US09963121B2
A wiper blade includes a blade rubber and a rubber holder. In the rubber holder, a water channel through which a washing liquid flows along a longitudinal direction is provided. In the rubber holder, an injection port that communicates with the water channel and is configured to be opened by water pressure and inject the washing liquid is provided. The injection port is formed into a slit shape, and a plurality of injection ports are provided in the longitudinal direction. A width of the injection ports varies along the longitudinal direction, and the injection port closer to an outer end side has a larger slit width. A larger amount of the washing liquid is injected from the injection port having a larger slit width, and the injection amount of the washing liquid becomes larger toward the outer end side at which more washing liquid is required.
US09963116B2
The present invention relates to a wiping system (1; 1′) for a glazed vehicle surface comprising a wiper (2) having a wiper blade (4) provided with at least one channel (6) in which a washing fluid (7) is intended to circulate, said channel (6) extending along the longitudinal axis (L) of the wiper blade (4) and emerging laterally from the wiper blade (4) through at least one spraying orifice (8), and a connector (3; 3′) linked to the wiper (2) and intended to be linked to a wiper arm of a vehicle, characterized in that the connector (3; 3′) has at least one opening (15; 16) formed facing at least one spraying orifice (8) of the wiper blade (4). The present invention relates also to a method for manufacturing a wiping system.
US09963109B2
A passive entry system for an automotive vehicle that is configured to prevent relay attacks by analyzing magnet vectors and angles created by a plurality of antennas mounted on the vehicle is disclosed. A vehicle including a control unit configured to broadcast a wake-up signal to prompt a fob to power-up if the fob is in a low-power consumption mode and to transmit signals through a plurality of antennas coupled to the vehicle is provided, along with a fob configured to recognize the wake-up signal and to generate a response signal for the control unit in response to recognize the wake-up signal. The fob includes a controller that is programmed to receive signals transmitted from each of the plurality of antennas coupled to the vehicle, retrieve constant values from stored a memory, and calculate a magnetic integrity defining the relative position of each of the plurality of antennas. The controller allows access to the vehicle if magnetic integrity is found, and denies access to the vehicle if magnetic integrity is not found.
US09963105B1
A vehicle locking boot includes a horizontal support arm and a first vertical support arm extending. from the horizontal support arm. The first vertical support arm includes a front engagement protrusion extending therefrom. A receiving sleeve extends from the horizontal support arm at a base of the first vertical support arm, A horizontal extension portion is coupled to the horizontal support arm A second vertical support arm, extends from the horizontal extension portion along a direction orthogonal to the upper surface of the horizontal support arm. The second vertical support arm includes a rear engagement protrusion extending therefrom. The front engagement protrusion faces the rear engagement protrusion. A keypad is disposed on the first engagement portion. The keypad is configured to lock and unlock the horizontal extension portion. A lug nut blocking plate is coupled to the first vertical support arm above the first engagement protrusion.
US09963092B2
An electrical wire routing apparatus with high reliability of a motion returning to the original state after being trampled on. The electrical wire routing apparatus includes an electrical wire guide into which an electrical wire routed between a vehicle body and a movable body such as a slide door is insertable and that interlocks with a motion of the slide door, a stretchable elastic member that is installed between the electrical wire guide and the vehicle body, between the electrical wire guide and the slide door, or partway through the electrical wire guide, and a bracket for guiding a displacement motion of the electrical wire guide when the elastic member stretches or shrinks.
US09963089B2
A system for selectively extending and retracting a license plate holder includes a housing defining a slide rail attachable to a vehicle. A motor selectively rotates a threaded driver extending through first and second sliders within the housing a first or second rotational direction so as to move the first and second sliders within the housing. As the first and second sliders are moved within the housing, a license plate mount pivotally attached to the first slider is extended from under the vehicle or retracted beneath the vehicle.
US09963088B2
A door flange 11d is provided with an outer protrusion 21e and an upper step 20e. A trim strip 40 includes: an exterior appearance portion 41; a fit portion 46 in which the outer protrusion 21e is inserted and fits; an engagement plate 43 engaging with the upper step 20e from above; and a lower abutting plate 44 abutting to the lower face of the door flange 11d from below.
US09963078B1
A rack for a vehicle comprises a first bracket; a second bracket adapted to removably hang over the rear-most roll bar of a Jeep Wrangler; a longitudinally-extending support bar having a front end and a rear end, the front end attached to the first bracket and the rear end attached to the second bracket; and at least one hanger attached to the support bar and extending downwards, wherein each hanger has two hooks for supporting items to be carried on the hanger.
US09963070B2
A method for displaying vehicle information includes: photographing a front image of a driver's own vehicle at a time of driving with a cruise control feature activated; overlappingly matching the front image with an augmented reality display region of a head-up display; performing image analysis on the front image after the front image matches the augmented reality display region; determining a position of a preceding vehicle within the augmented reality display region according to the image analysis result; and controlling a display of the preceding vehicle information according to the position of the preceding vehicle.
US09963053B2
A hip alignment device configured to properly cushion and align a user's hips while seated. The hip alignment device includes a first cushion and a second cushion connected to one another via an elongated strap. Each cushion has a concave inner surface adapted to be positioned against the outer portion of a user's thighs or hips. The inner surface further includes one or more rounded ridges thereon. The inner side of the cushion is configured to be positioned flush against the side of a user's thigh or hip, whereas an outer side of the cushion is configured to be placed against a portion of a vehicle, such as a vehicle door or the center console so as to secure the cushion in position.
US09963050B2
A manually operated seat height adjustment actuator mechanism includes a rotatory actuator-driven torque input mechanism defining a first axis and a torque output mechanism defining a second axis offset from the first axis. The rotatory actuator-driven torque input mechanism is provided by a planetary gear assembly. The torque output mechanism comprises a cycloidal drive assembly including eccentrically driven gears. Linking gearing operatively links the torque input mechanism and the torque output mechanism. The eccentrically driven gears engage an output pinion configured to engage a gear segment of a seat height adjustment mechanism for raising and lowering a seat.
US09963047B2
A seat sliding device for a vehicle includes a lower rail; an upper rail, which is supported to be able to slide relative to the lower rail and is fixed to a seat; and a bracket, which includes an acting portion to transmit a predetermined external force acting on the upper rail to the lower rail and is fixed to the upper rail, wherein the acting portion is disposed to overlap with the lower rail in an up-down direction which is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the sliding device.
US09963045B2
An occupant sensing method includes steps of: sensing installation of a child seat on a seat of a vehicle; storing a detection value of a load sensor which is provided to be attached to the seat and detects an input load as a first load value, when the installation of the child seat is sensed; storing a detection value of the load sensor as a second load value when a predetermined time period has elapsed from a time point at which the installation of the child seat is sensed; and estimating a load change amount at the time of getting on/off which is a change amount of a load that is generated as the occupant gets on/off the child seat, based on a difference value between the first load value and the second load value.
US09963043B2
Degradation degree table is a degradation degree table that describes a degradation degree of a secondary battery when the secondary battery is charged or discharged at a prescribed current rate with prescribed frequency. Degradation degree table describes the degradation degree in each of a plurality of state of charge (SOC) regions obtained through division of an SOC range of the secondary battery into the plurality of regions. Upper limit current determining part determines an upper limit current value to be used as a current rate at a time of charge or discharge, based on an estimated SOC and a target degradation degree with reference to degradation degree table.
US09963037B2
The earth's magnetic field has not been mined as a source of energy for electric vehicles. With average field strength of 0.5 Tesla around the world it is easy to understand why it has been overlooked. A disruptive technology is needed to mine the earth's magnetic field for powering electric vehicles. Such a technology, graphene, is now at an early stage of development with excellent properties in the form of high conductivity, low resistivity sheets that are durable, light weight, and low cost. Electrical properties of multiple sheets of graphene provide a significant multiplier to earth's weak magnetic field yielding a feasible source of ecologically clean power for electric vehicles. Graphene based EcoCharge systems can be mounted on a vehicles drive shaft and axles putting graphene in motion to mine the earth's magnetic field. Estimates show that EcoCharge can generate 15.1 kW at 60 mph while weighing only 10 oz.
US09963033B2
An apparatus for detecting an impairment state of a driver in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus comprises a vehicle interface device configured to receive a first audible signal from a driver indicative of at least one word while the driver is in a non-impaired state and to determine a first total time to recite the at least the word based on the first audible signal. The vehicle interface device is further configured to command the driver to recite the at least one word to determine the impairment state of the driver and to receive a second audible signal from the driver indicative of the at least one word. The vehicle interface device is further configured to determine a second total time to recite the at least one word based on the second audible signal and to compare the first total time to the second total time.
US09963015B1
A vent outlet assembly for guiding an air flow including an inlet guide extending between first and second ends thereof and positioned inside a housing and an outlet guide extending between leading and trailing ends thereof and positioned inside the housing. The inlet guide and the outlet guide are pivotable about respective axes and positioned to cooperate to direct an outlet part of the air flow through the housing. The vent outlet assembly includes a connecting subassembly to simultaneously position the inlet and outlet guides in corresponding positions.
US09963002B2
Embodiments may provide a pressure module, a transceiver module, a control module, methods and computer programs for providing information related to a tire pressure. The pressure module is configured to provide information related to a pressure of a tire in a vehicle, comprises a pressure determiner configured to determine the information related to the pressure of the tire, and further comprises a transceiver configured to wirelessly receive information related to an instruction to provide the information related to the pressure of the tire and to wirelessly transmit the information related to the tire pressure. The transceiver is configured to wirelessly transmit and receive in the same frequency band. The transceiver module is configured to wirelessly transmit information related to an instruction to provide information related to a pressure of a tire to the tire pressure module and to wirelessly receive the information related to the tire pressure.
US09963001B2
A vehicle wheel illumination assembly includes a light source located on the body of a vehicle near the wheel well and oriented to direct light onto a wheel assembly having a tire. A tire pressure indicator detects tire pressure of the tire. The light source illuminates the wheel assembly with a desired color to indicate a tire pressure status based on the detected tire pressure. A photoluminescent material is located on the wheel assembly and configured to luminesce in response to excitation by the light assembly.
US09962985B2
A recording medium includes a substrate, and a first and a second ink receiving layer over the substrate in this order from the side close to the substrate. The first ink receiving layer contains fumed silica, alumina, and zirconium compound. In the first ink receiving layer, the mass ratio of the fumed silica to the alumina is in the range of 40:60 to 60:40. The zirconium compound content in the first ink receiving layer is in the range of 0.1% by mass to 3.0% by mass relative to the total mass of the first ink receiving layer. The second ink receiving layer contains inorganic particles including at least one of fumed silica and alumina. In the second ink receiving layer, the fumed silica or the alumina accounts for 80% by mass or more of the inorganic particles in the second ink receiving layer.
US09962979B2
A dye sublimation apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus is configured to either print one or more images onto transfer media, or to print images directly onto products. A selected product to receive the image(s) is positioned on a platen configured to receive one or more types of such products into channels matching those products' dimensions. Proper positioning of the transfer media (or the product, when directly printed) is facilitated by aligning fiducial markers printed on the transfer media and/or product with one or more lights disposed on the platen. The apparatus comprises one or more heating platens configured to sublimate one or more sides of the product in a single thermal cycle with a predetermined temperature, pressure, and duration based on properties of the product. The product platen is translated inside and out of the apparatus by a reversible motor.
US09962976B2
Provided herein are devices, systems, methods and various means, including those related to printer systems and, more particularly, relate to methods, apparatuses, systems and other means for monitoring a printer ribbon. Some embodiments use a multi-element detector, which is configured to detect a particular type of light emitted from a light emitter. The multi-state detector can include two sensors, one of which includes a polarizer filter that blocks polarized light. Embodiments can be used to determine, among other things, whether or not a printer ribbon is installed in a printer without the use of a snap plate.
US09962973B2
A printhead includes a printhead housing and a handle. The handle is movably coupled to the printhead housing. The handle rotatably moves with respect to the printhead housing between a folded position and the non-folded position. In the folded position, the handle extends along a respective housing surface of the printhead housing. In the non-folded position, the handle extends outward from the respective housing surface of the printhead housing.
US09962969B2
A recording apparatus includes a transport unit capable of transporting a medium, a detection unit capable of detecting a transport direction in which the transport unit transports the medium, a recording unit capable of performing recording on the medium transported by the transport unit, and a plurality of rotating bodies provided in an intersecting direction that intersects the transport direction. Each rotating body is capable of contacting a side surface of the medium opposite to a recording surface of the medium on which recording is performed by the recording unit and has a rotation shaft that extends in the intersecting direction. The apparatus further includes a control unit that controls rotation speed of each rotating body individually on the basis of a result of detection by the detection unit.
US09962960B2
An example support structure assembly is described as including a brace, a media guide, and a compression member. An example brace includes a structure defining a mount area on a first surface of the brace and a first protrusion extending from a second surface of the brace. An example media guide includes a blade member, a hinge member, and a second protrusion extending away from the hinge member. An example compression member is coupled to the first protrusion of the brace and the second protrusion of the media guide to place a force on the media guide where a vector defines the force with a first component magnitude in a first direction towards the mount area that is greater than a second component magnitude in a second direction away from the mount area.
US09962957B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a transport mechanism which transports a medium in a first direction; a pre-treatment liquid coating mechanism which coats a pre-treatment liquid on the medium; a liquid ejecting unit which includes a plurality of ink nozzles which eject ink; and a control unit which controls the pre-treatment liquid coating mechanism and the liquid ejecting unit, in which the pre-treatment liquid coating mechanism includes a first mechanism which is disposed in a first region A and a second mechanism which is disposed in a second region B positioned on an upstream side of the first region A in the first direction, and the plurality of ink nozzles has a portion which overlaps with respect to the first mechanism in a second direction which intersects with the first direction and a portion which does not overlap with respect to the second mechanism in the second direction.
US09962949B2
In an implementation, a printhead includes a nozzle and a fluid channel. A sensor plate is located within the fluid channel. An impedance measurement circuit is coupled to the sensor plate to measure impedance of fluid within the channel during a fluid movement event that moves fluid past the sensor plate.
US09962944B2
A liquid ejecting head includes a second flow-path-member comprising a second flow-path in communication with first and third flow-paths provided in first and second flow-path-members, the second flow-path-member stacked with the third flow-path-members in a stacking direction. A boundary between the first and second flow-path is tightly sealed by a first sealing-member. A boundary between the second and third flow-path is tightly sealed by a second sealing-member. The second flow-path-member includes a first substrate for positioning itself to the third flow-path-member in first and second directions intersecting with the stacking direction, and a second substrate for positioning itself to the third flow-path-member in the stacking direction. The first substrate is pressed against in the first and second directions by one of the first and second sealing-member. The second substrate is pressed against in the stacking direction by another one of the first and second sealing-member.
US09962938B2
A method of forming a substrate for a fluid ejection device includes forming an opening in the substrate from a second side toward a first side, and further forming the opening in the substrate to the first side, including increasing the opening to the first side and increasing the opening at the second side, and forming the opening with substantially parallel sidewalls intermediate the first side and the second side and converging sidewalls to the first side.
US09962927B2
A position detection apparatus configured to detect a position on a movement surface of a mounted object having the position detection apparatus mounted thereon, includes a moved amount detector configured to detect an amount of movement on the movement surface; a posture detector configured to detect at least a posture of the mounted object on the movement surface; and a position calculator configured to calculate the position of the mounted object, based on the amount of movement and the posture.
US09962925B2
The invention relates to a stencil for forming surfaces structures by etching, a method for producing a stencil for forming surfaces structures by etching, a printing machine for producing a stencil for forming surface structures by etching, and a method for forming surface structures by etching. A known stencil for forming surface structures by etching includes an etching-resistant stencil layer. The stencil layer can be transferred to the surface to be structured, and the stencil layer can after an etching treatment be partially removed from the surface to be structured, and is elaborated and developed in that the stencil layer includes at least two partial regions and that at least two partial regions can be removed independently of one another from the surface to be structured.
US09962924B2
The present invention relates to using soft photopolymer plates in a printing process, and more specifically, to an apparatus and methods of using soft photopolymer materials to decorate an exterior surface of cylindrical metallic containers with high definition graphics and other indicia.
US09962921B1
A 3D shipping container engine may obtain item information for one or more items. Once obtained, container specifications may be determined for a container in which to store the one or more items based on the item(s) information. Based the container specifications, 3D additive manufacturing instructions may be provided for the container.
US09962916B2
The present disclosure relates to a packaging device and a packaging method. The packaging device includes a first platform and a second platform facing the first platform. The first platform moves back and forth towards or away from the second platform. The first platform is provided with a first electromagnetic device. The packaging device further includes at least one patch which is capable of being adsorbed by the first electromagnetic device. One side of the patch is attached to the first platform, and the other side of the patch is configured to be attached to a substrate to be packaged. The substrate is detachably fixed onto the first platform.
US09962909B2
The invention is directed at composite materials, articles including the composite materials, and methods for producing and using them. The composite material include regions that differ in one or more properties. The composite material generally includes a first metallic sheet, a second metallic sheet; one or more metallic inserts interposed between the first and second metallic sheets; and a polymeric layer (e.g., a core layer) interposed between the first and second metallic sheets. The polymeric layer preferably includes a thermoplastic polymer. Preferably, the composite material includes a first region having an insert interposed between the metallic sheets so that the first region (relative to the second region) has a high tensile strength, a high thickness, a high density, or any combination thereof.
US09962900B2
A lining material and method that prevent peeling at overlapping both circumferential ends (overlapping portion) of a lining material installed in a conduit. A lining material is inverted to be inside out to line a conduit. The lining material includes: an impermeable layer; a lining material main body provided inside the impermeable layer, the lining material main body made into a tubular form by rolling a base material sheet, with its both circumferential ends overlapping each other; and a tubular member provided inside the lining material main body.
US09962895B2
A method and an apparatus for realizing cartons for packing includes feeding a cardboard band (2) for packing along an advancement direction (A) which is parallel to the development direction of the cardboard band (2) and making a first score line (II) and a second score line (12) on the cardboard band (2), so as: to identify a central sector; a first lateral sector (4), and a second lateral sector (5). The method further includes identifying regions of band (8) on the carton (2), making on each region of band (8) at least a first cut (21), a second cut (22), a third cut (23) and a fourth cut (24) oriented transversally so that a first closing wing (49), a first reinforcing wing (51) a second reinforcing wing (52), a second closing wing (50), a third reinforcing wing (53) and a fourth reinforcing wing (54) are defined. The band of carton (2) is cut transversally so as to separate the regions of band (8) from one another, thus obtaining cartons (I) for packing.
US09962880B2
A blow molding device and method capable of forming a blow molded article having a built-in part with a good yield rate. The blow molding device has a die core, a blow mold, a parison holding unit and a built-in part holding unit. The parison holding unit has parison expanders and a parison outer holding plate. The built-in part holding unit has an airtight guide tube and a holding rod. After a lower end of a parison is expanded with a plurality of parison expanders, and an upper end of the airtight guide tube is inserted in the lower end of the parison, the lower end of the parison is held between the upper end of the airtight guide tube and the parison outer holding plate, and the pre-blowing is carried out. After the built-in part is positioned in an interior space of the parison, and the parison and built-in part are held between the slide cores, the blow mold is closed and blowing is carried out.
US09962878B2
A multi-level unitary safety surface tile. The tile may be of monolithic construction. The tile may include rubber. The tile may include an upper level and a lower level. Hollow protrusions may extend between the levels. At least one protrusion may include resilient walls extending from the upper layer and converging to a protrusion bottom-cap in the lower level. Inter-protrusion ribs may span between and support adjacent protrusions. With the lower layer disposed upon an underlayer, the protrusions may support the upper level. The tile may attenuate impact forces incident upon the upper layer. The tile may constitute a unitary safety surface. The tile may include structures facilitating interlocking of adjoining tiles into a multi-tile unitary safety surface. Protrusion extensions and/or support ribs may support the structures. The tile may be manufactured in a one-piece molding process utilizing mold forms maintained parallel to opposable faces of a mold press.
US09962875B2
A method and a system for producing a plastic housing are presented. In a first step, a base body and at least one closure element are produced, and in a second step an elastomer layer is applied by way of at least one gate point using a gating process, the layer joining the base body and the at least one closure element to each other.
US09962871B2
An insert molding method includes: integrally molding a thermoplastic resin with an insert component, by setting the insert component, which is a metal conductor, in a mold; clamping the mold; and injection-filling the thermoplastic resin in a cavity. The insert component is made of copper or a copper alloy. Prior to injection molding, a thin film layer mainly made of a chlorosulfonated polyethylene is formed on a surface of a portion of the insert component to be covered with the thermoplastic resin, and the thin film layer is crosslinked in the mold during injection molding.
US09962870B2
An injection molding machine includes first and second injection units. When it is detected that the first injection unit malfunctions, information that notifies the other injection unit (that is, second injection unit) the fact that the first injection unit is malfunctioning is outputted. The second injection unit that has acquired the malfunction information from the first injection unit carries out a malfunction process based on a preset malfunction process setting corresponding to other-injection-unit malfunction information.
US09962850B2
The present invention relates to a web comprising: discrete extended elements having open proximal ends, open or closed dismal ends and side walls; macro apertures arranged in a staggered pattern; first regions comprising a first top plane; and second regions comprising a second top plane having a length less than or equal to about 0.9 mm, wherein each of the first regions is surrounded by four distinctive second regions, the four distinctive second regions being connected by two adjacent macro apertures in the first direction and another two adjacent macro apertures in the second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction, and wherein each of the second regions is surrounded by two adjacent first regions and two adjacent macro apertures located in a third direction or a fourth direction not parallel either to the first direction or to the second direction.
US09962849B2
An improved food slice stacker is coupled to a meat slicer to automatically stack the slices from the slicer. The stacker includes a frame with a pair of spaced apart parallel supports that support a sprocket roller with axially spaced sets of sprocket teeth and a pulley roller with a plurality of axially spaced pulley members. The pulley members are aligned with the sets of sprocket teeth. A plurality of slice transport chains respectively engage the sets of sprocket teeth and the pulley members. The sprocket roller is motorized to enable the chains to transport food slices. The pulley roller is monolithically formed of a friction-free material to provide smooth surfaces that reduce retention of food particles thereon during washing.
US09962847B2
A method for removing a glazing panel bonded to a frame by an interposed bonding material, the method utilizing a flexible cutting line and has a set up phase resulting in the line being looped around substantially the entire the periphery of the glazing panel with opposed end portions of the line being secured on separate winder spools. In a cut out phase, the line is wound on to one of the winder spools while simultaneously being wound off the other of the winder spools.
US09962836B2
A detection device and a detection method are provided for robot-induced loads that can act upon the human body in contact with the robot during a working process. The robot-induced loads, in particular forces, are measured by the measuring device (16) of an external sensing device (2). The measuring device (16) is suitably positioned and oriented in this process in the working area of an industrial robot (3) by means of a positioning device (15).
US09962829B2
A robot includes a gripping section adapted to grip an object by open and close a pair of finger sections, a moving device adapted to relatively move the object and the gripping section, and a control device adapted to control the moving device to move the gripping section relatively toward the object, and dispose the pair of finger sections in a periphery of the object, and then control the gripping section to open and close the pair of finger sections in a plane parallel to a mounting surface on which the object is mounted, pinch the object between the pair of finger sections from a lateral side of the object, and grip the object with the gripping section at at least three contact points.
US09962825B2
According to an embodiment, a toolbox includes a housing, one or more drawers received in the housing, and a handle extending from the housing. The handle comprises a pair of spaced grasping surfaces connected by a central grasping surface, the spaced grasping surface and the central grasping surface each spaced from the housing. According to another embodiment, a toolbox includes a housing and one or more drawers slidably received in the housing. The one or more drawers each comprise an integral latch, and the housing comprises an integral latch receptacle. Closing the drawer of the toolbox with a first amount of force does not engage the integral latch with the latch receptacle, while closing the drawer of the toolbox with a second amount of force automatically engages the integral latch with the latch receptacle, securing the one or more drawers within the housing.
US09962819B2
A tool for archery broadheads or other fasteners is provided including an engagement end having an aperture, socket or drive feature to accommodate the broadhead or engage a fastener. The tool is constructed at least partially from an elastomeric material. Upon application of a moment to the tool by a user, part of the tool deforms or twists so that indicia elements move relative to one another and output torque or moment information to a user based on the spatial orientation of the indicia elements relative to one another.
US09962813B2
A pliers apparatus is provided, the apparatus comprises two arms, two jaws, struts and a switch allowing the apparatus to function as a ratcheting device, pliers and clamps.
US09962812B2
A centric clamping device, which contains a main body, two clamping jaws, guided so they can be displaced on the main body, and an adjusting spindle, supported by a spindle bearing so that it can rotate on the main body for the opposing adjustment of the two clamping jaws. A high-precision spindle bearing, optimally protected against soiling, is attained in that the spindle bearing is located in a bearing block and two bearing sleeves, which can be adjusted axially within the bearing block.
US09962807B2
An angle grinder includes a housing, a drive unit configured to drive a usage tool, a sensor device configured to provide a rotation parameter, and a control unit configured to evaluate the rotation parameter to detect a clamped state of the usage tool. The sensor device has a yaw rate sensor configured to provide the rotation parameter in accordance with a rotational movement of the housing. The control unit triggers a safety mode in accordance with the rotation parameter or throttles the rotational speed and/or torque of the drive unit.
US09962802B2
The present invention is a workpiece double-disc grinding method including supporting a sheet workpiece along a circumferential direction from an outer circumference side of the workpiece by a ring holder, and simultaneously grinding both surfaces of the workpiece supported by the ring holder with a pair of grinding wheels while rotating the ring holder, wherein the surfaces of the workpiece are simultaneously ground such that a wear amount of the grinding wheels per 1 μm of a grinding stock removal of the workpiece ranges from 0.10 μm to 0.33 μm. This workpiece double-disc grinding method can reduce nanotopography formed in previous steps such as a slicing step without degrading the flatness in the double-disc grinding step.
US09962801B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing chemical-mechanical planarization. An example system includes: a polishing head, a polishing pad, a slurry distribution component, and a reactant distribution component. The polishing head is configured to perform chemical-mechanical planarization on an article. The polishing pad is configured to support the article. The slurry distribution component is configured to provide a slurry on the polishing pad. The reactant distribution component is configured to provide an oxidizer material on the polishing pad to generate a plurality of radicals to react with the article.
US09962799B2
A machining method and apparatus for machining a part comprises a machining head and motorized axes comprising a rotary axis for displacing the machining head in a working space. Apparatus comprises a mechanism for positioning a part and holding it in position the working space. The machining head comprises a support for supporting a material shaping tool and a supply device for supplying material.
US09962793B2
The invention provides a method for producing a deposition mask that includes forming of an opening pattern 1 at a predetermined position in a resin film 2 by laser processing so as to penetrate therethrough. The method including the steps of: forming a meniscus of a liquid film 14 between the resin film 2 and a smooth surface 13b of a reference substrate 13 supporting the resin film 2; and after the resin film 2 and the reference substrate 13 are brought into close contact with an adsorption force generated by Laplace pressure, forming the opening pattern 1 by performing the laser processing. Accordingly, it is possible to increase the speed of the laser processing without generating a burr on an edge portion of the opening pattern.
US09962788B2
Techniques or processes for providing markings on products are disclosed. In one embodiment, the products have housings and the markings are to be provided on sub-surfaces of the housings. For example, a housing for a particular product can include an outer housing surface and the markings can be provided on a sub-surface the outer housing surface yet still be visible from the outside of the housing. Since the markings are beneath the surface of the housing, the markings are durable.
US09962764B2
An exemplary embodiment relates to a fireproof ceramic bottom in the connection region to at least one wall of a vessel for handling high-temperature melts.
US09962763B2
A casting method for obtaining a part that includes a tapering portion, and a turbine engine blade obtained by casting and including a tapering trailing edge, are provided. The method includes: providing an insert element having a tapering section; making a shell around the insert element; and casting a molten material into the shell including the insert element.
US09962761B2
A plunger assembly for a die casting machine shot sleeve includes a plunger body that has an outer diameter. The plunger includes a head that provides a wall. A piston ring is arranged on the plunger body adjacent to the wall. A nut is secured to the outer diameter and urges the piston ring toward the wall to retain the piston ring securely on the plunger body.
US09962746B2
A device for the cleaning of pipes, such as household waste and sewer pipes is proposed, the device includes a nozzle movable in at least three axes within a pipe for providing a jet of cleaning fluid directed to soilage in pipes; a cleaning hose for supply of cleaning fluid is connected to the nozzle and a swivel mechanism for deflecting the nozzle at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis, a front end portion of the hose is bent in a bending direction in a bending plane; at least one drive for deflecting the nozzle around the longitudinal axis by changing the direction of bending and the bending plane without torsion to the cleaning hose.
US09962745B2
Contamination of surfaces of polysilicon rods removed from a Siemens reactor in a polysilicon production facility is reduced by cleaning the production facility at least every other week with a cleaning liquid containing water, optionally also containing neutral surfactants.
US09962740B2
The disclosure relates to a self-actuating debris removal or disruption device for use on a punch plate or other like water screening instrument.
US09962729B2
An installation for forming a compact film of particles on a surface of a carrier fluid, including a zone acting as a reservoir of carrier fluid, an inclined ramp, a particle storage and transfer zone, a mechanism moving the carrier fluid, a mechanism for dispensing the particles in solution, configured to dispense the particles on the surface of the carrier fluid in the zone acting as a reservoir, and a structure for deflecting the particles configured to favor, along a transverse direction of the installation, spreading of the particles at the outlet of the zone acting as a reservoir. The structure for deflecting particles is permeable to the carrier fluid.
US09962723B2
A foam-dispensing pump includes an actuator, a collar, a housing, an air piston, a liquid piston, a mesh element and an air valve structure. The collar is constructed and arranged for attachment to a liquid storage container and a portion of the actuator is received by the collar. The air piston is constructed and arranged to be moveable within the housing. The liquid piston is constructed and arranged to be moveable within the housing. The mesh element is constructed and arranged to receive air and liquid for the production of foam. The air valve structure includes an annular sleeve component which is assembled onto the liquid piston and a cooperating annular valve element which is received by the air piston.
