US10929820B2
Systems and methods for predicting replacement of a component of an industrial machine. One system includes an electronic processor configured to determine a wear rate of the component based on a current dimension of the component and historical dimensions of the component and determine a replacement cost for the component. Determining the replacement cost includes determining a cost of downtime for replacing the component based on a time for replacing the component and a downtime cost for the industrial machine during the time for replacing the component, a material cost in replacing the component, and an operating cost of the industrial machine associated with not replacing the component. The electronic processor is also configured to determine a replacement recommendation for the component based on the wear rate, the replacement cost, and discard criteria and output the replacement recommendation.
US10929817B2
Systems and methods for digitally grouping users are disclosed. A method includes: receiving user attribute information from a user computer device and service provider attribute information from a service provider computer device; analyzing the user attribute information and the service provider attribute information based on the receiving; classifying the user attribute information and the service provider attribute information into a digital user group based on the analyzing; and scheduling an programming event for a user of the user computer device based on the classifying.
US10929815B2
Systems and methods for predicting the outcome of a business entity are presented. In embodiments, a system may receive explicit data reporting or indicating activities of a business entity, and other data from which information regarding the activities or level of operations of the entity may be inferred. Using one or more data processors, the system may generate inferred data regarding the business entity from a selected portion of the other data, and use at least some of the explicit data and the inferred data to determine which one of a series of defined sequential active states of development the entity currently is in. The system may further, using the result of the determination as the current state of the business, predict a final stage of the business entity, and a probability of evolving to that final stage from the current state. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US10929806B2
Systems and methods for facilitating pick up of items delivered to attended delivery/pickup locations. In various embodiments, the system is configured for confirming an identity of a person attempting to pick up a parcel from an attended delivery/pickup location before releasing the parcel to the person. The system may confirm the identity by receiving identifying information, by confirming a geographic location of a person attempting to retrieve the parcel, etc. In some embodiments, the system may be configure to enable parcel recipients to provide other persons the authorization to retrieve parcels and may be further configured to confirm this authorization before releasing parcels to a person other than the intended parcel recipient.
US10929802B2
A method for locating at least one object transported in a load compartment of a delivery van, wherein the load compartment has a plurality of doors for removing the at least one object from the load compartment and the delivery van has a controller, includes determining a current position of the at least one object in the load compartment during a journey of the delivery van with a position determination device communicatively connected to the controller, and, for removing the at least one object from the load compartment, determining that door from the plurality of doors with the shortest distance to the current position, indicating the determined door with an indication device communicatively connected to the controller and/or opening the determined door and indicating the current position of the at least one object in the load compartment with the indication device.
US10929800B1
A modular sorting station includes a frame defining an inbound bay and an outbound bay, each of the bays being sized to receive an inventory holder containing inventory. A robotic grasper is mounted to the frame and positioned above one of the inbound and outbound bays and operable to transfer inventory items from the inbound bay to the outbound bay, and a sensor mounted to one of the frame or robotic grasper and operable to identify inventory at the inbound bay when the inventory holder is present in the inbound bay. The frame is sized and arranged to align with a material handling grid and permit drive units to transport inventory holders into and out of the inbound bay and/or outbound bays while moving along the material handling grid; and the frame is portable such that the modular sorting station can be moved as a modular unit for deployment.
US10929795B1
Agents are grouped into skill groups based on the skills of each agent. Simulation are performed for a contact center with multiple queues, where agents from the skill groups are assigned to the queues based on the skills of the skill groups and the skills of the queues. After running the simulations, for each skill group and for each interval, the time each agent spent working using each associated skill is determined, and an average time for each skill is calculated for each interval. The average times are used to create a skill group weight for the skill group for each interval. Later, when the schedule engine is determining an agent placement for one or more intervals, the skill group weights for the intervals are used to calculate a score for the queues based on different agent placements. The placement with the best score (e.g., lowest) is implemented.
US10929773B2
An automated dynamic message categorization system is provided and includes first, second and third processing units. The first processing unit is configured to generate a user interface (UI) and to present the UI to a user. The second processing unit is configured to pull information from a first textual element which has been entered into the UI, to identify second textual elements that are relevant to the first textual element based on the pulled information and to extract textual element identifiers from the second textual elements. The third processing unit is configured to generate, for each extracted textual element identifier, a confidence score describing a degree of correlation between each extracted textual element identifier and the first textual element. The first processing unit is further configured to present to the user each extracted textual element identifier with a corresponding confidence score as a selectable option via the UI.
US10929772B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to apply a machine learning model to predict an age division for a user based on user information. An age bracket within the age division including a largest number of connections of the user can be determined. The determined age bracket can be assigned for the user.
US10929770B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine at least one web site that is of interest to a user of the social networking system. One or more pages can be determined based at least in part on the web site, the one or more pages being accessible through the social networking system. At least one page recommendation that references at least one of the one or more pages can be provided to the user.
US10929761B2
Systems and methods for automatically detecting annotation discrepancies in annotated training data samples and repairing the annotated training data samples for a machine learning-based automated dialogue system include evaluating a corpus of a plurality of distinct training data samples; identifying one or more of a slot span defect and a slot label defect of a target annotated slot span of a target training data sample of the corpus based on the evaluation; and automatically correcting one or more annotations of the target annotated slot span based on the identified one or more of the slot span defect and the slot label defect.
US10929759B2
A specification of programmatic instructions is received. The specification uses instances of functional components connected together using specified links and includes the programmatic instructions for controlling a motorized base device. A simulation and debugging environment for the specification is provided and a distributable version based on the specification is generated. The distributable version is provided to a remote wireless device that executes the distributable version of the specification including by providing commands to the motorized base device based on the distributable version of the specification.
US10929753B1
A method and system for generating a probability value for an event. The system includes a source for generating a plurality of digital input signals, a processor connected to the source to receive the plurality of digital input signals from the source, and a display connected to the processor for displaying a final output. Preferably, the method further includes validating the probability value.
US10929749B2
An apparatus to facilitate optimization of a neural network (NN) is disclosed. The apparatus includes optimization logic to define a NN topology having one or more macro layers, adjust the one or more macro layers to adapt to input and output components of the NN and train the NN based on the one or more macro layers.
US10929740B2
A dynamic transaction card that is manufactured using conductive plastic jumpers that will dissolve when in contact with a solvent used to tamper with the dynamic transaction card. Internal components of a dynamic transaction card may be manufactured using a synthetic or semi-synthetic organic material, such as, for example, plastics. These materials may be conductive to provide functionality to a dynamic transaction card, such as a connection between an integrated circuit and other card components such that when the materials dissolve, the connections are broken and the dynamic transaction card may be inactive due to the loss of various connections.
US10929739B2
A system for detecting tampering with a product includes a capacitor in or attached to the product, an integrated circuit configured to inject a current the capacitor and to detect a corresponding voltage slope on the capacitor. The integrated circuit is further configured to divide the voltage slope into a plurality of slope segments, discard a first set of slope segments, whose slope value falls outside a predefined range of slope values, and use a second set of slope segments, whose slope value falls within said predefined range, for determining a capacitance on the capacitor. A corresponding method for detecting tampering with a product is conceived, and a corresponding computer program is provided.
US10929732B2
A power receiving-type information acquisition and transmission device is provided with one or more power receivers that receive power supply waves that can supply power, one or more power storage means that store power obtained by the power receiving means, one or more information acquisition means that acquire information by expending at least part of the aforementioned power of the power receiver and/or the power storage means, and one or more information transmission means that utilize the power from the power storage means to transmit information externally. This enables regular or steady information collection, and enables externally transmitting the information stably and remotely, on a permanent basis, i.e., either over a short or long distance.
US10929726B2
A printing apparatus for shortening the time required to read documents having a plurality of pages, while preventing the occurrence of an overflow in a storage unit.
US10929724B2
A method is provided for monitoring scene detection by an apparatus detecting scenes from among a set of possible reference scenes. It includes an assignment of an identifier to each reference scene, detection of scenes from among the set of possible reference scenes at successive instants of detection with the aid of at least one classification algorithm, and a sliding time filtering processing of these detected current scenes over a filtering window of size M, based on the identifier of each new detected current scene taken into account in the window and a confidence probability associated with this new detected current scene, the output of the filtering processing successively delivering filtered detected scenes.
US10929713B2
Techniques are disclosed for improving navigation accuracy for a mobile platform. In one example, a navigation system comprises an image sensor that generates a plurality of images, each image comprising one or more features. A computation engine executing on one or more processors of the navigation system processes each image of the plurality of images to determine a semantic class of each feature of the one or more features of the image. The computation engine determines, for each feature of the one or more features of each image and based on the semantic class of the feature, whether to include the feature as a constraint in a navigation inference engine. The computation engine generates, based at least on features of the one or more features included as constraints in the navigation inference engine, navigation information. The computation engine outputs the navigation information to improve navigation accuracy for the mobile platform.
US10929711B1
Techniques are discussed for segmenting sensor data captured by a sensor to remove a ground surface from the sensor data. A first technique includes capturing sensor data represented as multichannel image and segmenting the image according to image processing techniques. The ground surface can be removed from the sensor data, and a subset of the sensor data can be associated with a voxel space. A second technique includes capturing sensor data and unprojecting the sensor data to generate three dimensional data, which can be associated with a voxel space. Ground plane data associated with a location can be accessed or determined and voxel data that is within a threshold height of the ground plane data can be removed from the voxel space. Clustering techniques can determine objects represented in the data, and a vehicle can be controlled based on the objects.
US10929704B2
A video encoder compresses video for real-time transmission to a video decoder of a remote teleoperator system that provides teleoperator support to the vehicle based on the real-time video. The video encoder recognizes one or more generic objects in captured video that can be removed from the video without affecting the ability of the teleoperator to control the vehicle. The video encoder removes regions of the video corresponding to the generic objects to compress the video, and generates a metadata stream encoding information about the removed objects. The video decoder generates replacement objects for the objects removed the compressed video. The video decoder inserts the rendered replacement objects into relevant regions of the compressed video to reconstruct the scene.
US10929685B2
A system and method for analyzing behavior in a video is described. The method includes extracting a plurality of salient fragments of a video; associating a time anchor with an occurrence of a first machine event of a machine operated by a human subject; generating a focalized visualization, based on the time anchor, from one or more of the plurality of salient fragments of the video; tagging the human subject in the focalized visualization with a unique identifier; and analyzing behavior of the human subject, using the focalized visualization, to generate a behavior score associated with the unique identifier and the first machine event.
US10929683B2
A video processing method, apparatus and device. The method includes: acquiring a video to be processed; performing audio processing on a plurality of frames of audios in the video to obtain a first processing result corresponding to each frame of audio; performing image processing on a plurality of frames of images in the video to obtain a second processing result corresponding to each frame of image; determining an entity in the video according to the first processing result and the second processing result; acquiring association information of the entity according to index information of the entity; generating first text information used for describing each frame of image, according to the second processing result corresponding to each frame of image and association information of the entity; and generating a first type of target article according to the plurality of frames of images and first text information of each frame of image.
US10929672B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, observing a plurality of objects viewed through a smart lens, wherein the plurality of objects are in a frame of an image viewed by the smart lens, determining an identification for an object of the plurality of objects, assigning tag information for the object based on the identification, storing the tag information for the object and the frame in which the object was observed, receiving a recall request for the object, retrieving the tag information for the object and the frame responsive to the receiving the recall request, and displaying the tag information and the frame. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10929671B2
Methods and systems are described herein that allow a user to capture a single image snapshot from video, print, or the world around him or her, and obtain additional information relating to the media itself or items of interest displayed in the snapshot. A fingerprint of the snapshot is used as a query and transmitted to the server. Image Feature-Based Recognition, as described herein, uses a feature index to identify a smaller set of candidate matches from a larger database of images based on the fingerprint. Novel methods and systems using a distance metric and a radical hash table design exploit probabilistic effects and allow distinct image features to be preferred over redundant ones, allowing only the more distinctive data points to remain resident within the index, yielding a lean index that can be quickly used in the identification process.
US10929669B2
There is provided a method of generating instructions for presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) for dynamically tracking at least one polyp in a plurality of endoscopic images of a colon of a patient, comprising: iterating for the plurality of endoscopic images: tracking a location of a region depicting at least one polyp within the respective endoscopic image relative to at least one previous endoscopic image, when the location of the region is external to the respective endoscopic image: computing a vector from within the respective endoscopic image to the location of the region external to the respective endoscopic image, creating an augmented endoscopic image by augmenting the respective endoscopic image with an indication of the vector, and generating instructions for presenting the augmented endoscopic image within the GUI.
US10929659B2
A terminal with a line-of-sight tracking function is disclosed. The terminal with a line-of-sight tracking function includes a body, a camera, and at least two light emitting diodes. The camera and the at least two light emitting diodes are mounted on the body, so that the terminal can emit a ray by using the at least two light emitting diodes, to ensure that the emitted ray can be shined on an eye of the user when the user is at different angles. After the ray is reflected by the eye of the user, the terminal can collect the reflected ray by using the camera, obtain an eye image of the user, and track a line of sight of the user based on the eye image, thereby increasing a success rate of line-of-sight tracking.
US10929653B2
A method for the recognition of a moving pedestrian by means of a radar sensor system includes the steps of transmitting a primary radar signal into an observation space and of receiving a secondary radar signal reflected by the moving pedestrian. The secondary radar signal is processed, wherein the processing of the secondary radar signal includes the steps of generating a Micro-Doppler spectro-gram of the secondary radar signal, determining, based on the Micro-Doppler spectrogram, an observed bulk speed of the moving pedestrian, determining, based on the Micro-Doppler spectrogram, at least one gait cycle parameter of the moving pedestrian and determining, based on the determined observed bulk speed and the determined gait cycle parameter, an illumination angle between a moving direction of the moving pedestrian and the line of sight.
US10929641B2
An automated microscope system is described that detects dicentric chromosomes (DCs) in metaphase cells arising from exposure to ionizing radiation. The radiation dose depends on the accuracy of DC detection. Accuracy is increased using image segmentation methods are used to rank high quality cytogenetic images and eliminate suboptimal metaphase cell data in a sample based on novel quality measures. When a sufficient number of high quality images are detected, the microscope system is directed to terminate metaphase image collection for a sample. The microscope system integrates image selection procedures that control an automated digitally controlled microscope with the analysis of acquired metaphase cell images to accurately determine radiation dose. Early termination of image acquisition reduces sample processing time without compromising accuracy. This approach constitutes a reliable and scalable solution that will be essential for analysis of large numbers of potentially exposed individuals.
US10929639B2
An encoding method and system for a fingerprint of thing according to the present application is disclosed. Based on images of human fingerprints, at least one characteristic of fingerprint is provided on at least friction ridge lines so as to enable the encodement in the form of numbers and/or alphabets, and thereby a fingerprint image including the specific information are formed and can be used for labelling products with codes. The fingerprint image includes the specific information of a thing, and when attached onto said thing, is also unique similar to a fingerprint of an individual. Such fingerprint image for representing the specific identification information of a thing using minutia of finger can be referred to as fingerprint of thing (FOT). The fingerprint of thing, as a wholly new two-dimensional code which is generated based on images of human fingerprints, includes the more information than that of a one-dimensional barcode, and can be used for represent the information which cannot be represented by a one-dimensional barcode and will be too complicated for a two-dimensional barcode to represent. With an encoding method and system according to the present application, a fingerprint of thing including the unique identification information can be printed or carved onto every product, and can keep unchanged similar to a human fingerprint and can be readily used for query.
US10929637B2
An electronic device includes: a transparent member comprising a transparent material; a display panel disposed under the transparent member; a shock absorption sheet disposed under the display panel, and having an opening formed in a region thereof; a biological sensor disposed to face the display panel, and disposed in at least a portion of the opening; a filler material filling at least some space in the opening formed between the biological sensor and the display panel; and a seal disposed between the biological sensor and the shock absorption member and configured to prevent the filler from being discharged outside the opening.
US10929632B2
Methods and electronic devices are provided in which first fingerprint information of a first portion of the user's fingerprint is obtained upon the user's fingerprint contacting the fingerprint sensor. A display object is output within a target area for the fingerprint registration, in response to obtaining the first fingerprint information. A guiding object is output to guide contact of a next portion of the user's fingerprint that is adjacent to the first portion. Next fingerprint information of the next portion of the user's fingerprint is obtained upon the user's fingerprint contacting the fingerprint sensor guided by the guiding object. Upon modifying the display object based on the obtained next fingerprint information, the steps of outputting a guiding object and obtaining a next fingerprint information are repeated until fingerprint information at least partially surrounding the first portion is obtained.
US10929625B2
A method for authenticating a product packaging includes reading a printed optical-machine-readable-code on the product packaging using a mobile device, determining if the printed optical-machine-readable-code includes a command for reading an RFID, and executing the command on the mobile device for reading the RFID, wherein the printed optical-machine-readable-code and the RFID are positioned at the same location on the product packaging.
US10929621B2
The present application discloses a gateway device for managing multiple electronic tags. The gateway device includes a network modem configured to receive updated data for multiple electronic tags. Additionally, the gateway device includes a communication chip configured to transmit individual updated data for each individual electronic tag one by one to the corresponding individual electronic tag of the multiple electronic tags. Moreover, the gateway device includes a microcontroller coupled with the network modem and the communication chip to control receiving the updated data for the multiple electronic tags from the network modem and transmitting multiple individual updated data respectively to the multiple electronic tags.
US10929619B2
A numerical generalization method for machine translation and system, computer and computer program thereof includes a training stage, in the training stage, a training corpus is processed in a special manner, and a normal training is performed without changing a structure of a neural network model; and a translation stage, in the translation stage, a generalization label in a translation is replaced with a normal translation. In the present invention, only the pre-processing and post-processing are changed to make the generalization technology applicable, which expands the application of the generalization technology in a neural network machine translation, and better adapts to the new machine translation model structure.
US10929614B2
Systems and method for automated contextual dialog generation for cognitive conversations include embedding a natural language sentence input by a user into a corresponding sentence vector using a sentence embedder. A context array is generated using a contextual sentence embedder to embed the sentence vector and previous sentence vectors of a conversation history into a context array. Response words are predicted from the sentence vector by performing sequence-to-sequence dialog prediction with a dialog prediction network. Context of the input sentence is quantified by extracting context features from the context array using a situation quantification network. A response dialog is generated in natural language to display to a user, the response dialog responding to the input sentence with a response generator by determining a dialog state including the response words and the quantified context and optimizing the response dialog with reinforcement learning corresponding to the dialog state.
US10929611B2
Computer-based natural language understanding of input and output for a computer interlocutor is improved using a method of classifying conversation segments from transcribed conversations. The improvement includes one or more methods of splitting transcribed conversations into groups related to a conversation ontology using metadata; identifying dominant paths of conversational behavior by counting the frequency of occurrences of the behavior for a given path; creating a conversation model comprising conversation behaviors, metadata, and dominant paths; and using the conversation model to assign a probability score for a matched input to the computer interlocutor or a generated output from the computer interlocutor.
US10929608B2
An information transmission device includes: a determining unit that determines a situation of an interlocutor who interacts with a user; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the user, information to be provided according to the situation of the interlocutor determined by the determining unit. In a further modification of the invention, the determining unit may determine a situation related to a body or conversation of the interlocutor as the situation of the interlocutor.
US10929595B2
A digital story includes textual, visual, and/or audio aspects. Generation of a new digital story and/or editing of an existing digital story can include, for instance, coordinating presentation of textual, visual, and/or audio aspects of the digital story. A digital story can be viewed and/or accessed by a user remote from one or more authors of the digital story.
US10929593B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for presenting a chunk-based user interface for an application file are provided. An application file may be accessed, wherein the application file comprises an object comprising a plurality of values arranged in a grid format. An indication to present the application file in a chunk-based user interface format may be received. A first chunk may be presented on the display of the computing device, wherein the first chunk comprises a first set of the plurality of values of the object. A second chunk may also be presented on the display of the computing device, wherein the second chunk comprises a second set of the plurality of values of the object. The chunks presented via the chunk-based user interface may be displayed in association with range elements indicating a range of cells and/or values represented by corresponding chunks.
US10929586B2
This disclosure describes methods and systems for building a spatial model to predict performance of processing chamber, and using the spatial model to converge faster to a desired process during the process development phase. Specifically, a machine-learning engine obtains an empirical process model for a given process for a given processing chamber. The empirical process model is calibrated by using the in-line metrology data as reference. A predictive model is built by refining the empirical process model by a machine-learning engine that receives customized metrology data and outputs one or more spatial maps of the wafer for one or more dimensions of interest across the wafer without physically processing any further wafers, i.e. by performing spatial digital design of experiment (Spatial DoE).
US10929582B2
Circuits may be designed using computer aided design tools and may comprise a plurality of different possible variants of individual components. These multi-variant component circuits may be validated to identify potential problems by generating an aggregate parametric model for the multi-variant components and then using the aggregate parametric model in applying tests to different connection networks of the circuit definition.
US10929574B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for an integrated standardized metrology system (ISMetS) are disclosed. A disclosed metrology system comprises at least one processor to receive an XML metrology file that comprises at least one metrology action for a metrology instrument to measure at least one object, to translate the XML metrology file into a human machine interface (HMI) metrology file, to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the HMI metrology file, to generate a HMI metrology command file according to a command from a user via the GUI, to translate the HMI metrology command file into a metrology instrument software command file, and to translate the metrology instrument software command file into a metrology instrument command file. The system further comprises the metrology instrument to measure at least one object, according to the metrology instrument command file, to obtain measurements for at least one object.
US10929571B2
An FPGA hardware device obtains encrypted data of each participant of a secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device stores at least one first key, where the at least one first key is at least one first key of all participants in the secure computing system or at least one first key of a predetermined number of trusted managers in the secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device includes an FPGA chip. The FPGA hardware device decrypts the encrypted data of each participant by using a working key of each participant, to obtain plaintext data of each participant, where the working key of each participant is obtained based on a corresponding first key of the at least one first key. The FPGA hardware device performs computing based on the plaintext data of each participant to obtain a computing result. The FPGA hardware device outputs the computing result.
US10929561B2
A device for removal of personally identifiable data receives monitoring data acquired by a sensor. The monitoring data including personally identifiable data relating to one or more individuals being monitored. The system processes the acquired monitoring data to remove the personally identifiable data by at least one of abstraction or redaction while the monitoring data is located on the device. The processed monitoring data having the personally identifiable data removed can thereby be transmitted external to the device with reduced security risk.
US10929556B1
The invention relates generally to improved secure data storage that utilizes zoned data storage and control and/or integration of discrete data for masking the stored data. The data may be divided and stored in different zoned databases and assigned different access rights in order to separate data that is part of a larger combination of data into smaller data portions, which makes it difficult for unauthorized use of such data. Additionally, or alternatively, data that is stored within a database may be combined with other discrete data (e.g., unrelated real data) in order to mask the data being stored. As such, the masked data is more secure and less storage spaces is required due to the utilization of real data for masking. When an unauthorized requestor of the stored data is identified deterrence actions may be taken to reduce the unauthorized user's ability to access the desired data.
US10929544B2
A technique for preventing malicious observance of private information includes presenting, via a graphical user interface, a visible input cue for user input. The visible input cues is associated with an expected input value that differs from the visible input cue. The technique further includes determining a correspondence between the visible input cue and the expected input value before the visible input cue is selected. The correspondence indicates how the visible input cues differs from the expected input value. The technique further includes generating an invisible output that indicates the correspondence between the visible input cue and the expected input value and detecting a selection of the visible input cue via the graphical user interface. The technique further includes using, as the user input, the expected input value instead of the visible input cue in response to the selection of the visible input cue.
US10929539B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for enhancing cybersecurity in a computer system by detecting safeness levels of executables. An installation lineage of an executable is identified in which entities forming the installation lineage include at least an installer of the monitored executable, and a network address from which the executable is retrieved. Each entity of the entities forming the installation lineage is individually analyzed using at least one safeness analysis. Results of the at least one safeness analysis of each entity are inherited by other entities in the lineage of the executable. A backtrace result for the executable is determined based on the inherited safeness evaluation of the executable. A total safeness of the executable, based on at least the backtrace result, is evaluated against a set of thresholds to detect a safeness level of the executable. The safeness level of the executable is output on a display screen.
US10929536B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to detecting potential malware. A computer system may access process information identifying a set of software modules stored in a memory space allocated for a computer process. The computer system may determine address ranges that are respectively associated with a software module and define a segment in the memory space where program instructions are stored corresponding to that software module. The computer system may access thread information specifying, for each of a set of threads, a start address that identifies a location from which an initial program instruction is to be retrieved to begin execution of that thread. The computer system may make a determination that a thread is associated with a start address identifying a location outside of all address ranges, but within the memory space. Based on the determination, the computer system may classify the thread as being associated with malicious activity.
US10929525B2
The disclosure provides an approach for installing and deploying a plug-in on a computer system so as to extend an extensible software. The plug-in is encapsulated in an installation file recognizable by the extensible software as indicating that the software modules within the installation file should be installed within their own local scope on the extensible software. The approach further provides a method for handling a request for an application programming interface by a service module of an installed plug-in. The method of handling the request includes determining whether the requested API is within a local scope of the service module, and if so, providing the API from the local scope, or otherwise, providing the API from the global scope of the extensible software.
US10929523B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory and at least one processor configured to execute a first application among at least one application stored in the memory, determine whether to permit to provide meta information including information for accessing first data related to a first function of the first application stored in the memory based on first user information with which the first application is executed, and perform control as to whether to provide a virtual file system with the meta information about the first data.
US10929520B2
Information handling systems may be equipped with interfaces to facilitate connection with peripheral devices to serve a variety of functions. A peripheral device may be configured with read-only configuration data when coupled to an information handling system, and the peripheral device allowed to operate in read-only mode. The configuration data may be transmitted as configuration channel (CC) sideband of the interface, such as a USB Type-C interface. If the peripheral device cannot be configured in read-only mode, the information handling system may prevent access to the peripheral device to maintain security policies and prevent data leakage.
US10929497B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a web page processing method, including: receiving an operation instruction on a first page, where the operation instruction may include a page replacing instruction; and controlling a first resource included in the first page to remain in a connected state, where the first resource is specified in advance as a resource to be retained. Correspondingly, the embodiments of the present invention further provide a communications device. The embodiments of the present invention can improve robustness of page browsing.
US10929488B2
A system and method for filtering search results to exclude technically incompatible devices with a user's existing IoT network includes analyzing the search query to determine an objective of a user, calculating a relevance score for each IoT device, profiling an existing IoT network associated with the user, determining a compatibility of each IoT device with the existing IoT network, combining the relevance score and an ease of incorporation score to determine a total score, and filtering the search results for the IoT devices according to the total score, such that an optimal device is displayed at a top of the search results from the search engine on a webpage among other IoT devices that are above a minimum ease of incorporation score and removing other IoT devices from the search results displayed on the webpage that are below the minimum ease of incorporation score.
US10929485B1
Techniques for improving access to and interactions with bots are described. In an example, a first bot, hosted on a computing system, may identify an action to be performed for a user associated with a computing device. The action may be identified based on a user interaction with the first bot, where the user interaction may be provided from the computing device. The first bot may select a second bot based on the action. The second bot may be hosted on a same or a different computing system. The first bot may determine, based on a previous user input to the first bot, a parameter value for an execution of the action and may send the parameter value to the second bot. In response, the first bot may receive a result of an execution of the action and may provide information about the result to the computing device.
US10929483B2
The present disclosure provides novel techniques to derive characteristic of mobile entities based signals from mobile devices associated with these mobile entities. In certain embodiments, a data file is built for each mobile entity to transform originally extremely high dimensional raw data derived from mobile devices communicating with a network into structured data characterizing associated mobile entities. The data file are structured for filtering and searching with respect to location and non-location features. A plurality of filters for a behavioral segment are applied to the data files of a large number of mobile entities. The plurality of filters including a preset hard constraint (HC) filter, a preset soft constraint (SC) filter, and an extended constraint (EC) filter built using location features in data files that have passed through the HC filter and/or the SC filter. In further embodiments, a search index and a search query for a search engine are generated for the behavioral segment based on the filtered data files, and the search query is run against the search index through the data files that have passed the HC filter to search for more data files to add to the segment.
US10929482B2
A user device sends a search query for an item to a first data store associated with a first entity, wherein the item comprises at least one of an electronic version or a physical version, determines a format to be used by search queries to the second data store and generates a first modified search query for the second data store that is different than the search query and corresponds to the format. The user device sends the first modified search query to the second data store, receives item search results from the first data store and item search results from the second data store, the item search results indicating at least one of: the electronic version is available from an electronic location, the physical version is available at a physical location, or the physical location at which the physical version is available, and causes presentation of at least a portion of the item search results from the first data store together with at least a portion of the item search results from the second data store.
US10929478B2
Receiving contextual data including a facial movement associated with an active document. A response associated with the active document is detected and associated with the received contextual data. A contextual metadata tag is generated based on the detected response to the active document. A contextual keyword is created that corresponds to the contextual metadata tag. Search results received in response to the query are filtered based on the contextual metadata tag.
US10929476B2
A computer-implemented software system and method allows data-processing entities to visualize data as pseudo-three-dimensional objects dynamically and interact with and/or manipulate the objects.
US10929474B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for proactive corrective actions in memory based on a probabilistic data structure. A number of embodiments include a memory, and circuitry configured to input information associated with a subset of data stored in the memory into a probabilistic data structure and proactively determine, at least partially using the probabilistic data structure, whether to take a corrective action on the subset of data stored in the memory.
US10929465B2
In a video surveillance system comprising a plurality of recording servers, each storing video data received from at least one video surveillance camera, a method of processing requests for thumbnail images comprises receiving a thumbnail request to a main queue 200. The thumbnail request includes information indicating a specific video camera and a specific recording server. The thumbnail request is allocated to a recording server queue 250 corresponding to the specific recording server. It is determined whether an idle resource processor 260 associated with the recording server queue is available to process the thumbnail request. If no idle resource processor is available, then it is determined how many resource processors are associated with the recording server queue and, if this is less than a maximum number, a new resource processor is initiated for processing the thumbnail request and the new resource processor is put into an idle state after processing the thumbnail request.
US10929452B2
A multi-document summary generation method includes obtaining a candidate sentence set, training each candidate sentence in the candidate sentence set using a cascaded attention mechanism and an unsupervised learning model in a preset network model, to obtain importance of each candidate sentence, selecting, based on the importance of each candidate sentence, a phrase that meets a preset condition from the candidate sentence set as a summary phrase set, and obtaining a summary of a plurality of candidate documents based on the summary phrase set.
US10929449B2
A user reading statistic data set relating to a natural language document is received. The user reading statistic data set includes information indicative of at least one of a set of user reading statistic types. A set of machine logic rules is applied to the user reading statistic data set to generate, as reading assistance to the reader with reading the natural language document, a user reading comprehension data set including information indicative of reading comprehension with respect to content of the natural language document.
US10929447B2
An approach is provided in which an information handling system parses content received from resources based on a user query corresponding to a user. Next, the information handling system selects a set of prioritized content from the parsed content based on a confidence ranking the plurality of parsed content. The information handling system then filters the set of prioritized content based on a learning style of the user and presents a summarized output of the filtered set of prioritized content to the user.
