US10956773B2
A system and method for analyzing behavior in a video is described. The method includes extracting a plurality of salient fragments of a video; building a database of the plurality of salient fragments; associating a time anchor with a media event; retrieving one or more salient fragments of the video from the database of the plurality of salient fragments based on the time anchor; generating a focalized visualization based on the one or more salient fragments of the video; tagging a human subject in the focalized visualization with a unique identifier; analyzing the focalized visualization based on the time anchor and the unique identifier to generate a behavior score; and providing the behavior score via the user device.
US10956769B2
Disclosed herein are computer-implemented methods, computer-implemented systems, and non-transitory, computer-readable media for evaluating performance of an object detection model. One computer-implemented method includes generating a predicted bounding box representing an object based on the object detection model, where the object is positioned proximate to one or more adjacent objects. An area of intersection is determined between the predicted bounding box and a groundtruth bounding box of the object. A modified area of union is determined between the predicted bounding box and the groundtruth bounding box of the object. A score equal to the area of intersection between the predicted bounding box and the groundtruth bounding box of the object divided by the modified area of union is determined, where the score represents the performance of the object detection model.
US10956764B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a display panel; a biometric sensor module disposed on the back surface of the display panel; a processor electrically connected to the display panel and the biometric sensor module, and configured to acquire biometric information by using the biometric sensor module; a first adhesive member filling the gap formed between the back surface of the display panel and the biometric sensor module; and a second adhesive member applied on the first adhesive member, wherein the biometric sensor module can be attached to the back surface of the display panel by using the second adhesive member. In addition, other embodiments are possible.
US10956763B2
An information terminal device including: a display section; an operation section receiving enlargement operation of enlarging one of a plurality of divided regions displayed on a display screen of the display section; a remaining region specification section specifying a remaining region on the display screen excluding the one divided region enlarged through the enlargement operation; an arrangement region determination section determining an arrangement region for arranging all the divided regions other than the one enlarged divided region in the remaining region; a reduced arrangement section arranging each of the other divided regions on a reduced scale in the arrangement region; and a display control section displaying, on an enlarged scale, an image of the one enlarged divided region and displaying, on an enlarged scale within the other divided regions arranged on a reduced scale by the reduced arrangement section, an image of a specific portion of the other divided regions.
US10956761B2
A control apparatus controls an agent apparatus functioning as a user interface of a request processing apparatus that acquires a request indicated by at least one of a voice and a gesture of a user and performs a process corresponding to the request. The control apparatus includes a transmission event detecting section that detects an occurrence of an event necessitating transmission of a message to a communication terminal of the user, and a transmission determining section that makes a determination to transmit a voice message to the communication terminal of the user, via a communication network, if an occurrence of the event is detected.
US10956757B2
An image processing device includes: a road surface detecting section to detect a road surface region from an input image based on a shot image obtained by shooting with a camera; a time-series verifying section to perform time-series verification to verify a result of detection of the road surface region in the input image in a time-series manner; a detection region selecting section to set a detection region for detection of an object in the input image according to the result of detection of the road surface region by the road surface detecting section and a result of the time-series verification by the time-series verifying section; and a detecting section to detect the object in the detection region.
US10956733B2
An information processing system includes circuitry that inputs an image, and determines whether the image deviates from at least one desired image capture condition. The circuitry identifies a deviation amount of the image relative to the at least one desired image capture condition, and generates a deformed image in which a deviation from the at least one desired image capture condition is increased by a predetermined amount over the deviation amount identified.
US10956730B2
Disclosed herein is a method and device for identifying bold text in a digital document. The system receives image of digital document which comprises text. The system applies bounding box for each text in the image and scans predefined number of lines in each bounding box to identify width values of pixels. Thereafter, system identifies most occurring width value of pixels among the width values of pixels in each bounding box. The most occurring width value of pixels in each bounding box is identified as box width of corresponding bounding box. The system compares box width of each bounding box with threshold box width. If box width is greater than threshold box width, system identifies text of the bounding box whose box width exceeds threshold box width as bold text. The present disclosure efficiently identifies bold text in digital document based on width values of pixels with less computational power.
US10956728B1
An image of a check is captured by an imaging device and a digital image of the check on a replacement background may be created. The check may be placed on any background while the image of the check is being captured. The replacement background replaces, in the digital image, the background that the check is placed on while its image is being captured. The replacement background may comprise a predetermined image or color(s). The image of the check and the replacement background may be provided into a digital image file that may be transmitted to an institution system for deposit of the check into an account.
US10956724B1
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for improving hand input detection in a virtual environment based on small and/or rapid hand inputs. For instance, a hybrid hand input detection system can utilize a hybrid hand input model that incorporates a machine-learning hand pose model with an optical flow network to recognize fine degrees of hand movement corresponding to input commands within a virtual environment. In this manner, the hybrid hand input detection system can utilize a hybrid hand input model to recognize small and rapid hand inputs in virtual reality or augmented reality without requiring a physical input device.
US10956720B2
In devices that determine levels of substance use, a substance level in a test sample provided to the testing device by a test subject is determined. A sequence of images are captured to include a portion of the face of the test subject providing the test sample and a display of the testing device. A value indicative of the substance level detected within the test sample is determined. A validity indicator indicating validity of the value indicative of the substance level is determined. A current location is determined. The value indicative of the substance level, the validity indicator, and the current location are sent to a remote server.
US10956705B2
A fingerprint recognition system may comprise: a display panel configured to display an image on a screen; a light source device configured to irradiate light onto a transparent substrate disposed on the screen of the display panel; an image sensor configured to obtain a fingerprint image with light reflected from a fingerprint contacting the transparent substrate on the screen; and an image sensor controller configured to control an exposure time of the image sensor to obtain the fingerprint image based on a contrast ratio of the fingerprint image.
US10956703B2
An example system drives one or more transmit signals on first electrodes disposed in a first layer and propagating electrodes disposed in a second layer. The system measures a capacitance of sensors through a of second electrodes. Each second electrode crosses each first electrode to provide a plurality of discrete sensor areas, each discrete sensor area associated with a difference crossing and including a portion of at least one propagating electrode. Each second electrode is galvanically isolated from the first electrodes and the propagating electrodes.
US10956701B2
A method for imaging includes acquiring surface image data for a target using a first imaging modality. A visual representation of the target based on the surface image data is generated. Internal image data for the target is acquired using a second imaging modality. During acquisition of the internal image data, the visual representation of the target based on the acquired internal image data is updated.
US10956696B2
The present specification provides a two-dimensional code identification method and device, and a two-dimensional code positioning and identification model establishment method and device. The two-dimensional code identification method includes: obtaining a to-be-identified two-dimensional code, and performing global feature positioning detection on the to-be-identified two-dimensional code by using a pre-established two-dimensional code positioning and identification model; performing focus adjustment, based on a predetermined image resolution, on the to-be-identified two-dimensional code on which positioning detection is performed; and decoding the to-be-identified two-dimensional code on which focus adjustment is performed. The present specification can improve the identification accuracy of two-dimensional codes shot in complex scenarios.
US10956691B2
An RFID tag reading method, RFID tag reading system, RFID tag reading device, and an article, are provided for preventing fraud on the RFID tag. An exemplary method for reading an RFID tag with a loop antenna housed within a case of an article, includes inserting a tip of a linear antenna into the case through a hole formed in the case by using a reader device with the linear antenna having the tip as an open end, magnetically coupling the linear antenna inserted into the case and the loop antenna of the RFID tag, and reading tag information stored in the RFID tag by the reader device.
US10956683B2
An agent automation system implements a virtual agent that is capable of learning new words, or new meanings for known words, based on exchanges between the virtual agent and a user in order to customize the vocabulary of the virtual agent to the needs of the user or users. The agent automation framework has access to a corpus of previous exchanges between the virtual agent and the user, such as one or more chat logs. New words and/or new meanings for known words are identified within the corpus and new word vectors are generated for these new words and/or new meanings for known words and added to refine a word vector distribution model. The refined word vector distribution model is then utilized by the agent automation system to interact with the user.
US10956678B2
This specification describes methods and systems for sentiment analysis. One of the methods includes: receiving a plurality of documents, each document having text data and for each of the documents: (1) representing at least part of the document's text data in a multi-dimensional vector space to produce vectorized text data; (2) applying a neural network to the vectorized text data to calculate a sentiment score, wherein the neural network has been trained using a two step process including (a) training the neural network with a non-domain specific training set; and (b) training the neural network with a domain specific training set; and (3) determining a sentiment score for an entity based at least in part on the sentiment scores for the plurality of documents.
US10956672B1
A log message classifier employs machine learning for identifying a corresponding parser for interpreting the incoming log message and for retraining a classification logic model processing the incoming log messages. Voluminous log messages generate a large amount of data, typically in a text form. Data fields are parseable from the message by a parser that knows a format of the message. The classification logic is trained by a set of messages having a known format for defining groups of messages recognizable by a corresponding parser. The classification logic is defined by a random forest that outputs a corresponding group and confidence value for each incoming message. Groups may be split to define new groups based on a recurring matching tail (latter portion) of the incoming messages. A trend of decreased confidence scores triggers a periodic retraining of the random forest, and may also generate an alert to operators.
US10956667B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for an operational transformation proxy for a thin client. The systems and methods may be used for collaboratively editing an electronic object such as an electronic document from a thin client. A first request is received at an OT proxy from the thin client to make a first change to a first version of the electronic object. A first mutation, including the first change to the first version of the electronic document, is created. A second mutation is received at the OT proxy from the server. At the OT proxy, the second mutation of the electronic object is converted into a third mutation of the electronic object based on the first mutation.
US10956661B2
A parameter of a first checker in a profile of the first checker is configured. The parameter comprises a restriction on contents of a modification to a dataset. The modification comprises a write to a portion of the dataset. The dataset is modifiable by a plurality of authors. The first checker has a first checker owner. A first modification to the dataset is validated against a restriction enforced by the first checker according to the parameter. The first modification has a modification owner. Responsive to the validating detecting that the first modification is acceptable, the first modification is allowed.
US10956659B1
Multiple webpages are used to generate a template that includes portions of webpage code or other instructions common to the webpages, and a view model for each webpage that indicates instructions that may be added to the template to reconstruct the webpage. A first webpage and a second webpage are analyzed to generate a first set of tokens that represent instructions for the first webpage and a second set of tokens that represent instructions for the second webpage. The sets of tokens are compared to determine matching and differing instructions between the webpages. A template is generated that includes the matching portions of instructions and placeholders at locations associated with differences. A view model for each webpage is generated that includes a value for each placeholder, the value being the instructions that may be added to the template at the location of the placeholder to reconstruct the webpage.
US10956654B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for providing parameterized states. Resource customization information may be obtained. The resource customization information may identify a resource and define a customized view of the resource. A parameterized state may be generated based on the resource customization information. Activation of the parameterized state may cause the customized view of the resource to be presented. An interface through which the parameterized state is accessible may be provided.
US10956652B2
Applications may be created and registered to an online ecosystem and then execute within individual web applications such as productivity applications, communication applications, collaboration applications, and so on. These non-native applications may be enabled to interact with files and provide custom experiences for a user. The applications may also be enabled to interact with additional information discovered about the user within the ecosystem to provide custom experiences. The applications may further be enabled to create custom workflows to allow users to accomplish new tasks.
US10956651B1
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for data table display adjustment which may include a computing device. The computing device may receive a user selection of a data file, which may contain a data table having one or more rows, a left-most column, a right-most column, and a plurality of middle columns with each column having a width, for display via a user interface. The computing device may render an interactive switch for enabling data table display adjustment on the user interface. The computing device may receive user input via the interactive switch and render the right-most column and the left-most column static at outer ends of the user interface and collapse the plurality of middle columns, to fit within a remaining available width of the user interface between the right-most column and the left-most column of the data table.
US10956650B1
Systems and methods for improving design performance of a layout design through placement of functional and spare cells by leveraging layout dependent effect (LDE) is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: importing a plurality of technology files associated with the layout design into an EDA system; importing a netlist associated with the layout design into the EDA system; importing a standard cell library containing pattern-S timing information of the functional cells and the spare cells; performing floorplan and spare cell insertion, wherein the spare cells are distributed uniformly across the floorplan; and conducting placement and optimization through re-placement of the at least one functional cells and the spare cells to form pattern-S with at least one timing critical cells to improve an overall timing performance of the layout design. According to some embodiments, conducting placement and optimization further includes: moving the at least one spare cells to locations to abut the at least one timing critical cells to form pattern-S for each of the at least one timing critical cells.
US10956645B2
The place and route stage for a hard macro is modified to assign a more robust power-grid tier to a critical path for a hard macro and to assign a less robust power-grid tier to a remainder of the hard macro.
US10956637B2
According to one or more embodiments, a method for adding parity protection for any uncovered latches of a circuit design is provided. The method includes determining latches that are not covered by current parity protection of the circuit design to output a list of the uncovered latches. The method includes executing a clustering operation that iteratively generates latch groupings according to physical design information and clock gating domains, and that outputs an updated design incorporating the latch groupings. Note that each latch grouping generates a corresponding parity bit to provide the parity protection to minimize adverse impacts on timing, routing, and power consumption of the circuit design. The method also includes adding the updated design with the parity protection to the circuit design to generate a final hardware design.
US10956633B1
A system, method and product for an interest-based distributed simulation system. A system comprising: multiple servers, wherein a component-server deployment defines which server is tasked with processing each component of a simulation; a central database for storing values of components and delivering the values or portion thereof to servers based on interest definitions. A server of the multiple servers is authoritative over a target component of the plurality of components of the simulation. The server is configured to determine an inverse interest list for the target component, wherein the inverse interest list identifies all components interested in the target component according to the interest definitions. The server selectively transmits updates of the target component to the central database based on the inverse interest list and based on the component-server deployment.
US10956620B2
A method for managing a secure element embedded in an equipment comprising an NFC controller. The secure element comprises a security indicator. The method comprises the steps of: on receipt of a triggering command sent by the NFC controller, the secure element switches in a test context; on receipt of a restore command sent by an application, the secure element sets the security indicator, such as a counter of unusual events, to a predefined value only if the secure element is in test context; and on receipt of an ending command sent by the NFC controller, the secure element switches in a Live context. The secure element keeps a track of the switch in the test context and denies any further triggering commands. The method enables reset of security indicator after manufacturing and test where the security indicator may have been affected.
US10956602B2
Searching encrypted data using encrypted contexts by performing at least the following: configuring a first encryption context that allows access to a first encrypted field, configuring a second encryption context that allows access to a second encrypted field, assigning the first encryption context to a first role and the second encryption context to a second role, assigning the first role to a first user account to allow the first user account to access the first encrypted field, assigning the second role to a second user account to allow the second user to access the second encrypted field, receiving a query request associated with the first user account for a search term, wherein the query request includes instructions to search for an unencrypted version of the search term and a first encrypted value of the search term that is based on the first encryption context.
US10956601B2
A system receives a request to store data at a first layer of servers in a cluster, configured to authenticate and authorize the request. The system compresses the data upon authenticating and authorizing the request and encrypts the compressed data at the first layer of servers when encryption is enabled. The system sends the request and the encrypted data to a second layer of servers in the cluster, configured to store data structures used to manage data storage in a third layer of servers in the cluster, and to distribute the request and the encrypted data to the third layer of servers using the data structures. The system stores the encrypted data in the third layer of servers. Encrypting the data at the first layer of servers reduces latency associated with transferring the data between the first, second, and third layers of servers.
US10956597B2
Implementations of the present specification provide a value determination for a loss function. In an implementation, a first share of data that was generated based on a first parameter is received from a partner. A first term is determined based on the first share of the data. A second share of the data is generated based on a second parameter and a random number and transmitted to the partner. A coefficient of a second term is determined based on the random number. A second term is determined based on the coefficient of the second term and the second share of the data. The value of the loss function is determined based on the first term and the second term.
US10956575B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to determining malware using firmware of a computing device. Firmware can be used to determine that an indication is present that malware is present on the computing device. The firmware can be executed to perform a security action in response to the indication that malware is present on the computing device.
US10956573B2
A sample is analyzed to determine a set of events that should be selected for performing by a dynamic analyzer executing the sample in an instrumented, emulated environment. The set of selected events is performed. A maliciousness verdict is determined for the sample based at least in part on one or more responses taken by the sample in response to the set of selected events being performed by the dynamic analyzer.
US10956569B2
A method for defending a computing system against ransomware attacks is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes identifying, on a computing system, files to be protected against ransomware attacks. The method appends a public key to each of the files. Upon receiving a request to modify a specific file, the method reads the public key appended to the file, requests an authentication token from a user, and computes a private key associated with the files. The method combines the public key, authentication token, and private key to generate an unlock key. This unlock key is compared to a validation key. The method authorizes modification of the file in the event the unlock key matches the validation key. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10956568B2
A method for halting malware includes: monitoring plural file system events with a system driver to detect an occurrence of a file system event having a predetermined file type and log event type; triggering a listening engine for file system event stream data of a file associated with the detection of the file system event, the file system event stream data indicating data manipulation associated with the file due to execution of a process; obtaining one or more feature values for each of plural different feature combinations of plural features of the file based on the file system event stream data; inputting one or more feature values into a data analytics model to predict a target label value based on the one or more feature values of the plural different feature combinations and agnostic to the process; and performing a predetermined operation based on the target label value.
US10956563B2
A computer-implemented method of providing security for a software container, according to an example of the present disclosure includes, receiving a software container image with a software application and security agent that is separate from the software application. An execution entry point of the software container image that was previously configured to launch the software application has been modified to instead launch the security agent. The method includes receiving a request to instantiate the software container image as a software container, launching the security agent based on the request, authenticating the contents of the software container image, and controlling operation of the software application based on the authenticating.
US10956553B2
A method of unlocking an electronic device, an unlocking device and system and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring at least one image to be authenticated, in which the image to be authenticated is an RGB image or an infrared image; obtaining an RGB image authentication result of the image to be authenticated by RGB object authentication of the image to be authenticated in a case where the image to be authenticated is the RGB image, and obtaining an infrared image authentication result of the image to be authenticated by infrared object authentication of the image to be authenticated in a case where the image to be authenticated is the infrared image; and determining whether to unlock the electronic device according to at least one of the RGB image authentication result and the infrared image authentication result.
US10956543B2
The system receives a stream of authentication events, which are associated with authentication events. Next, the system attempts to detect a formation of authentication events, wherein a formation comprises a time window of authentication events that satisfy a formation criterion, which is based on one or more of: a username for the authentication attempt, an Internet Protocol (IP) address from which the authentication attempt originated, and a resource identifier for a computing resource that the authentication attempt was directed to. If a formation is detected, the system determines a number of valid usernames in the formation. If the number of valid usernames is one or less, the system computes a username similarity score for authentication events in the formation, which is a function of a string distance between usernames in the formation. If the username similarity score exceeds a threshold value, the system reports a potential username guessing attack.
US10956540B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to providing unified digital rights management (DRM) across heterogeneous computing platforms. In embodiments, a unified DRM engine executed on a computing platform validates one or more constraints defined by a first content license associated with consumption of encrypted content. In response to successful validation, the unified DRM engine, in some embodiments, utilizes a second content license that is associated with the computing platform to enable a native DRM engine of the computing platform to decrypt the encrypted content. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10956538B2
The present disclosure relates to a low-power measuring device. In one implementation, the low-power measuring device includes a first sensor for measuring a first value, the first value being a measurement of a variable, and a counter unit for generating a first counter value indicative of a first elapsed time since the first value is measured by the first sensor. The low-power measuring device further includes at least one processor configured to send the first value to a remote apparatus, send the first counter value to the remote apparatus, cause the remote apparatus to determine the first elapsed time based on the first value and the first counter value, and cause the remote apparatus to determine a first obtained time at which the first value is measured by the first sensor based on the determined first elapsed time and a reference time of the remote apparatus.
US10956533B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for real-time HTML rendering of desktop applications. In operation, a system identifies one or more desktop based legacy system applications for transforming into one or more HTML based applications in real-time. The system queries user interface (UI) elements of the one or more desktop based legacy system applications. The system maps the UI elements of the one or more desktop based legacy system applications to HTML UI elements associated with the one or more HTML based applications. Additionally, the system opens a web-socket between the HTML UI elements and the UI elements associated with the one or more desktop based legacy system applications to transfer data and events based on user actions in the one or more HTML based applications and responses from the one or more desktop based legacy system applications.
US10956529B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content. One of the methods includes providing a plurality of image content items to an application interface of a client device for presentation; receiving a user selection of a particular image content item of the plurality of presented image content items; and responsive to the selection, providing a combination of native content and third party content associated with the selected image content item, wherein the native content includes a close up view of the selected image content item and the third party content includes a third party webpage.
US10956528B2
Systems and methods for maintaining a current database of point of interest (POI) by automatically detecting a change associated with a POI based on cohort analysis are provided. A networked system accesses trip data associated with the POI. Using the analyzed trip data, the networked system generates a cohort associated with the POI. The networked system monitors for, and detects a change in, trip behavior in the cohort associated with the POI. In response to detecting the change in trip behavior, the networked system updates a database in a data store to indicate a status update.
US10956526B2
A method and system are provided for implementing a policy-driven resource deployment in a cloud environment. A rules-based workflow is used to determine an enhanced deployment option based on requirements of an end user. A policy-driven catalog entry is created including a corresponding set of questions to determine how the end user intends to use their environment. The end user makes a request which contains answers to the set of questions. Answers contained in the end user request are applied to a set of rules for determining a particular deployment option, and resources are deployed using the determined deployment option.
US10956521B1
Systems and methods presented herein create a graph of data within a data set, such as items within an electronic catalog. The nodes of the graph may represent data items, such as items within the electronic catalog. Links or edges can be created between nodes of the graph representative of a data-metric of interest. For example, links or edges can be created between nodes of the graph representative of co-access of items. A diversified page rank process can be performed with respect to a particular node in the graph. This process can use positive or negative bias toward specific attributes to dynamically re-weight edges before and/or during the walk.
US10956520B1
A method for receiving a request for a design template from a client device, the design template including a dynamic media file indicator is provided. The request includes collecting user information indicative of a location of the client device, a demographic datum of a user associated with the client device, or a language of the user associated with the client device, and selecting a media file from a database of media files based on the user information. The method also includes modifying the design template based on the user information to include the media file and providing the design template comprising the media file for display by the client device. A computer-readable medium including commands and a system including a processor to execute the commands and perform the above method are also provided.
US10956512B2
Techniques and systems for migrating links in documents are described. For example, during a migration process, a first document may be selected to be migrated from a source document database. A determination may be made that the first document includes a link to a second document. The first document may be migrated to a target document database. The second document may be selected to be migrated from the source document database. The second document may be migrated to the target document database. The link in the first document may be finalized to include an address of the second document in the target document database.
US10956509B2
The material development assistance system includes a first control unit giving, based on input information inputted as the prototype plan of the material and a keyword configuring a keyword tree stored in a storage unit, a prototype ID for identifying the prototype plan, a second control unit associating the keyword corresponding to the input information given the prototype ID with the index of the input information and accumulating the associated index in the storage unit as a tree structure for each classification group, a third control unit determining whether or not the index for the classification group accumulated in the storage unit and the input information are in a predetermined relation and when determining that the index and the input information are in the predetermined relation, reading a past prototype plan using the index from the storage unit, and a fourth control unit outputting a new prototype plan.
US10956506B1
Techniques for query-based data modification are described herein. In some examples, a first search of searchable data may be performed based, at least in part, on a first query. A second search of the searchable data may be performed based, at least in part, on a second query. One or more results of the first search may be provided. Input may be received for associating a first result of the first search with the second search. At least a first modification, related to the input, to perform on the searchable data may then be determined. The first modification may then be performed on the searchable data.
US10956500B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for efficiently processing dynamic length tensors of a machine learning model represented by a computational graph. A program is received that specifies a dynamic, iterative computation that can be performed on input data for processing by a machine learning model. A directed computational graph representing the machine learning model is generated that specifies the dynamic, iterative computation as one or more operations using a tensor array object. Input is received for processing by the machine learning model and the directed computational graph representation of the machine learning model is executed with the received input to obtain output.
US10956493B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a database comparison operation to identify an object. For example, a processor may enroll a set of object templates in a storage based on objects within input content and enroll a target object template in the storage based on a target object in target content. The processor may identify an object within the input content associated with the target object based on a database comparison operation of the stored set of object templates to the stored target object template. The processor may output object recognition information related to the identified object.
US10956487B2
A method for establishing cross-language information is disclosed. The method includes steps of collecting a plurality of set of object information from a plurality of network platforms; building a first data structure corresponding to a source language and a second data structure corresponding to a target language according to the plurality of sets of object information; classifying a plurality of sets of first object information in the first data structure into a plurality of source image groups according characteristics of the plurality of sets of first object information; classifying a plurality of sets of second object information in the second data structure into a plurality of target image groups according to characteristics of the plurality of sets of second object information; wherein each source image group includes a plurality of source hashtag groups, and each target image group includes a plurality of target hashtag groups.
US10956479B2
A system creates an abstraction layer surrounding a diverse data system including multiple different databases. Data is received from data sources and ingested into the various databases according to a core model. New instances of the core model are created and added to a larger linked data model (LDM) when new data sources are added to the system. The LDM captures the linkages between different linked data objects and links across different databases. Accordingly, applications are able to access or explore the linked data stored in different databases without prior knowledge of the linking relationships.
US10956478B2
Predicting the impact of controversial events on an entity, such as a company, can indicate the entity's ability to operate successfully in the future and optimize long-term value. This specification describes systems and methods to detect controversial events, identify the context of an event, measure the scope of the event, measure its current impact on the entity's performance, and predict the event's future impact on the entity's performance.
US10956473B2
The present application discloses an article quality scoring method and device, a client, a server, and a programmable device. The method includes: obtaining browsing behavior information of a user when the user browses a target article; obtaining a browsing behavior score of the user for the target article according to the browsing behavior information and a corresponding browsing behavior coefficient; and obtaining an article quality score of the target article according to obtained browsing behavior scores of multiple users for the target article.
US10956470B2
Facet-based query refinement based on multiple query interpretations is provider through a process that includes receiving a query for querying documents, of a whole document set, that deviate by one or more facet values. The process generates different query interpretations from query text of the query. The process executes the different query interpretations to obtain resulting document sets. For each different query interpretation, the executing executes the query interpretation to obtain a resulting document set corresponding to that query interpretation, and identifies facet values represented in the resulting document set. The process builds and presents to a user a query refinement interface, presenting the different query interpretations and properties of the resulting document sets, as well as, for each of the one or more facet values, and relative to each other, facet value representation of the facet value in each of the resulting document sets.
US10956468B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for cognitive template question formation and execution is provided. The present invention may include receiving a dynamic template question. The present invention may also include mapping the received template question to a type. The present invention may then include mapping the received template question to a data source. The present invention may further include forming a template question based on the mapped template question. The present invention may also include triggering, in response to a triggering event, a query based on the formed template question. The present invention may then include executing the triggered query.
US10956466B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to implementing a machine learning approach to cross-language translation and search. In certain embodiments, a method may include receiving a plurality of characters of a first language that are unsegmented and grouping the plurality of character into multiple groups. The method also includes determining a set of word tokens based on one or more transliterations of the multiple groups and one or more translations of the multiple groups to a second language. Further, the method includes generating one or more word token solution sets by querying an index file using the one or more word tokens. The method also includes determining whether the index file references an entity name corresponding to the plurality of characters of the first language based on comparing the one or more token solution sets with the index file.
US10956460B2
Methods, computer program products, and computer systems for configuration management are disclosed. Such methods, computer program products, and computer systems include determining whether unstructured data or structured data is available for use as a basis to define an associative template, and in response to a determination that unstructured data is available for use as the basis to define the associative template, determining whether the unstructured data is hierarchically organized. In response to a determination that the unstructured data is hierarchically organized, an associative template can then be defined using the hierarchical organization of the unstructured data, where the unstructured data is hierarchically-organized unstructured data (HOUD).
US10956458B2
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product are disclosed for consolidating text conversations from text collaboration channels. An algorithm is executed to: identify a set of parameters from a first, a second, and a third set of textual data, associated with a first, a second, and a third collaboration channel, respectively; compare the parameters of the sets of data to identify a parameter that is a same parameter from the first set of textual data and the second set of textual data; and determine a frequency at which the first and second set of data comprise the identified parameter. In response to a determination that the frequency exceeds a threshold, the algorithm may further generate and display another set of data that includes the first and second set of data on a user interface.
US10956446B1
A device may participate in a shared data state in which editing operations performed locally are distributed and synchronized with other devices participating in the shared data state. Data may be maintained in log-structured storage files on each device. Changes made locally may be conditionally appended to log-structured storage and committed or rolled back during synchronization. Devices may exchange sets of related change descriptors preceded by associated contextual information. Conflicts may be resolved through application of conflict resolution rules or through a user-involved process. User notification of conflict resolution may be based on user intent inferred from contextual information and associated change descriptors.
US10956437B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for implementing secure database requests in a role-based application. In one example, the system may include at least one memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may include instructions to receive, from a user device, a request to access data from a relational database; based on the request, extract the data from the relational database; perform one or more join commands on the data to generate an object in an object-oriented programming language having the joined data; convert the object to a data serialized format configured for use in a graphical user interface generator; and transmit the data serialized format to the user device.
US10956436B2
A computer program is searched for one or more select terms. A first type of search is performed on source code of the computer program to search for one or more select terms in the source code. Results of the first type of search, if any, are included in a result set. A second type of search is performed on one or more particular elements of the computer program to search for the one or more select terms in the one or more particular elements. Results of the second type of search, if any, are added to the result set. Another search is performed, based on analysis of the result set. The other search searches for the one or more select terms in one or more selected source artifacts of the computer program to provide a refined result set. An action is performed using the refined set.
US10956434B2
Example embodiments of a system and method for analyzing and causing presentation of an impact or influence of a value of a dimension on a data set are described. In an example embodiment, a data set organized according to a first dimension is accessed from a data store. An influence value indicating an influence on the data set of at least one value of the first dimension is calculated. At least one of an influence rating and an influence ranking of the at least one value of the first dimension is determined based on the calculated influence value. The influence rating or ranking of the at least one value relative to other values of the first dimension is caused to be presented in conjunction with at least a portion of the data set organized according to the first dimension.
