a portion of a ridge between the first surface and the second surface. The coated tool further includes a substrate, and a coating layer that is located on the substrate. The coating layer includes a titanium carbonitride layer and an aluminum oxide layer which has an α-type crystalline structure. The titanium carbonitride layer is located nearer to the substrate than the aluminum oxide layer. When a value represented by the following equation is taken to be an orientation factor Tc(hkl) on the basis of peaks of the aluminum oxide layer analyzed by X-ray diffraction analysis, a ratio (Tcf(104)/Tcf(012)) of orientation factors Tcf(104) to Tcf(012) of the coating layer on the second surface is higher than a ratio (Tcr(104)/Tcr(012)) of orientation factors Tcr(104) and Tcr(012) of the coating layer on the first surface: Tc(hkl)={I(hkl)/I0(hkl)}/[(1/7)×Σ{I(HKL)/I0 (HKL)}].
US10744567B2
The invention provides a control apparatus for a machine tool, which can perform reciprocating vibration in consideration of a vibration frequency, increase flexibility in machining a workpiece, and perform vibration cutting by means of an external spindle or the like without rotating a spindle. The control apparatus and the machine tool include control means. The control means includes an imaginary spindle regarded as a spindle for rotating a workpiece W or a cutting tool. The control means sets the number of rotations of the imaginary spindle and the number of reciprocating vibrations in accordance with a vibration frequency attributable to a cycle during which an operation instruction can be issued.
US10744563B2
A system includes a chamber to receive a powdered material to be used to form an object. The system includes actuators coupled to the chamber. The actuators apply pressure waves to the powdered material in the chamber. The system also includes a controller to activate a plurality of the actuators in a sequence. Activation of the plurality of actuators in the sequence converges pressure waves on a particular volume of powdered material in the chamber to compress the particular volume and to transform at least a portion of the powdered material in the particular volume to solid material of the object.
US10744560B1
The present invention relates to a nanoparticle composition having antibacterial and exothermic properties and a manufacturing method thereof, more particularly, a nanoparticle composition with very good antibacterial and exothermic properties obtained by preparing an ionized calcium powder from shells obtained through foreign matter removing, cleaning, drying, sintering, cooling and pulverizing processes, and passing it through a tourmaline mixing stage, a surfactant treatment stage, a synthetic resin mixing stage and a nanoparticle molding stage, and a manufacturing method thereof.
US10744557B2
A refractory metal core (RMC) finishing method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, performing a plurality of finishing operations on a plurality of RMC samples, analyzing one or more properties of at least a portion of the plurality of RMC samples and selecting a combination of finishing operations for generating an RMC having desirable properties for manufacturing a part free from defects.
US10744556B2
A method for fabricating an article that includes: providing a first workpiece component formed of a first steel material; joining a second workpiece component to the first workpiece component to form a workpiece, the second workpiece component being formed of a second steel material that is different from the first steel material; and forming a plurality of teeth on the workpiece, the teeth being wholly formed of the first steel material.
US10744549B2
The present disclosure includes calculating coordinates of a midpoint of one of a plurality of first tool teaching points and the subsequent first tool teaching point, and calculating coordinates of a midpoint of one of a plurality of second tool teaching points that corresponds to the one first tool teaching point and the subsequent second tool teaching point, calculating an inter-midpoint distance between the midpoint of the first tool teaching points and the midpoint of the corresponding second tool teaching points, determining whether the inter-midpoint distance is within a given tolerance range, and reporting, when the inter-midpoint distance is out of the given tolerance range, the corresponding first tool teaching points and second tool teaching points as poor.
US10744546B2
A wire cleaning apparatus and method is provided, in which a wire cleaning apparatus includes a passive brush mechanism comprising a helical brush, the helical structure having a helical axis substantially coincident with path of a wire passing through the wire cleaning apparatus. The helical brush includes a plurality of first bristles generally oriented inwardly from the helical structure toward the wire, and the helical brush may be compressed or extended to adjust the inner diameter of the helical brush. The wire cleaning apparatus further comprises an active brush mechanism disposed around the wire and configured to rotate around the wire. The active brush mechanism comprises at least one cylindrical brush having a plurality of second bristles disposed on a cylindrical surface such that one or more of the plurality of second bristles impinge upon the wire. The at least one cylindrical brush having a cylindrical axis about which the at least one cylindrical brush is configured to rotate relative to the active brush mechanism.
US10744543B2
Apparatus and method for cleaning the inner surface of a pipeline from deposits and for forming a protective coating are disclosed. The apparatus includes a cleaning tool which is caused to move in the interior of the pipeline by a flow of a fluid, the cleaning tool comprising a plurality of guide discs engaging the pipeline surface and mounted along a longitudinal axis of the cleaning tool, an anode positioned inside the cleaning tool, and an impressed current source electrically connected to the anode and the interior of the pipeline, the interior of the pipeline acting as a cathode when current is applied from the current source so that ions flow from the anode, through the fluid, to the interior of the pipeline.
US10744541B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a polishing chamber assembly. An apparatus includes an inner drum positioned on a first axis and forming an inner chamber interior to the inner drum. The inner drum includes a plurality of inner drum perforations formed in the inner drum, an object intake disposed tangential to the inner drum at a proximal end of the inner drum, and an object outlet disposed at a distal end of the inner drum. The apparatus includes an outer drum disposed around the inner drum and forming an annular chamber interior to the outer drum and exterior to the inner drum. A cyclonic gas flow is generated within the apparatus from the object intake to a gas outlet in response to drawing gas from the apparatus through the gas outlet to remove debris from objects within the inner drum.
US10744537B2
A cleaning tool attachment reduces the amount of foreign matter or cleaning liquid remaining on a workpiece. The cleaning tool attachment includes a housing, a first shaft integrally connectable to a main spindle, a second shaft having an axial direction different from an axial direction of the first shaft, a plurality of tool mounting shafts having an axial direction parallel to the axial direction of the second shaft, a rotation axis conversion gear mechanism arranged in the housing, and a synchronous rotation mechanism arranged in the housing. The synchronous rotation mechanism transmits a driving force of the second shaft to the plurality of tool mounting shafts, and rotates the plurality of tool mounting shafts at the same rotational speed and with synchronous phase angles.
US10744528B2
Disclosed is an adjustable ultrasonic micro-jet nozzle array with minimal quantity lubrication, relating to cooling of machining. The array-type nozzle includes an inlet conduit, a recycle conduit and a cooling body having a microjet ejection assembly and a recycling assembly. The cooling body includes a microjet ejection chamber which is closed. The inlet conduit is provided at a top of the cooling body and communicates with the microjet ejection chamber. The recycle conduit is located in the microjet ejection chamber, and connects the recycling assembly and an external vacuum machine. The adjustable ultrasonic micro jet nozzle array of the present invention has the advantages of simple structure and being convenient to use. A flow rate of trace cooling fluid is increased to improve the cooling and lubricating effect. A cooling fluid mist is recycled by the vacuum suction to reduce the consumption of the lubricating fluid while ensuring the cooling effect.
US10744521B2
A supply port receives supply of washing liquid. An oscillation chamber oscillates the washing liquid supplied through the supply port. A jetting section jets the washing liquid oscillated in the oscillation chamber to the outside. The jetting section includes a passage connecting the oscillation chamber and the outside. The washing liquid enters the passage from the oscillation chamber through an entrance, passing through the passage, and emitted through an exit to the outside. A jet port is provided between the entrance and the exit, having a narrower width than those of the entrance and the exit. An outer guide connects the jet port and the exit. An inner guide connects the entrance and the jet port, and configured to conduct the liquid oscillated in the oscillation chamber to the outer guide.
US10744499B2
A biological sample holder for holding a solid phase sample, including a handle, and a seal area suitable for being received in an opening of a sample receiving chamber of a cassette, mountable to a sample analysis instrument. The holder further includes a stem connected to the seal and a sample retainer connected to the stem for retaining solids in the retainer, the sample retainer including a perforated wall region for allowing fluids to pass through the wall but preventing the solid phase sample from passing through the wall.
US10744498B2
A pipette quickset volume adjustment mechanism having various modes of operation. The quickset volume adjustment mechanism provides for easy selection between at least a direct drive mode, and a speed multiplying mode that hastens pipette volume changes. The quickset volume adjustment mechanism incorporates a gear train, the individual gears of which are appropriately and selectively engageable or disengageable to produce the various modes of operation.
US10744497B2
Provided are methods for removing a perfluorinated alkanoic acid from solutions containing the perfluorinated alkanoic acid and a fluorinated alkoxy acid. These methods include contacting the first solution with an anion-exchange resin to produce a second solution and a resultant anion-exchange resin having perfluorinated alkanoic acid adsorbed thereto, wherein the perfluorinated alkanoic acid is present in the first solution at a first concentration and is present in the second solution at a second concentration which is lower than the first concentration, and separating the second solution from the resultant anion-exchange resin.
US10744491B2
A hydroprocessing catalyst has been developed. The catalyst is a crystalline transition metal molybdotungstate material or metal sulfides derived therefrom, or both. The hydroprocessing using the crystalline transition metal molybdotungstate material may include hydrodenitrification, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodemetallation, hydrodesilication, hydrodearomatization, hydroisomerization, hydrotreating, hydrofining, and hydrocracking. A data system comprising at least one processor; at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions; and at least one receiver configured to receive data of at least one unit or stream in fluid communication with and downstream from or upstream to a conversion process comprising at least one reaction catalyzed by the catalyst or a metal sulfide decomposition product of the catalyst has been developed.
US10744461B2
The present disclosure is directed to ultrafiltration membranes based on bacterial nanocellulose and graphene oxide. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to the novel design and incorporation of membranes for realizing new, highly efficient, and environmentally-friendly anti-biofouling membranes for water purification.
US10744456B2
An apparatus and method of generating ozone and its incorporation into a system apparatus and method of cleaning exhaust gasses from fossil fuel burning boilers and/or furnaces are disclosed.
US10744454B2
Provided are a CO2 gas separation membrane, a method for manufacturing the same, and a carbon dioxide gas separation membrane module including the same, the CO2 gas separation membrane including: a first layer (A) containing at least one alkali metal compound selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal carbonate, an alkali metal bicarbonate and an alkali metal hydroxide, and a first resin in which a polymer having a carboxyl group has been crosslinked; a second layer (B) containing at least one of the alkali metal compounds, and a second resin having a structural unit derived from a vinyl ester of a fatty acid; and a hydrophobic porous membrane (C).
US10744446B2
A fabric material composite construction, for use as a filter means or media, characterized in that said construction comprises a combination of one or more nanofiber layers and a synthetic single-thread squarely knitted precision fabric.
US10744442B1
A pre-filter kit and related method of use with an air filter associated with an intake of a machine is provided. The kit can include a sheet of pre-filter material, an adhesive component, such as an adhesive on a release liner, and one or more optional bands. The method can include: measuring a height of the air filter, cutting the sheet of pre-filter material so that the sheet includes a top edge and a bottom edge separated from one another by the height, as well as a first end and an opposing, second end; applying adhesive to the first end; and wrapping the sheet around the air filter so that the first end overlaps the second end to secure the first end to the overlapped portion of the sheet. The pre-filter is secured to the air filter so as to impair dirt, dust and debris from entering the air filter.
US10744441B2
A framed air filter in which at least one portion of the frame is provided by a spiral-wrapped frame piece in which a terminal segment of the spiral-wrapped frame piece serves as a reinforcing strut.
US10744439B2
An apparatus and a method are provided for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) air filter to remove airborne molecular contaminants and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from air within building spaces is disclosed. The air filter comprises a support frame having a shape and size suitable to orient the air filter within a HVAC system. A compound filter medium is retained within the support frame to remove the airborne molecular contaminants and VOCs from air flowing through the HVAC system. A method of removing airborne molecular contaminants and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from air is disclosed that includes an operation of coupling a first media layer, comprising uniformly disposed pleats, with a second media layer, comprising a woven fiber material, so as to form a compound filter medium.
US10744427B2
The present patent document discloses filters and methods of filtering bucket wash water by stacking identical filters in a rotated position. In preferred embodiments, the method comprises: placing a first filter in a bucket; placing an identical second filter on top of the first filter wherein: the second filter is rotated by a radial angle with respect to the first filter and a first pair of tapered passages on the second filter that are longer than typical passages on the second filter are inserted into a second pair of tapered passages on the first filter such that a typical passage on the second filter is held above the first filter and a typical passage on the second filter does not axially align with a typical passage on the first filter.
US10744426B2
Structured elements with capabilities for stream flow division and distribution and mitigation of undesired species that exceed those of conventionally available materials are provided. The structured elements provide increased opportunities for surface attraction, retention and coalescence of undesired species in a process stream. The functional contact surfaces of the structured elements can include one or more of the faces of cells, the surfaces of struts connecting cells, the surfaces of nodes connecting struts, and the surfaces of asperities or irregularities caused by channels, flutes, spikes, fibrils or filaments in or on the material surfaces.
US10744421B2
A water vending apparatus is disclosed. The water vending system includes a water vapor distillation apparatus and a dispensing device. The dispensing device is in fluid communication with the fluid vapor distillation apparatus and the product water from the fluid vapor distillation apparatus is dispensed by the dispensing device.
US10744403B2
Methods and apparatuses for adjusting a game scene are set forth herein. The method includes receiving heart rate information of a user, wherein the user wears the computing device to play the game, and based on the received heart rate information of the user, adjusting at least one element in the game scene of the game. By using a smart wearable device to acquire the heart rate information of the user playing the game, the game scene of the game can be adjusted according to the heart rate information. Therefore, the game can be made to be more interesting by receiving multi-dimensional interaction information of the user.
US10744396B2
A system includes a support structure that includes a bottom surface and a connector plate pivotably connected to the bottom surface, and a device including a wheel, the device being releaseably connectable to the connector plate.
US10744395B2
An athletic glove is provided, comprising a palm portion and a digit portion having a plurality of generally hollow digit sleeves extending from the palm portion. Each of the generally hollow digit sleeves is configured to generally confine a respective digit of a wearer. Spacers are provided between the generally hollow digit sleeves and generally maintain a predetermined abduction of the digits upon a relaxation of the wearer's hand, while generally permitting an adduction of the plurality of digits upon a predetermined adductive force exerted by the wearer. The spacers comprise a generally rigid member having a predetermined compressibility. The generally hollow digit sleeves may be closed or open at a distal end thereof. The palm portion may be a flexible fabric and a fitment apparatus selectively tightens the palm portion on a hand of the wearer. One or more padding portions may be further configured to distribute a force experienced by the wearer upon engagement with a ball.
US10744390B1
A method for monitoring human activity using an inertial sensor includes monitoring accelerations, identifying a current user activity from a plurality of user activities based on the accelerations, and counting periodic human motions appropriate to the current user activity.
US10744382B2
Golf tool devices and golf clubs having those devices attached to, or incorporated with, their grips are disclosed. In some embodiments, the golf tool device includes a housing and a tool assembly attached to the housing. The tool assembly includes a base jaw and a gripper jaw pivotably connected to the base jaw. The tool assembly additionally includes a spring connected to the gripper jaw and configured to urge the gripper jaw toward the base jaw. The golf tool device additionally includes a mode selector assembly configured to selectively switch operation of the gripper jaw between at least two modes. The at least two modes include a first mode in which the gripper jaw moves in response to urging of the spring, and a second mode in which the gripper jaw is secured in a first position that is spaced away from the base jaw against urging of the spring.
US10744381B2
Disclosed herein is a golf bag cover for use in covering a golf bag having golf clubs placed therein. The golf bag cover is configured to couple to the bottom portion of a golf bag in a closed position and can selectively cover the golf bag and golf clubs in an open position. In the closed position, the golf bag cover can collapse into an integrated pouch and remain attached to the base of the golf bag.
US10744378B2
A hollow golf club head 1 comprises a face portion 2 which includes a club face 2a for striking a ball, and a main body 3 extending rearward of the head from the face portion 2. The face Portion 2 is made of a low-specific-gravity material having a specific gravity of 4.0 or less. The main body 3 is provided in its face portion 2 side with a low stiffness zone 10 where the stiffness is locally reduced.
US10744376B2
Multi-layered golf balls having a core made of a foamed composition, preferably polyurethane foam, are provided. The ball includes a dual-layered core having a foam inner core (center) and surrounding outer core layer. The outer core layer may be made from a non-foamed thermoset material such as polybutadiene rubber. The ball further includes an inner cover, preferably made from an ionomer composition comprising an O/X-type acid copolymer, wherein O is α-olefin, and X is a C3-C8 α,β-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid. The outer cover may be made from a non-foamed thermoset or thermoplastic material such as polyurethane. Preferably, the specific gravity of the inner cover is greater than the specific gravity of the outer core, which is greater than the specific gravity of the inner core. The finished ball has good distance and low-spin properties.
US10744372B2
Roughly described, a computer system uses a behavior-driven algorithm that is better able to find optimum solutions to a problem by balancing the use of fitness and novelty measures in evolutionary optimization. In competition among candidate individuals, a domination estimate between a pair of individuals is determined by both their fitness estimate difference and their behavior difference relative to one another. An increase in the fitness estimate difference of one individual of the pair over the other increases the domination estimate of the first individual. An increase in the behavior distance between the pair of individuals decreases the domination estimate of both of the individuals. Individuals with a higher domination estimate are more likely to survive competitions among the candidate individuals.
US10744368B2
A method of differentially tuning a lower limb muscle in a human in need thereof is provided. The method includes placement of at least two calibrated, differential disturbances or protuberances under the human's feet thereby tuning a lower limb muscle.
US10744364B2
An exercise machine is provided for agonist-antagonist muscle training. A first variable resistance mechanism has a first line extending therefrom, a second variable resistance mechanism has a second line extending therefrom, and a user-engaged link is coupled to the first line and second line with the first line, second line, and link being aligned along a common axis. When the user applies a first tensile force to the first line via the link, the first line extends from the first variable resistance mechanism against its resistance force while the second line retracts towards the second variable resistance mechanism under its restoring force. Then, when the user applies a second tensile force to the second line via the link, the second line extends from the second variable resistance mechanism against its resistance force while the first line retracts towards the first variable resistance mechanism under its restoring force.
US10744362B2
An exercise machine has a mobile base and an upright support extending upwards from the mobile base. An upper support assembly extends forward from an upper portion of the upright support and an exercise device is suspended from the upper support assembly at a location spaced forward from the upright support. The exercise machine may include a compact and safe counterbalancing gas spring mechanism that tends to move the exercise device away from the exerciser, and that requires a force to be applied to move an exercise device down towards the exerciser. The exercise machine may include an exercise device that is rotatable along a vertical axis, and may be coupled to an adjustable monitor for a wide range of uses. The exercise machine may be used by a exerciser lying supine, sitting in a chair or wheelchair, or standing in front of or adjacent the exercise machine.
US10744355B2
A veneer panel may comprise an outer surface, and a heat resistant system coupled to the outer surface comprising at least one of a thermal barrier layer or an intumescent layer.
US10744352B2
A semi-disposable face mask has a shaped molded base composed of silicone and/or TPE and molded forming a face seal, a filter media and a support structure that houses the shaped molded base and filter media in fluid communication allowing airflow from an environment through the filter media to the face seal.
US10744351B2
A mask is provided that can inactivate viruses adhering thereto even in the presence of lipids and proteins regardless of whether or not the viruses have an envelope. The mask can inactivate viruses adhering thereto and includes a mask body provided with a member used when the mask is worn and virus inactivating fine particles having a virus inactivating ability and held by the mask body. The virus inactivating fine particles are particles of at least one selected from the group consisting of platinum(II) iodide, palladium(II) iodide, silver(I) iodide, copper(I) iodide, and copper(I) thiocyanate.
US10744347B2
Described herein are implantable devices configured to emit an electrical pulse. An exemplary implantable device includes an ultrasonic transducer configured to receive ultrasonic waves that power the implantable device and encode a trigger signal; a first electrode and a second electrode configured to be in electrical communication with a tissue and emit an electrical pulse to the tissue in response to the trigger signal; and an integrated circuit comprising an energy storage circuit. Also described are systems that include one or more implantable device and an interrogator configured to operate the one or more implantable devices. Further described is a closed loop system that includes a first device configured to detect a signal, an interrogator configured to emit a trigger signal in response to the detected signal, and an implantable device configured to emit an electrical pulse in response to receiving the trigger signal. Further described are computer systems useful for operating one or more implantable devices, as well as methods of electrically stimulating a tissue.
US10744336B2
A coil has 1st to Nth turns. The 1st to Nth turns respectively provided with actuation parts for current in one direction to flow, and connection parts for current in the opposite direction to the one direction to flow. The plurality of actuation parts are arranged substantially parallel to each other, and are arranged along a surface of an object or a surface that approximates to the surface of the object. A plurality of connection parts are arranged within a space in which the connection parts do not face the surface of the object over the actuation parts of the 1st to Nth turns, and the connection parts are positioned at the sides with respect to the extension direction of the actuation parts.
US10744335B2
A wearable cardiac defibrillator (“WCD”) system may include a support structure that a patient can wear, an energy storage module that can store an electrical charge, and a discharge circuit that can discharge the electrical charge through the patient so as to shock him or her, while the patient is wearing the support structure. Embodiments may actively take into account bystanders, both to protect them from an inadvertent shock, and also to enlist their help. In some embodiments, the WCD system includes a speaker system and a memory. Prompts have been saved in advance in the patient's own voice, and stored in the memory. In case of an emergency, the prompts may be played by the speaker system in the patient's own voice, and heard by a bystander.
US10744305B2
An IV catheter system may have a catheter component with a catheter hub, a cannula extending distally from the catheter hub, and a push feature protruding outwardly from the catheter hub. The IV catheter system may also have a needle component with a needle hub, a needle extending distally from the needle hub along an axis, and a grip extending from the needle hub, generally parallel to the axis, with a pull feature. In the insertion configuration, the needle may be positioned within the cannula and the distal end of the needle hub may be seated in a needle port of the catheter hub. In the fluid delivery configuration, the needle may be positioned outside the catheter hub. The push and pull features may be positioned to facilitate manipulation with a single hand to move the IV catheter system from an insertion configuration to a fluid delivery configuration.
US10744304B2
A method for thermal bonding of an inverted balloon neck on a catheter, including placing an inverted balloon neck (84) on a shaft (86) of a catheter, and characterized by applying heat at an internal hollow (85) of the shaft (86) where the inverted balloon neck (84) is placed, while applying internal pressure to attach an external surface of the shaft (86) to the inverted balloon neck (84).
US10744302B2
Various embodiments enable an introducer for a catheter to be rotated around an axis and/or traversed backward and/or forward along the axis. In various embodiments, positioning of an introducer may be enabled by an introducer support configured to be rotated around an axis and/or extended or retracted along the axis. The introducer may be manually operated and/or operated by motors in a nose cone of a catheter positioning system. In various embodiments, a portion of the introducer support may be configured to flex. In other embodiment, positioning of an introducer may be enabled by an adjustable nose cone of a catheter positioning system.
US10744295B2
A blower comprises a housing, an inlet to receive air, an outlet to deliver a flow of air and a deformable member configured to pump a chamber. The deformable member may be configurable to a first configuration and a second configuration, for example by electrical energy that may be applied as current or voltage. The blower may comprise a plurality of chambers, wherein each chamber may be compressed out of phase with each other, for example such that the flow rate of the generated air flow may not fluctuate as much. In other forms, the blower may comprise a plurality of chambers that vary in size.
US10744284B2
A tool for use in conjunction with a pressure support system that is structured to provide therapy to a patient to treat a condition of the patient by delivering a flow of breathing gas to the patient. The tool may be implemented on a portable electronic device or a PC and is configured to, among other things, provide customized/personalized education and feedback to the patient based, at least in part, on data that is measured by the pressure support system during the provision of therapy to the patient. The tool utilizes certain patient/therapy metrics, wherein each patient/therapy metric comprises raw data that was measured by the pressure support system and that has been processed (e.g., summarized and/or otherwise manipulated) to form the patient/therapy metric.
US10744283B2
A tidal dry powder inhaler comprising: a miniature pressure sensor, a sensor port of said sensor being pneumatically coupled to a flow channel through which a user can inhale; a processor configured to process data received from a sensing element of the sensor to make a determination that inhalation of a spontaneous breath through said flow channel is in progress; a controller configured to, responsive to said determination, issue a start dosing signal; and a dosing mechanism configured to release dry powder medicament into the flow channel during inhalation of said spontaneous breath in response to receiving said signal.
US10744281B2
A personal vapor inhaling unit is disclosed. An electronic flameless vapor inhaler unit that may simulate a cigarette has a cavity that receives a cartridge in the distal end of the inhaler unit. The cartridge brings a substance to be vaporized in contact with a wick. When the unit is activated, and the user provides suction, the substance to be vaporized is drawn out of the cartridge, through the wick, and is atomized by the wick into a cavity containing a heating element. The heating element vaporizes the atomized substance. The vapors then continue to be pulled by the user through a mouthpiece and mouthpiece cover where they may be inhaled.
