US10195946B2
A power sharing system for electric motors and drives shares power between multiple power sources. Multiple motor drives share power between multiple energy sources, without the need for a DC to DC converter. A motor drive adapts the DC voltage range of the power source to either AC voltage or a different DC voltage range to operate one or more electric motors. Either a capacitor bank or a battery is directly connected to a motor drive's DC input. Two separate DC inputs exist, each able to operate at its own voltage and both feeding the same motor through separate motor drives, to allow batteries to be operated at one voltage level while capacitors are operated at another. The motor drives inherently cause power to flow between the motor and either power source, regardless of the relative voltages of the two sources, provided that each source is at a sufficient voltage to power the motor independently.
US10195944B2
In a control apparatus mounted in a vehicle and configured to control a power supply system, a power generation controller is configured to operate an alternator such that a charge level of a second rechargeable battery becomes a target charge level. A target charge level setter is configured to variably set the target charge level of the second rechargeable battery based on changes in a state quantity correlated with at least one of a charge state and a discharge state of the second rechargeable battery. A limiter is configured to, if there is a change in the state quantity and if a prescribed permission condition is not met, limit an operation of the alternator.
US10195943B1
An instrument cluster for a vehicle includes a display panel including a surface light-emitting display portion, a pointer disposed under the display panel and configured to divide the surface light-emitting display portion into a light-emitting region and a non-light-emitting region, a rotary shaft unit for rotating the pointer so that the pointer moves in the longitudinal direction of the surface light-emitting display portion, and an illumination unit disposed under the rotary shaft unit to emit light to an interior of the pointer. The pointer includes a straight bar extending a predetermined length across the surface light-emitting display portion, and a bent bar bent at the distal end of the straight bar and disposed outward of the surface light-emitting display portion.
US10195942B2
In a display device, when an ignition switch of a vehicle is off, an external light entering toward a front side of a meter panel is reflected on a smoke layer and a second light shielding layer, and a decorative part and a predetermined zone are, as a whole, viewed through a second opening as being in a ring shape with a width of the second opening and of a color tone based on the smoke layer and the second light shielding layer. When the ignition switch of the vehicle is on, the predetermined zone is illuminated in a predetermined color by a light emitted by a light source with a width of the first opening to be viewed as being wider than the decorative part.
US10195939B2
A device and a method for operating a multi-axle drive train for a motor vehicle. A first axle and a second axle are operatively connected, at least temporarily, to a drive device. When the second axle is decoupled from the drive device and a request for multi-axle drive with a first value is present, the second axle is coupled to the drive device only when a noise-masking event occurs, or when the second axle is coupled to the drive device and the request for multi-axle drive is absent, the second axle is decoupled from the drive device only when the noise-masking event occurs.
US10195938B2
A pedal assembly having a pedal pivotally secured to a housing. A sensor is fixed to the housing at the pivot, the sensor including first and second components. A member is mounted to the pivot and slaved to the pedal in proximity to the sensor, the member including a coupler and an activating component. Upon pivotal rotation of the member relative to the sensor, the coupler communicating with the first sensor component to generate an output indicative of an angular position of the pedal relative to the housing. The activating component communicates with the second sensor component to function as a wakeup switch for the sensor.
US10195937B2
Methods and systems for modular fuel storage and transportation are provided. In an embodiment, a fuel storage system includes one or more fuel containers each supported by a fuel container support assembly. The fuel storage system may be mounted to a transportation device such as a vehicle or used in a stand-alone fashion. Each support assembly may include a plurality of detachable end support members such as end support members configured to support the end portions of the fuel container and side support members configured to support the body portion of the fuel container. Some of the end support members may include neck grooves such that when the end support members are coupled, the neck grooves form an enclosure around the neck portion of the fuel container. In an embodiment, the support assembly is configured to facilitate release of excess pressure in the fuel container.
US10195923B2
A vehicle air conditioning unit is obtained that is capable of deflecting a blowing direction of an airflow blowing out from a blower outlet formed along a flow path. A movable shaft that supports a length direction other end portion of a guiding member is configured to be movable along the airflow flow direction. As a result, by turning movement of a lever, the movable shaft is slid, through a guide groove, along a vehicle width direction. The distance between the movable shaft and a fixed shaft thereby changes, changing the curvature of a front face of the guiding member, and enabling the airflow blowing out from a main flow blower outlet to be deflected along the vehicle width direction. Namely, the airflow blowing out from the main flow blower outlet is capable of being deflected toward the vehicle front-rear direction rear side, and toward the vehicle width direction.
US10195922B2
A motor vehicle (1) with a passenger compartment (3) and a motor chamber (2). A substantially closed area (7) is arranged in the motor chamber (2), and the area (7) is connected to the passenger compartment (3) via at least one first air outlet opening (18) in order to supply air from the area (7) into the passenger compartment (3). The area (7) is additionally connected to the air outside of the motor vehicle (1) via at least one air inlet opening (13) in order to supply air from outside of the motor vehicle into the area (7). Furthermore, the area (7) is connected to at least one second air outlet opening (14) in order to discharge air out of the area (7).
US10195921B2
A vehicle air conditioning system includes an air handler and a controller. The air handler defines a fresh air inlet, air outlets that directs air into a passenger compartment and a recirculation inlet that draws air from the passenger compartment into the air handler. The air handler operates in a fresh air mode and a recirculation mode. In the fresh air mode fresh air enters the air handler through the fresh air inlet and in the recirculation mode fresh air is prevented from entering the air handler, and instead air enters the air handler via the recirculation inlet. The controller switches the air handler to operate in the recirculation mode in response to determining the following: a diesel engine is operating in a regeneration mode and the air handler is in the fresh air mode.
US10195919B2
Altering the damping rate of a vehicle suspension damper. A pressure of a damping fluid is exerted against a second valve mechanism connected to the vehicle suspension damper. The pressure of the damping fluid is increased beyond a threshold of the second valve mechanism that is adjustable by an adjustment member. The adjustment member is exposed through a high pressure side of the vehicle suspension damper. The second valve mechanism is then opened.
US10195911B2
A pneumatic tire 22 includes a pair of beads 30 and a carcass 32 extending on and between both beads 30. Each bead 30 includes a core 48. The core 48 includes: a main body 56 including a cord 60 extending in a circumferential direction; and a stretchable portion 58 formed from a crosslinked rubber. The stretchable portion 58 is located inward of the main body 56 in an axial direction. The stretchable portion 58 has a size with which at least one cross-section of the cord 60 can be included therein in a cross-section of the bead 30. Preferably, in the tire 22, the main body 56 includes a hard unit and a soft unit. The soft unit is located outward of the hard unit in a radial direction. A hard cord of the hard unit stretches more easily than a soft cord of the soft unit.
US10195890B2
A secure lens sheet or layer suitable for use in a micro-optic system, which is made up of a plurality of joined fine lens arrays (e.g., joined fine lenticular and/or joined fine non-cylindrical lens arrays), is provided. Each array has a lens pitch different from adjacent or contiguous arrays and/or is orientated in a direction different from adjacent or contiguous arrays. A micro-optic security device, which utilizes the inventive secure lens sheet and one or more overlying or underlying arrangements of micro-sized image icons (e.g., line data), is also provided. The image icon arrangement(s) and the secure lens layer are configured such that one or more synthetic images are projected by the security device. These projected images may show a number of different optical effects. With such a combination lens layer, some regions could be optically active when the device is tilted in one direction, some could be active when tilted in the opposite direction, and some areas could be active when the device is tilted in either (or any) direction. The inventive micro-optic security device may be partially embedded in and/or mounted on a surface of a security article (e.g., paper or polymer security document, label, card), or integrated therein.
US10195882B2
An ink jet printer includes: a print section; a container that houses a print associated member; an insertion port into which the container is inserted; an openable cover that openably covers a front surface of the insertion port; and a lock mechanism that locks the openable cover. The lock mechanism includes a through hole provided in the openable cover, and a displacement member provided in a cover-adjacent portion and configured to move between a locked position in which it engages the through hole to regulate opening movement of the openable cover and an unlocked position in which it disengages from the through hole to permit opening movement of the openable cover.
US10195877B2
A tape cartridge is mounted on a mounting section of a tape printer, which has an identification portion configured to identify a type of cartridge containing a tape-shaped printing medium. The tape cartridge includes a tape roll around which the tape-shaped printing medium is wound, a core shaft portion that is formed into a fitting cylindrical shape and has a rotation shaft of the tape roll, an identification concave portion that is provided in an inner peripheral portion of the core shaft and engages with the identification portion, a depressed portion that engages with a pedestal which is disposed on the mounting section, and a core concave portion that includes the identification concave portion and the depressed portion. The identification concave portion is configured to accommodate the identification portion in a state where the tape cartridge is mounted on the mounting section.