US09962722B1
A paint circulation system includes a paint reservoir, a pressure transducer, a servo motor driven pump, an electronic servo drive and controller, one or more paint applicators in a spray booth and an isolation valve. The pressure transducer provides a signal to the controller indicating the current pressure in the system. The servo pump is controlled by the controller and servo drive, draws paint from the reservoir and maintains the desired pressure in the system. The isolation valve is downstream from the applicators and is closed when paint is requested by the applicators. When paint is flowing to the applicators, the servo drive adjusts pump speed to maintain the desired system pressure as sensed by the pressure transducer. When paint is not requested, the isolation valve is open and the servo pump motor operates to provide a minimum flow rate to circulate paint from, and return it to, the reservoir.
US09962717B1
Disclosed herein are instruments and methods for performing both sample homogenization and sample clarification by centrifugation with a single instrument without transferring the sample to a new sample container and without removing or repositioning the sample container within the instrument. In some embodiments, the instrument may automatically perform centrifugation after homogenization. In other embodiments, the instrument may perform both homogenization and centrifugation simultaneously.
US09962692B2
In one aspect, the present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for ensuring that multiple components of a mixture are fully mixed in a continuous flow microfluidic system while ensuring that mixing between segments flowing through the chip is minimized. In some embodiments, the present invention includes mixing fluids in a droplet maintained at the tip of a pipette before the mixture is introduced to the microfluidic device. In another aspect, the present invention provides a pipette tip having a ratio of an outside diameter to an inside diameter that provides sufficient surface area for a droplet comprising up to the entire volume of the liquid to suspend from the pipette tip intact. In yet another aspect, the present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for delivering a reaction mixture to a microfluidic chip comprising a docking receptacle, an access tube and a reservoir.
US09962689B2
N2-phosphinyl formamidine compounds and N2-phosphinyl formamidine metal salt complexes are described. Methods for making N2-phosphinyl formamidine compounds and N2-phosphinyl formamidine metal salt complexes are also disclosed. Catalyst systems utilizing the N2-phosphinyl formamidine metal salt complexes are also disclosed along with the use of the N2-phosphinyl amidine compounds and N2-phosphinyl amidinate metal salt complexes for the oligomerization and/or polymerization of olefins.
US09962684B2
Provided is a cerium-zirconium-based composite oxide having an excellent OSC, high catalytic activity, and excellent heat resistance, and also provided is a method for producing the same. The cerium-zirconium-based composite oxide comprises cerium, zirconium, and a third element other than these elements. The third element is (a) a transition metal element or (b) at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of rare earth elements and alkaline earth metal elements. After a heat treatment at 1,000° C. to 1,100° C. for 3 hours, (1) the composite oxide has a crystal structure containing a pyrochlore phase, (2) a value of {I111/(I111+I222)}×100 is 1 or more, and (3) the composite oxide has an oxygen storage capacity at 600° C. of 0.05 mmol/g or more, and an oxygen storage capacity at 750° C. of 0.3 mmol/g or more.
US09962683B2
The present invention provides an alloy fine particle including palladium and ruthenium, the alloy fine particle including at least one first phase in which the palladium is more abundant than the ruthenium and at least one second phase in which the ruthenium is more abundant than the palladium, the at least one first phase and the at least one second phase being separated by a phase boundary, the palladium and the ruthenium being distributed in the phase boundary in such a manner that the molar ratio of the palladium and the ruthenium continually changes, a plurality of crystalline structures being present together in the phase boundary.
US09962682B2
A process for the providing a regenerant gas stream for a regenerable adsorbent used to remove water and hydrogen sulfide from a reactor effluent in a catalytic dehydrogenation process is described. The reactor effluent is compressed in a compressor to provide a compressed effluent. The compressed effluent may be treated to remove chlorides, and then passed to a dryer zone having a regenerable adsorbent. A regenerant gas stream is used to desorb the water and hydrogen sulfide and the spent regenerant stream may be passed to a cleaning zone having a sorbent configured to remove hydrogen sulfide from the spent regenerant stream. The cleaned regenerant gas stream may be recycled to the dryer zone to desorb and/or regenerate the regenerable adsorbent.
US09962658B2
The object of the present invention is a method for recirculating a reprocessing effluent comprising chloride ions from an ion exchange resin comprising the following steps: (ii) selecting fractions A, B, and optionally B′, directly stemming from a reprocessing effluent comprising chloride ions or after one or several steps for modifying the chloride ion concentration, having concentrations of chloride ions (g/l) of respectively (a), (b) and (b′)>0 g/l, with (a)>(b); (iii) transferring by electrodialysis the chloride ions from the fraction B to fraction A for obtaining a fraction C having a chloride ion concentration (c) greater than (a); or (iv) transferring by electrodialysis the chloride ions from fraction B to fraction B′, in order to obtain a fraction B″ having a concentration of chloride ions (b″) greater than (b′) and then mixing the fractions B″ and A in order to obtain a fraction C having a chloride ion concentration (c) greater than (a).
US09962655B2
The present invention relates to a system and a method therefor capable of reducing the amount of heat which must be supplied to a regeneration tower for regenerating an absorbent in an acid gas capture system for such acid gas as carbon dioxide, and provides an acid gas capture system and an acid gas capture method capable of reducing energy consumption by using the heat from the system itself in an acid gas capture system. The system and method according to the present invention have the benefit of saving energy by lowering the thermal demand of a reboiler by using the low-temperature steam condensate generated in the capture system to cool the upper end of the regeneration tower and a steam generator and compressor.
US09962654B2
The present technology relates to perovskite materials for oxygen storage. In one aspect, the perovskite material includes at least one platinum group metal (PGM) and at least one perovskite compound selected from the group consisting of formula (a): LaxMO3 and formula (b): La(1-y)SryMO3, wherein: M is selected from the group consisting of Co, Cu, Fe, Mn and Ni; x is about 0.7 to about 1.1; and y is 0 to about 0.8, and wherein M, x, and y are independently variable for each one of said perovskite compounds. In one exemplary method, the perovskite materials of the technology are employed to treat automotive exhaust gas. In one embodiment, the perovskite materials are included in the washcoat of an automotive catalytic converter.
US09962653B2
A catalyzed particulate filter that includes: at least one inlet channel extending in a longitudinal direction, one end of which lets fluid in, and the other end of which is blocked; at least one outlet channel extending in the longitudinal direction, one end of which is blocked and the other end of which lets the fluid out; at least one porous wall that defines the boundary between neighboring inlet and outlet channels and that extends in the longitudinal direction; and a support with a catalyst coating thereon.
US09962644B2
A process for selectively separating H2S from a gas mixture which also comprises CO2 is disclosed. A stream of the gas mixture is contacted with an absorbent solution comprising one or more amines, alkanolamines, hindered alkanolamines, capped alkanolamines, or mixtures thereof. The H2S/CO2 selectivity of the absorbent solution is preferably greater than about 4.0 for an acid gas loading [mol(CO2+H2S)/mol(amine)] between about 0.2 and about 0.6, and is achieved by reducing pH of the absorbent solution.
US09962640B2
The present disclosure relates generally to air filter frames. In some embodiments, the air filter frames are nestable. Nestable air filter frames of the type described herein offer significantly reduced shipping volume, and thus shipping costs, while also providing cost-effective manufacturing. Some embodiments relate to an air filter frame including a single strip of framing material forming at least two of the four major frame segments and the frame corner between the two major frame segments. In some embodiments, a single strip of framing material forms at least three of the four major frame segments and two of the frame corners.
US09962636B2
A fuel filtration device may include a filter element and a space-keeping member. The filter element may have a plurality of fusion-bonded portions and have a space defined therein. The space-keeping member may have crosspieces defining openings therebetween and may face a surface of the filter element in a facing direction. The fusion-bonded portions may include those that do not overlap with the crosspieces of the space-keeping member in the facing direction.
US09962635B2
A rotary disc filter is provided with an integrated backwash and chemical cleaning system. In one mode of operation, backwash is directed through a control valve to one or more nozzles for spraying the backwash onto the filter media forming a part of a rotary disc filter. In a second mode, a chemical cleaning mode, the pump directs backwash through an eductor that induces a chemical into the inductor which is mixed with the backwash to form a backwash-chemical mixture that is sprayed onto the filter media. A control system is used in conjunction with the backwash and cleaning systems to monitor process information and/or filter media properties and to determine when to perform backwashes and regenerative cleanings in order to optimize the performance of the filter system.
US09962633B2
A fluid filtering apparatus such as for filtering particulates and other materials from treated water includes a tank and a filtering region configured as a plurality of individual effluent regions, defined in part by channel frames, disposed between a plurality of influent regions interposed between the effluent regions. A double sided backwash shoe is scannable in the influent regions, to simultaneously clean opposed filter media exposed thereto. The backwash shoe is free to move inwardly and outwardly of the opposed filter media. Additionally, the backwash shoe includes an end opening, positioned adjacent to the base of the tank, to remove sludge and particulates which have settled to the area near the base of the tank while backwashing a filter media.
US09962623B2
The present invention relates to processes to remove butanol and other product alcohols from a fermentation broth employing vacuum vaporization.
US09962621B2
A hoist system having a drum primarily self-contained within a batten, for raising and lowering lighting, sound equipment, curtains and the like in a performance environment. The hoist system may be adapted with safety mechanisms including an overload sensor and/or a slack line detector. The system may be provided in the form of a point hoist. The compact system is highly scalable to a variety of spaces and applications, including school and public theaters and concert halls, as well as some homes, private business, etc.
US09962615B2
Gaming systems and methods for integrated computer-related and physical game play interactions between a game player, a physical game piece and an electronic device are defined. The physical game piece transmits a unique alphanumeric identifier to an electronic device game application while the game application either waits to receive a recognized unique alphanumeric identifier before switching to a video game where a character battles and waits to receive a recognized unique alphanumeric identifier before switching back to the waiting state.
US09962609B2
Apparatus and method related to projections and/or computing devices are described. Projections may be made from multiple computing devices to create a presentation. Various other embodiments are described.
US09962607B2
A system for analyzing the use of location-based service applications including: a mobile device. A carrier-positioning infrastructure interacts with the mobile device for enabling the use of location-based applications by the mobile device. A mobile location-based application provider communicates with the carrier-positioning infrastructure to provide a location-based application to the mobile device. A location transaction platform monitors the use of the location-based application by the mobile device. An analytics server communicates with the location transaction platform and location stamps an occurrence of use of the location-based application by the mobile device and performs a task in accordance with predetermined rules as a function of the location-based stamp.
US09962604B1
A game table is illustrates as a combination of the game of table soccer (also called foosball) and air hockey. The game table can be easily converted between a soccer game configuration and an air hockey configuration. In one aspect, the sidewalls of the game table incorporate at least one bushing structure allowing each rod to be selectively disengaged. In certain aspects the game table can be used to play a game using soccer player rods and figures and using a playing piece which floats on an air cushion. In certain embodiments, an asymmetric game playing piece may be used.
US09962602B2
A card shooter apparatus with a card housing and an opening; a card reading unit with a card guide unit which guides cards along a card guide surface pulled out one by one from the opening onto a game table along a card dealing direction; a control unit having a processing function to determine a result of a card game based on information about the cards, including the rank; one or more card detecting sensors configured to detect the cards and to output one or more signals, and a display unit which indicates the result determined by the control unit. The card reading unit reads a rank of the cards pulled out from the card shooter, and the control unit further determines whether a card has moved in a direction opposite of the card dealing direction based on a signal output from the one or more card detecting sensors.
US09962601B2
A table game system for a game of chance includes a card shuffling machine for randomly selecting a single card from among a defined set of cards, the single card having indicia relevant to an outcome for the game of chance. The card shuffling machine is rotatable about an axis of rotation and includes a plurality of trays uniformly spaced about an outer periphery thereof. Each of the defined set of cards is located in a respective one of the plurality of trays. A card retrieval device is disposed adjacent the card shuffling machine and configured to at least partially remove the single card from its tray. A controller is in communication with the card retrieval device to effectuate engagement of the card retrieval device with the single card.
US09962595B2
The invention relates to an automatic heel unit (1) for a ski binding, comprising a base (7) for fitting the automatic heel unit (1) on a ski and a heel downholder (3) for holding down a ski boot in a heel region of the ski boot. The heel downholder (3) is mounted so as to be movable in relation to the base (7). The automatic heel unit (1) has a holding configuration in which the heel downholder (3) is located in a holding position and may interact with the heel region of the ski boot that is held in the ski binding in such a manner that the heel region of the ski boot is held down in a lowered position. Furthermore, the automatic heel unit (1) has a step-in configuration in which the heel downholder (3) is located in a step-in position and the heel region of the ski boot is released by the heel downholder (3). The automatic heel unit (1) comprises a heel support structure (6), which is configured separately from the heel downholder (3), for supporting, in a direction that is horizontally transverse to the ski, the heel region of the ski boot that is held in the ski binding in the holding configuration of the automatic heel unit (1).
US09962589B2
A harness comprising a back section, a padded waist strap extending from the back section and comprising a waist strap connector, a waist strap attached to the padded waste strap and comprising a waist strap connector, a towing strap attached to a posterior surface of the back section and a towing connector slidably coupled to the towing strap. The waist strap connector of the waist strap is operable to couple to the waist strap connector of the padded waist strap.
US09962587B2
A convertible tiered game system comprising a plurality of tiered platforms, each tiered platform having at least one of a width and a length that is greater than any higher tiered platform, a plurality of tiered overlays configured to be seated upon each tiered platform among the plurality of tiered platforms, at least three of the tiered overlays comprising a center opening and having at least one of a width and a length that is greater than any higher tiered overlay, and a plurality of beverage container placement markers located on at least one of a tiered platform and a tiered overlay. The system may further comprise a lowest tiered overlay configured to rest on a same surface as the lowest tiered platform. The tiered overlays may comprise a lip extending downward along a vertical side wall of a tiered platform on which the tiered overlay is seated.
US09962585B2
A constrained frequency resonator is incorporated into the shaft of a striking implement for transferring and, advantageously, amplifying momentum from a striking end to a gripped end of the striking implement, thereby amplifying the sensation of a strike felt at the gripped end. The resonator has a substantially hourglass shape, with wide ends and a narrow waist, and is made of stainless steel or another very hard material. The shape of the resonator causes it to act as a vibration frequency filter that transfers and, preferably, amplifies a certain frequency or band of frequencies. The striking implement may be a golf club, pool cue, or other implement in which frequency transfer to a gripping section is desired.
US09962584B2
A golf club head comprises a body having a face, a crown and a sole together defining an interior cavity. The body having a channel located on the sole and extending generally from a heel end of the body to a toe end of the body. A weight member movably positioned within the channel such that a position of the weight member within the channel is able to be adjusted, thereby adjusting a location of a center of gravity of the body. Additionally, adjustment of the weight member provides a maximum x-axis adjustment range of the position of the center of gravity (Max ΔCGx) that is greater than 2 mm and a maximum z-axis adjustment range of the center of gravity (Max ΔCGz) that is less than 2 mm.
US09962583B2
A putter head having variable face thickness or multiple materials and adjustable weighting features is disclosed herein. The variable face thickness may comprise a plurality of geometric shapes on the striking face surface with spacing between them that decreases in a top to bottom direction, or the face may include a plurality of angled carbon rods. The putter also includes an adjustable weight cartridge that can pivot in a toe-heel direction.
US09962580B2
A throwing or catching toy includes a first body defined as having a longitudinal axis. A length of the first body along the longitudinal axis between a front end of the first body to a back end of the first body is longer than an equatorial diameter of the first body. A generally cylindrically-shaped annular second body is disposed about the first body aligned along the longitudinal axis. A connection structure is disposed and connected between the first body and the second body, where the connection structure secures the first body in a fixed position relative to the second body.
US09962573B2
An exercise machine ergonomic handle system for providing hand-holds for the performance of exercises with reduced flexion and/or extension of the hand and wrist and reduced ulnar and/or radial deviation so as to reduce injury and allow application of full strength to the exercise machine. The exercise machine ergonomic handle system generally includes a longitudinally extending frame, a carriage that moves upon a first longitudinal portion of the frame, and at least one pair of ergonomic handles positioned on a second longitudinal portion of the frame. The ergonomic handles rotate about an axis to prevent flexion and/or extension, and can be positioned at a width and/or angle that reduces ulnar and/or radial deviation.
US09962566B2
A respiratory equipment (1) comprising: a respiratory mask (10) adapted to be applied in a use position around a nose and a mouth to a user, an inflatable harness (20), a gas supply tube (2) connected to the respiratory mask at a downstream end (2b), a storage element (30) comprising a housing (32) adapted to store the respiratory mask (10) in a storage position, and a retaining device (40) including a leash (46) and a releasably holding portion (42, 44) connected to the leash (46), the leash having a connecting portion (47) connected to the harness (20) and a securing portion (45) connected to the storage element (30).
US09962563B2
A medical apparatus (300, 400, 500, 600, 700) comprises a heating system (304) for heating a target zone (324) of a subject (320), wherein the energy density in a predefined volume is modeled (338) using a thermal model and a processor (330) for controlling (340) the heating system (304). The medical apparatus (300, 400, 500, 600, 700) further comprises a memory (336) containing machine executable instructions, wherein execution of the instructions causes the processor (330) to receive (100, 200, 342) a treatment plan, wherein execution of the instructions further causes the processor (330) to repeatedly: heat (102, 202, 344) the target zone (324) during alternating heating periods and cooling periods by controlling (340) the heating system (304) using the treatment plan and calculate (104, 204, 346) a present energy density map (350) in a predefined volume using the treatment plan and the thermal model, wherein the present energy density is repeatedly updated (348) during the heating of the target zone (324).
US09962560B2
A particle therapy system includes a particle accelerator to output a particle beam; and a scanning system for the particle accelerator to scan the particle beam across at least part of an irradiation target. The scanning system is configured to scan the particle beam in two dimensions that are at an angle relative to a direction of the particle beam. A structure defines an edge. The structure is controllable to move in the two dimensions relative to the irradiation target such that at least part of the structure is between at least part of the particle beam and the irradiation target. The structure includes a material that inhibits transmission of the particle beam.
US09962559B2
Provided are multi-segmented inflatable brachytherapy devices. Also provided are systems and methods including multi-segmented inflatable brachytherapy devices.
US09962556B2
A method for delivering therapeutic light ion radiation to a target volume of a subject, wherein the target volume is located at a predetermined depth from the skin, includes irradiating a surface of the skin with an array of light ion minibeams comprising parallel, spatially distinct minibeams at the surface in an amount and spatially arranged and sized to maintain a tissue-sparing effect from the skin to a proximal side of the target volume, and to merge into a solid beam at a proximal side of the target volume. A gap between the parallel, spatially distinct minibeams at the surface and a species of light ions forming the minibeams are selected such that the array merges into a solid beam at a predetermined beam energy, and across all energies for Bragg-peak spreading, at a proximal side of the target volume.
US09962553B2
Devices and methods for contactless skin treatment use feedback power control for non-invasive treatment of skin and human tissue. Electromagnetic energy heats skin or tissue. A feedback system measures an output physical quantity before the output of electromagnetic waves from the device into the patient. Alternatively the feedback system scans values of a physical quantity on or near the patient. The devices and methods allow for delivering the optimum amount of energy to the patient while reducing the thermal load of the device.
US09962546B2
A CFS system includes self-adhesive, disposable pads. Each pad is combined with a sealed, cleanable battery/controller pod and then placed on the body where needed. The battery/controller pod preferably has wireless capability, such as Bluetooth® capability. The patient can download an application to a smartphone or similar mobile device to control the pods.
US09962543B2
In some embodiments, a paddle lead is implanted within a patient such that the electrodes are positioned within the cervical or thoracic spinal levels. An electrode combination on a first row of electrodes can be determined that is effective for a first pain location with minimal effects on other regions of the body. The first pain location can be addressed by stimulating a first dorsal column fiber due to the relatively fine electrical field resolution achievable by the multiple columns. Then, another electrode combination on a second row of electrodes can be determined for a second pain location with minimal effects on other regions. The second pain location could be addressed by stimulating a second dorsal column fiber. After the determination of the appropriate electrodes for stimulation, the patient's IPG can be programmed to deliver pulses using the first and second rows according to the determined electrode combinations.
US09962535B2
A novel array of hollow silica glass microneedles is provided. The array is prepared from a silica dispersion. A novel apparatus is provided comprising a negative mold component having tapered openings therein and a positive mold component having positive elements that are received within the tapered openings of the negative mold component. An assembly is prepared of the negative mold component and the positive mold component, with an aqueous silica dispersion received within the space between the outer surface of the positive elements and the inner surface of the openings. The assembly is heated to remove air and water vapors from the silica dispersion, then the assembly is further heated to sinter the remaining silica to silica glass. The sintered silica glass when removed from the mold components is in the form of an array of microneedles.
US09962533B2
A module producible inside a living body is provided. The module includes an instructions receiver configured to receive wireless transmissions of instructions from a master controller located outside of the body when the module is inside the body. An energy receiver configured to receive wireless transmission of non-destructive energy from the master controller located outside of the body when the module is inside the body. The module further includes a battery and a communications and guide element electrically connected to the instructions receiver, the energy receiver and the battery.
US09962531B2
A dilation catheter system is provided to dilate the ostium of a paranasal sinus; or to dilate some other anatomical passageway (e.g., within the ear, nose, or throat, etc.). The dilation catheter system may include a dilation catheter, a dilator, a guide catheter, and an inflator. The dilation catheter may be positioned between the dilator and the inflator. The guide catheter may be inserted within the affected passageway to allow the dilator to be positioned through the guide catheter and into the affected passageway. The inflator may then be actuated to transfer fluid from the inflator, through the dilation catheter, and into the dilator. The transfer of fluid may inflate the dilator to an expanded state to open or dilate the affected passageway.
US09962527B2
Devices and methods are discussed directed to the use of a low profile laser ablation catheter for use in laser ablation removal of arterial plaque blockages to restore blood flow in the treatment of arteriovenous fistulas. Also discussed are devices and methods directed to packaging, long term storage and sterilization of liquid core ablation catheters.
US09962523B2
A catheter having a radiopaque marker. The radiopaque marker is disposed on a distal end of the catheter tube and is configured to allow for simple and efficient identification of the location of a predetermined drainage bore on an X-ray or other radiographic technique. In one implementation, the radiopaque marker is associated with the catheter tube such that inclusion of the radiopaque marker does not increase the outer diameter or decrease the inner diameter of the tube.
US09962515B2
Described herein is an exhalation valve for a ventilator that controls gas flow through a patient exhalation line in response to a target pressure within the line. The valve controls gas flow by (i) providing both a high frequency signal and a low frequency signal through a coil positioned in a fixed magnetic field, (ii) determining a position of the coil by detecting the high frequency signal, and (iii) controlling a position of the coil by adjusting the low frequency signal.
US09962514B2
Described herein is a flow control valve for a ventilator that controls gas flow through a patient line in response to a target pressure within the line. The valve controls gas flow by (i) providing both a high frequency signal and a low frequency signal through a coil positioned in a fixed magnetic field, (ii) determining a position of the coil by detecting the high frequency signal, and (iii) controlling a position of the coil by adjusting the low frequency signal based on the determined position and/or velocity of the coil.
US09962508B2
An adapter for fitting to a drug delivery device, the adapter including: an outlet for communication with the mouth of a patient; an air flow path through the adapter along which air is drawn to the outlet by inhalation by the patient; an inlet adapted for connection to a mouthpiece of the drug delivery device; and an air flow rate indicator operable to indicate when the air flow rate along the air flow path is at or above a predetermined minimum level suitable for delivery of the drug to the patient. A drug delivery device having, in its body, an air flow rate indicator operable to indicate when the air flow rate along the air flow path is at or above a predetermined minimum level suitable for delivery of the drug to the patient.
US09962502B1
A heated patient tube assembly that carries and gradually warms fluids to a desired temperature and maintains the desired temperature until the fluids are delivered to a patient includes an elongated hollow tube; a heating assembly at least partially embedded within the tube for heating the tube and fluids carried in the tube; and a control assembly for controlling the heating assembly such that the fluids exit the tube at a desired and consistent temperature.
US09962496B2
An injection device having a distal end, and including a needle located inside the injection device in an initial position, wherein the needle is moveable to a puncturing position in which the needle projects from the distal end, an open region located distally relative to the needle in the initial position of the needle and having a dimension, a reduction piece moveable relative to the opening region whereby the dimension may be reduced and a holding member that latchingly connects to the reduction piece and a product container holder.
US09962495B2
Driving and dispensing devices for an injection device are used for administering a liquid product and adjusting a product dose and include a dosage display element with a helical dosage scale; an indication device for indicating a dosage value from the dosage scale; and a dosage element, which can be held by a user and screwed relative to the indication device around a rotational axis (L) and relative to the dispensing member along the rotational axis (L) in order to adjust the dosage to be administered. A bearing element having a thread is in a threaded engagement with a thread of the dosage indication element, and the thread pitch of the thread of the dosage indication element is not the same as the pitch (P1) of the helical scale, and may be greater or smaller than the pitch (P1) of the helical scale.
US09962489B2
Embodiments of a syringe-based device for delivering fluid include a housing, a port, the port being positioned at about the distal end of the housing, a plunger assembly, the plunger assembly including, a plunger seal, a valve, and a cannula, a first fluid reservoir, where the first fluid reservoir retains a first type of fluid, a syringe including a syringe body, a syringe port, a plunger, and a second fluid reservoir, the second fluid retaining a second type of fluid, and where the syringe transitions from a first configuration in which a first portion of the first fluid type is delivered through the port, to a second configuration in which the second type of fluid in the second fluid reservoir is delivered through the port, to a third configuration in which a second portion of the first fluid type is delivered through the port.
US09962485B2
Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for automatically disassociating medical devices from patients. An indication that a medical device is associated with a patient and is online is received. A disruption in the communication with the medical device that has not been disassociated with the patient is identified. In embodiments, the disruption indicates the medical device has lost a wireless connection, is associated with a scheduled downtime, has been powered off, or is offline. Once it is determined that a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the disruption, the medical device is automatically disassociated from the patient. In embodiments, the medical device is retroactively re-associated to the patient if it is determined the medical device should not have been automatically disassociated from the patient.
US09962484B2
This disclosure relates to drug delivery devices, systems, and methods. In some aspects, a drug delivery device includes an elongate member defining a fluid passage and an opening in fluid communication with the fluid passage, and a projection extending radially from the elongate member. A portion of the elongate member extending axially from the projection to a distal end of the elongate member has a length sufficient to allow the distal end of the elongate member to reach subdermal tissue of a patient when the elongate member is inserted into the patient and the projection is in contact with an outer surface of skin of the patient, and the opening is positioned at a location along the elongate member such that the opening is disposed within a dermis of the patient when the elongate member is inserted into the patient and the projection is in contact with the outer surface of the skin of the patient.
US09962473B2
The present invention provides a surgical aspiration cannula capable of aspirating a liquid component such as a small amount of blood while keeping an ability to aspirate a large clot such as a blood clot and to sweep them. The present invention relates to a surgical aspiration cannula that comprises a tip opening capable of aspirating a clot such as a blood clot; and an aspiration structure in the front of the tip opening. Due to the aspiration structure, the liquid component such as a small amount of blood can be aspirated. Further, even when the tip opening is pressed against the vicinity of an organ, the aspiration structure interposed between an aspiration port and a surface of the organ prevents clogging of the cannula or damage to the organ. In addition, in a case of bleeding in a surgical site, the blood is aspirated while controlling the bleeding by pressurizing a bleeding site, thereby providing a clear view and enabling a hemostatic site to be treated.
US09962472B2
An in-joint pump and control device comprising a pump and an in-joint sensor. The pump is configured to convey fluid to a body joint surgical site. The pump has an algorithm associated therewith to make calculations and to assist in controlling the operation of the pump. The in-joint sensor is operatively associated with the pump by at least a communication member. The in-joint sensor comprises a sheath, an integration member attached to the sheath, a pressure sensor connected to the integration member, and a temperature sensor adjacent the sheath. The pressure sensor is adapted to provide pressure information to the pump via the communication member. The temperature sensor is also adapted to provide temperature information to the pump via the communication member.
US09962469B2
[Problem] To provide a composition capable of effectively preventing adhesion.[Solution] An adhesion-preventing preparation comprising, as an active ingredient, a composition comprising an A-B-A triblock copolymer, in which A denotes a cationically chargeable polymer block and B denotes a water-soluble block that comprises a poly(ethylene glycol) (or poly(oxyethylene)) chain, and a polyanionic polymer.
US09962445B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition in form of emulsion or microemulsion and the use thereof as aid during endoscopic procedures in which it is injected in a target tissue in order to form a cushion. More in details, the invention relates to a method for performing an endoscopic procedure, which comprises injecting said pharmaceutical composition in form of emulsion or microemulsion in a target tissue of a patient, in order to form a cushion, which cushion is then optionally subjected to an endoscopic surgical procedure, such as a resection.
US09962436B2
The present disclosure provides fusion proteins that incorporate unique mechanisms for multimerizmg antigens to enhance their immunogenicity. The fusion proteins comprise at least two antigens, or other vaccine related proteins, separated by a linker sequence and an oligomerization domain. When expressed, the fusion protein forms a muKimeric protein complex, This approach can be used to muHimeri?.e a single antigen/protein or to create multimers comprising two or more different antigens/proteins. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding the fusion proteins, Yet another aspect is directed to methods of inducing or suppressing an immune response in a subject by administering to the subject a vaccine composition comprising a fusion protein or nucleic acid encoding the fusion protein, optionally without using an adjuvant.
US09962431B2
A pharmaceutical composition of recombinant human fibrinogen having a half-life of less than 12 hours and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent. The pharmaceutical composition may also contain factor VIIa, factor VIII, von Willebrand's factor, or Desmopressin. The pharmaceutical composition may also contain divalent metal cations. The recombinant human fibrinogen may contain sialic acid.