US10956431B2
Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed for associating records across lists, wherein the lists include a plurality of records and the plurality of records is associated with a respective entity. In accordance with some embodiments, the systems and methods further comprise grouping one or more records from a first list into a first group based on fields of the records in the first list, grouping one or more records from a second list into a second group based on fields of the records in the second list, pairing a record from the first group with a record from the second group, assessing each pair of records based on an evaluation of the respective pair according to fields of the pair, and associating records from the first group and records of the second group with an entity based on the assessment.
US10956430B2
The invention relates to a method for implementing user-driven adaptation of a ranking of navigation elements of a client application. The navigation elements are provided for use by the client application as part of search results in reply to search queries issued by the client application. A search service executes search queries, a ranking infrastructure provides a ranking model for ranking search results as well as a ranking training component for updating the ranking model. The user-driven adaptation is received from a navigation adaptation component of the client application and used by a ranking adaptation component of the search service for updating the training data. The ranking adaptation component invokes the ranking training component to calculate an updated ranking model using the updated training data.
US10956424B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to the field of communications technologies, and provide an application recommending method and system, and a server. The method includes receiving data reported by at least one terminal, where the data includes static data and first application behavior data that are collected by the at least one terminal, and the static data is used to identify a type of a terminal; obtaining an activity index of each application on terminals of different types according to the first application behavior data; and receiving an application list request sent by a first terminal, querying, according to the application list request, an activity index of each application on terminals that are of the same type with the first terminal, and recommending an application with an activity index greater than a preset first activity index threshold to the first terminal.
US10956422B2
Large quantities of data can be processed and/or queried relatively quickly using a combination of continuous event processing and a Map-Reduce algorithmic tool. The continuous event processor can continuously produce real-time results by merging (a) CQL query results from events received since a currently executing Map-Reduce job was started with (b) a most recent query result produced by a most recently completed Map-Reduce job. When the currently executing Map-Reduce job completes, its query result can be stored and made accessible to the continuous event processor, and a new Map-Reduce job can be started relative to event data that has grown in size since the execution of the last Map-Reduce job. The Map-Reduce algorithmic tool provides a convenient mechanism for analyzing and processing large quantities of data.
US10956419B2
A database query may be determined based on a database query definition. The database query definition may include a filter criterion that contains a wildcard match, which may include a first fixed portion and a second wildcard portion. The first fixed portion may include one or more combining characters. The database query may include a first query portion including a first canonical representation of the first fixed portion that omits the one or more characters. The database query may include a second query portion including a second canonical representation of the first fixed portion. The database query may be executed to select a result set that includes a plurality of query result values by applying the second query portion to filter values accessed by the first query portion.
US10956416B2
Embodiments for implementing schema discovery and query optimization by a processor. A schema may be created from one or more histograms of one or more keys and data types of a database and capable of being adapted and recalculated. One or more queries may be assembled according to the schema. One or more indexes and views may be suggested according to the one or more queries and the schema.
US10956413B2
A database system translates a received set of workflow actions into a graph of nodes. The graph of nodes includes a node set corresponding to each node type of the set of workflow actions. Each node set may be re-executable for each instance of an action type of the set of workflow actions. Upon completion of an action, the graph of nodes is executed. Execution of the graph of nodes includes executing processor executable instructions corresponding to a subset of the set of workflow actions. The subset may be determined based on the completed action. The completed action may be determined based on a sequence tracking parameter.
US10956408B2
A data transformation tool includes a receiver, an extraction engine, a transformation engine, and a delivery engine. The receiver receives from a user a request indicating an identifier for reference data, a format, and a delivery type. The reference data includes a data field, a list of permissible values for the data field, and a textual description of the data field. The extraction engine generates, based on the request, a database query requesting reference data identified by the identifier from a database and communicates the query to the database. The transformation engine receives, from the database, the reference data in response to communicating the query to the database and transforms the received reference data into a flat file based on the format indicated by the request. The delivery engine delivers the flat file to the user according to the user using the deliver type indicated by the request.
US10956393B2
In a distributed storage of data objects in a cluster system, a data object is distributed across a group of node apparatuses in units of data blocks. For each child object, the metadata structure of the respective child object is stored to one of the node apparatuses of the group of node apparatuses for managing locations of data blocks of the data object and includes a root metadata node and one or more direct metadata nodes, optionally further including one or more indirect metadata nodes; and the metadata structure of the parent object is distributed across the plural node apparatuses of the group of node apparatuses for managing locations of child objects of the data object and includes, on each node apparatus of the group of node apparatuses, a root metadata node and one or more direct metadata nodes, optionally further including one or more indirect metadata nodes.
US10956392B1
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for an address system to identify a field and/or a row in a data structure. A method may include receiving a request to modify a field of data, wherein the field of data is identified by a received field key. A method may also include determining whether the field of data was rendered for display. A method may also include modifying the field in a tree structure in an instance in which the field of data was rendered for display, wherein the received field key is configured locate an address object that is related to the field. A method may also include modifying the field of data in a tree structure in an instance in which the field of data was not rendered for display by locating the received field key in a field key lookup map, wherein the field key lookup map is configured to locate the address object.
US10956386B2
Embodiments are disclosed for automated performance tuning of a data modeling platform. An example method includes ingesting, using a tuning template, a set of records from one or more data sources into one or more stage tables in a staging layer of the data modeling platform. This example method further includes generating, using the one or more stage tables, a data integration layer of the data modeling platform for modeling data represented by the set of records ingested into the one or more stage tables. This example method further includes estimating an anticipated performance of the data modeling platform and generating an optimized tuning template based on the estimated anticipated performance. Finally, this example method further includes automatically executing a performance tuning operation on the data modeling platform. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US10956378B2
A file-management system of a computer operating system transfers a hierarchical set of files. The system generates a histogram of the files' true filesizes, using a non-parametric kernel-density estimation (KDE) procedure to estimate the width of each histogram bin. The system splits the fileset into subsets and generates a second-level histogram to represent the true-filesize distribution of each subset, using the previously estimated kernel width to initialize another KDE procedure for each second-level histogram. The distributions identified by each second-level histogram are used to organize the file transfer into a series of passes, each of which completely transfers a group of files that together fit into the computer's I/O buffer minimal wasted space. A waypoint is set at the beginning of each pass and if the system is interrupted mid-transfer, no file transferred before the most recent waypoint is lost.
US10956376B2
A hosted storage system receives a storage request that includes a single object and conforms to an API implemented by the hosted storage system. The API is designed to only support a single object in a storage request. The hosted storage system, in response to determining that the single object is an archive file, extracts each of the bundled files from the archive file and stores each of the extracted files in the hosted storage system such that each of the extracted files is separately accessible by the client system over the network.
US10956370B2
Techniques for data processing a data set may comprise: performing first processing that forms a first compression unit, wherein the first compression unit includes a data chunks including a first data chunk having a first entropy value less than an entropy threshold, the first processing including: receiving a second data chunk; determining, in accordance with criteria, whether to add the second data chunk to the first compression unit; and responsive to determining to add the second data chunk to the first compression unit, adding the second data chunk to the first compression unit; and compressing the first compression unit as a single compressible unit. The second chunk may be added if its entropy value is less than the entropy threshold and if entropy values of the first and second chunks are similar. The second chunk may be added if the resulting compression unit provides sufficient storage/compression benefit.
US10956352B2
A method for detecting and identifying modules of a bus system is provided. The bus system includes a control unit, a bus starting from the control unit, and a plurality of modules connected to the bus. The method includes providing a current sink associated with each of the one or more modules. The current sink includes a transistor. The method includes providing a hall sensor associated with each of the one or more modules. The hall sensor detects a current on a low-side data line of the bus. For each one of the one or more modules: when the hall sensor detects a current on the low-side data line, the method includes maintaining a closed position of the transistor; and when the hall sensor fails to detect a current on the low-side data line, the method includes opening the transistor such that current does not flow to the module.
US10956351B2
Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for dynamic configuration and enforcement of access lanes to I/O controllers. The System may include a plurality of Input/Output (I/O) controllers and a plurality of lanes. The system may also include a lane mapping module configured to multiplex at least one of the I/O controllers to at least one of the lanes based on a configuration. The system may further include a first processor configured to detect a change request, the change request to modify the configuration from an existing configuration to a new configuration; and a second processor configured to: verify that the new configuration is valid based on a stock keeping unit (SKU) associated with the system; and, if the verification is successful, store the new configuration in non-volatile memory and reset the system.
US10956348B2
A device for use in a building management system (BMS) includes a base hardware component that provides communication between the equipment and a first network associated with the BMS. The base hardware component includes a processor and a memory. The device further includes a modular hardware component connected to the base hardware component and a modular software component stored in the memory that recognizes the modular hardware component connected to the base hardware component and provides communication between the equipment and a second network using the modular hardware component. The processor executes a control application to control operation of the equipment based in part on data received from the equipment and data received from at least one of the first network and the second network.
US10956339B2
A cache stores, along with data that is being transferred from a higher level cache to a lower level cache, information indicating the higher level cache location from which the data was transferred. Upon receiving a request for data that is stored at the location in the higher level cache, a cache controller stores the higher level cache location information in a status tag of the data. The cache controller then transfers the data with the status tag indicating the higher level cache location to a lower level cache. When the data is subsequently updated or evicted from the lower level cache, the cache controller reads the status tag location information and transfers the data back to the location in the higher level cache from which it was originally transferred.
US10956335B2
Data blocks are cached in a persistent cache (“NV cache”) allocated from as non-volatile RAM (“NVRAM”). The data blocks may be accessed in place in the NV cache of a “source” computing element by another “remote” computing element over a network using remote direct memory access (“RMDA”). In order for a remote computing element to access the data block in NV cache on a source computing element, the remote computing element needs the memory address of the data block within the NV cache. For this purpose, a hash table is stored and maintained in RAM on the source computing element. The hash table identifies the data blocks in the NV cache and specifies a location of the cached data block within the NV cache.
US10956330B2
In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of processing unit cores, a plurality of cache memory modules associated with the plurality of processing unit cores, and a machine learning model communicatively coupled to the plurality of processing unit cores, wherein the plurality of cache memory modules share cache coherency data with the machine learning model. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10956329B2
The present invention relates to cache coherent node controllers for scale-up shared memory systems. In particular it is disclosed a computer system at least comprising a first group of CPU modules connected to at least one first FPGA Node Controller configured to execute transactions directly or through a first interconnect switch to at least one second FPGA Node Controller connected to a second group of CPU modules running a single instance of an operating system.
US10956326B2
A method of operation of a storage system includes: identifying a low activity region in the first tier storage and a high activity region in the second tier storage; exchanging data of the high activity region with the data of the low activity region; and wherein protecting the data comprises: copying the low activity region to a reserved section; updating a new physical address of the low activity region in a virtual-to-physical table; copying the high activity region to the location in the first tier storage previously occupied by the low activity region; and updating the new physical address of the high activity region in the virtual-to-physical table and mapping the physical block region, originally allocated to the high activity region, to the reserved section.
US10956323B2
Examples include techniques for emulating a non-volatile dual inline memory module (NVDIMM) in a computing platform using a non-volatile storage device. When a power up event occurs for the computing platform, a host memory buffer may be allocated in a system memory device and a backing store for the host memory buffer may be copied from the non-volatile storage device to the host memory buffer in the system memory device. When a power down event or a flush event occurs for the computing platform, the host memory buffer may be copied from the system memory device to the corresponding backing store for the host memory buffer in the non-volatile storage device. Thus, virtual NVDIMM functionality may be provided without having NVDIMM hardware in the computing platform.
US10956320B2
A memory system may include: a memory device including a plurality of memory dies; and a controller including a memory, and configured to: sequentially store, after storing data segments of sequential user data in the memory, the data segments of the sequential user data in the memory dies through interleaving; store in a first buffer region of the memory, after updating map segments of lower level map data corresponding to the storage of the data segments in the memory dies, the map segments of the lower level map data; and store in a second buffer region of the memory map segments of upper level map data corresponding to storage of the map segments of the lower level map data.
US10956319B2
Provided are a method for multiple accesses in a memory, an apparatus supporting multiple accesses in the memory and a storage system. The method comprises: receiving a number N of addresses in the memory, wherein N is an integer larger than 1 and the number N of addresses are discontinuous; performing a preset operation according to the number N of addresses; and outputting the result of the operation. As a consequence, the performances of a computer system can be improved, and a user can input and use the desired addresses just as required by the user.
US10956317B2
A non-volatile memory includes a plurality of blocks of physical memory, including a target block and at least one source block containing at least some valid data and some invalid data. Responsive to determining to perform garbage collection for the non-volatile memory, the controller transfers valid data from the at least one source block to the target block. The controller ends garbage collection on the at least one source block with at least some valid data present in the at least one source block and all interfaces of the target block closed at the boundary of independent layers. In at least some embodiments, the target block may be configured to store more bits per cell than the at least one source block.
US10956316B2
A method and device for processing a memory, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. In the method, reclaimable memory pages occupied by an application to be processed are determined, a reclaiming proportion corresponding to the application to be processed is determined, a reclaiming number is determined according to the reclaimable memory pages and the reclaiming proportion, and the reclaiming number of memory pages from the reclaimable memory pages are selected and reclaimed.
US10956311B2
Provided are systems, methods, and media for concurrency conflict testing for shared resources. An example method includes identifying shared resources that are to be accessed by an application. Generating a plurality of concurrency test scenarios based on the shared resources. Analyzing a plurality of concurrency test cases to detect which concurrency test cases include a reference to the shared resources. Executing a concurrency test scenario. Performing the following while or before the concurrency test scenario is executing, obtaining analyzed concurrency test cases associated with the concurrency test scenario which referenced the shared resources, obtaining application modules pertaining to the obtained concurrency test cases, generating concurrency application modules by adding breakpoints to the obtained application modules, executing the obtained concurrency test cases until all of the obtained concurrency test cases are latched at the breakpoints, and simultaneously resuming the execution of the obtained concurrency test cases.
US10956303B2
Trace circuitry 22, 6 forms trace objects 34 representing a sequence of executed program instructions and comprising a start address indicator indicating a start address of a sequence of executed program instructions, a branch outcome indicator indicating a sequence of branch outcomes within the sequence of executed program instructions starting from the start address and a count indicator indicating a count of times the sequence of branch outcomes was detected. The trace circuitry may be on-chip 22 or off-chip 6. A trace object may include an indicator of a start address of a next sequence of program instructions to be followed following the sequence of program instructions represented by the trace object concerned.
US10956292B1
A method includes receiving a data retrieval request. A plurality of identifiers are determined in accordance with the data retrieval request. Stored integrity information corresponding to the data retrieval request is received. Desired integrity information is generated based on the plurality of identifiers. The stored integrity information is compared with the desired integrity information. When the stored integrity information compares favorably with the desired integrity information, at least a decode threshold number of encoded data slices of a set of encoded data slices of a plurality of sets of encoded data slices are dispersed storage error decoded.
US10956289B2
A computer program product, system, and method for switching over from using a first primary storage to using a second primary storage when the first primary storage is in a mirror relationship. Migration operations are initiated to migrate data in the first primary storage to a second primary storage while the data in the first primary storage indicated in first change recording information is mirrored to a secondary storage and switch from using the first primary storage to the second primary storage. Resynchronization operations are initiated to indicate changes to data in the second primary storage in a second change recording information, copy writes from the second primary storage indicated in the first and the second change recording information to the secondary storage, and mirror writes to the second primary storage to the secondary storage in response to the copying the writes.
US10956288B2
A device may provision two or more servers, each of the servers including a network interface. In addition, the device may enable the network interface in each of the provisioned servers, create a shared volume, assign the shared volume to each of the provisioned servers, and enable a clustering application on each of the provisioned servers to form a cluster comprising the provisioned servers, the cluster having a heartbeat via the network interfaces.
US10956284B2
An approach is provided for optimizing reference counting. Responsive to receiving code representing a program by a just-in-time compiler, one or more processors in computing machinery supporting transactional memory identify regions of the code having respective sets of reference counting operations executed dynamically. Identifying the regions of the code uses an analysis of semantics of the code. The identified regions are enclosed in respective transactions. The code that was to perform atomic operations, including the reference counting operations in the identified regions, is transformed into new code that performs non-atomic operations that are variants of the atomic operations. Fallback code sequences are inserted into the transformed code. In a non-transactional manner and in response to detections of failures in respective transactions, the fallback code sequences execute original code sequences that were in the code prior to the transformation of the code. The original code sequences include respective multiple atomic operations.
US10956276B2
The system state recovery methods, systems and products disclosed herein enable an efficient means of recovering from a permanent site outage event in a distributed, block-based storage system. Embodiments teach using directory trees and journal updates for neighboring zones, which are still operational, as a means of recovering data for the site experiencing an outage. We further disclose load balancing techniques in order to improve efficiency of recovery. Load balancing is performed by selecting a leader zone and a group of non-leaders, which will comprise a set of recovery drivers. The systems within the set of recovery drivers are used to piece together lost data from the zone experiencing an outage. In embodiments, the systems, methods and products could be used with an Elastic Cloud System™.
US10956273B2
Various embodiments for managing data in a data deduplication repository in a computing storage environment, by a processor device, are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises migrating certain deduplication repository data from a host to an object storage by integrating a data offload process with an existing backup management application, for reducing unnecessary deduplication repository data stored on the host.
US10956269B2
A method and a device for operating an electronic data-distribution control unit for a media access to a medium for the transmission of data, data being transmitted from a first physical interface for a first port in the data-distribution control unit to a second physical interface for a second port in the data-distribution control unit via a first media-independent interface between a media access control in the data-distribution control unit and the first physical interface and via a second media-independent interface between the media access control and the second physical interface, a case of a fault in the media access control being detected if a communication between the media access control and a monitoring logic in the data-distribution control unit fails, the monitoring logic, in the case of a fault, configuring the first physical interface and the second physical interface to transmit data via a third media-independent interface between the first physical interface and the second physical interface, without the media access control.
US10956266B2
A method begins by obtaining, for a set of data access requests to a set of storage units of a dispersed storage network, a storage-revision indicator from each of at least some storage units of the set of storage units, where the set of data access requests is regarding a data access transaction involving a set of encoded data slices. The method continues by generating an anticipated storage-revision indicator for the data access transaction based on a current revision level of the set of encoded data slices and a data access type of the data access transaction. The method continues by comparing the anticipated storage-revision indicator with the storage-revision indicators received from the at least some storage units. When a threshold number of the storage-revision indicators received from the at least some storage units substantially match the anticipated storage-revision indicator, the method continues by executing the data access transaction.
US10956264B2
In general, according to an embodiment, a memory system includes a memory device including a memory cell; and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive first data from the memory cell in a first data reading; receive second data from the memory cell in a second data reading that is different from the first data reading; convert a first value that is based on the first data and the second data, to a second value in accordance with a first relationship; and convert the first value to a third value in accordance with a second relationship that is different from the first relationship.
US10956263B2
Memory systems, controllers, decoders and methods execute decoding with a mufti-level interference correction scheme. A decoder performs first soft decoding to generate log likelihood ratio (LLR) values of a select bit and bits of memory cells neighboring a memory cell of the select bit. A quantizer obtains an estimated LLR value of the select bit based on the LLR values of the select bit and the bits of the memory cells neighboring the memory cell of the select bit, when the first soft decoding fails. The decoder performs second soft decoding using the estimated LLR value when the first soft decoding fails, and performs third soft decoding using information obtained from application of a deep learning model to provide a more accurate estimate of the LLR value of the select bit when the second soft decoding fails.
US10956259B2
The codeword accessing method including: receiving a write data with M message bits; generating parity information with N-M bits based on an error correction algorithm and the M message bits, where N and M are positive integers; transforming the M message bits and the parity information to a scrambled codeword with N bits by a scrambling operation, where the scrambled codeword contains only a part of the M message bits; and writing the scrambled codeword into a memory device.
US10956256B2
Client devices having deployed an application may experience a crash of the application. For example, a first client device may experience a first crash having a first crash signature of the application. After experiencing the first crash, a first device identification of the first client device may be assigned to a first bucket designating one or more device identifications of client devices having experienced the first crash. Client devices having device identifications in the first bucket are provided with a first crash fix for the first crash, while a second client device is not provide with the first crash fix, where the application is deployed on the second client device and the second client device was not assigned to the first bucket.
US10956252B2
Methods and systems for detecting anomalous behavior include performing a principal component analysis on a plurality of key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine a set of principal axes. The KPIs are clustered in a space defined by the set of principal axes. Local anomalies are determined in the clustered KPIs by comparing, for each individual KPI in clusters that conform to a Gaussian distribution, a distance from a respective cluster mean to a threshold. Structural anomalies are determined in the clustered KPIs. The structural and local anomalies are classified based on historical information. A management action is performed based on the classified structural and local anomalies.
US10956238B2
A programmable controller includes a plurality of processor cores, an input unit, an allocating unit, a transmitting unit, a power controlling unit, an updating unit, and an executing unit. The allocating unit allocates any one of the plurality of processing to each of the plurality of processor cores. The transmitting unit transmits an allocation result of the processing to a management device. The power controlling unit restarts when the allocation of the processing is changed in the management device and the input unit inputs the changed setup data. The updating unit updates the allocation to the plurality of processor cores based on the setup data after the restart. The executing unit executes the plurality of processing based on the allocation, and when the allocation is changed, executes the plurality of processing based on the changed allocation.
US10956232B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for instructing the use of application programming interface (API) commands in a runtime environment is provided. The present invention may include receiving, by a computer processor, a source code with a high level language API command. The present invention may include accessing, by a computer processor, metadata for the source code and determining whether the metadata includes an instruction to be applied to the high level language API command, and applying, by a computer processor, the instruction to the high level language API command. The present invention may include processing, by a computer processor, the high level language API command to a low level code using a command translator, wherein the processing occurs after the applying the instruction.
US10956228B2
Provided is a method, system, and computer program product for managing tasks in a computing system using a virtual node. A processor may register a virtual node for handling tasks allocated by a scheduling node in a computing system, the computing system comprising the scheduling node and a group of actual computing nodes processing tasks allocated by the scheduling node, and the scheduling node takes the virtual node as an actual computing node. A performance level of the computing system is obtained. Capacity of the virtual node is set based on the obtained performance level, such that the scheduling node allocates tasks to the virtual node based on the capacity of the virtual node. In response to at least one task being allocated by the scheduling node to the virtual node, the at least one task is received by the virtual node.
US10956216B2
Systems and methods for memory page hints that account for multiple page sizes. An example method may comprise: determining, by a processing device executing a guest operating system, that a memory page size of the guest operating system is different from a memory page size of a hypervisor; adding, by the guest operating system, a guest memory page released by the guest operating system to a set of guest memory pages; determining in view of the memory page size of the hypervisor that the set of guest memory pages fills a hypervisor memory page; and providing an indication to the hypervisor that the hypervisor memory page is available for reuse.
US10956204B1
An example operation may include one or more of receiving system calls captured from a plurality of peer nodes of a blockchain that occurred within a predetermined period of time, determining a subset of system calls among the received system calls that correspond to a blockchain process performed during the predetermined period of time, detecting a free-riding peer node from among the plurality of peer nodes based on the identified subset of system calls with respect to system calls of the free-riding peer node within the predetermined period of time, and storing an indicator of the free-riding peer node.
US10956201B2
Software, firmware, and systems repurpose existing virtual machines. After a virtual machine is created, the system stores data associated with the virtual machine to permit its later repurposing. Repurposing data includes data associated with the virtual machine when the virtual machine is in a generic state from which it may be configured for use by two or more users/applications. When the system receives a request to create a new virtual machine, rather than create a brand new virtual machine, the system repurposes an existing virtual machine. The system identifies a virtual machine to repurpose, deletes data associated with the identified virtual machine, and loads a saved copy of repurposing data. The system may then load user data or otherwise customize the database and virtual machine.
US10956197B2
A server includes a hardware platform, a hypervisor platform, and at least one virtual machine operating as an independent guest computing device. The hypervisor includes a memory facilitator, at least one hardware emulator, and an emulator manager. The memory facilitator provides memory for a virtual machine, with the memory having state data associated therewith at a current location within the virtual machine. The at least one hardware emulator provides at least one set of hardware resources for the virtual machine, with the at least one set of hardware resources having state data associated therewith at the current location within the virtual machine. The emulator manager coordinates transfer of the respective state data from the current location to a different location, and tracks progress of the transfer of the respective state data to the different location.
US10956194B2
A source Medium Access Control (MAC) address is learned upon receiving a data message from a local network, and a learned local MAC address entry is added to a MAC address forwarding table. A source MAC address is not learned upon receiving a data message from a tunnel. When a local MAC address entry in the MAC address forwarding table changes, a synchronization message is sent via each tunnel associated with a Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) in the changed local MAC address entry, and is saved into a database corresponding to the tunnel. Each tunnel corresponds to one database.
US10956186B1
Systems and methods for runtime text translation for virtual execution environments. An example method comprises: identifying, by a virtualization server application, a window associated with an application running in a virtual execution environment controlled by the virtualization server application; identifying, in metadata associated with the window, a first alphanumeric string to be displayed in the window, the first alphanumeric string comprising one or more words in a first natural language; translating the first alphanumeric string to a second natural language to produce a second alphanumeric string; modifying the metadata associated with the window to produce modified metadata including the second alphanumeric string; transmitting the modified metadata to a virtualization client application associated with the virtual execution environment; and causing the virtualization client application to render the window.
US10956169B2
An embedded multiprocessor system is provided that includes a multiprocessor system on a chip (SOC), a memory coupled to the multiprocessor SOC, the memory storing application software partitioned into an initial boot stage and at least one additional boot stage, and a secondary boot loader configured to boot load the initial boot stage on at least one processor of the multiprocessor SOC, wherein the initial boot stage begins executing and flow of data from the initial boot stage to the at least one additional boot stage is disabled, wherein the application software is configured to boot load a second boot stage of the at least one additional boot stage on at least one other processor of the multiprocessor SOC and to enable flow of data between the initial boot stage and the second boot stage.
US10956168B2
A computer data processing system includes an instruction pipeline having a front end and a back end, a decoding and dispatch unit to dispatch a current instruction; and a pipeline by-pass unit to invoke an out-of-order pipeline by-pass operation. The pipeline by-pass unit by-passes a section of the instruction pipeline such that the current instruction architecturally completes before initiating instruction execution. The computer data processing system further includes a post-completion execution unit that executes the current instruction after the current instruction architecturally completes.
US10956155B2
A system and a method to cascade execution of instructions in a load-store unit (LSU) of a central processing unit (CPU) to reduce latency associated with the instructions. First data stored in a cache is read by the LSU in response a first memory load instruction of two immediately consecutive memory load instructions. Alignment, sign extension and/or endian operations are performed on the first data read from the cache in response to the first memory load instruction, and, in parallel, a memory-load address-forwarded result is selected based on a corrected alignment of the first data read in response to the first memory load instruction to provide a next address for a second of the two immediately consecutive memory load instructions. Second data stored in the cache is read by the LSU in response to the second memory load instruction based on the selected memory-load address-forwarded result.
US10956141B2
An electronic device includes a secure element in which at least one application package is installed and a processor for communicating with the secure element. The secure element further stores a list with which a part or all of identification information of the at least one application package is registered. The processor controls the secure element such that an application package indicated by the identification information registered with the list is uninstalled, in response to a specified event. Various other embodiments recognized from the specification are also possible.
US10956127B2
A computer-implemented method includes accessing documentation and classifying the documentation. The method includes associating the documentation with symbols in a source code index of an integrated development environment. The symbols are of a code base. The method also includes creating annotations to the code base linking the documentation to the symbols associated therewith. A computer program product for an enriched integrated development environment includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computer. The program instructions cause the computer to perform the foregoing method. A system includes a processor and logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor. The logic is configured to perform the foregoing method.
US10956126B2
Execution of a machine instruction in a central processing unit. A perform floating-point operation instruction and a test bit are obtained. If the test bit has a first value, a specified floating-point operation function is performed, and a condition code is set to a value determined by the specified function. If the test bit has a second value, a check is made to determine if the specified function is valid and installed on the machine. If the specified function is valid and installed on the machine, the condition code is set to one code value, and if the specified function is either not valid or not installed on the machine, the condition code is set to a second code value.
US10956125B2
Methods and systems for shuffling data are described. A processor may generate pair data from source data. The processor may insert the pair data into local tuple spaces. In response to a request for a particular key, the processor may determine a presence of the requested key in a global tuple space. The processor may, in response to a presence of the requested key in the global tuple space, update the global tuple space. The update may be based on the pair data among the local tuple spaces including the existing key. The processor may, in response to an absence of the requested key in the global tuple space, insert pair data including the missing key from the local tuple spaces into the global tuple space. The processor may fetch the requested pair data, and may shuffle the fetched data to generate a dataset.
US10956118B2
A processor and memory comprising instructions stored therein executable by the processor to display a first media item available for playback, wherein the first media item is associated at least with a preview option, a playback option, and a queue option. A first input associated with the first media item is received. The first input is determined to correspond only to the preview option. Responsive to determining that the first input corresponds only to the preview option, causing at least a portion of the first media item to be played.
US10956117B2
A method, system and computer program product includes detecting a volume level for audio input of a first user in a multi-user conference call, and automatically adjusting a volume level for a second user receiving audio output of the first user based on at least one of preferences of the second user, historic data between the first and the second user, and geographic characteristics of the audio input of the first user.
US10956109B2
An image forming system includes a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus. The first image forming apparatus includes a register and a first custom box. The register registers a share program for executing particular processing. The first custom box stores a job transmitted from the second image forming apparatus. The second image forming apparatus includes a communication device and a remote instructor. The communication device transmits the job to the first custom box of the first image forming apparatus. The remote instructor gives an instruction to the first image forming apparatus to start processing based on the share program. The first image forming apparatus includes a processing executor. Upon receipt of the instruction to start processing from the remote instructor, the processing executor executes the particular processing based on the share program on the job stored in the first custom box.
US10956107B1
The disclosure discloses methods and systems for keyword-based printing. The method includes receiving a request for printing a document. A user interface including a keyword-based printing option is provided. The keyword-based printing option allows a user to submit one or more pages having one or more keywords for printing separately than other pages of the document for printing. Based on the selection of the keyword-based printing option, the one or more keywords are received. A separate media selected for printing the pages having the one or more keywords than a media selected for printing other pages of the document is received. The pages having the one or more keywords are identified. The pages having the keywords and the separate media selected for the pages along with other pages of the document and the media selected for the other pages of the document are sent for printing.
