US10726557B2
The current document is directed to methods and systems that acquire an image containing text with curved text lines to generate a corresponding corrected image in which the text lines are straightened and have a rectilinear organization. The method may include identifying a page sub-image within the text-containing image, generating a text-line-curvature model for the page sub-image that associates inclination angles with pixels in the page sub-image, generating local displacements, using the text-line-curvature model, for pixels in the page sub-image, and transferring pixels from the page sub-image to a corrected page-sub-image using the local displacements to construct a corrected page sub-image in which the text lines are straightened and in which the text characters and symbols have a rectilinear arrangement.
US10726555B2
A system for registering and segmenting images includes an image scanner configured to acquire an image pair including a first image at a first time and a second image at a second time that is after the first time. A joint registration and segmentation server receives the image pair from the image scanner and simultaneously performs joint registration and segmentation on the image pair using a single deep learning framework. A computer vision processor receives an output of the joint registration and segmentation server and characterizes how a condition has progressed from the first time to the second time therefrom. A user terminal presents the characterization to a user.
US10726549B2
Operating a medical X-ray apparatus to create a fluoroscopy includes capturing a first X-ray image of a vascular tree as a vascular mask, and segmenting the first X-ray image into at least one image area with the vascular tree and at least one image area without the vascular tree. An intensity of the first X-ray image for the image area with the vascular tree is ascertained as a vascular mask intensity. A second X-ray image of a medical component introduced into the vascular tree is created as a component image. An intensity of the second X-ray image for an image area with the medical component is ascertained as a component intensity. A ratio of component intensity and vascular tree intensity is calculated, and an overlay image with the first and the second X-ray image is generated depending on the calculated ratio of the vascular mask intensity and the component intensity.
US10726546B2
A network is machine trained to estimate flow by spatial location based on input of anatomy information. A medical scan of tissue may be used to generate flow information without the delay or difficulty of performing a medical scan configured for flow imaging or CFD. Anatomy imaging is used to provide flow estimates with the speed provided by the machine-learned network.
US10726541B2
A defect inspecting apparatus includes a reference image generator configured to generate a first reference image and a second reference image from design layout data. An image inspector is configured to obtain a first inspection image of a first inspection region of a photomask and a second inspection image of a second inspection region of the photomask. An operation processor is configured to extract a first coordinate offset by comparing the first inspection image with the first reference image and to extract a second coordinate offset by comparing the second inspection image with the second reference image.
US10726532B2
A method, system and computer program product for measuring non-uniformity noise produced in images or videos (e.g., infrared images or videos). Images or videos, such as infrared images or videos, are captured. A model of scene statistics (statistical model of pictures, images or videos representative of pictures, images or videos, respectively, that are captured of the physical world) is utilized to measure the non-uniformity noise in the captured images or videos by exploiting exhibited characteristics for non-uniformity noise in the captured images or videos. A number signifying a magnitude of non-uniformity for each image or video frame is then generated. In this manner, non-uniformity noise produced in images or videos is measured.
US10726528B2
According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a characteristic point detecting unit configured to detect a plurality of characteristic points in a first image and a second image imaged with two cameras having angles of view or angular velocity of line scan different from each other, a characteristic point pair determining unit configured to determine a plurality of characteristic point pairs between the first image and the second image from the detected plurality of characteristic points, a mapping parameter calculating unit configured to calculate a first parameter indicating mapping between the first image and the second image, and a distortion parameter calculating unit configured to obtain a second parameter indicating distortion of the first image and the second image from the first parameter.
US10726524B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for generating real-time bokeh in images. An example method may include receiving an image, partitioning the image into a plurality of tiles, and designating each of the plurality of tiles as one of a fully foreground tile, a fully background tile, and a mixed tile. Either the fully background tiles or the fully foreground tiles may be processed using a tile-based filtering operation to generate a number of replacement tiles, and the mixed tiles may be processed to generate a number of replacement mixed tiles. An output image nay be generated based on the replacement tiles, the replacement mixed tiles, and either unaltered fully foreground tiles or unaltered fully background tiles.
US10726522B2
A method for correcting an image divides an output image into a grid with vertical sections of width smaller than the image width but wide enough to allow efficient bursts when writing distortion corrected line sections into memory. A distortion correction engine includes a relatively small amount of memory for an input image buffer but without requiring unduly complex control. The input image buffer accommodates enough lines of an input image to cover the distortion of a single most vertically distorted line section of the input image. The memory required for the input image buffer can be significantly less than would be required to store all the lines of a distorted input image spanning a maximal distortion of a complete line within the input image.
US10726513B2
An information bearing device comprising a data bearing pattern, the data bearing pattern comprising M×N pattern defining elements which are arranged to define a set of characteristic spatial distribution properties (Îu,vM,N(x,y)), wherein the set of data comprises a plurality of discrete data and each said discrete data (ui,vi) has an associated data bearing pattern which is characteristic of said discrete data, and the set of characteristic spatial distribution properties is due to the associated data bearing patterns of said plurality of discrete data, wherein said discrete data and the associated data bearing pattern of said discrete data is related by a characteristic relation function (βk1,k2ui,vi(x,y), the characteristic relation function defining spatial distribution properties of said associated data bearing pattern according to said discrete data (ui,vi) and a characteristic parameter (k) that is independent of said discrete data.
US10726511B2
Rights holders such as copyright owners want to keep track of copying of printed materials owned by them. That information can be used to check if the person copying has a license. Alternatively, the information can be used for billing. In some countries, an intermediary such as a copyright agency may facilitate the tracking of such copying and the compensation of the rights holders. This system automates the process by monitoring copiers, matching copied images to materials owned by rights holders, and recording such copying actions including the identifier of the copier, the copying person, the number of copies, and the matched materials. Alternatively, the system may prevent the copying if there is no permission by the rights holders.
US10726502B2
A system may include a profile module and a network interface module. The profile module may be configured to generate a first profile of a user of a social network based, at least in part, on first characteristics related to the user and a second profile of the user based, at least in part, on second characteristics related to the user, at least one of the first plurality of characteristics being the same as at least one of the second characteristics and at least one of the first characteristics being different from at least one of the second characteristics. The network interface module may be configured to transmit the first profile to a device of a third party based on the third party meeting a first criterion and the second profile to a device of the third party based on the third party meeting a second criterion.
US10726498B1
Methods and systems for determining fault for an accident involving a vehicle having one or more autonomous (and/or semi-autonomous) operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, operating data from sensors within or near the vehicle may be used to determine the occurrence of a vehicle accident, such as a collision. The operating data may further be used to determine an allocation of fault for the accident between a vehicle operator, the autonomous operation features, or a third party. The allocation of fault may be used to adjust risk levels or profiles associated with the vehicle operator or with the autonomous operation features.
US10726496B2
A computer system includes a data storage module. The data storage module receives, stores, and provides access to data related to payment requests submitted to an insurance company by service providers. The data storage module is coupled to a computer processor. Also coupled to the computer processor are a program memory, an input device and an output device. The input device is used to input information to identify a first service provider. The display device is used to display data about other service providers who are associated with the same insurance claims as the first service provider. The data displayed about the other service providers includes taxpayer identification numbers (TINs).
US10726495B1
Peril analysis is performed for carsharing insurance, i.e., peer-to-peer vehicle sharing insurance. The peril analysis is used to calculate the rate of and/or price insurance for carsharing. A renter may purchase insurance for carsharing (fully, as a supplement or going above and beyond a standard offering, or filling a gap between the minimal level a carsharing company provides and what a driver desires to provide for himself and vehicle's occupants, including comprehensive, collision, or a combination) using a mobile device, an embedded device, a vehicle, or an in-dash unit in the vehicle.
US10726490B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods discussed herein provide insurance claims adjusters with the ability to quickly label numerous photographs associated with an insurance claim. For instance, a photograph label claims tool may be installed on a computing device of the insurance claims adjuster. The photograph label claims tool may facilitate labeling and formatting of photographs taken by the insurance claims adjuster of damaged property items, which may be used to settle an insurance claim. The photograph label claims tool may then generate a document (e.g., a PDF) including each of the labeled photographs and transmit the document to an insurance provider.
US10726489B1
Signals-based data syndication and collaboration is disclosed. A data store of insurance related data collected from a plurality of carriers is accessed. A pattern is identified based at least in part on data stored in the data store. The pattern is associated with a first set of insurance related data belonging to a first carrier and with a second set of insurance related data belonging to a second carrier. First and second users associated with the first and second carriers are notified, respectively, of the identified pattern. Consent from the first user to share at least a portion of the first set of insurance related data and consent from the second user to share at least a portion of the second set of insurance related data are obtained. At least a portion of the second set of insurance related data that the second user has consented to share is caused to be presented to the first user. At least a portion of the first set of insurance related data that the first user has consented to share is caused to be presented to the second user.
US10726487B2
A system and method for generating and displaying annotations in relation to one or more prices corresponding to trader-related or market related events are described. In one embodiment, a trader may enter an annotation to be displayed in relation to one or more price levels. Alternatively, a trader may configure a dynamic annotation to be dynamically displayed in relation to some price level(s) upon detecting a predetermined event related to one or more tradeable objects. Also, a trader may configure one or more alarms to be displayed or played in combination with the annotations.
US10726482B2
A system and method for defining and processing timed orders are defined. According to one embodiment, a trader may define a timed order by defining an intra-day time trigger or a time period when the timed order should be automatically modified, such as deleted or cancelled/replaced with a new order. In one embodiment, the intra-day time trigger or time period may be dynamically changed to a later time, for example, upon receiving a predetermined user input. Also, the time trigger and time period may be configured to dynamically vary based on any user configurable formula. Also, the timed order may be associated with one or more actions to be taken once the order is deleted, such as sending a new order, for example.
US10726477B1
In an example implementation, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, borrower information, requested financing plan information, and credit bureau information relating to a particular borrower. Likewise, a method includes processing at least one of the received information to identify a subset of lenders as potential candidates to approve a loan for the particular borrower and generate an offer of the loan for the borrower. Further, the method includes performing a portfolio assignment process and generating electronic documents relating to the loan following the borrower's acceptance of the offer. Finally, the method includes sending an offer of the loan to a borrower and, upon receipt of the borrower's acceptance, transmitting the loan documents to the borrower.
US10726474B2
Online products and priorities of the online products are obtained, where the online products are waiting to be displayed on a product shelf. The product shelf includes at least two display slots, where each display slot of the at least two display slots displays one online product. An attention ranking of each display slot is determined based on a distance between each display slot and a visual center of the product shelf. An online product is displayed with a higher obtained priority in a particular display slot with a greater determined attention ranking.
US10726467B2
A food storage container, such as a smart-refrigerator, a freezer, and/or another storage space with a computer is leveraged to monitor and determine an ecological footprint associated with food being stored and consumed. Additionally, user behavior associated with the purchase and consumption efficiency of consumer goods is used to generate recommendations to reduce the ecological footprint can be generated for a user.
US10726462B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for customizing component configurations used in utility computing. A selection of a subset of a set of hardware components is received from a customer. A request is received from the customer to allocate a customized computing device within a networked plurality of computing devices. The customized computing device includes the subset of the set of hardware components. Responsive to the request, the customized computing device is assembled and then installed on a network in a data center.
US10726461B2
A system and method of completing an activity via an agent. The agent is embodied as agent software, which facilitates and/or performs activities on behalf of a user. The agent software may have a characteristic persona that it presents to the user in the form of an avatar on a display. The agent software may be part of a computer program stored in a memory and executed by a processor of a smartphone or other computer.
US10726459B2
Systems and methods for providing a merchant-customer engagement system include a physical merchant location in which a customer may be tracked to determine products within the physical merchant location that the customer is interested in. A merchant may use a wearable merchant device that is configured to identify the customer via a camera that captures an image of the customer, and that image may be used to retrieve customer account information for that customer. Using the customer account information and the products that the customer is showing interest in, the wearable merchant device may be used to display merchant-customer engagement information next to a view of the customer to allow the merchant to help the customer while utilizing a variety of displayed information about the customer including, for example, past purchases, products browsed in-store and previously browsed online, time spent in an area of the physical merchant location, etc.
US10726457B2
The present disclosure systems and methods for providing a repair quote for a car including damage associated with a user. The system is configured to receive information from a user, such as photos of a damaged car, wherein the system generates and/or retrieves the repair quote associated with repairing the damage. As a result, the user does not need to physically take the damaged car to an automobile repair company to retrieve a repair quote.
US10726453B1
When a content item is initially served to a client device, the content item may result in an impression effect. As time elapses, the initial impression may fade. Such a decay of the impression effect may be predicted through the use of a predictive model. In some implementations, one or more impression effect parameters may be accessed and used with the predictive model to determine a decay factor or predicted value that incorporates the impression effect decay for a content item. A value, such as a score, may be determined based on the decay factor or the predicted value and a bid associated with a content item. A content item may be selected based on the determined value and data to effect presentation of the content item may be provided.
US10726432B2
A method is provided to identify availability of a user and to prompt the user about a survey which is due on the user. The identification of availability is based on defined behavior patterns of the user. The survey is split into small components and provided to the user via multiple messaging applications.
US10726425B2
A system for generating a customized communication with a customer is described, and includes: a near field communication (NFC) reader for receiving, from the customer, a request for an interaction; an input device for receiving an input from the customer, wherein the input includes a customer credential; a processor for: receiving a request, from a near field communication (NFC) enabled device, for an interaction with a customer; requesting a valid customer credential from the customer; receiving an input from the customer in response to a request for the valid customer credential to achieve a received customer credential; determining a validity of the received customer credential; and generating, after the determining the validity of the received customer credential, client information customized for the customer based upon a customer account linked to a determined valid customer credential to achieve a generated customized client information.
US10726421B1
Technologies for managing payment authorization request messaging for payment transactions include a transaction management controller for receiving a transaction amount for a payment transaction from a business management engine and payment card data for the payment transaction from a point of interaction device. The transaction management controller inserts the transaction amount and the payment card data into a payment authorization request message, which is transmitted to a payment network. A payment authorization response message is received from the payment network and transmitted by the transaction management controller the business management engine. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10726416B2
The present invention provides a method for conducting a transaction that includes receiving a pseudo account identifier that corresponds to a primary account identifier. The pseudo account identifier may be received at a portable wireless device and may be generated by a remote server computer. The portable wireless device can receive the pseudo account identifier over a first network and provide the pseudo account identifier to an access device. The access devices generally comprises a reader that can receive the pseudo account identifier, and thereafter send a message to request authorization of a transaction. The authorization request message may include the pseudo account identifier and is sent to a payment processing network. The authorization request message is sent to the payment processing network over a second network. The payment processing network may then process the authorization message and return a response that indicates if the transaction is authorized or not.
US10726404B2
Techniques are described for facilitating use of invocable services by applications in a configurable manner. In at least some situations, the invocable services are Web services or other network-accessible services that are made available by providers of the services for use by others in exchange for fees defined by the service providers. The described techniques facilitate use of such invocable services by applications in a manner configured by the application providers and the service providers, including to track use of third-party invocable services by applications on behalf of end users and to allocate fees that are charged end users between the applications and the services as configured by the providers of the applications and services. In some situations, the configured pricing terms for a service specify fees for end users that differ in one or more ways from the defined fees charged by the provider of that service.
US10726403B2
The present invention describes the system of centralized toll identification, payment and monitoring, which uses geo-location enabled devices such as mobile phone, pager or wireless connected laptops to do so. The invention receives the series of readings, distributed over the length of the toll road, by Location Based Services (LBS) provided by geo-enabled devices along with geo-location database lookup and statistical algorithms to accurately identify whether the vehicle is travelling on toll road, distance travelled by the vehicle on toll road and accordingly calculate and deduct charge by online mode. Using such system, person can do the payment of toll when passing through toll road area directly from his geo-location enabled devices without any intervention of any attendant and simultaneously police can use the toll data from the centralized toll system for enforcement.
US10726393B2
Systems, methods and/or services that allocate and schedules appointments based on supply and demand. In an example, a method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to: gather information of a plurality of suppliers from one or more external sources, prior to a registration process for scheduling an appointment request from a consumer; validate the gathered information of the plurality of suppliers; receive a request from the consumer for scheduling of an appointment with one or more of the plurality of suppliers which meet consumer criteria; enable swapping, purchasing and auctioning of appointments; enable virtual visits and virtual visit queues for on demand virtual appointments; provide system agnostic calendar integration, and provide available suppliers to the consumer based on the consumer criteria.
US10726391B1
The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for delivering personalized content to a customer. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing notifications related to the needs of a customer. A content management system may determine the needs of a customer as they relate to relevant products and/or services offered by one or more business entities, determine and prioritize actions that may fulfill these needs, and deliver personalized content to the customer based on the customer's information. Accordingly, the systems and techniques provided herein may improve the efficiency and reduce the time involved with delivering effective content to a customer.
US10726386B1
Systems and methods are provided for conducting inventories using an electronic device. For example, the systems and methods herein may facilitate conducting inventories, e.g., for inventorying food products and/or other supplies for a restaurant. Such systems and methods may involve using an electronic device, such as a wireless and/or mobile devices, e.g., a smart cellular telephone, a tablet computer, and the like. In addition, the electronic device may be included in a system that records inventories, deliveries, and the like, and compares them to previous inventories, sales, and the like, e.g. to project future orders for supplies, to identify losses, such as waste or theft, and the like.
US10726378B2
An example system is provided in according with one implementation of the present disclosure. The system includes a first sensor positioned at a storage structure displaying an item, where the first sensor is to capture vibration data in proximity to the item. The system further includes a location analysis engine to perform a location analysis of a user, an identity analysis engine to perform an identity analysis of the user, a user interaction engine to perform an interaction analysis of the user's interaction with the item based on the vibration data from the first sensor, and a collaboration engine to perform a collaboration analysis related to the item based on the location analysis of the user, the identity analysis of the user, and the user interaction analysis with the item.
US10726375B2
A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of product unit specific indicators, each operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedence of at least one threshold by at least one product quality determining parameter, an indicator reader operative to read the product unit specific indicators and to provide output indications and a product type specific indication interpreter operative to receive the output indications and to provide human sensible, product unit specific, product quality status outputs.
US10726371B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for concurrent production use of an enterprise system and testing of a modified enterprise system. Actions include receiving a test schema that provides one or more application views to application tables of production data in a database, at least one application view including a read-only view, providing one or more local tables for local test data provided during execution of the modified enterprise system, providing one or more triggers to the at least one application view, and executing the enterprise system based on a production database schema and concurrently executing the modified enterprise system based on the test database schema.
US10726363B2
Examples of techniques for ticket event modification for a ticket for a problem tracking system are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include: generating the ticket, the ticket comprising a ticket event; presenting the ticket comprising the ticket event to a user on a display; responsive to receiving a request from the user to modify the ticket event, modifying the ticket event while preserving an unmodified ticket event; and presenting the ticket comprising the modified ticket event to the user.
US10726362B2
The dynamic complexity and the operational risk inherent in a system are defined and incorporated into a mathematical model of the system. The mathematical model is emulated to predict the states of instability that can occur within the operation of the system. Dynamic complexity of a service is demonstrated where there is an observed effect where the cause can be multiple and seemingly inter-related effects of a many-to-one or many-to-many relationship. Having assessed the dynamic complexity efficiency and the operational risk index of a service (e.g., a business, process or information technology), these indexes can be employed to emulate all attributes of a service, thereby determining how a service responds in multiple states of operation, the states where the dynamic complexity of a service can occur, optimal dynamic complexity efficiency of a service, and the singularities wherein a service becomes unstable.
US10726356B1
Respective statistical distributions of a target variable within a proposed training data set and a proposed test data set for a machine learning model are obtained. A metric indicative of the difference between the two statistical distributions is computed. The difference metric is used to determine whether the proposed test data set is acceptable to evaluate the machine learning model.
US10726344B2
A diagnosis support apparatus which supports diagnosis based on information associated with a diagnosis name in advance is provided. In the diagnosis support apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires the diagnosis name set by a user. A providing unit provides negative information for the diagnosis name set by the user based on the information. With the above arrangement, the diagnosis support apparatus selects and presents information influencing the diagnosis name expected by the user, thereby efficiently presenting information required by the user.
US10726339B2
Systems and methods for recognizing an analogous case from a knowledge base including a plurality of candidate cases are disclosed. The system may include a data receiver to receive a representation of a target case, and a microprocessor coupled to the data receiver to generate a plurality of target attributes from the representation of the target case. The microprocessor may query the knowledge base to recognize the analogous case similar to the target case in information content using the target attributes and a plurality of attribute memories each including first and second attributes and an inter-attribute contextual representation of interactions between the first and second attributes in a context of the plurality of candidate cases. The system may include an output circuit to output the recognized analogous case to a user or a process.
US10726338B2
Mechanisms for automatically modifying a set of instructions based on an expanded domain specific knowledge base are provided. The mechanisms generate a domain specific knowledge base comprising a set of entities and corresponding domain specific attributes and expand the domain specific knowledge base to include values for the domain specific attributes through an automated bootstrap learning process that performs natural language processing and analysis of natural language content using a set of pre-condition annotated action terms. The mechanisms receive electronic content comprising an initial set of instructions to perform an operation and evaluate the initial set of instructions based on the expanded domain specific knowledge base to identify a missing instruction. The mechanisms modify the initial set of instructions to include an additional instruction based on the missing instruction and thereby generate a modified set of instructions.
US10726336B2
A compression coding apparatus for artificial neural network, including memory interface unit, instruction cache, controller unit and computing unit, wherein the computing unit is configured to perform corresponding operation to data from the memory interface unit according to instructions of controller unit; the computing unit mainly performs three steps operation: step one is to multiply input neuron by weight data; step two is to perform adder tree computing and add the weighted output neuron obtained in step one level-by-level via adder tree, or add bias to output neuron to get biased output neuron; step three is to perform activation function operation to get final output neuron. The present disclosure also provides a method for compression coding of multi-layer neural network.
US10726333B2
A topic guidance method, system, and computer program product for suggesting, via a processor on a computer, a conversation topic for the agent to engage the customer based on a learned conversation topic model, the conversation model being a static model.
US10726332B2
A method and apparatus for generating a training model based on feedback are provided. The method for generating a training model based an feedback, includes calculating an eigenvector of a sample among a plurality of samples; obtaining scores granted by a user for one or more of the plurality of samples in a round, obtaining scores granted by the user for a first number of samples; obtaining scores granted by the user for a second number of samples in response to detecting, based on the eigenvector, an inconsistency between the scores granted by the user for the first number of samples; and generating a training model based on the scores granted by the user for the first and second numbers of samples. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.
US10726322B2
A wireless communication device is provided that has an RFIC element including first and second terminal electrodes, a first radiation electrode connected to the first terminal electrode of the RFIC element, a second radiation electrode disposed in the same layer as the first radiation electrode independently of the first radiation electrode and connected to the second terminal electrode of the RFIC element, and a back surface electrode disposed oppositely to the second radiation electrode at a distant and connected to the second radiation electrode. Moreover, an area of a portion of the back surface electrode opposite to the first radiation electrode is smaller than an area of a portion of the back surface electrode opposite to the second radiation electrode.
US10726318B2
An image forming apparatus can facilitate a determination whether a sheet having an image formed thereon, which is discharged by a designated processed job, is allowed to be taken out or not. The image forming apparatus determines whether or not the sheet having the image formed thereon discharged by the designated processed job is stacked on a stacking unit on which the sheet having the image formed thereon discharged by a job currently performing image forming processing, based on stack state information which can be updated in real time. When a sheet having the image formed thereon is not allowed to be taken out, the image of the portion corresponding the sheet is highlighted. Further, a waiting time is displayed on the display.
US10726317B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for adding content in a page of an electronic document without moving current content to a next page of the electronic document. A first electronic document, a position information of a page of the first electronic document where a new content need to be added, and at least one of the new content and a second electronic document including the new content are received at an MFD. A required space for adding the new content and an available space between lines of the page are estimated. The available space and the required space are compared to check whether the available space is more than the required space. Based on the comparison, the lines of the page are re-positioned, and the new content is added on the page based on the position information to generate an updated first electronic document including the added new content.
US10726314B2
By performing Natural Language Processing (NLP) on a comment to a social media post, an entity that is referenced in the comment is extracted. The entity is an object other than a human face that is depicted in an image in the post. The image is analyzed to determine whether the entity is represented in the image. When the entity is represented in the image, a sentiment value of the comment is computed relative to the entity. A value corresponding to the sentiment value is assigned to a characteristic of a graphical artifact. A position is determined relative to an area occupied by the entity in the image. The graphical artifact is caused to be overlaid on the image at the position and with the value of the characteristic.
US10726308B2
In some examples, image content moderation may include classifying, based on a learning model, an object displayed in an image into a category. Further, image content moderation may include detecting, based on another learning model, the object, refining the detected object based on a label, and determining, based on the another learning model, a category for the refined detected object. Further, image content moderation may include identifying, based on the label, a keyword associated with the object, and determining, based on the identified keyword, a category for the object. Further, image content moderation may include categorizing, based on a set of rules, the object into a category, and moderating image content by categorizing, based on aforementioned analysis the object into a category. Yet further, image content moderation may include tagging, based on fusion-based tagging, the object with a category and a color associated with the object.
US10726284B2
A calculation device, for the selection and the description of points of interest in at least one image decomposed into a plurality of strips, includes a first module for selecting and indexing points of interest from among a set of points of interest detected in the image, the first module being configured to select, in each strip, at most a fixed number P of candidate points of interest, and associate a unique index with them, a second module for managing calculation of descriptors for the candidate points of interest, the first module being configured to transmit the candidate points of interest and their index to the second module immediately at the end of the processing of K lines of a strip, with K an integer number greater than or equal to 1 and strictly less than the number of lines per strip.
US10726281B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for user and moving vehicle detection in which sensor data for a portable device is processed to determine whether the portable device is in a moving vehicle. Following a determination the portable device is in a moving vehicle, the sensor data is to characterize an association between the user and the portable device to determine whether the portable device is connected to the user. If the user is connected to the portable device, it is then determined if the portable device is being held in hand. If the portable device is held in hand, it is then determined if the user is operating the moving vehicle. Output from an image sensor of the portable device may be used in determining if the user is the operator.
US10726262B2
Specifying information for specifying a surrounding inspection target which is an inspection target present in a predetermined range with respect to the imaging terminal is acquired from the imaging terminal. The surrounding inspection target is specified among the plurality of inspection targets on the basis of the specifying information. It is evaluated whether or not there is an image acquisition area in which acquisition of a new captured image is necessary for the surrounding inspection target on the basis of a result of accessing a database that stores maintenance and inspection information including at least a captured image for each of the plurality of inspection targets and referring to the maintenance and inspection information of the surrounding inspection target. Image acquisition area information indicating the image acquisition area in which the acquisition of a new captured image is evaluated to be necessary is output to the imaging terminal.
US10726259B2
A method of iris recognition comprises detecting a body region larger than and comprising at least one iris in an image and performing a first eye modelling on the detected body region. If successful, the result of first iris segmentation based on the first eye model is chosen. Otherwise, a first iris identification is performed on the detected body region. If successful, the result of second iris segmentation based on a second eye modelling is chosen. Otherwise, second iris identification is performed on the image, third eye modelling is performed on the result of the second iris identification, and third iris segmentation is performed on the result of the third eye modelling. If successful, the result of third iris segmentation based on a third eye modelling is chosen. An iris code is extracted from any selected iris segment of the image.
US10726249B2
A method and an electronic apparatus for wave detection are provided. The method is adapted to the electronic apparatus having an image capturing device and a processor, and includes following steps: successively capturing a plurality of images; calculating a difference image between each two adjacent images among the images, and determining whether a variation degree of the difference images is over a predetermined degree according to pixel values of a plurality of pixels in the difference images; if the variation degree is over the predetermined degree, detecting a variation range formed by the pixels having the pixels values to which a predetermined variation is occurred in each of the difference images and determining whether a variation frequency of the pixel values within the detected variation range is over a predetermined frequency; and if the variation frequency is over the predetermined frequency, determining that a wave movement appears in the images.
US10726246B1
Implementations include actions of receiving consumer-specific data and ID-specific data from an identification presented by a consumer to a vending machine, processing at least a portion of the ID-specific data to determine one or more of whether the identification is unexpired and whether the identification is authentic, and serving the consumer from the vending machine at least partially in response to determining that the identification is unexpired and that the identification is authentic and determining that the consumer is authentic relative to the identification.
US10726238B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a plurality of light-emitting devices; a plurality of fingerprint recognition sensors; a plurality of pixel driving circuits each corresponding to one of the plurality of light-emitting devices; and a light-emitting scan driving circuit for controlling whether or not the plurality of light-emitting devices emit light. The light-emitting scan driving circuit is used to output a first pulse signal to a corresponding pixel driving circuit during a fingerprint recognition time phase, and to output a second pulse signal to a corresponding pixel driving circuit during a non-fingerprint recognition time phase. A period of the first pulse signal is different from a period of the second pulse signal.
US10726234B2
A fingerprint sensing unit includes a substrate; a buffer layer disposed on the substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the buffer layer; an insulating layer disposed on the buffer layer and that has an opening that exposes at least a portion of the buffer layer; and a sensing electrode disposed on the portion of the buffer layer that is exposed by the opening, where the sensing electrode is connected to the thin film transistor. A display device that includes the fingerprint sensing unit can reduce internal reflection of external light.
US10726228B2
A semiconductor device comprising a fingerprint sensor configured to generate first-direction sensing data and second-direction sensing data by sensing a fingerprint image in a first direction and a second direction, respectively, which is perpendicular to the first direction; a differential sensing circuit configured to generate first-direction first differential data and second-direction first differential data by performing a differential operation on the first-direction sensing data and the second-direction sensing data, respectively; and a fingerprint processing circuit configured to generate first-direction second differential data and second-direction second differential data by performing a differential operation on the first-direction first differential data and the second-direction first differential data, respectively, and generate fingerprint data by adding the first-direction second differential data and the second-direction second differential data.
US10726189B2
A static timing analysis controller includes a feedback loop identification module that identifies invariable flip flop feedback loops of an integrated circuit design, and adds the identified feedback loops to false path lists. The static timing analysis controller then performs timing update operations and identifies hold violations based on the invariable flip flop feedback loops included in the false path list. In turn, the static timing analysis controller identifies reduced or less pessimistic numbers of hold violations, resulting in fewer buffers added to the integrated circuit design.
US10726182B1
Disclosed approaches involve simulating a circuit design specified in a hardware description language (HDL). During simulation, a thread is started at an edge of a simulation clock signal for evaluation of states of a finite state machine (FSM) that represent a series of events specified in a statement in the HDL. The thread transitions from one state to a next state in the FSM in response to evaluation of the one state. In response to encountering a fork state in the FSM, the thread is forked into two threads during simulation. The fork state represents a composite operator in the statement, and the FSM has a branch from the fork state for each operand of the composite operator. In response to encountering a join state in the FSM by the two threads, the two threads are joined into one thread.
US10726175B1
A memory optimization method includes identifying, within a circuit design, a memory having an arithmetic operator at an output side and/or an input side of the memory. The memory may include a read-only memory (ROM). In some examples, an input of the arithmetic operator includes a constant value. In some embodiments, the memory optimization method further includes absorbing a function of the arithmetic operator into the memory. By way of example, the absorbing the function includes modifying contents of the memory based on the function of the arithmetic operator to provide an updated memory and removing the arithmetic operator from the circuit design.