US10195874B2
Enhanced printing solutions are enabled by providing ultraviolet curing conditions without requiring complete evacuation of atmospheric oxygen. Increased ink coverage and adjusted surface appearance are also provided.
US10195873B2
In one example, a printer includes a paper path having a drying area, a printhead near the paper path upstream from the drying area, and a convection dryer to force air simultaneously into an upstream part of the drying area at a first density and into a downstream part of the drying area at a second density less than the first density and to force air into the upstream part of the drying area at a first air speed for a duration and then at a second air speed faster than the first air speed.
US10195872B2
A label printer is configured to sequentially issue a reserved number of printed labels on which information on a reserved commodity is printed, and the label printer includes: a designation means configured to designate a commodity; an input means configured to input the number of printed labels to be issued on which information on the commodity designated by the designation means is printed; and a registration means configured to receive, while the printed labels are issued, designation of the commodity by the designation means and input of the number of printed labels to be issued by the input means, and register a reservation.
US10195871B1
A thermal printhead (TPH) is positioned to selectively preheat a blanket surface such as an arbitrarily reimageable surface of a variable lithography system. The blanket then immediately passes through a chamber containing dampening solution vapor. The vapor condenses only where the blanket has not been heated, thus developing an image ready for inking.
US10195869B1
A breaking switch for ink feeding channel and a printing device using the breaking switch prevents leakage of ink when a printing device is not level or not well placed. The printing device includes a case, an ink box, an ink feeding channel from the ink box, and a breaking switch for ink feeding channel. The breaking switch clamps or releases the ink feeding channel and includes a supporting base and a pressing plate. The pressing plate is rotatable between open and closed positions. When on a level working surface, the supporting leg lifts the pressing plate away from the supporting portion. When the supporting leg is free and suspended the pressing plate presses on the supporting portion and closes off the ink supply.
US10195861B2
A printhead device includes firing chambers, nozzles, and shipping fluid. The shipping fluid includes a shipping fluid density and a shipping fluid viscosity greater than a corresponding ink density and ink viscosity of an ink that will be ejected from the firing chambers and through the nozzles.
US10195856B2
In one example, a wedge shaped carriage to carry a printhead back and forth over a print substrate during printing.
US10195851B2
A print bar may include a mounting structure and a printhead mounted to the mounting structure. The printed may include multiple printhead dies molded into a monolithic body and arranged parallel to one another in the body. The body may have multiple channels therein through which printing fluid may pass directly to the dies.
US10195845B2
A head unit includes: a structure; and a driver IC, the structure including a plurality of ejection sections, the plurality of ejection sections being divided into a first array and a second array that differs from the first array, each of the plurality of ejection sections including an actuator and ejecting a liquid corresponding to a drive signal applied to one end of the actuator, the driver IC including: a first block that is electrically connected to one end of the actuator included in the first array, and applies the drive signal to the actuator included in the first array; a second block that is electrically connected to one end of the actuator included in the second array, and applies the drive signal to the actuator included in the second array; and a third block that is electrically connected to the other end of the actuator included in the first array and the other end of the actuator included in the second array, and applies a hold signal to the actuator included in the first array and the actuator included in the second array, the driver IC being mounted on the structure so as to seal the actuator included in the first array and the actuator included in the second array, and the third block being situated between the first block and the second block when viewed perpendicular to a mounting surface of the driver IC that is mounted on the structure.
US10195830B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a decorative panel which, while having weather resistance, exhibits an excellent gloss-matte effect through relative gloss differences, and can present tone gradations in surface gloss areas. A decorative panel has at least a surface coat layer, and a surface printing layer that is provided to part of the surface, said layers being laminated in the stated order on a heat-resistant substrate, wherein the surface coat layer is formed to a thickness of 5 μm or greater from a resin composition that contains a fluororesin and a delustering agent, the gloss value of the surface printing layer (at a light incidence angle of 60°) being 10 or less, and the gloss value of the surface printing layer (at a light incidence angle of 60°) being higher by 10 or greater than the gloss value of the surface coat layer surface (at a light incidence angle of 60°).
US10195827B2
A ferroelectric film a plurality of fired films is provided. E each of the plurality of fired films is made of metal oxide in a perovskite structure including Pb, Zr, and Ti, a total content of Li, Na, and K in the each of the plurality of fired films is 3 mass ppm or less, and the total content of Li, Na, and K on one surface of each of the plurality of fired films is 5 times or more of the total concentration of Li, Na, and K on other surface of each of the plurality of fired films.
US10195824B2
The present invention aims to provide an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of displaying images with a high luminous intensity when irradiated with a light beam and having excellent durability, and a laminated glass including the interlayer film for laminated glass. The present invention relates to an interlayer film for laminated glass, including a light-emitting layer that contains a polyvinyl acetal resin and a lanthanoid complex as light-emitting particles, the light-emitting layer containing not more than 100 ppm in total of a nitric acid-derived component and a carbonate component.
US10195823B2
A composite component has a continuous-filament reinforced thermoplastic material (1) and a metallic insert (2), which is obtainable in that (a) a metallic insert (2) having pin structures (3) attached to the surface is provided, (b) firstly the pinned metallic insert (2) is inserted into a forming tool, (c) subsequently an optionally pre-heated organic sheet (1) manufactured from the continuous-filament reinforced thermoplastic (1) is disposed thereon, (d) the forming tool is closed and subsequent to a dwell time is optionally cooled to room temperature, and finally (e) the composite component (4) thus obtained is removed, is proposed.
US10195821B1
A bamboo laminated construction panel and method of manufacture is provided wherein at least two layers of prepared bamboo are laminated together with outside surface wood veneer layers. Linear bamboo starter boards, made from timber bamboo culm cut to length, split longitudinally, processed to remove sugars, pressed flat into bamboo planks with the soft pith surfaces of two bamboo planks laminated together with grain aligned, are disposed adjacent to each other along the longitudinal side edges forming a linear bamboo starter board layer. The bamboo laminated panel is formed by laminating a first wood veneer layer with grain disposed perpendicular to the vertical centerline of the finished panel, first and second bamboo starter board layers with grains aligned opposingly and equally offset from the centerline, and a second wood veneer layer with grain also perpendicularly aligned. Additional bamboo starter board layers are optionally included in pairs to form thicker panels.
US10195818B2
A reinforcing article (10, 100, 200) includes a porous substrate layer (105, 205) and a plurality of parallel first continuous fiber elements (12, 114, 212) spaced apart from each other and extending along a first direction and fixed to the porous substrate (105, 205). Each first continuous fiber element (12, 114, 212) includes a plurality of parallel and co-extending continuous fibers (22, 122, 222) embedded in a thermoplastic resin (24, 124, 224).
US10195814B2
A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body that includes a porous partition wall which defines a plurality of cells serving as through channels of fluid and extending from an inflow end face as one end face to an outflow end face as the other end face, and a circumferential wall arranged on a circumferential surface of the honeycomb structure body. The circumferential wall has a thickness of 0.5 to 4.0 mm, a gap path is formed along a surface of the circumferential wall inside the circumferential wall, the gap path has a width of 0.4 to 4.0 mm, and has a height of 50 to 99% of the thickness of the circumferential wall, and a total length of the gap path is 1000% or more of a length in the cell extending direction of the honeycomb structure body.
US10195813B2
A honeycomb structure includes latticed partition walls defining a plurality of polygonal cells which extends from one end face to the other end face and forms through channels for fluid, the partition walls are porously formed by using aggregates and a bonding material different from a material of the aggregates, and the partition walls have a relation indicating that a surface porosity of a surface region from a partition wall surface of each of the partition walls to a depth of 15% of a partition wall thickness T and an inner porosity of an inner region from the partition wall surface to a depth of 15% to 50% of the partition wall thickness are different from each other, and a difference obtained by subtracting the surface porosity from the inner porosity is in excess of 1.5%.
US10195810B2
A detection unit for detecting a data row of a press position and a load at the press position; an input/storage unit for storing at least a load value serving as references for determining stop or judge; a calculation unit of the value of the slope of the load for calculating the value of the slope of the load based on the press position and the load at the press position detected; a calculation unit of the value of the slope of the slope of the load for calculating the value of the slope of the slope of the load based on the calculated value of the slope of the load; and a determination unit for comparing the calculated value of the slope of the slope of the load with the values serving as the references to determine stop or judge are provided.