US10929444B2
In some implementations, a computing device can test the client-side rendering capabilities of a map module running on a computing device. For example, the map module can include a test module that sends test data to a rendering module of the browser. The rendering module can render the test data into a rendering context based on the test data. The test module can compare the pixel data in the rendering context to expected pixel data to determine whether the rendering module is capable of accurately rendering an image based on the test data. If the rendering module is capable of accurately rendering the rendering context based on the test data, the map module can be configured to perform client-side rendering of images. For example, the map module can be configured to perform client-side rendering of map data based on map data received from a map server.
US10929442B2
Method and system for optimizing electronic map data and determining real property development yield
Disclosed is a system method for aligning a plurality of electronic map data, which includes the steps of obtaining an electronic map file, defining an area of interest on the electronic map file, selecting a predetermined datum and providing the electronic map file in the predetermined datum. Also disclosed is a land yield method including the steps of obtaining an electronic map, storing the electronic map in a computer readable medium, defining an area of interest on the electronic map, referring to a database to determine whether the database contains at least one restriction value, referring to a remote database to determine whether the remote database contains an additional restriction value, the additional restriction value being distinct from the at least one restriction value, combining restriction values, and determining a total value of the parcel of land based on the combined restriction values.
US10929440B2
A traditional Chinese medicine knowledge graph, a method for establishing a traditional Chinese medicine knowledge graph, and a computer system. The method for establishing the traditional Chinese medicine knowledge graph comprises collecting original data from a traditional Chinese medicine database. The method comprises processing the original data to obtain structural data. The method comprises extracting an entity and an attribute from the structural data. The method comprises constructing the traditional Chinese medicine knowledge graph by utilizing the entity and attribute.
US10929439B2
A computing system generates a taxonomic tree for a domain in an unsupervised manner (e.g., without human intervention). Hierarchical structures of documents of the domain are collected from a document index. A category for each node of each of the hierarchical structures is extracted. The extracted categories are embedded as multidimensional category vectors in a multidimensional vector space. The multidimensional category vectors are grouped into multiple groups. The multidimensional category vectors of a first group satisfy a similarity condition for the first group better than the multidimensional category vectors of a second group. Each group of the multidimensional category vectors constitutes a category cluster. Each category cluster includes multidimensional category vectors for extracted categories from different hierarchical levels of the hierarchical structures. The taxonomic tree is generated with each category cluster inserted as a category node of the taxonomic tree.
US10929438B2
Systems and techniques for identifying segments in categorical data include receiving multiple transaction ID (TID) lists with univariate values that satisfy a thresholding metric with each TID list representing an occurrence of a single attribute in a set of transactions. The TID lists are stored with the univariate values that satisfy the thresholding metric in a data structure. In a loop, candidate itemsets to form from combinations of TID lists are determined using only the combinations of TID lists that satisfy categorical constraints. In the loop, for the candidate itemsets that satisfy categorical constraints, both the thresholding metric and a similarity metric are applied to the candidate itemsets. Final itemsets are formed from only the candidate itemsets that satisfy both the thresholding metric and the similarity metric.
US10929430B2
A mechanism is provided for replicating non-supported data types using an existing replication format supported by an existing replication system. Responsive to detecting an application writing data to a local storage that is to be replicated to the secondary site, the input/output (I/O) operation being performed by the application is intercepted. Data of the I/O operation in a non-supported format is converted to a format supported by the existing replication system. A replication log record is generated for the data in the format supported by the existing replication system. The data described by the replication log record for the data is then stored in a storage device at the secondary site.
US10929429B2
A method for providing a subscribed service includes: receiving a service request at a service; accessing, at a subscriber data abstraction layer interposed between the service and the subscribed database, subscriber data from a subscriber database; and processing the service request using the accessed subscriber data.
US10929425B2
Embodiments relate to generating database sequences in a replicated database environment. An aspect includes providing a group of nodes each hosting an instance of a replicated database, with one node in the group elected as a master node responsible for generating and distributing values for auto-generated values in a column or row of the replicated database. Another aspect includes dividing, by the master node, a sequence space of possible auto-generated values for the column or row into sub-ranges and assigning a sub-range to a particular node in the group of nodes. Another aspect includes distributing, by the master node, values of the assigned sub-range to a particular node of the group of nodes.
US10929422B2
A method, performed by a computer, for event estimation, the method includes: executing a registering process that includes receiving a registration of a first word group including a plurality of words, each of which is associated with time, and storing the first word group into a memory; executing a calculating process that includes receiving a first time pointer that indicates a time point on a time axis, obtaining, among the plurality of words in the first word group, a first word associated with a time belonging to a predetermined range from the time point indicated by the first time pointer, and calculating, in accordance with the first word, an index value indicating likelihood of occurrence of a life event; and executing a display process that includes controlling display of the life event based on the index value.
US10929420B2
Structured report data is generated from a medical text report. A medical text report including one or more natural language statements is acquired. A computer implemented text analysis process analyses the medical text report to determine, for each natural language statement, one or more labels for the natural language statement. Structured report data including the determined one or more labels each in association with natural language data from the natural language statement to which the label corresponds is generated. The computer implemented text analysis process includes, for each natural language statement: determining, for each of the one or more words of the natural language statement, and, using word embeddings, a vector representing the word; and determining, based on the determined one or more vectors, and using a text classification model, the one or more labels associated with the natural language statement.
US10929415B1
Systems and methods are described to determine relationships between one or more components of an isolated execution environment system based on data obtained from a data intake and query system. Based on the determined relationships, an interactive visualization is generated that indicates the hierarchical relationship of the components. In some cases, to illustrate the relationship between components of the isolated execution environment system, the visualization can include one or more display objects displayed in a subordinate or superior relationship to other display objects. In certain cases, based on an interaction with a display object, the system can generate a query and/or display additional information and/or visualizations based on the results of the query.
US10929408B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for generating and routing notifications of content extracted from emails are presented. A member's interest in a specific email among a set of emails are determined based on a relevance score. Content from the specific email are extracted, the content being identified as primary information and secondary information. A notification is generated comprising of the vital content extracted from the specific email. Presentation of the primary information is caused, the primary information being associated with the notification according to a ranked order, the ranked order being based on the relevance score. In response to a member action, presentation of the secondary information is caused, the secondary information being associated with the notification.
US10929407B2
A trigger message indicative of a potential change to a publishing workflow is received. The trigger message is processed, resulting in a workflow modification message that includes a content item identifier, a related semantic identifier indicative of a semantic of the workflow modification message, and workflow characterizing metadata. The publishing workflow is retrieved by selection using the workflow characterizing metadata. At least one publishing workflow action of the retrieved publishing workflow is modified based on the workflow modification message, and the modified publishing workflow is executed.
US10929406B2
A system for generating and delivering custom data sets in a big data environment may receive a preselected schema that identifies a plurality of columns from a plurality of data sources for inclusion in an output data file. The system reads data from the data sources to generate a data file containing a big data table. The system monitors the plurality of data sources to detect that the data sources have been ingested into a data storage system. The data file is read and a column is filtered from the data file to generate the output data file in response to the preselected schema excluding the column. The output data file is transferred to a client device.
US10929401B2
Policy-based storage and retrieval combined with a distribution algorithm results in automatic and even distribution of policy-based storage structures across a set of nodes and dynamic, automated homing or ownership of policy-based storage structures. Large numbers of policy-based storage structures may be distributed without manual administration, allowing for rapid creation and destruction of storage structures. The overall load may be distributed and balanced across the server pool. Multiple entries having the same key value in a database- or table-like structure allow for distribution of policy-based storage and retrieval by key value and for queue semantics to be utilized for microqueues in the large database- or table-like structure.
US10929400B2
A method, a computer program product and a computer system are provided. Attribute value information contains at least a minimum value representing a smallest value of a first attribute and a maximum value representing a largest value of the first attribute, thereby defining a first range of values of the first attribute. A received query against a data table requests one or more values of at least the first attribute that are covered by the first range of values. The attribute value information may be used for selecting a data block of the data table as a candidate potentially including at least part of the requested one or more values and scanning the data block. In response to determining that the data block does not include the one or more requested values, the attribute value information may be updated accordingly.
US10929397B2
A query is received. Based on statistics for a database, a first query access plan is generated for executing the query on the database. A first result set for the query is obtained by implementing the first query access plan on the database. Based on at least one trend in the statistics, a target time after which implementing the first query access plan will fail a set of criteria is forecasted. In response to the forecasting and based on the statistics, a replacement query access plan is generated prior to the target time. After the target time, a second result set for the query is obtained by implementing the replacement query access plan rather than the first query access plan.
US10929395B2
A system, medium, and method including modifying a graphical view representation of a first table of a set of data, the first table having at least a first column subject to changes in value; modifying a graphical view representation of a second table of a second set of data; determining a query operation of the view representations of the first table and second table; aggregating values of the view representation of the result of the query operation having a same key; determining, based on the aggregated values, values for the first column of the view representation of the first table; and providing an output of the values for the first column of the view representation of the first table, the output values including changed values.
US10929390B2
A method and an apparatus for correcting a query based on artificial intelligence, including: receiving a first query input by a user, and judging whether the first query satisfies an error correcting condition according to a preset error correcting strategy; determining a first segment to be corrected in the first query if the first query satisfies the error correcting condition; acquiring one or more first candidate results corresponding to the first segment according to a preset candidate recalling strategy; determining an error correcting result corresponding to the first segment according to quality feature values of the one or more first candidate results; and performing an error correction on the first query according to the error correcting result, and generating a second query.
US10929386B2
Methods of digital data processing support performing user-defined actions on multiple data records in order to update those records and/or to create new records and/or post communication to email or social network platforms. Such methods can include receiving definitions of records and of actions to perform with respect to them. Those methods can further include determining default values for data fields of records to create or update during performance of a selected such action with respect to the multiple selected data records, and populating those records and/or communications with those values.
US10929383B2
A method for natural language processing. Invalid data comprised of one of training data and query data is detected by a computer system. An invalidity level of the invalid data is determined by the computer system. In response to determining that the invalidity level meets predefined criteria, the computer system generates a revision recommendation based on the predefined criteria that are met. The revision recommendation is displayed for implementation and confirmation of the implementation.
US10929380B2
In an example embodiment, definition information is received that includes a definition for each of one or more programmable conditions applicable to an operation. The definition information is translated into one or more objects representing the one or more programmable conditions. The objects include executable code for determining compliance of the operation with the programmable conditions. For each object, a lookup key is generated for the object based on the definition information. A database is checked to determine whether a prior version of the object is stored in the database using the generated lookup key. If stored in the database, the prior version of the object in the database is updated using the object. Otherwise, the object is stored in the database using the generated lookup key.
US10929379B2
A Distributed Availability Group (DAG) spans two AGs, each spanning one or more replica nodes and functioning as primary or secondary AG. A primary AG is replicated to the secondary AG synchronously or asynchronously. A failover in the DAG results in the AGs swapping their roles. Multiple DAGs can be linked together as a chain, which provides many useful features including disaster recovery across geographical regions, massive read scale (numerous readable secondary nodes), online migration of databases (across different operating systems and computing environments). The systems using DAGs can replicate databases across multiple independent high availability (HA) failover clusters using complex replication topologies and allow for manual failover and failback. The systems allow chaining of multiple AGs to provision a treelike structure of replicas and numerous secondary replicas without impacting performance. The systems automatically seed new database replicas to facilitate building a complex topology of DAGs.
US10929378B1
Instances of client applications running independently on different devices are monitored to generate metadata records that are stored in cloud storage. Metadata records in cloud storage that have an aspect in common are grouped and used for comparative analysis. For example, metadata records for instances of the same client application, database, query or database structure may be grouped. Reports may be generated based on the analysis. The reports may indicate comparative performance, irregular activity, patch version and configurations associated with performance degradation, and recommended actions to improve performance.
US10929377B2
Release and re-acquisition of each of a first shared lock on an outer database ownership table and a second shared lock on an inner database ownership table is alternated by a messaging engine processor that executes a messaging engine to permit database maintenance operations to be performed while maintaining the ownership of the database. At least one period of inactivity of both the outer database ownership table and the inner database ownership table is provided that allows at least one database tool to execute to perform at least one database maintenance task during the execution of the messaging engine.
US10929376B2
In various examples, there is provided methods performed by nodes in a cluster of nodes for performing transactions comprising one or more read operations and/or one or more write operations. The node comprises a local clock which is synchronized with a master clock and maintains a measure of uncertainty indicating current minimum and maximum values of the master clock. The method to perform transactions involving read operations generates a read timestamp representing a point in time which is earlier than a current minimum value of the master clock. The method then reads the objects and determines, for each of them, whether a timestamp associated with that object is later than the read timestamp. If so, an error handling procedure is performed for that object.
US10929372B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for updating a knowledge graph based on a user confirmation. A media guidance application receives a user communication and isolates a term of the user communication. The media guidance application identifies a candidate component of a knowledge graph associated with the term. The media guidance application requests user input directed to confirming whether the term is associated with the candidate component. In response to receiving the user input, the media guidance application modifies a strength of association between the term and the component.
US10929369B2
A method and associated systems for optimized orchestration of a data-migration project. A data-migration orchestration system represents a hierarchical organization of each dataset to be migrated as a tree, where each leaf node of the tree represents data to be migrated and where a path between the leaf node and the root node represents a hierarchical directory pathname of sensitive data represented by the leaf node. Each tree is assigned a sensitivity signature that is proportional to the relative sensitivity and access frequency of the dataset represented by that tree. The signatures are organized into clusters as a function of the distances between each signature, and each signature is associated with a soft migration cost specific to that signature's cluster. A soft cost for migrating an application that requires multiple datasets may be determined by adding the migration costs associated with each of the multiple datasets.
US10929359B2
An embodiment includes initiating a migration of data rows in a source dataset in a source storage device to a target dataset in a target storage device. A block size defined for the target dataset equals a block size defined for the source dataset, and the migration is to be performed according to a native sequence of the data rows. The embodiment includes receiving, during the migration, a user request for access to a first data row in the source dataset, determining that the first data row was migrated to a first target block in the target dataset, and responding to the user request using the first data row in the first target block. In specific embodiments, a capacity of the target dataset is greater than a capacity of the source dataset. In other embodiments, a capacity of the target dataset is less than a capacity of the source dataset.
US10929358B2
Systems, computer program products and methods implementing access control for compound structures including subfields are described. A policy system receives a database schema and a data access policy. The database schema defines multiple subfields of a data column. The policy includes one or more rules limiting access to the subfields. A policy analyzer of the policy system creates an access control metadata that stores correspondence between the subfields and the rules. The policy analyzer represents the subfields in the access control metadata using relations between subfields and other components of the database. The policy analyzer provides the access control metadata to a policy enforcer for enforcing the policy on the subfields.
US10929357B2
Systems and methods for reducing locks on a storage layout of a distributed file system by detecting and notifying clients of stale storage layouts. An example method may comprise: receiving a request to modify a file system object associated with a storage layout, the request comprising an index range and the storage layout comprising an index range; determining whether the request is associated with a stale storage layout in view of a comparison of the index range of the request and the one or more index ranges of the storage layout; receiving a lock request to prevent changes to the storage layout; and transmitting at least a portion of the storage layout to update the stale storage layout.
US10929355B1
A mobile flight application obtains, via a network, a content pack having aeronautical files, and determines a set of waypoints in the content pack from the aeronautical files in the content pack. In a geolocation mapping structure, a waypoint is related with a matching subset of the aeronautical files in the content pack. Integrated into the corresponding sections of a user interface of the mobile flight application, the content pack is presented while maintaining inseparability of the files in the mobile flight application.
US10929354B2
Disclosed herein are a metadata server and a method for distributing metadata in units of directories using the metadata server. The method includes receiving a request for at least one of creation, deletion and retrieval from a user file system; acquiring an inode corresponding to an identifier of a parent inode, which is included in the request; searching the parent inode for a dentry corresponding to the request when the request is a request to create a directory; selecting a secondary metadata server in which a new directory is to be created in order to distribute metadata in units of directories; requesting the selected secondary metadata server to create an inode; receiving an identifier of the created inode from the secondary metadata server; and adding a new dentry to the parent inode using the identifier of the inode.
US10929351B2
Systems and methods for determining a document library to sync to a local computing device. In one example, the method includes determining, with an electronic processor, one or more document libraries associated with a user; determining, with the electronic processor, a heuristic for each of the one or more document libraries; and determining, with the electronic processor, a subset of the one or more document libraries to sync to a local computing device associated with the user, wherein the subset is determined based upon the heuristic.
US10929349B2
Systems and methods for integrating cloud-based and cloud-backed content items with a content management system are provided. In some examples, a method can include receiving a request to access a canonical content item stored at a content management system, the canonical content item representing a cloud-based content item or a cloud-backed content item having features designed for access through a native online application associated with a cloud content provider; in response to the canonical content item being invoked, sending, from a local application to the cloud content provider, a request for the features of the content item; receiving, at the local application and from the cloud content provider, metadata for enabling the features of the content item; and based on the metadata, providing, on the local application, the features and a content of the content item as part of a rendered instance of the canonical content item.
US10929338B2
Managing access control lists (ACLs) across replicated data repositories can include selecting, from a first data processing system, a controlled object and an ACL object bound to the controlled object, wherein the first data processing system is associated with a first user identity space, and creating, using a processor, a replicated version of the controlled object within a second data processing system associated with a second user identity space, wherein the second user identity space is different from the first user identity space. Managing ACLs further includes, creating, using the processor, a replicated version of the ACL object within the second data processing system and substituting, within the replicated version of the ACL object, an identity from the first user identity space with a selected identity from the second user identity space.
US10929335B2
A system and method for facilitating segmented notifications relating to a virtual space are disclosed. Such notifications may be segmented for different user segments within the virtual space. In some examples, the segmentation of the notification may be at least in part with respect to contents included in notification for different user segments. The content segmentation may be with respect to a communication style, pattern, format, a language expressed in, one or more culture references used and/or any other aspects related to contents that may be included in notifications for the different user segments. In some examples, the notifications may include incentive offers and may be segmented with respect to parameters of the incentive offers for presentation to the different user segments. In some implementations, transmission frequencies for transmitting notifications to the different user segments may be determined.
US10929325B2
A method of operating a computer network system configured with disaggregated inputs/outputs. This system can be configured in a leaf-spine architecture and include a router coupled to a network source, a plurality of core switches coupled to the router, a plurality of aggregator switches coupled to each of the plurality of core switches, and a plurality of rack modules coupled to each of the plurality of aggregator switches. Each of rack modules can include an I/O appliance with a downstream aggregator module, a plurality of server devices each with PCIe interfaces, and an upstream aggregator module that aggregates each of the PCIe interfaces. A high-speed link can be configured between the downstream and upstream aggregator modules via aggregation of many serial lanes to provide reliable high speed bit stream transport over long distances, which allows for better utilization of resources and scalability of memory capacity independent of the server count.
US10929324B2
Methods and Systems are described for control at/of a network node. The network node can include a control module and first and second modules coupled to the control module. The first module can be configured to select first input/output (I/O) types of a field device coupled at an I/O interface of the network node. The second module can be configured to select a second I/O types of the field device. The first and second modules can be coupled to the I/O interface through a field device coupler.
US10929320B1
A system and method for generating a control bifurcation signal in accordance with the Open Compute Project (OCP) Specification. An OCP device is provided that has a bifurcation function with an input to activate a bus bifurcation function. An input/output control circuit having an output coupled to a bifurcation control line coupled to the OCP device is provided. The input/output control circuit is operable to provide a bifurcation control signal to the OCP device over the bifurcation control line during an auxiliary power phase transition period of powering-on the OCP device.
US10929315B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.
US10929313B2
A method is provided for securely and efficiently accessing connection data of at least one telecommunication provider is provided, wherein the connection data is ascertained by the telecommunication provider and is encrypted by the telecommunication provider, the encrypted connection data is transmitted from the telecommunication provider to a secured environment, the connection data is decrypted in the secured environment and, for a first predetermined time period, is stored as decrypted connection data exclusively in a volatile memory of the secured environment, and the access to the connection data is exclusively granted as access to the decrypted connection data stored in the volatile memory of the secured environment via a predetermined interface of the secured environment.
US10929306B2
An arithmetic processor includes a request generation circuit which generates an information request including a request address. A translation buffer associates a virtual address of a page with a physical address (PA). A page-table buffer associates data in a page table in a level other than the last level with a PA of the data, and stores the associated data and address. A controller circuit obtains, from the request address, a PA of data in a page table to be accessed when the request address is not stored in the translation buffer. The controller circuit searches in the page-table buffer for the data when the page table to be accessed is in a level other than the last level. The controller circuit obtains the data from a memory, such as a cache memory or a main memory, when the page table to be accessed is in the last level, and registers the data in the translation buffer. The translation buffer may output an erase signal to invalidate all entries in the page-table buffer. The page-table buffer may include a control queue which outputs a control signal indicating a least recently used (LRU) entry.
US10929300B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a cell circuit including a plurality of cell dies arranged in a cell die stack. The semiconductor device also includes a control circuit configured to control the cell circuit, wherein the control circuit includes an address decoder and an address conversion circuit. The address decoder is configured to decode an address signal provided by a host and to output address information including a first address which identifies a first cell die, of the plurality of cell dies, requested by the host. The address conversion circuit is configured to convert the first address to a second address using the address information and to provide the second address to the cell circuit, wherein the second address is used to identify a second cell die of the plurality of cell dies different from the first cell die.
US10929290B2
System, method, and machine readable medium implementing a mechanism for selecting and providing reconfigurable hardware resources in a rack architecture system are described herein. One embodiment of a system includes a plurality of nodes and a configuration manager. Each of the nodes further includes: a plurality of memory resources and a node manager. The node manager is to track the memory resources that are available in the node, determine different possible configurations of memory resources, and generate a performance estimate for each of the possible configurations. The configuration manager is to receive a request to select one or more nodes based on a set of performance requirements, receive from each node the different possible configurations of memory resources and the performance estimate for each of the possible configurations, and iterate through collected configurations and performance estimates to determine one or more node configurations best matching the set of performance requirements.
US10929288B1
Garbage collection is performed for a virtualized storage system whose virtual address space is addressed in extents. Valid data in source extents is copied via a cache into destination extents. Once all valid data in a source extent is copied into one or more destination extents, the source extent may be reused. A source extent is released for reuse only after the one or more destination extents that received the valid data copied from the source extent are determined to be full, and the valid data copied from the source extent to the destination extent via the cache is flushed out of the cache.
US10929287B2
A method, information processing system, and computer readable storage medium, periodically monitor, with a processing system, information related to an application's memory usage including a maximum heap memory size and a garbage collection activity level. Based on determining that the garbage collection activity level is below a first threshold, releasing memory from the application by reducing the maximum heap memory size.
US10929284B2
A memory system including a memory subsystem and a memory controller is provided. The memory subsystem includes a plurality of first memory modules implemented by a phase-change memory and a second memory module implemented by a memory whose write speed is faster than that of the phase-change memory. The memory controller generates a non-blocking code from a plurality of sub-data into which original data are divided, writes the non-blocking code to the second memory module, writes the plurality of sub-data to the plurality of first memory modules, respectively, and reconstructs the original data from some sub-data of the plurality of sub-data which are read from some of the plurality of first memory modules and the non-blocking code read from the second memory under a predetermined condition at a read request.
US10929280B2
A device receives, from a user device, a request to perform a test of software on a test device. The test device includes a device that simulates a device provided in a cloud computing environment, and the software includes software to be implemented in the cloud computing environment. The device determines whether the test device includes available resources to perform the test, and causes the request and the software to be provided to the test device when the test device includes the available resources to perform the test. The available resources are utilized to perform the test of the software and to generate results based on performance of the test. The device receives, from the test device, the results that include information indicating whether the software passed or failed the test. The device provides the results to the user device.
US10929276B2
There are provided systems and methods for simulation computing services for testing application functionalities. During application development and testing a simulation service framework may be widely accessible from a service provider or other online platform that allows an application developer to test application functionalities in different environments and based on different runtime conditions. The framework may implement one or more simulation services that are generated and provided to simulate data service calls, responses, and data processing results that may be performed when an application interacts with a real online service (e.g., database, other application, or other online service that provides some data and/or data processing to an application). Application code in the application's dependencies may be changes to perform the call to the simulation service. This service may then return some result that is expected based on the service's simulated data.
US10929267B2
Described is a computer-implemented method of reordering condition checks. Two or more condition checks in computer code that may be reordered within the code are identified. It is determined that the execution frequency of a later one of the condition checks is satisfied at a greater frequency than a preceding one of the condition checks. It is determined that there is an absence of side effects in the two or more condition checks. The values of the condition checks are propagated and abstract interpretation is performed on the values that are propagated. It is determined that the condition checks are exclusive of each other, and the condition checks are reordered within the computer code.
US10929262B2
A programmable electronic computer embedded in an avionics environment on board an aircraft for implementing at least one critical function and associated electronic device, method and computer program are disclosed. In one aspect, the electronic computer includes at least one control module configured to implement a respective critical function and configured to deliver at least one output data item associated with the critical function, and at least one monitoring module of a control module of another electronic computer. Each monitoring module configured to implement the same respective critical function as the one implemented by the monitored control module.
US10929261B1
A technology is described for a device diagnosis station. The device diagnosis station may be configured to identify an electronic device physically connected to the device diagnosis station, evaluate an operational state of the electronic device by executing testing instructions configured to test the functionality of the electronic device and collect operational state information for the electronic device. The device diagnosis station may be configured to determine the operational state of the electronic device and execute recovery instructions to restore the electronic device to an improved state when a recoverable error is detected. The device diagnosis station may be configured to initiate a device return procedure for the electronic device when a non-recoverable error state is detected.
US10929257B1
A method for defining local failover within a storage system using storage group containers includes creating a plurality set of storage groups from physical storage resources of a storage array of the storage system, and creating a masking view identifying a first subset of the storage groups and specifying that Thin Logical Units (TLUs) in the first subset of storage groups are visible only to a primary Software Defined Network Attached Storage (SDNAS) process executing on the storage system and to a backup SDNAS process executing on the storage system. The first set of storage groups includes a Virtual Data Mover (VDM) configuration/root TLU and all user data TLUs used by the primary SDNAS process to thereby enable the set of storage groups used by the SDNAS to be used as a container for local failover.
US10929241B2
A method and system for providing file level restore (FLR) service for restoring one or more files stored in a plurality of file systems in a backup of a first virtual machine is provided. The method creates a FLR session for a user, including: creating a virtual disk file in a second virtual machine providing the FLR service, the virtual disk file including an empty file system being mounted as a root folder of a virtual appliance in the second virtual machine; creating a respective folder for each of the plurality of file systems under the root folder; mounting each of the plurality of file systems to the respective folder; and mounting the root folder to a folder of the second virtual machine. The method restores the one or more files by the user through accessing the folder of the second virtual machine in the FLR session.
US10929240B2
A system that implements a data storage service may store data on behalf of storage service clients. The system may maintain data in multiple replicas of partitions that are stored on respective computing nodes in the system. A master replica for a replica group may increment a membership version indicator for the group, and may propagate metadata (including the membership version indicator) indicating a membership change for the group to other members of the group. Propagating the metadata may include sending a log record containing the metadata to the other replicas to be appended to their respective logs. Once the membership change becomes durable, it may be committed. A replica attempting to become the master of a replica group may determine that another replica in the group has observed a more recent membership version, in which case logs may be synchronized or snipped, or the attempt may be abandoned.
US10929230B2
Techniques manage a storage system. The storage system includes at least one part of multiple storage devices, here respective storage devices among the multiple storage devices include a first portion and a second portion, the first portion is for storing data and the second portion is reserved for rebuilding the storage system. The techniques involve: determining a storage device in the at least one part of storage devices fails; recovering data in a first portion of the failed storage device on the basis of data in a first portion of a normal storage device other than the failed storage device in the at least part of storage devices; selecting a group of storage devices from normal storage devices among the multiple storage devices; and writing recovered data to a second portion in the group of selected storage devices. Thereby, the speed of rebuilding the storage system may be increased, and further the overall performance of the storage system may be enhanced.
US10929226B1
Providing for increased flexibility for large scale parity, the including: writing data to a storage system, including utilizing a first data protection scheme; identifying, for storage media in the storage system, characteristics of the storage media; identifying, in dependence up the characteristics for the storage media, a second data protection scheme to use for the data; and writing the data to the to the storage system utilizing the second data protection scheme.
US10929224B2
A system and method for applying a first level of protection to data in a memory module include identifying a weak wordline from at least one of a plurality of blocks of the memory module. Each of the plurality of blocks includes a plurality of wordlines. The system and method also include determining that the weak wordline is to receive the first level of protection and applying the first level of protection to the weak wordline.
US10929219B2
A method, performed by a computing system deployed in a server environment, comprises receiving, from a client computing device that is remote from the server environment, a problem scenario identifier that identifies a problem scenario indicative of a problem associated with the client computing device, identifying a problem-specific diagnostic analyzer, that is specific to the problem associated with the client computing device, based on mapping information that maps the problem scenario to the problem-specific diagnostic analyzer, running the problem-specific diagnostic analyzer to obtain problem-specific diagnostic data that is specific to the problem associated with the client computing device, the problem-specific diagnostic data including first data associated with the client computing device and second data associated with the server environment, identifying a suggested recovery action based on the problem-specific diagnostic data, and communicating the suggested recovery action to the client computing device.
US10929218B2
A method for diagnosing computer system faults using log retrieval based on joint semantic and syntactic similarities includes receiving a set of query logs, defining joint semantic and syntactic similarities between the set of query logs and respective ones of multiple sets of historical logs based on semantic content and syntactic information obtained for the set of query logs and the multiple sets of historical logs, the multiple sets of historical logs being associated with historical computer system fault diagnoses, retrieving a set of historical logs from the multiple sets of historical logs to obtain a retrieved set of historical logs for computer system fault comparison based on a similarity measure corresponding to each of the multiple sets of historical logs derived from the joint semantic and syntactic similarities, and transmitting the retrieved set of historical logs to one or more computing devices to perform the computer system fault comparison.
US10929216B2
Distributed architectures that can generate a crash report without concurrent access to debug symbols and a memory dump. Besides grabbing generic information from a memory dump, which most debuggers provide (e.g., call stack traces for all threads), developer-provided scripts can grab application-specific details such as tables of open protocol client connections and so-forth. This extraction can take place at a customer site where a crash occurred and can proceed without the use of debug symbols. The extraction can generate a crash report which can be sent back from the field. Once in the hands of engineering (e.g., at a provider site where debug symbols are extant but the memory dump is not), debug symbols can then be used in an annotation phase to fill in missing details (e.g. the precise source files and line numbers corresponding to call stack traces) without access to the original crash dump.
US10929211B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for identification and traceability of application programming interface (API) functionality in a distributed computing environment. A server retrieves source code comprising API calls from source code repositories, and parses the source code to identify a first set of APIs, each having one or more attributes. The server retrieves API definitions and parses the API definitions to identify a second set of APIs, each having one or more attributes. The server compares the first set of APIs and the second set of APIs to determine matching APIs. Using the matching APIs, the server detects backend systems associated with each API and generates a call graph for each API by traversing abstract syntax trees (ASTs) associated with the source code. The server builds an API model object for each API, comprising the attributes of the API, the detected backend systems, and the call graph.
US10929206B2
A method of facilitating communication from an embedded computer in a computational storage device to a host or an external device includes receiving a message from an embedded user process for transmission to a user process running at either the host or the external device, determining that a destination address of the message corresponds to the host or the external device, in response to the determination, forwarding the message to an embedded relay process associated with the host or the external device, instructing a storage controller of the computational storage device about the message to be delivered, notifying a host relay process at the host of a presence of the message, receiving a send message request from the host in response to the notification, and in response to receiving the send message request, transmitting the message to the host.