US10726167B2
Methods and apparatus for determining a direction of interest based upon polar coordinates derived from wireless communication between wireless transceivers. A smart device assembly is operative to communicate via multiple antennas with a reference point transceiver. A set of polar coordinates is generated indicating a relative position and angle of the wireless transceiver in relation to the reference position transceiver. A query may be made based upon the relative position and angle of the wireless transceiver in relation to the reference position transceiver. A response to the query may include a human readable interface indicating one or more of: direction of travel, a virtual image based upon location and location and direction, and annotative and pictorial information.
US10726164B2
Systems and methods are provided to allow advertisers to make ads available to publishers through an advertising system. The advertising system provides tamper proof tracking of conversion activity between publishers and advertisers. Further, advertisers can define plural different conversions to be associated with a single ad click through.
US10726161B2
An information processing device that receives, from another information processing device, a communication message generated based on recency information and control data, includes: a recency information generation unit that generates the recency information; and a recency information management unit that extracts the recency information from the received communication message.
US10726157B2
A method of securing user data provided through a webpage includes receiving an electronic file defining a webpage displayable by a computer. The webpage is initially configured to present an input field for receiving user data from a user, and instruct the computer to transmit the user data to a defined server. The method includes executing code that causes the computer to reconfigure the webpage to present a replacement field for receiving the user data from the user instead of the input field; and upon receiving user data in the replacement field, transmit said user data to a secured server instead of the defined server. The secured server may tokenize the data. The computer receives token data from the secured server; and transmits the token data instead of the user data to the defined server.
US10726151B2
The invention provides methods and apparatus for securing personalized or sensitive information appearing in digital images. Digital images containing information to be secured is processed and divided into a plurality of image cells. At least one image cell from the plurality of image cells is selected and redacted or altered to render the information to be secured with the selected image cells indecipherable. The invention also provides methods and apparatus for transmitting or streaming unredacted image cells alone or in combination with redacted image cells for secured viewing on a user browser or computer.
US10726149B2
A system for providing sensor data analysis to a plurality of users is disclosed. The system includes comprising an interface for receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors distributed over a plurality of localities, a locality being associated with one or more sensors; a data storage configured to store said sensor data in association with a plurality of nodes, one node being associated to one locality, and sensor data from one specific sensor being associated to the corresponding node, and to store for each node a relationship to itself and to all its sub-nodes as part of a hierarchical structure of said nodes; and a processing entity configured to run one or more instances for each of a plurality of users, each instance accessing said data storage for analyzing the sensor data in response to a user request.
US10726140B2
A method may include receiving a first record associated with a first configuration item from a first data source and a second record associated with a second configuration item from a second data source; identifying a relationship between the first configuration item and the second configuration item based on the first record and the second record; identifying a relationship rule governing the relationship between the first configuration item and the second configuration item; determining that the relationship between the first configuration item and the second configuration item is inconsistent with the relationship rule; remediating the relationship between the first configuration item and the second configuration item such that the relationship is consistent with the relationship rule; and allowing the first record and the second record to be stored in the configuration management database in response to remediating the relationship.
US10726138B2
An unauthorization determination system includes a memory device that is mounted in a vehicle and includes a predetermined non-access area, a connection device mounted in the vehicle and configured to be connected to the external device in a wired or wireless manner, and an ECU configured to, in a case where access to the non-access area is requested from the external device or in a case where the non-access area is accessed by the external device, determine that the access from the external device is unauthorized.
US10726121B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to provide a sandboxed code execution in a virtualized environment. The example apparatus includes a closure service to receive an input related to code for execution and generate a closure to trigger execution of the code within the apparatus. The example apparatus includes an image service to monitor container hosts and associated container images. The example image service is to expedite code execution on a container host having a prepared container image and to generate an execution container image on a second container host not having a container image. The container host is to form a host environment for the prepared container image. The prepared container image is to spawn a container to execute the code. The container is to execute the code and keep code execution and result inside the container. The code execution and result inside the container do not affect operation of the apparatus.
US10726116B2
In a biometrics system for a building entrance unlocking or a bank account authentication, reference information registered under administration by the system is transmitted to a room or mobile-phone for private storage, with the original reference information deleted from the system. Biologic information gotten upon authentication is transmitted through wireless system to the room or mobile-phone for comparison with the reference, the result being returned to the system. Or, the reference is tentatively sent back to the system for comparison with the gotten biologic information. The biologic information sent to mobile-phone also includes health control information for storage and display. Mobile-phone also can receive blood pressure information at a waiting lounge of medical institution though wireless local communication even if the main power shut down. The communication between the biometrics system and the mobile-phone is encrypted. The system includes sensor unit and protection unit, the abnormality thereof being separately checked.
US10726110B2
Embodiments of the invention protect information stored in graph-based sequence references by “watermarking” the graph with uniquely identifiable information. The watermark identifies the graph or version thereof in a detectable but nonintrusive manner. In one embodiment, insertions and/or deletions are introduced into regions of the graph.
US10726109B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and system for identifying whether an application is genuine by means of digital watermarks, which can conveniently determine whether an application is genuine. The method comprises: extracting a first digital watermark from an executable file of an application to be identified; using two decompiling-then-compiling algorithms on the executable file so as to generate, respectively, a first compilation file and a second compilation file having a same file format as that of the executable file, and extracting, respectively, a second digital watermark and a third digital watermark from the first compilation file and the second compilation file; acquiring, respectively, similarity between the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark and similarity between the first digital watermark and the third digital watermark; and if the similarity between the first digital watermark and the third digital watermark is higher than the similarity between the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark, determining that the application to be identified is genuine, otherwise, determining that the application to be identified is pirated. The present application is applicable to a scenario for identifying whether an application is genuine.
US10726097B2
Systems for use with a medical device for reducing medical facility readmission risks are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a medical device that is configurable with operating limit parameters for providing testing or treatment to a patient, and a limiting system. The limiting system includes a memory that includes patient-specific information for the patient and a database that includes readmission risk information, and a processor. The processor is configured to compare readmission risk parameters with the patient-specific information, and provide a readmission risk score for integration with medical devices and processes corresponding to the patient. Methods and machine-readable media are also provided.
US10726094B2
A content distribution system includes: a server device that distributes a content; a display device capable of displaying the content; and a display control device that controls display of the content received from the server device on the display device, in which, in a case where the display control device receives the content from the server device, the display device displays an alternative content.
US10726081B2
A method includes receiving, at a processor of a computing device, a first search query during editing of a design, the first search query including at least a first search term. The method also includes identifying at least one style attribute associated with the design and searching at least one database based on the first search term, the at least one style attribute, or a combination thereof, to generate search results. The method further includes outputting the search results. A first search result of the search results is ranked higher than a second search result of the search results based on a determination that the first search result more closely matches the at least one style attribute associated with the design than the second search result.
US10726072B2
In an example, data in a non-flat format and metadata corresponding to the data are obtained from a first database. The data is flattened into flat data and augmented with the metadata. One or more pieces of the flat data are scanned to locate a first piece of flat data having a first attribute with attribute values that are a subset of attribute values of a second attribute of a second piece of flat data. A link is then created between the first attribute of the first piece of flat data and the second attribute of the second piece of flat data. A graph structure is generated, the graph structure containing a plurality of nodes, each node corresponding to a data type of the flat data and corresponding to one or more pieces of data in the flat data of the corresponding data type.
US10726071B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for predicting an outcome in response to a detected event. In one aspect, the method includes actions of maintaining a database of data records with a knowledge graph, receiving a stream of real-time data that includes data records, and from time-to-time as the real-time data is received: identifying a set of one or more attributes associated with a real-time event represented by one of the data records received, identifying a data record in the knowledge graph representing an event-outcome pair, determining that an event of the event-outcome pair has historically been associated with triggering an outcome of the event-outcome pair, and, executing a set of rules defining logic associated with the event-outcome pair specifying that the outcome will occur at a time that is subsequent to a time in which the one of the data records is received.
US10726064B2
A method for slide shows. The method includes receiving one or more video content element and one or more image content element that are each associated with a respective audio track, where a first video content element includes a corresponding first audio track and a second video content element includes a corresponding second audio track that is disabled or non-existent, receiving input selecting a background audio track for the slide show, and automatically integrating the video content element, the image content element, and the background audio track together into the slide show, where the background audio track is played during playback of the slide show when the computing device detects that there is no audio signal generated by another audio track in the slide show.
US10726059B1
An image captioning system and method is provided for generating a caption for an image. The image captioning system utilizes a policy network and a value network to generate the caption. The policy network serves as a local guidance and the value network serves as a global and lookahead guidance.
US10726053B2
Creating an object is disclosed. An instance of a sharable type is created. An instance of a lightweight type is created. The sharable type is designated as a parent of the lightweight type. The instance of the sharable type is designated as a parent of the instance of the lightweight type. One or more instances of the lightweight type share the instance of the sharable type.
US10726045B2
Implementations directed to reducing data flow between an AP, and a RPA platform include receiving, by a platform-specific adapter, a set of data records, providing a data change tuple including an identifier, and a hash value, providing a sub-set of data records from the second set of data records based on comparing hash values of data change tuples to a set of stored hash values, the sub-set of data records including fewer data records than the second set of data records, and each data record in the sub-set of data records including a change indicator, determining, by the platform-specific adapter, a tag for each data record in the sub-set of data records based on a respective change indicator, and transmitting a set of messages to the AP, the set of messages communicating tagged data records of the first set of data records, and the sub-set of data records.
US10726032B2
A case management system is configured to generate search templates based on selection of a search type and one or more data sources. As configured, the case management system enables execution of searches using the generated search template on synchronous and asynchronous data sources and provides periodic polling of the asynchronous data sources to generate consolidated search results.
US10726031B2
A computer implemented system and method for integrating and presenting heterogeneous information is envisaged. The system slices and dices information and enables the information to be depicted in the form of dashboards and reports by tying data points on different sources into an integrated solution, and also enables a user to select the information that he/she wants to view, thereby enabling real-time visibility, quick decision making and planning. The system allows easy interaction between teams to access and understand complex information quickly. The system of the present disclosure can integrate data spread across multiple domains, horizontals and verticals, and display the required result in a desired format. The system also has ability to restrict dashboards and reports to certain groups of users by means of profiling based on roles in the organization.
US10726026B2
The innovation relates to systems and/or methodologies for facilitating dynamic sustainability searches. A sustainability search component executes a query, and returns one or more results that satisfy a set of search criteria and a set of sustainability factors. The search criteria can include keywords, such as product types, process types, and additional features related to the keywords, such as price, location, brand, and so forth. The sustainability factors are alternative cost measures for a given process, product, or plant element. The sustainability search component can analyze the returned results, and rank the results based on sustainability.
US10726025B2
In an example, a plurality of user profiles in a social networking service are accessed. A heterogeneous graph structure having a plurality of nodes connected by edges is generated, each node corresponding to a different entity in the social networking service, each edge representing a co-occurrence of entities represented by nodes on each side of the edge in at least one of the user profiles. Weights are calculated for each edge of the heterogeneous graph structure, the weights being based on co-occurrence counts reflecting a number of user profiles in the plurality of user profiles in which corresponding nodes co-occurred. The heterogeneous graph structure is embedded into a d-dimensional space. A machine-learned model is then used to calculate a similarity score between a first node and second node by computing distance between the first node and the second node in the d¬-dimensional space.
US10726023B2
A system and method for generating modifiers for updated search queries are provided. In example embodiments, metadata is accessed, the metadata corresponds to search results of an input query and comprising a plurality of candidate modifiers. A score is calculated for each candidate based on a relevance value that indicates the correlation between a candidate modifier and the input query. A list of top number of candidate modifiers is generated based on the score of the candidate modifier transgressing a first threshold. A uniqueness score is calculated for combination pairs of candidate modifiers within the list, the uniqueness score being used to eliminate candidate modifiers. The list of top number of candidate modifiers is presented, at a user interface, according to a ranked order based on the score.
US10726019B2
Computer systems and methods incorporate user annotations (metadata) regarding various pages or sites, including annotations by a querying user and by members of a trust network defined for the querying user into search and browsing of a corpus such as the World Wide Web. A trust network is defined for each user, and annotations by any member of a first user's trust network are made visible to the first user during search and/or browsing of the corpus. Users can also limit searches to content annotated by members of their trust networks or by members of a community selected by the user.
US10726017B2
An administrator may wish to limit the number of tuples that may be spawned as a result of a first tuple entering an operator graph. A first stream operator may receive a first tuple in order to perform an operation on the first tuple to generate a second tuple. The first stream operator may determine whether it is permitted to generate the second tuple by comparing the first tuple's tuple spawn counts to a tuple creation policy. If the first stream operator is permitted to generate the second tuple, the first stream operator may perform the operation on the first tuple and generate the second tuple.
US10726013B2
An information processing device includes a statistical value holding unit configured to hold a statistical value of data included in each of two or more blocks into which a data set is divided; a query history holding unit configured to hold information about a past query on the data set as a query history; an estimation unit configured to, based on the query history, estimate a block size that minimizes an average cost of deriving an answer to a query by using the statistical value of at least one of the blocks; and a block creation unit configured to, based on the block size estimated by the estimation unit, create two or more blocks by dividing the data set, calculate the statistical value for each of the created blocks and cause the statistical value holding unit to hold the calculated statistical values.
US10726007B2
Constructing a heavy hitter summary for query optimization. The heavy hitter summary is constructed by sampling each of multiple partitions of a dataset using a uniformed sampling rate. For each partition, performing a two-stage heavy hitter estimation process to determine whether an estimated frequency of a key of the sampled data units may be included in a partition-level heavy hitter summary. Constructing a partition-level heavy hitter summary for each partition of the dataset based on the keys determined via the two-stage process, and constructing a dataset-level heavy hitter summary based on the partition-level heavy hitter summary. The dataset-level heavy hitter summary may be used to optimize query trees.
US10726004B2
A method for facilitating a mainframe batch COBOL program to read from a cloud database is provided. The method includes receiving a first search predicate and a second search predicate from an extended language pre-compiler, the extended language pre-compiler parsing a user query written as a SQL query, building a cloud database format query based on the first search predicate and the second search predicate, transmitting the cloud database format query to the cloud database to extract data stored on the cloud database associated with the user query, and receiving the extracted data from the cloud database in a Java Script Object Notation (JSON) format.
US10725998B2
A Distributed Availability Group (DAG) spans two AGs, each spanning one or more replica nodes and functioning as primary or secondary AG. A primary AG is replicated to the secondary AG synchronously or asynchronously. A failover in the DAG results in the AGs swapping their roles. Multiple DAGs can be linked together as a chain, which provides many useful features including disaster recovery across geographical regions, massive read scale (numerous readable secondary nodes), online migration of databases (across different operating systems and computing environments). The systems using DAGs can replicate databases across multiple independent high availability (HA) failover clusters using complex replication topologies and allow for manual failover and failback. The systems allow chaining of multiple AGs to provision a treelike structure of replicas and numerous secondary replicas without impacting performance. The systems automatically seed new database replicas to facilitate building a complex topology of DAGs.
US10725989B2
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed.
US10725985B2
A system for a financial institution (or vendor thereof) to comply with its due diligence, reporting and monitoring obligations under FACTA or similar regulations. The present invention deploys a computer-based Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) platform for the collection and management of customer financial data. The platform is configured to profile and validate the quality of existing database structures and content and, to the extent necessary to achieve regulatory compliance, normalize and standardize database records. The platform is further configured to detect and flag data anomalies, and provides an automatic alert distribution feature. The EDQ platform further includes a reporting feature to enable an accessible audit trail. The platform gathers data feeds from existing systems and supports the collection of data from new customers.
US10725981B1
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented method for analyzing a Big Data dataset, the method comprising performing analysis on a big data dataset by applying a set of analytical tool to a Big Data Model; wherein the Big Data Model decouples the Big Data dataset into properties and metadata; wherein each of the properties represent part of the Big Data dataset to enable processing and analysis; wherein the metadata enables calculation of summary information for the Big Data dataset.
US10725964B2
Apparatuses and methods of data processing are disclosed. An apparatus comprises two data processing clusters each having multiple data processing lanes to perform single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processing. Decoded instructions are issued to at least one of the two data processing clusters. A decoded SIMD instruction specifying a vector length which is more than the width of the data processing lanes of the first data processing cluster has a first part issued to the first data processing cluster for execution. An issuance target for a second remaining part of the decoded SIMD instruction is selected in dependence on a dynamic performance condition. When the dynamic performance condition has a first state the issuance target is the first data processing cluster and when the dynamic performance condition has a second state the issuance target is the second data processing cluster. When the issuance target is the first data processing cluster, to schedule the first and second parts of the decoded SIMD instruction in series.
US10725962B2
An electronic system and a control method thereof are provided. The electronic system includes a first device, a second device and a control device. The first device includes a first processor and a first control module, and the first control module is electrically connected to the first processor. The second device is detachably disposed on the first device. The second device includes a second processor and a second control module, and the second control module is electrically connected to the second processor. The control device is detachably connected to the second device, and the first device, the second device and the control device are coupled to each other.
US10725945B1
An integrated circuit includes a combined serial data output and interrupt output terminal, a serial communication control circuit; an interrupt generation circuit, and an output circuit. The output circuit includes a serial data input, an interrupt input, and a combined serial data and interrupt output. The serial data input is coupled to a serial data output of the serial communication circuit. The interrupt input is coupled to an interrupt output of the interrupt generation circuit. The combined serial data and interrupt output is coupled to the combined serial data output and interrupt output terminal.
US10725940B2
Techniques for reallocating a memory pending queue based on stalls are provided. In one aspect, it may be determined at a memory stop of a memory fabric that at least one class of memory access is stalled. It may also be determined at the memory stop of the memory fabric that there is at least one class of memory access that is not stalled. At least a portion of a memory pending queue may be reallocated from the class of memory access that is not stalled to the class of memory access that is stalled.
US10725929B2
An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, system memory communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics processor communicatively coupled to the application processor, graphics memory communicatively coupled to the graphics processor, and persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics processor to store one or more graphics assets, wherein the graphics processor is to access the one or more graphics asset mapped from the persistent storage media. The persistent storage media may include a low latency, high capacity, and byte-addressable nonvolatile memory. The one or more graphics assets may include one or more of a mega-texture and terrain data. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10725928B1
A system and method for efficiently performing maintenance on a cache. In various embodiments, control logic in a cache controller or elsewhere receives an indication for invalidating a range of virtual-to-physical mappings in a given translation lookaside buffer (TLB). The logic determines a first latency to invalidate entries of the TLB based on a number of addresses in the range and a number of supported page sizes simultaneously stored in the TLB. The logic determines a second latency based on a number of entries in the TLB. If the first latency is greater, then the logic traverses through each TLB entry and invalidates TLB entries storing a virtual address within the range. If the first latency is smaller, then the logic traverses through each address in the range and invalidates TLB entries storing a virtual address within the range.
US10725922B2
Technologies for predictive caching include a computing device to receive sensor data generated by one or more sensors of the computing device and determine a device context of the computing device based on the sensor data. Based on the device context, the computing device determines a file to cache that has similar characteristics to another file recently accessed by a user of the computing device. The computing device includes a file cache with a first partition to store files identified to have similar characteristics to files recently accessed by a user and a second partition to store files identified based on access patterns of the user. The computing device stores the determined file to the first partition.
US10725920B2
A processor of an aspect includes a plurality of logical processors each having one or more corresponding lower level caches. A shared higher level cache is shared by the plurality of logical processors. The shared higher level cache includes a distributed cache slice for each of the logical processors. The processor includes logic to direct an access that misses in one or more lower level caches of a corresponding logical processor to a subset of the distributed cache slices in a virtual cluster that corresponds to the logical processor. Other processors, methods, and systems are also disclosed.
US10725915B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to provide coherency across disjoint caches in clustered environments. It is determined whether a data object is owned by an owner node, where the owner node is one of multiple nodes of a cluster. If the owner node for the data object is identified by the determining, a request is sent to the owner node for the data object. However, if the owner node for the data object is not identified by the determining, selects a node in the cluster is selected as the owner node, and the request for the data object is sent to the owner node.
US10725908B2
Restoring a state of stored configuration data. A mapping request may be made for a portion of a backing page file to a second portion of address space. The backing page file includes discrete units of configuration data that are stored in a specific relationship to each other as defined by one or more offset values. A first base address for at least one of the discrete units of configuration data defines a first portion of address space having a preferred address space address. One of the discrete units of configuration data may be restored in the second portion of address space. The restoration may comprise aligning a pointer based on a relationship between a second base address of the second portion of process address space and the one or more offset values. A state of the one of the discrete units of configuration data may be restored.
US10725900B2
Transactional memory accesses are tracked using read and write sets based on actual program flow. A read and write set is associated with a range of instructions of a transaction. When execution follows a predicted branch, loads and stores are marked as being of selected read and write sets. Then, when a misprediction is processed, and execution is rewound, speculatively added read and write set indications are removed from the read and write sets.
US10725898B2
An information management method for a testing network framework is provided. The testing network framework includes a first server and at least one computer. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, the at least one computer downloads and executes a test application program. Then, the at least one computer is connected to the first server, and provides a device identification code and a network address value of the at least one computer to the first server. If the first server judges that the corresponding device identification code complies with a first default condition and the corresponding network address value complies with a second default condition, the corresponding computer is authenticated, and a test setting information is provided from the first server to the corresponding computer. After the test setting information is downloaded to the corresponding computer, a test process is performed.
US10725895B2
Embodiments of the invention include methods and systems for improving test case coverage. Aspects of the invention include executing, by a processor, a first test case, where the first test case includes a plurality of system calls to an operating system. Prior to execution of each system call in the plurality of system calls in the first test case, executing, by the processor, a pre-exit instruction. Responsive to execution of the pre-exit instruction, collecting pre-exit system call data regarding each system call in the plurality of system calls for the first test case. The processor executes a post-exit instruction after completion of each system call in the plurality of system calls and responsive to execution of the post-exit instruction, collects post-exit system call data regarding each system call in the plurality of system calls for the first test case.
US10725884B2
A method and computer device for storage and retrieval of a data object on a storage medium. The method includes steps of disassembling the data object into a predetermined number of redundant sub blocks, storing the redundant sub blocks on the storage medium, retrieving at least a predetermined multiple of a minimal spreading requirement of the redundant sub blocks from the storage medium, and assembling the data object from any combination of a particular number of the redundant sub blocks, the particular number corresponding to a predetermined multiple of a minimal spreading requirement. The computer device includes modules for performing the steps.
US10725880B2
There is a need to detect faults on a path between a memory access circuit and a shared resource, faults in a logic circuit, and faults in the shared resource. A semiconductor device includes: a first memory access circuit; a second memory access circuit to check the first memory access circuit; a memory that outputs a memory address based on a first access address input from the first memory access circuit; a duplexing comparison circuit that compares the first access address with a second access address output from the second memory access circuit; a first address comparison circuit that compares the first access address with the memory address; and an error control circuit that outputs a control signal based on a comparison result from the duplexing comparison circuit and a comparison result from the first address comparison circuit.
US10725879B2
A storage apparatus includes a plurality of resources including a plurality of types of surplus resources, determines a surplus resource introduction plan used for coping with abnormalities, and controls allocation of the surplus resources according to the determined introduction plan. The storage apparatus includes a processor. The processor detects an abnormality associated with the resource of the storage apparatus, calculates one or more surplus resource introduction plans capable of coping with the abnormality on the basis of management information of the resource of the storage apparatus when the abnormality is detected, and determines, when there are a plurality of introduction plans, an introduction plan used for coping with the abnormality on the basis of a state in which other abnormalities that are likely to occur concurrently with the abnormality can be coped with, by surplus resources remaining when the introduction plans are executed.
US10725875B2
A server system, a server device, and a power supply recovery method therefor are provided. The server system includes a plurality of servers and a power controller. Each of the servers includes an AC power supply and a DC power supply. The DC power supplies of the servers are mutually connected through a cable. The power controller communicates with the servers. When a specific server detects that the AC power supply belonging thereto does not operate normally, the power controller informs other servers of a power required by the specific server, and the specific server controls the DC power supply belonging thereto to obtain powers provided from other servers through the cable, so as to maintain the operation of the specific server.
US10725873B2
The present techniques generally relate to a method of monitoring for a fault event in a lockstep processing system having a plurality of cores configured to operate in lockstep, the method having: power gating, for a period of time, a subset of cores of the plurality of cores from a first power source and providing power to the subset of cores from a second power source for the period of time; processing, at each of the cores of the plurality of cores, one or more instructions; providing an output from each core of the plurality of cores to error detection circuitry to monitor for the fault event, the output from each core based on or in response to processing the one or more instructions during the period of time.
US10725870B1
The content of each specific image file on an endpoint is analyzed. Each analyzed image file is categorized based on the results of analyzing its content. The analysis can be in the form identifying one or more objects graphically represented in given image files, and the categorization of image files can be based on these identified graphically represented object(s). A backup policy is configured to automatically backup specific image files on the endpoint, based on their content as per the categorization. Information concerning the content-based categorization of the image files on the endpoint can be output to a user. In response, directives for backing-up image files according to their content-based categorization can be received from the user. Specific images files are backed-up automatically, regardless of their location on the endpoint, according to the configured backup policy.
US10725869B1
Embodiments are described for determining a customer value of a deduplication service. Customer data deduplication ratios are measured over a predetermined period of time in response to one or more events for a storage device. For each event, a deduplication ratio of customer data is stored in association with the storage device, customer ID, and configuration of the storage device. An event is an expiration of the predetermined period of time, or receiving notice of a configuration change of how the storage device is utilized by a customer. A configuration change can be adding or removing a virtual desktop, or adding or deleting one or more types of application data to/from the storage device. The storage deduplication statistics, configuration information are processed and sent to a storage service, with a storage device ID, and customer ID. A customer receives an analysis and statement of account from the storage service.
US10725861B2
System and techniques for error correction code (ECC) memory security are described herein. A write request that includes data is received. An integrity check value (ICV) is computed for the data. Then, the write request is performed, including writing a representation of the data to a data area in memory and writing the ICV into an ECC area in memory. Here, the data area is addressable by a host and the ECC area corresponds to the data area via hardware of the memory.
US10725852B2
A computer and an automatic protection method thereof are provided. The automatic protection method includes the following steps. A sound receiving unit of the computer receives a sound signal. Whether a fan error event occurs is determined according to the sound signal. If the fan error event occurs, then a first data protection procedure is performed. Whether a disaster event occurs is determined according to the sound signal. If the disaster event occurs, then a second data protection procedure is performed. Whether the computer is at a locking status is determined. If the computer is at the locking status, then whether an information security hazard event occurs is determined according to the sound signal. If the information security hazard event occurs, then a third data protection procedure is performed.
US10725851B2
A data storage device that includes a data storage medium and a controller communicatively coupled to the data storage medium. The controller is configured to receive commands from a host and to detect a hung state in the data storage device. The controller is also configured to determine an execution status of a command, of the commands from the host, associated with the hung state. The controller is further configured to dynamically carry out a self-recovery operation in the data storage device to clear the hung state. The self-recovery operation includes steps that depend upon the execution status of the command associated with the hung state.
US10725846B1
A system and method of collecting debugging information for code running in a multi-threaded computing system. An association record is generated in an associative registry. The association record has a timestamp, an object pointer and/or further information. Upon detection of a bug, the computing system generates a debug report based on the association record and the detected bug, the debug reference comprising a reference type that references a portion of the code running in the multi-threaded computing system. Based on the debug reference, a lifecycle check of the portion of the code running in the multi-threaded computing system is generated, the lifecycle check annotating the bug within the portion of the code running in the multi-threaded computing system.
US10725845B2
A method of operating a memory system includes setting a secured area in a volatile memory device of the memory system during a secure mode, writing secure data in the secured area during the secure mode, and when a write command for the secured area is inputted in a normal operation mode, preventing a write operation from occurring and generating an error signal. Accordingly, the secured area is set in the volatile memory device so that the hacking and the data forgery may be prevented.
US10725837B1
Techniques are disclosed for sharing of data exchange among kernels (each a set of instructions) executing on a system having multiple processing units. In an embodiment, each processing unit includes an on-chip scratchpad memory that can be accessed by the kernels executing on the processing unit. All or a portion of the scratchpad memory can be allocated and configured, for example, such that the scratchpad is accessible to multiple kernels in parallel, to one or more kernels in serial, or a combination of both.
US10725834B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for scheduling an application. The method includes one or more processors receiving a task, the task includes instructions indicating desired nodes to perform the task through programs. The method further includes one or more processors identifying application characteristic information and node characteristic information associated with nodes within a data center composed of nodes. The application characteristic information includes resource utilization information for applications on nodes within the data center. The method further includes one or more processors determining that the nodes reach a threshold level of power consumption. The threshold level is a pre-set maximum amount of power utilized by a node within the data center. The method further includes one or more processors determining a node consuming an amount of power that is below a threshold level of power consumption in the data center.
US10725825B2
A new processing architecture is described that utilizes a data processing unit (DPU). Unlike conventional compute models that are centered around a central processing unit (CPU), the DPU that is designed for a data-centric computing model in which the data processing tasks are centered around the DPU. The DPU may be viewed as a highly programmable, high-performance I/O and data-processing hub designed to aggregate and process network and storage I/O to and from other devices. The DPU comprises a network interface to connect to a network, one or more host interfaces to connect to one or more application processors or storage devices, and a multi-core processor with two or more processing cores executing a run-to-completion data plane operating system and one or more processing cores executing a multi-tasking control plane operating system. The data plane operating system is configured to support software functions for performing the data processing tasks.
US10725824B2
A method and system for thread aware, class aware, and topology aware memory allocations. Embodiments include a compiler configured to generate compiled code (e.g., for a runtime) that when executed allocates memory on a per class per thread basis that is system topology (e.g., for non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA)) aware. Embodiments can further include an executable configured to allocate a respective memory pool during runtime for each instance of a class for each thread. The memory pools are local to a respective processor, core, etc., where each thread executes.
US10725822B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for abstracting tasks in virtual memory identifier (VMID) containers are disclosed. A processor coupled to a memory executes a plurality of concurrent tasks including a first task. Responsive to detecting one or more instructions of the first task which correspond to a first operation, the processor retrieves a first identifier (ID) which is used to uniquely identify the first task, wherein the first ID is transparent to the first task. Then, the processor maps the first ID to a second ID and/or a third ID. The processor completes the first operation by using the second ID and/or the third ID to identify the first task to at least a first data structure. In one implementation, the first operation is a memory access operation and the first data structure is a set of page tables. Also, in one implementation, the second ID identifies a first application of the first task and the third ID identifies a first operating system (OS) of the first task.
US10725815B2
Techniques for representative-based approach to store historical resource usage data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a management node may include a statistical representative computational unit to obtain historical resource usage data associated with a workload running on a host, divide the historical resource usage data into a plurality of pools with each pool comprising a predefined number of resource usage statistics, and determine a statistical representative corresponding to each of the pools. Each statistical representative may represent the predefined number of resource usage statistics in a corresponding one of the pools. Further, the management node may include a monitoring and managing unit to monitor and/or manage the workload using the statistical representatives.
US10725792B2
A memory device is embedded in (or connected to) a host device. The memory device includes a first boot partition and a second boot partition. The first boot partition stores first boot data. The second boot partition stores second boot data. The memory device includes a pointer that points to either the first boot partition or the second boot partition. The memory device transfers the first boot data from the first boot partition in response to receiving a boot signal from the host and the pointer pointing to the first boot partition. The host attempts to boot using the first boot data. If the host does not boot successfully from the first boot data then the host is booted from second boot data transferred from the memory device without the host requesting that the pointer switch to pointing at the second boot data.