US10195806B2
An embodiment of a screw press separator for separating a slurry containing solid and liquid components has a housing and a cylindrical screen, which is arranged in the housing and on which a longitudinal direction and a circumferential direction are defined. The screen is rotatable about the longitudinal direction. The separator also includes a screw arranged inside the screen for pressing out the slurry, the screw being rotatable about the longitudinal direction, at least one retaining element arranged in the housing, at least one actuator adapted to move the at least one retaining element between a locking position and a freewheeling position, and at least one stop connected to the screen. The separator is configured so that the screen is rotationally fixed in at least a circumferential direction in the locking position and the screen co-rotates with the screw in the freewheeling position.
US10195805B2
A pressure roller for an apparatus for compaction of empty (disposable) hollow bodies (beverage containers), particularly plastic bottles or tin cans, having at least one rotating roller that is disposed at a distance from a counter-bearing, forming a gap, has an essentially cylindrical mantle surface that possesses multiple profiled partial regions of the same type and the same width in its working region, following one another in the axial direction. These profiled partial regions are separated from one another, in each instance, by a circumferential recess. Each of these profiled partial regions—viewed axially—has multiple sections that follow one another. At least one cam-shaped projection that projects radially away from the mantle surface is disposed in one of these sections.
US10195801B2
Disclosed herein is a polarized lens film production apparatus, which may include a humidification heat treatment part which is configured to transfer a film engaged to a ring-shaped fixing jig and heat-treat it under a humidification environment and elongate the exposed film at a center portion of the fixing jig; a forming part which is able to form at a predetermined curvature the elongated film by inserting a forming jig into the fixing jig which is configured to fix the film; a heat treatment part which is configured to harden the film by means of a heat treatment, while transferring the fixing jig configured to fix the film and the forming jig engaged to the fixing jig; and a cutting part which is provided to remove unnecessary portions by cutting the film, thus obtaining a polarizing lens film having a predetermined curvature.
US10195785B2
Provided is a 3D printing apparatus. The 3D printing apparatus includes a build tray on which a building object is layered, a head unit including a plurality of nozzles for spraying a source ink having a gel state onto the build tray, a curing lamp curing the source ink sprayed onto the build tray, and a maintenance unit disposed under the head unit to clean the source ink attached to the nozzles. The maintenance unit includes a case, a nozzle cleaner accommodated in the case to clean the source ink attached to the nozzles by horizontally moving in contact with the head unit, a moving unit disposed in the case, the moving unit being connected to the nozzle cleaner to move the nozzle cleaner in a front/rear direction of the head unit. The nozzle cleaner includes a cleaner housing connected to the moving unit and a cleaning part mounted on the cleaner housing to perform a suction operation for suctioning the ink attached to the nozzles and a wiping operation for wiping the ink the attached to the nozzles.
US10195776B2
A toggle mold closure assembly for injection presses includes: fixed, mobile and reaction planes, mounted on columns; a control unit of the toggle, having four pairs of levers, arranged symmetrically at two sides, in upper and lower parts of the structure, interconnected by a pin and to the reaction plane and mobile plane by respective pins; and an actuation unit of the control element. The control unit is placed on the axis of the toggle in the middle of the pairs of main side levers, which have an outward movement. The control unit is connected, by control connecting rods, to the levers of the toggle connected to the reaction plane, and is placed between the central connection pin of the levers and the reaction plane. The control unit is provided with heads for connection to the connecting rods external to the reaction plane and turned towards the reaction plane.
US10195769B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a gasket forming mold with a structure in which curling of the reversing section of the gasket molding does not occur easily. To achieve said object, the forming mold for integrally forming an endless shaped gasket has forming grooves as cavities in the parting surfaces of the forming mold and the forming grooves have a reversing section in a part thereof. The reversing section has two linear portions and the ends of the two linear portions are connected by an arc-shaped curved section. The two linear portions are arranged at literally-symmetrical positions and are arranged so that a distance therebetween is enlarged little by little from one end toward the other. The ends where said distance is enlarged are connected by the circular arc-shaped curved section.
US10195766B2
A cutting tool is provided. The cutting tool comprises a tip, a body and a shank. The tip has a tip radius and a tip length. The body has a body radius and a body length between the shank and a recess portion along a longitudinal axis of the body. The recess portion comprises a wall which forms a recess with a depth into the body for retaining a major part of the tip length within the recess. The body radius at half the depth of the recess does not exceed two tip radiuses. The tip is made of a hard metal alloy with a hardness of at least 1300 HV50 and the body is made of a steel alloy with a hardness of at least 450 HV30.
US10195758B2
A cut data generating apparatus configured to generate cut data for a cutting apparatus including a cut mechanism to cut a pattern from a workpiece, the cut data generating apparatus comprising: a controller, the controller being configured to control the cut data generating apparatus to: identify a size of an original pattern to be cut; judge whether the size of the original pattern identified is larger than a size of the workpiece; divide the original pattern into plural divided patterns smaller than the size of the workpiece in case the size of the original pattern is larger than the size of the workpiece; and generate cut data for cutting each of the divided patterns, determine whether at least one of the plural divided patterns divided falls within one workpiece along with another divided pattern, and generate cut data for cutting the divided patterns from one workpiece in case at least one of the divided patterns falls within one workpiece along with another divided pattern.
US10195755B2
A hand-held knockout driver includes a main housing having a handle portion, a motor positioned within the main housing, a hydraulic assembly driven by the motor and including a reservoir containing hydraulic fluid, a secondary housing coupled to the main housing and defining a bore therein, a working piston moveable within the bore between a rest position and an actuated position, and a work zone defined between the secondary housing and the working piston into which pressurized hydraulic fluid discharged from the hydraulic assembly is received. One unit of fluid is added to the work zone to move the working piston from the rest position to the actuated position. The reservoir has a fill capacity no greater than about 1.5 units of fluid.
US10195753B2
A shaving blade cartridge including a housing extending along a longitudinal axis (X-X), having first and second longitudinal sides, and being provided with a through hole extending transversally to the longitudinal axis through the housing. The shaving blade cartridge also includes at least one cutting blade and a clip retaining the at least one cutting blade in the housing and having a first leg, a second leg, and a clip body. The shaving blade cartridge is such that the first leg of the clip surrounds the first longitudinal side, and the second leg of the clip is received in the through hole.
US10195747B1
An end effector is provided that includes a vacuum source and a plurality of gripping surfaces with each gripping surface including a plurality of vacuum zones having a non-smooth portion for distributing a vacuum, and a plurality of openings defined over the non-smooth portion for distributing the vacuum on the gripping surface using the vacuum source. The plurality of gripping surfaces is generally arranged in a polygonal shape. The plurality of vacuum zones are generally configured to grip cut-outs having a plurality of shapes. Methods are also provided for removing a cut-out from a sheet of material using an end effector having a plurality of gripping surfaces.
US10195743B2
A horizontal articulated robot in which an arm moves in the horizontal direction for use with objects to be transferred may include a hand on which the objects are to be mounted. The arm may have at least two arm portions including a hand-side arm portion to which the hand is rotatably joined to the front end thereof; and a second hand-side arm portion to which the base end of the hand-side arm portion is rotatably joined to the front end thereof; and a main body portion to which the base end of the arm is rotatably joined. A level which may be attached to the hand, the arm or the main body portion after an inclination of a center axis of rotation of the hand-side arm portion with respect to the second hand-side arm portion is adjusted relative to the vertical direction.
US10195742B2
A driving apparatus includes a joint, a first support member connected to the joint and a second support member connected to the joint. A first elastic body which is inflatable or deflatable is provided along the joint, the first support member and the second support member. A support provided with a first end portion and a second end portion opposite to the first end portion is placed between the first support member and the first elastic body, and the first end portion is connected to the joint. And, a second elastic body which is inflatable or deflatable is inserted between the support and the first support member.
US10195741B2
A method, system, and one or more computer-readable storage media for controlling a robot in the presence of a moving object are provided herein. The method includes capturing a number of frames from a three-dimensional camera system and analyzing a frame to identify a connected object. The frame is compared to a previous frame to identify a moving connected object (MCO). If an unexpected MCO is in the frame a determination is made if the unexpected MCO is in an actionable region. If so, the robot is instructed to take an action.
US10195735B2
A socket head storage and portage apparatus is provided wherein a plurality of socket heads is selectively securable and conveniently locatable proximal a user. A body member includes a first lateral side and a second lateral side. A plurality of first apertures is disposed upon the first lateral side, each devised for accommodation of a particularly sized socket head, and a plurality of second apertures is similarly disposed upon the second lateral side. A medial wall member, disposed interiorly along a medial longitudinal axis bisecting the body member, secures each of the plurality of socket heads in contact therewith. A bar member spanning a U-shaped notch in a top side, a pair of hook members securable into a rear side, and at least one magnetic member disposed upon the front side, enable selective attachment to a variety of objects and surfaces in proximity to a user at a job site.