US09962424B2
The present invention relates to the use of an antisecretory factor (AF) protein, peptide, derivative, homologue, and/or fragment thereof, having equivalent functional activity, and/or a pharmaceutically active salt thereof, for optimizing delivery and cellular uptake of a pharmaceutical substance and/or formulation, or a gene delivery. Typically, said pharmaceutical substance and/or formulation comprises an anticancer drug, radiation therapy, an antibiotic substance, an antiviral substance or a drug targeting posttraumatic injury, neurodegeneration, a parasite, or an inflammatory condition.
US09962423B2
This disclosure relates to particles comprising recombinant proteins, pharmaceutical composition comprising the particles, and therapeutic uses related thereto. In certain embodiments, the particles are made by the process of producing recombinant proteins and conjugating the recombinant proteins to form nanoparticles with a linking reagent comprising disulfide bonds. Typically the recombinant protein has a polypeptide of viral, fungal, or bacterial origin such as secreted effector proteins AvrA and YopJ. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to treating or preventing autoimmune diseases, cancer, or inflammatory diseases, or conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
US09962422B2
Provided herein are peptide formulations comprising polymers as stabilizing agents. The peptide formulations can be more stable for prolonged periods of time at temperatures higher than room temperature when formulated with the polymers. The polymers used in the present invention can decrease the degradation of the constituent peptides of the peptide formulations.
US09962421B2
A composition comprising caffeoylshikimic acids, protocatechuic acid, hydroxytyrosol, hydroxybenzoic acid, caffeoylshikimic acids and their derivatives extracted from any part of oil palm including but not confined to the vegetation liquor of palm oil milling and palm oil mill effluent, and a method for use in the preparation of a composition containing caffeoylshikimic acids, protocatechuic acid, hydroxytyrosol, hydroxybenzoic acid, caffeoylshikimic acids and their derivatives. The method includes the steps of pre-concentrating an extract containing the caffeoylshikimic acids, protocatechuic acid, hydroxytyrosol, hydroxybenzoic acid, caffeoylshikimic acids and their derivatives and isolating said caffeoylshikimic acids, protocatechuic acid, hydroxytyrosol, hydroxybenzoic acid, caffeoylshikimic acids and their derivatives from said extract by liquid chromatography, wherein the elution activity of said caffeoylshikimic acids, protocatechuic acid, hydroxytyrosol, hydroxybenzoic acid, caffeoylshikimic acids and their derivatives vary depending on the stationary phase and the composition of the mobile phase.
US09962415B2
The present invention relates to means and methods for modulating the gut microbiota composition of a subject, preferably a human. In particular, the present invention provides an agent capable of reducing the proportion of Lachnospiraceae in the gut microbiota composition of a subject which agent is useful for promoting weight loss or preventing weight gain in a subject, preferably an obese or overweight subject. Lactobacillus rhamnosus CGMCC 1.3724 is particularly preferred as the agent provided by and used in the present invention.
US09962410B2
Embodiments include methods for decellularizing an organ or tissue comprising conditioning the organ or tissue to be decellularized by exposing the organ or tissue to electricity, as well as methods of using such decellularized organs or tissues.
US09962401B2
The present disclosure provides a polymer comprising a derivative of chitosan, wherein the derivative is zwitterionic, as well as methods of using the polymer. In addition, the present disclosure provides a nanoparticle structure comprising a derivative of chitosan and a dendrimer, as well as methods of utilizing the nanoparticle structure.
US09962395B2
Provided are methods for reducing the progression of cognitive decline in a post-menopausal woman using a continuous regimen of estrogen in combination with periodic administration of a progestogen.
US09962390B2
The formulation for oral administration of the present invention containing Mosapride or its salt is a double layer formulation consisting of a fast-release layer for rapid release of a drug and a sustained-release layer for slow release in order to simultaneously satisfy the rapid exhibition of pharmacological activities and sustained maintenance of pharmacological activities for 24 hours, wherein the high-viscosity hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) and the low-viscosity HPMC are used in mixture such that the content of a high viscosity HPMC as a controlled-release matrix within the sustained-release layer has a higher content, thereby capable of controlling the dissolution rate in the regions having different pH values within the gastrointestinal tract and/or the retention time in the gastrointestinal tract. Additionally, the formulation of the present invention is a small-sized preparation with a total weight of 200 mg or less, preferably from 150 mg to 160 mg, thus capable of improving drug compliance of patients.
US09962387B2
Methods for treating insomnia are disclosed. The methods are directed to administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibitor to a male individual suffering from insomnia. In addition, due to the PDE5 inhibitor positive effects on addressing erectile dysfunction (ED) in males, the present methods are directed to treating insomnia in patients that also suffer from ED by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a PDE5 inhibitor.
US09962374B2
The instant invention relates to a process for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition in sustained-release tablet form comprising from 600 milligrams to 2400 milligrams of Pirfenidone (PFD), in such a way that the drug is bioavailable during an extended period of time of 12 hours from its administration. In this way, the anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory action of the drug Pirfenidone is optimized. Moreover, the instant invention offers advantages and a higher therapeutic efficacy compared to other pharmaceutical forms of Pirfenidone for oral administration and its therapeutic application in the regression of chronic renal failure secondary to primary glomerulosclerosis; it shows a better activity with regard to the reduction and/or regression of deleterious effects in breast capsular contracture observed after the surgical implantation of breast implants in humans and has an important anti-TNF-α and anti-TGF-β1 action for the treatment of hepatic fibrosis.
US09962357B2
The present disclosure describes novel PKC-ϵ activators chosen from halogenated esters of unsaturated fatty acids derivatives thereof, including halogenated esters of both polyunsaturated and monunsaturated fatty acids and derivatives thereof. The disclosure further relates to compositions, kits, and methods for treatment using the halogenated esters.
US09962344B2
Provided herein are methods for treating conditions associated with a chemosensory receptor, including diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic diseases, disorders or conditions by administrating a composition comprising a chemosensory receptor ligand, such as a bitter receptor ligand. Also provided herein are chemosensory receptor ligand compositions, including bitter receptor ligand compositions, and methods for the preparation thereof for use in the methods of the present invention. Also provided herein are compositions comprising metformin and salts thereof and methods of use.
US09962343B2
A method of treating pain, e.g., acute post-operative pain, by administering to a human patient(s) a therapeutically effective dose of tramadol intravenously over a prolonged time period is disclosed. In certain embodiments, the dose is intravenously administered in a time period from about 10 minutes to about 3 hours, preferably from about 10 minutes to about 30 minutes. In other embodiments, intravenous doses are administered at suitable time intervals over a time period from about 3 hours to 48 hours.
US09962335B2
An object is to provide a method of manufacturing a soft capsule that is enteric and excellent in formulation properties. An enteric soft capsule is manufactured by the following steps (a) and (b): (a) preparing an enteric capsule shell liquid comprising gelatin and low methoxyl pectin having a degree of amidation of 5 to 25%, and (b) encapsulating capsule fills using the enteric capsule shell liquid prepared in the step (a) by stamping. Preferably, the jelly strength of the gelatin is 160 to 300 Bloom, the degree of esterification of the low methoxy pectin is 20 to 40%, and the enteric capsule shell liquid comprises 30 to 35 parts by mass of the low methoxy pectin per 100 parts by mass of the gelatin.
US09962332B2
The invention is directed to a method for preventing nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLDO) in a patient receiving high dose radioactive iodine for treatment of cancer. The method includes administering an effective amount of perchlorate anion to the eyes of the patient.
US09962329B2
Cosmetic methods for obtaining a slimming effect are disclosed. The methods include providing a composition containing a carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) seed extract and caffeine or a derivative of caffeine as a slimming active agent and a physiologically acceptable medium, and topically applying the composition on at least a portion of the body or face. The topical application of the composition includes the application of an effective amount of the composition that increases the expression of aquaglyceroporins, increase lipolysis, promotes the elimination of lipids, reduces localized excess body fat, and/or attenuates the “orange peel” appearance of the skin.
US09962322B2
An oral care composition containing a stannous ion source, a zinc ion source, a polyphosphate, and a thickening agent. The thickening agent contains polyvinylpyrrolidone, a polysaccharide gum and carboxymethyl cellulose. The compositions have excellent rheology properties.
US09962316B2
Modular automated dispensing systems for dispensing secured medications in a medical environment are provided. The system includes a compact enclosure configured to be disposed in a medical treatment area without taking up valuable floor space. The system includes lockable drawers having one or more compartments for storing and dispensing medications or medical supplies. The system is unlocked by use of an access control interface internally or externally connected directly to the system, or networked to the system through a medical center network.
US09962314B2
The Sexual Aid Method and Appliance with Passageway for Intimate Massage enables individuals and/or couples to enjoy the vast array of health benefits of breast massage. This enables a penis to travel in a defined path over or in between breasts to massage the penis, breast tissue and/or the area in between the breasts. The movement of the penis within the defined path induces flexing of the appliance that further massages the surrounding breast tissue. At least one sternum passageway, tube passageway, breast passageway or passageway enhancer guides the penis. This versatile, economical, non-surgical, green-technology appliance creates at least one passageway that is independent of body contours to allow individuals to experience breast tissue massage, massage of the area in between the breasts and/or hands-free mammary coitus.
US09962312B2
A rollator walker with a travel carriage, a frame, and a support for a person's leg, the inclination of which, with respect to a horizontal plane in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the support, can be adjusted. The support is mounted on a supporting part, which is firmly connected to the frame via a joint with a first axle which is horizontal and transverse with respect to the longitudinal axis of the support, and via a supporting element which is at a distance from the first axle in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the support. The supporting element is connected to the supporting part via a manually adjustable mechanical positioning element, by which the vertical position of the supporting element can be changed with respect to the supporting part. As a result, the inclination of the support is adjustable without loss of stability, and the support is held securely in any set inclination position.
US09962310B1
An apparatus for stretching includes a base element, a housing, a strap element, and a ratcheting element. The housing has a strap egress, a first handle, and a second handle. The strap element has a first end and a second end, where the first end is coupled with the base element and the second end is mounted on a rotating element within the housing, such that the strap element can move in and out of the egress. The ratcheting element is for decreasing an exposed length of the strap between the base element and the housing by rotating one of the handles in a first direction. The base element has a diameter that is adjustable between an operating configuration and a stored configuration. The base element forms a planar surface when in the operating configuration and holds the housing above the planar surface when the base element is in the stored configuration.
US09962309B2
A multi-component, convertible, individual thermal therapeutic device has multiple parts that can be arranged in at least 3 ways to provide multiple therapeutic treatments to the users body.
US09962308B2
A water therapy system, including a therapy chair with a tiltable backrest portion, and a foot tub, including a water bucket and an inclined ramp, such that a patient can be lying in the therapy chair with lower legs and feet extended into the water bucket, such that an inclination angle of the inclined ramp ensures a comfortable seating position. Also disclosed is an inclined ramp for holding a water bucket for use in reflexology therapy, including an inclined surface and a base, such that the inclined surface is configured to hold a water bucket.
US09962305B2
A living support system connected to a chair including a movable seat through a communication network includes a robot including a main body, a moving device that moves the main body in a freestanding state, a handle provided at the main body and gripped by a user, and a handle load detector that detects a handle load applied to the handle by the user; a support control device that controls seat movement for a stand-up motion of the sitting user, using the detected handle load; and a communicator that transmits support control information including a movement speed at which the chair moves the movable seat, to the chair through the communication network. The support control device includes a seat speed calculator that calculates a speed at which the movable seat is inclined with respect to a floor on which the chair is placed, as the movement speed using the detected handle load.
US09962302B2
The present invention provides a manual stair climbing wheel chair. The wheel chair comprises a hand crank handle, seat reclining devices, a gear box and a driven sprocket wheel set. When the seat of the wheel chair is reclined by using the seat reclining devices, the front and rear wheels of the wheel chair are only driven by the gear box through the driven sprocket wheel set, and cannot be pushed or propelled by hands; the person propelling the wheel chair can drive the front and rear wheels only by rotating the hand crank handle, so that self-slippage of the wheel chair can be avoided when moving up and down on stairs.
US09962299B2
A method for producing a multi-layered absorbent articles is disclosed. At least two of the layers include a colored region.
US09962298B2
A method of dispensing adhesive onto a stretched elastic strand includes applying a first volume of adhesive onto a first portion of the elastic strand, applying a second volume of adhesive onto a second portion of the elastic strand, and applying a third volume of adhesive onto a third portion of the elastic strand. The second volume is less than the first and third volumes. When the elastic strand is adhered to a substrate to form a personal disposable hygiene product, the first and third portions of the elastic strand define opposing ends of the elastic strand, which are adhered with a larger amount of adhesive to resist creep at the opposing ends. The reduction of adhesive in the second or central portion between the opposing ends significantly reduces the adhesive add on in the personal disposable hygiene product.
US09962296B2
A disposable absorbent article that includes an elastic film material. The elastic film resists the growth of a tear and include an SEEPS block copolymer having a Tm of between about 10° C. and about 20° C. The film has a time-to-fail of greater than 1 hour.
US09962295B2
The present invention relates to a negative pressure wound closure system and methods for using such a system. Preferred embodiments of the invention facilitate closure of the wound by preferentially contracting to provide for movement of the tissue. Preferred embodiments can utilize tissue grasping elements to apply a wound closing force to the tissue.
US09962294B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are presented that involve forming patterns on neo-epithelium that allow increased functionality and may more nearly resemble the original epithelium. In one instance, a patterned neo-epithelium dressing for treating a tissue site having granulation tissue includes an interface member for placing proximate the granulation tissue and a plurality of three-dimensional features formed on a second, patient-facing side of the interface member. Other systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed.
US09962286B2
Panty underwear includes a pouch disposed above the crotch panel and between the leg openings. The pouch has a top opening opposite the wearer's vaginal opening, so that vaginal discharge flows to a sanitary napkin between the bottom of the pouch and the crotch panel. The pouch provides cooling to the wearer's labia and, in some embodiments, to her perineal area. The cooling is provided by either a single generally rectangular cooling pack, or two cooling packs each being rectangular or J-shaped. The sanitary napkin can be internal or external to the pouch. Some embodiments of the underwear are intended for single use. Other embodiments of the underwear are intended to be re-usable, in that the sanitary napkin can be replaced and/or the cooling pack(s) can be re-used. The cooling pack(s) can be sealed with one-time or reusable thermal material therein, or they can be resealable with replaceable thermal material.
US09962285B2
The subject matter of the invention relates to therapy wraps for the application of compression and/or thermal therapy to a patient. The wraps are formed of at least two layers of material which are sealed together to form at least one cavity between them. The wraps may be used in conjunction with a therapy machine which fills the cavity or cavities of the wraps with fluid such as a gas and/or a liquid. The unique shapes of the wraps are particularly suitable for providing therapy to the human body. The shapes permit the manipulation of the wraps around various portions of the human body such as the shoulder, back and foot.
US09962282B2
A urostomy pouch includes a baffle member, which is formed using multilayer film sheets. The multilayer film includes an inner layer comprising polypropylene and styrenic block copolymer, and an outer layer comprising ethyl methyl acrylate copolymer (EMA). The multilayer film sheets are arranged such that the inner layers face each other and are ultrasonically sealed along their longitudinal edges to form a tubular-shaped baffle member.
US09962280B2
Disclosed is an orthopedic support for securing about the lumbar region of a wearer. The support includes a smoothly contoured body having a template surface bounded by an upper margin and a lower margin. A central trough extends between the upper and lower margins for accommodating the spinal processes of a wearer when the template surface is pressed against the lumbar region. Two raised plateau regions flank the central trough for contacting the erector spinae muscles of the wearer to provide support therefor. The central trough and the plateau regions form a smoothly curving surface approximating the lordotic curve of a wearer to assist maintaining spinal posture. A magnetic pad is attached to the contoured template surface and extends between the margins and extends over the central trough between the two raised plateau regions to provide a therapeutic magnetic field to the lumbar region.
US09962279B2
Ankle-foot orthotics are used by many people suffering from foot drop. Some are applied to the foot and then inserted into standard footwear. They present many disadvantages. Alternatively, the orthotic is external causing extra attention to the orthotic. Disclosed herein is an ankle-foot orthotic (AFO) that is integrated into a boot. The AFO is less obvious and the boot material is in contact with the wearer's foot rather than the orthotic itself. A calf plate hinged with a sole plate are inserted into the shoe, as well as a member in tension biasing the foot toward dorsiflexion.
US09962277B2
A gastric device for a stomach having a pyloric valve comprising a biodegradable delivery structure disposable within the stomach configured to erode upon exposure to gastric fluid. A first volume filling agent retained by the biodegradable delivery structure and is permeable to water and/or gastric fluids. A second volume filling agent retained by the first volume filling agent, wherein the second volume filling agent is a hydrogel that expands in contact with the water and/or gastric fluids thereby expanding the first volume filling agent from a first displacement to a second displacement larger than the first displacement, and wherein the first volume filling agent does not pass through the pyloric valve in the normal digestive process.
US09962275B2
A gastric device for a stomach having a pyloric valve comprising a first volume filling agent disposable within the stomach and transitionable from a first displacement to a second displacement larger than the first displacement, and wherein the first volume filling agent does not pass through the pyloric valve in the normal digestive process.
US09962272B1
An expandable interbody fusion implant device has a frame, two ramp assemblies, a threaded drive shaft and at least one base plate, preferably two. The frame has a first lateral side and a second lateral side and a distal end and a proximal end. Each ramp assembly has a translating ramp with a threaded opening, a first pivoting hinged ramp and a second pivoting hinged ramp. Each base plate is hinged to a first lateral side of the frame. Each base plate is hinged to the distal ramp assembly and the proximal ramp assembly at an end of one of said pivoting hinged ramps of each ramp assembly. The drive shaft has a distal drive shaft component having threads for translating the distal ramp assembly and a proximal drive shaft component having threads for translating the proximal ramp assembly.
US09962265B2
A total joint replacement system comprising a first and a second implant system. The first implant system includes a first implant having a first load bearing surface based on a first removed portion of an articular surface of a patient's first bone, and a first anchor having a first threaded region configured to be secured into the first bone, wherein the first anchor is configured to be secured to the first implant. The second implant system includes a second implant having a second load bearing surface based on a second removed portion of an articular surface of a patient's second bone, and a second anchor having a second threaded region configured to be secured into the second bone, wherein the second anchor is configured to be secured to the second implant.
US09962264B2
A posterior cruciate ligament retaining knee implant prosthesis comprising a femoral component including a medial condyle and a lateral condyle separated from one another by an intercondylar channel adapted to accommodate throughput of a native cruciate ligament, both the medial condyle and the lateral condyle posteriorly terminate individually, the medial condyle including a medial condyle bearing surface and the lateral condyle including a lateral condyle bearing surface, the femoral component including an anterior cam, and a tibial component including a medial condyle receiver having a medial condyle receiver bearing surface, the tibial component also including a lateral condyle receiver having a lateral condyle receiver bearing surface, the tibial component also including an anterior post.
US09962257B2
An intraocular lens system according to an embodiment includes a lens, a converter, and a driver. The lens is placed in the lens capsule, and configured to allow at least changes of the focal length. The converter is placed in the lens capsule, transmits part of incident light therethrough, and converts the energy of other part of the light into electrical energy. The driver is placed in the lens capsule, operates with the electrical energy obtained by the converter, and is used to change the focal length of the lens.
US09962249B2
A mobility aid for quadrupeds includes a support frame having a front end and a rear end, at least one leg member having a distal end and a proximal end connected to the support by a joint, the joint permitting the leg member to pivot between an upright position and a folded position, the joint further comprising a biasing means that urges the at least one leg element toward the upright position, at least one wheel at the distal of the at least one leg member, and at least one actuator attached to the at least one leg member, the at least one actuator contacting the ground on an opposite side of one of at least one wheel from the front end of the support.
US09962245B2
A dental composition comprising a polymerizable resin comprising ethylenically unsaturated groups; a thermally activated initiator dissolved in the resin; and an inorganic filler combined with the resin in an amount greater than about 60 percent by weight based upon the weight of the composition; wherein the initiator is activated at a temperature of about 100 to about 150° C. to provide free radicals; and wherein the filler has a surface area of at least about 65 square meters per gram filler; a dental mill block comprising the thermally cured composition, a method of manufacturing the dental mill block, and a kit comprising a plurality of the mill blocks are provided.
US09962240B2
The present invention relates to a dental implant fixture, and more particularly, to a dental implant fixture which rotates about a central axis thereof, and thus is inserted into a bone tissue constituted by a cortical bone and a spongy bone to form an artificial tooth root, wherein the dental implant fixture includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The first portion is inserted into the cortical bone and has an outer surface with a first screw thread whereon first vertices and first valleys are alternately arranged. The second portion is disposed beneath the first portion and inserted into the spongy bone, has an outer surface with a second screw thread whereon second vertices and second valleys are alternately arranged. The distance between the adjacent second vertices of the second screw thread is larger than the distance between the adjacent first vertices of the first screw thread. The third portion is disposed beneath the second portion, and has an outer surface with a third screw thread whereon third vertices and third valleys are alternately arranged, and a first cutting part which is hollowed such that the first cutting part is closer to the central axis than the third valleys. The lower outer diameter of the second screw thread is smaller than the upper outer diameter of the second screw thread.
US09962239B2
An elastic mounting ring installation tool for connecting braces to brackets attached to the teeth of a patient has a housing with a barrel section, at the front end of which a magazine holder with a magazine provided with elastic rings for placement onto brackets provided on the teeth is arranged for mounting the braces to the teeth by the elastic mounting rings and a rod with wire fingers is movably supported in the barrel section for scooping up the elastic rings and transferring them to tooth brackets of the patient. The magazine holder is supported so as to be movable away from the wire fingers in a direction normal to the axis of the rod for pulling an elastic ring engaged by the wire fingers in a sideward direction for disconnecting the elastic ring from the magazine.
US09962238B2
Embodiments are provided for digital dental modeling. One method embodiment includes receiving a three-dimensional data set including a first jaw and a second jaw of a three-dimensional digital dental model and receiving a two-dimensional data set corresponding to at least a portion of the first jaw and the second jaw. The method includes mapping two-dimensional data of the two-dimensional data set to the three-dimensional digital dental model by transforming a coordinate system of the two-dimensional data to a coordinate system of the three-dimensional data set. The method includes positioning the first jaw with respect to the second jaw based on the two-dimensional data mapped to the three-dimensional data set. The method includes using at least a portion of the two-dimensional data mapped to the three-dimensional data set as a target of movement of the first jaw with respect to the second jaw in the three-dimensional digital dental model.
US09962235B2
A chuck assembly for a dental handpiece includes a hollow cylindrical tube portion having a first internal bore, and a chuck portion having a second bore. The chuck portion is supported within the first bore co-rotational with the tube portion about a common axis. The chuck portion has an annular body portion defining the second bore for supporting a cylindrical tool therein. A drive element comprising a drive pin inserted in a first end of the tube portion traverses the first internal bore at a first end of the tube portion. The drive pin cooperates with a distal end of a rotary tool insertable into the second bore to transfer torque to the tool. The tool has an elongated body portion having a driven portion and a working portion. The driven portion includes a shank portion with channels for receiving the drive pin.
US09962230B2
Organization systems for surgical instruments and associated methods and systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a surgical instrument organization system can be configured for use in a medical environment, and can include a flexible, sterile container having a lower portion. The container can include an attachment system configured to elastically couple one or more surgical instruments to the lower portion of the container. In some embodiments, the container can be carried by a portable base coupled to a platform via an adjustable support member.
US09962205B2
Bone fixation system, including methods, apparatus, and kits, and comprising a bone plate and at least one instrument that attaches to the bone plate and provides at least one radiopaque region to facilitate positioning the bone plate on bone visualized by radiographic imaging. The instrument may be a handle assembly and/or a targeting guide.
US09962201B2
An implantable fixation system for fusing a joint between a first bone and a second bone. The system may include an anchor, standoff, bolt, and cortical washer. The system may be implanted across the joint along a single trajectory, the length of the system adjustable to provide compressive force between the anchor and the cortical washer. The system may be implanted across a tibiotalar joint with the anchor positioned in the sinus tarsi. A spacing member may be inserted between the two bones and the fixation system implanted to extend through an opening in the spacing member. The spacing member may be anatomically shaped and/or provide deformity correction. An ankle arthroplasty system may include a tibial plate, a talar plate, and a bearing insert. The plates may be anchored to the tibia and talus along a single trajectory. The ankle arthroplasty system may be revisable to a fusion system.
US09962190B2
An orthopedic implant (3) has permanent attachment to bones in the bodies of vertebrates and/or humans. In particular, the orthopedic implant comprises an elongate, substantially cylindrical base body (15), which can be inserted into patients using minimally invasive treatment together with little trauma to the surrounding tissue. The implant may comprise an external fixing thread (11) for screwing into the bone to sustainably improve treatment outcomes and recovery time.
US09962187B2
External fixation systems, and methods for immobilizing joints or fractured bones. An external fixation system may include one or more clamp assemblies connected to one or more rod assemblies at polyaxial joints. Each rod assembly may be length adjustable, and may include a one-way locking mechanism to provisionally lock the length of the rod assembly, and additional locking mechanisms to permanently lock the length of the rod assembly. The system may be deployed pre-assembled as a unit to immobilize a joint or fracture. Another external fixation system further includes a spanning member extending transverse to the rod assemblies. Two or more external fixation systems may be deployed in a stacked configuration on one set of bone pins to immobilize two joints and/or fractures. The systems may be provided in kits including guiding instrumentation, bone pins and pin clamping assemblies for connecting the bone pins to the external fixation systems.
US09962184B2
A transseptal medical device is provided including a dilator, a needle, and a needle control mechanism. The needle may be disposed within the dilator, and the needle control mechanism may be operably connected to a proximal end of the needle or the dilator for selective adjustment of the distal end of the needle from a first position within the dilator to a second position external to the dilator. The needle control mechanism may include an actuator configured for rotation within the dilator in one embodiment. In another embodiment, the proximal end of the dilator may incorporate internal threads and the proximal end of the needle may incorporate external threads, such that the needle may be configured for rotation during selective adjustment of the distal end of the needle from a first position to a second position. A method for puncturing a septum of a heart is also disclosed.
US09962181B2
Disclosed herein are devices and methods of percutaneously treating an ulcerated wound using ultrasonic energy. Some methods include delivering ultrasonic energy to a target tissue located at a position subcutaneous to the ulcerated wound. In some methods, the ultrasonic energy is delivered using an ultrasonic energy delivery device.
US09962167B2
The shank (12) of a disposable rotary cutting tool (10) comprises a pipe section (16) cut from a drawn metal pipe. The tool head (14) is formed from a cut-out (18a, 18b) of a drawn metal sheet or a section of a metal tube by non-cutting machining. The pipe section (16) and the tool head (14) are advantageously attached by force fitting.
US09962154B2
An apparatus and method for minimally invasive suturing is disclosed. A suturing device for minimally invasive suturing includes proximal section having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis therebetween; a suture head assembly extending from the distal end of the proximal section; a suturing needle having a pointed end and a blunt end, the suturing needle capable of rotating about an axis approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the proximal section, wherein the pointed end of the suturing needle is positioned within the suture head assembly prior to and after rotation of the suturing needle; and an actuator extending from the proximal end of the proximal section to actuate a drive mechanism having a needle driver for engaging and rotating the suturing needle.
US09962153B2
An apparatus and method for minimally invasive suturing is disclosed. A suturing device for minimally invasive suturing includes proximal section having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis therebetween; a suture head assembly extending from the distal end of the proximal section; a suturing needle having a pointed end and a blunt end, the suturing needle capable of rotating about an axis approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the proximal section, wherein the pointed end of the suturing needle is positioned within the suture head assembly prior to and after rotation of the suturing needle; and an actuator extending from the proximal end of the proximal section to actuate a drive mechanism having a needle driver for engaging and rotating the suturing needle.
US09962151B2
Devices and methods for minimally invasive suturing are disclosed. One suturing device for minimally invasive suturing includes a proximal section a distal end, and an intermediate region therebetween. The device includes a suture head assembly having a suturing needle with a pointed end and a second end. The suturing needle is capable of rotating about an axis approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the device, wherein the pointed end of the suturing needle is positioned within the suture head assembly prior to deployment of guides that are adapted and configured to guide the needle around a circular path when advanced by a drive mechanism having a needle driver for engaging and rotating the suturing needle.
US09962149B2
A tissue repair assembly for attachment of tissue to bone or tissue to tissue having a soft anchoring implant 100 with a length of suture 120 there through for tensioning the implant and facilitating attachment of other tissue. The implant 100 is a soft, flexible, three-dimensional structure that has a resident volume 200. An inserter tube 310 facilitates the placement of the implant 100 into bone or adjacent soft tissue where it may be deployed. Upon deployment, the soft anchoring implant 100 shortens axially and expands radially, achieving a larger diameter than the hole through which it was placed, thus resisting pull out.
US09962145B2
A self-contained, port-closing trocar and method of use which may include an elongated body having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a side wall between the first end and the second end, the body further including at least two channels therein, each of the channels originating near the second end, running parallel to the elongated body, and curving towards and forming an opening in the side wall near the first end. The self-closing trocar may also include at least two needles, each disposed within one of the at least two channels, and a handle insertable into the second end of the elongated body, the handle having at least two needle drivers coupled thereto, each needle driver being insertable into one of the at least two channels and engagable with an end of a needle.
US09962139B2
An X-ray image diagnostic apparatus is provided with an X-ray irradiation unit configured to perform irradiation with X-rays; a detection unit configured to detect the X-rays; a top table configured to be movable and allow a test object to be mounted; a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire first relative position information representing a relative position of the X-ray irradiation unit with respect to a position of the top table, and second relative position information representing a relative position of the detection unit with respect to the position of the top table, as clinical position information; and a drive control unit configured to drive the X-ray irradiation unit and the detection unit, based on displacement information representing a displacement of the position of the top table and the clinical position information.