US10744280B2
A pulmonary drug delivery system is disclosed, including a breath-powered, dry powder inhaler, with or without a cartridge for delivering a dry powder formulation. The inhaler and cartridge can be provided with a drug delivery formulation comprising, for example, a diketopiperazine and an active ingredient, including, small organic molecules, peptides and proteins, including, hormones such as insulin and glucagon-like peptide 1 for the treatment of disease and disorders, for example, diseases and disorders, including endocrine disease such as diabetes and/or obesity.
US10744272B2
The disclosure relates to a needle assembly adapted to couple with a medicament delivery device including a needle having a proximal tip and a distal tip, a needle hub coupled to the needle, a body adapted to engage the needle hub, a removable needle cap adapted to cover the distal tip, and a removable sealing element. The sealing element is adapted to seal an open proximal end of a compartment of the body, including the proximal tip, in such a manner that the proximal tip is housed in a sealed environment before use of the needle. The disclosure further relates to a medicament delivery device including such a needle assembly.
US10744271B2
A medicine delivery device includes a main housing having a guide rail in a bottom side thereof, a main control unit with built-in control program mounted in the main housing, a transmission module mounted in the main housing and electrically coupled to the main control unit, the transmission module including a transmission unit, transmission shaft rotatable by the transmission unit and a push rod threaded into the transmission shaft with an axial guide groove thereof coupled to the guide rail for axial displacement upon rotation of the transmission shaft, a push-button unit mounted on the outer surface of the main housing and electrically coupled to the main control unit, and a power supply unit mounted in the main housing for providing the main control unit with the necessary working electricity.
US10744263B2
An auto-injector includes a base housing, an ampule, a needle arrangement, at least one drive assembly and a securing assembly which secures the drive assembly in its position with respect to the base housing until activated for the injection procedure. The securing assembly includes a securing cap with a cap jacket, a cap wall and a securing pin arranged inside the cap jacket. Arranged between the securing cap and the base housing is a guide arrangement with a first and a second guide element which define an adjustment path delimited in the axial direction on the side directed away from the distal end. In its release position, the securing cap is still arranged and held on the base housing.
US10744254B1
An automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) system using gravity to deliver fluid from one or more source dialysate bags to the patient as the destination, and using gravity to deliver fluid from the source patient to the destination drain container or drain receptacle, and heats at least one dialysate bag placed onto a heated plate, and using a disposable tubing set is used for dialysate delivery to and from the patient, and using one or more solenoid-operated, normally closed, electronically-controlled pinch valves which pinch or release the disposable tubing set's tubing to stop or start fluid flow, respectively.
US10744249B2
Systems and methods for cleaning and disinfecting a medical therapy device that delivers any one of hemodialysis, hemodiafiltration and hemofiltration. The system has a base module that has at least one segment of a controlled compliant flow path and at least one pair of jumpered ports configured on the base module. One or more components have connections connectable to the jumpered ports of the base module to provide for fluid communication between the segment of the controlled compliant flow path in the base module and a flow path defined by the one or more components. The base module is connected to the one or more components that define a flow path configurable for carrying out in part at least one function performed during any one of hemodialysis, hemodiafiltration or hemofiltration.
US10744248B2
A cardiac assistance system is provided that comprises two pumps and cannulae connected thereto. A first pump of the two pumps is configured to connect to a right heart system via a first fluid channel. The first fluid channel formed at least partially by a first two cannulae of the cannulae. A second pump of the two pumps is configured to connect to a left heart system via a second fluid channel. The second fluid channel formed at least partially by a second two of the cannulae. The two pumps are configured as rotary pumps for arrangement outside a patient's body.
US10744247B2
The present invention relates to kits and methods for calibrating a pump through performance of a thermal knockdown process including demagnetization of an impeller of the pump where the impeller is separate from the pump. By heat treating the impeller, a property of magnetic interaction of the pump is reduced in a repeatable manner. A kit includes a pump with impeller, a controller and an oven. The method generally involves an iterative process of testing the pump for a property related to magnetic interaction of the elements of the pump, removing the impeller from the pump, heating the impeller under controlled conditions, then placing the impeller back into the pump to repeat the test performed initially.
US10744245B2
A bearingless and sealless rotary blood pump is disclosed which provides multidirectional flow intended to provide low-pressure, high-volume right-sided partial assist circulatory support in a univentricular Fontan circulation on a permanent basis. The pump includes a housing and an impeller suspended in the center of the housing. The housing incorporates flow optimization features between inlet and outlet ends, as well as with the impeller surface. Large fluid gaps maintained between impeller and housing eliminate any potential for blood flow obstruction. The impeller contains some motor components. It includes a central stator and surrounding rotor. The motor includes a brushless DC outrunner electrical motor design. An electromagnetic stator core is surrounded by a circumferential passive magnetic ring. The rotor is further levitated about the stator spindle by a plurality of axially and radially located passive magnetic and hydrodynamic journal bearings on both ends of the spindle. The rotor is bearingless and sealless. During impeller rotation, blood entering the space between the rotor and stator is induced to flow by centrifugal pumping action and the fluid film separates the stator hydrodynamic bearings from the rotor so that there is no direct mechanical contact between the rotor and stator.
US10744239B2
Embodiments of a negative pressure wound therapy systems and methods for operating the systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system includes a pump assembly, canister, and a wound dressing configured to be positioned over a wound. The pump assembly, canister, and the wound dressing can be fluidically connected to facilitate delivery of negative pressure to a wound. The pump assembly can present graphical user interface screens for controlling and monitoring delivery of negative pressure. The system can be configured to efficiently deliver negative pressure and to detect and indicate presence of certain conditions, such as low pressure, high pressure, leak, canister full, and the like. Monitoring and detection of operating condition can be performed by measuring one or more operational parameters, such as pressure, flow rate, and the like.
US10744236B2
The present invention relates to protein biocoacervates and biomaterials vessel graft systems used in cardiovascular applications and other medical applications, the components utilized in the vessel graft systems and the methods of making and using such systems. More specifically the present invention relates to protein biocoacervates and biomaterials vessel graft systems used in various medical applications and/or the devices used in such vessel graft systems including, but not limited to, vessel grafts as drug delivery devices for the controlled release of pharmacologically active agents, tubular grafts, vascular grafts, protein biomaterial sutures and biomeshes, protein biomaterial adhesives and glues, and other biocompatible biocoacervate or biomaterial devices used in the vessel graft systems of the present invention.
US10744235B2
A degradable, removable, pharmaceutical implant for the sustained release of one or more drugs in a subject, wherein the pharmaceutical implant is composed of a tube comprising an outer wall made of a degradable polymer completely surrounding a cavity, wherein the outer wall has a plurality of openings and wherein the cavity contains one or more sets of micro-particles, which micro-particles contain an active agent or a combination of two or more active agents, and wherein the size of the microparticles is selected such that the majority of the microparticles cannot pass through the openings.
US10744232B2
Antimicrobial catheters and medical devices are provided. In some aspects, a low durometer aliphatic polyether polyurethane may be impregnated with a first antimicrobial agent (e.g., minocycline and rifampin) and coated with a second antimicrobial agent (e.g., chlorhexidine, gendine, or gardine). The antimicrobial catheters may display improved flexibility and resistance to kinking. Methods of producing the antimicrobial catheters are also provided.
US10744220B2
An apparatus for removing air pollutants from the air is described. The apparatus contains a fan module and a chamber that can hold either activated carbon or a gel that reacts with air pollutants from air.
US10744214B2
The present invention is directed to novel non-invasive diagnostic took to dispose numerous disease states and/or conditions. The presets invention, represents a clear advance in the art which presently relies on tissue biopsy for diagnoses of these disease states. The novel imaging probe is capable of detecting infected cells, as well tissue. The methods described herein are able to diagnose, treat and/or monitor the therapy of numerous diseases and conditions including atherosclerosis, atherothrombosis, cerebral vascular disease, cerebral ischemia, cerebral infarct and meningitis as well as pneumonitis, pericarditis, multiple sclerosis, lupus erythematosus and pancreatitis, among others.
US10744213B2
The present invention discloses fluorescent compounds and a method for their use for selective imaging of blood vessels and blood flow. By applying these fluorescent compounds and the imaging process to a zebrafish model, the present invention further provides methods and procedures for the discovery, selection, and characterization of pro- and anti-angiogenic agents.
US10744208B2
A method of killing cells of a targeted cell type in a patient body that utilizes nanoparticles (10) having a first portion (12), which when exposed to a target portion (14) of a targeted cell type (16), binds to the target portion and a second portion (10A), joined to the first portion, and comprised of a low resistivity material. The nanoparticles are introduced into a contact area where they contact cells of the targeted cell type. Contemporaneously, the contact area is exposed to a varying magnetic field of insufficient strength to increase the temperature of any part of the patient body by more than ten degrees Celsius, but which creates a current (20) at the nanoparticles sufficient to disrupt function of the targeted cell type.
US10744207B2
The disclosure provides complexes comprising targeting units, methods for their production, and methods for their use. In some embodiments, complexes comprise therapeutic agents complexed with targeting units. In some embodiments, complexes comprise cells complexed with targeting units. In view of the foregoing, there is a need for improved modalities for targeting of therapeutics, in the area of immunotherapy and others. The present disclosure addresses these needs, and provides additional advantages as well.
US10744194B2
Described herein are processes for purifying infectious Zika virus particles and uses of protamine in such processes.
US10744193B2
This invention provides immunogenic compositions comprising an immune stimulant and an respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) oligopeptide or an unglycosylated RSV polypeptide. The RSV oligopeptides are shown in SEQ ID NO: 3-33. The unglycosylated RSV polypeptide may consist essentially of the ectodomain of an RSV G protein, such as that shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the ectodomain of an RSV F protein such as the ectodomain of the F protein shown in SEQ ID NO: 39.
US10744190B2
The present invention relates to a modified polypeptide comprising a non-cytotoxic protease, a translocation domain, a destructive protease cleavage site and a Targeting Moiety that binds to a Binding Site on a nerve cell, wherein after cleavage of the destructive cleavage site the polypeptide has reduced potency. The destructive cleavage site is recognised and cleaved by a protease present at or in an off-site target cell, and, in one embodiment, the polypeptide is a modified clostridial neurotoxin. The present invention also relates to the use of said polypeptides for treating a range of conditions, and to nucleic acids encoding said polypeptides.
US10744189B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions useful for the prophylactic and therapeutic amelioration and treatment of infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The disclosure further provides compositions and methods of incorporating and utilizing lysin polypeptides of the present disclosure for augmenting the efficacy of antibiotics generally suitable for the treatment of Gram-negative bacterial infection.
US10744184B2
Disclosed are methods of altering metabolism of phosphate in a livestock via an antibody. The methods involve the development of an antibody against FGF-23 for the purpose of reducing phosphate excretion by an animal.
US10744178B2
The present technology is directed to compositions and methods for preventing, ameliorating, or reducing the severity of one or more signs, or symptoms associated with a reduction of function, decreased expression level of, and/or deficiency in one or more of COL4A3, COL4A4 and COL4A5 genes. Also disclosed herein are methods of preventing or treating Alport Syndrome in a mammalian subject, reducing risk factors associated with Alport Syndrome, and/or reducing the likelihood or severity of Alport Syndrome. The methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide.
US10744170B2
Human clinical use of a chimeric poliovirus construct has demonstrated excellent anti-tumor effect. Combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors increases the anti-tumor effect. Tumors of different types are susceptible to the combination treatment, including but not limited to melanoma, glioglastoma, renal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, medulloblastoma, and colorectal cancer.
US10744162B2
An isolated muscle progenitor cell being MyoD positive, CD34 negative and CD45 negative is disclosed. The muscle progenitor cell is genetically modified to express at least one neurotrophic factor. In addition, cell populations are disclosed, comprising at least four subpopulations of muscle cells each being genetically modified to express a different neurotrophic factor, wherein said neurotrophic factor is selected from the group consisting of glial derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), insulin growth factor (IGF-1), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Uses of the cell populations are also disclosed.
US10744161B2
Intravenous ferumoxytol is used to effectively label mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vivo and is used for in vivo tracking of stem cell transplants with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The method eliminates risk of contamination and biologic alteration of MSCs associated with ex-vivo-labeling procedures.
US10744160B2
Aspects of the invention relate to a novel mesenchymal stem cell line (hb-MSC), a culture medium conditioned by the hb-MSC line, and various hb-MSC compositions. The hb-MSC composition may include a plurality of hb-MSCs, an hb-MSC conditioned medium, or a combination thereof. The hb-MSC composition may also include an appropriate carrier. Also described are methods of use for the hb-MSC cells, the conditioned medium and compositions thereof.
US10744159B2
A method for evaluating the activity level of mesenchymal stem cells, and a method for culturing mesenchymal stem cells using the evaluation method in the field of culturing mesenchymal stem cells for regenerative medicine, and further, a method for producing a therapeutic agent for liver dysfunction and a therapeutic agent for liver dysfunction. This method for evaluating mesenchymal stem cell activity has an assay step for assaying the amount of adenylate kinase 4 (AK4) in the mesenchymal stem cells; and a determination step for determining the activity level of the mesenchymal stem cells from the assayed amount of adenylate kinase 4.
US10744153B1
A method for treating a meibomian gland dysfunction of an affected eye includes administering to the affected eye of a subject in need of such treatment a steroidal-androgen-free composition containing a therapeutically effective amount of a cyclic polysaccharide. A steroidal-androgen-free composition includes a cyclic polysaccharide as an active pharmaceutical ingredient for treating a meibomian gland dysfunction of an affected eye.
US10744147B2
Composition comprising avermectin compounds without solid fatty substances The invention relates to a dermatological or pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one aqueous phase and at least one active phase comprising at least one active compound chosen from avermectin compounds and at least one solvent and/or propenetrating agent of avermectin compounds, where the composition comprises less than 3% by weight of solid fatty substances at room temperature and at atmospheric pressure, relative to the total weight of the composition. The invention relates also to the composition for use in the treatment of rosacea, of common acne, of seborrheic dermatitis, of perioral dermatitis, of acneiform rashes, of transient acantholytic dermatosis, of acne necrotica miliaris and of atopic dermatitis, and preferably for use in the treatment of rosacea. Finally, the invention relates to a method for preparing the composition.
US10744143B2
The present invention is a compound comprising an anti-inflammatory drug component consisting preferably of at least one of an NSAID portion and a cannabis portion and at least one of a progestin component and a progesterone component. The compound may take for instance the form of a pill or pellet (for oral internal use or for subdermal implantation), an injectable solution, or a suppository. The compound is intended for use in treating subjects having or being at increased risk—especially genetically determined risk—of developing endometriosis. The compound may also be used for treating other disorders or as a contraceptive.
US10744136B2
The present invention describes novel compounds, or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their medical uses. The compounds of the invention have activity as Janus Kinase inhibitors and are useful in the treatment or control of pruritus, associated with allergic dermatitis, atopic dermatitis in animals, and other disorders and indications where immunosuppression/immunomodulation would be desirable. Also described herein are methods of treating pruritus and atopic dermatitis by administering the compounds of the invention, which are JAK 1 inhibitors.
US10744135B2
The present invention belongs, in a general manner to the technological field of the pharmaceutical industry and relates, more specifically, to one or more compositions of second use to be destined for the treatment of melasma. The present invention relates to the use of substances belonging to the group of alpha-adrenergic receptor agonists, in different variable concentrations, for treating conditions of melasma upon human skin. Furthermore, the present invention discloses pharmaceutical compositions, the latter being associated or not with other compounds or methods of treatment, to be utilised for the treatment of melasma.
US10744129B2
The present invention relates to treatment of SCLC with therapeutic ADCs comprising a drug attached to an anti-Trop-2 antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment. Preferably, the drug is SN-38. More preferably, the antibody is an hRS7 antibody and the ADC is sacituzumab govitecan. The ADC may be administered at a dosage of between 4 mg/kg and 16 mg/kg, preferably 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, or 16 mg/kg, mostly preferably 8 to 10 mg/kg. When administered at specified dosages and schedules, the ADC can reduce solid tumors in size, reduce or eliminate metastases and is effective to treat cancers resistant to standard therapies, such as radiation therapy, chemotherapy or immunotherapy. Surprisingly, the ADC is effective to treat cancers that are refractory to or relapsed from irinotecan or topotecan. Preferably, the ADC is administered as a combination therapy with one or more other anti-cancer treatments, such as carboplatin or cisplatinum.
US10744125B2
Modulators of the adenosine A3 receptors of formula (I): and process for preparing said compounds. Other aspects of the present invention are pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of said compounds and the use of said compounds in the preparation of a medicament for treating pathological conditions or diseases that can be improved by modulation of adenosine A3 receptors.
US10744124B2
Human therapeutic treatment compositions comprise at least two of a curcumin component, a harmine component, and an isovanillin component, and preferably all three in combination. The agents are effective for the treatment of human conditions, especially human cancers.
US10744105B2
The present invention relates to crystalline polymorphic forms of monosodium N-[8-(2-hydroxybenzoyl)amino]caprylate (“SNAC”), including two hydrates, a methanol solvate, and an ethanol solvate, of SNAC. More specifically, the present invention provide six polymorphic forms of SNAC (hereafter referred to as Forms I-VI). The present invention also provides an amorphous form of SNAC.
US10744102B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for preventing or treating (e.g., slowing the progression of, arresting, and/or reversing) tissue calcification in a subject in need thereof and, more particularly, the invention relates to methods of using menaquinone-7 (MK-7) and/or menaquinol-7 (MKH2-7) for preventing or treating (e.g., slowing the progression of, arresting, and/or reversing) tissue calcification in a subject with diabetes, chronic kidney disease, end stage renal failure, or a subject undergoing hemodialysis and/or receiving anticoagulant therapy. The invention further provides methods and compositions for reducing one or more symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), including using menaquinone-7 (MK-7) and/or menaquinol-7 (MKH2-7), for preventing or treating (e.g., slowing the progression of, arresting, and/or reversing) one or more symptoms of COPD.
US10744098B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to particulate agents and compositions comprising particulate agents for inhalation, and methods for preparing such particulate agents and compositions for inhalation, as well as therapeutic methods. Embodiments of the method comprise preparing an emulsion by combining an oil phase dispersion of hydrophobic seed particles and an aqueous dispersion comprising an emulsifier and an emulsion stabilizer and preparing a feedstock comprising encapsulated particles by homogenizing the emulsion, and forming a plurality of coated particles by spray drying the feedstock, wherein resulting particles comprises a porous shell disposed on or over a core and the core comprises at least one hydrophobic seed particle.
US10744094B2
The invention provides an oral extended release formulation for the treatment of treatment-resistant depression and treatment-resistant anxiety.
US10744088B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an ophthalmic preparation comprising thymosin β4. According to the inventive method, the manufacture of an ophthalmic preparation comprising thymosin β4 is carried out in the presence of an inert gas, thus the contact of thymosin β4 with oxygen is blocked and the oxidation of thymosin β4 can be prevented and the pharmacological activity of thymosin β4 maintains for long-term period. Therefore, the ophthalmic preparation prepared by the inventive method can maintain the pharmacological activity of thymosin β4 in a stable state for a long time.
US10744069B2
Connector assembly (FIG. 4a) includes a shell (210), a connector body (230), and a plug (250). The shell (210) has a sidewall (212) defining an interior, a first shell end having a first opening (214) defined therein, and a second shell end having a second opening (216) defined therein, each of the first (214) and second openings (216) in communication with the interior to receive percutaneous tubing therethrough, the shell (210) further having an engagement portion. The connector body (230) has a first body end (234) and a second body end (236) with a tube lumen defined therethrough, the first body end (234) having a connector tip (237), the connector body (230) having an engaging portion to engage the engagement portion of the shell (210). The plug (250) has a first plug end and a second plug end with a fluid lumen defined therethrough, the first plug end having a plug tip (257) extending therefrom.
US10744067B2
A filling aid for self-filling a cartridge from a storage vessel is disclosed. The filling aid has a housing that receives a fillable cartridge. A stopper is provided that interacts with the housing and is configured to enter the cartridge and a cannula is provided that is configured to pierce a septum of the cartridge. The housing is movable from an initial position in which the stopper is maintained outside the cartridge to an activated position in which the stopper is inserted in the cartridge and the septum is pierced by the cannula. Methods of manufacturing and using the filling aid are also disclosed.
US10744066B2
The present invention relates to an overcap intended for a pharmaceutical container, in particular a container for an infusion solution or an injection solution, having a receptacle containing at least one preproduced closure stopper accommodated therein, the stopper consisting of a soft plastic material, optionally after pulling off a protective covering, for insertion of a withdrawal cannula, a spike and/or a transfer set.
US10744063B2
A device for assisting a caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to a patient, the device comprising a user interface configured to deliver prompts to a caregiver to assist the caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to a patient; at least one sensor configured to detect the caregiver's progress in delivering the cardiac resuscitation, wherein the sensor is configured to provide a signal containing information indicative of ventilation; a memory in which a plurality of different prompts are stored, including at least one ventilation progress prompt to guide the rescuer's performance of ventilation; a processor configured to process the output of the sensor to determine a parameter descriptive of ventilation progress and to determine whether the ventilation progress prompt should be selected for delivery. Possible parameters descriptive of ventilation progress include ventilation rate, delivered tidal volume, and flow rate.
US10744060B2
A communication system and method are provided for remotely reproducing a touch pattern or gesture as a vibrotactile output. At a touch screen, a first user device receives a touch pattern by a first user, characterizes the touch pattern as a touch pattern data based upon time and intensity of touch at a plurality of array points of the touch screen, and communicates the touch pattern data to a network. A tactile array patch of micro-vibratory devices is attachable to a garment and worn by a second user. The touch pattern data is wirelessly received from the first user device via the network. Vibration of selected micro-vibratory devices of the tactile array is modulated in timing and intensity in response to the touch pattern data to reproduce the touch pattern.
US10744059B2
Multipurpose tactile warning panels for use in pedestrian walkways, and in particular tactile warning panels that are designed and built with multifunction/multipurpose capabilities that serve the visually impaired and enable the deployment of smart city technology by integrating tactile warning systems and subsurface enclosures that can withstand pressures of five (5) tons up to and exceeding sixty (60) tons and incorporate small cells, beacons, sensors, Fog Computing, electric energy generation, rechargeable power supplies, wireless M2M communication and a plethora of other smart city technologies.
US10744049B2
A patient transfer apparatus includes a seat assembly, a track assembly coupled to the seat assembly and including a track configured to engage the stairs in a stair traversing position, and front wheels coupled to the seat assembly for engagement with a floor in a transport position. The seat assembly includes a frame and a seat for supporting a patient. A front end of the track assembly is adjacent the front wheels without interfering with movement of the wheels in the transport position.
US10744032B2
An ophthalmic surgical instrument for fragmenting the lens nucleus of an eye, and method of use thereof. The instrument includes an elongated handle portion, a tubular head portion at the handle portion distal end, at least three prongs with cutting tips, and a holding ring. The prongs are selectively retractable into and deployable from the head portion. The holding ring selectively contracts and expands to adjust the deployment width of the prongs. The instrument is inserted toward the eye lens through a corneal incision, while the head portion is opened to deploy the prongs to slide over and grasp onto the lens nucleus at a posterior position thereof. The instrument is then withdrawn toward the eye lens anterior while the head portion is closed to retract the prongs, such that the prong cutting tips cut along the lens nucleus, so as to fragment the lens nucleus into multiple segments.
US10744031B2
An ocular fixation device includes a body configured to be placed on an eye. The ocular fixation device also includes multiple twist picks configured to be turned to secure the body to the eye and to release the body from the eye. The body includes connection points on which a surgical tool is mountable on the body.
US10744024B2
A brace and traction device and associated methods of operation. In one embodiment, the device incorporates a forwardly open head and jaw brace which is adjustably supported vertically above a forwardly collar member. The brace and the collar member are adapted such that the brace is able to mate with the collar member while still being able to rotate to the subject's left and right while remaining planar to the collar member. Adjustment may be accomplished for example manually or via an electronic motor controlled by a control mechanism and microprocessor. The microprocessor may be adapted to store information regarding a user's sessions, and facilitate communication with patient and physician personal devices, thus sending these data from recorded sessions. The processor element may also be adapted to implement therapy sessions based on physician-entered program specifications, or based on pre-programmed specifications.
US10744017B2
An implant delivery system includes a delivery catheter and a delivery mechanism slidably disposed in a lumen of the delivery catheter. The delivery mechanism includes an annular channel and a compressible annular bushing disposed within the annular channel. The annular bushing is configured for being placed between a compressive profile and an expanded profile. The implant delivery system further includes an implant coaxially disposed between the delivery catheter and the delivery mechanism. The delivery catheter lumen is sized to maintain an engagement element of the implant within the annular channel and to urge the annular bushing into the compressive profile. The implant constrains a distal tip of the delivery mechanism to assume a straight geometry. The distal tip is configured for assuming a curved geometry when the implant is deployed from the delivery catheter.