US10195733B2
A tool handle has a trilobular configured grip portion, with three outwardly extending generally arcuate lobes. Each lobe has an arcuate surface that subtends an arc of about 45° to 90°, and preferably about 60°. The grip portion has two upper surface lobes and one bottom surface lobe. The bottom surface lobe has spaced oval configured finger engaging recesses. A fixedly disposed metal end cap has a rotatably disposed tang for receiving a lanyard for free movement of the tang and lanyard with operation of the tool.
US10195715B2
A chemical mechanical polishing machine includes a polishing head assembly including a polishing head body and a membrane disposed at a bottom of the polishing head body. The bottom surface of the membrane includes a hydrophobic area and a hydrophilic area.
US10195713B2
The present disclosure relates to lapping pads which include an abrading layer, wherein the abrading layer includes a working surface and a second surface opposite the working surface having a projected area Ap, and at least one cavity having a cavity opening located at the second surface, the at least one cavity being defined by at least one rib, each rib having a distal end at the second surface; and a phase transition material having a thermally reversible phase transition, wherein the phase transition material is disposed in the at least one cavity. The present disclosure further relates to a lapping system, the lapping system includes a lapping pad of the present disclosure and a working fluid; a method of making a lapping pad; and a method of lapping using a lapping pad of the present disclosure.
US10195706B2
An object fastening device which can prevent foreign matter from ending up damaging an object when confirming the object is properly seated, which object fastening device is provided with a receiving part, a pushing part which pushes the object against the receiving part, a first drive part which makes the pushing part generate a first force, a second drive part which is provided separate from the first drive part and makes the pushing part generate a second force which is smaller than the first force, and a foreign matter detecting part which detects foreign matter which is interposed between the object and receiving part while the second drive part is being used to cause the pushing part to push the object against the receiving part.
US10195703B2
A machine tool, in particular an angle grinder, includes at least one switching unit that has at least one movably mounted ratchet element and at least one release element for unlocking a movement preventer of the ratchet element. The release element has at least one actuating region that is at least partially arranged laterally alongside an operating area of the ratchet element.
US10195694B2
A method for manufacturing at least one synchronizing ring includes providing a rough-turned blank made from a hardenable material that is in a not-hardened state and laser-cutting the rough-turned blank to form the at least one synchronizing ring, the laser cutting being performed with an energy chosen to be sufficient to selectively harden at least a portion of the material in a region along which the laser cutting occurs.
US10195692B2
A method of creating an article of manufacture is provided, which includes directing multiple laser beams to a single galvanometer; and dynamically repositioning the multiple laser beams in counterpart paths using the single galvanometer to shine the multiple laser beams on and melt a first powder material and, upon solidification of the melted first powder material, forming a first series of duplicate three dimensional structures, where each of the multiple laser beams is used to form at least one of the first series of duplicate three dimensional structures.
US10195689B2
A method of laser welding a workpiece stack-up that includes at least two overlapping metal workpieces is disclosed. The method includes advancing a beam spot of a laser beam relative to a top surface of the workpiece stack-up and along a beam travel pattern to form a laser weld joint, which is comprised of resolodified composite metal workpiece material, that fusion welds the metal workpieces together. And, while the beam spot is being advanced along the beam travel pattern, between a first point and a second point, which may or may not encompass the entire beam travel pattern, at least one of the following laser beam parameters is repeatedly varied: (1) the power level of the laser beam; (2) the travel speed of the laser beam; or (3) the focal position of the laser beam relative to the top surface of the workpiece stack-up.
US10195685B2
A capillary alignment tool for installing a new capillary in the transducer on a wire bonding machine. A capillary alignment tool for installing a new capillary in a transducer on wire bonding machine. A method for installing a new capillary in the transducer of a wire bonding machine using the capillary alignment tool.
US10195679B2
A portable pipe saw assembly includes a saw that may be manipulated thereby facilitating the saw to engage a member. The saw has a pair of housings. The housings are spaced apart from each other to define a cutting space. The cutting space receives the member. The cutting space has a width of at least sixteen inches and a depth of at least twenty inches. A cutting unit is movably coupled to the saw. The cutting unit engages the member thereby facilitating the cutting unit to cut the member.
US10195678B2
A substrate cutting device includes: a first cutter including a plurality of first rotary blades; a second cutter including a plurality of second rotary blades; a first rotation drive unit for rotationally driving the first cutter; a second rotation drive unit for rotationally driving the second cutter; a cutter support unit; and a phase adjustment unit. The cutter support unit supports the first cutter and the second cutter such that the first and second cutters are radially opposed to each other so that rotation axes thereof are parallel to each other. The phase adjustment unit adjusts a phase of at least one of the first cutter and the second cutter such that each of the second rotary blades is located between two adjacent first rotary blades in an opposing area in which the first cutter and the second cutter are opposed to each other.
US10195668B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods for producing a single-walled carbon nanotube in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor. The methods comprise contacting liquid catalyst droplets and a carbon source in the reactor, and forming a single walled carbon nanotube at the surface of the liquid catalyst droplets.
US10195662B2
An example insulation enclosure includes a support structure having a top end, a top wall provided at the top end, a bottom end, and an opening defined at the bottom end for receiving a mold within an interior of the support structure. Rigid insulation material may be supported by the support structure and extending between the top and bottom ends and across the top end. The rigid insulation material may extend between the top and bottom ends and consist of one or more sidewall insulation loops that extend along a circumference of the insulation enclosure.
US10195658B1
The first step is positioning a first die adjacent to the intermediate extent, the first die having a first radius of curvature, the first die being positioned adjacent to the free edge. The next step is activating the first die to create a primary curl in the intermediate extent. The next step is positioning a second die adjacent to the intermediate extent, the second die having a second radius of curvature, the second die being positioned adjacent to the primary curl. The last step is activating the second die to create a secondary curl.
US10195641B2
An electrostatic powder coating method includes spraying a charged powder coating material including powder particles that contain a thermosetting resin and a thermosetting agent, and an external additive that includes oxide particles containing at least one of titania and alumina to electrostatically attach the powder coating material to an object to be coated, and heating the powder coating material that is electrostatically attached to the object to be coated to thereby form a coating film, wherein a content Ac of the oxide particles in the powder coating material that is electrostatically attached to the object to be coated and a content Ao of the oxide particles in the powder coating material before being sprayed satisfy a relationship of Expression: Ao×0.80≤Ac≤Ao×1.20.
US10195635B2
A porous sintered multicomponent applicator nib and methods of making and using these nibs. The porous nibs are made from sintered plastic particles. These nibs are used with liquid applicators devices, medical devices, writing tools or cosmetic applicators to apply liquids containing high solids or pigments to surfaces such as metal, paper, skin, hair, tissue or a wound.
US10195634B2
An apparatus is provided for nebulizing a liquid from a liquid supply through a membrane comprising first and second surfaces and a plurality of apertures extending through the membrane. The apparatus includes an area for receiving a liquid supply, arranged to deliver a liquid to the first surface of the membrane, a vibrator member, arranged to vibrate the membrane to eject liquid droplets from the front surface of the membrane on vibration; and a mechanical coupling mechanism, arranged to provide a removable mechanical clamping force for clamping the membrane to the vibrator member. Various mechanisms for implementing the mechanical coupling are provided, and liquid containers and membranes for use in the device are proposed.
US10195614B2
This invention relates to a collector composition for the direct froth flotation of nonsulfide ores comprising a) 50-99 wt.-% of a mixture of fatty acids and b) 1-50 wt.-% of an N-acyl derivative of sarcosine of the formula (I) wherein R is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon chain with 7 to 21 carbon atoms, wherein the mixture of comprises 10.0-35.0 wt.-% of fatty acid having a saturated C11 hydrocarbon group, 2.5-15.0 wt.-% of fatty acid having a saturated C13 hydrocarbon group, 10.0-25.0 wt.-% fatty acid having a monounsaturated C17 hydrocarbon group and 20.0-45.0 wt.-% fatty acid having a bisunsaturated C17 hydrocarbon group.
US10195611B2
A pipette tip orienting apparatus includes a hopper adapted for receiving one or more pipette tips. A first alignment comb is inserted thorugh the hopper for orienting pipette tips inside the hopper. A second alignment comb is inserted through the hopper for orienting the pipette tips for delivery to a pipette tip rack. The first and second alignment combs are positioned perpendicular to one another through the hopper. Pipette tips are delivered to wells in a pipette tip rack by removing the alignment combs sequentially from the hopper.
US10195608B2
The invention describes a foil of polymeric material comprising a plurality of patch portions and a grid portion arranged between said patches. Each patch portion is connected to the grid portion by means of one or more connecting elements. Each patch portion is separated from the grid portion in the X-Y plane by means of a release portion, said release portion having a tensile strength in the X-Y plane which is lower than the tensile strength of both said patch portions and said grid portion, such that—upon exertion of a tensile force between said patch portions and said grid portion—said foil ruptures preferentially at said release portion. The invention relates to a method for the production of cell-capture chips using said foil, and a cell capture chip produced by said method.