US10929196B2
A virtual resource control and distribution system is provided that utilizes virtual resource pools coupled to authentic resource pools in order to reduce processing capacity requirements, memory requirements, and processing time. In particular, a reduced number of authentic resource pools are used, such as one single authentic resource pool, that is coupled to virtual resource pools. The virtual resource pools may be utilized to enter into interactions. However, when interactions are entered, the virtual resource pools may be adjusted based on the resources associated with the interaction without actually having any resources associated with the virtual resource pools. As such, the virtual resource pools may illustrate a change in virtual resources in the virtual resource pool, but the authentic resource pool to which the virtual resource pool is associated, will be utilized for distributing the resources and processing the interactions.
US10929190B2
A heterogeneous resource reservation (HRR) manager configured to classify historical application requests from a past time interval for a first workload to generate labeled historical application requests. The HRR manager further configured to generate a forecast based on the labeled historical application requests and for predicting future application requests for the first workload for a future time interval and calculate a joint plan based on the forecast. The joint plan including a set of virtual resources, a set of billing contracts, and a set of load balancer weights. The HRR manager further configured to implement the joint plan for a distributed computing workload during the future time interval.
US10929186B2
The present approach relates to systems and methods for facilitating an interrupt or change in automated tasks in progress, and using a control token (e.g., flag) to modify the progress of the automated task. In contrast to current automated tasks that may not be modified once the request for the automated task has been sent, the presently disclosed techniques allow for controlling and/or changing an automated task by using the control token and an associated status in conjunction with logical checkpoints defined for a thread at which the thread can be paused and the status changed.
US10929182B2
System and method is provided for scheduling of a set of non-preemptive tasks by partitioning, the set of non-preemptive tasks either as a set of schedulable tasks or as a set of non-schedulable tasks; sorting, by a scheduling technique, the set of non-preemptive tasks partitioned; determining, by the scheduling technique, a possibility of execution of each of the set of schedulable tasks; and scheduling the set of schedulable tasks and the set of non-schedulable tasks upon determining the possibility of execution of each of the set of schedulable tasks.
US10929179B2
An electronic device monitors a volume of data processed by the electronic device within a first monitoring time segment, where a processor of the electronic device is configured to be in a first working mode, and the processor processes data in a poll mode driver (PMD) manner in the first working mode. The electronic device switches the processor from the first working mode to a second working mode when it is determined, according to the volume of data processed by the electronic device within the first monitoring time segment, that the processor is idle within the first monitoring time segment, where the processor processes data in the PMD manner and a sleep manner in the second working mode.
US10929178B1
In an embodiment, an operating system for a computer system assigns each independently-schedulable code sequence to an activity. An activity may thus be associated with a group of related code sequences, such as threads that communicate with each other (whether or not they are part of the same program). When a code sequence is ready to be scheduled and it is not part of the current activity, it may preempt the current activity if the activity for the code sequence is not enabled and is not masked by the enabled activities. Each activity may define which other activities it masks. A flexible scheduling scheme may be devised based on the mask assignments for each activity.
US10929177B2
A computer-implemented method of managing resources for multiple trial distributed processing tasks is presented. The method includes estimating an expected time needed to process each of a set of mask patterns which can be independently processed. The method further includes allocating each of the set of mask patterns to a set of processing cores in accordance with the expected time, and processing the mask patterns in accordance with the allocation, when the computer in invoked to estimate, allocate, and process.
US10929163B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for monitoring a virtual-machine environment. During operation, the system identifies a parent and a set of two or more child components that are related to the parent component in the virtual-machine environment. Next, the system determines a performance metric for each child component in the set of two or more child components. The system then determines a child-component performance state for each child component in the set of two or more child components based on the performance metric for the child component and a child-component state criterion. Finally, the system determines a parent state for the parent component based on the child-component performance state for each child component in the set of two or more child components and a parent-component state criterion, wherein the parent-component state criterion includes a threshold percentage or number of child components that have a specified state.
US10929143B2
An apparatus and method for efficient matrix alignment in a systolic array. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a first set of physical tile registers to store first matrix data in rows or columns; a second set of physical tile registers to store second matrix data in rows or columns; a decoder to decode a matrix instruction identifying a first input matrix, a first offset, a second input matrix, and a second offset; and execution circuitry, responsive to the matrix instruction, to read a subset of rows or columns from the first set of physical tile registers in accordance with the first offset, spanning multiple physical tile registers from the first set if indicated by the first offset to generate a first input matrix and the execution circuitry to read a subset of rows or columns from the second set of physical tile registers in accordance with the second offset, spanning multiple physical tile registers from the second set if indicated by the second offset to generate a second input matrix; and the execution circuitry to perform an arithmetic operation with the first and second input matrices in accordance with an opcode of the matrix instruction.
US10929133B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to element sorting of vectors are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a decoder to decode an instruction into a decoded instruction; and an execution unit to execute the decoded instruction to: provide storage for a comparison matrix to store a comparison value for each element of an input vector compared against the other elements of the input vector, perform a comparison operation on elements of the input vector corresponding to storage of comparison values above a main diagonal of the comparison matrix, perform a different operation on elements of the input vector corresponding to storage of comparison values below the main diagonal of the comparison matrix, and store results of the comparison operation and the different operation in the comparison matrix.
US10929121B2
Disclosed is a method for dynamically repairing an application, which includes: a client receiving a pre-configured repaired program segment; the repaired program segment is stored; an address that stores the repaired program segment is recorded; the address of the repaired program segment is stored in an application APP, and when the APP is in operation, the APP calling the repaired program segment via the address of the repaired program segment. Correspondingly, the present invention further discloses a device for dynamically repairing an application and a related system.
US10929114B2
Systems for managing static assets of web applications. A method embodiment includes identifying a web application that comprises a code base and a set of static assets, then separating the code base of the web application from the set of static assets that are referenced by the web application. The code base is deployed as application services whereas the static assets are deployed as static asset containers. Specifically, the set of static assets referenced by the application services are deployed in containers that are instantiated separately from where the application services are instantiated. Requests to access the application services and requests to access the static assets are tracked by taking performance measurements of the systems that process the accesses. Dynamic scaling of static asset containers is done independently from dynamic scaling of the application services. The dynamic scaling is based on combinations of measured usage and/or any system performance characteristics.
US10929113B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a plurality of state representations of a plurality of off-chain systems for performing a multi-party process via a blockchain, wherein each state representation identifies send and receive events of a respective off-chain system, removing one or more events from a state representation of an off-chain system to generate a reduced state representation, generating executable chaincode for the blockchain based on the plurality of state representations including the reduced state representation, and storing the generated chaincode via a blockchain node of the blockchain.
US10929101B2
A processor includes a carry save array multiplier. The carry save array multiplier includes an array of cascaded partial product generators. The array of cascaded partial product generators is configured to generate an output value as a product of two operands presented at inputs of the multiplier. The array of cascaded partial product generators is also configured to generate an output value as a sum of two operands presented at inputs of the multiplier.
US10929092B1
The present invention is a method and a computer program for allowing individual artists to produce a latency corrected collaborative audio work by providing a first artist the opportunity to create a base track which may then be accessed by additional artists who can add audio tracks which harmonize with the base track. Artists may add synchronized tracks to the base track at any time from a remote location thereby allowing artists in different geographical locations to produce a collaborative work of art simultaneously or over an extended time period. The present invention includes a novel method for latency correction, which corrects for delays caused by various types of user equipment, and ensures each track is properly synchronized with the others. The present invention also includes a novel interface where a slot machine or slider user interface allows for ease of use from a browser.
US10929089B2
A display panel bezel, a display terminal, a spliced display device and an image output control method are provided. The display panel bezel includes at least two bezel portions forming an accommodating space for mounting a display panel, wherein each bezel portion includes an identity identifier and an identification device configured to identify the identity identifier and obtain at least one identity identifier of at least one bezel portion of the at least two bezel portions connected to the bezel portion.
US10929084B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a network interface unit for connecting the display unit to a terminal; a decoder for decoding encoded data received from the terminal; a display unit; and a control unit for receiving, from the terminal, the encoded data comprising a plurality of integrally encoded content images, performing control such that the decoder decodes the encoded data, extracting each of the plurality of content images from decoded data generated as a result of the decoding, and performing control such that the display unit displays each of the extracted images.
US10929081B1
The present technology provides a system that enables a user to communicate with one of multiple devices in a network based on context information from another device in the network. The system includes a context manager configured to (1) receive context information from the multiple devices; (2) identify a subject-of-interest based on a user input; (3) determine a set of relevant context information based on the subject-of-interest and the received context information; and (4) transmitting the set of relevant context information to a target device to perform a task associated with the subject-of-interest. The context information managed by the present technology enables a user to conveniently interact with the multiple devices in the network without requiring the user to provide details of his/her instructions.
US10929076B2
A method, computer program product and computer system to improve print legibility is provided. A processor receives a file to print. A processor generates a print preview of the file, wherein the print preview is generated at an initial scale. A processor generates a preview text for the print preview. A processor determines a legibility metric based for the print preview on a comparison between the preview text for the print preview and text of the file to print. A processor prints the file at a second scale in response to the legibility metric being below a predetermined value, wherein the second scale is larger than the initial scale.
US10929064B2
An operational method of a memory module is provided. The method includes receiving, from an external of the memory module, a first command and a first address in synchronization with clock signals. Status information is output through a signal line, when first data corresponding the first address is available in a data buffer in response to the first command. A second command in synchronization with the clock signals after the transmitting the status information is received from the external of the memory module, a second command. In response to the second command, the first data being available in the data buffer is output through data lines.
US10929059B2
A resistance switching memory-based accelerator configured to be connected to a host including a CPU and a system memory is provided. A resistance switching memory module includes a memory cell array including a plurality of resistance switching memory cells, and stores a kernel offloaded from the host. An accelerator core includes a plurality of processing elements, and the kernel is executed by a target processing element among the plurality of processing elements. An MCU manages a memory request generated in accordance with execution of the kernel by the target processing element. A memory controller is connected to the resistance switching memory module, and allows data according to the memory request to move between the resistance switching memory module and the target processing element, in accordance with the memory request transferred from the MCU. A network integrates the accelerator core, the plurality of processing elements, and the memory controller.
US10929058B2
Embodiments of an improved memory architecture by processing data inside of the memory device are described. In some embodiments, the memory device can store neural network layers, such as a systolic flow engine, in non-volatile memory and/or a separate DRAM memory. Central processing unit (CPU) of a host system can delegate the execution of a neural network to the memory device. Advantageously, neural network processing in the memory device can be scalable, with the ability to process large amounts of data.
US10929057B2
Provided are techniques for selecting a disconnect from different types of channel disconnects using a machine learning module. An Input/Output (I/O) operation is received from a host via a channel. Inputs are provided to a machine learning module. An output is received from the machine learning module. Based on the output, one of no disconnect from the channel, a logical disconnect from the channel, or a physical disconnect from the channel is selected.
US10929056B2
A read operation can be received while one or more program operations are being performed at a memory sub-system. In response to receiving the read operation, the one or more program operations being performed at the memory sub-system can be interrupted. Context data associated with the one or more interrupted program operations can be determined and the context data can be provided to a firmware associated with the memory sub-system. A control sequence can be received from the firmware based on the context data. The read operation can be performed and the one or more interrupted program operations can be resumed based on the control sequence from the firmware.
US10929049B2
In one aspect, minimization of recovery time after a high availability (HA) event in a storage system is provided. An aspect includes creating, during an active replication session, mini replication session MOM objects from replication session-related configuration information of the active replication session, and creating mini volume objects for volumes of the active replication session, Upon determining an occurrence of the HA corresponding to the data module, an aspect includes reconfiguring the mini replication session MOM objects and the mini volume objects prior to activation of the data module and prior to enabling input/output (TO) servicing by the data module. An aspect further includes performing non-replication IO-related configuration for the data module and, upon completion of the non-replication IO-related configuration, enabling the IO servicing by the data module. Subsequent to enabling the IO servicing by the data module, an aspect also includes loading and reconstructing remaining replication session-related configuration.
US10929048B2
Dynamically generating proxy virtual machines (VMs) in a virtual center (vCenter) serving a backup server, by deploying a source proxy VM by passing network data to the vCenter, passing a set of internet protocol (IP) addresses and network configuration information to the vCenter to be used by the dynamically generated proxy VMs, receiving an indication from the backup server that new proxy VMs are required, and performing, in the vCenter, an instant clone operation to spawn one or more new proxy VMs. The method may further comprise passing the IP address and network configuration information for the new proxy VMs to the backup server for registration within the backup server, and using the new proxy VMs for backup operations of the backup server.
US10929044B2
An information processing apparatus 100 is configured to include a selection unit 110 configured to select a storage device to be moved from a first place associated with a first storage device to a second place associated with a second storage device connected with the first storage device over a network, based on travel information 120 including the origin and the destination of the storage device. The storage device is selected as a third storage device to be used for storing transport target data stored in the first storage device and transporting the data to the second storage device.
US10929037B2
A method for converting a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) to a more robust RAID level is disclosed. Such a method identifies, in a data storage environment, higher risk storage drives having a failure risk above a first threshold. The method determines a number of the higher risk storage drives that are contained within a RAID array of the data storage environment. The method determines whether the number exceeds a second threshold. The method also determines whether a destage rate associated with the RAID array is below a third threshold. In the event the number exceeds the second threshold and the destage rate is below the third threshold, the method converts the RAID array to a more robust RAID level. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10929034B2
Stage task control blocks (TCB) are allocated for performing staging operations in a storage controller controlling one or more storage ranks. Destage TCBs are allocated for performing destaging operations in the storage controller. The storage controller adjusts how many stage TCBs and destage TCBs are to be allocated based on response times of the one or more storage ranks.
US10929028B2
A control device for controlling a memory device to process requests from a plurality of hosts may include a request controller configured to manage a set representing storage space allocated to each of the plurality of the hosts; and a set controller configured to monitor requests from the plurality of hosts and to adjust size of the set, wherein, when the request is a write request from a host among the plurality of hosts, the request controller selects a target physical address among physical addresses included in the set allocated to the host, the target physical address indicating where the request is to be processed.
US10929026B2
A non-volatile memory comprises an array of a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, a controller coupled to the array, and an evaluator coupled to an output of the array. In a first operational mode, the controller receives a logical address and selects one non-volatile memory cell for access. In a second operational mode, and the controller receives a logical address and selects N non-volatile memory cells for access in which N is an integer greater than 1. If the logical address is for a read access, in the first operational mode the evaluator is disabled and the read-address output of the array corresponds to one selected non-volatile memory cell, and in the second operational mode the evaluator determines an read-address output corresponding to the received logical address based on a read output of the N selected non-volatile memory cells.
US10929024B2
A solid state drive (SSD) device includes a first nonvolatile memory package, a second nonvolatile memory package, and a controller. The first nonvolatile memory package includes a first buffer chip and a plurality of first nonvolatile memory chips. The second nonvolatile memory package includes a plurality of second nonvolatile memory chips. The controller controls the first nonvolatile memory package and the second nonvolatile memory package. The first buffer chip communicates a first address signal and a first data with the controller, and selectively communicates the first data with one of the plurality of first nonvolatile memory chips and the plurality of second nonvolatile memory chips based on the first address signal.
US10929014B2
The application provides a character correction method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, where the method including: obtaining position information of a click operation of a user on a terminal screen, and obtaining feature information of the click operation; determining distance information between the position information and each key on the terminal screen; determining transition probability information from a character indicated by a history click operation to a character corresponding to each key; determining a character prediction result according to the feature information, the distance information and the transition probability information, where the character prediction result comprises a probability score that the character indicated by the click operation belongs to the character corresponding to each key; and determining the character with a highest probability score as a correction character corresponding to the click operation.
US10929008B2
In an example method, a device presents a user interface on a touch sensitive surface of the device. The user interface includes a first portion for displaying a sequence of code and a second portion for displaying suggested segments of code. The device receives one or more character inputs in the first portion of the user interface, and determines, based on the one or more character inputs, one or more suggested segments of code. The device presents the one or more suggested segments of code in the second portion of the user interface, and receives a touch input selecting a particular suggested segment of code. The device inserts the selected suggested segment of code into the first portion of the user interface.
US10929005B2
Disclosed are an electronic device and a method of controlling a displayed object by an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display, a communication unit, and a processor executing instructions to implement the method. The method includes when detecting communication with an external electronic device, displaying one or more windows corresponding to one more applications, displaying selection of a window of the one or more windows responsive to a first input received from the external electronic device, when a first window of the one or more windows is selected, displaying a first user interface for controlling a first application displayed within the first window and when a second input is received from the external electronic device while the first window remains selected, and displaying scrolling of displayed content of the first application within the first window, while maintaining the first user interface on the first window.
US10929003B1
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for assisting with cross-platform drag and drop functionality are provided. A mirroring application that mirrors a UI of a second device and partially overlaps a UI of a first device may be surfaced on the UI of the first device. A drag-initiating input of an object of the second device may be received. A drag input dragging the object over a boundary of the mirroring application may be received. A UI element corresponding to the object may be surfaced over the boundary. The object may be sent by the second device to the first device. A drop input may be received over a construct of the first computing device. The object may be translated to a format compatible with the construct, and the object may be saved to a location of the first device corresponding to the construct.
US10928997B2
A portable electronic device according to the present disclosure comprises: a memory for storing moving image data; a touch screen for receiving a touch input related to a summation of the moving image data; and a control unit for generating a summary of the moving image data in response to the touch input, wherein the control unit extracts objects included in the moving image data, detects a section in which at least one object among the extracted objects appears and then disappears, and generates a summary of the moving image data by editing the moving image data on the basis of the detected section.
US10928994B2
A computer-implemented method for processing objects on touch screen devices is proposed. According to the method, one or more grid sizes is determined, wherein the one or more grid sizes comprise one or more text grid sizes. The one or more text grid sizes are determined by at least one of character, word, sentence, and section. Based on the one or more grid sizes, the one or more objects on the touch screen could be divided into one or more grids. The objects on the screen could be selected discontinuously by selecting grids on the screen.
US10928992B2
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for html editing operation. The embodiment may include monitoring on a display of a device to detect an input box to receive input data of an expected data type and format. The embodiment may also include, in response to detecting an input box displayed in a first view, determining the expected data type and format of input data for the input box. The embodiment may further include analysing data displayed in a second view to identify data matching the expected data type and format of input data for the input box, wherein the second view is displayed subsequent to the first view. The embodiment may also include automatically selecting the identified data for copying from the second view to the input box in the first view as part of a copy and paste operation of the device.
US10928991B1
A system and method for facilitating user interactions with a virtual space through a graphical chat interface is disclosed. One or more potential inputs to the virtual space and/or virtual space status information may be determined dynamically for a user participating in a chat session through a graphical chat interface. An activity notification may be generated for the user based one the determined potential inputs and/or the virtual space status information. The generated activity notification may comprise graphical representation for the notification and as well as representation information for one or more controls facilitating the user to provide inputs requested by the activity notification through the graphical chat interface. User acceptance to the activity notification via the graphical chat interface may be received. One or more activity commands may be generated based on the received user acceptance and executed in the virtual space.
US10928990B1
According to one general aspect, a computing device may include an application configured to create a tab in a context of a window, and a window manager configured to register the tab with a first UI element registry. The window manager may be configured to receive, over a network, at least a portion of a second UI element registry from a secondary window manager of a secondary computing device. The portion of the second UI element registry may identify a remote tab previously registered with the secondary window manager. The window manager may be configured to cause a display to provide a graphical arrangement of the tab and the remote tab.
US10928989B2
A server including a reception unit, a determination unit, a generation unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives an acquisition request for a first page associated with a first channel that is one of a plurality of channels provided by a platform application from a terminal. The determination unit determines whether or not the acquisition request includes supplementary information indicating that a shortcut icon to the first page has been selected. The generation unit activates the platform application in a case where the acquisition request includes the supplementary information and generates a response to the acquisition request, the response including a command to perform screen transition to a second page associated with the first channel after the activation of the platform application.
US10928985B2
A user terminal device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The user terminal device includes a display configured to be divided into a first area and a second area which is larger than the first area with reference to a folding line, a cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a detector configured to detect a user interaction on the display and the cover, and a controller configured to, in response to the display being folded along the folding line such that the first area and the second area face each other, control the detector to detect a user interaction through an exposure area, which is an exposed part of the second area, and the cover, and, in response to the display being folded such that the two parts of the cover face with each other with reference to the folding line, control the detector to detect a user interaction through the first area and the second area.
US10928984B2
A display device and a display system of an injection molding machine, capable of automatically displaying a window highly relevant to a window being displayed on a main screen on a sub-screen are provided. A display device of an injection molding machine, capable of displaying two or more windows includes: a display unit having at least a main display unit and a sub-display unit; an input unit that receives an input related to selection of a window to be displayed on the display unit; and a display control unit that selectively controls the window to be displayed on the display unit based on the input to the input unit, wherein the display control unit switches a window to be displayed on the main display unit based on the input to the input unit and displays a window displayed in the past on the main display unit on the sub-display unit.
US10928982B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to grouping user interface elements into components. The disclosed techniques may include, for example, determining, based on hierarchical user interface code, a plurality of visible elements of a graphical user interface. In addition, the disclosed techniques include determining coordinates for bounding boxes for ones of the plurality of visible elements and determining depths within the hierarchical user interface code for the plurality of visible elements. The disclosed techniques include generating groupings for the plurality of visible elements using unsupervised clustering and the determined coordinates and depths and storing information specifying the generated groupings.
US10928970B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, systems and/or devices used to visualize data. In one aspect, a method is performed by a computing system having one or more processors and memory. The method includes (1) receiving a request from a user to visualize data, the data stored in a graph dataflow processing system, and (2) in response to the request, invoking an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for display to the user, the GUI including a first set of visualization data corresponding to a first subset of the data.
US10928968B2
A detection element (104) is energised. The detection element is substantially non-conductive without an application of pressure and becomes increasingly conductive in response to pressure application. A processor (101) is interrupted from a low-power dissipation state in response to a first detectable application of pressure by the detection-element. The processor is then configured to monitor further pressure applied to the same detection element.
US10928966B2
Disclosed herein are a touch panel and a touch-panel-integrated organic light-emitting display device that are capable of solving a retransmission problem while exhibiting excellent luminance and color viewing angle characteristics. The touch panel includes a plurality of first and second electrodes disposed on a substrate so as to intersect each other. Each first electrode includes a first touch electrode, the first touch electrode including a first metal mesh pattern having a lattice structure formed by a plurality of first and second line electrodes intersecting each other and a first floating unit disposed in the central part of the first metal mesh pattern, the first floating unit being electrically isolated from the first metal mesh pattern, the first floating unit being made of a transparent conductive material. Each second electrode includes a second touch electrode, the second touch electrode including a second metal mesh pattern formed by a plurality of third and fourth line electrodes intersecting each other in a lattice structure and a second floating unit disposed in the central part of the second metal mesh pattern, the second floating unit being electrically isolated from the second metal mesh pattern, the second floating unit being made of a transparent conductive material.
US10928954B2
A touch sensor includes sensor pixels which provide output currents which change in response to a touch made by a user, a sensor scan driver coupled to the sensor pixels through sensor scan lines and supplies sensor scan signals to the sensor pixels, and a read-out circuit coupled to the sensor pixels through output lines, and senses a touch using the output currents. The sensor scan driver changes a scheme for supplying the sensor scan signals depending on a fingerprint sensing mode and a touch sensing mode.
US10928949B2
A display control and touch detection device is capable of controlling display and non-display terms in start timing depending on a result of touch detection, and includes a nonvolatile memory and a control logic which selectively uses data stored in the memory according to a display mode. The control logic changes the display and non-display terms in start timing in display frame periods, whereby the phenomenon of appearance of an undesired brightness difference at a fixed location in a display frame with no display, and the phenomenon of occurrence of flicker owing to the undesired brightness difference can be suppressed. Based on the result of touch detection, the control logic changes the way to use data which decide start timings of display and no display. The start timings of display and non-display terms in a display frame period can be changed depending on the result of touch detection readily.
US10928947B2
A method includes receiving (S1), from a touch panel (1), force values (23) corresponding to a plurality of piezoelectric sensors (5,6, 7). Each piezoelectric sensor corresponds to a physical location (xm, yn) on the touch panel. The method also includes receiving (S2) an identification of which, if any, of the force values (23) are influenced by coupling to external electric fields. The method also includes, in response to one or more force values (23) being identified as influenced by coupling to external electric fields (S3), setting the corresponding force values (23) as excluded force values (S5), and setting the remaining force values (23) as valid force values (S5). The method also includes interpolating and/or extrapolating (S6), based on the valid force values, one or more reconstructed force values (25) corresponding to same physical locations (xm, yn) as the respective excluded force values (23).
US10928941B2
An input sensing device includes a first base layer, a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a plurality of second sensing electrodes, a plurality of third sensing electrodes, and a plurality of fourth sensing electrodes. The first sensing electrodes are arranged on the first base layer along a first direction. The second sensing electrodes are arranged on the first base layer in different rows from the first sensing electrodes. The third sensing electrodes are arranged on the second sensing electrodes along a second direction different from the first direction. The third sensing electrodes overlap the second sensing electrodes. The fourth sensing electrodes are arranged on the same layer as the third sensing electrodes and overlap the first sensing electrodes. A constant voltage is applied to the third sensing electrodes during a touch pressure sensing operation.
US10928934B1
An information handling system peripheral stores a wireless dongle in a cavity formed in the peripheral housing. The cavity has a head end with a width that accepts a head of the wireless dongle and a connector end with a width that accepts a connector of the wireless dongle and that is too narrow for the head of the wireless dongle to fit. When inserted into the cavity, the wireless dongle is removed by pressing on the connector with a finger to raise the head out of the cavity and in position to be grasped between the finger and a thumb. The wireless dongle pivots about a raised portion in the cavity with a greater depth at the connector end providing room for the downward press. A magnet disposed in the raised portion aids in retention of the wireless dongle.
US10928932B2
A computer mouse is provided which includes a housing; a lateral vertical wheel attached to the housing and configured to rotate with respect to the housing and in a first plane to control lateral vertical planar rotation of a visual object on a computer screen; a horizontal turn wheel attached to the housing and configured to rotate with respect to the housing and in a second plane which is perpendicular to the first plane to control horizontal planar rotation of the visual object on the computer screen; and a straight vertical turn wheel attached to the housing and configured to rotate with respect to the housing and in a third plane which is perpendicular to the first plane and the second plane to control rotation of the visual object on the computer screen in a direction which appears on the computer screen to be substantially perpendicular to vertical and horizontal directions. The mouse also includes a translational motion control button and resizing motion control button for motion and resizing of the visual object in horizontal, vertical and their perpendicular directions.
US10928927B2
A video interactive system includes at least one input device, a plurality of wireless positioning devices, at least one interactive device, and an image processing device. The input device provides image data. Each wireless positioning device is disposed in an operation space and transmits a positioning signal. The interactive device is paired with the input device and has a plurality of sensors for receiving the positioning signals. The interactive device is movably disposed in the operation space and generates action information corresponding to a display device. The image processing device is electrically connected to the input device and the display device. The image processing device receives the image data from the input device and outputs the image data to the display device based on the action information.
US10928926B2
Provided is a method and system for defining shortcuts that can be used across multiple different software tools. In one example, the method may include detecting a key press, via a keyboard, associated with a command, identifying an application-independent shortcut corresponding to the key press, translating the application-independent shortcut into an application-specific shortcut for performing the command within the application, based on a translation database, and transmitting the application-specific shortcut to the application in response to the detected key press.
US10928925B2
In a method and a system for recommending candidates in an input method, an initial key code and/or an initial key code string inputted by a user using an input method is received; according to the initial key code, a recommended input character is determined; and a weight of the recommended input character is increased.
US10928913B2
The present application discloses a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a housing; a screen module; an elastic member received in the receiving cavity; and an exciter sandwiched between the elastic member and the screen module, the exciter driving the screen module to vibrate, the exciter including a bottom wall, a lateral wall extending bently towards the screen module from the bottom wall, and a top wall covered on the lateral wall; one end of the elastic member is fixed to the housing, the other end is spaced from the housing and abuts against the bottom wall of the exciter; the top wall is fixed to the screen module, and the elastic member is in a compression deformation state to resist against the bottom wall.
US10928906B2
A data entry device for entering predetermined characters by the finger of a user and converting the characters into a sequence of electronic signals representing the entered characters, that comprises a touch sensitive zone (2) on an outer surface, a processor (58) coupled to the touch sensitive zone (2) for sensing the zone (2) is touched, the processor (58) is programmed to recognize predetermined elementary finger movements and combinations thereof and to associate each of them with a character, wherein a closed boundary (10) is defined on the surface of the device above a portion of the touch sensitive zone (2) that has at least one haptic property differing from the haptic properties of the surrounding area, whereby the finger can definitely sense when the boundary (10) is touched, and the boundary (10) has an interior area constituting a data entry field (11) that has a centre region (16) which has at least one haptic property differing from the haptic properties of the portion beyond the centre region (16), whereby the finger when touching the centre zone (16) can sense being on the centre region (16), and the processor (58) is programmed so as to recognize when the centre region (16) is touched for a predetermined duration by the finger and interprets this event as the beginning of the entry of a character and from that moment starts observing and analyzing the combination of the elementary finger movements as long as the finger touches the data entry field (11), and when the finger has finished touching the data entry field (11) this is interpreted by the processor (58) as the end of the entry of the character, wherein the elementary finger movements can be radial movements between the centre zone (16) and one of a plurality of predetermined discrete special positions along the boundary (10) in both directions and arced movements along the boundary (10) from one special position to a neighbouring special position.
US10928903B2
The present disclosure discloses a display control method and control apparatus using eye tracking. The display control method includes matching the image on which the user's face is displayed with the image on which its gaze is displayed, respectively, detecting the gaze information of the user by using the matched image with respect to the input of the user's face image, and controlling a display by manipulating a control element related to the gaze information among the control elements included in display information. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to control the display by using Artificial Intelligence (AI), a Deep Learning-based gaze mapping technology, and a 5G network without complicated calculation for a gaze angle.
US10928892B2
A device, system, and method for applying time warp in an augmented or mixed reality environment. An image may be rendered corresponding to an estimated head position calculated based on head position and orientation measured at the initial time. Time warp may be independently applied to each sequential one of the plurality of segmented visual units of an image (e.g., color-frames or pixel-groups) to generate a plurality of respective time warp visual units corresponding to a plurality of different respective estimated head position and orientations calculated based on head position and orientations measured at a plurality of different respective sequential times after the initial time. The plurality of time warp visual units may be projected in the sequential order at the augmented or mixed reality device.
US10928887B2
A computer-implemented method includes: detecting, by a virtual wearable computing device, a hazardous condition based on monitoring a proximity of a user wearing the virtual wearable computing device to a physical obstruction; and alerting, by the virtual wearable computing device, the user regarding the detection of the hazardous condition.
US10928883B2
A system management device connected with a plurality of computation nodes includes a memory including a program instruction and a processor connected with the memory. The processor creates a list of computation nodes in which update of software is to be performed, in accordance with an input software update request, and detects a computation node in an idle state satisfying a condition for power saving, in accordance with an input power-saving operation request. When the computation node detected by the processor is on the list, the processor deactivates the detected computation node for power saving after the software thereof is updated.