US10744010B2
Provided is a synthetic resin stent with which it is possible to improve the resistance to pressure applied radially from the outside in a state of expanded diameter even when the fibers are thinned. A synthetic resin stent 1 provided with a stent main body part 2 and a diameter expansion mechanism 3 that connects to the stent main body part 2 and changes the stent main body part 2 from a state of contracted diameter to a state of expanded diameter together with holding the stent main body part 2 in a state of expanded diameter, wherein the diameter expansion mechanism 3 is provided with a ring-shaped member 31 attached to the distal end side of the stent main body part 2, a string-shaped member 32, one end of which is connected to the proximal end side of the stent main body part 2 and inserted through the ring-shaped member 31 and the other end side of which extends to the proximal end side of the stent main body part 2, and a locking part 33 disposed in the vicinity of the connecting portion of the string-shaped member 32 and the stent main body part 2, the locking part 22 being capable of locking the ring-shaped member 31.
US10744004B2
A dilation introducer for orthopedic surgery is provided for minimally invasive access for insertion of an intervertebral implant. The dilation introducer may be used to provide an access position through Kambin's triangle from a posterolateral approach. A first dilator tube with a first longitudinal axis is provided. A second dilator tube may be introduced over the first, advanced along a second longitudinal axis parallel to but offset from the first. A third dilator tube may be introduced over the second, advanced along a third longitudinal axis parallel to but offset from both the first and the second. An access cannula may be introduced over the third dilator tube. With the first, second, and third dilator tubes removed, surgical instruments may pass through the access cannula to operate on an intervertebral disc and/or insert an intervertebral implant.
US10744003B2
An intervertebral implant for implantation in an intervertebral space between vertebrae. The implant includes a body extending from an upper surface to a lower surface. The body has a front end, a rear end and a pair of spaced apart first and second side walls extending between the front and rear walls such that an internal chamber is defined within the front and rear ends and the first and second walls. The body defines an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter extending about the internal chamber. At least one of the side walls is defined by an integral porous structure.
US10744002B2
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a body portion, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the first and second endplates capable of being moved in a direction away from the body portion into an expanded configuration or capable of being moved towards the body portion into an unexpanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed and installed in both configurations.
US10744001B2
An intervertebral implant includes a body formed as an open lattice structure by a plurality of struts. Some of the struts of the plurality of struts intersect at nodes. The nodes can include an enlarged contact member that extends over the node and at least a portion of the width of some of the struts. Enlarged contact members may have an asymmetrical shape with respect to the intersection of struts. The enlarged contact members can provide improved bone contact for the implant. The plurality of struts can have a cross-sectional shape that includes a flattened portion. The flattened portion of the plurality of struts can provide improved bone contact for the implant. An additive manufacturing process can be used to build the implant in a substantially vertical direction.
US10743996B2
There are disclosed compositions for achieving reverse phase characteristics, methods of preparation thereof, and the use of amniotic tissue for cartilage repair. In an embodiment, a biocompatible articular tissue repair composition may have a therapeutic material and a carrier configured for achieving reverse phase characteristics, and methods for using the composition. In various embodiments, the therapeutic material may be amniotic tissue. In various embodiments, the carrier may be a poloxamer such as poloxamer 407. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10743995B2
Examples of the invention relate to methods, implants, and instruments for compressing first and second bone portions or a bone portion and an implant together.
US10743994B2
The present invention relates to a fenestrated bone graft and a method of preparing cortical bone in thin strips then fully demineralizing it to give it formed flexibility and then creating fenestrations in the cortical bone in a fashion similar to but not identical to skin grafts.
US10743993B2
Various embodiments of a prosthetic valve sizer and a method that utilizes such valve sizer are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the prosthetic valve sizer can include a sizer body including an annular base and a post extending from the annular base. The prosthetic valve sizer can also include a resilient tip extending from the post of the sizer body. The resilient tip can include a material different from and more flexible than a material of the sizer body.
US10743992B2
A prosthetic heart valve having an inflow end and an outflow end includes a stent having a collapsed condition, an expanded condition, and a plurality of cells arranged in circumferential rows. The stent may include one or more securement features. One securement feature may be an anchor arm having a body portion and a free end extending from the body portion, the body portion being coupled to a perimeter of one of the plurality of cells, with the free end extending toward the inflow end in an expanded condition of the anchor arm. Another securement feature may include a flange formed of a braided mesh and having a body portion coupled to the stent and a flared portion adjacent the inflow end of the prosthetic heart valve. A valve assembly is disposed within the stent and has a plurality of leaflets.
US10743990B2
The disclosure relates to transcatheter stented prosthesis delivery devices including transition elements that route, constrain, support and reduce damage to tension member wear as tension in the tension members is varied to adjust the compression of a stented prosthesis loaded onto the delivery device. Various disclosed tension elements include inserts, edge treatments and guides proximate a distal portion of the delivery device upon which the stented prosthesis is loaded. In some embodiments, the transition feature is positioned proximate a location where at least one tension member transitions from a first orientation that is not parallel to the distal portion to a second orientation that is generally parallel to the distal portion. Further embodiments disclose configurations and methods of selectively locking and unlocking a longitudinal and/or rotational position of the stent frame with respect to the distal portion of the delivery device.
US10743982B2
An implantable biodegradable medical device arranged for breast reconstruction and/or augmentation, made of an interconnected porous structured polymeric matrix and belonging to the family of poly(urea urethane)s.The porous structured polymeric matrix of the medical device comprises a plurality of three dimensional channels, drilled by means of heated tools, three-dimensionally propagating through the polymeric matrix ad interconnected with the porous structure of the polymeric matrix.The polymeric matrix comprises high to-medium molecular weight hydrophobic biodegradable amorphous soft segments polyols, having average molecular weight comprised between 20′000 and 60′000 Da,—hydrophilic polyalkoxide polyols, of average molecular weight comprised between 2′000 and 15′000 Da, and low molecular weight polyisocyanates and polyols, whose average molecular weights range between 15 and 200 Da.
US10743977B2
Disclosed is a novel filter and delivery means. The device described within will not interfere with standard practice and tools used during standard surgical procedures and tools such as cannulas, clamps or dissection instruments including valve replacement sizing gages or other surgical procedures where the patient must be put on a heart-lung machine cross-clamping the aorta.
US10743972B2
An oral cleaning device comprising a handle portion (12) with a plurality of indicia (15) and a plurality of illuminating elements (31); and a user interface assembly (24), the user interface assembly including an interface panel (26) and a baffle assembly (30), the baffle assembly including a plurality of baffle sections (49) each corresponding with a respective one of the plurality of illuminating elements and a respective one of the plurality of indicia, and further where each of the plurality of baffle sections including a cover portion (49a) covering the baffle section and positioned between the respective one of the plurality of illuminating elements and the respective one of the plurality of indicia. The user interface assembly is structured to be blank when the device is powered off, and to illuminate one of the indicia when the device is powered on.
US10743969B2
Method of fabricating a dental prosthesis (1), intended to fill an area of a first jaw, the first jaw being an identical reproduction of at least one part of an edentulous jaw (4) of an individual, the area being capable of receiving at least one tooth (3), the first jaw incorporating a protruding element (11), the method comprising: a first step of depositing the first portion (5) of a material on the area of the first jaw, in such a way that the first portion of deposited material can be hooked to the projecting element, the material being capable of preserving its shape after deposit; a step of attaching the tooth to the first portion of the deposited material.
US10743966B2
Provided is an implant unit, and more particularly, a dental implant unit. The implant unit includes a fixture assembled to an alveolar bone; and an abutment assembled to the upper portion of the fixture, wherein the fixture includes a space defined by a groove-like structure formed in depth direction from the lower portion of the fixture facing the alveolar bone.
US10743960B2
Systems, methods and devices to facilitate insertion of a lead for cardiac therapy into an intercostal space associated with the cardiac notch of a patient are described including devices, methods and medical procedure templates to facilitate insertion proximate to a lateral margin of the patient's sternum.
US10743958B2
A device for measuring blind holes formed through a bone includes (a) a first elongated rod including a shaft extending from a proximal end to a distal end, the distal end including an increased diameter abutment extending radially outward therefrom, the abutment including a proximal surface formed to contact a portion of the bone adjacent a distal opening of the blind hole to assume a locked configuration with the bone and (b) a second elongated rod extending from a proximal end to a distal end along a longitudinal axis.
US10743956B2
A surgical drape is provided that has a drape body that has an upper surface and an oppositely disposed lower surface. The drape body has a forward edge and an oppositely disposed rearward edge. The drape body has a centerline that extends from the forward edge to the rearward edge. A guardrail is located at the upper surface of the drape body.
US10743955B2
A drive assembly of an instrument drive unit, is provided. The drive assembly includes a drive screw, a drive nut, a follower, a biasing element, and a drive element. The drive nut is threadedly engaged with a threaded portion of the drive screw such that rotation of the drive screw results in longitudinal movement of the drive nut. The follower is longitudinally slidable with respect to the drive screw. The biasing element is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the drive nut and the follower. The drive element is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the follower. Longitudinal translation of the drive element is configured to drive a function of the surgical instrument.
US10743951B2
A method for repairing a bone of a patient may include superimposing a first virtual boundary on a virtual bone and superimposing a second virtual boundary on the virtual bone. The method may further include robotically modifying the bone of the patient with a planar tool along a first working boundary to create a first surface. The first working boundary may correspond to the first virtual boundary. The method may further include robotically modifying the bone of the patient with a rotary tool along a second working boundary to create a second surface. The second working boundary may correspond to the second virtual boundary.
US10743940B2
The invention relates to a navigation system for dental and cranio-maxillofacial surgery, comprising a surgical handpiece (2), an imaging unit (4) which is movably attached to the surgical handpiece (2), and a marker member (6; 44, 46) which is attachable to a cranial bone, a facial bone (26), a tooth or teeth of a patient. The marker member (6; 44, 46) comprises a plurality of marker elements (8, 10; 46) which are detectable by the imaging unit (4). Further, the invention relates to a positioning tool (40) for use with the navigation system, wherein the positioning tool (40) is configured for positioning the marker member (44, 46) on a patient's cranial bone, facial bone (26), tooth or teeth and comprises a die element (42) and the marker member (44, 46). The marker member (44, 46) comprises a deformable material (44), the deformable material (44) is releasably received in the die element (42) and the plurality of marker elements (46) are arranged on a surface of the deformable material (44) which faces the die element (42), The invention further relates to a navigation method for dental and craniomaxillofacial surgery using the navigation system and to a method of positioning a marker member (44, 46) on a patient's cranial bone, facial bone (26), tooth or teeth using the positioning tool (40).
US10743935B2
A microwave energy delivery and measurement system, including a microwave energy source configured to delivery microwave energy to a microwave energy delivery device, a measurement system configured to measure at least one parameter of the microwave energy delivery device and a switching network configured to electrically isolate the microwave energy source and the measurement system. The measurement system is configured to actively measure in real time at least one parameter related to the microwave energy delivery device.
US10743932B2
A catheter adapted for ablation has multiple dedicated irrigation tubings to supply fluid to their respective electrode or set of electrodes. The tubings provide parallel flow pathways through the catheter where irrigation fluid is delivered to irrigated tip and/or ring electrodes which can accomplish uni-polar or bi-polar ablation. Such separate and dedicated fluid pathways allow fluid to be delivered to the corresponding electrode or set of electrodes at different flow rates. An integrated ablation system using such catheter has an ablation energy source and an irrigation pump with multiple pump heads that can operate independently of each other. An integrated irrigation tubing set is included to extend between the fluid source and the catheter, with each pump head being able to act on a different tubing that delivers fluid to a different electrode or set of electrodes.
US10743930B2
An improved surgical instrument having an end effector mounted on the end of an elongate shaft extending from a handle. The end-effector has different operations, including grasping, cutting, and sealing and/or coagulating tissue, and one of the operations is controlled by a drive handle mechanism. The drive handle mechanism includes an actuator, a drive shaft and a spring assembly for transferring movement of the actuator to the drive shaft, which in turn controls the end effector. The drive handle mechanism limits the amount of force transferred from the drive handle mechanism to the end effector, preventing damage to the tissue. As the actuator is operated, the spring assembly transfers the movement of the actuator to the drive shaft and the end effector. At the same time, the spring assembly compresses to absorb some of the force applied. Such configuration prevents the tissue being unintentionally damaged by the end effector.
US10743923B2
System and method for fixing a distal femur having a Hoffa fracture. The system may comprise a main plate, an outrigger plate, and a coupling member that mounts the outrigger plate to the main plate. In an exemplary method, an elongated body portion of the main plate may be secured to a shaft region of the distal femur, and a wider head portion of the main plate may be secured to an end region of the distal femur. The outrigger plate may be mounted on the head portion of the main plate, and an arm of the outrigger plate may be fastened to a condylar fragment of the femur with one or more fasteners, such that the outrigger plate spans and stabilizes the Hoffa fracture.
US10743919B1
A system for percutaneous or open facet joint fusion includes an imaging system configured to identify a docking location on a facet joint between a first vertebra and a second vertebra of a patient. The system also includes a cannula configured to be positioned at the docking location on the facet joint. The system further includes a rotary tool that is configured to mount within the cannula. The rotary tool is configured to create a void in the facet joint by way of the cannula, where the void is configured to receive a bone graft or bone growth promoting material.
US10743918B2
A connecting rod for an external fixation device may include a telescopic housing having an axial bore, an inner sleeve slidably disposed within the axial bore of the telescopic housing, a fastener operable to releasably couple the inner sleeve and the telescopic housing, an elongated member coupled to the inner sleeve, and two joints. One joint may be coupled to a proximal end of the telescopic housing, and include a rotatable member and a connecting member coupled to the rotatable member, such that the connecting member is operable to receive a connecting element from an external fixation ring. The other joint may be coupled to a distal end of the elongated member, and include a rotatable member and a connecting member coupled to the rotatable member. Each joint may also include a rotatable member housing with one or more sidewall grooves that limit rotation of the respective rotatable members.
US10743917B2
Walking skates system removably coupled underneath a bottom half-ring of an external ring fixation system comprising a pair of skates, each skate of the pair of skates having a curved bottom profile from which a protruding connection body provided with at least one slot projects, the system further comprising a connecting member having a first end configured to be connected to an opening in the bottom half-ring of the external ring fixation system and a second end provided with a hole for connection to the slot in the connection body of the skate.
US10743915B2
A dilation introducer for orthopedic surgery is provided for minimally invasive access for insertion of an intervertebral implant. The dilation introducer may be used to provide an access position through Kambin's triangle from a posterolateral approach. A first dilator tube with a first longitudinal axis is provided. A second dilator tube may be introduced over the first, advanced along a second longitudinal axis parallel to but offset from the first. A third dilator tube may be introduced over the second, advanced along a third longitudinal axis parallel to but offset from both the first and the second. An access cannula may be introduced over the third dilator tube. With the first, second, and third dilator tubes removed, surgical instruments may pass through the access cannula to operate on an intervertebral disc and/or insert an intervertebral implant.
US10743912B2
A trocar for preparing pilot holes, tunnels and other spaces within bone includes a piercing tip, a cutting element, and an expansion element for expanding the cutting element radially outwardly with respect to a longitudinal axis of the trocar. The cutting element includes one or more cutting blades. The trocar also includes a hollow shaft. The hollow shaft can include one or more apertures axially and radially aligned with the one or more cutting blades. The expansion element can include an activation rod housed inside the hollow shaft. The one or more cutting blades can be in the form of two opposed cutting blades separated by a gap, the two opposed cutting blades being radially displaceable with respect to the longitudinal axis. The activation rod can include a wedge that partially enters the gap between the two opposed cutting blades to displace the cutting blades to an expanded position.
US10743908B2
A tissue-removing catheter includes a cutter having an axial cavity and an opening extending from the axial cavity through the cutter to allow tissue removed from the body lumen by the annular cutting edge to pass proximally through the opening toward a tissue-transport passage of a catheter body. A screw blade extends longitudinally within the interior passage of the catheter body includes an external helical thread for transporting removed tissue proximally within the tissue-transport passage as the screw blade rotates about its axis. A cutter driveshaft extends longitudinally within a driveshaft passage of the screw blade and is rotatable about its axis relative to the screw blade. The cutter driveshaft having a distal end portion operatively coupled to the cutter for driving rotation of the cutter.
US10743906B2
A tissue-removing catheter includes a cutter. The catheter also includes a longitudinal force-transmitting member extending along a catheter body and being longitudinally movable relative to the catheter body. A distal end portion of the longitudinal force-transmitting member is operatively connected to a distal longitudinal portion of a cutter housing such that distal movement of the longitudinal force-transmitting member relative to the catheter body and the cutter imparts pivoting of the distal longitudinal portion to its open position to expose the cutter.
US10743897B2
A system and method of reducing blade exposures includes a surgical cutting. The surgical cutting instrument includes an end effector located at a distal end of the surgical cutting instrument, one or more drive units, a shaft coupled to the drive unit, an articulated wrist coupling the end effector to the shaft, and one or more drive mechanisms in the shaft for coupling force or torque from the drive units to the end effector and the articulated wrist. The end effector includes opposable gripping jaws and a cutting blade. To perform a cutting operation, the surgical cutting instrument measures a jaw angle between the gripping jaws, measures articulation of the articulated wrist, corrects the jaw angle based on the articulation of the articulated wrist, determines a restriction on the cutting operation based on the corrected jaw angle, and performs or prevents the cutting operation based on the restriction.
US10743895B2
A clot removal device has a segment that has two main struts that serve as a frame for holding a plurality of secondary struts. Each of the two main struts has a proximal end that is connected at a proximal point of the segment and extends along a generally circumferential path, with each main strut terminating at a separate connecting point that is distal from the proximal point. The connecting points are connected to each other to form a generally tubular structure defining an inner lumen. The plurality of secondary struts forms a lattice of cells, with each cell surrounded by four secondary struts. Two generally straight distal struts are connected to the lattice of cells at a distal end of the segment, and are connected to each other to form a distal point. A distal opening is defined by the cells adjacent the distal struts, the distal opening communicating with the lumen and terminating at the proximal point.
US10743888B2
A point specific junctional tourniquet is provided having a rotational variable height adjustable point specific compression device including an upper housing, a lower housing rotationally nested within the upper housing and a base with an integral belt/strap guide and a belt/strap having a medical clasp, wherein for height adjustment of said upper housing and pressure form, the user grips the upper housing and the lo Aver housing and rotationally twists the two gripped housings causing the height to increase and after the optimum height is reached, depending upon the injury or wound, the assembled rotational variable height adjustable point specific compression device is secured in place and pressure is applied using the belt/strap, held in place within the belt/strap guide. The point specific junctional tourniquet is provided with a smartphone application for use in emergency situation events as required.
US10743880B2
A loading unit includes a shell assembly and a locking collar. The shell assembly has an annular ring that defines a locking slot and a proximal opening. The proximal opening configured to receive a distal end portion of the surgical instrument. The locking collar is rotatably disposed about the annular ring. The locking collar has a body including a flexible tab that has an inwardly extending lock. The locking collar is moveable about the annular ring between a locked and unlocked configuration. In the locked configuration, the lock passes through the locking slot and into the proximal opening of the annular ring. In the unlocked configuration, the body of the locking collar is rotated about the annular ring from the locked configuration to move the lock from within the proximal opening.
US10743855B2
The present disclosure relates to an anchor assembly. The anchor assembly includes an anchor defining a cavity and an opening to the cavity; and a headless insertion member configured for arrangement within the anchor cavity, the insertion member including a body having a threaded proximal portion, a non-threaded distal portion, and a cannulation extending a partial length of the insertion member. Other anchor assemblies, anchors, and delivery devices are also disclosed.
US10743853B2
Surgical repair systems and techniques for plantar plate repairs. The surgical repair systems and methods reconstruct the plantar plate through a dorsal incision. The surgical repair system embodies a variety of instruments that provide visualization and access to the plantar plate using suture to complete the repair. The repair system may include some or all of the following instruments: a metatarsal head pusher employed in open surgical space, to move the “capital fragment” in a controlled manner; a suture retriever instrument and a suture retriever funnel (sleeve); a suture passer such as a Mini Scorpion DX and accompanying needle, or a variety of shaped Micro Suture Lassos; a measuring guide; and a small joint distractor.
US10743843B2
An ultrasonic imaging support apparatus for supporting imaging performed by an ultrasonic probe that acquires an ultrasonic image of a subject includes a specification unit configured to specify a position inside the subject in a three dimensional image, an identification unit configured to identify a position on a body surface of the subject based on the specified position, and a display control unit configured to display a position where the ultrasonic image acquired by the ultrasonic probe is captured and the identified position on a display unit.
US10743819B2
The present subject matter discloses a system and a method for identifying information from sensor data in a sensor agnostic manner. The system may receive sensor data provided by a sensor and may determine statistical features of the sensor data. The system may determine signal dynamics of the sensor data based on at least one of the statistical features, signal processing features, and a data distribution model. The system may select at least one outlier class based on the signal dynamics, number of streams of the sensor data, and dimensions of the sensor data. The system may select at least one outlier detection method associated with an outlier class for detecting outliers in the sensor data. The system may determine information content of the sensor data based on the outliers, the signal dynamics, the statistical features, and information theoretic features, and similarity or dissimilarity measure.
US10743817B2
An apparatus for monitoring EMG signals of a patient's laryngeal muscles includes an endotracheal tube having an exterior surface. Conductive electrodes are formed on the endotracheal tube. The conductive electrodes are configured to receive the EMG signals from the laryngeal muscles when the endotracheal tube is placed in a trachea of the patient. At least wireless sensor is formed on the endotracheal tube, and is configured to wirelessly transmit information to a processing apparatus.
US10743807B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for determining a perceptual-cognitive signature of a subject. A plurality of objects moves at a controlled speed on a visual display, for a predetermined duration in each of a series of core trials. The subject identifies one or more target objects amongst the plurality of objects. The perceptual-cognitive signature of the subject is determined according to the number of target objects, the speed of the objects, the predetermined duration of each of the series of core trials, and a correctness of identifications, by the subject after each predetermined duration, of the target objects over the series of core trials.
US10743805B2
In an approach to generating preflex stimulation, one or more computer processors monitor one or more sensing devices for data associated with a user activity. Based, at least in part, on the data associated with the user activity, the one or more computer processors predict a user reaction associated with the user activity. The one or more computer processors transmit a preflex stimulus to at least one muscle of the user, wherein the at least one muscle is associated with the user reaction. The one or more computer processors determine a reaction time of the at least one muscle to the preflex stimulus.
US10743803B2
The present disclosure relates to noninvasive methods, devices, and systems for measuring various blood constituents or analytes, such as glucose. In an embodiment, a light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm. In an embodiment, the detector comprises a plurality of photodetectors arranged in a special geometry comprising one of a substantially linear substantially equal spaced geometry, a substantially linear substantially non-equal spaced geometry, and a substantially grid geometry.
US10743780B2
Some embodiments of a balloon catheter device for introduction into a body vessel, in particular the coronary sinus, can include a catheter shaft which carries an inflatable balloon on its distal portion and in which a plurality of different lumens are formed. In particular embodiments, a system for treating heart tissue can include a coronary sinus occlusion catheter configured for improved deliverability to the coronary sinus and for thereafter performing intermittent occlusion of the coronary sinus.
US10743775B2
A device for measuring a ventricular-arterial coupling of a subject includes first and second inputs. The first input receives signals from a plurality of electrocardiogram sensors that are coupled to the subject at a plurality of first locations. The second input receives signals from a plurality of photoplethysmogram sensors that are coupled to the subject at a plurality of second locations. The second locations are selected from the group consisting of a head of the subject, an arm of the subject, and a leg of the subject. The signals received from the electrocardiogram sensors and the signals received from the photoplethysmogram sensors are received simultaneously. The device also includes a monitor configured to display the signals from the electrocardiogram sensors and the signals from the photoplethysmogram sensors.
US10743764B2
A wide field fundus camera is disclosed to implement multiple illumination beam projectors and to capture multiple retinal images at a various viewing angles to mimic wide field retinal examination with an indirect ophthalmoscope. The wide field fundus camera may incorporate a consumer image recording device with fast auto focusing so as to make the device quick to respond and easy to use. The wide field fundus camera may include narrow and broad slit beam illuminations to enhance autofocusing and imaging through less transparent crystalline lens and through haze due to Purkinje reflections from crystalline lens surfaces. Control of multiple illumination beam projectors in a programmable manner can be used to assess alignment of each illumination beam projector with the eye and to capture said multiple retinal images. Furthermore, a method is disclosed to montage said multiple retinal images into a single montage and to remove haze and reflections.