US09962135B2
Disclosed herein is a trabecular bone analyzer that can quantitatively determine the state of trabecular bone accurately. The trabecular bone analyzer of may perform trabecular bone analysis on a tomographic image D. In the tomographic image D, trabeculae forming a network may appear without overlapping. Therefore, such trabecular bone analysis may more accurately quantify trabecular bone.
US09962133B2
A transformable imaging system configured to operate in at least two configurations. A first configuration may be open and a second configuration may be closed. The closed configuration may allow for imaging in along an arc greater than 180 degrees.
US09962130B1
An MRI compatible stretcher has a plurality of non-magnetically susceptible and electrically conductive metal members in physically overlapping sections, each having electrically non-conductive spacers separating the overlapping sections to prevent electrical conductivity there between. The insulators break electrical conductivity and thereby prevent the formation of large and continuous metal current loops, while the overlap ensures continuous metal strength and integrity. In particular embodiments, flanges terminate longitudinally extensive metal members, and the electrically non-conductive spacers separate the flanges from adjacent metal members. Fasteners secure the flanges, spacers and adjacent metal members together.
US09962129B2
An operating method assists a diagnosing practitioner with describing the location of a target structure in a tomosynthesis image data record of a compressed breast of a patient. The target structure is localized by a first spatial information item. The method includes: a) ascertaining a first shape information item describing at least one first, compressed breast shape in the tomosynthesis image data record, b) determining a second shape information item describing the breast in a non-compressed breast shape, from the first shape information item, c) mapping the position of the target structure from the compressed breast shape and to the non-compressed breast shape using at least the second shape information item for ascertaining a second spatial information item relating to the non-compressed breast shape, and d) transforming the second spatial information item into a pictogram information item facilitating an abstracted pictorial representation and/or describing the latter.
US09962118B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for monitoring a user for a traumatic brain injury. Aspects include monitoring a speech of the user with a microphone embedded in the helmet and analyzing, by a processor, one or more characteristics of the speech of the user. Aspects also include determining whether the one or more characteristics of the speech indicate that the user may have suffered the traumatic brain injury and creating an alert that the user of the helmet may have suffered the traumatic brain injury.
US09962103B2
The present technology is an automated method for determining whether a patient-specific electrocardiogram (ECG) is either (a) Normal and can be excluded from manual review or (b) Abnormal and included for manual review. In one embodiment, the method comprises comparing a plurality of characteristics of the ECG with predetermined subthreshold levels that are set less than clinically significant levels of abnormality of the characteristics, wherein the characteristics of the ECG are selected from the group including T-Wave inversion, ST-Depression, QT segment duration, delta wave character, anterior S-wave character and ectopic or pre-mature beats. The method continues by selecting the ECG for manual review if the plurality of selected characteristics exceed the predetermined subthreshold levels yet are below the corresponding clinically significant threshold levels of abnormality of the characteristics.
US09962092B1
A thermometer that displays written instructions that instruct a person what action to take based on a sensed temperature. The thermometer includes a temperature sensor that senses a temperature of a person and a display that provides written instructions that inform the person what action to take based on their temperature.
US09962085B2
An inductive wireless power transfer and communication system includes an electrostatic shield for one of the coils. The electrostatic shield is inductively coupled with the coil and is configured as an open circuit. A signal processing element or elements, especially a modulator or a demodulator, are connected across the electrical discontinuity in the electrostatic shield. Because the electrostatic shield is inductively coupled to the coil, the modulator or demodulator can operate on the signal on the coil.
US09962079B2
A slit lamp device for use in an ophthalmoscope includes one or more light sources for providing a light path comprised of one or more beams of: visible light and infrared (IR) light; a slit lamp control mechanism along the light path for receiving the one or more light beams and forming the one or more light beams into a slit light beam; the slit lamp control mechanism further controlling the width of the formed slit light beam; a first, narrow slit passes visible light through the slit control mechanism and a second, wider slit passes IR light though the slit control mechanism.
US09962074B2
An ophthalmic imaging device that captures an image of a test eye, the device includes: an OCT optical system configured to acquire an OCT signal by scanning a tissue of the test eye with measurement light, the ophthalmic imaging device configured to execute: receiving a designation of a wide area which is wider than a unit area which is an acquisition unit for acquiring motion contrast data indicating a motion of the tissue; acquiring a plurality of OCT signals for the same position at different timing in each of a plurality of unit areas, the plurality of unit areas being positioned in the designated wide area and being not completely overlapped with each other; and acquiring the motion contrast data of each of the plurality of unit areas by processing the plurality of OCT signals acquired for the same position.
US09962073B2
A tomographic image capturing apparatus includes a fixation lamp configured to guide a line of sight of a subject's eye, and a control unit configured to control a projection position of measuring light according to a predetermined position on a fundus of the subject's eye and a projection position of the fixation lamp.
US09962072B2
In general, certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and systems for analyzing eye and contact lens condition. According to various embodiments, a method is provided comprising receiving an image of an eye. The method further comprises extracting condition information of the eye and receiving diagnosis information from a database. The method further comprises comparing the condition information with the diagnosis information and providing an analysis of the eye. In various embodiments, the eye may include a contact lens on the surface of the eye and the condition information may include a condition of the contact lens. In some embodiments, the analysis may include an estimated suggested time to remove the contact lens. In other embodiments, the analysis may include an estimated expiration of the contact lens. In some embodiments, the database may comprise both local storage and global databases access through a global network.
US09962063B2
A dishwasher having a tub defining a treating chamber, a dish rack, and a spray assembly associated with the dish rack. The spray assembly may include at least one sprayer positioned to spray treating liquid onto dishes received by the rack. The sprayer has two openings and may be movable between a first position where the treating liquid flows through the first liquid opening into the treating chamber and does not flow through the second liquid opening and a second position where the treating liquid flows through the second liquid opening into the treating chamber. The sprayer may be rotatable between positions and may emit spray in both positions.
US09962059B2
A warewasher includes a liquid recirculation system for spraying wares with wash liquid from a collecting tank. The warewasher includes a filter arrangement for capturing food debris in a wash spray before the wash spray reaches the wares being cleaned.
US09962055B2
The present disclosure relates to a mute operation method and a mute operation apparatus for an automatic cleaning device, the mute operation method includes: receiving a mute instruction; planning a mute cleaning path according to the mute instruction; switching to a mute mode and performing a cleaning operation according to the mute cleaning path.
US09962048B2
A hand vacuum cleaner may include a suction motor and fan assembly that is positioned downstream of a pre-motor filter. A post motor filter may be positioned downstream of the suction motor and fan assembly and may be in the lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner and an energy storage member may be in an upper end of the handle.
US09962044B1
A touch screen wipe dispenser preferably includes a wipe retainer, a wipe roll and a wipe cover. The wipe retainer preferably includes a wipe cylindrical tube and a key ring hook that extends from one end of the wipe cylindrical tube. A retainer wipe slot is formed through a length of the wipe cylindrical tube. The wipe roll includes a plurality of wipe sheets. The wipe roll is inserted into the wipe cylindrical tube and also extends through the retainer wipe slot. The wipe cover includes a cover cylindrical tube and a twist cap that terminates one end of the cover cylindrical tube. A cover wipe slot is formed through a length of the cover cylindrical tube. A user extracts a wipe sheet from the screen wipe dispenser by rotating the twist cap relative to the key hook ring, such that the pull wipe feeds outward.
US09962040B2
A bath safety rail for being engaged to and disengaged from a bath surface. The bath safety rail includes a base, a handle on the base, first and second suction cups opposing the handle, cam followers on the suction cups that extend into the base, and cams in the base to engage and draw up the cam followers and suction cups to thereby create suction. The handle is two-piece where the pieces are separated by a handle plane, where each axis of each suction cup is in the handle plane.
US09962037B2
The inventive food holding apparatus comprises a holding area that accommodates food and warms the food with heat radiated by a bottom surface and with warm convection air. Part of the convection air forms an air curtain having a Bernoulli effect that removes excess moisture from the external surface of the food and maintains the food in a warm, crisp condition. The apparatus conditions food to attain a biologically safe noncooking temperature and to retain its freshly cooked texture and internal moisture for more than two hours. This lets restaurants serve the food longer to its customers, allowing efficient batch cooking and significantly decreasing food waste.
US09962035B2
A self-contained system is provided for cleaning a food flow path in a food processor. The system can be operably engaged without requiring disassembly and reassembly of the food processor or can be operably engaged after a partial disassembly of the food processor. The system includes a control assembly for directing passage of a solution through the food processor without requiring constant operator oversight. The system can employ available positive pressure water supply, such as public utility water pressure to selectively and automatically push solutions, including rinses, backwards or forwards through a food flow path in the food processor, though typically countercurrent to the normal processing food flow. A manifold assembly includes an intake manifold and a distribution manifold, with an induction port and/or access port in the distribution manifold for introducing additives or agents into a controlled motive stream passing through the manifold assembly.
US09962023B1
The ball-shaped drinking container is adapted for use in containing beverages. The ball-shaped drinking container is contained within a shell that may be formed in the shape of a sports ball potentially including, but not limited to, a football, a baseball, a basketball, or a soccer ball. The ball-shaped drinking container is formed in such a manner that the ball-shaped drinking container will float. This feature makes the ball-shaped drinking container suitable for outdoor use by an end user. The ball-shaped drinking container comprises a shell, a hinged lid, and a bladder.
US09962019B1
An extendable frame having a first frame half having a first frame first side, a first frame second side, a first frame bridge, and a first gap. Also included is a second frame half having a second frame first side, a second frame second side, a second frame bridge, and a second gap. A first handle is affixed to the first frame bridge while a second handle is affixed to the second frame bridge. A first track system extends from the first frame half toward the second frame half while a second tracking system extends from the second frame half toward the first frame half. A pinion track system is disposed between the first track system and the second track system. The first and second frame halves are movable relative to each other via the first track system, the second track system and the pinion track system.
US09962018B2
A frame apparatus for displaying a flat article and a combined frame apparatus and flat article. In one aspect, the frame apparatus comprises an annular display frame, a transparent front panel, a rear panel, and an annular spacer frame. The annular display frame comprises a rabbet defined by a floor and a wall, the wall comprising a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion. The annular spacer frame is coupled to the first and second engagement portions of the annular display frame by interaction between a first and second locking member of the annular spacer frame and the first and second engagement portions of the annular display frame. The first and second locking members extend into the first and second engagement portions and apply a compression force to retain a flat article between the transparent front panel and the rear panel.
US09962017B2
An adjustable shoe rack includes a support structure, at least one shoes plate, and at least one holding structure. The shoes plate is disposed on the support structure and is at a predetermined distance from a ground. The holding structure is disposed on a bottom face of the shoes plate and includes two clamping structures and a moving structure. The two clamping structures are parallel arranged. Each clamping structure includes a fixed clamping element and a movable clamping element wherein a clamping space is defined therebetween for receiving shoes. The two movable clamping elements are located between the two fixed clamping elements. The moving structure is located between the two movable clamping elements and is able to drive the two movable clamping elements to move toward opposite directions at the same time so as to alternate a width of the clamping space.
US09962012B1
A sleep device for newborns and infants that provides a separate but proximate sleep area near a caregiver or parent's bed and at the same level the caregiver is sleeping at for increased visibility of infant and easier access to the infant without the need for the parent to leave their own bed. The sleep device allows for more convenient access to the infant, better ability to soothe and comfort the infant thru close, yet safe contact, and easier access and egress to the adult bed. The sleep device can include a bumper that slopes downwardly in a direction from a rear bumper portion to a front bumper portion so that a rear side wall portion has a vertical height that is greater than a vertical height of a front side wall portion.
US09962010B2
The disclosure herein provides modular cover systems for protecting furniture and other objects. In an embodiment, a furniture protection system comprises a first cover portion comprising a front surface and a back surface interconnected by a top surface, the first cover portion configured to substantially cover a front, back, and top surface of a first furniture component; and a second cover portion comprising a front surface and a back surface interconnected by a top surface, the second cover portion configured to substantially cover a front, back, and top surface of a second furniture component, wherein a first edge of the first cover portion comprises a first releasable fastener for connecting the first cover portion to the second cover portion, and wherein a second edge of the second cover portion comprises a second releasable fastener configured to engage the first releasable.
US09962005B2
A bed is described having a mattress or mattress, wherein the mattress has at least two rests arranged on two sides of the mattress parallel to each other, the rests being adapted to be arranged on respective lifting mechanisms intended to bring the mattress into a position such that it can be rotated on itself by 180° about a horizontal axis. According to the invention, the rest support is formed by two extendible elements which converge to form a joint with lower ends attached to the frame at a distance, the floor or the ceiling and at whose top a support is formed for the rests.
US09962002B2
[Problem]To provide a cushion pad that allows reducing the oppressive feeling in a thigh and the sinking of buttocks and improving the texture and the fit feeling.[Solution]In a portion positioned underneath a hip point of a seated person, an under-buttock portion is set to have a smaller force S25 during compression to 25% in a second portion including a seating surface than S25 of the first portion positioned on a bottom surface side. The thigh supporting portion is set to have smaller S25 of a portion including the seating surface than S25 of the first portion. This allows reducing the oppressive feeling in the thigh and the sinking of the buttocks and improving the texture and the fit feeling.
US09961997B2
Adjustable connecting device comprised by an alignment body provided with at least one vertical adjustment channel in one of its surfaces which is capable of receiving the sliding piece for vertical adjustment; said alignment body having at least one vertical adjustment aperture in its surface, which aperture coincides with the position of the toothed rack of the sliding piece for vertical adjustment and is capable of receiving the vertical toothed adjustment pinion whose toothing corresponds to the toothing of the toothed rack; said sliding piece for vertical adjustment being provided with the corresponding slot-shaped aperture in the transverse direction and the corresponding toothed rack; wherein the adjustment device is completed by the fastening screw for fastening the decorative drawer front which secures the decorative drawer front.
US09961995B2
A backing plate for receiving a fastener to secure a horizontal support member to a vertical support member of a shelving unit. The horizontal support member is securable at any one of multiple vertical locations along the vertical support. The vertical support has a linear array of at least two evenly spaced apertures at the one of the vertical locations, and the backing plate has a corresponding linear array of at least two evenly spaced fixing points. At least one fixing point of the backing plate includes a projection for occupying a corresponding one of the apertures in the vertical support.
US09961994B2
A coffee maker stand includes a drawer for brewing cartridges and a two position latch or handle. The latch or handle has a first position locking the drawer into the stand and extending rollers under the stand allowing easy movement of the stand, and second position retracing the rollers to resist moving the stand and releasing the drawer.
US09961993B2
Furniture systems, such as desks, that can be stand-alone wall mounted, wall mounted with furniture positioned in front, or attached/mounted to furniture, and that also accommodate differing types of computers or electronics and wires in an efficient and visually appealing manner. Specifically, the furniture includes a concealment pocket which provides that cabling and associated structures can be hidden above the floor.
US09961984B2
A method, system and apparatus for delivery of custom blended dispensing custom blended personal care beauty products for a beauty service, wherein one or more components of a beauty product are stored where they may be supplied as needed to a dispenser, and where a control mechanism regulates the dosage of beauty components to provide a desired selected personal care beauty product with the characteristics selected. A selection screen display provides an image of a person and the person's hair that may be manipulated to simulate modifications that may include cut or styling and color or other effects. The selections are processed and stored and a formula is generated and communicating to a dispensing device to deliver the product components to produce the formula.
US09961981B2
In an apparatus for automatically filling a pipette according to the present invention, only a predetermined air is supplied to a pipette assembly to which a substance is discharged, even if an excessive operation force is applied by a user, so it is possible to prevent a waste of the substance being unnecessarily discharged.
US09961958B1
An insole having a top sheet and a base layer with three pieces that include a base layer, a forefoot pad and a midfoot-to-heel support cushion. The mid-foot/heel surface has a raised medial arch and longitudinal curvilinear indentations, a flattened mid-foot area with a metatarsal mid-foot tear-drop raised area, and a surrounding the heel pod that cups the exterior back by a heel cup. A heel pad opening goes through the entirety of the thickness of base layer of the insole body and a heel pad is affixed to the bottom surface of the base layer. There is also a supersoft heel dome and a metatarsal raised dome on the top (foot contact) surface of the insole which would be directly above the heel pod and the metatarsal midfoot area, respectively.
US09961954B2
An article of footwear and a method of manufacturing the article of footwear are disclosed. The footwear may include an upper and a sole structure. The upper incorporates a textile element with edges that are joined together to define at least a portion of a void for receiving a foot. The textile element may have a first area with a first knit construction and a second area with a second knit construction. Various warp or weft knitting processes, including circular knitting, may be utilized to form the textile element.
US09961952B2
A helmet for protecting a head of a wearer, such as a hockey, lacrosse, football or other sports player. The helmet may have various features to protect the wearer's head against impacts, such as linear impacts and rotational impacts. For example, pads of the helmet may be movable relative to one another in response to an impact on the helmet. The helmet may comprise a frame comprising a plurality of frame members carrying respective ones of the pads and configured to move relative to one another in response to the impact to allow relative movement of the pads.
US09961941B2
An electronic cigarette includes a capillary tube in communication with a liquid supply including liquid material and a heater operable to heat the capillary tube to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the liquid material contained therein and form an aerosol. The liquid supply is adapted to be squeezed or otherwise compressed so as to allow a smoker to manually pump liquid to the capillary tube and simultaneously activate the heater.
US09961940B2
A heater assembly for a vaporizing device, a vaporizing device containing the heater assembly, and a method for vaporizing fluid ejected by an ejection head. The heater assembly for the vaporizing device includes a vapor inlet end and a vapor outlet end, positive and negative electrodes for contact with positive and negative heater terminals on a vaporizing heater, an insulator disposed between the positive and negative electrodes, and a wick disposed between the insulator and the vaporizing heater for dispersion of liquid to be vaporized by the vaporizing heater and for back pressure control of the vaporizing device.
US09961939B2
An electronic cigarette has a vaporizer to produce vapor to be delivered to its mouth end. The vaporizer includes a tube having inlet and outlet ends. A porous matrix containing a vaporizable liquid, extends around the tube. Wicking fibers extend through side openings in the tube and are configured to wick the vaporizable liquid from the porous matrix into the tube, and electrical heater coil is powered by a battery to vaporize liquid on the wicking fibers in the tube, so that vapor is supplied along the tube end when the user draws on mouth end. The wicking diverge from the openings into fan shaped spread regions around outer surface of the tube so as to contact and receive the vaporizable liquid by capillary action from the matrix.
US09961936B2
Filter for a smoking product, the filter including a first filter segment and a second filter segment, wherein the first filter segment includes a component that is given off into a smoke stream passing through a filter outlet opening, and the second filter segment includes a sorption means that absorbs a component from a smoke stream passing through the filter inlet opening.
US09961928B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a refrigerator including a defrost chamber for defrosting food. The defrost chamber is fluidly coupled to the ambient air surrounding the refrigerator so that the chamber can be selectively returned to ambient temperature during a defrost cycle in order to defrost food. A control module can be included to activate a defrost cycle after a predetermined amount of time, or in advance of a desired meal time. The control module can automatically determine an anticipated defrost duration, given an input weight and type of stored food. Therefrom, the control module can activate the defrost cycle sufficiently in advance of the desired meal time to ensure that food has adequately defrosted for use. Further, after the defrost cycle has elapsed, cooling can be automatically reactivated in order to avoid food spoilage.
US09961920B2
Systems and methods for processing cattle ears into pet treats by high-pressure processing are provided. The cattle ears are covered with a liquid, such as water, and exposed to high hydrostatic pressures for about one minute. The high hydrostatic pressures remove hair and implants from the cattle ears while preserving the texture and consistency of the ears, which are appealing to dogs and other pets.
US09961916B2
The present invention is directed to processes for preparing oil compositions having a high concentration of poly-unsaturated fatty acids and oil compositions having a low concentration of α-linolenic acid. In addition, the present invention is directed to processes for preparing oil compositions having advantageous stability characteristics.
US09961913B2
A filtration system is arranged to safely vent a storage room into which a fog mixture is introduced. Venting the storage room reduces and/or prevents a substantial increase in the internal pressure of the storage room. To control the pressure differential between the storage room and the ambient air pressure, a venting manifold with an in-line duct fan is used, for example, to exhaust storage room air into the atmosphere. The exhausted storage room air is filtered to reduce the exfiltration of chemicals and/or other contaminants from the environmentally sealed storage room.
US09961912B2
A filtration system is arranged to safely vent a storage room into which a fog mixture is introduced. Venting the storage room reduces and/or prevents a substantial increase in the internal pressure of the storage room. To control the pressure differential between the storage room and the ambient air pressure, a venting manifold with an in-line duct fan is used, for example, to exhaust storage room air into the atmosphere. The exhausted storage room air is filtered to reduce the exfiltration of chemicals and/or other contaminants from the environmentally sealed storage room.
US09961902B2
Photothermal antibacterial material RMG is provided in the present invention, where R represents aldehyde, di-aldehyde or multi-aldehyde, M is magnetic material, and G is reduced graphene oxide. A method of synthesizing the abovementioned antibacterial material comprises of three steps. At first graphene oxide was synthesized, followed by simultaneous reduction and functionalization with MNPs and eventually an aldehyde is modified on magnetic material to yield magnetic G functionalized glutaraldehyde (RMG). We utilize the photothermal feature of graphene for antibacterial activity, in addition graphene was functionalized with aldehyde for capturing bacteria and with magnetic material to enhance a focusing of light irradiation. Moreover, the magnetic properties of material could help for reusability of antibacterial material.
US09961898B2
The combination of ethaboxam and transgenic plants provides enhanced plant protection in controlling plant disease. According to the present invention, an application of an effective amount of ethaboxam to transgenic plants applied to plant foliage parts; soil-applied in drench or soil incorporation; or applied to seed using seed slurry application, seed film coating and seed pelleting technologies for seed, gives a good controlling effect on plant diseases. Application of ethaboxam to transgenic plants encompasses all monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous crop types.
US09961881B2
A tether apparatus for connecting a dog to a bike for running with the bike. The tether comprises a continuously flexible wand with a bow-like curvature in a vertical plane and an S-curvature in a horizontal plane. The wand is attached to a bike frame at front and mid-points, and a tail end is spaced to the rear and side of the bike. The tail end includes a short vertical harness connector hanging freely from the tail end for vertical attachment to a dog's collar or harness from above. A dog is accordingly tethered under the tail end of the wand, spaced to the rear and side of the bike, with the flexible wand absorbing shock and load when the dog's position and speed differ relative to the bike.
US09961880B2
A pet toy with one or more treat holding receptacles is provided. A receptacle generally conforms to the outer surface or shape of the pet toy, and extends into the interior of the pet toy for holding a primary treat. The receptacle has a plurality of interior engaging surfaces that frictionally hold the primary treat in a desired orientation. An opening is formed through the receptacle for loading secondary treats into an interior of the pet toy. The primary treat has an exposed portion shaped and sized to provide a desired degree of difficulty for an animal to remove the primary treat from the corresponding receptacle. The portion of the primary treat in contact with the engaging surfaces of the receptacle forms a cap or closure, and when all or part of the primary treat is removed, the secondary treats may be dispensed through the opening of the receptacle.
US09961878B2
The present invention provides a device and method of using the device for pet care. The device has a housing divided into two halves that may be fastened together to form a single item such as a ball. Each of the halves having an interior side, an exterior side and a circumferential edge that contains the locking means to removably fasten the halves together. One half of the device having a refillable liquid cavity with cap for holding liquid, a reusable sponge, massaging bristles extending through and beyond the reusable sponge on the interior side, and a liquid dispensing mechanism with one or more apertures for releasing the fluid into the reusable sponge. The other half is hollow and has a grooming surface and vents to allow the reusable sponge to dry when the device is fastened together. Methods of using the device are also provided.
US09961872B2
The present invention relates to a Spinacia oleracea seed designated 51-150 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including very fast growing, an erect plant habit, smooth mature leaves, medium blade size and resistance to downy mildew (P. farinosa f. sp. spinaciae) races Pfs1 to Pfs15. The present invention also relates to a Spinacia oleracea plant produced by growing the 51-150 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the spinach cultivar, represented by spinach variety 51-150 RZ.
US09961871B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PMTZ70 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PMTZ70, cells from soybean variety 5PMTZ70, plants of soybean 5PMTZ70, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PMTZ70. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PMTZ70 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PMTZ70, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PMTZ70, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PMTZ70. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PMTZ70 are further provided.
US09961870B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PALC58 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PALC58, cells from soybean variety 5PALC58, plants of soybean 5PALC58, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PALC58. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PALC58 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PALC58, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PALC58, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PALC58. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PALC58 are further provided.
US09961869B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PACK85 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PACK85, cells from soybean variety 5PACK85, plants of soybean 5PACK85, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PACK85. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PACK85 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PACK85, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PACK85, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PACK85. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PACK85 are further provided.
US09961865B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1563225 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1563225 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1563225 in a breeding program.
US09961864B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1561726 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1561726 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1561726 in a breeding program.
US09961861B1
A soybean cultivar designated 54190212 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 54190212, to the plants of soybean cultivar 54190212, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 54190212, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 54190212. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 54190212. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 54190212, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 54190212 with another soybean cultivar.
US09961858B1
A soybean cultivar designated 54062650 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 54062650, to the plants of soybean cultivar 54062650, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 54062650, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 54062650. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 54062650. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 54062650, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 54062650 with another soybean cultivar.
US09961857B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety AR1310229 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety AR1310229 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using AR1310229 in a breeding program.
US09961855B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1463523 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1463523 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1463523 in a breeding program.
US09961839B2
A vegetation cutting device having a housing and a motor mounted in the housing to drive a drive gear. A rotatable eccentric cam mounted on the drive gear. A reciprocating blade assembly having a first blade and a second blade, wherein the first blade is coupled to the rotatable eccentric cam and is arranged to reciprocally move when driven by the rotatable eccentric cam. A cam adjustment mechanism for varying the eccentricity of the rotatable eccentric cam with respect to the drive gear to thereby vary the distance through which the first blade moves.
US09961837B2
An agricultural baler including a main bale chamber, a plunger configured to compress crop material in the bale chamber, a plunger drive, and a plurality of needles. The plunger drive is drivingly coupled to the plunger. The plurality of needles are configured to deliver twine through the bale chamber. The agricultural baler further includes a pivoting latch system drivingly coupled to both the plunger drive and the needles. A knotter is activated by the needles moving to a predetermined position.
US09961833B2
A harvesting system has a harvester that harvests a crop in a crop field. A position component senses a position of the harvester and provides an indication of the sensed position. A crop parameter sensor senses a crop parameter and provides an indication of the sensed crop parameter. A crop gap determination component determines determine a crop gap location, based on the indication of the sensed position and the indication of the sensed crop parameter.
US09961832B2
A method and control system are disclosed for orientating base cutters of a sugarcane harvester. A sugarcane harvester may include a crop divider, a rear base cutter, and a front base cutter. An indicator of a position of the crop divider may be determined. A target orientation of the front base cutter may be determined based upon the position indicator. The front base cutter may be adjusted with respect to a chassis of the harvester, in order to place the front base cutter in the target orientation. If adjusting the front base cutter includes moving the front base cutter beyond a predetermined range of motion, the rear base cutter may be adjusted with respect to the ground.
US09961830B2
Modifications to row unit that result in a greatly reduced loss of kernels due to chatter include substituting stripper plates that have rails upwardly projecting guard rails at the edges of the stripper plates that define their working gap to thereby inhibit escape of loose kernels. Further, the ear transport paddles are modified so as to reduce shelling due to chatter and to move loose kernels collected on the stripper plates to the machine's auger so that these loose kernels become part of the yield. Specifically, a cushioning device is attached to each of the paddles and the paddles further support brushes or scrapers that sweep loose kernels into the auger.
US09961827B2
A continuous dry particulate matter injection device (1), and more in particular a device for use in a fertigation application in which a soluble matter, such as a fertilizer, is suspended and/or dissolved into the irrigation water in order to use the irrigation system and irrigation water as a delivery system for the soluble matter, in particular a soluble fertilizer. To this end, the device includes at least one feed device (2), suitable for feeding particulate matter, and connected, by a first connection pipe (3), to the top of a vertically positioned slurry mixing chamber (5), located under the first connection pipe (3), and a pressurized mixing tank (12), connected to the bottom of the slurry mixing chamber (5) by a second connection pipe (8). The device is operated in a continuous cycle.
US09961822B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for shifting weight between a tractor and toolbar and between sections of the toolbar, for controlling operative height of a toolbar and sections of a toolbar and for folding a toolbar between a work position and a transport position. A ground engaging wheel and an actuator are coupled to the toolbar. In one embodiment, a fluid control system is responsive to a command signal to modify the actuator pressure such that the actuator pressure corresponds to a desired pressure.
US09968020B2
Provided is a flip chip mounting apparatus for mounting chips (400) to a substrate (200), and the apparatus includes at least one sectionalized mounting stage (45) divided into a heating section (452) and a non-heating section (456), the heating section being for heating a substrate (200) fixed to a front surface of the heating section, the non-heating section not heating the substrate (200) suctioned to a front surface of the non-heating section. With this, it is possible to provide an electronic-component mounting apparatus that is simple and capable of efficiently mounting a large number of electronic components.
US09968019B2
A component feeding device transports a tape (a component feeding tape) in which electronic components are stored with some transportation device, and exposes the components. Transportation of the component feeding tape may be performed by fitting a sprocket with a feed hole of the component feeding tape. It has been found that sprocket does not necessarily fit with the feed hole of the component feeding tape. It has been found that this phenomenon takes place in a case of driving at least two or more sprockets with a driving device. When the sprocket does not fit with the feed hole, transportation of the tape is not correctly performed, but exerts an undesirable influence such as reduction of mounting efficiency on feeding of the components and subsequent mounting of the components. One feature resides in rendering a backlash of an upstream-side sprocket larger than a backlash of a downstream-side sprocket.