US10928881B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device can sense touch on its touch screen while in a sleep state in a manner that allows the electronic device to respond to certain touch inputs, while consuming less power due to touch sensing than while in an awake state. For example, sensing touch during the sleep state can allow the electronic device to wake (e.g., transition from the sleep state to the awake state) in response to detecting a certain touch input (e.g., a tap or other touch input) on its touch screen while in the sleep state. Various ways for the electronic device to sense touch during the sleep state are disclosed.
US10928877B2
Disclosed herein is a communication device, which comprises a user trace manager, a power emulator, and a power impact estimator. The user trace manager manages a user's sensor usage trace and device usage trace, which shows the user's mobile device usage pattern. The power emulator executes an executable file of the mobile application to generate hardware usage statistics based on the sensor usage trace and the device usage trace. And the power impact estimator computes an increase in power consumption of the mobile application based on the hardware usage statistics.
US10928876B2
Certain examples described herein relate to a removable unit of an additive manufacturing system. The removable unit is connectable to a base unit. When connected and operational, the base unit supplies a first voltage to the removable unit via a first power coupling. The removable unit has a power supply unit that converts the first voltage to a second voltage. The second voltage may power a number of low voltage components. The removable unit also has a power multiplexer. When the first voltage is unavailable the removable unit switches the power multiplexer to use a second voltage that is supplied from the base unit via a second power coupling.
US10928868B2
A heat dissipating assembly suited for an electronic device is provided. The electronic device has at least one heat source. The heat dissipating assembly includes a first tube, a second tube, and a fluid. The first tube has an inlet and an outlet, wherein a bore size of the inlet is smaller than a bore size of the outlet. Heat generated from the heat source is transferred to the first tube. Two opposite ends of the second tube are connected to the inlet and the outlet such that the first and the second tubes are formed into a closed loop. The fluid is filled in the closed loop. The fluid in the first tube transferred from the inlet toward the outlet absorbs the heat and is transferred to the second tube for heat dissipating. An electronic device is also provided.
US10928863B2
A portable information handling system presents visual images with a flexible display disposed over separate housing portions rotationally coupled by a set of hinges having an opening defined between them. A multi-segmented support couples to the hinges in the opening to dispose a planar surface proximate the flexible display and extend plural parallel members up from the planar support between the hinges, the plural parallel members separating in response to rotation from a flat to a curved orientation.
US10928862B2
An electronic device includes a device main body, a handle and a positioning mechanism. The handle is adapted to be connected to the device main body in a first state, and is adapted to be connected to the device main body in a second state. The positioning mechanism includes a positioning member and an unlocking assembly. The positioning member is movably disposed on the handle. The positioning member is adapted to position the handle to the first state and adapted to position the handle to the second state. The unlocking assembly is movably disposed on the handle and is adapted to remove positioning of the positioning member acted on the handle.
US10928855B2
Embodiments of a dock with an actively controlled heatsink for a multi-form factor Information Handling System (IHS) are described. In some embodiments, a dock may include: a base, a plateau configured to receive an IHS, and an arm coupling a distal edge of the base to a proximal edge of the plateau, where the plateau comprises a heatsink configured to cool a heatpipe disposed within the IHS via a bottom surface of the IHS.
US10928853B2
A transparent display device having an optical transmissive region and a circuit layout region is provided. A light transmittance of the optical transmissive region is greater than that of the circuit layout region. The transparent display device includes a plurality of display elements and a driving circuit. The display elements are disposed in the optical transmissive region or the circuit layout region. The driving circuit is disposed in the circuit layout region and is electrically connected with the display elements. The transparent display device satisfies: 0.1
US10928840B2
The present disclosure relates to a dispenser assembly for accurate dispensation of cosmetic compounds for custom cosmetic formulations. The dispenser assembly includes a dispensing motor coupled to a dispensing plunger which, according to prescribed speed profiles, dispenses accurate volumes of compounds for custom cosmetic formulations.
US10928832B2
Methods and systems for controlling motion of a vehicle. Sensor data is obtained, representing an environment of the vehicle. A reference control trajectory is corrected, using one or more virtual forces, to provide a desired trajectory. The one or more virtual forces are generated by applying an impedance scheme to the sensor data. A desired trajectory is outputted for controlling the vehicle.
US10928825B2
A method, device and system for controlling a vehicle passing through an intersection are provided. The method includes generating a reference running track based on coordinate of first road from which the vehicle is to leave and coordinate of second road into which the vehicle is to enter. The first road and the second road intersect at the intersection through which the vehicle is to pass. The method further includes generating, in real time, a preview track of vehicle based on coordinate of centroid of the vehicle, course of the vehicle and coordinate of the second road, comparing the preview track with the reference running track and acquiring running speed limit and turning angle of the vehicle based on the comparing, and controlling the vehicle to run at the turning angle and a running speed less than or equal to the running speed limit.
US10928822B2
A mobile robot including a motion actuator; at least one detection sensor configured to detect field information in a movement field of the mobile robot; a guidance generation unit configured to generate a motion guidance policy to a target position from a current position, the motion guidance policy being updated by the guidance generation unit when the field information has been received from the at least one detection sensor; a safety sensitization unit configured to generate a safety sensitized policy which is the motion guidance policy with a reduced velocity magnitude relative to an angle between the motion guidance policy and the current motion of the mobile robot; and a motion actuation unit configured to determine an actuation signal for instructing the motion actuator to project the current motion of the mobile robot in conformity with the safety sensitized policy provided by the safety sensitization unit.
US10928820B1
In one embodiment, a process is performed during controlling Autonomous Driving Vehicle (ADV). A plurality of point confidence scores are determined, each defining a reliability of a corresponding point on a trajectory of a moving obstacle. At least one of the point confidence scores is determined based on a) an overall trajectory confidence score, and b) at least one environmental factor of the obstacle. The ADV is controlled based on the trajectory of the moving obstacle and at least one of the plurality of point confidence scores.
US10928818B2
A driving assistance device, including an automated driving switch; an emergency button; and a controller configured to provide either automated driving in which travel is performed along a current travel path of a host vehicle or automated stopping in response to manipulation by a driver of the automated driving switch or of the emergency button.
US10928814B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for performing an autonomous procedure for monitoring and diagnostics of a machine using electrical signature analysis. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a method includes providing electrical data of an electrical rotating machine associated with at least one fault frequency. While in a learning mode, the method includes converting the electrical data from a time domain to a frequency domain to obtain baseline data. While in an operational mode, the method includes converting the electrical data from the time domain to the frequency domain to obtain monitoring data. The method further includes determining, based at least on the monitoring data, a ratio value at the fault frequency, determining a rate of change of the ratio value at the fault frequency, and, optionally, issuing, based on the rate of change, an alarm concerning at least one event of the electrical rotating machine.
US10928813B2
A pressure-type flow rate control device includes a restriction part, a control valve disposed upstream of the restriction part, an upstream pressure sensor, a downstream pressure sensor, and a controller that diagnoses flow rate control by using pressure drop data on a flow passage between the control valve and the restriction part and reference pressure drop data, wherein a close command is issued to the control valve and a shutoff valve provided downstream of the downstream pressure sensor, and the controller determines whether a predetermined critical expansion condition is satisfied by using outputs of the upstream pressure sensor and the downstream pressure sensor after the control valve is closed, and diagnoses flow rate control by using the pressure drop data acquired during a period in which the predetermined critical expansion condition is satisfied.
US10928810B2
A method for monitoring an optical lens manufacturing process at a first lens manufacturing side, the method including: a manufacturing data collecting, during which sets of manufacturing data indicative of at least a manufacturing process parameter and/or a manufacturing device parameters and/or an operator parameter and/or an environment parameter at the first lens manufacturing side are collected; a manufacturing information generating, during which at least one manufacturing information indicative of at least a manufacturing process parameter and/or a manufacturing device parameters and/or an operator parameter and/or an environment parameter at a second lens manufacturing side is generated based on the collected manufacturing data.
US10928808B2
Provided is a method and an arrangement for enabling a processing step for an object that is to be processed, wherein an availability result, which indicates an availability of the processing step, is determined for the processing step on the basis of rules.
US10928805B2
An additive manufacturing (AM) system is disclosed for constructing a three dimensional (3D) part with optimized orthotropy. The system combines an electronic processor which calculates an optimal set of physically achievable toolpaths to meet a given design objective, and a 3D printing direct ink write machine capable of printing inks with reinforcing particles that result in orthotropic materials. The electronic processor may combine a Domain of Interest subsystem that transforms a mathematical description of a desired part orthotropy to a plurality of guidepaths, a toolpath generate subsystem that develops a plurality of physically realizable toolpaths from those guidepaths with a minimum number of starts and stops, a finite element subsystem that computes spatially varying material orthotropy from those toolpaths and then solves a boundary value problem to determine a figure of merit for the design, and an optimization subsystem that uses that figure of merit to update the mathematical description of the part orthotropy to iteratively develop an improved part. The optimization subsystem also includes convergence criteria to indicate when toolpaths have been achieved that yield a sufficiently optimal part has been achieved. The toolpath generate can then output the final toolpaths, which are converted to suitable code that controls the motion of the 3D printer toolhead and allows the optimized 3D part to be manufactured.
US10928798B2
A technique is capable of preventing particles from adhering onto a wafer when a lid is attached or detached from a pod. A substrate processing apparatus includes: a placement part whereon a substrate container is placed; a guide part constituting a lid opening/closing space; a gate part separating the lid opening/closing space from a transfer chamber; a lid opening/closing mechanism provided in the lid opening/closing space and configured to attach or detach a lid of the substrate container; a gas introduction mechanism configured to supply a gas into the substrate container; a monitor part configured to monitor and adjust an inner pressure of the substrate container; and a controller configured to: (i) control the lid opening/closing mechanism; and (ii) control the monitor part to maintain the inner pressure of the substrate container higher than an inner pressure of the lid opening/closing space while the lid opening/closing mechanism detaches the lid.
US10928796B2
An induction trash can circuit includes an active infrared sensor, a microcontroller, a driving circuit and a motor for controlling the opening and closing of a lid. The power-saving method is achieved through the following steps: in a standby state, the microcontroller controls the active infrared sensor to emit an infrared pulse signal to an induction area; if no obstacle exit in the induction area, the active infrared sensor outputs no signals, the program of the microcontroller immediately enters a sleep state; after the program of the microcontroller sleeps for a period of time, a watchdog timer in the microcontroller wakes up the microcomputer controller to make the microcontroller re-enter a working state; and if the microcontroller is in a standby state, the above process is repeated.
US10928793B2
An energy management apparatus according to an embodiment is used in a management system including an information device management apparatus which has a first storage storing an information device table indicating a relationship between an information device identifier for identifying at least one information device and a zone identifier for each of zones and controls the information device based on the information device table and data received from the energy management apparatus. The energy management apparatus has an acquisitor, a data processor, a second storage and a communicator. The acquisitor acquires, regarding the zones, presence-absence information indicating a presence or absence of a person in each of the zones. The data processor generates the data based on the presence-absence information acquired by the acquisitor and the zone identifier.
US10928791B2
A model-based human machine interface (HMI) system is provided. The HMI system includes a plurality of output devices each having output capabilities that include at least one unique output capability level and a semantics library that is configured to receive SUC component models each having an output format and data. The semantics library is configured to analyze the data relative to the SUC component models and to transmit each of the SUC component models to one or more of the plurality of output devices. The one or more of the plurality of output devices are selected based on a correlation between the output capabilities of the plurality of output devices and the output format of the SUC component models.
US10928790B2
A controller for multiple groups of equipment detects a staging event for a first group of equipment and determines when the staging event occurs. The controller determines whether a predetermined time period has elapsed since the staging event for the first group of equipment has occurred and prevents a second group of equipment from staging in response to a determination that the predetermined time period has not elapsed since the staging event for the first group of equipment has occurred. Preventing the second group of equipment from staging reduces peak energy consumption during the predetermined time period and reduces a demand charge based on the peak energy consumption.
US10928789B2
A processing unit includes a plurality of subsystem control modules. Each subsystem control module includes a set of one or more inputs that receives a set of one or more external signals and a set of one or more monitored outputs from a hardware subsystem corresponding to the subsystem control module, and a set of configuration outputs for controlling one or more configuration settings of the hardware subsystem. The subsystem control module determines the one or more configuration settings based on the set of monitored outputs and on one or more targets derived from the set of external signals.
US10928785B2
A method for auto-configuration of components in a building includes placing components on a floor plan using a mobile device equipped with a user interface. The coverage region of any given component is estimated and operational settings for each component, including pairing with other components, is automatically assigned based on classification of each component and estimated coverage regions.
US10928781B2
A case including a case body, and an exterior member which is arranged on an outer periphery of the case body in a manner to be deformable in a circumferential direction and which is provided with a separation section for separating at least a part of the case body in the circumferential direction.
US10928774B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for representing a transfer of a digital object using holographic images. User input is received that is indicative of a selection of the digital object for transfer from a sending device to a receiving device. Spatial attribute data is generated based at least in part on at least one of a distance or a relative orientation between the sending device and the receiving device, and a transition path is determined based at least in part on the spatial attribute data. Holographic image data is then generated based at least in part on the transition path, and the holographic image data is sent to one or more holographic projectors to cause a first holographic image representative of the digital object and a second holographic image representative of the transition path to be projected.
US10928773B2
A method and system for improving holographic image simulation and replication is provided. The method includes receiving data identifying a primary location and at least one secondary location associated with a holographic replication event. First video data describing first objects at the primary location is received and a first holographic simulation presentation comprising virtual representations of the first objects is generated. Second video data describing second objects at the at least one secondary location is received and a second holographic simulation presentation comprising virtual representations of the second objects is generated. The second holographic simulation presentation is projected such that said virtual representations of the second objects interact with the first objects at the primary location. The first holographic simulation presentation is projected such that said virtual representations of the first objects interact with the second objects at the at least one secondary location.
US10928772B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image holding section; a transfer section that has a transfer member, applies a transfer electric-field to a transfer region between the image holding section and the transfer member, and electrostatically transfers an image held by the image holding section onto a recording medium; contact sections that act as electrodes to ground while being in contact with the recording medium; a humidification section that is provided upstream of the transfer region and humidifies the recording medium; a first control section that performs control without humidification by the humidification section; a second control section that performs control to cause the humidification section to humidify the recording medium; and a selection section that selects the first control section or the second control section depending on a type of the recording medium.
US10928765B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of members for forming an image; a transmitting unit configured to transmit a sonic wave; a receiving unit configured to receive a first sonic wave that has been transmitted from the transmitting unit and has passed through a sheet and a second sonic wave that is generated from at least one of the plurality of members; a detection unit configured to detect information regarding a type or state of the sheet based on the first sonic wave; and a determination unit configured to determine a state of a member that has generated the second sonic wave based on the second sonic wave.
US10928760B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material; a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the recording material by heating the toner image formed on the recording material; a flow path including a first space connecting with the fixing portion and a second space connecting with the first space and through which air discharged from the fixing portion passes; a first electrode portion provided in the first space and provided with a first potential; and a second electrode portion provided in the second space and provided with a second potential different from the first potential. An air speed of the air passing through the second space is slower than an air speed of the air passing through the first space.
US10928755B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit including a fixing belt having a surface to which a lubricant is applied, a heater contacting the surface and including heating elements arranged along a width direction of the belt and including first end second end heating elements and a central heating element, and a pressing roller capable of pressing and rotating the belt, a power supply configured to supply power to the heating elements, and a controller configured to determine a first amount of power to be supplied to the central heating element and a second amount of power to be supplied to each end heating element such that the first amount is greater than the second amount, and control the power supply to supply the first and second amounts to the central heating element and each end heating element before controlling the pressing roller to rotate.
US10928754B2
Disclosed herein is a release fluid, a fuser member and an image forming apparatus. The release fluid is a blend an amino functional silicone fluid and a non-functional silicone fluid. The amount of the amino functional silicone fluid is from about 10 weight percent to about 90 weight percent of the release fluid. The amount of the non-functional silicone fluid is from about 10 weight percent to about 90 weight percent of the release fluid. The amount of silanol (Si—OH) is less than 200 ppm in the release fluid.
US10928751B2
A remanufacturing method of a developing apparatus including: a communicating step of removing a part of a frame of the developing apparatus to form a communication hole such that an outside of the frame and a developing chamber of the frame are connected each other; a refilling step of refilling an inside of the frame with developer via the communication hole; and a sealing step of sealing the communication hole.
US10928750B2
A developing cartridge may include: a casing; a developing roller extending in a first direction; a developing-roller gear; a coupling including a coupling gear; a first idle gear; a second idle gear; an agitator; a first agitator gear; and a protrusion. The developing-roller gear, the coupling, the first idle gear, the second idle gear, the first agitator gear, and the protrusion may be positioned at an outer surface of the casing. The protrusion may be positioned between a first axis of the coupling and a third axis of the first agitator gear in a second direction connecting the first and third axes. The protrusion may be positioned outside an addendum circle of the developing-roller gear, an addendum circle of the coupling gear, an addendum circle of the first idle gear, and an addendum circle of the second idle gear. The first agitator gear may be spaced apart from the protrusion in the first direction.
US10928744B2
An imprint lithography method for positioning substrates includes supporting first and second substrates respectively atop first and second chucks, pneumatically suspending the first and second chucks laterally within first and second bushings, supporting the first and second chucks vertically within the first and second bushings, maintaining the first and second chucks respectively in first and second fixed rotational orientations, and forcing the first and second chucks in a downward direction independently of each other respectively against first and second vertical resistive forces until first and second top surfaces of the first and second substrates are coplanar, while maintaining the first and second chucks suspended laterally within the first and second bushings and while maintaining the first and second chucks in the first and second fixed rotational orientations.
US10928740B2
A three-dimensional calibration structure for measuring buried defects on a semiconductor device is disclosed. The three-dimensional calibration structure includes a defect standard wafer (DSW) including one or more programmed surface defects. The three-dimensional calibration structure includes a planarized layer deposited on the DSW. The three-dimensional calibration structure includes a layer stack deposited on the planarized layer. The layer stack includes two or more alternating layers. The three-dimensional calibration structure includes a cap layer deposited on the layer stack. One or more air gaps are formed in the layer stack following deposition of the cap layer. The three-dimensional calibration structure includes one or more holes formed into at least one of the cap layer, the layer stack, or the planarized layer.
US10928736B2
An exposure apparatus including: a substrate holder constructed to support a substrate; a patterning device configured to provide radiation modulated according to a desired pattern, the patterning device including a plurality of two-dimensional arrays of radiation sources, each radiation source configured to emit a radiation beam; a projection system configured to project the modulated radiation onto the substrate, the projection system including a plurality of optical elements arranged side by side and arranged such that a two-dimensional array of radiation beams from a two-dimensional array of radiation sources impinges a single optical element of the plurality of optical elements; and an actuator configured to provide relative motion between the substrate and the plurality of two-dimensional arrays of radiation sources in a scanning direction to expose the substrate.
US10928734B2
An optical assembly guides an output beam of a free electron laser to a downstream illumination-optical assembly of an EUV projection exposure apparatus. The optical assembly has first and a second GI mirrors, each with a structured reflection surface to be impinged upon by the output beam. A first angle of incidence on the first GI mirror is between one mrd and 10 mrad. A maximum first scattering angle is produced, amounting to between 50% and 100% of the first angle of incidence. A second angle of incidence on the second GI mirror is at least twice as large as the first angle of incidence. A maximum second scattering angle of the output beam amounts to between 30% and 100% of the second angle of incidence. The two planes of incidence on the two GI mirrors include an angle with respect to one another that is greater than 45°.
US10928732B2
Disclosed is a substrate liquid processing apparatus including: a processing bath in which a processing liquid is stored; a chemical liquid component supply unit that supplies chemical liquid components; a concentration detecting unit that detects a concentration of the chemical liquid components; and a controller configured to perform a first control as a feedback control that replenishes the processing liquid with the chemical liquid components such that the concentration of the chemical liquid components contained in the processing liquid within the processing bath does not become less than a predetermined allowable lower limit, based on the concentration of the chemical liquid components detected by the concentration detecting unit. In addition, the controller performs a second control that replenishes the processing liquid with the chemical liquid components in a predetermined amount required to offset a reduction in concentration of the chemical liquid components caused by the introduction of the substrate.
US10928723B2
A pellicle for a photomask, a reticle including the same, and an exposure apparatus for lithography are provided. The pellicle may include a pellicle membrane, and the pellicle membrane may include nanocrystalline graphene. The nanocrystalline graphene may have defects. The nanocrystalline graphene may include a plurality of nanoscale crystal grains, and the nanoscale crystal grains may include a two-dimensional (2D) carbon structure having an aromatic ring structure. The defects of the nanocrystalline graphene may include at least one of an sp3 carbon atom, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, or a carbon vacancy.
US10928719B2
A projector and an illumination system are provided. The projector includes an illumination system, a light valve, and a projection lens. The illumination system includes a light source configured to provide an illumination beam and a light processing module comprising a reflective wheel structure and a driving unit. The reflective wheel structure includes first and second reflective structures. The first and second reflective structures are located on a transmission path of the illumination beam. The driving unit is connected to the first reflective structure or the second reflective structure and is configured to drive the first and second reflective structures to rotate synchronously. The light valve is located on a transmission path of the illumination beam transmitted from the second reflective structure and configured to convert the illumination beam from the second reflective structure into an image beam.
US10928713B2
A display device has a projector having a light guide plate that guides light incident from an end portion and deflects the light guided to emit the light from a projection surface facing a viewer in a first direction, the projector being configured to emit light from the projection surface to project an image in a space viewable by the viewer, and a rotator configured to rotate the projector around the first direction. When a first end on the projection surface is located at a first position being an upper side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the image is viewed as a stereoscopic image by the viewer. When the rotator rotates the projector and the first end is located at a second position different from the first position, the image is viewed as a planar image by the viewer.
US10928709B2
A coupling releasably secures an item such as a body camera to a mount point. The coupling includes a connector and a receiver. The connector includes a crossbar and a post. The receiver includes an opening and a slot. The crossbar moves through the entry opening and the connector is rotated relative to the receiver. The post of the connector is moved through the slot to engage the receiver and hold the connector in a mounted position on the receiver, thereby securing the item to the mount point. Embodiments of the present disclosure also involve methods for securing the item to the mount point using a connector and receiver, as well as systems for mounting an item using a connector, receiver, and mount point.
US10928706B2
A camera device for a vehicle, including: a camera module that is seated in a housing; a grommet that is installed such that an inner circumferential surface thereof comes into contact with the camera module and an outer circumferential surface thereof comes into contact with the housing; and a cover that is coupled to the housing and the grommet and prevents penetration of moisture along with the grommet.
US10928698B2
A high-contrast liquid crystal light control device provides angle independent variable transmission of incident light for uniform gray shades. The liquid crystal light control device comprises a combination of first and second liquid crystal devices arranged in optical series and positioned between optical polarizers. The director field of the second liquid crystal device is a mirror image of the director field of the first liquid crystal device, and the first and second liquid crystal devices are placed together so that the azimuthal directions of the surface-contacting directors are in parallel alignment at the adjoining or confronting surfaces of the substrates of the first and second liquid crystal devices. The liquid crystal light control device provides, therefore, less angular variation of intermediate transmittances compared with that provided by prior art liquid crystal light control devices.
US10928690B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate, a thin-film transistor (TFT) disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the TFT, and a pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer and connected to a drain electrode of the TFT via a contact hole formed in the insulating layer. The pixel electrode includes a stem electrode which extends in a first direction and a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, branch electrodes which extend from the stem electrode, and an extension electrode which is disposed to overlap the contact hole and which is connected to the branch electrodes. The extension electrode includes a slit.
US10928689B2
A display device includes a substrate of a display panel, including: a display area and a non-display area, an upper surface and a lower surface each in the display area and the non-display area, and side surfaces connecting the upper and lower surfaces to each other; a signal line on the upper surface of the substrate; a circuit substrate on a side surface of the substrate; and a connection electrode on the upper surface of the substrate in the non-display area thereof, where the connection electrode electrically connects the signal line and the circuit substrate to each other. In the non-display area, the substrate further includes: a first etched portion recessed from the side surface at which the circuit substrate is disposed, and a second etched portion extending from the first etched portion toward the signal line, and the connection electrode is in the first and second etched portions.
US10928686B2
An array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a substrate; a common electrode and a gate electrode, both disposed on the substrate; and a shielding electrode, disposed on the common electrode and the gate electrode, wherein an orthographic projection of the shielding electrode on the substrate is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the gate electrode on the substrate as well as an orthographic projection of the common electrode on the substrate, and the shielding electrode is electrically connected to the common electrode. In the embodiment of the disclosure, the shielding electrode is disposed on the common electrode and the gate electrode, so that the influence of the voltage difference formed by the gate electrode and the common electrode can be effectively shielded, thereby eliminating the phenomenon of push mura.
US10928684B2
A display device includes a color filter substrate, an array substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a protection layer, and a plurality of main spacers. The color filter substrate includes a display region, a hole frame region, and a hole region. Further, in a thickness direction of the hole region of the color filter, an organic flattening film is present on a surface of the array substrate on the color filter substrate side at parts corresponding to positions of the main spacers.
US10928680B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate, an insulating layer, an alignment film, and a sealant. The insulating layer is disposed on the substrate and with a plurality of grooves. The alignment film is disposed on the insulating layer. The sealant is disposed on the alignment film. Wherein, the sealant overlaps at least a portion of the plurality of grooves. In a predetermined unit region, the side length of the predetermined unit region is a maximum width X of the sealant, and a total side length of the portions of the plurality of grooves located in the predetermined unit region is greater than 8 times of the maximum width X.
US10928672B2
A display device includes: a first terminal group which is disposed on a front surface of a flexible first substrate having the front surface and is electrically connected to a plurality of pixel electrodes; a second terminal group which is disposed on a back surface of a second substrate and is electrically connected to a plurality of first electrodes of the second substrate; a display region which is disposed on each of the first substrate and the second substrate and overlaps a liquid crystal layer; and first and second peripheral regions which are disposed on the first substrate and the second substrate and located on an outer side of an adhesive. The first terminal group is formed in a first terminal arrangement region of the first peripheral region of the first substrate. The second terminal group is formed in a second terminal arrangement region of the second peripheral region of the second substrate. The first peripheral region is bent toward one side in a Z direction.
US10928670B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel and a circularly polarizing plate disposed on a viewing side of the liquid crystal panel. The circularly polarizing plate sequentially includes, from a viewing side, a linearly polarizing plate and an out-cell retarder. The liquid crystal panel includes a thin-film transistor substrate, a color filter substrate facing the thin-film transistor substrate and including black matrix, a horizontal alignment liquid crystal layer disposed between the thin-film transistor substrate and the color filter substrate, and an in-cell retarder disposed in one substrate disposed on the viewing side selected from the thin-film transistor substrate and the color filter substrate. The in-cell retarder is disposed outside a region between the black matrix and the horizontal alignment liquid crystal layer.
US10928668B2
A black matrix, a color filter and a method of preparing the same, a display panel, and a display device are provided, including: a plurality of first walls extending along a first direction; and a plurality of second walls extending along a second direction intersected with the plurality of first walls along the first direction at intersection regions, wherein the plurality of first walls and the plurality of second walls form a mesh-like structure with a plurality of openings. At least one of the intersection regions is to receive a main support column including a top end, and the at least one of the intersection regions to receive the main support column is widened to be larger than a dimension of the top end of the main support column to be received therein.
US10928663B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight module and a display device, and relates to the field of display technology. The backlight module includes a light guide plate, a light source, a frame portion adjacent to a light incident surface of the light guide plate, and one or more positioning members for defining a position of the light source. The at least one positioning member includes a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion. The first positioning portion is located on a surface of the frame portion adjacent to the light incident surface. The second positioning portion is located on the light incident surface. The second positioning portion and the first positioning portion are mutually constrained to restrict relative movement of the light guide plate and the frame portion in a length direction of the light incident surface.
US10928661B2
A display device includes a base film including a first region and a plurality of second regions having the first region therebetween; an inorganic insulating film on the base film, the inorganic insulating film being in contact with the plurality of second regions of the base film; a plurality of first pixels overlapping the first region; and a plurality of second pixels overlapping the plurality of second regions with the inorganic insulating film being between the plurality of second pixels and the plurality of second regions. The inorganic insulating film is divided by the first region and is discontinuous between the plurality of second regions.
US10928657B2
A magnetic eye protection holder is disclosed which can hold a pair of eye glasses, safety glasses or safety goggles. The holder includes a hollow shell having an exterior surface and an interior surface. The hollow shell has an upper edge, a lower edge, a first end extending from the upper edge to the lower edge, and a second end spaced apart from the first end and located distal from the upper and lower edges. The hollow shell has a first surface inclined relative to the first end, and a second surface spaced apart from and located above the first surface. The magnetic eye protection holder also includes a magnet positioned in the hollow shell and located adjacent to the first end. The magnetic eye protection holder further includes a backing member secured to the first end of the hollow shell which retains the magnet in the hollow shell.
US10928649B2
Apparatuses, systems for electronic wearable devices such as smart glasses are described. The wearable device can comprise a frame, an elongate temple and an articulated joint. The frame can define one or more optical element holders configured to hold respective optical elements for viewing by a user in a viewing direction. The temple can be moveably connected to the frame for holding the frame in position when the device is worn by the user. The articulated joint can connect the temple and the frame to permit movement of the temple relative to the frame between a wearable position in which the temple is generally aligned with the viewing direction, and a collapsed position in which the temple extends generally transversely to the viewing direction. The articulated joint can include a base foot fixed to the frame and oriented transversely to the viewing direction.
US10928647B2
A therapeutic training device configured to be worn on the face of a therapist and capable of displaying media content to a patient with ASD, wherein a level of the displayed media content may be adjusted to permit the patient to see the eyes of the therapist through the media content.
US10928645B2
A three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus includes a processor configured to determine, from image data of a 3D image to be displayed, a representative depth value based on a current frame of the 3D image and a previous frame of the 3D image, and an imaging optical system configured to generate the 3D image in a predetermined space by modulating light based on the representative depth value.
US10928640B2
An optical system for assisting image positioning. The system comprises a light source (1), and further comprises a dot pattern or an interface beam-splitting pattern which is arranged on a light-emergent light path of the light source (1) and generates an interface beam-splitting projection light ray for indicating a text or an image after being projected by emergent light of the light source (1). By means of a combination of a light source (1) and a dot pattern or an interface beam-splitting pattern, a word line, a cross line, or the other patterns which can generate a beam-splitting interface can be projected. Furthermore, by virtue of a DOE moulding lens, of which an emergent face is a spherical face or an aspherical face, a specific linear light beam or the other patterns which can generate the beam-splitting interface are generated.
US10928637B2
A head-up display (1) has a housing (2) with a housing lower part (3) and a housing upper part (4). The housing upper part (4) has a cover pane (5) designed for a projection. The housing (2) can be fastened to a body component (11) via a fastening system (7) that forms form a releasable connection both to the housing (2) and to the body component (11). The fastening system (7) has first passage openings (17) for the installation on the housing (2) and second passage openings (19) for the installation on the body component (11). The passage openings (17, 19) are elongated holes that receive pin-shaped fixing elements (8) to achieve the connection to the housing (2) and to the body component (11). An installation gauge for a head-up display and a gauging method for a head-up display also are provided.
US10928636B2
A Heads-Up Display (HUD) system comprises a processor, a power source, and one or more sensors coupled to a frame connector. The processor is configured to receive signals from the one or more sensors and output image data. A display is mounted on a display arm extending from the frame connector. The display is configured to display images based on the image data. A goggles frame is configured to releasably receive the frame connector. The display is located within a field of view of a user wearing the goggles frame when the frame connector is received by the goggles frame.