US10956088B2
An approach is provided in which a storage system detects that an extent residing on a first one of a set of physical storage devices requires relocation. The storage system identifies a set of backend connection properties of each of a set of backend connections between the storage system and the set of physical storage devices. The set of backend connection properties includes at least a connection bandwidth between the storage system and at least one of the physical storage devices. In turn, the storage system relocates the extent from the first physical storage device to a second one of the set of physical storage devices based at least in part, on the set of backend connection properties.
US10956075B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a block chain architecture for optimized system performance and data storage. The invention provides a unique structure comprising levels of interconnected chains that allow for dynamically configurable connections to be formed between the various nodes. Connections between the different of the hierarchy create a continuum of regions allowing for data to be moved across the spiral construction over time depending on the requirements of the data. In this way, storage and management of the data is optimized through a trade-off of data requirements as data moves between different levels of the spiral architecture based on user preference and, ultimately, to permanent data retirement and long-term storage. Further, the present invention provides a method of decentralized data storage across optimized storage regions within the block chain hierarchy.
US10956061B2
A computing system includes: a host configured to provide data and address information on the data; and a memory system configured to store the data, wherein the memory system comprises: a plurality of memory devices configured to be grouped into at least one memory device group; and a controller configured to control each of the plurality of memory devices, wherein the controller comprises: a group setter configured to set the memory device groups with respect to a type of the data by a request of the host; and a processor configured to read the data from, or write the data to, the memory device group corresponding to the type of the data.
US10956058B2
Example tiered storage systems, storage devices, and methods provide tier configuration by peer storage devices. Each tiered storage device is configured to communicate with a plurality of peer storage devices with storage device identifiers. The storage devices may query each other for performance characteristics and/or self-assigned performance tiers and organize the storage devices into a tier configuration. Each storage device, a storage controller, another system, and/or some combination may store metadata that describes the tier configuration. The tier configuration may then be used to route host data commands among the plurality of peer storage devices.
US10956040B2
A proxy device that may query other devices for their configurations is disclosed. The proxy device may include a device communication logic to communicate with the devices over a control plane. The proxy device may also include reception logic that may receive a query from a host. The query may request information from the proxy device about the configurations of the devices. The proxy device may also include a transmission logic to send the device configurations to the host.
US10956035B2
Triggering display of an application includes initially presenting a first interface, including an interface of a parent application, on a display screen and in response to receiving a gesture denoting an approximate closed region or a closed region, determining a non-full-screen display region corresponding to the gesture on the display screen. Based on the parent application being displayed as part of the first interface when receiving the gesture, identifying child application(s) of the parent application, the child application(s) being deemed relevant to the parent application, and displaying shortcut(s) of the child application(s) in the non-full-screen display region, and in response to a user selecting one of the shortcut(s), launching a child application corresponding to the selected shortcut and displaying an interface of the child application in the non-full-screen display region.
US10956034B2
In one example, a method for a first computing environment (FCE) to automatically display a virtual input device on a display of a second computing environment (SCE) communicatively coupled to the FCE via a main channel. An auxiliary channel is established between the FCE and the SCE. A virtual input device preference is negotiated with the SCE over the auxiliary channel. A selection by the SCE, over the main channel, of an input element of an active FCE application associated with the SCE is detected. In response to the selection, a virtual input device in accordance with the device preference, operable by the SCE to input data to the input element, is automatically caused to be launched.
US10956023B2
At an application executing using a processor in a touch-sensitive device, a detection is made that the touch-based gesture does not correspond to a perimeter defining a action, wherein the touch-based gesture is made relative to the touch-sensitive device. A set of possible actions intended by the touch-based gesture is determined. Using a disambiguation rule, an action is selected from the set of possible actions, wherein the selected action matches an action computed using the disambiguation rule. The selected action is caused to occur at the touch-sensitive device.
US10956021B2
Techniques are provided to reduce the possibility of missing a message when searching for the message in a messaging group. In some implementations, a user input that indicates a selected contact in a messaging group, is received. The messaging group includes a plurality of messages posted by one or more contacts. From among the plurality of messages, a first set of messages that includes messages posted by the selected contact is identified. On a display interface, the messages of the first set is displayed while hiding messages from the plurality of messages that are not included in the first set. Optionally, a second set of messages that includes messages that were not posted by the selected contact, is identified from among the plurality of messages. A hidden message quantity is determined based on a number of messages in the second set of messages and displayed on the display interface.
US10956020B2
A method and system may detect an external display coupled to the mobile device. A digital input device may be presented on the integrated touch sensitive display of the mobile device to operate the mobile device. Multimedia content may be presented on the external display in response to the operation of the mobile device through the digital input device.
US10956019B2
Automatically alternating between input modes on a computing device based on a usage pattern is provided. A first input mode is initiated for interacting with content displayed on the computing device. An input corresponding to a second input mode on the computing is then detected. A transition is then made from the first input mode to the second input mode on the computing device. Upon the detecting a termination of the input on the displayed content the second input mode, a gradual transition is made from the second input mode to the first input mode based on a current sensor state of the computing device and a threshold.
US10956018B2
Methods and systems for providing status and progress information on a scrollbar are described. A user opens a software application to perform operations or view items. The application includes a scrollbar in its graphical user interface. The user may perform a plurality of operations. The application determines a position on the scrollbar corresponding to a location of the operation or item. The application determines a status representation corresponding to a status of the operation or item. The application determines a height of a scrollbar segment corresponding to a length of the operation or item. The application displays the status representation in the scrollbar segment at the position. The application may also display changes in the status representation to provide progress information.
US10956013B2
Creating, executing, and managing flow plans by performing at least the following: presenting on a display an action instance associated with a flow plan within an action designer user interface, wherein the action designer user interface comprises: an action outline component that includes an input graphical element, one or more step instance graphical element, and an action graphical element, wherein one of the graphical elements is highlighted within the action outline component; and an action window adjacent to the action outline component, wherein the action window comprises one or more input fields that dynamically change based on a user selection of one of the graphical elements within the action outline component, and present a window to select from a list of pre-existing step instance types for a step instance.
US10956012B2
A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display; a communicator configured to communicate with a plurality of electronic devices, which generates information used in a function of user device, via a network; a user input receiver configured to receive a user input; and a processor configured to display a graphic user interface (GUI) including a plurality of icons corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices, respectively, on the display, and to, based on a user input on at least one icon from among the plurality of icons, control an operation of corresponding at least one electronic device from among the plurality of electronic devices. The display apparatus provides the GUI for controlling the plurality of electronic devices, thereby enabling a user to control the electronic devices in an intuitive and convenient way.
US10956011B2
A method of outputting information about parameters for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes receiving editing information that is used to change a value of a first parameter, outputting information representing a first range of the first parameter, based on the received editing information, the first range enabling a value of a second parameter that is associated with the first parameter to be changed together with the value of the first parameter, and outputting a value to which the second parameter is changeable, according to a value to which the first parameter is changeable, based on the received editing information.
US10956009B2
Provided is a method and system of providing a cosmetics enhancement interface. The method comprises showing, at the display screen of a computing device having a memory and a processor: a digital photograph including facial features; an interactive dialog portion reflecting a conversational input received and a subsequent response provided thereto from the computing device; and a product display portion; receiving an inquiry, as reflected in the interactive dialog portion, related to a cosmetic product for application onto a selected facial feature; receiving a selection of the cosmetic product based on a matching to the at least one facial feature according to a predefined rule; displaying, at the product display portion, a product representation associated with the selected cosmetic product; receiving an update request; and updating the digital photograph showing a modification to the facial feature on the display screen by simulating application of the selected cosmetic product thereon.
US10956002B2
A system enables universal remote media control across multiple platforms, devices, and users. A protocol allows a cast controller to have access to media operations and a state(s) associated with media content. The system receives commands from a cast controller, provides the commands to a media player, loads new media content into the media player, based on the commands, and receives state notifications from the media player. Another cast controller can receive the state notifications from the media player and control the media player based on the media operations and state(s) associated with media content.
US10956000B2
The technical solutions provide a method for presentation by a terminal device, and a terminal device, so as to reduce a memory burden of the terminal device, improve efficiency and an interaction capability, and facilitate use for a user. Specifically, a method for presentation by a terminal device is provided, where the method includes: when the mobile terminal is in a locked state, display, on the touch screen, the first interface, the first interface including an interface of a first application program (FAP), an interface of a second application program (SAP) and a first content determined by the mobile terminal based on a habit of using the mobile terminal by a user of the mobile terminal, the interface of the SAP occupying a second area on the touch screen, and the second area being part of the whole display area of the touch screen.
US10955994B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device presents information about, and facilitates downloading of, featured applications in an app store application. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates browsing of applications and games by category. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates presentation of information about in-app purchases for a game or application in an app store application. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the purchase of in-app purchases for the games or applications that are available on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the download/purchase of games, applications and/or in-app purchases from outside of an app store application that is for browsing such content available on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device autoplays media content corresponding to applications (e.g., games, non-game applications, etc.) in an app store application so as to facilitate the ordered presentation of the media content to the user.
US10955985B2
Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for optimizing a presentation of content on a display of a user device for n identified user. Application behavior metrics and user behavior metrics are tracked over time for the particular user based on the applications executing on the user device and the users interactions with the content presented by each application. Sections of content are assigned a priority based on the collected metrics which identify content sections (i.e., focus areas) most likely relevant to the user. Based on the assigned priorities, content from one or more applications is presented to the user in an optimal manner (e.g., not overlaid or obscured).
US10955984B2
A method of operating a UI for controlling a virtual musical instrument implemented can include receiving an input corresponding to a selection of a cell within a particular array of cells arranged in a sequential arrangement within a cell matrix, each array of the cell matrix assigned to MIDI notes associated with audio sample data stored in a computer-readable medium that, when triggered, causes the audio sample data to output corresponding audio, and each cell within its particular array of the cell matrix, in response to being selected for playback and upon being triggered to begin playback, causes the audio sample data corresponding to the cell's particular array to be played. The method further includes determining that the input's duration is above a threshold time and expanding a size of an array containing the selected cell and adjusting the adjustable parameter of the selected cell based on the input.
US10955973B2
In one embodiment, a method includes outputting a first current associated with a first electrode track of a self-capacitance touch sensor. The method also includes outputting a second current associated with a second electrode track of the self-capacitance touch sensor. The method also includes measuring a voltage associated with a difference between the first and second currents and determining a position of an object relative to the self-capacitance touch sensor based on the voltage.
US10955972B2
A projector includes: a first camera which receives light emitted from a self-light-emitting pointing element; a position detection unit which detects an operation of the self-light-emitting pointing element to a detection area, based on a light reception state of the first camera; and a light emission control unit which calculates a light emission intensity of the self-light-emitting pointing element, based on distance information from an end part of the detection area to the first camera.
US10955971B2
In order to enable any user to perform an input operation intuitively and safely in a situation where input operation is required, the control device detects an subject entering a projection range based on the characteristics of subjects included in image data generated by controlling an imaging device, controls a projection device to project projection light on a projection surface so that display information for receiving input is displayed over the projection surface, detects when a pointing body has entered the area above the projection surface based on the image data, identifies the content of an instruction based on the positional relation between the display information displayed over the projection surface and the instructing portion of the pointing body, controls a communication device to transmit the identified instruction content as input information, and controls the projection device not to project the projection light on a projection-prohibited surface.
US10955962B2
An electronic device includes a touch panel with a touch area and a command button and includes an independent input mode and a dual input mode. In addition, a control method of an electronic device includes steps of: receiving touch data; determining whether the dual input mode needs to be executed or not, according to the touch data, executing the dual input mode when the dual input mode is determined to be executed, and executing the independent input mode when the dual input mode is not determined to be executed; and determining whether the touch panel is operated within a preset time or not, after executing the dual input mode, considering the touch data as a gesture input when the touch panel is determined as being used within a preset time, and switching to the independent input mode if not.
US10955955B2
A controller for use in a device which comprises at least two force sensors in a given arrangement, the controller operable, based on input sensor signals derived from the force sensors, to carry out an arrangement-related operation in which an output sensor signal is generated based on at least two said input sensor signals and the arrangement of the force sensors in the device so that the output sensor signal is dependent on said arrangement.
US10955952B2
A display panel having a built-in touchscreen, a display device having a built-in touchscreen, an integrated driving circuit, and a driving method. The display panel includes an integrated pad electrically connected to an integrated driving circuit, a data line electrically connected to the integrated pad, and a touch line electrically connected to the integrated pad. The data line is electrically connected to and the touch line. The display device includes the display panel.
US10955948B2
A touch display panel and a touch display device are provided. The touch display panel includes: a substrate, a light-emitting device layer arranged on the substrate, and multiple touch electrodes arranged on the side of the light-emitting device layer away from the substrate. The light-emitting device layer includes multiple pixels, and each of the pixels has a light-emitting region and a non-light-emitting region on the periphery of the light-emitting region. Each of the touch electrodes has a structure of a metal grid. The pixels include first color pixels, and grid lines of the metal grid are arranged in each of the non-light-emitting regions of at least a part of the first color pixels.
US10955920B2
A precise, very high-density and miniaturized printed circuit board (PCB) structure comprising a substrate-like PCB configuration is provided (and stacked to further increase integration in a fixed area) for reducing the occupied area of, for example, a mobile phone's main printed circuit board. The PCB area reduction hereof being a critical design feature used to create internal space in the mobile device so as to at least allow implementing a substantially larger battery (i.e. the battery is comparably upsized because it is reconfigured from a traditional configuration to fit into at least some of the created space) or to add functions. A photolithography process or like process is used to define the circuit pattern on the PCB structure so as to at least enable finer lines and spaces thereof than that provided by traditional subtractive PCB manufacturing. This abstract is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention.
US10955911B2
A method, system and related devices are provided for identifying, for a user, a virtual child object of a virtual parent object of virtual parent objects based on a determined distance between a gazed virtual child object of a virtual parent object of said virtual parent objects and a gaze distance origin, based on captured gaze information. The captured gaze information comprising gaze coordinates representing a position on a display at which said user is looking. The display being configured to display a virtual scene representation of a virtual scene. The virtual scene representation comprising virtual object representations of virtual parent objects. Each virtual parent object of said virtual parent objects comprising at least one virtual child object. The method comprises identifying, for said user, said virtual child object of said virtual parent object of said virtual parent objects based on said determined distance.
US10955901B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for dynamically adjusting the power consumption of prefetch engines are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes one or more prefetch engines, a draw completion engine, and a queue in between the one or more prefetch engines and the draw completion engine. If the number of packets stored in the queue is greater than a high watermark, then the processor reduces the power state of the prefetch engine(s). By decreasing the power state of the prefetch engine(s), power consumption is reduced. Additionally, this power consumption reduction is achieved without affecting performance, since the queue has a high occupancy and the draw completion engine can continue to read packets out of the queue. If the number of packets stored in the queue is less than a low watermark, then the processor increases the power state of the prefetch engine(s).
US10955895B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a first control device that controls, in accordance with an operation mode, power reception/delivery from/to an external device connected to the information processing apparatus; a battery that is recharged by an external power supply or the external device; a second control device that acquires a power supply state of the information processing apparatus; and a third control device that determines whether power is being delivered from the external power supply to the information processing apparatus; and sets the operation mode of the first control device to a first mode based on the power supply state and on a result of the determination. The first mode is an operation mode in which the power reception alone is enabled between the power reception from the external device and the power delivery to the external device.
US10955885B2
Methods and systems to adjust a resistance between a supply grid and a power-gated grid during an active state of a power-gated circuitry in response to load changes in the circuitry to maintain a relatively consistent IR droop. Subsets of power gates (PGs) may be selectively enabled and disabled based on changes in a load factor, such as a voltage, which may be monitored at a gated power distribution grid and/or proximate to a transistor gate within the power-gated circuitry. The adjusting may be performed to minimize a difference between the monitored voltage and a reference, such as with successive approximation or CMS software. PG subsets may be distributed within one or more layers of an integrated circuit (IC) die and may be selectively enabled/disabled based on location. PGs may be embedded within lower layers of an integrated circuit (IC) die, such as within metal layers of the IC die.
US10955881B2
An electronic memory module can be cooled by a cooling assembly that consists of at least a printed circuit board connected to at least one data storage component. The memory module may be housed within, and in physical contact with, a cooling frame that surrounds a periphery of the printed circuit board. The cooling frame can have a seating tab that is separated from the memory module, spans the memory module, and supports a heatsink in contact with the at least one data storage component.
US10955874B2
A multi-screen display device includes a plurality of display screens and a prism structure optical element disposed between two adjacent display screens. The prism structure optical element includes a substrate and a plurality of prism columns. The substrate includes a first region and a second region adjacent to each other, and the lengths of the first and second regions are respectively La and Lb, and La≥Lb. The prism columns include a plurality of first and second prism columns in the first and second regions respectively. Each first prism columns has two interior angles θa1, θa2, a first surface and a second surface. Each second prism columns has two interior angles θb1, θb2, a third surface and a fourth surface. The second and/or fourth surfaces are light absorbing surfaces, or a roughness of the second and fourth surfaces is greater than that of the first and third surfaces.
US10955873B1
An assembly can include a stand that includes a base, an arm that extends from the base to a free end, and a shell operatively coupled to the arm, where the arm includes a front, a back and a side channel disposed between the front and the back, where the side channel includes a curved portion and a straight portion, and where the shell includes a front opening, a bottom end opening, an open orientation that exposes a portion of the back and the side channel of the arm and a closed orientation that covers the side channel of the arm where the side channel is accessible via the front opening of the shell and is accessible via the bottom end opening of the shell; and a display device that includes cable connectors and an arm mount to couple the display device to the free end of the arm.
US10955868B2
An integrated circuit includes a voltage reference circuit including a Zener diode having a first terminal coupled to a first node and a second terminal coupled to a first voltage supply terminal. A proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) circuit is coupled at the first node and configured to generate a PTAT current. A PTAT compensation circuit is coupled at the first node. The PTAT compensation circuit includes a first current mirror having a first branch coupled at the first node.
US10955860B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, is operable in an autonomous mode. The UAV comprises an upwards-configurable sensor an actuator and a controller. The upwards-configurable sensor is configurable in an upwards-facing configuration during an autonomous procedure such that a field of view of the upwards-configurable sensor includes airspace directly above the UAV during the autonomous procedure. The controller is operable to control the actuator during the autonomous procedure based on data captured by the upwards-configurable sensor to cause the UAV to make physical contact with an object in the airspace directly above the UAV during the autonomous procedure.
US10955859B2
An air vehicle configured to augment effective drag to change the rate of descent of the air vehicle in flight via propeller shaft rotation direction reversal, i.e., thrust reversal.
US10955857B2
A computing system receives first sensor data including moving objects and multi-modal LiDAR map data wherein the first sensor is calibrated based on a cost function that alternates between LiDAR map point cloud data and LiDAR map ground reflectivity data as input. The computing system can operate the vehicle based on the moving objects.
US10955850B2
This invention relates to a working device on an inclined surface, consisting of a working robot and a trailer that can run on an inclined surface, as well as a cable connecting the working robot and the trailer. There is a positioning system detects the relative position of the working robot and the trailer. The trailer can recognize the position of the working robot and autonomously move following the working robot. A power supply is installed on the trailer to supply continuous power to the working robot via the cable. The invention also covers a cleaning method for the solar panel array with the above-mentioned working device in a solar power station. The invention is characterized with low investment, easy installation and removal, operator-friendly management and maintenance.
US10955848B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for reducing inconvenience to other road users caused by stopped autonomous vehicles. As an example, a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode may be stopped at a first location. While the vehicle is stopped, sensor data is received from a perception system of the vehicle. The sensor data may identify a road user. Using the sensor data, a value indicative of a level of inconvenience to the road user caused by stopping the vehicle at the first location may be determined. The vehicle is controlled in the autonomous driving mode to cause the vehicle to move from the first location and in order to reduce the value.
US10955844B2
A server apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles each of which carries a vibration control apparatus for attenuating vibration by adjusting a parameter that affects a predetermined acceleration so that the predetermined acceleration approaches a target acceleration is disclosed. The server apparatus acquires traveling data including a magnitude of the predetermined acceleration generated in each of the vehicles and the target acceleration set for the vehicle every time when each of the vehicles travels on each of sections of a previously divided road, and accumulates the acquired traveling data while being correlated with section identification information. Then, the server apparatus sets the target acceleration which is adequate for each of the vehicles to travel on a scheduled traveling section on the basis of the accumulated traveling data, and transmits the set target acceleration to the vehicle scheduled to travel on the scheduled traveling section.
US10955836B2
Provided is a method of detecting and preventing soft errors without performing multiplexing. As a result, it is possible to improve reliability of a device while suppressing an increase in mounting cost and reduction in operation speed accompanied with it. A diagnosis system includes an initial parameter generation unit which generates a plurality of initial parameters predicted on the basis of an external input; an operation unit which has a plurality of operators operating optimal solutions to the initial parameters by using an evaluation function describing a control object; and a diagnosis unit which diagnoses the operation unit on the basis of an output of the operation unit. When an optimal solution candidate giving an evaluation value deviating from a value taken by each evaluation value by a constant threshold or more among evaluation values corresponding to the optimal solutions to the initial parameters is found, the diagnosis unit diagnoses an error of the operation unit.
US10955826B2
First scanned images of the first container are received from a scanning device that show the contents of the interior of the first container before the first container is cut and opened. Second scanned images that are of the contents of the first container after the first container is cut and opened are also received. The images are analyzed and, based upon the analysis, selective modifications to the operating parameters of the container opening machine are determined and made.
US10955825B2
A control system for operating a beam pumping unit includes a strain gauge and a beam pumping unit controller. The strain gauge is coupled to a Samson post of the beam pumping unit, and is configured to measure a Samson post strain. The beam pumping unit controller is coupled to the strain gauge and is configured to operate the beam pumping unit to induce a variable load on a rod of the beam pumping unit. The beam pumping unit controller is further configured to receive the Samson post strain from the strain gauge and compute the variable load based on the Samson post strain.
US10955822B2
Provided is a technique for controlling a door of a toilet cubicle according to a situation in the toilet cubicle at the time of an abnormality occurrence. A toilet system according to the present invention is provided with a detection unit that detects a state of the inside of a toilet cubicle, an abnormality determination unit that determines the occurrence of an abnormality and the type thereof on the basis of a detection result obtained by the detection unit, and a door control unit that controls opening and closing of a door according to the type of the abnormality when it is determined that the abnormality has occurred.
US10955815B2
A method of removing features from a cast workpiece includes generating a nominal toolpath for machining the cast workpiece. The cast workpiece is mounted onto a platform of a computer numeric control machine. The cast workpiece is inspected with a probe to generate probe data. Features to be removed are identified based upon the probe data generated during the inspection. Any expected features of the cast workpiece that are missing from the cast workpiece are identified. A transformation matrix is applied to the nominal toolpath with a controller of the computer numeric control machine, wherein the transformation matrix is based upon the probe data. Alignment of the cast workpiece is adjusted relative to the computer numeric control machine based on the transformation matrix with the computer numeric control machine. Features are removed from the cast workpiece that were identified during inspection.
US10955810B2
A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, communication flows within an industrial processing system; identifying, by the computing device, a hazardous command based on monitoring the communication flows, wherein identifying the hazardous command includes running a simulation with the communication flows as an input to the simulation; generating, by the computing device, a set of one or more mitigating commands based on identifying the hazardous command; and outputting, by the computing device, the set of one or more mitigating commands to components within the industrial processing system, wherein outputting the set of the one or more mitigating commands reduces a level of hazard caused by the hazardous command.
US10955802B2
A mechanical input/output selector is disclosed. The mechanical input/output selector can include a first terminal for a first transmission line. The mechanical input/output selector can also include a plurality of second terminals for a plurality of second transmission lines. The mechanical input/output selector can further include a first displacement device operable to selectively position the first terminal proximate to any one of the plurality of second terminals. Additionally, the mechanical input/output selector can include a second displacement device operable to move the first terminal relative to the plurality of second terminals to alternately connect and disconnect the first terminal and one of the plurality of second terminals. Associated systems and methods are also provided.
US10955801B2
A system and approach for providing information about a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. A screen of the system on a display may have a portion revealing a perspective with a view of components such as cooling and heating coils, fans, dampers, sensors, and so forth. Data modules may be shown proximate to the components on the screen and indicate certain parameters about them. As second portion of the screen may show control and information modules related to items such as temperature and pressure control, and operating mode. The screen may also reveal relationships among sub-systems, applications, zones, alarms, and other items.
US10955800B2
Granular assets of a building are identified. Each granular asset represents one or more devices of that operate to produce, consume, or store resources in the building. General assets are defined by grouping the granular assets into groups. A non-granular optimization is performed to determine a non-granular allocation of the resources among the general assets. Non-granular allocation defines an amount of each of the resources consumed, produced, or stored by each of the general assets at each time step in a time period. A granular optimization is performed for each general asset to determine a granular allocation of the resources among the granular assets. The granular allocation defines an amount of each resource consumed, produced, or stored by the granular assets at each time step in the time period. The equipment of the building are operated to consume, produce, or store the amount of each resource defined by granular allocation.
US10955796B2
A drum unit for a cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling member having a rotational axis, with the coupling member being operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes a cylindrical portion having an outer surface and an inner surface that extends about the rotational axis of the coupling member, an arm portion extending from the inner surface of the cylindrical portion, and a projection projecting from the arm portion in a direction toward the rotational axis of the coupling member. The arm portion and the projection are movable relative to the inner surface.
US10955792B2
A process cartridge includes a developing device that supplies developer to a photosensitive member and an elastic portion that cleans a peripheral surface of the photosensitive member. Multiple grooves are formed side by side in a generatrix direction on the peripheral surface. The developer contains a toner including a toner particle and an organosilicon polymer having a structure represented by R—SiO3/2 covering the toner particle surface, where R represents a hydrocarbon group having at least 1 and not more than 6 carbon atoms. When a penetration amount of the elastic portion with respect to the photosensitive member is set as δ (mm), and a fixing rate of the organosilicon polymer on the surface of the toner particle is set as α (%), δ≤0.02×α−0.4 is satisfied.
US10955787B2
A flange portion extending outward from a main shaft portion is disposed outside a side plate with respect to a position of an attachment member in a main direction when the attachment member is mounted to the side plate. A restriction slot is formed in the attachment member such that the flange portion can be fitted in and pass through the restriction slot. In the middle of the process where the attachment member is mounted to a second side plate in the main direction, the flange portion is fitted in the restriction slot, thereby the sheet detecting member is restricted from rotating, and one of a pair of projection portions of a sheet guide member is inserted in a hole of the attachment member.
US10955763B2
Metal-oxide composite particles are used as a toner additive.
US10955761B2
The present invention relates to a lithographic apparatus, comprising: a projection system configured to project a patterned radiation beam onto a substrate, comprising optical elements, a sensor frame, a first position measurement system configured to measure a position of an optical element relative to the sensor frame, comprising a sensor adapted to monitor an optical element, with a sensor element mounted to the sensor frame, a sensor frame support supporting the sensor frame on a reference, a force measurement device adapted to generate force measurement data relating to force exerted on the sensor frame by the sensor frame support, a position control device adapted to control the relative position of the substrate and the patterned radiation beam wherein the position control device is configured to receive the force measurement data and to control said relative position based on at least the force measurement data.
US10955759B2
An electromagnetic actuator is described the actuator comprising: a magnet assembly comprising: an array of permanent magnets arranged in a first direction and configured to generate, outside the magnet assembly, a spatially varying magnetic field distribution in the first direction; a ferromagnetic member onto which the array of permanent magnets is mounted; a coil assembly, at least partly arranged in the spatially varying magnetic field distribution, configured to co-operate with the magnet assembly to generate an electromagnetic force; wherein a thickness of the array of permanent magnets in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction varies along the first direction and wherein a thickness of the ferromagnetic member in the second direction varies along the first direction such that a combined thickness of the array of permanent magnets and the ferromagnetic member in the second direction is substantially constant along the first direction.
US10955755B2
Disclosed herein are several methods of reducing one or more pattern displacement errors, contrast loss, best focus shift , tilt of a Bossung curve of a portion of a design layout used in a lithographic process for imaging that portion onto a substrate using a lithographic apparatus. The methods include adjusting an illumination source of the lithographic apparatus, placing assist features onto or adjusting positions and/or shapes existing assist features in the portion. Adjusting the illumination source and/or the assist features may be by an optimization algorithm.
US10955753B2
In one embodiment, a substrate processing control apparatus includes a position information acquiring module configured to acquire information about a position of a first pattern that is formed in a substrate for a photomask to change an applied stress to the substrate or a transmittance of the substrate. The apparatus further includes a position determining module configured to determine, in accordance with the information about the position of the first pattern, a position of a second pattern to be formed in the substrate to change the applied stress to the substrate or the transmittance of the substrate.
US10955741B2
A method for cleaning a reticle includes rotating the reticle, providing a cleaning liquid to clean the reticle, detecting a static charge value on the reticle during rotating the reticle, and reducing static charges on the reticle in response to the detected static charge value. Hence, the electrostatic discharge (ESD) occurred to the reticle can be prevented.
US10955734B2
A light source apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a rotator including a light emission unit on one surface, a heat dissipation member that is coupled to the rotator, and has a first cylindrical surface substantially parallel to a rotation axis of the rotator, and a housing that contains the rotator and the heat dissipation member, and has a second cylindrical surface substantially parallel to the first cylindrical surface of the heat dissipation member.
US10955731B2
An imaging optical system consists of a first lens group and a second lens group, in order from a magnification side along an optical axis, an intermediate image is formed between the first lens group and the second lens group on the optical axis, at least one of the first lens group or the second lens group includes a reflector that bends the optical axis, the second lens group includes a movable lens group that moves during zooming, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
US10955726B2
Microwave-to-optical transducers in an optical ring resonator having intracavity grating to split a single resonance order are provided. In one aspect, a microwave-to-optical transducer includes: an optical ring resonator with intracavity grating; and a microwave signal waveguide optically coupled to the optical ring resonator with the intracavity grating. Microwave-to-optical transducers having multiple pump photon optical ring resonators and multiple signal photon optical ring resonators optically coupled to the optical ring resonator with the intracavity grating are also provided, as is a method of forming a microwave-to-optical transducer, and a method for microwave-optical transduction.
US10955724B2
An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays that are viewable by the eyes of a viewer through adjustable lenses. The adjustable lenses may be liquid crystal lenses. A camera and other sensors in the head-mounted device may monitor the eyes of the user and gather other information. Control circuitry in the head-mounted device may control the adjustable lenses based on measured characteristics of the eyes of the user such as interpupillary distance and direction-of-view. The control circuitry may match the distance between the centers of the adjustable lenses to the measured interpupillary distance and may align the lens centers with the measured direction-of-view. The adjustable lenses may have transparent electrodes that are supplied with time-varying control signals by the control circuitry.