US10743763B2
Methods for improved acquisition and processing of optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography data are presented. One embodiment involves improving the acquisition of the data by evaluating the quality of different portions of the data to identify sections having non-uniform acquisition parameters or non-uniformities due to opacities in the eye such as floaters. The identified sections can then be brought to the attention of the user or automatically reacquired. In another embodiment, segmentation of layers in the retina includes both structural and flow information derived from motion contrast processing. In a further embodiment, the health of the eye is evaluating by comparing a metric reflecting the density of vessels at a particular location in the eye determined by OCT angiography to a database of values calculated on normal eyes.
US10743756B2
Multi-spectrum ring illuminated surgical cameras and scopes having a ring lens and a plurality of LEDs. The LEDs set behind an electronic imaging sensor (camera) and positioned radially about the longitudinal axis of the lens and/or scope.
US10743752B2
An endoscope system includes a first capsule endoscope device and a second capsule endoscope device. The first capsule endoscope device is introduced into a living body before the second capsule endoscope device is introduced. The first capsule endoscope device includes a first image sensor and a first processor that controls an imaging operation by the first image sensor. The second capsule endoscope device includes a second image sensor and a second processor that performs a change process for control on an imaging operation by the second image sensor based on first information on the first capsule endoscope device.
US10743736B1
A handle-storable sponge mop for use at the end of a broom handle. The handle-storable sponge mop includes a sponge mop body shaped as a truncated square right prism having a leading face and a longest rectangular side which together form a leading beveled cleaning edge. A closed-end cylindrical channel extends partially into the sponge mop body perpendicularly through the square base face. The closed-end cylindrical channel receives and securely holds the handle end of the broom handle when the broom handle is fully inserted into the closed-end cylindrical channel. An open cylindrical channel extends completely through the sponge mop body, and can receive the broom handle such that the broom handle can pass through the open cylindrical channel so that the handle-storable sponge mop can be so stored on the broom handle. In some embodiments, the open cylindrical channel is in substantially perpendicular relationship with the closed-end cylindrical channel.
US10743727B2
To dry a hand with fingertips and a carpus, the palmar aspect and the dorsal aspect of the hand are blown dry, starting from the fingertips, by a pair of planar gas jets, wherein the gas jets of the pair run towards each other in the direction from the carpus to the fingertips at an angle of less than 180°. By applying high-voltage AC pulses with respect to ground to dielectrically shielded electrodes arranged next to both planar gas jets, direct discharges are obtained across the hand on the palmar aspect thereof and on the dorsal aspect thereof.
US10743718B2
A baby bath system including a bathing station assembly having a tub including an inner-volume, a plurality of side walls, an open top end, and a base, a shower head, a plurality of height adjustable legs each having a length, a first-end, and a second-end, a dispenser, a hose, and a drain. The plurality of height adjustable legs may be adjusted to allow a user to access the tub at a desired height without back strain. The device provides parents and guardians with a fully adjustable tub making it easier to bathe an infant.
US10743717B2
A method, system, apparatus, or device to protect a sink or a cabinet. An apparatus may include a substrate, a guard wall, a first fastening wall, and a second fastening wall. The substrate may extend along a plane and include a top surface and a bottom surface. The guard wall may extend along at least part of a perimeter of the substrate. The first fastening wall may extend downwardly from a first edge of the substrate. The second fastening wall may extend downwardly from a second edge of the substrate.
US10743716B2
The removable gripping device for an ear-shaped holding member of a kitchen utensil includes a case with a housing in the form of a slit with a height to at least partially accommodate the latter by nesting and with functional play. The case also has a latch able to occupy at least a locked position and an unlocked position in order, depending on the case, to block or free the removable gripping device on this holding member. In combination with and independently of the locking/unlocking function, at least one retaining pad extends at least partially in the slit-shaped housing so as to define, in the latter, at least one passage section adjusted to the thickness of the holding member. The pad, in its part at least extending in the housing is made from a flexible material to retract under stress.
US10743709B2
A multifunctional cooking and baking assembly, which comprises an upper housing and a lower housing hinged mutually, wherein the upper housing and the lower housing are respectively provided with a chamber, a griddle plate is arranged inside the chamber, the chambers of the upper housing and the lower housing are connected through a connecting passage in which the griddle plate can be placed. The multifunctional cooking and baking assembly of the invention can integrate the functions of closed baking and open broiling by rotating the upper housing and the lower housing to a preset angle to match with the type switch of the griddle plates, and also has the functions of pan baking, frying, deep frying, stir frying, heating, and unfreezing when an overall griddle plate is used.
US10743704B2
Provided are a beverage machine and a method for controlling the beverage machine. The beverage machine comprises: a machine body, a brewing mechanism, a frame, a boiler, a liquid pump, and a power supply board. The machine body further comprises a machine head, a body, and a base, connected in sequence from top to bottom; the brewing mechanism is detachably disposed on the machine head, and the brewing mechanism is provided with a brewing chamber; the frame is disposed within the body; the boiler, liquid pump, and power supply board are disposed on the frame; the boiler is connected to the brewing chamber, and the interior of the boiler is in communication with the external atmosphere; the liquid pump is connected between the boiler and the brewing chamber.
US10743691B2
Disclosed herein is an assistive shoe donning and doffing device comprising a heel support, a movable toe support and an inclined surface, which is rotatable to adjust an angle of the inclined surface. The inclined surface has at least a plantarflexion foot position, a neutral foot position and a dorsiflexion foot position. The foot positions may be preset, or the inclined surface is rotated in a continuous manner to reach said foot positions. The foot positions may be controlled remotely by a remote controller, a graphical user interface or by voice, and the donning device can sense the location of the shoe on the inclined surface.
US10743676B1
Method and apparatus for a device for cushioning the joint between two pieces of modular sectional furniture. The device has a top plate connected by a resilient member to a base support plate so that the base support plate can support the movable top plate so that when a user sits down on a piece of furniture made of individual joining sectional members the user will not feel discomfort from the space between the two pieces of furniture. The device is installed over adjacent frame members of the furniture.
US10743670B2
A portable chair may include a first front leg and a second front leg connected by a front sled and a first back leg and a second back leg connected by a back sled. The front sled may include a first front foot and a second front foot and the back sled may include a first back foot and a second back foot. Each of the feet attached to the front and back sleds may include retention feature holes configured to allow water to drain from the sled/foot interface. The portable chair may further include a seat including a seat frame border including a plurality of protrusions. The seat frame border may be rigidly attached to the seat via an injection molding process. In addition, the portable chair may have a cup holder assembly that can detachably attach to either of the front legs of the chair. The cup holder assembly may have a cup holder portion that can attach to a mounting base that is attached to the leg of the portable chair.
US10743664B2
An apparatus for supporting an object at a window of a building comprises a first member, a second member, and a third member. The first member extends along at least a partial width of the window and abuts an interior surface of the building. The first member is configured to support the object by exerting an outward force on the interior surface of the building in response to a downward force exerted by the object. The first member also comprises at least two sections extending from the interior of the building to the exterior of the building. These sections may extend from the interior of the building to the exterior of the building about respective distal ends of the first member. The sum of the forces applied on the surfaces of the building are sufficient to secure the object to the building.
US10743663B2
A mount may include a base having a socket. A leveler may be positioned within the socket and may be configured to be adjustably engaged to one of a plurality of posts of a shelving system. A fastener may secure the leveler to the socket. The leveler may be adjusted to change the height of the post in relation to other of the plurality of posts in the shelving system, and thereby level the shelving system.
US10743644B2
A cleaning brush comprises a removable handle and a brush. The removable handle includes a release actuator and release pin for attaching and detaching the handle from the brush. The brush has a rigid portion and a flexible portion. The flexible portion may include segments defined by channels in the flexible portion.
US10743643B2
The present wire brush is adapted to clean a grill grate and basically comprises and outer housing, a grate-engaging flange, a flexible bristle-receiving retainer and a plurality of wire bristles. The outer housing has upper and lower portions. The grate-engaging flange extends from the lower portion of the housing in generally perpendicular relation thereto. The flexible retainer is disposed in the upper portion of the housing. The bristles have upper portions embedded in the retainer and grate-engaging free ends that extend no more than one-half inch beyond the grate-engaging flange.
US10743640B2
The invention disclosed in this application is a non-invasive means for treatment of the nasolabial fold to decrease the prominence of the fold and provide a more youthful appearance. The invention is a pair of inserts that fills the canine fossa and thus decreases the indentation of the nasolabial fold. The inserts are held in place by the anatomical structure of the area. An optional connective piece between the two inserts may also be used to provide additional stability.
US10743633B2
A tool holder includes a body including a first half and a second half. The first half and the second half define an opening at a proximal end and an appliance cavity therebetween. A rotation element couples the first half of the body to the second half of the body. The first half and the second half are rotatable about an axis of rotation defined by the rotation element from a first configuration to a second configuration. In the first configuration the first half and the second half are in a facing relationship and define a cavity therebetween. In the second configuration the first half and the second half are in an end-to-end relationship and aligned on a longitudinal axis.
US10743626B2
An umbrella drawing-in by winding includes an umbrella fabric, a frame, a shaft and retracting assemblies. The frame includes a notch, a runner and a rib support set. A top end of the rib support set is secured at a top end of the shaft via the notch. A bottom end of the rib support set is secured on the shaft via the runner. The umbrella fabric has folds and is secured on the frame. The retracting assemblies are secured on one side of the folds.
US10743621B2
A lace-tightening device for a shoe lace in a shoe includes a rotating cam within a housing disposed within the shoe. The cam is connected to the opposite ends of the shoe lace and includes an outer surface for receiving the shoe lace as the cam rotates to pull the lace. A ratchet arm is slidably disposed within the housing and includes linear teeth arranged to engage the teeth of a driven gear as the ratchet arm translates in a linear direction, to rotate the gear in the one direction. The driven gear is part of a gear train connected to the cam to rotate the cam. The ratchet arm is pulled by at least one shape memory alloy (SMA) wire attached to a controller that is configured to execute a power cycle to energize and deenergize the SMA wire to thereby sequentially translate the ratchet arm in the linear direction, and ultimately to incrementally pull and tighten the shoe lace.
US10743617B2
Aspects hereof relate to a footwear upper formed from a plurality of tensile strands interwoven with a webbing material. The upper may have a bootie configuration. At least a portion of the strands may extend between a lateral-side portion of the upper and a medial-side portion of the upper and extend over an instep region and/or a sole region of the upper. The tensile strands may be bundled such that a plurality of strands forms a single weft or warp. Bundles having differing quantities of tensile strands may form a pattern on the upper that is effective for aiding conformance of the upper to a wearer's foot while enhancing ventilation and reducing water saturation. The tensile strands, whether singular or bundled, may be effective for transferring a load of a fastening mechanism through the woven upper while allowing the upper to have a desired degree of elasticity, support and/or comfort.
US10743611B2
A futuristic shoe with true energy return based on enhanced heel-lift, optimized shoe springs (40% reduction in maximum foot impact), practical precise automatic electronic gear changers, novel powerful shoe impact chargers, improved pulley electronic actuators, novel low-impact much stronger springs (featuring the novel use materials such as Kevlar, Spectra Shield, and fiberglass), novel remarkably stronger, more flexible, and tougher structures, and multiple designs for enhanced heel-lift and to prevent excessive toe sink. These designs require linkages and two improved hinges—one with enhanced natural hinges and a second with tied cogged hinges. There is a rotating-arms enhanced optimal spring, which when combined with the tied cogged hinges, results in optimal foldable arrays for deployment in outer space—and which gives a smart energy return knee brace. These novel capabilities promise a wide range of additional applications such as robotics, prosthetics, orthotics, springs, aerospace, automobiles, body armor, and earthquake retrofitting.
US10743591B1
A wireless brassiere with built-in shaping, lifting, and support system and methods includes, for example, a support band, an exterior support layer having lower edge portions connected to the support band and also having portions defining two concave shapes, an interior support layer having portions defining two breast cups and configured to be positioned between a front portion of the exterior support layer and the front of the torso of a wearer and also having lower edge portions connected to the support band. A continuous shoulder strap having an adjustable length includes a first portion that extends from the exterior support layer front portion to a slide coupled to a support band rear portion, loops slidably through the slide, and a second portion of the continuous shoulder strap extends from the slide to the interior support layer parallel with the first portion.
US10743588B2
The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices that may include components configured to convert electrical energy to heat and atomize an aerosol precursor composition. An outer body may at least partially enclose the components. An illumination source may be configured to output electromagnetic radiation. A wave guide may be configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation from the illumination source and illuminate the aerosol delivery device. The wave guide may define an increasing width from a first longitudinal end at which the electromagnetic radiation is received to an opposing second longitudinal end. Thereby, the wave guide may directly transmit the electromagnetic radiation across the entirety of the second longitudinal end to provide substantially even illumination at the second longitudinal end while employing less material and reducing the volume of space occupied by the wave guide as compared to cylindrical embodiments of wave guides. Related methods are also provided.
US10743587B2
An aerosol-generating system includes an aerosol-generating device and at least two consumables. Each consumable includes an aerosol-forming substrate. The aerosol-generating device further includes a device housing comprising at least two receiving chambers, wherein each consumable is accommodated in a separate receiving chamber of the at least two receiving chambers. The aerosol-generating device further includes at least two mouthpieces, wherein each mouthpiece of the at least two mouthpieces is aligned with a separate consumable of the at least two consumables and wherein the aerosol-generating device is configured to isolate airflows through separate, respective mouthpieces of the at least two mouthpieces.
US10743566B2
A system for preparing and dispensing a nitrogen infused beverage is provided. The system includes a beverage concentrate container in fluid connection, through a first flow controlling point, with a nitrogenated beverage liquid mixing point, a nitrogenated water supply in fluid connection, through a second flow controlling point, to said nitrogenated beverage liquid mixing point, wherein said nitrogenated water supply includes a water supply in fluid connection with a liquid/gas contactor unit having a controlled pressurized supply of a gas includes at least 50% by weight nitrogen supplied thereto, and a nitrogen infused beverage line in fluid connection from the nitrogenated beverage liquid mixing point to a beverage faucet of a faucet tower, wherein the beverage faucet is a faucet such that the infused beverage in the nitrogen infused beverage line remains under pressure during dispense of the beverage from the faucet. The beverage may be any non-carbonated liquid and in one embodiment the beverage is coffee. The dispensed N2 or N2/CO2 gas infused chilled coffee has a unique appearance and enhanced flavor and aroma.
US10743563B2
A frozen beverage dispenser includes a housing, a hopper configured to store a beverage product, a freezing chamber, a front cover removably coupled to the housing, a refrigeration system, an auger positioned within the freezing chamber, a drive configured to rotate the auger, an air inlet formed near the bottom of the housing, a single air outlet formed near the rear and the top of the housing, a fan for drawing air through the air inlet into the interior of the housing and exhausting air from the interior of the housing through the single air outlet, a spigot fluidly coupled to the freezing chamber, the spigot including a valve and an outlet wherein with the valve in a closed position, frozen beverage does not pass through the valve and with the valve in an open position, frozen beverage passes through the valve and exits through the outlet of the spigot.
US10743558B2
The invention relates to a device and method for transferring an aroma from a aroma providing substance to a an aroma-adsorbing substance by a gas flow and without the aroma-providing substance and the aroma-adsorbing substance getting in direct contact.
US10743554B1
Method and apparatus for a mitt for attachment to a hand of a user to facilitate the shucking of an oyster. The mitt is made of strong flexible material and includes a flat palm pad portion having a plurality of finger loops attached thereto so that the fingers of the hand of a user can be placed through the loops so that the palm pad portion can be held securely to the hand of the user. The palm pad includes a rear portion disposed near a wrist of a user having an adjustable strap attached thereto which encircles the wrist of the user for securing the mitt to the hand of the user and includes hook and loop material. A reinforcing planar member is attached to an underside of the palm pad portion for reinforcing the palm pad portion and for contacting and gripping the shell of an oyster.
US10743548B2
Food products, apparatus, systems and methods in which a pocketed bun is produced by supplying compressed air into a portion of bread dough to produce an air pocket, cooking the portion to produce an at least partially cooked bun, and cutting the bun into at least two pieces, with each piece having a cavity. Air can be delivered directly inside the portion of bread dough through a tube or to an expandable object (e.g., a balloon). Preferably, the portion of bread dough is placed into an expandable mold controlled by at least an arm operated by a processor. Batches of pocketed buns can be produced by utilizing a device having multiple molds inside a chamber, and multiple stacked chambers or a shelf with multiple floors.
US10743547B2
The invention relates to methods for preparing a concentrated sabadilla extract and to methods of its use as a pesticide.
US10743541B2
The invention relates to a process for reducing the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of a biocide against at least one strain of bacteria and/or at least one strain of yeast and/or at least one strain of mould in an aqueous preparation. The invention further relates to the use of a water soluble source of lithium ions for reducing the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of a biocide against at least one strain of bacteria and/or at least one strain of yeast and/or at least one strain of mould in an aqueous preparation.
US10743539B2
Provided is a process for preparing an alcoholic solution of a polyvinylpyridine polymer having biocidal and biocompatibility properties. The alcoholic solution is ready-to-graft in order to confer biocidal properties to various surfaces and to prevent biofilm formation on such surfaces. Also provided are methods of using the alcoholic solution, such as for controlling the growth of bacteria, fungi and/or viruses, and/or for preventing digestion of wood cellulose by wood-boring insects.
US10743538B2
Disclosed are peptides that induce an active plant response, but not a hypersensitive response, when applied to plant tissue. These peptides also preferably exhibit improved solubility, stability, resistance to chemical degradation, or a combination of these properties. Use of these peptides or fusion polypeptides, or DNA constructs encoding the same, for modulating plant biochemical signaling, imparting disease resistance to plants, enhancing plant growth, imparting tolerance to biotic stress, imparting tolerance and resistance to abiotic stress, imparting desiccation resistance to cuttings removed from ornamental plants, imparting post-harvest disease or post-harvest desiccation resistance to a fruit or vegetable, or enhancing the longevity of fruit or vegetable ripeness are also disclosed.
US10743528B1
A portable bait container with adjustable luminosity has an openable casing to access a receptacle for storing baits. Casing is provided with a handle to conveniently carry and handle container from one place to another. Container further includes a first illuminating device that illuminates surrounding and hence enable user to easily view the ground and search for fishing baits such as worms or night-crawlers. Actuating switch is provided on handle for its easy access which actuates and de-actuates first illuminating device. Intensity of first illuminating device is controlled by using dimmer adjuster that enables user to manipulate intensity and hence provides maximum opportunity for collecting fishing baits. Container is portable, easy to handle by a single user to perform various bait collection operations and has adjustable luminosity for viewing surrounding at desired light intensity and thus reduces opportunity loss during collection of fishing baits.
US10743521B2
Leash control device for attachment to multiple leashes permitting a dog walker to walk dogs of different sizes and temperaments and inhibits leash tangling An elongated tubular body has a bottom and a cover, both the bottom and the cover having aligned tracks. The bottom track has indentations in the nature of stops spaced at intervals. Leash attachment members are positioned into the bottom tracks, and telescope with respect to the tracks. Leashes are attached to the leash attachment members. The leash attachment members have upright handle locks that interact with the indentations on the bottom tracks thereby being locked in place. The cover may be closed, with the upright locking handles protruding through the tracks on the cover. By telescoping the leash attachment members in and out of the elongated tubular body, the length of each individual leash is selected.
US10743519B2
A method for distributing feed over multiple separate feeding locations includes determining which feeding locations have a feed requirement; selecting a first feeding location among the feeding locations having a feed requirement; determining a feed composition to be delivered to the first feeding location; determining which further feeding locations have a feed requirement and require the same feed composition; selecting at least one further feeding location; filling the feed delivery device with an amount of the determined feed composition; and distributing the feed, wherein the amount of feed distributed to a selected feeding location depends on the ratio between amount to be delivered to said selected feeding location and the sum of the amounts of feed to be delivered to all selected feeding locations.
US10743509B2
The cotton variety ST 6448GLB2 is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 6448GLB2 with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 6448GLB2 and to plants of ST 6448GLB2 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 6448GLB2.
US10743481B2
A grass sports ground is produced by mixing man-made vitreous fibres into soil having relatively high loam levels at a rate in the range 0.5 to 50 parts by weight per 100 parts soil (dry weight), preferably in the presence of moisture to separate the fibres and distribute them among soil particles, and then growing grass. The soil/fibre mixture has desirable moisture management properties as well as good mechanical characteristics providing extended use characteristics even in cold, wet or hot and dry conditions.
US10743478B2
A natural fiber felt is provided, which is a film formed by processes of binding a natural fiber net with a binder, extruding, drying and shaping the natural fiber net. A surface of the film is coated with a waterproof layer. The foam binder is formed by combining modified starch serving as a binder and urea serving as a foaming agent with water. A water-repellent agent fruit wax emulsion is employed to form the waterproof layer. The natural fiber net is carded by a carding machine at one time, and the foam binder is sprayed onto the natural fiber net to bind the natural fiber net so as to form the film. The product has characteristics of ultra-thinness and high strength with good performances on heat preservation, moisturizing ability, waterproof and air permeability.
US10743469B2
A material collection system sensor assembly for a material collection system including a collection container having a clipping receiving chamber and at least one wall with a generally rigid portion and a chute inlet defined in the generally rigid portion. The sensor assembly includes a capacitive sensor positioned on the generally rigid portion of an external side of the wall. The capacitive sensor creates an electric field that extends into the clipping receiving chamber. A microcontroller is associated with the sensor and at least one indicator. The microcontroller is configured to activate at least one indicator when clippings within the clippings chamber are consistently within the electric field and thereby trigger the capacitive sensor.
US10743465B2
A header for an agricultural harvester comprising a frame and first and second anteriorly facing, epicyclical cutter bar knife drives connected to the frame. A roller shaft extends between and operatively connects the first and second epicyclical drives. The roller shaft operates to deliver to crop material to a header infeed conveyor. In addition, the anteriorly facing epicyclical knife drives effectively rid themselves of harmful dirt and debris thereby prolonging the service life of the epicyclical knife drives.
US10743455B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for adjusting the depth of a trench opened by a row unit of an agricultural planter. The row unit includes a trench depth adjustment assembly configured to modify the furrow depth. In one embodiment, the depth adjustment assembly may include a gear box having one or more gears which engage with a gear rack. The gear box may be pivotally connected to a depth adjustment body supporting a rocker that adjusts upward travel of gauge wheel arms. In another embodiment, the depth adjustment assembly may include a depth adjustment arm having a screw receiver that cooperates with a driven screw that adjusts the position of the depth adjustment arm acting on the gauge wheels to adjust trench depth.
US10750649B2
A component mounting system and a method for inspecting mounted components are provided. A component mounting system according to an embodiment, comprises a solder inspection apparatus comparing coordinate information of the solder, which is obtained through measurement of a substrate to which solder is applied, with reference coordinate information to generate coordinate correction data; and a first mounting inspection apparatus comparing a first measurement data obtained by measuring mounting state of a component when the component is mounted based on the coordination correction data through a component mounting apparatus, with the coordinate correction data to verify whether a component is mounted on a position corrected based on the coordinate correction data. In this manner, by adding the verification function for the performance function of the component mounting apparatus to the inspection apparatus, it is possible to monitor the operation state of the component mounting apparatus in each process step.
US10750646B2
An electromagnetic shield component that includes a first tube that has conductivity; a flexible shield; and a second tube externally fitted to the first tube with the flexible shield disposed between the first tube and the second tube, wherein: a protrusion is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the second tube over an entire length of the inner circumferential surface in a circumferential direction, the protrusion protruding toward the flexible shield and holding the flexible shield in a pressed state between the first tube and the second tube, and an outer circumferential surface of the protrusion is smoother than an outer circumferential surface of a portion of the second tube where the protrusion is not formed.
US10750644B2
A server device is provided with a fan module that includes a removable or reconfigurable partition for different size fan units based on system requirements. The chassis can include a plurality of sleds and a fan module. The fan module includes a removable partition that can be configured to house a plurality of fan units.
US10750639B2
An example cooling system is described herein. The cooling system can include a first cold plate including a first heat pipe to couple to a side of a dual in-line memory module (DIMM) where the first heat pipe transfers heat from the DIMM to the first cold plate; and a second cold plate including a second heat pipe to couple to the side of the DIMM, where the second heat pipe transfers heat from the DIMM to the second cold plate.
US10750637B1
A removable immersion cooling infrastructure module can have a form factor equivalent to that of one or more of the computing devices being cooled by immersion cooling, thereby enabling the immersion cooling infrastructure module to be installed and removed in the same simplified and efficient manner. Moreover, the quantity of immersion cooling infrastructure modules can be varied depending on need, since the immersion cooling infrastructure modules and computing devices can be interchangeable within the openings designed to house the computing devices. An immersion cooling infrastructure module can comprise a filter, a pump that can circulate the immersion cooling liquid through the filter, a power supply and a controller, with the module receiving power, and, optionally, communications and other like connectivity, from the same source as the computing devices.