US09968016B2
A magnetic field shield having a plurality of tunable resonant loops arranged on a planar support medium. The resonant loops are loaded with a lumped component such as a capacitor or variable capacitor and produce magnetic null points. The location of the magnetic null points may be moved three dimensionally about the planar support medium.
US09968015B2
Device cases with selectable RF shielding are described. Some implementations can include a case for an electronic device. The case can include selectable radio frequency (RF) shielding, such as a Faraday cage. The shielding can be selectable via a mechanically activated switch (e.g., slidable or rotatable), or an electrically activated switch.
US09967986B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor package may be formed having a first side and a second side that is substantially opposite to the first side. An embodiment may include forming an attachment clip extending substantially laterally between the first and second sides wherein the attachment clip is positioned near a distal end of the first and second sides. An embodiment may also include forming the attachment clip to have a flexible main portion that can bend away from a plane of the main portion toward a bottom side of the semiconductor package.
US09967985B2
A display device includes a backplate and a supporting member. The backplate has a positioning hole formed thereon. The positioning hole includes a first area and a second area arranged along a first direction; an average width of the second area in a direction perpendicular to the first direction is smaller than an average width of the first area in the direction perpendicular to the first direction. The supporting member includes a base, a positioning shaft and an engaging protrusion disposed on a bottom face of the base, wherein the positioning shaft includes an axle and a flange portion connected to an end of the axle. The flange portion passes through the first area so that the axle extends into the positioning hole; when the axle moves along the first direction to the second area, the flange portion interferes with a periphery of the second area, the engaging protrusion contacts against an inner wall of the first area to prevent the axle from moving back to the first area.
US09967981B2
Provided is a light source unit including a base unit formed on a front surface thereof with a first circuit pattern by irradiating laser light to a resin molded article, and a light emitting element mounted on the base unit and electrically connected to the first circuit pattern. The base unit includes a mounting surface portion directed in a prescribed direction such that the light emitting element is mounted thereon, and a sidewall surface portion connected to the mounting surface portion in a plane intersection state, and the sidewall surface portion is formed as an inclined surface intersecting with the mounting surface portion at an obtuse angle.
US09967976B2
A substrate for a printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film having an insulating property, and a conductive layer formed on at least one of surfaces of the base film. In the substrate for a printed circuit board, at least the conductive layer contains titanium in a dispersed manner. The conductive layer preferably contains copper or a copper alloy as a main component. A mass ratio of titanium in the conductive layer is preferably 10 ppm or more and 1,000 ppm or less. The conductive layer is preferably formed by application and heating of a conductive ink containing metal particles. The conductive ink preferably contains titanium or a titanium ion. The metal particles are preferably obtained by a titanium redox process including reducing metal ions using trivalent titanium ions as a reducing agent in an aqueous solution by an action of the reducing agent.
US09967974B2
The present invention relates to a composition for forming a conductive pattern, which is able to form a fine conductive pattern onto a variety of polymer resin products or resin layers by a very simple process, a method for forming the conductive pattern using the same, and a resin structure having the conductive pattern. The composition for forming the conductive pattern, including a polymer resin; and a non-conductive metal compound containing a first metal and a second metal, in which the non-conductive metal compound has a three-dimensional structure containing a plurality of first layers that contains at least one metal of the first and second metals and has edge-shared octahedrons two-dimensionally connected to each other and a second layer that contains a metal different from that of the first layer and is arranged between the neighboring first layers; and a metal core containing the first or second metal or an ion thereof is formed from the non-conductive metal compound by electromagnetic irradiation.
US09967968B2
A 3D Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) suppression structure and an electronic device having the same, wherein a coplanar waveguide structure, an isolation layer, and a resonance layer may be installed. Furthermore, under the coplanar waveguide structure, the 3D EMI structure may be installed to connect to a conductor part of the resonance layer through a conductive connection part of the isolation layer, thereby further improving the EMI suppression effect and producing an excellent EMI suppression effect.
US09967966B2
A method for determining the temperature of a heat source and an electronic unit, including a printed-circuit board equipped with a sensor and a heat sink, the sensor being connected to the heat sink in a heat-conducting manner.
US09967962B2
A signal relay device comprises a first connection I/F, to which an emission switch is connected, a second connection I/F, to which an emission signal I/F of an electronic cassette is connected, and a third connection I/F, to which a switch I/F of a source control device is connected, and a signal processing unit. The signal processing unit generates an emission execution signal during a time period in which an emission command signal from the emission switch and an emission enable signal from the electronic cassette are inputted. The source control device drives an X-ray tube to allow X-ray emission while the emission execution signal is inputted.
US09967961B2
A system for providing a simulated spatial live viewing of an object includes a cathode arrangement configured to generate an electron beam towards a target area of an anode, and a processor configured to control the electron beam to hit the anode at a moving focal spot that moves at least in a first moving direction transverse to a viewing direction. Thus, X-ray radiation is generated by the electron beam impinging on the moving focal spot. Further, the system includes a detector configured to detect X-ray radiation at least partially passing an object and to generate respective X-ray detection signals. The processor is further configured to generate monoscopic 2D images based on the detection signals, where the monoscopic 2D images relate to different view-points as defined by the moving focal spot. A display is configured to display the monoscopic 2D images are from the different view-points.
US09967960B2
A lighting device having an AC/DC or DC/DC power converter, a controller/processor electrically connected to the power converter, a LED current control circuit communicably coupled to the controller/processor and electrically connected to the power converter, and two or more LEDs communicably coupled to the LED current control circuit. The controller/processor determines a first and second number of counts for the LEDs to be ON to produce a blended light having a specified color, and generates control signal(s) based on the first and second number of counts. The LED current control circuit generates a first and second on/off signals having an on/off cycle time and first and second ON times corresponding to the first and second number of counts for the LEDs in response to the one or more control signals. The LEDs produce the blended light having the specified color in response to the first and second on/off signals.
US09967957B2
A lighting system is disclosed which provides dynamic lighting control of each light on a rail lighting system. The lighting system is able to change settings of each light within a track lighting or rail lighting system based on motion, user preferences, lighting conditions, or security parameters. Light intensity and color can be set and scheduled based on user control and programming. Optical sensors may also be used to provide control input for the track lighting or rail lighting.
US09967956B2
A lighting control system and method is provided. A first electronic device for lighting control detects wirelessly one or more available network messages corresponding to one or more other electronic devices within wireless range of the first electronic device. The first electronic device connects wirelessly to a next electronic device of the one or more other electronic devices. The first electronic device sends a first device ID wirelessly to the next electronic device. The connection to the next electronic device is maintained if a registering handshake message is received via the next electronic device. The first electronic device disconnects from the next electronic device if the registering handshake message is not received within a predetermined timeout amount of time.
US09967952B2
The invention relates to a method for managing light settings of a luminaire communicatively connected to a local coordinator. The method, performed by the luminaire, includes steps of providing to the local coordinator a control state of the luminaire (e.g. occupancy status), receiving from the local coordinator a power reduction factor for the luminaire, the factor being based on the control state of the luminaire and on control states provided to the local coordinator by one or more additional luminaires, determining new illuminance settings for the luminaire by applying the received factor to current illuminance settings, measuring luminance within a sensing region of a light sensor of the luminaire while one or more light sources of the luminaire emit light according to one or more operating parameters, and, based on the measured luminance, adjusting the operating parameters to achieve the new illuminance settings.
US09967942B1
A light emitting diode driving system includes an infrared ray burning device and a light emitting diode driving device. The light emitting diode driving device includes an infrared ray receiving unit, a signal transforming unit, a storage unit, a pulse width modulating unit and a diode driving unit. The infrared ray receiving unit receives a burning signal transmitted by the infrared ray burning device; the signal transforming unit transforms the burning signal into a current control command and transmits it to the storage unit. The signal transforming unit generates a current control signal in accordance with the current control command in the storage unit. The pulse width modulating unit generates a pulse width modulation output current control signal according to the current control signal. The diode driving unit drives the light emitting diode by the pulse width modulation output current control signal.
US09967933B2
Apparatus and methods to regulate an input power applied to a plurality of light emitters are provided. A regulator device includes a plurality of switches and a control circuit that controls the plurality of switches. The plurality of switches selectively couple respective strings of the light emitters in series to the input power to emit light when deactivated. The control circuit may deactivate a number of the switches to couple the respective light emitters to the input power in response to a sensed operational parameter of the input power. The control circuit may adjust the number of the switches deactivated in response to a change in the sensed operational parameter of the input power. A number of the light emitters may be coupled to the input power regardless of the sensed operational parameter of the input power.
US09967926B2
There is provided a display device including a light-emitting element body part, a low refractive index layer part which is provided over a light output surface of the light-emitting element body part and has a first refractive index, and a packaging member which is provided to seal the light-emitting element body part and the low refractive index layer part inside the packaging member, has a planar light output surface, and has a second refractive index which is greater than the first refractive index.
US09967924B2
A system for heating a consumable product includes a package and a heating apparatus. The package includes a container body including a cavity at least partially bounded by a side wall and one or more inductively heatable elements disposed within the cavity. The side wall includes a non-inductively heatable portion. The cavity is configured to contain the consumable product. The heating apparatus includes: a housing, which defines a package-receiving cavity configured to position the package in an operative position; one or more induction coils disposed within the housing, a controller; and one or more temperature sensing devices disposed in proximity to the non-inductively heatable portion of the side wall when the package is in the operative position. The controller is configured to control one or more operating parameters of the heating apparatus based at least partially on one or more signals received from the one or more temperature sensing devices.
US09967923B2
A cooker, a method for controlling power of a cooker, and a power control system including the same are provided. A high power cooking device can be used without making an additional power construction work or causing a power circuit breaker installed in an input terminal of a household power source to be opened. Driving power of a burner is controlled or distributed by using a current flowing in a power circuit breaker or an overcurrent breaker installed in a load end, whereby power operation efficiency of an input power source can be enhanced and the input power source cannot be broken.
US09967921B2
In order to provide a heating body where the occurrence of excessive surface temperatures in certain spots or also in large areas is avoided, a heating body is suggested wherein the heat source and the body element are connected with each other by lamellae arranged between them.
US09967914B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device that control signals for a plurality of terminals possessed by the same user. More particularly, a method of controlling signals for a plurality of terminals using a mobility management entity (MME) according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized by including the steps of: setting terminals with the same subscriber codes and the same mobility as grouping terminals; and transmitting group signals on the grouping terminals to a base station. According to the present invention, the following advantages are realized: of enabling the prevention of waste in having to report mobility-related information on each terminal and being able to simultaneously transmit grouping or other signals to all terminals that are in a group in a network.
US09967907B2
A communication control method is applied to a mobile communication system that includes a base station, a user terminal configured to establish a connection with the base station, and a network including the base station and a network device configured to be an upper device of the base station, and that supports D2D communication that is direct device-to-device communication. The communication control method comprises: a step of acquiring, by the network, a load level of the base station; and a step of determining, by the network, whether to permit the D2D communication of the user terminal on a basis of the load level.
US09967905B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and a device for cancelling a device trigger. The method for cancelling a device trigger in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving a cancellation request for a first trigger message in a network node; and transmitting a second trigger message to the terminal if the first trigger message has been transmitted to the terminal and the cancellation request indicates a replacement request. The second trigger message can include information which indicates that the cancellation of the first trigger message has been requested.
US09967904B2
The present document presents a method and device for transmitting and receiving a signal by using direct communication (D2D communication) between terminals by using a pseudo-RACH procedure in a wireless communication system. A transmission terminal performing the method randomly selects one of a certain number of D2D communication signatures to transmit a first message through a resource randomly selected from among predetermined time-frequency resources to a base station, and receives a second message including control information for a D2D broadcast or groupcast signal transmission from the base station, wherein the transmission terminal uses control information received through the second message to transmit a third message including a groupcast signal or the D2D broadcast to one or more reception terminals.
US09967902B2
A user equipment (UE) for transmitting signals in a Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) serving cell is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions stored in the memory are executable to receive an uplink (UL) grant from a downlink control information. The instructions are also executable to determine a UL contention access region based on the UL grant. The instructions are further executable to determine clear channel assessment (CCA) timeslots in the UL contention access region. The instructions are additionally executable to perform UL contention access in the UL contention access region with a backoff process.
US09967898B2
An inter-UE priority scheduling method is disclosed, where the method includes: generating an enhanced buffer status report BSR according to buffered data information of multiple benefitted user equipments B-UEs, and reporting the enhanced BSR to a base station eNB, where the enhanced BSR carries buffer data status information of the multiple B-UEs, so that the eNB determines, according to the buffer data status information, priorities of performing data transmission on the multiple B-UEs; receiving uplink scheduling information delivered by the eNB, where the uplink scheduling information carries the priorities of performing data transmission on the multiple B-UEs; and encapsulating some or all of currently buffered data of the multiple B-UEs into one MAC PDU according to the priorities of performing data transmission on the multiple B-UEs, and transmitting the MAC PDU to the eNB.
US09967890B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus determines a subset of subchannels for a first cell, the subset of subchannels configured to reduce interference to at least a second UE in a second cell, determines whether a first UE in the first cell is interfering with a second UE in a second cell, and allocates at least one subchannel to the first UE from the subset of subchannels when the first UE in the first cell is interfering with the second UE in the second cell.
US09967881B1
Disclosed is a method and system to facilitate management of resources in a scenario where a base station has an established radio-link-layer connection for serving a device on multiple component carriers. Rather than providing all bearer data transmission to the device by rote on the multiple component carriers, the base station dynamically decides per data whether to transmit the data to the device on the multiple component carriers or rather on just one of the component carriers. For instance, when the base station receives data for transmission over the radio-link-layer connection to the device, the base station determines based on at least one characteristic of the data whether to transmit the data to the UE on the multiple component carriers or rather on just one of the component carriers, and the base station then schedules and engages in the transmission in accordance with that determination.
US09967877B2
A frame exchange in a High Efficiency WLAN (HEW) includes a method for exchanging frames implemented by an access point in a wireless local area network. The method further includes transmitting to one or more stations (STAs) a first frame eliciting a second frame from the one or more STAs in a downlink (DL) Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU), wherein the DL PPDU carrying the first frame includes information indicating a type of a PPDU carrying the second frame from PPDU types including a Single User (SU) PPDU and a Multiple User (MU) PPDU; and receiving from the one or more STAs the second frame in an uplink (UL) PPDU having a type determined based on the information indicating the type of the PPDU.
US09967863B2
A user equipment (UE) is described that includes a processor. The UE is configured with a secondary cell group (SCG). The UE is also configured with a licensed-assisted access (LAA) serving cell as a primary secondary cell (pSCell) of the SCG. The UE receives a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on at least one LAA serving cell in the SCG. The UE determines a channel to carry uplink control information (UCI), the channel being on any one of the serving cell(s) in the SCG. The UE also determines transmission timing of the channel based on reception timing of the PDSCH. The UE further determines one or more PDSCHs of which HARQ-ACK bits are included in the UCI, the one or more PDSCHs including the PDSCH. The UE additionally determines content of the HARQ-ACK bits. The UE also performs a channel access procedure for the transmission of the channel.
US09967856B2
A method of determining a location of a mobile device includes: detecting, at the mobile device, at least one Radio Frequency transmitter; receiving information associated with a number of Radio Frequency transmitters located within a geographical area, the number of Radio Frequency transmitters being a subset of all Radio Frequency transmitters located within the geographical area, the information being decodable to provide global locations and identifiers of the number of Radio Frequency transmitters; comparing an identifier associated with the at least one detected Radio Frequency transmitter with the global locations and identifiers of the number of Radio Frequency transmitters; and determining the location of the mobile device within the geographical area; wherein the information is received in a reduced format.
US09967851B2
A method at a user equipment including a mobile equipment and a smartcard, the method receiving from a remote server a plurality of subscriber identities and a roaming policy; storing the plurality of subscriber identities and roaming policy on the smartcard; selecting, based on the roaming policy, a subscriber identity; and attaching to a network based on the selected subscriber identity.
US09967847B2
Embodiments are provided for syncing multiple electronic devices for collective audio playback. According to certain aspects, a master device connects (218) to a slave device via a wireless connection. The master device calculates (224) a network latency via a series of network latency pings with the slave device and sends (225) the network latency to the slave device. Further, the master devices sends (232) a portion of an audio file as well as a timing instruction including a system time to the slave device. The master device initiates (234) playback of the portion of the audio file and the slave devices initiates (236) playback of the portion of the audio file according to the timing instruction and a calculated system clock offset value.
US09967846B2
Provided through the present application are a method and an apparatus for use in a radio communication system, which supports carrier aggregation and carries out communication in subframe units. More specifically, user equipment operating in a first type carrier for receiving from a base station, a first piece of control information, which is related to the first type carrier and a second type carrier that support the carrier aggregation, can measure a radio signal to carry out radio resource management with respect to the first type carrier by using a first reference signal, which is included in the first type carrier, and/or a second reference signal, which is included in the second type carrier.
US09967837B2
There is provided a communication control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire synchronization relation information indicating which frequency bands are mutually synchronized among a plurality of frequency bands used for radio communication, and a control unit configured to control transmission of the synchronization relation information to a terminal device. The plurality of frequency bands include one or more frequency bands with which a common reference signal is not transmitted in at least one subframe among subframes which are units of time in the radio communication.
US09967834B2
A method receiving a control message at an apparatus of a base station of a first smaller cell, said control message being provided by a control apparatus of a second larger cell, said first cell at least partially overlying said second cell, said control message being provided dependent on a speed of at least one user equipment; and causing, in response to said control message, said base station of said first cell to be in a first power and/or interference mode.
US09967833B2
Adaption of a Basic Service Set (BSS) Basic Rate Set for a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Access Point (AP) may be achieved by, for example, determining a transmission power metric for one or more Subscriber Stations (STAs) associated with the AP, modifying one or more data rates in the BSS Basic Rate Set for the AP based on the transmission power metric, and transmitting the modified BSS Basic Rate Set to the one or more STAs.
US09967831B2
A terminal apparatus communicates with a base station apparatus by using a plurality of cells including at least a primary cell and a secondary cell. The terminal apparatus decodes a PDCCH with downlink control information format in which at least a transmission power control command field is included, transmits a PUCCH on the primary cell, and determines transmission power of the PUCCH on the primary cell based on at least a PUCCH power control adjustment parameter. The PUCCH power control adjustment parameter is calculated by accumulating at least a value indicated by the transmission power control command field, and in a case where the terminal apparatus receives a random access response message for the primary cell, the transmission power control circuitry is configured to and/or programmed to reset the PUCCH power control adjustment parameter.
US09967825B2
The present disclosure relates to mobile computing devices and, more particularly, to environmentally aware mobile computing devices and methods of use. The method is implemented in a computer infrastructure which has computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to: place a mobile computing device into a power savings mode when a environmental condition is below a sensor threshold value for a predetermined time period; and place the mobile computing device into a powered up state when the environmental condition exceeds the sensor threshold value.
US09967824B2
Provided are a mobile terminal management method, a mobile terminal management system, and a mobile terminal. Said mobile terminal management method comprises: acquiring a desired endurance time length; predicting an endurance time length according to a current power consumption rate and a current state of charge of a battery; judging whether a power consumption rate needs to be reduced according to the desired endurance time length and the predicted endurance time length; when it is judged that the power consumption rate needs to be reduced, determining a power consumption reducing scheme according to the desired endurance time length and the predicted endurance time length; and managing a mobile terminal according to the determined power consumption reducing scheme. In this disclosure, the user can set a desired endurance time length; using requirements of the user on the mobile terminal are satisfied as much as possible while saving power.
US09967818B2
A method and a system that uses standard cell-phone sensors to provide accurate and energy-efficient outdoor localization suitable for mobile navigation design. System and method employs a dead-reckoning localization approach and leverages these road landmarks, among others such as virtual landmarks, to reset the accumulated error and achieve accurate localization. For consuming low energy the system and method uses only energy-efficient sensors or sensors that are already running for other purposes. We present the design of System and method of leveraging crowd-sourcing to automatically learn virtual landmarks and their locations. Tests of the system and method on android devices in both city and highway driving show the accuracy of results for local cell phones to within 8.4 m median error in city roads and 16.6 m on highways. Moreover, compared to GPS and other systems, the battery lifetime was extended by 347%, achieving even better localization results than GPS.
US09967803B2
Methods and apparatus relating to use of actual and/or virtual beacons are described. Virtual beacons are virtual in that an actual beacon need not be transmitted but a rather a virtual beacon transmitter at a desired location may be considered to transmit virtual beacons. Beacon transmitter information indicates transmission power and location of actual and virtual beacon transmitters as well as information to be communicated by virtual beacons and is dynamically updated based on device movement, a schedule and/or the locations of devices in a group. Virtual personal beacons, virtual group beacons and virtual scheduled beacons are supported. A virtual personal beacon transmitter location is updated as the location of a device corresponding to the person moves. Reception of a virtual beacon is reported in a message sent to a wireless terminal or a component of the wireless terminal which acts upon receiving an indication of beacon reception.
US09967793B2
The embodiments set forth techniques for avoiding network connectivity stalls at a mobile computing device. In an idle state, a performance analyzer executing on the mobile computing device is configured to passively analyze high-level network connectivity information to detect any minor issues with the network connectivity being provided by a primary interface (e.g., WiFi). When minor issues are detected, the mobile computing device transitions into an alerted state, where high emphasis is placed on using the WiFi interface and low emphasis is placed on using a secondary interface (e.g., Cellular). In the alerted state, the mobile computing device actively analyzes low-level connectivity information to detect any major issues with the WiFi interface. When major issues are detected, the mobile computing device transitions into a fallback state, where high emphasis is placed on using the Cellular interface and low emphasis is placed on using the WiFi interface.
US09967790B2
Provided is a method and device for moving a User Equipment (UE). The method includes that: a Radio Network Controller (RNC) receives a first message; according to a decision rule, the RNC decides whether a target RNC Cluster corresponding to the first message is the RNC Cluster where the RNC is located, wherein the RNC Cluster is composed of one or more RNCs; if the decision result is yes, the RNC sends a second message to perform internal processing of the RNC Cluster; or, if the decision result is no, the RNC sends the second message to the target RNC Cluster. The disclosure can avoid call drop when the UE moves between the RNCs, thereby guaranteeing the continuous reception of a service.
US09967787B2
An apparatus for enabling transfer of mobile terminal inter-RAT capabilities in a multi-RAT environment from the perspective of the capability provider may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving an indication of a request for mobile terminal inter-RAT capability information relative to a particular RAT, acquiring the inter-RAT capability information in response to receipt of the indication of the request for inter-RAT capability information, and providing the inter-RAT capability information to a target base station.
US09967779B2
A method and a network node for obtaining a required latency for transmissions between a wireless device and a controller node are disclosed. The network node receives at least one parameter relating to a context of at least one of the wireless device and the controller node. The parameter is detectable by a set of sensor modules. The network node determines, based on the parameter, the required latency for the transmissions. The context comprises one or more of: a surrounding of the at least one of the wireless device and the controller node; an operational ability of the at least one of the wireless device and the controller node; and a sensitivity of operation of the at least one of the wireless device and the controller node. The surrounding, operational ability and/or the sensitivity is/are detectable by at least one sensor module of the set of sensor modules.
US09967772B1
Receiving devices and methods for suppressing interference from a data signal received at a receiving device are provided. The receiving device has m receive antennas. A training signal set transmitted from a first transmitting device is received at the receiving device. The training signal set includes (i) data for each transmit antenna of n transmit antennas included on the first transmitting device and (ii) information sufficient to determine a channel estimate corresponding to a communication channel between the first transmitting device and the receiving device. The channel estimate is determined based on the training signal set. The channel estimate includes an m-by-n description of the communication channel. The data signal received at the receiving device is filtered based on the channel estimate to suppress the interference in the data signal. The data signal is transmitted from a second transmitting device different from the first transmitting device.
US09967763B2
There are provided measures for evaluation of throughput of carrier aggregated user equipments. Such measures exemplarily include determining, per communication endpoint implementing carrier aggregation aggregating one primary connection and at least one secondary connection, a transmission volume with at least one activated secondary connection, determining, per communication endpoint implementing carrier aggregation aggregating one primary connection and at least one secondary connection, a time with transmission data in a transmission buffer and at least one activated secondary connection, and obtaining, per communication endpoint, a transmission throughput with at least one activated secondary connection, based on said transmission volume and said time.
US09967762B2
A system and method for evaluating the interactivity of RF devices in a virtual RF environment having selective virtual spectrum users remotely controlled by a web browser, where the virtual spectrum users have selectable interactivity parameters, and the virtual RF spectrum can be selectively changed, and the performance of the virtual spectrum users is evaluated and assigned scores as a function of the evaluation to determine which virtual spectrum user receives the highest amount of points.
US09967759B2
Information handling system maintenance is aided by sending maintenance codes with a management processor of the information handling system to a mobile telephone with a NFC communication. The maintenance code and an identifier of the information handling system are provided to an administrative station to confirm that the proper maintenance is taking place at the proper system before the maintenance is authorized.
US09967752B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for wireless communications, in which transmission of common information to two or more receivers over unlicensed spectrum may be provided. The common information may be transmitted over a number (e.g., a set) of different carrier frequencies of the unlicensed spectrum. A staggering pattern may be employed to transmit all or a part of the common information across each of the carrier frequencies in the set of carrier frequencies. The detection of the information on one of the carrier frequencies may provide information that may be used to derive the staggering pattern. The duration of the common information transmission on each of the carrier frequencies may be selected such that a clear channel assessment (CCA) to determine availability of the unlicensed spectrum is not required.
US09967748B2
A method includes receiving a token at a first device via a second device. The token is received by the second device from a computing system responsive to a request for access to a first wireless network secured with a network encryption key. The request is sent from the second device via a second wireless network. The computing system generates and sends the token to the second device and to a registration device in response to a determination that a user account associated with the second device permits access to the first wireless network. The method includes sending, from the first device to the registration device via the first wireless network, a hash value based on the token. Responsive to the hash value matching a second hash value generated by the registration device, the method includes receiving configuration data to enable the first device to access the first wireless network.
US09967735B2
Within a mobile station data message, the mobile transceiver reads an observed country code of a visited wireless network to determine a country of operation of the mobile transceiver. The mobile transceiver determines if the observed country code is equal to a stored country code in a subscriber identity module of the mobile transceiver. If the observed country code differs from the stored country code, the mobile transceiver transmits an inquiry data message to a central server via the wireless network to inquire as to whether or not the mobile transceiver is authorized to operate within the observed country. In response to the inquiry, the mobile transceiver may receive mobile profile data related to wireless access or authorized features of the mobile transceiver.
US09967731B2
Embodiments relate to a User Equipment (UE) device and associated method performing improved data roaming with reduced cost. The UE may comprise at least one radio, one or more processors, a first SIM entity and a second SIM entity. The first SIM entity may be configured to implement subscriber identity module (SIM) functionality for a subscribed voice and/or data plan of a first carrier. The second SIM entity may be configured to facilitate dynamic subscription to a local data plan of a second carrier when the UE is data roaming outside of a network of the first carrier. As one example, the UE, using the second SIM entity, may be configured to dynamically subscribe to a pay-as-you-go data plan of a second carrier, to which the user is not subscribed, when the user is data roaming outside of the first carrier's network. This dynamic subscribing may operate to reduce cost to the user, since the local data plan of the second carrier likely has less expensive data rates than those available during normal data roaming.
US09967725B2
A mobile application including a computer program designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices and allow the user to be directly connected to 911 with exact location information. In use, the user would download an application and be prompted to set-up locations where they are most commonly located. In an emergency, the user would select the “call 911” button, which would pop up the pre-programmed locations. The user would select their location and then the address/phone number information would be transmitted to 911. A button for non-programmed locations would be tied to a GPS system and give a general location of the user. Every 30 days the user would be asked to confirm their pre-programmed locations.
US09967720B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal for transmitting and receiving messages and a control method thereof. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a display unit configured to display at least one message transmitted to and received from at least one user terminal and receive a touch input for selecting one of the at least one message; a controller configured to control the display unit that displays icons corresponding to the at least one user terminal, respectively, to distinguish whether or not the selected message has been checked for each of the at least one user terminal; and a wireless communication unit configured to transmit a check request message of the selected message to a user terminal corresponding to the selected one of the displayed icons.
US09967714B2
Systems and methods including computing patterns of visitation to predefined regions by converting coordinates of mobile devices to cell identifiers and searching a database to find matches between cell identifiers representing regions and the cell identifiers of the device locations. Devices having similar visitation patterns are divided into two groups, based on status data of whether or not information about a region has been transmitted to respective users. The visitation patterns after the transmission are compared by a system between the two groups to measure a difference. Identifiers of devices, users, or households are initially provided to the system without the status data to obtain attributes associated individually with the identifiers. In return, the system is provided with the status data associated with the attributes individually for the devices, users, or households but without sufficient information to map the status data individually to the identifiers of the devices, users, or households.
US09967709B2
A logical mapping of a plurality of access points is automatically generated. Each of the plurality of access points is plotted on a logical map. Lengths of connection lines between access points pairs are determined for each of the plurality of access points on the logical map. Connection lines are oriented in combination with adjustments to the plotted access points on the logical map to run connection lines between each of the access point pairs. Some of the access points are part of more than one access point pair as represented by more than one connection line connected to the at least one access point.
US09967696B2
A system for monitoring the characteristics of a material by measuring electrical properties of a material uses a material monitoring device and a cloud database that relates electrical properties of a material to characteristics of that material. The aging and fermentation processes of wine and other alcohols can be monitored. The status and decomposition of foodstuffs can be monitored. The progress of chemical reactions in a vessel can be monitored. Water quality of water from a water conduit can be monitored. These characteristics can be indicated on a product monitoring device or can be communicated to an external computing device.
US09967689B1
An example playback device may identify a first version of audio content for play back from a first source, and further identify a first value of an audio characteristic of the first version of the audio content, where the playback device includes a capability corresponding to the audio characteristic. The playback device may determine that the first value of the audio characteristic of the first version of the audio content does not match the capability of the playback device. The playback device may then identify a second version of the audio content from a second source, where the second version of the audio content includes the audio characteristic having a second value that is closer to the capability of the playback device. The playback device may then cause playback of the second version of the audio content.