US10928635B1
A headset includes a display assembly. The display assembly has a primary portion and a peripheral portion. The primary portion of the display assembly is configured to emit a first portion of image light, and has a first field of view (FOV). The peripheral portion of the display assembly is configured to emit a second portion of the image light over a second FOV, and the peripheral portion is canted relative to the primary portion. The emitted first portion of image light and the emitted second portion of image light create a composite FOV from the perspective of an eyebox, and a seam between the first FOV and the second FOV is located in a peripheral region of the composite FOV.
US10928633B1
Aspects of the disclosed apparatuses, methods, and systems provide arrangement of the visual components of an augmented or virtual display system with optimized telecentricity, focal depth, and wide FOV. The visual components may include a light source and a corresponding optical element.
US10928630B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for detecting and removing vapor for an imaging acquisition device. A device for detecting and removing vapor may include a first light guide. The first light guide may include a first end to receive a light beam, and a second end to output the light beam at a predetermined angle with respect to a reference plane, so that when the light beam enters a target light transmission media from the first light guide, the light beam substantially perfectly reflects between a first surface and a second surface of the target light transmission media. The first surface and second surface may substantially parallel to the reference plane.
US10928627B2
Embodiments of optical scanners, optical projection systems, and methods of scanning optical waveguides and projecting images are described. The disclosed devices, systems and methods advantageously provide an improvement to the compactness, robustness, simplicity, and reliability of optical scanners and optical projection systems by implementing a thermally driven actuator for inducing oscillations of a cantilever within the optical scanners and optical projection systems. The stability and accuracy of optical scanners and optical projection systems are further enhanced using capacitive sensing, feedback, and phase correction techniques described herein.
US10928626B2
A method for correcting deformations of the surface of an object equipped with a device for correcting deformations, the device including a piezoelectric layer including first and second surfaces, a first plurality of electrical tracks arranged on the first surface, a second plurality of electrical tracks arranged on the second surface, the tracks of the first plurality forming a plurality of lines and the tracks of the second plurality forming a plurality of columns, each column of the plurality of columns being perpendicular to the lines of the plurality of lines, the crossing of a line and a column forming a pixel. The method includes measuring the deformations of the surface; identifying the pixels for correcting the deformations and applying, for each identified pixel, with the line and the column corresponding to the pixel, an electric field greater than the coercive field of the piezoelectric material of the piezoelectric layer.
US10928623B2
Disclosed are examples of optical/electrical devices including a variable TIR lens assembly having a transducer, an optical lens and an electrowetting cell coupled to an exterior wall of the lens. The electrowetting cell contains two immiscible liquids having different optical and electrical properties. One liquid has a high index of refraction, and the other liquid has a low index of refraction. At least one liquid is electrically conductive. A signal causes the high index of refraction and the low index of refraction liquids to assume various positions within the electrowetting cell along the exterior wall. The properties of the optical lens, e.g. its total internal reflectivity, change depending upon the position of the respective liquids along the exterior wall. The light detection characteristics of the assembly change to receive an input light beam over a range of inputs or over a range of fields of view.
US10928616B2
A self contained, portable high resolution microscope featuring a flat base 1 to provide a stable optical platform capable of resolving parallel lines 10 μm apart. The microscope folds or collapses to a flat shape in order to make it very portable.
US10928615B2
A laser processing device configured to generally vertically irradiate a laser beam to a workpiece, and having a function for reducing an adverse effect due to a reflected laser beam from the workpiece. The laser processing device includes: a light condensing point moving part configured to move a focal point in an optical axis direction while irradiating the laser beam, by moving at least one of a processing head, an optical component of a light condense optical system, and a workpiece; and a light condensing point distance setting part configured to set a light condensing point distance between the light condensing point and a workpiece surface when the laser beam is started to be irradiated, wherein the light condensing point distance is set so that an amount of the reflected laser beam returned to the processing head through the optical system is not more than an allowable value.
US10928604B2
Various fiber optic distribution modules are disclosed, as well as cable useable to interconnect such modules. One possible module includes a first MPO connector and a second MPO connector exposed, and a plurality of LC connectors, the plurality of LC connectors arranged into a first row and a second row. A plurality of fibers is routed between one of the first and second MPO connectors and a different one of the plurality of LC connectors. The plurality of LC connectors in the first row and the second row are grouped into N groups with M connectors in each group corresponding to M/2 channels included in each group and including a fiber pair. The M connectors of each group are disposed across the first and second rows. Indicia disposed on the second side of the housing visually distinguish each group of the N groups from an adjacent neighboring group.
US10928577B2
An optical member includes a light guide plate, a first low refractive layer, a wavelength conversion layer, and a passivation layer. The first low refractive layer is disposed on the light guide plate. A refractive index of the first low refractive layer is smaller than a refractive index of the light guide plate. The wavelength conversion layer is disposed on the first low refractive layer. The passivation layer is disposed on the wavelength conversion layer. The passivation layer covers a side surface of the wavelength conversion layer and a side surface of the first low refractive layer on at least one side.
US10928576B2
An optical member including a light guide plate, a low refractive layer disposed on the light guide plate and having a refractive index less than that of the light guide plate, a low refractive underlying layer disposed between the low refractive layer and the light guide plate and having a thickness less than that of the low refractive layer, and a wavelength conversion layer disposed on the low refractive layer.
US10928574B2
Provided is a polarizing plate having an appropriate reflectance characteristic formed from an inexpensive material by an inexpensive production device. In a polarizing plate having a wire grid structure including: a transparent substrate; and a grid-like projection that is arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light in a used band and extends in a predetermined direction, an absorption layer constituting the grid-like projection contains an impurity semiconductor obtained by adding a minute amount of a specific element to an intrinsic semiconductor.
US10928561B2
Embodiments of an electronic device comprising an enclosure and electrical components disposed at least partially inside the enclosure, wherein the enclosure comprises a substrate having a tactile surface are disclosed. The tactile surface may include a textured surface, a coated surface or a coated textured surface that exhibits a low fingerprint visibility, when a fingerprint is applied to the tactile surface. In one or more embodiments, the substrate exhibits an average transmittance of about 80% or greater over the visible spectrum, a coefficient of friction less than about 0.3, a surface roughness Ra of about 500 nm or greater, and either one or both a transmission haze greater than about 60%, and a reflection haze at either 2 degrees from specular or 5 degrees from specular greater than 60%.
US10928560B2
An imaging lens assembly includes a dual molded optical element, a plurality of imaging lens elements and a light blocking element. The dual molded optical element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface and includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light transmitting portion includes an optical effective section. The light absorbing portion is located on at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the dual molded optical element, and a plastic material of the light absorbing portion and a plastic material of the light transmitting portion are different colors. The imaging lens elements are disposed in the inner space of the imaging lens assembly. The light blocking element is disposed adjacent to the light transmitting portion of the dual molded optical element.
US10928553B2
One or more aspects of the present disclosure provide optical element transfer structures that include an optical element releasably coupled with a transfer medium and methods of making and using the optical element transfer structures. The optical element transfer structures can be used to dispose an optical element onto an article, whereby the optical element imparts a structural color to the article.
US10928551B2
An isotropic imaging filter is provided that includes a photonic crystal slab, where the photonic crystal slab includes a square lattice of air through holes, a dielectric constant, a thickness (d), a through hole radius (r), and a lattice constant (a), where the square lattice of air holes are separated according to a value of the lattice constant, where the thickness is configured according to d=M(a), where the through hole radii is configured according to r=N(a), where the thickness and the hole radii are configured to generate isotropic bands of guided resonances of an incident image.
US10928545B2
The present disclosure provides a gamma-ray attenuator and a gamma-ray shield for use in gamma-ray spectroscopy. The gamma-ray attenuator is a sleeve comprising a wall, a distal end, and a proximal end. The distal end of the sleeve is closed, and the proximal end of the sleeve forms an opening. A copper insert, a tin insert and a tungsten insert are installed in the sleeve such that the copper insert is adjacent to the distal end and the tungsten insert is closest to the proximal end. The sleeve is comprised of one or more materials that do not substantially attenuate gamma-rays. The open end of the sleeve fits over a tungsten safe that is operable to hold a radionuclide sample. When fitted together, a gamma-ray attenuator and a safe comprise a gamma-ray shield.
US10928544B2
A scanning system includes an improved arrangement of shielding curtains to limit radiation leakage while achieving high throughput and limiting system length. The scanning system includes a segmented conveyor, including a faster conveyor through a shielding region to improve increase throughput of scanned articles, and a slower conveyor through a scanning region to ensure acceptable scanning performance. The curtains are arranged based on the changing gap distance between the articles that results from the changing conveyor speeds.
US10928540B2
A method for use with a subterranean well can include modeling multiple fluid types in an annulus formed between casing and an earth formation penetrated by a wellbore, inverting electromagnetic data acquired by sensors in the well, and selecting at least one of the fluid types based on the inverting. A system for use with a subterranean well can include multiple sensors longitudinally spaced apart along a casing in a wellbore, each of the sensors imparting electromagnetic impulses to a fluid present in an annulus formed between the casing and the wellbore, and each of the sensors providing observed data indicative of at least one physical property associated with the fluid.
US10928535B2
Marine seismic surveys, including ocean bottom surveys, utilizing marine vibrator arrays that are capable of being driven in anti-phase to produce a directional source gradient. Marine seismic surveys may include activating the vibrator array to emit a plurality of radiation patterns with at least a first radiation pattern that has a first notch at a take-off angle that is not close to vertical. Some marine seismic surveys includes emitting directive wavefields from two or more simultaneous seismic source arrays, where the two or more seismic source arrays have a phase that changes from shot-to-shot to allow simultaneous source separation of the directive wavefields.
US10928529B2
An improved hydrophone is presented that has extremely low acceleration sensitivity, hermetic sealing, and is self-shielded. The hydrophone can also contain an integral amplifier and pressure/depth limiting switch. The hydrophone is also designed such that it can use a single standard piezoelectric sensing element in many hydrophone designs that have different acoustic pressure sensitivities but the same capacitance. Lastly, the sensor is also designed to be low cost in high volumes using standard accelerometer manufacturing techniques. A hydrophone is also designed such that it can use a single standard piezoelectric sensing element that can be incorporated into several hydrophone configurations with varying acoustic pressure sensitivities. The sensor is also designed to be low cost in high volumes.
US10928528B2
Translational data in a first direction is measured by particle motion sensors contained in an elongated housing of a sensor device provided at an earth surface. The particle motion sensors are spaced apart along a second, different direction along a longitudinal axis of the elongated housing. Rotation data around a third direction is computed based at least in part on computing a gradient of the translational data with respect to the second direction.
US10928517B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for detecting an obstacle. The apparatus includes a light-emitting unit configured to emit a plane beam by converting a laser beam into the plane beam having a rectangular shape; a light reception unit configured to receive the laser beam which is emitted from the light-emitting unit and reflected from the obstacle; and a control unit configured to measure a distance to the obstacle by using the laser beam received in the light reception unit. Thus, an obstacle is detected by using the plane beam having a rectangular shape, so that the measurement range may be enlarged upwardly and downwardly.
US10928515B2
An ultrasound image is generated by recording data packages while moving an ultrasound transducer along an investigation surface. A plurality of recording locations separated by a recording spacing is determined. A data package is recorded by placing the ultrasound transducer in a recording location on the investigation surface, and assigning the data package to an image column of the ultrasound image corresponding to the recording location. A subsequent data package is recorded by moving the ultrasound transducer in an image recording direction toward a forthcoming recording location, and evaluating a data package acceptance criterion by comparing one or more actual image correlation and corresponding correlation function values, investigating fulfillment of the acceptance criterion, and if the acceptance criterion is fulfilled, assigning, for the forthcoming recording location, the subsequent data package to a forthcoming image column of the ultrasound image by loading the subsequent data package into the forthcoming image column.
US10928504B2
A sensor assembly includes a sensor in the form of a microwave radar device to dispense microwaves in an area where seed or other particulate material is to be sensed. This may be a seed tube of a row unit. The microwaves of the radar provide an accurate determination if a seed or other particulate material has passed through the field of vision of the sensor to provide an accurate sensing of a seed event. This information can be used to determine the rate of planting, skips, doubles, as well as any other information related to the passing of a seed or other particulate material.
US10928493B2
Provided is a method for driving a solid-state imaging device including a unit pixel which includes at least a first pixel including: a photoelectric converter which receives reflected light from an object and converts the reflected light into charge; an exposure resetter which switches between exposure and discharge of the charge in the photoelectric converter; and a plurality of readers which read the charge from the photoelectric converter and include at least a first reader and a second reader. The method includes: performing a first exposure as the exposure that is performed in a first period in which a gate of the first reader is ON; and performing a second exposure as the exposure that is performed in a second period which is started in conjunction with the end of the first period and in which a gate of the second reader is ON.
US10928480B2
Devices and methods of estimating the AoD of a STA are generally described. The STA receives comparison symbols from a first AP antenna. The comparison symbols are received prior to and after switching of transmitter chains from a first set of antennas to a second set of antennas. AoD symbols are received immediately after the comparison symbols. A phase and amplitude correction is determined based on a phase and amplitude change between the comparison symbols and the second AoD symbol corrected based thereon. The AoD is subsequently estimated based on the symbol measurements.
US10928476B2
In a magnetic resonance readout-segmented diffusion-weighted imaging method, apparatus, and storage medium, a non-linear phase RF excitation pulse is applied to nuclear spins that exhibit a magnetization intensity vector, and applying, in a slice selection direction, a slice selection gradient pulse of duration corresponding to the non-linear phase RF excitation pulse, so as to flip the magnetization intensity vector into the X-Y plane. Diffusion weighting is performed on the magnetization intensity vector flipped into the X-Y plane. A readout-segmented sampling sequence is executed to read out raw data in a segmented manner from the magnetization intensity vector resulting from diffusion weighting. A view angle tilting gradient pulse is applied in the slice selection direction.
US10928475B2
A method for providing magnetic resonance imaging with dynamic contrast and 4D flow of a volume of an object in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. Contrast agent is provided to the volume of the object. Magnetic resonance excitation from the MRI system is applied to the volume of the object. The MRI system reads out a subsample of less than 10% of spatially resolved data and velocity encoded data with respect to time. The readout subsample is used to determine both dynamic contrast and 4D flow.
US10928473B2
Various methods and systems are provided for acquiring a plurality blades of k-space data for magnetic resonance (MR) data acquisition. The plurality blades are arranged in a rotational manner around a center of the k-space. Each of the blades includes a plurality of parallel phase encoding lines indexed sequentially along a phase encoding direction of the blade. The phase encoding lines of each blade are sampled according to an asymmetric phase encoding order. The blade phase encoding orders of at least two adjacent blades are opposite to each other. This results in reducing shading and blurring artifacts in MRI images.
US10928465B2
Apparatus, having a frame encompassing a volume. The apparatus includes three pairs of separated planar conductive coils, the separated coils of each pair having a common axis of symmetry, the three pairs being attached to the frame so that the common axes of symmetry are mutually orthogonal, and so that the coils surround the volume. An alternating current power supply is coupled to drive the separated coils of each pair in anti-phase so as to generate a magnetic field having a preset spatial variance over the volume. The apparatus also includes a probe that is configured to enter the volume and that has a sensor coupled to generate a signal responsive to a temporal rate of change of the magnetic field and to the preset spatial variance thereof. A processor is configured to receive the signal and in response formulates a position of the probe within the volume.
US10928461B1
Battery management systems and methods for operation of same are provided. A first switchable resistance may be connected between a cell stack positive end and ground. A second switchable resistance may be connected between a cell stack negative end and ground. The switches for each resistance may be alternately opened and closed, with comparison of the resulting currents through each resistance being indicative of a location of isolation leakage current within a battery system cell stack, and/or the magnitude of isolation leakage current. Currents through the first and/or second switchable resistances may also be indicative of Y capacitance. The first and second switchable resistances may further be used to reduce energy stored by Y capacitance.
US10928454B2
In a device for diagnosing a mechanical system driven by an electric drive motor, the drive motor thereof, and the shifting device thereof include at least one sensor for detecting the current curve in a conductor of the electric connection of the drive motor. The precision and the degree of detail of the diagnosis are to be improved compared to the prior art and expanded to include the drive motor and the shifting device in order to improve the efficiency and aim of the maintenance process carried out in response to the diagnosis. This is achieved in that the device additionally has sensors for detecting the voltage curves in the conductors of the electric connection of the drive motor, wherein each conductor is paired with a sensor for detecting the current curve and with a sensor in interaction with a sensor in order to detect the voltage curve.
US10928453B2
A system obtains respective measurements of relevant electrical parameters of a motor during operational stages including a start-up stage, a transition stage, a steady-state stage, idle stage, or a shutdown stage of the motor driven system driven by the motor. Based on the respective measurements, the monitoring system then determines respective electrical patterns corresponding to the operational stages. Next, the monitoring system compares the respective electrical patterns corresponding to the operational stages with respective baseline electrical patterns modeled for the operational stages to yield a comparison. Then, the monitoring system determines a status of the motor driven system based on a comparison between baseline and observed operating parameters. Trend pattern monitoring is used to eliminate storing massive volumes of trend data by capturing and characterizing the important moments when data values change in a significant manner.
US10928441B2
There is provided a circuit device including: a circuit board; a housing configured to support the circuit board; and a bending adjuster configured to adjust bending of the circuit board supported by the housing, wherein the circuit board is supported by the housing by having a portion of the circuit board fixed to the housing, and wherein the bending adjuster includes: a reference member mounted on the housing and spaced apart from a non-fixed portion of the circuit board supported by the housing, the non-fixed portion being a portion that is not fixed to the housing; and a distance adjuster configured to adjust a distance between the non-fixed portion of the circuit board and the reference member such that the circuit board is deformed.
US10928436B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are to evaluation of a phase-resolved partial electrical discharge (PD) of equipment insulation. In one embodiment, a method includes providing Phiqn-arrays by a measurement device configured to detect a PD process in electrical equipment. The electrical equipment can include high voltage insulation. The method further includes associating, by an equipment controller communicatively coupled to the measurement device, at least one Phiqn-pattern present in the Phiqn-arrays with a geometrical shape. The method also includes tracking, by the equipment controller, parameters of the geometrical shape in the Phiqn-arrays. The method also includes determining, by the equipment controller and based on the parameters of the geometrical shape, a discharge intensity associated with the Phiqn-pattern. The method may further include providing, by the equipment controller and based on the discharge intensity, a signal indicative of a condition of the high voltage insulation.
US10928432B2
Provided a reverberation chamber including a pair of a transmitting and receiving antenna and a reflection plate configured to reflect an electromagnetic wave output from the transmitting and receiving antenna to a working volume in a beam direction to improve a field uniformity of the working volume in the reverberation chamber and increase an applicability of the reverberation chamber.
US10928426B2
An apparatus and method for detecting transient voltage at an electrical component of a circuit board is provided. The apparatus including a circuit including a comparator and a latch, wherein a first input of the comparator is electrically coupled to the electrical component, and the comparator receives a threshold voltage at a second input, where the comparator outputs either a high signal or a low signal in response to both the first input and the second input, and an output of the comparator is electrically coupled to an input of the latch such that the latch outputs a high signal in response to receiving a high signal from the comparator, and an indicator electrically coupled to an output of the latch, and where the apparatus is mounted non-permanently to the circuit board to provide a non-permanent electrical coupling between the comparator and the electrical component.
US10928418B2
A scanning probe microscope with a first actuator (3) configured to move a feature in the form of a tip (2) so that the feature follows a scanning motion. A vision system (10) is configured to collect light from a field of view to generate image data. The field of view includes the feature and the light from the field of view travels from the feature to the vision system via the steering element (13). A tracking control system (15)bis configured to generate one or more tracking drive signals in accordance with stored reference data. A second actuator (14) is configured to receive the one or more tracking drive signals and move the steering element on the basis of the one or more tracking drive signals so that the field of view follows a tracking motion which is synchronous with the scanning motion and the feature remains within the field of view. An image analysis system (20) is configured to analyse the image data from the vision system to identify the feature and measure an apparent motion of the feature relative to the field of view. A calibration system is configured to adjust the stored reference data based on the apparent motion measured by the image analysis system.
US10928414B2
A method for determining a flow speed of a liquid in a fluid conduit is provided. During a signal-generating phase, an impulse signal is applied to a first ultrasonic transducer. A response signal is then received at a second ultrasonic transducer. A measuring signal is later derived from the response signal, wherein the derivation comprises reversing a signal portion with respect to time. During a measurement phase, a liquid moves with respect to the fluid conduit. The measuring signal is then applied to one of the two transducers and a response signal of the measuring signal is measured at the other transducer. A flow speed is derived from the response signal of the measuring signal.
US10928409B2
A sample receiving assembly capable of receiving a fluid sample from sample containers having different sizes and shapes includes an arm, an arm holder, a sample probe, and a support member, the support member having a bore therethrough and a plurality of linear grooves. The arm is disposed within the arm holder and the sample probe is disposed within the arm. The arm holder includes a hollow pivot pin insertable through the bore in the support member. The sample probe has a first portion extendable through a distal end of the arm, and a second portion extending axially through the hollow pivot pin. The plurality of linear grooves in the support member are sized and positioned to receive a guide pin on the arm and guide retraction of the arm into the arm holder from an extended position to a retracted position.
US10928408B2
A slide rack clamp apparatus that secures a slide rack in a digital slide scanning apparatus. In an embodiment, the slide rack clamp apparatus includes an upper clamp and a lower clamp. Each clamp comprises one or more clamp projections, which are configured to engage one or more recesses in engagement surfaces of a plurality of different slide racks from different manufacturers. The lower clamp is driven by a motor along a linear axis to engage the lower clamp projections with the one or more slide rack recesses of the bottom surface of the slide rack. The motor drives the lower clamp and the engaged slide rack upward to engage the one or more slide rack recesses of the top surface of the slide rack with the clamp projections of the upper clamp to fully engage the slide rack between the upper clamp and the lower clamp.
US10928402B2
The present disclosure relates to biomarkers of preterm birth, biomarkers of term birth, and methods of use thereof. In particular, the present disclosure provides methods of determining whether a pregnant woman is at an increased risk for premature delivery. The present disclosure further provides methods for decreasing a pregnant woman's risk for premature delivery.
US10928398B2
The present invention relates to kits and methods for performing dual-staining immunohistochemistry (IHC) for the detection of specific cell populations in tissue samples containing heterogeneous populations of cells, which can be observed by a light microscope for co-localization of distinct pigments. The method includes providing a tissue sample comprising fixed cells; exposing the sample to first and second ligands that recognize different marker proteins found at the same cellular location, thereby forming a ligand-labeled sample; exposing the ligand-labeled sample to first and second labeling reagents, the first labeling reagent binding to the first ligand and the second labeling reagent binding to the second ligand, the first and second labeling reagents each forming distinct pigments; and identifying the number of cells that display only one particular pigment, or more than one pigment, by the different coloration of the cellular location labeled by the distinct pigment.
US10928396B2
Provided are methods for screening a subject for cancer. The methods involve obtaining a blood sample from the subject and determining a level of Bridging Integrator 1 (BIN1) isoforms comprising exon 12a in the sample. Optionally, the method involves determining a level of 12a+/13− BIN isoform (comprising exon 12a but lacking exon 13) in the sample. An elevated level of 12a+(e.g., 12a+/13−) BIN1 isoforms in the blood sample indicates the subject has cancer. Also provided are methods for determining efficacy of a cancer therapy in a subject and methods of treating cancer. Isolated antibodies that selectively bind human 12a+ BIN1 are also provided as well as kits for determining 12a+/13− BIN1 isoforms.
US10928389B2
Arrays and substrates comprising a material, in particular capture agents and/or detectable targets, attached to the substrates along substantially parallel lines forming a barcoded pattern and related methods and systems.
US10928377B2
The present invention provides an instrument and a method for examining the condition of column-shaped or cylindrical sections of objects. It comprises a drive device having a drill chuck, which holds a drill needle that can be driven by the drive device, and a guiding device for guided insertion of the drill needle into the object to be examined. The guiding device is a telescopic tube that comprises a shorter inner tube section that is arranged in a longer outer tube section such that it is axially displaceable, and has a longitudinally arranged measuring scale on its outer circumference. The telescopic tube is placed on the drive device in non-rotating manner via the inner tube section. The inner and the outer tube sections have guiding means for centrally-axially guiding the drill needle, which extends in central-axial direction from the drill chuck through the inner tube section and through the outer tube section. When the inner tube section is being inserted into the outer tube section, the drill needle can be driven into the object to be examined in a manner guided by the guiding means.
US10928369B2
The invention relates to a method for calibrating an electronic nose, said electronic nose comprising a plurality of optical sensors arranged on a surface and capable of being in contact with a gaseous medium of interest, said optical sensors being capable of delivering a signal representative of the local optical index of the gaseous medium of interest when they are excited by photons, the method being characterized in that it comprises the following steps: after having placed the electronic nose in a gaseous medium of interest at the initial pressure (P0) and the initial temperature (T0): a) sending photons in the direction of the sensors so as to excite said sensors; b) measuring the signal delivered by each of the sensors, this measurement providing as many responses as there are sensors; c) modifying the pressure and/or temperature of the gaseous medium of interest; d) repeating step b); and e) for each sensor, determining a correction factor such as a variation in the signal between steps d) and b) corrected by the correction factor either equal to or substantially equal to a variation in the signal between these same steps for a reference, said reference being provided by a reference sensor or a combination of reference sensors. Such a method allows a physical calibration, that in the present case is relative, to be performed between the different sensors.
US10928367B2
A peak extraction method for extracting a true peak from a measured waveform, including acquiring a second derivative waveform; extracting a provisional peak on the basis of a maximum value and/or a minimum value of the second derivative waveform; determining the peak width of the provisional peak on the basis of a model peak function; computing, on the basis of the model peak function, a theoretical value for the height of the provisional peak using two points corresponding to the two ends of the peak width; computing, based on the second derivative waveform, an index value for a variation in the noise on the measured waveform; and computing an S/N ratio, which is a ratio of the peak height theoretical value and the index value, and extracting the provisional peak that is equal to or greater than a preset value as the true peak.
US10928362B2
A method for nondestructive inspection of a component, the method includes determining a first pulse-echo scan from a first side of a component; determining a second pulse-echo scan from a second side of the component; determining a through-transmission scan based on the first pulse-echo scan, the second pulse-echo scan, and a model of the component, the model comprises a rigid internal structure of the component; and classifying the component based on comparing the through-transmission scan to a “gold” model.
US10928351B2
An electrochemical cell includes a working electrode in contact with an aqueous electrolyte solution, a counter electrode in contact with the aqueous electrolyte solution, and a reference electrode in contact with the aqueous electrolyte solution. The working electrode comprises a plasma modified epitaxial synthesized graphene surface fabricated on SiC.
US10928333B2
The invention concerns a method of optical, inspection of an electronic circuit (Card) including the acquisition of images of the electronic circuit by image sensors (C), the use of the images to determine the offset between the position of the electronic circuit (Card) and an inspection position, and the use of said images in at least another step of the method.
US10928328B2
An inspection apparatus for inspecting a flow of particulate material, comprising: a background reflector (105) adjacent which in use falls a flow of particulate material (F); and a lighting unit (107) for illuminating an elongate viewing field (VF) across the background reflector (105), the viewing field (VF) having a first width (w1); wherein the lighting unit (107) comprises a fixed, non-scanning light source (115), and the light source (115) is formed of one or more light elements (120) which define a second width (w2) which is shorter than the first width (w1) of the viewing field (VF).
US10928324B2
A microsecond-scale stimulated Raman spectroscopic imaging system having a light source, such as a laser output that provides two femtosecond laser beams and a modulator to modulate the laser intensity at frequency between about 1 and about 100 megahertz. The system can further include a medium that chirps the two femtosecond beams to generate a spectral focus in a specimen, and a galvo mirror or resonant mirror pair to scan the two femtosecond beams in two dimension on the specimen. An objective lens can focus the two laser beams into a specimen or sample and a resonant delay scanner configured to produce an optical delay to the pair of chirped beams in said specimen and a tuned amplifier or lock-in amplifier can be used to extract the stimulated Raman-signal shift at the aforementioned modulation frequency.
US10928323B2
In the present invention, a detection device has a chip holder, an excitation-light radiation unit, and a heat source. The chip holder is used for positioning a detection chip that has: a prism; a metal film; a trapping body; and a substrate. The excitation-light radiation unit radiates excitation light at the reaction site via the light-entry surface of the detection chip, which is held by the chip holder. The heat source is disposed in a position so as to face, in a non-contacting manner, the surface of the prism of the detection chip held by the chip holder that is closest to the reaction site, and so as not to interfere with the optical path of the excitation light. The chip holder positions the detection chip while in contact with only the reverse surface of the substrate and/or a convex portion positioned on the prism.
US10928319B2
Systems, methods, and devices related to detecting a presence of an analyte and/or determining a concentration of analytes are provided. An analyte may be provided on an LSPR-active surface. The LSPR-active surface may comprise sensitivity enhancing labels. The analyte may induce a local change near the LSPR-active surface. The LSPR-active surface may be imaged with an imaging device for images before, during, or after a reaction takes place. Local regions of interest within the images may be analyzed to detect the local changes.
US10928317B2
An apparatus related method for measuring a property of a target material. The system may include a pump device that generates a pump beam. A modulation device may receive the pump beam and generate a modulated pump beam by modulating an intensity amplitude of the pump beam, which may be directed to the target material. A probe device may generate a probe beam, which is directed to the target material. A part of the probe beam may be reflected off of the target material, and has similar frequency characteristic as the modulated pump beam. A detection device may detect the reflected probe beam and produce a signal. An analyzing device may receive the signal and calculate the target material property by comparing the modulated frequency characteristics of the signal to those of the pump beam. At least one of the pump and the probe beams may be infrared light.
US10928303B2
A concentration measuring device includes a measuring cell having a flow passage and a translucent window, a light source for emitting light to the measuring cell through the window, a reflective member for reflecting light propagating through the measuring cell to the window, a light detector for detecting the light exiting from the window, a calculation part for calculating the concentration of the fluid on the basis of a detection signal from the light detector, and an optical device for guiding the light from the light source to the window and guiding the light from the window to the light detector.
US10928300B2
The present invention relates to an experimental device for testing the lubricity in horizontal well drilling with a cuttings bed taken into consideration, which comprises a simulated wellbore with a pulley provided at one end and a hydraulic cylinder fixed and a drill rod mounted at the other end; a cuttings feeding port is arranged above the simulated wellbore; a low end of the simulated wellbore is connected with a liquid return pipeline; the simulated wellbore is provided with an ultrasonic probe and is connected with a rock core holder. The present invention is in line with the actual operating conditions because it not only takes consideration of the friction force between the drill string and the drilling fluid, wellbore wall and slurry cake, but also takes consideration of the friction force between the drill string and the cuttings bed.
US10928298B2
An apparatus and method of identifying objects includes: a microfluidic chip in which are disposed a plurality of channels, the microfluidic chip including: a main fluid channel into which a sample fluid mixture of objects to be identified is introduced; a plurality of sheath fluid channels into which sheath fluids are introduced, the sheath fluids which orient the objects in the main fluid channel in a predetermined direction while still maintaining laminar flow in the main fluid channel; an interrogation apparatus which detects and interrogates the oriented objects in the main fluid channel; and a focused energy apparatus which performs an action on the objects.