US10750634B2
Provided are a rack mount server system, which has no damage to computation equipment even if a disorder occurs in a cooling device, which is easy to maintain, minimize power consumption, which has a simple structure, and which performs an efficient cooling, and a control method thereof. The system comprises: a rack housing; and a cooling zone which is placed in the rack housing, which stores a server, and which is forcibly cooled. The rack housing comprises a heat exchanger and an evaporator, which cool the cooling zone. The cooling methods of the cooling structure may be different in accordance with the internal temperature of the cooling zone and the external temperature of the cooling zone.
US10750632B1
A datacenter component rack may be used to mount electronic components. The datacenter component rack may include support surfaces which are evenly spaced on each side of the component rack. The support surfaces may form uniform slots for receiving the electronic components. The electronic components may include flanges for mounting the electronic components in the uniform slots. The flanges may be on each side of the electronic component and engage the support surfaces in the datacenter component rack. The flanges may support the electronic component after they have engaged with the support surfaces.
US10750627B2
A power module includes a number of sub-modules connected via removable jumpers. The removable jumpers allow the connections between one or more power semiconductor die in the sub-modules to be reconfigured, such that when the removable jumpers are provided, the power module has a first function, and when the removable jumpers are removed, the power module has a second function. The removable jumpers may also allow for independent testing of the sub-modules. The power module may also include a multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB), which is used to connect one or more contacts of the power semiconductor die. The multi-layer PCB reduces stray inductance between the contacts and therefore improves the performance of the power module.
US10750620B2
Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for connecting a flexible circuit to a battery. Conductive pads are formed simultaneous with mounting and reflowing circuitry components on a flexible circuit, where the conductive pads serve as preformed tabs capable of being joined to terminals of a battery. The flexible circuit can be bent in a manner so that the conductive pads are positioned adjacent to the positive and negative terminals of a battery, such as a coin cell battery. The conductive pads can be attached to the terminals to form a cost-efficient and space-efficient design connecting the battery to the flexible circuit.
US10750618B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for fabricating a circuit board. The method includes fabricating, using an additive manufacturing device, a trace layer, a sacrificial layer, a rail layer and a lid. The method includes placing the sacrificial layer on the trace layer such that the raised traces protrude through corresponding openings of the sacrificial layer. The method includes depositing a conductive material on top of the sacrificial layer and the plurality of traces. The method includes removing the sacrificial layer from the trace layer and placing the rail layer on the trace layer such that the raised traces align with the corresponding openings of the rail layer. The method includes connecting one or more electrical components and melting a sealing sheet on top of the rail layer and the electrical components to reinforce connections and to provide protection. The method includes placing the lid on top of the sealing sheet.
US10750610B2
A printed circuit board may include a controller socket, first and second sockets provided on a top surface, third and fourth sockets provided on a bottom surface, and first, second, and third branching points. The first branching point may be spaced apart from the controller socket by a first distance in a horizontal direction parallel to the top surface and may be electrically connected to the controller socket. The second branching point may be spaced apart from the first branching point by a second distance longer than the first distance and may be electrically connected to the first branching point, the first and third sockets. The third branching point may be spaced apart from the first branching point by a third distance longer than the first distance and may be electrically connected to the first branching point, the second and fourth sockets.
US10750609B2
In a structure for mounting a shielded module on a printed wiring board, the shielded module includes a mounting substrate, a shielding layer, and a solder layer. Electronic components are mounted on a main surface of the mounting substrate. The shielding layer is provided in an area from above the mounting substrate to a side surface of the mounting substrate and covers the electronic components. The solder layer is provided on a side surface of the shielding layer. The shielding layer is connected to a surface electrode located on the printed wiring board via the solder layer. The surface of the solder layer is depressed.
US10750588B2
A light engine is disclosed in which the light engine contains a core comprising an opening extending completely through the core and independently addressable LED segments. The opening defines an inner surface of the core. Each segment has multiple LEDs. A PCB contains a body adjacent to one of an inner or outer surface of the core and to which the LED segments are attached and legs extending from the body and bent to be adjacent and traverse to the other of the inner or outer surface. Each leg is associated with a different LED segment. Control circuitry is connected with the legs of the flexible PCB and independently controls parameters of the LED segments to provide a preset illumination distribution and intensity based on user input.
US10750586B2
Disclosed is a horticultural luminaire, a horticultural lighting arrangement including a plurality of the horticultural luminaires, and a method for controlling the horticultural lighting arrangement. The horticultural luminaire includes a main light emitting unit including at least one LED for generating a main spectrum, an environmental sensor for measuring environmental data, and control electronics for determining a position data representing position of the horticultural luminaire, sending out the environmental data and the position data, receiving control data, and controlling the emission intensity of the main light emitting unit on the basis of the control data.
US10750585B2
A luminaire driver system comprising: a package with input connections for connection to a power supply and output connections for connection to a light emitting device; a predetermined set of circuits arranged in said package; said predetermined set of circuits being adapted to perform a driving functionality of the light emitting device; a receiving means configured for receiving a pluggable module comprising a further circuit, such that the pluggable module can be received from outside of the package, wherein the further circuit is connected to the predetermined set of circuits when the pluggable module is plugged in the receiving means; and connections which are connected to the further circuit when the pluggable module is plugged in the receiving means; wherein the connections are accessible by a user from outside of the package.
US10750578B2
An assembled media line including a media line, at least one first line connector and at least one first sheathing system, where the media line has a first end and a second end and where the at least one line connector is connected to one of the first and the second end of the media line and the at least one first sheathing system at least partially surrounds the media line, which media line is not dimensionally stable. A contour shaping cap device including at least two parts which together build, at least in sections, a media line surrounding sheath for contour shaping the media line, where the at least two parts are generally bending resistant and have elements for connecting them to one another.
US10750564B2
Wireless communications using multiple active resources (e.g., bandwidth parts (BWPs)) are described. A wireless device may perform failure event detection, such as radio link monitoring (RLM) and/or beam failure detection (BFD), jointly or separately for multiple active resources (e.g., BWPs) based on one or more criteria.
US10750555B2
When a plurality of managing apparatuses which manage communication parameters exists, there is a case where the wrong communication parameters are set into a communicating apparatus. When the communication parameters are set between the managing apparatus which manages the communication parameters and the communicating apparatus, if a plurality of managing apparatuses in a setting state of the communication parameters into the communicating apparatus is detected, the managing apparatus in the setting state is notified that the plurality of managing apparatuses in the setting state exists. Whether or not the setting of the communication parameters is continued is discriminated, thereby continuing or stopping the setting of the communication parameters.
US10750553B2
A disclosed method is performed at a first node providing mobile services to a user equipment (UE) over an access network (AN). The first node receives a setup request from UE to be connected to a network over an AN. The first node then sends a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the first node over a first interface terminated by the first node to an access and mobility management function (AMF). The first node further triggers the AMF to transmit a session establishment request to a session management function (SMF) including the FQDN of the first node, where in response, the SMF selects second node(s) in the network collocated with the first node based at least in part on a topology match of FQDNs. The first node then provides UE access to the network over the AN through the collocated first node and the node(s).
US10750548B2
A method for performing out of band diagnostics and maintenance of lighting system elements. An out of band connection is established via a wireless out of band channel with one of the lighting system elements and the mobile device. The wireless out of band channel is separate and distinct from a wireless lighting operations channel of a wireless lighting control network connecting the lighting system elements.
US10750541B1
An information handling system may include a network interface device; an antenna communicatively coupled to the network interface device to communicatively couple the information handling system to a wireless network device; and an antenna optimization system to selectively switch the antenna between an omni-directional antenna electromagnetic radiation pattern during listening periods for channel occupancy during collision avoidance protocol to a directed electromagnetic radiation pattern emission during data transmissions directed to the wireless network device.
US10750537B2
Embodiments provide a data transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device from the initial transmission resource block set by means of contention, an initial transmission resource block used by the terminal device to initially transmit to-be-transmitted data, and initially transmitting the to-be-transmitted data by using the initial transmission resource block; receiving, by the terminal device, a negative acknowledgement that is sent by the network device and that is for the to-be-transmitted data; determining, by the terminal device from the retransmission resource block set, a retransmission resource block used to retransmit the to-be-transmitted data; and retransmitting, by the terminal device, the to-be-transmitted data by using the retransmission resource block.
US10750535B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating over a data path. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) device to generate a message including an indication of a plurality of communication resources and one or more availability type indications corresponding to the plurality of communication resources, an availability type indication corresponding to a communication resource is configured to indicate an availability mode of the NAN device to communicate data over a data path using the communication resource; and to transmit the message.
US10750534B2
Data transfer method and apparatus for use in a mobile communication system are provided. Method to adjust uplink transmission timing includes receiving system information from a base station, receiving RRC message from the base station, receiving Timing Advance Command from the base station, determining N_TA and TAG for uplink timing adjustment and adjusting uplink transmission timing of the TAG according to N_TA.
US10750533B2
A method for transmitting an uplink signal for a terminal configured to support one or more transmission time interval (TTI) lengths in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention, which is supported by a terminal, may comprise the steps of: receiving uplink grant for a plurality of cells; and if transmission timing of an uplink data channel and transmission timing of an uplink control channel according to the uplink grant overlap, transmitting uplink control information, depending on a relationship between a TTI length of the uplink data channel and a TTI length of the uplink control channel, through the uplink control channel or an uplink data channel of one cell among the plurality of cells.
US10750523B1
Systems and methods for allowing multiple user devices to access a wireless local area network are disclosed. A user device receives supplemental scheduling information that is generated based on telemetry data collected from multiple access points of a data network. The user device requests an access point of the data network for accessing the wireless local area network according to a wireless usage type. The wireless usage type is determined based on an application running on the user device and the supplemental scheduling information. The user device receives an allocation of time-frequency divisions for accessing the wireless local area network from the access point.
US10750522B2
Methods and apparatus to handle enhanced distributed channel access parameters are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a frame generator to generate a data frame instructing a station to operate using a multi-user enhanced distributed channel access (MU EDCA); a communication scheduler to instruct radio architecture to transmit the data frame to the station; the frame generator to generate a buffer status request requesting a buffer status of the station; and the communication scheduler to: instruct radio architecture to transmit the buffer status request to the station; and when a response to the buffer status request corresponds to a non-null queue, scheduling the station to operate using EDCA.
US10750514B2
A technique is provided that makes it possible to diversely control a radio network based on status other than that of the radio network. A network control apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first means for acquiring status related to a second network, which is accessed via a first network which wirelessly transfers data; and a second means for controlling at least one base station of the first network based on the status so as to change a relation of connection between the at least one base station and the second network.
US10750502B2
Signal processing complexity in fifth generation (5G) networks can be reduced by communicating wireless signals over self-contained partitions of a carrier such that the wireless transmission communicated over each self-contained partition of the carrier includes all physical control channel signaling required to decode data carried in a physical data channel of the partition. The control signaling may include resource assignment within the partition, modulation and coding scheme indication, reference signal configuration and retransmission information. In some embodiments, an anchor partition of a carrier is used to communicate initial access information for self-contained partitions of the carrier. The initial access information may include center-frequencies, bandwidths, and/or air interface configurations of the self-contained partitions. The anchor partition may also carry load indications associated with the self-contained partitions.
US10750486B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a terminal device including a reception unit configured to receive a first set of information used for permitting simultaneous transmission of a CSI and a HARQ-ACK using PUCCH format (3), and receive a second set of information used for permitting simultaneous transmission of a CSI and a HARQ-ACK using PUCCH format (4). The terminal device may also include a transmission unit for transmitting a HARQ-ACK and/or a CSI. Based at least on whether the first set of information, the second set of information, and the HARQ-ACK correspond to a PDSCH transmission on a secondary cell with a cell index less than or equal to a first predetermined value or whether the HARQ-ACK corresponds to a PDSCH transmission on a secondary cell with a cell index greater than the first predetermined value, processing operations related to HARQ-ACK and/or CSI transmission may be executed.
US10750477B2
A mobile communication system and a communication method are provided in which, a base station apparatus can efficiently allocate, to a mobile station apparatus, an uplink resource for transmitting information indicating an ACK/NACK for downlink data. The mobile station apparatus that communicates with the base station apparatus, comprising: a scheduling unit configured to determine two physical uplink control channel resources for a transmission using a physical downlink shared channel in a case that a downlink transmission mode that supports the transmission of up to two downlink transport blocks using the physical downlink shared channel is configured for the secondary cell, and a physical downlink control channel that indicates the transmission using the physical downlink shared channel on the secondary cell is detected on the secondary cell.
US10750476B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for use of SS transmitted using a UE-specific configuration of time-frequency resources. A BS may assign at least one UE-specific configuration, wherein the UE-specific configuration comprises an allocation of resources for a UE-specific SS for mobility management purposes. The BS may communicate with the UE based, at least in part, on the UE-specific configuration. A UE may correspondingly receive the UE-specific configuration and communicate with a BS based, at least in part, on the configuration.
US10750473B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.The present application provides a method for light connection control for a User Equipment (UE), comprising the following steps of: acquiring, by a first radio access network node, light connection information for a UE; storing, by the first radio access network node, the acquired light connection Information; and, performing, by the first radio access network node, light connection control of the UE based on the acquired light connection information for the UE. By adopting the technical scheme disclosed in the present application, the signaling overhead can be saved, and the delay of the UE access network can be reduced.
US10750472B2
There are provided: a first communication device; a second communication device that communicates wirelessly with the first communication device; and a state detector that outputs state data indicating a state of a predetermined installation place. The first communication device includes: a storage; and a data controller that selectively executes a transmitting operation to transmit the state data to the second communication device and a storing operation to store the state data in the storage. The second communication device includes a signal generator that generates a stop notification signal notifying that the second communication device in operation stops an operation, and stops the operation after transmitting the stop notification signal to the first communication device. The data controller executes the transmitting operation before the stop notification signal is transmitted from the second communication device, and executes the storing operation after the stop notification signal is transmitted from the second communication device.
US10750465B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to allow exchange of synchronization sequences in a manner substantially agnostic of a configuration of the transmitter by provisioning of an in indication whether or not synchronization sequences may be combined with other synchronization sequences.
US10750458B2
A wireless device receives at least one message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells grouped into a plurality of timing advance groups (TAGs). A TAG is configurable to consist of one or more downlink-only cells if the wireless device has a first capability, otherwise each TAG comprises one or more downlink-uplink cells. The wireless device receives at least one timing advance command (TAC) for a first TAG. The wireless device applies the TAC to uplink transmission timing of at least one downlink-uplink cell in the first TAG.
US10750454B2
A high-frequency signal processing apparatus and a wireless communication apparatus can achieve a decrease in power consumption. For example, when an indicated power level to a high-frequency power amplifier is equal to or greater than a second reference value, envelope tracking is performed by causing a source voltage control circuit to control a high-speed DCDC converter using a detection result of an envelope detecting circuit and causing a bias control circuit to indicate a fixed bias value. The source voltage control circuit and the bias control circuit indicate a source voltage and a bias value decreasing in proportion to a decrease in the indicated power level when the indicated power level is in a range of the second reference value to the first reference value, and indicate a fixed source voltage and a fixed bias value when the indicated power level is less than the first reference value.
US10750445B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate target wake time management between access points and devices. An example station based apparatus to facilitate target wake time operations between an access point and the station includes a data manager to determine at least one of a quantity of uplink data to be sent by the station or a quantity of downlink data to be received by the station, a connection manager to schedule a connection of the station to a device different than the access point, and a target wake time negotiator in communication with a component interface to at least one of receive a signal from or distribute a signal to the access point, the signal to modify a service period of the target wake time based on at least one of the quantity of uplink data, the quantity of downlink data, or the scheduled connection.
US10750435B2
In some examples, a wireless device includes a communication interface to communicate with a wireless network, and at least one processor configured to, while the wireless device is in a pre-associated state, receive, from the wireless network, information including a network address policy of the wireless network. The at least one processor is configured to further, in response to the information including the network address policy, use an address of the wireless device according to the network address policy.
US10750434B2
Methods and apparatuses indicate and identify quasi co-located reference signal ports. A method of identifying by a UE includes identifying, from downlink control information, a CSI-RS port that is quasi co-located with a DM-RS port assigned to the UE. The method includes identifying large scale properties for the assigned DM-RS port based on large scale properties for the CSI-RS port. The method includes performing channel estimation and/or time/frequency synchronization using the identified large scale properties for the DM-RS port. Another method for identifying by a UE includes identifying, from downlink control information, a CRS port that is quasi co-located with a CSI-RS port configured for the UE. The method includes identifying large scale properties for the configured CSI-RS port based on large scale properties for the CRS port. The method includes performing channel estimation and/or time/frequency synchronization using the identified large scale properties for the CSI-RS port.
US10750429B2
There is provided a technique that enables flexible response to system configurations, application, and aims in a wireless connection sensor network system. A multihop wireless communication system includes an aggregation device and multiple wireless terminals connected to the aggregation device in wireless connection. The aggregation device includes, in a data request packet to request the data, a communication requirement to transmit data, and transmits the data request packet to the wireless terminal to be a data request destination terminal through the wireless terminal to be a relay terminal. The relay terminal and the data request destination terminal transmit a data packet including the requested data to the aggregation device in accordance with the communication requirement.
US10750427B2
A repeater system for relaying wireless communications between a base station and one or more devices having: a repeater to relay network information from a base station to one or more devices; a donor antenna configured to receive and/or transmit network information between the repeater and the base station; a power supply external to the repeater; and, a server antenna integrated with the power supply, the server antenna configured to receive and/or transmit network information between the repeater and the one or more devices.
US10750424B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for inter-RAT mobility from a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second RAT, including cases in which different RATs correspond to different generations of networks. Approaches described herein include providing a preemptive indication of inter-RAT mobility for one or more geographic areas such to a user equipment (UE). The UE can thus use a mobility procedure to transition from the first RAT to the second RAT that is supported in the UE's location without first attempting an unsupported mobility procedure, reducing transition latency.
US10750423B2
Multiple mobile cellular network (MCN) communication systems can be networked together to form a network of MCN communication systems (NOM). Each MCN communication system within the NOM can operate as an independent cellular network to provide communications between user equipment within a covered area. When a UE in one MCN of the NOM moves into a different MCN of the NOM, the corresponding MCN communication systems can handover the UE. The UE can also be handed over between MCN communication systems when the MCN communication systems move.
US10750417B2
A Machine-to-machine (M2M) terminal (11) comprises a radio communication unit (111) and a controller (112). The radio communication unit (111) is configured to communicate with a base station (13). The controller (112) is configured to change at least one of a cell selection operation, a cell reselection operation, and a handover operation according to whether a specific coverage enhancement processing is required or according to whether the specific coverage enhancement processing is supported by at least one of a cell (13) in which the M2M terminal (11) camps on and a neighbouring cell (14) of the cell (13) which the M2M terminal (11) camps on. It is thus possible to provide an improved technique for allowing the M2M terminal that is supporting a special coverage enhancement processing for M2M terminals to camp on an appropriate cell.
US10750416B1
While a device is served on a first wireless connection on a first carrier that has a first center frequency, a determination will be made that a threshold high probability of precipitation is forecast for a location of the first wireless connection. In response to at least that determination, but before the forecast precipitation occurs, the device will then be reconfigured from being served on the first wireless connection on the first carrier to instead being served on a second wireless connection on a second carrier that has a second center frequency lower than the first center frequency, with the reconfiguring being based on the second center frequency being lower than the first center frequency. Proactively switching the device to a lower carrier based on the prediction of precipitation may help to minimize rain fade and associated issues.
US10750415B2
A wireless network infrastructure, comprising static and roaming mobile nodes (including one or more types of access-points), avoids unnecessary handoffs and unstable RF regions, and enables at least selected context-aware-capable mobile nodes to provide context-aware services to connected clients. More particularly, each of at least selected static nodes is enabled to provide the context-aware-capable mobile nodes with context information regarding the static node's relative position and direction, details of information served by the static node, special flags indicative of relevant impending changes in the foregoing parameters, and a range of signal strength values defining a stable RF zone for associated mobile nodes. Each context-aware-capable mobile node accordingly creates a context map that at least in part enables determination of the mobile node's next change in static node association and the preferred timing for the change.
US10750404B2
Systems and methods for providing mobile network guidance to applications communicating with devices via a mobile network.
US10750401B2
A method by which a station (STA) transmits a frame including a buffer state report (BSR) in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: configuring the BSR of the STA to a first control sub-field among one or more control sub-fields aggregated in an aggregated-control (A-control) field; and transmitting the A-control field through a high throughput (HT) control filed included in a MAC header of the frame, wherein the first control sub-field for the BSR is configured as a short BSR when a second control sub-field in the A-control field includes uplink power headroom information of the STA.
US10750400B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for communicating data between a user-equipment and network entity. For example, certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving a message comprising a data packet from a user equipment (UE) during a communication session, and detecting whether the data packet is the last data packet for transmission or reception by the UE during the communication session. In certain aspects, the method also includes determining whether to process or discard the data packet based on the detection and whether a backoff timer is to be sent to the UE, and processing or discarding the data packet based on the determination.
US10750396B2
System and method embodiments are provided for signaling reference signals and Channel State Information (CSI) feedback for wireless communications. An embodiment method implemented by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communications measurements and CSI feedback includes receiving, from a network, at least one of a first index that indicates a corresponding non-zero-power CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resource, a second index that indicates a corresponding zero-power CSI-RS resource, a third index that indicates a corresponding CSI-RS resource for interference measurement, and a fourth index that indicates a corresponding channel quality indicator (CQI) report configuration. The method also includes receiving, from the network, at least one of a fifth index that indicates a corresponding periodic CQI report in accordance with the CQI report configuration indicated by the fourth index, and a sixth index that indicates a corresponding aperiodic CQI report in accordance with the CQI report configuration indicated by the fourth index.
US10750389B2
A radio terminal (2) is used in a radio communication system (100) and communicates with a radio station (1). The radio terminal (2) includes a measurement unit (20). The measurement unit (20) operates to perform, using a terminal measurement procedure for executing a first terminal measurement corresponding to radio access technology applied to the radio communication system (100), a second terminal measurement of a shared frequency shared by a plurality of radio systems including the radio communication system (100).
US10750378B2
Disclosed is a system and methods for creating and maintaining a virtual subnetwork of telecommunication base stations within a wider telecommunication network. In an LTE-based example, the subnetwork includes a connection aggregator that is coupled between the plurality of eNodeBs internal to the subnetwork and one or more MMEs in the outer network. The connection aggregator intercepts all control plane messages between the MMEs and the internal eNodeBs, remaps eNodeB identifiers, and transmits repackaged messages so that the outer network sees the entire subnetwork as a single “giant” eNodeB. The disclosed system and methods enables the operator of the virtual subnetwork to add and shut down eNodeBs as demand for connectivity fluctuates, and to do so such that all changes are unseen by the outer network.
US10750375B2
Techniques for time-division multiplexing for extending 5th Generation (5G) network coverage are described herein. In an example, a device operating in a dual transmission mode for transmitting data via a first network node associated with a 5G network and a second network node associated with a 4th Generation (4G) network at or near a same time, can determine a measurement associated with a transmission and/or receiving characteristic. The device can determine that the measurement meets or exceeds a threshold and, based at least in part on determining that the measurement meets or exceeds the threshold, the device can transition to an alternating transmission mode for transmitting data via the first network node and the second network node in an alternating pattern thereby extending 5G network coverage.
US10750374B1
A method determines a topology modification for a geographical area; determines a set of coverage region(s) in the geographical area that are adjacent to a target coverage region, the target coverage region being associated with a first regionalized server configured to communicate with vehicular traffic in the target coverage region, the set of coverage region(s) being respectively associated with a set of second regionalized server(s), each second regionalized server being configured to communicate with vehicular traffic in a corresponding coverage region of the set of coverage region(s); determines that a region count of the set of coverage region(s) satisfies a region count threshold; responsive to determining that the region count of the set of coverage region(s) satisfies the region count threshold, determines a morphing portion for each coverage region in the set of coverage region(s); and morphs the set of coverage region(s) based on the corresponding morphing portions.
US10750367B2
A host device can establish a verified session with a wearable device. The host device can determine whether the verified session is in progress. In accordance with a determination that the verified session is in progress, the host device can provide a user interface to request confirmation that the identifier is to be provided to the wearable device. The host device can receive an input at the user interface and, in accordance with a determination that the input indicates a confirmation that the identifier is to be provided to the wearable device, the host can identify a user identifier to provide to the wearable device, and transmit the user identifier to the wearable device.
US10750364B2
In one example of the technology, a first third-party service is registered with the IoT support service. A first IoT device of a plurality of IoT devices is caused to be provisioned with the IoT support service. An authentication token is received for the first IoT device. The authentication token is based on an authentication of the first IoT device with the first third-party service. The authentication token is verified. The first IoT device is authenticated with the IoT support service based on the verification.