US10195607B2
A microchip comprises a PCR section, a denaturing section, and an electrophoresis section. In the PCR section, a desired region in DNA is amplified. In the denaturing section, PCR amplicon of double-strand DNA is denatured into single-strand DNA. In the electrophoresis section, the PCR amplicon is separated based on the length of sequence.
US10195605B2
The method comprises the step of forming pipes (12) by clamping a bag between shells (13, 14) and by injecting an inflating agent via an inflating connector.The circuit comprises a bag (126) and a press (10) comprising two shells (13, 14) clamping said bag in a state in which pipes (12) are formed between the films (25, 26) of the bag.
US10195604B2
The invention pertains to a zeolite catalyst, methods of making same, and its use in the catalytic cracking of naphtha for the production of lower molecular weight olefins and alkanes, while minimizing production less desirable products. A zeolite is modified by base leaching and by the addition of a metal cation, thereby lowering the Si/Al2 ratio and improving the stability of the formed catalyst.
US10195603B2
Nanowires useful as heterogeneous catalysts are provided. The nanowire catalysts are useful in a variety of catalytic reactions, for example, the oxidative coupling of methane to ethylene. Related methods for use and manufacture of the same are also disclosed.
US10195596B2
There is provided a zeolite which has excellent NOx purifying performance, particularly excellent NOx purifying performance after heat endurance. The zeolite has a CHA structure in which Cu and Ce are carried, and has a Cu/Al molar ratio of 0.25 to 0.48 and a Ce/Al molar ratio of 0.01 to 0.03.
US10195595B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a catalyst that is excellent in stability even at a high catalyst-regeneration temperature. It is another object of the present invention to provide a process for producing an aromatic hydrocarbon from a lower hydrocarbon by using the above catalyst. The catalyst composition comprises molybdenum, a second metal that is not molybdenum, and a crystalline metallosilicate, wherein the content of molybdenum is 1 to 20% by weight in terms of a molybdenum atom, and the content of the second metal is 2 to 20% by weight in terms of a metal atom.
US10195594B2
The invention relates to a novel zeolite catalysts, methods of producing the zeolite catalysts and a methods of using such catalyst, including for production of BTEX with improved yield, product selectivity and reduced char production. The present invention relates to novel mesoporous zeolite catalysts, as well as methods of producing the same. The present invention also relates to methods of producing renewable aromatic hydrocarbons using such catalysts.
US10195593B2
The invention relates generally to a sodium faujasite catalyst, and in particular the use of the sodium faujasite catalyst in producing acrylic acid. In particular, the invention relates to the use of the sodium faujasite catalyst in catalytic dehydration of lactic acid and 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) to produce acrylic acid.
US10195591B2
The invention discloses a binder-free high strength and low steam-to-oil ratio ethylbenzene dehydrogenation catalyst, which is characterized by comprising the following components in percentage by weight: (a) 60-85% Fe2O3; (b) 3-25% K2O; (c) 0.1-5% MoO3; (d) 3-20% CeO2; (e) 0.1-5% CaO; (f) 0.1-5% Na2O; (g) 0.1-5% MnO2, wherein the weight ratio of sodium oxide to manganese dioxide is 0.1-10; (h) 0.1-100 ppm of at least one element or oxide of Pb, Pt, Pd, Ag, Au, Sn; and no binder is added during the preparation of the catalyst. The low steam-to-oil ratio ethylbenzene dehydrogenation catalyst provided by the present invention contains no binder and maintains high strength, and has high activity and stability at low steam-to-oil ratio.
US10195581B2
Parallel reactor systems for synthesizing materials are disclosed. The reactor systems may be suitable for synthesizing materials produced from corrosive reagents. Methods for preparing materials by use of such parallel reactor systems are also disclosed.
US10195578B2
Object is to provide a method of constructing a library of peptides having, at a desired position in the random sequence of each peptide, an amino acid having a portion capable of binding to a target. The invention provides a method of producing a library of peptides having, at a designated position in the random sequence of each peptide, a special amino acid having a portion capable of binding to a target, including (i) preparing a library of mRNAs having, in the mRNA sequence coding for a random amino acid sequence, a base sequence having an altered codon encoding the special amino acid, (ii) preparing an aminoacyl tRNA with the special amino acid linked to a tRNA encoded by the altered codon, and (iii) translating the mRNAs by using a cell-free translation system containing the aminoacyl tRNA to obtain a library of peptides having, in the random sequence thereof, a predetermined special amino acid.
US10195577B2
A process for producing microcapsules containing a shell and a core of a liquid water-insoluble material is disclosed. The microcapsules are prepared using a bifunctional isocyanate, an anionically modified diisocyanate, a bifunctional amine, and a protective colloid. The protective colloid is a polyvinyl alcohol copolymer having hydrolysis degrees from 85 to 99.9%.
US10195570B2
Micro- and nanofilters with precision pore sizes and pore layout have applications in many fields including capturing circulating tumor cells and fetal cells in blood, water treatment, pathogen detection in water, etc. Methods to fabricate micro- and nanofilters not using track etching or reactive ion etching are provided, allowing easy fabrication of single layer or stack of films simultaneously, and/or stack of films on rolls. Microfilter can be made using one or more layers of material. Invention enables mass production of microfilters with lithographic quality at low cost. Isolation, enumeration and characterization of circulating tumor cells using microfilters provides (i) guides to cancer treatment selection and personalize dosage, (ii) low cost monitoring for treatment response, disease progression and recurrence, (iii) assessment of pharmacodynamic effects, (iv) information on mechanisms of resistance to therapy, and (v) cancer staging. Microfabrication methods are also applicable to fabrication of any free standing patterned polymeric films.
US10195566B2
A catalysed soot filter comprises an oxidation catalyst for oxidizing NO to NO2 and/or oxidizing CO to CO2 and/or HC to CO2 and H2O disposed on a wall flow filter monolithic substrate, the oxidation catalyst comprising: a platinum group metal component, and a pre-calcined support material comprising a mixed magnesium aluminium metal oxide having a magnesium content, calculated as Mg, of 15 wt % Mg or lower.
US10195564B2
The present invention relates to a process of conversion of waste streams of petroleum refinery into industrially useful products.
US10195560B2
An air filter cartridge has Z-media and a gasket arrangement with a perimeter gasket member against the downstream flow face and a side gasket member adjacent to at least a partial extension of a first side panel. The side gasket member includes no portion against second, third, and fourth side panels of the air filter cartridge. The air filter cartridge can be used in a dust collector having a tubesheet and a frame arrangement extending from the tubesheet. The perimeter gasket member seals against the frame arrangement and the side gasket member seals against the tubesheet. A method of servicing includes orienting the air filter cartridge against a guide ramp and moving the filter cartridge until the side gasket member is engaged against the tubesheet sealing surface.
US10195558B2
A filter element is provided with a cartridge locating system. The filter element includes a closed end cap and an open end cap with a tubular ring of filter media disposed between the end caps. The filter element includes an annular seal that can seal to round and non-round sealing surfaces and acts to block fluid flow between the open end cap and a pipe assembly in a pressure vessel assembly. A support bar is enclosed by the filter media and has a key. The filter element has a key receptacle to receive the key of the support bar. The user knows that the seal between the filter element and the pipe assembly is fully aligned and engaged when the key from the support bar fully enters the key receptacle of the filter element.
US10195557B2
A flexible filter retainer and a holding frame assembly having a flexible retainer are provided. In one embodiment, the flexible filter retainer for the holding frame comprises a flat body extending from a first end to a second end. The body comprises a bowed shaped retaining portion disposed at the first end and comprises a first strip and a top face. The body also comprises a fixed portion disposed at the second end and comprises a second strip. The first and second strips are linearly aligned and laterally offset from the top face. In another embodiment, a filter holding frame assembly comprises a holding frame and flexible filter retainers coupled to the holding frame. Each retainer comprises a flat body extending from a first end to a second end. The body comprises a retaining portion disposed at the first end and a fixed portion disposed at the second end.
US10195556B2
A laminated nonwoven fabric includes a first nonwoven fabric containing first fibers, a second nonwoven fabric containing second fibers, a third nonwoven fabric containing third fibers, and an adhesive. The second nonwoven fabric is laminated on the first nonwoven fabric, and the third nonwoven fabric is laminated on the second nonwoven fabric on an opposite side with respect to the first nonwoven fabric. The adhesive is disposed between the first nonwoven fabric and the third nonwoven fabric. An average fiber diameter of the second fibers is equal to or less than 3 μm, and is smaller than an average fiber diameter of the first fibers. The third nonwoven fabric has a protrusion including a part of the third fibers entangled with each other on a surface facing the second nonwoven fabric. At least a part of the adhesive is disposed between the protrusion and the first nonwoven fabric.