US10725787B1
An operation associated with an artifact which includes a plurality of fragments is received. A dimension is obtained and a plurality of sub-operations is generated based at least in part on the operation and the dimension where each of the plurality of sub-operations is associated with a subset of values associated with the dimension. The plurality of sub-operations is performed on the plurality of fragments, including by generating, for each of the plurality of fragments, dimensional metadata which includes a subset of values associated with the dimension for that fragment.
US10725781B1
Systems and methods for pre-fetching data in a memory device are disclosed. The method includes generating a prior read command data structure and receiving a current read command. The method may include retrieving from the prior read command data structure a predicted next read command based on the received current read command, and pre-fetching data associated with the predicted next read command. The method may further include that after pre-fetching the data associate with the predicted next read command and prior to receiving a next read command, retrieving from the prior read command data structure a second predicted next read command based on the predicted next read command, and pre-fetching data associated with the second predicted next read command.
US10725779B2
A processor includes an instruction decoder to receive a first instruction to process a secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA-2) hash algorithm, the first instruction having a first operand associated with a first storage location to store a SHA-2 state and a second operand associated with a second storage location to store a plurality of messages and round constants. The processor further includes an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder to perform one or more iterations of the SHA-2 hash algorithm on the SHA-2 state specified by the first operand and the plurality of messages and round constants specified by the second operand, in response to the first instruction.
US10725774B2
An issue tracking system (ITS) is disclosed. The ITS comprises a user interface configured to receive user input defining one or more issues and an interface module configured to interface with a source code management system (SCM) and receive from the SCM, data pertaining to linked SCM-repository events. The received data is processed to generate an order for the SCM-repository events to which the issue is linked. A display module is configured to concurrently display a plurality of issues, each issue being displayed with issue information and issues having linked SCM-repository events being displayed with linked SCM-repository event information, said linked SCM-repository event information being displayed according to the generated order.
US10725771B2
A device receives a request for a second artifact, where the request identifies a first artifact that is different than the second artifact. The device obtains at least one transformation for transforming the first artifact into the second artifact, and uses the obtained at least one transformation to transform the first artifact into the second artifact. The device launches or instantiate a compute resource or a logical disk volume using the second artifact, where the compute resource includes one of a virtual machine, a baremetal, or a container. The first artifact and the second artifact each includes an image or a snapshot.
US10725765B2
Techniques for enhancing a multi-tasking user interface of an operating system are disclosed. An update data item pertaining to an application placed in the background on the device is received. An update image is generated to include information pertaining to the update data item. The update image is incorporated into a multitasking user interface of the operating system such that the update image is presented to a user and the user may view the information pertaining to the update data item before choosing whether to bring the application to the foreground.
US10725763B1
An updated version of a configuration of a computing resource may be rolled back to a previous version. The computing resource can include code for a function or the computing resource can be used to implement calls of an API. In some cases, the computing resource can be tagged to indicate that rollback functionality is applicable to the computing resource. The rollback to a previous version of code for a function or a previous version of an API may take place based on a rollback condition being satisfied that is related to error rates that take place when updated versions of a function or an API are utilized. The computing resource may be implemented in conjunction with a cloud-based storage system.
US10725754B2
The present invention relates to a method of memory estimation and configuration optimization for a distributed data processing system involves performing match between an application data stream and a data feature library, wherein the application data stream has received analysis and processing on conditional branches and/or loop bodies of an application code in a Java archive of the application, estimating a memory limit for at least one stage of the application based on the successful matching result, optimizing configuration parameters of the application accordingly, and acquiring static features and/or dynamic features of the application data based on running of the optimized application and performing persistent recording. Opposite to machine-learning-based memory estimation that does not ensure accuracy and fails to provide fine-grained estimation for individual stages, this method uses application analysis and existing data feature to estimate overall memory occupation more precisely and to estimate memory use of individual job stages for more fine-grained configuration optimization.
US10725753B2
A compiler for a software development kit is disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving source code comprising an object node having a data type definition for a code value, detecting that the data type definition of the object node includes a context-dependent data type, where the context-dependent data type is dependent on at least one other data type, determining a corresponding value for each one of the other data type(s) based on the detecting that the data type definition includes the context-dependent data type, and generating a runtime instance of a software solution based on the source code, where the generating the runtime instance comprises assigning the corresponding value for each other data type as a single list ID for the object node, and the single list ID for the object node is configured to be used to determine a dedicated value of the code value.
US10725751B2
A method, apparatus, and/or computer program product generates a predictive data structure for an application when operating offline in a network connected data processing system, the application comprising source code having an execution path. The method comprises: determining an exit point within the source code of the application; determining, from the exit point, an execution path comprising at least one conditional statement; identifying one or more branches of the at least one identified conditional statement and for each identified branch determining an expected response; for each determined expected response, generating a data structure from the response; continuing along the execution path of the source code from the exit point and replacing each request for a resource in the source code with a pointer to the generated data structure; and executing the source code with the pointer to the generated data structure from the determined exit point.
US10725749B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to wiring components in a component based application and provide a method, system and computer program product for heuristically assembling components in a component based application. In one embodiment, a data processing system configured to assemble component based applications can include a component aggregation application including an application builder configured to assemble components into a component based application. The system further can include a property broker coupled to the component aggregation application and configured to apply a wiring scheme to selected components in a component based application. Finally, a collaborative heuristic integration matching engine (CHIME) can be coupled to the property broker and a data store of behaviorally derived data, the CHIME including program enabled to suggest components for assembly in a component based application based upon behaviorally derived data in the data store.
US10725741B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to digital circuits with compressed carries. In one embodiment, an adder circuit generates a sum and carry. The carry is compressed to reduce the number of bits required to represent the carry. In one embodiment, a multiplier circuit generates output product values. The output product values may be summed to produce a sum and carry. The carry may be compressed. In other embodiments, a multiplier circuit receives an input sum and compressed carry. The compressed input carry is decompressed and added to output product values and the input sum, and a resulting carry is compressed. The output of such a multiplier is another sum and compressed carry.
US10725738B2
A computer processor includes a processor cache that obtains tree data from the memory unit indicative of key values that are pre-sorted in a memory unit. A hardware adaptive merge sort accelerator generates a tournament tree based on the key values, and performs a partial tournament sort that compares a selected key value to a plurality of participating key values to define a sorting path. The hardware adaptive merge sort accelerator also determines an overall winning key value of the partial tournament and a runner-up key value located on the sorting path that is a next lowest key value among the participating key values. The remaining key values are compared to the runner-up key value to sort at least one of the remaining key values in sequential order with respect to the overall winning key value and the runner-up key value.
US10725735B2
Systems and methods for merging annotations of datasets are provided. For example, assignments of labels to data-points may be obtained, confidence levels associated with the assignments of labels may be obtained. Further, the assignments of labels may be merged, for example based on the confidence levels. In some cases, inference models may be generated using the merged assignment of labels. In some examples, an update to the assignments of labels to data-points and/or the confidence levels may be obtained, and the merged assignment of labels may be updated.
US10725727B2
A digital emulation of an analog device with tolerance modeling is disclosed. In operation, a model of an analog circuit is provided. The model includes the location of each individual element in the analog circuit. The model also includes a working value for each individual element as well as a tolerance range for each individual element. A randomized working value is then generated for one or more of each individual element based on the tolerance range and the working value. A digital emulation of the analog circuit is performed. The digital emulation uses the randomized working value for one or more of the each individual element and the working value for any remaining of each individual element. The digital emulation is then provided to a user for use in a digital environment.
US10725726B2
Various embodiments may include systems and non-transitory computer-readable media for assigning three-dimensional spatial data to sounds and audio files. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving at least one audio signal, receiving sonic spatial data via a foot pedal, associating the sonic spatial data with the at least one audio signal, associating the at least one audio signal and sonic spatial data with a time code generated by a video camera, storing the sonic spatial data, the at least one audio signal, and time code in an encoded sound file, and directing playback of the encoded sound file.
US10725711B2
An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a component size of a component actually used in printing from an image forming apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a post-processing apparatus, a job ticket of a post-processing job in which the component size received by the reception unit is set in a case where the component size of the component is referred to in post-processing.
US10725708B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for replication of versions of an object from a source storage to a target storage. A source retention policy indicates at least one source retention requirement to determine when to expire versions of an object at the source storage and a target retention policy indicates at least one target retention requirement to determine when to expire versions of the object at the target storage. The source and target retention requirements for versions of the object are different. The source retention policy is used to expire at least one version of the object at the source storage to satisfy the at least one source retention requirement. A number of the versions of the object maintained at the source storage and target storage differ due to the different source and target retention requirements.
US10725707B2
Data volumes for a customer can be placed on various storage tiers, including different hardware types or storage systems, that are determined to be appropriate for the anticipated usage of those data volumes. The actual usage can be monitored to determine one or more types of workload for the data volume, and a determination made as to whether all, or portions, of the data volume could obtain a significant performance improvement by being migrated to a different storage tier. In some instances the chunks or partitions of a volume can be concurrently distributed across multiple different storage tiers in order to satisfy various performance and/or cost criteria. Once workload information is available for a customer, that information can be used to determine the storage tiers for initial placement of subsequent data volumes.
US10725695B2
A memory system includes: a memory device including a plurality of banks; and a memory controller suitable for: controlling an operation of the memory device, calculating row hammer information for each of the banks for each program having a command set requested from a host, and scheduling the banks based on the row hammer information for each of the banks corresponding to a specific program when the specific program is requested from the host.
US10725694B1
In a data processing system having multiple production hosts, each with a backup agent, interfaced to a storage array and to a backup server, an array I/O priority engine on the storage array establishes and enforces I/O priorities for I/O backup and production communications with the array to ensure that backup does not consume a disproportionate CPU processing and array bandwidth load or disrupt more critical production processing.
US10725692B2
A data storage method and an apparatus are provided in a distributed storage system including a computing node and a plurality of storage nodes. The computing node writes the N data slices and the M check slices into the R storage nodes in each storage node group to improve reliability and stability of data in a data center.
US10725687B1
A method for data protection in a memory system includes receiving, from entity, an address range and a set command, the address range corresponding to at least a portion of a memory partition in the memory system. The method further includes determining whether the entity is an authenticated entity. The method further includes based on the determination of whether the entity is an authenticated entity, setting, using the set command, access characteristics of the portion of the partition corresponding to the address range.
US10725686B2
A method of operating a storage controller is provided. The method includes receiving data transferred by a host for storage in a target partition of a storage media, and detecting properties of the data. The method also includes establishing one or more inferred partitions on the storage media based at least on the properties of the data, and based at least on the properties of the data, sorting subsets of the data for storage within the target partition and the one or more inferred partitions.
US10725685B2
A guarded storage facility sets up a boundary indicating a range of addresses to be guarded or protected. When a program attempts to access an address in a guarded section defined by the boundary, a guarded storage event occurs. Use of this facility facilitates performance of certain tasks within a computing environment, including storage reclamation.
US10725680B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods to change data category values. An example is a memory device that includes an array having a plurality of sequences of memory cells, where each of the respective sequences of memory cells includes a plurality of designated subsets of memory cells, and the array includes a counter corresponding to one of the plurality of designated subsets of memory cells. The memory device is configured to receive input corresponding to a data batch, where the input includes a designation that corresponds to the one of the plurality of designated subsets of memory cells to be conditionally updated, and to change a numerical value stored by the counter corresponding to the one of the plurality of designated subsets of memory cells.
US10725679B2
Examples of systems are described for calculating a probability of exceeding storage capacity of a virtualized system in a particular time period using probabilistic models. The probabilistic models may advantageously take variances of storage capacity into consideration.
US10725678B2
Methods that can manage power for memory subsystems are provided. One method includes providing power to a set of memory devices via a set of power modules, determining a first amount of power being consumed by the set of memory devices, and in response to a predetermined event, modifying a second amount of power provided to the set of memory devices via a set of spare power modules. Systems and apparatuses that can include, perform, and/or implement the method are also provided.
US10725670B2
A system including a stack of two or more layers of volatile memory, such as layers of a 3D stacked DRAM memory, places data in the stack based on a temperature or a refresh rate. When a threshold is exceeded, data are moved from a first region to a second region in the stack, the second region having one or both of a second temperature lower than a first temperature of the first region or a second refresh rate lower than a first refresh rate of the first region.
US10725662B2
A storage system includes a management node and a plurality of storage nodes forming a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). When the management node determines that not all data in an entire stripe is updated based on a received write request, the management node sends update data chunk obtained from to-be-written data to corresponding storage node. The storage node do not directly update, based on the received update data chunks, data block stored in storage device of the storage node, but store the update data chunk into non-volatile memories (NVM) cache of the storage node and send the update data chunk to another storage node to backup. According to the data updating method, write amplification problems caused in a stripe update process can be reduced, thereby improving update performance of the storage system.
US10725661B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for selective write control in accordance with the present description. In one aspect, a write operation which is associated with a read operation, may be selectively discarded if write operations have been disabled and if the write operation is directed to update a designated write operation acceptance area such as metadata associated with the target data set, for example. As a result, the read operation may be permitted to proceed and will not fail because the associated write operation was discarded rather than attempting to commit the write operation to the designated write operation acceptance area, thereby avoiding an error condition for a storage unit such as a volume, in which write operations have been disabled. Accordingly, applications which seek to perform read operations may be permitted to access data stored on such a volume. Other aspects are described.
US10725660B2
A method for enabling management of cloud resources based on tiered storage data movement includes receiving a request from a cloud computing system to provide the cloud computing system a notification of a data movement initiated by a tiered storage system, where the data movement comprises moving data associated with the cloud computing system from a first storage tier to a second storage tier, and the notification comprises an indication of a condition for initiating the data movement. The method then includes determining that a condition for initiating the data movement was satisfied. The method further includes initiating the data movement in response to determining that the condition was satisfied. The method additionally includes transmitting the notification in response to initiating the data movement.
US10725656B2
This invention relates to a method for inputting text by consecutive slide, comprising: detecting whether a consecutive slide input mode is triggered in response to an input of a user; detecting and recording a sliding trajectory of a user on a touch-screen and inputting a corresponding word; and predicting a possible word based on a context and another input of the user and updating the layout of a keyboard according to at least one of the results of the prediction. The invention also relates to a system that implements the method, as well as a corresponding device. The method, system and device increase input efficiency and achieve smart prediction and smart arrangement of candidate words in an area of the keyboard.
US10725653B2
An image processing device, an image processing system, and a method of processing an image. The image processing device and the method includes displaying a first screen and a second screen using an image processing device connected to an image display apparatus, controlling a display to display one of the first screen and the second screen on the image display apparatus, acquiring from the image display apparatus discrimination data including at least data for distinguishing between the first screen and the second screen, and determining a partition between the first screen and the second screen based on the discrimination data. The image processing system includes an image display apparatus and at least one information processing device.
US10725646B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for switching screen interface and Terminal. The method for switching screen interface includes: detecting a first actual pressing period of pressing any point in a screen operation area by a user's finger; when the first actual pressing period is greater than or equal to a first preset pressing period, starting an interface switching mode at a current interface, that is, generating a set of application icons in the screen operation area where the user's finger can touch for the user to select; and based on the application icon sets, enabling the current interface to skip to a corresponding application interface in one step by clicking an application icon needing to be selected. The method has the beneficial effects of convenient use, large application range and good user experience.
US10725641B2
A communication device and methods for operating the same. One communication device includes a memory storing a software application, an electronic processor, a mechanical interface receiving a first user input, and a touch screen receiving a second user input. The touch screen is also configured to display an output generated by the software application. The electronic processor is configured to execute a software application stored in the memory, determine when the second user input is received simultaneously with the first user input, perform a first action based on the first user input when the second user input is not received simultaneously with the first user input, the first action being unrelated to operation of the software application, and perform a second action based on the first user input when the second user input is received simultaneously with the first user input, the second action relating to the operation of the software application.
US10725634B2
A method, system and computer program product for virtual reality dining includes establishing an index of different human consumables positioned on a sensory surface of a serving tray and, generating in a display of a virtual reality headset, a rendering both of a thematic visual background and also a display of different graphical representations of corresponding ones of the different human consumables at different positions consistent with the index. Thereafter, the removal from the serving tray of one of the different human consumables is detected. In response, a theme of the thematic visual background changes and the thematic visual background re-renders in the headset with the changed theme. Finally, the method includes animating the movement of a display of a corresponding one of the different graphical representations of the removed one of the different human consumables in the headset.
US10725631B2
A system and method of selecting an area of interest from a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras are described. The method includes receiving a request for an area of interest from a plurality of images, the area of interest containing an object of interest selected by a user, the object of interest being captured in one or more images captured by one or more of the plurality of cameras, the plurality of cameras having overlapping field of views; determining a camera within the plurality of cameras that wholly contains the area of interest; transforming the physical location of the object of interest into a pixel position such that the area of interest being essentially centered around the pixel position corresponding to the physical location of the object of interest; and extracting the area of interest.
US10725627B2
A computer-implemented method for managing user inputs to a user interface includes: activating a timer when a display of the user interface changes; monitoring user inputs to the user interface including noting a first user input after a user interface display change and determining a time elapse of the timer; and comparing the time elapse with a threshold time period and, if the time elapse is less than the threshold time period, disregarding the first user input.
US10725619B1
A content access device ranks content that is available to be accessed based at least on previous user content selection behavior information compared to a current situation. The content access device generates and presents a content access (or navigation) menu that indicates content selected based on the ranking. The menu may include a primary menu element that corresponds to and presents a highest ranked of the content, a secondary menu element that corresponds to and presents still images of a secondary ranked group of the content that are all smaller than the primary menu element, and a tertiary menu element that corresponds to and presents text descriptions of a tertiary ranked group of the content that are all smaller than the still images.
US10725611B1
A method includes receiving, at a particular time, a user request for a graphical user interface comprising a plurality of interactive graphical elements that are associated with a user account of a user, each interactive graphical element identifies a type of an application and is selectable by the user to provide access to a corresponding application. The method further includes determining, for each of the plurality of interactive graphical elements, a relevance of a respective interactive graphical element to the user at the particular time based on one or more operations previously performed by the user with respect to the respective interactive graphical element close to the particular time within the user account, and causing a presentation of the plurality of interactive graphical elements for the user account using an ordering of the interactive graphical elements that is based on the relevance of each of the plurality of interactive graphical elements to the user at the particular time.
US10725600B2
A position input device includes electrodes formed of metal with a belt-like shape, extended along a first direction, and arranged with a space therebetween along a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction, lines each electrically connected to one end of each of the electrodes in the first direction to receive a signal, dummy electrodes formed of metal with a belt-like shape and each disposed in a space between the electrodes that are adjacent, and dummy lines each coupled to an end of each of the dummy electrodes in the first direction in an electrically disconnected state. The electrodes, the lines, the dummy electrodes, and the dummy lines each include a front side surface and a back side surface in a plane along the first direction and the second direction, and at least one of the front side surface and the back side surface is blackened.
US10725597B2
A hovering and touch sensing apparatus includes a plurality of touch sensing electrodes, a system circuit and a touch control circuit. When an operating object approaches to or touches the touch sensing electrodes for hovering or touch sensing operation, there is no common circuit loop between the system circuit and the touch control circuit to prevent the influence of the system circuit to the touch-sensing circuit. Besides, the touch control circuit sends a capacitance-exciting signal to the operating object through a first specific conductor of the system circuit, thus more effectively send the capacitance-exciting signal to the operating object and enhance the preciseness for sensing the touch sensing signal.
US10725596B2
A capacitive touch sensor includes two sensing layers. Each sensing layer has capacitive sensing strings and electromagnetic antenna strings. Each of the capacitive sensing strings and electromagnetic antenna strings is connected to a highly conductive element. A transparent insulative layer is arranged between the two sensing layers. The two groups of sensing strings on two the capacitive sensing layers orthogonally interlace with each other to form a capacitive sensing matrix.
US10725593B2
The display device includes: a cover glass including a screen that can be pressed; a liquid crystal panel arranged on a back side of the cover glass in a thickness direction (Z direction); a drive electrode arranged in a region corresponding to the screen in the liquid crystal panel; a base electrode arranged in the region corresponding to the screen at a position spaced apart from the drive electrode on the back side in the thickness direction; a cushion layer arranged between the liquid crystal panel and the base electrode; and a circuit that detects an electric signal representing the amount of change in capacitance between the drive electrode and the base electrode as a signal which enables calculation of a pressing force of the press. The cushion layer has such a characteristic that an elastic modulus decreases as approaching a periphery from a center in the region corresponding to the screen.
US10725587B2
A touch surface device having improved sensitivity and dynamic range is disclosed. In one embodiment, the touch surface device includes a touch-sensitive panel having at least one sense node for providing an output signal indicative of a touch or no-touch condition on the panel; a compensation circuit, coupled to the at least one sense node, for generating a compensation signal that when summed with the output signal removes an undesired portion of the output signal so as to generated a compensated output signal; and an amplifier having an inverting input coupled to the output of the compensation circuit and a non-inverting input coupled to a known reference voltage.
US10725579B2
A compensation circuit, a gate driving unit, a gate driving method, driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The compensation circuit includes: a pull-up control node control sub-circuit configured to control a touch ending signal input end to input a touch ending signal to a pull-up control node under the control of a pull-up input end; a pull-up control storage capacitor sub-circuit, a first end of which is connected to the pull-up input end, and a second end of which is connected to the pull-up control node; and a compensation sub-circuit configured to enable the pull-up control node to be electrically connected to the pull-up node voltage output end under the control of the pull-up control node.
US10725575B2
An electrode sheet disposed in a touch input device capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface may be provided. The touch input device includes: a display module; a pressure electrode disposed under the display module; and a reference pressure electrode disposed under the display module. A distance between the pressure electrode and a reference potential layer is changed when the pressure is applied to the touch surface. A capacitance detected at the pressure electrode is changed according to the distance change. A magnitude of the pressure applied to the touch surface is calculated on the basis of a difference between a reference capacitance calculated from a capacitance detected at the reference pressure electrode and a detected capacitance calculated from the capacitance detected at the pressure electrode.
US10725563B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing, by a stylus, data indicating a customization of a device for the particular user. The stylus is associated with a particular user and is configured to transmit signals wirelessly to the device through a touch sensor of the device. The data indicating the customization is stored in a memory of the stylus. The method also includes wirelessly transmitting the data by the stylus to the device through the touch sensor of the device to affect the customization of the device for the particular user.
US10725562B2
A pointing element used to operate a screen includes a front end light emitter and a controller that causes the front end light emitter to emit light for signal light transmission, and the controller causes the front end light emitter to emit light in a first light emission mode in a state in which the pointing element is not in contact with the screen and causes the front end light emitter to emit light in a second light emission mode in which the amount of light emitted from the front end light emitter is smaller than in the first light emission mode in a state in which the pointing element is in contact with the screen.
US10725546B2
A tactile presentation device includes a plate panel; a piezo-electric element attached to the panel; an actuator that drives the piezo-electric element to vibrate the piezo-electric element so that a tactile sensation is generated on the panel; a detection unit that detects an electrical signal generated at the piezo-electric element, touching of an object to the panel being detected based on the detected electrical signal.
US10725545B2
A tactile force feedback touch panel is provided, which comprises a plurality of detection components for detecting a touch signal and a protection layer located on a surface of the detection components. Each of the detection components includes a signal transmitting module for transmitting a detection signal and a signal receiving module for receiving the detection signal. The protection layer covers the surface of the detection components and covers a touch region. The signal transmitting module and the signal receiving module are located at at least two adjacent sides of the touch region respectively. A tactile force feedback system is also provided. After the user presses the protection layer, the detection component may detect the condition of deformation of the protection layer according to the detection signal received by the detection component to implement regular touch function and the touch control function with different tactile feeling.
US10725541B1
Systems and methods for forming a fluidic device using a layered construction strategy may include (1) forming a first component for the fluidic device out of a first material, (2) forming a second component for the fluidic device out of a second material that is different than the first material, and (3) after forming the first and second components, forming the fluidic device by assembling a variety of components including the first component and the second component.
US10725540B2
Augmented reality speed reading is provided by detecting a reader's changing gaze direction; detecting movements of the reader's eye; and between movements of the reader's eye, displaying text at the reader's gaze direction. An exemplary apparatus includes an eye illuminator that delivers light to a reader's eye; an eyeward camera that generates digital images of the reader's eye including reflected light from the eye illuminator; a display; and a processor that is connected in communication with the eyeward camera and the display. The processor implements an eye tracking module that receives the digital images from the eyeward camera and detects the reader's gaze direction, and the processor implements a text display module that controls the display to present text at the reader's gaze direction.
US10725538B2
A method of operating an electronic gaming machine includes displaying a moving object to a viewer on a display screen of the electronic gaming machine, detecting and tracking eye movement of the viewer in relation to the moving object over a predetermined time period, comparing the eye movement of the viewer in relation to the object over the predetermined time period to a displayed position of the object over the predetermined time period, and determining based on the comparison that the eye of the viewer in relation to the moving object is tracking the object. Related systems and devices are disclosed.
US10725536B2
A process determines, with a processor, a virtual indicium position in a physical environment at which a virtual indicium is to be projected. The processor determines the virtual indicium position based on a point of intersection of a vector and an object within the physical environment. The vector originates at a head position of a user and is directed through a point of intended gaze on a virtual object toward the virtual indicium. Further, the processor sends, with the processor to an actuator, an instruction to adjust a position of a projector in operable communication with the actuator so that the projector projects the virtual indicium toward the virtual indicium position.
US10725534B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method of generating a VR sickness prediction model. A method of generating a VR sickness prediction model according to the present disclosure includes: displaying virtual reality content on a display unit; detecting first VR sickness information of a user who experiences the virtual reality content using a sensor; determining second VR sickness information using a user input that is input from the user in response to a request for inputting a degree of VR sickness for the virtual reality content; performing machine learning based on supervised learning using VR sickness-inducing factors for the virtual reality content, the first VR sickness information, and the second VR sickness information; and determining a correlation between the VR sickness-inducing factors and a list of VR sickness symptoms on a basis of the performed machine learning.
US10725524B2
Systems and a method for controlling power of a device with power management software are described. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method initiates power control having ON-OFF keying to control power consumption of a device for energy efficiency and energy conservation. An ON-OFF period of the ON-OFF keying for the device is computed. The method sets a target frequency, a target supply voltage, and a power gate control for the device based on the ON-OFF keying.
US10725516B2
A semiconductor device and a power-off method of the semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including a first power source group including first and second power sources, a second power source group including a third power source and a power sequence controller. The power sequence controller performs power-on operations and power-off operations of the first to third power sources. The power sequence controller starts a power-off operation of the first power source group at a first time, and starts a power-off operation of the second power source group when the power voltage of the first power source group becomes a first voltage or when a first reference time has passed from the first time.
US10725512B2
A CPU needs to perform reset operation when a secondary arithmetic processing unit controlled by the CPU controls a signal processing circuit. CPU A controls module A. CPU B controls module B. Module A and module B control a signal processing circuit. CPU A and CPU B issue a reset request to the signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit performs a reset process based on the reset request accepted from the CPU and a control origin identification signal that identifies a CPU as an origin of controlling the module having started a signal processing section.
US10725506B2
Embodiments of a context-aware User Interface (UI) for multi-form factor Information Handling Systems (IHSs) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: identify an arrangement of a second display relative to a first display; identify a position of a keyboard relative to the second display; and modify a Graphical User Interface (GUI) provided by the second display in response to: (i) the arrangement; and (ii) the position.
US10725504B1
A mobile computing device includes: a housing with a lower wall, a keypad seat and side walls joining the lower wall to the keypad seat and extending upwards from the keypad seat to a bay opening. The walls define an access compartment between the lower wall, the side walls and the keypad seat, and a keypad bay for a keypad module between the keypad seat, the side walls and the bay opening. The device includes a latch slidably mounted to the keypad seat between locked and unlocked positions, including: a hook to engage a keypad module recess in the locked position and secure the keypad module in the bay, and to disengage from the recess in the unlocked position to enable removal of the keypad module; and an activation member in the access compartment to receive an input to transition the latch from the unlocked position to the locked position.
US10725501B2
A protective cover and a display device including a protective cover are provided. According to one or more embodiments, a protective cover includes a cover substrate; a first anti-scattering coating layer on the cover substrate; an intermediate layer on the first anti-scattering coating layer; a second anti-scattering coating layer on the intermediate layer; and an adhesive layer on the second anti-scattering coating layer, and the first anti-scattering coating layer and the second anti-scattering coating layer cover an upper surface, a lower surface, and at least one side surface of the intermediate layer.
US10725482B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for dodging an obstacle, and a movable object. The method includes: obtaining acceleration information of a movable object; determining, according to the acceleration information of the movable object that the movable object collides; determining, according to the acceleration information, a direction for dodging an obstacle; and controlling the movable object to move along the direction for dodging the obstacle, to avoid the obstacle. In embodiments of the present invention, collision of the movable object and a dodging direction can be accurately informed according to the acceleration information of the movable object, to effectively avoid an obstacle and avoid continuously hitting the obstacle.
US10725476B2
An unmanned operation vehicle includes a housing, a wheel provided in the housing, and an operation unit provided under the housing. The housing includes a plurality of cameras configured to capture an image of an outside of the unmanned operation vehicle. The plurality of cameras are arranged substantially at a center of an upper surface of the housing in a plan view. The housing may include a single camera unit including the plurality of cameras.
US10725472B2
A technology for tracking a target object using depth information is disclosed. An object image contain a target object can be obtained from a reference image. A target distance from a robot to the target object can also be derived or accessed. When the robot captures a new image, 2D matching can be performed to find the horizontal and vertical movement of the target object. Distance change or depth change of the target object can also be calculated from the new image. A depth change ratio can be calculated and be utilized to scale a bounding box. The robot can then move to a new location according to the horizontal, vertical and depth changes. A new object image can be extracted from the new image according to the scaled bounding box. The object tracking can be continued using a similar process when the next image is captured.
US10725468B2
Herein is disclosed a bounding-volume based unmanned aerial vehicle illumination management system comprising one or more processors, configured to define a plurality of bounding volumes within a region of unmanned aerial vehicle flight; determine a subset of unmanned aerial vehicles within a bounding volume according to an unmanned aerial vehicle flight plan; determine a combined lighting value of the subset of unmanned aerial vehicles according to an unmanned aerial vehicle illumination plan; and determine a surface illumination corresponding to the combined lighting value of one or more bounding volumes.
US10725461B2
A production module for a production plant has a first data interface, an electronic response device, and a second data interface. The first data interface receives a list of tasks for producing an article or substance from a production module positioned downstream in the production direction. The electronic response device responds to tasks from the list of tasks which can be carried out by the production module. The second data interface sends the list of tasks to a production module positioned upstream in the production direction.
US10725450B2
A control system of a machine tool which machines a work includes: a numerical control device which controls the drive axis of the machine tool based on control data; a machined surface measurement device which measures the machined surface of the work; and a data processing device, and the data processing device includes a drive axis control data acquisition portion which acquires, from the numerical control device, the chronological control data when the work is machined; a machined surface measurement data acquisition portion which acquires spatial machined surface measurement data after the machining of the work measured by the machined surface measurement device; and a data-associating processing portion which associates the chronological control data acquired by the drive axis control data acquisition portion and the spatial machined surface measurement data acquired by the machined surface measurement data acquisition portion with each other.
