US10543906B1
Temperature management systems for aerial vehicles may include heat pipes that are thermally connected to components that generate heat. The heat pipes may be routed through or adjacent to a propeller or propulsion airflow, or within or across a vehicle airflow, to dissipate heat from the components. A heat pipe may be selected from a plurality of heat pipes based on measured temperatures of components that generate heat, operational characteristics of the aerial vehicle and/or one or more propellers, and/or measured temperatures of other components that may be heated. Additional temperature management systems may include cool air ducts and cool air pipes that may be routed from a propeller or propulsion airflow, or a vehicle airflow, to components that generate heat or other components that may be cooled.
US10543902B2
An actuator system for controlling a flight surface of an aircraft includes a first actuator having a first actuator input and a first linear translation element that moves based on rotational motion received at the first actuator input and a first laser distance sensor disposed inside the first actuator that generates a first output based on a displacement of the first linear translation element. The system also includes a second actuator having a second actuator input and a second linear translation element that moves based on rotational motion received at the second actuator input and a second laser distance sensor disposed inside the second actuator that generates a second output based on a displacement of the second linear translation element. The system also includes a control unit that receives the first and second outputs and determines if an error condition exists for the system based on first and second output.
US10543901B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling the pitch angle of a propeller and rotor assembly that selectively limit the pitch angle according to a selected mode of operation. The system comprises a fine stop collar defining a primary channel, an oil transfer bearing (OTB) extending across the fine stop collar, and an actuator piston engaged with a propeller blade crankshaft to vary propeller blade pitch, wherein the annular piston is positioned about the OTB in fluid communication with the primary channel.
US10543899B2
An adjustable, or all-moving, horizontal stabiliser for an aircraft, the stabiliser having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a root and a tip, and a strake fixed with respect to the stabiliser and attached to, or integrally formed with, the stabiliser leading edge adjacent the root.
US10543896B2
A decompression device has at least one decompression member which is arranged on a supporting structure and which, in the event of differential pressure of a predetermined level, opens an opening in the supporting structure that acts as a connection between two volumes, wherein the decompression member can move between a retention position, in which the decompression member closes the opening, and a released position, in which the decompression member opens the opening, and has a locking arrangement which, when in use, fixes the decompression member in the retention position. The locking arrangement is provided with at least one locking element, which is arranged on the supporting structure, and the decompression member is kept in the retention position indirectly by the locking element interacting with an air conduction part.
US10543889B2
A fender for boats consisting of a base made of plastic material able to be fixed to a hull of a boat, and an insert made of plastic material able to be coupled by a lock joint to the base. The insert comprises two wings, two connection protrusions, a central body and two outer grooves between each wing and the respective connection protrusion.
US10543883B2
In a speed change apparatus for a vehicle, a controller stores as a clutch-disengaging shift spindle angle θ1 a position at which a clutch is disengaged when a shift spindle is rotated in a first direction. The controller controls the shift spindle by a first step W1 of rotating the shift spindle in the first direction until a disengaging-side target angle Ta1 is reached; a second step W2 of returning the shift spindle in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a third step W3 of rotating the shift spindle in the first direction up to the clutch-disengaging shift spindle angle θ1 and thereafter rotating the shift spindle in the second direction to return the shift spindle, upon detection of an output from a drum angle sensor, the output corresponding to shallow engagement of dog teeth.
US10543881B2
A bicycle handlebar cushioning assembly includes a mount for positioning on and releasably engaged by and retained on bicycle handlebars. The mount releasably snaps onto and frictionally engages the bicycle handlebars. The mount has a first end and a second end and is elongated from the first end to the second end. A cushioning member is non-removably attached to the mount. The cushioning member is resiliently compressible.
US10543880B2
A bracket cover is configured to cover at least a portion of a bracket that is attachable to a handlebar of a bicycle. The bracket cover comprises a cover main body. The cover main body is formed in a tubular shape having a first end portion and a second end portion. The cover main body has an opening part extending from at least one of the first end portion and the second end portion such that the opening part forms a first edge portion and a second edge portion.
US10543875B2
A trailer for transporting a container has a frame mountable to a vehicle. The frame has a rear frame section mountable above a rear wheel assembly of the trailer, and a front frame section connected to and disposed forward of the rear frame section in a forward direction of travel of the vehicle. The front frame section has a king pin mountable to a hitch of the vehicle and a forward-most end. The forward-most end is moveable relative to the kingpin in a direction parallel to the forward direction of travel to extend and shorten a length of the front frame section between a fully-lengthened configuration and a fully-shortened configuration.
US10543874B2
Vehicles are disclosed that are configured to carry loads in a stabilized manner, such that the load is maintained in a substantially constant position or orientation relative to a predetermined reference point or frame even as the vehicle moves. A stabilization controller in such a vehicle receives information about movement of the vehicle relative to the reference point or plane from one or more sensors on the vehicle, and uses the information to control one or more movable objects by which the load is secured to the vehicle so as to maintain a relatively constant relationship between the load and the reference point or plane.
US10543863B2
Disclosed is a mobile cart for an organ container. The mobile cart includes a top assembly configured to be releasably secured to the organ container, which is at least one of an organ transporter and an organ perfusion apparatus configured to perfuse an organ. It also includes a support structure attached to the top assembly so as to support the top assembly, the support structure being moveable from an extended position to a collapsed position. The top assembly in turn includes distinct primary and secondary locking mechanisms, each of which is configured to secure the support structure in the extended position. And when the support structure is secured in the extended position, both the primary and secondary locking mechanisms must be actuated for the support structure to be moveable to the collapsed position.
US10543852B2
Described herein is an autonomous vehicle comprising a sensor and a driver notification module in communication with the sensor. The driver notification module may be configured to receive first information related to an upcoming event; determine an action for an autonomous vehicle based, at least in part, on the first information; determine one or more characteristics of the action based, at least in part on the first information and a current status of the autonomous vehicle; determine a notification based, at least in part, on the action and the one or more characteristics; and deliver the notification within the autonomous vehicle.
US10543846B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for determining a power of a vehicle is disclosed. A method includes: providing predetermined calibration settings relating force to engine speed for a vehicle travelling at various speeds, altering accelerometer data based on filtered vehicle pitch and roll data, determining that one or more vehicle performance parameters fall within a threshold range, storing a plurality of data pairs that include longitudinal acceleration and drive force, and determining a slope of a line that linearly approximates the plurality of data pairs, the slope indicating a total weight of the vehicle including vehicle load; determining the vehicle power based on the total weight and drag force of the vehicle; and transmitting the total power to a display.
US10543844B2
A method controls an operational mode of a self-driving vehicle (SDV). One or more physical detectors detect an erratically driven vehicle (EDV) that is being operated in an unsafe manner within a predetermined distance of an SDV that is initially being operated in an evasive autonomous mode. One or more processors retrieve traffic pattern data for other SDVs, and examine the traffic pattern data to 1) determine a first traffic flow of the other SDVs while operating in the evasive autonomous mode, and 2) determine a second traffic flow of the other SDVs while operating in a manual mode. In response to determining that the first traffic flow has a higher accident rate than the second traffic flow, an operational mode device changes the operational mode of the SDV from the evasive autonomous mode to the manual mode.
US10543842B2
Methods and systems for improving vacuum generation for an engine that may be operated at higher altitudes are presented. In one non-limiting example, a transmission that is mechanically coupled to the engine may be shifted from a gear to neutral in response to an actual total number of times a vehicle brake pedal is applied and partially released while the vehicle is stopped and the brake pedal is applied.
US10543840B2
A vehicle control system includes: a detection section that detects a presence and state of any nearby vehicles traveling in the vicinity of a vehicle; a speed generation section that generates a target speed of the vehicle based on a state of a benchmark vehicle from out of the nearby vehicles whose presence and state have been detected by the detection section, the benchmark vehicle being closest to the vehicle in a direction of progress from out of a first vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle in a current lane in which the vehicle is traveling or a second vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle in an adjacent lane adjacent to the current lane; and a travel control section that automatically controls at least acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle based on the target speed generated by the speed generation section.
US10543832B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving engine restart operations occurring during a transmission shift in a hybrid vehicle. Engine speed is controller during cranking and run-up to approach a transmission input shaft speed that is based on the future gear of the transmission shift. Engine speed is controlled via adjustments to spark, throttle, and/or fuel, to expedite engine speed reaching the synchronous speed.
US10543809B1
Various arrangements for monitoring the unauthorized use of a vehicle are presented. An in-space parking sensor may be used to detect whether a vehicle is present. An indication of a time period during which the vehicle is expected to be within the parking space may be received. Using the sensor data obtained from the parking sensor, a vehicle departure from the parking space may be detected. A determination may be made that the vehicle departure is unauthorized due to the vehicle departure occurring during the time period. An alarm indication may be output based on determining that the vehicle departure is unauthorized.
US10543802B1
A restraint system includes a center console and an airbag inflatable upwardly from the center console. The airbag includes an internal panel defining two chambers. The internal panel includes a plurality of tubes, and each tube includes an opening at which that tube terminates. The openings are proximate a top of the airbag and open to the chambers.
US10543797B2
A retrofitting bumper that is intended to be used in motorsports and in the vehicular industry consists of a main structural bar, a first pair of support bars, and a second pair of support bars. Preferably, the main structural bar is manufactured from ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) so that the memory shape behavior allows the main structural bar to retain the original shape even after impact. The first pair of support bars and the second pair of support bars are terminally and angularly mounted along a structural body of the main structural bar. A fastening mechanism, a first pair of attachment brackets, and a second pair of attachment brackets are used to mount the main structural bar, the first pair of support bars, and the second pair of support bars onto the frame of the ATV.
US10543796B2
Provided is a protection device for a vehicle electrical component capable of preventing damage to a predetermined electrical component due to hitting by a battery, and also capable of reducing noise/vibration. The disclosure is a protection device which protects a starter in a vehicle in which a battery and the starter are disposed to face each other with a space therebetween in an engine room of the vehicle in which components constituting a power plant or a power train are supported by a vehicle body via a mount and a bracket. The skid block serving as the protection device includes bracket attachment portions attached to a transmission attachment portion of the bracket, and a skid block main body extending upward from the bracket attachment portions and gradually away from the bracket extension portion, and having a distal end portion positioned between the battery and the starter and facing the battery.
US10543794B2
A personal automotive vehicle includes a door with a door panel that partly defines a reconfigurable passenger cabin. The door panel presents an abrasion-resistant portion to the interior of the passenger cabin at an upper section of the door panel below the window. A seat is mounted in the passenger cabin and can be rotated inwardly to increase the available range of movement of the seat occupant. The abrasion-resistant portion of the door panel is located to prevent scuff-related damage to the door panel when the seat occupant crosses his legs. The abrasion-resistant portion of the door panel can be selectively covered and uncovered by a moveable portion of the door panel, which may include an armrest.
US10543789B1
A tailgate includes an opening through a rear end of the tailgate when in a tailgate open position. The tailgate also includes a tailgate extender having support tubes extending through the opening and telescopically slidable outward from the tailgate, a laterally extending support beam supported by the support tubes, and a cargo-assist step pivotally mounted to the support beam, the cargo-assist step configured to pivot downwardly when the support tubes are pivoted downwardly to define a step and to pivot upwardly into a vertical position when the support tubes extend horizontally to define a cargo stop.
US10543788B2
A mobile device holder for a rear-view mirror of a vehicle may include a mirror housing and a mobile device bracket arranged at least partially therein in a stored position, and a deployment mechanism connected to the bracket and including a torsion spring configured to rotatedly hinge the bracket from the stored position to a deployed position extending out of the housing in response to actuation of the torsion spring.
US10543783B1
A vehicle having at least one camera wherein the at least one camera is configured to provide an improved view for the driver of the vehicle. The vehicle includes a body having a camera mount operably coupled therewith. The camera mount is operably coupled to the vehicle in a first technique or a second technique. The camera mount has secured to the second end thereof a camera. The camera mount is movable intermediate a first position and a second position. In the second position of the camera mount the camera secured to the second end thereof is positioned such that the camera is above the roof of the vehicle. A drive motor and transmission mechanism is provided to offer operation of the camera mount so as to move intermediate its first position and second position. A display and controller are disposed within the passenger compartment of the vehicle.
US10543782B2
A machine includes a work implement and at least one camera arranged to capture a video image of a viewed area and provide a video signal related to the viewed area to a controller. The controller compiles a visual display in which the current position and a current direction of the work implement relative to the viewed area is displayed in real time. The controller also calculates a trajectory of the work implement based on machine speed and steering signals to compile a visual trajectory representation of the work implement relative to the viewed area, which is combined with the visual display into a combined visual representation that is presented to an operator through a video display.
US10543776B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a go-kart which is equipped with an LED light fixture that can efficiently shine light below the vehicle. This go-kart is equipped with: a vehicle body frame that supports an engine, front wheels, and rear wheels, and is exposed to the exterior; and elongated strips of LED tape that are affixed to both the left and right sides of the vehicle body frame extending in the front-rear direction, and shine light below the vehicle body frame. In addition, the front wheels and rear wheels are supported on the outer side of the vehicle body frame. When the front-side end of the vehicle is viewed from the left-right direction, the LED tape and the LED tape extend to positions which overlap with the front wheels, and when the rear-side end of the vehicle is viewed from the left-right direction, the LED tape and the LED tape extend to positions which overlap with the rear wheels.
US10543775B2
A lighting control method for use in a first vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving an optical signal from a lamp of a second vehicle; identifying a pulse signal included in the optical signal; determining a position of the second vehicle relative to the first vehicle; and controlling a lamp of the first vehicle in accordance with the position of the second vehicle and the pulse signal.
US10543774B2
An adjustment device for adjusting a position of at least one light module in a housing of a headlight, with a rotary member for at least indirectly transmitting a rotary motion to the at least one light module, wherein the rotary member at least at one point is guided through an opening in the housing and wherein for sealing the housing against the rotary member, an elastic sealing member is provided against an annular surface bordering the opening, which bears against the housing. To reduce the friction between the sealing member and the annular surface, the sealing member comprises a non-elastic annular element which is provided for abutment against the annular surface.
US10543768B2
Provided are systems and methods for adjusting an armrest assembly, the assembly comprising an armrest that includes an armrest pad, a rising platform having a nut aperture, a nut positioned within the nut aperture. The assembly further includes a rod assembly coupled with the armrest, an adjustment mechanism for raising or lowering the armrest, and may include one or more rotation stops coupled with a stationary plate.
US10543763B2
A clip for attaching a seat cover to a seat cushion includes a locking part configured to be secured to the seat cover and a hook connected to the locking part and configured to be secured to a wire of the seat cushion. The hook defines a wire holding cavity.
US10543759B2
Provided is a vehicle seat apparatus for a vehicle capable of executing a manual steering mode in which a vehicle occupant steers the vehicle by using a steering device and an automatic steering mode in which steering of the vehicle is controlled without intervention of the occupant. The vehicle seat apparatus includes a seat back, an arm rest, and a controller. The seat back is configured to support a back of the occupant. The arm rest is configured to support an arm of the occupant. The controller is configured to moves at least one of the seat hack and the arm rest. During a transition period of the vehicle from the automatic steering mode to the manual steering mode, the controller performs control to move the seat back in a direction to raise the seat back and performs control to move at least a portion of the arm rest forward.
US10543755B2
An apparatus comprises a power electronic energy conversion system comprising a first energy storage device configured to store DC energy and a first voltage converter configured to convert a second voltage from a remote power supply into a first charging voltage configured to charge the first energy storage device. The apparatus also includes a first controller configured to control the first voltage converter to convert the second voltage into the first charging voltage and to provide the first charging voltage to the first energy storage device during a charging mode of operation and communicate with a second controller located remotely from the power electronic energy conversion system to cause a second charging voltage to be provided to the first energy storage device during the charging mode of operation to rapidly charge the first energy storage device.
US10543743B1
A utility vehicle having a combined generator and coolant circulating pump assembly and at least one combined hydraulic pump and circulating pump is disclosed herein. An auxiliary pump may be disposed on a second hydraulic pump on the vehicle. A plurality of coolant reservoirs may be provided on the vehicle. The vehicle may also include a receiver for receiving signals from a remote operator transmitter, permitting remote operation of the vehicle, and an operator platform for permitting direct user control.
US10543734B2
An exemplary electrified vehicle assembly includes a battery pack, a cabin heater, and a coolant loop that communicates liquid coolant from the battery pack to the cabin heater. The cabin heater configured to heat a cabin of a vehicle with thermal energy from liquid coolant.
US10543725B2
Disclosed is a system for determining tow equipment compatibility that includes a processing device having a processor and non-volatile memory. The system also includes a data input device configured to input at least one unique tow equipment identification code (UTEIC) identifying a specific piece of tow equipment and properties thereof. The processor is configured to receive the UTEIC from the data input device, receive a user input, determine tow equipment compatibility based on the user input and the UTEIC, and communicate tow equipment compatibility data to a user.
US10543719B2
A belt layer of a pneumatic tire includes a first main working belt, a second main working belt arranged at an outer side of the first main working belt in a tire-radial direction, and a reinforcement belt. A cord angle of the second main working belt differs from that of the first main working belt in a direction with respect to a tire-circumferential direction. A cord angle of the reinforcement belt is not smaller than 6 degrees and not larger than 9 degrees. A width of the reinforcement belt is equal to or wider than 50% of a tire-section width and not wider than either narrower one of the first and second main working belts. A width of a shoulder land portion is between 10% and 15% of a tread width which is a distance from a center of the tread portion to one end of the tread portion.
US10543711B2
The application discloses apparatus and systems for authenticating physical object, identification documents and security documents. Some such methods and apparatus involve signal encoding or digital watermarking.
US10543707B2
A recording media containing a raw base substrate having, on its image side, a primary coating layer and a top image receiving layer is described herein. Said top image receiving layer encompasses a polymeric adhesion promoter having a glass transition temperature that is at, or above, 90° C. Also described is a printed article containing said recording media on which a printed feature has been formed with an ink composition that encompasses latex components that have a glass transition temperature that is at, or above, 90° C.
US10543698B2
A platen includes a plurality of supporting portions capable of supporting a sheet; negative pressure chambers, to which a negative pressure is supplied, so as to suck a sheet facing the supporting portions to the supporting portions; and an ink receiver that receives ink ejected from a printhead to the outside of the sheet supported by the supporting portions. The plurality of supporting portions are arranged in a sheet width direction transverse a sheet conveyance direction. The plurality of negative pressure chambers are disposed in a manner corresponding to the plurality of supporting portions, respectively.
US10543694B2
The invention concerns a method for cleaning an ink circuit of an ink-jet printer, comprising at least one tank (10), referred to as the main tank, at least one ink cartridge (30), a pump (31) for pumping the ink from the cartridge, ducts and valves (32-35, 320, 340, 341, 343, 344) for fluid connection between the ink cartridge and the tank, and control panel (3) for controlling the printer, the method comprising at least: a step of sending solvent, at a pressure P1, to the cartridge (30), by at least a part of the ducts and valves for fluid connection between the ink cartridge (30) and the tank (10), a step of pumping at least a portion of the solvent, sent in step a), towards the main tank (10).
US10543691B2
An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to eject ink to record an image, an ink tank including an filling port for injection of the ink and configured to contain the ink to be supplied to the recording head, a cap configured to close the filling port, and a connection portion configured to connect the cap to the ink tank or a main body of the apparatus. The inkjet recording apparatus includes a rib provided adjacently to the filling port, the connection portion biases the cap in a direction separating from the filling port, and the cap removed from the filling port releases the filling port while being in contact with the rib by biasing of the connection portion.
US10543680B2
There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus including: a print head having an ejection opening surface on which a first ejection opening array capable of ejecting a first ink and a second ejection opening array capable of ejecting a second ink are arranged; a cap member; and a print controller configured to cause the first and the second ejection opening arrays to perform preliminary ejection to an inside of the cap member, and to cause the first ejection opening array to perform preliminary ejection in a first relative position and cause the second ejection opening array to perform preliminary ejection in a second relative position, wherein, on the cap member, a position in which the second ink lands by the preliminary ejection overlaps with an area where the first ink lands by the preliminary ejection.
US10543674B2
The present invention relates to a device for treating substrates which device is modular and versatile in use. The device for treating substrates comprises a feeder and one or more first sub-structure modules which each comprise a pressure cylinder with devices for fixing a lift and a sheet-conveying device and one or more second sub-structure modules which respectively have a transport cylinder with openings formed on the cover surface thereof, and having devices for fixing a lift and a sheet conveying device. All of the first or second sub-structure modules have the same intersection point for connecting the sub-structure modules on one of the inlet and the exit side and they all can be equipped with an attachment module.
US10543672B2
In one example, a non-transitory processor readable medium with instructions thereon that when executed cause an additive manufacturing machine to inhibit build material from coalescing in an area of a first layer of build material where a second slice of an object will overhang a first slice of the object formed in the first layer of build material.
US10543664B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a molding made from blowing agent-containing foam comprising at least one fiber (F), wherein the at least one fiber (F) is partially introduced into the blowing agent-containing foam. The two ends of the respective fiber (F) that are not surrounded by the blowing agent-containing foam thus project from one side of the corresponding molding. The present invention also provides the molding as such. The present invention further provides a panel comprising at least one such molding, produced by the process according to the invention, and at least one further layer (S1). The present invention also provides for the production of the panels of the invention and for the use thereof, for example as a rotor blade in wind turbines.
US10543653B2
A container assembly for use in a high-pressure press having a central pressure cell and a method of sealing a central pressure cell. The container assembly includes a container that receives a sample to be pressed, and a gasket distinct from the container, the gasket meeting the container at an interface. The container and the gasket are dimensioned to locate the interface within the central pressure cell.
US10543648B2
A process arrangement and a process for the production of a fiber-reinforced plastics component made of at least one continuous-fiber-reinforced semifinished textile fiber product with reactive thermoplastic matrix material, where during the manufacture of the semifinished fiber product trimming residues arise, composed of a composite made of fibers and of the reactive thermoplastic matrix material. The trimming residues obtained during the manufacture of the semifinished fiber product are supplied to a recycling unit for the provision of a recyclate as reactive, as yet unpolymerized starting material for the production of a further component.
US10543645B2
A feedstock line comprises elongate filaments, a resin, and a full-length optical waveguide, comprising a full-length optical core. The full-length optical waveguide is configured such that when electromagnetic radiation enters the full-length optical core via at least one of a first full-length-optical-core end face, a second full-length-optical-core end face, or a full-length peripheral surface that extends between the first full-length-optical-core end face and the second full-length-optical-core end face, at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation exits the full-length optical core via the full-length peripheral surface to irradiate, in an interior volume of the feedstock line, the resin that, due at least in part to the elongate filaments, is not directly accessible to the electromagnetic radiation, incident on the exterior surface of the feedstock line.
US10543644B2
A layered object manufacturing apparatus includes a nozzle that is provided with a body having an opening from which a laser beam is output and powder of a material is ejected.
US10543635B2
An apparatus for molding a handle-equipped container is provided. The apparatus has a gripping mechanism section 160a which comprises a first gripping member 161 having a pair of first chuck members 163 for grasping a preform 200, and a second gripping member 162 having a pair of second chuck members 167 for grasping a container handle 20 in association with the action of the first gripping member 161. The apparatus can simultaneously grasp a plurality of the preforms 200 and a plurality of the container handles 20 and reliably transport them to a blow molding section.
US10543629B2
A method for injection molding of plastic materials into a cavity of a mold by means of a molding apparatus including at least one injector having a pin valve displaceable between a fully closed position and a maximum opening position, and vice versa, in a controlled fashion in respect of its position and speed. In the opening displacement from the fully closed position to the maximum opening position, the pin valve is initially moved at a first speed and subsequently at a second speed, where the first speed is the highest opening displacement speed of the pin valve.
US10543619B2
Method of fabricating a 3-dimensional structure, mesh formwork element for fabricating a 3-dimensional structure, and method of fabricating the same. The method of fabricating a 3-dimensional structure comprises providing a mesh formwork element such that a cavity bound by at least two opposing portions of the mesh formwork is formed; accumulating a material in the cavity; and allowing the material to harden; wherein apertures in the at least two opposing portions of the mesh formwork element are adapted to the hydro-static pressure of the accumulated material or vice versa such that at least two surfaces of the hardened material substantially take on the respective shapes defined by the two opposing portions of the mesh formwork element.
US10543617B2
A method for forming three-dimensional (3D) printed structures is disclosed. The method may include 3D printing a first structural member including an opening to a cavity inside the first structural member; and 3D printing a second structural member including a protrusion disposed within the opening and the cavity of the first structural member.
US10543615B2
A method is for making a crown molding jig device. The method includes forming first and second V-shaped frames. Each of the first and second V-shaped frames has a vertex portion, and first and second legs extending from the vertex portion. The vertex portions of the first and second V-shaped frames are in a nested arrangement, and the second legs of the first and second V-shaped frames are parallel. The first legs of the first and second V-shaped frames are in a stacked arrangement, and the second legs of the first and second V-shaped frames define a recess. The first leg of the second V-shaped frame defines first and second slots. The method includes coupling first and second adjustable studs to be carried by the first leg of the first V-shaped frame, slidably receiving the coupled first and second adjustable studs into the first and second slots, respectively, so that the recess is adjustable in size, and fastening first and second fastening nuts respectively on the first and second adjustable studs.
US10543612B2
A cone-type spiral slicer includes a blade along the sidewall for cutting a vegetable into thin strips. The housing is formed in a first portion and a second portion that are separable from one another. A retractable set of julienne blades allows the user to selectively use the slicer for cutting either wide strips or narrow julienne strips.
US10543605B2
An electronic movement-controlled apparatus that includes a camera and a movable arm is disclosed. The movable arm has both a stationary end and a movable end with the camera being attached to the movable end so as to be movable therewith. The stationary end is configured to be coupled to a rigid support structure. The movable arm includes a plurality of arm segments connected in series to form the movable arm. The arm segments are configured to have cooperating segment regions in terms of each of the arm segments being compressible and expandable in unison to move the movable end and effect a pan and tilt movement of the camera.
US10543601B2
A workpiece conveying device includes a traveling platform which moves on traveling rails, a workpiece sucker arranged below the traveling platform, a vertical drive guide which is provided on the traveling platform and vertically drives the workpiece sucker, and a fork which is placed on the workpiece sucker so as to sandwich the workpiece sucker. With this structure, effects are obtained such that the workpiece conveying device is capable of achieving space saving in a factory and is capable of improving moving accuracy and increasing a moving speed while making it difficult to damage a product.
US10543592B2
A tool stand provides a tool tray supported on a frame and the tool tray can be lowered on the frame for compact storage and transportation of the tool stand and tools carried by the tray. The tool stand can provide two legs or columns that support the tray and also can be folded at the top to form a bar handle. The tray can be selectable positioned in elevation on the columns. The tool stand can provide magnetic accessories such as a media viewer mount that can be advantageously positioned on the tool tray to assist the user.
US10543586B2
A ratchet wrench includes a body, a ratchet wheel, a pawl, a ring, a top clip and a bottom clip. The body includes a through hole which defines through the top and the bottom of the body. A top recessed area and a bottom recessed area are respectively defined in the top and the bottom of the body. A recess is defined in the inner periphery of the through hole and a protrusion with a receiving slot extends from one end of the recess. A resilient member is received in the receiving slot to bias the pawl in the recess to engage with the ratchet wheel. The ring is engaged with the top recessed area. The top clip is engaged with the top recessed area and clips the ratchet wheel. The bottom clip is engaged with the bottom recessed area and clips the ratchet wheel.
US10543579B2
Some embodiments include an apparatus having a polishing mechanism configured to polish a surface of a wafer. The polishing mechanism converts fresh slurry to used slurry during a polishing process. At least one emitter is configured to direct electromagnetic radiation onto or through the used slurry. At least one detector is configured to detect transmittance of the electromagnetic radiation through the used slurry or reflection of the electromagnetic radiation from the used slurry. An identification system is coupled with the at least one detector and is configured to identify a property of the used slurry indicating that an endpoint of the polishing process has been reached. Control circuitry is coupled with the identification system and is configured to stop the polishing process based on receiving a trigger from the identification system. Some embodiments include polishing methods.
US10543578B2
The invention proposes a blocking calculation module (1) configured to calculate blocking data of an ophthalmic lens member (2) on a blocking element (3) of a blocking station (4), comprising:—receiving means (11) configured to receive input data from a remote device, the input data comprising optical data related to the ophthalmic lens member,—calculation means (15) configured to calculate the blocking data from the input data, and—transmitting means (17) configured to make the blocking data available to the blocking station.
US10543573B2
A method for straightening, constraining, cutting and terminating a multi-stranded, non-parallel cable. The method includes: (1) dividing the cable into smaller components which are in the size range suitable for the prior art termination technology; (2) creating a termination on the end of each of the smaller components; (3) providing a collector which reassembles the individual terminations back into a single unit; and (4) maintaining alignment between the terminations and the smaller components while the terminations and the collector are in a connected state.
US10543572B2
A mobile welding system that does not rely exclusively on a track to define the path of the welder. The present invention generally provides a mobile welder adapted to move along a work piece, the mobile welder including a chassis supporting a motor assembly; a travel assembly attached to the chassis and adapted to support the chassis over a portion of the work piece, wherein the motor is coupled to the travel assembly to selectively cause the chassis to move relative to the work piece; a controller connected to the motor assembly to control movement of the chassis relative to the work piece; a chassis holder connected to the chassis, the chassis holder being adapted to provide a force holding the chassis a selected distance from the work piece; and a welder supported on the chassis, the welder including an implement adapted to perform a welding operation, wherein the implement is supported on the chassis at a location where the implement and the chassis define an uninterrupted line of sight from the implement to the work piece, wherein the chassis holder is spaced from the line of sight a distance sufficient to prevent the chassis holder from interfering with the welding operation.
US10543570B2
Properties and performance of weld material between metals in a weldment is controlled by modifying one or more of the nitrogen content and the carbon content to produce carbide (e.g. MC-type), nitride and/or complex carbide/nitride (e.g. MX-type) type precipitates. Fusion welding includes (i) adjusting shield gas composition to increase nitrogen/carbon gas and nitride/carbide species, (ii) adjusting composition of nitrogen/carbon in materials that participate in molten welding processes, (iii) direct addition of nitrides/carbides (e.g. powder form), controlled addition of nitride/carbide forming elements (e.g. Ti, Al), or addition of elements that increase/impede solubility of nitrogen/carbon or nitride/carbide promoting elements (e.g. Mn), and (iv) other processes, such as use of fluxes and additive materials. Weld materials have improved resistance to different cracking mechanisms (e.g., hot cracking mechanisms and solid state cracking mechanisms) and improved tensile related mechanical properties.