US09967687B2
To maintain favorable sound reproduction. In a car audio apparatus 6 which includes an inter-equipment communication unit 51 configured to perform communication according to each of a plurality of sound communication protocols Pv for transmitting a sound signal A3 of audio, and a reproduction processing unit 52 configured to reproduce the sound signal A3 received through the communication, and which receives the sound signal A3 from a smartphone 8 through communication according to any of the sound communication protocols Pv, the car audio apparatus 6 includes a priority storing unit 62 configured to store a priority of the sound communication protocols Pv in advance, and a sound signal input controlling unit 53 configured to, in the case where a sound communication request for transmitting the sound signal A3 is received from the smartphone 8, accept the sound communication request according to the priority of a sound communication protocol Pv of requested communication.
US09967685B2
A skin interface apparatus configured as an interface of a prosthesis with skin of a recipient, including a first portion configured for direct contact with skin of the recipient, and a second portion configured for direct contact with skin of the recipient, wherein the portions have different material properties. In an exemplary embodiment, the first portion is a part of a holding plate pad of a hearing prosthesis and the second portion is part of a driving plate pad of the hearing prosthesis.
US09967681B2
Presented herein are techniques for detecting sensory outcome issues through an analysis of data representing the direction of incidence/arrival of a sensory input and inertial data representing movement of the recipient's head following detection of the sensory input. By correlating recipient head movement (including lack of movement) with the arrival direction of the sensory input, a sensory prosthesis system can determine whether or not the recipient acted as expected and, if not, whether a sensory outcome problem is present.
US09967670B2
The present invention is applicable to the field of audio recording and provides an audio collection apparatus. Multiple fixed apparatuses are stacked and have ear structures and face contours, and audio collectors are disposed at ear canal openings of the ear structures to collect audio information. During audio collection, faces of the fixed apparatuses have different horizontal orientations, so that the audio collectors obtain the audio information at the ear canal openings of the ear structures towards horizontal directions. Therefore, rich sound sources and sound authenticity are ensured, sounds are rich in quality, a stereo field perception effect is achieved, a real sound field relationship can be restored, an in-head effect is avoided, and a requirement for real synchronization between a sound and an image in a virtual reality (VR) panoramic video technology is met.
US09967665B2
An analog signal path portion of a signal path may have: (i) an audio input for receiving an analog signal, an audio output for providing an output signal, and a selectable analog gain, and may be configured to generate the output signal based on the analog signal and in conformity with the selectable analog gain; and (ii) a digital path portion having a selectable digital gain and configured to receive a digital input signal and convert the digital input signal into the analog signal in conformity with the selectable digital gain. A control circuit may be configured to modify the digital and analog gains in response to an indication to switch between gain modes of the signal path, determine a noise floor of an audio signal comprising the digital input signal or a signal derived therefrom, and control modification of the digital and analog gains based on the noise floor.
US09967663B2
Systems and methods for loudspeaker protection against excessive excursion are described. In an illustrative, non limiting embodiment, a method may include splitting an input signal into two or more signals, each of the two or more signals within a given frequency band; independently selecting between a power attenuation or an excursion attenuation for each of the two or more signals; independently applying the selected power attenuation or excursion attenuation to each of the two or more signals; combining the attenuated two or more signals into an output signal; and providing the output signal to a loudspeaker.
US09967662B2
A microphone device is provided, including first and second chambers, first and second acoustic sensors, and a sound transmission device. The first and second chambers include the first and second acoustic ports, respectively. The first and second acoustic sensors are arranged in the first chamber and the second chamber, respectively. The sound transmission device coupled to the first and second chambers includes third and fourth acoustic ports, a first acoustic tube, and a second acoustic tube. The first acoustic tube communicates with the first acoustic port and the third acoustic port. The second acoustic tube communicates with the second acoustic port and the fourth acoustic port. The sensitivity difference between the first acoustic sensor and the second acoustic sensor is determined based on the length difference or the cross-sectional area difference between the first acoustic tube and the second acoustic tube.
US09967660B2
A signal processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain direction sounds in respective directivity directions from audio signals picked up by a plurality of sound pickup units, and a control unit configured to control, in accordance with a frequency of the direction sounds obtained by the obtaining unit, a directivity direction count indicating the number of directivity directions corresponding to the direction sounds obtained by the obtaining unit.
US09967655B2
Example techniques may involve controlling a passive radiator. An implementation may include a device buffering successive samples of audio content. For sets of buffered samples, the device predicts excursion of the passive radiator caused by playback of the respective set of buffered samples by active speakers via a model. The device limits excursion of the passive radiator to less than an excursion limit when certain sets of buffered samples are predicted to cause the passive radiator to move beyond the excursion limit. The device plays back the successive samples of the modified audio content via the active speakers. The device measures excursion of the passive radiator when sets of buffered samples are played back via the active speakers. For sets of samples, the device determines respective differences between the predicted excursion and the measured excursion and adjusts the model to offset determined differences between the predicted and measured excursion.
US09967654B2
A modular speaker includes at least an active vibrator, at least a passive vibrator, and a module housing, wherein the active vibrator and the passive vibrator are coupled to the module housing to form a vibration cavity therewithin to share with the active vibrator and the passive vibrator. When the active vibrator is operated for sound generation in response to an audio signal input, the passive vibrator is driven to vibrate through the vibration cavity for auxiliary sound generation so as to produce a point sound with full range of frequencies. The point sound with full range of frequencies produced by the modular speaker includes treble region and bass region, such that the modular speaker is able to completely restore the audio signal input as the original form to enable the listener to hear the sound quality of original raw audio signal.
US09967650B2
A case for a portable listening device includes a rechargeable battery and a first and a second charging system. The first charging system is configured to charge the portable listening device and the second charging system is configured to wirelessly charge a portable electronic device positioned outside of the case adjacent to an exterior charging surface.
US09967646B2
An in-ear hearing device having an ear interfacing portion integrally formed with an elongated stem portion, wherein the ear interfacing portion extends away from the elongated stem portion; a first acoustic port formed in the ear interfacing portion; a speaker disposed in the ear interfacing portion and aligned to emit sound from the acoustic port; a plurality of electrical contacts disposed at an end of the stem portion, the plurality of electrical contacts including first and second contacts; a second acoustic port formed at the end of the elongated stem portion between the first and second contacts; a microphone disposed in the stem portion; and a channel that fluidically couples the microphone to the second acoustic port.
US09967636B2
A system, method and API for processing and providing a unified list of the content offerings of multiple content sources.
US09967633B1
Systems and methods for effectively and efficiently receiving, analyzing, and using subscriber content choice information are described. One embodiment of the present invention includes a subscriber-action database, such as a clickstream database, a media-content database, and a merge processor electronically connected to the two databases for merging data in the subscriber-action database with data in the media-content database to create a subscriber content-choice database. The media-content database may include programming and/or advertising data. The media-content database may also include category and context information to provide the capability to comprehensively analyze data in the subscriber content-choice database.
US09967628B2
Systems and methods for rating videos based on parental feedback axe presented. In an aspect, a method is provided that includes providing supervisory users respectively having a supervisory role over other users access to watch histories of respective ones of the other users and receiving feedback from the supervisory users regarding appropriateness of a video for the other users, respectively. The method further includes determining an age rating for the media item based on an average age of the other users that the feedback indicates the video is appropriate for, and recommending the video to a user for watching based on the user having an age that satisfies the age rating.
US09967625B2
A recommender engine for recommending content items to a user comprises a profile generation unit having a pre-profile input unit, which is configured to receive pre-profile data comprising pre-profile text data suitable for identifying entities of interest to a given user, and having a pre-profile analysis unit, the entities of interest and to generate an initial user profile data set for the given user from the extracted identification data; a query generation unit, to generate at least two queries semantically different from each other to be directed to at least one content repository; a content retrieval unit, to issue the generated queries to the content repository and to receive in response to the queries, content-related response data comprising respective hit lists and an interleaver unit to generate from the different hit lists a single recommendation list.
US09967620B2
In one embodiment, a computer system is described as including a receiver to receive selection data, the selection data relating to a number of times a particular portion of digital content has been accessed, and an updating module to update selection data contained in a database record relating to digital content, the database record containing a sum of selection data. Further, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is described as including a display and a selection device, a method of providing and selecting from a pane on the display, the method comprising retrieving a set of data to be displayed in the pane, displaying the data in the pane, receiving a selection input signal indicative of the selection device pointing at a selected position within the pane, and in response to the input signal, playing a portion of a data file.
US09967619B2
An audience measurement service may monitor broadcasts in a region, ingesting closed captioning data, metadata, displayed text or logos, performing facial recognition on people, and/or generating audio/video fingerprints of broadcast content to create a database of content and associated keywords, along with times at which the content was broadcast. The audience measurement service may receive user search queries from a search provider and detect “spiking” queries. The audience measurement service may determine whether the spiking queries are related, contextually and temporally, to an item of content identified in the database, and infer that users generating the queries likely viewed the item of content. In some implementations, the audience measurement service may also infer that the users likely viewed other items of content (e.g. advertisements) displayed during the prior or subsequent few minutes on the same broadcast channel as the query-triggering item.
US09967608B2
A method and system for distributing multimedia content includes a unified storefront (USF) application providing access portals to a multimedia content distribution network, including an Internet-protocol television access portal, a web access portal and a mobile access portal. The USF application may further communicate with a media agent to access a portable media player (PMP), allowing multimedia content to be sent to the PMP from any of the access portals.
US09967604B2
A hospitality media system includes a media system controller and a plurality of media devices located in a plurality of rooms and coupled to the media system controller. Each room has one or more in-room media devices located therein for performing a media function. A connection port allows a user of a room to establish data communications between the media system controller and a guest device. The media system controller is coupled to the connection port and configured to catalog guest content available on the guest device to thereby form a guest content list, associate the guest content with one or more associated rooms at least including the user's room, and perform the media function utilizing content selected from the guest content list only on the in-room media devices located within the one or more associated rooms.
US09967602B2
Provided is a method for transmitting a broadcasting content and a line content, the broadcasting content and the line content being synchronously displayed, the method including: generating a line parity packet from a plurality of line data packets in each of which the line content is stored; transmitting the line data packet and the line parity packet through a communication line; and transmitting a plurality of broadcasting data packets in each of which the broadcasting content is stored, from a base station using a broadcasting wave, a transfer clock time of the broadcasting content being delayed by a predetermined time compared with a transfer clock time of the line content. At this point, video quality can be improved when the real-time broadcasting program content and the real-time line content are simultaneously displayed.
US09967601B2
Interleaving multiple streams of data using a universal services multiplexer is followed by conveying a time interleaved multiplexer stream to a remote QAM module. A universal services multiplexer interleaves multiple streams of data into a time interleaved multiplexer stream.
US09967585B2
An encoding device and method are provided for encoding at least one image split into partitions. The method implements, for a current partition to be encoded, steps of: selecting at least one causal partition already encoded and then decoded; calculating at least one optimal encoding parameter associated with the selected causal partition, according to a predetermined criterion of encoding performance, by comparing a plurality of encoding parameters applied to the selected causal partition; and encoding the current partition by using the calculated optimum encoding parameter.
US09967583B2
In one example, a device for presenting video data includes a processor configured to determine an integer value for the video data, determine a difference value between a presentation time of a first picture and a presentation time of a second picture, wherein the difference value is equal to the integer value multiplied by a clock tick value, and present the first picture and the second picture according to the determined difference value.
US09967581B2
During video coding, frame rate conversion (FRC) capabilities of a decoder may be estimated. Based on the estimated FRC capabilities, an encoder may select a frame rate for a video coding session and may alter a frame rate of source video to match the selected frame rate. Thereafter, the resultant video may be coded and output to a channel. By incorporating knowledge of a decoder's FRC capabilities as source video is being coded, an encoder may reduce the frame rate of source video opportunistically. Bandwidth that is conserved by avoiding coding of video data in excess of the selected frame rate may be directed to coding of the remaining video at a higher bitrate, which can lead to increased quality of the coding session as a whole.
US09967578B2
Provided is an image processing device including a control section configured to set based on a first quantization parameter offset set for a chroma component of a first layer, a second quantization parameter offset for a chroma component of a second layer decoded with reference to the first layer, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize transform coefficient data of the chroma component of the second layer using a quantization parameter computed using the second quantization parameter offset set by the control section.
US09967576B2
A scalable video signal decoding method according to the present invention is characterized in that whether or not a corresponding picture in a lower layer is being used as an inter layer reference picture for a current picture in an upper layer is determined on the basis of a time level identifier for the lower layer, and if the corresponding picture in the lower layer is being used as an inter layer reference picture for the current picture in the upper layer, inter layer prediction of the current picture is carried out using the corresponding picture, and the current picture is restored using a prediction sample obtained by means of inter layer prediction and a residual sample of the current picture.
US09967564B2
An image processing device including an acquiring section configured to acquire quantization matrix parameters from an encoded stream in which the quantization matrix parameters defining a quantization matrix are set within a parameter set which is different from a sequence parameter set and a picture parameter set, a setting section configured to set, based on the quantization matrix parameters acquired by the acquiring section, a quantization matrix which is used when inversely quantizing data decoded from the encoded stream, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize the data decoded from the encoded stream using the quantization matrix set by the setting section.
US09967560B2
A moving picture coding method includes: performing context adaptive binary arithmetic coding in which a variable probability value is used, on first information among multiple types of sample adaptive offset (SAO) information used for SAO that is a process of assigning an offset value to a pixel value of a pixel included in an image generated by coding the input image; and continuously performing bypass arithmetic coding in which a fixed probability value is used, on second information and third information among the multiple types of the SAO information, wherein the coded second and third information are placed after the coded first information in the bit stream.
US09967556B2
One video coding method includes at least the following steps: utilizing a visual quality evaluation module for evaluating visual quality based on data involved in a coding loop; and referring to at least the evaluated visual quality for performing sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering. Another video coding method includes at least the following steps: utilizing a visual quality evaluation module for evaluating visual quality based on data involved in a coding loop; and referring to at least the evaluated visual quality for deciding a target coding parameter associated with sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering.
US09967552B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image frame that includes a right-eye image and a left-eye image, and a touch panel configured to sense a user touch, wherein the touch panel includes a polarizing switch panel configured to switch a direction of polarization of light emitted from the display panel, and a parallax realization layer which is formed on one side of the polarizing switch panel and is configured to provide a binocular disparity image by using light emitted from the polarizing switch panel.
US09967546B2
A method for converting a 2D images and videos to 3D includes applying a set of pre-defined heuristic rules to assign a depth value for each pixel of a two-dimensional (2D) image source based on pixel attributes to generate an initial default depth map, refining the pre-defined heuristic rules to produce customized heuristic rules, applying the customized heuristic rules to the initial default depth map to produce a refined depth map, and rendering a three-dimensional (3D) image in a predefined format using the refined depth map.
US09967540B2
The invention discloses an ultra high definition 3D conversion device and an ultra high definition 3D display system, which may convert the received full high definition video signal or ultra high definition video signal into a 3D signal corresponding to the type of 3D display after performing an image quality process, according to the type of 3D display chosen by a user. This may achieve the Active Shutter type, Film-type Patterned Retarder (FPR) type and naked-eye type of 3D display for the ultra high definition video signal.
US09967538B2
Automultiscopic displays enable glasses-free 3D viewing by providing both binocular and motion parallax. Within the display field of view, different images are observed depending on the viewing direction. When moving outside the field of view, the observed images may repeat. Light fields produced by lenticular and parallax-barrier automultiscopic displays may have repetitive structure with significant discontinuities between the fields of view. This repetitive structure induces visual artifacts in the form of view discontinuities, depth reversals, and extensive disparities. To overcome this problem, a method modifies the presented light field image content and makes it more repetitive. In the method, a light field is refined using global and local shearing and then the repeating fragments are stitched. The method reduces the discontinuities in the displayed light field and leads to visual quality improvements. Benefits of the method are shown using an automultiscopic display with a parallax barrier and lenticular prints.
US09967526B2
An image processing device includes an image input section inputting images taken by a vehicle camera, a calibration target specifying section specifying a calibration target included both in a first image and in a second image, a vehicle information input section inputting information indicating travel distance and orientation change of the vehicle, a calculation section, and a storing control section. The calculation section converts the first and the second images to the first and second bird's-eye view images, respectively, arranges the first and the second birds-eye view images on common coordinate system with consideration of corresponding image taking positions and image taking orientations, and calculates at least one orientation parameter of the camera which minimizes position difference and rotation angle difference between the two calibration targets included in the first and second birds-eye view images. The storing control section stores the orientation parameter in storage.
US09967522B2
A driver monitoring camera system for a vehicle includes a camera system and an optical beam shaper. The camera system has an exit field of view central axis oriented more vertical than horizontal with respect to a set of orthogonal x, y and z axes, where the z-axis defines a direction line indicative of a vertical direction. The optical beam shaper is disposed in optical communication with the camera system and optically between the camera system and an operator of the vehicle. The optical beam shaper is structurally configured to direct an image of a face of an operator of the vehicle toward the exit field of view of the camera system, and is structurally configured to compress the image in the vertical direction to define a compressed image having a height to width aspect ratio of less an uncompressed height to width aspect ratio of the image.
US09967521B2
Methods and apparatus to provide content on demand in content broadcast systems are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a first portion of a program via broadcast signal and receiving a second portion of the program via an Internet protocol (IP) based signal. The example method may further comprise combining the first and the second portions and at least one of store the combined first and second portions in a file or playback the combined first and second portions.
US09967519B1
A video conference control method operable to be executed in a video conference control apparatus. A request to speak from a mobile terminal on or near to a person or other source of speech is received. The mobile terminal is controlled to make a preset sound according to the request to speak. The preset sound is received and recognized. The position of the mobile terminal is determined according to the preset sound using a preset sound positioning method. A monitoring lens is controlled to align with the mobile terminal, and the sound source is displayed for the benefit of other conference attendees.
US09967518B2
In a video conference system in which at least a pair of terminal devices transmits and receives an image through a network, each of the terminal devices includes a face detection unit that detects a face from a first image which is a image captured by a camera, and a generation unit that generates a image in which a image of the face detected by the face detection unit is arranged around a image region of a second image, which is a image of a material used for a conference, in accordance with a relative position of the face in the first image.
US09967516B2
There are provided a stereo matching method capable of increasing a resolution and precision of an object and a device for performing the method. The method includes investigating a pattern according to a predetermined period; obtaining left and right stereo images in which the investigated pattern is included or not included; determining whether each of the stereo image obtained according to the predetermined period and a buffering image that is a previous frame image of the stereo image includes the pattern; and generating a final cost volume by performing different image processing according to whether each of the stereo image and the buffering image includes the pattern. Therefore, it is possible to increase precision of a disparity of a thin object and increase accuracy and precision of an object at a long distance.
US09967515B1
Electronic information defining visual content within video frames may be accessed. Video frames may be ordered in a source sequence. Positions in the source sequence may be associated with playback directions. Video frames may be ordered in a playback sequence based on the playback directions. The playback sequence may characterize a playback order in which video frames are displayed during playback. Video frames in the playback sequence may be associated with playback speeds. The playback speeds may determine perceived speeds with which visual content is displayed during playback. Speed ramped video frames may be determined based on the playback sequence and the playback speeds. A speed ramped video may be generated based on the speed ramped video frames.
US09967511B2
Devices and methods for routing cables through a printed circuit board (PCB) include an enclosure having at least one cable guide and a cable duct. A PCB is mounted in the enclosure, such that the cable duct penetrates the PCB through a hole in the PCB. At least one additional component is mounted in the enclosure and connected to at least one cable that is attached to the at least one cable guide and the cable duct. The at least one cable enters the duct on a first side of the PCB and exits the duct on a second side of the PCB.
US09967508B2
The present invention relates to a device for remotely controlling electric equipment. For example, the device has a plurality of buttons, the plurality of buttons are configured to make one closed loop. A plurality of outside colored portions extend along outside of at least two adjacent buttons, the color of each outside colored portion is different from each other. A plurality of inside colored portions extend along inside of at least two adjacent buttons, the color of each inside colored portion is different from each other. A predetermined function is allocated to a series of buttons indicated by the corresponding inside or outside colored portion. In addition, the device may have a controller to recognize a command and sends the command to the electric equipment, wherein the controller recognizes the allocated function as the command when the buttons corresponding to the colored portion for the allocated function are stroked in predetermined direction in series.
US09967506B2
An image module comprising: (a) an imaging device that graphically or pictorially captures images of underwater sea life (b) a module housing including one or more components that processing an image generated by the imaging device; wherein the image module is discrete from a marine display and is capable of being connected to the marine display so that the graphic or pictorial images of underwater seal life captured by the imaging device are displayed.
US09967503B2
Each pixel region PX includes a photoelectric conversion region S1, a resistive gate electrode R, a first transfer electrode T1, a second transfer electrode T2, a barrier region B positioned directly beneath the first transfer electrode T1 in a semiconductor substrate 10, and a charge accumulation region S2 positioned directly beneath the second transfer electrode T2 in the semiconductor substrate 10. An impurity concentration of the barrier region B is lower than an impurity concentration of the charge accumulation region S2, and the first transfer electrode T1 and the second transfer electrode T2 are electrically connected to each other.
US09967499B2
The present description relates to a readout circuit for digitizing an analog input signal of an imaging device into a digital output. The readout circuit comprises a pixel signal input for providing an analog signal from at least one imaging pixel element, a variable gain amplifier for providing an amplified signal of the analog signal by a gain factor, and a first analog to digital conversion means for quantizing the analog signal into a first digital signal. The circuit further comprises a control means for setting the gain factor of the variable gain amplifier by taking into account the first digital signal, and a second analog to digital conversion means for quantizing the amplified signal into a second digital signal. The circuit also comprises a digital output for outputting a signal determined as function of at least the second digital signal.
US09967495B2
An image sensing device includes a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including two or more neighboring pixels, and a controller suitable for controlling the pixel groups on a basis of a frame unit, wherein a readout order of the pixels in each of the pixel groups is different between present and next frames.
US09967485B2
A radiation image capturing apparatus includes scan lines, signal lines, radiation detection elements, bias lines, a readout IC, a control unit and a noise detection unit. The detection elements generate electric charges by receiving radiation. The readout IC reads respective image data based on the respective electric charges. The control unit controls at least the readout IC. At the time when each image data is read, the detection unit outputs data based on voltage noise in reverse bias voltage applied to the detection elements via the bias lines and/or voltage noise in off voltage applied to the scan lines. The control unit estimates an offset component in the output data, calculates noise data based on the output data and the offset component and subtracts the noise data from the image data, thereby generating corrected image data.
US09967482B2
An image processing apparatus to execute noise reduction processing on image data includes a setting unit, a determination unit, and an output unit. The setting unit sets a pixel group from among a plurality of pixel group candidates. The plurality of pixel group candidates includes at least a first pixel group having a plurality of pixels being a first number of pixels or a second pixel group having a plurality of pixels being a second number of pixels which is different from the first number of pixels. The determination unit determines, based on a similarity between a target pixel and a reference pixel that is obtained according to the set pixel group, a weight corresponding to the reference pixel. The output unit outputs a value, calculated based on a pixel value of the reference pixel and the weight, as a noise-reduced pixel value of the target pixel.
US09967480B2
When the amplification ratio is low and strong incident light causes a large charge, the signal retrieved from regions where the incident light is weak is also weak, but when the amplification ratio is high in regions where the incident light is weak, the signal retrieved from regions where the incident light is strong becomes saturated. Therefore, the dynamic range of the imaging unit is narrow. Provided is an imaging unit comprising an imaging section that includes a first group having one or more pixels and a second group having one or more pixels different from those of the first group; and a control section that, while a single charge accumulation is performed in the first group, causes pixel signals to be output by performing charge accumulation in the second group a number of times differing from a number of times charge accumulation is performed in the first group.
US09967479B2
The invention relates to pixel circuit and an operating method thereof, comprising a front-end circuit comprising a single photodiode and having an output, said front-end circuit being configured for delivering on said output a photoreceptor signal derived from a light exposure of said single photodiode; a transient detector circuit configured for detecting a change in said photoreceptor signal delivered on said output; an exposure measurement circuit configured for measuring said photoreceptor signal delivered on said output upon detection by the transient detector circuit of a change in the photoreceptor signal. The invention also relates to an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixel circuits.
US09967477B2
Imaging systems having multiple optical modules are provided. The FOVs, focal lengths, and/or sensors of the multiple optical modules may be designed to generate high quality images and images with arbitrary magnifications.
US09967473B2
The present invention relates to appropriate notification of whether an adjustment item in image processing is available to a user when an information processing apparatus separately acquires a first image and a second image paired with the first image.The information processing apparatus displays the adjustment item in the image processing on a screen in order to set a parameter of each adjustment item for a sub image. The information processing apparatus performs an acquisition process to acquire a main image paired with the sub image. Among the multiple adjustment items displayed on the screen, adjustment items achieving only insufficient adjustment results with the sub image and main image adjustment items achieving more appropriate adjustment results with the main image are updated to a display mode corresponding to an acquisition status of the main image to display the adjustment items on the screen in the updated display mode.
US09967445B2
A wearable apparatus is provided for securing a wearable apparatus to an article of clothing. In one implementation, an apparatus securable to an article of clothing may include a capturing unit including at least one image sensor configured to capture images of an environment of a user and a power unit configured to house a power source. The apparatus may further include a connector configured to connect the capturing unit and the power unit. The connector is configured to secure the apparatus to the article of clothing such that the capturing unit is positioned over an outer surface of the article of clothing and the powering unit is positioned under an inner surface of the article of clothing.
US09967442B2
An endoscope apparatus includes a first optical system, a second optical system, a light-blocking shutter, a magnet rotor, drive coils, detection coils, and a CPU, the CPU performs control to provide direct current to the drive coils and control to provide alternating current to the detection coils, and where the alternating current is provided to the detection coils, the CPU detects a pivotal position of the light-blocking shutter by detecting variation of an inductance when a magnetic field generated in each of hollow portions of the detection coils is blocked by a magnetic body, from a value of the alternating current.
US09967430B2
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causes a computer incorporated in a mobile terminal to execute the steps of: a) acquiring apparatus specifying information in order for a user to determine whether an information processing apparatus to cooperate with the mobile terminal is a desired information processing apparatus using a proximity wireless communication with the information processing apparatus; b) displaying, on an operation unit of the mobile terminal, a confirmation message which is a confirmation message to confirm execution of a cooperative action with the information processing apparatus and includes the apparatus specifying information; and c) executing the cooperative action in response to a confirmation operation to the confirmation message by the user.
US09967426B2
An information distribution system includes a reception unit to receive first data from an application; plug-ins respectively corresponding to types of the devices; a determination unit to determine, for each of one or more devices specified by one or more pieces of selected address specification information, whether the first data relates to the first data which is a conversion source of one or more pieces of second data having been transmitted; and a distribution unit to transmit, to the devices using the plug-ins, the one or more pieces of second data each obtained by conversion into a data format specified by the data format information a and information for identifying whether the first data which is a conversion source of the one or more pieces of second data relates to the first data which is the conversion source of the one or more pieces of second data having been transmitted.
US09967425B2
A multifunction peripheral includes an answerer identifying unit, a character data extracting unit, a correct/incorrect determining unit, a question data extracting unit, a question sheet image data creating unit, and an image formation control unit. The correct/incorrect determining unit determines answers on a question sheet as correct or incorrect based on characters extracted by the character data extracting unit. The question data extracting unit extracts a plurality of questions from question data stored in a storage unit in accordance with the ratio of correct answers determined by the correct/incorrect determining unit, for each of answerers identified by the answerer identifying unit. The question sheet image data creating unit creates image data of the question sheet with the questions, which are extracted from the question data by the question data extracting unit, arranged thereon.
US09967420B2
An apparatus and method for thermal imaging of an interior space of a high temperature furnace through an opening in a wall of the furnace. An outer housing houses at least a portion of a rigid borescope. The outer housing has a port for aspirating ambient air through the outer housing to cool the rigid borescope and passing the air through a hole at the end of the outer housing and into the furnace. A camera is operatively connected to a rigid borescope but is located such that it is isolated from the air passing through the outer housing.
US09967408B2
A camera generates a main image and a sub image of which data size is smaller than that of the main image, and stores them in association with an image ID. The camera transmits the image ID and the sub image to a tablet device, and transmits the image ID and the main image to the PC. The tablet device executes a development process on the sub image and generates an adjustment value, and transmits the adjustment value together with the image ID to a server. The PC receives the adjustment value based on the image ID from the server and uses the adjustment value for a development process on the main image.
US09967402B2
A system comprises a plurality of user devices and a conference call bridge connected to the plurality of end user devices via one or more networks. The conference call bridge is configured to connect to a given one of the plurality of user devices, receive a passcode from the given user device, and authenticate the given user device using the passcode. The passcode is personal to the given user.
US09967399B2
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing a co-browsing preview of a queued contact. According to one embodiment, providing a co-browsing preview of a queued contact can comprise receiving a contact from a customer, selecting an agent from a plurality of agents based at least in part on the contact and a defined set of skills for each of the agents, and assigning the contact to the selected agent. Assigning the contact to the selected agent can comprise placing the contact into a queue for the selected agent. A live, real-time co-browsing preview of a current user interface of the customer can be provided to the selected agent while the contact is assigned to the selected agent's queue and before the customer is connected to the selected agent.
US09967394B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for sharing contacts entries at a Telephony Server (TS), the method including receiving a request from a Telephony Control Point coupled to the TS in a Universal Plug and Play home network to share at least one contact element associated with a contact entry with at least one recipient, retrieving the at least one contact element from a network address book in a Wide Area Network server connected to the TS or from a local address book in the TS, and sharing the at least one contact element with the at least one recipient.