US10725446B2
The invention concerns a method and a device for calibrating at least one scanning system (4, 5, 17) when producing an object (8) by additive manufacturing, wherein the coordinates of one or several reference positions are measured in the relative coordinate system of each scanning system (4, 5, 17), after which the calibration of each of the scanning systems is adapted starting from the measured coordinates of the reference positions.
US10725439B2
An apparatus for monitoring of a device including a moveable part, especially a rotating device, wherein the apparatus includes a control module which receives a measured vibration signal of the device provided by a sensor connected to the device, provides a spectrum of the measured vibration signal, pre-processes the spectrum to determine base frequencies and side frequencies, where the base frequencies are frequencies having peak powers corresponding to eigen frequencies of the device or faulty frequencies and the side frequencies correspond to other frequencies, where the control module additionally processes the base and side frequencies by applying separately a one-class classification on the base and side frequencies, combines the results of the one-class classifications to obtain a classification signal representing a confidence level, and outputs a decision support signal based on the classification signal, where the decision support signal indicates an error status of the monitored device.
US10725432B2
A system and method for fast converging gain calibration for phase lock loops (PLL) are herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving, with a voltage generation circuit, an input value representing a difference between a sampled voltage and a reference voltage, and adjusting, with the voltage generation circuit, the reference voltage by generating a voltage output based on the difference represented by the input value.
US10725426B2
An image forming apparatus includes developer accommodating containers, mounting portions for the respective containers, a switching portion, and a manually operable cover. In a stand-by state after exchange of one of the developer accommodating containers is prompted, the switching portion switches a state of the container from a non-accessible state to an accessible state with opening of the cover. In a case that a jam occurrence signal is ON after the exchange of the developer accommodating container mounted in the mounting portion is prompted, the switching portion maintains the non-accessible state without switching from the non-accessible state to the accessible state at the time of the opening of the cover.
US10725425B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including an opening portion, a cover configured to cover the opening portion in a state being closed, a cartridge configured to be attached to and detached from the apparatus body through the opening portion, a sheet discharge portion including a first rotary member and a second rotary member configured to nip and discharge the sheet, and a supporting portion configured to rotatably support the first rotary member and move to a first position where the first rotary member overlaps with a movement locus of the cartridge and to a second position where the first rotary member does not overlap with the movement locus, the movement locus being a passage area through which the cartridge passes while being attached to and detached from the apparatus body.
US10725422B2
A toner cartridge according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for holding toner. A first electrical contact and a second electrical contact are positioned on a first longitudinal end of the housing. The first electrical contact is electrically connected to processing circuitry positioned on the housing. The second electrical contact is electrically connected to an imaging component positioned on the housing. The first electrical contact is positioned higher than the second electrical contact. A first drive coupler and a second drive coupler are positioned on a second longitudinal end of the housing. The first electrical contact and the second electrical contact are positioned higher than a first rotational axis of the first drive coupler. The first electrical contact is positioned higher than a second rotational axis of the second drive coupler and the second electrical contact is positioned lower than the second rotational axis.
US10725416B2
An image forming apparatus, includes: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium; an ejector to which a recording medium is ejected; a notifier that visually notifies a predetermined operation state of the image forming apparatus using a light source; and a hardware processor that controls image forming operation of the image former, ejecting operation of the ejector, and notifying operation of the notifier, wherein the hardware processor executes, using the notifier that serves multiple functions, a first notification function of notifying that the image forming operation is in progress at a time when the image forming operation is executed, and a second notification function of notifying that the image formation is complete and the recording medium having been subject to the image formation is ejected.
US10725409B1
A fixing device for fixing a toner image to a recording medium, such as a sheet of paper, includes a fixing element, a press roller to press against the fixing element and form a nip through which the sheet passes, and a pressure control mechanism configured to control a pressing of the press roller against the fixing element according to a position of a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag embedded in the sheet such that a pressure of the press roller against the fixing element is at a first pressure when a RFID region of the sheet passes through the nip and at a second pressure otherwise, the first pressure being less than the second pressure.
US10725406B2
Amorphous propylene-ethylene copolymers are described herein that can include high amounts of ethylene and exhibit desirable softening points and needle penetrations. The desirable combinations of softening points and needle penetrations in these propylene-ethylene copolymers allow them to have a broad operating window. Due their broad operating window, the propylene-ethylene copolymers can be utilized in a wide array of applications and products, including hot melt adhesives.
US10725403B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, an image heating apparatus including an image heating unit, a rotatable pressing roller, and an information storing portion; a reading portion; a counter portion; a display portion; and a controller. The controller controls the counter portion so that a) when the image heating apparatus mounted is exchanged with an image heating apparatus including a new image heating unit, on the basis of information of the information storing portion, the count value of the image heating apparatus, the count value of the image heating unit and the count value of the rotatable pressing member are reset, and b) when only the image heating unit mounted is exchanged with a new one, the count value of the image heating unit is reset and the count value of the rotatable pressing member is not reset.
US10725402B2
An intermediate transfer belt has a first region and a second region in an outer circumferential surface thereof that is in contact with a blade. The first region has a first dynamic friction coefficient in a belt conveyance direction, and the second region has a second dynamic friction coefficient. The distance of the second region in the belt conveyance direction is less than the distance of the first region and is greater than the distance of a contact portion in which the blade is in contact with the intermediate transfer belt.
US10725401B2
A developing device includes a housing having an opening in a wall, a developing roller having a hollow interior portion, a magnetic pole structure disposed within the hollow interior portion of the roller, a gap forming member, and a blocking member. The gap forming member is located within, and spaced from, the housing at a location downstream, in the rotation direction of the developing roller, of the opening in the wall of the housing, forms a first gap with respect to the developing roller and forms a second gap with respect to the housing. The gap forming member has a first side facing the opening in the wall of the housing and a second side spaced inwardly of the housing, from the first wall. The blocking member is located in the first gap and at one of the first and second sides of the gap forming member.
US10725398B2
A toner container includes a container body, an opening, a cover, a toner discharge port, a shutter, a cylindrical structure, protrusions, and an identifier. The shutter is attached to the cover and includes a main shutter covering the toner discharge port. The main shutter moves between a closed position to close the toner discharge port and an open position to open the toner discharge port. The protrusions are on both sides of the cover and protrude in a direction orthogonal to a toner container mounting direction. The identifier is on the cover to indicate a toner color. The cylindrical structure's leading end is downstream of leading ends of the protrusions in the mounting direction. The main shutter's leading end is downstream of the protrusions' leading ends in the mounting direction when the main shutter is in the closed position. The protrusions are downstream of the identifier in the mounting direction.
US10725397B2
A developing apparatus includes a sleeve for carrying a developer including toner and magnetic carrier, the sleeve having a plurality of grooves extending in a longitudinal direction; a magnet provided inside the sleeve, a non-magnetic regulating member, provided spaced from the sleeve, wherein an amount M/S (mg/mm2) of the developer carried on a unit area of the sleeve after passing by the regulating member, a gap SB (mm) between a free end of the regulating member and the sleeve, a density G (mg/mm3) of the developer, and a groove ratio α which is a ratio of the grooves in the surface of the sleeve satisfy, 0.1≤M/S (mg/mm2)≤0.5, 0.2≤SB (mm), and m/S (mg/mm2)×¼≤α×{SB(mm)+D(mm)}×G(mg/mm3)
US10725391B2
The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising: a conductive support; and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive support, wherein the photosensitive layer includes a polyester resin containing a dihydric phenol residue and a dicarboxylic acid residue, and the dihydric phenol residue includes at least one dihydric phenol residue selected from the group of the specific dihydric phenol residues, and the other specific dihydric phenol residue.
US10725385B2
A method may include, but is not limited to, receiving a measurement including a metrology parameter for a layer of a metrology target and an alignment mark from an overlay metrology tool prior to a lithography process; deriving a merit figure from the metrology parameter and the alignment mark; deriving a correction factor from the merit figure; providing the correction factor to the lithography process via a feed forward process; receiving an additional measurement including an additional metrology parameter for the layer and an additional layer from an additional overlay metrology tool after the lithography process; deriving an adjustment from the additional metrology parameter; and providing the adjustment to the lithography process via a feedback process.
US10725383B2
Methods include inputting an array of pixels, where each pixel in the array of pixels has a pixel dose. The array of pixels represents dosage on a surface to be exposed with a plurality of patterns, each pattern of the plurality of patterns having an edge. A target bias is input. An edge of a pattern in the plurality of patterns is identified. For each pixel which is in a neighborhood of the identified edge, a calculated pixel dose is calculated such that the identified edge is relocated by the target bias. The array of pixels with the calculated pixel doses is output. Systems for performing the methods are also disclosed.
US10725369B2
A light source device includes: a light source to emit first color light; a fluorescent member having a first region that includes a fluorescent body to convert at least a part of the first color light into second color light different from the first color light when irradiated with the first color light and a second region to transmit the first color light; a wave plate; a reflecting member to reflect the first color light transmitted through the wave plate; and an optical path separating element provided on an optical path between the light source and the fluorescent member and transmit one of the first color light emitted from the light source and reflected light of the first color light by the reflecting member, and reflect another one.
US10725368B2
A light source apparatus includes a light emitting element configured to emit light having a first wavelength band, a polarization separation element configured to separate the light having the first wavelength band into a first linear polarization light and a second linear polarization light having polarization directions different from each other, a wavelength conversion element configured to convert the first linear polarization light into a third linear polarization light having a wavelength band different from the first wavelength band, and a combination element configured to combine the second linear polarization light and the third linear polarization light with each other. Light from the light source apparatus maintains a polarization state and illuminates a light modulation element via an illumination optical system.
US10725361B1
A system and method to convert a wideband optical signal to a multi-bit digital electrical signal using a superconducting integrated circuit. In a preferred embodiment, the optical signal modulates the phase (i.e., adjusts the timing) of a sequence of single-flux-quantum voltage pulses. The optoelectronic modulator may comprise an optically tunable Josephson junction, superconducting inductor, or bolometric detector, with switching speeds approaching 100 ps or less. The optical signal may comprise a plurality of optical signals such as a wavelength-division multiplexed signal. The optical-to-digital converter may be applied to high-speed digital communication switches, broadband digital input/output for superconducting or quantum computing, and control/readout of detector arrays.
US10725351B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a lower base substrate and a connecting portion disposed on the lower base substrate, a flexible circuit board attached on a side surface of the display panel, and including a base film and a conductive pattern disposed on the base film, a conductive paste part disposed between the side surface of the display panel and the flexible circuit board, a first anisotropic conductive film (ACF) film disposed between the side surface of the display panel and the conductive paste part, and a second ACF film disposed between the conductive paste part and the flexible circuit board. The connecting portion is exposed at the side surface of the display panel, and the first ACF film directly makes contact with the connecting portion.
US10725348B2
A display panel includes a first substrate having a top surface and a side surface extending in a direction intersecting the top surface, a second substrate, an insulating layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first insulating structure disposed between the insulating layer and the first substrate and being in contact with the insulating layer, a pixel, a signal line having a side surface substantially aligned with the side surface of the first substrate and disposed on the first substrate, a second insulating structure overlapping the signal line, being in contact with the first insulating structure, and having a side surface substantially aligned with the side surface of the first substrate, and a connection pad being in contact with the side surface of the first substrate, the side surface of the signal line, and the side surface of the second insulating structure.
US10725340B2
A quantum dot, a color conversion panel, and a display device, the quantum dot including a core; and a shell layer positioned outside of the core, wherein at least one of the core and the shell layer is doped with aluminum, silicon, titanium, magnesium, or zinc, and the core includes a Group III-V compound.
US10725337B2
A display device and method of manufacturing the same, in which the display device includes: a first substrate; a transflective layer disposed on a surface of the first substrate; a wavelength conversion layer disposed on the transflective layer; a capping layer disposed on the wavelength conversion layer; a first polarizing layer disposed on the capping layer; and a second polarizing layer disposed on the other surface of the first substrate. The first polarizing layer and the second polarizing layer have different polarization directions.
US10725334B2
A display device is provided to have an emission spectrum. The emission spectrum is performed in a white image of highest grey level and includes a first sub emission spectrum ranging from 380 nm to 478 nm and a second sub emission spectrum ranging from 479 nm to 780 nm, and the first sub emission spectrum has a maximum peak wavelength greater than or equal to 453 nm. An integral value of the first sub emission spectrum multiplied by a blue light hazard weighting function from 380 nm to 478 nm is defined as a first integration, and an integral value of the second sub emission spectrum multiplied by an eye function from 479 nm to 780 nm is defined as a second integration. A ratio of the first integration to the second integration is in a range from 40% to 65%.
US10725330B2
This invention discloses a method of forming a prism sheet. The method comprises: providing a substrate having a major light input surface and a major light output surface opposite to the major light input surface; forming a prismatic structure on the major light output surface of the substrate; and forming an uneven structure on the major light input surface of the substrate, wherein forming the uneven structure on the major light input surface of the substrate comprises: providing a hard tool having a smoothly-curved shape such that the penetrating width of the hard tool increases as the penetrating depth of the hard tool increases; penetrating the hard tool into a mold and repeatedly moving the hard tool up and down to form a plurality of smoothly-curved concave shapes along a first path on the mold; and using the cut surface of the mold to emboss a thin film on the second path corresponding to the first path on the major light input surface of the substrate to form a plurality of convex shapes one-to-one corresponding to the plurality of smoothly-curved concave shapes on the second path on the major light input surface of the substrate; wherein the hard tool is not pulled away from the uncut surface of the mold so as to form the cut mold for embossing the thin film on the major light input surface of the substrate such that there is no space between each two adjacent convex shapes along the second path on the major light input surface of the substrate to maximize the uneven optical diffusing area on the second path on the major light input surface of the substrate.
US10725328B2
The present invention relates to a temperature-controlled dimming film with a function of shielding near-infrared light, which comprises a polymer network skeleton and liquid crystal molecules, wherein the polymer network skeleton consists of a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal network structure and a polymer-stabilized liquid crystal network structure and comprises a polymer matrix with pores inside which polymer networks are vertically aligned; and the liquid crystal molecules are dispersed in the polymer network skeleton and have smectic (SmA)-cholesteric (N*) phase transition. Between the skeleton and the liquid crystal molecules, nanoparticles, having absorption at 800-3000 nm, are dispersed. In the invention, a stepwise polymerization method is utilized to construct a PD&SLC network structure between two substrates, which greatly improve the bonding strength between the two substrates and the heat insulation performance of the temperature-controlled liquid crystal dimming film.
US10725327B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate including a first end portion and a second end portion located at a position different from the first end portion, a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a light source device located above the first substrate and disposed along the first end portion, and a light-shielding member disposed on at least a part of the second end portion.
US10725323B2
A display apparatus includes an optically opaque layer and one or more stacks of additional layers provided on the optically opaque layer. Each stack has an optically switchable layer. A plurality of switching elements are located on a side of the optically opaque layer opposite to the one or more stacks. Each switching element is operable to apply a signal, for example an electrical signal or a thermal signal, through the optically opaque layer to a switchable portion of the optically switchable layer and thereby change an appearance of the switchable portion when viewed from a viewing side of the display apparatus. The surface area of the optically opaque layer on the viewing side is at least 10% larger than the total surface area of the switchable portions on the viewing side.
US10725314B2
An Optical Image Stabilization unit including a wire connecting a housing to a holder module, a bobbin disposed inside the outer blade, a spring member disposed at the outer blade to support a movement of the bobbin in a direction along an optical axis, a first coil disposed at a periphery of the bobbin, a magnet moving the bobbin relative to the holder module by interacting with the first coil, a second coil moving the holder module relative to the housing by interacting with the magnet, a first solder portion disposed at a distal end of the wire to couple the wire to the housing, a second solder portion disposed at the other distal end of the wire to couple the wire to the holder module, and a buffer portion disposed at a part of the wire by being distanced from at least one of the first solder portion and the second solder portion to restrict a movement of the holder module relative to the housing by being coupled to at least one of the housing and the holder module.
US10725313B2
The lens driving device is provided with a driving unit for OIS, using a driving force of a first voice coil motor to enable an OIS movable unit to swing in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis direction with respect to an OIS fixed unit; a driving unit for AF, using the driving force of a second voice coil motor to enable an AF movable unit to move along the optical axis direction with respect to an AF fixed unit; a supporting unit for OIS, formed of a first elastomeric material, and having a first biaxial hinge structure moveably supporting the OIS movable unit in the plane orthogonal to the optical axis direction; and a supporting unit for AF, formed of a second elastomeric material, and having a second biaxial hinge structure moveably supporting the AF movable unit along the optical axis direction.
US10725310B2
Color separation devices, and image sensors including the color separation devices and color filters, include at least two transparent bars that face each other with a gap therebetween. Mutually-facing surfaces of the at least two transparent bars are separated from each other by the gap such that the at least two transparent bars allow diffraction of visible light passing therebetween. The at least two transparent bars have a refractive index greater than a refractive index of a surrounding medium.
US10725307B2
A wavelength conversion element includes a substrate having a first surface, a first phosphor layer that has a first excitation light incident surface on which excitation light having a first wavelength is incident, is so provided as to face the first surface, a second phosphor layer that is so provided as to be in contact with part of the first excitation light incident surface, and a reflection layer that is provided between the first phosphor layer and the substrate. The first phosphor layer has an annular shape. The area of the second phosphor layer viewed in the direction in which the excitation light is incident is smaller than the area of the first phosphor layer viewed in the direction in which the excitation light is incident. The thickness of the second phosphor layer is smaller than the thickness of the first phosphor layer.
US10725305B2
Systems and methods for implementing head mounted displays may include lens movement assemblies. A head mounted display system includes a display housing surrounding one or more display devices, a first lens and a second lens. An input device on the display housing includes a control member moveable between a first position and a second position. A lens movement assembly is operatively coupled to the input device and the first and second lenses and is configured to move the first lens relative to the second lens in response to movement of the control member between the first position and the second position.
US10725298B2
Systems and methods disclosed provided a virtual reality experience, including: a set of motorized pads for coupling to feet of a user; a means of communication between the set of motorized pads and a computing environment operating a virtual reality headset; such that the set of motorized pads are configured to provide pressure on a user's feet as an avatar within a virtual environment traverses the environment. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser virtual reality experience. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser experience including generation of a common environment viewable in the virtual reality headsets; and recording a tour including audio data as the first user describes the common environment.
US10725290B2
Various embodiments are directed to an apparatus and methods of forming and/or using an apparatus comprising a plurality of device components. An example method includes geometrically optimizing a periodic or aperiodic device comprising a plurality of device components by optimizing a topology, for each device component, from a starting point to have particular optical properties for a particular optical response. Each device component includes a plurality of geometric structures. The optimization includes selecting the starting point for a continuous profile to have the particular optical properties for the particular optical response, iteratively converging the continuous profile to a discrete profile, and, while iteratively converging to the discrete profile, adjusting edges between boundaries of the device components by accounting for fabrication constraints.
US10725284B1
A magnification device including a housing having a distal open end and a proximal open end is disclosed. The housing includes an optical system including one or more objective lenses adjacent the distal open end, and one or more eye lenses adjacent the proximal open end, the optical system produced a desired level of magnification; and a filtering system having first filter selectively filtering a first group of wavelengths and a second filter selective filtering a second group of wavelengths. The first and second filters having an optical density selected based on a magnification level of the optical system. A vision enhancing assembly including a carrier device and one or more magnification devices coupled to the carrier device is also disclosed, wherein the magnification devices include filters that have optical densities based on a magnification level.
US10725282B2
A negative lens, for an oblique-view endoscope objective, has a first face with a first optical surface and a second face with a second optical surface opposing the first optical surface, the second optical surface being a concave optical surface, wherein a recess is formed in the second face adjacent to the concave optical surface. An endoscope objective, that includes a deflection prism having an entrance face and further including a negative lens, the negative lens having a first face with a first optical surface and a second face with a second optical surface opposing the first optical surface, the second optical surface being a concave optical surface. The negative lens is mounted on a distal planar surface of the deflection prism such that a rim encompassing the concave optical surface abuts the distal planar surface of the deflection prism.
US10725280B2
A multiscale telescopic imaging system is disclosed. The system includes an objective lens, having a wide field of view, which forms an intermediate image of a scene at a substantially spherical image surface. A plurality of microcameras in a microcamera array relay image portions of the intermediate image onto their respective focal-plane arrays, while simultaneously correcting at least one localized aberration in their respective image portions. The microcameras in the microcamera array are arranged such that the fields of view of adjacent microcameras overlap enabling field points of the intermediate image to be relayed by multiple microcameras. The microcamera array and objective lens are arranged such that light from the scene can reach the objective lens while mitigating deleterious effects such as obscuration and vignetting.
US10725279B2
An extended depth-of field microscope includes (a) a microdisplay having an array of emitters capable of illuminating a sample with structured illumination, (b) an image sensor for capturing an image of the sample, and a microscope objective configured to direct the structured illumination toward the sample and direct light from the sample toward the image sensor, wherein the microscope objective has tunable focal length and is object-space telecentric such that tuning of the focal length does not substantially affect magnification of either one of the image formed on the image sensor and the structured illumination projected into object space.
US10725276B2
A structured illumination microscope includes a spatial light modulator containing ferroelectric liquid crystals, an interference optical system for illuminating a specimen with an interference fringe generated by making lights from the spatial light modulator interfere with each other, a controller for applying a voltage pattern having a predetermined voltage value distribution to the ferroelectric liquid crystals, an image forming optical system for forming an image of the specimen, which has been irradiated with the interference fringe, an imaging element for generating an image by imaging the image formed by the image forming optical system, and a demodulating part for generating a demodulated image using a plurality of images, wherein the controller applies an image generation voltage pattern for generating the demodulated images and a burn-in prevention voltage pattern calculated based on the image generation voltage pattern to the ferroelectric liquid crystals.
US10725270B2
A compact low-profile low-cost imaging lens with a small F-value which offers a wide field of view and corrects aberrations properly. Its elements are spaced from each other and arranged from an object side to an image side as follows: a first positive lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens; a third positive or negative lens; a fourth positive or negative lens; a fifth positive or negative lens; a sixth positive or negative lens; and a seventh lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface. The third to sixth lenses each have at least one aspheric surface. The aspheric image-side surface of the seventh lens has a pole-change point off an optical axis. The imaging lens satisfies a conditional expression −1.0
US10725269B2
Present embodiments provide for an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and a eighth lens element positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through arrangement of convex or concave surfaces of the eight lens elements, the length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened while providing better optical characteristics and imaging quality.
US10725263B2
A lens apparatus includes a first barrel including a first connection portion, a second barrel holding a lens, movable in an optical axis direction of the lens relative to the first barrel, and including a second connection portion, a flexible printed circuit board electrically connecting the first connection portion and the second connection portion, and a restricting portion provided in either one of the first barrel and the second barrel in the radial direction and restricting a portion of the flexible printed circuit board between the first and second connection portions from moving in the radial direction.
US10725258B2
The present invention provides modular trays having cutout features that are configured to engage with a mounting feature of one or more removable rails. The removable rails may be removably secured to a tray body in a plurality of positions to allow a user to install or uninstall rails to support different sized fiber optic modules. For example, a tray may support a twenty-four optical fiber module, two twelve optical fiber modules, or three eight optical fiber modules. Fiber optic enclosures housing the trays can be affixed to the outside of a fiber optic enclosure and allow for easy stacking and unstacking.
US10725247B2
Optical fiber connectors configured to allow ease of change of the connector polarity by providing lockable outer housing. In an embodiment, an optical fiber connector comprises an inner housing, at least one key configured to move along the inner housing so as to change a polarity of said optical fiber connector, and an outer housing disposed around at least a portion of the inner housing and configured to slide in a longitudinal direction so as to expose at least a portion of said at least one key, wherein the outer housing includes a flexible portion configured to lock to the inner housing so as to retain the outer housing in a pulled back position relative to the inner housing. A removable alignment key is reattached to the connector to correspond to a first or second polarity.
US10725246B1
An optical fiber adapter includes a main body, an inner housing, a movable shutter, a latch element, a spring and a cover. The inner housing is disposed in an axial accommodation room of the main body. The movable shutter includes a shutter portion, a pivot portion and a first interference structure. The first interference structure is disposed on the pivot portion, the pivot portion is rotatably disposed in the axial accommodation room, and the shutter portion placed in front of the hollow cylinder of the inner housing. The latch element includes a pushed portion, a cantilever portion and a second interference structure. The latch element is linearly movable in the axial accommodation room. The spring is disposed in the axial accommodation room and abuts against the latch element. The optical fiber adapter may shield high-intensity light by using movable shutter to protect eyes from damage.
US10725241B2
A spot-size converter includes: a support body that includes a main surface including a first to a fifth areas; a mesa structure that includes a first part on the first area and includes a second part on the second to the fourth areas; and an embedding structure that includes a first region and a second region in which a first and a second side-surfaces of the second part of the mesa structure are respectively embedded. The second part of the mesa structure includes a portion that has a width gradually decreasing in a direction from the third area toward the fifth area. The first region of the embedding structure extends along the first side-surface and terminates at one of the third and the fourth areas. The second region of the embedding structure extends along the second side-surface of the second part and is disposed on the fifth area.
US10725238B2
A display assembly includes at least two display devices and two image compensating elements at a junction of every adjacent two display devices. Each display device includes a front surface that is viewed by user. Each front surface defines a display area and a border area. Each image compensating element is on the front surface. Each image compensating element includes a light-incident surface on the display area, a light-emitting surface coupling to the light-incident surface, and a connecting surface coupling between the light-incident surface and the light-emitting surface. Each image compensating element includes a plurality of light guiding channels. Light guiding paths of the light guiding channels extend along a direction from the light-incident surface toward the light-emitting surface.
US10725225B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a light source; an optical member including a light guide plate, which has a first side surface facing the light source, and a light transmission blocking pattern, which is disposed along an edge of an upper surface of the light guide plate to transmit ultraviolet light and block visible light; a display panel disposed on the optical member; and a light shielding resin disposed between the optical member and the display panel and configured to overlap the light transmission blocking pattern and couple the optical member with the display panel.
US10725213B2
A lens structure formed by materials in different refractive indexes includes a transparent sphere in a first refractive index as well as a transparent second lens in a second refractive index. The first refractive index is different from the second refractive index, and the sphere is a round ball formed by a first portion and a second portion which are equipped with a first light condensing effect. The first lens is formed on the first portion of the sphere, the second portion of the sphere is exposed out of the first lens, and the first lens is provided with a first light absorption curve opposite to the first portion of the sphere, so that a light beam can pass through the second portion of the sphere to form the first light condensing effect, and then pass through the first light absorption curve to form a second light condensing effect.
US10725210B2
An antireflection film including a low reflective index layer and a hard coating layer, the low reflective index layer including: a binder resin including a crosslinked polymer of a photopolymerizable compound and polysilsesquioxane having at least one reactive functional group substituted thereon; and inorganic fine particles dispersed in the binder resin, wherein a ratio of internal haze (Hi) to total haze (Ha) is 97% or less and a variation in color coordinate value (b*) before and after alkaline treatment is 0.7 or less.
US10725208B2
Conductive nanoshells are oriented so as to redirect incident radiation as a function of wavelength. Nanoshells can be formed on templates such as nanospheres or gratings and embedded in an elastomeric layer. In some examples, conductive nanoshells are coupled to a layer that is configured to unbuckle and buckle as a function of temperature, so that radiation in one or more wavelength ranges is directed differently at different temperatures. Building windows can include such layers to that infrared radiation is reflected on warm days and directed into a building on cool days. Such layers can also direct incident visible radiation to a room ceiling so as to enhance interior lighting.
US10725207B2
An optical apparatus including an image source and an optical component is provided. The image source is configured to provide an image beam. The optical component is disposed on a path of the image beam. A variation of temperature shown by the optical component is less than 25° C., and a distortion of an image formed by the image beam due to the variation of temperature is less than 25 pixels.
US10725203B2
A method may include collecting measurement data using a first operational sensor and a second operational sensor of a downhole tool, standardizing optical responses of each operational sensor to a master sensor in a tool parameter space to obtain a standardized master sensor response, transforming the standardized master sensor response to a synthetic parameter space response of the master sensor, applying a fluid model with the synthetic parameter space response of the master sensor to predict a fluid characteristic, comparing a first prediction obtained with the fluid model from the first operational sensor with a second prediction obtained with the fluid model from the second operational sensor, determining a fluid characteristic from the first prediction and the second prediction, and optimizing a well testing and sampling operation according to the fluid characteristic.
US10725201B2
Estimating a correction factor from logs of compensated thermal neutron porosity measurements, including modeling each measurement of the compensated thermal neutron porosity measurements of the log as resulting from at least: i) a first contribution correlated to an absorbance of a first portion of neutrons produced by irradiation of the volume attributable to interactions in the volume indicative of pore space in the matrix, and ii) a second contribution correlated to an absorbance of a second portion of the neutrons attributable to trace elements of at least one dominant neutron absorber in the formation; iii) a third contribution correlated to an absorbance of a third portion of the neutrons attributable to dry minerals in the matrix other than dominant neutron absorbers; and estimating the second contribution and determining the correction factor from the second contribution; and correcting a compensated thermal neutron porosity measurement using the correction factor.
US10725200B2
Borehole logging methods for estimating a parameter of interest using nuclear radiation. Methods include estimating a water saturation of the formation from gamma radiation from at least the formation detected in the borehole using a radiation detector, the gamma radiation responsive to a pulsed neutron source and resulting from at least one of: (i) decay of nitrogen-16 formed by activation of oxygen-16, and ii) inelastic scattering of neutrons from oxygen. This may include using at least one processor to: obtain a gamma ray count measurement, representing gamma rays from one of: (i) the decay of nitrogen-16 (ii) and the inelastic scattering, and estimate the water saturation using the gamma ray count measurement and a model comprising a relationship between measured gamma ray counts and modeled gamma ray counts from each of a fully water saturated formation and a minimally water saturated formation.
US10725199B2
A method and apparatus for a streamer having a total field magnetometer (“TFM”). A streamer includes a plurality of TFMs in proximity with one another and distributed symmetrically about an axis of the streamer. A streamer includes a first subset of TFMs in a streamer section and in proximity with one another; a second subset in the streamer section and in proximity with one another; wherein the first subset is not in proximity with the second subset. A method includes towing a streamer through a body of water, the streamer comprising first and second TFMs; acquiring magnetic data with the first and the second TFMs; and reducing noise in the data based on at least one of: averaging data from the first and the second TFMs; filtering data from the first and the second TFMs; estimating motion of the first TFM; and estimating rotation of the first TFM.
US10725196B2
A transmitter/receiver for use in a dielectric logging tool. The transmitter/receiver generally includes a housing, a septum, a first antenna, and a second antenna. When operated as a transmitter, a first and second electromagnetic signal are emitted by the first and second antenna, respectively. The housing and septum are shaped to combine the first and second electromagnetic signals into a combined signal having varying orientations depending on the phase difference between the first and second electromagnetic signals. When operated as a receiver, an incoming electromagnetic signal is divided into a first and second component signal. The first and second component signals are directed to the first and second antennas, respectively, where they are converted into first and second electrical signals. The first and second electrical signals can then be combined, by adding or subtracting the signals for example, to produce a resultant electrical signal corresponding to incoming electromagnetic signals having different orientations.