US10543567B2
A method of manufacturing a strip of rubber having discontinuous reinforcer segments includes a conveying step in which a rubber strip is conveyed in a direction DC, and a cutting step in which reinforcers of the strip are cut. The cutting step includes localized heating of each reinforcer using a laser beam from a remote source. A cutting device useable to perform the cutting step includes a conveying device and a cutting head. The conveying device moves the strip in the conveying direction DC past the cutting head. The cutting head includes an emitter from which at least one laser beam is produced to cause localized heating of at least one reinforcer of the strip, in order to cut the at least one reinforcer into discontinuous reinforcer segments. The strip may be conveyed continuously or discontinuously, such that the strip may be moving or immobilized during the cutting step.
US10543565B2
A method for producing a tailor-made semi-finished sheet metal product where two steel sheets of different material grades and/or thicknesses are joined by laser welding. At least one of the sheets is press-hardenable steel having a metallic coating of aluminium or aluminium-silicon. Filler wire is fed into the weld melt. The filler wire is substantially free of aluminium and contains at least one alloy element which promotes the formation of austenite in a content that is at least 0.1 wt. % greater than that in the press-hardenable steel. The filler wire is heated before being fed into the weld melt. The steel sheets have a gap delimited by the edges of the sheets having an average width of at least 0.15 mm. The ratio of the volume of filler wire inserted into the gap to the volume of the steel sheet material melted by the laser beam is at least 20%.
US10543564B2
Wafer alignment with restricted visual access has been disclosed. In an example, a method of processing a substrate for fabricating a solar cell involves supporting the substrate over a stage. The method involves forming a substantially opaque layer over the substrate. The substantially opaque layer at least partially covers edges of the substrate. The method involves performing fit-up of the substantially opaque layer to the substrate. The method involves illuminating the covered edges of the substrate with light transmitted through the stage, and capturing a first image of the covered edges of the substrate based on the light transmitted through the stage. The method further includes determining a first position of the substrate relative to the stage based on the first image of the covered edges. The substrate may be further processed based on the determined first position of the substrate under the substantially opaque layer.
US10543558B2
A diffuser insert is provided for use with a welding diffuser and contact tip assembly comprising a diffuser with an interior chamber configured to receive a wire conduit that supplies electrode wire and a shielding gas used during a welding operation and a contact tip coupled to the diffuser and configured to receive electrode wire. The diffuser insert comprises a diffuser insert body configured to be disposed within the interior chamber of the diffuser, and further comprises an insert bore extending therethrough configured to receive electrode wire. An outer periphery of the diffuser insert has at least one surface feature configured to manipulate a flow of said shielding gas from within said interior chamber of the diffuser and out of exit passages to thereby direct said flow of shielding gas about a molten welding puddle formed during a welding operation.
US10543553B2
A welding assembly and method is described which includes a charging circuit and regulator coupled to an input power source; an energy storage element connected in parallel with the charging circuit and regulator to increase the weld current output, wherein the energy storage element is charged by the charging circuit and regulator; and a weld output controller connected in parallel with the energy storage element for controlling a welding arc between an electrode and a workpiece, wherein the weld output controller includes a forward converter/inverter including a series circuit of a primary winding of a transformer, and a switching element which is coupled to the energy storage element, and a rectifier smoothing circuit which rectifies and smoothes a voltage induced in a secondary winding of the transformer according to a switching operation of the switching element, wherein the rectifier smoothing circuit conducts during an ON period of the switching element.
US10543551B2
A welding method includes feeding a welding electrode axially from a welding torch, moving the welding electrode radially in a desired pattern with respect to a central axis of the welding torch by a motion control assembly within the welding torch, transmitting from control circuitry a signal corresponding to a position of the welding electrode relative to a weld joint or weld pool, advancing the welding torch or a workpiece to establish a weld, and transferring material from the welding electrode to a first location in an area of the weld pool. The welding electrode moves radially while feeding the welding electrode from the welding torch, the material from the welding electrode is transferred to the first location during a first cycle of the desired pattern, and the first location is controlled based at least in part on the signal.
US10543548B2
A heating apparatus for induction heating is disclosed. The heating apparatus may comprise a bearing ring, at least one bearing element disposed in the bearing ring, and a braze material adjacent to the at least one bearing element and the bearing ring. The heating apparatus may additionally comprise an inductor positioned radially adjacent to at least a portion of the bearing ring. A current source may be electrically coupled to the inductor. A bearing orienting member may also abut a surface of the at least one bearing element. The bearing orienting member may orient a surface of the at least one bearing element. A heating method is also disclosed.
US10543543B2
A table saw includes a saw control unit and a wireless communication module dock defining a docking position. A wireless communication module is configured to be removably received in the docking position, the wireless communication module being operably connected to the saw control unit when received in the docking position. The wireless communication module includes an antenna and a wireless transceiver, the antenna and the wireless transceiver being configured to implement a first wireless communication protocol.
US10543540B2
A spindle of a drilling tool includes a socket portion having a first axial length (a1) of a first diameter (d1) for receiving and attaching a drill bit to the spindle. The spindle includes a fluid conduit having a second diameter (d2) narrower than (d1) for conveying a fluid to the socket portion. An interface space with diameter (d1) is formed between the fluid conduit and the drill bit when the drill bit is installed in the socket portion. A fluid conveyor, having a third diameter (d3) narrower than (d1), connects the fluid conduit to the drill bit to avoid fluid gathering in a periphery of the interface space. The fluid conveyor includes a first O-ring abutting a mouth of the fluid conduit, a second O-ring abutting a mouth of a fluid channel of the drill bit, and a spring between the first and second O-rings.
US10543532B2
Devices, systems, and methods are directed to applying magnetohydrodynamic forces to liquid metal to eject liquid metal along a controlled pattern, such as a controlled three-dimensional pattern as part of additive manufacturing of an object. Magnets used to form the magnetohydrodynamic forces are thermally managed to facilitate directing strong magnetic fields into liquid metals at high temperatures. Such strong magnetic fields can be useful for imparting, under otherwise equivalent conditions, higher magnetohydrodynamic forces to liquid metal being ejected from a nozzle to form an object.
US10543522B2
A processing unit of a machine tool for the punching processing of workpieces, in particular metal sheets, has a punching tool carrier configured to receive a punching tool and a stripper carrier for a stripper. The punching tool carrier can be moved by a punch drive along a stroke axis by a transverse drive element being driven by a punch drive motor relative to the punching tool carrier with a transverse drive movement along a transverse movement axis which extends in the transverse direction of the stroke axis. The stripper carrier can be moved along the stroke axis by a stripper drive, and the transverse drive element of the punch drive during the transverse drive movement can be moved relative to the stripper carrier along the transverse movement axis and the punching tool carrier and the stripper carrier can be moved relative to each other along the stroke axis.
US10543517B2
A particle for treatment and repair of soil contamination is mainly composed of potassium ferrate and an inorganic cementitious material. The inorganic cementitious material is a powdery air-hardening or hydraulicity inorganic cementitious material. The potassium ferrate and the inorganic cementitious material are mixed according to the mass fraction of 1:5-50. After mixing is carried out, the particle with the particle diameter ranging from 2 mm to 5 mm is formed by means of vibration of a vibration screen, the particle is wrapped by a water-soluble film, and the water-soluble film is heated to be shrunk and then is closely attached to the outer surface of the particle. Also disclosed is a method for repairing soil by using the particle. When the particle is mixed with an ozone water solution is adopted.
US10543515B2
The present invention relates to a method for removing a polymeric material from a surface of a nanostructure. The method includes applying, by a scanning probe microscope, an electrical field between a probe tip of the scanning probe microscope and the nanostructure, and simultaneously scanning over the surface of the nanostructure. Thereby, bonds connecting the polymeric material to the surface of the nanostructure are broken. A further step includes cleaning the surface of the nanostructure. A scanning probe microscope for performing such a method and a computer program product for controlling the scanning probe microscope are also disclosed.
US10543513B1
A processing system and method for nationwide commingling of mail items to increase efficiency and lower mailing costs includes a pre-sort facility which creates a first set of diverted mail items and a first set of associated data while a print and mail manufacture facility generates a second set of manufactured mail items and a second set of associated data and then receives the first set of diverted mail items and first set of associated data from the pre-sort facility and then commingles the first and second sets of mail items according to a predetermined set of commingling rules applied to the first and second sets of associated data to produce commingled mail items which reduces postal costs in mailing the commingled mail item.
US10543506B2
A dispensing apparatus having various features is described. The dispensing apparatus can receive a cartridge having a movable plunger configured to direct the fluid through a dispensing valve. The plunger can be movable under a force applied by air pressure. The cartridge can be inserted in the dispensing apparatus using a clamping and sealing mechanism and can be released using a cartridge ejector. The dispensing apparatus can include a ball valve having a ball defining an internal passageway that selectively aligns with a second internal passageway outside of the ball, a brush mounted via an elongating mechanism, and/or a gear train transmitting power from the elongating mechanism.
US10543499B1
The disposable powder-dispensing bulb is configured for use with talcum powder. The disposable powder-dispensing bulb stores the talcum powder. The disposable powder-dispensing bulb dispenses the talcum powder. The disposable powder-dispensing bulb is disposable. The disposable powder-dispensing bulb is degradable after disposal. The disposable powder-dispensing bulb comprises a degradable bulb, a degradable cap, and talcum powder. The degradable bulb is a hollow containment structure. The talcum powder is stored in the degradable bulb. The degradable cap attaches to the degradable bulb. The degradable cap opens and closes to provide access to the talcum powder stored within the degradable bulb.
US10543495B2
A spray drying system for drying liquid into powder including a plurality of processing towers each including an elongated drying chamber, a spray nozzle assembly at an upper end of the drying chamber and a powder collection chamber at a lower end of the drying chamber. The powder collection chamber of each processing tower being configured to discharge power to a common conveyor system.
US10543484B2
An analyzing device having a microchannel structure includes a sample inlet and a guide section extending from the sample inlet toward an axial center. The analyzing device further includes a first cavity connected to the guide section and configured to measure a certain amount of a sample liquid, and a receiving cavity located adjacent to the first cavity and receiving the sample liquid. The analyzing device further includes a liquid reservoir formed between the sample inlet and the guide section and temporarily holds the sample liquid before being suctioned into the guide section. The sample liquid temporarily held in the liquid reservoir is transferred from the liquid reservoir to the guide section and the first cavity by a capillary force and transferred to the receiving cavity by a centrifugal force caused by rotating the analyzing device about the axial center.
US10543480B2
A pre-catalyst composition comprising a) a silica support comprising silica wherein an amount of silica ranges from about 70 wt. % to about 95 wt. % based upon a total weight of the silica support, b) a chromium-containing compound wherein an amount of chromium ranges from about 0.1 wt. % to about 5 wt. % based upon the amount of silica, c) a titanium-containing compound wherein an amount of titanium ranges from about 0.1 wt. % to about 20 wt. % based upon the amount of silica, d) a carboxylic acid wherein an equivalent molar ratio of titanium-containing compound to carboxylic acid ranges from about 1:1 to about 1:10, and e) a nitrogen-containing compound with a molecular formula containing at least one nitrogen atom wherein an equivalent molar ratio of titanium-containing compound to nitrogen-containing compound ranges from about 1:0.5 to about 1:10.
US10543474B2
A flow reactor having two or more raw material feeding units, a mixing unit to mix raw materials fed from the raw material feeding units, and a reactor unit in which a mixed solution prepared in the mixing unit flows, wherein at least a part of an inner wall of the reactor unit is formed of a fluororesin containing a conductive filler.
US10543469B2
A supported scallop and a support distributor therefor for use in a radial flow reactor. The support distributor includes an elongated sheet having a plurality of perforations extending through a thickness thereof, and at least one edge along a length thereof so as to form a member having at least one support point which engages an inner surface of the scallop.
US10543464B2
Continuous mixing in a static mixer possible can be used to add one kind of particles (such as an enzyme granular product) in a small amount to a larger amount of a different kind of particles (such as a powder stream of detergent powder), even if the powder characteristics are substantially different, with substantially no damage to the enzyme particles and with a high degree of homogeneity.
US10543462B2
One or more polymeric hollow fiber membranes are pyrolyzed to form one or more hollow fiber CMS membranes by directing a flow of pyrolysis gas through a bundle of polymeric membranes (including a plurality of green, polymeric hollow fiber membranes oriented so that their ends are disposed with ends of the bundle) in a direction perpendicular to a length direction of the bundle in order to sweep away off-gases that are formed during pyrolysis.
US10543457B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are contemplated in which a tube cell that produces a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) is individually configured to minimize the mixing of unwanted byproducts of the generated plasma with an exhaust air stream. The tube cell generates a DBD within a tube cell, such that oxidants or radicals are generated in an environment substantially separated from the exhaust stream. The generated oxidants are directed to intersect with the exhaust stream to minimize the generation of unwanted byproducts. The tube cells are further shaped and arranged in tube cell arrays to alter the flow dynamics of the exhaust stream and the oxidant or radical streams, including mixing of the streams.
US10543450B2
A carbon dioxide recovery apparatus has a separator which separates carbon dioxide from a gas by utilizing adsorption and desorption of carbon dioxide to and from an adsorbent caused by pressure fluctuation, the separator including a pressurizer which pressurizes the gas to a pressure that the adsorbent is capable of adsorbing carbon dioxide, and has a dryer having a hygroscopic agent for drying the gas. A regeneration system supplies the residual gas discharged from the separator to the dryer as a regeneration gas for regenerating the hygroscopic agent in the dryer, and the regeneration gas to be supplied to the dryer is heated by an energy converter by utilizing a pressure of a post-regeneration gas discharged by the regeneration of the hygroscopic agent.
US10543449B2
An air dryer includes a supporting base, a drying agent container, and an outer cover. The supporting base includes an inlet for receiving compressed air to be subject to a drying process and an outlet for delivering the processed compressed air that has undergone the drying process. The drying agent container is a container supported on the supporting base, contains a drying agent in the interior, and enables the drying process to be performed by passing the compressed air from the inlet through the drying agent. The outer cover surrounds the outer side of the drying agent container on the supporting base and defines a chamber for storing the compressed air between itself and the drying agent container. The supporting base includes first and second mounting surfaces, which are oriented in different directions, and a plurality of inlets, which are oriented in different directions and receive the compressed air.
US10543446B2
A honeycomb structure including prismatic columnar honeycomb segments and a bonding layer, wherein the bonding layer has rows in each of which bonding layer portions each disposed between two honeycomb segments arranged to face each other are arranged to extend from one point of a peripheral edge of a bonded body of the honeycomb segments to the other point thereof, in a cross section, the bonding layer of each of the-rows is disposed so that among the bonding layer portions arranged in one direction, an outermost circumference bonding layer portion and at least one of the other bonding layer portions are not superimposed on each other on an extension line of the one direction, and a ratio of shift of side surfaces of adjacent honeycomb segments to a length of one side of a side surface of honeycomb segments having the same cross-sectional shape is 10% or less.
US10543445B2
An air filtering device for indicating when to replace the internal filter of an HVAC system. The air filtering device includes a frame having a plurality of sidewalls each having an upper end and a lower end. Each sidewall contains a plurality of slits that cycle air therethrough. A filter member is affixed to the upper end of the plurality of sidewalls, wherein the upper end containing the filter member is closed and the lower end is opened. Magnetic fasteners are affixed to the lower end of the plurality of sidewalls, wherein the magnetic fasteners removably secure to an outer perimeter of a return vent, such that the filter member overlays the grill of the return vent. In an alternate embodiment, a magnetic support member is affixed to a lower surface of the filter member at an equidistance from opposing sidewalls to prevent the filter member from touching the grill.
US10543443B2
A method for operating an air intake system for an engine is disclosed. The air intake system includes an air filter configured to provide filtered air to the engine for combustion. The method includes activating a blower, by a controller, to generate suction and draw purged contaminants from the air filter for facilitating a purging of the air filter. The method further includes deactivating the blower, by the controller, upon a determination of a completion of the purging of the air filter.
US10543438B1
A skimming apparatus with a pivot arm and a drive follower on the pivot arm that guides a belting to facilitate precise placement of the belting for efficient skimming.
US10543437B2
A self-propelled robotic cleaning apparatus for cleaning a submerged surface of a pool or tank includes a housing defining an interior chamber containing a filter assembly for filtering water flowing through at least one water inlet formed in the base plate. A filter backwash assembly is positioned within the interior chamber and has at least one fluid discharge outlet for providing a pressurized flow of a fluid towards the exterior surface of the filter assembly as a backwash to rinse and dislodge the debris therefrom.
US10543436B2
A filter assembly includes a canister housing closable by a lid and containing a removable and replaceable filter element cartridge. The lid is part of the filter element cartridge and a single unitary component therewith, such that removal of the filter element cartridge also removes the lid, and replacement of the filter element cartridge also replaces the lid.
US10543434B2
The system and method spatially predict the condensation of water and acid from the flue gas in the condensing heat exchanger installed in fossil power plant flue gas treatment system or similar environment. By modifying the operational conditions, the heat exchanger can control rates and areas of condensations. The system and method adjust either the cooling water temperature or the flowrate ratio of flue gas to cooling water to control the condensation rates of water or acids. The system and method also estimate actual coverage areas to apply for anti-corrosive coating onto the tube or duct surfaces to resist corrosion due to acid condensation. The system and method also optimize or customize condensation rates of water and acids in boiler flue gas under operating conditions given at a power plant.
US10543432B2
A toy top includes a shaft portion, a body, and a first attacking member and a second attacking member that are disposed at different circumferential direction positions of the body. The first attacking member is movable between an inner first position and an outer second position in a radial direction. The second attacking member is movable between an inner third position and an outer fourth position in the radial direction. The first attacking member is biased toward the first position and is movable to the second position by centrifugal force. The second attacking member is restrained at the third position when the first attacking member is at the first position and is released from restraint to be moved to the fourth position when the first attacking member is at the second position.
US10543422B1
The synchronized and integrated architecture and method disclosed here provides a continuous visual experience for different players across different platforms and engages them at different levels as they access a particular game within a virtual gaming arena from the different platforms. Each of the players may have a unique and different visual experience, depending upon the gaming platform a player uses. The architecture facilitates access to video gaming applications via personal computers, via mobile devices, via game consoles, via tablets or the like. In some instances, a single player can play a particular game including a main component and a sub-component from the different platforms, where play in the sub-component is seamlessly integrated into the main component.
US10543420B2
A prompting device for prompting state information of a physical game character includes a smog machine and a control circuit. The smog machine include a smog chamber, a heating element, and an air-blowing device. The smog chamber has a receiving cavity for receiving smog fluid, an inlet, and an outlet. The inlet and the outlet are in communication with the receiving cavity. The heating element is mounted within the receiving cavity and generates heat to vaporize the smog fluid after an electric current is applied. The air-blowing device is disposed corresponding to the outlet for blowing an air flow towards the receiving cavity. The air flow generated by the air-blowing device enters into the receiving cavity from the inlet and discharges smog within the receiving cavity from outlet. The control circuit is configured to control the smog machine to generate the smog that characterizes the state information.
US10543419B2
A binding for snowboard includes a base structure and a heel support pivotally mounted to the base structure for movement between an open position for allowing a user to insert or remove their boot from the binding and a closed position for securing the users boot in the binding. An adjustable foot strap is attached to the base structure and a tensioning system is attached to the heel support and the adjustable foot strap for applying a tensioning force to the adjustable strap when the heel support is moved to the closed position and for releasing the tensioning force from the adjustable foot strap when the seal support is moved to the open position.
US10543418B1
One aspect of this disclosure is a climbing skin attachment apparatus. The apparatus may comprise a climbing skin attachment portion and a snow device connection portion, a channel extending at least partially through the climbing skin attachment portion along a channel axis to receive an anchor portion of a climbing skin, and a passage extending through the climbing skin attachment portion and into the channel along the channel axis to receive a lead portion of the climbing skin. Related apparatus, methods, and systems also are described.
US10543415B2
Generally, described are methods, apparatuses and systems for a recommendation engine which determines a recommendation based upon a terrestrial parameter and an overall factor unrelated to the terrestrial parameter. The recommendation engine may receive as inputs: (1) some data relating to the terrestrial parameter and (2) some data relating to user operation of a mechanical device. An overall factor may be calculated or obtained, at least in part, from the data relating to user operation of the mechanical device. And based upon the data relating to the terrestrial parameter and the overall factor, a recommendation may be determined and transmitted. In one embodiment, as part of the transmission process, the recommendation may be displayed to a user requesting the recommendation.
US10543403B2
Multi-layered golf balls containing a dual-core structure are provided. The core structure includes an inner core (center) comprising a foam composition, preferably foamed polyurethane. The outer core layer is preferably formed from a non-foamed thermoset composition such as polybutadiene rubber. The core layers have different hardness and specific gravity levels. The specific gravity (density) of the foam inner core is preferably less than the density of the outer core layer. The core assembly preferably has a positive hardness gradient extending across the entire assembly. The core structure and resulting ball have relatively good resiliency.
US10543397B2
Disclosed herein is a resistance exercise device and methods of using the same. In one embodiment, a resistance exercise device is disclosed comprising a quarter-wheel, a means for attaching resistance to said quarter-wheel, a support means attached to the axis of the quarter-wheel, whereby a user can perform core exercise while moving in a direction parallel to the line of resistance.
US10543393B2
A suspension trainer including a handle system comprised of a ring element and a removable strap element.
US10543391B2
An upright posture retainer for upper body includes two upright retaining frames, and an adjusting device connected with the upright retaining frames and adjusted a distance between the upright retaining frames; wherein each of the upright retaining frames includes a resilient longitudinal retaining frame extended longitudinally and tending to recover an original upright state under stress, a shoulder retaining member and a leg retaining frame, wherein the shoulder retaining member is extended from an upper end of the resilient longitudinal retaining frame so as to form a shoulder contacting space, wherein the leg retaining frame is extended from an lower end of the resilient longitudinal retaining frame and transversely extended to form a leg retaining space, thereby contacting with the front of the human leg; wherein the adjusting device is fixed to the resilient longitudinal retaining frames of the upright retaining frames and supports the rear of upper body.
US10543387B2
Systems, kits, and methods for testing a combustion arrester are disclosed. Systems include an upstream chamber, a downstream chamber, and a combustion arrester between the upstream chamber and the downstream chamber. The upstream chamber includes an ignition port configured to receive an ignition source. And, the upstream chamber defines a convergent duct that converges toward the combustion arrester and terminates at the combustion arrester. The upstream chamber may include a hierarchical series of modular shell sections that define the convergent duct. The downstream chamber may include a series of modular shell sections.
US10543386B2
Systems and methods for respiratory health management are provided. An air filtration and analysis system may comprise an apparatus configured to be worn by a user. The apparatus may comprise a filtration device. The system may also include a plurality of sensors configured to collect data. A portion of the sensor data may be indicative of (i) one or more characteristics of the air inhaled and/or exhaled by the user, and/or (ii) an environment in which the user is located. At least one sensor and/or the apparatus may be in communication with a processor that is configured to analyze the collected sensor data.
US10543385B2
Disclosed herein are methods for evaluating the whitening effect of oral care composition on a stained egg comprising staining an eggshell, applying the oral care composition to a portion of the stained eggshell to obtain a treated eggshell area, calculating a ΔE value for the difference in color of the treated eggshell area compared to untreated stained eggshell when calculated in L*a*b color space, wherein the oral care composition comprises at least one high cleaning silica for stain removal. Further disclosed herein are methods for demonstrating the whitening effect of an oral care composition on a stained egg comprising showing an egg that has been stained to at least one consumer and brushing an oral care composition comprising at least one high cleaning silica for stain removal on a portion of the stained eggshell to obtain a treated eggshell area.
US10543384B2
The present disclosure relates to a hair styling compositions that exhibit non-Newtonian shear thickening behavior. The hair styling composition include: (a) about 0.1 to about 7 wt. % of AMP-acrylates/allyl methacrylate copolymer, based on the total weight of the hair styling composition; (b) one or more nonionic film-forming polymers; (c) one or more polysaccharides; (d) one or more nonionic surfactants; and (e) water. Additional components such as, for example, water-soluble solvents, fatty compounds, amphoteric film-forming polymers, volatile or non-volatile silicones, thickeners (ionic or non-ionic), etc., may also optionally be included. The hair styling compositions are particularly useful for styling or shaping hair and for providing hold, discipline, and texture to hair.
US10543367B2
The invention provides transcranial electrostimulation by combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and theta burst stimulation (TBS) to achieve an unexpected therapeutic effect in various brain or neural diseases. Accordingly, the invention provides a mode of direct current with biphasic square wave pulses in the treatment of brain or neural diseases. Also provided are methods of employing the transcranial electrostimulation of the invention and applications of the transcranial electrostimulation of the invention.
US10543365B2
A gait modulation system including: (a) a sensor device including a sensor adapted for associating with at least one lower limb of the patient, the sensor for transducing at least one parameter related to a gait of the patient, so as to obtain gait data related to the gait, and (b) a muscle stimulator including: (i) an electrical stimulation circuit, the circuit adapted to supply an electrical stimulation output to an electrode array for performing functional electrical stimulation of at least one muscle of the lower limb, and (ii) a microprocessor, operatively connected to the at least one sensor, the microprocessor adapted for: receiving a stream of gait information based on the gait data; processing the gait information, and controlling the stimulation output based on the processing of the gait information, and wherein the microprocessor is further adapted to identify a failure in the stream of gait information, and to consequently control the electrical stimulation circuit to deliver a fail-safe stimulation output over a portion of a duration of the failure.
US10543357B2
An electrode connectable to a pulse generator is disclosed. The electrode includes therapeutic terminals configured to deliver the pulse to a patient, first and second electrical pulse inlet holes, and a first pulse input terminal. The first pulse input terminal is in the first electrical pulse inlet hole and is spaced apart from an entrance to the first electrical pulse inlet hole by more than about 2.5 cm. Also, first pulse input terminal is connected with one or more of the therapeutic terminals. The electrode also includes a second pulse input terminal, where the second pulse input terminal is in the second electrical pulse inlet hole and is spaced apart from an entrance to the second electrical pulse inlet hole by a distance greater than about 2.5 cm. Also, the second pulse input terminal is electrically connected with one or more of the therapeutic terminals.
US10543356B2
A pain sensory nerve stimulation apparatus includes: an electrode portion including: a first electrode, a tip end of which is adapted to be inserted into a skin; and at lease one second electrode which is disposed in a circumference of the first electrode without being electrically conductive with the first electrode, and which is adapted to be in contact with a skin; and a stimulation signal supplying unit, supplying a bipolar stimulation signal between the first electrode and the second electrode, the bipolar stimulation signal including a first waveform signal and a second waveform, the first waveform which is convex in a negative direction in the first electrode, the second waveform signal which is convex in a positive direction in the first electrode.
US10543345B2
A fluid delivery device includes a tube coupled to an axial manipulator. The axial manipulator includes an elongate member arranged to move axially in a housing. The tube is in fluid communication with a fluid diverter which is arranged to move axially in the housing upon axial movement of the elongate member. Seals are provided to prevent fluid from leaking out of the housing. A fluid port is in fluid communication with the tube via the fluid diverter, such that fluid can flow in and out of the tube via the fluid port and the fluid diverter.
US10543344B2
The present invention generally relates to double-ended wire guides for use in a percutaneous procedure within a body cavity and to methods of using such devices. In certain embodiments, the wire guide includes a break-away discontinuity near at least one end of the wire guide.
US10543339B2
Devices, systems and methods are used to decouple proximal movement of a catheter supply lead or tubing from the tissue-embedded catheter. A catheter decoupling device comprises a catheter hub, sled and track, wherein the hub comprises a proximal end configured to receive a catheter fluid supply device, and a distal end configured to receive a catheter, the sled receives and retains the hub, the track receives and retains the hub; and, the hub has a limited range of back-and-forth motion relative to the track.
US10543332B2
A patient interface for delivery of a supply of pressurised air or breathable gas to an entrance of a patient's airways comprising: a cushion member that includes a retaining structure and a seal-forming structure permanently connected to the retaining structure; a frame member attachable to the retaining structure; and a positioning and stabilising structure attachable to the frame member.
US10543318B2
A stopper includes a main body portion defining an open rearward end configured to receive the plunger rod, an engagement portion provided along an inner circumference of the main body portion configured to engage at least a top portion of the plunger rod, a closed front end forming a flexible roof, and a first perimetrical skirt extending around an outer circumference of the main body portion toward the closed front end of the main body portion. When fluid pressure is increased inside the syringe barrel during an injection, the flexible roof expands in a radial direction toward an inner wall of the syringe barrel, the first perimetrical skirt is forced against the inner wall of the syringe barrel, and an engagement between the plunger rod and the engagement portion forces the main body portion to expand in the radial direction toward the inner wall of the syringe barrel.
US10543311B2
Envisaged herein are methods for determining the optimal volume of contrast medium to be administered to a patient. More particularly, the methods envisaged herein comprise the steps of (a) measuring one or more patient-specific physiological parameters, said one or more patient-specific physiological parameters comprising at least the patient's heart rate; and (b) determining the optimal volume of contrast medium based on the patient-specific physiological parameters determined under (a).
US10543308B2
A catheter system can include a tubular body, and at least one of a targeting system coupled to the tubular body, an expandable member, or a fluid injection port. A method of identifying a bifurcation can include inserting a catheter system into a first vessel, positioning the catheter system at a first location, expanding an expandable member to occlude the first vessel, delivering contrast material so the contrast material pooling proximate to the expandable member, and reviewing a shape of the contrast material in the first vessel under fluoroscopy.
US10543294B2
A bone graft composition includes a biologically-resorbable cement and a plurality of processed bone particles, where each of the bone particles have a shape configured to interconnect with adjacent bone particles. A method for treating a bone defect using the bone graft compositions includes providing the bone graft composition and administering an effective amount of the bone graft composition to a site of a bone defect in a subject. Kits including a biologically-resorbable cement powder and a plurality of processed bone particles are also provided.
US10543291B2
The present invention is intended to provide a cell for an ultraviolet irradiation module and an ultraviolet irradiation module with which it is possible to improve the efficiency of sterilizing an object to be irradiated to a greater extent than in the past. The cell for an ultraviolet irradiation module includes a case being at least partially formed of polytetrafluoroethylene having a crystallite size in a direction of 60 nm or more and 250 nm or less and having an internal space into which an object to be irradiated can be introduced.