US10195549B1
Backwash shoes and methods of using backwash shoes are provided to increase the filtration area of a cloth filter media, the backwash shoe having a trailing surface formed from a series of merlons and crenels whereby some of the pile threads of the cloth filter media are compressed toward the support surface of the cloth filter media by the trailing surface and some of the pile threads remain in an extended or straightened position.
US10195532B1
A system and method configured to enhance gameplay between users in an online game. In some implementations, the system and method include executing an instance of an online game and determining the value of a gameplay parameter for a user reflecting progress by that user within the online game. The system and method includes conducting an event in the online game that takes place during an event time period and determining, for individual users, values of an event parameter based on changes in the values of the gameplay parameter determined for users during the event time period and determining relative positions of users based on respective values of the event parameter and distributing awards based thereon. Users are further presented with offers to sell virtual items usable in the online game where the offers include an offer to sell virtual items, wherein the virtual items are usable by a user to enhance the value of an event parameter such that a scoring multiplier is applied to the determination of the value of the event parameter based on change in the value of the gameplay parameter subsequent to the use of the virtual item.
US10195498B2
Embodiments of golf club heads with apertures and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10195493B2
A ball for small-sided play having the same characteristics as a standard soccer ball, but with reduced rebound and no added filler is disclosed.
US10195491B2
A golf ball comprising a core and a cover layer, wherein at least one of the core or cover layer comprises a plasticized polyurethane composition comprising at least one polyurethane and at least one plasticizer.
US10195487B2
Provided is a golf ball manufactured using a golf ball cover coating composition that reduces the influence of external light on a golfer during outdoor use due to low surface gloss and reduces damage to the surface of the golf ball caused by external impact due to excellent impact resistance and cutting resistance. The golf ball cover coating composition may include a base and a hardener. The base may include a modified polyester polyol resin and inorganic particles. The hardener may include a polyisocyanate resin having at least two isocyanate groups.
US10195473B1
A dry sprinkler for a fire protection system. The preferred dry sprinkler has a metallic disc annulus positionable within a passageway to skew a central axis of a face of the metallic disc annulus with respect to a longitudinal axis of the dry sprinkler so that an expected minimum flow rate based on a rated discharge coefficient is provided. The dry sprinkler operates to provide an expected flow rate over a range of start pressures. The expected flow rate is based on a K-factor rating. The dry sprinkler provides an acceptable level of fluid flow rate from the expected flow rate based on the K-factor for a range of start pressures.
US10195472B1
A blanket providing a plurality of pockets in which to contain fire suppression compound. A blanket can be wrapped around a container of flammable liquid to resist fire resulting from a ballistic attack. Fire suppression compound carried in a pocket may be provided as a plurality of sub-portions individually disposed in a respective pouch. End caps may also be included to further surround a container with fire suppression compound.
US10195469B2
A directional valve for a fire suppression system comprises a valve member for controlling the discharge of fire suppression agent. The valve member comprises: a blocking portion to provide a closed setting for the fire suppression agent; a first orifice to provide a fully open setting for the fire suppression agent; and a second orifice to provide a restricted opening setting in which discharge of fire suppression agent is restricted. The valve member is configured so that during activation of the directional valve from a closed setting, the first orifice follows the blocking portion and precedes the second orifice in order to provide a fully open setting followed by a restricted opening setting.
US10195465B2
A control system for fine tuning or spreading a charged particle pencil beam includes a low-inductance, low-power compensation or fine-tuning magnet assembly. The feedback loop that includes the compensation magnet assembly has a faster response rate than the feedback loop that includes the scan nozzle. The compensation or fine-tuning magnet assembly is preferably disposed upstream of the scan nozzle magnet(s) with respect to the beam path to make rapid but minor adjustments to the beam position between iterations of the scan nozzle.
US10195463B2
A radiation-treatment planning apparatus accesses imaging information regarding at least a patient's treatment volume and surface information regarding dynamic surfaces within the radiation-treatment environment as pertains to the radiation treatment. The apparatus acquires the imaging information using a first imaging technology and the surface information using a second technology that is different than the first imaging technology. The apparatus uses the imaging and surface information to influence a radiation treatment plan for treating the treatment volume with radiation to accommodate dynamic physical changes within the radiation-treatment environment during the radiation treatment of the treatment volume.
US10195452B2
A system capable of self-adjusting both sound level and spectral content to improve audibility and intelligibility of medical device audible cues. Audible cues are stored as sound files. Ambient noise is detected, and the output of the audible cues is altered based on the ambient noise. Various embodiments include processed sound files that are more robust in noisy environments.
US10195449B2
A housing for a medical implant that includes a housing wall made of an electrically insulating material with an inner face and an outer face and an electrical transmission through the housing wall. The electrical transmission includes an electrically conductive first terminal contact surface disposed on the inner face of the housing wall, an electrically conductive second terminal contact surface disposed on the outer face of the housing wall, a capacitor integrated into the housing wall and that includes a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode, a first connection line that electrically connects the first terminal contact surface to the first capacitor electrode, and a second connection line that electrically connects the second terminal contact surface to the second capacitor electrode. No continuously electrically conductive connection exists between the first terminal contact surface and the second terminal contact surface.
US10195441B2
Systems and methods are provided for optimizing hemodynamics within a patient's heart, e.g., to improve the patient's exercise capacity. In one embodiment, a system is configured to be implanted in a patient's body to monitor and/or treat the patient that includes at least one sensor configured to provide sensor data that corresponds to a blood pressure within or near the patient's heart; at least one adjustable component designed to cause blood to flow in a direction opposite to the normal direction (regurgitation) within the patient's heart; and a controller configured for adjusting the function of the at least one adjustable component based at least in part on sensor data from the at least one sensor.
US10195439B2
An example of a system for programming a neurostimulator may include a storage device and a pattern generator. The storage device may store a pattern library and one or more neuronal network models. The pattern library may include fields and waveforms of neuromodulation. The one or more neuronal network models may each be configured to allow for evaluating effects of one or more fields in combination with one or more waveforms in treating one or more indications for neuromodulation. The pattern generator may be configured to construct and approximately optimize a spatio-temporal pattern of neurostimulation and/or its building blocks using at least one neuronal network model.
US10195403B2
An inflatable balloon includes a base balloon having a cylindrical section and a conical section and at least one circumferential fiber extending circumferentially around the conical section. The inflatable balloon includes a plurality of reinforcing strips in the conical section over the at least one circumferential fiber. Each reinforcing strip includes a plurality of fibers extending at an angle relative to the at least one fiber. Each reinforcing strip is positioned a set circumferential distance away from a neighboring reinforcing strip.
US10195402B2
An apparatus for preventing stroke by occluding blood flow through a right carotid artery and a left carotid artery of a patient is provided. The apparatus has a first occluding catheter that carries a first occluding balloon that has an inflated configuration that occludes either the right carotid artery or the left carotid artery. The apparatus also includes a second occluding catheter that carries a second occluding balloon that has an inflated configuration that occludes the other one of the right carotid artery or the left carotid artery that is not occluded by the first occluding balloon. An insertion device may also be present to allow for insertion of the first and second occluding catheters.
US10195400B2
The dressing has a pad for adhesive securement to a patient that includes a bubble for covering over a housing of a Huber needle assembly embedded in the patient. A slit is formed in the pad to allow passage of the tubing of the Huber needle assembly. In one embodiment, an insert of foam material is provided in the bubble to rigidify the bubble. A second section may also be provided for folding over the pad to encase the tubing, catheter and clamp of the Huber needle assembly.
US10195393B2
A one-piece catheter (30) and manufacturing method therefor are disclosed. The catheter (30) includes a catheter tube (33) and an adapter (31). The catheter catheter tube (33) includes a tip (331) at one end and an end portion (332) at another other end. The adapter (31) can be configured for receiving a septum (402). The adapter (31) includes a narrow opening. The end portion (332) of the catheter tube (33) is connected to the adapter (31) at the narrow opening for fluid communication between the catheter tube (33) and the adapter (31). The catheter tube (33) and adapter (31) are formed as a one-piece element that is preferably injection molded in a single-shot process. Additional elements, such as one or more retention tabs (313) for attaching to a base can be formed on the catheter (30). The one-piece catheter (30) can be made by a single-shot injection molding process. Additional structures, such as a base can be attached to the catheter (30) by a second-shot injection molding process.