US10725189B2
A method is described for seismic facies identification including receiving a seismic dataset representative of a subsurface volume of interest; performing a machine learning algorithm on the seismic dataset to identify seismic facies and generate a classified seismic image; and identifying geologic features based on the classified seismic image. The method may be executed by a computer system.
US10725188B2
Photon-counting x-ray detectors (3) suffer from a degradation of their performance due to polarization. In order to correct the effects of polarization to the generated x-ray images, the invention suggests (i) exposing the radiation detector (3) to a first radiation pulse emitted by a further radiation source (11) and obtaining a first electric pulse signal generated by the radiation detector (3) in response thereto, (ii) later exposing the 5 radiation detector (3) to a second radiation pulse emitted by the further radiation source (11) during the acquisition of the image and obtaining a second electric pulse signal generated by the radiation detector (3) in response thereto, and (iii) comparing amplitudes of the first and second electric pulse signals and generating the x-ray image based on a result of the comparison. The invention provides a corresponding x-ray device and a corresponding method.
US10725180B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to an array of independently-controllable laser diode bars configured to scan a linearly-structured beam of light upon a scene. Each of the independently-controllable laser diode bars is distributed along a common axis. Each of the independently-controllable laser diode bars is configured to emit a beam of light in an emission direction orthogonal to the common axis. Each of the independently-controllable laser diode bars can be energized in a sequence, thereby scanning the scene in the direction of the common axis.
US10725177B2
Embodiments are directed toward a scanning LIDAR system that measures a distance to a target that reflects light from a transmitter to a receiver. A light transmitter is arranged to scan pulses of light that reflect off a remote surface (target) and illuminate fractions of the Field of View (FoV) of a receiver, such as a camera. These fractions of the FoV are smaller than a resolution provided by an array of pixels used to detect Time of Flight (ToF) reflections of the scanned pulses of light from a remote surface. The exemplary scanning LIDAR system may resolve an image of the remote surface at substantially higher resolution than the pixel resolution provided by its receiver.
US10725171B2
A method and a surface penetrating radar (SPR) system for localization of a vehicle are disclosed. The method includes transmitting a radar signal having a first frequency into a subsurface region adjacent to a vehicle. A first set of SPR images of a first subsurface volume within the subsurface region is acquired and location data for the vehicle are determined from the first set of SPR images. A second radar signal having a frequency that is greater than the first frequency is transmitted into the subsurface region and a second set of SPR images of a second subsurface volume within the subsurface region is acquired. The second subsurface volume at least partially overlaps the first subsurface volume. Location data are determined from the second set of SPR images at a greater resolution than the location data determined from the first set of SPR images.
US10725167B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide remote sensing data and/or imagery (e.g., radar and/or other ranging system data, image data, and/or target detection data). A remote sensing system includes a remote sensing assembly including a scanning sensor array, and a coupled logic device. The logic device is configured to receive remote sensor returns from a plurality of remote sensor beams within an illumination zone of the remote sensing assembly, wherein each remote sensor beam is formed using the scanning sensor array and comprises a substantially static orientation relative to an absolute coordinate frame, and generate remote sensor data based, at least in part, on the remote sensor returns and the substantially static orientations of the plurality of remote sensor beams. Subsequent user input and/or the sensor data may be used to adjust operational modes and/or systems of the remote sensing system.
US10725154B2
A method and system for imaging in degraded visual environments. The system includes a laser that is positioned to transmit a Gaussian beam toward a target object located within the degraded visual environment. An optical receiver is positioned to receive return signals. A helical phase element is positioned between the target object and the optical receiver. The return signals pass through the helical phase element. The helical phase element separates coherent and incoherent light by imparting orbital angular momentum on the coherent returns to form an optical vortex.
US10725133B2
A method for generating a magnetic resonance image of an object in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, wherein the object contains at least one metallic implant is provided. The MRI system provides multiple excitations of at least part of the object. The MRI system reads out image signals from the object. The MRI system saves the readout image signals as image data. A field-map is generated from the image data using a goodness-of-fit process which uses a goodness-of-fit metric, matched-filter, and/or similar fitting techniques to fit expected signals from each excitation to the image data.
US10725132B2
In a magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus, and model-based method, for identifying a nuclear spin-dependent attribute of a subject, MR signals are acquired in multiple repetitions of an MR data acquisition sequence that is changed from repetition-to-repetition so as to deliberately encode effects of magnetization transfer between nuclear spins into the acquired MR signals. A model is generated, composed of at least two molecule pools, in which a single magnetization transfer parameter is used that is derived from the MR signals in which the magnetization transfer is encoded. A nuclear spin-dependent attribute of the subject is then identified, by comparing at least one MR signal evolution from the subject to at least one signal evolution produced by the model.
US10725130B2
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method, system, and sensing device for downhole measurements. The NMR device for characterizing a subterranean zone includes a tool body, a magnetic element, and a radio frequency coil. The tool body includes an uphole end and a downhole end, where a longitudinal axis extends through the uphole end and downhole end. The magnetic element is located within the tool body and generates a static magnetic field (B0) in a longitudinal direction at a region of the subterranean zone. The radio frequency coil is located within the tool body and generates a radio frequency magnetic field (B1). The magnetic element and the radio frequency coil enable a side-looking NMR mode.
US10725125B2
A field device includes a housing that contains field device circuitry, a display coupled to the field device circuitry and viewable through the housing, and a movable control positioned around the housing, the movable control including a magnet. The field device further includes a sensing element disposed within the housing and configured to detect movement of the magnet. In addition, the field device includes a processor coupled to the display and the sensing element. The processor is configured to identify a position of the movable control, based on the detected movement of the magnet, and control a user interface on the display, based on the identified position of the movable control.
US10725118B2
A floating input detection method and circuits. A method for detecting a floating signal input terminal includes providing a common-mode input voltage to a first amplifier coupled to the signal input terminal, and providing an output signal generated by the first amplifier to: a non-inverting input of a second amplifier coupled to the signal input terminal, an inverting input of the second amplifier, coarse detection circuitry, and fine float detection circuitry. The method also includes comparing, by the coarse detection circuitry, the output signal to a first threshold voltage, and determining the signal input terminal to be not floating responsive to the comparing indicating that the output signal is greater than the first threshold voltage.
US10725111B2
A battery state detection device detects a battery state and includes: a first permissible current calculating unit configured to calculate a first permissible current of a battery based on a voltage of the battery detected by a voltage detecting unit; a second permissible current calculating unit configured to calculate a second permissible current of the battery without using the voltage of the battery; and a correction unit configured to compare the first permissible current and the second permissible current and to perform a predetermined correction process on the basis of the comparison result.
US10725102B2
An address register includes a plurality of edge-triggered flip-flop registers having an input D, an input R, an input CK, and an output Q; a counter logic; a shifter logic; a multiplexer; input ports including a reset signal RST, a clock signal CLK, a shift enable signal SE, a shift data input signal SI; an output port including address signals ADDR. D is coupled to a data output of the multiplexer; R is coupled to a reset (RST) pad; CK is coupled to a clock (CLK) pad; Q is coupled to an address (ADDR) pad; an input of the counter logic is coupled to ADDR; an input of the shifter logic is coupled to ADDR and the shift data input signal SI; an input of the multiplexer is coupled to SE, an output of the counter logic, and an output of the shifter logic.
US10725096B2
A control and monitoring module is provided for activating an actuator assigned to the control and monitoring module and for monitoring a signal line and/or a power supply line connected to the control and monitoring module and/or to the actuator. The control and monitoring module is configured to detect a fault in the signal line and/or the power supply line, if, during a simulation executed by a testing device, an actual voltage at the control and monitoring module and/or the actuator exceeds a specified upper voltage threshold value or drops below a specified lower voltage threshold value. A system including the control and monitoring module and a method for operating a control and monitoring module are also provided.
US10725095B2
A system for measuring a device under test (DUT) includes a computing device and a measurement device that measures an electrical or physical parameter of the DUT. The computing device receives and stores measurement data in a DUT record associated with the DUT. The computing device further obtains a first image of the DUT, displays the first image as a reference image with a first reference frame, receives a live image of the DUT from an image sensor, and displays the live image with a second reference frame that corresponds to the first reference frame. A cursor on the live image moves according to movement of the image sensor relative to the DUT. A second image of the DUT is obtained, wherein the second image is substantially aligned with the reference image based on an alignment of the cursor with the second reference frame. The second image is stored in the DUT record.
US10725094B1
An active digital electronic tuner (AET) uses a digital PIN diode electronic tuner, an adjustable directional coupler, two circulators and a power amplifier to create a compact load pull tuner device able of generating octave frequency band virtual reflection factors |Gamma|≥1 at milli-second tuning speed.
US10725089B1
A semiconductor includes a first circuit, a second circuit, and a comparison circuit. The first circuit includes a first transistor. The first circuit is configured to output a first output. A second circuit includes a second transistor. The second circuit is configured to output a second output. A comparison circuit is coupled to the first circuit and the second circuit. The comparison circuit is configured to compare the first output and the second output to generate a comparison result, and to output the comparison result. The first transistor decays over a time interval and the first output changes from a first voltage value to a second voltage value over the time interval. The second transistor does not decay over the time interval and the second output of the second circuit maintains to be the third voltage value over the time interval.
US10725088B2
An apparatus for estimating the lifetime of a surge protective device (SPD) using the discharge characteristics of a metal oxide varistor (MOV) includes an MOV having an input terminal and an output terminal; an impulse voltage application unit applying an impulse voltage for MOV test to the input terminal of the MOV; a discharge current measurement unit; a first switching unit connecting a power line to the input terminal of the MOV; a second switching unit connecting a ground line to the output terminal of the MOV in the normal mode and selectively connecting the discharge current measurement unit in the MOV test mode; an MOV test management unit providing information; a discharge current check unit generating an MOV abnormal signal; and an MOV state display unit displaying an MOV abnormal signal.
US10725087B2
To provide a semiconductor integrated device capable of a gate screening test with no need for any additional circuit and without adding any gate screening terminal. The semiconductor integrated device includes a gate drive unit configured to drive the gate of a voltage controlled semiconductor element and a regulator configured to supply a gate drive voltage to the gate drive unit. The regulator includes an external connection terminal capable of receiving a gate screening voltage for the voltage controlled semiconductor element in a gate screening test.
US10725085B2
A method determines a fault position of a fault on an electrical line. First time stamped current and voltage values are measured at a first line end. Second time stamped current and voltage values are measured at a second line end. The fault position of the line is determined from these measured values. To carry out positioning of a data window for fault location according to the traveling wave principle, after the first current and voltage values are measured at the first line end, the second current and voltage values are determined, which indicate the current or voltage at the second line end. Estimated second current or voltage values are compared with the values measured at the second line end, and the first and second current and voltage values that lie within a period of time established by a first data window are employed to determine a first fault position.
US10725082B2
One embodiment provides a technique of adjusting a gate voltage to be applied to at least one MOS capacitor and an amount of electric charges to be stored in the MOS capacitor so as to determine a sensitivity of a change in the amount of electric charges stored in the MOS capacitor, and exposing the MOS capacitor to an electric filed for a predetermined amount of time and then reading an electron inflow or outflow result due to the electric field so as to interpret the intensity and the direction of the electric field, thereby measuring the intensity and the direction of the electric field.
US10725081B2
According to some embodiments, a system is provided for simulating a cluster of reflections. The system includes an array of antenna elements distributed in space over a solid angle having an angular spread. The solid angle is substantially less than a full sphere and each antenna element has a spatial orientation. The system also includes a variable path simulator connected to the antenna elements and configured to apply one of excitations to the antenna elements and weights to signals from the antenna elements. The variable path simulator enables simulation of a near field arising from a cluster of reflections of a multipath environment.
US10725076B2
A system for monitoring dielectric constant of a substrate includes a resonator structure formed on a surface of the substrate. A distal end of a waveguide is coupled to the resonator structure and spaced apart from the resonator structure such that a gap is provided between the distal end of the waveguide and the resonator structure. An excitation energy is coupled to the resonator structure out of the waveguide, and a response energy from the resonator structure is coupled into the waveguide and is detected at a proximal end of the waveguide. A detector detects the response energy received at the proximal end of the waveguide and generates a signal indicative of the detected response energy. A processor is coupled to the detector for receiving the signal indicative of the detected response energy and processing the signal to determine dielectric constant of the substrate.
US10725075B2
A method of evaluating an optimization system is disclosed. The system is transitioned from an on state to an off state. Data is collected at time intervals for a time period before and after the system is transitioned from the on state to the off state. The transitioning occurs while a load of a particular type is active. In one embodiment, the optimization system is a Volt/VAR Optimization (VVO) system.
US10725068B2
A microelectromechanical (MEMS) accelerometer has a proof mass, a sense electrode, and an auxiliary electrode. The sense electrode is located relative to the proof mass such that a capacitance formed by the sense electrode and the proof mass changes in response to a linear acceleration along a sense axis of the accelerometer. The auxiliary electrode is located relative to the proof mass such that a capacitance formed by the auxiliary electrode and proof mass is static in response to the linear acceleration. A sense drive signal is applied at the sense electrode and an auxiliary drive signal is applied at the auxiliary electrode. The sense drive signal and the auxiliary drive signal have different frequencies. An error is identified based on a portion of a signal that is received from the accelerometer and that is responsive to the auxiliary drive signal. Compensation is performed at the accelerometer based on the identified error.
US10725062B2
An amount of gas remaining within a fluid control valve is reduced according to a method for fixing the fluid control valve to achieve highly accurate trace dispensation by simply removing gas. The dispensing device has a discharge nozzle, a liquid feeding tube that is disposed so as to connect a reagent bottle in which a reagent is stored and the discharge nozzle and forms a reagent flow path, and a fluid control valve that is disposed on the liquid feeding tube route connecting the reagent bottle and the discharge nozzle. The fluid control valve is provided with a reagent flow path having a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet and a diaphragm valve provided in the middle of the flow path. The fluid control valve is disposed in an orientation such that the diaphragm valve is disposed at the bottom of the flow path of the fluid control valve.
US10725058B2
The subject invention provides methods, assays, and products for visual detection of small-molecule targets in a sample in both clinical and field settings within minutes. The subject invention is based on an aptamer sensor that reports the presence of small-molecule target via a sensitive colorimetric signal for naked-eye detection. The aptamer sensor is a CBSAzyme-based sensor having both target-mediated cooperative behavior of the CBSA and peroxidase-mimicking catalytic activity of DNAzyme. The subject invention also provides methods of using the CBSAzyme-based sensor.
US10725054B2
Proteins that are differentially expressed or elevated in tissue and biofluids after central nervous system injuries are described. Elevated or reduced levels of the proteins, alone or in various combinations or ratios, can be used to assess severity of central nervous system injury (CNS injury) including traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Time course measurements post CNS-injury of these proteins can be used to monitor progress or recovery over periods up to several months. Differentiation of acute, subacute and chronic injury can be diagnosed by comparing the protein levels in CNS-injury patients at days 1-3, day 4-10 with levels at day 30-180 in comparison with normal controls.
US10725049B2
Method for the detection of glutamine and its analogues are provided by the present disclosure. Also provided are methods for measuring the levels of glutamine and its analogues, including diagnostic methods. Further provided are methods that utilise glutamine analogues for the synthesis of coloured pigments and other useful agents. The methods comprise the use of a nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) under conditions to produce an indigoidine or indigoidine-related pigment.
US10725047B2
A method of analyzing a blood sample is provided. The method comprises providing a glucometer configured to analyze a blood sample and a remote computing device separate from the glucometer, analyzing, by the glucometer, the blood sample, and presenting, by the glucometer, encoded results. The encoded results may be presented as a machine-readable visually-encoded representation of one or more results of the analysis, in which case the method further comprises imaging, by the remote computing device, the representation. The encoded results may be presented as a capacitive profile, in which case the method further comprises reading, by a capacitive sensing input mechanism of the remote computing device, the capacitive profile. According to either option, the method further comprises decoding, by the remote computing device, the representation, thereby retrieving at least one of the results.
US10725046B2
A water-soluble peptide fluorescence material having a structure of formula (I): In formula (I), n is an integer greater than or equal to 1, R1 is independently selected from hydrogen or a nitrogen-containing functional group, R2 is independently selected from hydrogen or alkyl, and A1 is polymerized by at least one amino acid monomer and having a structure of formula (II): In formula (II), m is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and R3 in each of the amino acid monomers of A1 is independently selected from hydrogen, alkyl, aralkyl, alkylthioaalkyl, hydroxyaralky, heteroaralkyl, carboxylalkyl, or guanidinylalkyl. A2 is —OR5 or —N(R4)2, and R4 is independently selected from hydrogen, alkyl, aralkyl, alkylthioaalkyl, hydroxyaralky, heteroaralkyl, carboxylalkyl, guanidinylalkyl, monoglycosyl, biglycosyl, or oligosaccharyl, and R5 is hydrogen, alkyl, aralkyl, alkylthioaalkyl, hydroxyaralky, heteroaralkyl, carboxylalkyl, or guanidinylalkyl.
US10725042B2
A method of determining the susceptibility of a cancer in a subject to treatment with an antimetabolite includes obtaining a sample of cancer cells from the subject, measuring the level of UDG expression in the cancer cells, and comparing the measured levels of UDG expression in the cancer cells to a control level.
US10725041B2
Methods of creating cells expressing specific platelet alloantigens by combining gene editing techniques and cell culture differentiation or expansion techniques employing pluripotent cells, including the steps of transfecting pluripotent cells with a plasmid encoding one or more guide RNAs targeting within a platelet alloantigen target locus and a nuclease in the presence of an HDR repair oligo and culturing the resulting cells to expand their numbers or to create a differentiated cell type of interest.
US10725035B2
The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing a disease comprising the step detecting in a sample comprising antibodies from a patient an autoantibody binding to a polypeptide selected from the group comprising NSF, STX1B, DNM1 and VAMP2, a polypeptide comprising a polypeptide selected from the group comprising NSF, STX1B, DNM1 and VAMP2, or a variant thereof, a use of said polypeptide for the diagnosis of a disease, an autoantibody binding to a polypeptide selected from the group comprising NSF, STX1B, DNM1 and VAMP2, a use of the autoantibody for the diagnosis of a disease, a method for isolating an autoantibody binding to a polypeptide selected from the group comprising NSF, STX1B, DNM1 and VAMP2, a pharmaceutical composition or medical device comprising said polypeptide according to the present invention, a kit for the diagnosis of a disease comprising said polypeptide or said medical device and a use of said polypeptide or autoantibody for the manufacture of a kit or medical device.
US10725031B1
Devices for detection of analytes in samples of various complexities are provided. The devices allow reflux of liquid into a sample-receiving member, providing for suitable analyte dilution and preventing leakage of cells or particulate material into the signal generation member. In one aspect, the devices are used to test analytes in biological samples such as blood, serum, plasma or other body fluids. In another aspect, the devices are used to test samples from tissues, such as organ tissues, tumor samples, or other body parts. In a further aspect, the devices are used to test microbial samples, food samples, or any other sample from which the analyte of interest can be captured into the reflux device.
US10725030B2
The present invention provides a method of assaying a sample solution for the presence of a first analyte comprising: (a) providing a sensor surface having a ligand immobilized thereto; (b) flowing the sample solution over the sensor surface; and (c) detecting the presence or absence of binding of the analyte to the ligand on the sensor surface;wherein the contact time between the sample solution and the immobilized ligand is less than 15 seconds.
US10725029B2
A kit for in vitro or ex vivo measurement of sCD127 expression in a biological sample, the kit including: specific tools or reagents allowing measurement of sCD127 expression in said biological sample; and a positive standard sample which is a sample calibrated to contain an amount of sCD127 which corresponds to the mean amount measured in a pool of samples from patients who are known to have developed a nosocomial infection, and/or a negative standard sample which is a sample calibrated to contain the amount of sCD127 which corresponds to the mean amount measured in a pool of samples from patients who are known not to have developed a nosocomial infection.
US10725028B2
The automatic analysis device is provided with (1) a measurement mechanism having a light measuring unit having a reaction container in which the sample is dispensed, a light source which emits light to the reaction container, and a detection unit that detects scattered light from the sample in the reaction container, (2) an amplifier circuit unit having an adder-subtractor that adds or subtracts a correction signal to or from a first measurement signal from the detection unit, and an amplifier circuit which amplifies the output signal by the adder-subtractor at a fixed amplification rate to output a second measurement signal, and (3) an arithmetic operation unit which calculates the correction signal on the basis of a difference between the signal level of the second measurement signal and a target value, and which executes an analysis action based on the second measurement signal after correction by means of the correction signal.
US10725027B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing and analyte characterization from a single cell. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications. The compositions, methods, systems, and devices disclosed herein generally describe barcoded oligonucleotides, which can be bound to a bead, such as a gel bead, useful for characterizing one or more analytes including, for example, protein (e.g., cell surface or intracellular proteins) and chromatin (e.g., accessible chromatin).
US10725023B2
A method of identifying a therapeutic compound for treating cancer in a human subject, the method including: providing a device that measures cell-substrate impedance; culturing cancer cells in the at least two wells, wherein the cancer cells are obtained from a human subject and have a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) pathway; adding to a first well a proposed therapeutic compound that affects an RTK pathway and an RTK stimulating factor for the RTK pathway to form a test well, and adding to another well the RTK stimulating factor to form a control well; continuously monitoring cell-substrate impedance of the at least two wells; and determining a difference in impedance or optionally in cell index between the test well and control well; and if significantly different, concluding the proposed therapeutic compound is therapeutically active in the RTK pathway within the cancer cells of the human subject.
US10725019B2
Example implementations relate to coagulation sensing. For example, a microfluidic chip for coagulation sensing may include a microfluidic channel, an outlet at an end of the microfluidic channel having an air interface, and an impedance sensor located within the microfluidic channel and within a particular proximity to the air interface, the impedance sensor to determine a stage of a coagulation cascade of a blood sample flowing through the microfluidic channel to the impedance sensor.
US10725017B2
The invention relates to a prognostic method of analyzing a biological sample from a cancer patient to predict his/her response to a specified modality of cancer treatment comprising the steps of: (a) performing spectroscopy on the biological sample to obtain a spectrum; (b) comparing the obtained spectrum with one or more spectra to calculate a probability of a response to the specified modality of cancer treatment by the cancer patient.
US10725015B2
A system for tracking oil health of an engine includes an electronic fuel injection system which includes an electronic governor control unit. The electronic governor control unit is programmed to track engine parameters, calculate oil health based on the tracked engine parameters and on engine type, and display an indication of oil health.
US10725011B2
A chemical oxygen demand (COD) of a sample including water is determined. At least two test specimens are obtained. Each of the test specimens include a mixture of the sample and a standard solution including potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHP) in a known concentration. Each of the specimens include a same amount of the sample. Each of the specimens include different amounts of the standard solution. Each of the specimens is diluted with water. A COD of each of the specimens is measured. A COD of the sample is determined based on the measured CODs of the specimens.
US10725002B2
Described herein are systems and methods for coupling environmental hazard detection and actuation of a wearable chemical sensor at a molecular level. The chemical sensor may be a wearable chemical sensor implemented as a powder, cream, lacquer or other wearable construct. The wearable chemical sensor may detect exposure to various environmental hazards and provide an analog means (e.g., a range of color changes) of indicating the level of environmental hazard exposure.
US10725000B2
Wavelength spectrums of peaks detected on a chromatogram based on observation data to be processed are extracted to create a spectrum set {Sn′} in which the intensity values of the spectrums are normalized (S10, S11). One wavelength spectrum is selected from the set, and a vector of the wavelength spectrum at each point in time of measurement based on the observation data is projected so as to be perpendicular to the vector of the selected spectrum (S12 to S14). The vectors of the wavelength spectrums in the set {Sn′ } are also similarly projected (S15). Consequently, the selected spectrum is erased from the set {Sn′}. The processes from S12 to S16 are repeated until the set {Sn′ } does not include a spectrum, and the obtained signals are added (S17). The signal resulting from the addition is a signal indicating the waveform shape of an unknown baseline. A baseline spectrum is obtained by fitting the signal to a chromatogram at each wavelength obtained from the observation data, and a baseline signal at each wavelength is calculated from the baseline spectrum and the baseline chromatogram. As a result, a baseline can be automatically estimated without setting of a parameter and the like by a user.
US10724996B2
According to one embodiment, a position location system includes a plurality of sensors, a time measurement unit, an angle calculation unit, and a position location unit. The plurality of sensors are arranged at a predetermined sensor interval. The time measurement unit measures a difference in time at which elastic waves arrive at the plurality of sensors. The angle calculation unit calculates an incident angle at which the elastic waves are incident on the plurality of sensors on the basis of the time difference. The position locator locates a source of the elastic waves on the basis of the incident angle. The predetermined sensor interval is a distance determined on the basis of a sound velocity of elastic waves propagating in a structure in which the plurality of sensors are arranged and a frequency characteristic of the sensor.
US10724995B2
A process for estimating the lubricant viscosity in a bearing comprises the steps of: monitoring acoustic emissions from the bearing with an acoustic emission sensor; monitoring the bearing for at least one of speed, load and temperature; demodulating the acoustic emission signal from the acoustic emission sensor; calculating the root mean square values of the demodulated acoustic emission signal and storing the calculated root mean square values; aligning the root mean square values with values of one or more of speed, load and temperature and storing the aligned values; using the aligned root mean square values, and at least one of speed, load and temperature in a model which calculates viscosity and/or viscosity ratio from the aligned values.
US10724994B2
Disclosed are composite structure health monitoring (SHM) systems that incorporate aspects of both a passive SHM system and an active SHM system. Systems provide a route for continuous monitoring to recognize potentially damaging events as well as to determine the location and intensity of damage in those instances in which the event does cause damage to the structure. Systems can provide improved monitoring with a low space and weight requirement, for instance when utilized for SHM of aircraft.
US10724993B2
A workpiece handling system for inspection of workpieces having an elongated cylindrical segment with an enlarged feature such as a threaded fastener. A pair of rollers is inclined with respect to horizontal, and having cylindrical surfaces separated by a gap and rotated about parallel axes, with upwardly presented end surfaces. A drive arrangement rotates the rollers. A slide mechanism enables the rollers to be set at a first and second separation gaps. A workpiece transfer mechanism loads the workpiece onto the rollers, rotation of the rollers set at the first separation gap causes the workpieces to rotate. A sensor probe is positioned in close proximity to the workpiece head as the workpiece is rotated. A workpiece receiving system is provided for handling the workpieces when the rollers are set to the separation second gap, allowing the workpiece to fall under gravity between the rollers.
US10724991B2
A particulate sensor can reduce the amount of floating ions discharged from the interior of a gas introduction pipe to the outside through a gas discharge opening, without providing an auxiliary electrode member which applies to the floating ions a repulsive force toward the gas introduction pipe to thereby assist the collection of the floating ions by the gas introduction pipe. The particulate sensor has an collection member which is connected to a gas introduction pipe to thereby be maintained at a collection potential and is disposed in the interior of the gas introduction pipe to be located between a forward end of the discharge electrode member and a gas discharge opening such that the forward end of the discharge electrode member cannot be visually recognized from the outside of the gas introduction pipe through the gas discharge opening.
US10724986B2
A system, device and apparatus for measuring electrolytes, where an electrical charge is applied to a measurement portion to draw ions from a liquid to a gel-solution via at least one electric field. The gel-solution containing the extracted ions is excited with light of a predetermined wavelength from an emitter. A receiver detects the illumination of the ions as a result of the excited gel-solution, and a processor converts the detected intensities of the illumination to a biologically useful value representing ionic concentration.
US10724975B2
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods and apparatus are provided for investigating a sample utilizing NMR pulse sequences having solid state and CPMG pulse sequence portions. Various embodiments of solid state pulse sequences may be utilized including two-dimensional (repetitive) line-narrowing sequences. The hydrogen content of a solid portion of the sample may be determined by using one or more echoes resulting from the solid state sequence portion of the pulse sequence to establish a total organic hydrogen content of the sample, and by using a CPMG echo train to establish a fluid organic hydrogen content, and by subtracting one from the other to obtain the hydrogen content of the sample's solid portion. Additionally, or alternatively, the T2 values obtained from the line-narrowing and CPMG pulse sequences can be compared by plotting to obtain information regarding a characteristic of the sample. The NMR pulse sequence may also include a T1 portion.
US10724974B2
The present invention generally relates to a method of using NMR relaxation rates (R2) of water molecules as an indicator of the extent of aggregation of biopharmaceutical formulations. The biopharmaceutical can be evaluated nondestructively without the vial or container being opened or protective seal compromised (i.e., broken). The method is applicable to all biopharmaceuticals and the water signal obtained by magnetic resonance relaxometry is very strong and sensitive because water is used as the solvent and is present in high (>90%) concentrations in every biopharmaceutical formulation.
US10724960B2
An inspection system of an embodiment includes: a planar illumination unit that temporally varies an intensity of light in a periodic manner by spatially moving a stripe pattern of the intensity of light; a time-correlation image generator that generates a time-correlation image with a time-correlation camera or an image capturing system that performs an operation equivalent to that of the time-correlation camera; and a calculation processor that calculates a characteristic from the time-correlation image, the characteristic corresponding to a distribution of normal vectors to an inspection target surface and serving to detect an abnormality based on at least either a difference from a surrounding area or a difference from a reference surface.
US10724955B2
A method for detecting mentholated tobacco, comprising irradiating tobacco containing menthol and a fluorescent taggant with radiation and observing the tobacco for fluorescence from the taggant. A system and method for detecting and separating mentholated tobacco from non-mentholated tobacco within a product stream is also provided.
US10724951B2
A method is provided for verifying the authenticity of an article which bears a security mark. The method includes irradiating the security mark with a time-varying light source, ascertaining at least one portion of the emissions spectrum of the irradiated security mark with at least one photodetector, determining the photoluminescence lifetime of the security mark by monitoring the time or frequency response of the photodetector, and verifying the authenticity of the article only if the security mark exhibits a photoluminescence which has a lifetime that falls within the range of appropriate values for each portion of the photoluminescence spectrum for which the photoluminescence lifetime of said security mark was ascertained.
US10724943B2
A device is proposed for detecting at least one analyte in a bodily fluid. The device comprises at least one test element with at least one two-dimensional evaluation region. The device furthermore comprises at least one spatially resolving optical detector having a plurality of pixels. The detector is designed to image at least part of the test element onto an image region. In the process, at least part of the evaluation region is imaged onto an evaluation image region. The detector is matched to the test element such that a predetermined minimum number of pixels is provided for each dimension within the evaluation image region. The pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix arrangement. The matrix arrangement has pixel rows and pixel columns, wherein the pixel rows are arranged substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the evaluation region and/or of the evaluation image region.
US10724941B2
A liquid membrane 100 is formed by jetting a liquid sucked from a recovery reservoir 11a and pressurized using a pump 12 from a nozzle of a liquid membrane cartridge 20. The formed liquid membrane 100 makes contact with a slope wall of the liquid membrane cartridge 20 along a surface of the liquid membrane 100. The liquid running down from the slope wall is recovered and stored in the recovery reservoir 11a in order to recover the liquid running down along the slope wall in a decelerated state into the recovery reservoir 11a. As a result, it is possible to prevent air bubbles from being generated by agitation of a liquid of the recovery reservoir 11a when the liquid enters the recovery reservoir 11a.