US09967393B2
A mobile electronic apparatus, a method for controlling a mobile electronic apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium are disclosed. A wireless communication unit receives an incoming call signal. A movement detector detects a user's movement. A proximity sensor detects the proximity of an object. At least one processor outputs as a voice, through a sound output unit, information on a party that has transmitted the incoming call signal when the user's movement and the proximity of the object are detected during the receipt of the incoming call signal.
US09967391B2
A mobile device having location services may store information pertaining to a geo-fence that is associated with a user of the mobile device and assigned to a location. The mobile device may identify a current location of the mobile device and store data pertaining to the location of the mobile device. The mobile device determines a current geo-fence state of the mobile device based on the location data in response to an internal stimuli or an external stimuli. The geo-fence state is selected from at least an inside geo-fence state in which the mobile device is deemed to be inside the geo-fence and an outside geo-fence state in which the mobile device is deemed to be outside of the geo-fence. The mobile device may notify a remote server of the current geo-fence state.
US09967390B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, relating to changing device settings based on an orientation or motion of a mobile device. The method includes receiving a user input, determining that the mobile device was oriented in a first orientation when the user input was received, selecting a first device setting or service request parameter that affects a mobile phone application or a web service experience and that are associated with the first orientation, providing, for output at the mobile device, a first response to the user input based on the first device setting, after providing the first response to the user input, determining that the mobile device has been reoriented in a different, second orientation, selecting a second device setting, and providing a second response to the user input, or to a revision of the user input, based on the second device setting.
US09967389B2
The disclosure relates to systems, methods and devices for secure routing and recording of network data streams passing through a network switch. Specifically, the disclosure relates to systems, methods and devices for reversibly deconstructing networks' OSI L2/L3/L4/L7 in time and space, in the process of selectively recording network data streams for secure access.
US09967387B2
Notifications for an accessory device are received at a mobile companion device. The notifications are directed to a notification processing application of the companion device that processes notifications intended for accessory device applications. The notification processing application determines an identifier of the accessory application for which the notification is intended, and provides the identifier to a notification display application at the accessory device, which determines user interface and display properties for the notification. The accessory device requests external (dynamic) user interface and display properties from the companion device, as needed, and upon receipt generates a notification display at the accessory device.
US09967385B2
The present application is directed to a communication apparatus, a communication control method and a non-transitory computer medium that enable a user to more effectively prohibit unauthorized communications. By way of example, a communication apparatus is disclosed that includes a controller provided with a Connectivity Manager function configured to perform data communication with a plurality of communication methods and select an optimal communication method. In various embodiments, the controller is configured to receive a request for data communication, and regulate the data communication, when the request is received while cellular communication is on, even when a unique user identifier (UID) of the request is a UID of the Connectivity Manager function, by preventing cellular communication by the Connectivity Manager function.
US09967380B2
A communication system including a hard of hearing user's captioned device, the captioned device including a display screen and a processor. The processor in the captioned device is configured to: establish communication with a hard of hearing user's phone device that is independent of the hard of hearing user's captioned device, receive a text communication originating at a relay, the text communication corresponding to a transcription of the hearing user's voice signal, and display a text caption corresponding to the text communication on the display of the hard of hearing user's captioned device.
US09967379B1
A mobile electronic device holder includes a backing configured to support a rear surface of a mobile electronic device, according to one embodiment. The mobile electronic device holder includes a plurality of corner fasteners attached to the backing and configured to at least partially enclose a plurality of corners of the mobile electronic device, according to one embodiment. The mobile electronic device holder includes a mobile electronic device holder spine attached to the backing and configured to couple the backing to one of a plurality of multi-ring binders, according to one embodiment. The mobile electronic device holder includes nine grommets spaced and inserted into the mobile electronic device holder spine to selectively couple the backing to the plurality of multi-ring binders, the plurality of multi-ring binders including a 3-ring binder, a 5-ring binder, and a 7-ring binder, according to one embodiment.
US09967373B2
Disclosed herein is a specialized integrated circuit for a Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) gateway. The specialized integrated circuit comprises a packet parser, a TCP packet handler, generic TENA packet generator(s), and object model specific TENA packet generator(s). The packet parser parses an incoming MAC layer packet and conditionally provides a TCP packet to the TCP packet handier, depending on header(s) in the MAC layer packet. The TCP packet handler parses the TCP packet to reveal a TENA message, and determines whether the TENA message involves object model specific data and selectively provides the TENA message to the generic TENA packet generator(s) or to the object model specific TENA packet generator(s). The selection is based on the object model specific data determination. The selected TENA packet generator constructs an outgoing TENA message in response to the provided TENA message.
US09967371B2
A method of operation for a provider edge device of a core network includes receiving a customer frame from an access network; the customer frame having a first Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tag of a first predetermined bit length. The first VLAN tag including a service instance identifier. The service instance identifier of the first VLAN tag is then mapped into a second VLAN tag of a second predetermined bit length greater than the first predetermined bit length. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).
US09967370B2
A system and a method for accessing data objects provided through an OData service involve receiving, at an application server, a data access request from a client computing device. The data access request specifies in a platform-independent manner an access operation to be performed on a first data object. The application server translates the data access request into an OData compliant request. The OData compliant request is then transmitted to the OData service to perform the access operation.
US09967364B2
Apparatus and method for predicting an amount of network infrastructure needed based on demographics
Methods, computer-readable media and apparatuses for predicting an amount of network infrastructure needed for a new neighborhood are disclosed. A processor generates a plurality of different user profiles based upon demographic data of existing customers, historical utilization data and historical usage data, determines a demographic of a new neighborhood, correlates one of the plurality of different user profiles to the new neighborhood based upon the demographic of the new neighborhood and predicts the amount of network infrastructure to be deployed in the new neighborhood based upon the one of the plurality of different user profiles that is correlated to the demographic of the new neighborhood.
US09967346B2
Passing data over virtual links is disclosed, including: encapsulating a layer three data packet as an inner payload of a network data packet; and generating an outer header of the network data packet with a layer two header and a layer three header, wherein the network data packet is configured to communicate over a virtual link between a first interface of a first network appliance and a first interface of a second network appliance.
US09967339B2
Shared content items are migrated between accounts on a content management system. Users store content items synchronized between one or more client devices and the content management system. A user may have multiple accounts including personal and organization accounts. Content items may be shared with accounts belonging to other users to enable those other users to view or manipulate the content items. A user initiates a migration of content items between accounts of different categories via a user interface, e.g., by dragging and dropping a folder from one account to another. The content management system recognizes that the user has deleted the folder from the user's first account and determines that an identical folder has been created in another account belonging to the same user. In response the content management system joins the second account to the shared folder, and removes the first account from the shared folder.
US09967332B1
An example peer-to-peer file sharing and collaboration method includes providing a user of a computing device with access to an electronic file via a sharing application, the electronic file being stored in a memory of the computing device. The method also includes receiving an input from the user indicative of a desire to share the electronic file using the sharing application and via a peer-to-peer communication protocol. The method further includes providing, via the communication protocol, a first transformed file generated by the first computing device based on the electronic file, and receiving, via the communication protocol, a second transformed file generated based on the electronic file. In such a method, the second transformed file is different from the first transformed file.
US09967327B2
Provided are systems and methods for simplifying cloud compute markets. A compute marketplace can be configured to determine, automatically, attributes and/or constraints associated with a job without requiring the consumer to provide them. The compute marketplace provides a clearing house for excess compute resources which can be offered privately or publically. The compute environment can be further configured to optimize job completion across multiple providers with different execution formats, and can also factor operating expense of the compute environment into the optimization. The compute marketplace can also be configured to monitor jobs and/or individual job partitions while their execution is in progress. The compute marketplace can be configured to dynamically redistribute jobs/job partitions across providers when, for example, cycle pricing changes during execution, providers fail to meet defined constraints, excess capacity becomes available, compute capacity becomes unavailable, among other options.
US09967326B2
A cloud application management infrastructure models biological swarm behaviors to assign application resources to physical processing resources in a decentralized manner. A balanced and highly automated management of cloud infrastructure has a predictable and reliable response to changing resource loads by using a limited local rule set to define how application instances interact with available resources. Digital pheromone signals at physical resources are applied locally by a swarm module to determine if the physical resources provide an acceptable environment for an application and, if not, the application swarms to other environments until a suitable environment is found.
US09967322B2
A system executes services by a “server” for a “client”. A preliminary step establishes a list of available services of the server, set up for the client, in which a processing time is determined releasable by the server for the client per code execution cycle minor frame (“MIF”). The system creates on start-up: NT execution tasks for the client, each having a priority of execution level and an allocated average duration of execution, a number of execution tasks (NT) being at least 1, the sum of durations of the tasks being at most the releasable processing time; execution rules associating each of the tasks with at least one service of the list; then, during each MIF cycle, the system executes the services on their associated tasks, a task executed by priority and for at most its allocated average time of execution, the non-executed part of a service being executed on its associated task in the next cycle.
US09967318B2
Embodiments disclosed facilitate obtaining a cloud agnostic representation of a multi-tier application. Cloud specific implementations of the cloud agnostic representation may be deployed on a plurality of clouds. In some embodiments, dependency information for each component service in a multi-tier application is obtained, wherein the dependency information for a component service indicates prerequisites for starting the component service; and a cloud agnostic representation of the multi-tier application is derived, wherein the cloud agnostic representation of the multi-tier application comprises metadata for obtaining each of the component services for a plurality of clouds, and a sequence for starting each of the component services, the sequence based, in part, on the dependency information.
US09967314B2
An iOS device-based webpage blocking method, being applied to an iOS device comprising application programs and system components, the method comprising: an application program conducts sub-classing on a system default uniform resource locator (URL) caching object to obtain control of a network request; matching the URL character string parsed from the request message with a link character string; if the matching is successful, then generating pseudo response data and displaying according to the pseudo response data, thus blocking webpage advertisements or malicious webpages, reducing occupying of system resources and network resources, improving system operation speed and speed and smoothness of user network access, and lowering device power consumption. The present invention solves the problem in the prior art of resources being occupied by webpage advertisements or malicious webpages.
US09967307B2
A method is provided for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) devices to communicate over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The method includes synchronizing the VoIP devices using one or more dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) codes over a telephone network, retransmissions of voice packets in bursts, retransmissions of voice packets following a time lag, adjusting the number of retransmissions based on quality of service, retransmission of a missing voice packet identified in a list received from a peer device, discarding low energy voice frames in a jitter buffer to prevent overflow, stopping playout at a low energy voice frame when the jitter buffer is below a minimum buffer size, and selective transmission and retransmission of voice packets based on their energy levels.
US09967302B2
A method includes calculating a complexity value for each segment or version of multimedia content. The multimedia content has multiple versions associated with common content and different encoding parameters, and each version is divided into segments. The method also includes adaptively streaming the multimedia content to a client device based on at least some of the calculated complexity values. The complexity value for each segment or version is calculated by summing multiple operation complexity values defining complexities of operations for decoding the segment or version. The operation complexity values could include values for a bit parsing operation, a buffer initialization operation, an intra-prediction operation, an inverse quantization and transform operation, a reference block fetch operation, a fractional interpolation operation, and in-loop deblocking operation, a sample adaptive offset correction operation, an adaptive loop filtering operation, and a de-ringing filtering operation.
US09967293B2
A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for managing a voice call in a wireless communication network. The method comprises collecting crowd-sourced data for a voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE) call quality metrics and contexts associated with a VoLTE call. The VoLTE call quality metrics and contexts comprise non-device information and device information. The method further comprises identifying accessible information based on the device information and the non-device information, predicting VoLTE call quality using the collected crowd-sourced data and the accessible information, and determining whether to place the voice call as or switch the voice call to a VoLTE call or a circuit-switched voice call based on comparison of the predicted VoLTE quality to a predetermined threshold.
US09967292B1
Embodiments are directed to monitoring communication between computers using network monitoring computers (NMCs). NMCs identify a secure communication session established between two of the computers based on an exchange of handshake information associated with the secure communication session. Key information that corresponds to the secure communication session may be obtained from a key provider such that the key information may be encrypted by the key provider. NMCs may decrypt the key information. NMCs may derive the session key based on the decrypted key information and the handshake information. NMCs may decrypt network packets included in the secure communication session. NMCs may be employed to inspect the one or more decrypted network packets to execute one or more rule-based policies.
US09967288B2
A common security policy for a heterogeneous computer architecture environment is provided. A configuration of a security policy of a heterogeneous computer architecture is received from a management console. The security policy is stored on a policy server that is communicatively connected, by a management network, to a plurality of hardware platforms of the of the heterogeneous computer architecture. The security policy is distributed to a plurality of policy agents of the heterogeneous computer architecture over the management network. The security policy includes a security policy administrator role that permits management of (i) one or more subjects in a plurality of security zones and (ii) one or more objects in the plurality of security zones. The security policy also includes security zone administrator roles, wherein each security zone administrator role (i) is associated with a respective security zone and (ii) permits management of object(s) in the respective security zone.
US09967284B2
A processing device (10) includes a policy evaluation module (131) for evaluating policies associated with an item of data or an application and a dynamic context determination module (133) for determining contextual information associated with the current context of operation of the device and for providing the thus determined contextual information to the policy evaluation module. The device (10) further includes a policy enforcement module (135) for enforcing the evaluation specified by the policy evaluation module (131), wherein the device is operable to cause the policy evaluation module to evaluate a policy associated with an item of data or an application whenever the associated item of data or application is invoked and, additionally, whilst the associated item of data or application is active on the device and a notification of a change in the determined contextual information is received by the policy evaluation module.
US09967278B2
Systems and methods for analyzing applications for risk are provided. In the example method, the applications reside on a mobile device that is configurable to access an enterprise system. The example method includes evaluating each of a plurality of applications variously for privacy, data leakage, and malicious behavior. The example method also includes calculating a risk score for each of the plurality of applications based on the evaluating; and automatically remediating (e.g., quarantining) the applications, of the plurality of applications, for which the risk score meets or exceeds a risk score threshold. The method may evaluate all of the applications residing on a mobile device. The method may include grouping application behaviors, for each of the applications, that indicate an increased risk into groups comprising various combinations of a privacy risk, a data leakage risk, an account takeover risk, a device takeover risk, and a malware risk.
US09967272B1
Upon receiving malware detection rules that are to be identified with respect to an input traffic stream, a sequence of state definitions are generated for each of the rules. The state definitions for each rule correspond to respective segments of the rule and specify conditions under which a state machine is to transition between search states corresponding to those segments, at least one of the segments corresponding to multiple characters within the input traffic stream. A state machine transitions between search states corresponding to one or more of the rules in accordance with contents of the input traffic stream and the conditions specified by the sequence of state definitions.
US09967269B2
The invention provides a method, device and system for processing DNS behavior. The method comprises: resolving received network data packet; judging a DNS behavior type corresponding to the network data packet according to the resolution result; determining a processing body according to the DNS behavior type, wherein the processing body comprises a kernel and/or an application layer; and transferring the network data packet to the determined processing body, and processing the network data packet by the determined processing body. The method in the disclosure can improve the DNS defense capability, while improving the service processing capability of a single machine.
US09967264B2
Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth. In this manner, threat detection based on complex interactions of computing objects can be characterized in a platform independent manner and pre-processed on endpoints without requiring significant communications overhead with a remote threat management facility.
US09967262B1
This disclosure is directed to a platform for providing automated verification of a service provider account based on content provided in relation to the account. In some embodiments, a code is generated by the service provider and transmitted to an account holder. The code is then embedded in a media file, which is received at the service provider. Once received, the service provider identifies the account based on the embedded code and subjects the media file to a series of verification processes. Each verification process to which the image is subjected may contribute to a total confidence level associated with the account. In some embodiments, the media file continues to be subjected to verification processes until the total confidence level exceeds a minimum confidence threshold.
US09967260B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer-readable storage media storing executable instructions, for enhanced authentication security. In some implementations, an authentication request associated with a first communication session is received. A second communication session having parameter values derived from parameter values for the first communication session. An authorization code corresponding to the second communication session is generated. The first communication session as closed. The authentication code is provided to the device in response to the authentication request.
US09967257B2
A Software-Defined Network (SDN) authorizes Application Programming Interface (API) calls from user SDN applications to user SDN controllers. A user SDN application transfers an embedded code to an authorization SDN controller. The authorization SDN controller translates the embedded code into an SDN controller network address and an SDN application privilege data set. The authorization SDN controller transfers the SDN controller network address to the user SDN application. The authorization SDN controller transfers the SDN application privilege data set to the user SDN controller. The user SDN application transfers an SDN API call to the user SDN controller using the SDN controller network address. The user SDN controller determines if the SDN API call is authorized by the SDN application privilege data set. The user SDN controller services the API call if the SDN API call is authorized and inhibits an unauthorized API call.
US09967255B2
A method for building and managing send jobs with restricted information, the method comprising constructing at least one email with at least one reference to a restricted information and injecting each of the at least one emails to one or more send centers, wherein each of the one or more send centers is authorized to receive the restricted information.
US09967253B2
There is provided an authority delegation system capable of issuing, in a case where an identifier of a user is associated with an identifier of a client, authority information indicating that an authority of the user has been delegated to the client without receiving an instruction for authorizing the authority of the user on the service to be delegated to the client.
US09967250B2
Disclosed are various embodiments that perform confidence-based authentication of a user. An identification of a user account is obtained from a user, and a minimum confidence threshold is determined. Multiple authentication challenges are presented to the user. Responses are obtained from the user to a subset of the challenges, with each response having a corresponding authentication point value. A confidence score is generated for the user, where the confidence score is increased by the respective authentication point values of the correct responses. The user is authenticated as being associated with the user account in response to determining that the confidence score meets the minimum confidence threshold.
US09967243B2
Disclosed are a method and a system for accessing data by a client device in a distributed network system having a central server system, at least one client device, and at least one business object server. The client device and business object server are coupled to the central server system via a communication network. In the business object server, a number of business objects are stored. Each business object server includes a number of offices; each business object is assigned to an office in the respective business object server. The central server system receives an access request message, which includes at least one unique client identifier; the central server system determines at least one access authorization by means of the client identifier, and generates access instructions for the business objects, which the client device is allowed to access. The business objects are read and are transmitted to the client device.
US09967236B1
Techniques for credentials enforcement using a firewall are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for enforcement using a firewall includes storing a plurality of user credentials at a network device; monitoring network traffic at the network device to determine if there is a match with one or more of the plurality of user credentials; and performing an action if the match is determined.
US09967231B2
An example method for to inter-pod traffic redirection and handling in a multi-pod network environment is provided and includes receiving a packet with an overlay header outgoing from a first pod, identifying the packet as redirected based on a source address in the overlay header indicating a second pod and a destination address in the overlay header indicating a third pod, the first pod being distinct from the second pod and the third pod, setting a redirection bit in the overlay header tagging the packet as redirected, and transmitting the packet to the third pod.
US09967226B2
Techniques for optimizing a delivery time for the delivery of messages are described. According to various embodiments, a system determines, for each of a plurality of time intervals, a likelihood of a particular member of an online social network service performing a particular member user action on a particular message content item during the corresponding time interval. The plurality of time intervals are then ranked, based on the determined likelihoods corresponding to the plurality of time intervals. Thereafter, a particular time interval is identified from among the plurality of time intervals that is associated with a highest ranking. The particular time interval is then classified as an optimum personalized message delivery time for the particular member.
US09967225B2
A method for connecting a seeker group member to one or more target entities through a network server is provided. The method includes the following steps: (a) receiving a requirement from the seeker group member, (b) obtaining a group associated with the seeker group member, (c) obtaining a list of group members associated with the group, (d) querying contacts of the group members based on the requirement to obtain one or more matching target entities, (e) identifying one or more connected members who are already connected to the one or more matching target entities, (f) communicating a search result to each of the one or more connected members, (g) receiving a response selected from an acceptance or a rejection, (h) communicating referrals from the one or more connected members to the seeker group member, and (i) communicating introductory messages for connecting the matching target entities and the seeker group member through the connected members.
US09967224B2
A method and system for real-time eventing including interacting with at least one configuration attribute according to instructions specified through an application programming interface (API); adding subscribers for an event channel; generating an event from operation of an application; publishing the event message to the event channel on an event router; processing the event message according to the at least one configuration attribute; identifying a subscriber to the event channel; and sending the event from the event router to the subscriber.
US09967218B2
Software for online active learning receives content posted to an online stream at a website. The software converts the content into an elemental representation and inputs the elemental representation into a probit model to obtain a predictive probability that the content is abusive. The software also calculates an importance weight based on the elemental representation. And the software updates the probit model using the content, the importance weight, and an acquired label if a condition is met. The condition depends on an instrumental distribution. The software removes the content from the online stream if a condition is met. The condition depends on the predictive probability, if an acquired label is unavailable.
US09967196B2
Certain example embodiments relate to techniques for dynamic resource use limitations in a cloud computing environment. A service request from a user is received, in connection with a first application process of the application processes executing in the environment. A resource strategy based on the received service request is generated in connection with the first application process. The resource strategy specifies at least one resource shared by the application processes and an amount of the at least one resource for use by the first application process to subsequently perform a service requested. In connection with a resource controller process different from the first application process, a determination is made regarding whether the generated resource strategy is feasible. Either the service is performed (e.g., when the resource strategy is feasible), or the resource strategy is revised and re-submitted to the resource controller process (e.g., when the resource strategy is infeasible).
US09967189B2
A system and a method determine network conditions. The system includes a server computer and a client computer. The server computer is configured to transmit data packets comprising a data object from the server computer to the client computer. The client computer includes a transmission latency detector and a transmission bandwidth detector. The transmission latency detector uses transmission time and receipt time values to determine the changes in time it takes selected portions of the data object to be transmitted from the server computer to the client computer. The transmission bandwidth detector uses identified back-to-back data packets to determine the transmission bandwidth between the server computer and the client computer.
US09967188B2
A system and method for management of network traffic flow for one or more networks of interconnected computing devices, including predicting one or more types of network traffic data flows using a Machine Learning (ML) classifier, and updating the ML classifier according to identified changes in the network traffic data flows. Using software-defined-networking (SDN) tools and an updated ML classifier, training data is generated to formulate accurate new predictions of the one or more types of network traffic data flows. Network traffic flow is regulated based on the generated new predictions.
US09967184B2
A method implemented by a network device acting as a border gateway protocol (BGP) speaker, of exposing a maximum segment identifier depth (MSD) value of the network device is described. The method comprises encoding the MSD value into a BGP Link State (BGP-LS) extension message. The BGP-LS extension message includes a type, a length and a MSD value. The type indicates the type of the MSD value, the length indicates the length of the MSD value and the MSD value indicates a lowest MSD value supported by the network device for enabling segment routing. The method continues with transmitting the BGP-LS extension message including the type, the length, and the MSD value to a network controller, where the network controller is to use the MSD value to compute a segment routing path including the network device.
US09967183B2
A method implemented for providing a source of entropy in source routing, the method comprising receiving a source routing packet that comprises an entropy-header, wherein the entropy-header comprises an entropy field and a list of identifiers (IDs), determining a next hop ID from the list of IDs, determining whether the next hop ID identifies a plurality of routes used to reach a next hop node, selecting a first route from the plurality of routes using the entropy field, and transmitting the source routing packet via the first route, wherein the list of IDs indicates the route used to transport the source routing packet from a source to a destination.
US09967182B2
A managed hardware forwarding element (MHFE) that performs packet forwarding operations for a logical network is described. The MHFE receives configuration data for the logical network that defines a logical router and a set of logical switches for logically connecting several end machines that operate on different host machines to several physical machines that are connected to the MHFE. The logical router also includes multiple routing components. The MHFE also receives a first forwarding table and a second forwarding table. The first forwarding table stores linking data for each logical port of each logical switch in the set of logical switches that identifies a corresponding routing component in the logical router. The second forwarding table stores a set of routes for each routing component of the logical router. The MHFE uses the first and second forwarding tables to perform packet forwarding operations at the MHFE.
US09967173B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that accesses internet protocol addresses associated with a group of end point devices where the network device is a closest network device to the group of end point devices, and transmitting data to another network device responsive to a determination that an internet protocol address associated with the data from an end point device is one of the internet protocol addresses associated with the group of end point devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09967171B2
A method of communication by a first device is provided. The method includes selecting, by the first device, one path of a plurality of paths to a destination device by each device including the first device within a network, the one path being selected based on information of available links, generating link setting information needed to transmit a packet to the destination device through a second device based on information of a second device included in the selected path, generating a first packet by inserting path information into the packet based on the link setting information, and transmitting the first packet to the destination device through the second device.
US09967167B2
In one embodiment, a processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to update, at a memory location, a first flow state value associated with a data flow to a second flow state value when at least one of a packet from the data flow is received or the memory location is selected after a time period has expired. At least a portion of the packet is analyzed when the second flow state value represents a flow rate of a network data flow anomaly.
US09967166B2
In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a request to route traffic from a source to a destination in a network, where the request is associated with a setup bandwidth criterion. The method includes: identifying a plurality of candidate tunnel paths from the source to the destination; and, for each of the plurality of candidate tunnel paths, determining whether or not at least one of the candidate tunnel paths satisfies the setup bandwidth criterion. In response to determining that the plurality of candidate tunnel paths fail to satisfy the setup bandwidth criterion, the method includes: determining a congestion metric for each of a plurality of candidate tunnel paths from the source to the destination; and instantiating a tunnel from the source to the destination according to a candidate tunnel path with the lowest congestion metric.
US09967162B2
A generic discovery methodology collects data pertaining to components of a computer network using various discovery technologies. From the collected data, the methodology identifies, filters and analyzes information related to inter-component communications. Using the communication and application information, the methodology determines reliable relationships for those components having sufficient information available. To qualify more components, the methodology implements a decision service to generate hypothetical relationships between components that are known and components that are unqualified or unknown. The hypothetical relationships are presented to a user for selection, and each hypothetical relationship is preferably associated with an indication of its reliability.
US09967153B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to retrieve a parsing instructions file and a binary configuration file stored in a housing, parse the binary configuration file according to the parsing instructions file to determine configuration information, display at least some of the configuration information as part of a graphical user interface, receive a selection of some of the configuration information and corresponding changed parameter values of the configuration information, transform the binary configuration file into a transformed version of the binary configuration file, and transmit the transformed version of the binary configuration file to the housing as a replacement for the binary configuration file. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are described.
US09967151B2
A secure remote actuation system may comprise a remote input receptor and a central signal switch. The remote input receptor may comprise a user interface for receiving user inputs from a user. The central signal switch may comprise acceptable inputs. The central signal switch may further comprise a microcontroller for obtaining and comparing the user inputs to the acceptable inputs. In the present invention, the microcontroller obtains the user inputs from the remote input receptor while the user is using the user interface.
US09967150B2
A visibility infrastructure network or monitoring a switching network is disclosed. There are included a plurality of network infrastructure visibility elements implementing forwarding hardware for forwarding packets to monitoring tools. There is also included an abstracted operating system shared by said plurality of network infrastructure visibility elements. There are further included at least one application executing on said abstracted operating system and a common logical architecture having common protocols for enabling the plurality of network infrastructure visibility elements and the applications to communicate with the abstracted operating system.
US09967147B2
Wireless networking methodologies and related apparatus are presented here. An embodiment of a wireless coordinator device is operated to monitor and control other wireless devices in a network. The coordinator device maintains a record that includes information related to a network topology and wireless connectivity of the wireless network. The coordinator device detects a change to the network topology or wireless connectivity of the wireless network, and analyzes the record to determine an event that caused the change to the network topology or wireless connectivity of the wireless network. Next, a diagnostic notification (that identifies the event) is communicated to a user or administrator of the wireless network.
US09967139B2
Various examples of the present technology provide a method for remotely controlling zone management of a storage system that comprises generating and initializing a network service for a remote device and a new thread for handing commands from the remote device, determining, for each port of a plurality of ports associated with storage devices of a storage system, a corresponding zone group based at least upon zone IDs of the plurality of ports, setting a zoning configuration parameter corresponding to each group of the plurality of zoning groups using a serial protocol (e.g., SAS management protocol (SMP)), and configuring a zone and port mapping table and a zone permission table based at least upon the zoning configuration parameter.
US09967128B2
The present invention claims a TR069 protocol management method oriented to a WIA-PA network, where a traditional TR069 network management system architecture is improved to extend a TR069 protocol only oriented to Internet terminal device management in an initial design from the Internet to a WIA-PA wireless sensor network; a session connection interaction process between an ACS and a CPE is expanded to establish a session connection between the ACS and a WIA-PA network node; a virtual device mechanism is designed by taking a WIA-PA network gateway as the CPE to store a TR069 data model and proxy device information corresponding to a WIA-PA data model and implement the TR069 protocol to manage the WIA-PA network node in a manner as simple and transparent as that for an interaction between the ACS and the common CPE; a management data model mapping mechanism is designed to establish a correlation from the WIA-PA data model described in TR069 to a standard WIA-PA data model; and a protocol conversion interlace is designed to implement the conversion between a TR069 RPC method and a WIA-PA network management command frame. The TR069 protocol management method has a good reference value for the implementation of the M2M management of the whole network as well as the application and development of the TR069 protocol oriented to the wireless sensor network.
US09967126B2
A method to generate a wireless waveform for use in a wireless communication system, a wireless communication system and computer program product thereofThe method comprises the generation of a waveform for application in the wireless communication system characterized by significant phase noise, Doppler spread, multipath, frequency instability, and/or low power efficiency by at the transmitter side: creating a discrete-time instantaneous frequency signal {tilde over (f)}[n]; appending a cyclic prefix with length LCP to the beginning of the discrete-time instantaneous frequency signal {tilde over (f)}[n]; constructing a discrete-time unwrapped instantaneous phase φ[n]; constructing a discrete-time complex baseband signal, and appending at the beginning a Constant Amplitude Zero Autocorrelation, CAZAC, signal of length LCP for multipath detection; and passing the constructed discrete-time complex baseband signal through a digital-to-analog, DAC, converter to yield the continuous-time radio frequency signal s(t) after conversion to the carrier frequency.