US10543288B2
The invention is directed to a competitive glucose binding affinity assay comprising a glucose receptor (typically mannan binding lectin) labeled with an assay fluorophore and a modified glucose analog (typically dextran) labeled with a reference fluorophore. In certain embodiments, the glucose analog is dextran and is coupled to both a reference fluorophore and a quencher dye (e.g. hexamethoxy crystalviolet-1). Optionally the reference fluorophore is blue shifted relative to the assay fluorophore.
US10543285B2
In one aspect, methods of targeted nanoparticle and cell delivery are described herein. In some embodiments, methods described herein comprise coupling nanoparticles and cells to a carrier cell to form a nanoparticle-cell conjugate or cell-cell conjugate, disposing the nanoparticle-cell or cell-cell conjugate in a biological environment, and delivering the nanoparticles and cells to target cells or tissues located within the biological environment. The nanoparticles comprise a biodegradable photoluminescent polymer, and the nanoparticle-cell conjugate is formed using one or more click chemistry reaction products.
US10543284B2
Provided are an anti-c-Met antibody or an antigen binding fragment thereof, and an anti-c-Met antibody-cytotoxic drug conjugate, wherein the antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof is a chimeric antibody or a humanized antibody. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the humanized anti-c-Met antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof, the antibody-cytotoxic drug conjugate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvents thereof, that are used in the treatment of cancer.
US10543283B2
This disclosure relates to intranasal administration of conjugates comprising guanidinylated aminoglycosides (“guanidinoglycosides”) and a polypeptide (e.g., an enzyme, antibody, or polypeptide growth factor). For example, such administration methods are useful for delivering a polypeptide to the brain and/or cerebrospinal fluid. Such methods are useful for treating a lysosomal storage disease through intranasal administration of a conjugate comprising one or more guanidinoglycosides and an enzyme useful for treating a lysosomal storage disease.
US10543282B2
The present invention relates to the preparation and use of therapeutic compounds for the treatment of diseases at specific subcellular target areas such as specific cellular organelles. In particular, the therapeutic compounds of the invention are specific for modifying enzyme activity within targeted organelles or structures of cells and tissues. Subcellular organelles and structures that may be specifically targeted by compounds of the present invention include lysosomes, autophagasomes, the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi complex, peroxisomes, the nucleus, membranes and the mitochondria.
US10543280B2
Compositions and methods for stabilizing biomolecules are disclosed. Specifically, the compositions include novel homopolymers or copolymers containing trehalose side chains conjugated to biomolecules. When such homopolymers or copolymers are placed in close proximity to biomolecules, such as proteins, the homopolymers or copolymers protect and/or stabilize the biomolecule. The compositions and methods may be suitable for use in various industries such as healthcare (pharmaceuticals), molecular biology, biofuels, paper, personal care, detergent, photographic, rubber, brewing, dairy and food processing industries.
US10543278B2
A pharmaceutical composition comprising an immunoparticle is provided. The pharmaceutical composition comprising a monoclonal secondary antibody immunocomplexed with a primary antibody, wherein said monoclonal secondary antibody is coupled on an outer surface of a particle and wherein said particle is loaded with a pharmaceutical agent.
US10543274B2
The present invention is directed to novel lyophilized pharmaceutical preparations comprising a cytotoxic dipeptides such as melphalan flufenamide and one or more excipient(s) selected from the group comprising a polysorbate; a polyethylene glycol; β-cyclodextrin; ocyclodextrin; hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin; sulfobutylether-β-cyclodextrin; lactose; benzyl alcohol; disodium succinate; propylene glycol; Cremophor EL; Dimethyl sulfoxide; D-mannitol; Trehalose; Sucrose and an amino acid. This preparation may be further formulated and is useful in cancer therapy.
US10543272B2
The invention provides the use of a photosensitiser which is a derivative (e.g. an ester) of 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in the manufacture of a composition for use in methods of photodynamic therapy (PDT) on an animal, wherein said PDT comprises: (a) administering to said animal a composition comprising said photosensitiser; and (b) photoactivating said photosensitiser, and side-effects (e.g. pain and/or erythema) of said PDT are prevented or reduced by use of one or more of (i)-(iv): (i) said composition comprises said photosensitiser in a concentration of less than 10% wt (e.g. 0.5 to 8% wt), (ii) said composition is administered for less than 2 hours (e.g. 30 minutes to 90 minutes) prior to said photoactivation, (iii) said photoactivation is carried out with a light source having a fluence rate of less than 50 mW/cm2 (e.g. 5 to 40 mW/cm2), (iv) said photoactivation is carried out with sunlight. Preferably, side effects of PDT are prevented or reduced by using (ii) or (iv) in combination with (i) and/or (ii).
US10543269B2
The disclosure relates to respiratory virus ribonucleic acid (RNA) vaccines and combination vaccines, as well as methods of using the vaccines and compositions comprising the vaccines.
US10543255B2
This invention relates to novel compositions comprising analogs of naturally occurring polypeptides, wherein the analog comprises an α-amino acid and at least one β-amino acid. Administration of the compositions may be used for effecting treatment or prevention of a plurality of disease states caused by dysfunctional biochemical or biological pathways. The compositions and methods of this invention are particularly useful to identify novel therapeutic modulators of in-vivo receptor activity with extended half-lives and relevant bioactivity as compared to the naturally translated polypeptides upon which the analogs are derived.
US10543247B2
Methods for providing skin enhancement and pain relief to an individual in need of treatment by administering to such an individual an effective amount of an immunostimulatory Aloe vera derived composition. Oral and topical methods and compositions are provided. Aloe vera derived immunostimulatory compositions and methods of producing such compositions are provided.
US10543243B2
The invention relates to a soybean seed extract, method for producing the same and uses of the extract of soybean seeds in promoting wound healing, promoting neuron cell proliferation and/or treating brain diseases and/or neurodegenerative diseases, treating breast cancer, reducing side effects of interfering with DNA and/or RNA replication drugs and/or enhancing pharmaceutical effects of interfering with DNA and/or RNA replication drugs.
US10543240B2
The present invention provides a method of increasing the growth of staphylococcus epidermidis on skin, comprising topically applying to skin in need of treatment for eczema, acne, decreased moisturization, or other skin conditions associated with microbiota dysbiosis a composition comprising an extract of Pichia anomala and glycerin.
US10543239B2
The invention relates to use of a bacterium selected from a lactic acid bacterium, a Bifidobacterium or a mixture of any thereof for treating metabolic endotoxemia, inhibiting bacterial translocation and regulating lipid absorption in a mammal.
US10543237B2
This invention discloses new krill oil compositions characterized by having high amounts of phospholipids, astaxanthin esters and/or omega-3 contents. The krill oils are obtained from krill meal using supercritical fluid extraction in a two stage process. Stage 1 removes the neutral lipid by extracting with neat supercritical CO2 or CO2 plus approximately 5% of a co-solvent. Stage 2 extracts the actual krill oils by using supercritical CO2 in combination with approximately 20% ethanol. The krill oil materials obtained are compared with commercially available krill oil and found to be more bioeffective in a number of areas such as anti-inflammation, anti-oxidant effects, improving insulin resistances and improving blood lipid profile.
US10543236B2
A homeopathic pain topical analgesic composition based on snake venom is disclosed. The study product also contained of Arnica montana, a homeopathic remedy most frequently used for fractures, bruises, and muscle strains due to its analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. The composition also contained a penetrant component to enhance penetration of the ingredients as well as an analgesic/anti-inflammatory component. The snake venoms used may include those of Naja naja, Crotalus horridus and Lachesis muta. A clinical study of a product formulated in this way was effective in promoting relief from muscle pain and discomfort.
US10543232B2
A polyplex of a double stranded RNA (dsRNA) and a polymeric conjugate consists of a linear polyethyleneimine (PEI) covalently linked to one or more polyethylene glycol (PEG) moieties. Each PEG moiety is conjugated via a linker to a targeting moiety capable of binding to a cancer antigen. Exemplary cancer antigens include epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and prostate surface membrane antigen (PSMA).
US10543228B2
The invention relates to compositions containing selenite-containing compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable acids, selected from citric acid, acetic acid, malic acid, carbonic acid, sulphuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, fruit acids or mixtures thereof, for use for treating cervical inflammations, dysplasia and/or carcinomas. The invention further relates to methods of using such compositions.
US10543221B2
Provided herein are heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutical formulations that can be used to treat bacterial infections. Also provided herein are methods of making and using the heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutical formulations.
US10543220B2
The invention provides, in part, polyhydroxylated bile acids for treating biliary disorders, for example, biliary disorders arising out of cholestasis of portal hypertension. The invention also provides, in part, polyhydroxylated bile acids for stimulating bile flow. New compounds 2α, 3α, 7α, 12α-tetrahydroxy-5β-cholanoic acid and 3α. 4α, 7α, 12α-tetrahydroxy-5β-cholanoic acid are disclosed, uses thereof and synthesis thereof.
US10543215B2
Disclosed herein are combination therapies for the treatment of heart failure using a cardiac myosin activator, such as omecamtiv mecarbil, and a sinus node If current inhibitor, such as ivabradine. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising a cardiac myosin activator and a sinus node If current inhibitor.
US10543212B2
The present invention provides a compound having a CaMKII inhibitory action, which is expected to be useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of cardiac diseases (particularly catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, postoperative atrial fibrillation, heart failure, fatal arrhythmia) and the like.The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.
US10543207B2
The present disclosure is directed to compounds and methods for the treatment of disorders associated with fluid retention or salt overload, such as heart failure (in particular, congestive heart failure), chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease, liver disease, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) gamma agonist-induced fluid retention. The present disclosure is also directed to compounds and methods for the treatment of hypertension. The present disclosure is also directed to compounds and methods for the treatment of gastrointestinal tract disorders, including the treatment or reduction of pain associated with gastrointestinal tract disorders. The methods generally comprise administering to a mammal in need thereof a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound, or a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a compound, that is designed to be substantially active in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to inhibit NHE-mediated antiport of sodium ions and hydrogen ions therein. More particularly, the method comprises administering to a mammal in need thereof a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound, or a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a compound, that inhibits NHE-3, -2 and/or -8 mediated antiport of sodium and/or hydrogen ions in the GI tract and is designed to be substantially impermeable to the layer of epithelial cells, or more specifically the epithelium of the GI tract. As a result of the compound being substantially impermeable, it is not absorbed and is thus essentially systemically non-bioavailable, so as to limit the exposure of other internal organs (e.g., liver, heart, brain, etc.) thereto. The present disclosure is still further directed to a method wherein a mammal is administered such a compound with a fluid-absorbing polymer, such that the combination acts as described above and further provides the ability to sequester fluid and/or salt present in the GI tract.
US10543203B2
There is provided a sustained-release pharmaceutical composition comprising a solid, continuous network comprising an excipient with a high mechanical strength, which network also comprises pores, within which pores is interspersed a mixture of an active ingredient and a film-forming agent, characterised in that said pores are formed during the production of the composition. Compositions of the invention find particularly utility as abuse-resistant formulations comprising opioid analgesics that may be employed in the treatment of chronic pain.
US10543201B2
Methods are provided for treating conditions including chronic pelvic pain, in which there are palpable trigger points of local areas of muscle restriction and spasticity that recreate or refer pain of patients complaints upon palpation, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, pelvic floor myalgia, pelvic floor dysfunction, interstitial cystitis, levator ani syndrome, coccygodynia, prostatodynia, piriformis syndrome, anal sphincter pain, bowel movement pain, post bowel movement pain, ejaculatory pain, post ejaculatory pain, sitting pain, post bowel movement pain, rectal pain, tailbone pain, urinary frequency, urinary urgency, urinary hesitancy, post urinary pain, overactive bladder, perineal pain, penile pain, vaginismus, anismus, sexual dysfunction, reduced level of ejaculate or reduced penile erection, myofascial pain in muscle tissue of a patient who has one or more trigger points in the muscle tissue, or the pain/sensitivity of pelvic floor muscle trigger points and specific areas of myofascial restriction detected upon palpation in a patient comprising administering to the one or more trigger points of the patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a calcium channel blocker, or L-arginine, or a combination of a calcium channel blocker and L-arginine, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, solvates and prodrugs thereof; the application of the topical form of the drug can be applied by the patient regularly as part of a self treatment program to heal muscle related pain and muscle related pelvic pain and each optionally together with a corticosteroid such as cortisone of hydrocortisone. The invention further provides methods for myofascial release, trigger point release, and the use of dilators with and without calcium channel blockers for pain conditions. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions, kits and applicator devices useful in the methods of the invention.
US10543194B2
The present invention relates to certain PDE2 inhibitory compounds, in free or salt form, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and methods for the treatment of PDE2 mediated disorders.
US10543189B2
The invention provides naphthofuran compounds, polymorphs of naphthofuran compounds, naphthofuran compounds in particle form, purified compositions that contain one or more naphthofuran compounds, purified compositions that contain one or more naphthofuran compounds in particle form, and methods of using these naphthofuran compounds, polymorphs, purified compositions and/or particle forms to treat subjects in need thereof.
US10543181B2
The present invention provides for the treatment, prevention, and/or reduction of a risk of a disease, disorder, or condition in which aldehyde toxicity is implicated in the pathogenesis, including ocular disorders, skin disorders, conditions associated with injurious effects from blister agents, and autoimmune, inflammatory, neurological and cardiovascular diseases by the use of a primary amine to scavenge toxic aldehydes, such as MDA and HNE.
US10543180B2
The present invention provides a method of inhibiting, suppressing or preventing levodopa-induced dyskinesia in a patient suffering from Parkinson's Disease, comprising the step of administering to the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one compound of the invention. The present invention further provides a method of inhibiting, suppressing or preventing Parkinson's Disease in a patient, comprising the step of administering to the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one compound of the invention.
US10543179B2
The present invention relates to a dosage regimen of an S1P receptor modulator or agonist in the course of the treatment of patients suffering from an inflammatory or autoimmune disorder, for example multiple sclerosis. Specifically, the present invention relates to testing a patient for a history of infection and vaccinating the patient prior to administration of fingolimod or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof at a daily dosage of 0.5 mg.
US10543172B2
The invention provides a water-based composition for treating an infection by a dermatophyte fungus comprising econazole or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also provided are methods of treatment utilizing the water-based foam composition, as well as its preparation.
US10543168B2
A formulation for generating an adhesion barrier that includes a plurality of particles or a dry powder that is made of a polymer combination of at least one biodegradable polymer and at least one water soluble polymer is disclosed. Methods of making and delivering the formulation are further disclosed. The formulation of particles is deposited on a surface of internal body tissue and the deposited formulation absorbs moisture from the tissue and forms a film over the surface. The film acts as an adhesion barrier by reducing or preventing adhesion of the surface to other body tissue.
US10543163B2
The application discloses dentifrice compositions comprising arginine together with fluoride, phosphate and pyrophosphate salts, in a dentifrice base with a calcium-free silica abrasive, which compositions provide enhanced remineralization, together with methods of using and of making these compositions.
US10543161B1
The present disclosure relates to methods for protecting skin from UV radiation while simultaneously improving the appearance of skin. The methods include layered application of a skin perfecting composition and a sunscreen composition. The skin perfecting composition comprises: (i) about 1 to about 40 wt. % of at least one primary film forming polymer having a Young's modulus of 0.1 to 50 MPa, and elongation at break >50% and a glass transition temperature of <0° C.; (ii) about 1 to about 35 wt. % of at least one pressure sensitive adhesive polymer; (iii) about 1 to about 35 wt. % of soft focus powder; and (iv) water. The sunscreen composition comprises: (i) at least one organic UV filter; and (ii) a cosmetically acceptable carrier.
US10543160B2
The present invention relates to a non-aqueous cosmetic composition comprising water-soluble scrub particles containing a polypeptide or a cell culture component. More specifically, the present invention relates to a non-aqueous cosmetic composition comprising 0.01 wt % to 15 wt % of hard and angulated water-soluble scrub particles containing cell culture components or various polypeptides including a peptide and an oligopeptide. Further, the cosmetic composition of the present invention provides a non-aqueous cosmetic composition which does not comprise active ingredients, but comprises water-soluble excipient scrub particles for maintaining or improving a scrubbing effect and adjusting viscosity or volume.
US10543157B2
The present invention is directed to a method for treating a hair disorder in a human or animal in need thereof, involving topically applying to the human or animal an effective amount of at least one 6-substituted 2-pyridinol N-oxide compound, a tautomer, or a cosmetically acceptable salt thereof wherein a hair count is increased by at least 0.5 hairs/cm2 and/or an increase the number of anagen hairs and maintain the number of telogen hairs when compared to a baseline and/or vehicle.
US10543156B2
Described herein is a method for shaping keratin fibres including (i) providing a crosslinking composition, wherein the crosslinking composition includes a 2-oxazolidinone compound, a photocatalyst being a hydroxy-substituted aromatic compound, and a cosmetically acceptable carrier; (ii) applying the crosslinking composition to keratin fibres; and (iii) mechanically shaping the keratin fibres with an appliance at a temperature of from about 80° C. to about 180° C. while exposing the crosslinking composition to electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of from about 300 nm to about 750 nm.
US10543142B2
A torso-sling is provided to support at least a portion of the body of a patient on a surgical frame. The torso-sling is used in supporting at least a portion of the patient's torso. The torso-sling is supported relative to the surgical frame using a support bracket that can be attached to a chest support plate of the surgical frame. The torso-sling includes a frame portion, at least a first support strap, and at least a second support strap. The frame portion defines an access area, and the frame portion includes a first side portion, a second side portion, and a transition portion joining the first and second side portions together. The first side portion is configured for positioning adjacent a first lateral side on the posterior side of the patient, the second side portion is configured for positioning adjacent a second lateral side on the posterior side of the patient, and the transition portion is configured for positioning adjacent the neck and shoulders on the posterior side of the patient. The first support strap extends from the support bracket to the first side portion, the first support strap, when the patient is supported by the surgical frame and the torso-sling supports portions of the torso of the patient, extending in part adjacent portions of the first lateral side of the torso of the patient. The second support strap extends from the support bracket to the second side portion, the second support strap, when the patient is supported by the surgical frame and the torso-sling supports the portions of the torso of the patient, extending in part adjacent and contacting portions the second lateral side of the torso and the anterior torso of the patient.
US10543137B2
A patient support apparatus includes a computer supported thereon that acts as a thin client for at least one network service available on a remote network to which the patient support apparatus has access. The thin client architecture of the patient support apparatus enables the patient support apparatus to dynamically change its functions, algorithms, features and other aspects more easily. The thin client architecture may be applied to generating alerts, performing maintenance functions, analyzing sensor data—including, but not limited to—weight sensors used to detect weight distributions on the patient support apparatus, implementing patient care protocols, performing patient assessments, accumulating information for billing, and monitoring patient movement. The patient support apparatuses may also function as local WiFi hotspots and/or as software access points to the healthcare network and/or the Internet. One or more Software-as-a-Service applications may run on the patient support apparatus.
US10543135B2
A low migration energy curable ink composition may include, based upon total composition weight: a) from about 10% to about 80% of a solvent system comprising the following: i) from about 35% to about 80% of one or more mono-functional acrylate monomers, ii) from about 10% to about 35% of one or more di-functional acrylate monomers, and iii) from about 10% to about 30% of one or more tri-functional or greater acrylate monomers; b) from about 3% to about 30% of an acrylate oligomer, and c) from about 1% to about 15% of a colorant. The low migration energy curable ink may be incorporated into an absorbent article.
US10543127B2
The present invention relates to methods and devices for skin tightening after incising or excising tissue portions from a subject. Exemplary methods and devices include tunable dressings having an adhesive layer and a regulatable layer or an un-stretched layer that responds to one or more external stimuli to contract or expand the dressing, where the contraction or expansion can be uniform or non-uniform.
US10543120B2
A method for manufacturing a belt, which molds a heating member 13 by 20 to 98 parts by weight selecting at least one of nonferrous metals constituted by tourmaline, bentonite, pozzolan, mica, red clay, zeolite, magnesium oxide, white clay, calcium, and silica, 0.1 to 30 parts by weight selecting at least one of A type Tio sol, Ag sol, and Zno having a particle size of 5 to 20 nm, graphene 01 to 10 parts by weight having a particle size of 0.20 to 2.25 nm, and functional metal colloidal 0.05 to 8 parts by weight having a size of 1 to 10 nm by selecting at least one of Ag, Au, Zn Pt, and Y, 20 to 98 parts by weight are combined by selecting at least one of the nonferrous metals and thereafter, ground into particle sizes of 500 to 1500 meshes.
US10543115B2
What is disclosed is a medical device comprising a compressed, cylindrical or oblong, thin-walled, expandable metal structure (a “blockstent”) and a flexible, elongated device (a “delivery catheter”) to position the compressed blockstent into the lumen of a blood vessel segment to be treated, and methods of use for occlusion of treated blood vessel segments. A blockstent can be made with ductile metals such as gold, platinum, or silver such that the blockstent will conform to the shape of the lumen of the treated blood vessel segment during expansion and allow for the shape of the blockstent to be permanently changed by the application of an external force. The surface of the blockstent can be configured to promote local thrombus on the external surface of the blockstent and to promote the growth of tissue into the wall of the blockstent in order to occlude the treated blood vessel and fix the blockstent in place. The wall of the blockstent can also be configured to release drugs or pharmacologically active molecules such as those that promote thrombosis, cell proliferation, extracellular matrix deposition to promote this thrombus formation and tissue growth.
US10543109B2
A prosthetic device has a movable body and foot member with an end effector for contacting an external surface. A base body is coupled to a first joint of the foot member. A compliant linking member is disposed between a second joint of the foot member and a first joint of the moveable body. The compliant linking member can be a spring or flexible beam. A passive linking member is coupled between a third joint of the foot member and a third joint of the moveable body. An actuator is disposed between the base body and the second joint of the movable body. The actuator can be a motor with an extension member. The compliant linking member extends during roll-over phase. The actuator acts to assist with the extension of the compliant linking member during roll-over phase to aid with push-off phase in the gait cycle.
US10543106B2
An instrument with an implant holder disposed between a pair of tongs is provided. The implant holder may include a sleeve mechanically coupled to a distal end of a drive shaft and a pair of arms pivotably disposed within the sleeve. Movement of the sleeve in the distal direction pivots the pair of arms towards each other to grip the implant and movement of the sleeve in the proximal direction pivots the arms away from each other to automatically release the implant from the implant holder. The instrument may also include a dual mode drive shaft advancement mechanism that allows the implant holder to be advanced via an impact on the drive shaft from a tool such as a hammer or by rotation of the drive shaft.
US10543096B2
A prosthetic device for use as an artificial meniscus is disclosed. The prosthetic device restores shock absorption, stability, and function to the knee joint after removal of the damaged natural meniscus. In some embodiments, the prosthetic device is pre-tensioned to improve the fit of the prosthetic device within the knee joint and, thereby, maximize the contact area of the load-bearing surfaces to distribute loading through the prosthetic device in a manner substantially similar to that of a healthy natural meniscus. In some embodiments, the pre-tensioned prosthetic device is smaller, or scaled-down, relative to the size of a healthy natural meniscus.
US10543088B2
Systems, devices and methods for resizing a valve annulus are described. An implant is delivered proximate a mitral valve, the implant comprising a tubular body and a plurality of piercing helical anchors, the tubular body comprising an proximal diameter and a distal diameter. Tissue proximate the mitral valve is engaged by rotating the plurality of anchors with corresponding rotational drivers. The tubular body may be transitioned from a first structural configuration having the proximal diameter smaller than the distal diameter to a second structural configuration having the proximal diameter larger than the distal diameter.
US10543079B2
Mitral valve prosthesis are disclosed that include a frame or support structure having an inflow portion, a valve-retaining tubular portion and a pair of support arms. The inflow portion radially extends from a first end of the valve-retaining tubular portion and the pair of support arms are circumferentially spaced apart and radially extend from an opposing second end of the valve-retaining tubular portion. The inflow portion is formed from a plurality of struts that outwardly extend from the first end of the valve-retaining tubular portion with adjacent struts of the plurality of struts being joined, wherein each strut of the plurality of struts has a substantially s-shaped profile and at least one twisted area.
US10543075B2
A knotless anchor for attachment of tissue to bone includes a rigid anchor body and a suture extending there from. The suture is hollow and includes a fixed limb portion secured to the rigid anchor body. A soft suture tunnel extends in a longitudinal direction through the fixed limb portion of the suture. A free suture limb is passed through the tissue, back to the anchor, and through the soft suture tunnel, thereby creating a closable suture loop around the tissue. Tension applied to the free suture limb closes the suture loop, and approximates the tissue to the anchor body. When the anchor is deployed in a bone hole, external features of the anchor body grip the walls of the bone hole and simultaneously compress the suture, thereby preventing tissue pull-out. Anchor assemblies and methods of tissue fixation are also disclosed.
US10543074B2
A passive artificial sphincter includes a tension member, an outer sleeve, and a connecter. The tension member has first and second ends. The outer sleeve contains the tension member and is formed of a biocompatible material. The connecter is configured to couple the first and second ends together to form an artificial sphincter ring. The artificial sphincter ring is configured for implantation around the lumen to provide passive constriction of the lumen.In a method, an artificial sphincter comprising a tension member contained within an outer sleeve is positioned around a lumen of a patient. The lumen is constricted responsive to the tension in the tension member. The passage of material through the lumen and past the artificial sphincter ring is resisted responsive to the constriction of the lumen.
US10543065B2
An intraoral scanner includes an image sensor, a projection module, a motion sensor, a memory unit and a processor. The motion sensor senses three motion variations corresponding to three axes according to a motion state of the intraoral scanner. The memory unit stores three first variation thresholds corresponding to the three axes. The processor determines whether the three motion variations are smaller than or equal to the three first variation thresholds, respectively. When the processor determines that at least one of the three motion variations is smaller than or equal to the three first variation thresholds, the processor enables the image sensor and the projection module. When the processor determines that all of the three motion variations are larger than the three first variation thresholds, the processor disables at least one of the image sensor and the projection module.
US10543063B2
A dental prosthesis arrangement includes a lower part assigned to a jaw implant and an upper part assigned to a superstructure. The lower part engages in the upper part along a central axis. The lower part is supported against the upper part at several contact faces. The lower part and the upper part are connected releasably to each other via a securing device which provides a retaining force against axial withdrawal of the upper part from the lower part. A first radially inwardly directed structure is provided on the lower part and a second radially outwardly directed structure is provided on the upper part for receiving a holding element that provides the retaining force. A fastener passing through the upper part and connected to the lower part can alternatively fix the upper part to the lower part.
US10543062B2
A top piece for a corresponding pin-shaped dental implant with a platform, which features a first platform surface and a second platform surface, a retention pin placed onto the first platform surface, for mounting of a mesostructure, a connecting pin for connecting the platform with a blind bore of a pin-shaped dental implant corresponding to the connecting pin, while in a first version, an edge of the platform is bulged in a direction oriented away from the connection pin, and in a second version, a diameter of the platform is large enough, at least in a part of a total angular area that, where the top piece is connected to the corresponding pin-shaped dental implant, in a view from above onto the second platform surface, the platform protrudes over the corresponding pin-shaped dental implant.
US10543061B2
The present disclosure provides engineered surfaces that exhibit reduced specular reflection and gloss while still providing a high intensity of reflected light at multiple incident angles. The structured metal surfaces include engineered topography that increases diffuse reflection, leading to a greater intensity of light perceived at multiple viewing angles. A viewer engaging such surfaces is likely to perceive a stronger ‘white’ reflection of the incident light and an improvement, particularly in orthodontic and other oral applications, of aesthetic appearance. Methods of creating the engineered surfaces and orthodontic articles incorporating the engineered surfaces are also disclosed.
US10543057B2
Selectively lockable holding arrangements for a surgical access assembly are disclosed. One holding arrangement includes a body portion, an engagement barrel and a retaining member configured as a hook at a distal end of the body portion. The engagement barrel is position on a proximal end of the body portion and is configured to be selectively rotated about the body portion when operatively connected to a surgical holding arrangement. A rotation brake is mounted on the body section. The rotation brake is selectively operable to lock the engagement barrel against rotation.
US10543055B2
Disclosed are a structure for automatically identifying a predetermined length of a tourniquet, and a method for quickly identifying the predetermined length. The structure for automatically identifying a predetermined length of a tourniquet comprises a box and tourniquets, wherein the box has at least one receiving cavity in which the tourniquets are placed and an opening configured to be passed through by an end of the tourniquets, wherein apertures are formed in the tourniquets at an interval of the predetermined length in a longitudinal direction of the tourniquets, the box is provided with a protrusion configured to cooperate with the apertures during the extraction of the tourniquets, and the apertures are configured to identify the predetermined length of the tourniquets and facilitate tearing off of the tourniquets during the tearing off of the tourniquets.
US10543053B2
A container for a medical device having a housing defining a cavity for receiving a device, such as a lung volume reduction coil, is disclosed. In some embodiments, the container includes a coupling zone external to the cavity, an exit aperture between the cavity and the coupling zone, and a bearing surface located within the cavity, the bearing surface, exit aperture and coupling zone defining an exit path along which the device can be moved for deployment from the container. The bearing surface is spaced from the exit aperture and arranged, together with the coupling zone, such that the exit path is substantially straight. In some embodiments, the cavity may be approximately cylindrical, and the bearing surface, the exit aperture, and the coupling zone are aligned such that the exit path extends in a direction that is substantially tangential to the cavity.
US10543046B2
A system for assisting a surgeon to perform an operation on a patient where surgeon employs a first surgical instrument that has a shaft and a tip. The system include a video capture device configured to capture real-time video data showing the first surgical instrument while the first surgical instrument is being used by the surgeon to perform the operation. The system also includes a display device and a computer processor. The computer processor is configured to receive real-time video data from the video capture device as a sequence of digital image frames and, for each image frame, analyze the image frame to determine the location in the image frame of the shaft of the first surgical instrument, process the image frame to overlay received overlay information on the shaft of the first surgical instrument as it appears in the image frame, and display the processed image frame on the display device.
US10543040B2
The present invention is concerned with a skin treatment device, in particular a hair removal device, having a light emission unit comprising a substrate and a plurality of first LED dies mounted on the substrate on an area of at least 0.2 cm2, in particular of at least 1 cm2, wherein the skin treatment device is arranged to activate the first LED dies to emit a treatment light pulse having a pulse length in particular in the range of between 10 ms and 300 ms and the first LED dies have a radiant flux such that a radiant fluence on the skin of a user of at least 1 J/cm2 is achieved by application of the treatment light pulse, wherein the light emission unit has at least two selectable active areas of first LED dies, where the selectable active areas have different sizes, and at least three second LED dies are mounted on the substrate at locations suitable for visibly indicating each of the selectable active areas.