US10928291B2
A method for the classification of superabsorber particles is disclosed, in which the superabsorber particles are put onto a top screen deck of a screening machine having at least two screen decks with a different hole size, the superabsorber particles which are smaller than the holes of the respective screen deck respectively falling through the holes and the superabsorber particles remaining on the screen deck being removed via an extraction point. Balls are positioned on each perforated plate, which balls are propelled upward by the movement of the perforated plate and strike from below the screen deck respectively lying above, wherein the balls have a stiffness in the range from 40 to 100 N/mm and a damping in the range from 1 to 4%. A machine for carrying out the method also is disclosed.
US10928288B2
A method of monitoring an immunoassay comprises determining the shape of the flow edge of fluid across an immunoassay region. This allows, for example, early detection of possible errors in the test. The above methods may also be used to provide methods to improve the run conditions of a test during its development. The method may be applied to a competitive assay.
US10928281B2
Provided are a material testing machine and a gripping force detecting method that can easily judge whether a test piece is gripped with an appropriate gripping force by a gripper. A controlling section is connected to a FFT transforming section via a load cell; the FFT transforming section calculates a natural frequency of a system comprising a test piece and an upper gripper which is connected to a load cell based on a detected value of a force of the load cell. In addition, the controlling section is connected to a storing section which stores the natural frequency calculated by the FFT transforming section. Furthermore, the controlling section is also connected to a comparing section which compares the natural frequency calculated by the FFT transforming section and the natural frequency stored by the storing section before a test starts.
US10928278B2
A vehicle restraint apparatus is for restraining a vehicle 1 on one or more rollers 7 of a vehicle test system. The vehicle restraint apparatus 11 includes a pair of vehicle restraining jigs whose first ends are joined with left and right seatbelt fixing pillars 2 of the vehicle 1, respectively, and whose second ends are joined with left and right poles 10 on a floor, respectively.
US10928276B2
A blockage detection device opens a purge valve in a state where a negative pressure pump is operated. The negative pressure pump is connected to a downstream side of a canister with respect to a fuel tank, and reduces pressure in a device internal space. The blockage detection device calculates gas information (volume V, for example) of the device internal space on the basis of variation of internal pressure before and after the purge valve is opened. The blockage detection device detects a blockage in a vent line using the calculated gas information.
US10928263B2
A sensor device including: a sensor portion; a casing portion housing the sensor portion; an elastic portion that is provided in contact with the casing portion between the sensor portion and the casing portion and has a material having smaller elastic modulus than elastic modulus of the casing portion; and an adhesive that is provided between the sensor portion and the casing portion is provided. The adhesive may have an interface between the elastic portion and the adhesive. The elastic portion may have the same material as the adhesive. The elastic portion may have smaller elastic modulus than the adhesive.
US10928251B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for correcting inter-instrumentation variation among color measurement devices. In one particular implementation, a method for correcting inter-instrument variation among color measurement devices includes obtaining a set of color measurements of an item under analysis. The described approach also includes accessing a conversion model, wherein the conversion module has been generated using one or more ANN back propagated over a collection of data points, where the data points correspond to measurements of a color standard using devices from a control device batch and a test device batch. Using the conversion module, a processor is configured to transform the set of color measurements into a calibrated color measurement set. The calibrated color measurement set is then output to at least one display, memory or remote computing device.
US10928249B2
A spectroscopic measurement device emits light to a measurement target and measures the measurement light output from the measurement target in accordance with the light emission. A spectroscopic measurement device includes: a first housing having a light shielding property and configured to house a light source that emits light and having a first opening through which the light emitted from the light source passes; a second housing having a light shielding property and having a second opening through which the measurement light passes and configured to house a spectrometer that receives the measurement light that has passed through the second opening; and an attachment configured to detachably hold the first housing and the second housing.
US10928245B2
Systems, methods, and software to acquire light measurements in a targeted space using an autonomous vehicle, such as an aerial drone, are provided. Examples of targeted spaces include, but are not limited to, stadiums, arenas, racetracks, fields, parking lots, etc. Uses of such systems, software, and/or methods include, but are not limited to, verifying that required light intensity, distribution, camera image quality, and/or other performance metrics are met when commissioning, changing, checking, and approving lighting systems, among other things.
US10928241B2
Various embodiments may include a method for producing an ultrasound sensor to detect the filling level and/or the temperature of a fluid in an internal combustion engine comprising: arranging an electronics system of the ultrasound sensor in an injection molding die; and encapsulating the electronics system by injection molding with a thermoplastic material and thereby forming a housing for the electronics system; and removing the encapsulated electronics system from the injection molding die. The housing includes a functional section to fulfill a predetermined function.
US10928238B2
Acoustic volume indicators for determining liquid or gas volume within a container comprise a contactor to vibrate a container wall, a detector to receive vibration data from the container wall, a processor to convert vibration data to frequency information and compare the frequency information to characteristic container frequency vs. volume data to obtain the measured volume, and an indicator for displaying the measured volume. The processor may comprise a microprocessor disposed within a housing having lights that each represent a particular volume. The microprocessor is calibrated to provide an output signal to a light that indicates the container volume. The processor may comprise a computer and computer program that converts the data to frequency information, analyzes the frequency information to identify a peak frequency, compares the peak frequency to the characteristic frequency vs. volume data to determine the measured volume, and displays the measured volume on a video monitor.
US10928236B2
A peristaltic dosing device for providing dosages of a fluid at a volume of less than one milliliter comprises: a flexible tube, a counter pressure element, a plurality of actors and a drive. The flexible tube is essentially straightly arranged along the counter pressure element thereby forming a longitudinal axis. The actors arranged parallel to each other along the longitudinal axis. They are moveable by the drive in relation to the flexible tube. The flexible tube is compressible between the actors and the counter pressure element by moving the actors. Each of the actors is independently and linearly moveable by the drive along an actuation axis essentially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the flexible tube from a home position in which the flexible tube is least compressed to an end position in which the flexible tube is compressed and sealed between the respective actor and the counter pressure element. The peristaltic dosing device according to the invention allows for exactly and repeatably providing dosages at comparably small volumes in a sterile environment.
US10928234B2
A tool, container and method for extracting a liquid; the tool for extracting a liquid comprises: a pressure-changing means, a liquid-reservoir space, a liquid-drawing channel and an outflow channel; the pressure-changing means comprises a cylinder and a piston capable of moving back and forth in the cylinder; the back-and-forth movement of the piston causes positive and negative pressure changes in the cylinder; a start end of the liquid-reservoir space is in communication with the inside of the cylinder; a temporary liquid-storage groove or an opening is provided on a wall of the cylinder at a horizontal position below a port of the start end of the liquid-reservoir space; the volume of the maximum sealing portion of the cylinder is greater than the volume of the liquid-reservoir space; the liquid-drawing channel communicates with the liquid-reservoir space; the outflow channel communicates with a tail end of the liquid-reservoir space.
US10928232B2
The purpose is to improve the measurement accuracy of a thermal air flow meter. The device has: an auxiliary passage for entraining a portion of a fluid being measured; a sensor chip arranged in the auxiliary passage, for measuring the flow rate of the fluid being measured; an electronic component having an internal resistor, for converting the fluid flow rate detected by the sensor chip to an electrical signal; and a substrate on which the sensor chip and the electronic component are mounted. The substrate is covered by a filler material, on the surface of which the electronic component is mounted.
US10928228B2
A nipple-shield mounted sensor with associated electronic interface and interconnect for measurement and display of milk flow and volume during breastfeeding. The sensor is mounted in the tip of the nipple-shield in order to minimise intrusion between mother and child. The dimensions of the sensor and associated cabling are such that the device does not appear substantially different to a nipple-shield alone, thereby having minimal impact on the feeding session. Microlitre flow levels are measured directly by the sensor in order to relay accurate, real-time information on milk volume back to the feeding mother. The electronics unit amplifies the sensor input and digitally processes the data with software algorithms to determine the fluid volume.
US10928225B1
An assembly includes a housing defining a chamber. The assembly includes a sensor supported by the housing. The assembly includes a deflector forward of the sensor and having a front surface designed to direct air upward and a rear surface opposite the front surface. The housing has a vent in fluid communication with the chamber and aimed at the rear surface of the deflector.
US10928221B2
The present disclosure relates to a magnetic sensor arrangement comprising a first rotatable body having a first magnetic quadrupole attached thereto, a first magnetic sensor configured to generate, in response to a rotational angular position of the first magnetic quadrupole, a first sensor signal indicative of a first rotational angle of the first rotatable body, a second rotatable body having a second magnetic quadrupole attached thereto, and a second magnetic sensor configured to generate, in response to a rotational angular position of the second magnetic quadrupole, a second sensor signal indicative of a second rotational angle of the second rotatable body.
US10928216B2
As part of a technique for positioning viewports over interactive digital maps, a digital map of a geographic area is provided via a user interface of a computing device. The currently visible portion of the digital map is displayed in a viewport. A user gesture is detected, where the user gesture communicates a particular acceleration to the viewport, along a particular direction, to move the viewport from its current position to a target position over the digital map. A current user context for the digital map is determined. A new position of the viewport over the digital map is determined in accordance with (i) the user gesture and (ii) the current user context, such that the new position is different from the target position, and the viewport is moved from its current position to the new position.
US10928209B2
Techniques are described for using information regarding road traffic and other types of transportation-related information to determine and/or assess alternative inter-modal passenger travel options in a geographic area that supports multiple modes of transportation. For example, a particular user may have multiple alternatives for travel from a starting location to a destination location in the geographic area, including to use alternative modes of transportation (e.g., private vehicle, bus, train, walking, etc.) for some or all of the travel, and these alternatives may have different travel-related characteristics in different situations (e.g., depending on current road traffic; mass transit schedules and current actual deviations; travel-related fees for gas, parking, mass transit, etc; parking availability; etc.). Multiple alternative travel options are thus assessed for a given situation based on multiple types of information, enabling one or more preferred travel options for the given situation to be identified and used.
US10928206B2
A vehicle control system includes an own vehicle position calculation section that calculates an own vehicle position on a map by using a coordinate system projected by a map projection method based on conformal map projection, which has conformality and represents most regions in the world with a single system, and a vehicle control section that controls a vehicle by using the own vehicle position calculated by the own vehicle position calculation section by using the coordinate system projected by the map projection method based on conformal map projection, which has conformality and represents most regions in the world with a single system.
US10928203B2
A self-contained positioning assembly includes a wiring compartment that is configured to receive external power, a power supply disposed within the wiring compartment that is configured to convert the external power to low voltage power, a housing, a conduit that couples the wiring compartment with the housing, an electronic positioning beacon disposed within the housing, and wiring that transmits the low voltage power from the power supply, through the conduit, to the electronic positioning beacon within the housing. The electronic positioning beacon is configured to receive the low voltage power and transmit electronic positioning signals in response.
US10928202B2
A computer implemented method for three-dimensional volumetric indoor location geocoding relative to a geographic location is provided. The method includes: creating a three-dimensional representation of the geographic location; notionally subdividing the three-dimensional representation into an array of discrete elements; receiving an address and converting the address into geographic coordinates; querying the array of discrete elements representing the geographic location; determining a list of all discrete elements with at least one of a matching address and sub-address element attribute; generating a notional minimum bounding three-dimensional polygon containing the matched discrete elements with the at least one matched address and matched sub-address element attribute; determining a list of geodetic coordinates defining the minimum bounding three-dimensional polygon; and presenting the list of geodetic coordinates defining the minimum bounding three-dimensional polygon.
US10928198B2
A detection device detects a dynamic quantity exerted on a detection mechanical system including first and second mechanical oscillators. The detection device includes first to third transducers, a canceller, a low-pass filter, and an inverting amplification unit. The first transducer detects the first mechanical oscillator position in a first direction to output a first signal. The second transducer detects the second mechanical oscillator position in a second direction to output a second signal. The canceller inverts a direction in which a signal detected by the second transducer from the second mechanical oscillator varies according to the first signal. The third transducer detects the second mechanical oscillator position in the second direction to output a third signal. The inverting amplification unit gives a control signal generated by inverting the third signal to a second actuator moving the second mechanical oscillator.
US10928196B2
A vision laser receiver having a sensing surface with a fixed geometry such that laser light received by the sensing surface will illuminate a particular section of the sensing surface and the precise elevation and/or tilt of the laser receiver will be determined from the illumination of the sensing surface.
US10928194B2
Method for self-recognition, by a probe, of a communication protocol to be used to communicate with a base station (7), the probe (4) being configured to emulate a plurality of communication protocols featuring respective activation procedures. Each activation procedure allows the base station to activate the probe to perform a checking cycle. According to the method, in consequence of a command given by a user by means of hardware interfaces (5,15,16) of the probe, the probe is set in a search state (100-105) where all the activation procedures are attempted and it is identified which of the activation procedures is completed positively. Then, the probe is switched to an operative state (201-205) based on the communication protocol featuring the identified activation procedure. Preferably, the activation procedure is identified after a predetermined number (N) of positive conclusions have occurred.
US10928171B2
Embodiments of a projectile are provided herein. In some embodiments, a projectile includes a body made of a cast polymer composite material comprising a thermoset resin and a powdered steel. In some embodiments, a projectile includes: a body made of a cast polymer composite material comprising a thermoset resin and a powdered metal; a metal core embedded in the body having a front portion that tapers radially inward to define a front end of the projectile; and a casing assembly coupled to the body.
US10928168B2
A projectile including a body having a tip and a tail, the body also having an internal cavity. There is at least one plume aperture connected to the internal cavity, the plume aperture being positioned proximate to the tip of the body.
US10928162B2
A targeting system comprising a helmet, primary firearm, and secondary firearm. The helmet includes a helmet display. a primary firearm comprising: a receiver, a primary barrel, a primary camera, a swivel control, a first mounting point, a first display, and a second display. The secondary firearm includes a camera and a secondary barrel. The computing device comprises an user interface. The control circuit is coupled to the helmet, the firearm apparatus, and the user interface. The primary barrel is functionally coupled to the receiver. The helmet display is a heads-up display. The swivel control is functionally coupled to the secondary firearm. The secondary firearm is rotatably coupled to the first mounting point. The control circuit is configured to capture and convey images and video; receive a targeting instruction on the secondary firearm from the user interface; and instruct the swivel control to acquire a sight picture.
US10928151B2
A modular gun rest has a mounting bracket assembly and a rest assembly. The rest assembly is removably attached to the mounting bracket assembly, which is in turn attached to a tree or other surface. The rest assembly has a camouflaged outer core, which may be constructed from polyurethane foam using a silicon mold, and an inner supporting element. The mounting bracket assembly and/or the rest assembly may include an articulating joint, and may be interchangeable with multiple rest assemblies, and vice versa. When assembled, the gun rest provides a stable, non-marring, and naturally appearing surface upon which to rest a gun. A hunter may affix multiple mounting bracket assemblies in the field, and may then use a single rest assembly in conjunction with the multiple mounting bracket assemblies. Additionally, the hunter may even be provided with multiple rest assemblies, according to the species of trees that are present.
US10928142B2
A water-cooling head includes a casing, a base, an input channel, an output channel and a pump. An active space is defined by the base and the casing collaboratively. A working medium is filled in the active space. The heat absorbed by the base is transferred to the working medium. The input channel is in communication with the active space. The cooled working medium is introduced into the active space through the input channel. The output channel is in communication with the active space. The heated working medium is outputted from the active space through the output channel. The pump is installed on the casing, and includes an impeller. The impeller is disposed within the active space and located near the output channel. The impeller is driven to guide the working medium to be outputted from the active space through the output channel.
US10928141B2
A stacked-plate heat exchanger for cooling a plurality of heat-generating electronic components arranged in a plurality of layers comprises a stack of flat tubes defining a plurality of parallel fluid flow passages, the tubes being separated by spaces for receiving the electronic components. One or more flow-restricting ribs is arranged within at least some of the fluid flow passages to partially block fluid flow between at least one the manifolds and the heat transfer area by reducing the height of the fluid flow passage outside the heat transfer area, along at least a portion of the width of the fluid flow passage, in order to improve the flow distribution of a heat transfer fluid between and within the fluid flow passages of the heat exchanger, and to minimize bypass flow at the outer edges of the fluid flow passage.
US10928140B2
An improved baffle assembly for heat exchanger tubes comprising a shaft and at least one opposing pair of expanding baffles positioned coaxially on the shaft, each expanding baffle comprising a central hub portion and a plurality of extension portions each radiating outward from the hub portion at complementary oblique angles so that the central hub portions of each baffle are spaced apart along the shaft and the distal ends of the extension portions of each baffle are brought into physical contact.
US10928131B2
A dryer (100), comprising a dryer chamber (101) coupled to a closed loop gas-circulating system for circulating gas through the dryer chamber (101); wherein the closed loop gas-circulating system recirculates the gas and comprises: a compressor (113) coupled to receive return gas from the dryer chamber (101) and to compress the return gas to provide compressed gas; a separator (109) sitting in the gas-circulating system for draining condensate from the gas; and a gas discharger (103; 104) coupled to receive compressed gas from the compressor (113) and to discharge the compressed gas through a discharger exit (118). The separator sits in the closed loop gas-circulating system downstream of the compressor to receive compressed gas and upstream of the gas discharger (103;104). Thereby drying efficacy is improved and is advantageous at relatively low drying temperatures such as below 40 degrees Celsius. There is also provided a door for a dryer, a method of operating a dryer and a method of drying, such as a method of drying pharmaceutical substances, compounds, ingredients or products.
US10928127B2
The present invention relates to a method for liquefying hydrogen, the method comprises the steps of: cooling a feed gas stream comprising hydrogen with a pressure of at least 15 bar(a) to a temperature below the critical temperature of hydrogen in a first cooling step yielding a liquid product stream. According to the invention, the feed gas stream is cooled by a closed first cooling cycle with a high pressure first refrigerant stream comprising hydrogen, wherein the high pressure first refrigerant stream is separated into at least two partial streams, a first partial stream is expanded to low pressure, thereby producing cold to cool the precooled feed gas below the critical pressure of hydrogen, and compressed to a medium pressure, and wherein a second partial stream is expanded at least close to the medium pressure and guided into the medium pressure first partial stream.
US10928125B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a door, and a transparent display assembly covering an opening of the door through which an inside of the refrigerator is visible. The transparent display assembly includes a front panel, a rear panel defining, a display disposed between the front and second panels, a light guide plate spaced apart from the display, a spacer disposed between the front panel and the light guide plate and configured to maintain a predetermined distance between the light guide plate and the display, a display light configured to emit light to the light guide plate, and a light guide plate stopper disposed between an end of the light guide plate and the display light and configured to prevent the display light from contacting the end of the light guide plate by protruding toward the light guide plate further than the display light.
US10928121B1
A system for a smart refrigerator including a refrigerator assembly, ice assembly, produce assembly and beverage mixer assembly is disclosed. The refrigerator assembly includes a refrigerator having storage compartments for perishable goods. The refrigerator further includes an ice compartment for the ice assembly and a produce compartment for the produce assembly. The beverage mixer assembly is also stored within the refrigerator. Displays are provided on the refrigerator for communication and education of the users. The ice assembly includes an ice maker to provide ice to a mixer of the beverage mixer assembly. The produce assembly includes produce containers storing the needed produce for the desired drinks and provides the produce to the mixer. The ice cubes and produce are processed, and a beverage is provided to the user with the beverage mixer assembly. Dieting is facilitated for users as healthy food options become readily available with the smart refrigerator.
US10928120B2
A cooling appliance has a heat insulation shell. The shell includes an outer wall and an inner wall that are spaced apart from each other, and a heat insulation material located between the outer wall and the inner wall. The heat insulation material is formed by foaming a foaming material injected between the outer wall and the inner wall. The shell has a filling hole formed in the outer wall, and a baffle plate located between the outer wall and the inner wall and used for closing the filling hole. The baffle plate is connected to the outer wall. The filling hole includes a near end close to the connecting end and a far end away from the connecting end. The outer wall inclines towards the inner wall in a direction from the near end to the far end on an area on which the filling hole is disposed.
US10928117B2
A heat exchanger system includes a heat exchanger coil circulating a first heat transfer fluid therethrough, and a fan at least partially surrounded by the heat exchanger coil to urge a flow of air through the heat exchanger coil to dissipate thermal energy from the first heat transfer fluid. A brushless direct current fan motor is located the fan to urge rotation of the fan and an ancillary electrical component operably connected to the heat exchanger system and electrically isolated from the first heat transfer fluid.
US10928115B2
A thermally insulated structure for shipping goods, the structure including an insulated box having a goods receptacle and a phase change material module receptacle. The structure further including a phase change material module, and a set of vacuum panels configured to form an encapsulating layer around the insulated box.
US10928114B2
An ice maker provided in a refrigerator is provided. The ice maker includes: first and second ice making units configured to include ice making trays, heaters heating the ice making trays for deicing, and ejectors ejecting made ice from the ice making trays, respectively, wherein a plurality of first ice making grooves are formed in the ice making tray of the first ice making unit, and a plurality of second ice making grooves are formed in the ice making tray of the second ice making unit, the plurality of second ice making grooves having a shape different from that of the plurality of first ice making grooves.
US10928111B2
A device comprises: a container; a first fitting coupled to the container; and a second fitting coupled to the container, wherein the first fitting is configured for coupling to a first service port of a system and the second fitting is configured for coupling to a second service port of the system such that a fluid can travel from the first service port to the second service port through the container while the system is running, wherein the system comprises at least one of an air conditioning system or a refrigeration system.
US10928103B2
A fluid temperature control system according to an embodiment cools a fluid by means of a multiple refrigeration apparatus including a high-temperature-side refrigerator, a medium-temperature-side refrigerator and a low-temperature-side refrigerator. The medium-temperature-side refrigerator in the multiple refrigeration apparatus has a medium-temperature-side first evaporator and a medium-temperature-side second evaporator. A high-temperature-side evaporator of the high-temperature-side refrigerator and a medium-temperature-side condenser of the medium-temperature-side refrigerator constitute a first cascade condenser. The medium-temperature-side second evaporator of the medium-temperature-side refrigerator and a low-temperature-side condenser of the low-temperature-side refrigerator constitute a second cascade condenser. The fluid allowed to flow by a fluid flow apparatus is cooled by the medium-temperature-side first evaporator of the medium-temperature-side refrigerator, and is then cooled by the low-temperature-side evaporator of the low-temperature-side refrigerator.
US10928095B2
A standoff regulator that has a handle that is adjustably associated with a bracket, with the handle self-latching in relation to the bracket at a desired position and at a desired quantifiable torque.
US10928093B2
A heat exchange ventilator includes: a partition wall that has a bypass opening allowing an exhaust air duct upstream of a total heat exchanger to communicate with the exhaust air duct between the total heat exchanger and a humidifier, and separates the exhaust air duct upstream of the total heat exchanger and a supply air duct downstream of the total heat exchanger; a bypass damper that opens and closes the bypass opening; and a controller that performs control to open the bypass opening by the bypass damper at a first time, and close the bypass opening by the bypass damper at a second time.
US10928084B2
An HVAC system within a building including an HVAC device having a blower fan, a number of sensors, and a control device. The control device has a processor that is configured to receive a request to operate the blower fan. The control device is further configured to determine an air quality value based on measurements provided by the sensors, and a runtime of the blower fan within a previous time frame. The control device is also configured to operate the blower fan based on the determined air quality value and the determined runtime of the blower fan within the previous time frame.
US10928071B2
A gasket may include a tubular section which has a protection layer and a mesh layer. The protection layer may form a first tube, and the mesh layer may form a second tube, which may be enclosed in the first tube. The mesh layer may be formed by a metal wire in a spiral fashion extending along an axial direction of the second tube. The mesh layer may provide an elastic support to the protection layer when the protection layer tube is pressed by an external force.
US10928070B2
An electro-mechanical interface device for an appliance. The device including: a mounting element having a first side and a second side, the mounting element having a mounting aperture from the first side through to the second side; a first selection element in the form of a hollow sleeve that is partially located through the mounting aperture from the first side of mounting element; and a fastening ring engages the first selection element from the second side of mounting element, such that the first selection element is releasably retained from being withdrawn from the mounting aperture, wherein the first selection element is rotatable with respect to the mounting element. The device may further include a hub element is located within the circular-sleeve of the first selection element that restricts separation of the first selection element from the fastening ring.
US10928068B2
An annular Helmholtz damper for a gas turbine can combustor, the annular Helmholtz damper having an axis; an inner wall and an outer wall concentrically arranged with respect to the axis to define an annular damping volume arranged around a can combustor; a front and rear circumferential plates for closing the annular damping volume upstream and downstream; at least one intermediate circumferential plate arranged between the front and the rear plates for dividing the annular damping volume in a main and a secondary volume; and a plurality of intermediate drain holes passing the intermediate circumferential plate and configured for draining collected liquid from the main volume to the secondary volume.
US10928067B2
There is disclosed a double skin combustor for a gas turbine engine. The combustor has a radially inner liner and a radially outer liner defining therebetween an annular combustion chamber. The radially inner liner and the radially outer liners both have a hot skin and a cold skin defining a cooling cavity therebetween. The cold skin has a plurality of segments joined to one another by sliding joints. The cooling cavity between the hot skin and the cold skin may be compartmentalized into individual cavities between the sliding joints.
US10928039B2
A medical lighting device for illuminating an operating area has an overhead light providing axial illumination and is movably mounted over the operating area and movable manually towards or away from the operating area, and a system for assisting adjustment of a proper lighting position for the overhead light relative to the operating area in such a manner as to position the overhead light at a predetermined distance from the operating area. The system comprises a first light source for generating a first light beam and a second light source for generating a second light beam, the light sources arranged on the overhead light in angularly offset positions so that the first and second light beams converge at a point on the operating area when the predetermined distance is reached, and otherwise when not at that distance the two light beams form two light spots that are disjoint.
US10928021B2
An LED or/and Laser light device(s) connect with outlet or bulb-base or interchangeable or USB power source, which incorporates more than one geometric shapes of optics-piece including image-forming-piece and optics-lens(es) that said optics-lens(es) having at least one of reflective and/or refractive properties which has relative positions, distances, and/or orientations to LEDs and/or Laser light-source(s) and image-forming-piece to let light-beams reflect, retro-reflect, refract, or go through art, design, texture, treated area of said optics-lens and/or image-forming-piece, so the light-beam of the said LED or laser light-source at least reflected or/and refracted and/or traveling and/or passing through multiple times the said reflective and refractive optic lens(es) and/or art-areas, and/or image-forming-device to create or project lighted image(s), message(s), number(s), time, geometric art(s), nature scene(s), galaxy(ies), milky way, sky(ies), cloud(s), space nebula, stars, moon, water-wave(s), aurora light(s), animal(s), character(s), cartoon(s), sign(s), logo(s), wording(s) or commercial(s) to desired surfaces, including (1) indoor ceiling, walls, floors while the light-device have built-in prong, or (2) outdoor building, fence, walls, garden, patio area(s) and/or all other desired areas while light-device have AC-plug-wire to AC outlet to show the wider view angle lighted image and/or patterns. The said each of the said optics lens and image-forming-piece has its pre-determined geometric-shapes and/or texture, shaped opening, printing, art-design, wording, windows, cutout, variable thickness incorporate with motor/movement/spin/rotating/moving parts to make one or more inner and/or outer optics-lens and/or image-forming-piece and accessories to rotating to create said above wide viewing angle lighted image or lighted-patterns become motion/moving/variable/shaking, vibration, changing color or patterns with or without at least one of sensor, switch, RF or wireless control system.
US10928015B2
The present invention relates to a light-emitting diode package comprising: a base having a seating surface; a light-emitting diode arranged on the seating surface; a lens arranged on the seating surface such that the lens covers the light-emitting diode; and a reflective part arranged on the seating surface such that the reflective part is spaced apart from the lens, and formed with a preset inclination angle (θ), wherein the inclination angle (θ) can be set according to a separation distance between the lens and the reflective part. Therefore, the light-emitting diode package can minimize a change in a beam angle and a field angle by comprising the reflective part formed with an inclination angle set as a predetermined angle according to the separation distance between the lens and the reflective part.
US10928011B2
A solid-state lighting lamp (10) is disclosed. The solid-state lighting lamp (10) comprises a glass tube (14), an internal member at least partly arranged inside the glass tube (14), and optical means (50) arranged on the glass tube (14), completely covering an inner surface of the glass tube (14) and adapted to at least partly cloak the internal member.
US10928010B2
A sensor mounting assembly is configured for use with a vessel arrangement including at least four vessels. The assembly includes first and second elongated frame members, first and second rollers, and first and second sensors. The first sensor is attached to the first elongated frame member and is configured to contact the surface of the first vessel upon actuation in a first direction. The second sensor is attached to the second elongated frame member and is configured to contact the surface of the second vessel upon actuation in a second direction that is substantially orthogonal to the first direction. This disclosure also describes a method of mounting at least six sensors for use with a vessel arrangement including at least four vessels, the vessel arrangement disposed in a container in a two-by-two stacked configuration having a central space.
US10928009B2
This invention relates to a boss assembly that seals a pressure vessel and more particularly to sealing a pressure vessel having a composite outer shell for use with a source of compressed gas having a boss and boss cover in sealing engagement. The composite outer shell is wound about the boss and locked into at least one notch and/or a reverse draft cut. The boss cover is removably fastened to the boss utilizing at least one fastener. The principle use is for storage and usage of compressed gas in mobile applications that typically benefit from light weight pressure vessels however other applications will benefit from this invention. For example, applications that routinely fill and/or un-fill containers made of woven, composite, and etc. materials will benefit from this invention.
US10927996B2
A wall mount for an electronic device includes two screw or hook receiving keyhole apertures. The two keyhole apertures have different geometric shapes with respect to each other such that the locked mounting positions of the two corresponding mounting screws or hooks which would engage the same are neither laterally nor vertically aligned with each other.
US10927989B2
A connecting piece for connecting a hollow electric conductor and a coolant line includes a fluid-tight housing (1) having a hollow inner space; a hollow conductor opening (2) in the housing (1); a coolant line opening (3) in the housing (1); and an electrically insulating separating element (4). The inner space hydraulically connects the hollow conductor opening (2) and the coolant line opening (3). The housing (1) includes a coolant line-side housing part (5) and a hollow conductor-side housing part (6). The separating element (4) is arranged between the coolant line-side housing part (5) and the hollow conductor-side housing part (6), and has a coolant channel (7). The separating element (4) is formed as a ball.
US10927984B2
A fitting for a sealing, non-releasable pipe connection, including a main fitting body for accommodating at least one pipe which is to be connected, and at least one pressing sleeve. The main fitting body and the pressing sleeve have pressing surfaces, which are assigned to one another. The main fitting body has a pressing surface which, in the installed state, is directed towards the pipe which is to be connected, and is assigned to a peripheral region of the main fitting body. The pressing surfaces assigned to one another on the main fitting body and on the pressing sleeve are formed such that the action of pushing the pressing sleeve axially onto the main fitting body gives rise to the peripheral region of the main fitting body being narrowed radially.
US10927976B2
Embodiments of the disclosure generally provide methods related to articles that display reversible photoresponsive behavior.
US10927957B2
A seal assembly can accommodate deflection between two components through a cartridge that is slidingly engaged with a slide plate.