US09967124B2
An example technique may include: receiving, by a mobile station from a base station, a plurality of copies of a broadcast information including a broadcast control message, wherein a copy of the broadcast information is transmitted via each of a plurality of basis function beams; determining, by the mobile station, a gain and phase value for each copy of at least a subset of the plurality of the received copies of the broadcast control message transmitted via different basis function beams. The technique may also include, for example, determining, by the mobile station, a combined broadcast control message based on at least the subset of the plurality of the received copies of the broadcast control message and the gain and phase value for each copy of at least the subset of the plurality of the received copies of the broadcast control message.
US09967114B2
A method and a transmitter for transmitting a pay load sequence are provided. The transmitter includes a ternary sequence mapper configured to map a binary data sequence to a ternary sequence stored in the transmitter, and a pulse shaping filter configured to generate a first signal based on the mapped ternary sequence. The ternary sequence includes elements of −1, 0, and 1.
US09967111B2
An example system for bridging between networks includes a first server that launches a first virtual machine in a first network. The system includes a first network controller that is coupled to the first network and sends a request for a bridge between the first network and a second network. The system also includes a second server that launches a second virtual machine in the second network. The system further includes a second network controller that is coupled to the second network, receives the request for the bridge, and in response to the request, creates the bridge between the first and second networks. The bridge enables the first virtual machine in the first network to communicate with the second virtual machine in the second network.
US09967110B2
A method and apparatus for registering a remote network device with a control device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a registration information message is received by a bridge device from an unregistered remote network device using a first communication protocol. Identification information within the registration information message is stored in a record in a memory. A second registration information message is transmitted to the control device using the second communication protocol, the second registration information message comprising at least some of the identification information. In response, an acknowledgement message is received from the control device, the acknowledgement message comprising an identification code. When subsequent messages are received from the remote network device, the bridge associates these messages with the identification code, then re-transmits the messages to the control device using the identification code.
US09967106B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide techniques that enable messages to be sent to a processing entity within a computing device without knowing the network address of the processing entity. In certain embodiments, instead of using the network address of the processing entity, a message can be communicated to the processing entity using information indicative of a role or state or function performed by the processing entity.
US09967105B2
A system, and computer program product for leader device selection in a control cluster using a shared virtual local area network (VLAN) are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A broadcast Hello packet is received from a sender virtual device over the VLAN at a first virtual device. When the first virtual device satisfies a partnership criterion specified in the Hello packet, a first ranking of the first virtual device is evaluated to be higher than a ranking of a sender virtual device. A first Live packet is unicast over the VLAN to the sender virtual device and a leadership role in the control cluster is taken by the first virtual device. The sender virtual device is caused to stop a broadcasting operation at the sender virtual device. A second Hello packet is broadcasted from the first virtual device over the VLAN.
US09967099B2
A method for providing information includes acquiring modified access authentication information after detecting that access authentication information for accessing a gateway device is modified, determining a device to be notified corresponding to the modified access authentication information, and providing the modified access authentication information to the device to be notified.
US09967095B2
A method of communicating with a detonator assembly wherein an encryption key associated with the detonator assembly is stored in the detonator assembly and a message, intended for the detonator assembly, is encrypted at the control location using the encryption key whereupon the encrypted message is transmitted to each of a plurality of detonator assemblies and each received message is decrypted and validated.
US09967090B2
Systems and methods are provided for protecting identity in an authenticated data transmission. For example, a contactless transaction between a portable user device and an access device may be conducted without exposing the portable user device's public key in cleartext. In one embodiment, an access device may send an access device public key to a portable user device. The user device may return a blinded user device public key and encrypted user device data. The access device may determine a shared secret using the blinded user device public key and an access device private key. The access device may then decrypt the encrypted user device data using the shared secret.
US09967089B2
A secure and change-tolerant method for obtaining an identifier for a collection of assets associated with a computing environment. Each asset has an asset parameter and the computing environment has a fingerprint based on an original collection of assets and on a codeword generation algorithm on the original collection of assets. The method comprises: retrieving the asset parameters of the collection of assets and processing the retrieved asset parameters to obtain code symbols. An error-correction algorithm is applied to the code symbols to obtain the identifier. The method can be used in node-locking.
US09967088B2
A system includes circuitry for rewriting blockchains in a non-tamper-evident or tamper-evident operation using a key secret held by a trusted party. The blockchains may include a series of blocks secured integrity codes that may prevent non-tamper-evident rewrites by non-trusted parties that are not in possession of the key secret. In some cases, the key may allow valid but tamper-evident rewrites of the blockchain by trusted entities. Integrity outputs may be generated from the integrity codes based on the content of the previous blocks in the series such that attempts by untrusted parties to replace a block may be detected through coding-inconsistencies with other blocks.
US09967076B2
A wireless device receives at least one message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells. The at least one message comprises a deactivation timer value for at least one deactivation timer of a plurality of secondary cells. The wireless device receives a scheduling packet for a group of cells and/or a group of subframes. The wireless device restarts one or more deactivation timers.
US09967075B2
A base station classifies at least some of radio communication apparatuses belonging to the same cell into a plurality of groups. The base station assigns to a first group a first signal sequence that is orthogonal to a cyclically shifted version thereof, and assigns to a second group a second signal sequence that is orthogonal to a cyclically shifted version thereof and that is different from the first signal sequence and from the cyclically shifted version of the first signal sequence. The radio communication apparatus belonging to the first group performs spread modulation on data using the first signal sequence or a signal sequence obtained by cyclically shifting the first signal sequence. The radio communication apparatus belonging to the second group performs spread modulation on data using the second signal sequence or a signal sequence obtained by cyclically shifting the second signal sequence.
US09967047B2
A method for transmitting digital data by a primary optical signal between a transmitter terminal and a receiver terminal, involves the following steps: determining a magnitude characterizing optical-wave degradation between the transmitter terminal and the receiver terminal, determining a number of transmission channels by a decreasing function of the magnitude characterizing optical-wave degradation, distributing the digital data over the transmission channels, modulating optical signals of different wavelengths using digital data distributed over the transmission channels, generating the primary optical signal by wavelength multiplexing of the optical signals, and sending a transmission configuration, including at least the number of transmission channels, from the transmitter terminal to the receiver terminal.
US09967038B2
Techniques are described for data transfer in spin-based systems where digital bit values are represented by magnetization states of magnetoresistive devices rather than voltages or currents. For data transmission, a spin-based signal is converted to an optical signal and transmitted via an optical transport. For data reception, the optical signal is received via the optical transport and converted back to a spin-based signal. Such data transfer may not require an intervening conversion of the spin-based signal to charge-based signal that relies on voltages or currents to represent digital bit values. In addition, techniques are described to use magnetoresistive devices to control the amount of current or voltage that is delivered, where the magnetization state of the magnetoresistive device is set by an optical signal.
US09967036B2
This disclosure describes techniques to sample electrical data streams in coherent receivers. For instance, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) samples the received electrical data stream at a sampling rate that is nominally twice or greater than twice the symbol rate of the electrical data stream that the ADC receives. A digital filter receives the digital data stream from the ADC, and digitally filters the digital data streams to output a filtered digital electrical data stream at an effective sampling rate that is less than the sampling rate and less than twice the symbol rate, and greater than or equal to the symbol rate.
US09967027B2
One or more operational parameters associated with pluggable optical transceivers are estimated to mitigate impairments to an optical signal caused by imperfections in the optical transceivers. A monitoring algorithm within a receiver signal processor may further use the estimated operational parameters associated with the pluggable optical transceivers to determine whether the transceivers are performing correctly. If the monitoring algorithm determines that either the transmitting or receiving optical transceiver is not functioning correctly, it may generate an alarm signal to notify a system administrator about the damaged device.
US09967023B2
A method of transmitting data for uplink coverage for improvement of a wireless communication system by a terminal improving uplink data transmission reliability so as to be capable of successful data transmission. A method for transmitting and receiving a signal of a terminal in a time division wireless communication system of the present invention includes receiving a TTI bundling setting command from a base station, confirming whether a TTI bundling number is included in the TTI bundling setting command, determining the time when a signal is transmitted and received according to the TTI bundling number, when the TTI bundling number is included and determining the time when a signal is transmitted and received according to a preset TTI bundling number, when the TTI bundling number is not included.
US09967014B1
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for beamforming in antenna systems are disclosed. A method includes determining an unconstrained analog precoding matrix (FRF,UC), wherein the unconstrained analog precoding matrix (FRF,UC) is determined based on M dominant eigenvectors of the sum of spatial channel covariance matrices of K users, and wherein K indicates a number of users communicating with a base station. The method further includes determining a constrained analog precoding matrix (FRF) based on the unconstrained analog precoding matrix (FRF,UC), determining a compensation matrix (FCM), digitally multiplying K inputs with a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoding matrix (FMU) generating M outputs, digitally multiplying the M outputs with the compensation matrix (FCM) generating M compensation outputs, generating M analog frequency-up-converted signals based on the M compensation outputs, and analog multiplying the M analog frequency-up-converted signals with the analog precoding matrix (FRF) generating N output signals for transmission, wherein N is greater than M.
US09967013B2
A method for transmitting feedback information to a base station by a user equipment, for massive antenna array based beamforming in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving information about a plurality of pilot patterns for a massive antenna array from the base station, estimating a plurality of channels corresponding to the plurality of pilot patterns by receiving a pilot signal based on the plurality of pilot patterns, and transmitting the feedback information for the plurality of channels to the base station, wherein the feedback information includes information about whether closed-loop beamforming or open-loop beamforming is applied to the plurality of channels and information about an effective antenna array for the plurality of channels.
US09967004B2
A method of operating a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system using beamforming includes receiving a reference signal over a plurality of downlink transmit (Tx) beams, measuring channel quality information of the received reference signal, and generating effective channel quality information by compensating for beamforming gain compensation information according to the channel quality information.
US09967000B2
A method for a mobile device in a wireless power system includes transmitting a request to a server of the wireless power system for acquiring operation state information of a first wireless power spot in the wireless power system, wherein the request at least comprises a required power threshold; and receiving a response comprising the operation state information of the first wireless power spot, wherein the operation state information at least comprises a capacity and an availability of the first wireless power spot.
US09966999B2
To provide a wireless power receiving device, and a wireless power transmission device capable of improving the reliability of a protection circuit while preventing breakage of a circuit element upon occurrence of any abnormality, such as overvoltage or overcurrent. A wireless power receiving device includes a power receiving coil; a rectifier unit that performs full-wave rectification of the power received by the power receiving coil and supplies the power to a load; power-receiving-side detecting unit that detects an output voltage value or an output current value from the rectifier unit; and switching unit that short-circuits one of two current paths through the rectifier unit if the value detected by the power-receiving-side detecting unit exceeds a predetermined reference value.
US09966984B2
This application relates to a computing device case that provides some amount of torsional force in order to cancel at least some static and dynamic loads experienced by the computing device when the case is arranged as a stand. By canceling out these loads, the computing device to be angled at an almost unlimited number of angles relative to a surface on which the computing device is resting. Flexible elements in the case can resist the static and dynamic loads of the computing device, thereby allowing the computing device to receive touch inputs at almost any angle without causing the case and the computing device to collapse.
US09966979B2
According to an embodiment, a transmission circuit is configured to transmit a signal to a reception circuit through a transmitting AC coupling element. The reception circuit receives a signal through a receiving AC coupling element. The transmitting AC coupling element is AC coupled to the receiving AC coupling element. The transmission circuit includes a drive signal generation circuit and a drive circuit. The drive signal generation circuit is configured to generate a drive signal in synchronization with a transmission signal to be transmitted. The drive circuit is configured to cause, in response to the drive signal, a drive current to flow through the transmitting AC coupling element in synchronization with a rising edge and a falling edge of the transmission signal during a driving period set in advance.
US09966959B2
A feedback control system may include a feedback controller for controlling a plant using pulse density signals. The feedback controller may include a pulse density signal generator and a controller logic circuit. The pulse density signal generator may receive input command signals and generate signed or unsigned pulse density input signals. The controller logic may receive the pulse density input signals from the pulse density signal generator and feedback pulse density signals from the plant and may generate corresponding pulse density control signals for controlling the plant based on the input command signals. The controller logic may include a sign change logic, an addition circuit, and an optional amplifier circuit. The pulse density signal generator may also include rate transition circuits for ensuring that the pulse density input signals and the feedback pulse density signals are uncorrelated.
US09966948B2
An explosion-proof electronic system. The system comprises a substantially explosion-proof enclosure, a substantially explosion-proof glass window forming a portion of the enclosure, an electrical coil located within the enclosure, an electrical excitation circuit located within the enclosure and connected to the electrical coil, where the excitation circuit is configured to cause the electrical coil to establish a magnetic field that extends through the explosion-proof glass window, and a processor located within the enclosure and coupled to the electrical excitation circuit. The processor is configured to monitor the electrical excitation circuit, determine an electrical inductance of the electrical coil based on monitoring the electrical excitation circuit, identify a fluctuation of the electrical inductance that exceeds a predetermined threshold as a control input, and transmit an output in response to the control input, whereby a human operator can provide the control input by bringing a finger proximate to the explosion-proof glass window.
US09966947B2
A gate driving circuit for an insulated gate-type power semiconductor element includes an Nch MOSFET which turns on the insulated gate-type power semiconductor element, a Pch MOSFET which turns off the insulated gate-type power semiconductor element, a control circuit which turns on the Nch MOSFET by applying a positive voltage to the gate electrode of the Nch MOSFET, and which turns on the Pch MOSFET by applying a negative voltage to the gate electrode of the Pch MOSFET, and a power supply which applies a negative voltage to the drain electrode of the Pch MOSFET and to a negative-side electrode of the control circuit, which applies a positive voltage to the drain electrode of the Nch MOSFET, and which applies to a positive-side electrode of the control circuit a positive voltage whose absolute value is larger than absolute value of the positive voltage applied to the drain electrode of the Nch MOSFET.
US09966935B2
A latch circuit includes a first input node, a second input node, a first output node, a second output node, a first switching device coupled between the first output node and the second output node, and a first amplification circuit coupled with the first input node, the second input node, the first output node, and the second output node. The first switching device is configured to be turned on in response to a first state of a clock signal and to be turned off in response to a second state of the clock signal. The first amplification circuit is configured to cause a voltage difference across the first switching device based on voltage levels of the first input node and the second input node in response to the first state of the clock signal.
US09966927B2
RF filtering circuitry includes a common node, a first input/output node, a second/input output node, a first filter coupled between the common node, the first input/output node, and the second input/output node, and a second filter coupled between the common node, the first input/output node, and the second input/output node. The first filter is configured to provide a first bandpass filter response between the common node and the first input/output node, where the first bandpass filter response is configured to pass RF signals within a first subset of the first frequency band while attenuating other signals. Further, the first filter is configured to provide a bandstop filter response between the common node and the second input/output node, where the bandstop filter response is configured to attenuate RF signals within the first subset of the first frequency band while passing other signals.
US09966923B2
There is disclosed herein integrated circuitry, comprising a signal path connected to a connection pad, for connection to external circuitry; and a termination circuit connected between the signal path and a voltage reference, wherein the termination circuit comprises a resistor and an inductor. The resistor and the inductor are connected together so as to compensate for parasitic capacitance associated with the connection pad. The signal path may carry an output signal from high-speed circuitry such as digital-to-analog converter circuitry.
US09966922B2
A magnetoresistive effect device includes a magnetoresistive effect element first and second ports, a signal line, an inductor, and a direct current input terminal. The first port, the magnetoresistive effect element, and the second port are connected in series in this order via the signal line. The inductor is connected to one of the signal line between the magnetoresistive effect element and the first port and the signal line between the magnetoresistive effect element and the second port and is capable of being connected to ground. The direct-current input terminal is connected to the other of the above signal lines. A closed circuit including the magnetoresistive effect element, the signal line, the inductor, the ground, and direct-current input terminal is capable of being formed. The magnetoresistive effect element is arranged so that direct current flows in a direction from a magnetization fixed layer to a magnetization free layer.
US09966919B2
A gain control circuit, having an attenuator including first to n-th (n>2) attenuator parts that attenuate an input signal respectively in accordance with first to n-th attenuation control signals to thereby generate an attenuated input signal, a signal amplifier configured to amplify the attenuated input signal, a detector circuit configured to conduct an envelope detection on the amplified attenuated input signal to thereby obtain an amplitude value, a comparator circuit configured to compare the amplitude value with a reference threshold value to thereby generate a comparison result signal, and an attenuator control circuit configured to generate the first to n-th attenuation control signals using the comparison result signal. The attenuation control signals indicate first to n-th attenuation amounts by which the first to n-th attenuator parts respectively attenuate the input signal, and first to n-th time periods during which the first to n-th attenuator parts respectively operate.
US09966917B2
A variable gain amplifier having stabilized frequency response for widened gain control range. A resistor-capacitor compensation network is provided between two differential current input ports and corresponding emitter nodes of cross-coupled four transistors in the variable gain amplifier to desensitize the gain control voltages to the system noise and provide compensation to the VGA frequency response when the differential gain control voltage varies the gain setting, yielding a substantially stabilized frequency response over a −3 dB bandwidth ranging from 1 GHz to 60 GHz with a widened gain control range up to 12 dB without increasing power consumption.
US09966914B2
A method of processing an audio signal is provided. The method includes receiving at least one digital audio stream from at least one audio source, applying at least one gain value to each of the at least one digital audio stream by a gain adjustment unit, mixing the at least one digital audio stream to which the at least one gain value has been applied, calculating a representative gain value from the at least one gain value, calculating an extra valid headroom based on the representative gain value for correction of the mixed at least one digital audio stream, and post-processing the mixed at least one digital audio stream using the extra valid headroom.
US09966909B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an amplification circuit includes an amplifier connected to a filter, wherein the amplifier has an input and an output and the filter has an input connected to the output of the amplifier. The amplification circuit includes a comparator that has an input connected to the output of the filter and an input coupled for receiving a reference voltage. The output of the comparator is connected to the input of the amplification circuit. In accordance with another embodiment, a method for generating an output signal is provided that includes generating an amplified signal by amplifying a signal that has an input portion and a feedback portion. A comparison signal is generated in response to comparing the signal with a reference signal and the comparison signal is used to set the output voltage to be substantially equal to the reference voltage.
US09966900B2
An apparatus includes a first oscillator to generate an output signal that has a first frequency. The apparatus further includes a second oscillator to generate an output signal that has a second frequency. The second frequency varies as a function of temperature. The apparatus further includes a controller that counts a number of cycles of the output signal of the second oscillator in order to determine whether to calibrate the first oscillator.
US09966896B2
A motor drive device assembly capable of suppressing differences in temperatures of motor drive devices depending on operational conditions. The motor drive device assembly includes a first motor drive device including a first heatsink, a second motor drive device located adjacent to the first motor drive device and including a second heatsink formed separately from the first heatsink, and a connection part connecting the first heatsink and the second heatsink to each other, to allow thermal conduction between the first heatsink and the second heatsink.
US09966892B2
An electronic magnetic bearing controller for controlling the position of a rotor of an electrical machine supported by an active magnetic bearing the position of which being measured by at least one inductive position sensor having an inductive coil, comprising an automatic reactive power compensation device for automatically compensating the reactive power consumed by the inductive position sensor.
US09966887B2
A back electromotive force (BEMF) zero cross may be detected in a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor that is controlled by pulse width modulation (PWM). A phase input of the BLDC motor is tri-stated during PWM periods in which the phase input conducts motor drive current, and the tri-stating of the phase input is used to determine whether a BEMF zero cross has occurred in the BLDC motor.
US09966886B2
Method for determining the rotor position of a synchronous machine operated in field-oriented manner
A method for determining the rotor position of a synchronous machine operated in field-oriented manner, which has an effective inductivity that is dependent on the rotor position, the motor current being acquired, and the motor voltage being set with the aid of a pulse-width-modulation method, a signal which is in synchrony with the pulse-width-modulation frequency being superimposed on the motor voltage value to be set, values of the motor current being acquired in synchrony with the pulse-width modulation frequency, a current component induced by the superimposed voltage signal and a residual current component, i.e., fundamental wave component, being determined, the current component induced by the superimposed voltage signal being used for determining an estimated rotor angle position, whose phase error in relation to the actual rotor angle position is reduced by means of a flux model, the residual current component being supplied to a current controller.
US09966883B2
The present teaching relates to a method/apparatus for a magnetic sensor. The apparatus of the magnetic sensor resides in a housing and includes an input port and an output port, both extending from the housing. The apparatus also includes an electrical circuit which comprises a magnetic field detecting circuit, configured to detect an external magnetic field and output a magnetic induction signal that is indicative of information related to the external magnetic field, an output control circuit coupled between the magnetic field detecting circuit and the output port, and a state control circuit coupled with the output control circuit and configured to determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied and signal the same to the output control circuit. When the predetermined condition is satisfied, the state control circuit is at least responsive to the magnetic induction signal to enable the output control circuit to control the magnetic sensor to operate in at least one of a first state and a second state. In the first state, a load current flows in a first direction from the output port to outside of the magnetic sensor. In the second state, a load current flows in a second direction opposite of the first direction from outside of the magnetic sensor into the magnetic sensor via the output port. When the predetermined condition is not satisfied, the state control circuit enables the output control circuit to control the magnetic sensor to operate in a third state.
US09966882B2
A control system for an electric motor comprises a current sensing means arranged to produce a current sensing output indicative of electric current in the motor, current control means arranged to receive the current sensing output and to output a voltage demand indicative of voltages to be applied to the motor, and current sensing correction means arranged to monitor the voltage demand to measure distortion in the current sensing output and to generate a correction signal which is arranged to correct the distortion.
US09966874B2
In a modular multi-level power converter, additional switching states are interleaved between main switching states that control output voltage or waveform. The additional switching states provide current from a DC-link to charge capacitors in respective modules or cells to an offset voltage from which the capacitor voltages are controlled toward a reference voltage during each switching cycle rather than being allowed to build up over a period of an output waveform of variable line frequency, possibly including zero frequency. Since the switching cycle is much shorter than the duration of a line frequency cycle and the capacitor voltages are balanced during each switching cycle, output voltage ripple can be limited as desired with a capacitor of much smaller value and size than would otherwise be required.
US09966871B2
A rectifier including an autonomous type synchronous-rectification MOSFET is provided, which prevents chattering and through-current caused by a malfunction when a noise is applied. The rectifier includes: a rectification MOSFET for performing synchronous rectification; a determination circuit configured to input a voltage between a pair of main terminals of the rectification MOSFET, and to determine whether the rectification MOSFET is in on or off state on the basis of the inputted voltage; and a gate drive circuit configured such that a gate of the rectification MOSFET is turned on and off by a comparison signal from the determination circuit, and such that a time required to boost a gate voltage when the rectification MOSFET is turned on is longer than a time required to lower the gate voltage when the rectification MOSFET is turned off.
US09966870B2
To reduce the number of mounted components in the power conversion device and drive device.Each high-side transistor and low-side transistor has an EGE-type structure of (emitter-gate-emitter type). A high-side driver includes a first pull-up transistor configured to apply a first positive voltage to a gate based on an emitter of the high-side transistor, and a first pull-down transistor configured to couple the gate to the emitter. A low-side driver includes a second pull-up transistor configured to apply a second positive voltage to the gate based on an emitter of the low-side transistor, and a second pull-down transistor configured to couple the gate to the emitter.
US09966868B2
An autotransformer for converting three-phase AC power to nine-phase AC power. The autotransformer includes three coils each having serial connected windings and non-serial connected windings. The combination of the serial and non-serial windings are interconnected to form a polygon for a total of six windings per phase, in an arrangement which reduces the power rating of an autotransformer suitable for 18-pulse AC to DC power converters. There are a plurality of direct outputs that are equal in magnitude and are out of phase with respect to the voltages at the input. The input is offset from the nine outputs to create the required phase magnitudes for DC power converters.
US09966865B2
The power supply apparatus includes a control unit that can perform intermittent operation of alternately repeating a switching period and a switching halt period, wherein the switching period is for performing switching operation of alternately turning on or turning off two switching elements across a turn-off period for turning off both of the two switching elements, and the switching halt period is for halting the switching operation. In a transition from the switching period to the switching halt period, the control unit makes the transition to the switching halt period after turning on a second switching element. In a transition from the switching halt period to the switching period, the control unit also makes the transition to the switching period after turning on the second switching element.
US09966863B2
A switching power-supply circuit includes a second rectifying/smoothing circuit arranged to generate a second output voltage by rectifying and smoothing the output of a second secondary winding, and the second rectifying/smoothing circuit includes a second rectifier circuit and a capacitor, connected to the second secondary winding. A second switching control circuit operates in response to an alternating-current winding voltage occurring in the second secondary winding, and includes a time constant circuit causing a switch mechanism connected to the control terminal of a rectifier switch element to operate, and a second feedback circuit arranged to detect and feed back the second output voltage to the time constant circuit.
US09966858B2
A DC-DC converting apparatus for obtaining a constant output voltage includes a DC voltage source that outputs a DC power voltage, a main circuit that converts an input voltage into an output voltage having a set value, an auxiliary circuit, coupled to the DC voltage source, that couples to the main circuit when the input voltage has a fluctuation exceeding a predetermined range so that an output voltage is maintained at the output voltage having the set value.
US09966855B2
A switching converter having a high-side switching transistor and a low-side switching transistor and an inductor, having a circuit for generating a simulated waveform representing a sawtooth inductor current waveform. A circuit for monitoring and voltage at a switch node between the high-side and low-side transistors to determine a time during which the inductor current is increasing and a time during which the inductor current is decreasing wherein voltage across the low-side transistor when it is conducting represents a first portion of the simulated sawtooth inductor current waveform. A circuit for utilizing the time when the inductor current is increasing, the time when the inductor current is decreasing and the voltage across the low-side transistor when it is conducting to generate a portion of the simulated inductor current waveform when the high-side transistor is conducting. A method and a power supply utilizing this circuit are also disclosed.
US09966827B2
A vibration motor includes a housing; a vibration unit accommodated and suspended in the housing, the vibration unit including a first vibrator having a first resonant frequency, and a second vibrator having a second resonant frequency; a first elastic member having one end fixed to the first vibrator and another end fixed to the housing for suspending the first vibrator in the housing; and a second elastic member having one end fixed to the second vibrator and another end fixed to the housing for suspending the second vibrator in the housing. By virtue of the configuration, the vibration motor is capable of working at two different resonant frequencies.
US09966820B2
A method of maintaining a high voltage bushing can comprise inspecting a high voltage bushing connection, the high voltage bushing connection comprising a tubular lead, a lower stud connector, and the high voltage bushing. A method of maintaining a high voltage bushing can also comprise restoring the high voltage bushing connection, which can further comprise applying conductive material to at least one of a mating portion of a tubular lead and a mating portion of a high voltage bushing, machining an outside diameter of at least one of the mating portion or the tubular lead and the mating portion of the high voltage bushing to a predetermined outer diameter, and machining a mating portion of a lower stud connector to a predetermined inner diameter. A high voltage bushing connection can comprise a restored mating portion of a tubular connector and a restored lower stud connector.
US09966807B2
A brushless motor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, and a field magnet member. The first rotor core includes primary projecting pieces arranged along a circumferential direction at equal intervals. The second rotor core has the same shape as the first rotor core, and includes secondary projecting pieces arranged along the circumferential direction at equal intervals. The secondary projecting pieces are positioned between the primary projecting pieces that are adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction. The field magnet member is arranged between the first rotor core and the second rotor core. The field magnet member is magnetized along an axial direction to generate primary magnetic poles in the primary projecting pieces, and generate secondary magnetic poles in the secondary projecting pieces. A rotor includes the first rotor core, the second rotor core, and the field magnet member.
US09966801B2
An antenna apparatus for harvesting ambient radio frequency, RF, energy, comprises one or more RF antenna components arranged to receive RF energy. The antenna components comprise a plurality of frequency filtering components, each filtering a respective frequency band of the received RF energy. A rectifying circuit is arranged to convert a variable electrical signal received at an input from an associated antenna, into a direct current electrical signal for supplying to an electrical energy storage unit. A power management module has an input arranged to receive the direct current and control supply of the direct current to the electrical energy storage unit. The rectifying circuit comprises a plurality of transmission lines, and the input of the rectifying circuit and the input of the power management module are connected via the transmission lines. The power management module is arranged at least partially within a boundary defined by the transmission lines.
US09966800B2
Embodiments provide a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device having a metal body, includes a hole formed in one side of the metal body, a plastic film having a logo displayed on a surface thereof so as to be exposed outward through the hole, a receiving coil attached to a remaining surface of the plastic film, a first magnetism-shielding material attached to a surface of the receiving coil, and a second magnetism-shielding material formed on a bonding plane of the receiving coil and the metal body. The wireless power receiving device may minimize heat emission and power consumption by preventing the generation of eddy current due to the metal body thereof.
US09966798B2
An automatic tuning assist circuit is coupled in series with a transmission antenna. A first switch and a second switch are arranged in series between a first terminal and a second terminal of the automatic tuning assist circuit. Furthermore, a third switch and a fourth switch are arranged in series between the first terminal and the second terminal. A first auxiliary capacitor is arranged between a connection node that connects the first switch and the second switch and a connection node that connects the third switch and the fourth switch. A control unit switches the first switch through the fourth switch with the same frequency as that of the driving voltage, and with a predetermined phase difference with respect to the driving voltage.
US09966793B2
A system for providing a first voltage generated by a main supply and a second voltage generated by a battery to an integrated circuit (IC) includes supply-selection, control logic and switching circuits. The supply-selection circuit includes first, second, and third transistors. The switching circuit includes fourth and fifth transistors that supply the first and second voltages to the IC when switched on. The supply-selection circuit selects and provides the higher of the first and second voltages to body terminals of the fourth and fifth transistors for maintaining required body-bias voltage conditions. The control logic circuit generates a first control signal as long as the first voltage is within a predetermined range for keeping the fourth transistor switched on and a second control signal when the first voltage is not within the predetermined range for switching on the fifth transistor to supply the second voltage.