US10955716B2
An electrochromic device includes an optically transparent first substrate, a first transparent conductor disposed on the first substrate, a counter electrode disposed on the first transparent conductor, an optically transparent, ionically conductive first capping layer disposed on the counter electrode, and configured to permit diffusion of alkali metal ions, and to block the diffusion of organic compounds and carbon, an optically transparent second substrate, a second transparent conductor disposed on the second substrate, a working electrode comprising electrochromic nanoparticles disposed on the second transparent conductor, and an electrolyte disposed between the first capping layer and the working electrode.
US10955715B2
A switchable privacy display apparatus comprises a polarised output spatial light modulator, and an additional polariser. A reflective polariser, switchable liquid crystal polar control retarder, passive polar control retarders and air gap are arranged between the display output polariser and additional polariser. The passive retarders are arranged to provide no phase difference to polarised light from the spatial light modulator for on-axis light; and simultaneously provide a non-zero phase difference for polarised light in off-axis directions. The polar control retarders are further arranged to achieve low reflectivity for light propagating through the air gap. A switchable privacy display that can be conveniently assembled at low cost can be provided with high contrast images for display users while maintaining high visual security level for off-axis snoopers.
US10955702B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device containing a layer of patterned photoluminescent nanoparticles, which can emit highly saturated color lights when excited with backlights, is disclosed in this invention. The patterned photoluminescent nanoparticle layer is disposed between the backlight and the liquid crystal. The display device can improve the light utilization efficiency for 3 times thus saving reduce the backlight power consumption to ⅓ or being 3 times brighter at the same power consumption from conventional LCD displays. The display also can produce an ultra-wide color gamut up to 95% of the CIE 1976 color space or 165% of NTSC color gamut. The display is capable of switching between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional viewing modes without any hardware structures changes applied.
US10955697B2
A display device is disclosed that includes a backlight comprising light-emitting diodes. The disclosed display device includes a liquid crystal panel configured to control transmission of light from the backlight to a viewer. The display device also includes one or more optical films that incorporate one or more light conversion materials.
US10955695B2
A liquid crystal display device includes pixel electrodes, a common electrode placed in such a manner that at least part thereof overlaps the pixel electrodes via an inter-transparent-electrode-film insulating film, at least two source lines, placed in such a manner that the pixel electrodes are interposed therebetween, that supply the pixel electrodes with image signals, and a common electrode wire, placed in such a manner that the pixel electrodes that are adjacent to the two source lines between which the pixel electrodes are interposed between the common electrode wire and the source lines, that extends parallel to the source lines and supplies the common electrode with at least a reference potential signal.
US10955694B2
The present disclosure relates to a backlight module and a liquid crystal display apparatus. The backlight module includes: a light source assembly; a frame, to which at least a portion of the light source assembly is connected; and a bottom reflective sheet, at least a portion of a thickness of which is overlapped with a thickness of the frame in a thickness direction of the backlight module.
US10955692B2
An optoelectronic component including a waveguide, the waveguide comprising an optically active region (OAR), the OAR having an upper and a lower surface; a lower doped region, wherein the lower doped region is located at and/or adjacent to at least a portion of a lower surface of the OAR, and extends laterally outwards from the OAR in a first direction; an upper doped region, wherein the upper doped region is located at and/or adjacent to at least a portion of an upper surface of the OAR, and extends laterally outwards from the OAR in a second direction; and an intrinsic region located between the lower doped region and the upper doped region.
US10955675B1
A display device is configurable to be operable in a first mode and a second mode. The display device includes an emission surface configured to output image light, a first optical assembly, and a second optical assembly. The first optical assembly is configured to receive image light from the emission surface and to direct the image light toward the eyes of a user at a first optical power. The second optical assembly includes a first region configured to receive image light from the emission surface and to direct the image light toward the eyes of a user at a second optical power. The second optical assembly also includes a second region configured to receive ambient light and to transmit at least a portion of the received ambient light at a third optical power distinct from and less than the first optical power and the second optical power.
US10955667B2
A near eye display system including a display screen, a graphic processing unit, a lens group, a focal length adjustment device, an interpupillary distance adjustment device, a detection unit, and a control unit is provided. Positions of a left-eye image and a right-eye image to be displayed on the display screen may be adjusted based on lateral displacement amounts of a left-eye lens and a right-eye lens, such that centers of the left-eye image and the right-eye image are respectively aligned with centers of the left-eye lens and the right-eye lens. Sizes (magnification) of the left-eye image and the right-eye image to be displayed on the display screen may be adjusted based on longitudinal displacement amounts of the left-eye lens and the right-eye lens, such that sizes of a visual left-eye image and a visual right-eye image seen by a user are identical. Operation methods thereof are also provided.
US10955664B2
A transparent display provides eye protection from lasers and other high intensity light sources. The transparent display allows users to view objects clearly through the display while also presenting text, graphics or video on the display surface. Simultaneously, the display assembly comprises a component that provides eye protection against high power radiation sources. The transparent display with eye protection provides both protection from high power light sources and an additional cockpit display surface for presentation of information including graphical images, symbology, video, text, and other data.
US10955658B2
A camera and a terminal including the same are disclosed. The camera according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first prism apparatus to reflect a first input light input in a first direction to a second direction; a second prism apparatus to reflect a second input light input in the first direction to the second direction, and output the reflected second input light to the first prism apparatus; a lens apparatus to receive the first input light from the first prism apparatus or the second input light from the second prism apparatus; and an image sensor to generate an image signal based on the first input light or the second input. Accordingly, it is possible to implement a slim camera that can use a single image sensor with respect to a plurality of cameras at the time of front photographing or rear photographing.
US10955656B2
An image-acquisition apparatus is provided with: an imaging optical system; and an image-acquisition device that acquires parallax images, wherein the imaging optical system is provided with a first negative lens group, a first positive lens group, and a second positive lens group, wherein the first positive lens group and the first negative lens group are disposed along a common center axis, wherein the second positive lens group is provided with two positive lens groups that are disposed next to each other in a parallax direction on either side of the common center axis and that individually have center axes, wherein two aperture stops having openings, wherein the first positive lens group has only one moving lens group that is moved, and wherein all of remaining lens components in the imaging optical system, excluding the moving lens group, remain still.
US10955655B2
There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a microscope system which can compose a microscopically observed image having a wide field of view and a high resolution by highly accurately stitching a plurality of digital images together. An image acquisition unit provided in the information processing apparatus acquires a first partial image and a second partial image each formed by imaging a part of an observation target area, and a stitching position adjustment unit adjusts a stitching position of the second partial image with respect to the first partial image. The image acquisition unit controls drive of the microscope such that a partial image including a specimen is acquired as the second partial image when the first partial image includes a foreign matter.
US10955651B2
A process is provided for imaging a surface of a specimen with an imaging system that employs a BD objective having a darkfield channel and a bright field channel, the BD objective having a circumference. The specimen is obliquely illuminated through the darkfield channel with a first arced illuminating light that obliquely illuminates the specimen through a first arc of the circumference. The first arced illuminating light reflecting off of the surface of the specimen is recorded as a first image of the specimen from the first arced illuminating light reflecting off the surface of the specimen, and a processor generates a 3D topography of the specimen by processing the first image through a topographical imaging technique. Imaging apparatus is also provided as are further process steps for other embodiments.
US10955650B2
Two-pass capture of a macro image. In an embodiment, a scanning apparatus comprises a stage, a high-resolution camera, and a lens that provides a field of view, substantially equal in width to a slide width, to the high-resolution camera. The apparatus also comprises a first illumination system for transmission-mode illumination, and a second illumination system for reflection-mode illumination. Processor(s) move the stage in a first direction to capture a first macro image of a specimen during a single pass while the field of view is illuminated by the first illumination system, and move the stage in a second direction to capture a second macro image of the specimen during a single pass while the field of view is illuminated by the second illumination system. The processor(s) identify artifacts in the second macro image, and, based on those artifacts, correct the first macro image to generate a modified first macro image.
US10955644B2
A zoom optical system includes a front-side lens unit, an intermediate lens unit, and a rear-side lens unit. The front-side lens unit includes a first front unit and a second front unit, and a distance between the first front unit and the second front unit is wider at a telephoto end than at a wide angle end. The intermediate lens unit includes a first intermediate unit and a second intermediate unit, and a distance between the first intermediate unit and the second intermediate unit is narrower at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. A distance between the second intermediate unit and a lens unit adjacent to the second intermediate unit varies. The second intermediate unit moves at the time of focusing, and the following conditional expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 0.9≤LTLT/LTLW≤1.17 (1) 4.2≤KMBT≤20.0 (2).
US10955638B2
An optical fiber tape includes a matrix and at least one optical fiber connected to the matrix in an undulating manner. The undulations of the optical fiber are generally sinusoidal, semicircular, or elliptic, and are of amplitude and wavelength such that the minimum bend radius of each undulation is not less than a minimum bend radius specified by a manufacturer of the optical fiber. A road having an upper surface has a pathway indented into the upper surface to less than full depth of the road and has the optical fiber tape laid in the pathway so that the optical fiber tape does not protrude above the upper surface of the road.
US10955634B2
A fiber optic splitter module includes a body including a front wall, a rear wall, and first and second side walls together at least partially defining an interior space. The first side wall includes a tongue extending longitudinally along the first side wall, and the second side wall includes a first groove that is complementary to the tongue. The fiber optic splitter module also includes an optical splitter positioned in the interior space, an input fiber extending through the front wall or the rear wall into the interior space and optically coupled to the optical splitter, and a plurality of output fibers extending through the front wall or the rear wall into the interior space and optically coupled to the optical splitter.
US10955629B2
An optical array formed from unclad fibers that are affixed with a micro-coating of adhesive has been developed to allow for enhanced light collection translating into parallel streams of optical output. The system is designed to be used for applications requiring parallel output streams (e.g. random number generation for parallel computing architectures, observation of position information for optical sensing application, etc.). The system acts as a parallel, pixeled detector for a source where the individual pixels are simultaneously readout.
US10955623B2
Optical fiber connectors and adapters are disclosed. A connector assembly includes a sleeve seal positioned near a proximal end of the connector, the seal fits over an alignment sleeve contained within an adapter. The connector may include a heat shrinkable tubing covering a distal end of the connector to prevent ingress of moisture and debris. The sleeve seal is compressed by a proximal face of a connector plug frame. The sleeve seal contains a plural of sealing or mating surfaces to prevent the ingress of moisture through the adapter opening into the plug frame housing a ferrule. The adapter further comprises a washer-seal that is placed between an adapter flange face and a module face plate that secures the adapter with connectors therein to a rack of adapters.
US10955622B2
According to the connection device, the connection method, the optical connector manufacturing device, and the method for manufacturing an optical connector, rotation alignment of an MCF becomes unnecessary because an image of an end surface of the MCF to be connected is captured, the position of the core is located, and an optical waveguide is formed on a substrate so as to match the position. Thus, it is possible to solve the problem of increasing loss or complex connection work caused by rotational misalignment in association with rotation alignment.
US10955621B2
A splice tray may include a tray base including a base panel and flange associated with a perimeter of the base panel and extending outward from the base panel. The splice tray may also include a flexible latch extending from an outer surface of the flange of the tray base. The latch may selectively prevent and allow the splice tray to pivot with respect to a splice tray assembly in which the splice tray is received. The splice tray may also include a splice holder configured to hold a plurality of spliced optical fibers. The splice holder may include a holder base coupled to the tray base, and a plurality of ribs associated with the holder base and defining a plurality of recesses configured to receive at least one spliced optical fiber. The splice tray may also include a cover removably coupled to the tray base and/or splice holder.
US10955618B2
A fiber coupling device (100) includes the following components: a wedge plate (102) for receiving light and refracting the light in a predetermined direction, a condenser lens (104) for collecting the light refracted by the wedge plate (102); and an optical fiber (107) having an incident surface for receiving the light collected by the condenser lens (104). The wedge plate (102) is held rotatable around the optical axis (200) of the light incident on the wedge plate (102). The light refracted by the wedge plate (102) and collected by the condenser lens (104) is incident on a different point on the incident surface depending on the rotation angle of the wedge plate (102).
US10955614B1
Optical coupler structures have an insulator layer on a substrate, a waveguide structure in the insulator layer, and a cladding layer on the waveguide structure and the insulator layer. Optical grating couplers are on the cladding layer and the waveguide structure is connected between the optical grating couplers. The waveguide structure is discontinuous between the optical grating couplers. The insulator layer includes an array at a transmission blocking region between discontinuous sections of the waveguide structure. This array can be a void opening array of openings or can be a blocking element array of disconnected elements in the insulator layer.
US10955612B2
Embodiments describe an optical fiber that includes a core. The core has high compressive stress. The compressive stress of the core is in a range of about 20 to 60 MPa. The optical fiber further includes a cladding. The cladding is divided into a first cladding layer and a second cladding layer. The second cladding layer has a high residual stress. The high residual stress of the second cladding layer is in a range of about 20 to 60 MPa. The optical fiber enables reduction of particle related breaks. Further, the optical fiber has elevated LLT strength. The LLT strength is about 6 Kg. The optical fiber has high proof test yield. Furthermore, the optical fiber is highly sensitive to micro-bending of the optical fiber.
US10955605B1
A waveguide includes an input area, a multi-layered substrate, and an output area. The multi-layered substrate includes a plurality of layers of at least a substrate and at least one partially reflective layers. The input area in-couples light in a first band into the waveguide. The one or more partially reflective layers are partially reflective to light in the first band. Each of the one or more partially reflective layers are located between respective layers of the plurality of layers of the substrate. The output area out-couples light from the waveguide. The pupil replication density of the out-coupled light is based in part on a number of the one or more partially reflective layers and respective locations of the one or more partially reflective layers in the waveguide.
US10955603B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for imaging an object. For example, an optical sensor for imaging an input object, comprises: a sensor substrate comprising detector pixels; a scattering layer; a cover layer including a sensing surface, wherein the scattering layer is disposed between the sensor substrate and the cover layer; and, a light source. The optical sensor is configured to: illuminate the light source causing light beams to emanate from the light source to produce an effect of a point light source at the scattering layer; and acquire image data, from one or more detector pixels, of an input object in contact with the sensing surface, wherein the image data corresponds to light from the light source that is reflected at the sensing surface of the cover layer.
US10955602B2
The present disclosure provides a reflective polarizer module characterized by comprising: a first light collecting sheet including a first structuring pattern having a first unit light collector, the cross-sectional area of which is reduced progressively upward, which is disposed continuously in a repetitive manner, and collecting a light transmitted from below; a reflective polarizer sheet disposed in a stacked configuration on the top of the first light collecting sheet, and selectively transmitting the light by having a plurality of stacked layers having mutually different refractive indices; and a light recycling improving sheet disposed at the bottom of the reflective polarizer sheet, and randomly changing the polarized direction of the light which is not transmitted through the reflective polarizer sheet but is reflected downward.
US10955594B2
The disclosure is directed to a highly reflective multiband mirror that is reflective in the VIS-NIR-SWIR-MWIR-LWIR bands, the mirror being a complete thin film stack that consists of a plurality of layers on a selected substrate. In order from substrate to the final layer, the mirror consists of (a) substrate, (b) barrier layer, (c) first interface layer, (d) a reflective layer, (e) a second interface layer, (f) tuning layer(s) and (g) a protective layer. In some embodiments the tuning layer and the protective layer are combined into a single layer using a single coating material. The multiband mirror is more durable than existing mirrors on light weight metal substrates, for example 6061-Al, designed for similar applications. In each of the five layer types methods and materials are used to process each layer so as to achieve the desired layer characteristics, which aid to enhancing the durability performance of the stack.
US10955592B2
The disclosure describes asymmetric turning films (ATFs) that may be used in conjunction with multiple light sources in a liquid crystal display assembly to provide multiple different characteristic output distributions of light. In some examples, the ATFs include a structured surface defining a plurality of microstructures having two or more faces with each face configured to reflect light in different directions. The microstructure may define a microstructure axis and an angle gradient characterizing the rotation of the microstructure axis across the structured surface of the ATF.
US10955585B2
A computerized method of processing data for use in weather modeling is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first data source, by a first server, microwave link data including signal attenuation information. The method also includes pre-processing, in real time, by the first server, the microwave link data, thereby producing pre-processed microwave link data. The method also includes storing the pre-processed microwave link data in a first data store. The method also includes receiving, from the first data store, by a second server, the pre-processed microwave link data. The method also includes processing, on a scheduled routine, by the second server, the pre-processed microwave link data using a data transform, thereby producing first weather data.
US10955584B2
A method can include receiving sensor data from at least three different types of sensor situated in the geographic area, the types of sensors including an air temperature sensor, relative humidity sensor, dewpoint sensor, soil moisture sensor, soil temperature sensor, average wind speed sensor, maximum wind speed sensor, and a rainfall sensor, producing a feature vector including a time series of values corresponding to the received sensor data, and using a neural network, estimating the physical characteristics, the physical characteristics including at least one of (a) a leaf wetness, (b) a solar radiation, (c) an evapotranspiration, (d) a future soil moisture, and (e) a future soil temperature.
US10955575B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for using an audible signal to monitor conditions at a downhole location in a well through use of a well cable containing a fiber optic, which may be either a slickline or a wireline fiber-optic cable, and providing an audible signal which varies in response to the monitored condition. The condition monitored can be strain in the fiber optic well cable, which can be sensed in one or more locations in the fiber optic well cable, in many examples through use of a sensor such as a Bragg grating associated with or formed in an optical fiber within the well cable. In some examples, a temperature measurement may be used to compensate for temperature effects impacting the strain measurement.
US10955571B2
A radiographing apparatus includes a radiation detection panel that detects radiation, a casing that encloses the radiation detection panel, and a wireless power reception portion. The casing includes an entrance portion via which radiation enters, a bottom portion arranged on the opposite side of the entrance portion, and a plurality of side portions. The casing also includes a connection portion that continuously connects the bottom portion and the side portions at a position located inside a first extension plane, which is an extension of the surface of the bottom portion, and a second extension plane, which is an extension of the surface of the side portions. The wireless power reception portion is arranged at the connection portion.
US10955570B2
An apparatus suitable for detecting X-ray is disclosed. In one example, the apparatus comprises an X-ray absorption layer comprising a first pixel and a second pixel, and a controller. The controller is configured for determining that carriers generated by a single X-ray photon are collected by the first pixel and the second pixel. The controller is also configured for determining energy of the single X-ray photon based on a first voltage detected from the first pixel and a second voltage detected from the second pixel. The first voltage and the second voltage are caused by the single X-ray photon.
US10955566B1
This invention provides an ornate method and design to create a PSP panel assembly mosaic for radiography operations. There is no similar design or method as taught herein. Having an integrated attachment point allows a superior foundation to secure PSP panel assemblies together with unique brackets allowing for modular attachments, improving performance, and capabilities. All current options utilize external methods that are not dependable, bulky, and are not modular. The main benefits of this method are a more secure connection, better image quality, fewer backscatter deposits, lightweight, ease of use, and smaller boxes needed to carry components.
US10955565B2
Provided are a radiation measurement device and method that allow stable radiation measurement as compared with the prior art. The radiation measurement device includes a radiation detection unit 1 having a scintillator, an optical transmission member 21 for transmitting an optical signal generated in the radiation detection unit, and a signal processing unit 3 for calculating a radiation dose from the optical signal transmitted. The signal processing unit includes a compensation unit 7 for obtaining an optical transmission loss amount from a change in wavelength spectrum in the optical signal caused by radiation acting on the optical transmission member and performs compensation-control on the optical transmission loss amount, and outputs a compensated signal.
US10955560B2
A pay television satellite broadcast includes validation data that can be used to validate authenticity of live global positioning system (GPS) data. The validation data may be included within entitlement messages and encrypted for security and selective reception by authorized receivers. A navigation system may compute checksums of received live GPS data and compare with the validation data for a match. A decision about whether or not to use the live GPS data may be taken based on whether or not the computed checksums match the validation data received via the pay television satellite broadcast signals.
US10955553B2
A sensor system mounted on a vehicle includes: a first sensor configured to acquire information on a first area outside the vehicle; a second sensor configured to acquire information on a second area that partially overlaps with the first area outside the vehicle; and a controller configured to change an information acquisition rate of the first sensor and an information acquisition rate of the second sensor, in which when the information acquisition rate of one of the first sensor and the second sensor falls below a predetermined value, the controller increases the information acquisition rate of the other sensor to be higher than the predetermined value.
US10955540B2
A detection system includes a ranging-sensor and a controller-circuit. The ranging-sensor is configured to detect objects proximate to a host-vehicle. The controller-circuit is in communication with the ranging-sensor. The controller-circuit is configured to determine that a trailer is being towed by the host-vehicle and determine a trailer-distance between the host-vehicle and a front of the trailer based on a distance to a first-group of objects detected by the ranging-sensor. The first-group is characterized by a first-distance indicated by the ranging-sensor. The controller-circuit determines an axle-distance between the front of the trailer and a trailer-axle based on a second-group of objects. The second-group is characterized by a second-distance indicated by the ranging-sensor. The controller-circuit determines a trailer-length based on the trailer-distance and the axle-distance.
US10955538B2
A positioning system according to an embodiment of the above description includes a transmitter including a first transmitting unit and a second transmitting unit for transmitting a first signal and a second signal having different velocities, respectively; and a receiver including: a first receiving unit and a second receiving unit for measuring each time of reception of the first signal and the second signal; and a position determining unit for measuring a location of the transmitter using a difference in reception time of the first signal and the second signal.
US10955527B2
A radar system includes a transmitter circuit, which transmits a radar wave having a chirp frequency gradually increasing or decreasing to a target, and a frequency conversion circuit, which demodulates a signal of the radar wave reflected at the target by frequency-conversion in correspondence to the chirp frequency. A radar signal processor includes a variable amplifier connected to an output side of the frequency conversion circuit, and a feedback circuit which detects an output of the variable amplifier as a detection signal and feeds back a signal of a frequency band included in the detection signal to an input of the variable amplifier. The feedback circuit is configured to cut off and not cut off a frequency band including a DC offset transient response frequency, which occurs at time of frequency conversion by the frequency conversion circuit, during a specified period and a period other than the specified period, respectively. The specified period is a predetermined first period from starting of a demodulation operation of the frequency conversion circuit and/or a predetermined second period from ending of the demodulation operation of the frequency operation of the frequency conversion circuit.
US10955526B2
A device for processing an input signal, including a local oscillator, designed to generate an oscillator signal; a subtracting unit, designed to subtract an amplified correction signal from the input signal in order to generate a corrected input signal; a downmixer, designed to mix the corrected input signal downward to an intermediate frequency using the oscillator signal in order to generate a difference signal; a first amplifier unit, designed to amplify the difference signal in order to generate and output an output signal; a correcting unit, designed to suppress a predefined frequency range of the output signal in order to generate a correction-difference signal; an upmixer, designed to mix the correction-difference signal upward using the oscillator signal in order to generate a correction signal; and a second amplifier unit, designed to amplify the correction signal in order to generate the amplified correction signal.
US10955522B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first, a second, and a third sensing events within a same beacon message interval from a mobile device, each sensing event including a beacon device identifier associated with a beacon device and a timestamp associated with a respective beacon message, a location of the mobile device, and a power level associated with the respective beacon message, determining a first, a second, and a third distances between the mobile device and the beacon device based on the first, the second, and the third sensing events, and determining a position of the beacon device based on the first, the second, and the third distances.
US10955510B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates, from a first image influenced by a magnetic field distortion, a second image in which the influence of the distortion is corrected, receives a first area setting in the second image and calculates, by a method of the calculation depending on an imaging purpose, an excitation area in the imaging based on the first area.
US10955509B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system (100, 600) that generates information indicative of a fluid flow in accordance with a pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) method. The MRI system may include at least one controller (104, 610) configured to generate a pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) pulse sequence (200) including at least a first gradient (GR) pulse sequence (207) having a sinusoidal waveform including a plurality of cycles, and a second radio frequency (RF) pulse sequence (205) including a half-wave rectified sinusoidal waveform having a plurality of cycles and which is synchronous with the first GR pulse sequence; label at least part of the fluid flow in a labeling region during a labeling mode using the pCASL pulse sequence; acquire label and control image information of the fluid flow at an imaging region proximal to downstream of the labeling region; and/or generate image information in accordance with a difference of the acquired label and control image information. The sinusoidal gradient waveform results in less acoustic noise during execution of the pulse sequence.
US10955508B2
A magnetic resonance imaging system (200, 300, 400) includes a radio-frequency system (216, 214) with multiple coil elements (214) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (264) and a memory (250) for storing machine executable instructions (260) and pulse sequence commands (262). The pulse sequence commands are configured for controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system to acquire the magnetic resonance data according to a SENSE imaging protocol. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes a processor (244) to: control (500) the magnetic resonance imaging system to acquire the magnetic resonance data using the pulse sequence commands; reconstruct (502) a set of folded magnetic resonance images (266) from the magnetic resonance data; calculate (504) a voxel deformation map (270) from a magnetic field inhomogeneity map; and calculate (506) a set of unfolding matrices (274) using a least partially a coil sensitivity matrix (272) for the multiple coil elements, wherein the set of unfolding matrices includes at least one modified unfolding matrix which is calculated at least partially using the a coil sensitivity matrix and the voxel deformation map. Undistorted magnetic resonance image data (276) is calculated (508) using the set of folded magnetic resonance images and the set of unfolding matrices.
US10955504B2
Some aspects include a method of detecting change in biological subject matter of a patient positioned within a low-field magnetic resonance imaging device, the method comprising: while the patient remains positioned within the low-field magnetic resonance device: acquiring first magnetic resonance image data of a portion of the patient; acquiring second magnetic resonance image data of the portion of the patient subsequent to acquiring the first magnetic resonance image data; aligning the first magnetic resonance image data and the second magnetic resonance image data; and comparing the aligned first magnetic resonance image data and second magnetic resonance image data to detect at least one change in the biological subject matter of the portion of the patient.
US10955498B2
Attenuation of microwaves is reduced or prevented when vacuum windows are provided in microwave waveguides of a DNP-NMR probe. A DNP-NMR probe has an inner container and an outer container. The inner container has therein a sample tube containing a sample to which radicals are added. The outer container keeps a space between the outer container and the inner container in the outer container in a vacuum state. The outer container has an outer container waveguide that has a vacuum window at an inner end portion and guides microwaves. The inner container has a vacuum window facing the vacuum window of the outer container waveguide through vacuum, and guides microwaves transmitted from the outer container waveguide to the sample. The window-to-window distance between the vacuum window of the outer container and the vacuum window of the inner container is adjusted by means of adjustment bolts.
US10955497B2
A phase compensation circuit includes a phase difference voltage detection module configured to process an inputted detection signal and an inputted reference signal, calculate a magnitude ratio or a phase difference of the processed detection signal and reference signal, and then output a first phase difference voltage signal according to the amplitude ratio or the phase difference. A compensation voltage adjustment module is configured to collect an ambient temperature parameter, determine a first compensation voltage corresponding to the ambient temperature parameter according to a corresponding relationship between a preset temperature parameter and a compensation voltage, perform voltage division on a voltage value inputted from a voltage input terminal according to the first compensation voltage, and output a compensation voltage signal; and a A compensation module is configured to compensate for the first phase difference voltage signal according to the compensation voltage signal and output a second phase difference voltage signal.
US10955496B2
Gas vesicle protein structures and related compositions, methods, and systems for singleplexed and/or multiplexed magnetic resonance imaging of a target site alone or in combination with ultrasound are described, in which the gas vesicle protein structures provide contrast for the imaging.
US10955494B2
A portable computing device that includes a base portion that carries an audio module and a display housing that carries a display is disclosed. The display housing is coupled with, and rotatable with respect to, the base portion. The display housing includes a magnet, and the base portion includes a magnetic field sensor that detects an external magnetic field of the magnet. The magnetic field sensor provides a signal that deactivates the display. In order to reduce layout changes in the portable computing device, the magnetic field sensor is positioned in an audio housing that carries the audio module. However, the magnetic field sensor is designed and oriented to detect the magnetic field from the magnet in the display housing and effectively ignore magnets associated with the audio module. In order to reduce the amount of electrical connections, the magnetic field sensor is electrically coupled to the audio module.
US10955492B2
A test system for testing electric connections, in particular soldered connections, between electronic components and a printed circuit board to be tested, characterized in that the test system includes a subassembly, which is movably mounted in a housing of the test system, and a current and/or voltage source for energizing the circuit board to be tested, the current and/or voltage source being arranged in the housing of the test system in such a way as to be movable in at least two directions in space.
US10955488B2
A modular power supply including a voltage regulator configured to output a voltage, a first output configured to connect to a device under test and output the voltage from the regulator, a microcontroller connected to the voltage regulator, and an interface configured to connect to a test and measurement instrument. The interface includes an input configured to receive power from the test and measurement instrument and a second output configured to output a signal characteristic of the first output.
US10955487B2
A high voltage diagnostic connector includes a housing holding a positive terminal, a negative terminal and a ground terminal with a cover removably coupled to the housing. An HVIL assembly is in the housing having a HVIL contacts and an HVIL shunt. An HVIL switch is held by the housing including a shunt actuator operably coupled to the HVIL shunt to position the HVIL shunt in an un-shunted position to open an HVIL circuit when in the primary position and in a shunted position to close the HVIL circuit when in the secondary position. The shunt actuator is movable between the primary position and the secondary position when testing the positive terminal, the negative terminal and the ground terminal with the testing device during diagnostic testing of the high voltage diagnostic connector.
US10955481B2
Various embodiments of the present technology comprise a method and apparatus for determining a resistance value of a resistor in a battery system. In various embodiments, the apparatus comprises a sense resistor connected to a current sensor. The apparatus may be configured to compute a voltage-based RSOC value and a current-based RSOC value and extract a capacity value from each. Over time, the capacity values will diverge and the difference can be used to compute an actual value of the sense resistor.
US10955478B2
A monitoring method for monitoring equipment of electromechanical actuator type, the equipment including a three-phase electric motor, the monitoring method comprising the following steps: measuring three-phase currents powering the three-phase electric motor; projecting the three-phase currents into a Park reference frame; performing an ensemblist empirical mode decomposition processor the quadrature current coupled with a blind source separation process in order to obtain source components; from among the source components, automatically selecting a first set of source components sensitive to a first defect, and a second set of source components sensitive to a second defect; constructing a first virtual defect signal and a second virtual defect signal; and extracting a first set of signatures representative of the first defect from the first virtual defect signal, and extracting a second set of signatures representative of the second defect from the second virtual defect signal.