US10927953B2
A ringset is configured to be arranged on a piston for sealing a gas in a high-pressure region of a cylinder in the absence of oil or other liquid lubricant. The ringset includes one or more rings made from a high-strength material as a sealing element. The ringset also includes a solid lubricant applicator configured to provide lubrication between the one or more rings and a bore of the cylinder. For example, the ring can support pressure loads from high-pressure gas without breaking, while the applicator need not act as a seal. As the piston reciprocates in the bore, the applicator slides against the bore and applies solid lubricant material to the bore, resulting in a solid lubricant film on the bore against which the sealing element may slide. The applicator includes a material such as a graphite, a polymer, or other suitable solid lubricant.
US10927949B2
An operating device according to one embodiment includes a tiltable operating lever, a holding member that holds the operating lever, a locking member that restricts a tilt of the operating lever, a driving source, a hold driving mechanism driven by the driving source and configured to move the holding member between a hold position where the operating lever is held at a tilted position, and a return position where the operating lever returns to a predetermined position from the tilted position, and a lock driving mechanism driven by the driving source and configured to move the locking member between a lock position where the tilt of the operating lever is restricted, and a release position where restricting the tilt of the operating lever is released. The hold driving mechanism and the lock driving mechanism are respectively driven by the driving source at different timings.
US10927948B2
The invention relates to a device for detecting the position of a gearshift lever for selecting a gear/driving stage or a gear setting of a motor vehicle. The device has a signal transmitter installed on the gearshift lever and a signal receiver installed at a distance from the signal transmitter, wherein it is possible to detect the different positions of the signal transmitter relative to the signal receiver in different gears or gear settings. The invention further relates to a motor vehicle having such a device.
US10927941B2
A transmission shaft (1), designed particularly for a wind turbine, which is mounted by way of a fixed bearing (2, 3) and at least one floating bearing (4). At least one gearwheel (5) is fixed onto the transmission shaft (1) and positioned in the axial direction between the fixed bearing (2, 3) and the floating bearing (4). The fixed bearing (2, 3) is formed by at least one roller bearing and the floating bearing (4) is in the form of at least one slide bearing.
US10927936B2
A power conversion device in the form of a compressor drive constitutes a three channel power sharing transmission which allows power input and/or output from shafts on two of the channels along with hydraulic, electric or potentially pneumatic power input and/or output from the third channel. Varying the input and/or output of hydraulic, electric or pneumatic flow provides a continuously variable transmission function. Several embodiments of the power conversion device are described to drive a supercharger for an internal combustion engine providing a variable ratio coupling allowing effective use of a centrifugal type compressor across a broad range of operational engine speeds.
US10927932B2
The improved gearbox mechanism of the present invention includes a plurality of cam-actuated gear block assemblies, which transfer power from a power shaft to a secondary or output gear element. Each gear block assembly includes a gear block having a surface that periodically interfaces with a secondary or output gear element. In a preferred embodiment the interface surface comprises a plurality of projections or teeth which correspond to complementary projections or gear teeth on the output gear element. Each gear block assembly further includes a gear block, a rocker arm, cam followers and/or gear block tracking post, which connect or link the gear block to a cam assembly, which in turn is connected to a power source. The cam assembly includes about its circumference a unique pathway or groove for each cam followers and/or gear block tracking post of a particular gear block assembly so that the movement of the gear block may be controlled in two or three dimensions in accordance with a certain design parameter.
US10927927B2
An invention relating to a tensioning device for the belt or chain drive of a stirred ball mill and to a stirred ball mill. The tensioning device includes a tensioning lever which is arranged on a rotatable tensioning foot and which includes a tensioning wheel. A rotatable adjusting disk with a guide contour is arranged on the rotatable tensioning foot. The position of the adjusting disk can be fixed on the machine housing of the stirred ball mill by means of a securing means paired with the guide contour of the adjusting disk. The tensioning device further includes a longitudinally variable tensioning element for rotating the adjusting disk relative to the machine housing of the stirred ball mill.
US10927922B2
A hydraulic mount includes a first housing member, a second housing member connected to the first housing member, an inner tube disposed at least partially in the first housing member, an inner sleeve connected to the inner tube, an outer sleeve disposed at least partially around the inner sleeve, and a flexible member disposed at least partially in the first housing member and connected to the outer sleeve. The inner sleeve may include an outer surface and a fluid channel disposed in the outer surface. The flexible member may cooperate with at least one of the first housing member and the second housing member to provide a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber. The first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber may be in fluid communication via the fluid channel.
US10927909B2
A brake pad for a disk brake for a utility vehicle, includes a pad backplate, which has a pad side with a frictional mass and an application side opposite the pad side. The pad side is provided with a structural arrangement having a plurality of recesses with elevations arranged therein. The structural arrangement of the pad side comprises structural elements which differ in shape and size.
US10927906B2
A brake pad, a disc brake, and a method of fitting a brake pad. At least one of a first brake pad and a second brake pad and corresponding support structures may have complementary profiles on circumferential faces thereof arranged so as to permit the brake pad to be inserted into a corresponding support structure in a transverse direction of the brake pad and at an angle to a circumferential direction of the support structure.
US10927905B2
A centrifugal clutch that can suppress the inclination of a clutch weight, realize smooth oscillation, and suppress the uneven wear of a clutch shoe is provided. A drive plate (210) slidably supports a clutch weight (230) and also supports a projection body (218) via a projection body support pin (216). The clutch weight (230) includes a first spring attachment part (231) and a second spring attachment part (234) to which two clutch springs (235) are attached formed, and a driven part (238) that comes into contact with the projection body (218) formed. The projection body (218) and the driven part (238) are formed in a manner that a projection body range (TE) where the projection body (218) and the driven part (238) come into contact overlaps action positions (FP1) and (FP2) of forces (F1) and (F2) of the clutch spring (235) acting on the clutch weight (230) in the thickness direction of the clutch weight (230).
US10927904B2
A clutch assembly includes inner and outer races supported for rotation about an axis and a one-way clutch element radially disposed between the inner and outer races. A first bearing is radially disposed between the inner and outer races and is seated on the inner race. A second bearing is radially disposed between the inner and outer races and is seated on the inner race. The first and second bearings are on opposite sides of the clutch element.
US10927897B2
A bearing assembly comprises an inner ring comprising an inner ring raceway, an outer ring comprising an outer ring raceway, rolling elements configured to roll or rotate between the inner ring raceway and the outer ring raceway, at least one electrically conductive part with a first end and a second end, and a seal coupled to the at least one electrically conductive part. The seal is configured to directly contact only one of the inner ring or the outer ring. The first end is configured to electrically contact one of the inner ring and the outer ring and the second end is configured to electrically contact the other of the inner ring and the outer ring.
US10927894B2
A roller bearing having a first race, a second race, the races being coaxial and in relative rotation about a central axis, and a row of rollers. The first race including a circumferential groove disposed on a surface radially opposite the first bearing track, and at least one hole traversing the race substantially radially and opening out close to the first bearing track. The first race also provides a secondary groove extending in a substantially radial direction and connecting the circumferential groove to the hole. As such, it is possible for lubricant to be transferred from the circumferential groove to the hole via the secondary groove.
US10927869B2
Welding methods and welded joints for improving corrosion resistance of the joint between a plurality of high-strength aluminum alloy structural members are described herein. An example method can include applying a first weld at a junction between the plurality of high-strength aluminum alloy structural members using a first filler metal, and applying a second weld on at least a portion of a toe of the first weld using a second filler metal. The second weld can be applied using a fusion welding process (e.g., an arc welding process or a high energy beam welding process). Additionally, the secondary weld can alter a secondary phase of the first weld.
US10927867B2
The present invention relates to a work machine having at least one hydraulic actuator for actuating a piece of working equipment and having a first displacement unit that is driven by a drive assembly of the work machine and that feeds the hydraulic actuator with hydraulic medium from a hydraulic tank, wherein at least one second displacement unit is provided that is driven by the drive assembly and that feeds the hydraulic actuator and/or further hydraulic consumers with hydraulic medium from a hydraulic tank in the working mode and that is drivable during a recovery mode by the hydraulic volume displaced by the at least one hydraulic actuator or by a hydraulic consumer to feed kinetic energy back to the drive assembly.
US10927866B2
Hydraulic systems and associated methods configured to reduce leakage past a spool valve when the system is in a neutral state. Leakage reduction is achieved by shifting the spool valve within the spool bore. The shifting direction can depend on whether the system has a relatively high load or a relatively low load in the neutral state. The amount of shifting can depend on the pressure differential between the supply line and the work port, and/or the pressure differential between the work port and the tank line.
US10927857B2
A fluid pressure cylinder driving device includes a switch valve, a high pressure air supply source, an exhaust port and a check valve. When the switch valve is at a first position, a head side cylinder chamber communicates with the high pressure air supply source, and a rod side cylinder chamber communicates with the exhaust port. When the switch valve is at a second position, the head side cylinder chamber communicates with the rod side cylinder chamber via the check valve, and the head side cylinder chamber communicates with the exhaust port.
US10927848B2
A fan module is provided. The fan module includes a housing and an impeller. The housing includes a cover plate. The impeller is disposed in the housing and configured to rotate around an axis. The cover plate has an outer outline away from the axis. A tangent line of an endpoint on the outer outline intersects with the axis to form an angle, and the angle is not a right angle.
US10927846B2
A radial fan has a housing with a motor-drivable fan wheel. The fan wheel generates an air volume flow during operation. The housing has a blow-out portion (4) with an impeller (5). The impeller (5) has a plurality of impeller blades (7) spaced apart in the circumferential direction. The impeller (5) is driven by the air volume flow generated by the fan wheel.
US10927836B2
Method for cooling a liquid-injected compressor element, where a liquid is injected in the compression chamber of the compressor element (2) via an injection valve (13). The method includes the step of adjusting the quantity of liquid which is injected in the compression chamber of this compressor element (2) as a function of a specific adjusting parameter, irrespective of any other possible adjustments. The quantity of liquid to be injected is adjusted by using a second injection valve (19), which has the shape of an adjustable valve to this end.
US10927831B2
A monitoring system may include a position sensor, strain gauges, and a computing device for monitoring valves in a wellbore pressure pump having multiple chambers to determine cavitation in the fluid end of the wellbore pressure pump using strain measurements for each chamber. The strain gauges may determine strain in each chamber of the pressure pump. The position sensor may determine the position of a crankshaft mechanically coupled to a plunger in each chamber. The computing device may receive signals generated by the strain gauges and the position sensor related to the strain in each chamber and the position of the crankshaft, respectively, and may process the signals to determine delays in the actuation of the valves for identifying cavitation and distinguishing cavitation conditions from alternative conditions in the fluid end.
US10927819B2
A method of monitoring a blade pitch bearing of a rotor blade of a wind turbine is provided, the method including: pitching the rotor blade; measuring an amount of a vibration of the blade pitch bearing during the pitching; estimating a condition of the blade pitch bearing based on the measured amount of vibration. Also disclosed is an arrangement for monitoring a blade pitch bearing, a rotor blade bearing and a wind turbine.
US10927815B2
A wind energy to compressed fluid conversion system has a compressor to compress fluid when the wind energy exceeds a capacity limit of the generator. Instead of trimming blades to create mechanical spillage, excess energy is converted and stored, and can furnish power when the generator experiences a capacity vacancy.
US10927812B2
A method for operating a wind turbine includes operating, via a controller, the wind turbine according to a speed set point during normal operation of the wind turbine. The method also includes receiving, via the controller, a command to shut down the wind turbine or to curtail operation of the wind turbine. In response to receiving the command, the method includes initiating, via the controller, a shutdown procedure or a curtailment procedure of the wind turbine. During the shutdown procedure or the curtailment procedure of the wind turbine, the method includes dynamically adjusting a rate of change of the speed set point as a function of a speed tracking error, which corresponds to a difference between an actual rotor speed of the wind turbine and the speed set point.
US10927811B2
A start control method for wind turbines (102), comprising: a master control determines whether its real-time wind speed reaches a preset start wind speed when a wind speed of at least one wind turbine (102) or anemometer tower in a wind farm reaches or exceeds the preset start wind speed; the master controller updates a corresponding number simulative start times when determining that its real-time wind speed reaches or exceeds the preset start wind speed, and starts the wind turbine (102) when the number of simulative start times reaches a preset count value. The present invention also relates to a master controller, a system, and a central controller for wind turbines (102).
US10927809B2
A method of attaching a tip extension to a wind turbine blade is described. The method comprises: fitting the tip extension over a tip end of the blade such that an overlap region is defined between an outer surface of the blade and an inner surface of the tip extension; and supplying adhesive to the overlap region via one or more holes provided in the tip extension to bond the tip extension to the blade. In preferred embodiments, adhesive dams are provided in the overlap region to define bond cavities and constrain the adhesive within the bond cavities. An assembly comprising a wind turbine blade and a tip extension bonded thereto is also described.
US10927801B2
A valve device for a fuel filter module has a first fluid channel through which fuel flows only in recirculation mode of the fuel filter module and a second fluid channel through which fuel flows only outside of the recirculation mode. The first fluid channel extends inside the second fluid channel. The first and second fluid channels are coaxial to each other. A fuel filter module switchable into recirculation mode and out of recirculation mode is provided with a control valve that has a valve bore and a valve device arranged in the valve bore, wherein the valve device has a first fluid channel through which fuel flows only in recirculation mode and a second fluid channel through which fuel flows only outside of the recirculation mode. The first fluid channel extends inside the second fluid channel, and the first and second fluid channels are coaxial to each other.
US10927796B2
An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) control method applied with a humidity sensor for preventing condensation to prevent corrosion caused by exhaust gas in a vehicle, may include a first step of measuring a temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure of intake air which is introduced from the outside of the vehicle and flows into the EGR; a second step of determining a molar fraction of water vapor included in the intake air by a combustion equation of the water vapor and determining water vapor pressure in the EGR; and a third step of opening an EGR valve so that EGR gas flows when the water vapor pressure in the EGR is lower than saturated water vapor pressure in the EGR.
US10927793B2
Described is a propulsion system (1) for hypersonic aircraft, having an air inlet (10) of a fluid (110), a containment duct (20) and an exhaust nozzle (30). The propulsion system (1) comprises a bypass duct (40) for a flow (100) of fluid (110), an air-breathing engine (22) and a rocket (23) configured for processing respective flows (22a, 23a) of fluid (110). The bypass duct (40), the air-breathing engine (22) and the rocket (23) are operatively associated with each other in such a way as to generate a thermodynamic-fluid interaction in a same portion of space (33) between the respective flows (40a, 22a, 23a) processed in an operating configuration of the propulsion system (1) and wherein the portion of space (33) is inside the containment duct (20).
US10927786B1
A ring carrier for a piston for an internal combustion engine is formed by a carrier body having an outer circumferential surface, an inner circumferential surface, a top surface and a bottom surface, with at least one ring groove formed in the outer circumferential surface. An outer circumferential portion of the ring carrier is formed of gray iron, and an inner circumferential portion is formed of ductile iron. A transition region between the outer circumferential portion and the inner circumferential portion intersects upper and lower flanks of the ring groove, so that an outer circumferential extent of the flanks is formed of gray iron and an inner circumferential extent of the flanks is formed of ductile iron.
US10927777B2
Various methods and systems are provided for correcting relative error between a gaseous fuel torque estimate and a liquid fuel torque estimate in a multi-fuel engine. A system (e.g., a system for an engine) may include a controller with computer readable instructions stored on non-transitory memory that when executed during operation of the engine cause the controller to: operate the engine at a first substitution ratio of gaseous fuel and liquid fuel; correct for relative error between a gaseous fuel to torque conversion factor and a liquid fuel to torque conversion factor; and upon correcting for the relative error, operate the engine at a second substitution ratio, higher than the first substitution ratio.
US10927770B2
Methods and systems are provided for operating a branched exhaust assembly in a vehicle engine in order to increase catalyst efficiency and reduce engine emissions. In one example, a method may include, during a cold-start condition, flowing exhaust first through a three-way catalyst then through an underbody converter, then through a heat exchanger and then through a turbine, each exhaust component housed on different branches on the branched exhaust assembly. After catalyst activation, exhaust may flow first through the turbine, then through the underbody converter and then through the three-way catalyst, and during high engine load, exhaust entering the turbine may be cooled in order to reduce thermal load on the turbine.
US10927765B2
A seal segment (11) includes a seal body having a plurality of laminated thin plate seal pieces (20), and a high-pressure side plate (23). The high-pressure side plate (23) includes an outer diameter side edge portion (23b) which is an outer edge portion in the radial direction (Dr) and extends in a circular are shape in the circumferential direction (Dc), an inner diameter side edge portion (23c) which is an inner edge portion in a radial direction (Dr) and extends in a circular arc shape in the circumferential direction (Dc), and a front edge portion (23d) which is an edge portion on a front side in the rotational direction (Bc). The high-pressure side plate (23) further includes a reinforcing portion (40) only in a region of the high-pressure side plate (23) on the front side in the rotational direction (Bc).
US10927753B2
A mounting system for mounting a supplemental alternator, as well as methods of assembling the same, is provided. The mounting system includes a top mounting bracket that is configured to align with a top flange aperture of the additional alternator. The mounting system also includes a bottom mounting bracket having a bracket aperture that aligns with an aperture of an existing alternator mount and also having a flange aperture that aligns with the foot flange aperture of the additional alternator. The mounting system further includes a shaft that couples to the additional alternator.
US10927748B2
A flow passage device includes a circulation flow passage, a swing valve provided in the circulation flow passage, an energizing part, and a lock mechanism including a lock pin. The lock pin is configured so as to hinder the swing valve from opening, and to allow the swing valve to open. The swing valve is configured so as to rotate from a first valve position to a second valve position. The lock mechanism is configured so as to set a locked state and to set an unlocked state. The lock pin is configured so as to protrude as being energized by pressure of the fluid on an upstream side of the swing valve, and to retract as being energized by pressure of the fluid on a downstream side of the swing valve.
US10927741B2
A method includes determining whether a urea refill event is detected, and clearing a quality accumulator value and clearing a latching abort command. The method includes determining whether urea fluid quality check abort conditions are met, and clearing the urea quality accumulator, latching the abort command, and exiting the reductant fluid quality check. In response to the abort conditions not being met, incrementing the urea quality accumulator according to an amount of urea being injected, and comparing the accumulated urea quantity to a low test threshold. The method includes, in response to the accumulated urea quantity being greater than the low test threshold, comparing the accumulated urea quantity to a high test threshold, and in response to the urea quantity being greater than the high test threshold, determining whether the a NOx exceedance is observed and clearing a urea quality error in response to the NOx exceedance not being observed.
US10927738B2
A method for regulating filling an exhaust gas component (EGC) storage of a catalytic converter (CC) in the exhaust gas (EG) of an internal combustion engine. An actual fill level (AFL) of the EGC storage is ascertained using a first system model (FSM), to which signals of a first EG sensor projecting into the EG flow upstream from the CC and detecting a concentration of the EGC and a second EG sensor, downstream from the CC and exposed to the EG, are fed. A base lambda setpoint value for a first control loop (CL) is predefined by a second CL, which is adjusted to the AFL using the AFL ascertained using the FSM when the voltage of the second EG sensor indicates a breakthrough of rich/lean EG downstream from the CC and an excessively low/high AFL of the EGC storage. Also described is a control unit to perform the method.
US10927734B2
A turboprop engine assembly for an aircraft, including an internal combustion engine having a liquid coolant system, an air duct in fluid communication with an environment of the aircraft, a heat exchanger received within the air duct having coolant passages in fluid communication with the liquid coolant system and air passages air passages in fluid communication with the air duct, and an exhaust duct in fluid communication with an exhaust of the internal combustion engine. The exhaust duct has an outlet positioned within the air duct downstream of the heat exchanger and upstream of an outlet of the air duct, the outlet of the exhaust duct spaced inwardly from a peripheral wall of the air duct. In use, a flow of cooling air surrounds a flow of exhaust gases. A method of discharging air and exhaust gases in an turboprop engine assembly having an internal combustion engine is also discussed.
US10927723B2
An engine valve lifter assembly comprises a lifter body, a plunger assembly, and a spring. The lifter body comprises an oil control portion comprising an exterior surface, oil ports, and an interior oil chamber. A plunger interface end comprises an interior plunger chamber and a second spring seat. Selectively reciprocating plunger assembly comprises a piston end coupled to reciprocate in the oil chamber and a cam input end comprising a spring seat. A spring is biased between the spring seat and the second spring seat. The spring is configured to push the cam input end away from the plunger chamber. A sleeve is coupled around the oil control portion of the lifter body, and the sleeve is slidable between a lower position and an upper position to selectively block and unblock the oil ports.
US10927717B2
A valve train lever for actuating a valve of a reciprocating piston engine, in particular an internal combustion engine. The valve train lever comprises a lever arm, which is pivotally movable about a pin; a tapping element, which lies against or can be made to lie against a cam of a camshaft of the reciprocating piston engine; a coupling mechanism, by way of which the tapping element is coupled to the lever arm spring-elastically in a first state and rigidly in a second state; and an actuating element, which is connected to the lever arm and lies against or can be made to lie against a valve tappet of the valve.
US10927716B2
A dual body rocker arm for a valve train assembly of an internal combustion engine includes: an outer body having a protrusion; an inner body connected to the outer body and arranged for pivotal movement relative to the outer body about an axis between a first position and a second position; and a torsional biasing element supported by the protrusion and arranged to bias the inner body relative to the outer body towards one of the first position and the second position. The protrusion is formed integrally with the outer body.
US10927712B2
The invention relates to a waste heat recovery system (3) for an internal combustion engine (1), having a working fluid circuit (19) with a condenser (31) that is also connected to a working fluid cooling circuit (34), and wherein the working fluid cooling circuit (34) has a cooler (35). The invention provides a waste heat recovery system (3) having a working fluid cooling circuit (34) which is improved in comparison to one design of a working fluid cooling circuit (34). This is achieved by the working fluid cooling circuit (34) having a cooler bypass (46). This configuration makes it generally possible for part of the coolant volume flow to be routed past the cooler (35). This is advantageous in particular at low temperatures since otherwise very low pressures arise in the working fluid cooling circuit (34).
US10927709B2
A gas turbine includes a shaft, a turbine coupled with the shaft for rotation with the shaft, and a bearing coupled with the shaft to facilitate rotation of the shaft. A bearing nut is adjacent the bearing on the shaft. The turbine has a first load path and the bearing has a second load path. The bearing nut exerts a force on the bearing such that the first load path is not aligned with the second load path relative to a central axis of the gas turbine engine. A method of assembling a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US10927700B2
A variable geometry assembly for modulating a fluid flow in a turbomachine is disclosed. The assembly comprises a first ring having a plurality of first wedge-shaped elements and having an axis, and a second ring having a plurality of second wedge-shaped elements and having an axis. The second ring is substantially coaxial to the first ring. The second wedge-shaped elements co-act with the first wedge-shaped elements. Flow passages are defined between pairs of sequentially arranged first wedge-shaped elements and second wedge-shaped elements. The first ring and the second ring are angularly displaceable one with respect to the other. Moreover, the first ring and the second ring are configured to move axially with respect to one another when the first ring and the second ring are angularly displaced one with respect to the other.
US10927674B2
Methods and systems for the extraction of a formation fluid sample using a fluid extraction tool including an elongated body and a sealing pad extending therefrom, the sealing pad having an opening for establishing fluidic communication between an earth formation and the elongated body. The sealing pad communicable with from a container holding a selective permeability agent (SPA) capable of modifying the permeability of one or more fluids within the formation. The container coupled with a device for injecting the SPA into the earth formation and extracting a formation fluid sample therefrom.
US10927664B2
A method for use in or for detecting a downhole feature in a well comprises transmitting an electromagnetic signal from a first position located substantially at or adjacent to surface through a first space to the downhole feature. The method further comprises receiving an electromagnetic signal at a second position located substantially at or adjacent to surface after reflection of the transmitted electromagnetic signal from the downhole feature and after propagation of the reflected electromagnetic signal through a second space. The method may comprise sealing the well before transmitting the electromagnetic signal. Such a method may be used to detector determine a distance from surface to a downhole feature such as a fluid interface in a completed production, injection or observation well.
US10927660B2
An electro acoustic technology (EAT) based micro seismic sensor and tiltmeter system and method is described for the measurement of minute deformations in downhole formations caused by hydraulic fracturing or other sources of pore pressure changes. A number of sensor arrays are described that are installed in clamp-on EAT devices installed in tool wells located in close proximity to hydraulically fractured wells.
US10927656B2
The invention is related to a system which has been developed to obtain gas from the gas hydrate formations that are found under the frozen layers of earth in the cold regions or sea floor/slopes and comprises a drilling machine (3) that performs drilling by means of a drilling bit (33) after being lowered into the drilled well, drilling machine lowering and controlling equipment (1) which allow said drilling machine (3) to be lowered into the well and supply power and control to the system (A), and a stripped production tubing (4) with plugs (41) in which the water level and water level dependent pressure and gas pressure are controlled, which allows for the dissociation of the formation into gas and water and forming a cavern (6), and in which the gas separated from the gas hydrate formation reaches the surface; and to the method presented by using said system (A).
US10927652B2
A bypass plunger includes a plunger body that includes a head portion located at one end of the plunger body and a tail portion located at an opposite end of the plunger body. The head portion includes at least one flow port, and the tail portion includes at least one passageway. A valve component is disposed within an internal bore of the plunger body and is moveable between an open position and a closed position. At least one plug is located within a respective one of the flow ports and/or a respective one of the passageways, and is configured to reduce or prevent flow through the respective flow port or the respective passageway.
US10927651B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods for producing hydrocarbon material from a subterranean formation using a displacement process are disclosed. In one aspect, there is provided a method of controlling hydrocarbon production of hydrocarbon material disposed within a subterranean formation by a displacement process via a plurality of flow communication stations of an injection well. Characteristics of a supplied production-initiating fluid are determined uphole of the flow communication stations for a plurality of states of the injection well, wherein in each of the states of the injection well a different subset of the flow communication stations are disposed in an opened condition and a different subset of the flow communication stations are disposed in a closed condition. Characteristics may be determined at the surface, for example, at the wellhead. A state of the injection well that optimizes one or more operating parameters is determined. A condition of the flow communication stations is in accordance with the determined state of the injection well.
US10927648B2
A perforating tool and method of use in a wellbore. The perforating tool is placed at the end of a coiled tubing or other conveyance string. The perforating tool comprises a tubular housing providing an elongated bore through which fluid flows. The tubular housing has jetting ports used for hydraulic perforating. The tool operates in a flow-through mode when working fluid is pumped into the tubular housing at a first flow rate, with all of the fluid flowing through the end of the tool. The perforating tool operates in a perforating mode when the working fluid is pumped into the bore of the tubular housing at a second flow rate. In this mode, all of the working fluid flows through the jetting ports. The perforating tool may include a sequencing mechanism responsive to a sequence of flow rates to cycle the tool through operating modes.
US10927643B2
A pressure regulator is configured to manage a pressure downstream of a pump discharge during operation. A hydraulic piston is exposed to pressure upstream of the pressure regulator during operation. The hydraulic piston extends into a first fluid reservoir. The first fluid reservoir is defined by an inner surface of an outer housing of a subsurface safety valve. A subsurface safety valve is fluidically couple to the hydraulic piston.
US10927642B2
A method for completion of an oil or gas well with production tubing (14), and a well tool device (1) comprising an first pipe part (20) and a second pipe part (22) each having a first end (20a, 22a), and a second end (20b, 22b) with a through channel (30), said well tool device (1) having a groove (24) provided in an interface in the through channel (30) between the first pipe part (20) and the second pipe part (22), wherein said groove (24) is accommodating a breakable obturator seat (10) made of brittle and tempered glass.
US10927640B2
A drilling system can include a downhole assembly with a liner hanger, a liner running tool, a lower wellbore liner, a cementing module, and a drilling tool. The drilling system can provide a single-trip procedure that enables a well operator to drill the wellbore while simultaneously running in a wellbore liner and subsequently cement the annulus around the lower wellbore liner. Once the cement is deposited, a liner hanger can be actuated and a liner running tool released to enable the remaining portions of the downhole assembly to be pulled out of hole while leaving the lower wellbore liner cemented in place.
US10927635B2
An isolation plug including a support element having a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion extending therebetween. At least one flexible wiper element is arranged at the first end. A frangible locator element is arranged at the first end spaced from the at least one flexible wiper element. A selectively deployable plug element is arranged at the second end.
US10927627B2
A single use setting tool for actuating a tool in a wellbore includes an inner piston extending through a central bore of an outer sleeve. The inner piston has a seal adapter portion and a piston cavity housing an initiator holder for receiving a push-in detonator. A gas diverter channel is open to and extends from the piston cavity through an annular wall of the piston, to transfer gas pressure to a gas expansion chamber for stroking the outer sleeve. A method of actuating a wellbore tool with a single use setting tool includes inserting an initiator into the initiator holder, attaching a tandem seal adapter to the seal adapter portion of the inner piston, and relaying an electrical signal to a line-in portion of the initiator, to initiate the initiator. The single use setting tool may be used in a wellbore tool string.
US10927607B2
The present invention discloses a drilling speed increasing device driven by a downhole motor for generating shock vibration. The device uses the rotational energy of a screw motor as power to drive a lower vibration starter to rotate. Vibration starting steel balls have the function of reducing friction in the interior. During axial reciprocating motion of the upper vibration starter, a spring matched with the upper vibration starter is periodically compressed to generate spring energy. The spring energy reacts on the lower vibration starter and a main shaft connected with a drill bit, so as to periodically provide drilling pressure for the drill bit. Periodic motion of the upper vibration starter and the spring produces periodic axial vibration on the tool.
US10927606B2
Disclosed is a sediment core-drilling process for a submarine wire-line coring drill rig, including 1) lowering the drill rig; 2) drilling in a pressure-suction mode; 3) drilling in a rotation-pressure-suction mode; 4) cutting sediment cores; 5) recovering a core inner tube; 6) cleaning bottom of hole; 7) punching before adding a drill pipe; 8) lowering another core inner tube; 9) adding the drill pipe; 10) punching after adding the drill pipe; 11) repeating the steps 2)-10) until a given hole depth is reached; 12) recovering the drill pipe and a wire-line coring outer tube drilling tool; 13) recovering the submarine wire-line coring drill rig. The core-drilling process provided herein is suited to working conditions without mud lubrication and mud protection for hole wall. This invention has advantages of low disturbance and high efficiency in coring and is suitable for remote operation.
US10927602B2
A reversible pipe ramming tool used in horizontal pipe replacement operations. The tool is powered by a pneumatic hose attached to a rear end of the tool. The tool has forward and rearward fluid paths, which can either communicate with one another or stand in isolation. Fluid flow along the forward fluid path, when it is maintained in isolation from the reverse fluid path, causes the tool to move in a forward direction. Fluid flow along the forward fluid path, when it is maintained in communication with the reverse fluid path, causes the tool to move in a rearward direction. The tool is switched between forward and reverse by flowing fluid through a pilot fluid path in fluid communication with a valve. Movement of a shuttle within the valve selectively isolates the forward fluid path from the reverse fluid path.
US10927596B2
A spring drive system for a window shade includes a housing, a plurality of rotary members, a spring and a latch. The rotary members are rotationally linked to one another and pivotally connected with the housing, wherein the rotary members include a rotary drum that is connected with a suspension member and is rotatable relative to the housing for winding or unwinding the suspension member. The spring is assembled with the housing, and can bias the rotary drum in rotation for winding the suspension member. The latch is assembled with the housing, the latch being movable to engage with and disengage from one of the rotary members to respectively prevent and allow rotation of the rotary drum.