US10543034B2
According to some embodiments, a method of treating a subject having diabetes or symptoms associated with diabetes is provided. The method includes delivering a neuromodulation catheter within a vessel (e.g., hepatic artery) having surrounding nerves that innervate the liver (e.g., sympathetic nerves of the hepatic plexus). The method may also include modulating (e.g., disrupting, ablating, stimulating) the nerves by mechanical compression, energy delivery, or fluid delivery.
US10543027B2
An implant assembly for a human sternum and ribs can include a sternal implant and a rib link. The sternal implant can be couplable to a sternum. The rib link can include a distal portion, a proximal portion, and a strut. The distal portion can be couplable to a rib. The proximal portion can be couplable to the sternal implant. The strut can connect the distal portion to the proximal portion. The strut can be configured to flex so that the distal portion can be aligned with the rib.
US10543023B2
A device and a system comprising such a device, for fixing a spinal vertebra to a rod. The device comprises a pedicle screw and an anchor lug for fixing the screw to the rod. The device also comprises a flexible strip for connection to the vertebra, a ring secured to the lug, and means secured to said ring, for adjustably locking the flexible strip in relation to the anchor lug.
US10543014B2
An apparatus includes a shaft assembly and an end effector. The shaft assembly includes a first tube, a second tube, and a distally projecting tongue. The second tube is coaxially disposed within the first tube. One of the first tube or the second tube is configured to translate relative to the other of the first tube or the second tube. The tongue is fixed to either the first tube or the second tube. The end effector includes an ultrasonic blade and a clamp arm. The clamp arm is pivotally coupled to the tongue. The clamp arm is configured to pivot toward and away from the ultrasonic blade in response to relative translation between the first and second tubes. The tongue is configured to flex relative to the first tube and the second tube in response to the clamp arm grasping tissue.
US10543011B2
The invention relates to a papillotome for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy comprising a front opening (11), which is located in a free end region of a catheter (10) and at the outlet of a first lumen (12), a rear opening (9), which is further from a free end (17) than the front opening (11) is and which connects the first lumen (12) to the outside, and a cutting wire (16), which is located in the first lumen (12) in an axially displaceable manner and extends through the front opening (11) and the rear opening (9) and is located on the outside between the front opening (11) and the rear opening (9). When the cutting wire (16) is tensioned, the free end region is deformed in a arc shape and the cutting wire (16) forms a transversely extending cutting edge (15) between the front opening (11) and the rear opening (9). The front opening (11) is arranged at a distance of at least 3 mm from the free end (17). A projection (20) is formed between the free end (17) and the front opening (11). A cutting tip (20) is formed at the free end (17) of the catheter (10). The cutting tip is connected to the cutting wire (16) and forms the foremost end of the papillotome.
US10543006B2
An infusion catheter system may deliver a therapeutic agent to a desired location in the body. The system may include an elongate catheter shaft having a proximal end region, a distal end region, a distal opening, and a lumen extending between the proximal end region and distal opening. The distal end region may include a coiled portion having a preformed coiled configuration including a plurality of helically wound rings. A plurality of apertures may be formed through a sidewall of the coiled portion. A guidewire may be configured to be slidably disposed within the lumen of the catheter shaft. The guidewire may include a proximal end region having a first cross-sectional dimension, an enlarged distal end region having a second cross sectional dimension greater than the first cross-sectional dimension, and an intermediate region disposed between the proximal end region and the distal end region.
US10543004B2
Systems, methods, and devices provide for a bone centering drill guide. The bone centering drill guide may include a clamping mechanism which clamps to a bone in a pivotable fashion. The proximal end of the clamping mechanism includes a handle portion having a first arm and a second arm which is configured to allow a user to grip the device and exert force which urges the first and second arms toward each other. The distal end includes a clamping portion having first and second arms which are urged into a closed configuration when closing force is provided to the handle portion. The proximal end may further include a locking mechanism which locks the clamping device in a clamped configuration. The bone centering drill guide may further include a guide slot disposed on the distal end above the clamping arms, the slot configured to remain centered between the first and second clamping arms.
US10543002B2
A surgical instrument such as a rongeur (2), including a fixed or stationery first jaw element (4); a stop plate (6) carried at a distal end of the first jaw element; and a second jaw element (12) slidably coupled to the first jaw element, the second jaw element comprising a body (14) having a cutting edge (20) at the front thereof, and defining a channel therein having a front opening and a rear opening, wherein the second jaw element has a closed configuration in which the cutting edge of the second jaw element body is in contact with the stop plate and an open configuration in which the cutting edge of the second jaw element body is spaced from the stop plate, and wherein the instrument further includes a detachable collection tube (28) releasably coupled to the rear of the body of the second jaw element, the detachable collection tube including an inlet in communication with the rear opening of the channel.
US10543000B2
A reciprocating surgical saw blade includes a distal portion, a proximal portion, and a main body extending between the distal portion and the proximal portion. The main body includes an upper surface and a lower surface, and a first outer edge extending from the upper surface to the lower surface of the main body, and a second outer a second outer edge extending from the upper surface to the lower surface of the main body. A biocompatible polymer is provided along at least one of the upper surface, the lower surface, the first outer edge, or the second outer edge of the main body.
US10542991B2
A surgical stapling instrument is disclosed. The stapling instrument comprises a staple cartridge including a circular array of staple cavities defined therein and an anvil configured to deform the staples. The stapling instrument further comprises a closure drive configured to position the anvil relative to the staple cartridge and a firing drive configured to eject the staples from the staple cartridge. The closure drive includes a shaft which is extendable above the staple cartridge to permit the anvil to be attached to the shaft. In various instances, the stapling instrument is configured and arranged such that the anvil cannot be attached to the shaft unless the shaft is moved into a fully-extended position above the staple cartridge.
US10542978B2
The present disclosure provides a powered surgical instrument including a housing defining an inner cavity therein; at least one internal component disposed within the housing; and potting material injected into the inner cavity encapsulating at least a portion of the at least one internal component.
US10542976B2
A surgical instrument includes a drive shaft, a motor for rotating the drive shaft, and a motor speed control. The motor speed control includes a first switch and a second switch which are in communication with the motor. The first switch is disposed over and in registration with the second switch. The first switch has an activated state such that the first switch sends a first signal to the motor. The motor rotates the drive shaft in response to the first signal. The second switch sends a second signal to the motor that varies the speed that the motor rotates the drive shaft in response to a force applied to the second switch by the first switch.
US10542972B2
Disclosed is a joining element (10), especially a suture material for surgical use. The joining element (10) is composed of a first material (12) that is essentially rigid during impingement by a relatively short-lasting tensile load on opposite sides as well as a second material (11) which is connected to the first material. The second material is substantially rigid during impingement by said tensile load on opposite sides while contracting slowly during a second period of time that is longer than the first period of time.
US10542967B2
A method and apparatus for coupling a soft tissue implant into a locking cavity formed within a bone is disclosed. The apparatus includes a member to pull the soft tissue implant into a femoral tunnel. The member includes a suture having first and second ends which are passed through first and second openings associated with the longitudinal passage to form a pair of loops. Portions of the suture lay parallel to each other within the suture. Application of tension onto the suture construction causes retraction of the soft tissue implant into the femoral tunnel.
US10542965B2
The use of red or near infrared light upon neurons of the lumbar plexus that are in distress due to retraction-induced ischemia. The surgeon may protect nerves made ischemic in the surgery by: a) making an incision in a patient, b) inserting an access device into the patient through the incision to at least partially create a path to a spine of the patient, and c) irradiating nervous tissue adjacent the path with an amount of NIR or red light effective to provide neuroprotection.
US10542963B2
The present disclosure relates to an ultrasound phantom for a focused ultrasound wave. More specifically, the present invention provides an ultrasound phantom which mimics a body so as to correspond to a speed of sound in the body, in which agarose, sucrose, polydiacetylene vesicle, and distilled water are mixed, and a specific part onto which an ultrasound wave is irradiated by a focused ultrasound transducer is gradually discolored in accordance with a temperature.
US10542960B2
A system having an X-radiation generator; an X-radiation detector, and a portable computing device. The X-radiation detector has a first wireless communication module, and a non-volatile memory. The X-radiation detector is configured to self-trigger acquisition of an X-radiation image upon detecting X-radiation generated by the X-radiation generator, store the acquired X-radiation image in the non-volatile memory, transmit a lower-resolution version of the X-radiation image via the first wireless communication module, and transmit the X-radiation image to a server via the first wireless communication module. The portable computing device has a second wireless communication module, and a digital screen. The portable computing device is configured to receive the lower-resolution version of the X-radiation image via said second wireless communication module that communicates with said first wireless communication module, display the lower-resolution version of the X-radiation image on the digital screen, enable a user to select whether to discard the X-radiation image from the X-radiation detector or to transmit the X-radiation image from said X-radiation detector to the server, and responsive to the user selecting to transmit the X-radiation image to the server, cause the X-radiation detector to transmit the X-radiation image to the server.
US10542959B2
An object tracking device for a medical imaging system tracks a predetermined movable object such as a medical instrument and/or a patient. The object tracking device includes primary and secondary imagers. The primary imager is configured to provide first image data of a patient's body including the interior of a patient's body. The primary imager is movable between imaging and parking modes. The secondary imager is configured to provide second image data of a patient's body including the exterior of a patient's body. The object tracking device further includes a position monitoring arrangement configured to monitor a position of the secondary imager relative to the position of a reference point. As a result, the medical instrument and/or the patient is traceable in the imaging mode based on the image data of the primary imager, and in the parking mode based on the image data of the secondary imager.
US10542955B2
A method of medical image registration with respect to a volume of interest (VOI) and an apparatus for performing the method are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining a first medical image of a selected section of the VOI, from a first medical apparatus, detecting a sectional image corresponding to the selected section from second medical images previously captured of the VOI, based on an anatomical feature appearing in the first medical image, mapping virtual coordinate schemes of the first and second medical images to produce a mapped virtual coordinate scheme, based on the detected sectional image and the first medical image, and tracking a movement of a section of the VOI captured by the first medical apparatus in the second medical images by using a mapped virtual coordinate scheme.
US10542952B2
A method is described for the determination of a calcium score for a patient to be examined with the aid of a CT system. The method is used to define patient-specific CT-acquisition parameters. In addition, material parameters for a model method for the generation of synthetic image data for virtual CT-acquisition parameters are calibrated using phantom image data recorded with reference CT-acquisition parameters. A calcium score assigned to synthetic phantom image data corresponds to a calcium score determined with phantom image data recorded with reference CT-acquisition parameters. Next, CT-projection-measurement data is acquired for a region of interest using the patient-specific CT-acquisition parameters. The acquired CT-projection-measurement data is used to generate synthetic image data using the calibrated model method. Finally, a calcium score is determined using a standard method on the basis of the synthetic image data. Also described is a calcium-score-determining device. Also described is a computed tomography system.
US10542950B2
The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: generate medical volume data including bones and an organ; identify, based on the volume data, the organ and an abnormal bone having an abnormal region of the bones; calculate, based on the organ and the abnormal bone of the volume data, an influence rate on the organ by the abnormal bone; and superimpose data indicating the influence rate on the image based on the volume data, thereby displaying the superimposed image on a display.
US10542947B2
The present invention is directed to make a photon-counting CT apparatus capable of more accurate data acquisition. Such apparatus is provided with a reference detection unit and a time measuring instrument to measure temporal fluctuations in a rotational direction of an X-ray irradiation unit. The apparatus corrects temporal fluctuations in the rotational direction involved in data measured by the reference detection unit, using time measurement data which is output by the time measuring instrument. Using corrected measurement data measured by the reference detection unit, the apparatus makes corrections of fluctuations pertaining to the X-ray tube of the X-ray irradiation unit and pile-up. Data corrections with high accuracy are thus enabled.
US10542946B2
A dental imager includes an elongated handle with a rotatable head coupled to a distal end thereof and having a central platform with a plurality of arcuate scanning arms pivotally coupled thereto by a hinge. The arcuate scanning arms are of a shape and size for general deployment around a tooth and each include at least one scanner and a roller guide that comfortably rolls along the surface of the tooth or gums to bias the scanners a desired distance from the surface of the tooth, conducive for imaging thereof. In this respect, such a dental imager may be used in a process to scan and record the contours of an intraoral surface, the data of which may be used to create a digital three-dimensional surface impression printable by a 3D printer or the like.
US10542939B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a method of monitoring a patient comprising generating an accelerometer signal of a patient via a patient medical device and capturing and sampling the accelerometer signal at a sampling rate that utilizes non-regular timing intervals. Embodiments further describe a patient medical device comprising sensors for monitoring an accelerometer signal of a patient and circuitry for sampling the accelerometer signal at a sampling rate that utilizes non-regular timing intervals. Embodiments also describe a method of processing physiological signals comprising monitoring ECG signals and accelerometer signals of a patient via a patient medical device and capturing an ECG segment and sampling the accelerometer signal at a sampling rate that utilizes non-regular timing intervals.
US10542936B2
The invention relates to a carrier system for an object worn on the body, comprising a flexible carrier plaster, which has a flat carrier layer and an adhesive layer, applied to the lower face of said carrier layer, which adhesive layer adheres to the skin of a body part when pressed thereon, the adhesive layer consisting of a pressure-sensitive adhesive, and further comprising, on the upper face of the carrier layer facing away from the skin, a rigid mounting platform. According to this disclosure, a joining region of the mounting platform is permanently joined to the upper face of the carrier layer via a structural adhesive connection that consists of a structural adhesive.
US10542929B2
Techniques, methods, systems, devices, and computer readable medium are disclosed from an oral cavity of a user identifying a feature in the user's oral cavity, tracking the feature as it changes, and determining a condition based on the tracking of the feature in the user's oral cavity. The user can use an interface provided by the device's user interface for activities such as biofeedback, controlling functions of the device and other devices, receiving information from external devices or the device, etc.
US10542920B2
[Object] To more simply measure a scattering coefficient of an in-vivo component at any measurement location of a living body.[Solution] A measurement device according to the present disclosure includes: a light source configured to emit at least one kind of measurement light belonging to a predetermined wavelength band toward a measurement region formed by at least a part of a living body; a detection unit in which a plurality of sensors are arranged regularly in a predetermined disposition, the detection unit being provided on a same side as the light source with respect to the measurement region and configured to detect reflected light from the living body of the measurement light transmitted through a part of the living body with the plurality of sensors; and an analysis unit configured to analyze scattering characteristics of an in-vivo component present in the living body using a detection result of the reflected light detected by the detection unit.
US10542914B2
A person's fall risk may be determined based on machine learning algorithms. The fall risk information can be used to notify the person and/or a third party monitoring person (e.g. doctor, physical therapist, personal trainer, etc.) of the person's fall risk. This information may be used to monitor and track changes in fall risk that may be impacted by changes in health status, lifestyle behaviors or medical treatment. Furthermore, the fall risk classification may help individuals be more careful on the days they are more at risk for falling. The fall risk may be estimated using machine learning algorithms that process data from load sensors by computing basic and advanced punctuated equilibrium model (PEM) stability metrics.
US10542913B2
Disclosed is apparatus and method for motion tracking of a subject in medical brain imaging. The method comprises providing a light projector and a first camera; projecting a first pattern sequence (S1) onto a surface region of the subject with the light projector, wherein the subject is positioned in a scanner borehole of a medical scanner, the first pattern sequence comprising a first primary pattern (P1,1) and/or a first secondary pattern (P1,2); detecting the projected first pattern sequence (S1′) with the first camera; determining a second pattern sequence (S2) comprising a second primary pattern (P2,1) based on the detected first pattern sequence (S1′); projecting the second pattern sequence (S2) onto a surface region of the subject with the light projector; detecting the projected second pattern sequence (S2′) with the first camera; and determining motion tracking parameters based on the detected second pattern sequence (S2′).
US10542905B2
The present invention relates to a device for detecting a state of true perception loss of a human, the device including processing means operable to detect from information on electrical signals sensed adjacent to the scalp of the human the activity of oscillations present in the electrical signals as a marker for the state of true perception loss of the human.
US10542903B2
The present disclosure relates to physiological monitoring to determine the depth of consciousness of a patient under sedation. The monitor includes an EEG sensor and a depth of consciousness monitor. The depth of consciousness monitor can utilize treatment data, such as patient data and/or drug profile information with an EEG signal to determine whether the patient is adequately sedated.
US10542899B2
A catheter adapted or high density mapping and/or ablation of tissue surface has a distal electrode array with offset spine loops, each spine loop having at least a pair of linear portions and a distal portion connecting the pair of linear portions, and one or more electrodes on each linear portion. The linear portions of the plurality of offset spine loops are arranged in-plane a single common plane, and the distal portions of the plurality of offset spine loops are arranged off-plane from the single common plane.
US10542893B2
A monitoring apparatus includes a housing that is configured to be attached to a body of a subject. The housing includes a sensor region that is configured to contact a selected area of the body of the subject when the housing is attached to the body of the subject. The sensor region is contoured to matingly engage the selected body area. The apparatus includes at least one physiological sensor that is associated with the sensor region and that detects and/or measures physiological information from the subject and/or at least one environmental sensor associated with the sensor region that is configured to detect and/or measure environmental information. The sensor region contour stabilizes the physiological and/or environmental sensor(s) relative to the selected body area such that subject motion does not impact detection and/or measurement efforts of the sensor(s).
US10542877B2
The specification describes endoscopes that enable varying stiffness of an insertion portion in an endoscope assembly. In one example, an actuator operates either a spring or a flexible tube to vary stiffness of the insertion portion. In alternative examples, an elliptical wheel arrangement or screw mechanism provides a means to increase stiffness of the insertion portion of an endoscope assembly. In further examples, fluid and gas may be used inside the insertion potion to vary stiffness by varying pressure of the fluid/gas.
US10542874B2
An imaging device includes a lens group configured to collect incident light, a prism configured to reflect the light collected by the lens group, and an image sensor having a light receiving unit configured to receive the light reflected by the prism and to perform photoelectric conversion on the received light to generate an electrical signal. The prism is mounted on the light receiving unit, and the lens group is directly mounted on a surface of the image sensor.
US10542870B2
A manipulator, including: a drive unit for generating a driving force, and a treatment tool that is driven by the drive unit and attachable to and detachable from the drive unit, wherein the treatment tool includes: a distal end having at least one joint driven by the drive unit, a lock unit that is actuated to lock at least one of joints at the distal end, a lock-operating unit for operating the lock unit, and a control unit that is operated such that the lock unit is operated by the lock-operating unit and such that when the drive unit is driven, the drive unit is deactivated, and even with the treatment tool detached from the drive unit, the lock unit keeps on with locking.
US10542869B2
Provided are an endoscopic surgical device and a guide device that can satisfy the function of interlocking two medical instruments with each other. An overtube, which is punctured into a body wall and guides an endoscope and a treatment tool into a body cavity, includes an interlocking member that interlocks the forward and backward movements of the endoscope and the treatment tool with each other. The interlocking member is constituted of a first sleeve coupled to the endoscope, a second sleeve coupled to the treatment tool, and a corded flexible coupling member that couples the first sleeve and the second sleeve together. Accordingly, when the coupling member is in a relaxed state, the endoscope and the treatment tool independently move forward and backward, and when the coupling member is in a tensioned state, the endoscope and the treatment tool move forward and backward in an interlocking manner.
US10542868B2
A medical instrument system comprises an imaging probe including a distal tip terminating at a first distal end of the imaging probe and a lens disposed at the first distal end. The imaging probe including a first sealing feature on an external surface of the imaging probe. The medical instrument also comprises an elongated medical instrument including a distal portion terminating at a second distal end and including a working channel configured to slidably receive the imaging probe. The working channel including a second sealing feature on a surface of the working channel. The first sealing feature and the second sealing feature are shaped and configured to contact one another to prevent the passage of fluid between the first and second sealing features.
US10542867B2
An endoscope includes: a distal end cover provided on a distal end of an insertion portion; a holding member fitted with the distal end cover and holding built-in components; a cylindrical member inserted into the distal end cover and the holding member, the cylindrical member having a groove portion formed on an outer circumference; an elastically deformable elastic member engageably inserted into the groove portion and fixing the cylindrical member to the distal end cover and the holding member; first accommodating portions formed at least on a surface of the holding member and accommodating the elastic member; and second accommodating portions communicating to the first accommodating portions and accommodating the elastic member which, at time of inserting and detaching the cylindrical member, comes out from the groove of the cylindrical member, comes into contact with the outer circumferential portion of the cylindrical member and bends by elastic deformation.
US10542861B2
An upright surface cleaning apparatus, such as an extractor, has an upright section moveably mounted to a surface cleaning head and a recline limiter system adapted to inhibit the upright section reclining to a positon at which recovered water enters the separator.
US10542840B2
Examples are disclosed herein that relate to a grill with a continuous cooking surface having individually controllable heating zones separated by one or more isolation zones. One example provides a grill, comprising a continuous cooking surface comprising a plurality of individually controllable heating zones separated by one or more isolation zones, each heating zone comprising a heating zone plate with one or more heating elements disposed beneath the heating zone plate, and each isolation zone comprising an isolation bar joined to adjacent conductive plates of adjacent heating zones, each isolation bar comprising a cooling channel extending at least partially along a length of the isolation bar.
US10542809B2
A station for the treatment of hair, comprising: a washbasin (2), provided with a seat (21) for enabling a user to rest his/her neck and a drain (9) for draining the water from the washbasin (2); a dispenser (3) for dispensing steam inside the washbasin; a spray head (8) with an attached mixer tap (81) for dispensing hot or cold water; a cover (4) associated with the washbasin (2) to take on at least a closed position, in which it defines, together with the washbasin (2) a working space (V), and an open position; wherein the cover (4) comprises a window (41) to enable the users face to protrude outside of the working space (V).The cover (4) comprises a pair of openings (42) arranged to enable insertion of an operator's hands inside the space (V).
US10542803B2
A case for a mobile device with a screen. The case comprises a band arranged to surround the edge of the device. The band comprises an outer layer of a flexible polymer, an inner layer of damping material and an intermediate layer of a dissipation material between the inner and outer layers. The intermediate layer is the hardest of three layers and the inner layer is the softest.
US10542792B2
An article of footwear includes an upper with openings arranged in an auxetic configuration. The upper includes at least two openings that differ in size. Regions of the upper with larger openings may expand more than regions of the upper with smaller openings.
US10542789B2
A method for making a wadding strip element, in particular to be used for making paddings of clothing articles such windcheaters and/or shoes, the wadding material being adapted for depositing thereon at least an auxiliary material, comprises at least the further step of subjecting the wadding strip element to a combined chemical, mechanical and thermal treatment process adapted to increase the mechanical strength of the wadding strip element and reduce its porosity, thereby allowing the deposit on at least a surface of at least a printing material or an auxiliary material thereby the deposited material only slightly penetrates the wadding material to create on the surface a predetermined printed pattern configuration adapted to withstand washing operations and inevitable wear, without decomposing.
US10542781B2
A system to generate a vapor from a liquid includes an electric heater and an elongate wick. The electric heater defines an interior void having an inner surface and a plurality of apertures, and it is formed of an electrically resistive material contained within a heat diffusing material. The elongate wick is formed of a durable elongate structure having a plurality of liquid-conducting features on the outer surface. At least a portion of the liquid-conducting features of the elongate wick proximate the first end engage at least a portion of the one inner surface of the electric heater and are capable of conducting a the liquid from a source proximate the second end of the wick along the outer surface of the elongate wick to the electric heater.
US10542779B2
There is provided an aerosol-generating device configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate, including: a power supply; a heater positioned to heat the aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol; a controller configured to control a supply of power from the power supply to the heater; and a gas sensor that is sensitive to a particular gas or gases, a response of the gas sensor being dependent on a temperature of the gas sensor, and the controller being connected to the gas sensor and being configured to monitor signals from the gas sensor.
US10542767B2
Dried pasta in the form of a tortiglione, i.e. shaped as a hollow cylindrical tube, having an outer diameter of between 8 and 14 mm and having on its outer surface a plurality of ridges or ribs oriented in the manner of a helix with an angle of inclination of between 40° and 58°; these tortiglioni have organoleptic and structural characteristics, in particular a consistency or texture, superior to those of conventional tortiglioni which have ridges or ribs oriented in the manner of a helix with an angle of inclination of about 35°.
US10542761B2
A method and processing device for processing an organ package taken out from slaughtered poultry is provided. At least two cooperating rollers that define a nip between the rollers selectively allow preselected organs from the organ package to pass through the nip. The rollers during operation rotate in opposite directions in order to convey the organ package and simultaneously promote that the preselected organs pass through the nip, wherein the rollers have a cross-sectional diameter, the value of which varies as seen in the longitudinal direction of the rollers and depends on the location of the cross-section between an entrance portion and an exit portion of the rollers so as to provide each of the rollers with a superficial curved contour.
US10542759B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide seed, soil, and plant treatment compositions, and methods of making and using such products and compositions. The use of these products and compositions can act as a plant protectant and increase the growth, health, and yield of various seeds and plants such as crops and grasses, and further provide similar benefit to soils.
US10542756B2
A method of treating a textile substrate by applying a disinfecting treating composition comprising at least one anti-microbial agent, using an exhaust process, and subjecting the textile substrate to one or more heat treatments.
US10542751B2
The present invention relates generally to peroxyformic acid forming compositions, methods for forming peroxyformic acid, preferably in situ, using the peroxyformic acid forming compositions. The present invention also relates to the peroxyformic acid formed by the above compositions and methods. The present invention further relates to the uses of the peroxyformic acid, preferably in situ, for treating a surface or a target. The present invention further relates to methods for treating a biofilm using peroxyformic acid, including peroxyformic acid generated in situ.
US10542735B2
Mice, embryos, cells, and tissues having a restricted immunoglobulin heavy chain locus and an ectopic sequence encoding one or more ADAM6 proteins are provided. In various embodiments, mice are described that have humanized endogenous immunoglobulin heavy chain loci and are capable of expressing an ADAM6 protein or ortholog or homolog or functional fragment thereof that is functional in a male mouse. Mice, embryos, cells, and tissues having an immunoglobulin heavy chain locus characterized by a single human VH gene segment, a plurality of human DH gene segments and a plurality of human JH gene segments and capable expressing an ADAM6 protein or ortholog or homolog or functional fragment thereof are also provided.
US10542723B2
Improving milking system performance through the incorporation of a source of greater than atmospheric pressure air into a pulsator while limiting total pressure in the teat cup. The system is further improved by providing an improved supply of regulated vacuum to the milking cluster throughout the milking process. The system is further improved with a monitoring and detecting the functional failure of the pulsation assemblies. Additional system improvements are provided with the addition of a fresh air valve assembly, a wireless method of regulating vacuum levels and the remote location of a pulsator assembly in a basement style parlor.
US10542721B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072231. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072231. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072231 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072231 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10542720B1
A soybean cultivar designated 79252127 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 79252127, to the plants of soybean cultivar 79252127, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 79252127, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 79252127. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 79252127. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 79252127, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 79252127 with another soybean cultivar.
US10542711B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV644326. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV644326, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV644326 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV644326 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV644326.
US10542708B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH377087. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH377087, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH377087 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH377087.
US10542706B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV702725. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV702725, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV702725 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV702725 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV702725.
US10542703B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV651295. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV651295, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV651295 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV651295 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV651295.
US10542700B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH883654. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH883654, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH883654 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH883654.
US10542694B1
A soybean cultivar designated 77290232 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 77290232, to the plants of soybean cultivar 77290232, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 77290232, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 77290232. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 77290232. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 77290232, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 77290232 with another soybean cultivar.
US10542692B1
A soybean cultivar designated 70262703 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 70262703, to the plants of soybean cultivar 70262703, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 70262703, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 70262703. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 70262703. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 70262703, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 70262703 with another soybean cultivar.
US10542688B2
The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid SVTM2303. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM2303 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US10542678B2
An agricultural harvester includes a chassis, a threshing and separating system for separating grain from MOG, and a grain cleaning system for further separating grain from residual MOG. The grain cleaning system has a main grain pan beneath the threshing and separating system with the grain pan having openings in its forward and to selectively receive grain from the forward portion of the threshing and separating system. A component beneath the main grain pan directs flow in parallel to the cleaning system either to a pre-sieve within the cleaning system or to an upper sieve.
US10542670B2
A high-efficiency cutting system for an autonomous mower provides a multiple blade tip cutting radius for a cleaner cut, and more complete mow. The system includes a spinning blade disk provided within a housing including a vertical standoff. The blade disk includes a first pair of cutting blades located between the center of the blade disk and the circumference of the blade disk, and a second pair of cutting blades located radially inward from the first pair of cutting blades. The cutting blades extend downward and away from the blade disk at an angle.
US10542661B2
An automated method for analyzing seeds generally includes collecting image data from individual seeds using a seed sampling system, determining at least one characteristic of each of the individual seeds based on the collected image data, and removing tissue from each of the individual seeds using the seed sampling system. The method also includes, prior to removing the tissue sample from each of the individual seeds, adjusting at least one operational parameter of the seed sampling system based on the at least one characteristic of the seed from which the tissue is to be removed to thereby allow for generally consistent removal of tissue from each of the individual seeds. In some aspects, the method further includes analyzing the tissue removed from the seeds for presence or absence of at least one characteristic, and selecting seeds based on presence or absence of the at least one characteristic.
US10542652B2
The asymmetrical head of a shovel incorporates a vertically oriented metatarsal edge extending upwardly from the tip of the head to a recessed offset dorsal edge offset along the entire length of the dorsal edge from the tip of the head. The construction of the head permits it to function both as a pivot and as a lever, as well as facilitating the initial penetration of the head in soil.
US10548248B2
A cooling assembly for an IOT wireless gateway device that includes a motherboard structure operatively coupled to one side of a first motherboard component, which is operatively coupled on the other side to one side of a first gap pad for conducting heat, an EMI shield operatively coupled to the other side of the first gap pad and surrounding the sides of the first motherboard component, the EMI shield also operatively coupled to the motherboard structure, the outside of the EMI shield operatively coupled to one side of a second gap pad for conducting heat, and a first heat sink operatively coupled to the other side of the second gap pad for conducting heat.
US10548246B2
An electric power converter is provided which includes a stack body made of a stack of a plurality of electronic devices and cooling medium flow paths in which cooling medium flows. The electric power converter also includes a housing in which the stack body is disposed. The housing 3 has a stack facing wall which faces the stack body in a stacking direction. The stack facing wall has an in-wall flow path in which the cooling medium flows and which communicates the cooling medium flow paths. This structure enables the electric power converter to be reduced in size thereof.