US10955472B1
An integrated circuit includes first and second cores. Each core has a power-switchable portion in a first power domain in which an operating power is turned on or off in response to a power control signal. The first power domain includes a first scan chain, and the first power domain also includes a plurality of outputs. Each core also includes an always-on portion in a second power domain in which the operating power is maintained during testing of the integrated circuit. The second power domain also has a second scan chain. The second power domain further includes respective isolation gates coupled to the plurality of outputs of the first power domain, and the second scan chain includes a respective wrapper cell coupled to some isolation gates. The integrated circuit is configured to power off and isolate the power-switchable portion in the first power domain based on a scan test result.
US10955471B2
A method comprises a system comprising a host device coupled to a first remote device actively operating according to a state diagram that the host device and all remote devices follow during operation of the system. The method further comprises powering up a second remote device while the host device and first remote device are actively operating according to the state diagram. The second remote device waits for a synchronization point sequence. Upon detecting the synchronization point sequence, the second remote device implements a predetermined feature set and synchronizes itself to the state diagram at a common point as the host device and first remote device.
US10955467B2
An embedded continuity test circuit is provided. An integrated circuit includes a bond pad and an oscillator circuit. The oscillator circuit is configured to generate an oscillator signal having a first frequency when the bond pad is coupled to a bond region of a package and a second frequency when the bond pad is not coupled to the bond region of the package.
US10955459B2
A method includes loading the semiconductor structure on a stage; providing a detector disposed above the semiconductor structure and the stage; applying a voltage to the semiconductor structure; identifying a portion of the semiconductor structure at a temperature substantially greater than a predetermined threshold by the detector; rotating the stage and recording a rotation of the stage after identifying the portion of the semiconductor structure; and deriving a position of the portion of the semiconductor structure based upon the rotation of the stage.
US10955455B2
The present disclosure pertains to detection of a broken conductor in an electric power system. In one embodiment, a broken conductor detector may be configured to be mounted to an electrical conductor and may comprise a communication subsystem configured to transmit a signal configured to indicate that the conductor is broken. A sensor may determine an operating vector. A processing subsystem may be configured to receive the operating vector from the sensor and to identify when the operating vector is outside of a range defined by a rest vector and a threshold value. In certain embodiments, the threshold may comprise a three-dimensional sphere. The processing subsystem may determine that the conductor is broken based on the operating vector remaining outside of the range for a period of time determined by the timer subsystem. A signal may be transmitted by the communication subsystem to indicate that the conductor is broken.
US10955445B2
A system includes a power transistor having a first drain connected to a load, a first gate connected to a gate driver, wherein the gate driver is configured to drive a first gate voltage on the first gate, and a first source connected to a ground. A sampling transistor includes a second drain connected to the first gate, a second gate connected to the first drain and a second source. A sampling capacitor is connected between the second source and the ground, wherein the sampling transistor is configured to sample a Miller plateau voltage of the first gate voltage on the sampling capacitor, in response to the first gate voltage increasing to the Miller plateau voltage and a first drain voltage of the first drain decreasing to a value equal to the Miller plateau voltage plus a threshold voltage of the sampling transistor.
US10955441B2
A measurement system is described, comprising a sampling clock unit, a travelling wave sampler circuit and at least a first analog-to-digital converter and a second analog-to-digital converter. The sampling clock unit is configured to generate a sampling timing for the travelling wave sampler circuit. The travelling wave sampler circuit is configured to receive an input signal. The travelling wave sampler circuit is further configured to provide at least a first time-discrete intermediate signal and a second time-discrete intermediate signal and to sample the first and the second time-discrete intermediate signal with the same sampling timing. The first analog-to-digital converter and the second analog-to-digital converter are configured to receive the first time-discrete intermediate signal sampled and the second time-discrete intermediate signal sampled, respectively. The first analog-to-digital converter and the second analog-to-digital converter are configured to output a first digitized output signal and a second digitized output signal, respectively. Further, a method for operating a measurement system is described.
US10955439B2
A method of treating a material on a probe is provided. The method includes the steps of immersing a probe tip into a first fluid, wherein the probe tip includes one or more oxidized metallic fragments on a surface of the probe tip; polarizing the probe tip, through a counter electrode, with a negative current to reduce the one or more oxidized metallic fragments to one or more substantially unoxidized metallic fragments; removing the probe tip from the first fluid; immersing the probe in a second fluid, wherein the second fluid is a complexer for the one or more substantially unoxidized metallic fragments; and polarizing the probe tip with a positive current, through the counter electrode, wherein the positive current oxidizes the one or more substantially unoxidized metallic fragments.
US10955434B2
A resonant sensor device includes a base and a detection substrate. The detection substrate includes a movable portion configured to move in a first direction, a supporter includes one or more supporting portions which extend in a direction along an intersecting plane intersecting the first direction, an intermediate fixing portion which is connected to the movable portion via the supporter, a connection portion which connects a mounting portion fixed to the base to the intermediate fixing portion in a second direction that is one direction along the intersecting plane, and a resonator at least partially embedded in the one or more supporting portions. The maximum dimension of the connection portion in a third direction orthogonal to the second direction in the intersecting plane is smaller than a maximum dimension of the supporter in the third direction.
US10955420B2
This document relates to materials and methods for identifying and monitoring immunoglobulin cleavage (e.g., IgG cleavage) in a sample, such as a biological sample, using mass spectrometry techniques.
US10955416B2
Novel gene deletions and translocations involving chromosome 2 resulting in fusion proteins combining part of Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) kinase with part of a secondary protein have now been identified in human solid tumors, e.g. non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). Secondary proteins include Echinoderm Microtubule-Associated Protein-Like 4 (EML-4) and TRK-Fusion Gene (TFG). The EML4-ALK fusion protein, which retains ALK tyrosine kinase activity, was confirmed to drive the proliferation and survival of NSCLC characterized by this mutation. The invention therefore provides, in part, isolated polynucleotides and vectors encoding the disclosed mutant polypeptides, probes for detecting it, isolated mutant polypeptides, and reagents for detecting the fusion and truncated polypeptides. The invention also provides methods for determining the presence of these mutant polypeptides in a biological sample, methods for screening for compounds that inhibit the proteins, and methods for inhibiting the progression of a cancer characterized by the mutant polynucleotides or polypeptides.
US10955411B2
A system and method for sample droplet processing, the system including a substrate, an electrode array network coupled to the substrate and configured to provide a pattern of controlled electric fields for manipulation of the set of sample droplets; a first layer in communication with the electrode array network, the first layer separating the electrode array network from fluid of the set of sample droplets; and a second layer opposing the first layer and displaced from the first layer to define a region wherein droplets of the set of sample droplets can reside. In some variations, the system can additionally include an electronics subsystem coupled to at least one of the substrate and the electrode array network, and a control module in communication with the electronics subsystem, wherein the control module generates and manipulates the pattern of controlled electric fields.
US10955401B2
In order to suppress malfunctions even when using a reagent (chemical for reagent) corresponding to a hazardous substance, the present invention has an analyzing unit in which a chemical for reagent, having added thereto an indicator that is different from a hazardous material that is a detection target, is used to calibrate on the basis of the detection target included in the chemical for reagent, and which performs mass spectrometry. When a peak corresponding to the indicator is not included and a peak corresponding to the detection target material is included in the spectrum that is the analysis result of the analyzing unit, the detection target is determined to be included.
US10955391B2
A chromatography system has an associated system volume and a sample dispersion volume. The chromatography system comprises a pump pumping a flow of gradient, a sample manager for introducing a sample into the flow of gradient, and a valve manager fluidically coupled to the pump and to the sample manager. The valve manager includes at least one valve. A first valve of the at least one valve has a plurality of ports including an inlet port that receives the flow of gradient from the pump and an outlet port through which the flow of gradient exits the first valve. The first valve has at least two different, automatically selectable positions. A first position of the at least two different automatically selectable positions operating to change one of the system and sample dispersion volumes of the chromatography system when the first valve is automatically switched into the first position.
US10955385B2
A sound measurement system intended to be installed on a motor vehicle, the system comprising: a microphone, an element for supporting the microphone, mechanical means for protecting the microphone against various projections (water, dust, etc.) from the environment of the vehicle, and mechanical means for protecting the microphone from airborne noise originating from the routing of the sound wave between the source and the measurement (cavity noise) and from the environment of the measuring system (turbulence around the measuring device), the various mechanical protection means being separate or combined. A motor vehicle may be provided with such a system.
US10955383B2
According to one embodiment, a method for arranging a detection device for a structure is provided. The structure includes a member; a trough rib provided on an opposite side of the member; and a welded portion that is provided along an end of the trough rib facing the member and fixes the member and the trough rib. The method includes: attaching, to the trough rib, a plurality of acoustic emission sensors so as to be separated from each other in a direction in which the welded portion extends, wherein the following relationship is satisfied: −20 degrees<θ<20 degrees, where θ denotes an angle between a line connecting any given two adjacent acoustic emission sensors of the plurality of the acoustic emission sensors and a reference line extending in the direction in which the welded portion extends.
US10955378B2
A method for detecting an analyte comprises providing a first carbon-based material comprising reactive chemistry additives, providing conductive electrodes connected to the first carbon-based material, exposing the first carbon-based material to an analyte, applying a plurality of alternating currents having a range of frequencies across the conductive electrodes, and measuring the complex impedance of the first carbon-based material using the plurality of alternating currents.
US10955377B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to capillary controlled gas sensors comprising a top cap assembly, wherein the top cap assembly is operable to reduce the effects of condensation and pressure changes on the effectiveness of the gas sensor. The top cap assembly comprises a capillary controlled gas flow path, a bulk flow control assembly, and a raised boss surrounded by a moat.
US10955367B2
Methods for characterizing living plants, wherein one or more beams of penetrating radiation such as x-rays are scanned across the plant under field conditions. Compton scatter is detected from the living plant and processed to derive characteristics of the living plant such as water content, root structure, branch structure, xylem size, fruit size, fruit shape, fruit aggregate volume, cluster size and shape, fruit maturity and an image of a part of the plant. Ground water content is measured using the same technique. Compton backscatter is used to guide a robotic gripper to grasp a portion of the plant such as for harvesting a fruit.
US10955357B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an OSB, wherein a scattered mat formed by strands adhered in multiple layers is pressed in a hot press to form a panel with a desired thickness, comprising the following steps: a) scanning the surface of an upper side of the mat or of the pressed panel to determine uneven areas and/or faults; b) determining position data of the determined uneven areas and/or faults; c) determining the volumes of the individual uneven areas and/or faults; d) targeted filling of the uneven areas and/or faults with a filling material, based on the determined position data and volumes, wherein e) the filling material is scattered with a scattering device.
US10955354B2
A cylindrical-body surface inspection device includes: a light irradiation unit configured to irradiate the cylindrical body with light; a two-dimensional imaging unit; a scanning-position determination unit configured to determine at a predetermined period, with respect to two-dimensional image data acquired by the two-dimensional imaging unit, a scanning position that is corresponding to a circumferential direction of the cylindrical body; a time-series scanning image generator configured to perform extraction of image data in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction at the scanning position determined by the scanning-position determination unit on a plurality of pieces of the two-dimensional image data acquired by the two-dimensional imaging unit, and generate a time-series scanning image by arranging in chronological order in the first direction each piece of extracted image data of the second direction; and an inspection unit configured to inspect the time-series scanning image to detect a defect.
US10955353B2
An apparatus and method to determine a property of a substrate by measuring, in the pupil plane of a high numerical aperture lens, an angle-resolved spectrum as a result of radiation being reflected off the substrate. The property may be angle and wavelength dependent and may include the intensity of TM- and TE-polarized radiation and their relative phase difference.
US10955336B2
Systems and methods for forming a compact gas sensor include a multilayer etalon as a wavelength discriminating element. The position of the etalon may be adjusted to tune its transmission profile. And embodiment directed to carbon dioxide detection is described.
US10955335B2
A non-contact photoacoustic spectrophotometry system is configured to measure an absorption spectrum of a material. The system includes a modulated light source such as tunable pulsed laser that generates laser pulses to produce photoacoustic signals in the material. A non-contact detector monitors the surface of the container for the material. The detector includes a second light source, such as a continuous wave laser, focused on the surface of the container, and transmits reflected light to an interferometer, for example, a Sagnac interferometer. The interferometer produces an interference signal from the received light that is proportional to the acoustic pressure, which is transmitted to a computer to calculate an absorption coefficient. Using a plurality of wavelengths from the tunable pulsed laser, an absorption spectrum may be generated.
US10955328B2
A method of integrity testing porous materials that is non-destructive to the material being tested. The inlet gas stream includes at least two gases, wherein one of the gases has a different permeability in liquid than the other, such as oxygen and nitrogen in water. The relative permeability of the gases is measured in the retentate stream, thereby avoiding accessing the permeate stream and potentially introducing contaminants to the material being tested. The integrity test is capable of detecting the presence of oversized pores or defects that can compromise the retention capability of the porous material.
US10955325B2
An exemplary paddle includes a central shaft having a first end and a second end. One or more lateral blades extend laterally from the central shaft, and each lateral blade including a geared end positioned adjacent the central shaft and a distal end opposite the geared end. Each lateral blade provides a blade gear at the geared end. A drive shaft is movably positioned within the central shaft and operatively coupled to the one or more lateral blades such that rotation of the drive shaft about a central axis rotates the one or more lateral blades about a corresponding one or more blade axes. The one or more lateral blades are able to move between a horizontal position and a vertical position via independent actuation.
US10955318B2
Disclosed are methods for determining and classifying aircraft air contaminants using contaminant analyzers comprising a contaminant collector comprising a membrane and a heater vaporizing captured contaminants; a gravimetric sensor generating a proportionate response when contaminant mass is added to or removed from the sensor, the sensor arranged to receive contaminants desorbed from the membrane when the membrane is heated; a frequency measurement device, measuring the response generated by the sensor as the contaminant is added to and removed from the sensor; a computer readable medium bearing a contaminant recognition program and calibration data; a processor executing the recognition program, the program including a module classifying contaminants by type, and a module using the calibration data for comparison with magnitude of the response generated by the sensor to calculate contaminant concentration; and, a pump, generating flow of aircraft air through the contaminant collector before and after the membrane is heated.
US10955314B1
A sampling apparatus and method for collecting chemical and biological samples is disclosed and claimed. A surface sampling apparatus is designed to simplify taking successive environmental samples using one hand. In addition, the sampling bag used with the apparatus serves as both safety barrier and transport bag and is prepared with multiple sampling surfaces and in wet or dry formats.
US10955307B2
The present disclosure relates to an inline sensor including a housing fixable in a wall of a fluid line or a process container. A first transducer for detecting a primary measurand of a medium contained in the fluid line or the process container is integrated into the housing and designed to generate first measurement signals dependent on the primary measurand. A sensor electronics is connected to the first transducer for detecting the first measurement signals and designed to process the first measurement signals. The inline sensor is additionally designed to detect pressure surges occurring in the process container.
US10955305B2
In a sensor chip junction structure, if a moving distance of a tip of a press jig (56) is any of 50 μm and 30 μm, for example, a characteristic line of a load (shearing force) (N) applied to an adhesive layer (50) formed on a sensor chip that is integral with a glass pedestal, the glass pedestal having a thickness set in a range from 0.3 mm to 2.5 mm is either located on any of a characteristic line Lt1 (y=1.3889x3) and a characteristic line Lt2 (y=0.463x3) or located in a region above zero and equal to or below any of the characteristic line Lt1 and the characteristic line Lt2.
US10955295B2
Devices and corresponding methods can be provided to monitor or measure temperature of a target or to control a process. Targets can have low, unknown, or variable emissivity. Devices and corresponding methods can be used to measure temperatures of thin film, partially transparent, or opaque targets, as well as targets not filling a sensor's field of view. Temperature measurements can be made independent of emissivity of a target surface by, for example, inserting a target between a thermopile sensor and a background surface maintained at substantially the same temperature as the thermopile sensor. In embodiment devices and methods, a sensor temperature can be controlled to match a target temperature by minimizing or zeroing a net heat flux at the sensor, as derived from a sensor output signal. Alternatively, a target temperature can be controlled to minimize the heat flux.
US10955291B2
Methods of determining the dose of UVC light delivered to a sample comprising a low optical transmission complex fluid are provided. Also provided are methods of inactivation of an organism, such as a spore, a bacteria or a virus, in a sample comprising dose of UVC light delivered to a sample comprising a low optical transmission complex fluid.
US10955286B2
The invention relates to a method in a weighing system, in which method the mass of the bundle is weighed and recorded during both loading % and unloading mi_p of the bundle, during loading, the total loading mass mK_kok_j is calculated from the mass mi_c of one or more bundles weighed during loading and corrected using a correction factor Cj, the total unloading mass mp_kok_j is calculated from the mass mi_p of one or more bundles weighed during unloading, with the aid of the said total loading mass mK_COk_j and total unloading mass mp_kok_j′, a new corrected value Cj+1 is calculated for the correction factor Cj in order to adjust the weighing for the loading of the next load Kj+1. The invention also relates to a corresponding software product, an arrangement, and a material-handling machine.
US10955282B2
A pressure detecting sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first electrode layer including a plurality of signal electrodes arranged in a first region and a plurality of wiring electrodes arranged in a second region and connected to the plurality of signal electrodes, the first electrode layer being made of a conductive fiber; an elastic dielectric layer arranged in the first region; and a second electrode layer arranged in the elastic dielectric layer, the second electrode layer being made of a conductive fiber.
US10955279B2
An apparatus and method of measuring a level of fluid in a container and of enhancing reliability of an ultrasonic fluid measurement probe. A base comprises a transducer chamber, wherein the transducer chamber comprises a transducer chamber floor, a transducer chamber edge, and transducer chamber walls extending from the transducer chamber floor to the transducer chamber edge. An ultrasonic transducer is attached to the transducer chamber floor. A cap is welded to the transducer chamber edge such that the cap, along with the transducer chamber floor and the transducer chamber walls, encloses the transducer chamber to form an enclosed air space between the ultrasonic transducer and the cap.
US10955250B2
A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to identify a vehicle part to replace based on received vehicle data including a diagnostic status, a location, and a first route. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine a vehicle operating pattern based on the identified vehicle part and to generate a second route including a second destination based on the vehicle part, the vehicle operating pattern, the location, and a first destination and an expected time of arrival of the first route. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to navigate the vehicle based on the determined second route and the vehicle operating pattern.
US10955244B2
A driving circuit for a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscope operating based on the Coriolis effect is provided. The driving circuit supplies drive signals to a mobile mass of the MEMS gyroscope to cause a driving movement of the mobile mass to oscillate at an oscillation frequency. The driving circuit includes an input stage, which receives at least one electrical quantity representing the driving movement and generates a drive signal based on the electrical quantity; a measurement stage, which measures an oscillation amplitude of the driving movement based on the drive signal; and a control stage, which generates the drive signals based on a feedback control of the oscillation amplitude. The measurement stage performs a measurement of a time interval during which the drive signal has a given relationship with an amplitude threshold, and measures the oscillation amplitude as a function of the time interval.
US10955238B1
An apparatus and associated method for a frame that is configured to rotate a workpiece around an axis of rotation. The apparatus has a measurement device, and a known fixture that is supported by the frame. A processor is configured to execute stored computer instructions to initially-calibrate the measurement device to the axis of rotation, to employ the initially-calibrated measurement device to obtain an initial-calibration value of the known fixture, to store the initial-calibration value in a digital memory, to subsequently use the initially-calibrated measuring device to obtain an in-process automatic recalibration (IPAR) value of the known fixture, and to compare the IPAR value to the initial-calibration value to calculate a compensation value indicating positional error of the apparatus.
US10955237B2
A measuring device and measuring method for capturing a surface topology of a workpiece uses an optical coherence tomograph having a reference arm guided by a manipulator or a deflection unit to position a measuring region of the scanner. The reference arm is guided along an actual track, which at least partially deviates from an intended track due to disturbing influences like lag errors of the manipulator. An actual distance (dm) between a zero point of the measuring region and a workpiece surface is measured at at least one measuring point of the actual track. A planning path length (Ip) of the reference arm is established for the at least one measuring point for the compensation of the disturbing influences, and the measured actual distance (dm) is normalized to a standard distance (dn) with the aid of the planning path length (Ip).
US10955232B2
Smart Scale Ruler is an electronic architect's scale having a triangular shaped ruler body. The Smart Scale Ruler has a changeable electronic display for displaying a custom or the desired scale of any unit of length, for a document or plan. A set of depressible buttons function as the inputs for the value of the reference point a user wishes to base the custom scale off of, as well as different settings for the device, in order to display the correct scale on the electronic display.
US10955210B1
A firearm apparatus that is operable to provide faster reloading of an ammunition magazine through operable engagement of the trigger, the hammer or the bolt carrier. The firearm apparatus of the present invention includes a magazine that is configured to receive and store a plurality of bullets within the interior volume thereof on an ammunition support member. The ammunition support member is movable intermediate a first and second position and in the second position, an engagement member operably coupled to the ammunition support member is operable to engage the arm member. The arm member is moved to its second position wherein the arm member in its second position inhibits the firing of the firearm and maintains the bolt in a closed position. The arm member can be provided in alternative embodiments so as to operably coupled with the aforementioned elements of the firing assembly.
US10955207B1
A flat loop revolving firearm assembly can have a trigger mechanism configured to move a loop advance lever disposed between the trigger mechanism and a flat loop, and a hammer retractor lever disposed between the trigger mechanism and at least one hammer retractor bar. The hammer retractor bar can be configured to slide and contact a hammer thereby rotating the hammer to a cocked position and releasing the hammer to fire a cartridge removably disposed in a firing position chamber. The flat loop can have a plurality of flat loop links configured to revolve in parallel tracks into a firing position in response to motion imposed by the loop advance lever.
US10955190B2
The present invention provides an exchangeable-battery photocuring device, comprising a supporting frame, having a plurality of walls, wherein the plurality of walls constitutes a chamber having at least one opening; a UV LED module, disposed on the supporting frame; a outer housing, having an external opening corresponding to the opening of the supporting frame; a control module; an exchangeable battery module, disposed on the supporting frame, wherein the exchangeable battery module comprises a battery holder and a battery, and the exchangeable battery module is electrically connected to the control module, and a handle. The present invention applying an exchangeable battery module achieves that the photocuring device is used without being constrained by location and space. Furthermore, the present invention also provides an exchangeable-battery photocuring device with a slidable lid and a portable battery photocuring device with a slidable lid.
US10955189B2
A fluidized bed dryer may include a deck, an eccentric, and a blower. A heater may or may not be included. The deck of the fluidized bed dryer may vibrate due to motion of the eccentric. The blower may blow air through the deck of the fluidized bed dryer to dry material on the deck. As the material dries, the material moves across the deck, due to the vibration. The deck bed depth may be increased, which may allow for even process air flow distribution and control of conveyance speed and residence time. The fluidized bed dryer may include a controller configured to implement a drying process that may include one or more of temperature, moisture content, and relative humidity data to optimize product throughput while ensuring a desired degree of dryness.
US10955182B2
A dynamic packing system places one or more perishable items into a shipping container and dispenses thermal control components therein. There is a data processor and a database including one or more order data set each defined at least by an itemized list of purchased perishable items and an order shipment destination address. A network interface is connected to the data processor, and weather data is retrieved over the network interface from a remote source. A dispenser controlled by the data processor positions a specific amount of a thermal control component in the shipping container. The specific amount is based upon an evaluation of one or more temperature values corresponding to the weather data along a transport route of the shipping container.
US10955181B2
A portable insulating device kit may be configured to fit within a smaller container for easier shipment. In one example, the assembly may include a base, a top wall having an opening, an inner liner configured to extend into the opening of the top wall to form an interior cavity defining a volumetric storage capacity and an exterior wall. The container can have a flat configuration defining a length, height, and width. The base, the top wall, the inner liner, and the exterior wall may be configured to be assembled into a portable insulating device. The volume of the container may be less than the volumetric storage capacity of the assembled portable insulating device, and the base, the inner liner, and the exterior wall are configured to be detached from one another and shipped in the container.
US10955178B2
A regulation method for an inverter compressor in a refrigeration system including establishing a working area via limit values for evaporation temperatures, condensation temperatures, compressor speeds, maximum compression ratio, and maximum superheat value, and measuring working values of the compressor in terms of evaporation temperature, condensation temperature, and compression ratio. If the compressor operates outside the established working area, the method includes modifying the working parameters of the compressor by acting on elements to be selected among the compressor speed, the opening angle of the expansion valve, and a combination thereof. If the compressor does not go back to the working area within a certain time, the method includes stopping operation of the compressor and triggering an alarm.
US10955176B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a controller configured to control operations of an outdoor fan. The controller has a voltage acquisition unit configured to acquire drive voltages of the outdoor fan at set time intervals while the rotation speed of the outdoor fan is maintained at a reference rotation speed, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an acquired drive voltage is equal to or greater than a lower limit threshold and less than an upper limit threshold, an extraction unit configured to calculate an evaluation value by extracting a drive voltage determined to be equal to or greater than the lower limit threshold and less than the upper limit threshold, and a defrosting determination unit configured to decide to defrost the outdoor heat exchanger if the calculated evaluation value is equal to or greater than an evaluation threshold.
US10955171B2
The solar heating apparatus has a base box and a main axle mounted on the base box. At least one mirror support arm is mounted orthogonal to the main axle and supports a plurality of mirrors. In a first embodiment, a circular plate on the side of the base box rotates the main axle to bank the mirrors to track azimuth and a belt or chain drive rotates the mirror support arms to track elevation. In a second embodiment, the main axle is a beam mounted on a rotating circular plate on top of the base box to track azimuth and bevel gears drive a belt or chain drive that rotates the mirror support arms to track elevation. In a third embodiment, the mirror support arms are driven to rotate by bevel gears and the main axle through belt or chain drives.
US10955170B2
The solar heating apparatus has a base box and a main axle mounted on the base box. At least one mirror support arm is mounted orthogonal to the main axle and supports a plurality of mirrors. In a first embodiment, a circular plate on the side of the base box rotates the main axle to bank the mirrors to track azimuth and a belt or chain drive rotates the mirror support arms to track elevation. In a second embodiment, the main axle is a beam mounted on a rotating circular plate on top of the base box to track azimuth and bevel gears drive a belt or chain drive that rotates the mirror support arms to track elevation. In a third embodiment, the mirror support arms are driven to rotate by bevel gears and the main axle through belt or chain drives.
US10955166B2
A method of forming a duct section from a web of material includes the steps of forming a series of perforations in a web of material, the series of perforations defining an outline of one of a hole or notch in a finished duct section, forming a male lock bend and a female lock seam in first opposed edges of the web of material, forming flanges in second opposed edges of the web of material, removing the portion of material interior to the series of perforations to form the hole or notch, and bending the web of material to form the finished duct section.
US10955162B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermostat including a control base configured to couple with and support a portable thermostat, wherein the control base is configured to determine a measure of an environmental condition of a local environment of the control base and communication circuitry of the control base configured to communicate the measure to facilitate control of an HVAC system.
US10955161B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining a weather forecast corresponding to a location of an air handling unit for a building, generating a foot traffic forecast for a specified time period in the building, and generating a predicted energy consumption curve based on the weather forecast and generated foot traffic forecast for the specified time period. Based on the predicted energy consumption curve, the systems and methods further provide for generating settings for controllable energy devices of the air handling unit to control the air handling unit for the specified time period.
US10955158B2
A venue occupant comfort system, comprises a processor that stores computer executable components stored in memory. A plurality of sensors sense ambient conditions associated with exterior and interior conditions of a venue. A context component infers or determines context of an occupant of the venue. A crowd estimation component infers, based at least in part on mining social networks, size of crowd expected at the venue. A comfort model component implicitly and explicitly trained on occupant comfort related data analyzes information from the plurality of sensors, the crowd estimation component and context component. A comfort controller adjusts environmental conditions of the venue based at least in part on output of the comfort model component. The adjustments to venue environment can optionally be differentiated by zone.
US10955156B1
An air conditioning and humidity control system, a kit, and methods of making and using the same are disclosed. The air conditioning and humidity control system includes a main conduit, distribution conduits joined to the main conduit, one or more mesh members, one or more troughs or pans below the mesh member(s), and a pump. The distribution conduits receive a fluid from the main conduit and include one or more holes to distribute the fluid. The mesh member(s) receive the fluid from the distribution conduits, and allow the fluid to flow along its length. The trough(s) or pan(s) collect the fluid from the mesh member(s). The pump receives the fluid from the trough(s) or pan(s) and pumps the fluid to/through the main conduit. The air conditioning and humidity control system effectively controls the temperature and humidity of an enclosed room or building, improves air quality, is simple and inexpensive to make and operate, and avoids use of greenhouse gases.
US10955154B2
A system for obtaining energy consumptions, savings and cost reduction in structures adapted for human habitation which includes the utilization of a plurality of mats including phase change material encapsulated within first and second layers of plastic material having heat transfer capability disposed within the plenum area above a ceiling of a room within a building with the amount of phase change material contained within each mat being between 0.5 lbs. and 0.67 lbs. per square foot.
US10955149B2
A dehumidification system for a heat pump, a method of operating a heat pump system, and a method of operating a refrigeration system are provided. The method of operating a heat pump system includes circulating refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit having a compressor (12), selectively communicating refrigerant from the compressor to an indoor heat exchanger (18) during a heating mode or to an outdoor heat exchanger (16) during a cooling mode or a reheat mode, selectively communicating refrigerant to a reheat heat exchanger during the reheat mode, and regulating a refrigerant volume in the reheat heat exchanger.
US10955146B2
A fan includes a core part, a vanes, a ring part and a flow rectifying member. The ring part includes first second and third parts. The first part includes a first end overlapping with a flow rectifying member end and extends axially on a radially inner side of the flow rectifying member. The second part includes a second end spaced from the flow rectifying member end, overlapping with the flow rectifying member, and connected to the first end. The third part is connected to the second end, and extends on the radially outer side of the flow rectifying member end. The second end overlaps with a virtual point reached by the flow rectifying member end being linearly extended toward an upstream side. A first dimension, a radial length of the third part, is at least 0.5 times a first straight-line distance between the flow rectifying member end and the virtual point.