US10724940B2
A corrosion maintenance scheduling and implementation system and method measure one or more characteristics of corrosion in equipment before and after implementation of a corrosion remediation action, determine one or more of a change in the one or more characteristics of the corrosion between before and after implementation of the corrosion remediation action, one or more historical operational characteristics of the equipment, or one or more forthcoming operational characteristics of the equipment, and modify a schedule of the corrosion remediation action for the equipment based on one or more of the one or more characteristics of corrosion that are measured, the change in the one or more characteristics of the corrosion, the one or more historical operational characteristics of the equipment, and/or the one or more forthcoming operational characteristics of the equipment.
US10724936B2
A measurement apparatus includes: a measurement tank including an air inlet and an air outlet; a fan; a light source configured to irradiate micro-particulate matter with light; a photodetector configured to detect scattered light from the micro-particulate matter; a first circuit configured to detect individual particles of the micro-particulate matter based on an output of the photodetector; a second circuit configured to detect a micro-particle group of the micro-particulate matter based on the output of the photodetector; a switch configured to switch into one of a first state in which the output of the photodetector is input to the first circuit and a second state in which the output of the photodetector is input to the second circuit; and a controller configured to control a drive and stop of the fan, a turn-on and a turn-off of the light source, and a switching of a state of the switch.
US10724934B2
Method for validating a resonator. The method comprises: providing a first set of resonator responses of the resonator pertaining to a first validation fluid, contacting the resonator and a second validation fluid, wherein the first and the second validation fluids have different viscoelastic properties, obtaining in contact with the second validation fluid a second set of resonator responses of the resonator, wherein each resonator response pertains to a resonance frequency or a dissipation of the resonator, validating the resonator by comparing a first and a second value, the first value being obtained from at least one resonator response of the first set of resonator responses and at least one resonator response from the second set of resonator responses, the second value being based on a relationship between frequency or dissipation responses of the resonator and a function of the viscoelastic properties of the first and the second validation fluid.
US10724924B2
A system according to the present disclosure includes a pressure sensor and an engine state module. The pressure sensor is configured to measure pressure in an exhaust gas supply line that supplies exhaust gas from an engine to an emissions measurement system. The emissions measurement system includes a dilution tunnel, a sample probe, and a sample collector. The exhaust gas is diluted with a dilution gas in the dilution tunnel, and the sample probe supplies a portion of the diluted exhaust gas to the sample collector. The engine state module is configured to determine whether the engine is on or off based on at least one of (i) a frequency of pulsations in the exhaust gas supply line pressure and (ii) a magnitude of the pulsations in the exhaust gas supply line pressure.
US10724923B2
An Evaporative Emission Control System (EVAP) testing device using a control unit connected to a gas cap vehicle interface unit. The gas cap vehicle interface unit is configured to match the required threading for the gas tank receptacle on a vehicle and has a pressure bypass port. The pressure bypass tube or channel extends through the gas cap vehicle interface unit to a pressure sensor module in the control unit. The control unit includes electronics needed to capture and transmit the pressure typically using a wireless transmission component. The control unit also includes a power switch and power indicating light. The control unit and gas cap vehicle interface unit can be combined into one unit or separate units designed to be connected to each other.
US10724918B2
An apparatus for detecting abnormal vibrations of a rotor includes a vibration information receiver configured to receive at least one type of information among vibration information regarding one or more dimensions distinguishing locations and directions of the rotor and rotor rotation information including a number of rotations of the rotor, a multivariate management index calculator configured to calculate multivariate management indexes from the vibration information regarding the one or more dimensions, and an operation index extractor configured to determine an abnormality in vibration characteristics of the rotor when a Hotelling's T-squared value is greater than an upper control limit and extracts an operation index causing the abnormality in the vibration characteristics of the rotor from one or more operation indexes. An abnormal vibration in a rotor is detected based on four-dimensional (4D) vibration information distinguishing locations and directions of the rotor.
US10724912B2
A sensor device includes a plurality of systems each having a sensor element, and a computation unit configured to calculate as a first value a value of at least one of a force and a moment applied to a detection target in a predetermined axial direction, based on a detection signal detected by the sensor element, and an abnormality determining unit configured to compare the first values calculated by the computation units of the systems with one another, and determine that there is an abnormality if a difference of the first value is greater than or equal to a predetermined amount. The computation unit of at least one of the systems calculates as a second value a value of at least one of a force and a moment applied to the detection target in the axial direction, based on detection signals detected by the sensor elements of the systems.
US10724906B1
A non-contact real-time stress monitoring method for buried pipeline and a device thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps: Step S10: selecting pipelines with the same material, pipe diameter and wall thickness as the buried pipeline being monitored for lift-off effect test, and obtaining a plurality of sets of lift-off magnetic field gradient modulus under a plurality of sets of lift-off heights; Step S20: using MATLAB to fit the G1-h relationship curve for obtaining the values of parameters a1, b1, a2, and b2 in a quantitative relationship formula containing the lift-off gradient modulus and the lift-off height; Step S30: placing a non-contact monitoring device directly above the buried pipeline being monitored to obtain a magnetic field gradient modulus of the buried pipeline; and Step S40: calculating an absolute value of real-time stress of the buried pipeline according to the magnetic field gradient modulus of the buried pipeline.
US10724905B2
Device having tank shaped to produce flow direction and improve temperature stability and uniformity
A device includes a tank, a motor, and a fluid propulsion device, for example, a propeller that is coupled to the motor. The tank includes a bottom wall and side walls. A first surface of a first side wall forms an obtuse angle with a surface of the bottom wall. The fluid propulsion device is disposed inside the tank opposite the first surface of the first side wall. A first surface of a second side wall forms an obtuse angle with the surface of the bottom wall. Rounded corners may be disposed within the tank where pairs of adjacent side walls meet the bottom wall. Rounded surfaces may be formed where the side walls meet the bottom wall. The structure of the tank enables the propeller to rapidly disperse a fluid throughout the tank.
US10724904B2
The present invention relates to a temperature information assembly for a cooking hob (18). The temperature information assembly comprises at least one SAW (surface acoustic wave) temperature sensor (10) permanently or removably attached or attachable at or in a cooking pot (24), at least one sensor antenna (12) permanently or removably attached or attachable at the cooking pot (24) and electrically connected to the SAW temperature sensor (10), at least one reader (14) permanently or removably attached or attachable in or on the cooking hob (18), and at least one reader antenna (16) permanently or removably attached or attachable in or on the cooking hob (18) and electrically connected to the reader (14). The SAW temperature sensor (10) is wireless connected or connectable to the reader (14) via the sensor antenna (12) and the reader antenna (16). The reader (14) is electrically connected or connectable to a control unit (22) of the cooking hob (18) in order to control the cooking process. Further, the present invention relates to a cooking hob (18) with the temperature information assembly. Moreover, the present invention relates to a cooking pot (24) with the SAW temperature sensor (10) and the sensor antenna (12) or prepared for receiving said SAW temperature sensor (10) and sensor antenna (12).
US10724896B2
First, the pressure of oil within an oil passage in a control valve device is measured. Then, an amplitude and period of pressure fluctuations are detected on the basis of an obtained measurement result, and an oil vibration state or an oil non-vibration state is diagnosed. In this case, when the amplitude is greater than a reference amplitude value and when the period is less than a reference period value, the oil vibration state is diagnosed. Further, a duration time of the oil vibration state is determined on the basis of a diagnostic result. Then, when the oil vibration state continues for a period greater than or equal to a reference time, warning information is output. In this way, warning information is output stepwise in accordance with occurrence or continuation of oil vibration.
US10724895B1
Described are systems and techniques configured to test sensors in a materials handling facility. In one implementation, an age of a user in the facility and a predicted path through the facility may be determined. Physical access controls may be initiated at inventory locations along the predicted path and adjacent to the user. The physical access controls may include deployment of physical barriers, activation of locks, and so forth. As another user who is permitted access approaches a particular inventory location, the physical access controls may be deactivated.
US10724891B2
A vessel with a cavity for measuring level is disclosed. The vessel includes a differential pressure sensor having a first port and a second port, a reference tube that connects the first port of the differential pressure sensor to a bottom portion of the cavity, and an impulse tube that connects the second port of the differential pressure sensor to an impulse tube ending. At least a portion of the impulse tube extends through the cavity and ends at a fluid inlet. The fluid inlet is located at a level above the reference tube.
US10724887B2
A paver material feed sensing system for a paving machine can comprise a sensor, sensor bracket, swivel assembly and mounting post. The sensor bracket can comprise an adjustable socket for receiving the sensor. The mounting post can comprise a first end coupled to the swivel assembly and a mounting slot located in a second end. The mounting slot can comprise a multi-faceted seat for engaging an edge of a plate of the paving machine. A method of positioning a paver material flow sensor can comprise tilting the mounting post on the plate of the paving machine.
US10724880B2
A scalable monolithic sensor assembly, controller, and methods of making and installing same are disclosed. The sensor assembly includes a sensor head sized to fully traverse the diameter of the pipe such that its electrodes sample a voltage indicative of the entire pipe flow across its diameter. An improved stem design is included that decreases insertion force and increases lateral stability of the sensor head. An improved insertion device is disclosed that provide for independent axial insertion and rotation. An improved core is disclosed that minimizes interference of magnetic fields and reduces manufacturing costs. An improved controller is disclosed that improves sensitivity.
US10724865B1
Example methods and systems for calibrating sensors using road map data are provided. An autonomous vehicle may use various vehicle sensors to assist in navigation. Within examples, the autonomous vehicle may calibrate vehicle sensors through performing a comparison or analysis between information about the environment received by sensors with similar information provided by map data (e.g., a road map). The autonomous vehicle may compare object locations as provided by the sensors and as shown by map data. Based on the comparison, the autonomous vehicle may adjust various sensors to accurately reflect the information as provided by the road map. In some instances, the autonomous vehicle may adjust the position, height, orientation, direction-of-focus, scaling, or other parameters of a sensor based on the information provided by a road map.
US10724858B2
A boiler system includes a boiler having at least one heat exchanger having a surface on which a deposit may form. The boiler system further includes at least one retractable sootblower having a lance tube for carrying a high pressure fluid into the boiler. The lance tube is configured such that the high pressure fluid impacts the heat exchanger surface to effect a vibration in the boiler system. The boiler system also includes at least one vibration measuring device coupled to the boiler system. The vibration measuring device is configured to measure the vibration in the boiler system, and the measured vibration indicates presence or absence of the deposit on the heat exchanger surface. The vibration measuring device may optionally detect a vibration caused by the release of the deposit from the surface of the heat exchanger or the impact of the released deposit with a surface in the boiler system.
US10724846B2
A system is described, for use in optical measurement of a sample. The system comprising: an illumination unit configured for providing coherent illumination of one or more selected wavelength ranges and directing it onto one or more selected inspection regions of the sample, a collection unit configured for collecting light returning from the inspection region and generating output data comprising a sequence of image data pieces indicative of secondary speckle patterns formed at an intermediate plane in optical path of light collection, a depth resolving module configured for affecting at least one of the illumination unit and the collection unit for determining an association between collected secondary speckle patterns and depth layers of the sample; and a control unit being connectable to said depth resolving module and configured for operating said depth resolving module and for receiving said sequence of image data pieces from the collection unit and processing said sequence of image data pieces by determining correlation functions between at least portions of said secondary speckle patterns associated with corresponding depth layers of the sample, thereby determining one or more parameter variations along depth of the sample.
US10724839B2
A ammunition holding assembly and system includes a panel that has a front side, a back side and a perimeter edge. The panel is comprised of a flexible material. A plurality of receivers is positioned on the front side of the panel and each of the receivers is comprised to hold a single unit of ammunition to define a stored unit. A coupler includes a first mating member and a second mating member releasably coupled to each other. The first mating member is positioned on the back side of the panel.
US10724838B2
A dispense for dispensing an adhesive onto a remote surface, such as a case mouth and primer ammunition. The dispense includes a reservoir containing an adhesive; a positive displacement pump; and a nozzle having a tapered tip. The positive displacement pump delivers a predetermined amount of the adhesive, preferably an anaerobic adhesive, from the reservoir to the nozzle at predetermined intervals. The nozzle discharges the predetermined amount of adhesive through the air and at least 1/16-inch onto the remote surface.
US10724834B2
Stoppage-inducing ammunition cartridges have a case having a rear head surface, a circumferential extractor groove forward of the rear head surface, a body portion forward of the circumferential extractor groove defining a case axis perpendicular to the rear head surface, and a forward mouth, a primer received in the case, a propellant within the case, a bullet received in the forward mouth, and the circumferential extractor groove being defined in part by a rear extractor surface angularly disposed with respect to a plane perpendicular to the case axis, such that an extractor adapted to engage a groove surface perpendicular to the case axis will have limited effect at extracting the cartridge from a firearm chamber after discharge. The rear extractor surface may be a frustoconical surface. The rear extractor surface may be a tapered surface acutely angled with respect to the case axis.
US10724827B2
A rifle sling is provided for use with a shooting adapter for a firearm. The rifle sling comprises a first portion having a forward end including a first attachment facility configured for attachment to a forward portion of a rifle, and a second portion having a rear end including a second attachment facility configured for attachment to a rear portion of a rifle. Further, a connector is configured to removable connect the first and second portion, the connector includes three parallel bars collectively defining two elongated slots. One of the slots has a lateral opening at a slots end, the opening is configured to removably retain a strap and to permit removal and insertion of an intermediate portion of the strap.
US10724818B2
The disclosed invention provides a method and suppressor assembly that allows a suppressor to be used in combination and interchangeably with a blank firing adaptor. The assembly comprises a muzzle mount, an elongate member, an end cap, an outer tube, and an a blank firing adaptor that is configured to be fastened to the front end of the muzzle mount and disposed within the suppressor.
US10724812B2
A system for an adjustable gas block. The gas block body has a main chamber fluidly coupled to a gas aperture which is fluidly connected to a plunger channel and a gas return path. Downstream of the gas block body is a plunger assembly which includes a ring and a plunger. Further downstream is an adjustment knob which is coupled to the gas block body and which is adjustable upstream and downstream relative to the gas block body. The volume of plunger inserted into the channel path is controlled by the adjustment knob.
US10724803B2
A heat pipe is provided, including a capillary body. The capillary body has a condensation portion, an evaporation portion, and a connecting portion connecting the condensation portion with the evaporation portion. The capillary body is formed by metal weaving. A cross-section of the evaporation portion is larger than that of the condensation portion.
US10724798B2
A cooling tower includes a tower casing, a pumping device, a water storage tank, at least one cooling assembly and a fan unit. The cooling assembly includes a first multiple-layer cooling unit comprising a first water collection basin, a first fill material unit provided underneath the first water collection basin, and a first water receiving basin provided underneath the first fill material unit and connected to the water storage tank. The second multiple-layer cooling unit includes a second water collection basin connected to the water storage tank, and a second fill material unit provided underneath the second water collection basin. The cooling water in the second water collection basin is arranged to be distributed on the second fill material unit. The water flowing in the second water collection basin is collected in the water storage tank.
US10724794B2
A treatment device (1) and a treatment method for a web (2) of endless material, in particular of a textile fiber material, preferably a non-woven fabric are provided. The treatment device (1) includes a treatment chamber (14) in which the moving web (2) is treated with a flowing gas, in particular air, an inlet (10) and an outlet (11) for the web (2), and a plurality of chamber regions (20-24). The plurality of chamber regions (20-24) are stationarily arranged on top and next to each other. The web (2) runs through the plurality of chamber regions (20-24). In the chamber regions (20-24), the gas, in particular the air, flows against and through the web (2) from one side.
US10724791B2
A refrigerator and a display for a refrigerator are provided. The display may include a display plate defining an outer appearance of a front surface of the display, a plurality of display portions that displays information of the refrigerator and is formed by an arrangement of a plurality of fine through-holes that pass through the display plate, a plurality of operational interfaces formed on a front surface of the display plate and operated by a touch input, a touch PCB provided on a rear surface of the display plate and including a plurality of touch sensors at positions corresponding to the plurality of operational interfaces, a display PCB on which a LED that radiates light toward the plurality of fine through-holes is mounted, and a display cover provided close to the rear surface of the display plate and on which the touch PCB and the display PCB are mounted.
US10724788B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet that defines a lower storage space, a front panel door part configured to open and close the lower storage space, a drawer part connected to the front panel door part, a support member located at the drawer part, and an elevation assembly located at the front panel door part and configured to elevate the support member relative to the drawer part. The elevation assembly includes at least one elevation member that extends from the front panel door part to the drawer part and that passes through the drawer part, and a driving device that is located in the front panel door part, that is configured to provide power to the at least one elevation member, and that is configured to cause a vertical movement of the at least one elevation member relative to the drawer part.
US10724786B2
An installation structure of an external filter case for a refrigerator is provided. The filter case may include a main body that provides an inner space in which an internal line may be installed and water filters may be installed, and a cover that covers the inner space of the main body and is detachably coupled with the main body. The main body may have an open front side and may include bosses that protrude from its bottom face. The cover may include insertion holes into which the bosses may be inserted. A lower portion of the main body may be coupled with a lower portion of the cover. Magnets may be installed in upper portions of the main body and the cover, respectively, such that the main body and the cover may be coupled with each other by a magnetic force.
US10724783B2
A household refrigerator has a thermally insulated cabinet, a storage compartment intended to store food and/or beverages and contained within the cabinet, a refrigerant cycle intended for cooling the storage compartment, and a compressor compartment housing a compressor of the refrigerant cycle. The cabinet is mounted on top of the compressor compartment. The household refrigerator contains a door leaf pivotally hinged with respect to the cabinet for opening and closing the storage compartment or a bottom drawer located directly above the compressor compartment and intended for storing food and/or beverages. The bottom drawer is closed when pushed into the storage compartment and open when at least partly be pulled out of the storage compartment. The household refrigerator contains a device for opening the closed door leaf or for opening the closed bottom drawer, which is attached inside the compressor compartment.
US10724778B2
A method for controlling a fan (6) of a vapour compression system (1) is disclosed, the fan (6) being arranged to provide a secondary fluid flow across a heat rejecting heat exchanger (3). A temperature difference, ΔT=Tout−Tamb, between a temperature, Tout, of refrigerant leaving the heat rejecting heat exchanger (3) and a temperature, Tamb, of ambient air of the heat rejecting heat exchanger (3) is established. A setpoint value, ΔTsetp, for the temperature difference, ΔT, is obtained, the setpoint value, ΔTsetp, being dependent on the fan speed of the fan (6) in such a manner that the setpoint value, ΔTsetp, increases as the fan speed increases. The fan speed of the fan (6) is controlled in order to control the temperature difference, ΔT, in accordance with the obtained setpoint value, ΔTsetp.
US10724773B2
The present invention is provided with: a turbo compressor that compresses a refrigerant; a condenser that condenses the refrigerant compressed by the turbo compressor; an expansion valve that expands a liquid refrigerant introduced from the condenser; an evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant expanded by the expansion valve; an oil tank that stores a lubricating oil supplied to the turbo compressor; a pressure equalizing pipe that connects the oil tank and the evaporator; and a control unit that controls start-up. The control unit calculates the amount of a refrigerant eluded into the lubricating oil in the oil tank at the time of start-up, and reduces a pressure reduction speed in the oil tank by limiting the opening operation of an IGV when the refrigerant elution amount per prescribed time exceeds a prescribed value.
US10724768B2
Systems and methods of continuous cooling at cryogenic temperatures. One exemplary aspect involves a refrigeration system that includes: a chamber adapted to hold liquid and gaseous coolant received from a cooling pot; a first adsorption pump having an inlet end in fluid communication with the chamber, the first adsorption pump configured to capture gas from the liquid and gaseous coolant when the first adsorption pump is enabled; a second adsorption pump having an inlet end in fluid communication with the chamber, the second adsorption pump configured to capture gas from the liquid and gaseous coolant when the second adsorption pump is enabled; a first heater or heat switch for desorbing the gas captured by the first adsorption pump; and a second heater or heat switch for desorbing the gas captured by the second adsorption pump.
US10724765B2
A solar receiver for exposing heat absorbing particles to concentrated solar radiation. The solar receiver includes a chamber having an aperture through which concentrated solar radiation can be received within the chamber. An inlet means provides for introducing an inflow including solar absorbing particles into the chamber. An outlet means provides for discharge of an outflow from the chamber. The inlet means communicates with the chamber for introduction of the inflow into a first section of the chamber in opposed relation the aperture. The outlet means communicates with a second section of the chamber disposed between the first section and the aperture, wherein fluid flow from the inlet means to the outlet means is exposed to concentrated solar radiation received within the chamber. The first section diverges in a direction towards the aperture, and the inlet means is configured to introduce the inflow tangentially into the divergent first section.
US10724762B2
A guide system including a top end, a bottom end, a lumen and a plurality of openings, the system is disposed within a coil lumen at the bottom end of the heat exchanger coil with the bottom end of the system extending beyond the bottom end of the coil in a direction from the top end to the bottom end of the coil, the system configured in a shape of the coil lumen and the openings are disposed on the bottom end of the system, wherein the heat exchanger is configured to channel the flue flow from a burner through a path to heat a fluid flow of the coil before entering the lumen of the system via the openings to avoid a pressure drop due to a tendency for the flue flow to follow a path defined by a shape of the bottom end of the coil.
US10724758B2
The heat index thermostat is an electronic, programmable thermostat having a microcontroller or microprocessor programmed to regulate the temperature of an enclosed space, such as a room or building. The thermostat has a user interface that permits the user to select a mode of operation and to enter a set temperature, and input terminals for receiving signals from relative humidity, indoor temperature, and other sensors. In a heat index mode of operation, the temperature is regulated by reference to a lookup table based on a heat index equation. The microcontroller uses the table inversely by using the set temperature as the heat index temperature, looking up the room temperature that would result in that heat index temperature given the measured relative humidity in the room. The thermostat then turns the cooling/heating unit on or off until the measured room temperature is equal to the temperature determined from the lookup table.
US10724753B2
A method of operating a variable speed compressor, the variable speed compressor in electrical communication with a computing element and the computing element in electrical communication with a sensing device, the method including operating the computing element to transmit a control signal to the compressor to operate in an operational mode, operating the computing element to receive outdoor air temperature data from the sensing device, operating the computing element to determine an operational run time value of the compressor based in part on the outside air temperature data, operating the computing element to determine an estimated day period based in part on the control signal, and operating the compressor at an operational speed based in part on the outdoor air temperature data, the operational run time value, and the estimated day period.
US10724751B2
A vent that includes: a rotary head with blades arranged between a top and bottom section of the rotary head; a fixed component to mount the rotary head to a roof of a building, the fixed component having a throat that provides a flow path from inside the building to an interior of the rotary head; and a diffuser to split airflow vented from the throat and direct the vented airflow out through the rotary head.
US10724743B2
The invention relates to an oven comprising an oven cavity (10) with a closable opening (12) for receiving food to be cooked or baked, an evaporation cavity (26) in a bottom wall (24) of the oven cavity (10) and an evaporation heating element (28) being arranged for heating the evaporation cavity (26). According to the invention the evaporation cavity (26) is formed as an embossment in the bottom wall (24) of the oven cavity (10) and the heating power of the evaporation heating element (28) is adapted to evaporate a volume of water to be evaporated that corresponds to the volume of such an embossment.
US10724716B2
A head wearable device includes a headpiece, a housing attached to the headpiece, a luminaire attached to the headpiece, the luminaire including a luminaire housing and at least one light source located within the luminaire housing, a duct system connecting the luminaire to the housing, a ball joint rotatably connecting the duct system to the luminaire, and an air moving device configured to induce a cooling air flow through an inlet in the luminaire housing, through the heatsink, through the ball joint, through the duct system, and out of an exhaust in the housing attached to of the headpiece.
US10724713B1
A connection device according to an embodiment disclosed herein is a connection device connected to a flexible lighting device and includes a body part, a connection terminal protruding toward the flexible lighting device from the body part and electrically connected to the flexible lighting device, a lighting device guide part provided to protrude toward the flexible lighting device from the body part, configured to guide the flexible lighting device to be inserted into the connection device and having one or more side surfaces provided to be open, and a clip part coupled to an outer side of the lighting device guide part at one open side surface of the lighting device guide part and provided to be fixed to one side surface of the flexible lighting device, which is exposed to the outside due to the one open side surface.
US10724703B2
A vehicular lamp comprising a front lens body extending in a predetermined direction, and a first optical system and a second optical system disposed adjacent to each other along the predetermined direction behind the front lens body, the first optical system includes a first rear lens unit, and a first light source which emits light which is irradiated forward permeating the first rear lens unit and the front lens body, the second optical system includes a second rear lens unit, and a second light source which emits light which is irradiated forward permeating the second rear lens unit and the front lens body, wherein the light from the first light source forms a first light emitting region in the front lens body, and the light from the second light source forms a second light emitting region which overlaps with the first light emitting region in the front lens body.
US10724693B2
A portable tower trailer having a light tower housing constructed to allow for both stacking and nesting which is beneficial in both storage and shipping of light towers is disclosed. The portable tower trailer employs a frame having a hinged axle that allows the wheels to operate in a conventional manner. The hinged axle further allows the wheels to be rotated upward allowing the frame to rest flush on the ground or stacked upon a similar shaped portable tower. The stackable light tower is constructed having a base employing an engine system and a fuel tank; and a mast pivotally coupled to the base and movable between a storage configuration and a positioning configuration. The storage configuration is when the mast is folded over an upper surface of the base whereby an additional light tower base or tower trailer may be placed or stacked over the top of the first light tower base.
US10724672B2
A rotary auger support stand for holding objects such as decoys above the ground. The auger support stand includes at least one rod of longitudinal support member or shaft. The rotary auger anchor comprises a helical coil for screwing that end of the stake into the ground. handle means such as an S-shaped handle provides a crank handle for rotatably screwing the anchor into the ground or at least two opposing legs extend perpendicular from and between the shaft and auger forming a base. The distal end of opposing legs are bent upward perpendicular from the ground or bent upward and inwardly at an acute angle toward the shaft forming handles for rotating the auger into the ground. The transverse legs extending from the elongated support pole provides a base bearing against the ground for increased lateral support. The top distal end of the shaft includes means for supporting an object.
US10724670B2
An electric-resistance-welded stainless clad steel pipe or tube that is excellent in both the fracture property of the weld and the corrosion resistance of the pipe or tube inner surface as electric resistance welded without additional welding treatment such as weld overlaying after electric resistance welding is provided. An electric-resistance-welded stainless clad steel pipe or tube comprises: an outer layer of carbon steel or low-alloy steel; and an inner layer of austenitic stainless steel having a predetermined chemical composition, wherein a flatness value h/D in a 90° flattening test in accordance with JIS G 3445 is less than 0.3, and a pipe or tube inner surface has no crack in a sulfuric acid-copper sulfate corrosion test in accordance with ASTM A262-10, Practice E, where h is a flattening crack height (mm), and D is a pipe or tube outer diameter (mm).
US10724664B2
Provided is a connector including: a plug to be attached to an opening of a liquid storing container and attached to an inner peripheral surface of the opening; a key ring to be attached to an outer peripheral surface of the opening extending along an axial line and including a key hole portion disposed at an outside of the outer peripheral surface with respect to the axial line; and a socket to be detachably attached to the plug and including a key rod portion to be engaged with the key hole portion. The plug and the socket are coupled together in a state where the key hole portion and the key rod portion are engaged with each other.
US10724658B2
Method for manufacturing a tube of metal in which sensors are attached to tubes, which register and signal a damage of the tube. It is detrimental that protection of the sensors at these tubes against environmental influences is complex. In contrast, it is an object of the present disclosure to provide a method for manufacturing a tube, in which the signal line can be protectively mounted. To solve this object, a method for manufacturing a tube of metal is suggested with an outer tube and an inner tube, wherein a groove is drawn in an inner surface of the outer tube or in an outer surface of the inner tube and subsequently the inner tube and the outer tube are drawn together through a drawing die, wherein the inner dimension of the outer tube is reduced such that after the drawing the outer tube is force-fitted onto the inner tube.
US10724650B2
The present invention concerns a balanced regulating valve (1) for regulation of a medium, such as an inert gas, where the regulating valve comprises a valve housing, composed of at least two valve housing parts, wherein there is an inlet opening (3) for an inlet pressure, and an outlet opening (4) for an outlet pressure, where furthermore there is in the valve housing an inlet opening for a pilot pressure (5), where the regulating valve furthermore comprises at least one spring element (6) and one valve piston (7) with a sealing element (8), where the valve piston, via a valve seat with a seat area (10) in a first position closes off the inlet opening, and where the inlet pressure acts on said seat area on the valve piston and in opposite direction to said spring element. What is novel about a regulating valve according to the invention is that the valve piston furthermore comprises a bore (9), such that the inlet pressure further acts through said bore on another area (11) and in the same direction as said spring element, and where said valve seat cooperating with the sealing element (8) and only one additional sealing element (12) between said valve piston and said valve housing are arranged at the inlet pressure side in the closed position.
US10724648B2
A float valve assembly includes a cylindrical housing defining an inner flow path and a check valve is positioned within the housing and movable between an open position, where uphole and downhole fluid flow through the inner flow path is allowed, and a closed position, where uphole fluid flow is prevented while downhole fluid flow is allowed. An activation member is movably positioned within the housing between a first position, where the activation member holds the check valve in the open position, and a second position, where the activation member moves axially and out of engagement with the check valve. A drag body is coupled to the activation member and fluid flow in the downhole direction generates a drag force on the drag body that places an axial force on the activation member to move the activation member to the second position.
US10724637B2
A piston ring may include a drawn metal base of constant thickness having an outer peripheral surface. The piston ring may also include a hard coating disposed on the outer peripheral surface. The coating may have a thickness that is greater in a region of two butt ends of the base than a thickness of the coating in another region of the outer peripheral surface. The coating may be defined by a plurality of layers with a nanoscale structure.
US10724619B2
The present invention relates to a transmission for a vehicle, and more particularly, to a compound transmission of combining a differential gear and a continuously variable transmission, which transmits power through the differential gear and a transmission gear at a low speed and transmits the power through the continuously variable transmission and the differential gear at a high speed.According to the present invention, the shifting is performed through the differential gear unit at a low stage requiring large torque and low rpm and performs the shifting through the continuously variable transmission at a high stage requiring relatively small torque and high rpm to provide optimum shifting efficiency by collecting only advantageous of the respective units.
US10724595B2
The present invention relates to a shock absorbing device incorporating a plurality of wavy shaped elements made of a superelastic material arranged in a crossing pattern, wherein pairs of crests or troughs of said wavy shaped elements made of a superelastic material are restrained to each other in a locking manner by way of connecting elements.
US10724587B2
A brake pad having a backing plate and a friction pad, with the friction pad including a particular slot configuration in the friction surface. The friction pad includes a slot with a main body portion and an angled cutout portion. The angled cutout portion includes a radial arc extension that helps form a continuous cooling arc at a portion of a top radius of the peripheral edge of the friction pad. The slot features can help promote desirable airflow patterns while the brake pad is in use.
US10724579B2
An automotive driveline disconnect assembly includes a first clutch part and a second clutch part, and is designed and constructed to preclude an occupant-audible noise from being made between components of the disconnect assembly. The preclusion of the occupant-audible noise can be effected via one or more dampers, a non-flat tooth profile, or a combination of these measures. The disconnect assembly can be equipped in a larger automotive driveline component such as a power transfer unit (PTU), a final drive unit (FDU), a rear drive module (RDM), or an electronic differential locker (EDL).