US10548243B2
A disclosed apparatus for use with a conduction-cooled card assembly may include a frame comprising first and second thermally conductive portions adapted to engage respective thermal management interfaces on opposite sides of a conduction cooling frame for at least one circuit card. The apparatus may also include a passageway extending between first and second openings in the frame so as to allow cooling fluid to flow into the first opening, through the passageway, and out of the second opening. According to a disclosed method, an insert may be installed between components of a mezzanine connector so as to increase a height of the connector. In some implementations, the installing of the insert may be performed while the first and second components of the mezzanine connector are mounted on a host card and a mezzanine card, respectively, so that installation of the insert between the first and second components increases a spacing between the host card and the mezzanine card.
US10548242B2
A system to cool a module data center including a fluid cooling device to cool a first set of components of the module data center using a fluid cooling loop and an air cooling device to provide an air to cool a second set of components of the module data center. Also, a control apparatus to determine an air cooling temperature for the air cooling loop based on an environmental condition, determine a fluid cooling temperature for the fluid cooling loop based on the environmental condition, transmit an air signal to the air cooling device to set the air cooling temperature, and transmit a fluid signal to the fluid cooling device to set the fluid cooling temperature.
US10548232B2
Modular enclosure includes a plurality of structural elements coupled to one another to at least partially define a cavity. The structural elements form a plurality of sub-assemblies in which each sub-assembly includes a corner section having a slot and first and second joint sections. Each of the first and second joint sections include an elongated body extending between two joint ends. The elongated body has an open-sided channel that extends along a length of the elongated body and opens to an exterior of the elongated body. The open-sided channel extends through each of the joint ends. The slot of the corner section is aligned with the open-sided channels of the first and second joint sections and a wall section is received by the slot and each of the open-sided channels.
US10548221B1
A stackable via package includes a substrate having an upper surface and a trace on the upper surface, the trace including a terminal. A solder ball is on the terminal. The solder ball has a solder ball diameter A and a solder ball height D. A via aperture is formed in a package body enclosing the solder ball to expose the solder ball. The via aperture includes a via bottom having a via bottom diameter B and a via bottom height C from the upper surface of the substrate, where A
US10548217B1
A base material for printed interconnect boards according to one aspect of the present invention includes a base film; and at least one conductive layer that is layered on the base film. The base material for printed interconnect boards includes a product in which a plurality of interconnect board pieces are regularly arrayed in plan view and includes an outer frame region surrounding the product. The outer frame region includes a proximity region within 5 mm from an outer edge of the product and includes an outside region other than the proximity region. A layered conductive layer area rate of the proximity region is smaller than a layered conductive layer area rate of the product.
US10548216B2
In some embodiments, a tamper-respondent system includes a PCB having a coating on a surface thereof, wherein the coating includes spinel-based, non-conductive metal oxide mixed into a non-conductive supporting material. The tamper-respondent system also includes a conductive track writing unit, a sensor, and an enclosure substantially enclosing the PCB, conductive track writing unit, and sensor. Responsive to a determination that a signal output from the sensor is indicative of tampering, the conductive track writing unit writes a conductive track within a predetermined portion of the coating by irradiating the predetermined portion of the coating to reduce the spinel-based, non-conductive metal oxide in the predetermined portion of the coating to metal nuclei. In some embodiments, the conductive track may modify circuit paths of the PCB and/or create electrical features on the PCB detectable by monitoring agents.
US10548215B2
A flexible printed circuit, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device are provided. The circuit includes: a substrate, at least one conductive structure located on the substrate, a contact electrode group, an encapsulation layer configured to encapsulate the conductive structure and the contact electrode group, and a ventilating film. The contact electrode group includes a first and a second contact electrodes, configured to be electrically connected respectively with two ends of the conductive structure; the encapsulation layer and the substrate constitute a cavity and a liquid storage area communicating with each other; the conductive structure includes a liquid conductive substance located in the cavity; and the liquid storage area is configured to store the liquid conductive substance, and the ventilating film is configured to encapsulate the liquid storage area.
US10548210B2
Non-disperse, periodic microplasmas are generated in a volume lacking interfering structures, such as electrodes, to enable photonic interaction between incident electromagnetic energy and the non-disperse, periodic microplasmas. Preferred embodiments leverage 1D, 2D, 3D and super 3D non-disperse, periodic microplasmas. In preferred embodiments, the non-disperse, periodic microplasmas are elongate columnar microplasmas. In other embodiments, the non-disperse, periodic microplasmas are discrete isolated microplasmas. The photonic properties can change by selectively activating groups of the periodic microplasmas.
US10548197B2
In a single lighting device including a large number of light-emitting elements (LEEs), the LEEs are divided into separately powered groups, and different combinations of the groups are fully energized to achieve the desired overall brightness. In some embodiments, the number of LEEs in each group has a binary relationship to the other groups. The resolution of the dimming is the brightness of the smallest group. In one example of five binary weighted groups of LEEs, 32 brightness levels can be achieved while the LEEs in the energized groups are fully ON. Thus, since there is no high frequency switching, there is substantially no power dissipation by the dimming control system, and there is limited noise or EMI created. The dimming control can be easily implemented with a logic circuit controlling a transistor switch for each group.
US10548192B2
An LED driver includes a constant current circuit for supplying a constant current to a light-emitting portion composed of LEDs, a main transistor inserted serially between the light-emitting portion and the constant current circuit, a sub transistor connected to the node between the constant current circuit and the main transistor, and a control circuit. The LED driver drives the main transistor with pulses to make the light-emitting portion emit light in pulses. The control circuit, before turning on the main transistor, turns on the sub transistor to pass the constant current in the constant current circuit via the sub transistor, and, when turning on the main transistor, turns off the sub transistor.
US10548190B1
The present concepts relate to a negative rail generator that temporarily self-generates a negative voltage rail to increase the voltage difference across a light emitting diode (LED) to be greater than the positive source voltage that is available. As such, the voltage difference provides sufficient headroom to exceed the minimum forward voltage required to conduct the LED with constant current. In one example, the negative rail generator may include a capacitor, a diode clamp, and a transistor. The negative rail generator and the LED may be operated in synchronization by a common PWM signal. The negative voltage rail can be generated without adding a switched-mode power supply (SMPS) or a charge pump.
US10548184B2
Systems and methods are described herein for managing communications for a connected vehicle, such as between the connected vehicle and other connected vehicle and/or between the connected vehicle and infrastructure entities, such as providers of services to the connected vehicle. For example, a communication network, such as a network provided by a network carrier, may include various cloud engines or other network-based servers that manage, coordinate, and/or provision communications between the connected vehicle and other parties, such as vehicles, road devices, buildings, and other infrastructure entities.
US10548180B2
A method for IP [=Internet Protocol] communication between a mobile terminal and its correspondent node in a mobile radio network. The method comprises establishing an IP connection between the mobile terminal and its correspondent node. After detecting a period of inactivity in the IP connection, keep-alive messages are sent via the IP connection at predetermined intervals, which are varied. The method comprises monitoring the lengths of several periods of inactivity at which the mobile radio network disconnects the IP connection.
US10548174B2
A method of relaying a terminal-to-terminal communication in a mobile telecommunication system, the mobile communication system including a first mobile terminal, a second mobile terminal, and a mobile node configured to operate as a terminal-to-terminal relay node, the method including: measuring a first link quality between the first mobile terminal and the second mobile terminal wherein the first mobile terminal and the second mobile terminal are establishing, or are in an established, device-to-device communication; identifying, based on at least the measured first link quality, that the mobile node is a suitable candidate for operating as a terminal-to-terminal relay node for the device-to-device communication; and the mobile node operating as a terminal-to-terminal relay node for assisting the device-to-device communication.
US10548171B2
Provided is a method for performing random access, the method comprising: obtaining information associated with a phase pattern vector set and information associated with a sequence set to be used during a random access process; selecting one phase pattern vector corresponding to the number of repetitive transmissions of an RACH signal, among a plurality of phase pattern vectors included in the phase pattern vector set; transmitting, to a base station, an RACH signal during a time section corresponding to the number of repetitive transmissions of an RACH signal, at a predetermined transmission point in the entire time section corresponding to the maximum number of repetitive transmissions; and receiving, from the base station, an RACH response signal indicating an estimated sequence, an estimated phase pattern vector, and an estimated transmission point.
US10548166B2
A method of STA-initiated uplink (UL) aggregation is proposed in a wireless communication system. Under the STA-initiated UL aggregation, an STA can gain access to the medium through contention and after winning the TXOP, it passes the TXOP ownership to its AP to allow it to trigger UL MU transmission. Thus, the AP has increased chance of utilizing the medium while maintains fairness to both legacy APs and STAs. In addition, once AP takes over ownership of the TXOP, if it detects idle secondary channels, it can enable UL aggregation over the idle secondary channels, thereby fully utilizing the entire system bandwidth.
US10548158B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for receiving and detecting sparse data sequences using a message passing algorithm (MPA) with early propagation of belief messages. Such data sequences may be used in wireless communications systems supporting multiple access, such as sparse code multiple access (SCMA) systems. The determination and passing of one or more messages for an edge between a function node and a variable node in a factor graph representation of the system may be performed in serial with determined values available early for subsequent computations. The serial computations may be scheduled based on various factors.
US10548155B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide various wireless communication numerology designs that can maintain symbol boundary alignment while multiplexing different numerologies in wireless communication. The symbols may be scaled for different tone or subcarrier spacings while maintaining the symbol boundary alignment between different numerologies. Maintaining the symbol-boundary alignment between different numerologies enables symbol-level numerology multiplexing. The disclosed numerology designs enable low latency communication and improved interference management, and provide non-ambiguous symbol boundary timing reference for multiplexing different numerologies.
US10548151B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to asynchronous medium sharing are provided. A first wireless communication device transmits a first channel reservation message to reserve a transmission opportunity (TXOP) in a shared spectrum. The first wireless communication device transmits a second channel reservation message during the TXOP. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, data over the shared spectrum during the TXOP.
US10548147B2
Example system may comprise a network controller including a processing resource and instructions executable by the processing resource to: receive, from a first access point in a network, properties of a first millimeter Wave (mmWave) signal path between the first access point and a computing device associated with the first access point; predict, utilizing the properties of the first mmWave signal path, properties of a second mmWave signal path between a second access point in the network and the computing device; predict, utilizing the predicted properties of the second mmWave path, a beam strength for the second access point; and assign a rank to the second access point according to the beam strength.
US10548138B2
To enable communication to be performed with a communication scheme suitable for the future radio communication system where a plurality of user terminals is multiplexed in the power domain, a user terminal of the present invention is provided with a reception section that receives a downlink (DL) signal to the user terminal, and a decoding section that decodes the DL signal to the user terminal, where at least one of a cyclic prefix (CP) length, symbol length and transmission time interval (TTI) length is different between the DL signal to the user terminal and a DL signal to another user terminal multiplexed in the power domain.
US10548137B2
In a communication system in which a base station device (1) and a terminal device (2) communicate, there is a provided a terminal device, a method, and an integrated circuit enabling the base station device (1) and the terminal device (2) to conduct transmit power control efficiently. Provided is a terminal device that communicates with a base station device, including a transmission unit that transmits an uplink signal based on a first uplink power control in a case of the information related to the first configuration being configured, and the information related to the second configuration not being configured, and transmits an uplink signal based on a second uplink power control in a case of the information related to the first configuration and the information related to the second configuration both being configured.
US10548133B2
Embodiments of a multiband central controller, a multiband communication station and methods for multiband network operations are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the central controller may be configured for multiband operations within non-coextensive frequency bands. The central controller may transmit a response frame to a receiving station that includes two or more multiband elements. Each multiband element includes a basic service set identification (BSSID) and may indicate an available channel and a frequency band associated with the available channel. The frequency band may be one of the non-coextensive frequency bands within which the central controller is operating. The multiband elements may provide frequency band and channel information to the station prior to the station joining a network that is managed by the central controller.
US10548118B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Data may be received during transmission time intervals (TTIs) that have a short duration relative to other TTIs. The short-duration TTIs may occur within or overlap a longer duration TTI, such as a subframe. Feedback responsive to the data may be generated and assigned for transmission during an uplink TTI according to a feedback timing or delay, which may be selected to reduce latency or balance the payload size of uplink messages sent during the assigned uplink TTI. Data and feedback assignments in short-duration TTIs may be configured based on a time division duplexing (TDD) configuration for some TTIs (e.g., subframes). TTIs that are a Long Term Evolution (LTE) subframe, an LTE slot, and a duration of two LTE symbol periods may be supported. Portions of special TTIs may be used for transmissions according to shorter-duration TTIs.
US10548110B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for paging of low complexity UE and/or UE in coverage enhancement mode are provided. One method includes producing a machine type communication (MTC) physical downlink control channel (M-PDCCH) configuration by configuring separate M-PDCCH subsets for paging. One of the subsets may be for low complexity user equipment, and another one of the subsets may be for user equipment operating in coverage enhancement mode.
US10548108B2
The present disclosure provides a system and a method for providing mobility management and out-of-coverage indication in a conventional Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system. A radio provides its location and user group data to the disclosed system through its traffic channel when the channel is idle. Knowledge of the radio's current location and user group data is used to provide dynamic call routing and data management within the disclosed system. The disclosed system and method may provide operability similar to that of a trunking system by providing mobility management and out-of-coverage indication while providing low-cost benefits through operation of a conventional system.
US10548105B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a synchronization signal carrying method and an apparatus. The synchronization signal carrying method in the present invention includes: determining, by first user equipment, a priority parameter of a synchronization signal; determining, by the first user equipment according to the priority parameter, a resource for carrying the synchronization signal, where a configuration of the resource indicates the priority parameter; and sending, by the first user equipment, the synchronization signal to second user equipment by using the resource, so that the second user equipment determines a synchronization signal for the second user equipment. The embodiments of the present invention enable a more flexible synchronization signal determining manner in a D2D communications system.
US10548099B2
A system for wireless power delivery including one or more transmitters and receivers. A method for wireless power delivery, preferably including: determining transmitter-receiver proximity; determining transmission parameter values, preferably including determining initial parameter values, evaluating candidate transmission parameter values, performing one or more local optimum searches, and/or performing one or more global optimum searches; and transmitting power based on the transmission parameter values.
US10548097B2
Provided are a method of controlling transmission power for an uplink control channel for a terminal to which a plurality of cells are assigned, and a device using the method. The method receives a first set of parameters and a second set of parameters that are used for determining transmission power for the uplink control channel and determines the transmission power for the uplink control channel by using the first set of parameters or the second set of parameters, wherein the first set of parameters or the second set of parameters is used according to one of the cells to which the uplink control channel is transmitted.
US10548095B2
There is provided a communication device including: a communication unit that receives a beacon for a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service; and a control unit that controls a transmission power to be used for transmission of a radio signal of the second communication service from the communication unit based on location data included in the beacon and indicating a location of a transmission source node of the beacon and a location of an interfered node interfered by the second communication service.
US10548089B2
A method of performing a communication operation via a cell for a communication device comprises receiving information of a number of available DCIs for a first period from a network; receiving a first DCI in a first subframe in a first period from the network and determining that the first subframe of a cell is in an on state; receiving a second DCI in a second subframe in the first period after the first subframe from the network and determining that the second subframe of the cell is in the on state, if the number of available DCIs is not achieved; and stopping receiving any DCI in the first period and determining that at least one first subframe of the cell in a rest of the first period is in an off state, if the number of available DCIs is achieved.
US10548084B1
A method according to one embodiment includes establishing, by Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) circuitry of an access control device, a BLE communication connection with a first mobile device while a main microprocessor and a Wi-Fi circuitry of the access control device are in sleep states; waking, by the access control device, the Wi-Fi circuitry of the access control device from the sleep state in response to establishing the BLE communication connection with the mobile device; establishing, by the Wi-Fi circuitry of the access control device, a Wi-Fi communication connection with an access control server in response to waking the Wi-Fi circuitry from the sleep state; and receiving, by the access control device and from the access control server via the Wi-Fi communication connection, access control data for the access control device transmitted from a second mobile device to the access control server.
US10548083B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications, and provide a communications method and apparatus, which can solve a problem in the prior art that, in order to save power, when a mobility management entity (MME) delays delivering a paging message or a UE uses a long discontinuous reception (DRX) period, an exception may occur in a serving gateway (SGW). The method includes: acquiring, by an MME, information of a UE (S101); determining, by the MME according to the information, whether the UE satisfies a first preset condition (S102); if the UE satisfies the first preset condition, generating, by the MME, a first indication, where the first indication is used for instructing an SGW to retain first data or discard first data, and the first data is downlink data of the UE (S103); and sending, by the MME, the first indication to the SGW.
US10548078B2
Managing power-consuming resources on a first computing device by adjusting data delivery from a plurality of second computing devices based on a state of the first computing device. The state of the first computing device is provided to the second computing devices to alter the data delivery. In some embodiments, the first computing device provides the second computing devices with actions or commands relating to data delivery based on the device state. For example, the second computing devices are instructed to store the data, forward the data, forward only high priority data, or perform other actions. Managing the data delivery from the second computing devices preserves battery life of the first computing device.
US10548071B2
Assigning traffic to be transported over either the primary band or the complementary band of a unified air interface based on quality of service (QoS) constraints of the traffic may allow for improved network resource utilization efficiency. In one example, traffic having deterministic QoS constraints is assigned to the primary band, while traffic having statistical QoS constraints is assigned to the complementary band when the complementary band is capable of satisfying the statistical QoS constraints of the traffic. If a condition on the complementary band prevents it from satisfying the statistical QoS constraint of the traffic, then the traffic is assigned to the primary band.
US10548052B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that enable predictive device mobility session management in a wireless network. A wireless communications network is able to maintain IP session continuity as a wireless device roams among wireless access points of the communications network by ensuring that the wireless device maintains communications with its home wireless access gateway.
US10548050B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of service delivery. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a technique of supporting provisioning of a service from a wireless communication network associated with an operator to one or more end devices. A method embodiment comprises agreeing, between the one or more end devices (20) and a support system (200) of the wireless communication network (10), on providing a service with target performance characteristics to the one or more end devices (20), the service being requested by the one or more end devices (20) to be provided with desired performance characteristics to the one or more end devices (20) and the target performance characteristics being dependent on the desired performance characteristics and performance characteristics measurements associated with the one or more network entities (100); and providing, by the one or more network entities (100), the service with the target performance characteristics to the one or more end devices (20).
US10548047B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a BSR in a D2D communication system, the method comprising: configuring a plurality of sidelink logical channels, wherein each of the plurality of sidelink logical channels is associated with one of a plurality of priorities, configuring a plurality of LCGs to which the plurality of sidelink logical channels belong, and transmitting a BSR using the one or more logical channel groups.
US10548046B2
A method for transmitting and receiving a packet performed by a first network node in a wireless communication system according to the present disclosure includes receiving a first message in relation to a connection configuration of a specific flow from a user equipment (UE); receiving a second message in relation to a response to the first message from a second network node (e.g., MME/GW); checking whether the first flow ID and the second flow ID are identical; transmitting a UL grant to the UE by considering a processing time of the UE; and receiving a third message from the UE through the UL grant.
US10548043B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform a method including performing one or more of periodic beam quality measurements and/or event based beam quality measurements, determining, based at least in part on one or more of the periodic beam quality measurements and/or the event based beam quality measurements, a recommended beam quality measurement configuration, and transmitting, to a base station serving the UE, the recommended beam quality measurement configuration. In addition, the UE may perform receiving, from the base station, instructions regarding the beam quality measurement configuration. The instructions may include instructions to activate, deactivate, and/or modify at least one beam quality measurement configuration. In addition, the instructions may be based, at least in part, on the recommended beam quality measurement configuration.
US10548038B2
This disclosure provides methods, systems, services, and applications for collecting data from mobile devices connected to a mobile network. Aspects include campaign-based methods and systems as well as event-based methods and systems. Data includes mobile network data such as signal strength, call quality, network type, etc. and mobile device data such as mobile device type, charge level of the battery, etc. The disclosure also provides analytics for mobile network operators including mapping of location information and data points. Also described herein are methods and systems for verifying a credit card user's mobile device location.
US10548034B2
A data driven approach to emulating application performance is presented. By retrieving historical network traffic data, probabilistic models are generated to simulate wireless networks. Optimal distribution families for network values are determined. Performance data is captured from applications operating on simulated user devices operating on a virtual machine with a network simulator running sampled tuple values.
US10548028B2
Example method includes: detecting, by a network device, a first wireless communication channel in a first wireless band that a mesh portal node communicates on; establishing, by the network device, a first backhaul connection to the mesh portal node with a first radio of a mesh point node using the first wireless communication channel in the first wireless frequency band; assigning, by the network device, a second and different radio to communicate on a second and different wireless communication channel in the first wireless frequency band; and establishing, by the network device, a second backhaul connection to another mesh point node with the second and radio on the second wireless communication channel.
US10548017B2
A method for a terminal performing redistribution target selection in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus supporting the same are provided. The terminal receives redistribution parameters from a network, and performs redistribution target selection based on UE_ID, wherein the UE_ID can be a function of a time varying index and a UE identity.
US10548014B2
The invention relates to a method for automatic recognition between a mobile electronic device (SP) and a motor vehicle (Vi) equipped with an electronic communication module (120), said mobile electronic device (SP) and the electronic module (120) of the vehicle (Vi) being capable of operating according to the BLE protocol, the mobile electronic device (SP) being in a “scanning” mode and the electronic communication module (120) of the vehicle (Vi) being in an “advertising” mode characterised in that it comprises various steps consisting of: —in the electronic module (120) of the vehicle (Vi), obtaining identification data (RPAi) of the vehicle (Vi); —transmitting at least one data frame (Td) comprising the identification data (RPAi) of the vehicle (Vi), from the electronic module (120) of the vehicle (Vi) to the mobile electronic device (SP); —receiving the at least one data frame (Td) containing the identification data (RPAi) of the vehicle (Vi), in the mobile electronic device (SP) set in “scanning” mode; —checking, in the mobile electronic device (SP), that the transmitted identification data (RPAi) is valid, then transmitting a connection request (110) from the mobile electronic device (SP) to the electronic module (120) of the vehicle (Vi).
US10548010B2
Provided are a verification method and device, and a terminal. The method includes: initiating a request for registration on a wireless network according to initialization information of a virtual subscriber identification module (VSIM) card via a first communication connection, obtaining an authentication pseudo-random code sent by the wireless network, sending the authentication pseudo-random code to a service center of the VSIM card, and obtaining a calculation result sent by the service center and corresponding to the authentication pseudo-random code; and sending the calculation result to the wireless network via the first communication connection, wherein the calculation result is used for performing communication verification on the VSIM card.
US10548001B1
Methods and systems for matching and connecting people are described and comprise a plurality of user profiles and user accounts associated with a plurality of users wherein a user may be presented with user profiles of candidate matches, matched at least in part on criteria specified by the user. Following mutual match interest indications from two users, a match is created therebetween and a connection is possible, however, the connection between the two users is contingent on a qualified video chat therebetween and mutual connection interest indications therefrom. Communication between two users of a match is restricted and controlled towards satisfying the qualified video chat requirement. Upon establishing a connection, the two users are enabled for ongoing communication with each other.
US10547993B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a media content sharing method and apparatus. The media content sharing method includes: using, by a first device, a private sharing mode, and acquiring first private information corresponding to the private sharing mode; and sending or displaying, by the first device, the first private information to a second device, so that the second device acquires the first private information and acquires shared media content of the first device according to the first private information.
US10547985B2
A terminal device, a network device, and a group communication method, where the terminal device includes a receiver configured to receive a first message from a network device, where the first message includes at least one group service identifier, and one group service identifier corresponds to one group service, and receive, according to the received first message, a first group service corresponding to a first group service identifier of the terminal device.
US10547983B2
A method includes obtaining or holding available boundary information representing boundary of an indoor environment for which an indoor radio positioning map is to be updated and/or generated, determining whether a current position of a mobile device is in a vicinity of said indoor environment at least partially based on said boundary information; if it is determined that said current position of said mobile device is in a vicinity of said indoor environment, collecting or triggering collecting radio fingerprint observation reports by said mobile device, wherein said radio fingerprint observation reports are collected for updating and/or generating said indoor radio positioning map. Furthermore, a corresponding apparatus and system are disclosed.
US10547977B2
Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a mobile device to crowd source mobile terrestrial transceiver identifiers associated with mobile terrestrial transports. In an embodiment, transceiver identifiers associated with mobile terrestrial transports may be identified and tracked through the detection and measurement of signals transmitted by mobile terrestrial transceivers received either by mobile devices located on the mobile terrestrial transport or through the detection and measurement of transient signals transmitted by passing mobile terrestrial transceivers received by stationary or near stationary mobile devices. The identity of detected mobile terrestrial transceivers and their locations and time observed may be uploaded to a server. The crowdsourced location and schedule information for the mobile terrestrial transports may be downloaded to mobile devices to provide transportation information such as arrival times, departure alerts, targeted stop alerts and other transport related functionality.
US10547970B1
Systems and methods are provided for determining that the first computing device is located within a predetermined geofence and that a user of the first computing device is opted into chance mode. Based on determining that the user of first computing device is opted into chance mode, systems and methods further provide for determining a subset of a plurality of computing devices that are located within the predetermined geofence and that are associated with users opted into chance mode, generating location information and user information each of the users of the subset of the plurality of computing devices, and causing display on the first computing device of indicium for each user associated with each of the subset of the plurality of computing devices on a map, each indicium presented in a location on the map associated with each of the subset of the plurality of computing devices.
US10547957B1
Hearing aids having example antennas tuned to transmit and receive signals having a frequency greater than or equal to 2.4 GHz are described. The antenna includes a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is configured to fit inside a housing of the hearing aid and to be within the ear canal when the hearing aid is inserted into an ear of a wearer. The second segment is configured to be within the housing and disposed near a side of the housing facing toward an outside of the ear canal when the hearing aid is inserted into the ear of the wearer.
US10547943B2
A system and method include filtering with controllable transfer functions in signal paths upstream of K≥1 output paths and downstream of Q≥1 source input paths, and controlling with filter control signals of the controllable transfer functions according to an adaptive control algorithm based on error signals on M≥1 error input paths and source input signals on the Q source input paths. The system and method further include at least one psychoacoustic constraint.
US10547939B1
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to adjust a pickup range of a microphone of the information handling device; determining, using a processor, a magnitude by which to adjust the pickup range; and adjusting the pickup range based on the determined magnitude. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10547935B2
Offset cartridge microphones are provided that include multiple unidirectional microphone cartridges mounted in an offset geometry. Various desired polar patterns and/or desired steering angles can be formed by processing the audio signals from the multiple cartridges, including a toroidal polar pattern. The offset geometry of the cartridges may include mounting the cartridges so that they are immediately adjacent to one another and so that their center axes are offset from one another. The microphones may have a more consistent on-axis frequency response and may more uniformly form desired polar patterns and/or desired steering angles by reducing the interference and reflections within and between the cartridges.
US10547934B2
Systems and methods for speaker assemblies with wide dispersion patterns are disclosed. In one embodiment, a speaker assembly includes at least two speaker drivers and a diffraction baffle affixed to each speaker driver, where each diffraction baffle includes a baffle face having a diffraction slot positioned over the driver and each diffraction baffle is affixed to and sealed to the driver, the area across each diffraction slot is less than the surface area of the driver, each diffraction slot provides a path for substantially all of the acoustic pressure waves produced by the speaker driver to propagate away from the driver and the acoustic pressure waves are within a frequency range determined by the characteristics of the driver, and the width of each diffraction slot in the horizontal direction is equal to the wavelength of a predetermined target frequency.
US10547933B2
An enclosure unit for a speaker device is presented. The enclosure unit comprises an integral elongated hollow body defining a cavity for mounting therein an electronic unit of the speaker. The hollow body has a distal end portion, defining an open end of the enclosure unit through which sound reproduced by said electronic unit is output, a proximal end portion having an open end, and an intermediate portion in between the distal end and proximal end portions. The proximal end portion of the hollow body is coupled to the intermediate portion at a certain location on the intermediate portion thereby defining a toroidal-like portion of the hollow body. A cross sectional dimension of an interior of the hollow body reduces from the distal end portion towards the proximal end portion.
US10547928B1
A wireless earphone includes a pair of wireless earphone bodies, each having an upper case and a ferromagnetic lower case detachably connected with each other. The upper case is provided with a first circuit board and a magnet. The first circuit board is electrically connected with a wireless module and a speaker. The ferromagnetic lower case is provided with a second circuit board and a rechargeable battery. One end of the upper case is provided with a first pogo pin electrically connected with the first circuit board. The ferromagnetic lower case is provided with a second pogo pin opposite to the first pogo pin and electrically connected to the second circuit board. The first pogo pin can couple with the second pogo pin so that the ferromagnetic lower case can magnetically couple with the upper case and provide electricity to the first circuit board.
US10547921B2
A method for activating an Optical Network Unit (ONU) is provided, where the ONU communicates with an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) through a plurality of paths. The method includes: finding the ONU by the OLT on a path of the plurality of paths; and/or selecting one path from the plurality of paths and performs a ranging on the ONU on the selected path, by the OLT. Through this solution, the OLT finds the ONU and performs ranging on each ONU on only one of the plurality of paths, that is, does not activate each ONU on all paths, thereby quickly completing an activation process of a multi-path PON in a multi-path PON structure and improving work efficiency.
US10547917B2
A passenger conveyor diagnostic system includes a mobile terminal in signal communication with a cloud computing network. The cloud computing network stores at least one diagnostic algorithm. The mobile terminal device is configured to determine ride quality data of a passenger conveyor system, and to exchange the ride quality data with the cloud computing network. The mobile terminal device further displays one or more diagnostic results which are received from the cloud computing network. The diagnostic result is generated by the cloud computing network in response to applying the at least one diagnostic algorithm to the ride quality data.
US10547912B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a broadcast receiving unit and a controller. The broadcast receiving unit is configured to be capable of receiving a broadcast. The controller is configured to acquire a first application information table by communication, the first application information table storing at least first usage permission information indicating a usage permission range of a resource of the broadcast by an application using the resource, to control an operation of the application, and to acquire a second application information table storing at least second usage permission information indicating the usage permission range of the resource by the application by using the broadcast receiving unit during execution of the application, to control the operation of the application.
US10547905B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for identifying content displayed by a media device and associating the content with demographics of one or more users. An indication to capture an image of the content displayed by the media device is initially received. The image of the content is then captured and stored. One or more image fingerprints in the image of the content are identified. The monitoring device transmits the one or more image fingerprints, a timestamp of the time at which the image was captured, and an identifier of the monitoring device to a server. The server compares the one or more image fingerprints to fingerprints in a database to identify the content displayed by the media device. The identity of the content is then associated with demographic information of the one or more users. A report of the content viewership of the content displayed by the media device is then generated.