US10750356B2
The present document discloses a method, apparatus and system for a terminal configuration service of the Internet of Things, the method includes: receiving a management operation or capability of a terminal configuration service requested by an application entity, managing a requested target terminal according to the management operation or capability of the terminal configuration service, and providing an operation result and/or an operation state to the application entity, which achieves unified management of the terminal configuration services.
US10750347B2
A method providing vehicle incident call services to a user is disclosed. A third-party service center receives a communication from a vehicle over at least one data channel. Signaling is automatically sent to the vehicle from the third-party service center and, in response to the signaling, die third-party service center receives from the vehicle, location information comprising at least the latitude and longitude coordinates of the vehicle. An interactive voice recognition (IVR) system located at the third-party service center is used to determine if the latitude and longitude coordinates are valid. If the coordinates are determined to be valid, the third-party service center provides the user with a selection of vehicle-incident non-emergency response services.
US10750346B1
Methods and systems for providing an emergency incident response are described. Data is received from a plurality of heterogeneous data feeds each having a native format and including one or more publically-available data feeds. Event data is extracted from the received data, the event data representing one or more events from one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous data feeds, and the event data is translated from the native format into a standardized analysis format. Further, an existence and a priority level of at least one emergency incident contemporaneous with the event data and based at least in part on the event data is determined, the priority level being selected from among a plurality of predefined priority levels, and a graphical user interface including a message describing the at least one determined emergency incident is displayed.
US10750343B2
A technique for configuring a user equipment (100) for establishing an emergency session is provided. The user equipment (100) is wirelessly connected to a communications network (102). As to a method aspect of the technique, configuration information indicative of one or more networks available for the establishing of the emergency session is received via the communications network (102). A list of networks available for the establishing of the emergency session is maintained based on the received configuration information.
US10750342B2
There is provided a wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless communication devices that transmits a signal relating to provision of service. The service includes a plurality of stages relating to provision. A plurality of the wireless communication devices correspond to a plurality of the respective stages and transmit the signal corresponding to the stage with radio field intensity corresponding to the stage. In addition, there is provided a wireless communication device including a transmitter that transmits a signal relating to a request of service and a receiver that receives a signal relating to provision of the service from a connection device connected on the basis of a signal relating to the request. The service includes a plurality of stages relating to provision. The transmitter transmits the signal relating to the request corresponding to the stage with radio field intensity corresponding to the stage.
US10750337B1
Various arrangements for using different air interfaces on adjacent frequency channels for side-link communications are presented. A first side-link channel may be split into a first bandwidth portion and the second bandwidth portion, in which the first bandwidth portion of the first side-link channel is directly adjacent to the second side-link channel. A first subcarrier spacing may be assigned to the first bandwidth portion of the first side-link channel. The second side-link channel may also use the first subcarrier spacing. A second subcarrier spacing may be assigned to the second bandwidth portion of the first side-link channel that differs from the first subcarrier spacing.
US10750336B2
A method, device, and system for managing a fleet of vehicles is disclosed. The method includes providing a telematics device for an electric vehicle of the fleet of vehicles, the telematics device being capable of obtaining data from the electric vehicle; using the telematics device to identify the electric vehicle based on the data obtained from the electric vehicle; providing a data definition set for the electric vehicle to the telematics device; and using the telematics device and the data definition set to determine whether the electric vehicle is in a vehicle mode based on the data obtained from the electric vehicle and the data definition set. The vehicle mode of the electric vehicle can be at least one of a charging mode, a driving mode, and a parked mode.
US10750332B2
A network-based service is utilized to facilitate twinning of two or more communication devices associated with a subscriber account. Incoming communication is intercepted by a communication device and forwarded to a network server, which in turn transmits the incoming communication to the multiple twinned devices. In addition, identifier data associated with outgoing communication is replaced with a primary identifier (e.g., customer telephone number (CTN)) of a user's primary device or a common identifier (e.g., a mobile one number (MON)) assigned to devices associated with the user's subscriber account. Communication devices can be temporarily twinned for a defined time period, during which a common bill can be generated for the twinned devices.
US10750330B2
A method for implementing resending of a short message includes, when an Internet Protocol short message gateway (IP-SM-GW) learns that in an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) domain, a short message fails to be sent to a receiver, sending, by the IP-SM-GW, the short message to a service center, so that the service center stores the short message; and when the receiver corresponding to the short message changes to available status, receiving, by the IP-SM-GW, the stored short message sent by the service center, and resending the short message to the receiver through the IMS domain, thereby implementing resending of a short message request failing to be sent, improving availability of sending the short message request in the IMS, and improving user experience.
US10750319B2
The present disclosure provides for dynamically determining locations of an electronic device. For example, the electronic device may determine a location state transition condition using one or both of a location measurement or an activity status of the electronic device. The electronic device may further determine whether the location state transition condition satisfies a location state transition threshold triggering an entry or exit to or from a first location state. The electronic device may further transition from the first location state to a second location state different from the first location state based on a determination that the location state transition condition satisfies the location state transition threshold.
US10750297B2
A screw-shaped anchoring fixture for anchoring a prosthesis in the skull bone. The anchoring fixture comprises a main body configured to be implanted into the bone and a flange configured to function as a stop to prevent the main body from completely penetrating through the bone. The main body comprises a distal tapered apical portion, a first portion, and a second portion. The inner diameter of the second portion is greater than the inner diameter of the first portion. The method for inserting the anchoring fixture includes providing the anchoring fixture, drilling a hole, and inserting the anchoring fixture into the hole until the flange contacts the skull bone, wherein the hole has a diameter that is greater than the inner diameter of the first portion and less than the outer diameter of the second portion.
US10750290B2
A sound, light and electrical eye device for police use includes a built-in system, a dual-magnetic steel magnetic circuit and a wing-shaped basin flame made of cast aluminum. The built-in system formed by a photoelectric plate, an aluminum pad and a copper bar is mounted below a transparent dustproof cover of a moving-coil speaker and at an axial center of the magnetic circuit. The photoelectric plate is provided with a camera, a light shading ring and LED modules; and the photoelectric plate is disposed on a top surface of the aluminum pad. The dual-magnetic steel magnetic circuit is formed by a primary magnetic steel, a secondary magnetic steel, a magnetic post and a magnetic bowl, and a through hole is arranged at the center of the magnetic circuit.
US10750282B2
The amount of far-field noise transmitted by a primary communication device in an open-plan office environment is reduced by defining an acoustic perimeter of reference microphones around the primary device. Reference microphones generate a reference audio input including far-field noise in the proximity of the primary device. The primary device generates a main audio input including the voice of the primary speaker as well as background noise. Reference audio input is compared to main audio input to identify the background noise portion of the main audio signal. A noise reduction algorithm suppresses the identified background noise in the main audio signal. The one or more reference microphones defining the acoustic perimeter may be included in separate microphone devices placed in proximity to the main desktop phone, microphones within other nearby desktop telephone devices, or a combination of both types of devices.
US10750280B2
This sound system includes a plurality of sound devices connected via a network, each sound device including: an audio acquirer; a sound source localizer that performs sound source localization; a sound source information exchanger that acquires sound source information relating to the audio acquired by another device; a sound source determiner that determines, when a sound source in the sound source information coincides with the sound source specified by the sound source localizer, whether or not a second sound pressure level of the sound source in the sound source information is higher than a first sound pressure level of the sound source specified by the sound source localizer; and a filter processor that performs filter processing of the audio of the sound source specified by the sound source localizer when the second sound pressure level is higher than the first sound pressure level.
US10750279B2
Provided is a signal processing device including a plurality of sound collection units that is arranged at given positions, and a detection unit configured to detect, from respective sounds that have occurred in accordance with a movement of a region to which attachment is performed and have been collected by the sound collection units, a direction of the movement of the region.
US10750270B2
The present invention provide a method and system of audio sharing aimed to revolutionize the way people listen and share music and to give multiple uses to a wireless headphone referred to as HEDphone. A communication protocol referred to as HEDtech protocol is used in a HED system to allow users to share music amongst a plurality of HEDphones while using a single audio source. A wireless connection is established between the HEDphone and a mobile device including an audio source while simultaneously having the capability of allowing other HEDphone users to join wirelessly and listen to the same audio source. A feature of Super Human Hearing (SHH) goes beyond conventional ANR (ambient noise reduction) with additional features that allow the user to control their aural environment by being able to directionally increase or decrease selective frequencies.
US10750268B2
A case for a pair of earbuds including a housing having first and second cavities formed within the housing, the first cavity configured to receive a first earbud in the pair of earbuds and the second cavity configured to receive a second earbud in the pair of earbuds; a lid attached to the housing; a first pair of electrodes positioned within the housing adjacent to the first cavity; a second pair of electrodes positioned within the housing adjacent to the second cavity; and charging circuitry coupled to the first and second pairs of electrodes, the charging circuitry including a high frequency inverter configured to receive a DC power signal and output a high frequency AC signal to each of the first and second pairs of electrodes.
US10750252B2
Devices state changes in a building may be determined using a combination of power monitoring and network monitoring. Power monitoring may be performed by obtaining a power monitoring signal and processing the power monitoring signal with models to determine information about state changes of one or more devices in the building. Network monitoring may be performed by receiving information about network packets transmitted by a device in the building and processing the information about the network packets to determine information about a different device or a state change of a different device in the building. For some devices and some implementations, information about state changes of a device may be determined by using both power monitoring and network monitoring.
US10750251B2
Provided is an information providing apparatus (10) including a reliability determination unit (11) that determines a reliability of an inference result obtained by inferring an operation state of a monitored electric device group, on the basis of time-series measurement data and training data, the time-series measurement data including any one of current consumption and power consumption of the monitored electric device group and the training data associating each of a plurality of the operation states which can be assumed by the electric device group with a feature value of each of the plurality of operation states, and an output unit (12) that outputs information related to the reliability.
US10750248B1
A computer implemented method and apparatus for dynamically switching video segment locations (CDNS) during live content/ad manipulation in a completely transparent way to video players. The computer implemented method and apparatus is configured to use a per-user video manifest delivery to track CDN performance based on CDN switch logic from received manifest/playlist requests.
US10750246B2
A system for providing a distributed architecture for mobile streaming content delivery is disclosed. In particular, the system may include bypassing a master head end facility and its accompanying fiber distribution network to deliver a content stream directly to mobile cell sites. In order to do so, the system may receive, at a cell cite, a content stream directly from a content satellite and then format the content into a format suitable for delivery to a subscriber device. The system may receive, such as via a radio access network, a request from the subscriber device to access the content stream. In response to the request from the subscriber device, the system may deliver the formatted content stream to the subscriber device. The distributed architecture may also allow for delivering the content stream jointly with voice data services, such as those provided in a Long-Term Evolution network or other network.
US10750245B1
Systems and methods for browsing, searching, and/or viewing video with associated semantic labels via a user interface are presented herein. Presentation of a user interface may be effectuated. The user interface may be configured to display scenes of one or more videos and/or one or more semantic labels associated with the scenes. A first scene associated with a first video and a first semantic label associated with the first scene may be displayed in the user interface. Playback of the first video in the user interface may cause one or more changes in the display of semantic labels over time, such that responsive to playback of the first video including display of a second scene after the first scene, a second semantic label is displayed and the first semantic label is no longer displayed. The second semantic label may be associated with the second scene.
US10750240B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for assisting user selection of media content viewed utilizing a media receiver. In an embodiment, the method includes the step or process of establishing whether high interest media content is currently displayed via the media receiver. If high interest media content is currently displayed via the media receiver, it is determined when user input is received causing the media receiver to display other media content following commencement of an advertisement set disrupting viewing of the high interest media content. When so determined, the media receiver then monitors for cessation of the advertisement set. If the media receiver does not resume display of the high interest media content prior to cessation of the advertisement set, the media receiver further performs at least one specified action in response to cessation of the advertisement set.
US10750238B1
Correlating information associated with playback of video segments is disclosed. Information associated with playback of a first video segment is obtained. Information associated with playback of a second video segment is obtained. The information associated with playback of the first video segment is correlated with the information associated with playback of the second video segment based at least in part on at least one of a client application identifier, a video session identifier, and a set of timestamps. Output is provided based at least in part on the correlating.
US10750231B2
Described herein are systems and methods for predictive pre-buffering of content for a user. Embodiments include a prediction system that can receive trending information from social media sources and other streaming video sources. The prediction system can also receive user viewing history to identify the programs the user has viewed, the genres of the programs the user has viewed, and amount of programming the user consumes. Based on the user's viewing history, the prediction system can identify preferred genres for the user and other preferred content information. Based on the trending programs and the user's preferred genres, the prediction system can predict which of the trending programs that the user may watch. Based on the prediction, the system can pre-buffer some portion of the programs that the system predicted the user may watch in a cache of the device on which the user watches programming.
US10750229B2
Systems and methods for generating synchronized multimedia streams including mood data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: obtaining, by a computing device, one or more primary streams of data; creating, by the computing device, digital mood data that is synchronized with the one or more primary streams of data, wherein the digital mood data is configured for use by a wearable mood device; and storing, by the computing device, the digital mood data in a multimedia container with the one or more primary streams of data.
US10750224B2
A content packaging and distribution system that distributes at least one channel to be viewed on at least one consumer devices, receives, from a source device, a media feed of a first channel of the at least one channel, and determines first media item for insertion in the media feed of the first channel. The first media item is determined based on criteria related to a user-selection on a first consumer device of the plurality of consumer devices, and criterion is based on selection of at least one second media item from a plurality of media items of the first consumer device. The content packaging and distribution system dynamically schedules the determined first media item in the media feed of the first channel for transmission, over a distribution system, to the first consumer device. The determined first media item is dynamically scheduled based on the criteria related to the user-selection.
US10750204B2
A processing system and method are provided for reconstituting a block of pixels from bins generated by a Mojette Transform, using a processing and calculation unit (UTC), a bin memory (MB), and a pixel memory (MP). The unit is configured to carry out the operations of reconstructing the pixels, which are performed by reading the bins in the bin memory, reading the reconstructed pixels in the pixel memory, and writing the reconstructed pixels in the pixel memory, such that the steps of reconstructing the pixels do not include an operation of writing bins in the bin memory.
US10750198B2
In an example, a method of processing video data includes coding at least one of data that indicates a maximum palette size of a palette of color values for coding a block of video data or data that indicates a maximum palette predictor size of a palette predictor for determining the palette of color values. The method also includes coding the block of video data in accordance with the data.
US10750194B2
A process for determining the selection of filters and input samples is provided for scalable video coding. The process provides for re-sampling using video data obtained from an encoder or decoder process of a base layer (BL) in a multi-layer system to improve quality in Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC). In order to accommodate other applications such as interlace/progressive scalability and to increase the resolution of the alignment between layers, it is proposed that the phase offset adjustment parameters be signaled.
US10750191B2
A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.
US10750190B2
According to the present invention, a method by which a decoding device performs video decoding comprises the steps of: parsing a merge index of a current block; configuring a merge candidate list on the basis of neighboring blocks; selecting a merge candidate indicated by the merge index among merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; deriving L0 motion information and L1 motion information of the current block on the basis of the selected merge candidate; deriving an L0 weight and an L1 weight of the current block; and generating a prediction sample of the current block by weighted-summing an L0 reference sample and an L1 reference sample on the basis of the L0 weight and the L1 weight.
US10750186B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor. the processor determines a sign of a first value on a basis of a result of an operation of a sum of products of a plurality of color-difference residuals and a plurality of luminance residuals, and calculates the first value on a basis of a first product of a sum of luminance residuals that are negative values among the plurality of luminance residuals and a constant when the sign of the first value is determined to be positive, and calculates the first value on a basis of a second product of a sum of luminance residuals that are positive values among the plurality of luminance residuals and the constant when the sign of the first value is determined to be negative.
US10750176B2
The quantization parameters (QP) for Chroma are extended up to and more preferably to the same range as Luma QP (e.g., 0 to 51). Previous, values of Chroma QP only extended up to 39. Techniques are provided for determining extended Chroma QP values (e.g., for Cr and Cb) based on the Luma QP and picture level chroma offsets. In one preferred embodiment, slice level offsets are added making the method particularly well-suited for slice level parallel processing. The extension of Chroma QP enhances functionality, flexibility and friendliness of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard for various applications.
US10750175B2
An image-processing apparatus and method for quantization partitioning for enhanced image compression, includes storage of an input image in a first storage space having a first storage access bandwidth. The image-processing apparatus selects a plurality of QP values from a defined QP range for a first block of a plurality of blocks of the input image. The plurality of QP values are selected from the defined QP range based on defined criteria. The image-processing apparatus is configured to encode, by the selected plurality of QP values, the first block to generate an encoded bit stream of the first block. The encoded bit stream of the first block is storable in a reduced second storage space in the memory with a reduced second storage access bandwidth.
US10750170B2
A picture filtering method performed by an encoding device, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: deriving, from a current picture, regions for adaptive loop filtering (ALF); deciding ALF coefficients by picture unit or region unit; on the basis of the ALF coefficients, determining, by region unit, whether ALF is usable; re-deciding ALF coefficients for an ALF-usable first region; deriving a filter shape for the first region; on the basis of the re-decided ALF coefficients, determining, by unit of coding units (CUs) in the first region, whether ALF is usable; performing filtering for ALF-usable CUs on the basis of the derived filter shape and the re-decided ALF coefficients; and transmitting at least one among information on the ALF-usable first region and information on the ALF-usable CUs. According to the present invention, efficient filtering appropriate for image properties per region may be applied.
US10750165B2
An object simulation unit for testing a camera objective has an optical axis and has a front side with respect to the optical axis at one side. The object simulation unit comprises a light exit surface at the front side of the object simulation unit, a coupling device that is adapted to couple the front side of the objection simulation unit to a light entry side of a camera objective, and a light beam generation device that has at least one light source and that is adapted to generate at least one light beam that passes through the light exit surface such that the at least one light beam apparently starts from a virtual object located at a distance from the light exit surface that is larger than the distance between the light beam generation device and the light exit surface. A diagnostic system may comprise such an object simulation unit.
US10750163B2
An autostereoscopic display includes a steerable display backlight, having a light output arrangement for providing lines of light output and a first lenticular lens array, with each lens focused near a corresponding line of light output. A display panel is illuminated by the backlight and a second lenticular array generates at least two views to different viewing directions. Head and/or eye tracking is used for tracking at least two viewers. Views are provided to the two eyes of a tracked viewer at the same time, and views are provided to the two eyes of different tracked viewers time-sequentially.
US10750156B2
Provided is a three-dimensional (3D) camera for capturing an image for providing virtual reality (VR), the 3D camera including a plurality of cameras; and a position sensor configured to track a position of the 3D camera, wherein the plurality of cameras are arranged at each vertex of a polyhedron, and at least three cameras are arranged at each vertex of the polyhedron.
US10750153B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor and multiple pairs of cameras, where each camera of a first pair of cameras is separated from each other by one camera of a second pair of cameras. Each camera of the first pair of cameras has a first orientation, and each camera of the second pair of cameras has a second orientation that is different from the first orientation.
US10750152B2
A system for determining the surface topology and associated color of at least a portion of a three-dimensional structure includes a hand-held device. A scanning system may be configured to provide depth data of the portion. An imaging system may be configured to provide two-dimensional color image data of the portion associated with the plurality of data points. A processor may be operably coupled to the hand-held device and configured to associate the depth data with the color image data.
US10750148B2
An unevenness correction system according to the present invention includes a panel drive circuit provided with a gamma correction circuit that performs gamma correction on an image signal input to an input interface, a gamma correction information acquisition circuit that acquires a gamma correction signal obtained through gamma correction as gamma correction information, an unevenness correction circuit that performs an unevenness correction on the gamma correction signal based on correction data, and an output interface that externally outputs the gamma correction information, and an unevenness correction apparatus provided with a pattern generator that outputs the image signal of a predetermined image to the input interface, and a control unit that generates correction data based on gamma correction information of each individual display panel input to and read by a gamma correction information reading unit from the output interface regarding the output image signal.
US10750140B2
A laser display system includes a red light semiconductor laser module (1), a green light semiconductor laser module (2), a blue light semiconductor laser module (3), a decoherence device (7, 8, 9), light valves (12, 13, 14), collimating and shaping devices (4, 5, 6), a heat dissipating modules (16-1, 16-2, 16-3), a temperature control module (17) and a semiconductor laser control module (18). The wavelength range output by the red light semiconductor laser module (1) is from 635 nm to 670 nm; the wavelength range output by the green light semiconductor laser module (2) is from 515 nm to 530 nm; the wavelength range output by the blue light semiconductor laser module (3) is from 440 nm to 460 nm.
US10750134B1
Systems and methods are provided for using video/still images captured by continuously recording optical sensors mounted on waste collection vehicles used in in the waste collection, disposal and recycling industry for operational and customer service related purposes. Optical sensors are integrated into the in-cab monitor as well as the onboard computer, digital video recorder and other external devices.
US10750128B2
An apparatus includes an audio output device, an audio input device and a processor. The audio output device may be configured to generate an audio message. The audio input device may be configured to receive audio input. The processor may be configured to analyze the audio input to perform a first authentication of a user and determine a command corresponding to the audio input, determine a confidence level of a classification of a user based on the first authentication and authenticate the user if the confidence level is above a pre-determined threshold. The classification may correspond to an approved list of users. The confidence level may be adjusted in response to one or more authentication factors. If the user is authenticated, the processor may be configured to perform the command.
US10750124B2
A system and method for manipulating images in a videoconferencing session provides users with a 3-D-like view of one or more presented sites, without the need for 3-D equipment. A plurality of cameras may record a room at a transmitting endpoint, and the receiving endpoint may select one of the received video streams based upon a point of view of a conferee at the receiving endpoint. The conferee at the receiving endpoint will thus experience a 3-D-like view of the presented site.
US10750116B2
A system is configured to synchronize a first video, a second video, and an audio track. The system analyzes image content associated with the first video and the second video to obtain a first subset of images of the first video and a second subset of images of the second video. The system then determines a music beat of the audio track to be synchronized with one of the first subset of images or the second subset of images. The system then adjusts a framerate of the first subset of images or the second subset of images based on the determined music beat to synchronize the first subset of images or the second subset of images. The first subset of images and the second subset of images may then be combined, which the system then plays back from a designated playback slot along with the audio track.
US10750109B2
A method for performing differential double sampling and a CMOS image sensing device for performing the same. In one example, the CMOS image sensing device includes a pixel array include a multitude of pixels with each pixel formed by a plurality of photodiodes, a floating diffusion point and a plurality of transistors electrically coupled the plurality of photodiodes. Moreover, a column readout circuit with four storage capacitors is selectively coupled to the pixel array by switches so that the storage capacitors can store sampled pixel values. A control circuit connected to the pixel array and the column readout circuit selectively activates the transistors to output to the column readout circuit sampled dark value and bright values of one photodiode and a sampled double bright value of the one photodiode and one additional photodiode.
US10750108B2
An imaging system comprises an image pixel array, a dark pixel array, and a controller. The image pixel array includes a plurality of pixel clusters adapted to generate image signals. The dark pixel array is adapted to generate one or more black reference signals corresponding to a global black level value of the imaging system. The controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the system to perform operations including determining local black level values for each of the pixel clusters and correcting a first image signal included in the image signals based, at least in part, on the global black level and a first local black level value included in the local black level values.
US10750105B2
Imaging apparatus, operation method of imaging apparatus, and operation program of imaging apparatus
Provided are an imaging apparatus capable of preventing deterioration in quality of a captured image to be captured in a case where imaging is performed by using the driving according to the global shutter method and the driving according to the rolling shutter method in combination, an operation method thereof, and an operation program thereof. The digital camera includes an imaging element 5 that has a plurality of pixels 61 each including a photoelectric conversion element 61A and a charge holding section 61B, and a driving controller 11A that performs driving control of the imaging element 5 according to a global shutter method while continuously performing driving control of the imaging element 5 according to a rolling shutter method. The driving controller 11A makes a first time, which is necessary for reading a signal obtained from one of pixel rows 62 under the driving control according to the rolling shutter method, longer than a second time which is necessary for reading the signal obtained from one of the pixel rows 62 under the driving control according to the global shutter method.
US10750098B2
An image processing device configured to synthesize a first image and a second image shot in two or more exposure times different in length in a parallel way within one frame time, includes: a level adjuster configured to adjust the first image and output a corrected first image having a luminance level substantially aligned with a luminance level of the second image; a movement detector configured to calculate absolute values of differences between positionally corresponding pixel pairs in the corrected first image and the second image and accumulate the calculated absolute value on an image block basis to obtain a movement detection amount on the image block basis; a movement blending ratio calculator configured to smoothen the amounts of detected movement and calculate a movement blending ratio between positionally corresponding pixel pairs based on the smoothened amounts of detected movement; and an image synthesizer configured to generate a movement-adaptive image by synthesizing pixels at the corresponding positions at the movement blending ratio.