US10724576B2
A rolling-element bearing cage includes a plurality of cage segments, each cage segment including at least two adjacent receiving pockets, each receiving pocket being delimited by a front cage bridge having a front running surface for contacting a rolling element and a rear cage bridge having a rear running surface for contacting the rolling element. The front running surface and the rear running surface of at least one of the at least two adjacent receiving pockets are asymmetric relative to a center plane that divides the receiving pocket.
US10724574B2
A bearing device includes an annular hub cap facing an inner ring. An inner annular surface of the hub cap abuts a part of one end surface of the inner ring which extends from an inner peripheral edge to an intermediate position located on the way from the inner peripheral edge to an outer peripheral edge. An annular adhesive retaining portion is formed between the area extending from the intermediate position to the outer peripheral edge of one end surface and at least an inclined annular surface of the hub cap.
US10724570B2
A fastening assembly having a component flange (10), in particular of a turbomachine, having at least one bore (11) in which a sleeve (30) is placed that extends through a bolt (20) which has a head (21) that is axially secured between a rim (12) of the bore and a component flange-mounted axial limit stop (13).
US10724569B2
A fastener apparatus (200) for a universal interface system (10) is disclosed. The fastener apparatus may include a body (160), an interior fastener (206), an exterior fastener (202), and a spring (204). The fastener apparatus may form part of an accessory for a universal interface system. The universal interface system may include an object (14) and an accessory (16). The object may include a mounting surface (124), a locking surface (126), and an elongated slot (22) extending from the mounting surface to the locking surface. The accessory may be fixed to the mounting surface. The universal interface system may include a ready configuration (258), a rotated configuration (262), and a locked configuration (266). The universal interface system further may include a released configuration (260), and a deployed configuration (264). The universal interface system may be used to secure accessories to a weapon.
US10724568B2
A sealant application system for applying sealant to a surrounding surface into which an associated fastener extends includes a source of sealant and a concentrator. The concentrator includes a housing with a top wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall. The housing includes an inner chamber for receiving sealant. One of the housing walls has inlet port in communication with both the source of sealant and the inner chamber for delivery of sealant into the inner chamber. The top wall has formed therein an open basin in communication with the inner chamber. An applicator tool separate from the concentrator receives the sealant from within the basin.
US10724566B2
Thread profiles providing multi-point contact improving the vibration resistance of the threaded fastener, and thereby greatly reducing the need for fastener coatings, such as nylon patches. In various embodiments, the threaded faster may have a threaded portion configured to engage two or three points of a mating thread, and the threaded portion has a thread defined by a crest portion, a leading flank, at least one root portion, and a trailing flank, all of which may be oriented at angle relative to the normal axis.
US10724565B2
A toggle fixing having a crosspiece and a strip which is pivotally connected to the crosspiece via a flexible portion. The crosspiece is formed with a detent with which the crosspiece, on insertion through a through-hole in a plasterboard panel, is supported against a toothing of the strip.
US10724563B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a non-welded, clevis-type coupling assembly that provides two sheer planes and, accordingly, increases the load bearing capacity thereof. The assembly includes a coupling plate having a first section, a second section, and a third section. The second section is intermediate the first section and the third section and the first and third sections are oriented at an angle of 90° with respect to one another. The coupling plate includes a contiguous opening extending there through having a first part and a second part. The first part has a first dimension and the second part has a second dimension that is larger than the first dimension.
US10724561B2
A technique for joining parts of incompatible metals involves cold spraying a 150-900 micron thick layer of a metal compatible with the second part onto the first part, and friction stir joining the parts by lap welding while keeping a tool of the FSJ tool at least 300 microns away from the first part (less layer) throughout the joining, to avoid damaging the cold spray to first part interface, and formation of intermetallics. Fatigue resistance was tested, with and without a sealant.
US10724558B2
A fastening unit for a radio and/or a sensor module includes at least one of a radio and a sensor module that is configured to connect with an external application unit. The fastening unit is detachably connectable to the at least one of the radio and sensor module.
US10724556B2
A fastening element comprises a first clamping element and a second clamping element rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation on the first clamping element. The first and second clamping elements each have a first or second lever section, which extends essentially perpendicular to the axis of rotation, and a first or second connecting section, which extend away from that essentially parallel to the axis of rotation. The first lever section and the second lever section are moveable relative to one another about an axis of rotation between a splayed lever position and a non-splayed lever position. The first clamping element and the second clamping element are configured to hold the article when the first lever section and the second lever section are located in the splayed lever position, and to not hold the article when they are located in the non-splayed lever position. The first and second clamping elements each comprise a first or second support section, which extends essentially perpendicular to the axis of rotation, is connected stationarily to the lever section, and extends at an obtuse angle to the lever section. The first support section and the second support section are located in a non-splayed support position when the first and second lever sections are located in the splayed lever position. The first and second support section are located in a splayed support position when the first and second lever sections are located in the non-splayed lever position.
US10724551B2
This hydraulic oil tank, which is disposed inside a pod of a power generation system, stores hydraulic oil, wherein the hydraulic oil tank is provided with: a rubber bag for use during oil temperature increases, the rubber bag being attached to a tank wall surface from the inner side, having a first internal space communicated with the exterior through an opening passing through the wall surface, and partitioning the first internal space and the wall surface interior in an elastic manner; and a rubber bag for use during oil temperature decreases, the rubber bag being attached to the wall surface from the outer side, having a second internal space communicated with the wall surface interior through an opening passing through the wall surface, and partitioning the second internal space and the wall surface interior in an elastic manner.
US10724549B2
The present invention is directed to a massage chair having a massage chair frame, a massage system, and a noise-reducing, enclosure device. The massage chair frame includes a first end, a second end, a seat body area portion, and a back body area portion. The massage system includes at least one fluid massage element, a fluid pump, and at least one fluid valve device for regulating fluid flow into and out of the at least one fluid massage element. The noise-reducing, enclosure device includes an enclosure housing and noise-reducing material positioned inside the enclosure housing. The enclosure housing encloses the fluid pump and the plurality of fluid valve devices during operation such that noise generated from or made by the fluid pump and the plurality of fluid valve devices during operation is reduced, contained or eliminated.
US10724544B2
A centrifugal compressor is provided. The centrifugal compressor includes a housing and a rotatable assembly mounted for rotation about an axis within the housing. The rotatable assembly includes an impeller forming part of a compressor stage. A first air intake is located at a first end of the apparatus, the first air intake providing an air source for the compressor stage and a second air intake is located at a second end of the apparatus. A thrust plate is attached to the rotatable assembly, the thrust plate including at least one interior channel so that air entering the second air inlet passes through the at least one interior channel.
US10724543B2
A variable-pitch vane system for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of vanes and a synchronization ring assembly operably connected to the plurality of vanes. The synchronization ring assembly includes a first synchronization ring, a second synchronization ring and a bridge bracket connecting the first synchronization ring to the second synchronization ring. The bridge bracket includes a first face sheet, a second face sheet, a honeycomb core located between the first face sheet and the second face sheet, a first attachment feature located at a first end of the bridge bracket at which the first synchronization ring is secured, and a second attachment feature located at a second end of the bridge bracket at which the second synchronization ring is secured.
US10724542B2
An air moving device includes a housing member, an impeller assembly, and a nozzle assembly. The nozzle assembly can include one or more angled vanes set an angle with respect to a central axis of the air moving device. The air moving device can output a column of moving air having an oblong and/or rectangular cross-section. A dispersion pattern of the column of moving air upon the floor of an enclosure in which the air moving device is installed can have an oblong and/or rectangular shape. The dimensions of the dispersion pattern may be varied by moving the air moving device toward or away from the floor, and/or by changing the angles of the stator vanes within the nozzle assembly.
US10724537B2
The present disclosure relates to a blade structure and a fan and a generator having the same. In accordance with the present disclosure, there is the effect that can ultimately enhance efficiency of the generator by forming the sweep structure or the spline structure on the blade in the inflow direction side of fluid to reduce a low-speed region around the tip of the blade.
US10724533B2
A turbocharger includes a compressor housing, a turbo shaft, a bearing housing, a bearing cartridge, and a spacer. The compressor housing includes a backplate. The turbo shaft extends through the backplate and the bearing housing, and is rotatable about an axis. The backplate is positioned between an interior of the compressor housing and an interior of the bearing housing. The bearing cartridge is positioned in the bearing housing and rotatably supports the turbo shaft therein. The spacer is engaged with the bearing housing and an outer radial portion of the bearing cartridge to prevent rotation therebetween. The spacer includes a deflector formed integrally therewith that directs a lubricant axially away from the compressor housing.
US10724524B2
The present disclosure provides a compressor system operable for compressing a working fluid such as air. A conditioner is positioned upstream of the compressor to reduce the humidity and in some embodiments may control a temperature of the working fluid entering the compressor. A working fluid aftercooler and a lubricant cooler is positioned downstream of the compressor. A first heat exchange system directs water from a source through the conditioner and then to the aftercooler and oil cooler in parallel. A second heat exchange system directs oil from the compressor to the oil cooler and then to a regenerator prior to reentry into the compressor. A control system with one or more control valves is configured to provide oil to the compressor at a target temperature defined to ensure that the temperature of the discharged compressor is above a pressure dew point temperature.
US10724522B2
A screw compressor comprising a compressor element with a housing in which two helical rotors are mounted on bearings by their shafts, and a gearbox—with a housing with a mounting surface that is built onto a mounting surface of the housing of the compressor element, and which is coupled in a torque-transmitting way to a shaft of at least one of the aforementioned rotors, whereby the compressor element is provided with an oil circuit with an input and an output for oil and a cooling jacket with an input and output for a coolant, wherein the aforementioned inputs and outputs for the oil and for the coolant are located in the aforementioned mounting surface of the housing of the compressor element, whereby these inputs and outputs connect to channels for the respective supply and removal of the oil and the coolant.
US10724515B1
An absolute proportioning pumping system includes an electric motor assembly powering a first pump at a first flow rate and powering a second pump at a second flow rate. A proportioned fluid output includes a first fluid pumped by the first pump and a second fluid pumped by the second pump. The pumping system provides a desired ratio of the first fluid to the second fluid at the proportioned fluid output, relatively independently of pressure and flow rate at the output. In accord with further embodiments, a pump and motor assembly is mounted to and generally surrounded by a liquid tank. The pump and motor assembly may include a pair of fixed ratio outputs driven from a common motor, or may include a single variable output pump either slaved to a master pump or controlled through a timed bypass valve to control output flow rate.
US10724511B2
A pressure adjustment apparatus including a pump, a selector valve coupled to the pump, and a chamber in selective fluid communication with the pump through the selector valve is disclosed. The pump includes a pump body that defines a variable volume therein, the pump body further defining a first aperture and a second aperture therethrough. The selector valve includes a first check valve disposed in a first fluid channel of a plurality of fluid channels, the first check valve being oriented to permit flow through the first fluid channel only in a first flow direction, the first flow direction being a flow direction out of the variable volume, and a second check valve disposed in a second fluid channel of the plurality of fluid channels, the second check valve being oriented to permit flow through the second fluid channel only in a second flow direction.
US10724509B2
An electric control valve for a coolant compressor comprises a valve housing, an electric actuating drive, a valve body displaceable by the electric actuating drive between a first position and a second position inside the valve housing, a position sensor determining a position of the valve body, a suction-pressure sensor, and a control system. The control system is adapted to control a coolant flow from a high-pressure region into a crankcase-chamber-pressure region of the coolant compressor by controlling the position of the valve body via the electric actuating drive based on the suction pressure received from the suction-pressure sensor. The control system moves the valve body to the first position to connect the high-pressure region and the crankcase-chamber-pressure region if the suction pressure is below a predetermined threshold.
US10724505B2
Techniques are disclosed for inspection management in a movable object environment. An inspection application can receive data from an inspection application and use this data to generate one or more inspection missions. When a user selects an inspection mission in the inspection application, the inspection application can instruct a movable object to perform the selected inspection mission. The movable object can follow one or more dynamically generated paths around a target object and capture a plurality of images. The images can be viewed in a viewing application to perform an inspection of the target object.
US10724504B1
A leading edge sensor is disclosed. The leading edge sensor may include a tape section and a sensor configured to be disposed on the tape section. The leading edge sensor also includes a first electrode connected to a first end of the sensor and a second electrode connected to a second end of the sensor. The tape section is configured to be attached to a leading edge of at least one blade of a wind turbine, and the sensor configured to detect wear associated with the leading edge.
US10724488B2
Various embodiments include an anti-reflection device for preventing the reflection of pressure waves inside an injection valve comprising: a cylindrical base body with a longitudinal axis L to be orientated parallel to a propagation direction of a pressure wave; a first section adjacent to a first base side having a cavity shaped as a hollow cone, a longitudinal axis of the cone orientated parallel to the longitudinal axis L of the device, and a base area of the cone coplanar with the first base side of the cylindrical base body; and a second section adjacent to the second base side comprising a through-hole in fluid communication with the cone, hydraulically linking the second base side with the first base side. The through-hole makes an angle α with the longitudinal axis L, wherein 40°≤α≤60°.
US10724485B2
There is provided a manufacturing method of a hollow composite magnetic member having weakened magnetism in a portion of a ferromagnetic hollow member, the method includes: a step of forming a weak-magnetic area having weakened magnetism by melting and mixing a Ni-containing material and the hollow member by continuously supplying the Ni-containing material to a portion of the hollow member and heating the irradiation area having a line segment shape with the laser beam. Accordingly, since it is possible to prevent drop of a local portion of a hollow ferromagnetic pipe from being easily generated by a weak-magnetization treatment, to greatly reduce deformation generated by laser irradiation, and it becomes unnecessary to adjust the shielding gas pressure inside the pipe, the weak-magnetization treatment can be performed with higher efficiency and higher quality.
US10724475B2
Systems and methods are provided for a thrust reverser system with a straight vane thrust reverser cascade. The thrust reverser system may also include a blocker door and a turning door. The blocker door may divert air flowing within a bypass flow path of the aircraft propulsor to flow through the thrust reverser cascade. The turning door may then deflect air flowing from the thrust reverser cascade to provide reverse thrust. The straight vane thrust reverser cascade may allow for increased reverse thrust and/or a smaller, more efficient, aircraft propulsor.
US10724463B2
A process of causing an engine (10) to perform high-temperature exhaust driving (D1) after urea water from an urea water injection valve (33) is not supplied to an SCR catalyst (34), and a process of causing the engine (10) to perform high-flow-rate exhaust driving (D2) after a flow rate of exhaust gas from a cylinder interior (13) is not reduced are performed on an ECU (40). A process of determining deterioration or malfunction of upstream and downstream NOx sensors (47 and 48) based on detected values (Ca and Cb) acquired when the engine speed (Na) reaches a determination speed (Nx) is performed on a vehicle external computer (52).
US10724461B2
To provide a controller and a control method for an internal combustion engine capable of detecting misfire with good accuracy by simple calculation, even when a vibration in a period of about several strokes occurs in the crankshaft. A controller and a control method for an internal combustion engine detects crank angle based on an output signal of the specific crank angle sensor 6, and calculates a crank angle speed, a crank angle acceleration, and a crank angle jerk which is a time change rate of the crank angle acceleration; calculates a fluctuation amount of the crank angle jerk in a determination period which is set corresponding to a one combustion stroke based on the crank angle jerk; and determines a presence/absence of misfire in the one combustion stroke based on the fluctuation amount of the crank angle jerk.
US10724458B2
Systems and methods for operating a hybrid powertrain of a vehicle that includes an engine and a motor/generator are described. The systems and methods may judge whether or not to generate an engine start request when an engine is stopped in response to present vehicle operating conditions and predicted vehicle operating conditions.
US10724456B2
A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine including an exhaust passage, a catalyst provided in the exhaust passage, and an electronic control unit. When the engine stop condition is established, the electronic control unit stops fuel injection and increases a catalyst inflow oxygen amount that is an amount of oxygen flowing into the catalyst by a specified oxygen increase amount. The engine stop condition is a condition for stopping operation of the internal combustion engine. The specified oxygen increase amount is larger than an increased part of the catalyst inflow oxygen amount that is increased by the stop of the fuel injection.
US10724452B2
A cylinder head defines an EGR crossover tube integrally formed in the cylinder head. The EGR crossover tube includes a first end fluidly coupled to an exhaust port of an engine. A second end is fluidly coupled to an intake port of the engine. A Venturi tube configuration is positioned between the first and second ends. A first sensor port extends through the cylinder head to the EGR crossover tube. The first sensor port is positioned at a restriction of the Venturi tube configuration. A second sensor port extends through the cylinder head to the EGR crossover tube. The second sensor port is positioned proximate the first end. A differential pressure sensor includes a first pressure sensor positioned in the first sensor port and a second pressure sensor positioned in the second sensor port.
US10724451B2
For exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) fueling control, at least one donor cylinder of a plurality of cylinders in an engine provides exhaust gas to an air intake for the plurality of cylinders. A fuel variable restriction initially provides fuel concurrent with an intake stroke for the at least one donor cylinder in response to a transition from withholding the fuel to the plurality of cylinders.
US10724449B2
A fuel system for an internal combustion engine is provided including a first fuel container for a first fuel, a second fuel container for a second fuel, a pump, and a first fuel injector, the fuel system being arranged to provide a communication between the first fuel container and the pump and between the pump and the first fuel injector, and a reservoir with a separation device adapted to divide the reservoir into a first volume and a second volume, whereby the separation device may be moved or flexed by a pressure difference in the first and second volumes so as to change the sizes of the first and second volumes, wherein the fuel system is arranged to provide a communication between the pump and the first volume, and to provide a communication between the second fuel container and the second volume and between the second volume and a second fuel injector.
US10724445B2
A method of assembling a fan drive gear system for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes the steps of providing a unitary carrier defining a central axis and that includes spaced apart walls and circumferentially spaced mounts defining spaced apart apertures at an outer circumference of the carrier, gear pockets defined between the walls and extending to the apertures, and a central opening in at least one of the walls. The method includes the steps of inserting a plurality of intermediate gears through the central opening, moving the intermediate gears radially outwardly relative to the central axis into the gear pockets, inserting a sun gear through the central opening, moving the plurality of intermediate gears radially inwardly relative to the central axis to engage the sun gear, and coupling a fan shaft to the carrier such that the fan shaft and intermediate gears are rotatable about the central axis. A fan drive gear system is also disclosed.
US10724438B2
Apparatus and methods for heating pre-combustor air in a gas turbine engine are disclosed. In one embodiment, a gas turbine engine configured for heating the pre-combustor air comprises a compressor for pressurizing air received in the gas turbine engine; an electric heater configured to heat the compressed air; a combustor in which the heated compressed air is received, mixed with fuel and ignited for generating combustion gas; and a turbine for extracting energy from the combustion gas. Joule heating may be used to heat the compressed air upstream of the combustor.
US10724432B2
An integrated fuel cell and engine combustor assembly includes an engine combustor having a combustion chamber fluidly coupled with a compressor and a turbine. The assembly also includes a fuel cell stack circumferentially extending around the combustion chamber of the combustor. The fuel cell stack includes fuel cells configured to generate electric current. The fuel cell stack is positioned to receive discharged air from the compressor and fuel from a fuel manifold. The fuel cells in the fuel cell stack generate electric current using the discharged air and at least some of the fuel. The fuel cell stack is positioned to radially direct partially oxidized fuel from the fuel cells into the combustion chamber of the combustor. The combustor combusts the partially oxidized fuel into one or more gaseous combustion products that are directed into and drive the downstream turbine.
US10724417B2
A control system for use in a fluid flow application is provided. The control system includes a heater having at least one resistive heating element. The heater is adapted to heat the fluid flow. The control system further includes a control device that uses heat loss from at least one resistive heating element to determine flow characteristics of the fluid flow.
US10724416B2
An exhaust heat recovery device comprises an exhaust pipe, a shell member, a heat exchange portion, a guide portion, and a valve. An exhaust gas downstream end that is a downstream end along the flow path for exhaust gases in the exhaust pipe is disposed in the downstream side of a downstream-side end portion of the heat exchanger along the flow path for exhaust gases in the exhaust pipe. The guide portion comprises a partition wall portion that is a portion from the exhaust gas downstream end in the exhaust pipe to the downstream-side end portion of the heat exchanger in the exhaust pipe, and a guide member disposed so as to at least partially cover a radially outside of the partition wall portion in a manner so as to have an interspace between the partition wall portion and the guide member.
US10724414B2
A system for regulating pressure in a diesel exhaust fluid delivery system. The system includes a first dosing valve, a pump, a hydraulic line, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to determine a dosing demand, determine a time delay between the first dosing valve opening and the pump activating, and determine a first threshold time and a second threshold time based on the time delay. The electronic processor is also configured to activate a timer. When the timer reaches the first threshold time, the electronic processor is configured to freeze the dosing demand and activate the pump based on the dosing demand. When the timer reaches the second threshold time, the electronic processor is configured to open the first dosing valve and release the freeze on the dosing demand.
US10724409B2
A muffler valve device for a vehicle may include a chamber fixed at a surface of the wall, a guide rod provided in the chamber and attached at the surface of the wall, a fixing member attached at one end portion of the guide rod and fixing the chamber, a valve disposed slidably on the guide rod between the surface of the wall and the fixing member, and an elastic member located between the valve and the fixing member to provide an elastic force to the valve.
US10724404B2
A vane (18) has an airfoil section (19) that extends in a radial direction and an outer shroud (20) that is disposed on the radially outward side of the airfoil section (19), and is supported inside a casing by means of a vane support member (24). The outer shroud (20) has a shroud body (31), radial protrusions (36, 37), and a hook section (32) including the radial protrusions (36, 37) and engaging parts (39, 40). A recessed part (50), which is recessed in an axial direction or in the radial direction, is provided in at least a part of the circumference of the hook section (32). The engaging part (39) has a sealing surface that continues along the entire circumference thereof, the sealing surface coming into contact with the vane support member (24) in the radial direction.
US10724388B2
A plug for preventing corrosion of an attachment opening, includes a bottom surface including an opening for receiving a head of a tightening device; a top surface; and a substantially cylindrical side wall extending between the bottom surface and the top surface. The side wall includes a first side area, wherein the plug is formed of a elastically deformable material and has a diameter at rest and resiliency enabling the plug to block, and be held in, a top portion of the attachment opening via resilient change in shape; and the top surface includes at least one first blind hole, the shape of which is such that, when the plug is subjected to an elastic deformation that causes a ridge to appear between the top surface and the first side area of the plug, the ridge is removed by elastic deformation of the blind hole.
US10724384B2
A component retaining assembly includes a housing including a circumferential slot. A component is mated to the housing. The component includes a first face including at least two tabs. The at least two tabs extending at outward from the first face at least partially past a portion of the circumferential slot. A retaining ring is disposed within the circumferential slot and abuts the first face of the component. The at least two tabs overlap a portion of the retaining ring. A gas turbine engine and a method are also disclosed.
US10724382B2
A gas turbine having a compressor, a combustor downstream from the compressor in a gas flow direction, and a turbine downstream from the combustor in the gas flow direction is described herein. The turbine includes a rotating part and a stationary part arranged around the rotating part. A gap between the rotating part and the stationary part, extends in a substantially radial direction relative to the rotation axis of the rotating part. A cooling fluid flows from the compressor to the gap, wherein at least a part of the cooling path extends in the stationary part, and wherein a pre-swirl nozzle is arranged adjacent to the gap and within the cooling path in the stationary part.
US10724378B2
When cold and in the non-coated state, the aerodynamic profile is substantially identical to a nominal profile determined by the Cartesian coordinates X,Y, Zadim given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Zadim is the quotient D/H where D is the distance of the point under consideration from a first reference plane P0 situated at the base of the nominal profile, and H is the height of said profile measured from the first reference plane to a second reference plane P1. The measurements D and H are taken radially relative to the axis of the turbine, while the X coordinate is measured in the axial direction of the turbine.
US10724375B2
A damper seat for a ring damper that redirects axial loads and is disposed within a gas turbine engine with at least one disk rotatable about a rotational axis and having a disk neutral axis extending radially from the rotational axis.
US10724372B1
A steam reciprocating piston engine that uses a pressurized working fluid to drive first and second pistons in reciprocating power strokes is disclosed. A piston is configured for reciprocating motion within the cylinder and traverses between bottom dead center and top dead center positions. An uppermost stop is reached wherein the working fluid is allowed to escape the cylinder through one or more exhaust ports whereby the fluid travels through a closed loop circuit ultimately directing pressurized fluid back into the cylinder inlet. Momentum causes a spring connected mass to continue upward maintaining the piston above the exhaust port so as to allow escape of the working fluid. Return of the piston and mass is caused by opposite movement of a second piston whereby another stroke is initiated. Power output may be transferred to any suitable system.
US10724369B2
An improved pick and pick holder assembly for use in mineral winning and the like. The improved pick and pick holder increases the effective life of a tool and pick holder by minimizing the shifting of the pick within the pick holder. The movement of the pick is minimized by front and rear bearing surfaces that remain positively engaged with front and rear bearing surfaces of the pick holder for loads applied to the pick that are predominantly inward and predominantly rearward.
US10724368B2
A method and apparatus are provided to measure fluid resistivity. The method includes driving a first winding at a first frequency to induce a first current in a fluid present in a flow line and then driving the first winding at a second frequency to induce a second current in the fluid present in the flow line. The method includes measuring the first and second currents and based on these results, determining a resistivity of the fluid. The apparatus includes an apparatus usable with a well that includes a flow line and a first winding to circumscribe the flow line. Also included is a transmitter to induce a number of currents in the flow line and a second winding to provide signals used to derive representations of excitation voltages and current magnitudes. The apparatus may further include an engine to determine a resistivity of the fluid in the flow line.
US10724360B2
A system for isolating a wellbore having a fluid flow passage extending from surface to a subterranean location has a first, downhole, valve and a second, uphole, valve. The downhole valve is located in the wellbore at a first subterranean location and the uphole valve is located in the wellbore at a second subterranean location spaced from the first valve. Downhole valve is operable between a first configuration permitting access through the flow passage and a second, well isolation, configuration isolating the flow passage below the valve. Uphole valve is operable between a first configuration permitting access therethrough and a second, isolation, configuration providing an isolated or isolatable volume between the first and second valves. A pressure sensor disposed in the isolated volume between the downhole valve and the uphole valve and, in use, permits a pressure in the isolated volume to be measured and/or communicated to a remote location.
US10724359B2
Systems and methods compute dysfunctions via amplitude envelopes that deviate from a mean (normal) state behavior. The envelope function is constructed from a recursive application of the maximum signal value within a given window size. The aforementioned operations are causal and computationally affordable as relative short moving windows are required to trail the current point. Therefore, the proposed envelope and dysfunction calculations are amenable for any source of data streams measured at high sample rates. The effectiveness of the computing is validated as representing multiple physics in real time field drilling operations.
US10724357B2
A method for estimating downhole speed and force variables at an arbitrary location of a moving drill string based on surface measurements of the same variables. The method includes a) using properties of said drill string to calculate transfer functions describing frequency-dependent amplitude and phase relations between cross combinations of said speed and force variables at the surface and downhole; b) selecting a base time period; c) measuring surface speed and force variables, conditioning the measured data by applying anti-aliasing and/or decimation filters, and storing the conditioned data, and d) calculating the downhole variables in the frequency domain by applying an integral transform, such as Fourier transform, of the surface variables, multiplying the results with said transfer functions, applying the inverse integral transform to sums of coherent terms and picking points in said base time periods to get time-delayed estimates of the dynamic speed and force variables.
US10724345B2
The present invention relates to a method for exploitation of a sedimentary basin. Exploitation of the sedimentary basin is permitted by the choice of zones of interest within the basin, the zones being determined by use of maps of total organic carbon TOC and of hydrogen index HI of at least one sedimentary layer. According to the invention, the maps of total organic carbon TOC and of hydrogen index HI are obtained taking into account the current values of TOCA(W) and HIA(W) at the level of the well and taking into account the maps of bathymetry BM and of sedimentation rate SM.
US10724325B2
A rotating control device (RCD) for a drilling operation comprises a housing operable with a blowout preventer, and a bearing assembly operable to be received in the housing, and operable to receive a pipe of a drill string. The RCD comprises a plurality of locking pin assemblies supported by the housing. Each locking pin assembly can comprise a movable pin operable between a locked position that locks the bearing assembly to the housing, and an unlocked position that unlocks the bearing assembly from the housing. An RCD comprises an RCD housing coupled to a blowout preventer, and a bearing assembly received within the RCD housing and comprising a lower sealing element sleeve having a perimeter channel. The system comprises a plurality of locking pin assemblies supported by the RCD housing and operable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The movable pins can be automatically biased to the locked position by elastic elements upon removing fluid pressure from the housing. Associated systems and methods are provided.
US10724324B2
An operating system cartridge for an annular blowout preventer includes one or more annular walls that define an annular chamber. The operating system cartridge also includes a piston assembly that has an annular piston positioned within the annular chamber and a pusher plate configured to contact an annular packer assembly of the annular blowout preventer when the operating system cartridge is installed within a housing of the annular blowout preventer. The operating system cartridge further includes one or more fluid conduits extending through the one or more annular walls, wherein the one or more fluid conduits are configured to provide a test fluid to the annular chamber to facilitate testing of the operating system cartridge prior to installation within the housing of the annular blowout preventer.
US10724321B2
A disintegrable downhole article comprises an electrolytically degradable metallic matrix and an energetic material comprising a first metal and a second metal that is in physical contact with the first metal. The first metal and the second metal are selected such that the first metal reacts with the second metal to generate an alloy, an intermetallic compound, heat, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing when electrically actuated. A method of controllably removing a disintegrable downhole article comprises disposing the downhole article in a downhole environment; performing a downhole operation; electrically actuating the energetic material; and disintegrating the downhole article.
US10724320B2
A non-explosive downhole tool for creating openings in tubulars and or earthen formations includes a carrier holding a non-explosive material, such as thermate, a head connected with the carrier and having a port to eject a product of the ignited material from the head and a communication path extending from the material to the port and a moveable member in a closed position blocking the communication path and in an open position opening the communication path.
US10724319B2
A whipstock/bottom hole assembly (BHA) arrangement including a whipstock, a BHA, an interconnection arrangement releasably securing the whipstock to the BHA, a fluid flow configuration in the BHA, the configuration directed at the interconnection arrangement. A method for releasing a whipstock from a whipstock/bottom hole assembly (BHA) arrangement as in any prior embodiment including flowing fluid through the fluid configuration, eroding the interconnection arrangement with the fluid, and separating the whipstock from the BHA.
US10724318B2
A downhole tool is disclosed herein that has an inlet for receiving fluid into a housing of the downhole tool. The downhole tool further includes a vibratory apparatus at least partially disposed within the housing of the downhole tool, the vibratory apparatus having an operational flow path disposed therein to operate the vibratory apparatus when fluid flowing through the operational flow path is above a predetermined pressure. Furthermore, the downhole tool has a bypass passageway disposed in the housing for providing an additional flow path for fluid through the downhole tool to prevent fluid from reaching the predetermined pressure in the operational flow path of the vibratory apparatus, the bypass passageway selectively blockable such that fluid in the operational flow path is increased above the predetermined pressure to activate the vibratory apparatus when the bypass passageway is blocked. A method of using the downhole tool is also disclosed.