US10547903B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate selective advertisement display based on a channel switch. When a channel switch from a first channel to a second channel is initiated at a set-top box (STB), the STB may identify one or more properties associated with the second channel. Advertisement content may be stored at the STB, and each piece of advertisement content may be associated with one or more channel identifiers, genres/categories, or other channel properties. The STB may identify advertisement content that is associated with a channel identifier, genre/category, or other property of the second channel, and the identified advertisement content may be output to a display device during an acquisition of the second channel or for another predetermined duration.
US10547902B2
The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a display control apparatus and method, a reproducing apparatus and method, a program, and an information processing system that transmit a response of viewers acquired in a more natural way to a place where content is captured, enabling presentation in an easier-to-see way. The information processing apparatus of one aspect of the present technology receives motion information indicating motions of users watching video content and information indicating attributes of the users, and generates an excitement image by arranging information visually indicating a degree of excitement of each user determined on the basis of the motion information transmitted from a plurality of reproducing apparatuses at a position according to an attribute of each user. The present technology is applicable to a server that processes information transmitted from the reproducing apparatuses of content distributed in real time via a network.
US10547893B2
A receiving method of receiving a first data unit in which data making up an encoded stream is stored and the first data unit stores a plurality of second data units. The receiving method includes: receiving the first data unit, first time information indicating a presentation time of the first data unit, second time information indicating, together with the first time information, a presentation time or a decoding time of each of the plurality of second data units, and identification information; calculating the presentation time or the decoding time of each of the plurality of second data units using the first time information and the second time information; and correcting the presentation time or the decoding time of each of the plurality of second data units based on the identification information.
US10547892B2
A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a first receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a first transmission method; a second receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a second transmission method; a first decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the first receiving unit; a second decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the second receiving unit; a video output unit outputting video, the video being generated based on data decoded by the first or second decoding unit; an operation input unit receiving control information from a remote controller; and a control unit controlling the units based on the control information received by the operation input unit. The remote controller includes a button to output control information for switching between a display state and a non-display state of service, the service being linked with a broadcasting program.
US10547889B2
A method and system for planning and running video-on-demand (VOD) advertising includes a planner for planning advertising campaigns and an ad selector for running selected advertisements from selected ones of the campaigns. The campaigns are associated with household demographic classifications, video content category categories, household geographic locations, and/or video viewing times. In response to a viewer requesting a video, the selector selects the campaigns corresponding to the demographic classification associated with the viewer, the content category of the requested video, the geographic location associated with the viewer, and/or the viewing time at which the requested video is viewed. The demographic classification is determined by using an identifier of the viewer's set-top-box. The selector may select the campaigns corresponding to the content categories of the requested video. The content categories are determined by using an identifier associated with the requested video.
US10547883B2
A data flow control method for managing the flow of media data from a sending node to a receiving node over a communication network, the receiving node capable of playing said media data, wherein the data transmitted to the receiving node is a sequence of data segments encoded at a plurality of different data rates, and wherein the data flow control method is implemented by the receiving node for controlling the flow of said data from the sending node to the receiving node, the method further comprising: identifying a condition of the communication network between said sending and receiving nodes; identifying a condition of the data buffer at the receiving node; and adjusting the media data flow through said communication network based on the identified condition of the communication network and the identified condition of the receiving node.
US10547882B2
Embodiments of a method executable by an adaptive stream concatenation server to deliver a concatenated transport stream to a video distribution system are provided, as are embodiments of adaptive stream concatenation servers. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an adaptive media stream containing television programming in an adaptive packet format at the adaptive stream concatenation server via a digital network. The contents of the adaptive media stream are concatenated by the adaptive stream concatenation server to create a concatenated transport stream containing the television programming in a streaming format different from the adaptive packet format and compatible with the video distribution system. The concatenated transport stream containing the television programming is then transmitted in the streaming format to the video distribution system.
US10547879B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus that includes an interface circuit, a processing circuit and a display device. The interface circuit is configured to receive media description information of media data. The media data includes a plurality of segment streams having different coverage in spatial domain for video content, the media description information is indicative of the different coverage in spatial domain of the plurality of segment streams. The processing circuit is configured to determine one or more segment streams based on a region of interests for image generation and the different coverage in spatial domain of the plurality of segment streams, select segments in the one or more segment streams, and cause the interface circuit to request and receive the selected segments. The display device is configured to display images generated based on the selected segments.
US10547877B2
Methods and apparatus to identify media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example method includes generating a reference signature based on a reference signal corresponding to known media, generating sums based on peaks in a media signal corresponding to media, identifying signal peaks based on the generated sums, generating a second signature based on normalized curve features, wherein the normalized curve features respectively correspond to the identified signal peaks at a corresponding temporal locations of the corresponding signal peak, and determining whether the media signal corresponds to the reference signal based on a comparison of the reference signature and the second signature.
US10547871B2
The disclosure provides an approach for edge-aware spatio-temporal filtering. In one embodiment, a filtering application receives as input a guiding video sequence and video sequence(s) from additional channel(s). The filtering application estimates a sparse optical flow from the guiding video sequence using a novel binary feature descriptor integrated into the Coarse-to-fine PatchMatch method to compute a quasi-dense nearest neighbor field. The filtering application then performs spatial edge-aware filtering of the sparse optical flow (to obtain a dense flow) and the additional channel(s), using an efficient evaluation of the permeability filter with only two scan-line passes per iteration. Further, the filtering application performs temporal filtering of the optical flow using an infinite impulse response filter that only requires one filter state updated based on new guiding video sequence video frames. The resulting optical flow may then be used in temporal edge-aware filtering of the additional channel(s) using the nonlinear infinite impulse response filter.
US10547856B2
A bitrate allocation engine allocates bitrates for distributed encoding of source data. Upon receiving a chunk of source data, the bitrate allocation engine generates a curve based on multiple points that each specify a different visual quality level and corresponding encoding bitrate for encoding the chunk. Subsequently, the bitrate allocation engine computes an optimized encoding bitrate based on the generated curve and an optimization factor that is associated with different visual quality levels and corresponding encoding bitrates for multiple chunks of the source data. The bitrate allocation engine then causes the chunk to be encoded at the optimized encoding bitrate. Advantageously, the resulting encoded chunk is optimized with respect to the optimization factor for multiple chunks of the source data.
US10547850B2
A method and apparatus for splitting the audio of media content into separate content files without introducing boundary artifacts is described. A computing system for streaming media content including audio and video comprises a database to store a plurality of content files and a server coupled to the database to deliver the plurality of content files over one or more network connections. Each of the plurality of content files comprises an encoded portion of the video encoded according to a frame rate and having a fixed-time duration and an encoded portion of the audio encoded according to a codec-enforced frame size and having a plurality of full audio frames having the codec-enforced frame size. A duration of the encoded portion of the audio of one or more of the plurality of content files is greater than or less than the fixed-time duration.
US10547848B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: acquiring information on a first SAO and information on a second SAO of a current block through a bit stream; generating a reconstructed block of the current block; and performing an SAO procedure for the reconstructed block on the basis of the first SAO and the second SAO, wherein the information on the first SAO comprises first offset type information applied to the first SAO and first offset value information for n offset values, and the information on the second SAO comprises second offset type information applied to the second SAO and second offset value information for m offset values. According to the present invention, an efficient SAO procedure can be performed on the basis of a plurality of SAOs, and the video quality of images can be further improved.
US10547840B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parameters. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding image data for at least a portion of a picture using a quantization parameter predictor for a current quantization parameter to be applied to the image data. The quantization parameter predictor is determined using multiple quantization parameters from previously coded neighboring portions. A difference between the current quantization parameter and the quantization parameter predictor is encoded for signaling to a corresponding decoder.
US10547838B2
It is presented a method for encoding a video frame of a piece of video content. The method is performed in an encoder device and comprises the steps of: dividing the video frame into a set of non-overlapping regions, wherein the set comprises at least one region; assigning each region, in the set of regions, to a separate processing unit; encoding, in each processing unit, picture data of the respective region; collecting progress data from each processing unit, the progress data indicating progress of the encoding of the respective region; and dividing a particular region into a plurality of smaller regions and assigning each smaller region to a separate processing unit, when the progress data indicates that progress of encoding the particular region is insufficient.
US10547835B2
A method for predicting a weighting factor to be applied to at least one sample in a bi-predicted Prediction Unit (PU) under reconstruction for decoding a coded video sequence includes reconstructing, from the coded video sequence, a previous weighting factor applied to a previously reconstructed PU; deriving the weighting factor to be applied to the at least one sample in the bi-predicted PU under reconstruction based on the previous weighting factor; and weighting a sample value of a sample in the bi-predicted PU under reconstruction by applying the weighting factor.
US10547832B2
The aspect of the embodiments is directed to an image processing apparatus capable of executing gradation processing according to various shapes of boundary portions by determining start positions for starting the gradation processing for applying a gradient to a luminance value in a horizontal direction of an image in positions in a vertical direction of the image.
US10547829B2
An image detecting device includes a color image sensor configured to sense visible light and to output color image data based on the sensed visible light; a first infrared lighting source configured to provide first infrared rays to a subject; a second infrared lighting source configured to provide second infrared rays to the subject; a mono image sensor configured to sense a first infrared light or a second infrared light reflected from the subject and output infrared image data; and an image signal processor configured to, measure an illuminance value based on the color image data, measure a distance value of the subject based on a portion of the infrared image data corresponding to the first infrared light, and obtain an identification image of the subject based on the illuminance value, the distance value, and a portion of the infrared image data corresponding to the second infrared light.
US10547826B2
A computerized imaging system and method for creating a 3D imaging dataset of an object are disclosed. The computerized imaging system includes an object stage mounted on a system base plate, the object stage is configured to rotate 360 degrees around its axis perpendicular to the base plate plane. The computerized imaging system includes an elongated elevation arm positioned alongside the object stage, wherein the elongated elevation arm having an image sensor, at least one lens, and a mirror mounted thereon, and wherein the optical axis of the image sensor is parallel to the elongated elevation arm elevation axis. The image sensor is used to capture a plurality of images of the object in a plurality of rotation and elevation angles of the object stage and elongated elevation arm.
US10547825B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client device, a request corresponding to a particular view of a three-dimensional video comprising multiple views. The method also includes accessing a data stream corresponding to the video. The method further includes selecting, based on the request, one or more portions of the accessed data stream, at least one of the selected portions corresponding to the particular view. The method also includes transmitting the selected portion of the accessed data stream to the client device.
US10547818B2
The present invention implements the movement of an object in an image projected onto a dome-shaped screen while maintaining an original resolution without increasing the resolution of a video projector as a projection device. In a device for projecting an image onto the dome-shaped screen D, an aggregate of two or more video projectors 1A, 1B for projecting a moving image is disposed in a dome such that the range of projection from the aggregate covers the whole sphere, and the aggregate is mounted on a stand 2 having two or more rotating shafts.
US10547815B2
A bird's-eye view video generation device includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire surroundings video data by capturing videos of surroundings of a vehicle, an inclination data acquisition unit configured to acquire inclination data representing an inclination of the vehicle, a bird's-eye view video generator configured to perform viewpoint conversion processing on the videos of the surroundings using a virtual viewpoint at which the vehicle is looked down from above and synthesize the converted videos of the surroundings to generate a bird's-eye view video, and a controller configured to cause the bird's-eye view video generator to perform the viewpoint conversion processing on the videos of the surroundings using the virtual viewpoint whose position is adjusted based on the inclination data acquired by the inclination data acquisition unit and synthesize the converted videos of the surroundings of the vehicle to generate the bird's-eye view video.
US10547814B1
The camera glasses are a personal security device adapted for use with eyeglasses. The camera glasses are fitted with a plurality of cameras that are configured to record the surroundings of the user. Each of the plurality of cameras are mounted on the eyeglasses such that one or more front cameras record a video recording of the activities in front of the user while one or more back cameras record a video recording of the activities behind the user. The camera glasses may be placed in a recording mode. Alternatively a “panic” switch is provided that will initiate video recordings from all of the plurality of cameras. In addition, the “panic” switch will initiate an audio recording of the situation and activate an audible alarm in order to draw attention to a potentially dangerous situation. The camera glasses comprises a plurality of cameras, eyeglasses, and a recording unit.
US10547810B2
A display apparatus includes a first signal transmission device provided with a first video cable configured to selectively transmit a first image signal transmitted by a first method and a second image signal transmitted by a second method, an audio cable configured to transmit a sound signal, and a first output connector connected to the first video cable and the audio cable; a second signal transmission device provided with a second video cable configured to transmit a third image signal transmitted by the second method, and a second output connector connected to the second video cable.
US10547805B2
A pattern generator circuit includes a high-speed shift register and a non-overlap generator. The shift register is programmable to produce a pulse train of pulses having a defined pulse duration and a defined pulse-to-pulse interval. The non-overlap generator deserializes the incoming pulse train, and it produces a time-separated reset pulse based on the pulse train. The shift register is configured to permit the pulse durations and pulse-to-pulse interval to be selected arbitrarily over specified ranges in increments of a basic time unit that depends on the oscillator period.
US10547802B2
While realizing a broad dynamic range, the present technology relates to a solid-state image pickup device and control method therefor, and electronic apparatus aiming at enabling an influence of PLS to be suppressed.The solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed. A portion of pixels in the pixel array unit are a unit pixel at least having one photoelectric conversion element and over flow integration capacitor. Further, the solid-state image pickup device includes one AD converter for one or more unit pixels in the pixel array unit. The present technology is applicable to, for example, the solid-state image pickup.
US10547801B2
Detection of an image obstruction is facilitated by, in part, obtaining multiple frames of an image being captured via an imaging device, and confirming movement of the imaging device between the multiple frames. The movement causes perspective shifting of the image between frames and the perspective shifting results in one or more objects of the image shifting between frames. The detection process determines whether an edge object within the multiple frames does not shift in a manner corresponding to the one or more objects between the multiple frames, and based, at least in part, on determining that the edge object does not shift in the corresponding manner to the one or more objects, identifying the edge object as an image obstruction. Presence of the identified image obstruction is signaled to facilitate corrective action being taken.
US10547794B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a pixel unit (1) configured to perform imaging of a plurality of frames by a photoelectric conversion; an exposure amount calculating unit (9) configured to calculate exposure amounts of the plurality of frames imaged in a flicker cycle of a light source; and a control unit (12) configured to control the exposure amount of each of the frames imaged by the pixel unit based on the exposure amounts of the plurality of frames calculated by the exposure amount calculating unit.
US10547792B2
There is provided a control device, a control method, and a program through which it is possible to reduce nonuniformity of brightness in an imaging region and implement a more suitable imaging environment, the control device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image that is captured by an imaging unit; and a control unit configured to control light intensities of auxiliary light beams emitted from auxiliary light emitting units that are associated in advance with a plurality of partial regions in an imaging region determined based on an angle of view of the imaging unit among the plurality of auxiliary light emitting units based on an analysis result of the acquired image.
US10547763B2
An image forming apparatus comprises an output unit to output output data converted from input data by a halftone process with a first or second matrix in accordance with attribute information on pixels of the input data. The thresholds in the first matrix, whose thresholds are arranged to express the tone level of output data by the number of dots or dot area modulation for input data, and the second matrix, whose thresholds are arranged to express the tone level of output data by dot area modulation for the input data, are arranged such that the average dot size of output data obtained by the halftone process with the second matrix on input data with the first density is smaller than the average dot size of output data obtained by the halftone process with the first matrix on the input data with the first density.
US10547756B1
An image forming apparatus includes a function controller. The function controller performs control so as not to execute a conveyance function when function information, which indicates whether to restrict execution of a conveyance function for conveying a sheet for each conveyance source of the sheet or each conveyance destination of the sheet, indicates that the execution of the conveyance function is restricted. The function controller performs control to execute the conveyance function when the function information indicates that the execution of the conveyance function is not restricted.
US10547752B2
An image inspection device includes a reading device and a processor. The reading device is configured to read a chart image on a recording medium to generate a first read image. The reading device is configured to read an image to be inspected on a recording medium to generate a second read image. The processor is configured to calculate a plurality of types of correction parameters on basis of the first read image and image data of the chart image, correct the image data with the plurality of types of correction parameters to generate a reference image, and compare the reference image and the second read image to inspect the second read image.
US10547748B1
A call management system of a call center retrieves from a customer database enterprise customer data associated with an identified customer in a customer call, which may include customer event data, attributions data, and activity event data. The customer database tracks prospects, leads, new business, and purchasers of an enterprise. The system retrieves customer demographic data associated with the identified customer. A predictive model is selected from a plurality of predictive models based on retrieved enterprise customer data. The selected predictive model, including a logistic regression model and tree based model, determines a value prediction signal for the identified customer, then classifies the identified customer into a first value group or a second value group. The system routes a customer call classified in the first value group to a first call queue assignment, and routes a customer call classified in the second value group to a second call queue assignment.
US10547737B2
Agencies issue recording devices to personnel for administrating and monitoring controlled calls during the course of their duties. To provide flexible capabilities to agencies, a virtual number is provisioned and configured to enable an operator to administrate controlled calls without dedicated recording devices. Using the virtual number, the operator may setup a controlled call between a victim and a baddie. The victim is contacted via the virtual number by the operator and optionally informed about the controlled call process. In turn, the baddie is contacted using number information of the victim's phone and connected with the victim. Call audio between the victim and baddie is transmitted to the operator. When necessary, the operator may terminate the call remotely from the telephonic device the operator used to setup the call.
US10547735B2
A location engine that estimates the barometric pressure measurement bias of a wireless terminal, resulting in an improved estimate of elevation of the wireless terminal. The location engine generates an estimate of measurement bias by comparing the barometric pressure measured by the wireless terminal while at that elevation and the barometric pressure that corresponds to an estimated elevation of the wireless terminal when it made the pressure measurement (i.e., the expected pressure). The estimated elevation is based on an inferred above-ground height and the local terrain elevation, and the expected pressure is based on the measurement of barometric pressure at the pressure reference and the estimated elevation. The location engine infers the height based on various techniques disclosed herein. The location engine can use the measurement bias to adjust subsequent pressure measurements reported by the wireless terminal, in order to generate an improved estimate of elevation of the wireless terminal.
US10547733B2
A mobile device including a voice call management part configured to manage a voice call, a text message management part configured to manage text messages exchanged through a mobile telephone switching network, a display part, an integrated message management unit, and an additional function process part configured to process at least one additional function in association with the integrated message management unit, in which the integrated message management unit includes a message monitoring unit configured to monitor voice call information and text message information in association with the voice call management part and the text message management part, a message information managing unit configured to generate integrated message information, which is to be provided to a user, based on the voice call information and the text message information, and an interface managing unit configured to generate an integrated message management user interface displaying the integrated message information.
US10547731B2
A method and electronic device are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, a communication unit, a processor and a memory storing instructions. The process executes the instructions to implement the method, including establishing wireless communication with one or more IoT devices, displaying a user interface for managing IoT devices, receiving a user input selecting a group of IoT devices, transmitting first information including user account data to an external server, transmitting second information to another device, the first information also indicating a selected group of IoT devices, and the second information causing the other device to communicatively connect with the first external server.
US10547730B2
A system includes a plurality of processors configured to utilize a plurality of vehicle connectivity options, each option in communication with one of the plurality of processors, to place a plurality of calls to emergency services using the plurality of vehicle connectivity options in response to detection of a vehicle accident.
US10547729B2
An artificial intelligence system and method are disclosed herein. The system includes a processor which implements the method, including: receiving by an input unit a first user input including a request to execute a task using at least one of the electronic device or an external device, transmitting by a wireless communication unit first data associated with the first user input to an external server, receiving a first response from the external server including information associated with at least one of the first user input and a sequence of electronic device states for performing at least a portion of the task, receiving a second user input assigning at least one of a voice command and a touch operation received by a touch screen display as the request to perform the task, and transmitting second data associated with the second user input to the external server.
US10547722B1
The communication device comprising a wireless communication implementer, an email transferring implementer, and a multiple language mode implementer.
US10547715B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for receiving an indication of an equivalence failure, the equivalence failure corresponding to one or more models of network intents. The indication of the equivalence failure is analyzed and one or more constituent intents that caused the equivalence failure are identified, wherein the one or more constituent intents are associated with a model of the one or more models of network intents. The granularity of the equivalence failure and the identified one or more constituent intents is determined, and an event for external consumption is generated, the event based at least in part on the equivalence failure, the granularity of the equivalence failure, and the identified one or more constituent intents.
US10547709B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to distributing a survey created for a first distribution channel across multiple distribution channels. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to providing a user with the ability to create a survey for one distribution channel and automatically provide the survey across multiple distribution channels. Further, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure improves survey administration by collecting responses to the survey from across the various distribution channels, compiling the responses, and providing the overall results of the survey to the user.
US10547708B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for adding conversation context from detected audio to contact records. An audio stream is received through a microphone of a personal computing device. Context analysis is performed of the audio stream to detect conversation context in the audio stream. A request is received to associate the conversation context with a selected contact person. A determination is made of conversation context detected from a segment of the audio stream received during a period of time from when the request was received. The conversation context determined for the period of time is included in a contact record for the selected contact person. The contact record is stored in a contact database including a plurality of contact records for a plurality of contact persons, wherein the contact records include conversation context and location information associated with the contact persons.
US10547702B2
Internet Protocol (IP) over a content/name/information centric network is contemplated, such as for devices, software or other entities lacking capabilities sufficient to natively support content/name/information centric networking and/or the related messaging protocols and requirements. The contemplated IP over content/name/information centric networking may be facilitated with encapsulation and decapsulation of IP packets when forwarded over a content/name/information centric network as well as attendant processing and protocols created to facilitate the operation thereof.
US10547694B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. An access point (AP) may include a service discovery indicator in a broadcast message. A user equipment (UE) may tune to the radio frequency spectrum band of the AP and receive the broadcast message. The UE may identify a web resource based on the service discovery indicator and access the web resource to determine the capability configuration of the AP. The UE may access the web resource using an existing internet connection of its currently serving AP.
US10547689B2
An information processing system includes a linkage-source device, a plurality of linkage-destination devices that is connectable to the linkage-source device, and an application linkage device that controls linkages of applications respectively registered in the linkage-source device and the plurality of linkage-destination devices. The application linkage device includes a processor that executes a process includes managing device information including information used to be connected with a linkage-destination device and information on data to be used by the application registered in a relevant linkage-destination device, acquiring linkage candidates indicative of linkable linkage-destination devices and the linkable applications with reference to the device information with respect to a linkage request from the application of the linkage-source device, and activating the applications indicated as the linkage candidates and decides a device performing the linkage and a linkable application registered in the relevant device as a linkage destination from the linkage candidates.
US10547687B2
Systems and methods are directed to monitoring the communications to and from a mobile communication device in accordance with one or more embodiments. For example in accordance with an embodiment, data services a mobile communication device's applications may be monitored against smart contracts stored in a central data center repository and/or written to a blockchain. Other data services may include all forms of communications between the mobile communication device and a third party along with changes to application or data within the mobile communication device. Monitoring the mobile communication device may be done to determine compliance with the smart contracts and whether a penalty or reward on device usage should be applied.
US10547679B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a cloud data synchronization system enabling an user operating a mobile client device to download mission-specific data sets from a fixed cloud-based server system to a database of the mobile client device, and then use the downloaded data sets independently on the mobile client device when the mobile client device is disconnected from a network connecting to the fixed cloud-based server system. When connectivity to the fixed cloud-based server system is re-established by the mobile client device in an intermittent and bandwidth-limited communication network environment, the fixed cloud-based server system may provide bi-directional data synchronization between records of the fixed cloud-based server system and the mobile client device to update the data sets on the fixed cloud-based server system and the mobile client device while operating in the intermittent and bandwidth-limited communication network environment.
US10547675B1
Methods, systems, and computer program products for online content sharing are provided. A computer-implemented method may include receiving an identifier of a video hosted by a content hosting platform from an external platform, the video being requested by a first user of the external platform, the first user having a first user account with the external platform. The method may also include determining that the video identifier comprises an attribution tag, and determining that the video was previously shared with the first user by a second user via the content hosting platform by analyzing the attribution tag, the second user having a second user account with the content hosting platform. The method may further include storing a record of the second user's sharing of the video with the first user in a data store of the content hosting platform.
US10547669B2
A device can receive a request to provide content to a set of devices in a service area. The request can include a set of content configuration parameters associated with the content. The device can obtain the content by using the set of content configuration parameters to search a content source. The device can separate the content into a set of content segments using a content configuration parameter of the set of content configuration parameters. The device can provide multicast session instructions to a multicast system to cause the multicast system to provide the set of content segments to the service area using a multicast session. The multicast session can be used by the set of devices to store one or more content segments of the set of content segments.
US10547664B2
An atomic multiple-file upload from a client to a server requires only a single Java Server Faces (JSF) lifecycle to process the multiple files uploaded. Progress and other upload status indicators are displayed at the client and individual files can be deleted, canceled or added prior to committing the multiple-file upload at the server.
US10547653B2
A server is configured to host a web-based collaboration room through which user devices of member users are able to communicate. Each of the member users is assigned a distinct communication identifier. The server generates for display at each of the user devices a selectable start option associated with the communication identifier assigned to the user of the user device. The server receives from a first user device among the user devices a selection of the start option and that includes the communication identifier of a first user among the users. In response, the server initiates a communication session, connects the first user device to the communication session, links the received communication identifier to the communication session, and generates for display at each of the user devices a respective selectable join option associated with the linked communication identifier and by which the communication session is accessible.
US10547643B2
Methods and systems for distributed data verification between a relying party server and a client device using data attested by at least one attestation server. Entities are loosely coupled, while still allowing for authentication data and transaction data to be tightly coupled in any given interaction. There need not be any prior relationships between relying parties and attestation servers, or between relying parties and users. A common syntax enables a relying party to define what types of attested data items will be accepted for a particular transaction, without having to predetermine all possible sources of identification a user may wish to provide. The relying party may not know the source of the attested data items a priori, but can nevertheless determine if they are satisfactory once they are received.
US10547636B2
A method of detecting a DDOS attack is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, at an authoritative DNS server, a plurality of DNS query packets from a plurality of DNS requestors over a communications network; analyzing, by an electronic processor, a set of the plurality of DNS query packets; determining, by an electronic processor, that a subset of the plurality of DNS query packets of the set meets a predetermined threshold for a rate of DNS queries; filtering the plurality of DNS query packets based on the determining to produce a filtered number of DNS query packets; and providing, by the authoritative DNS server, a DNS response for the plurality of DNS query packets that were filtered.
US10547628B2
Website data security is provided by conditionally accessing, assessing, and processing website content file attribute data and website content files used to host websites with a first set of servers configured with website content security breach analysis, detection, and repair functionality. The website content files are conditionally accessed based on a file modification date without heavily loading the servers hosting the website. The website content is analyzed by decoding PHP code and executing code in a hardened execution environment. Repair is accomplished through removing or replacing breached content.
US10547619B1
An USB device includes: a wireless communication unit; a storage unit configured for storing a driving program, a driving application, a driving command, and/or data received from an external information device and/or a server therein; and a control unit configured for controlling the wireless communication unit, the storage unit, wherein the control unit includes: a data processor configured for controlling a data processing operation using the driving program, the driving application or the driving command; and a transmission controller configured for: receiving data from the information device under control of the data processor; and selectively allowing or disallowing data transmission from the data processor to the information device.
US10547618B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for setting an access privilege. The method includes: acquiring Internet Protocol (IP) addresses having a access frequency to a target application greater than or equal to a frequency threshold, selecting IP addresses accessing more than one applications per time unit from the IP addresses as to-be-processed IP addresses to generate a to-be-processed IP address set; acquiring access information, related to an access of a target application, of the to-be-processed IP address; acquiring a plurality of target IP addresses in the to-be-processed IP address set based on the access information, determining a probability of access through a gateway by a terminal pointed by each target IP address; and selecting a preset proportion or a preset number of target IP addresses from the plurality of target IP addresses in a descending order of the probability to set the access privilege.
US10547617B2
Systems and methods here may be used for authorizing network access including using a controller with a processor and memory, the controller in communication with a first network for controlling access to the first network. From a user equipment having a user registered in a visitor network, an access request to access the first network is received, wherein the access request includes a MAC address of the user equipment. Based on a query performed in a subscriber repository, if the received MAC address is not found, a credential request is sent to the user equipment, and a credential is received from the user equipment. A single use code is generated, stored in the subscriber repository, and sent to the user equipment via a trusted channel. A new code and a new credential are received via the visitor network, and are compared. If the new code and the single use code match, the new credential is registered for re-use by the user equipment.
US10547614B2
In general, techniques are described for supporting bulk delivery of change of authorization data in authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) protocols, where delivery is performed as a change of authorization after a subscriber has successfully authenticated and initially authorized. In one example, the techniques are directed to a method including determining, by a RADIUS server for a service provider network, change of authorization data for services to which the subscriber of the service provider network has subscribed. The method further includes generating, by the RADIUS server, RADIUS messages that form a transaction between the RADIUS server and a network access server acting as a RADIUS client. The RADIUS messages provide all of the change of authorization data to the network access server prior to the network access server provisioning the services. The method further includes outputting, by the RADIUS server, the RADIUS messages to the network access server.
US10547606B2
An information processing apparatus includes a signing unit and first and second obtaining units. The signing unit signs a document by using a certificate used for connecting to an access point. The document is obtained via the access point. The first obtaining unit obtains, in response to an access request to access the signed document, identification information concerning the certificate used for signing the signed document. The second obtaining unit obtains identification information concerning a certificate used for connecting to an access point when the access request is received. The display controller performs control so that the sighed document will be displayed if the identification information obtained by the first obtaining unit and the identification information obtained by the second obtaining unit coincide with each other.
US10547599B1
A user transmits a request to an authentication service to access a managed directory. The request may include a first set of credentials usable by a managed directory service to authenticate the user. As a result of the first set of credentials being valid, the authentication service may prompt the user to provide a multi-factor authentication code, which may be used by an authentication server to further authenticate the user and enable the user to access the managed directory. The authentication service subsequently provides the multi-factor authentication code to the authentication server for validation. If the multi-factor authentication code is valid, the authentication service may enable the user to access the managed directory through an encrypted communications session.