US10750097B2
A photo sensor array is divided up into multiple blocks that are operated with different exposure times. A prediction algorithm is used to predict the overall light brightness of each block and determine the exposure time of each block. Each block may also include memory to store the exposure time for the pixels in the block as well as analog-to-digital resolution for the block.
US10750096B2
Some embodiments include a camera system having a first camera unit and a second camera unit. The first camera unit may include a first actuator. The second camera unit may include a second actuator. In some embodiments, the first actuator may move one or more components of the first camera unit to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization functionality to the first camera unit. In some embodiments, the second actuator may move one or more components of the second camera unit to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization functionality to the second camera unit. In some examples, the first camera unit may be configured to capture a first image of a first visual field. The second camera unit may be configured to capture, simultaneously with the first camera unit capturing the first image, a second image of a second visual field.
US10750092B2
Visual content is captured by an image capture device during a capture duration. The image capture devices experiences motion during the capture duration. The intentionality of the motion of the image capture device is determined based on angular acceleration of the image capture device during the capture duration. A punchout of the visual content is determined based on the intentionality of the motion of the image capture device. The punchout of the visual content is used to generate stabilized visual content.
US10750091B2
An imaging device includes an imaging lens, an imaging element that captures an image transmitted through the imaging lens, a blur detection part configured to detect a blur, an actuator configured to determine a position of the imaging lens, and an actuator driver configured to control the actuator in accordance with a blur detection signal from the blur detection part. The shift of the image occurring when forcibly changing the position of the imaging lens is corrected by shift of an effective pixel area of the imaging element according to the forcible change amount of the position of the imaging lens.
US10750086B2
Disclosed herein are a mobile terminal and an operating method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a short-range communication module configured to perform short-range communication with an omnidirectional capture device for capturing an omnidirectional image, a display unit configured to display the omnidirectional image received through the short-range communication module and to receive user input, and a controller configured to set an area, in which a moving image is generated, in the omnidirectional image and to generate the moving image in the set area. Therefore, it is possible to acquire the moving image of the moving object in the omnidirectional image.
US10750085B2
A camera device (2) for capturing a surrounding area of a driver's own vehicle has optoelectronics including a high-resolution image capturing sensor and a wide-angle optical system for capturing at least one initial image of the surrounding area. The optoelectronics are configured to generate, from the at least one initial image, a processed output image (4) that has, compared to the associated initial image, at least one non-modified image section (4a) and a resolution-reduced remainder image region (4b) bordering on the at least one non-modified image section (4a).
US10750060B2
The present disclosure relates to a camera module capable of achieving a smaller height, a method of manufacturing a camera module, an imaging apparatus, and an electronic apparatus. An imaging device having its imaging surface bonded to a provisional substrate is attached, and the imaging device in that state is joined to a substrate via an electrode having a TSV structure. After the provisional substrate is detached, an IR cut filter (IRCF) on which a light blocking film is printed or jet-dispensed in a region other than the effective pixel region is bonded to the imaging surface via a transparent resin. Because of this, there is no need to provide any sealing glass in the stage before the imaging surface, and the optical length of the lens can be shortened. Thus, a smaller height can be achieved. The present disclosure can be applied to camera modules.
US10750052B2
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus is provided. The method includes requesting a remote support service from a terminal or a server connected to the terminal, receiving a request for an access authorization regarding an operation related to the remote support service from the terminal, granting the access authorization to the terminal based on a user input or a pre-set setting, receiving a control command for the remote support service from the terminal, and executing an operation corresponding to the control command according to the access authorization granted to the terminal.
US10750050B2
An image processing apparatus provided with a biological information sensor receives an authentication request including a verification parameter from a service providing system, transmits the verification parameter to an information processing apparatus provided with an authentication module for biometric authentication, and a tamper-resistant storage device configured to store a user's biological information required when an authentication process is performed by the authentication module and a private key generated with respect to the biological information, transmits the biological information acquired by the biological information sensor using an encryption technique to the information processing apparatus, receives signature data, created using the private key extracted when biometric authentication based on the transmitted biological information has succeeded and the verification parameter, from the information processing apparatus, and transmits the signature data to the service providing system.
US10750048B2
There is provided a printing apparatus including: an ink jet head that prints on a print medium; a camera that captures an image on the print medium; a carriage that mounts the ink jet head and the camera; and a processor that generates image data based on a captured image obtained by capturing a chart by the camera, the chart being printed on the print medium by the ink jet head, in which the processor generates at least one of image data representing an image of an image range smaller than a capturing range of the camera and image data representing an image of a resolution lower than a resolution of the captured image, for an adjustment item.
US10750046B2
The present disclosure relates to a portable scanner capable of increasing the precision of focus and a scanning method using the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the portable scanner, which generates a three dimensional (3D) image from a subject, includes a focus state output device to determine a present focus state with respect to a set focal length from a subject and to output the present focus state such that a user recognizes the present focus state.
US10750044B2
An information processing system having an information processing apparatus and programs includes an application memory unit storing applications executing a series of processes using electronic data, in which program identification information, parameter setup information, and flow identification information are defined, a use screen memory unit storing use screen information of defining a form; a first receiving unit receiving a first request including the application identification information; a first sending unit sending the use screen information; a second receiving unit, an acquiring unit acquiring the flow information identified by the flow identification information included in the second request, and an executing unit causing the program identified by the flow information to be executed using the parameter included in the second request in conformity with the execution order to execute the series of processes using the electronic data based on the information related to the electronic data.
US10750041B2
An image reading apparatus includes a detection unit provided at a position separated from a positioning portion by a predetermined distance in a first direction, a discriminator configured to determine a length, in the first direction, of a document, and a setting unit that sets a start position to a first position if a detection position at which the detection unit detects the document is not included in a range, in a second direction, of the transparent member that is covered by the document, and sets the start position to a second position if the detection position is included in the range and the detection unit does not detect the document, wherein, in the first direction, the distance between the first position and the positioning portion is larger than the distance between the second position and the positioning portion.
US10750036B1
A system and method for rapid workflow design utilizing machine learning includes a scanner, a convolutional neural network, a converter, a graph generator, and a controller. The scanner may convert a paper copy of a process flow into a pixelated image. The convolutional neural network is configured to segment the pixelated image into objects including at least one of an action, a decision, a connector, or a combination thereof. The converter is configured to transform the objects into a connectivity matrix. The graph generator is configured to transform the connectivity matrix into a rectilinear graph. The controller is configured to identify automated actions, semi-automatic actions, and actions requiring operator input from graphical icons provided on the paper copy and, based on the rectilinear graph, to serialize the automated actions, the semi-automatic actions, and the actions requiring operator input as control commands to a printing system.
US10750033B2
A secure file transfer system and a secure file transfer method for routing an electronic file or a high-definition facsimile translated from the electronic file, from a sending computing device over a digital electronic communication network to a receiving computing device. The method may include receiving, from the sending computing device, an electronic package including a modified destination identifier including a domain associated with a secure file transfer system. The electronic package may include an electronic file as an attachment. The modified destination identifier may be a modified email address having one or more other characters substituted for an original at-symbol.
US10750031B2
A tariff data determining method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a call detail record set, wherein each call detail record includes a charging condition, a charging unit and a fee deduction that are under the charging condition; grouping a plurality of call detail records to obtain a call detail record group, wherein a same value corresponding to a charging unit in the call detail record group has a correspondence with a unique fee value corresponding to a fee deduction; analyzing the call detail record group to obtain a data feature; selecting a target tariff model corresponding to the data feature; determining a parameter value corresponding to each tariff parameter in the target tariff model; and determining tariff data based on the parameter value, the target tariff model, and the charging condition.
US10750027B1
A method of operating a call control node in a telecommunications network, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a telephony call between a first user and a second user; receiving a call control instruction, the call control instruction being for associating a to-be-established new call leg, between the call control node and a communications server, with the telephony call; establishing the new call leg between the call control node and the communications server; connecting the new call leg to the telephony call on the basis of the call control instruction, to make the communications server a party to the telephony call.
US10750024B2
Techniques for behavioral pairing model evaluation in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for behavioral pairing model evaluation in a contact center system comprising determining an ordering of a plurality of agents, determining an ordering of a plurality of contact types; analyzing, historical contact-agent outcome data according to the orderings of the pluralities of agents and contact types to construct a pairing model; and determining an expected performance of the contact center system using the pairing model.
US10750011B2
A service coordinator server and method are provided for performing operations including receiving a request by a requester for a first component of a requested service over a communication network, transmitting to the requester a provision of the first component of the requested service over the communication network, and storing information regarding the first component of the requested service in a requester service record in a memory of the server. The operations also include receiving a request by the requester to review the requester service record stored in the server memory, and the server authorizing the requester to access the stored service record. The operations further include permitting the requester to access and revise the service record stored in the memory of the service coordinator server.
US10750009B1
Embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product that authenticates a caller using calling party information. In an embodiment, an authentication device receives the call request and associated calling party information that includes a calling party number. The authentication device retrieves parameters associated with the calling party number, where a retrieved parameter is a number of accounts linked to the calling party number. The authentication device determines whether the number of accounts is between one and a threshold value, inclusive, and verifies that the call request originates from a location or a device associated with the calling party number. Based on the verifying and determining, the authentication device generates an authentication result that indicates whether the calling party number is authenticated. Then, the authentication device sends the authentication result to a call processing device that processes the call request from the caller according to the authentication result.
US10750004B2
A user device and a breath analysis device (or other types of portable devices) use a pairing and communication protocol that address user convenience and connectivity issues. For example, a breath analysis device is associated with a unique identifier and the unique identifier is associated with an account corresponding to the user. Likewise, a user device is associated with a user device identifier and the user device identifier is associated with the account corresponding to the user. The breath analysis device and the user device can use at least one of the identifiers to determine whether the user device is authorized to pair with the breath analysis device, and vice-versa. If authorized, the breath analysis device and user device can pair with one another. Once paired, the user device may wirelessly communicate with the breath analysis device for various purposes, such as to retrieve and display breath analysis test results.
US10750001B2
A contact-note application is disclosed herein that runs in a computing device. When a phone call event occurs, the contact-note application is notified and responsively surfaces a prompt over a user interface to a phone call application. When the prompt is selected, the contact-note application surfaces a user interface to the contact-note application. The user interface provides the end-user with a view of a note associated with a contact on the phone call such that they user may create, edit, and consume the note.
US10750000B1
A method and system are provided for opportunistically initiating a multimedia call between two or more devices such as smart speakers at a time when users of the respective smart speakers are available to participate in a call. A server system receives an instruction from a first smart speaker associated with a first user to establish a real-time communication session with a second smart speaker. In response to that instruction, the server system monitors availability of both the first user and the second user at their respective smart speakers. On determining that both the first user and the second user are available at the same time, the server system initiates the real-time communication session between the first smart speaker and the second smart speaker.
US10749998B2
This application relates to a hardware interface, and in particular, to a USB Type-C interface used for an electronic device. In this application, a step is disposed on the USB Type-C interface to place a display screen. This shortens a distance from a front display screen of the electronic device to an edge of the electronic device, and increases a screen-to-body ratio.
US10749988B2
Methods, systems, and media for retrieving content associated with links are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: transmitting, from a user device to a server, a request for content corresponding to a page to be presented on the user device; receiving, from the server, the content corresponding to the page and a mapping of one or more links included in the content corresponding to the page to one or more page types associated with each of the one or more links; storing, on the user device, the received mapping; causing the content of the page to be presented on the user device; receiving a selection of one of the one or more links included in the content corresponding to the page; identifying a page type corresponding to the selected link based on the stored mapping; transmitting, to the server, a request for content associated with the selected link; causing user interface elements of a user interface associated with the identified page type to be presented on the user device while waiting for the requested content from the server; and in response to receiving the requested content from the server, causing the received content to be presented within the user interface.
US10749982B2
Methods and systems for routing a user request for a service to a version of the service in a geographical region associated with the user are described herein. The service may be deployed in multiple geographical regions, and the service may have multiple versions in each of the geographical regions. A user device may send a request for a service to a first server in a geographical region. The first server may determine whether the user is associated with the geographical region. Responsive to determining that the user is not associated with the geographical region, the first server may ask one or more servers in other geographical regions whether the user is associated with any of the other geographical regions.
US10749979B1
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for an access gateway control function server to convert between network-based call signaling messages and session initiation protocol messages. An embodiment operates by receiving in a first access gateway control function server, a first session initiation protocol (SIP) message sent from a first device and converting the SIP message in the first access gateway control function server to a first network-based call signaling (NCS) message to be received by a second device.
US10749977B1
A system transmits selected news feed stories to a client device in advance of receiving a request for news feed stories. As a result, stories are immediately available for viewing when a user interacts with the system. The system selects news feed stories to push based on criteria such as a likelihood that a user will interact with a story and the sizes of pushed stories. For example, the system selects news feed stories such that a total size of stories selected does not exceed a threshold value based on local memory at the client device. The system may determine a scheduled time at which the stories are selected and pushed. The scheduled time is based on factors including patterns of network connection speed or past user interactions, for example, a time range of the day during which the user most frequently viewed pushed stories.
US10749976B2
A method for tracking an activity of a user, the method includes: downloading, over a network, web page content that comprises a tracking code; tracking, at least partially by executing the tracking code by a user computer, user activities that are responsive to at least a portion of the downloaded web page content, wherein the tracking comprises generating user activity information; compressing and buffering a portion of the user activity information; and transmitting to a tracking entity, at least a compressed portion of the user activity information when a first transmission criterion is fulfilled.
US10749975B2
The circle model powered suggestions and activities system provides a way to efficiently and effectively manage relationships. The circle model powered suggestions and activities system provides a way to model relationships for a user and assist the user with creating groupings of relevant constituents into context circles, provide suggested activities to members of the modeled relationships as well as facilitate the user with managing the user's relationships. The system analyzes public and private data, and tracks the user's interactions and the interactions of the constituents' of the user in order to generate suggested activities (including conversation starters) for the users and the constituents of the users. The system refines the semantic analysis and learning algorithms used to perform the analysis by analyzing the activities engaged in by the users and the constituents of the users related to suggested activities.
US10749967B2
The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for managing a remote authorization to proceed with an action, such as creating a secure network connection. In some examples, a requesting device receives selection of one or more options. The requesting device transmits a request to proceed with an action to an authenticating device. The authenticating device concurrently displays an indication of the request to proceed with the action, information about the selected one or more options, and an indication of the requesting device. The authenticating device receives authorization to proceed with the action and transmits a response to the requesting device regarding the request to proceed with the action.
US10749965B2
Systems and methods for capturing, logging, and diagnosing issues associated with web-based applications are disclosed. The systems and methods can include an interceptor application to intercept web-based (e.g., hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)) requests and responses between web-based applications and third-party application servers. The systems and methods can also include an accumulator application to store request data and response data for a predetermined amount of time or until a predetermined number of requests and responses have been collected. The systems and methods can then send the accumulated data in a list or other data structure to a data logging server for storage in a database. The database can be used to diagnose issues arising on user equipment (UE), including issues caused by web-based applications.
US10749960B2
Systems and methods for facilitating communication with autonomous vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system (e.g., of a vehicle) can generate a first communication associated with an autonomous vehicle. The computing system can provide the first communication to an application programming interface gateway that is remote from the autonomous vehicle. Another computing system can obtain, via an application programming interface gateway, the first communication associated with the autonomous vehicle. The other computing system can determine a first frontend interface of the application programming interface gateway based at least in part on the first communication associated with the autonomous vehicle. The computing system can provide, via the first frontend interface, the first communication associated with the autonomous vehicle to a first system client associated with the first frontend interface.
US10749956B2
A computing system for managing storage relative to a storage subsystem is provided. The computing system includes a processor and a first interface configured to interact with a deployed software system using a representational state transfer communication technique. A second interface is configured to interact with the storage subsystem in accordance with the representational state transfer technique. The computing system is configured to interact with the storage subsystem via the second interface in response to a request from the deployed software system via the first interface and to provide an output to the deployed software system through the first interface based on the interaction with the storage subsystem.
US10749954B2
A device comprises a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions, a network interface, and one or more processors in communication with the memory storage and the network interface. The one or more processors execute the instructions to receive, via the network interface, a write request from a client device; send, via the network interface, the received write request to a set of follower devices; receive, via the network interface, a first acknowledgment from a majority of the follower devices of the set of follower devices that the write request was processed; send, via the network interface, the received write request to a set of peer devices; receive, via the network interface, second acknowledgments from a majority of the set of peer devices that the write request was processed; and send an acknowledgment of the write request to the client device in response to the receipt of the first acknowledgments and the second acknowledgments.
US10749951B2
An aspect of the present disclosure facilitates selection of leader nodes in distributed data services. In one embodiment, a distributed data service is provided operative based on multiple nodes. Upon receiving from a user a selection of a set of nodes that are preferred as leader nodes, a node contained in the set of nodes is set as a leader node in the distributed data service in view of the selection by the user. Accordingly, a user is provided control over the selection of leader nodes in the distributed data service.
US10749947B2
Methods, devices and computer program products for facilitating the selection of a sourcing peer in peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming environment are disclosed. These methods allow peers to select candidate source peers in an informed manner with low overhead and minimized complexity. These and other features are accomplished by signalling detailed information regarding the buffer contents to one or more requesting peers. This information includes the presence or absence of requested content segments and a listing of gaps in the requested content segments, which allow the requesting peers to select an appropriate sourcing peer. The selection of a sourcing peer is also effected by considering network connectivity and/or network congestion status between the sourcing and the requesting peers.
US10749940B2
For distributed processing using drift-based dynamic clustering of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, at a central device, a data source to be used for processing a workload is determined. A set is selected of devices operating within a threshold distance from the data source at a first time. A first subset of the set of devices is selected to form a cluster of devices. Each device in the first subset satisfies a clustering condition. A first device in the first subset is instructed to configure an application at the first device to participate in the cluster and process the workload. From a performance check on the first device, a change is discovered in a performance metric. In response to the change resulting from an increased demand for a computing resource at the first device, the first device is replaced with a second device from the first subset.
US10749938B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to routing communications for a plurality of switchboard interfaces, each switchboard interface corresponding to a data communications-enabled device of a respective receptionist. According to a specific example, a computing server is configured and arranged to provide data communications for a plurality of endpoint devices. A processing circuit can be communicatively coupled to the computing server and configured and arranged to receive communication event data from the computing server. For each of the plurality of disparate client entities, and in response to a subscription request from a switchboard interface for the client entity, the processing circuit can initiate a new subscription for the switchboard interface. While the subscription is active, the processing circuit can provide pseudo-event message data indicating a data metric specified in a respective set of control data for the client entity derived from programming instructions received over a message exchange protocol.
US10749929B2
A method implemented by computer means for providing at least part of eyewear equipment adapted to a wearer is described. The method comprises a wearer data receiving step (S1). The method comprises a wearer data storing step (S2). The method comprises an identifier sending step (S3). The method comprises an eyewear equipment design sending step (S4). The method comprises an eyewear equipment data receiving step (S5). The method comprises an eyewear equipment data storing step (S6). The method comprises an eyewear equipment data sending step (S7).
US10749924B2
A method of generating media programming includes providing a first media source having a plurality of media elements, tags associated with each of the media elements, and one or more first media source templates for assembling of the media elements into media programming. The method further includes providing a second media source, the second media source having at least a second template and receiving a request for media programming at the second media source. The method further includes in response to the request, generating media programming including selected ones of the media elements assembled in accordance with at least the second template.
US10749923B2
Methods and apparatus for contextual video content adaptation are disclosed. Video content is adapted based on any number of criteria such as a target device type, viewing conditions, network conditions or various use cases, for example. A target adaptation of content may be defined for a specified video source. For example, based on receiving a request from a portable device for a live sports feed, a shortened and reduced resolution version of the live sport feed video may be defined for the portable device. The source content may be accessed and adapted (e.g., adapted temporally, spatially, etc.) and an adapted version of content generated. For example, the source content may be cropped to a particular spatial region of interest and/or reduced in length to a particular scene. The generated adaptation may be transmitted to a device in response to the request, or stored to a storage device.
US10749917B2
A method for transmitting a broadcast signal, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise the steps of: generating broadcast data for at least one broadcast service; generating first level signaling information including information describing attributes for the at least one broadcast service; generating second level signaling information including information for listing the at least one broadcast service; generating link layer packets including encoded broadcast data, the first level signaling information and the second level signaling information; and generating broadcast signals including the generated link layer packets.
US10749909B2
A method and apparatus for centralized policy programming and distributive policy enforcement is described. A method comprises centrally maintaining a plurality of policy definitions for one or more subscribers, generating policy configurations using the plurality of policy definitions, each of the policy configurations being specific to one of the plurality of policy definitions, and disseminating the policy configurations to the appropriate ones of the subscribers' networks.
US10749906B2
Methods and systems for protecting a secured network are presented. For example, one or more packet security gateways may be associated with a security policy management server. At each packet security gateway, a dynamic security policy may be received from the security policy management server, packets associated with a network protected by the packet security gateway may be received, and at least one of multiple packet transformation functions specified by the dynamic security policy may be performed on the packets.
US10749898B2
A system including at least one hardware processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions, the program instructions executable by the at least one hardware processor to: receive, using a first transceiver, a radio-frequency (RF) transmission from an RF device; extract, from said RF transmission, at least one of: (i) noise samples from one or more segments of said RF transmission, and (ii) signal samples from one or more segments of said RF transmission; and determine the presence of a second transceiver in the path of said RF transmission, based, at least in part, on processing said extracted noise samples and signal samples.
US10749894B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network generates a machine learning-based traffic model using data indicative of a particular node in the network attempting to retrieve content from a particular resource in the network. The device predicts, using the traffic model, a time at which the particular node is expected to attempt retrieving future content from the particular resource. The device causes the future content from the particular resource to be prefetched in the network prior to the predicted time. The device makes a security assessment of the prefetched content. The device causes performance of a mitigation action in the network based on the security assessment of the prefetched content and in response to the particular node attempting to retrieve the future content from the particular resource.
US10749890B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprise an analytic server, which provides a SilverlineRT system that prioritizes and analyzes security alerts and events. The server builds an attack tree based on attack detection rules. The server monitors large-scale distributed systems and receives alerts from various devices. The server determines attacks using the attack tree while excluding false alarms. The server determines impact and risk metrics for attacks in real-time, and calculates an impact score for each attack. The server ranks and prioritizes the attacks based on the impact scores. The server also generates real-time reports. By consider the mission and system specific context in the analysis alert information, the server gives insight into the overall context of problems and potential solutions, improving decision-making. By showing the impacts of alters, the server allows security personnel to prioritize responses and focus on highest value defense activities.
US10749887B2
Various embodiments assess security risks of users in computing networks. In some embodiments, an interaction item is sent to an end user electronic device. When the end user interacts with the interaction item, the system collects feedback data that includes information about the user's interaction with the interaction item, as well as technical information about the electronic device. The feedback is compared to a plurality of security risk scoring metrics. Based on this comparison, a security risk score for the user with respect to a computing network.
US10749884B2
Techniques for ascertaining legitimacy of communications received during a digital interaction with a client device. The techniques include: receiving a communication; identifying from the communication a first secured token; processing the first secured token by: obtaining, from the first secured token, information indicating a state of the digital interaction; and using the information indicating the state to determine whether the communication is from the client device; and when it is determined that the communication is from the client device, causing at least one action responsive to the communication to be performed; updating the information indicating the state of the digital interaction to obtain updated information indicating the state of the digital interaction; and providing a second secured token to the client device for use in a subsequent communication during the digital interaction, the second secured token comprising the updated information indicating the state of the digital interaction.
US10749881B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for ranking anomaly detection algorithms, including operations of receiving a set of unlabeled data from one or more sensors in a plurality of sensors of an internet of things, generating a plurality of data distributions corresponding to the set of unlabeled data by using a plurality of anomaly detection algorithms, and ranking the plurality of anomaly detection algorithms relative to the set of unlabeled data based on a distance between a first quantile and a second quantile of each of the plurality of data distributions.
US10749878B2
A communication system includes multiple nodes connected with each other. Each of the multiple nodes generates a message authentication code using a count value of a counter. The multiple nodes include a transmission node and a reception node. The count value of the counter is includes a high-order count value and a low-order count value. In the transmission node, a normal message generation portion generates a normal message to include a transmission data, the low-order count value, and the message authentication code, and a synchronization message generation portion generates a synchronization message. In the reception node, a message verification portion verifies the received normal message, a resynchronization request portion transmits a resynchronization request of the counter to the transmission node, and a count value update portion updates the high-order count value stored in the reception count value storage portion when the synchronization message is received.