US10724316B2
A shifting tool can include an inner mandrel, engagement members engageable with a well tool component, and a detent device that prevents relative displacement between the inner mandrel and the engagement members, but permits such relative displacement in response to a predetermined longitudinal force. A method of operating a shifting tool can include engaging engagement members with a component of a well tool, and disengaging the engagement members from the component by applying a predetermined longitudinal force, thereby causing the engagement members to retract out of engagement with the component and then extend in the well. Another shifting tool can include a retraction sleeve, engagement members that engage a well tool component, and a detent device that prevents relative displacement between the retraction sleeve and the engagement members, but permits such relative displacement in response to a predetermined longitudinal force.
US10724315B2
A riser assembly includes a main body which encloses a main body main passage extending from a first end to a second end which is generally parallel to a longitudinal axis, the main body being mounted in a riser so that that the main body main passage forms a part of a main passage of the riser. A first port and a second port extend through the main body to connect the main body main passage with an exterior of the main body. A tubular extends along the main body main passage. A first sealing assembly is arranged in the main body between the first port and the second port. The first sealing assembly provides a seal between the main body and the tubular. At least two diversion lines extend from the first port to the second port. A pump is arranged within each diversion line.
US10724312B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for assembling and positioning a bottom hole assembly (BHA) or tool string within a wellbore. The tool string is run via coiled tubing. The apparatus includes a deployment unit operable at a wellsite to make up and run the downhole tool string into the wellbore. In an example, the deployment unit includes a reel of the coiled tubing, a snubbing unit operable to run downhole tools into the wellbore, an injector head operable to run the coiled tubing with the tool string connected with the coiled tubing, and a support structure operable to support the snubbing unit and the injector head above the wellbore.
US10724307B2
A system includes an annular packer assembly configured to be positioned within an outer annular barrel. The annular packer assembly includes a packer having a radially-inner surface configured to contact an inner annular barrel and a radially-outer surface, and the packer extends axially from a first end to a second end. The annular packer assembly also includes a piston assembly configured to move axially relative to the outer annular barrel to deflect the second end of the packer radially-inwardly into an annular space between the inner annular barrel and the outer annular barrel to seal about the inner annular barrel.
US10724306B2
In embodiments, a drilling rig system includes a rig unit having rig equipment and a rig electrical subsystem configured for electrical communication with the rig equipment and including a rig electrical subsystem input transformer, an electrical system including a primary power supply subsystem remote from the rig unit, and an intermediate electrical subsystem.
US10724305B2
Chemical methods, optionally in combination with physical methods, may be used to increase the strength of the bond formed by a braze material between a polycrystalline material and a hard composite. Such polycrystalline materials brazed to hard composites may be found in various wellbore tools include drill bit cutters. An exemplary method may include forming a bonding layer on a bonding surface of a polycrystalline material body that comprises a hard material, the bonding surface opposing a contact surface of the polycrystalline material body, and the bonding layer substantially formed by a [111] crystal structure of the hard material, a [100] crystal structure of the hard material, or a combination thereof; and brazing the bonding layer to a hard composite using a braze material.
US10724303B2
A vibration assembly of a drilling tool for drilling a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation is disclosed. The downhole drilling tool includes a drill string, a bottomhole assembly and a drill bit. The vibration assembly includes a housing (334a) operatively connectable to the bottomhole assembly, expanders (122) positionable in the housing and radially extendable and retractable thereabout, and a radial vibrator (comprising mandrel (446), enlarger spring (48), cam portion (458) and vibration spring (570) operatively connectable to the expanders to vibrationally move the expanders against the wall of the wellbore whereby movement of the downhole tool is altered during drilling.
US10724300B2
The present invention relates to a downhole drilling tool system of torque self-balancing and belongs to a technical field of drilling engineering equipment. The drilling tool system consists of an assembly of internal and external drill bits, power components, a pressure adjustment system for internal and external drill bits, a mud circulating system, and an unfreezing system. The present invention employs a dual drill bit of internal and external drill bits to crush rocks by inverse rotations, which realizes the drilling with slight disturbing to the surrounding rock; the torque self-balancing of the drill bit and the power system is realized as a whole without the torque effect to the upper drilling tool by utilizing the stator group and the rotor group of the power motor to drive the external and internal drill bits respectively; it is only necessary to trip the winch apparatus for the drilling tool on the ground to realize the normal operations of drilling, tripping, and logging-while-drilling by integrating the power source, mud circulating system and logging system, etc. into the drilling tool; the winch hoists up the drilling tool to remove rock particles at the sticking point by alternative positive and reverse rotations of the drill bit for unfreezing in order to realize the unfreezing when got stuck.
US10724299B2
Reinforced directional drilling assemblies and methods of forming reinforced directional drilling assemblies are provided. Strengthening materials may be incorporated into a resilient layer and/or a polymer-based composite material within a directional drilling assembly to improve the durability and performance of a power section within the directional drilling assembly. Inclusion of strengthening materials within a directional drilling assembly may provide a method to detect the status of a power section and send a signal from downhole upon detecting status of the power section. Inclusion of strengthening materials also may provide a method to collect data about operating conditions, including pressure, temperature, torque, RPM, stress level, shock, vibration, downhole weight on bit, and/or equivalent circulating density to send to the surface or to MWD/LWD systems. The strengthening materials may collect data by themselves or in conjunction with a sensor.
US10724298B2
A retractable covering for an architectural opening includes a headrail in which a control system is mounted and a fabric suspended from the headrail. The fabric is mounted to be moved laterally between a rolled up retracted position and an extended position across the architectural opening. At least one roller about which the fabric can be wrapped is mounted at an end of the headrail for rotation about a vertical axis, and the system includes a flexible control element that is substantially horizontally disposed for moving the covering between extended and retracted positions.
US10724293B1
A lighted door system includes a door having a frame defining a hinge side, an opposite distal side, a top, and a bottom. The frame has a front face, a back face, and inside face, an outside face, and a groove formed in at least one of the front face, the back face, the inside face, and the outside face. At least one lighting device is coupled to the door frame. The at least one lighting device includes a housing and a flange extending from the housing. The flange is received into the groove in the door frame to couple the at least one lighting device to the door frame.
US10724291B2
A smart transformable shading system with adaptability to expand and retract in response to solar radiation comprises, in one implementation, a housing unit, a plurality of structural cells, and a plurality of modular units. The structural cells are within the housing unit, and are aligned in first and directions with respect to the housing unit. Each modular unit is placed within a corresponding structural cell, and includes a plurality of structural rings, a plurality of deployable shell panels, a plurality of control units, and a plurality of circuit units. Each circuit unit is connected to a corresponding control unit, which in turn is connected to a corresponding deployable shell panel, the combination of which is placed within a corresponding structural ring to transform into different geometries in response to light.
US10724289B2
A door frame component is provided. The door frame includes: a front wall, a rear wall, an outer wall and an inner wall; a length of the front wall being substantially the same as a distance between the inner wall and the outer wall; an internal cavity at least partially defined by space between the inner wall and outer wall; and opposing first and second gripping sections defined in the internal cavity at least partially by first and second internal flanges in the internal cavity. The frame has sufficient structural integrity such that when the frame is cut height wise between the first and second internal flanges into front and rear sections, the front section can support a door on its own without the rear section.
US10724288B2
A door closer assembly for an entryway device having a position sensor that assists in determining the location of the door closer assembly, and thus the location of the associated entryway device, relative to at least an entryway. The position sensor can be coupled to, and/or part of, the door closer assembly. Information obtained by the position sensor may be used by one or processing devices of an access control system to determine whether the door closer assembly and/or the entryway device is at the closed location, among other locations, as well as the direction(s) of displacement of the entryway device. Such information may be utilized in calibrating other devices, as well as determining the occurrence of a number of events, including unauthorized displacement or holding of the entryway device. A timer may also be utilized to further evaluate the nature of the displacement of the entryway device.
US10724286B2
A deadbolt cushioning system includes: a deadbolt cushioning structure attached to a door frame so that when a door with a fully extended deadbolt closes from a wide open position toward a closed position the extended deadbolt impacts the deadbolt cushioning structure. The deadbolt cushioning structure for preventing the extended deadbolt from impacting the door frame and for preventing the extended deadbolt from impacting a strike plate attached to the door frame. The deadbolt cushioning structure may include at least first and second telescoping housings with a biasing structure (e.g., foam and/or spring) provided therebetween. When the deadbolt impacts the deadbolt cushioning structure the biasing structure compresses and the second housing slides relative to the first structure and moves toward the face of the door frame to which the first housing is affixed.
US10724285B2
A dampening translator for a sliding building closure comprising a housing having a longitudinal axis and a traveler track with a longitudinally extending portion having a first end. A traveler is carried by the housing and includes a body carrying track followers carried in the traveler track of the housing, and carrying longitudinally spaced walls extending away from the body and establishing a catch space therebetween. A retractor is carried by the housing and has a housing portion coupled to the housing and a traveler portion coupled to the traveler to bias the traveler in a direction toward the first end of the traveler track. A dampener is carried by the housing to decelerate the traveler.
US10724278B2
A retention mechanism for a pair of bi-parting doors of a transit vehicle includes a first track connected to a first door of the pair; a second track connected to a second door of the pair; a first retention assembly connected to the transit vehicle and configured to retain the first track in the closed position; a second retention assembly connected to the transit vehicle and configured to retain the second track in the closed position; a first engagement member connected to the second track, the first engagement member being configured to engage the first retention assembly to cause the first retention assembly to move to retain the first track in the closed position when the second track is in the closed position; and a second engagement member connected to the first track, the second engagement member being configured to engage the second retention assembly to cause the second retention assembly to move to retain the second track in the closed position when the first track is in the closed position.
US10724274B2
A handle set including a chassis and a handle mounted on the chassis. The handle includes a shank having a load bearing section, a primary actuating section, and a secondary actuating section. The chassis includes a housing, a support spindle, a primary actuator, and a secondary actuator. The support spindle is longitudinally coupled with the load bearing section, and the primary actuator is rotationally coupled with the primary actuating section of the handle. The handle set has a first configuration in which the secondary actuating section is engaged with the secondary actuator, and a second configuration in which the secondary actuating section is disengaged from the secondary actuator.
US10724265B2
Automatic swimming pool cleaners and components thereof are described. The cleaners may provide dual filtration of debris suspended in water of pools as well as a fluid path allowing some water to by-pass one of the two filters. They also may include any of all components such as multi-section inlet tubes, Venturi jets, nozzles exhausting water onto rotatable vanes, brushes, downforce turbines, and mechanisms for adjusting water flow through thrust jets or sweep tails.
US10724260B2
The present invention discloses a construction method for demolishing a portion of a retail site, including a shopping mall with an anchor big-box store, or a standalone big-box store and/or their associated parking space, in order to create a restricted access swimming lagoon with a beach at a retail site, in order to provide a completely new setting within the retail site that aims to attract clients based on new consumer trends.
US10724254B1
A levelling system for aligning surface coverings includes a tab with a substantially flat base and a vertical member extending away from a central area of the top surface of the base. The base includes beveled feet portions on opposite sides thereof to allow it to be more easily inserted under lower surfaces of adjacent surface coverings, with the vertical member extending between opposed edges or ends of the tiles. The vertical member is attached to the base by reduced width frangible leg portions held in rounded openings, below the top surface of the base. The vertical member includes an opening spaced so as to be above two adjacent tiles when the tiles are placed on the base on either side of the vertical member. When a wedge is inserted and held in the opening and presses down, the tiles are pushed downwardly toward a surface upon which they are being laid to properly align the edges thereof until the tiles are set, the wedge removed and the vertical member broken off at the frangible leg portions.
US10724253B1
A dual hinge method that uses a temporary hinge 150 that is subsequently replaced by a replacement hinge 250 that both have snap-in features on both the panel leaf and frame jamb.
US10724249B2
A cladding element, for use in a building envelope, comprising a first face, a second face and a plurality of edges. One or more of the plurality of edges includes a mating feature configured to resist moisture passage between cladding elements when the cladding elements are installed on a wall or other structure. The cladding element can include one or more joint features to improve mating between the cladding elements, reduce labor costs, and facilitate moisture drainage from the cladding elements.
US10724236B2
Louvered roof systems are provided with one or more louvers. Such louvers can be combined in an assembly that is movable between an open condition and a closed condition. In the closed condition, louvers in the assembly engage one another. In such engagement, a leg extending generally transversely from one louver may include a wing that extends generally transversely to the leg and that abuts a surface of an adjacent louver. Additionally or alternatively, in such engagement, a leg extending transversely from one louver may be received in a notch in an adjacent louver.
US10724232B2
A construction system for a wall or floor or roof uses a set of studs having panel engagement features protruding from opposed edges of the stud. Panel elements having apertures receive these features so that they protrude through the panel element apertures. Retainers engage the panel engagement features and press against an outside surface of a panel element and towards the studs with a compression force to form a compression joint. There may be rails to form a mesh with the studs, and the panel elements may not be wide enough to abut each other, narrow panel elements providing sufficient structural strength in combination with the compression joints and the studs.
US10724224B2
A storm water capture and filtration system may secure in a catch basin or other area subject to flows of water from streets, channels, and the like as a result of run off from storms. A filter system may include a capture portion including attachment mechanisms, a funnel, various supports, and a filter hanger designed and calculated to capture all water entering a storm water inlet and directing it toward a bag filter. A gap is provided between a funnel and filter hanger in order to provide accommodation for overflow, while an anti-backflow skirt on the filter bag resists flushing of captured pollution out of the bag in overflow condition.
US10724223B2
A urinal capable of suppressing the flow speed differential between the flow speed of flush water flowing into the front side of an ascending pipe and the flow speed of flush water flowing into the back side thereof, and of suppressing the occurrence of stagnation in the flow of flush water, and of suppressing the occurrence of uric scale. The urinal having a discharge trap including a horizontal pipe; a top portion of horizontal pipe is formed by a return flow path-forming portion at the bottom end of the shared wall; and a resistance portion for slowing the flow speed of flush water flowing in the vicinity of this bottom portion is formed at the bottom portion of the horizontal pipe.
US10724222B2
A water passage in a front region of a bowl of a toilet includes an upstream side water passage and a downstream side water passage formed on the upstream side and on the downstream side, respectively, of a front end of the bowl surface. The curvature radius of the downstream side water passage in a plan view is set to be smaller than the curvature radius of the upstream side water passage in a plan view. The water passage in the front region of the bowl has a flow path vertical cross-section that is taken in the vertical direction and is formed between a shelf surface and an overhanging part. The cross-sectional area of the flow path vertical cross-section taken in the vertical direction is set to be the smallest in a front end of the water passage.
US10724216B2
A deviator device, particularly for bathroom fittings such as showers, baths and the like, comprising a control rod rotatably movable in a support associated to a mixing cartridge; said control rod has at least two supply positions in which the mixed water flow is directed to one or another of two or more separate lines corresponding to two or more separate users; said rod is integral with a rod support and turns in the cover and further comprises a closing position; said deviator device being characterized in that said movement is guided and is obtained by fixed paths of pegs in slots.
US10724213B2
A three-tiered funneling type mist collection arrangement for collecting water from mist in air flowing therethrough is disclosed. The mist collection arrangement includes support frame, first funnel disk, second funnel disk, third funnel disk, and mesh member. First funnel disk, second funnel disk, and third funnel disk are mounted on the support frame while being coaxially aligned, such that a first drip cavity, a second drip cavity, and a third drip cavity is coaxially aligned with each other. The second funnel disk has a lesser diameter than the first funnel disk. The mesh member is attached to and extends between a first periphery of the first funnel disk and a second periphery of the second funnel disk, to form a frustoconical structure. Water in mist of surrounding air is collected on the mesh member, which is trickled to the first funnel disk and later to the third funnel disk.
US10724211B2
A wearing-part holder includes a first stop surface, which is arranged on the front portion of the wearing-part holder, a first contact surface and a second contact surface symmetrically arranged from a centre line L-L from the first stop surface of the wearing-part holder to a second stop surface and a third stop surface, where the second stop surface and the third stop surface are symmetrically arranged on each side of the centre line L-L from the first contact surface and the second contact surface to a third contact surface and a fourth contact surface, where the third contact surface and the fourth contact surface are symmetrically arranged on each side of the centre line L-L from the second stop surface and the third stop surface. A wearing part and a wearing-part system are also provided.
US10724206B2
A wheel loader includes a vehicular body, a work implement, a front wheel, and a control unit. The work implement is disposed in front of the vehicular body. The work implement has a boom. The front wheel has a tire made of an elastic material. The control unit starts to raise the boom while the tire compressed in a vertical direction rebounds and vertically stretches.
US10724204B2
In a foundation for a windmill with a circular or polygonal pedestal for supporting a windmill tower and a plurality of ribs, which project radially outwards from the pedestal, the pedestal is divided into a plurality of circumferential portions, wherein a circumferential portion and a rib are each formed by at least one prefabricated concrete element, respectively, and wherein the prefabricated concrete elements are made of reinforced concrete, which includes a first reinforcement structure, which includes radial tensioning elements, in particular tension rods or tensioning strands, for stressing the prefabricated concrete elements. A second reinforcement structure is also provided, which holds the circumferential portions together and is coupled with the first reinforcement structure, in particular the radial tensioning elements.
US10724199B2
The invention relates to a retaining work (12) in ground (S), the work having a vertical front portion and separating a first portion of ground (S1) from a second portion of ground.The front portion (14) is in the form of juxtaposed arched walls (16), each arched wall (16) presenting a concave side facing the first portion of ground and a convex side facing the second portion of ground, and the retaining work (12) further includes a rear portion (20) comprising a plurality of wall elements (22) having their largest faces extending vertically in the second portion of ground (S2), each wall element (22) being arranged between two adjacent arched walls (16) and extending transversely relative to the front portion (14).
US10724198B2
The present invention provides methods for mineral precipitation of porous particulate starting materials using isolated urease.
US10724194B1
A wheeled snow shovel is provided with a rotation about two intersecting axis to allow shoveling of snow at one location and discharge of the picked up snow and discharge of snow at a different point by rotation of the shovel with a sidewise rotation.
US10724193B2
A vehicular sweeping machine includes a frame and a broom assembly that is mounted to the frame. The broom assembly includes a broom enclosure and a broom that is mounted within the broom enclosure. A plurality of links are pivotally mounted between the frame and the broom assembly. These links are adapted to permit the broom assembly to move upwardly and downwardly with respect to the frame. The vehicular sweeping machine also includes a broom conveyor having a lower end that is disposed within the broom enclosure.
US10724192B2
A vehicle barrier apparatus includes a base and a deployable element. The deployable element is rotatably coupled to the base, enabling transition from a stored orientation to a deployed orientation. The deployable element can engage a vehicle physically in the deployed orientation to impair vehicle motion. An actuating mechanism is mechanically coupled to the deployable element cause the deployable element to move from the stored orientation to the deployed orientation responsive to a trigger. The apparatus may include a triggering device that detects the vehicle and provides the trigger to the actuating mechanism responsive to the detection. In addition, or alternatively, the apparatus can include a communications interface that receives a trigger communication from a remote location and causes the trigger to be provided to the actuating mechanism. The apparatus may be portable.
US10724187B2
An earth working machine (10) includes a machine body (13) having a machine frame (12) and a drive configuration (46), rotationally drivable relative to the machine frame (12), and to which configuration a working apparatus (32) embodied for earth working is releasably connected in torque-transferring fashion, in an operating position, for rotation together around a drive axis (A), such that when the connection is released, the working apparatus (32) is removable from the operating position in an axial direction relative to the drive configuration (46) for deinstallation from the drive configuration (46) and, for installation on the drive configuration (46), is conveyable into the operating position in an axial direction relative to the drive configuration (46), an actuator (65) being provided which is embodied to move the working apparatus (32) out of the operating position when the connection is released.
US10724185B2
A method to secure an adjacent pair of turf members to a ground surface is provided. The method includes disposing a joint strip on the ground surface, disposing a first turf member on the joint strip, inserting a first set of primary fasteners through the first turf member, joint strip and ground surface, inserting a first set of secondary fasteners through the first turf member, joint strip and ground surface, disposing a second turf member on the joint strip to permit a side edge of the second turf member to align with the side edge of the first turf member along a seam line, inserting a second set of primary fasteners through the second turf member, joint strip and ground surface, and inserting a second set of secondary fasteners through the second turf member, joint strip and ground surface.
US10724181B2
A roundabout for vehicular traffic is provided from a plurality of modular blocks arranged in a generally circular roundabout pattern and affixed to a roadway or ground surface at an intersection of vehicle roadways. Roundabouts can be formed in any desired diameter. In some embodiments, the modular blocks can have a trapezoidal plan shape laid out in concentric rings. The trapezoidal shaped blocks can be cut from a length of board having a constant width and thickness. The modular blocks can be provided as a kit of parts delivered to worksite at an intersection of vehicle roadways where a roundabout is desired. Splitter islands, sidewalks, and curbing of blocks having appropriate shapes can also be provided.
US10724180B2
A rail clamp comprising two clamp elements (30a, 30b) securable together in clamping arrangement about a railway rail, wherein at least one of the clamp elements (30a, 30b) can include sensor retaining means to hold a sensor to make measurements relating to the rail. A first of said two clamp elements (30b) has a clamp head to engage a fish plate (14b) or a web-side of a railway rail. A clamp foot (34b) engages the underside of a railway rail foot (13). A second of said two clamp elements (30a) having a clamp head to engage the opposite fish plate or web-side of a railway rail and a clamp foot (34a) to engage the underside of the clamp foot (34b) of the first clamp element (34b). The first and second clamp elements (30a, 30b) are secured together by a connector (35), optionally a bolt, to a railway rail.
US10724177B2
A system is disclosed for removing fluids from a felt in a paper making process. The system includes a fluid in a reservoir that is adapted to permit a surface of the fluid to contact an underside of the felt.
US10724158B2
Weaving equipment may include warp strand positioning equipment that positions warp strands and weft strand positioning equipment that inserts weft strands among the warp strands to form fabric. The fabric may include insulating strands and conductive strands. Conductive strands may run orthogonal to each other and may cross at open circuit and short circuit intersections. The fabric may be formed using pairs of interwoven warp and weft strands. Conductive warp and weft strands may be interposed within the pairs of strands. The fabric may be a single layer fabric or may contain two or more layers. Stacked warp strands may be formed between pairs of adjacent insulating warp strands. The stacked warp strands may include insulating and conductive strands. Touch sensors and other components may include conductive structures that are formed from the conductive strands in the fabric.
US10724157B2
Textile with an adhesive effect containing at least one stitch-forming adhesive thread. The adhesive thread has a component that imparts an adhesive effect at least at a surface thereof.
US10724156B2
A spinning-mill machine and associated operational method includes a plurality of cross-winding devices arranged next to each other in a longitudinal direction along each machine side of the spinning-mill machine, wherein each cross-winding device is configured to wind yarn onto a sleeve. The cross-winding devices are arranged into a multiple number of sections along each of the machine sides. A sleeve transport device is arranged along the cross-winding devices on each machine side to supply empty sleeves to cross-winding devices. A plurality of sleeve stacks are configured to stockpile the empty sleeves. A plurality of sleeve storage devices are arranged along each machine side for distributed intermediate storage of the empty sleeves, wherein each cross-winding device is allocated with a single sleeve storage device, or the plurality of the cross-winding devices in each of the sections are allocated to a single one of the sleeve storage devices.
US10724154B2
The invention relates to the use of polyphosphonates, copoly(phosphonate ester)s, copoly(phosphonate carbonate)s, and their respective oligomers, as flame retardant additives for polyester fibers to impart fire resistance while maintaining or improving processing characteristics for melt spinning fibers.
US10724148B2
A method of Czochralski growth of a silicon ingot includes melting a mixture of silicon material and an n-type dopant material in a crucible. The silicon ingot is extracted from the molten silicon over an extraction time period. Boron is added to the molten silicon over at least part of the extraction time period.
US10724145B2
Systems and methods for a hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst are provided. Electrode material includes a plurality of clusters. The electrode exhibits bifunctionality with respect to the hydrogen evolution reaction. The electrode with clusters exhibits improved performance with respect to the intrinsic material of the electrode absent the clusters.
US10724144B2
A module of the present invention is formed by housing, in a housing container, a cell stack device that includes cell stacks comprising an arrangement of a plurality of cells. The housing container includes a housing chamber that houses the cell stack device; a first gas introduction section provided in a lower portion of the housing chamber and configured to introduce a first gas supplied into the housing chamber; and a first gas circulation section provided on a side of the housing chamber and connected to the first gas introduction section. The width of the first gas circulation section is narrower than the width of the first gas introduction section.
US10724143B1
There is disclosed an electrochemical deblocking solution for use on an electrode microarray. There is further disclosed a method for electrochemical synthesis on an electrode array using the electrochemical deblocking solution. The solution and method are for removing acid-labile protecting groups for synthesis of oligonucleotides, peptides, small molecules, or polymers on a microarray of electrodes while substantially improving isolation of deblocking to active electrodes. The method comprises applying a voltage or a current to at least one electrode of an array of electrodes. The array of electrodes is covered by the electrochemical deblocking solution.
US10724141B2
The invention relates to anti-multipactor coating deposited onto a substrate that can be exposed to the air and its procedure of obtainment by simple chemical methods. Furthermore, the present invention relates to its use for the fabrication of high power devices working at high frequencies.
US10724137B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a cleaning method including: cleaning a component in which a deposit adhering to the component constituting an apparatus is removed by supplying and discharging a cleaning gas, wherein the act of cleaning includes controlling the apparatus so that a signal, which indicates a concentration of a predetermined gas generated by a reaction of the deposit and the cleaning gas, reaches a predetermined upper limit value or less and then stays within a range between the predetermined upper limit value and a predetermined lower limit value for a predetermined time period.
US10724136B2
Methods of making a single-walled carbon nanotube thin film, and the thin film which can be located on a substrate, and can have a resistance of less than 7500 ohm/square, and a transparency to 550 nm light of greater than 85%.
US10724133B2
An electron beam vapor deposition process for depositing coatings includes placing a source coating material in a crucible of a vapor deposition apparatus; energizing the source coating with an electron beam raster pattern that delivers a controlled power density to the material in the crucible forming a vapor cloud from the source coating material; and depositing the source coating material onto a surface of a work piece.
US10724131B2
A method of making a light weight component is provided. The method including the steps of: forming a metallic foam core into a desired configuration; and applying an external metallic shell to an exterior surface of the metallic foam core after it has been formed into the desired configuration.
US10724129B2
The present invention relates to a precipitation hardened high Ni heat-resistant alloy having a component composition including, in terms of mass %: Cr: 14 to 25%; Mo: 15% or less; Co: 15% or less; Cu: 5% or less; Al: 4% or less; Ti: 4% or less; Nb: 6% or less; provided that Al+Ti+Nb is 1.0% or more; and inevitable impurities including at least C and N, with the balance being Ni, in which C is contained in an amount of 0.01% or less, and N fixed as carbonitride is contained in such an amount that Michelin point determined from inclusions extracted by an evaluation method according to ASTM-E45 is 100 or less.
US10724121B2
A nickel-chromium casting alloy comprising, in weight percent, up to 0.8% of carbon, up to 1% of silicon, up to 0.2% of manganese, 15 to 40% of chromium, 0.5 to 13% of iron, 1.5 to 7% of aluminum, up to 2.5% of niobium, up to 1.5% of titanium, 0.01 to 0.4% of zirconium, up to 0.06% of nitrogen, up to 12% of cobalt, up to 5% of molybdenum, up to 6% of tungsten and from 0.01 to 0.1% of yttrium, remainder nickel, has a high resistance to carburization and oxidation even at temperatures of over 1130° C. in a carburizing and oxidizing atmosphere, as well as a high thermal stability, in particular creep rupture strength.
US10724118B2
The invention refers to a method for recovering copper from waste fishing nets. The method of the invention includes washing of nets in a washing liquid, wherein an antifouling coating and other impurities are removed from the surface of the nets to a largest extent possible. The washing liquid is water; NaOH can also be added into the water in order to improve the efficiency of washing, such that the NaOH concentration in the water is up to 20%. The suspension of the washing liquid, sludge and other impurities, resulting from the washing step, is led to a separation step. The sludge obtained in the separation step is led to the dissolution step in an acidic medium. A strong mineral acid is selected as the acidic medium, such as H2SO4, HNO3, HCl, a mixture of strong mineral acids or a mixture of one or several strong mineral acids with H2O2. Then, the non-dissolved sludge is separated from the solution of copper ions Cu2+ in the acidic medium, the solution of copper ions Cu2+ in the acidic medium is led to electrolysis, wherein elementary copper having a purity of more than 94% is deposited on the cathode. The non-dissolved residual sludge can be optionally led to thermal treatment to the reactor, where the residual paraffins and co-polymers are removed at a temperature ranging from 500° C. to 900° C. The remaining ash may contain up to 30% by weight of copper compounds based on the weight of the ash, particularly in the form of copper(ll) oxide CuO, less in the form of copper(l) oxide Cu2O and copper phosphates Cu(H2PO4)2, Na6Cu9(PO4)8. This ash is then led to dissolution in the acidic medium and to further steps of the method. The proposed method of the invention improves the method for recycling waste nets, such that not only pure polyamide is obtained from the nets but also elementary copper, which has a double benefit: elementary copper in a sufficiently pure form is a useful raw material, moreover, the quantity of copper in final waste is reduced, consequently a negative impact on the environment is reduced and the cost of waste disposal of the method is reduced as well.
US10724111B2
Provided herein are methods for determining the presence or absence of an enteroviruses and parechoviruses in a biological sample. The methods involve identifying the presence or absence of a target nucleic acids from the viruses using direct amplification from a biological sample without a step of extraction of the nucleic acids, but retaining substantially the same specificity and sensitivity of methods assaying extracted nucleic acids. Also provided are methods of diagnosis using the methods provided and compositions and kits for the practice of the methods.
US10724105B2
The invention relates to methods for detecting allogeneic therapeutic cells (such as human umbilical cord tissue-derived cells (hUTC)) in blood. The methods includes the steps of identifying one or more one or more markers positive for allogeneic therapeutic cells (e.g. hUTC) and one or more markers positive for human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC); providing a blood sample from a patient that has been treated with allogeneic therapeutic cells (e.g. hUTC), analyzing the sample using an assay method to detect one or more markers positive for PBMC and one or more markers positive for allogeneic therapeutic cells (e.g. hUTC); and distinguishing between the PBMC and one or more markers positive for allogeneic therapeutic cells (e.g. hUTC). In one embodiment, the cells are hUTC and the markers positive of hUTC include CD10 and/or CD13 and the one or more markers positive for PBMC includes CD45.
US10724092B2
The disclosure provides method and kits for characterizing spliced m RNA isoforms. The disclosure also provides methods of screening for mutations and oligonucleotides that modulate splicing.
US10724090B2
An analytical assembly within a unified device structure for integration into an analytical system. The analytical assembly is scalable and includes a plurality of analytical devices, each of which includes a reaction cell, an optical sensor, and at least one optical element positioned in optical communication with both the reaction cell and the sensor and which delivers optical signals from the cell to the sensor. Additional elements are optionally integrated into the analytical assembly. Methods for forming and operating the analytical system are also disclosed.
US10724087B2
The invention relates to a new method of characterizing a target polynucleotide. The method uses a pore and a Hel308 helicase or amolecular motor which is capable of binding to the target polynucleotide at an internal nucleotide. The helicase or molecular motor controls the movement of the target polynucleotide through the pore.