US10547598B2
A method for cryptographic material management is provided. The method includes receiving into a computing device, through an API of the computing device, a designation of which of a plurality of key-producing cloud services sources each of a plurality of keys and which of a plurality of key-consuming cloud service providers uses each of the plurality of keys for encrypting or decrypting data. The method includes directing, from the computing device through a first plurality of end modules each interfaced to a specific API of a specific one of the plurality of key-producing cloud services, production of one or more of the plurality of keys. The method includes directing, from the computing device through a second plurality of end modules each interfaced to a specific API of a specific one of the plurality of key-consuming cloud service providers usage of one or more of the plurality of keys.
US10547597B2
A method and associated system for connecting a computing device to a computing arrangement. A message from the computing device is received. The message includes an address specifying the computing arrangement. The proxy system is a computer system. It is determined, based on the address, that a secure connection between the proxy system and the computing arrangement does not exist. The secure connection is dedicated for secure communication between the computing device and the computing arrangement. In response to the determining that the secure connection does not exist, a new secure connection is established between the proxy system and the computing arrangement.
US10547596B2
A processor-implemented method for a secure processing environment for protecting sensitive information is provided. The processor-implemented method may include receiving encrypted data and routing the encrypted data to the secure processing environment. Then the encrypted data may be decrypted and fields containing sensitive information may be found. The method may also include obfuscating the sensitive information and returning, by the secure processing environment, the decrypted data and obfuscated data.
US10547595B2
A method includes a trusted component of a host computing system, obtaining, from a client, via a hypervisor of the host, a request to run an instance of a guest image within the hypervisor. The request includes a unique identifier of the guest image, contents of the guest image, and a communication key. The request is encrypted with a request key accessible to the owner and the trusted component and not accessible to the hypervisor. The trusted component generates an authorization request to an authorizing entity of the client requesting authorization for the hypervisor to run the instance. The authorization request includes the unique identifier, a use counter, and a unique challenge. The trusted component encrypts the authorization request with the communication key and communicates the authorization request to the authorizing entity, via the hypervisor.
US10547591B2
A network device allows inbound connections from external addresses to a computer on a local network while forbidding output connections from the computer to that external address unless preceded by an inbound connection therefrom. In some embodiments, the computer is allowed to accept inbound connections from external addresses but is not permitted to initiate outbound connections to other computers in the local network unless preceded by an inbound connection. In some embodiments, a request from an external address is processed by the network device by transmitting network information for the computer to the external address and temporarily changes network rules to allow connections from the external address. In some embodiments, if the computer attempts a disallowed connection, the connection attempt is routed through a proxy server by providing network data for the proxy server to the computer.
US10547584B2
Inter-modal messaging communication is described. In one embodiment, a method of communication includes receiving an electronic mail message to be distributed and determining whether the electronic mail message is a multi-modal distribution message. Respective portions of the message may be separated for each mode of distribution. The separated portions may represent portions to be delivered by SMS messaging and facsimile, for example. The method further includes the steps of transmitting a short message comprising the short message portion of the mail message and establishing a conversation comprising conversation attributes. The conversation attributes are referenced, in certain aspects, to maintain a conversation between an originator of the received electronic mail message and a distribution address of short message portion of the mail message. For example, upon receipt of a short message in reply, the short message may be forwarded to an originator of the conversation.
US10547583B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for combining updates of a social network feed. In some implementations, a feed of a social networking system can be configured to share feed items associated with an enterprise record. The feed items can include a first update associated with a first user. A first request to share a comment on the first update can be processed. A second request to share a first post in a feed can be processed. The first post can be related to the first update based on a first attribute conforming to a second attribute. A combined update can be generated based on the first post being related to the first update. The combined update can be displayed in a feed.
US10547580B2
When a user is responding to a message in a thread and a new response message is detected for the thread, the user's response is automatically re-parented so the user's response is sent as a response to the newly detected response message in the thread.
US10547574B2
Implementations relate to automatic suggested responses based on message stickers provided in a messaging application. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method to provide message suggestions in a messaging application includes detecting a first message sent by a first user device to a second user device over a communication network, programmatically analyzing the first message to determine a semantic concept associated with the first message, identifying one or more message stickers based at least in part on the semantic concept, and transmitting instructions to cause the one or more message stickers to be displayed in a user interface displayed on the second user device.
US10547568B2
A network for an aircraft including a data line and network access devices, a first interface and at least one second interface and connected to the data line via the first interface. Identifiers are assigned to the second interfaces in pairs. The access devices receive and/or transmit data in first data frames having a fixed format and first portion and second portions. The network access devices transmit second data frames and, for each second interface, a sequence of third data frames received on the second interfaces, the network access device including a first processing unit to insert the second data frames in the first portion of the first data frames, split each third data frame into fragment frames, including a part of the respective third data frame and reassembly information allowing regeneration of the third data frame from the fragment frames, and insert the fragment frames into the second portions.
US10547564B2
A session manager is used to manage selection of a remote host for a session in response to a request that is associated with a user. The session manager uses resource information obtained from remote hosts in advance of the request to determine which remote host to associate with a session for a client. Each remote host performs a resource calculation (configurable) to determine how many processes/sessions it can further accommodate. The remote host sends the results of the resource calculation and other determined resource information to the session manager. The session manager provides the determined remote host to a client device. The client device then directly connects to the determined remote host. A process may be automatically started on the remote host for the client as the user. The session manager may also store and receive information for active and historical processes, remote host status, and remote host configuration.
US10547558B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for a user equipment to implement a dynamic discard timer. The user equipment may generate a packet for transmission and store the packet in a buffer of the user equipment. The user equipment may then generate a timeout value for a discard timer for the buffer, where the discard timer discards the packet from the buffer when the timeout value is reached. After a predetermined amount of time, the user equipment may determine whether the packet has been discarded from the buffer and, when it is determined that the packet has not been discarded from the buffer, update the timeout value.
US10547548B2
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method for programming a network element to granularly track network traffic traversing through one or more network elements.
US10547547B1
Disclosed are techniques for determining lookup value(s) for each of a plurality of network packets. The lookup value can be used to locate a forwarding table storage location(s) for populating or retrieving forwarding information from forwarding table(s). An entropy value of the lookup values can indicate a greater degree of disorder than an entropy value for addresses of the network packets.
US10547541B2
The present disclosure discloses a route determining method, including: receiving a first flow entry which includes a first route mapping relationship and a first load ratio with respect to a full load capacity of each service node; receiving a second flow entry which includes a second route mapping relationship, a second load ratio with respect to a full load capacity of each service node, and a start time of the second flow entry; receiving a first packet of a first service flow; determining, according to a service chain identifier included in the first packet, that the first service flow is a first type of service flow; determining whether a time corresponding to a timestamp precedes the start time of the second flow entry; and if so, determining a service node for receiving the first packet according to the first flow entry; if not, determining a service node for receiving the first packet according to the second flow entry.
US10547536B2
Examples relate to identifying shortest paths. In one example, a computing device may: access an edge table that specifies, for each edge of a graph, an edge source, an edge destination, and an edge distance value; access a current path table that specifies paths between nodes of the graph and, for each path, a source node, a destination node, a distance, and a node path; identify each path included in the current path table as a shortest known path; and for each path having a destination node that matches an edge source node, add a new path to the current path table, the new path specifying: the source node as a new source; the edge destination as a new destination; a sum of the edge value and the path distance as a new distance; and the edge destination appended to the node path as a new node path.
US10547529B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an availability counting apparatus and method. The apparatus includes: a configuration module, configured to: receive an unavailability rule configured by a user, and subscribe to a detection item from a detection apparatus at each layer of network functions virtualization and notify the detection apparatus of a condition for triggering a fault alarm, according to the unavailability rule; a calculation module, configured to: receive fault alarm information and fault recovery information that are reported by the detection apparatus, and calculate availability of each layer of the network functions virtualization; and a report module, configured to output an availability counting report according to a preset period.
US10547523B2
Methods and systems for analyzing network traffic. An analysis system receives network traffic, which complies with a certain protocol. The received network traffic carries a data item, which may be of value to an analyst. In order to access the data item in question, the analysis system automatically identifies the media type of the data item, by processing the network traffic without decoding the protocol. The analysis system identifies the media type irrespective of the protocol in order to avoid the computational complexity involved in decoding the protocol.
US10547517B2
In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus, having: one or more logic elements, including at least a processor and a memory, providing a network simulation engine to: periodically perform a network traffic simulation; cache at least one network traffic simulation in a traffic state cache; receive a quest for additional network demand; and compute a network delta based at least in part on a difference between the request for additional network demand and the traffic state cache.
US10547510B2
A network device is disclosed. The network device comprises a processor. The processor may be obtain information of devices that are connected to the network device and, together with the network device, form a cluster of network devices; obtain, for each network device in the cluster of network devices, a plurality of parameters indicative of the connectivity of the network devices with one another; assign, based on the plurality of parameters, a grouping structure, whereby each network device in the cluster of network devices is assigned to a group according to a common value of the parameters shared by the network device and other network devices in the group; and assign, based on the grouping structure, each network device in the cluster of network devices as either an active device or a backup device, each active device having a corresponding backup device. Each backup device may be in a group which has no overlap with the group of the corresponding active device. A computer-implemented method and a non-transitory machine-readable medium are also disclosed.
US10547503B2
Presented herein are techniques in which one or more network devices can use information provided by a special purpose network connected device to retrieve a usage profile (i.e., configuration file) associated with the special purpose network connected device. The retrieved usage profile, which includes/describes preselected (predetermined) usage descriptions associated with the special purpose network connected device, can then be used to configure one or more network devices. For example, the predetermined usage descriptions associated with the special purpose network connected device can be instantiated and enforced at a network device or the predetermined usage descriptions can be used for auditing the special purpose network connected device (e.g., monitoring of traffic within the network).
US10547499B2
Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide the capability to monitor and detect failure of nodes in a data center environment by using a software defined failure detector that can be adjusted to varying conditions and data center topology. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for monitoring and detecting failure of electronic systems may comprise, in a system comprising a plurality of networked computer systems, defining at least one failure detection agent to monitor operation of other failure detection agents running on at least some of the electronic systems, and defining, at the controller, and transmitting, from the controller, topology information defining a topology of the failure detection agents to the failure detection agents, wherein the topology information includes information defining which failure detection agents each failure detection agent is to monitor.
US10547496B2
A network management architecture referred to as the Control/Orchestration/Management/Policy/Analytics (COMPA) architecture (or COMPA for short). The COMPA architecture functions to simplify and automate the operations (both management and business process) of a network. In one aspect, the COMPA architecture addresses four use case categories: (1) Resource/Service Onboarding; (2) Automated Product Offerings; (3) Automated Management; and (4) Service Exposure. COMPA enables rapid service introduction into the network and lifecycle management; dynamic network governance via policy; and controlled access to functionality provided by different responsibility domains.
US10547495B2
An information processing method includes: activating the SNMP module, and controlling an SNMP module to obtain device configuration information of an image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus by using SNMP-based-communication information stored in Queue Property Bag by means of SNMP-based communication via a communication interface, the SNMP-based-communication information being authentication information necessary for the SNMP-based communication, and to store the obtained device configuration information in the Queue Property Bag; and determining a function that the image forming apparatus is configured to execute on the basis of the device configuration information obtained and stored in the Queue Property Bag by the SNMP module, and generating a first customized UI supporting the determined function, the first customized UI being a customized UI of the V4 printer driver.
US10547491B2
A method includes, with a computing system, receiving a plurality of packets for transcoding, the plurality of packets comprising a first set of packets having data in a first format and a second set of packets having data in a second format, with the computing system, placing the first set of packets in a first queue, the first queue comprising packets from more than one communication session, with the computing system, placing the second set of packets in a second queue, the second queue having packets from more than one communication session, with the computing system, processing packets of the first queue with a graphics processing unit, and with the computing system, after processing the packets of the first queue with the graphics processing unit, processing packets of the second queue with the graphics processing unit.
US10547483B2
An OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver respectively transmit and receive N (N≥2, N is an integer) control symbols. For each control symbol, a guard interval time-domain signal is, for example, identical to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting at least a portion of a useful symbol time-domain signal by an amount different from any other symbol, or to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting one or both of a portion and a span of a useful symbol interval time-domain signal different from any other symbol by a predetermined amount.
US10547482B2
Disclosed herein is a broadcast signal receiver. The broadcast signal receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a synchronization and demodulation module configured to perform detection and OFDM demodulation on a received broadcast signal, a frame parsing and deinterleaving module configured to parse and deinterleave the signal frame of the broadcast signal, a demapping and decoding module configured to convert the data of at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) of the broadcast signal into a bit domain and to FEC-decode the PLP data, and an output processing module configured to receive the data of the at least one PLP and to output the received data in a data stream form.
US10547478B2
Disclosed are a method for signal modulation based on pulse density modulation and an apparatus therefore. The method for signal modulation is performed in an apparatus for modulating a signal based on pulse density modulation and includes performing pulse density modulation on an analog signal input to the apparatus through a pulse density modulator of the apparatus, converting a bandwidth of the pulse density modulated signal into a bandwidth required for the apparatus through a correlative encoder of the apparatus, transmitting the bandwidth converted signal to a radio frequency (RF) unit of the apparatus based on an electrical-to-optical (E/O) converter and an optical-to-electrical (O/E) converter of the apparatus, filtering a frequency band of the bandwidth converted signal and outputting the frequency band filtered signal via the RF unit.
US10547474B2
The present disclosure includes embodiments of a two-way wireless data communication system and associated methods. An embodiment of a system can include a network operations center (NOC), a plurality of fixed-location receive base stations (RBS) in communications with the NOC, and an intelligent shortwave communication network in communications with the NOC and the plurality of RBS and including a plurality of remote intelligent transceiver units (ITU). In an embodiment, for example, the NOC can be operative to a) compute rapidly a protocol under which nationwide communications is to be completed via coordinated operations of the linked ITU and RBS, b) determine propagating and clear electromagnetic wavelengths over an entire 3 MHz to 30 MHz shortwave band, and c) send a continuous stream of data indicating times and frequencies at which remote units can rapidly and efficiently transmit data and at which antenna sites can reliably and efficiently receive that data.
US10547468B2
A communication apparatus includes a generation unit that generates an image including information about a frequency channel used for executing wireless communication and a communication unit that communicates with another communication apparatus that has read the generated image using the frequency channel included in the image. When the communication apparatus is connected to the wireless network, an image including information about a frequency channel used for the connected wireless network is generated, and when the communication apparatus is not connected to the wireless network, an image including information about a predetermined frequency channel is generated.
US10547465B2
Approaches presented herein enable resuming a context for a group of electronic devices based on a prior activity of the group members. Specifically, a current context of a user electronic device is collected at a conclusion of a first collaboration session. One or more participant electronic devices associated with the user electronic device are identified, either by being in a same location or virtually connected. A current context of each of the identified participant electronic devices is collected. The context of the user electronic device and each of the participant electronic devices are stored in a context database. The current context of the user electronic device and each of the participant electronic devices are resumed at a beginning of a second collaboration session when the user electronic device is resumed (e.g., powered on or brought out of “sleep” mode).
US10547460B2
Exemplary features pertain to secure communications using Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) devices. Segments of a message to be encrypted are sequentially applied to a PUF device as a series of challenges to obtain a series of responses for generating a sequence of encryption keys, whereby a previous segment of the message is used to obtain a key for encrypting a subsequent segment of the message. The encrypted message is sent to a separate (receiving) device that employs a logical copy of the PUF device for decrypting the message. The logical copy of the PUF may be a lookup table or the like that maps all permissible challenges to corresponding responses for the PUF and may be generated in advance and stored in memory of the receiving device. The data to be encrypted may be further encoded to more fully exercise the PUF to enhance security. Decryption operations are also described.
US10547455B1
A digital signature protocol achieves the least energy consumption, the fastest signature generation, and the smallest signature among its ECC-based counterparts. The method of authenticating is also immune to side channel attacks aiming elliptical curve operations/exponentiations as well as to weak pseudo random number generators at the signer's side. A security system for authenticating the updating of computer records includes a network of member computers in data communication with each other and calculating an assigned portion of a commitment code used for the authenticating the secure data at the verifier device by completing, among the server computers, a plurality of discrete verification tasks for a single authentication code (R−) associated with an aggregated commitment code (R), aggregating at the verifier device, the aggregated commitment code (R), and verifying the secure data at the verifier device.
US10547453B2
The invention is a method for digitally signing an electronic file (48), comprising the steps carried out by a server: generating a challenge value (50) comprising a projection parameter (52), transferring the challenge value (50) to a client device through a communications channel, receiving, through a communications channel, an evidence record (70), the electronic file (48) to be signed, and a user's biometric data (54) from the client device, generating reduced biometric verification data by applying a projection utilising the projection parameter (52), generating a verification evidence record and comparing it against the evidence record (70) sent by the client device, generating a server certificate, signing the server certificate applying the server's private signing key, thereby generating a signed server certificate, generating a digital signature by associating at least the signed server certificate and the hash (49) of the electronic file (48), and associating the digital signature with the electronic file (48), thereby generating a digitally signed electronic file. The invention is further an authentication method.
US10547446B2
A cryptographic representation of value is adapted to goods in production and products at various stages through a supply chain as represented by their stock keeping units or SKU's that refer to a unique identifier or code for the particular stock keeping unit. Embodiments of the invention disclose the generation of a universal unique, yet deterministic, key-pair for all SKUs, shipping cartons, and items, i.e. for every single SKU, shipping carton and item on the globe.
US10547444B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods are disclosed herein for use in cryptographic operations over a cloud-based service. The cloud-based service securely stores and transmits parts of encryption/decryption keys. Split key processing can include splitting the key in two and storing one of them on a remote secure server.
US10547441B2
A method and apparatus may include receiving a request to restore access to digital assets of a digital wallet. The digital assets are accessed via M-number of cryptographic keys. Access to at least N-out-of-M keys is necessary in order to access the digital assets at a given time. N is a number less than M. The M-number of keys include at least a first key, a second key, and a third key. One of the M keys is stored on a first server. One of the M keys is stored on a second server. The key stored on the first server corresponds to the second key. The key stored on the second server corresponds to the third key. The second server is separated from the first server. With certain embodiments, the second server is totally disconnected from any network.
US10547434B2
A communication control apparatus including an acquisition section that acquires first information related to communication quality of a wireless channel through which target data to be distributed to a terminal apparatus is transmitted to the terminal apparatus, and second information related to data among the target data, the data being accumulated in the terminal apparatus, and a control section that performs control over transmission of the target data to the terminal apparatus on the basis of the first information and the second information.
US10547432B2
A method and apparatus for selecting multiple transport formats and transmitting multiple transport blocks (TBs) in a transmission time interval simultaneously with multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Available physical resources and H-ARQ processes associated with the available physical resources are identified and channel quality of each of the available physical resources is determined. Quality of service (QoS) requirements of higher layer data to be transmitted are determined. The higher layer data is mapped to at least two H-ARQ processes. Physical transmission and H-ARQ configurations to support QoS requirements of the higher layer data mapped to each H-ARQ process are determined. TBs are generated from the mapped higher layer data in accordance with the physical transmission and H-ARQ configurations of each H-ARQ process, respectively. The TBs are transmitted via the H-ARQ processes simultaneously.
US10547416B2
Multi-channel listening capable receiver capable of operating on one of K data channels and method of operating such a receiver. A local oscillator (2) is provided for tuning the receiver (1) to one of the channels within a channel switching time Ts, as well as a processing unit (9) arranged to detect a presence of a preamble on the tuned channel. The processing unit (9) is further arranged to switch over the local oscillator (2) to a next one of the data channels if no presence of a preamble is detected within a single preamble symbol duration Tp. The channel switching time is a fraction β of a single preamble symbol period Tp. The number of data channels K fulfills the condition K
US10547412B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for monitoring application health via correctable errors. The method includes identifying, by a network device, a network packet associated with an application and detecting an error associated with the network packet. In response to detecting the error, the network device increments a counter associated with the application, determines an application score based at least in part on the counter, and telemeters the application score to a controller. The controller can generate a graphical interface based at least in part on the application score and a timestamp associated with the application score, wherein the graphical interface depicts a trend in correctable errors experienced by the application over a network.
US10547411B2
An infrastructure equipment for a mobile communications network includes a transmitter and a receiver for transmitting and receiving signals via a wireless access interface to one or more communications devices. The infrastructure equipment is configured to identify, for each of plural time units, communications resource elements of a down-link communications channel which cannot be allocated to transmit messages to one of the communications devices, to determine, with respect to one of the plural time units as a reference time unit, a number of communications resource elements of the communications channel for repeatedly transmitting one or more message units to the communications device plural times in the reference time unit, to identify, for each of the plural time units, a pattern of the communications resource elements for the repeated transmission of the one or more message units, within each time unit, determined with respect to the reference time unit.
US10547403B2
Methods and systems are disclosed including a system comprising a first node, having a first transceiver comprising a first receiver and a first transmitter, comprising a tunable laser, configured to transmit a first optical signal on a first channel and to transmit a second optical signal on a second channel if the first receiver does not detect a third optical signal; a second node having a second transceiver comprising a second receiver and a second transmitter configured to transmit the third optical signal on the first channel if the second receiver detects the second optical signal; and a filter having ports configured to a particular bandwidth and to suppress the first optical signal if the first optical signal is not within the particular bandwidth of the port, and to transmit the second optical signal to the second node if the second optical signal is within the particular bandwidth.
US10547400B2
Frequency independent isolation of duplexed ports in distributed antenna systems (DASs) is disclosed. Instead of providing a duplexer in a DAS that provides frequency dependent separation between downlink and uplink communications signals, an isolation circuit is provided. The isolation circuit is coupled to a duplexed port that provides downlink communications signals to the DAS and receives uplink communications signals from the DAS. To isolate uplink communications signals from the downlink communications path, the isolation circuit includes a directional coupler. The directional coupler provides frequency independent isolation between uplink communications signals and a downlink communications path in the DAS. Further, to isolate downlink communications signals from the uplink communications path, the isolation circuit includes at least one circulator isolator. The circulator(s) acts as a one-direction device, allowing uplink communications signals to flow to the directional coupler with minimal attenuation while significantly attenuating downlink communications signals flowing from the directional coupler.
US10547399B2
A generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) transceiver system includes a low complex GFDM transmitter with multiple sub-carriers and timeslots having IFFT based modulator for modulating data corresponding to a particular timeslot and different sub-carriers to corresponding sub-carrier frequencies and thereby generating transmittable GFDM data signal, multipath frequency selective fading GFDM channel having uncorrelated channel coefficients corresponding to different paths for transmitting the modulated GFDM data signal and a low complex GFDM receiver configured to operate with said multipath frequency selective fading channel involving channel equalization followed by self-interference equalization to receive the transmitted modulated GFDM data signal and thereby de-modulate the GFDM data signal to obtain the data.
US10547396B2
A state display apparatus includes a plurality of state display LEDs and a plurality of margin display LEDs, and when receiving a radio signal indicating that a state of a management object has changed, performs light on/off control of a state display LED associated with the management object, and controls a margin display LED arranged above the state display LED so that whether or not a reception strength of the received radio signal is equal to or higher than a prescribed threshold is indicated by a lighted state/a turned-off state of the margin display LED on/off.
US10547390B2
An optical transmission device includes: an optical transmitter that transmits, at a time of system activation, a control signal to another optical transmission device by using a plurality of subcarriers; and a controller that allocates a link communication channel (LCC) to a subcarrier, among the plurality of subcarriers, for which bare minimum transmission characteristic is obtained, based on a response to the control signal from the other optical transmission device.
US10547388B2
An optical transmitter includes an optical modulator including a first modulator, a second modulator, and a phase shifter that provides a predetermined optical phase difference between the first modulator and the second modulator, a light source that makes light enter the optical modulator, and a voltage controller that detects a distortion of light power characteristics from output light of the optical modulator in a state where no data signal is input to the optical modulator to determine a bias voltage to be set in the optical modulator while reducing the distortion.
US10547385B2
An optoelectronic module includes a transceiver operable to transmit data optically. The transceiver includes a light emitter to emit light from the module, and a light detector to detect light entering the module. The light detector is disposed at a rotationally symmetric position with respect to a central axis of the module. Such modules can help facilitate the exchange of data optically between two devices.
US10547372B2
Exemplary embodiments include a communication system comprising a portal between radio-frequency propagation environments; one or more of interface points disposed in the plurality of propagation environment and configured to communicate with each other via the portal; and one or more access points disposed in one of the propagation environments, at least a portion being configured to communicate with a particular interface point. Other embodiments include apparatus for communicating across radio-frequency propagation environments comprising at least one antenna array, a computer arrangement, and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that configure an adaptive antenna array to receive expected signals from a device or system disposed in a first propagation environment and to reject interfering signals originating in the same environment; and transmit the received expected signals to a compatible apparatus in a second propagation environment via a portal that is relatively permeable with respect to a particular frequency.
US10547367B2
The present disclosure provides a method for receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) by a UE in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes receiving information on a measurement bandwidth and cell list information for a plurality of cells, receiving CSI-RSs of the plurality of cells, and measuring reception power for the CSI-RSs within the measurement bandwidth, wherein sequences of the CSI-RSs are mapped to physical resources based on the same reference position configured by a higher layer.
US10547365B2
A radio network node (12) is configured to serve a wireless device (14) in a wireless communication system (10). The radio network node (12) in this regard is configured to determine that the wireless device (14) is onboard a public transit vehicle (16). Based on that determination, the radio network node (12) is configured to predict a position of the public transit vehicle (16), e.g., based on a route schedule (20) of the public transit vehicle (16) and/or positioning measurements (22) received from the public transit vehicle (16). The radio network node (12) is further configured to control beamforming for the wireless device (14) based on the predicted position of the public transit vehicle (16). In some embodiments, this controlling comprises performing dynamic beam direction adjustment, as needed to track the vehicle (16)'s movement. Alternatively or additionally, the controlling comprises performing beam selection from among a subset of candidate beams with coverage in a vicinity of the vehicle (16)'s predicted position.
US10547361B2
Disclosed are feedback and transmission devices and methods in full-dimension multi-antenna systems using two-dimensional (2D) planar array antennas, wherein a UE estimates channel states each corresponding to a respective one of multiple domain channels by a reference signal received from a base station, and obtains precoding matrix indicators (PMIs) each corresponding to a respective one of the multiple domain channels and rank indicators (RIs) each corresponding to a respective one of the multiple domain channels based on the estimated channel states. The UE may determine a joint rank indicator (JRI) using the obtained PMIs and the RIs and transmit feedback information containing the determined JRI to the base station.
US10547341B2
A protective case with removable shell for holding and camouflaging a smart phone or similar device, such as, but not limited to, an iPhone. The case comprises a front cover and a back cover, which may be rigid or hardback. The front and back covers are hingedly connected along one edge by a spine. A plurality of tabs extending from the inside of the back cover differentially engage corresponding slots in the back of the removable shell, allowing the case and shell to be configured in various positions. The inside of the front cover contains various slots or pockets, and functions as a wallet. The exterior of the case has the appearance of a book, which helps disguise the fact that the case holds a smart phone or similar device.
US10547327B2
Self-configuring error control coding in a memory device provides flexibility in terms of decoding latency, mis-correct probability, and bit-error rate performance, and avoids labor-intensive trial-and-error configuration of decoding algorithm tuning parameters, such as bit flip algorithm thresholds and syndrome-weight maps. A self-configuring decoder for error control coding allows dynamic trading of error floor performance for error rate performance and vice versa based on the performance characteristics of the decoding process.
US10547326B2
A method includes storing data and metadata related to the data in logical words in a non-volatile memory. For each logical word stored in the non-volatile memory, a corresponding error-correction code is generated. Each physical word stored contains a logical word and the corresponding error-correction code. The metadata may contain atomicity information. The non-volatile memory may be a flash memory. Each physical word may contain a parity bit based on the logical word and the corresponding error-correction code stored in the physical word. The logical words may be encoded into physical words including the corresponding error correction code using an encoding table. The data and the metadata may be split into logical words.
US10547325B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to load compressed symbols in a data stream into a first content accessible memory, break a serial dependency of the compressed symbols in the compressed data stream, and decode more than one symbol per clock. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10547324B2
A compression coding method, apparatus, and program suitable for continuously coding pieces of fixed length data are provided. The compression coding method includes: dividing, into columns each with a predetermined bit width, records consisting of a fixed-length bit string that includes one or more fields, pieces of data of the same type being contained in the same field among fields determined in advance; and determining, for each column, a probability of occurrence of a bit value in the column at the same position among a plurality of records, and coding the plurality of records on the basis of the probability of occurrence using an entropy coding method.
US10547322B2
An analog-digital converter has multiple feedback, and includes: a capacitor digital-analog converter including a plurality of switches driven by a digital code, and a plurality of capacitors respectively connected to the plurality of switches, wherein the capacitor digital-analog converter is configured to generate a residue voltage based on an analog input voltage and a voltage corresponding to the digital code; first and second feedback capacitors each storing the residue voltage; an integrator configured to generate an integral signal by integrating the residue voltage; first and second comparators respectively configured to generate first and second comparison signals from the integral signal; and a digital logic circuitry configured to receive the first and second comparison signals, and generate a digital output signal from the first and second comparison signals, the digital output signal corresponding to the digital code during a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-digital conversion interval, and the digital output signal corresponding to an average of first and second digital control signals during a delta sigma analog-digital conversion interval, wherein the first and second comparison signals are respectively fed back to the first and second feedback capacitors. The analog-digital converter may be included in various electronic devices, including communication devices.
US10547297B2
A duty cycle correction circuit includes a charge pump and a controller. The charge pump includes a current source, a first output, and a second output. The charge pump routes current from the current source to the first output during a positive portion of a clock, and routes current from the current source to the second output during a negative portion of the clock. The controller compares charge accumulated from the first output to charge accumulated from the second output over a plurality of clock cycles to determine which of the positive portion of the clock and the negative portion of the clock is longer. The controller also generates a digital value that indicates an amount of adjustment to apply to a duty cycle of the clock based on which of the positive portion of the clock and the negative portion of the clock is longer.
US10547296B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for cross-conduction detection. An example apparatus includes a cross detector circuit including a first transistor and a second transistor, the first transistor coupled to a load, a third transistor coupled to a first controlled delay circuit and the first transistor, a fourth transistor coupled to a second controlled delay circuit and to the third transistor at a phase node, and a control circuit coupled to the first controlled delay circuit, the second controlled delay circuit, and the load.
US10547295B2
In described examples, an electronic circuit for delaying a signal (received at an input node) includes a delay line with multiple tap locations, a tap line proximate to the delay line and coupled to an output node, and multiple groups of switches. Switches in the groups of switches are severally coupled between tap locations corresponding to the respective group of switches, and the tap line. When the signal is propagated through the delay line, a first number of the switches corresponding to a selected tap location are closed, a second number of the switches corresponding to an adjacent tap location are closed, and the signal is transmitted with a delay through the closed switches, to the tap line, to the output node. The delay includes an average, weighted using the first and second numbers, of delays corresponding to the selected and adjacent tap locations.