US10749875B2
Described technologies enhance cybersecurity and facilitate computing system account usage by configuring a primary account and a supplementary account together in a security configuration lifecycle. The primary account user may be a parent or other adult, while the supplementary account user may be a child or other person with less capacity than the primary user. Over time, the accounts may transition together through security configurations to give more capabilities to the supplementary user, e.g., login separate from the primary user, and to reduce the control of the primary user over the supplementary account. Security configuration lifecycle stages are implemented, e.g., using capability-security pair data structures and account security configuration code. Despite the security configuration linkage of the accounts, each account may have its own personalized content and its own recommendation history. Lifecycle position identification supports automatic reasoning to select an age-appropriate consent obtention procedure, and facilitates documentary media timeline creation.
US10749858B2
An example device includes a processor coupled to a network and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory includes computer code for causing the processor to establish a secure connection between a manageability application and an interconnect device, the interconnect device being in communication with a newly connected networked device; and securely communicate, from the manageability application to the interconnect device, temporary login information for the networked device.
US10749855B2
Systems herein allow a digital assistant to make requests to applications, such as third-party applications, that access data in an enterprise mobility management (“EMM”) system. The digital assistant can link to a portal application and receive a token that identifies a user. A remote application on a user device can establish a session with the portal application as part of a single sign on (“SSO”). The session can identify the same user. The portal application can then link the digital assistant to the remote application. When the digital assistant makes a request to the portal application, a notification can be pushed to the remote application. The user can confirm the request, establishing an authorized session during which time the digital assistant can make additional requests to the portal application. The portal application can service the requests by accessing third-party applications available through the portal application and authorized for access by the SSO.
US10749847B2
A data communication system exchanges user data between a first System-On-Chip (SOC) and a second SOC. The SOCs hash and transfer their read-only hardware-trust keys and receive hardware-trust digital certificates. The SOCs exchange and validate the hardware-trust digital certificates. The first SOC encrypts user data and transfers the encrypted user data responsive to the hardware-trust validations. The second SOC receives the encrypted user data, decrypts the encrypted user data, and processes the decrypted user data responsive to the hardware-trust validations. In some examples, the second SOC encrypts and transfers other user data responsive to the hardware-trust validations, and the first SOC receives, decrypts, and processes the other user data responsive to the hardware-trust validations. The first and/or the second SOC could be wireless communication devices.
US10749839B2
A system identifies a significant communication from a revived contact. A user and the contact interact, and the interaction is monitored to determine a weighted significance value to attribute to the contact. The interaction may include communication, a designation of significance by the user, and organizational associations. The weighted significance value is attributed to the contact. A subsequent communication is detected and a weighted time difference value for the subsequent communication is determined. If the subsequent communication satisfies a significant communication condition, then the subsequent communication is designated as a significant communication.
US10749837B2
In some examples, a telecommunications-network packet gateway can receive, from a terminal via a packet tunnel, a lookup request for a network address associated with a server name. The packet gateway can determine a profile identifier associated with the packet tunnel and retrieve, from a policy server, an associated profile type. The packet gateway can then select a nameserver associated with the profile type, and forward the lookup request to the nameserver. The nameserver can store a name list. Upon receiving a request, the nameserver can determine whether the server name is included in the name list and, in response, send a reply. In some examples, the packet gateway receives a request from the terminal for content, determines a profile type, selects a destination server associated with the profile type, and forwards the request to the destination server.
US10749835B2
The method comprises embedding, by an application (11), a first tracking mark in an email message (50) to be send to a recipient device (20) via a second server (200), and sending metadata (40) about the email message (50) to a first server (100); storing, by the second server (200), a first copy of the email message (51) and forwarding the email message (50) to said recipient device (20); and detecting when the recipient device (20) opens the email message (50) by the recipient device (20) requesting the embedded first tracking mark to said first server (100), wherein before or after said detecting being performed, said first copy of the email message (51) is replaced with a second copy of the email message (52) including no tracking mark, having embedded therein a second tracking mark or having embedded therein an inactive mark instead of the first tracking mark.
US10749834B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system that are capable of proactively supporting continuous communication, the information processing apparatus including: an acquiring unit that acquires a predetermined number of message content items, as candidates to be sent, from a plurality of message content items classified as a category corresponding to an image used for communication among a plurality of categories into which the message content items are classified; and an option creating unit that creates an option for prompting a selection of the message content item to be sent from the predetermined number of message content items acquired by the acquiring unit, and exhibits the option at a predetermined timing. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus that constitutes a communication support system.
US10749833B2
A method is provided for determining when to send an electronic message. The method may include receiving the electronic message for a recipient, and making a prediction associated with the electronic message being positively received by the recipient based on an attribute of the electronic message and an additional attribute of the recipient. The method may also include selectively sending or deferring sending of the electronic message based on the prediction.
US10749832B1
Method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for programmatically managing limited engagement by an external email resource entity with a group-based communication interface of a group-based communication system are described herein.
US10749822B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for tracking of a conversation and management of multi-channel, multi-interaction customer conversations across multiple chat bots. One example system includes operations to receive a first signal comprising a first set of conversational input received via interactions with a conversational interface from a client device, the conversational interface associated with a plurality of chat bots and manages interactions between the client device and the plurality of chat bots. The received conversational input is analyzed to determine a context of the received conversational input based on characteristics of the received conversational input. A request is transmitted to an identified first chat bot associated with the determined context and a response is received from the identified first chat bot. The response is transmitted to the client device for presentation.
US10749818B1
A method includes receiving an email on a first email client, providing a user interface on the first email client, wherein the user interface displays a plurality of potential responses to the email, and receiving a selection by a user on the user interface of a response of the plurality of potential responses. The method also includes automatically transmitting a reply to the email to an email server of a second email client in response to the selection of the response. The plurality of potential responses can comprise at least one of a single word, a single phrase, a single sentence, an emoticon and an emoji.
US10749812B2
The present invention relates to Data Center Network (DCN) flow scheduling scheme. It provides a dynamic scheduling algorithm and a hybrid of centralized and decentralized scheduling system to improve the performance of DCN and data parallel application. The scheduling system uses a central controller to collect the real-time bandwidth of each node, and schedule the priority as well as transmission rate of each network flow set combined by application context (Coflow [1]). The centralized scheduling avoids a sophisticated system design and hardware (switch) modification to comparing with full decentralized solutions. The combination of centralization and decentralization decreases the average completion time of Coflows, and eventually improve the performance of data parallel applications.
US10749808B1
A network address assigned to a virtual network interface of a packet transformation node of a flow management service is identified. A packet of a particular network flow associated with an application implemented at an isolated virtual network is sent to the network address. Using a rewrite directive generated at a rewriting decisions node of the service and cached at the packet transformation node, a transformed packet corresponding to a packet received at the packet transformation node is generated and transmitted to a destination.
US10749807B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for optimizing a wireless network. A description of a traffic incident is received. An impact area is generated from the description. A geographic polygon is generated based on the impact area. The network usage of the geographic polygon is determined. A message including the network usage for the geographic polygon may be transmitted to a mobile network operator.
US10749802B2
Embodiments include techniques for channeling elements in an analytics engine environment, techniques include analyzing a current process, and identifying critical data element types associated with the current process. The techniques also include receiving a real-time data stream including a plurality of data elements, and pre-filtering the plurality of data elements, wherein the pre-filtering determines one or more of the plurality of data elements are associated with the critical data element type. The technique includes selecting a channel of a plurality of channels to fast-path the one or more of the plurality of data elements based at least in part on the pre-filtering, and increasing a confidence level corresponding to the current process and the critical data element type based on a state of the current process.
US10749796B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving, from a first network slice comprising a set of virtual network functions instantiated in a network, a first request including a first characteristic for a first service associated with a first communication device, receiving, from service layer equipment, first information associated with plurality of network slices, selecting, according to the first characteristic and the first information, a second network slice of the plurality of network slices for facilitating providing a plurality of available services via the network, directing the first network slice to route user plane communication traffic between the first communication device and the second network slice, and directing, by the processing system, the second network slice to facilitate providing the first service to the first communication device via user plan communication traffic. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10749784B2
A test system for Internet-of-Things (IoT) end-to-end (e2e) testing is provided. The test system comprises a network simulator and a device under test. The device under test is adapted to initiate a communication with the network simulator and to send a Domain Name System (DNS) query and/or a Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) request to the network simulator. The network simulator is adapted to determine a platform according to which the device under test intends to communicate based on the Domain Name System query and/or the Message Queue Telemetry Transport request.
US10749778B2
A wireless receiver receives location pilots embedded in received symbols and uses the location pilots to detect the first path for every base station the network has designated for the receiver to use in time of arrival estimation. The receiver preferably applies matching pursuit strategies to offer a robust and reliable identification of a channel impulse response's first path. The receiver may also receive and use estimation pilots as a supplement to the location pilot information in determining time of arrival. The receiver can use metrics characteristic of the channel to improve the robustness and reliability of the identification of a CIR's first path. With the first path identified, the receiver measures the time of arrival for signals from that path and the receiver determines the observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) to respond to network requests for OTDOA and position determination measurements.
US10749773B2
Embodiments provide optimized deployment of workloads. A first workload to be deployed in at least one data center of a plurality of data centers is received. A first plurality of candidate data centers is selected from the plurality of data centers, and the first workload is deployed to each of the first plurality of candidate data centers. A first performance metric is collected from each respective data center of the first plurality of candidate data centers based on execution of the first workload deployed at the respective data centers, and a first optimal data center from the first plurality of candidate data centers is identified based on the first performance metrics. The first workload is removed from each of the first plurality of candidate data centers, other than the identified first optimal data center.
US10749772B1
A computing resource monitoring service receives a command to read a metric pertaining to computing resources provided to the customer. The command may comprise a hash key for the metric. Based on the key, the service may select one or more data zones, each of the data zones comprising one or more storage nodes wherein metrics are stored. The service may be configured to obtain a schedule of storage nodes from the data zones in order to determine the active storage nodes based at least in part on the key. The service may receive a response comprising the metric from one or more storage nodes from the one or more active nodes based at least in part on the key. The service may apply agreement criteria to the responses. If the responses do not meet the criteria, the service may perform a reconciliation process to generate a compiled response.
US10749771B2
Systems are provided for facilitating the disclosed methods for performing event storage and diagnostic processing within a hybrid cloud environment. Event records are gathered and batched at an on-premises server. The event records are also appended with correlation vector data that enables the event records to be correlated with other events. The batch of event record batches are signed with a security key associated with a cloud storage container and the on-premises server is restricted to writing the batch of event records to the container. In some instances, the size of the batch is based on a duration of time for collecting records, which can be adjusted to accommodate for missing data.
US10749761B1
An apparatus having a device of a user and a computer is disclosed. The computer may be configured to (i) transfer a manifest to the device in response to a viewing session being opened. The manifest generally has a plurality of modified links to a plurality of bitrates of a video content. Each one of the modified links may include an identifier that is unique to the viewing session. The computer may also be configured to (ii) receive a particular one of the modified links from the device, (iii) log a presence of the viewing session, and (iv) generate a request by removing the identifier from the particular modified link.
US10749755B2
The present application discloses a network topology self-adapting data visualization method, device, apparatus, and storage medium. The network topology self-adapting data visualization method includes: preprocessing nodes, output the preprocessed nodes; processing the preprocessed nodes by the force guidance layout algorithm to form an initial network topology graph; performing de-duplication processing for the duplicated preprocessed nodes in the initial network topology graph and outputting the de-duplicated nodes; and forming an object network topology graph on the basis of the de-duplicated nodes. By means of the network topology self-adapting data visualization method, data visualization and automation can be achieved, the data visualization processing procedure is simplified, manual intervention is not needed, the manual intervention cost can be effectively reduced, and the processing efficiency is improved.
US10749753B2
Generating discovery profiles for discovering components of a computer network using agent software can include receiving a command from a client device to generate a discovery profile for an agent software instance. A network subnet and at least one network gateway address can be obtained from the agent software instance, which network subnet and at least one network gateway address can be associated with a network interface of the computing device operating the agent software. At least one other network subnet can be obtained from the agent software instance by sending instructions to the agent software instance to identify the at least one other network subnet using the at least one network gateway address. A discovery profile including the network subnet and the at least one other network subnet can then be generated for the agent software instance.
US10749741B1
Described herein are systems and methods that provide for auto-discovery of VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) using a protocol-independent multicast (PIM) bootstrap router (BSR). In one or more embodiments, a node may be configured via PIM messaging in which nodes of a network provide their candidate-rendezvous point (RP) advertisements send their information of candidate-RP to multicast group information to an elected BSR. The elected BSR consolidates the candidate-RP to multicast group information and propagates this information to nodes through PIM messages to all PIM routers in the network. In one or more embodiments, a node uses this information in combination with its local configuration mapping of VNIDs-to-multicast-group information to generate a remote VTEP-IP-(RP)-to-VNID mapping, which can be used to auto configure the node's VXLAN with remote-VTEP and VNI profiles in static VXLAN deployments.
US10749737B2
Disclosed is an interoperability gateway system that provides backup connection between a dispatch center and a Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system in the event the dispatch center is disconnected from the LMR system. In general, this may be accomplished by providing an RF link between the disconnected site and the interoperability gateway via a controller, or interoperability site network interface (ISNI), that is activated when the dispatch center is disconnected from the LMR system. The interoperability gateway provides the backup connection by allocating a control station for each channel available at the disconnected LMR system. When compared to conventional dispatch console backup schemes, the disclosed interoperability gateway system greatly reduces the equipment needed to provide dispatch console backup, thereby decreasing equipment and operation costs, and simplifying operation by providing a solution that is virtually transparent to the dispatcher.
US10749733B2
Apparatus and method for controlling network device based on network service in communication system
An operation method of a server in a communication system may comprise receiving device information from each of a plurality of devices; generating service modeling information for each of a plurality of services; generating category modeling information for sub-services of each of the plurality of services based on the device information and the service modeling information; receiving service information; generating device modeling information corresponding to the category modeling information based on the service information; and transmitting the device modeling information to each of the plurality devices corresponding to the device modeling information, wherein the device modeling information includes configuration information for a network service function corresponding to a device corresponding to the device modeling information.
US10749722B2
A technology enabling a terminal to receive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) information about data transmitted from the terminal is provided. The method includes receiving cyclic shift information for a reference signal from the base station; transmitting, to the base station, the data and a reference signal which is cyclic-shifted using a cyclic shift value, the cyclic shift value being determined based on a dynamic cyclic shift value mapped one-to-one to the cyclic shift information for the reference signal; and receiving, from the base station, the ACK/NACK information about the transmitted data through a radio resource of a downlink channel, the radio resource of the downlink channel being identified based on a modifier mapped one-to-one to the cyclic shift information for the reference signal.
US10749715B2
Systems and methods for cable transmission are provided. The system includes an up-tilt circuit, a digital-to-analog converter, and a power amplifier. The up-tilt circuit is configured to receive an input digital signal that has a flat spectrum and generate an up-tilted digital signal that has an up-tilted spectrum. The digital-to-analog converter is configured to receive the up-tilted digital signal and to provide an analog signal. The power amplifier is configured to receive the analog signal and amplify the analog signal for cable transmission.
US10749709B2
Disclosed herein is a distributed file system using a torus network. The distributed file system includes multiple servers. The location of a master server may be determined to shorten the latency of data input/output. The location of the master server may be determined such that the distance between the master server and a node farthest away from the master server, among nodes, is minimized. When the location of the master server is determined, the characteristics of the torus network and the features of a propagation transmission scheme may be taken into consideration.
US10749697B2
An example electronic apparatus includes an information generator configured to generate information used to one function of a user terminal, a communicator configured to communicate with the user terminal, the server and a plurality of external apparatuses having a plurality of operation modes, and a controller configured to control the communicator: to attempt an access to the server at a first operation mode; in response to determining that the server is in a normal communication state based on the access attempt, to provide information generated by the information generator to the user terminal via the server; and in response to determining that the server is in a communication pending state based on the access attempt, to transmit a first mode changing signal for operating in a second operation mode, which restricts the access to the server, to at least one of the plurality of external apparatuses.
US10749695B2
A system and method for utilizing a security key stored in non-volatile memory, and for generating a PUF-based data set on an integrated circuit including non-volatile memory cells, such as flash memory cells, are described. The method includes storing a security key in a particular block in a plurality of blocks of the non-volatile memory array; utilizing, in a security logic circuit coupled to the non-volatile memory array, the security key stored in the particular block in a protocol to enable access via a port by external devices or communication networks to data stored in blocks in the plurality of blocks; and enabling read-only access to the particular block by the security logic for use in the protocol, and preventing access to the particular block via the port.
US10749689B1
The disclosed technology for a hardware system to access a secure backend system uses non-volatile memory to hold encrypted secrets, volatile memory to hold decrypted secrets ready for use, a keys-for-all (K4A) server, and app servers running K4A clients. To access the backend system in production, each app server uses a decrypted secret and a certificate that identifies the app server and certifies its role and physical and logical location. At initialization of the app server, a K4A client is instantiated that launches and tracks processes, running on the app server, that are authorized to request decryption services. The K4A client responds to a decryption request from an authorized process, determined based on tracking of processes launched, by requesting decryption by a K4A server, using the certificate, and returns to the process, in volatile memory, a decrypted secret or a reference to the decrypted secret, decrypted by the K4A server.
US10749679B2
Systems and techniques are provided in which a token is used to manage user access to actions and features within an application platform. The token includes an indication of each action and/or feature to which the user has permission within the platform, thereby allowing for rapid and efficient development and management of user access to features within the platform.
US10749674B2
In one example, a system for format preserving encryption utilizing a key version can include a processor, and a memory resource storing instructions executable by the processor to determine a quantity of significant bits for a value to be encrypted, mask the value to include the quantity of significant bits, perform format preserving encryption on the masked value to generate an encrypted value, and append a key version to the encrypted value.
US10749671B2
A secure computation system configured to perform multi-party computation on a value of a predetermined function whose argument includes secret data, comprises a plurality of server apparatuses; wherein the plurality of server apparatuses, comprise: storage units that store shares that are bases over (of) a finite field generated by performing secret sharing on the secret data; share expansion units that generate extended shares by expanding the shares; OR operation units that perform OR operations included in the predetermined functions using the extended shares; and NOT operation units that perform NOT operations included in the predetermined functions using the extended shares.
US10749665B2
In aspects of high-precision rational number arithmetic in homomorphic encryption, a computing device stores homomorphic encrypted data as a dataset, and implements an encryption application that can encode integers into plaintext polynomials, where the integers are representative of initial data received for encryption. The encryption application can encrypt the plaintext polynomials into ciphertexts of the homomorphic encrypted data, and perform homomorphic operations as rational number arithmetic on the ciphertexts, generating updated ciphertexts while the homomorphic encrypted data remains encrypted. The encryption application can then decrypt the updated ciphertexts to modified plaintext polynomials that can be resolved back to the plaintext polynomials effective to recover the integers that represent the initial data. The encryption application can also decode the modified plaintext polynomials back to the integers effective to recover the initial data in an unencrypted form.
US10749662B1
A receiver system that includes a clock and data recovery (CDR) system for aligning a local clock signal to an incoming data signal to extract correct timing information from the incoming data signal is provided. A timing error detector generates an output phase error signal representing the phase difference between the incoming data signal and the local clock signal. The timing error detector determines the phase difference according to recovered symbols and the difference between the recovered symbols and digital samples of the incoming data signal. The digital samples of the incoming data signal include intersymbol interference. The output timing information is suitable for aligning the local clock signal to the incoming data signal.
US10749653B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may determine updated system information for a user equipment (UE), wherein the UE is associated with an initial access bandwidth part (BWP) and a configured BWP; and transmit the updated system information to the UE using at least one of unicast signaling, multicast signaling, the configured BWP, or a particular BWP that is different from the configured BWP. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10749649B2
The present invention relates to a pilot tone generating method and apparatus of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system and method, and a channel estimation method and apparatus using the same. The channel estimation apparatus includes a pilot tone extracting unit for extracting a pilot tone, which is inserted within a frame with data tone, masked with an orthogonal code; a pilot tone unmasking unit for unmasking of the pilot tone extracted from the pilot tone extracting unit by using an orthogonal code information; and a channel estimation operating unit for estimating a channel by calculating an average of the pilot tones which is unmasked in the unmasking unit.
US10749647B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for beamformed transmission in a wireless local area network. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method for transmitting a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) frame to a plurality of stations (STAs) by an Access Point (AP) in a wireless local area network may be provided. The method may include transmitting a SIGNAL field of the PPDU frame, the SIGNAL field including beamforming information indicating whether beamforming is applied to respective data units of the PPDU frame, and transmitting the data units of the PPDU frame, the data units being individually beamformed or not beamformed according to the beamforming information.
US10749646B2
Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for communication are provided. In an aspect, an apparatus for communication may include a processing system configured to receive a frame configured to assign at least member information or position information for one or more identifiers, and receive a data packet associated with a particular identifier and indicating a number of space-time streams for one or more position information. In another aspect, an apparatus for communication may include a processing system configured to transmit a frame configured to assign at least member information or position information for one or more identifiers, and transmit a data packet associated with a particular identifier and indicating a number of space-time streams for one or more position information.
US10749642B2
A network that supports retransmissions with fixed and minimum delays includes at least first, second and third transceivers. The first transceiver transmits to the second transceiver packets comprising data of first and second data types. The second transceiver: stores the received data in a second buffer; transmits to the third transceiver, without waiting a fixed delay, successfully-received packets comprising data of the first data type, which is encoded with a first error resistance level; and transmits to the third transceiver, after waiting the fixed delay, successfully-received packets comprising data of the second data type, which is also encoded with the first error resistance level. When the second transceiver receives a retransmission request from the third transceiver, it retransmits a packet comprising data of either the first or second data types, encoded with a second error resistance level that is higher than the first error resistance level.
US10749633B2
Polar codes may be generated with a variable block length utilizing puncturing. Some puncturing schemes consider punctured bits as unknown bits, and set the log likelihood ratio (LLR) for those bits to zero; while other puncturing schemes consider punctured bits as known bits, and set the LLR for those bits to infinity. Each of these puncturing schemes has been observed to provide benefits over the other under different circumstances, especially corresponding to different coding rates or different signal to noise ratio (SNR). According to aspects of the present disclosure, both puncturing schemes are compared, and the puncturing scheme resulting in the better performance is utilized for transmission.
US10749631B2
Disclosed are a method by which a base station and a terminal transmit and receive a data signal, and a device for supporting the same. More specifically, disclosed are: a method for efficiently transmitting and receiving a corresponding data signal between a base station and a terminal by using a coding scheme determined on the basis of various conditions for the transmitted data signal; and devices for supporting the same.
US10749629B2
The present invention is directed to data communication systems and techniques thereof. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an FEC encoder that generates parity symbols that are embedded into FEC blocks. An FEC decoder determines whether to perform error correction based on the parity symbols. When performing error correction, the decoder selects a worst symbol from a segment of symbols, and the worst symbol is corrected. There are other embodiments as well.
US10749628B2
A terminal apparatus (1) is provided with a coding unit (7), a decoding unit (2), and a control unit (5) for controlling the coding unit and the decoding unit individually. Under control of the control unit, the coding unit codes a payload, a first number of error corrections (3), and identification information (6) that are to be transmitted, on the basis of a method indicated by the already-transmitted identification information to thereby generate first coded data. The decoding unit decodes newly-received second coded data on the basis of a method indicated by the identification information included in a decoding result of the already-received second coded data.
US10749623B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for hosting an optical line terminal (OLT) bonding engine are disclosed. In one aspect, packet data for transmission over a passive optical (PON) is selected. A transmission wavelength assigned to the packet data is identified. A particular OLT is selected from among the additional OLTs to transmit the packet data over the PON based on the corresponding wavelength of the particular OLT matching the identified transmission wavelength assigned to the packet. The packet data is formatted based on the particular OLT. The formatted packet data is transmitted to the particular OLT for transmission over the communications interface.
US10749622B2
An integrated apparatus with optical/electrical interfaces and protocol converter on a single silicon substrate. The apparatus includes an optical module comprising one or more modulators respectively coupled with one or more laser devices for producing a first optical signal to an optical interface and one or more photodetectors for detecting a second optical signal from the optical interface to generate a current signal. Additionally, the apparatus includes a transmit lane module coupled between the optical module and an electrical interface to receive a first electric signal from the electrical interface and provide a framing protocol for driving the one or more modulators. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a receive lane module coupled between the optical module and the electrical interface to process the current signal to send a second electric signal to the electrical interface.
US10749621B2
A radio communication repeater for operating in a Time Division Multiple Access radio communication system with a plurality of time slots to transmit packets. The repeater includes a transmitter to transmit a plurality of the packets in a transmit time slot assigned to that repeater and a receiver to receive a plurality of the packets from all other time slots of the TDMA radio communication system other than the transmit time slot assigned to that repeater. The repeater also includes a controller to process the received packets from all other time slots of the TDMA radio communication system other than the transmit time slot assigned to that repeater and, if the received packets have different recipient identifiers, to forward the received packets for transmission by the transmitter in the transmit time slot assigned to that repeater as a frame comprising a plurality of packets having different recipient identifiers.