US10195390B2
An oxygen concentrator an inlet opening configured to receive air. The concentrator also includes a compressor configured to pressurize the air received through the inlet opening. An inlet opening restrictor is configured to dynamically change a characteristic of the inlet opening responsive to increased or decreased demand for the pressurized air. The concentrator further includes a sieve bed configured to separate the pressurized air into a concentrated gas component for delivery to a subject.
US10195387B2
A component useable with one or more tube including a body engageable with one or more external surface recesses of the one or more tubes. The component has a pair of jaws extending from the body for gripping an item. The component is configured, such that, in use, in a first orientation of the body relative to the respective tube(s) recesses, the component is movable along a length of the tube(s); and, in a second orientation of the body relative to the respective tube(s) recesses, the component is resistive to movement along a length of the tube(s).
US10195384B2
A full-face cushion for a patient interface that delivers breathable gas to a patient includes a frame connector adapted to engage the cushion with a mask frame. A clip is provided to maintain the cushion to the frame. The clip includes clip portions that connect to the frame with a snap-fit.
US10195382B2
An artificial respiration device for resuscitating a person in a state of cardiac arrest is provided that includes a tubular element, auxiliary channels continuously injecting jets of breathing gas, a deflection element that forces the jets of breathing gas to converge inside the tubular element, and a local restriction of the internal cross-section of the tubular element.
US10195371B2
A trocar sleeve that isolates the surgical device or movement thereof to inhibit or prevent an established non-jet streaming condition from becoming a jet streaming condition and a method of inhibiting or preventing a jet streaming condition from occurring due to instrument obstruction.
US10195355B2
The present invention relates to a supplementary device for a manually operable injection device. The device has a body and a mating unit configured to releasably mount the body to the injection device in a specific position relative to an outside surface of the injection device.
US10195353B2
A pen-type injector is improved so that a user may select a delivery dose of a medicinal product from a multidose cartridge. The injector includes a housing, a cartridge containing the medicinal product retained within the housing, a piston rod, a dose selecting member to select the dose of medicinal product to be expelled, and a drive member to expel the selected dose of the medicinal product. The housing is formed unitary so that the dose selecting member and the drive member are moveably retained within the housing. The injector may include a ratchet associated with an insert to ensure the piston rod only rotates in a single direction through the insert, a button located on the drive member, and a clutch which upon depression of the button prevents rotation between the dose selecting member and the drive member.
US10195352B2
A supplemental device for attachment to an injection device comprises an aligning arrangement for ensuring a predetermined positional relationship between the supplemental device and the injection device; and a securing arrangement for securing the supplemental device to the injection device.
US10195345B2
A cartridge assembly for use with a drug delivery device is specified. The cartridge assembly comprises a cartridge with a retention cap and a cartridge holder. According to one aspect, the cartridge and the cartridge holder may be configured to be fixed to each other in a predetermined position According to another aspect, the retention cap comprises at least one coding feature configured to affix said cartridge to said cartridge holder in the predetermined position by the mating of said coding feature with a corresponding coding feature on the cartridge holder.
US10195340B2
A device (100) for delivering a medicament into a patient's body by injection into or through the patient's skin, including a main body having a top enclosure (116) and a bottom enclosure (104), a reservoir (160) disposed within the main body for containing the medicament, and an injection needle (152) for penetrating the skin of the patient, the needle (152) having a lumen and selectively communicating with the reservoir (160). The device also includes a pressurizing system (600, 140) for selectively pressurizing the reservoir (160). In a pre-activated position, the pressurizing system (600, 140) contacts and compresses the reservoir (160) to reduce the initial volume of the reservoir (160), thereby allowing for partial filling of the reservoir (160).
US10195334B2
Provided is a filter apparatus, comprising two or more filter cartridges having a first end with an inlet and screen and a second end with an outlet and screen, and walls to contain a filter media held in a housing for holding the two or more filter cartridges in about the same orientation, and an attachment clamp connected to the housing. Also provided is a housing for holding two or more filter cartridges in about the same orientation and a method of using the filter apparatus and housing.
US10195325B2
There is provided a method for controlling a flow of sperms in a uterine tube formed by a uterine tube wall of a patient. The method comprises gently constricting (i.e., without substantially hampering the blood circulation in the uterine tube wall) at least one portion of the uterine tube wall to influence the flow of sperms in the uterine tube, and stimulating the constricted wall portion to cause contraction of the uterine tube wall portion to further influence the flow of sperms in the uterine tube. The method can be used for restricting or stopping the flow of sperms in the uterine tube, or for actively moving the fluid in the uterine tube, with a low risk of injuring the uterine tube.
US10195322B2
An electrical arrangement with an implantable cable element may be provided which comprises a strain relief element which is arranged centrically in the cross section, as well as a group of conductors insulated to one another, said group being stranded around the strain relief element, and a common shielding element surrounding the electrical conductors, as well as a fluid-tight cable sheath. The implantable cable element may have a symmetrical construction.
US10195319B2
An object of the invention is to provide a blood component separation device that can keep the concentration of anticoagulant in a predetermined blood component to a constant level to minimize aggregation of a predetermined blood component (for example, aggregation of platelets). One aspect of the present invention is a blood component separation device that separates the predetermined blood component from the blood drawn from a blood donor while supplying to the blood an anticoagulant for preventing coagulation of the blood, where an anticoagulant ratio, or a ratio of an amount of the anticoagulant supplied in relation to the blood, is set according to a hematocrit value of the blood donor so that a concentration of the anticoagulant in the predetermined blood component becomes a predetermined value.
US10195316B2
Apparatus, system and method for providing pressurized infusion of liquids and, more particularly, providing a stable and pressurized flow of fluid to the eye during surgery. Aspiration fluid may be received via an aspiration line at a first peristaltic pump, where aspiration fluid is transferred to a Venturi tank reservoir coupled to a second peristaltic pump. Fluid from a fluid source is provided via a third peristaltic pump to a pressurized infusion tank. A determination is made if the pressure in the pressurized infusion tank is at a predetermined level, where fluid may be transferred from the pressurized infusion tank to an irrigation line when pressure in the pressurized infusion tank is determined to be at the predetermined level. Alternate activation of a plurality of aspiration and irrigation lines are also provided.
US10195313B2
Patterned hydrogel arrays and methods of preparing patterned hydrogel arrays are disclosed. Advantageously, the methods used to prepare the patterned hydrogel arrays allow for controlling individual hydrogel spot conditions such as hydrogel spot modulus, hydrogel spot ligand identity and hydrogel spot ligand density, which allows for preparing a wide range of hydrogel spots in a single array format. Patterned hydrogel arrays can also be formed to include hydrogel-free pools surrounded by hydrogel. Additionally, the patterned hydrogel arrays of the present disclosure support the culture of a range of cell types. The patterned hydrogel arrays offer the ability to rapidly screen substrate components for influencing cell attachment, spreading, proliferation, migration, and differentiation.
US10195312B2
A modified starch material for biocompatible hemostasis, biocompatible adhesion prevention, tissue healing promotion, absorbable surgical wound sealing and tissue bonding, when applied as a biocompatible modified starch to the tissue of animals. The modified starch material produces hemostasis, reduces bleeding of the wound, extravasation of blood and tissue exudation, preserves the wound surface or the wound in relative wetness or dryness, inhibits the growth of bacteria and inflammatory response, minimizes tissue inflammation, and relieves patient pain. Any excess modified starch not involved in hemostatic activity is readily dissolved and rinsed away through saline irrigation during operation. After treatment of surgical wounds, combat wounds, trauma and emergency wounds, the modified starch hemostatic material is rapidly absorbed by the body without the complications associated with gauze and bandage removal.
US10195301B2
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a hydrogen peroxide gas detection indicator which allows more certain visual recognition of color changing according to the concentration of hydrogen peroxide gas. The structure of this invention relates to an ink composition for detecting hydrogen peroxide gas containing (1) at least one of styrene acrylic resins and styrene-maleic acid resins and (2) a methine dye. According to this invention, a color-changing layer is formed using the ink composition for detecting hydrogen peroxide gas, allowing color changing according to the concentration of hydrogen peroxide gas to be visually recognized.
US10195297B2
Iron garnet nanoparticles and or iron garnet particles containing various activatable nuclides, such as holmium-165 (165Ho) and dysprosium-164 (164Dy), are disclosed in this application. The iron garnet (e.g., HoIG and DyIG) nanoparticles and iron garnet particles can prepared using hydroxide co-precipitation methods. In some embodiments, radiosensitizers can be loaded on radioactive magnetic nanoparticles or radioactive iron garnet particles and, optionally, coated with suitable lipid bilayers. Methods of using the disclosed nanoparticles and particles for mediating therapeutic benefit in diseases responsive to radiation therapy are also provided. Another aspect of the invention provides films, electrospun fabrics or bandage coverings for the delivery of radiation to the site of a skin lesion amenable to treatment with radiation (e.g., skin cancers or psoriasis).