US10955144B2
An air pressure regulating device comprises an expansion tank having air stored therein and having an air injection/discharge port at an outside thereof; and a pressure regulation unit provided with a three-way ball valve connected to the air injection/discharge port, a pressure gauge which is installed in any one of flow paths of the three-way ball valve to check an internal pressure of the expansion tank, and a valve core which is installed in a flow path other than the flow path in which the pressure gauge is installed to be capable of injecting or discharging air into or from the expansion tank so as to be capable of controlling the internal pressure of the expansion tank.
US10955135B2
One or more embodiments of a burner panel for a metallurgical furnace is described herein. One or more embodiments of a burner panel for a metallurgical furnace are described herein. The sidewall burner pockets have a burner panel therein. The burner panel has a body having an interior face with burner tube disposed therethrough. The burner tube has a first portion and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The burner panel additionally has an internal mounting flange extending along the periphery of the body and overlapping the sidewall, the sidewall and internal mounting flange compressed together by a coupling.
US10955131B2
A combustion system with a combustion area in a boiler including a fuel pipe for delivering fuel is disclosed. A duct having a bend extended there through is in fluid communication with the fuel pipe and the combustion area of the boiler. The duct has an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter. The duct includes a first partition plate to form a first parallel flow of the fuel between the outer perimeter and the first partition plate, upstream of the bend.
US10955130B1
An apparatus for rapidly evaporating liquid includes an exhaust flow channel having opposing openings including an upstream opening and a downstream opening. The channel defines an exhaust path proceeding from the upstream opening through the exhaust flow channel and through the downstream opening. Within the exhaust flow channel, a conduit path includes repeated passes transverse to the exhaust path. Attached to the exhaust flow channel proximate the downstream opening, a spray fixture is coupled to an exit port of the conduit. The spray fixture includes a divider to divide fluid from the exit port into multiple streams and an aimer to direct the multiple streams into the exhaust path.
US10955126B2
The invention relates to a lighting arrangement comprising: a housing (1) extending along a longitudinal axis (L); an LED light source (2) for generating a light, arranged within the housing (1) and extending along the longitudinal axis (L), wherein a lighting outlet opening (3) for the light is delimited by the housing (1); a sensor (4), in particular for detecting a brightness and/or a movement in a vicinity of the lighting arrangement; and a support element (5) for the sensor (4), which is configured to be arranged in the housing (1) in different longitudinal positions relative to the LED light source (2) with respect to the longitudinal axis (L).
US10955118B2
A foldable mounting collar includes first and second collar segments. Each collar segment includes a planar annular segment that substantially subtends a semicircle, a collar flange that, when the planar annular segment is horizontal, extends vertically downward along an inner periphery of the planar annular segment, such that the collar flange forms a cylindrical portion, and two hinge flanges that, when the planar annular segment is horizontal, extend upwardly from each end of the semicircle formed by each planar annular segment. The mounting collar further includes pivot means that hingedly couple pairs of the hinge flanges of the collar segments. The second collar segment can rotate, relative to the first collar segment, through at least a polar angle range sufficient for the mounting collar to fit through an aperture having a diameter defined by the cylindrical portions of the collar flanges when both collar segments are horizontal.
US10955115B2
A projector of a light beam includes a first optical body movable along a frame for modifying its position with respect to an outlet lens and to a light source. A second optical body includes a first prismatic lens having a first number of twists and turns on at least one relative concave surface for generating a plurality of optical effects acting on the beam. A third optical body includes a second prismatic lens, positioned alongside the first prismatic lens, having a second number of twists and turns for generating a plurality of optical effects, individually or in combination with the first prismatic lens. The second and third optical bodies can rotate between non-operating positions, wherein the respective prismatic lenses are away from the light beam, and operating positions, wherein the respective prismatic lenses are positioned along a lighting trajectory of the light beam.
US10955113B2
A light-emitting module provided in an embodiment comprises: a driving part disposed on a substrate and adjacent to one side of the substrate; a first light-emitting part adjacent to the other side of the substrate and disposed on one surface of the substrate; a second light-emitting part adjacent to the other side of the substrate, disposed on the other surface of the substrate, and emitting light different in wavelength from that emitted by the first light-emitting part; and a reflection part surrounding the first and the second light-emitting part and comprising a first and a second area facing the first and the second light-emitting part, respectively, wherein each of the first and the second light-emitting part may comprise one or more light-emitting chips, and the first and the second area may comprise a plurality of subareas having respective parabolic curves with reference to the light-emitting chips of each of the first and the second light-emitting part.
US10955092B2
There is provided a method of preparing a mixed liquid having a first property and a second property. The method includes providing a first set of liquids, a second set of liquids, and a third set of liquids. The method includes combining the provided sets of liquids. Further, the method includes varying at least one of the liquid flows of the first and second sets and at least one liquid flow of the third set to adjust the first property and the second property to their respective predetermined values in the resulting mixed liquid flow.
US10955087B2
It concerns the invention of a pressure vessel (VP) which can be assembled from individual parts, and basically comprises: a plurality of wall modules (MP), at least one connection module (MC) for pipes or sensors, and closing modules (MF) that can be chosen from: have equal configuration and have different configurations. All of the modules have bores (105) distributed radially on their flat surfaces (101) and these bores (105) are distributed between a hollow drill (1051) with a seat (1151) and a torque screw bored (1052) (106) inserted therein attach a module to another adjacent module, with a sealing ring (104) therebetween.
US10955078B2
An attenuator for high pressure fluid systems includes a shielding stud including first and second ends and a cylindrical space extending therebetween. The attenuator comprises a cylindrical, attenuator body disposed within the cylindrical space and defining a pressure chamber therein. First and second seal heads are positioned within first and second ends of said shielding stud and coupled to the attenuator body using a tensioner assembly and a plug threadingly coupled to first and second inner threaded surfaces of the shielding stud in first and second ends thereof.
US10955075B2
A device for forming a union of pipe ends includes two pipe connectors, each configured for attachment to an end of a length of pipe at one end and for joining to the other of the two connectors at the other end and a nut having a bore with internal threads configured to mate with outer threads on the outer surface of one or both of the two pipe connectors. The outer lateral surface of the nut includes a plurality of handle connection structures. The device includes a handle for increasing the amount of manually-generated torque on the nut during tightening or loosening of the nut with respect to the outer threads. The handle has a nut attachment end configured to engage the handle connection structures, and is provided with a mechanism for reversibly locking the handle to any of the plurality of handle connection structures of the nut.
US10955071B1
A double wall coaxial piping system with enhanced strength designed to transport a medium underground and minimize leaks is provided. The double wall coaxial piping system includes a plurality of pipe assemblies connected together to form a constructed pipe assembly with a first end and a second end. Each pipe assembly has an outer pipe and an inner pipe secured within the outer pipe. The inner pipe of each pipe assembly is continuously connected to the inner pipe of an adjacent pipe assembly in the plurality of pipe assemblies. Each end in the first and second ends of the constructed pipe assembly has a pair of plates coupled to the outer pipe of the pipe assembly at the end of the constructed pipe assembly and a packing layer disposed between the pair of plates.
US10955067B2
Methods and systems are provided for a microfluidic cartridge including a high performance actuator useful for analyte detection, labeling and analysis. Microfluidic processing systems are to carry out chemical or biochemical reactions, or sequences of reactions, with small volumes (typically between 1 microliter and 10 milliliters) of reactants and products. A microfluidic processing system can comprise a network of tubes interfaced with discrete components such as valves and sensors, or an integrated device made of plastic, glass, metal, or other materials, or a combination of materials, with components such as valves and sensors built into the device and connected by flow passageways formed in the material.
US10955066B2
Rotary valves are adapted to replace traditional slide valves in fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) such as regenerated catalyst valves, spent catalyst valves, cooled catalyst valves, and recirculation catalyst valves. The rotary valves as discussed herein are significantly more compact than a slide valve having a similar flow capacity. The rotary valve is better adapted to provide flow control or throttling than slide valves are. Flow control or throttling occurs with greater response and precision in response to control inputs and rotation. In addition to the size reduction achieved with the rotary valve, the required controls and/or hydraulic fluid necessary to achieve flow changes are significantly reduced, further saving costs for the valve, as hydraulic power units are not required. The omission of a hydraulic power unit also reduces the size of the valve and/or its accompanying structures within the FCCU.
US10955063B2
A pneumatic amplifier includes a valve body, a first comparison chamber, a third comparison chamber and a second comparison chamber. A first diaphragm and a second diaphragm are arranged in the first comparison chamber and fixed to the valve body. A mounting plate A is fixedly arranged between the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm. A seventh diaphragm, an eighth diaphragm, a ninth diaphragm and a tenth diaphragm are arranged in the second comparison chamber and fixedly arranged on the valve body. A mounting plate C is fixedly arranged among the seventh diaphragm, the eighth diaphragm, the ninth diaphragm and the tenth diaphragm. A third diaphragm, a fourth diaphragm, a fifth diaphragm and a sixth diaphragm are arranged in the third comparison chamber and fixed to the valve body. A mounting plate B is fixedly arranged among the third diaphragm, the fourth diaphragm, the fifth diaphragm and the sixth diaphragm.
US10955054B2
A mechanical seal arrangement includes a first mechanical seal with a rotating slide ring and a stationary slide ring, which define a sealing gap in between them. The mechanical seal arrangement includes a first sealing space that is filled with a sealing liquid. The first mechanical seal seals off the sealing space against a surrounding area, a first piston arrangement with a piston element and flexible wall areas that define a first piston interior space, wherein the first piston interior space is in fluid connection with the first sealing space. A piston outer surface of the piston element is in fluid connection with the surrounding area, and a first pre-stressing appliance that exerts a first preload force (F1) on the piston element of the first piston arrangement.
US10955053B2
A manual unlocking device for a parking lock mechanism includes an operation lever that rotates when the parking lock mechanism is switched from a locked state to an unlocked state. The operation lever is arranged outside an occupant space of a vehicle cabin and is configured that a tool can be coupled to a rotation center thereof from the occupant space. The manual unlocking device for the parking lock mechanism is configured to switch the parking lock mechanism from the locked state to the unlocked state by integral rotation of the operation lever with the tool when the tool, which is coupled to the operation lever, rotates in a state where the tool is arranged on the rotation center of the operation lever.
US10955049B2
Dual-mass flywheel concept for internal combustion engines, where the secondary flywheel can be disconnected and reconnected as required, by means of a clutch. The concept is characterized in that it comprises a primary flywheel fixedly mounted on the engine crankshaft, a secondary flywheel which is stored so that it can rotate freely, a clutch connecting the secondary flywheel to the drive shaft (input shaft on the gearbox), an elastic element (springs) which connects the primary flywheel to the drive shaft.
US10955042B2
A vehicle differential device comprises: a differential casing rotatably disposed around a rotational axis; and a pair of side gears rotatably supported by the differential casing and supported in a thrust direction via an annular bearing surface formed in the differential casing to mesh with a pair of pinion gears. The differential casing is provided with a first lubricating oil passage formed in a circumferential direction on an outer circumferential side of the bearing surface in the differential casing, and a first guidance projection projected toward the rotational axis in the first lubricating oil passage and guiding a lubricating oil flowing in a circumferential direction in the first lubricating oil passage due to rotation of the differential casing around the rotational axis, toward a first meshing portion between a first side gear of the pair of side gears and the pinion gears.
US10955035B2
A transmission system is disclosed, having a clutch module with an input and a first and a second output. Between the first output and the input, a first clutch device is present, and between the second output and the input a second clutch device is present. The transmission system further includes a transmission module having a first partial transmission and a second partial transmission, in which the two outputs of the clutch module are connected to the two inputs of the transmission module.
US10955031B2
A multi-speed transmission having drive and output shafts, front-mounted planetary gearsets, rear-mounted planetary gearsets and six shift elements. Selective engagement of shift elements selectively renders a drive shaft speed and speeds generated in the front gearsets for achieving a reverse gear and twelve forward gears via the rear gearsets transmissible as an output speed to the output shaft. Four shift elements are assigned to the front gearsets and two are assigned to the rear gearsets. At least one front gearset is rigidly connected to an element of the rear gearsets, resulting in six different output speeds of the front gearsets being transmissible to the rear gearsets. If normalized to the drive shaft input speed, one output speed is smaller than 0, three output speeds are between 0 and 1, one output speed is equal to 1 and one output speed is greater than 1.
US10955025B2
A vehicle powertrain variable vibration absorber assembly can be equipped in a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). The vehicle powertrain variable vibration absorber assembly includes a rotary device, a drive-ratio assembly, and a spring. The rotary device, in an example, is a motor-generator unit (MGU). The drive-ratio assembly, in an example, is a planetary gear assembly. The drive-ratio assembly receives rotational drive input from the rotary device, and transmits rotational drive output to a powertrain component. The spring, in an example, is a variable stiffness spring. The spring is connected to the drive-ratio assembly and is connected to a grounded component. During use, the vehicle powertrain variable vibration absorber assembly absorbs different frequencies of vibration brought about by a vehicle engine amid different operating modes. The operating modes can involve cylinder deactivation technologies.
US10955011B2
A hydraulic system of a transmission includes a plurality of pressure control valves. A pilot force component and an actuating force component of additional pressure control valves are applicable in the direction of a first end position of a valve slide. A downstream pressure of the additional pressure control valves is applicable in the direction of a second end position of the valve slide. Clutch valves are configured to be brought into operative connection by a pilot-controlled valve unit with an area guiding pressure of a primary pressure circuit or with an additional valve unit. The additional valve unit is a pressure-limiting valve with a predefined pressure level adjusted upstream of the additional valve unit and connected downstream to a low-pressure area.
US10954995B2
The socket assembly includes a housing with an inner bore which extends along a central axis from a generally closed first end to an open second end. A ball portion of a ball stud is received in the inner bore of the housing. The ball stud also has a shank portion which projects out of the inner bore through the open second end. A backing bearing is disposed in the inner bore of the housing and has a curved bearing surface that is in slidable contact with the ball portion of the ball stud. The backing bearing is movable in a radial direction relative to the housing and includes a polymeric piece. The backing bearing further includes a reinforcement piece, which is made of metal, and the reinforcement piece is at least partially embedded within the polymeric piece to resist radial expansion of the polymeric piece.
US10954992B2
A divider (10) for a carabiner (12) in a fall arrest system (14), the carabiner (12) having a frame (32); and an openable gate (34) configured to be moved between an open position and a closed position, the divider (10) comprising a body (50) having: (i) a central body portion (52); and (ii) a plurality of connection portions (54) extending from the central body portion (52) and configured to attach the divider (10) to at least a portion of the frame (32) of the carabiner (10), wherein the plurality of connection portions (54) are spaced and divide the carabiner (12) into a plurality of areas (56) for connection of at least one component (18, 20) of the harness arrangement (16) and at least one fall arrest device (22).
US10954988B2
A screw with a flat drilling end comprises a cylinder (1) with a thread (11) wrapped around and a flat drill portion (2) longitudinally extended from a distal end of the cylinder (1); a maximum thickness (T) of a transversal cross section of the flat drill portion (2) being less than a half of the maximum width (D) of the transversal cross section of the flat drill portion (2); the maximum width (D) of the transversal cross section of the flat drill portion (2) being smaller than an outer diameter of the thread (11) of the cylinder (1); the width and thickness of the transversal cross section of the flat dill portion (2) being reduced to a point tip end of the flat drill portion (2). Two opposite lateral sides form as sharp knife blades.
US10954986B2
A screw fastener particularly adapted to improve retention while minimizing mushrooming in fibrous workpieces. A single-threaded lower portion neighbours the pointed tip of the screw and a dual-threaded upper portion neighbours the screw head. The upper portion has a first upper thread that spirals in an opposite direction to the singular lower thread, and a second upper thread that spirals in a same direction as the singular lower thread. The lower thread includes a plurality of thread turns that share a same major thread diameter while axially spanning multiple areas of the lower portion of the shaft that vary in diameter, including a bulged area, a reduced upper area of lesser shaft diameter than the bulged area at a location between the bulged area and the head, and a downwardly tapered lower area at which the diameter of the shaft narrows from the bulged area toward the pointed tip.
US10954985B2
An external screw member includes a head, a shank, a parallel threaded portion, a tapered threaded portion, a screw thread, a convex portion and a screw driving side end face of the convex portion. The convex portion protruding more radially outward than the crest of the screw thread is formed in at least one of the parallel threaded portion and the tapered threaded portion over the tapered threaded portion and the parallel threaded portion. The screw driving side end face of the convex portion is configured to form an inclined plane which gradually rises from a root position of the end face at the side of the crest of the screw thread toward a crest of the convex portion in a direction opposite to a screw driving direction of the screw thread to reach the crest of the convex portion.
US10954973B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a rotary actuator that includes a housing defining a first arcuate chamber portion and comprising a first cavity, a first open end, a first seal carrier assembly defining a second arcuate chamber portion and comprising a second cavity in fluid communication with the first cavity, a first piston seal, a second open end, and a third open end opposite the second open end, a first face seal in sealing contact with the housing proximal to the first open end and the second open end, a rotary output assembly, and an arcuate-shaped first piston disposed in said housing for reciprocal movement in the first arcuate chamber portion and in the second arcuate chamber portion.
US10954972B2
A flapper for use in a servovalve is described, the flapper comprising a first material and a second material, the first material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion and the second material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion and wherein the first and second coefficients of thermal expansion are different to each other. An armature/flapper assembly is also described, which comprises this flapper as well as a plate and a torsion bridge. A method of compensating for alteration of the null of a servovalve due to temperature changes in a servovalve is also described.
US10954966B2
An apparatus includes a bootstrap accumulator having multiple fluid expansion volumes each configured to receive fluid. The bootstrap accumulator also includes a piston assembly configured to move within the fluid expansion volumes based on pressures within the fluid expansion volumes. The piston assembly includes (i) a fluid pathway that couples the fluid expansion volumes and (ii) a bypass valve configured to selectively open or block the fluid pathway. The piston assembly could also include multiple pistons and a connecting rod coupling the pistons. The fluid pathway could include a narrower path through a first portion of the connecting rod and a wider path through a second portion of the connecting rod. The bypass valve could include a ball and a spring configured to push the ball to block the narrower path through the first portion of the connecting rod.
US10954965B2
A computing device fan mounting system includes a chassis, a fan housing, and a fan mount. The chassis includes a receiving opening. The fan housing defines a first opening and a second opening. The fan mount includes a first peg engaged with the first opening, a second peg engaged with the second opening, and a pin engaged with the receiving opening.
US10954955B2
A centrifugal fan assembly comprises a blade assembly integrally formed. The blade assembly comprises a plurality of blades integrally formed, wherein each blade of the plurality of blades has a twisted shape with a first portion of a hub end of the each blade facing a first adjacent blade, and a second portion of a outer end of the each blade diagonal to the first portion of the hub end facing a second adjacent blade, a fixing portion integrally connected to the blades. The centrifugal fan assembly comprises at least one opening formed in the fixing portion and a hub plate comprising a recessed portion and a convex portion enabled to couple to the blade assembly. The concave portion is provided to correspond to a shape of the fixing portion and the convex portion is provided to correspond to a shape of the at least one opening.
US10954939B2
Disclosed is a gear pump (10) comprising a contra rotating gear element pair (30 and 40) mounted within a housing (20), each gear element having complementary gear teeth sets providing a pumping action in use, said teeth being formed from an annulus (34 and 44) of generally rigid construction mounted on a relatively flexible inner section (35 and 45), the gear pair being mounted such that their respective annuli are biased into resilient contact with the housing to provide a sliding seal.
US10954937B2
Adjusting device for an adjusting piston of a variable clearance space of a reciprocating compressor
In order to enable a continuous adjustment of the variable clearance space (1) of a reciprocating compressor (15), a threaded spindle drive with a threaded spindle nut (10) and a threaded spindle (9) is provided as an adjusting device (7), wherein the threaded spindle nut (10) is embodied as a plastic nut (20) with internal thread (24), the plastic nut (20) is arranged with an external thread (23) on an internal thread (22) of a nut carrier (21) of the threaded spindle nut (10), and the thread height (y) of the internal thread (22) of the nut carrier (21) and the thread height (x) of the external thread (25) of the threaded spindle (9) is respectively embodied with 50 to 80% of the radial thickness (d) of the plastic nut (20) and the plastic thickness is at least 15% of the thread pitch (z1) of the internal thread (24) at least in the region of the thread flanks (26) of the internal thread (24) of the plastic nut (20).
US10954935B2
Presented herein are systems and methods for attenuating flow ripple generated by a hydraulic pump. In certain aspects, a method and system for operating a hydraulic positive displacement pump according to a stabilized command profile are disclosed, such that flow ripple generated by operation of the pump according to the stabilized command profile is attenuated as compared to operation of the pump according to a corresponding nominal command profile. In other aspects, a pressure-balanced active buffer is disclosed that allow for at least partially cancelling flow ripple in a hydraulic circuit comprising a pump. In another aspect, a method for generating ripple maps for a pump is disclosed. Such ripple maps may be used, for example, to determine the stabilized command profile used to operate the pump, or may be used by the pressure-balanced active buffer to counteract ripple in the hydraulic circuit.
US10954927B2
A hydraulic pump system includes a pump control system operable to reduce electric current required at the start of the pump and reduce starting torque for the pump. The pump control system can include a gap between a spring seat and a valve spool such that the valve spool need not overcome a biasing force from a swash plate when the swash plate changes from its maximum displacement position to its neutral position.
US10954924B2
Thermal energy is extracted from geological formations using a heat harvester. In some embodiments, the heat harvester is a once-through, closed loop, underground heat harvester created by directionally drilling through hot rock. The extracted thermal energy can be converted or transformed to other forms of energy.
US10954918B2
A solution to optimally manage those requirements ensuring on the one hand, that the requirements set by the grid operators are appropriately and accurately accomplished at a point of interconnection (POI) and on the other hand, preventing the wind turbines from over fulfilling the requirements, for example, by remaining connected at voltages levels higher or lower than the ones required which, although possible, may cause higher loads and currents in the wind turbines than needed to fulfill the requirements.
US10954915B2
Method of bonding a shear web (50) to a wind turbine blade shell (75) and the obtained blade, wherein the shear web (50) comprises a web and a mounting flange (56) oriented transverse to the web (50). The method involves: providing a seal (66, 68) on the mounting flange (56) of the shear web (50) such that when the mounting flange (56) is positioned against the blade shell (75), a cavity (76) is defined by the seal between the mounting flange (56) and the blade shell (75). The air of the cavity (76) is then evacuated and adhesive is injected into the cavity (76). The use of pieces (80) to keep the distance between the mounting flange (56) and the blade shell (75) is preferred.
US10954911B2
—In at least some implementations, a control and communication system for a light-duty combustion engine includes a circuit card, an ignition circuit carried by the circuit card and configured to control an ignition timing of the engine, and a short range wireless communication circuit carried by the circuit card. The communication circuit may include a Bluetooth Low Energy antenna. The ignition circuit may include an ignition capacitor that when drained induces an ignition pulse adapted to fire a spark plug. The system may further include a microprocessor that is coupled to and controls the ignition and communication circuits, and/or a clocking circuit adapted to provide a clocking frequency associated with the timing of the ignition circuit and associated with the communication circuit via a short range wireless communication protocol. The clocking circuit may include a crystal oscillator.
US10954901B2
An intake system component for an internal combustion engine includes a tubular curved portion extending in a curved manner. The curved portion includes an inner wall located on an inner side of a curve relative to an inner passage. The inner wall is made of a breathable fibrous molded body. A part of the curved portion excluding the inner wall includes a portion having a lower breathability than the inner wall.
US10954899B2
A filter cartridge for a filter for filtering a fluid is to be used downstream of a main filter cartridge in a filter and is provided with an inflow surface, an outflow surface, and a main flow direction extending from the inflow surface to the outflow surface. A filter body is provided that can be flowed through along the main flow direction. A filter cartridge frame supports the filter body. A seal is disposed on the filter cartridge frame and separates a filter interior of a filter into a clean side and a raw side. An adhesive connection is provided that connects the filter body and the filter cartridge frame to each other. In one configuration, the filter cartridge frame at an inflow side is provided with a grip area, wherein the grip area enables inflow of a fluid into the filter body via the grip area and manual removal of the filter cartridge.
US10954880B1
Methods and systems are provided for controlling fuel injection to cylinders of an engine in a vehicle. In one example, a method comprises monitoring an electrical energy profile associated with a fuel injector that has been commanded to inject a predetermined amount of a fuel into an engine cylinder, inferring a fuel injection pressure based on the electrical energy profile, and controlling a subsequent fuel injection based on the inferred fuel injection pressure. In this way, fuel injection may be controlled without relying on a pressure sensor in a fuel rail that supplies fuel to the fuel injector, under conditions where the fuel rail does not include the pressure sensor or where the pressure sensor is degraded.
US10954872B2
An exhaust gas controller for an engine is equipped to appropriately regenerate a filter while restraining a deterioration in fuel efficiency. An oxidation catalyst and a filter capable of collecting particles in an exhaust passage, such that a regenerative injection in which fuel is injected for regenerating the filter is performed, even when a main injection is stopped. Under a first operating condition, in which the main injection is performed and a regeneration condition for the filter is satisfied, the regenerative injection is performed after the main injection. Under a second operating condition, in which the main injection is stopped and the regeneration condition for the filter is satisfied, a fuel injector is controlled to perform a former injection Q1 during a compression stroke and latter injections Q2, Q3 during an expansion stroke, as the regenerative injection.
US10954871B2
A controller of an internal combustion engine includes a sensor, a control unit controlling the engine, and a detector obtaining detection data from the sensor and transmitting the data to the control unit. The detector includes a detection data obtainer obtaining the detection data and storing the detection data in a storage upon having an input of a trigger signal, and a detection data transmitter transmitting the detection data stored in the storage to the control unit, and the control unit includes a trigger output unit outputting the trigger signal at a certain rotation angle timing of the internal combustion engine, and a detection data receiver obtaining the detection data from the detector.
US10954869B1
Systems and methods for opening and closing exhaust poppet valves of an engine are disclosed. In one example, the exhaust poppet valves may be opened and closed twice during a cycle of an engine via two serially arranged cam lobes that are coupled to a crankshaft so that hydrocarbons may be retained in a cylinder.
US10954866B2
A flap device for an internal combustion engine which includes a flow housing with a housing wall which delimits a flow-through duct. The flap device includes a shaft mounted in the flow housing, a flap body rotatably mounted on the shaft, an actuator for the shaft, and a pressure measurement point. The pressure measurement point is arranged in a duct section of the flow housing so that the flap body traverses the pressure measurement point when rotating, and in a region of the flow housing remote from the shaft when viewed in a circumferential direction of the housing wall. A flap surface of the flap body is directed towards the pressure measurement point and is curved so that, in each rotary position, a tangent arranged at the position of the curved flap surface having a shortest distance to an opposite wall surface of the flow housing is parallel thereto.
US10954865B2
Pressurized air systems for aircraft and related methods are described herein. An example pressurized air system includes a compressor having a compressor inlet and a compressor outlet. The compressor inlet receives air from a first air source and the compressor outlet supplies pressurized air to an environmental control system (ECS). The pressurized air system includes a turbine having a turbine inlet to receive air from a second air source, a first overrunning clutch operatively coupled between an output shaft of an accessory gearbox and the compressor, the accessory gearbox operatively coupled to a drive shaft extending from an engine of the aircraft, and a second overrunning clutch operatively coupled between the compressor and the turbine. The first and second overrunning clutches enable the accessory gearbox to drive the compressor during a first mode of operation and enable the turbine to drive the compressor during a second mode of operation.
US10954858B2
A plate fin heat exchanger is disclosed. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of plates defining a set of hot fluid passages between adjacent plates of the plurality of plates and a set of cold fluid passages between adjacent plates of the plurality of plates. A hot fluid inlet and outlet are located at a first face of the heat exchanger. A barrier is located between adjacent plates defining the hot fluid passages. The barrier extends between the adjacent plates and extends from the first face of the heat exchanger at a location between the hot fluid inlet and the hot fluid outlet in a direction perpendicular to the first face, and defines a first pass of hot fluid passages on a first side of the barrier and a second pass of hot fluid passages on a second side of the barrier.
US10954848B2
The present disclosure relates to a rotary engine having a crankshaft with an improved structure, the rotary engine including a housing, a rotor, housing covers, and a crankshaft installed to penetrate through the rotor so as to receive rotational force from the rotor, wherein the crankshaft includes a first member extending in one direction and having an insertion groove recessed in one side surface thereof, a second member extending to penetrate through a center portion of the housing and provided with a protruding portion on one end thereof to be fixedly inserted into the insertion groove, and a coupling member interposed at a position where the insertion groove and the protruding portion overlap each other such that the first member and the second member are closely coupled to each other.
US10954845B2
An engine and cabin thermal management system for use with a vehicle having an engine, a cabin heating system configured to thermally heat a cabin of the vehicle, a coolant system operably coupled to the engine and to the cabin heating system to thermally manage a temperature of the engine and a temperature of the cabin. The coolant system having one or more coolant thermal storage units fluidly coupled with a radiator and heater core of the coolant system forming a coolant loop. The system further having a control system configured to monitor and maintain at least a predetermined coolant temperature at the cabin heating system even during a coolant temperature decrease at the engine stops.
US10954840B2
A diesel exhaust system includes multiple injectors for providing diesel exhaust fluid to an exhaust to reduce NOx emissions. Two or more injectors provide DEF to the exhaust system of an engine. In one mode, the injectors alternately inject DEF fluid. In one embodiment, the system includes a NOx sensor or a NOx model to assist in determining an amount of DEF that must be provided. In a high DEF output operating mode, the DEF amount for one injector is output at a higher rate than the other injector such that deposits may form. After the injector at the higher rate of injection operates for a selected fraction of time, the other injector provides DEF fluid at the higher rate. Further, the system calculates an estimated developed liquid film mass for each injector output. When the estimated developed liquid film mass is not less than a parameter limit film mass, the system performs ATS regeneration.
US10954821B2
The invention is directed to a turbine having a turbine housing or casing. The turbine housing includes a carrier ring and a ring contour component which is fastened to the carrier ring. The ring contour component has a circumferential flange with which it bears against an annular end face of the carrier ring. At least one hold down is provided which enables the flange of the ring contour component to be releasably fixed against the end face of the carrier ring. The turbine is configured to be part of a micro gas turbine in a combined heat and power cogeneration system.