US10547289B2
An N-path filter with one or more branches selectively coupled to a shared circuit node includes a first branch having a first feedback path and a second feedback path. The first feedback path includes a Miller amplifier having an input coupled to an input voltage and a first capacitor coupled to both the input voltage and an output of the Miller amplifier. The second feedback path includes a node in common with the first feedback path. The second feedback path also includes a first high pass filter coupled to the output of the Miller amplifier and a second capacitor coupled to both the first capacitor and the first high pass filter.
US10547278B2
Embodiments of radio frequency (RF) systems include a plurality of power amplifiers having a primary winding and a secondary winding. Each of the power amplifiers may be configured to process signals of different frequency bands. The primary winding for one power amplifier can be detuned while another power amplifier is being used in a transmit mode. By detuning the power amplifier, power coupling from the transmitting power amplifier can be reduced or eliminated.
US10547277B2
A MEMS capacitive sensor is disclosed. In an embodiment a MEMS capacitive sensor includes a capacitor having a variable capacitance, wherein the capacitor includes a backplate and a membrane being separated from each other by a variable distance, wherein the capacitor is arranged on a substrate, an output terminal configured to provide an output signal, wherein the output terminal is connected to the backplate, a bias voltage input terminal configured to apply a bias voltage, wherein the bias voltage input terminal is connected to the membrane and a supply voltage input terminal configured to apply a supply voltage, wherein the supply voltage input terminal is connected to the substrate, wherein the MEMS capacitive sensor is configured to generate a level of the output signal in dependence on the distance between the membrane and the backplate.
US10547274B2
An oscillation module includes: an oscillation circuit; a multiplication circuit which is provided at a stage subsequent to the oscillation circuit and is operated by differential motion; and an output circuit which is provided at a stage subsequent to the multiplication circuit.
US10547262B2
In some examples, a controller device includes processing circuitry configured to determine an alpha voltage and a beta voltage based on time durations for control signals for power-conversion circuitry that drives an electric motor including a rotor. In some examples, the controller device also includes a flux estimator configured to estimate a speed of the rotor and an angle of the rotor based on the alpha voltage and the beta voltage.
US10547252B2
A first drive circuit is connected with a first power supply node and a first GND node. A second drive circuit is connected with a second power supply node and a second GND node electrically separated from the first power supply node and the first GND node, respectively. A PN junction portion is formed of a P type part electrically connected with the first GND node, and an N type part electrically connected with the second power supply node. A magnetic coupling element has a first conductor coil and a second conductor coil. The first conductor coil is electrically connected with output nodes of the first drive circuit. The second conductor coil is electrically connected with input nodes of the second drive circuit.
US10547251B1
A method for shutting down a phase-leg of a three-level active neutral point clamped converter is provided. The method includes the following steps. A determining step determines if a switch fault has occurred, and if a switch fault has occurred then each switch of the plurality of switches are turned off. If a switch fault has not occurred and a shutdown is requested, then an operating step operates the plurality of switches to turn off a first switch and a fourth switch. A waiting step waits for a first predetermined time period. An operating step operates the plurality of switches to turn on a second switch and a third switch. A waiting step is repeated. An operating step operates the plurality of switches to turn off a fifth switch and a sixth switch. A waiting step is repeated. An operating step turns off the second switch and the third switch.
US10547248B2
A rectifier circuit and a dimmer circuit are provided, comprising: an isolating driver circuit, a switching control circuit, a before-bridge damper circuit, and a rectifier bridge. The isolating driver circuit is connected to the before-bridge damper circuit via the switching control circuit, two ends of the switching control circuit are connected to two input ends of the rectifier bridge, respectively, and two ends of the before-bridge damper circuit are connected to the two input ends of the rectifier bridge, respectively. In the disclosed rectifier circuit and damper circuit, the isolating driver circuit receives the after-bridge control signal after the rectifier bridge, the switching control circuit controls connection or disconnection of the before-bridge damper circuit to the rectifier circuit based on the after-bridge control signal. Accordingly, the before-bridge damper circuit may be adjusted based on the after-bridge control signal, and flexibility in controlling and adjusting the rectifier bridge circuit is improved.
US10547243B2
A flyback converter includes a primary-side switch connected to a primary-side winding of a transformer and a secondary-side switch connected to a secondary-side winding of the transformer. The flyback converter is operated by controlling the primary-side switch to store energy in the transformer during ON periods of the primary-side switch, switching on the secondary-side switch synchronously with switching off the primary-side switch to transfer energy from the transformer to the secondary side, determining an off time of the secondary-side switch based on a reflected input voltage measured at the secondary-side winding when the primary-side switch is on, accounting for a settling time of the reflected input voltage when determining the off time of the secondary-side switch so that the settling time has little or no effect on the off time, and switching off the secondary-side switch based on the off time.
US10547236B1
A dead band compensation system is provided that provides dead time compensation for a three-phase inverter in connection with counting the time difference between a pulse width without a dead time interval and a pulse width available at the output of the inverter (100). An error measurement is determined, a portion of which is fed back subsequently. Harmonic components, among other things, are reduced, to an extent, in the load current through an inverter load (120). Further, compensation for inverter voltage output errors may be provided.
US10547233B2
The present invention provides a linear motor, wherein, a coil is fastened on a mass block that is suspended inside a housing, and a magnet is fastened on the housing and thus does not move during use. In the linear motor of the present invention, the design route that utilizes coil motion to drive mass block motion is different from the traditional route that utilizes magnet motion to drive mass block motion, thereby the traditional “moving-magnet type” is changed into “moving-coil type” of the present invention. When the linear motor provided by the present invention is used in a highly magnetic environment, even if magnetic shield plates for shielding external magnetic induction lines are glued on both outer sides of the housing, because the magnet is fixed stationary itself, no vertical deviation of the magnet due to influence of the shield plates like in the prior art occurs. Meanwhile, even if the magnetic shield plates exert vertical forces on the coil, because such forces exerted by the shield plates on the coil are very small, they are hardly able to drive the coil to move in the vertical direction, and thus no vertical deviation of the coil is caused, so that vibration noise is avoided.
US10547230B2
Electric motor systems and methods may provide highly efficient operation. The electric motor systems and methods discussed herein provide an oil filled motor that is low speed and utilizes permanent magnets. The electric motor may utilize a large number of poles and fractional slot design. Further, in some embodiments, the electric motor systems and methods may be suitable for use downhole.
US10547225B2
A method for producing an electric motor provided with a stator core configured by laminating a required number of annular electromagnetic steel sheets having a plurality of tooth portions on an inner periphery thereof. The circumferential widths of the tooth portions become gradually narrower in a stepwise fashion toward an uppermost surface and an undermost surface of the plurality of laminated electromagnetic steel sheets, whereby the shoulder portions on both sides in a circumferential direction of the tooth portions smoothly change. A flexible, planar insulating member is provided having a first portion of a shape similar to a planar shape of said electromagnetic steel sheet, and further comprising flexible ear portions at positions corresponding to shoulder portions on both sides in a circumferential direction of the tooth portions. A coil is wound around the flexible planar insulating member and the respective tooth portions, including the ear portions of said insulating member interposed between the coil winding and the tooth portion, to thereby deform the flexible ear portions to conform the shape of the shoulder portions.
US10547213B2
An electronic unit includes: a power receiving section configured to receive electric power fed from a feed unit by using a magnetic field; and a control section configured to perform, when a receiving current supplied from the power receiving section is less than a predetermined threshold current at a time of a light load, current increasing control to increase the receiving current to the threshold current or more.
US10547206B2
One or more Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) are coupled to points in a network of interconnected nodes. Each node has a first port and a second port. Assume the first port of a first node is receiving DC power from the PSE. The first node, at its second port, then detects an electrical signature from a first port of an adjacent second node. If the proper electrical signature is presented by the adjacent second node, the powered first node closes a switch to pass power between its first port and second port to power the second node via the first port of the second node. All nodes in the network are then sequentially powered up in this manner. If there is a fault between the first node and the second node, the second node will be powered by another node connected to the second port of the second node.
US10547199B2
A communication apparatus, comprises a power receiving unit configured to be capable of wirelessly receiving power from another apparatus, a charging unit configured to be capable of charging a secondary battery using the power received from the another apparatus, a wireless communication unit configured to be capable of performing wireless communication with the another apparatus, a rectification smoothing unit configured to rectify and smooth the power received from the another apparatus, and output the rectified and smoothed power, a suppressing unit configured to suppress a transient voltage fluctuation in an output voltage of the rectification smoothing unit, and a driving unit configured to drive the suppressing unit so that the output voltage of the rectification smoothing unit generated by the power received from the another apparatus does not exceed a first voltage.
US10547194B2
In a power supply control apparatus, if a switching signal input from a microcomputer to a control circuit instructs switching on of a semiconductor switch, when an input voltage that is input to the drain of the semiconductor switch is higher than or equal to a predetermined voltage, the control circuit drives a charging circuit. The charging circuit charges a capacitor (Cs) via a diode (D1). Accordingly, a voltage at the gate of the semiconductor switch taking a potential at the source of the semiconductor switch as a reference becomes higher than or equal to a predetermined voltage, and thus the semiconductor switch is switched on. While driving the charging circuit, the control circuit keeps driving the charging circuit even if the input voltage becomes lower than the predetermined voltage.
US10547192B2
A wireless power transmitter configured to transmit power to a wireless power receiver and a method for controlling the wireless power transmitted are provided. The method includes applying a detection power for detecting a change in a load impedance of the wireless power transmitter; detecting the change in the load impedance of the wireless power transmitter; receiving, from a wireless power receiver, a first signal within a preset time period after detecting the change, wherein the first signal includes a field for a load impedance detection; determining whether the detected change corresponds to the field of the first signal; determining whether a reception intensity of the first signal is greater than a threshold; and based on a determination that the detected change corresponds to the field of the first signal and the reception intensity of the first signal is greater than the threshold, transmitting, to the wireless power receiver, a second signal to form a communication connection with the wireless power receiver.
US10547190B2
An automated covering for an architectural opening—such as a window blind, a roller shade, a cellular shade, or roller wall—that can be easily recharged through a charging device that is integrated into the lower edge is disclosed. The automated covering includes a housing that holds a motor and a battery. An electrical conductor extends from the battery, down the automated covering, to the charging device at the bottom of the covering. The charging device may be a charging port, an electrical plug, or a magnetic charging device that engages with a magnetic charging dock.
US10547179B2
Disclosed is a virtually renewable electric power-generating system configured to provide an efficient means for generating electricity for charging an electrical energy storage source such as batteries using the same energy storage source to power an electro-mechanical system for generating electricity. Part of the output of the electro-mechanical system for generating electricity is fed back to the energy storage source to recharge the storage source, as well as provide energy to charge a second energy storage system.
US10547169B2
A method for improving safety of voltage regulator is disclosed. In order to improve safety of a voltage regulator, a MOS-FET is disposed on a source power lane that receives power supplied from a DC power supply. A set of voltage regulators is connected to a set of fork power lanes, correspondingly, branching off from the source power lane. PTC thermistors are disposed on a surface or in the vicinity of semiconductor chips of the voltage regulators. When temperature at any one of the PTC thermistors increases, a protection controller turns off the MOS-FET. When temperature detected by a temperature sensor incorporated within the semiconductor chip has increased, each of the voltage regulators turns off the MOS-FET via a base management controller.
US10547166B2
The invention relates to an adapter (101) used in a cable raceway (303), the adapter comprising: a main housing; at least one first connection part (103) disposed on the main housing for connecting the adapter (101) to the cable raceway (303); at least one second connection part (102) disposed on the main housing for connecting at least one distribution module (201) to the adapter (101); and at least one distribution modules (201) for connecting with cables in the adapter and introducing patch cords.
US10547156B1
A submount assembly comprises a first substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein a plurality of first grooves are formed into the first substrate from the first surface. Each first groove is dimensioned to receive a portion of a respective optical fiber of a plurality of optical fibers, and to arrange the optical fiber with a predetermined first height relative to the first surface. The submount assembly further comprises a plurality of first conductive traces on a side of the first substrate corresponding to the first surface, and a semiconductor laser contacted with the first conductive traces. The semiconductor laser has a predetermined second height relative to the first surface. The submount assembly further comprises a plurality of second conductive traces at the second surface and a plurality of first vias extending through the first substrate from the first conductive traces to the second conductive traces.
US10547150B2
[Problem] Provided are a composite cable and a composite harness that allow the improvement of cable termination workability while maintaining the flex resistance.[Solution] A composite cable 1 is provided with a pair of first electric wires 2, a twisted pair wire 4 formed by twisting a pair of second electric wires 3 having a smaller outer diameter than the first electric wires 2 and a tape member 6 spirally wound around an assembled article 5 that is formed by twisting the pair of first electric wires 2 and the twisted pair wire 4 together, wherein a twist direction of the twisted pair wire 4 is different from a twist direction of the assembled article 5, and the twist direction of the assembled article 5 is different from a winding direction of the tape member 6.
US10547147B2
The invention provides a plug connector which, when abnormal heating occurs in a fitting portion with a counter connector, can sensitively cut off the current supply. The plug connector has: contacts; a body that holds the contacts; a metal shell that covers the body; and a printed circuit board on which the contacts are solder-connected. The body has a fitting portion with a counter connector. The board has a thermal protection circuit. The thermal protection circuit has a temperature switch that detects a temperature, and an FET that is disposed in a power supply wiring of the board. When the detected temperature of the temperature switch exceeds a predetermined temperature, the power supply wiring is cut off by the FET. In the plug connector, the board has a heat conduction pattern that conducts heat of the metal shell 60 to the temperature switch.
US10547141B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for connectors used with electronic devices, such as input and/or output ports to connect peripheral equipment or accessories. More specifically, various flat-port are provided that can be used in place of standard connectors including, but not limited to, audio jacks and Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports. The flat-port connectors are an alternate connection design to replace the traditional receptacle port (female-port), making the device more sealed creation more dust and water resistant. It is unique in the way of using the outer surfaces of the device for the electrical connection between the ports. Flat-port design can allow the manufacture of extremely thin devices by eliminating the side ports slots that take a lot of space and contribute to the increase thickness of the device. The flat-port receptacle improves the overall appearance of the device and makes it more resistant to dust and water.
US10547139B2
An electrical connection device includes an electronic component and a docking component. The electronic component includes a first conductor. The first conductor has a first section and a second section extending forward from the first section. The second section has a contact portion. A width of the contact portion in an extending direction of the second section gradually decreases. The docking component includes a second conductor conductively connected to the first conductor to transmit a high-frequency signal. The contact portion abuts the second conductor. The first section is located behind the second conductor. Thus, the cross-sectional area of the abutting location of the contact portion and the second conductor gradually decreases in the extending direction of the second section. That is, the cross-sectional area of the abutting location of the contact portion and the second conductor gradually decreases relative to the cross-sectional area of the first section.
US10547114B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of antenna technologies, and provide a slot antenna and a mobile terminal, to generate different resonance frequencies, so as to cover required bands. The slot antenna includes a system circuit board, a grounding conductor, a radiator, and a first adjustable unit. The system circuit board is connected to the grounding conductor to form an electric conductor, and the radiator is opposite to the electric conductor to form a slot. A feeding end is disposed on the system circuit board, the feeding end is electrically connected to the radiator, one end of the first adjustable unit is connected to the system circuit board, the other end of the first adjustable unit is connected to the radiator, and the first adjustable unit is configured to adjust a resonance frequency of the slot antenna.
US10547113B2
A blind mate waveguide flange includes a mating surface for interfacing with a waveguide probe interface. The mating surface includes a choke flange and a first opening to one end of a waveguide transition section. The choke flange includes a choke groove separating a peripheral region of the mating surface from an inner region of the mating surface. The inner region is recessed relative to the peripheral region to provide an air gap upon mating with another mating surface. The first opening has a first shape. The blind mate waveguide flange further includes a waveguide connection interface that includes a second opening at an opposite end of the waveguide transition section for interfacing with a waveguide. The second opening has a second shape such that the waveguide transition section provides a transition from the first shape to the second shape.
US10547105B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhancing the electrical performance of ultra-wideband (UWB) electronically scanned arrays (ESA) for use in multifunctional, electronic warfare, communications, radar, and sensing systems. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide designed metal and dielectric elements placed above the arbitrary radiator (i.e., in the superstrate region) to simultaneously aid impedance and polarization challenges. These elements can be compatible with arbitrary antenna element types.
US10547102B2
An antenna comprising an IMD element and one or more parasitic and active tuning elements is disclosed. The IMD element, when used in combination with the active tuning and parasitic elements, allows antenna operation at multiple resonant frequencies. In addition, the direction of antenna radiation pattern may be arbitrarily rotated in accordance with the parasitic and active tuning elements. Unique antenna architectures for beam steering in Wi-Fi band applications is further described.
US10547088B2
Embodiments of a method for cycling a rechargeable alkali metal battery with high Coulombic efficiency (CE) are disclosed. A slow charge/rapid discharge protocol is used in conjunction with a concentrated electrolyte to achieve high CE in rechargeable lithium and sodium batteries, include anode-free batteries. In some examples, the CE is ≥99.8%.
US10547087B2
A secondary battery includes a reverse plate formed using a conductive material and provided in a case, and a fixing member formed using an elastically deformable material and joined to the reverse plate. When an internal pressure in the case is increased, the reverse plate deforms in response to the internal pressure, to thereby electrically connect a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal. With the increase in the internal pressure, the fixing member elastically deforms from a state where it is inserted into the through hole, exits the through hole and is fixed between the reverse plate and the case. The reverse plate in the deformed state is supported by the fixed fixing member.
US10547074B2
A fuel cell system that includes a component for removing anionic contaminants is provided. The fuel system including a fuel cell stack, a fuel gas feed subsystem in communication with fuel cell anodes in the fuel cell stack, an oxygen-containing gas feed subsystem system in communication with fuel cell cathodes in the fuel cell stack, and an anionic scavenging subsystem in communication with the fuel gas feed subsystem and/or the an oxygen-containing gas feed subsystem.
US10547062B2
To provide a polymer electrolyte fuel cell having a high cell voltage.A polymer electrolyte fuel cell 1 comprising a membrane/electrode assembly 10 having a cathode catalyst layer 20, an anode catalyst layer 22 and a polymer electrolyte membrane 24 disposed between the cathode catalyst layer 20 and the anode catalyst layer 22, a porous first separator 12 disposed on the cathode catalyst layer 20 side of the membrane/electrode assembly 10, a second separator 18 disposed on the anode catalyst layer 22 side of the membrane/electrode assembly 10; and a cathode interlayer 14 disposed between the cathode catalyst layer 20 and the first separator 12 so as to be in direct contact with them, wherein the cathode interlayer 14 contains carbon fibers having an average fiber diameter of from 30 to 300 nm and an ion exchange resin.
US10547051B2
A lithium deficient cathode active material for lithium-ion batteries is described. More particularly, the lithium deficient cathode active material can have multiphase structures, including both a layered or hexagonal structure (e.g., having an R-3m space group) and a spinel structure (e.g., having a Fd-m space group). Batteries including the cathode active material and methods of preparing the cathode active material are also described.
US10547048B2
An electrode material for a lithium ion battery including an active material represented by LiMPO4 (M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Zn, Al, Ga, Mg, and Ca), in which an oil absorption amount for which diethyl carbonate is used (DEC oil absorption amount) is 50 cc/100 g or more and 80 cc/100 g or less, and a ratio (DEC/NMP) of the DEC oil absorption amount to an oil absorption amount for which N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone is used (NMP oil absorption amount) is 1.3 or more and 1.8 or less.
US10547044B2
A dry electrode manufacturing process employed for low cost battery through a dry mixing and formation process. A thermal activation renders the dry fabricated electrode comparable to conventional slurry casted electrodes. The dry electrode mixture results from a combination of a plurality of types of constituent particles, including at least an active charge material and a binder, and typically a conductive material such as carbon. The process heats the deposited mixture to a moderate temperature for activating the binder for adhering the mixture to the substrate; and compresses the deposited mixture to a thickness for achieving an electrical sufficiency of the compressed, deposited mixture as a charge material in a battery.
US10547038B2
A battery pack includes a fixing part, and more particularly, a battery pack includes a fixing member and a fixing part, which fix an entire structure in top/bottom, left/right, and front/rear directions. A space defined in the battery pack is filled. As such, the battery pack may provide a power source that is safe against vibration, has a high capacity, and is fast in assembling.
US10547037B2
Disclosed is a battery module, which includes battery cells having electrode leads and a connection member for connecting the battery cells, wherein the battery cells are classified into a first battery group having battery cells disposed side by side in a first direction and a second battery group having battery cells disposed side by side in the first direction so that electrode leads of the battery cells thereof face electrode leads of the battery cells of the first battery group, wherein the connection member is located between the first and second battery groups, wherein the electrode leads of the battery cells are connected to the connection member, respectively, wherein an electrode lead of any one battery cell of the first battery group is in contact with any one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the connection member, and wherein an electrode lead of a facing battery cell of the second battery group, which is located to face the any one battery cell, is in contact with the other one of the upper surface and the lower surface of the connection member.
US10547032B2
The present invention relates to a film comprising graphene oxide (GO) and clay, an electronic device comprising the film, a packaging material coated with the film, and a preparation method thereof.
US10547028B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes: providing a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; forming an organic light emitting diode element in the display area; forming a barrier wall around the display area and spaced apart from the organic light emitting diode element; performing a plasma treatment on the substrate on which the organic light emitting diode element is formed; and forming a thin film encapsulation layer for coating the organic light emitting diode element, wherein forming the thin film encapsulation layer includes: forming at least one inorganic layer; and forming at least one organic layer inwardly of the barrier wall.
US10547017B2
In an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method for fabricating the same, OLED pixels are patterned through a photolithography process, so a large area patterning can be performed and a fine pitch can be obtained, and an organic compound layer can be protected by forming a buffer layer of a metal oxide on an upper portion of the organic compound layer or patterning the organic compound layer by using a cathode as a mask, improving device efficiency. In addition, among red, green, and blue pixels, two pixels are patterned through a lift-off process and the other remaining one is deposited to be formed without patterning, the process can be simplified and efficiency can be increased.
US10547016B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor substrate, a first electrode layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a second electrode layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the semiconductor substrate, an accumulation layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and configured to accumulate signal electric charges generated by photoelectric conversion, an insulating layer disposed between the accumulation layer and the second electrode layer, a blocking layer disposed between the accumulation layer and the insulating layer and configured to prevent the signal electric charges in the accumulation layer from reaching the insulating layer, and a circuit unit disposed in the semiconductor substrate and connected to the second electrode layer to receive a signal based on the signal electric charges.
US10547015B2
A sensor including a layer of amorphous selenium (a-Se) and at least one charge blocking layer is formed by depositing the charge blocking layer over a substrate prior to depositing the amorphous selenium, enabling the charge blocking layer to be formed at elevated temperatures. Such a process is not limited by the crystallization temperature of a-Se, resulting in the formation of an efficient charge blocking layer, which enables improved signal amplification of the resulting device. The sensor can be fabricated by forming first and second amorphous selenium layers over separate substrates, and then fusing the a-Se layers at a relatively low temperature.
US10547007B2
A compound represented by formula (1): wherein Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-comprising heteroaryl group having 5 to 30 ring atoms; each of L1 and L2 is independently a single bond, a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted heteroarylene group having 5 to 30 ring atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted divalent linking group wherein 2 to 4 groups selected from an arylene group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms and a heteroarylene group having 5 to 30 ring atoms are bonded to each other via a single bond; A is a monovalent group represented by formula (2); and B is a monovalent group represented by formula (5): wherein R1 to R10 and R21 to R30 are as defined in the description, enables the emission of light of a purer blue (shorter wavelength), a narrower half width (higher color purity), and a single peak with no second peak.
US10547006B2
In one aspect, composite layers are described herein demonstrating phase-separated architectures which, in some embodiments, can mitigate performance disadvantages of prior organic layers of optoelectronic devices. A composite organic layer described herein comprises nanocluster nodes and carbon nanoparticles disposed in a conjugated polymeric host, wherein the carbon nanoparticles are substantially phase separated from the conjugated polymeric host forming lamellar structures of carbon nanofibrils radiating from the nanocluster nodes.
US10546996B2
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) structure and a method of forming the same are provided. The MRAM structure includes a conductive pillar over a substrate, a first MTJ spacer and a first conductive layer. The first MTJ spacer surrounds the conductive pillar. The first conductive layer surrounds the first MTJ spacer. The first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) spacer includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) layer. The first electrode is in contact with the conductive pillar and the substrate. The second electrode is positioned over the first electrode and in contact with the first conductive layer. The magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) layer is positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10546995B2
A spin current magnetization reversal element includes: a first ferromagnetic metal layer with a changeable magnetization direction, and a spin-orbit torque wiring, wherein a first direction is defined as a direction perpendicular to a surface of the first ferromagnetic metal layer, the wiring extends in a second direction intersecting the first and is bonded to a first surface of the first ferromagnetic metal layer, wherein the wiring includes a pure spin current generator which is bonded to the metal layer, and a low-resistance portion which is connected to both ends of the generator in the second direction and is formed of a material having a smaller electrical resistivity than the generator, and the generator is formed so that an area of a cross-section orthogonal to the first direction continuously and/or stepwisely increases as it recedes from a bonding surface bonded to the first ferromagnetic metal layer in the first direction.
US10546994B1
A technique relates a superconducting microwave cavity. An array of posts has different heights in the cavity, and the array supports a localized microwave mode. The array of posts includes lower resonant frequency posts and higher resonant frequency posts. The higher resonant frequency posts are arranged around the lower resonant frequency posts. A first plate is opposite a second plate in the cavity. One end of the lower resonant frequency posts is positioned on the second plate so as to be electrically connected to the second plate. Another end of the lower resonant frequency posts in the array is open so as not to form an electrical connection to the first plate. Qubits are connected to the lower resonant frequency posts in the array of posts, such that each of the qubits is physically connected to one or two of the lower resonant frequency posts in the array of posts.
US10546990B2
A thermionic energy converter, preferably including an anode and a cathode. An anode of a thermionic energy converter, preferably including an n-type semiconductor, one or more supplemental layers, and an electrical contact. A method for work function reduction and/or thermionic energy conversion, preferably including inputting thermal energy to a thermionic energy converter, illuminating an anode of the thermionic energy converter, thereby preferably reducing a work function of the anode, and extracting electrical power from the system.
US10546984B2
An embodiment provides a lens comprising: a lens body; a groove placed on one side of the lens body; a plurality of light path conversion units arranged on a first area of the surface of the lens body, opposite to the groove; and a plurality of refraction units arranged on a second area of the surface of the lens body, opposite to the groove, wherein the first area and the second area are arranged opposite to each other with respect to the center of the surface of the lens body.
US10546973B2
Oxygen controlled PVD AlN buffers for GaN-based optoelectronic and electronic devices is described. Methods of forming a PVD AlN buffer for GaN-based optoelectronic and electronic devices in an oxygen controlled manner are also described. In an example, a method of forming an aluminum nitride (AlN) buffer layer for GaN-based optoelectronic or electronic devices involves reactive sputtering an AlN layer above a substrate, the reactive sputtering involving reacting an aluminum-containing target housed in a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber with a nitrogen-containing gas or a plasma based on a nitrogen-containing gas. The method further involves incorporating oxygen into the AlN layer.
US10546964B2
A solar cell with a molybdenum back electrode layer and a molybdenum selenide ohmic contact layer over the molybdenum back electrode, is provided. The molybdenum selenide layer includes an accurately controlled thickness. A distinct interface exists between the molybdenum back electrode layer and the molybdenum silicide layer. The molybdenum silicide layer is produced by forming a molybdenum layer or a molybdenum nitride layer or a molybdenum oxide layer over an initially formed molybdenum layer such that an interface exists between the two layers. A selenization and sulfurization process is carried out to selectively convert the molybdenum-containing layer to molybdenum selenide but not the original molybdenum back electrode layer which remains as a molybdenum layer.
US10546962B2
Approaches for silicon photonics integration are provided. A method includes: forming at least one encapsulating layer over and around a photodetector; thermally crystallizing the photodetector material after the forming the at least one encapsulating layer; and after the thermally crystallizing the photodetector material, forming a conformal sealing layer on the at least one encapsulating layer and over at least one device. The conformal sealing layer is configured to seal a crack in the at least one encapsulating layer. The photodetector and the at least one device are on a same substrate. The at least one device includes a complementary metal oxide semiconductor device or a passive photonics device.
US10546939B2
A power semiconductor device having a semiconductor body configured to conduct a load current is disclosed. In one example, the device includes a source region having dopants of a first conductivity type; a semiconductor channel region implemented in the semiconductor body and separating the source region from a remaining portion of the semiconductor body; a trench of a first trench type extending in the semiconductor body along an extension direction and being arranged adjacent to the semiconductor channel region, the trench of the first trench type including a control electrode that is insulated from the semiconductor body. The semiconductor body further comprises: a barrier region and a drift volume having at least a first drift region wherein the barrier region couples the first drift region with the semiconductor channel region.
US10546929B2
An integrated circuit includes a substrate; a buried insulating layer; at least one nMOS transistor comprising a semiconductor layer placed above the buried insulating layer; at least one pMOS transistor comprising a semiconductor layer placed above the buried insulating layer; at least one semiconductor groundplane that may be doped or a metal, placed above the substrate and below the buried insulating layer, said buried plane being common to the nMOS transistor and to the pMOS transistor; at least one gate insulator and a gate that is common to the nMOS transistor and to the pMOS transistor and that is located above the channel of these transistors and facing the groundplane, the area of the groundplane at least covering the area of the gate in vertical projection; the nMOS transistor being separated from the pMOS transistor by an isolation defined between the semiconductor layer of the nMOS transistor and the semiconductor layer of the pMOS transistor, the isolation being located in the buried insulating layer and making contact with the groundplane; at least one shared contact making electrical contact with the common gate and with the common groundplane, the shared contact passing through the buried insulating layer or the isolation.
US10546926B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for fabricating a semiconductor device with selective oxidation. One method may include providing a semiconductor substrate including a stack of two semiconductor layers; depositing an insulating material on the semiconductor substrate; forming a set of fins; selectively oxidizing one of the semiconductor layers; forming a dummy gate structure and a set of spacers along the sides of the dummy gate structure; forming a source drain region adjacent to the dummy gate structure; removing the dummy gate structure; and releasing the selectively oxidized semiconductor layer.