US10927592B2
Certain example embodiments relate to electric, potentially-driven shades usable with insulating glass (IG) units, IG units including such shades, and/or associated methods. In such a unit, a dynamic shade is located between the substrates defining the IG unit, and is movable between retracted and extended positions. The dynamic shade includes on-glass layers including a transparent conductor and an insulator or dielectric film, as well as a shutter. The shutter includes a resilient polymer, a conductor, and optional ink. When the conductor is reflective, overcoat layers may be provided to help reduce internal reflection. The polymer may be capable of surviving high-temperature environments and may be colored in some instances. The polymer may be surface modified, e.g., to promote diffuse reflection, total internal reflection, etc.
US10927588B2
A window regulator includes a guide rail provided along an ascending/descending direction of a window of a vehicle, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and moves together with the window, cables that pulls the carrier plate, a drum that is rotationally driven by a motor, and a housing that includes a drum housing accommodating the drum and a motor housing fixed to the drum housing and accommodating a portion of the motor. The drum housing includes a fitting portion including a fitting hole to insert a lower end of the guide rail and a fastening hole used to fasten the motor housing. The fastening hole of the drum housing is provided at a position overlapping the guide rail in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
US10927587B2
A refrigerator comprises: a cabinet including a storage compartment, a door opening or closing the storage compartment, a door opening device including a push rod moving from an initial position to a door opening position for opening the door and a motor providing power to the push rod, and a controller controlling the motor. The controller allows the motor to rotate at a first opening speed for opening the door of the refrigerator. The controller changes a rotation speed of the motor to a second opening speed lower than the first opening speed before the push rod contacts the door of the refrigerator or the cabinet.
US10927586B2
A bi-fold door is opened with a lift assembly having a plurality of straps attached to power driven lift drums. A latch assembly retains the closed bi-fold door secure to side columns of a building. The latch assembly has a latch strap attached to a latch drum that accommodates the latch strap to hold the closed bi-fold door in contact with the side columns of the building. A floor anchor assembly anchors the bottom of the closed bi-fold door to the floor below the closed bi-fold door to stabilize and inhibit bending and deformation of the bi-fold door frame.
US10927583B2
Controlling movable barrier movement with respect to selectively overriding a safety system includes determining whether a safety system is in an operation failure or misalignment state, the safety system being configured to detect obstruction in a path of movement of a movable barrier, receiving a state change request for the movable barrier while the safety system is in the operation failure or misalignment state, determining whether a safety override condition exists, and overriding the safety system and actuating the movable barrier if the safety system is in the operation failure or misalignment state and the safety override condition exists.
US10927580B2
A door closer, including: an anchor assembly, including: a frame mounting plate which is fixable relative to a door frame; and an adjustor plate; and an actuator assembly for mounting within the thickness of a door leaf to move the door leaf between open and closed configurations relative to the door frame, the actuator assembly including an operating member coupled by a link to the adjustor plate and mounted for a range of movements between a fully retracted position, in which the anchor assembly is held adjacent the actuator assembly when the door leaf is in the closed configuration, and an extended position, in which the anchor assembly is in spaced relation to the actuator assembly when the door leaf is in the open configuration, the link being configured to extend from the adjustor plate along a first axis, wherein the frame mounting plate is provided with one or more slot(s), the or each slot being elongated along a second axis, the second axis being generally orthogonal to the first axis.
US10927577B2
A device for moving a furniture part held on a furniture body of an item of furniture having a guide with at least one pivot arm for pivoting the furniture part from a closed position into an open position relative to the furniture body and back with a base unit with an anchor plate. The device includes a positioning mechanism with a positioning portion formed in an intermediate region between the at least one pivot arm and the base unit. During a pivoting movement of the pivot arm, the positioning portion contacts an abutment surface on the pivot arm and/or on the base unit. Fine positioning of the pivot arm in an axial direction relative to its pivot axis is configurable by contact of the positioning portion with the abutment surface if the pivot arm has an axial offset with respect to a setpoint bearing position of the pivot arm.
US10927576B2
A method of assembling a vehicle door hinge that includes providing a first bracket comprising a single pivot arm extending transversely from a base of the first bracket, wherein a first pivot axis hole is disposed in the single pivot arm of the first bracket; providing a second bracket comprising a single pivot arm extending transversely from a base of the second bracket, wherein a cylindrical bearing of a pivot bushing is disposed in a second pivot axis hole disposed in the single pivot arm of the second bracket; and coupling a pivot pin to the pivot bushing and the first and second brackets to rotatably couple the first and second brackets together by press fitting a knurled cylindrical surface of the pivot pin with a receiving surface of the single pivot arm of the first bracket that defines the first pivot axis hole, wherein a shoulder of the pivot pin that is adjacent to the knurled cylindrical surface is disposed within a bore of the pivot pin and the second pivot axis hole.
US10927573B2
A door lock operator (1) for a motor vehicle door (100) includes a first switch (10) and a first pivot arm (30) mounted so as to be pivotable about a first rotation axis (21.1) of a first articulation (21) along a first degree of freedom (31), wherein the first pivot arm (30) has a further degree of freedom (32) which is substantially perpendicular to the first rotation axis (21.1), and the first switch (10) is operable by way of movement of the first pivot arm (30) along a first direction of the further degree of freedom (32), wherein the first switch (10) is provided to be connected by way of a signal line (110) to an electric door lock (120) such that the electric door lock (120) is operable by the first switch (10).
US10927572B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle door lock (1) which comprises a locking mechanism having: a rotary latch and at least one pawl; a release lever (12); a locking device (21), the release lever (12) cooperating with the locking device (21) via a coupling lever (13); and an actuating lever (8), the locking mechanism being at least indirectly unlockable by means of the actuating lever (8). An additional motor vehicle door lock (2) is provided, and said vehicle door lock (2) can be actuated via a second coupling lever (14) and by means of the actuating lever (8), the first and the second coupling lever (13, 14) having a common pivot axis (15).
US10927571B2
Closing device (1) with a pusher (17), a closing and opening mechanism (7) comprising at least one locking element (9), wherein the at least one locking element (9) movable by means of a latch spring (19) from an open position into a closed is characterized in that the locking spring (19) to assist the closing movement of the at least one locking element (9) in the open position has a first bias voltage by turning the pusher (17) can be generated.
US10927565B2
Bridge adapters configured for insertion into a door stile cavity within a door stile are presented, the bridge adapter including: a planar body including, a first plate disposed along a proximal end of the planar body, where the first plate includes a first plate front edge disposed along the proximal end and a first plate back edge located along opposite ends of the first plate, where the first plate front edge includes a locking tab sized to couple with a locking indent, a second plate including a second plate front edge and a second plate back edge located along opposite ends of the second plate, where the second plate front edge is mechanically coupled along the first plate back edge by a leading hinge.
US10927553B2
A floor may include a substrate having a top side and a bottom side. A top layer may be provided on the substrate. The top layer may consist of a printed thermoplastic film and a thermoplastic transparent or translucent layer provided on the printed thermoplastic film. The top layer may be directly adhered to the substrate by heat welding the printed thermoplastic film and the top side of the substrate, in the absence of a glue layer. The substrate may be a synthetic material board including a filler. The substrate at least at two opposite edges may include coupling means provided in the synthetic material board. The thermoplastic transparent or translucent layer may be provided with a structure.
US10927551B2
Magnetic attachment assembly for attaching trim board to walls ceilings and other surface structures
A magnetic attachment assembly for attaching a first object to a second object includes a first and second ferromagnetic devices possessing an attractive magnetic property pulling each toward one another. The first ferromagnetic device is attached to the first object and an adhesive layer on the second ferromagnetic device is for attaching the second ferromagnetic device to the second object. A removable separator is initially positioned intermediate the first ferromagnetic device and the second ferromagnetic device and is frictionally held in place prior to attachment of the second ferromagnetic device to the second object. During installation, the user pushes the attachment assembly onto the second object, pulls the first ferromagnetic device away from the second ferromagnetic device, removes the separator, and then pushes the first ferromagnetic device back to the second ferromagnetic device thereby attaching the first object to the second object.
US10927550B1
A sloped roof vent has a coated steel plate with a raised center and a gasket receiver is formed around a central hole. A structural body is crimped with a gasket in the receiver. The body has an outer wall extending downward over the receiver. A sloping wall extends inward and a vertical wall supports a second sloping wall with an inner rim. A damper staked to an axle covers the rim. Inserts keep the damper from chattering and fully closing. Wind walls prevent outer drafts from lifting the damper. Two fasteners attach caps to the outer wall. Lanced and pressed ledges on a push-in hose connector permanently engage windows on the inner rim of the structural body. A snap-in screen and a hose connector reducer complete a package.
US10927547B2
Wall blocks, veneers, veneer connectors, walls, and methods of constructing walls are provided. More particularly, the invention relates to constructing walls in which a veneer panel is attached to a wall block with a connector and in which the front faces of the veneers have a desirable texture.
US10927538B2
A system designed to control and filter runoff water in storm drains is presented. Drain water frequently carries trash, organic matter, suspended solids, hydrocarbons, metals, nutrients and bacteria collected from streets and parking lots into a storm drain inlet, which enters storm water drain pipe systems. The present invention supplies a series of baffle boxes inserted in the drain water stream with a final box possessing an upflow filter comprising filtration media and filter cartridges. The system can also support a storm flow bypass that directs high-flow storm runoff water directly to the outlet to protect the filter system.
US10927518B2
A system for remotely controlling third rail ribbon heaters is provided for preventing the accumulation of ice and snow on the rails. The system includes a plurality of switching assemblies that control a flow of electric current from the third rail of a railway to ribbon heaters mounted on the third rail. A remotely located digital controller provides switching commands to the switching assemblies via a radio link. The switching assemblies include current and voltage sensors that continuously provide current and voltage information that allows the digital controller to accurately predict when a heater failure condition is likely to occur so that ribbon heaters may be preemptively and safely replaced before failure. Each of the switching assemblies is contained in a junction box that includes both a door panel and a safety switch that disconnects the switching assembly from third rail current when the door panel is opened for improved safety.
US10927514B1
A concrete jointer tool has a handle pivotally mounted to a float. The float includes a planar portion having a blade removably attached to a bottom thereof. The handle is capable of receiving an elongated pole for operation of the tool from distance. The tool is capable of producing control joints in poured concrete.
US10927513B2
A system and method are provided for the tracking of material milled via a milling machine, to improve recycling possibilities for the milling material. The milling material removed during milling is deposited onto a vehicle for transport to a deposition site. A first detection device associated with the milling machine detects data signals relating to the milling material, and the milling material is tracked via a documentation device comprising a user interface, based at least on the data signals. The documentation device may selectively display which milling material has been unloaded at a particular deposition site. A marking device may be provided to mark the milling material or the transport vehicle, and/or a second detection device may be provided to detect position data corresponding to the deposition site, wherein the marking and/or position data are interlinked with the data signals relating to the milling material in the documentation device.
US10927491B2
A motor has a two rotors which are independently operated using a single inverter and without being supplied with a complex current. Further the motor is capable of shifting a rotation direction of each of two rotors by performing a magnetizing operation one time and reversing polarities of the shifting magnets when a mode of the motor is shifted from a synchronous mode in which the first rotor and the second rotor rotate in the same direction to a counter mode in which the first rotor and the second rotor rotate in opposite directions, and shifting the mode of the motor to the counter mode while the magnetizing operation is performed one time times and relative positions of the first rotor and the second rotor are changed when the first rotor and the second rotor inertially rotate in the synchronous mode.
US10927487B2
A laundry washing machine equipped with a treating agents dispenser comprising compartments adapted to be filled with at least one treating agent and a control panel comprising at least one first input device operable by the user to select a washing program and at least one second input device operable by the user to select an option for the selected washing program which implies the use of an additional treating agent which has to be inserted in a dedicated compartment. The control panel further comprises first output devices informing the user of the selectable washing program and at least one second output device informing the user of the selectable option for the washing program. At least one of said first output devices and said at least one second output device comprise a common visual identifier.
US10927481B2
A traversing unit for traversing a yarn with respect to a pair of delivery rollers of a workstation of a textile machine includes a yarn-guiding unit, a single traversing drive configured with the yarn-guiding unit, and a conversion element configured with the single traversing drive such a rotational movement (ω) of the single traversing drive is converted into a linear, reciprocating movement of the yarn-guiding unit. The single traversing drive is a rotating motor. A sensor is disposed to detect at least a middle position of the yarn-guiding unit.
US10927474B2
A steel sheet for cans which exhibits excellent weldability; and a production method therefore include the surface of a steel sheet in order from the steel sheet side, a chromium metal layer and a hydrous chromium oxide layer. The deposited amount of the chromium metal layer is 50-200 mg/m2. The deposited amount of the hydrous chromium oxide layer in terms of chromium is 3-30 mg/m2. The chromium metal layer includes: a base part having a thickness of 7.0 nm or higher; and granular protrusions which are on the base part, have a maximum grain size of 200 nm or lower, and have a number density per unit area of at least 30 per μm2.
US10927473B2
Oxide coatings that reduce or eliminate the appearance of thin film interference coloring are described. In some embodiments, the oxide coatings are configured to reduce the appearance of fingerprints. In some cases, the oxide coatings are sufficiently thick to increase the optical path difference of incident light, thereby reducing any inference coloring by the fingerprint to a non-visible level. In some embodiments, the oxide coatings have a non-uniform thickness that changes the way light reflects off of interfaces of the oxide coating, thereby reducing or eliminating any thin film interference coloring caused by the oxide coatings themselves or by a fingerprint.
US10927472B2
A method of forming a micro-structure involves forming a multi-layered structure including i) an oxidizable material layer on a substrate and ii) another oxidizable material layer on the oxidizable material layer. The oxidizable material layer is formed of an oxidizable material having an expansion coefficient, during oxidation, that is more than 1. The method further involves forming a template, including a plurality of pores, from the other oxidizable material layer, and growing a nano-pillar inside each pore. The nano-pillar has a predefined length that terminates at an end. A portion of the template is selectively removed to form a substantially even plane that is oriented in a position opposed to the substrate. A material is deposited on at least a portion of the plane to form a film layer thereon, and the remaining portion of the template is selectively removed to expose the nano-pillars.
US10927470B2
An apparatus for fabricating an electrode structure includes a high voltage unit, a plating material part facing the high voltage unit, and a transfer roll to which a negative voltage is applied. The high voltage unit includes a high voltage roll, and an insulating sheath configured to cover a surface of the high voltage roll. The high voltage roll is applied with a voltage of about 1 kV to about 100 kV, the plating material part is applied with a positive voltage, and the high voltage unit and the transfer roll rotate.
US10927469B2
A production method of aluminum including: a step of synthesizing an aluminum compound from a mixture including a halogenated aluminum hydrate and a perfluoroalkylsulfonimide-type or perfluoroalkylsulfonamide-type ionic liquid represented by general formula (1); a step of dissolving the aluminum compound in a nitrile-based organic solvent to prepare an aluminum electrolyte; a step of adding at least one ligand selected from a phosphorus compound and an organic compound having an amide group to the aluminum electrolyte and dehydrating water molecules from a hydrate included in the aluminum electrolyte; and a step of electrodepositing aluminum on a cathode by allowing electricity to pass between an anode and the cathode in the aluminum electrolyte after the dehydrating step.
US10927466B2
An aspect of the present disclosure is a photoelectrochemical device that includes a first cell that includes a first semiconductor alloy, a capping layer that includes a second semiconductor alloy, and a passivating layer that includes a third semiconductor alloy, where the passivating layer is positioned between the first cell and the capping layer, and at least a portion of the capping layer is configured to be in direct contact with an electrolyte.
US10927462B2
The present invention provides a gas control system which introduces carrier gas into a tank containing a material and leads out material gas generated by vaporization of the material from the tank together with the carrier gas, the gas control system being provided with: a flow rate control unit that is configure to control the flow rate of the material gas led out from the tank by adjusting the flow rate of the carrier gas introduced into the tank; and a control limit detection unit that is configured to detect a control limit state and output detection of the control limit state, the control limit state is a state that the adjustment of the flow rate of the carrier gas performed by the flow rate control unit cannot secure the flow rate control of the material gas at a predetermined performance level.
US10927459B2
An atomic layer deposition (ALD) method can include pulsing a first reactant vapor into a reactor assembly. The first reactant vapor is supplied to a first reactant gas line. An inactive gas is supplied to a first inactive gas line at a first flow rate. The first reactant vapor and the inactive gas are fed to the reactor assembly by way of a first feed line. The reactor assembly is purged by supplying the inactive gas to the first inactive gas line at a second flow rate higher than the first flow rate. A first portion of the inactive gas can be fed back along a diffusion barrier portion of the first reactant gas line to provide an inert gas valve (IGV) upstream of the first inactive gas line. A second portion of the inactive gas can be fed to the reactor assembly by way of the first feed line.
US10927452B2
Components suitable for chemically aggressive environments are disclosed, as well as methods for producing the components. One component may include a substrate having at least one surface having a layer system, which may include an amorphous carbon layer. The layer system may include at least one metallic intermediate layer which is arranged between the substrate and the amorphous carbon layer. The metallic intermediate layer may include titanium, a titanium alloy, nickel, or a nickel alloy. A two-layer bonding layer may be arranged between the at least one intermediate layer and the substrate and a first bonding layer composed of NiP. A second bonding layer composed of a nickel-chromium alloy or a nickel-vanadium alloy may also be present. The amorphous carbon layer may form an outer layer of the layer system facing away from the substrate and may comprise at least one amorphous hydrogen-containing carbon layer.
US10927451B2
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate. The method, for example, includes directing a stream of material from a PVD source at a first non-perpendicular angle to selectively deposit the material on a top portion of one or more features on the substrate and form a first overhang and a second overhang extending beyond a third sidewall and a fourth sidewall that are arranged parallel and opposite to each other and at non-zero angles to a first sidewall and a second sidewall, the first sidewall and the second sidewall defining a length of the one or more features, and the third sidewall and fourth sidewall defining a width of the one or more features; performing an etch process to selectively remove some of the first sidewall and the second sidewall while keeping the third sidewall and fourth sidewall in intact and maintaining the width of the one or more features.
US10927450B2
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for processing a substrate includes: directing a stream of material from a PVD source toward a surface of a substrate at a first non-perpendicular angle to the plane of the surface to deposit the material on one or more features on the substrate and form a first overhang; etching the layer of the substrate beneath the features selective to the deposited material to form a first part of a pattern; removing the material from the features; directing the stream of material from the PVD source toward the surface of the substrate at a second non-perpendicular angle to the plane of the surface to deposit the material on the features on the substrate and form a second overhang; and etching the layer of the substrate beneath the features selective to the deposited material to form a second part of the pattern.
US10927446B2
This method for producing a transparent optical film includes a film formation step of forming a silver layer and a high standard electrode potential metal layer so as to be laminated on a substrate, the film formation step including a silver deposition step of forming the silver layer, at a thickness of 6 nm or less by vacuum deposition, and a high standard electrode potential metal deposition step of forming the high standard electrode potential metal layer formed of a high standard electrode potential metal having a higher standard electrode potential than that of silver by vacuum deposition, and an alloying step of forming a silver alloy layer by diffusing the high standard electrode potential metal within the silver layer by performing a heating treatment at a temperature of 50° C. or higher and 400° C. or lower.
US10927442B2
A nanocrystal production method includes a light irradiation step of applying light to a surface of a metal material immersed in water to form nanocrystals on the surface. In this nanocrystal production method, the metal material contains iron, the nanocrystal contains at least one of iron oxide and iron hydroxide, and in the spectrum of the light, a wavelength at which the intensity is maximum is not less than 360 nm and less than 620 nm.
US10927441B2
Provided are a high-strength galvanized hot-rolled steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. A steel sheet has a chemical composition, and a galvanized layer is disposed on the steel sheet. The chemical composition includes, in mass %, C: 0.02% or greater and 0.30% or less, Si: 0.01% or greater and 2.5% or less, Mn: 0.3% or greater and 3.0% or less, P: 0.08% or less, S: 0.02% or less, and Al: 0.001% or greater and 0.20% or less. The galvanized layer has a coating weight per side of 20 to 120 g/m2. A surface of the steel sheet has a specific surface area ratio, r, of 2.5 or less, and an amount of Si present in the galvanized layer and an amount of Mn present in the galvanized layer respectively satisfy: amount of Si×r≤0.06, and amount of Mn×r≤0.10.
US10927427B2
A vacuum heat treatment apparatus capable of charging or withdrawing an object into or from either a heating chamber or a cooling chamber by a transport means. The vacuum heat treatment apparatus includes: A vacuum heat treatment apparatus, including: a plurality of heating chambers charged with an object and subjected to a heat treatment process; a rail disposed between the plurality of heating chambers; a bogie moving while being disposed on the rail; a cooling chamber disposed on the bogie and cooling the object; and a transport means disposed on the bogie and provided to charge or withdraw the object into or from any one of the plurality of heating chambers and the cooling chamber.
US10927425B2
A cored wire for refining molten metal includes a reactive core material that is in the form of a solid rod. A non-reactive particulate material radially surrounds the solid core material, and an exterior metal jacket radially surrounds the particulate material. The particulate material may include wood or other material that when introduced into the molten metal, undergoes thermal decomposition to release carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, or combinations thereof as a shroud around the core material.
US10927413B2
The invention generally relates to methods and compositions for the prediction of therapeutic efficacy of cancer treatments and the prognosis of cancer. The invention discloses markers that are associated with favorable and unfavorable outcomes, respectively, in certain cancer treatments and are useful as prognostic markers for cancer. Methods involving these markers are disclosed for predicting cancer therapy benefit and prognosing clinical outcome for cancer patients.
US10927406B2
A process for identifying one or more target analytes present in a sample includes contacting a microarray with the sample. The microarray has at least two microbead subpopulations with randomly distributed spatial positions, each of the subpopulations comprising microbeads having a known active agent capable of binding with a respective target analyte. After contacting the microarray with the sample, the spatial positions of the microbeads which have undergone a change that is indicative of a respective one of the active agents being bound to a corresponding one of the target analytes are determined. At least one of the microbead subpopulations which has undergone the change is identified by comparing the determined spatial positions to recorded spatial positions of the microbeads of the microbead subpopulations stored in an encoding/decoding data table. The target analytes are identified based on the known active agents belonging to the at least one identified microbead subpopulation.
US10927404B1
This disclosure pertains to a testing method for a target pathogen. The method uses biosensors with particular fluorescence characteristics, such that when the biosensor binds to a target pathogen, a fluorophore may emit light if excited. The biosensor may be an aptamer-based biosensor with a fluorophore reporter and a quencher. The excitation of the fluorophore and the detection of fluorescence may be made through the use of a flashlight source and a camera from a mobile device, such as a smartphone.
US10927399B2
The present invention relates to a method of identifying a heterologous polypeptide having enzymatic activity for converting pyruvate, acetaldehyde or acetate into acetyl-CoA in (the cytosol of) a yeast cell comprising: a) providing a mutated yeast cell comprising a deletion of at least one gene of the (PDH) by-pass, selected from the genes encoding the enzymes pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC), acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALD), and acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACS); b) transforming said mutated yeast cell with an expression vector comprising a heterologous nucleotide sequence encoding a candidate polypeptide having potential enzymatic activity for converting pyruvate, acetaldehyde or acetate into acetyl-CoA; c) testing said recombinant mutated yeast cell for its ability to grow on minimal medium containing glucose as sole carbon source, and d) identifying said candidate polypeptide as a heterologous polypeptide having enzymatic activity for converting pyruvate, acetaldehyde or acetate into acetyl-CoA in (the cytosol of) said yeast cell when growth of said cell is observed. The invention further relates to a method of producing a fermentation production such as butanol.
US10927397B2
Generation of foam when spraying biofilm-detection compositions onto a surface may entrain air and create bubbles, which lead to false positives. Aqueous biofilm-detecting compositions containing low-foaming surfactants, radical scavenger, solvent, thickener, hydrogen peroxide, chelating and coupling agent may be sprayed onto a surface to test for the presence of biofilm without generating excess bubbles or foam.
US10927396B2
Disclosed are materials, devices, methods and systems for the detection of target molecules in test samples using microrobots. The target molecules may be bacterial toxins. The microrobots may include biohybrid materials such as porous spore core, a middle layer coated on the spore core for the actuation and steering in a fluid and further conjugation with a functional probe, and a sensing probe anchored onto middle layer for attaching to the targeted molecules in a fluid to respond to fluorescent tracking. A system for detecting bacterial toxin, is disclosed and comprises an intelligent motion control system based on automated fluorescent recognition and detection methods, which can propel and guide the microrobots to realize the automated motion in a pre-designed path and perform the real-time monitoring when integrating with an inverted fluorescent microscope or a fluorescent emission multi-reader.
US10927392B2
Enzymatic reactions are disclosed herein comprising water, glucose-1-phosphate, cellodextrin, and at least one cellodextrin phosphorylase enzyme comprising an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:6. These reactions produce a low molecular weight, insoluble cellulose with enhanced features.
US10927386B2
The invention provides for spinach plants with broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew disease and their progeny. Such plants may comprise unique combinations of alleles resulting in the broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew. In certain aspects, compositions, including distinct polymorphic molecular markers, and methods for producing, using, identifying, selecting, and the like of plants or germplasm with resistance to downy mildew are provided.
US10927369B2
Methods and compositions relate to the sorting and cloning of high fidelity nucleic acids using high throughput sequencing. Specifically, nucleic acid molecules having the desired predetermined sequence can be sorted from a pool comprising a plurality of nucleic acids having correct and incorrect sequences.
US10927363B2
Alginate lyase activity is exhibited by the amino acid sequences (polypeptides) shown in SEQ ID No:1 and SEQ ID No:2. These polypeptides and their homology equivalents are used to produce 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid (DEH) by contacting the polypeptide(s) with an alginate containing a uronic acid moiety and holding the mixture of the alginate and the polypeptide(s) at a temperature at which alginate lyase activity is exhibited.
US10927358B2
The invention is directed to novel variant endoglucanases.
US10927346B2
Provided are methods and compositions for obtaining functionally enhanced derivative effector cells obtained from directed differentiation of genomically engineered iPSCs. The derivative cells provided herein have stable and functional genome editing that delivers improved or enhanced therapeutic effects. Also provided are therapeutic compositions and the used thereof comprising the functionally enhanced derivative effector cells alone, or with antibodies or checkpoint inhibitors in combination therapies.
US10927344B2
The present invention relates to cell culture in bioreactors, such as flexible cellbag bioreactors. More specifically the present invention relates to methods for simplifying the production of clinically relevant cell products for use in cell therapy.
US10927340B2
A selection of strains of lactic bacteria and bifidobacteria of human intestinal origin capable of metabolizing oxalates is described. Moreover, a food composition or supplement product or pharmaceutical composition containing said bacterial strains is also described.
US10927335B2
A microfluidic device includes a base comprising a chamber configured to receive a microfluidic component. A sealing member includes a body, an inlet reservoir, and an outlet reservoir, where the inlet reservoir and the outlet reservoir communicate with the chamber through fluid passages when the sealing member and base are removably coupled. A microfluidic component removably within the chamber includes microfluidic channels on a surface thereof and a tissue culture chamber coupled to at least one of the microfluidic channels. The microfluidic channels and the tissue culture chamber are in fluid communication with the inlet and outlet reservoirs through the fluid passages to form a fluid circuit for directing fluid from the inlet reservoir, through the tissue culture chamber, to the outlet reservoir, and from the outlet reservoir back to the inlet reservoir upon tilting the microfluidic device to a forward tilted position and to a reverse tilted position, respectively.
US10927333B2
Systems and methods for cell electroporation and molecular delivery using an intelligent, feedback controlled, microscale electroporation system for transfecting single cells.
US10927317B2
A system for producing biomass pellets comprising a pan mill for comminuting a biomass material, a treatment means in which the comminuted biomass material is treated with an oxidizing reactant and a pellet press for pressing pellets from the treated biomass material. The invention further relates to an associated process. The intention is to initiate during pellet production oxidation reactions which can otherwise result in autoignition of the pellets in pellet heaps.
US10927316B2
A char discharge unit is for discharging char discharged from a filtration unit into a char storage unit in which a pressure is at least temporarily higher pressure than that in the filtration unit. The char discharge unit includes a char discharge line connected to a lower side of the filtration unit in a vertical direction and connected to the char storage unit; a lock hopper installed at an intermediary point of the char discharge line to temporarily store the char; an admission valve installed in the char discharge line between the lock hopper and the filtration unit; a control valve installed in the char discharge line between the lock hopper and the char storage unit; and a control device configured to close the control valve when the admission valve is open, and to close the admission valve when the control valve is open.
US10927308B2
A process train for a floating production storage and offloading installation includes a crude oil storage tank equipped with at least one set of electrostatic internals. The set of electrostatic internals are arranged to provide a treatment flow path within the crude oil storage tank oblique to a longitudinal centerline of the crude oil storage tank and through an electric field provided by the set of electrostatic internals. Employing these electrostatic internals within the tank permits an allowable inlet water content into the tank of up to 80%, significantly reducing the required topside processing equipment. The process and system also includes, upstream of the tank, two separator vessels arranged in parallel so each receives a portion of an incoming oil-and-water stream, a flash vessel arranged downstream of the two separator vessels, and a degasser vessel. Downstream of the crude oil storage tank is an electrostatic treater.
US10927305B2
A system includes a heat exchange system and a power generation system. The heat exchange system includes first, second, and third heat exchangers each operable as a continuous source of heat from a delayed coking plant. The first and second heat exchangers heat first and second fluid streams to produce heated first and second fluid streams, respectively. The heated second fluid stream has a lower temperature and a greater quantity of heat than the heated first fluid stream. The third heat exchanger heats a third fluid stream to produce a heated third fluid stream that includes the heated first fluid stream and a hot fluid stream. The heated third fluid stream has a lower temperature than the heated first fluid stream. The power generation system generates power using heat from the heated second and third fluid streams.
US10927304B2
A thermal process for carbonizing hemp and reducing particle size, mechanically, by grinding or milling said carbonized hemp materials to generate a precise particle size hemp char and combining the hemp char particles with a polymer into a master batch.
US10927301B2
The invention relates to a fire protection composition comprising: a binder based on an aqueous, or solvent-based polymer dispersion; fire protection additives comprising a physically acting expanding agent, a compound containing phosphorus, selected from among salts or esters of phosphorus oxyacids, and glass fiber; and an acid-resistant, inorganic filler. The invention also relates to the use of said composition as a sealing mass, in particular as a fire protection sealing mass.
US10927287B2
Methods, compositions, and systems for cementing are included. The method comprises providing an extended-life calcium aluminophosphate cement composition comprising calcium aluminate cement, a polyphosphate, water, and a cement set retarder. The method further comprises mixing the extended-life calcium aluminophosphate cement composition with a cement set activator to activate the extended-life calcium aluminophosphate cement composition, introducing the activated extended-life calcium aluminophosphate cement composition into a subterranean formation, and allowing the activated extended-life calcium aluminophosphate cement composition to set in the subterranean formation.
US10927285B2
Alkyl ester spotting fluid compositions and processes for freeing differentially stuck pipe are provided. An alkyl ester spotting fluid composition includes an invert emulsion having an alkyl ester as the external phase and water as the internal phase. In some embodiments, the alkyl ester spotting fluid composition may include the alkyl ester invert emulsion and an emulsifier. The alkyl ester spotting fluid composition may be introduced downhole in the vicinity of a portion of a differentially stuck pipe such that the spotting fluid composition contacts the mudcake and frees the differentially stuck pipe.