US10954815B2
Divided baffles for a gas turbine engines are provided. The divided baffles include a baffle body having a first end and a second end, at least one divider located within the baffle body and extending from the first end to the second end arranged to divide an interior of the baffle body into two or more feed cavities, at least one cap arranged at the first end to bound a first feed cavity of the two or more feed cavities, and at least one cap arranged at the second end to bound a second feed cavity of the two or more feed cavities.
US10954814B2
A cooling system with a thin walled cooling plate. The system includes an enclosure with a cover that defines an interior space and that has an open side. Temperature sensitive devices are contained in the interior space. A cooling plate closes the open side and includes an inner side with a surface that is substantially flat and that faces into the interior. The cooling plate defines a flow channel adjacent the inner side that is configured to channel a circulating fluid to remove heat from the interior space. The flow channel extends across substantially all of the opening. An outer side of the cooling plate may be anodized to block heat from entering the interior space through the cooling plate.
US10954810B2
A unitary rub strip comprises a casing having an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface; a unitary rub strip is formed integral with the casing proximate the inner surface, wherein the unitary rub strip comprises a modified structure within the casing configured to abrade responsive to an interaction with a rotating element.
US10954795B2
A turbo engine rotor disc that has a rotation axis and includes, at the periphery thereof, a plurality of slots regularly distributed around the rotation axis, wherein at least one slot of the plurality of slots has a base that has a plurality of plates arranged in staggered rows and protruding from the base, each plate extending mainly along a direction perpendicular to a radial direction.
US10954794B2
The blades for a rotor of a gas turbine engine are all manufactured to the same design. However, manufacturing tolerances mean that in practice each individual blade is different to the others. It is proposed to arrange the blades around the circumference of the rotor in a manner that limits excessive stress being induced in the blades due to differences in the vibration response between a given blade and its two neighbouring blades.
US10954789B2
A robot for navigating an environment through growth is provided. The growing robot has a thin-walled, hollow, pressurized, compliant body that elongates the body by everting from its tip new wall material that is stored inside the body. The robot controls the shape of the body by actively controlling the relative lengths of the wall material along opposing sides of the body allowing steering.
US10954788B2
A heat engine, in particular an ORC engine, includes a crankcase and at least one working cylinder connected to the crankcase, in which cylinder a working piston that is rigidly connected to a piston rod can be moved and the end of the piston rod facing away from the working piston is articulatedly connected to a connecting rod by crosshead running in the longitudinal direction of the piston rod. The interior of the working cylinder, which is supplied with a working medium, is separated from the interior of the crankcase, which is supplied with oil, by two walls, each of which has a sealing through-opening for the piston rod.
US10954785B2
A bit assembly includes a base block and a bit holder having a forward body portion and a shank. The forward body portion includes an enlarged tire portion to deflect material and particles removed from the terra firma and protect the base block from damage. The base block includes a base and a shortened front end. The enlarged tire portion has dimensions that cover at least all of the shortened from end. The dimensions of the tire portion can also extend beyond the dimensions of the shortened front end.
US10954779B2
Various disclosed borehole imaging tools and methods provide an improved high-resolution electrode configuration suitable for imaging in both water-based and oil-based muds. In at least some embodiments, the imaging tools employ a unitary conductive body to provide a wall-contacting face with grooves that define multiple sensing surfaces. Toroids may be seated in the grooves around each sensing surface for measuring the current flow through each sensing surface. Such placement enables a nearly ideal equipotential surface to be maintained and a straightforward “full coverage” electrode configuration due to a minimal electrode separation. Moreover, the disclosed configuration promises robust and reliable performance in the hostile conditions often experienced by logging while drilling (LWD) tools. This wall-contacting face can be provided on an extendable sensor pad or embedded on the outer surface of a LWD stabilizer fin.
US10954778B2
A method and system for location a collar. A method for locating a collar may comprise disposing a logging tool within a plurality of concentric pipes in a wellbore, measuring one or more wellbore parameters, creating a corrosion detection tool log from the measuring one or more wellbore parameters, processing the corrosion detection tool log to determine a location and a position of a plurality of collars on the concentric pipes, and adjusting the corrosion detection tool log to account for the location and position of the plurality of collars. A system for locating a collar may comprise a conveyance line, a logging tool, and an information handling system. The information handling system may be capable to measure one or more wellbore parameters, create a corrosion detection tool log from the measuring one or more wellbore parameters, and document the location and the position of the plurality of collars.
US10954776B2
A mechanical perforation locator has a plurality of perforation locator pins that are normally urged to a run-in condition. Fluid pumped into a work string energizes the perforation locator and urges the perforation locator pins outwardly. When the mechanical perforation locator is pulled or pushed through a cased well bore using the work string, some of the pins are forced into perforations in the casing, which impedes movement of the perforation locator and produces a characteristic spike in work string weight that is detectable at the surface.
US10954773B2
An automated slide drilling system (ASDS) may be used with a drilling rig system to control slide drilling. The ASDS may autonomously control slide drilling without user input during the slide drilling. The ASDS may further support a transition from rotary drilling to slide drilling to rotary drilling without user input during the transitions. The ASDS may also support user input and user notifications for various steps to enable manual or semi-manual control of slide drilling by a driller or an operator.
US10954764B2
Provided are oil recovery compositions and processes for enhancing oil recovery from a carbonate reservoir. A process for enhancing oil recovery includes injecting a first slug of an aqueous solution having a salinity in the range of about 5,000 ppm TDS to about 7,000 ppm TDS and sulfate ions in the range of about 500 ppm to about 5000 ppm. After injection of the first slug, the process includes injecting a second slug of an aqueous solution having a salinity in the range of about 5,000 ppm TDS to about 7,000 ppm TDS, calcium ion concentrations in the range of about 100 ppm to about 1000 ppm, and magnesium ions in the range of about 200 ppm to about 2000 ppm. A third slug of seawater or produce water may then be injected as chase water.
US10954763B2
A method for directing a proppant in a subterranean formation including providing a first wellbore and a second wellbore, wherein the first wellbore and the second wellbore are disposed about a target area of the subterranean formation; creating a pressure differential between the first wellbore and the second wellbore, such that the pressure of one of the first wellbore or the second wellbore is at a higher pressure and the other of the first wellbore or second wellbore is at a lower pressure; and initiating a fracturing pressure in the higher pressure wellbore by pumping a fracturing fluid in the wellbore, the fracturing pressure sufficient to create a fracture at a predetermined location; whereby the fracturing fluid is drawn from the fractured wellbore toward the lower pressurized wellbore as a result of the pressure differential.
US10954756B2
A method for designing a core bit to control and reduce the cutting forces acting on a core of rock is disclosed. The method includes generating a model of a core bit including a plurality of cutting elements on a plurality of blades. The method may additionally include simulating a coring operation with the model of the core bit. The method may further include calculating at least one force vector generated by at least one of the plurality of cutting elements on the model of the core bit during the coring operation. The method may further include determining at least one force acting on a core in the model of the core bit based on the at least one force vector and generating a design of the core bit based on the at least one force acting on the core.
US10954754B2
Assemblies and methods are provided for positioning a sealing tool within a receptacle and pressure testing a seal between the sealing tool and the receptacle. The assembly may be coupled to the sealing tool for latching the sealing tool into the receptacle. The assembly may include a projection that is movable between a coupled position and an uncoupled position. In the coupled position, the projection may couple the assembly to the sealing tool. In the uncoupled position, the projection may be positioned such that the assembly is not coupled to the sealing tool. The projection may move from the coupled position to the uncoupled position in response to determining a seal is established between the sealing tool and the receptacle.
US10954751B2
A frac sleeve assembly and method of operation. The frac sleeve assembly includes a ball seat that retains a frac ball. The ball seat moves within a sleeve. The sleeve includes a profile that separates the first half and the second half to allow passage of the frac ball through the ball seat when the ball seat moves within the sleeve. Alternatively, the ball seat has a ring for receiving the frac ball and the sleeve has a protrusion that selectively engages a shifting pin to move the ring with respect to a ridge to release the ball from the ball seat when the ball seat moves within the sleeve.
US10954740B2
A top latch-in plug includes a housing having a bore; and a transitionable seal, wherein: the transitionable seal seals the bore of the housing when in a first configuration, the transitionable seal unseals the bore when in a second configuration, and the transitionable seal is triggerable to transition from the first configuration to the second configuration. A casing floatation system includes a casing having a pre-load collar and a landing collar; and a lower bottom latch-in plug comprising: a catch mechanism compatible with the pre-load collar; and a landing mechanism compatible with the landing collar.
US10954735B2
This disclosure may generally relate to drilling operations and, more particularly, to systems and methods for sidetracking an existing well. Specifically, examples of the present disclosure may include creating a window by introducing a pH-modifying fluid downhole to degrade a portion of a casing string, thereby creating the window through which a secondary wellbore may be drilled. A method for creating a window in an oilfield tubular may comprise of providing a pH-modifying fluid in the oilfield tubular disposed in a wellbore and contacting a degradable section of the oilfield tubular with the pH-modifying fluid to degrade at least a portion of the degradable section and form an exit window in the oilfield tubular.
US10954732B2
A BHA features an MWD tool connected to a running tool supporting a whipstock that is connected to an open hole anchor. The anchor is flow set and after the anchor is set the running tool collets release from the whipstock to allow cement to be pumped through the anchor to hold the set position. The collets are released from the whipstock also with flow and after the anchor has been set. One way is to use nozzles in series. Another is to run in with a ball on the anchor seat, set the anchor and blow out the ball seat so flow can again be used to release the running tool collets. Another is suspending a ball above the anchor seat, releasing the ball with pressure cycle, open another flow passage to allow collet release of the whipstock. Finally, pressure can be used to release the running tool collets.
US10954730B1
A gate-valve and/or hot-tap drilling system uses a secondary pack-off or sealing element which can be engaged when the primary sealing element develops a leak. Generally, the secondary sealing element is configured to have an engaged position in which a fluid tight seal is formed such that the secondary sealing element engages the bore wall in a pressure-containing housing and drill rod extending through the bore defined by the bore wall. The fluid tight seal prevents fluid flow in the annulus, if the primary seal develops a leak. When the primary seal is working normally—no fluid leak—the secondary sealing element is in a disengaged position where a fluid tight seal is not formed with the bore wall and drill rod.
US10954728B2
Various methods of hardbanding an apparatus are described. In one aspect of the invention an improved method of re-applying a hardbanding alloy to worn tool joints of a previously hardbanded drill pipe results in preservation of the metallurgical properties of the drill pipe and preservation of the internal polymer coating that lines the drill pipe. A method for applying hardbanding includes arc welding a consumable metal welding wire to a tool joint having a surface temperature that ranges from about 50° F. to about 170° F. and the arc welding power supply utilizes DC current. The method herein produces a hardbanded tool joint comprising a heat affected zone (HAZ) of a based metal having a Rockwell hardness of 40 Rc or less.
US10954726B2
A downhole tool and method for orienting a tool string within a passage, wherein the passage is a wellbore or a tubular member disposed in a wellbore. The downhole tool may include a frame (210) operable for connection with the tool string (100), a first orienting feature (211) connected to a first side of the frame (210), and a second orienting feature (212) connected to a second side of the frame (210). The first orienting feature (211) may be rotatable relative to the frame about a first axis of rotation that is offset from a central axis of the tool string and the second orienting feature (212) may be rotatable relative to the frame about a second axis of rotation that is offset from the central axis of the tool string.
US10954718B2
A transmission device including a body, an input member extending along the body, and having a rotational axis, a gear assembly connected to the input member, having an inner gear, one or more intermediate gears engaged with the inner gear; and an outer gear engaged with one or more intermediate gears, wherein in a first position the gear assembly is configured to rotate at substantially the same rate as the input member and axial movement of at least one component to a second position, in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of rotation, allows the gear assembly to provide to an output member a different output rate relative to the input member, and an actuator movable between a first position at which the gear assembly moves to its first position and a second position at which the gear assembly moves to its second position, the actuator moves under hydraulic pressure.
US10954716B2
In one aspect, a lift station configured for use with a covering for an architectural structure includes a housing and one or more lift spools disposed within a spool cavity defined by the housing. Additionally, the lift station also includes first and second outriggers extending outwardly from opposed sides of the housing of the lift station. The first outrigger is configured to define a first cord guide surface for guiding a front lift cord between a front side of the covering and the spool cavity of the housing. Similarly, the second outrigger is configured to define a second cord guide surface for guiding a rear lift cord between a rear side of the covering and the spool cavity of the housing.
US10954714B2
Disclosed is a fireproof shutter for opening and closing a passage between an upper story and a lower story. The fireproof shutter includes a base panel having an opening corresponding to the passage, a door for opening and closing the opening, and a guide unit for guiding the door between an open position in which the door is opened and a closed position in which the door is closed and having a predetermined inclination such that the door is closed by its own weight.
US10954709B2
A bus includes a vehicle body, a plurality of capacitive sensors mounted along a perimeter of the vehicle body, wherein one of the capacitive sensors capacitively couples to an electrically conductive object proximal to the portion of the vehicle body such that the capacitance of the one of the capacitive sensors changes, and a controller coupled to the capacitive sensors, the controller being configured to alert an operator of the bus when the object is coupled to the at least one capacitive sensor.
US10954707B2
A door assembly is provided for which can alternate between a pivoting and a sliding configuration. The door assembly can include a door panel, a track, a first carriage assembly, a second carriage assembly, and a locking mechanism. The first and second carriage assembly can connect the door panel to the track. The first and second carriage assemblies can be slidably movable on the track, and the first carriage assembly can further include a pivot mechanism that pivotably couples the door to the track. The locking mechanism can configure the door between the sliding and pivoting configurations. For example, the locking mechanism can mechanically couple the door panel to the second carriage assembly in the sliding configuration and mechanically decouple the door from the second carriage assembly in the pivoting configuration.
US10954703B2
This disclosure relates to a motor vehicle having a door check mechanism. An example motor vehicle includes a door pivotable between fully open and fully closed positions, and a door check mechanism including a bar having a helical groove and at least one check hold recess along the helical groove.
US10954697B2
An inside handle device of a vehicle includes a handle unit and a cable unit. In the handle unit, an operation member including an operation handle is rotatably connected to a handle base. The cable unit movably holds one end of a cable device configured to connect the operation member to a latch device fixed to a door on a cable cover. The cable cover has a first locking portion formed at a cable introduction edge and a second locking portion formed at an opposite-end edge. The first locking portion is rotatably locked to the handle base with the opposite-end edge as a rotating end. The second locking portion is elastically locked in a state of being rotated around the first locking portion.
US10954694B2
The present disclosure defines a lever handing apparatus that permits simplified changing of the handing of a lever handle between a left hand and a right hand orientation. The lever handing apparatus includes an assembly with a rotatable spring cage housing and lever spindle that can be selectively rotated within an escutcheon housing to change the handing position of a lever arm. The handing orientation of the lever can be repositioned without removing a back plate or accessing internal components positioned within the escutcheon housing assembly.
US10954692B1
An apparatus and method for closing a car door from the inside of the car using an elongated handle and a hand mounted on the distal end, which is especially helpful for an aging individual and/or an individual with disabilities to easily close a car door without help from others and without having to exit the vehicle.
US10954691B2
A guardrail base can include a base body, which can include a first foot, a second foot, and a raised portion between the first foot and the second foot; and a rail mount mounted on the raised portion of the base, the rail mount configured to angularly pivot about and between a first position towards the first foot and a second position towards the second foot.
US10954688B2
An interment system, includes: (a) at least one desiccation vessel for storing remains of a decedent who has not been cremated; (b) a plurality of memorial suites configured to house the at least one desiccation vessel, each of which includes a storage area for the at least one desiccation vessel, a living area, a vertically-oriented tribute wall separating the storage area from the living area, and an HVAC unit, which is configured to adjust at least one of a temperature, a pressure and a humidity within the at least one desiccation vessel to adjust a rate of desiccation; (c) a processor configured to securely store and share decedent data. The at least one desiccation vessel is sufficiently light, durable, and air-tight such that the at least one desiccation vessel with the decedent contained therein can be easily relocated without the need for special vehicles or trained personnel.
US10954680B2
A portable inflatable golf studio including an arcuate shaped roof panel, first and second side panels, a floor panel, a front panel, a back panel, a projector screen, a projector, and a tracking system. The first and second side panels are positioned parallel from one another and are attached to the arcuate shaped roof panel, wherein one of the first and second side panels defines a cavity configured to receive a television monitor. The floor panel configured to connect the first and second side panels to one another. The front panel removable attached to the arcuate shaped roof panel and the first and second side panels. The back panel positioned parallel to the front panel and attached to the arcuate shaped roof panel and the first and second side panels. Each panel includes one or more of inflatable sections.
US10954678B2
A method of repairing an opening in a wall includes positioning an unexpanded expandable apparatus within a cavity of a wall, aligning an anchor receiving cavity of the unexpanded expandable apparatus with the opening in the wall, and while maintaining the anchor receiving cavity in general alignment with the opening in the wall, expanding the unexpanded expandable apparatus. Following expanding the expandable apparatus, the method includes filling the anchor receiving cavity with an anchoring material, and covering the anchoring material and filling the opening with a filling material to repair the opening in the wall to allow a weight bearing fixture to be attached or reattached to the repaired area.
US10954676B2
A rooftop equipment attachment system includes a rooftop having a roof deck, an insulation layer positioned atop the roof deck, a plurality of metallic roof plates that secure the insulation layer to the roof deck, and a roofing membrane secured atop the insulation layer. The roofing membrane covers the plurality of metallic roof plates. The system includes a frame for supporting rooftop equipment. The frame includes a plurality of mounting supports that are positionable atop the rooftop at positions that are above at least a portion of the plurality of metallic roof plates. The plurality of mounting supports are configured to support the frame and any rooftop equipment mounted thereon. Each of the plurality of mounting supports includes a magnetic element that is configured to secure a particular one of the plurality of mounting supports with a particular one of the plurality of metallic roof plates.
US10954673B2
Provided are roofing granules, such as solar-reflective roofing granules, methods for making them and their use in roofing products. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a collection of solar-reflective roofing granules having a solar reflectivity of at least 70%, wherein substantially each roofing granule comprises an inner layer, an outer layer disposed on an outer surface of the inner layer and substantially surrounding the inner layer, wherein the inner layer and the outer layer are formed from substantially the same composition but have substantially different porosities, the outer layer having a porosity substantially lower than the porosity of the outer layer. Methods for making such roofing granules can include forming layers of substantially the same first and second compositions, wherein the forming of the layer of the second composition is performed under substantially different conditions from the forming of the layer of the first composition.
US10954666B2
An anchor device for a floor, the anchor device comprising an article securing arrangement to which an article can be secured. The article has a moveable securing mechanism. The article securing arrangement defines a cavity to receive the moveable securing mechanism, and the article securing arrangement includes a co-operating means to co-operate with the moveable securing mechanism in the cavity and secure the article to the anchor device. The anchor device has a height which is no more than 30 mm.
US10954665B1
A sprayed-in-place framed wall is disclosed, comprised of a cementitious face and backing layers and a polyurethane foam insulation layer that bonds the cementitious layers to a separate wall frame. Stationary walls are constructed by spraying the materials against one-sided, vertical wall forms positioned around an erected, exterior wall frame. The cementitious materials are restrained by stays. The wall forms may have indentations to enable the resulting wall face to have protrusions such as moulding, bands, quoins and cornices, which may be a different color that the surrounding flat wall face.
US10954664B1
Arch structure defining equidistant points along a radial curve and comprising uniformly-sized, standard stock, elongated rectangular cross-section stringer members, uniformly-sized, standard stock, elongated rectangular cross-section arch members each having a midpoint and first and second angled ends of equal but opposing to one another angular magnitude, each arch member adapted to converge crossways on and completely abut a side surface of two non-adjacently positioned stringer members, each of the arch members further being adapted for undergirding a stringer member located between two non-adjacently positioned stringer members at the mid-point of the arch member, each arch member adapted for being oriented in scissor-like crossing relationship to another arch member, a plurality of fasteners, and where needed at least one tensioning member preferably attached between end stringer members, or alternatively between foundation members, the tensioning members and fasteners making the arch structure fortified to be as if monolithic.
US10954663B2
A cylindrical sleeve-type steel-wood composite joint includes fiberglass reinforced panel (FRP) cylindrical wood columns, X-shaped wood beams, a key connecting component, arc connecting pieces and splicing outer ring plates. The key connecting component consists of upper and lower cylindrical steel sleeve plates, a connecting sleeve, a cylindrical solid wood and filling wood blocks. The FRP cylindrical wood columns are connected to the key connecting component and are inserted into the key connecting component through the cylindrical steel sleeve plates and penetrative steel bars. The X-shaped wood beams are connected to the key connecting component through the arc connecting pieces, and the splicing outer ring plates are fixed with bolts to realize combination and connection. By adoption of the design of the connecting sleeve, the joint has a high bearing capacity, vertical force transfer is guaranteed, operation is easy, and assembly is fast.
US10954661B2
An apparatus for cleaning waste collection systems of solid materials. The apparatus is capable of cleaning waste systems in two known ways. First, a pumping method uses normal and injected water flow to suspend the solids in a slurry. A submersible pump moves the slurry from a collection point up to a pressurized container where the water content of the slurry is decanted and reused as injection water while the particulate material settles to the bottom of the pressurized container. Second, a vacuum system may be used to move the slurry from the waste system to the waste container. The vacuum system creates a negative pressure differential, causing material to be pulled through a vacuum tube and into the waste container. When the container becomes substantially full of solid particles, it may be emptied at a dumpsite.
US10954659B1
A toilet includes a tank, a pedestal, and a mounting assembly. The tank includes a bottom wall. The bottom wall includes an opening and a bottom surface. The pedestal includes an opening and a top surface. The opening of the pedestal is aligned with the opening of the bottom wall. The mounting assembly includes a mounting plate, a nut, and a gasket. The mounting plate is configured to be coupled to the pedestal and includes an opening aligned with the opening of the pedestal. The nut holds the mounting plate against the bottom surface of the bottom wall and includes a rounded portion. The gasket is disposed about the opening of the pedestal and along the top surface of the pedestal and includes a concave surface that is configured for receiving the rounded portion of the nut.
US10954658B2
This invention relates to a cistem (1010): More specifically, the invention relates primarily to concealed cisterns for toilets having integrated, and preferably adjustable, dual-flushing and odour extraction capability. The cistem (1010) includes a primary chamber (1020) for storing a volume of liquid, a liquid inlet (1026) for the primary chamber (1020) of the cistem (1010) with liquid, an air outlet (1028) for exhausting air from the primary chamber (1020) of the cistem (1010) operatively during filling; and a liquid outlet (30) through which liquid operatively stowed in the primary chamber (1020) of the cistem is dischargeable. The cistem (1010) further includes a fill valve for controlling liquid supply into the primary chamber from the liquid inlet (1026) and a flush valve (60) for controlling flow through the liquid outlet (30). The flush valve (60) comprises of a flush valve seat and a flush plug (1064) being moveable relative to the flush valve seat between an open position, wherein the flush plug (1064) is displaced from the flush valve seat thereby to open the liquid outlet (30) and enable the liquid in the primary chamber (1020) to discharge there through during flushing, and a closed position, wherein the flush plug (1064) is seated on the flush valve seat thereby to close the liquid outlet (30) and prevent the passage of liquid there through. The cistern (1010) also includes at least one actuator (1070) for actuating displacement of the flush plug (1064) from the closed position to the open position, and a controller (1123) for controlling one or more of a group of flushing conditions including: (i) flush type, wherein the cistem (1010) is adjustable between a single flush, dual-flush, on-demand flush or a combination of such flush type conditions; and (ii) flush time, wherein the time of the displacement of the flush plug (1064) by the actuator (1070) for each flush type condition is adjustable.
US10954654B2
A work machine includes systems and methods for stability control and for calibrating the stability control. During operation the load on a work implement is detected and it is determined if the load is at or above a threshold value. A derated fluid output is determined if the load is at or above the threshold value. A control signal is output to the valve based on the derated fluid output. During calibration the pressure in a hydraulic cylinder is detected at one or more locations as a mechanical arm moves between a lower position and an upper position. One or more baseline values are established for the mechanical arm between the lower position and the upper position.
US10954649B2
A manhole cover assembly comprises a base frame, the base frame comprising a base body and a base flange extending laterally outward from the base body. The assembly further comprises a top frame, the top frame comprising a top body disposed annularly about at least a portion of the base body, a top flange extending laterally outward from the top body, and a lip extending laterally inward from the top body.
US10954643B2
An energy-supply rotary inertia driver system for an offshore platform includes an annular fixed plate, an active control module, a wind power generation module and a solar power generation module. The system can monitor a motion state of the offshore platform in real time, and can generate a force through the active control module if necessary to apply a force torque of the offshore platform to further achieve the vibration suppression. Moreover, when the offshore platform is under normal operation, the system can act as an energy supply device via wind and solar power generation to feed electric energy to the active control module and other electrical equipment on the offshore platform when needed.
US10954634B2
Nanofibrillated cellulose ply bonding agent or adhesive and multi-ply absorbent sheet made therewith
A ply-bonding agent or adhesive composition characterized by a viscosity and a surface tension for the manufacture of paper tissue and paper towel, includes: (a) water; (b) nanofibrillated cellulose; and (c) one or more modifiers effective to modify either or both of (i) the viscosity of the composition or (ii) the surface tension of the composition, wherein the one or more additional modifiers are selected from the group consisting of components (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) or (viii), wherein: (iii) is PVOH and a viscosity modifier; (iv) is a viscosity modifier; (v) is a viscosity modifier and a surface tension modifier other than PVOH; (vi) is a water-soluble cellulose derivative; (vii) is a water soluble polyol; and (viii) is a surface tension modifier other than PVOH. The compositions are particularly useful for ply-bonding multi-ply absorbent sheet when the plies are treated with debonder.
US10954630B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing cellulose with low inorganic impurities from sugarcane bagasse, the process comprising treating prehydrolysed sugarcane bagasse with a mixture of sulfite and at least one alkali to obtain residue having undissolved cellulose along with lignin rich liquor. The residue having undissolved cellulose is further subjected to delignification and addition of at least one enzyme to obtain a cellulose rich pulp. The cellulose rich pulp obtained is then treated with bleaching agents followed by separating pure cellulose rich pulp having high a-cellulose content and low inorganic impurities.
US10954629B2
The invention is directed to a synthetic hoisting rope comprising a solid core surrounded by a first braided layer of a first set of strands that is surrounded by a second braided layer of a second set of strands.
US10954621B2
The present disclosure includes a washing machine including an inner rotor and an outer rotor. An outer rotor and an inner rotor may be rotated in a synchronous rotation mode or a counter rotation mode by converting the number of magnetic poles of the outer rotor. When the outer rotor becomes inoperable when the outer rotor is set to the number of magnetic poles for performing the counter rotation mode, it is converted to the number of magnetic poles for performing the synchronous rotation mode while the outer rotor is stopped.
US10954620B2
The present disclosure relates to a washing machine, having an actively movable balancer, and method of controlling the same. The washing machine according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a balancing unit to move along a circumference of a drum to reduce imbalance due to an unbalanced distribution of the laundry; a transmission coil provided at a tub to generate a wireless power signal and transmit power wirelessly to the balancing unit; a transmission converter to apply power at a driving frequency to the transmission coil; a voltage measurer to measure a transmission voltage, which is a voltage of the transmission coil; and a transmission controller to control the transmission converter based on the transmission voltage measured by the voltage measurer, thereby transmitting sufficient power wirelessly to the balancing unit in a short period of time.
US10954615B2
The invention provides migration resistant batting that includes a nonwoven web comprising a first surface parallel to a second surface, and a fiber mixture that includes: 35 to 65 wt % synthetic polymeric fibers having a denier of less than or equal to 1.0, wherein 50 to 100 wt % of said synthetic polymeric fibers are siliconized fibers; 10 to 30 wt % spiral-crimped synthetic polymeric fibers having a length of greater than or equal to 60 mm, wherein 50 to 100 wt % of said spiral-crimped synthetic polymeric fibers are siliconized fibers; 20 to 50 wt % elastomeric fibers having a denier between 2.0 and 7.0; and 5 to 25 wt % synthetic binder fibers having a denier of 1.5 to 4.0, said binder fibers have a bonding temperature lower than the softening temperature of the synthetic polymeric fibers, wherein said first and second surfaces comprise a cross-linked resin. Also provided are articles comprising the batting and methods of making the batting.
US10954606B2
Methods for forming single crystal silicon ingots in which plural sample rods are grown from the melt are disclosed. A parameter related to the impurity concentration of the melt or ingot is measured. In some embodiments, the sample rods each have a diameter less than the diameter of the product ingot.
US10954597B2
An atomic layer deposition apparatus including a deposition head that is rotatably mounted around a central deposition head axis and including a susceptor having an upper surface for carrying substrates. The lower surface comprises a plurality of process sections. Each process section includes a purge gas injection zone, a first precursor gas injection zone, a gas exhaust zone, a purge gas injection zone, a second precursor gas injection zone and a gas exhaust zone. Each zone radially extends from a radially inward part of the lower surface to a radially outward part of the lower surface of the deposition head. The combination of distance between the lower surface and the upper surface, the rotational speed of the deposition head and the flow rate and the pressure of the purge gas flows are selected such that the first and second precursor gases are substantially prevented from mixing.
US10954594B2
The present disclosure generally relate to a semiconductor processing apparatus. In one embodiment, a processing chamber is disclosed herein. The processing chamber includes a chamber body and lid defining an interior volume, the lid configured to support a housing having a cap, a substrate support disposed in the interior volume, a vaporizer coupled to the cap and having an outlet open to the interior volume of the processing chamber, wherein the vaporizer is configured to deliver a precursor gas to a processing region defined between the vaporizer and the substrate support, and a heater disposed adjacent to the vaporizer, wherein the heater is configured to heat the vaporizer.
US10954591B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a structured coating on a substrate, wherein the method comprises the following steps: providing a substrate having a surface to be coated and producing a structured coating on the surface of the substrate to be coated by depositing at least one evaporation coating material, namely aluminium oxide, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, or titanium dioxide, on the surface of the substrate to be coated by means of thermal evaporation of the at least one evaporation coating material and using additive structuring. The invention further relates to a coated substrate and a semi-finished product having a coated substrate.
US10954587B2
A preferred embodiment is an uncoated, biodegradable corrosion resistant bone implant. The implant includes a body being uncoated and lacking any protective polymer, metallic or ceramic coating, the body being shaped to fix to a bone and/or bone fragment. The body is formed of a magnesium alloy. The magnesium alloy includes from high-purity vacuum distilled magnesium containing impurities, which promote electrochemical potential differences and/or the formation of precipitations and/or intermetallic phases. The impurities are such that the body has a strength of >275 MPa, and a ratio yield point of <0.8, wherein the difference between strength and yield point is >50 MPa.
US10954586B2
A copper alloy disclosed in the present description has a basic alloy composition represented by Cu100−(x+y)SnxAly (where 8≤x≤12 and 8≤y≤9 are satisfied), in which a main phase is a βCuSn phase with Al dissolved therein, and the βCuSn phase undergoes martensitic transformation when heat-treated or worked. A method for producing a copper alloy disclosed in the present description is a casting step of melting and casting a raw material containing Cu, Sn, and Al and having a basic alloy composition represented by Cu100−(x+y)SnxAly (where 8≤x≤12 and 8≤y≤9 are satisfied) so as to obtain a cast material, and a homogenization step of homogenizing the cast material in a temperature range of a βCuSn phase so as to obtain a homogenized material, the method includes at least the casting step.
US10954585B2
A method of recovering a rare earth element. The method comprises dissolving a rare earth element magnetic material in a dissolution organic solvent and a β-diketone compound to form a dissolved rare earth element mixture. A rare earth element of the rare earth element magnetic material and the β-diketone compound are reacted to form a β-diketonate chelate complex and the dissolution organic solvent is removed. The β-diketonate chelate complex is removed using a separation organic solvent, and the β-diketonate chelate complex is recovered. Additional methods are also disclosed.
US10954579B2
The present invention relates to a method, and system for performing such method, for producing a press hardened part (2′) of heat treatable material having zones of different structure by partially heating a blank (2) before the blank is processed. The method (100) comprises the steps of arranging (104) the blank in a furnace (10) for heating the blank to a temperature equal to or above the austenitization temperature of the material of the blank to get the blank into an austenitic phase, in a IR heating station (10) partially heating (106), by means of IR radiation (24), at least one first zone (2a) of the blank thereby keeping the at least one first zone of the blank in the austenitic phase, and arranging (108) the blank in a processing unit (30) for forming and quenching the blank to a press hardened part.
US10954566B2
The present invention provides assays systems and methods for detection of genetic variants in a sample, including copy number variation and single nucleotide polymorphisms. The invention preferably employs the technique of tandem ligation—, e.g., the ligation of two or more fixed sequence oligonucleotides and one or more bridging oligonucleotides complementary to a region between the fixed sequence oligonucleotides—combined with detection of levels of particular genomic regions using array hybridization.
US10954560B2
Described herein are cell-based analytic methods, including a method of incorporating nucleic acid sequences into reaction products from a cell population, wherein the nucleic acid sequences are incorporated into the reaction products of each cell individually or in small groups of cells individually. Also described herein is a matrix-type microfluidic device that permits at least two reagents to be delivered separately to each cell or group of cells, as well as primer combinations useful in the method and device.
US10954559B2
Provided are an adaptor element in a bubble shape, a method of constructing a sequencing library with such an adapter element. The adaptor element is a hybrid formed with a long-chain nucleic acid A and a short-chain nucleic acid B. The hybrid is in the bubble shape with paired regions at two terminals and a non-paired region in the middle.
US10954557B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for amplifying and analyzing nucleic acid samples. The present disclosure provides methods for preparing cDNA and/or DNA molecules and cDNA and/or DNA libraries using modified reverse transcriptases.
US10954551B2
Methods, systems, and reagents for real-time single molecule sequencing of nucleic acids, particularly long DNA molecules, is described. Preferably, such methods and systems combine FRET (Förster Resonance Energy Transfer)-based proximity sensing of labeled nucleotides in or near a DNA polymerase's active site with FRET-based monitoring of the conformational changes in the polymerase that occur during nucleotide incorporation.
US10954542B2
This disclosure provides, among other things, a method for making a cDNA library. In some embodiments the method may comprise adding a polyA tail to the longer RNA fragments but not the shorter RNA fragments in a sample by incubating the population of RNA fragments with a polyA polymerase, wherein the reaction conditions used preferentially tail only the longer fragments but not the shorter fragments.
US10954541B2
Provided herein, in some aspects, are methods and compositions for cell-free production of ribonucleic acid.
US10954540B2
Described herein are methods of producing biosynthetic bacterial cellulose membranes having improved characteristics that are advantageous for use in various biological applications, including medicine.
US10954525B2
Methods and compositions for modulating plant development are provided. Nucleotide sequences and amino acid sequences encoding Ovule Development Protein 2 (ODP2) proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in a variety of methods including modulating development, developmental pathways, altering oil content in a plant, increasing transformation efficiencies, modulating stress tolerance, and modulating the regenerative capacity of a plant. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided.
US10954521B1
Chimeric proteins are expressed, secreted or released by a bacterium to immunize against or treat a parasite, infectious disease or malignancy. The delivery vector may also be attenuated, non-pathogenic, low pathogenic, or a probiotic bacterium. The chimeric proteins include chimeras of, e.g., phage coat and/or colicin proteins, bacterial toxins and/or enzymes, autotransporter peptides, lytic peptides, multimerization domains, and/or membrane transducing (ferry) peptides. The active portion of the immunogenic chimeric proteins can include antigens against a wide range of parasites and infectious agents, cancers, Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases, and have enhanced activity when secreted or released by the bacteria, and/or have direct anti-parasite or infectious agent activity. The activity of the secreted proteins is further increased by co-expression of a protease inhibitor that prevents degradation of the effector peptides. Addition of an antibody binding or antibody-degrading protein further prevents the premature elimination of the vector and enhances the immune response.
US10954520B2
There is a need for delivery platforms with robust capacity that offer the possibility to deliver diverse protein-based therapeutics into specific cells. Described herein is a platform for delivering cargo polypeptides into cells, which is based on a recombinant molecule comprising: a cargo polypeptide, a diphtheria toxin enzymatic fragment (DTA), and a diphtheria toxin translocation fragment (DTB). The platform has been employed to deliver diverse cargo into cells, including those having low or high molecular weights. A hyper-stable cargo polypeptide has been delivered, as well as proteins of therapeutic significance (e.g, MecP2, SMN, FMRP, PNP, alpha-amylase, RRSP, GRA16, and GRA24). The platform is also useful for delivering genome-modifying proteins, such as the CRISPR protein, Cas9. Associated nucleic acids, pharmaceutical compositions, methods, uses, and kits are also described, including those of therapeutic significance aimed at treating diseases or disorders caused by enzyme or protein deficiency, such as cancer.
US10954519B2
Provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for reducing expression of a DMPK mRNA and protein in an animal. Also provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for preferentially reducing CUGexp DMPK RNA, reducing myotonia or reducing spliceopathy in an animal. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, delay, or ameliorate type 1 myotonic dystrophy, or a symptom thereof.
US10954514B2
The present invention generally relates to CRISPR systems or complexes, such as those with an escorted guide RNA.
US10954506B2
Embodiments of the invention provide at least one polymer covalently conjugated to an esterase. The at least one polymer includes a plurality of oxime functional groups.
US10954503B2
The present invention relates antidotes to anticoagulants targeting factor Xa. The antidotes are factor X and factor Xa protein derivatives that bind to the factor Xa inhibitors thereby substantially neutralizing them but do not assemble into the prothrombinase complex. The derivatives describe herein lack or have reduced intrinsic coagulant activity. Disclosed herein are methods of reversing anticoagulation, stopping or preventing bleeding in a patient that is currently undergoing anticoagulant therapy with a factor Xa inhibitor.
US10954499B2
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase activity and isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid sequences as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
US10954495B2
This invention provides for an improved generation of novel nucleic acid modifying enzymes. The improvement is the fusion of a sequence-non-specific nucleic-acid-binding domain to the enzyme in a manner that enhances the ability of the enzyme to bind and catalytically modify the nucleic acid.
US10954492B2
Described are improved processes for production and purification of nucleic acid-containing compositions, such as non-naturally occurring viruses, for example, recombinant polioviruses that can be employed as oncolytic agents. Some of the described improved processes relate to improved processes for producing viral DNA template. Also described are improved processes for chromatography purification of nucleic acid-containing compositions, in which the nucleic acid is quantified in chromatography fractions using a rapid detection method of the one or more nucleic acid sequences of the nucleic acid-containing composition, such as detection by real time RT-qPCR. In addition, improved processes for production and purification of oncolytic poliovirus, such as PVS-RIPO, are described. Compositions generated using these methods are also provided.
US10954491B2
The present invention relates to a novel porcine pestivirus, to proteins of the virus and to vaccines based upon the virus and proteins thereof. The invention also relates to DNA fragments comprising a gene of the virus and to DNA vaccines based upon genes of the virus. Furthermore the invention relates to antibodies that are reactive with the novel virus and to diagnostic tests for the detection of the virus or antibodies against the virus.
US10954486B2
The present invention relates to a process for freeze drying a bacteria-containing concentrate. Further, the present invention relates to the freeze dried concentrates per se.
US10954483B2
A fluid transfer system includes a transfer carousel capable of rotational and/or translational movement; at least one holding vessel (e.g. syringe) having a plunger, wherein the syringe is connected to the transfer carousel such that the movement of the transfer carousel results in movement of the syringe and wherein the syringe is capable of translational movement relative to the transfer carousel; a drive motor connected to the syringe that is capable of controlling the position of the plunger; and a peripheral module comprising at least one vessel that is capable of containing a fluid, wherein the vessel has an opening that can be mated with the syringe to allow fluid transfer between the vessel and the syringe. Methods for transferring a fluid are also disclosed.
US10954479B2
The present invention relates to a composition for surface treatment including: a phosphonic acid compound containing two or more nitrogen atoms; and water, wherein the pH is 6 or less, and the composition for surface treatment is used for treating a surface of a polishing-completed object to be polished having a tungsten-containing layer. According to the present invention, there is provided a means capable of inhibiting dissolution of the tungsten-containing layer provided on a polishing-completed object to be polished when a surface treatment is performed.
US10954477B2
The present invention relates to reduced odor. More specifically the invention relates to a method for hydrolyzing a lipase substrate comprising: adding to said substrate a lipase variant of SEQ ID NO: 3, which variant comprises a substitution at one or more positions corresponding to positions 4; 44; 45; 49; 58; 84; 88; 93; 95; 97; 104; 108; 131; 140; 147; 152; 158; 165; 176; 177; 187; 195; 199; 208; 211; 221; 222; 224; 232; 244; 247; 248; 249; 251; 255; and 259 of SEQ ID NO: 3, has lipase activity, and has at least 75% but less than 100% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 3 or a fragment thereof with lipase activity, in which method odor is reduced when compared to the method wherein SEQ ID NO: 3 is added to the lipase substrate. The present invention also relates lipase variants, polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of producing and using the variants.
US10954474B2
A leuco polymer comprising a polymeric carbohydrate and a leuco moiety. The polymeric carbohydrate and the leuco moiety are covalently bound. Methods of making the leuco polymer, laundry care compositions comprising the leuco polymer and methods of treating textiles with such laundry care compositions.
US10954470B2
The invention relates to a method for the purification of crude rice bran wax using an alcohol as a purifying solvent under high pressure conditions. It particularly relates to the use of ethyl alcohol as said solvent for efficient and economic purification of crude rice bran wax into economically valuable high purity wax products.
US10954466B2
The invention relates to polymeric-inorganic nanoparticles and preparation processes thereof. The invention also relates to a powder, concentrate and lubricating composition comprising these polymeric-inorganic nanoparticles, to a method of dispersing nanoparticles in lubricating oil, as well as the use of these polymeric-inorganic particles in an oil lubricant formulation to reduce pour point, friction and wear.
US10954460B2
A fuel composition for a spark-ignition internal combustion engine comprises an additive having a chemical structure comprising a 6-membered aromatic ring sharing two adjacent aromatic carbon atoms with a 6- or 7-membered saturated heterocyclic ring, the 6- or 7-membered saturated heterocyclic ring comprising a nitrogen atom directly bonded to one of the shared carbon atoms to form a secondary amine and an atom selected from oxygen or nitrogen directly bonded to the other shared carbon atom, the remaining atoms in the 6- or 7-membered heterocyclic ring being carbon. The additive increases the octane number of the fuel, thereby improving the auto-ignition characteristics of the fuel.
US10954444B2
The present application relates to a novel liquid crystal compound and a use thereof. The novel liquid crystal compounds of the present application can exhibit a smectic A phase over a wide temperature range. The novel liquid crystal compounds of the present application can be usefully used in the technical fields to which smectic A liquid crystals can be applied, for example, bistable devices.
US10954440B2
A quantum dot including: a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal material including zinc, tellurium, and selenium; and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core, the semiconductor nanocrystal shell including zinc, selenium, and sulfur, wherein the quantum dot does not include cadmium, and in the quantum dot, a mole ratio of the sulfur with respect to the selenium is less than or equal to about 2.4:1. A production method of the quantum dot and an electronic device including the same are also disclosed.
US10954439B2
A method of producing semiconductor nanoparticles, semiconductor nanoparticles, and a light-emitting device are provided. The method includes heat-treating a mixture containing a salt of Ag, a salt containing at least one of In and Ga, an Se supply source, and an organic solvent at a temperature in the range of above 200° C. to 370° C. In the method, the ratio of the number of Ag atoms to the total number of In and Ga atoms in the mixture is above 0.43 to 2.5. The semiconductor nanoparticles contains Ag, at least one of In and Ga, and Se. The light-emitting device includes a light conversion member containing the semiconductor nanoparticles and a semiconductor light-emitting element.
US10954420B2
Provided is a curable petroleum resin, and a preparation method and a use thereof, the curable petroleum resin comprising a repeating unit derived from a petroleum resin monomer, a repeating unit derived from a silane monomer and a repeating unit derived from a C3-C20 alpha-olefin monomer. The curable petroleum resin is used as an additive in a reactive polyolefin-based adhesive composition to increase the adhesive strength to a polyolefin-based substrate used for various parts.
US10954415B2
An aqueous noctilucent and allochroic glue that includes deionized water; a noctilucent material that includes long-afterglow phosphor powder and a transparent medium, wherein the noctilucent material includes particles formed by creating, curing, and then crushing a suspension, mixture, or sheet of the long-afterglow phosphor powder and transparent medium, and wherein the particles have been coated with allochroic material; adhesive; and suspension concentrate.
US10954413B2
An optically clear pressure sensitive adhesive article is described herein that includes a pressure sensitive adhesive film disposed on a substrate. The pressure sensitive adhesive film includes an optically clear adhesive composition formed by polymerizing a mixture of monomers that includes at least one (C1-C18)alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer and at least one polar (meth)acrylate monomer, and surface-modified fumed silica disposed in the optically clear pressure sensitive adhesive composition. The pressure sensitive adhesive film has a haze value in a range of 0 to 5% and a visible light transmittance value of 85 to 100%. Methods for making an optically clear pressure sensitive adhesive article are also described.
US10954410B2
An insulation or jacket layer for a coated conductor is composed of (A) a crosslinked silane-functionalized polyolefin, (B) a filler, (C) a reactive branched polysiloxane, and (D) from 0.00 wt % to 20 wt % of a silanol condensation catalyst.
US10954404B2
The present invention relates to an ink composition for a 3D printing support, comprising an amine-containing monomer and a curing agent. According to the present invention, an ink composition for a 3D printing support, which retains an excellent jetting property, is well dissolved in water after being photo-cured to be easily removed, and has less curing contraction and excellent storage stability, can be provided.
US10954399B2
The present disclosure provides stable, low chloride paint detackifier compositions. Also disclosed are methods of making the paint detackifier compositions and methods of using the paint detackifier compositions. The detackifier may be made from cationized starch and sodium aluminate. The starch can be wheat starch, corn starch, tapioca starch, potato starch, rice starch, sweet potato starch, sago starch, mung bean starch, arrowroot starch, and any combination thereof.
US10954393B2
Products derived from and methods of micelle templating that allow for orthogonal control over structural features.
US10954387B2
A dispensable chemical composition comprising a blend of siloxane polymeric components, with a low viscosity component in an amount greater than a high viscosity component, and suitable to integrate a high amount of filler materials while maintaining rheological features of thixotropic index and viscosity values at low and high shear rates proper for a dispensing paste.
US10954385B2
Provided is a millable silicone rubber composition capable of yielding a silicone rubber (cured product) superior in heat resistance. The composition contains: (A) 100 parts by mass of an organopolysiloxane having at least two silicon atom-bonded alkenyl groups in one molecule, and having an average polymerization degree of not lower than 100; (B) 5 to 100 parts by mass of a reinforcing silica having a specific surface area of not smaller than 50 m2/g; (C) 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of a titanium oxide doped with a transition metal oxide of 0.01 to 5% by mass; (D) 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of a cerium oxide and/or a cerium hydroxide; and (E) 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of a curing agent.
US10954379B2
A process for manufacturing an object, the process comprising steps: a) selecting a feedstock material comprising one or more polymeric material selected from i) a polymeric material (A) having a repeat unit of formula I and a repeat unit of formula II wherein Ph represents a phenylene moiety; and/or ii) a polymeric material (B) having a repeat unit of formula III and a repeat unit of formula IV wherein Ph represents a phenylene moiety; each X independently represents an oxygen or suphur atom; n represents an integer of 1 or 2; Y is selected from a phenylene moiety, a Ph-Ph moiety and a naphthalenyl moiety; W is a carbonyl group, an oxygen or sulphur atom, Z is selected from —X-Ph-S02-Ph- —X-Ph-S02-Y-S02-Ph- and —CO-Ph-; b) melting the feedstock material; and c) extruding the feedstock material to form a plurality of parts that define the object.
US10954375B2
A robust hydrogel-solid hybrid formed of a substrate material having a nonporous and non-topographically patterned surface and a tough hydrogel bonded to the surface, the tough hydrogel having over 90 wt % water, and the hydrogel being bonded to provide interfacial toughness over 300 Jm−2, and even over 1000 Jm−2. The hydrogel is formed of polyacrylamide or polyethylene glycol diacrylate, which provide long-chain polymer networks, and chitosan, hyaluronan, or alginate, which provide mechanically dissipative components. An anchor, which can be a silane, a sulfide, or an amine, is disposed between the surface and the hydrogel to provide chemical bonding between the surface and the long-chain networks of the hydrogel.
US10954374B2
A resin composition includes an organic pigment, a resin, and a solvent, in which a content of a Na atom is 0.01 to 50 mass ppm with respect to a total solid content of a resin composition.
US10954373B2
A method of making a water soluble polymer composition comprising blending a water soluble polymer with at least 15% by weight of the total weight of the composition of a hygroscopic salt to act as a lubricant to render the polymer extrudable and/or mouldable, wherein the water content of the composition is of less than 10% by weight of the total weight of the composition.
US10954370B2
An emulsion, and a method of preparing an emulsion are provided. The emulsion includes styrene/acrylic latex particles and a metal stearate-based material.
US10954369B2
Methods and compositions directed to blends of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) with styrene ethylene butadiene styrene (SEBS) are disclosed. In certain aspects, the blends further include an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE). In a further aspect, the blends are compatible with 3D printing platforms.
US10954364B2
Provided is: A glove dipping composition including, at least: an elastomer that contains a (meth)acrylonitrile-derived structural unit, an unsaturated carboxylic acid-derived structural unit and a butadiene-derived structural unit in a polymer main chain; a polycarbodiimide; zinc oxide and/or an aluminum complex; water; and at least one pH modifier selected from an ammonium compound and an amine compound, in which glove dipping composition the polycarbodiimide includes at least one polycarbodiimide containing a hydrophilic segment in its molecular structure and has an average polymerization degree of 3.8 or higher and a carbodiimide equivalent of 260 to 600; the polycarbodiimide is added in an amount of 0.1 to 4.0% by weight and zinc oxide and/or the aluminum complex is/are added in an amount of 0.1 to 5.6% by weight with respect to the total solid content of the glove dipping composition; and the glove dipping composition has a pH of 9.0 to 11.5.
US10954361B2
What are presented and described are a curing agent for silicone rubber compounds comprising a compound having the general structural formula R1mSi(R)4-m, a process for preparation thereof and the use of this curing agent for hardening a silicone rubber compound. The invention further relates to a composition comprising the curing agent for silicone rubber compounds and to the use of such a composition as sealant, adhesive or coating composition.
US10954350B1
A process for producing tactile and sealing features on flexible films 40. The temperature of resin 80 is raised until it melts, but below its flash point. Wetting hot roll cylinder 10 with the resin 80 in negative cells 14 and transferring to positive textures 24 in cylinder 20. Transferring part of the thermo resin 80 on cylinder 20 to coacting cylinder 30 and passing a continuous flexible film 40 through coacting hot cylinder 20 and cold cylinder 30. The control of the temperature differential between cylinder 20 and film 40 allows the maximum transfer of resin 80 to form tactile structures. Sealable print areas are also created in film 40 that are particularly useful for packaging applications.
US10954347B2
The present disclosure relates to hydrogels and their use for repairing or supplementing body tissue. The hydrogels are capable of safe injection into patients through fine gauge needles and are suitable for repairing, supplementing, or replacing the nucleus pulposus of an intervertebral disc. Methods of manufacturing and methods of using the hydrogels of the present disclosure to repair or replace tissues are also disclosed.
US10954340B2
A polyimide precursor composition that exhibits excellent tensile strength and breaking elongation, and that provides a film containing an alicyclic polyimide resin; a method for producing a polyimide film using the polyimide precursor composition; and a permanent film that contains an alicyclic polyimide resin and that exhibits excellent tensile strength and breaking elongation. The polyimide precursor composition is a mixture of a resin precursor component which is a polyamic acid including an alicyclic backbone having a predetermined structure, a monomer component that includes an aromatic diamine compound having a predetermined structure or an alicyclic tetracarboxylic acid di-anhydride having a predetermined structure; an imidazole compound having a predetermined structure; and a solvent.
US10954322B2
A prepolymer, which is prepared by subjecting an unsaturated bond-containing compound and a bis(vinylphenyl) compound monomer or a polymer thereof to a prepolymerization reaction, is provided. The bis(vinylphenyl) compound contains between 80% and 99% of para-para vinyl groups and has a monomer content of between 80% and 100%. Moreover, a resin composition comprising the prepolymer and an additive, a method of preparing the prepolymer, and an article made from the resin composition are also provided.
US10954319B2
The present invention relates to novel types of PMMA foams and also to the production thereof. The recipes used in the production process include particularly crosslinkers and chain transfer agents as recipe constituents, mostly in low concentrations, in addition to suitable blowing agents. It was found that, surprisingly, the invention provides a simple-to-produce stable PMMA foam having very good properties.
US10954317B2
The present disclosure relates to a process for preparing alkali metal salt of carboxyalkyl ether of tamarind gum with one or more improved properties like improved viscosities and electrolytic stability. Particularly the present disclosure provides a process for preparing alkali metal salt of carboxyalkyl ether of tamarind gum comprising: (a) permeating a pulverized tamarind gum powder by mercerizing said pulverized tamarind gum powder in the presence of an alkali, and a non-aqueous organic polar solvent present in an amount of at least 2 times the amount of the tamarind gum v/w; (b) carrying out etherification of alkali-tamarind gum with etherifying agent to provide an alkali metal salt of carboxyalkyl ether of tamarind gum; in which, steps of mercerizing the pulverized tamarind gum powder and etherification are carried out separately or simultaneously.
US10954303B2
A stable aqueous pharmaceutical formulation comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody, polysorbate 80, a buffer which inhibits polysorbate oxidation is described along with methods of making the preparation. Also described are formulations with high antibody concentrations which maintain fixed volumes and which may be used on patients of variable weight.
US10954299B2
The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of pulmonary bacterial infections. The increasing burden of antimicrobial resistance coupled with the decreasing number of antibiotics in development has urged for strategies to elaborate new therapies. The inventors showed a therapeutic effect of IL-20 receptor 10 antagonists in pulmonary bacterial infection mouse model. Indeed, they demonstrated that treatment with IL-20 receptor antagonists reduces bacterial burden, cellular infiltration and inflammation in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and lung. In particular, the present invention relates to an antagonist of IL-20 cytokines, or/and an antagonist of IL-20RB receptor for use in a method for the treatment of pulmonary bacterial infections in a subject in 15 need thereof.
US10954290B2
An antibody preparation suitable for intravenous administration in humans includes IgG, IgA and at least 5% IgM antibodies by weight of the total amount of antibodies. The preparation is prepared from human plasma, has specific complement activating activity, and, in an in vitro assay with human serum suitable to determine the ability of the antibody preparation to activate complement unspecifically, the antibody preparation generates substantially no C5a and/or substantially no C3a. The antibody preparation can have medical uses.
US10954280B2
Provided herein are methods for obtaining purified recombinant osteopontin (rOPN) from cultures of transgenic microalgae, as well as nutritional supplements from such cultures.
US10954277B2
This document provides methods and materials for treating cancer (e.g., chemotherapeutic resistant cancer). For example, compositions containing a phosphorylation-mimicking peptide (e.g., a phosphorylation-mimicking FOXO1-derived peptide) to treat a mammal having cancer (e.g., to reduce the number of cancer cells in a mammal) and methods of using such compositions are provided. This document also provides methods of treating a mammal having cancer (e.g., to reduce the number of cancer cells in a mammal) by administering a phosphorylation-mimicking FOXO1-derived peptide to the mammal.
US10954276B2
The present invention is directed to enzyme based methods for removing water insoluble non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) and/or water soluble or insoluble oligosaccharides from soy products without significantly damaging the proteins contained therein This removal is facilitated by the enzymatic hydrolysis of poly- and oligomeric carbohydrates into monosaccharides and other water soluble sugars. The present invention provides for the production of three streams of useful materials. The first is an enriched protein material comparable to the known SPCs but without significant quantities of undigestible oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. The second is an SPI made from the soluble protein in the hydrolysate which is valuable for high-quality feed, food and industrial uses. The third is the soluble saccharides and hydrolyzed carbohydrates (releasing sugars) that can be converted by fermentation to various valuable bioproducts.
US10954269B2
The present invention relates to tripeptide compounds according to the general formula (1) and their use as a medicament, in particular as anti-inflammatory agents.
US10954268B2
A method of treating a disorder in a subject. The method comprises administering to said subject an effective amount of an agonist of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R). The subject is a heterozygous carrier of an MC4R mutation, and the disorder results from an attenuated response of MC4R to α-melanocortin stimulating hormone (α-MSH).
US10954251B2
The present application provides a compound of formula (I) or a salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, A, G, M, Q and X are as defined herein. A compound of formula (I) and its salts have a PKC inhibitory activity, and may be used to treat proliferative disorders.
US10954249B2
The present invention provides novel Compound (1) having tumor vascular remodeling effect and/or anti-CAF (Cancer Associated Fibroblasts) activity, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, optionally in a pharmaceutically acceptable and medical uses thereof.
US10954248B2
Embodiments of the present invention feature novel Bryoid compositions, methods of making and methods of treating disease.
US10954242B2
The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I), (II), and (III). The provided compounds are able to bind protein kinases (e.g., SIK) and may be useful in modulating (e.g., inhibiting) the activity of a protein kinase (e.g., SIK, (e.g., SIK1, SIK2, or SIK3)) in a subject or cell. The provided compounds may be useful in treating or preventing a disease (e.g., proliferative disease, musculoskeletal disease, genetic disease, hematological disease, neurological disease, painful condition, psychiatric disorder, or metabolic disorder) in a subject in need thereof. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits, methods, and uses that include or involve a compound described herein.
US10954241B2
The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I that function as inhibitors of RET (rearranged during transfection) kinase enzyme activity: wherein HET, bonds a, b, c and d, X1, X2, X3, X4, R2, and R3 are each as defined herein. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use in the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancer, as well as other diseases or conditions in which RET kinase activity is implicated.
US10954238B1
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I): or a salt thereof, wherein: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and m are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds to inhibit the activity of one or both of diacylglycerol kinase alpha (DGKα) and diacylglycerol kinase zeta (DGKζ), and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in the treatment of viral infections and proliferative disorders, such as cancer.
US10954236B2
Bicyclic dihydropyrimidine-carboxamide compounds of formula I described herein inhibit Rho Kinase and may be used for the treatment of many disorders associated with ROCK enzymes mechanisms, such as pulmonary diseases including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
US10954235B2
The present invention relates to crystalline valbenazine ditosylate, in particular to a crystalline hydrate of valbenazine ditosylate and a crystalline anhydrate of valbenazine ditosylate, and to methods for their preparation. Furthermore, the invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the crystalline hydrate or the crystalline anhydrate, preferably in an effective and/or predetermined amount and to the use of said pharmaceutical composition as a medicament, in particular for the treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders such as tardive dyskinesia.
US10954231B2
The present invention relates to chemical compounds of general formula (I): which may possess useful therapeutic activity in a range of central nervous system disorders, and in particular, anxiety disorders.
US10954230B2
This invention relates to a method of preparing inhibitors of glucosylceramide synthase (GCS) useful for the treatment metabolic diseases, such as lysosomal storage diseases, either alone or in combination with enzyme replacement therapy, and for the treatment of cancer.
US10954228B2
The disclosure provides a compound of the formula (II) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The variables, e.g. n, R, R3, R10, X, Y, and Z are defined herein. These compounds act as lactate dehydrogenase inhibitors and are useful for treating cancer and fibrosis. The compounds may be particularly useful for treating forms of cancer in which a metabolic switch from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis has occurred. The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing a compound of this formula and method for treating patients having cancer, fibrosis, or other conditions in which a metabolic switch from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis has occurred.
US10954222B2
It has been found that efficient screening for a compound having anticancer activity can be achieved by selecting a compound having activity to induce alternative autophagy using, as an index, formation of fluorescent bright spots due to aggregation of a lysosomal protein to which a fluorescent protein is attached in cells expressing the lysosomal protein. In addition, it has been found that a benzothiophene compound represented by the following general formula (1) has alternative autophagy-inducing activity and anticancer activity:
US10954217B2
Provided herein, inter alia, are compounds and methods of treating diseases including cancer, neurological disease, alcohol withdrawal, depression and anxiety, and neuropathic pain.
US10954213B2
The present technology is directed to compositions comprising d-threo-methylphenidate conjugates and unconjugated methylphenidate. The present technology also relates to compositions and oral formulations comprising d-threo-methylphenidate conjugated to nicotinoyl-L-serine, and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and unconjugated methylphenidate and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present technology additionally relates to a pharmaceutical kit containing the composition comprising d-threo-methylphenidate conjugated to nicotinoyl-L-serine, and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and unconjugated methylphenidate and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