US10195293B2
A method and device for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal allergy. The method and the device expose a surface to at least one antigen at a fixed depth. The device includes an application point each having an antigen allowing for the application of the antigen to the surface at a fixed depth. The device may include multiple applications points each with an antigen for simultaneously applying the antigens to the surface.
US10195288B2
As an antitumor drug which is excellent in terms of antitumor effect and safety, there is provided an antibody-drug conjugate in which an antitumor compound represented by the following formula is conjugated to an antibody via a linker having a structure represented by the following formula: -L1-L2-LP-NH—(CH2)n1-La-Lb-Lc- wherein the antibody is connected to the terminal of L1, and the antitumor compound is connected to the terminal of Lc with the nitrogen atom of the amino group at position 1 as a connecting position.
US10195286B2
A conjugate for delivery of drugs, such as genetic drugs, [e.g., siRNA, dsiRNA, or antisense oligonucleotides (ASO)] across biological membranes is provided. The conjugates of the Invention are capable of delivering drugs in both presence and absence of plasma proteins.
US10195284B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for providing controllable local delivery of a therapeutic agent to promote bone formation. In certain embodiments, the invention is used as a treatment for a subject with osteoporosis, bone cancer or bone fracture. The invention provides a therapeutic agent that is tethered to a polymer to form a therapeutic-tethered macromer, where the therapeutic agent is controllably released from the conjugate by degradation of the tether. In certain embodiments, the therapeutic agent is an inhibitor of GSK3β. In certain embodiments, the composition of the invention is specifically targeted to a site in need of bone formation or treatment.
US10195277B2
This invention provides compositions and methods to treat a condition or disease without the use of exogenous targeting sequences or chemical compositions. The present invention relates to single-domain antibodies (sdAbs), proteins and polypeptides comprising the sdAbs that are directed against targets that cause a condition or disease. The invention also includes nucleic acids encoding the sdAbs, proteins and polypeptides, and compositions comprising the sdAbs. The invention includes the use of the compositions, sdAbs, and nucleic acids encoding the sdAbs for prophylactic, therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.
US10195270B2
This peptide/β-1,3-glucan complex includes β-1,3-glucan and a peptide/polynucleotide conjugate in which an antigenic peptide is bonded covalently to a polynucleotide or a derivative thereof. The polynucleotide or derivative thereof of the peptide/polynucleotide conjugate bonds via a hydrogen bond with β-1,3-glucan, forming a complex having a triple helix structure including a single molecular chain of the polynucleotide or derivative thereof and two molecular chains of the β-1,3-glucan. Alternatively, the side chain of the β-1,3-glucan and the antigenic peptide are bonded covalently formed by either a cycloaddition reaction between an alkyne and an azide derivative, or a reaction between a maleimide group or a vinyl sulfone group and a thiol group.
US10195269B2
The present invention relates to the induction of tolerance to antigens, by mucosal, preferably oral delivery of the antigen in combination with an immunomodulating compound producing micro-organism. More specifically, the invention relates to the induction of Foxp3+ and/or IL-10 and/or TGF-β producing regulatory T-cells, capable of suppressing undesired immune responses toward an antigen, by oral delivery of said antigen in combination with an immunosuppressing cytokine secreting micro-organism.
US10195260B2
The present invention provides polypeptides useful as antigens expressed at the pre-erythrocytic stage of the malaria parasite. The antigens can be utilized to induce an immune response and sterile protection against malaria in a mammal by administering the antigens in vaccine formulations or expressing the antigens in DNA or other recombinant protein expression systems delivered as a vaccine formulation.
US10195258B2
The present invention provides a cancer vaccine tape preparation for inducing cellular immunity, comprising: a support, an adhesive layer comprising an adhesive disposed on one side of the support, wherein the adhesive layer carries a combination of: (i) a WT1 peptide and/or a modified WT1 peptide; and (ii) a first cellular immunity induction promoter. The tape preparation can provides high efficacy.
US10195257B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such Alzheimer's disease, that are caused by misfolding, aggregating proteins. The compositions and methods of the present invention comprise a vaccine formulation comprising an antigen selected from the group consisting of i) amyloid-β or a peptide that has in its amino acid sequence part of the amyloid-β amino acid sequence, ii) hyperphosphorylated tau protein or one of its hyperphoshorylated peptides, or iii) a combination of antigens derived from groups i) and ii) and that are formulated with a non-acylated or deacylated, natural or synthetic, bidesmosidic triterpene glycoside carrying an aldehyde or ketone group, which acts as an adjuvant or immune agonist. These vaccine formulations are capable of stimulating a Th2 immunity or antibody response against antigens such as amyloid-β and tau derived antigens, but not a Th1 immune response.
US10195247B2
Disclosed herein is a method of promoting sustained survival, sustained regeneration, in a lesioned mature neuron, sustained compensatory outgrowth in a neuron, or combinations thereof. The method comprises contacting the lesioned mature neuron with an effective amount of an inhibitor of PTEN and an effective amount of an inhibitor of SOCS3 to thereby promote survival and/or regeneration and/or compensatory outgrowth of the neuron. Therapeutic methods of treatment of a subject with a neuronal lesion by administration of a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of PTEN and a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of SOCS3, are also disclosed, as are pharmaceutical compositions and devices for use in the methods.
US10195246B2
The present invention relates to: composition for differentiating non-dental mesenchymal stem cells into odontoblasts comprising CPNE7 protein or gene; method for differentiating in vitro non-dental mesenchymal stem cells using the same; and also use thereof.
US10195236B2
Pharmaceutical compositions are disclosed that includes a therapeutically effective amount of a purified viable gram negative bacteria and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The pharmaceutical compositions are formulated for topical administration. Methods of treating atopic dermatitis using these pharmaceutical compositions are also disclosed.
US10195234B2
Genetically engineered bacteria, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of modulating and treating diseases associated with hyperphenylalaninemia are disclosed.
US10195232B1
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10195230B2
Blood product from crocodylian species as a feed supplement for weanling pigs and poultry hatchlings
The present invention is a feed supplement consisting of a blood product from at least one Crocodylian species such as the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). The blood product is whole blood, hemolyzed blood, serum or plasma. The feed supplement is a liquid or solid. The feed supplement may be combined with a high nutrient feed or starter diet. The feed composition may contain 0.1% or more by weight of the feed supplement. The feed supplement is fed to weanling pigs or poultry hatchlings to increase their weight and feed intake. It is also expected to promote gut health.
US10195222B2
The present disclosure relates, inter alia, to compositions and methods for treating viral diseases and cancer. There are disclosed lipophilic antiviral and anticancer acyclic nucleoside phosphonate diesters, preparation thereof, and methods of using the compounds to treat viral diseases and cancer.
US10195220B2
The application describes Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S), or a (H2S) generating compound or compound capable of stimulating H2S production in a pregnant subject, for use in the treatment of pre-eclampsia (PE) or fetal growth restriction.
US10195213B2
Disclosed herein are compounds that are effective for treatment of various disease states associated with senescence. The disclosed compounds can be used to eliminate senescent cells for disease treatment. The dosing of the compounds includes both single administration and regimens of cycling dosages.
US10195207B2
The invention relates to a serotonin receptor (5-HTR) inhibitor selected from the group consisting of a type 1 5-HTR inhibitor and a type 2 5-HTR inhibitor for use in the prevention and/or treatment of a haematological malignancy. Additionally, the invention relates to in vitro methods for the identification or isolation of a malignant cell from a haematological malignancy or for diagnosing a haematological malignancy based on detecting the expression of type 1 5-HTR and/or type 2 5-HTR. Furthermore, the invention relates to in vitro methods for determining the prognosis, for monitoring the effect of a therapy or for designing a customized therapy in a subject suffering from a haematological malignancy based on determining the levels of type 1 5-HTR and/or type 2 5-HTR.
US10195196B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a method for manufacturing the compounds of the invention, and its therapeutic uses. The present invention further provides a combination of pharmacologically active agents and a pharmaceutical composition.
US10195195B2
The invention relates to Histamine H4 receptor antagonists or inhibitors of Histamine H4 receptor gene expression for the treatment and/or the prevention of vestibular disorders.
US10195193B2
The embodiments described herein include methods and formulations for treating viruses and diseases that are exacerbated by inflammatory responses in the body. The methods and formulations include, but are not limited to, methods and formulations for delivering effective concentrations of levocetirizine and montelukast to a patient in need. The methods and formulations can comprise conventional and/or modified-release elements, providing for drug delivery to the patient.
US10195189B2
This invention provides, among other things, tetrahydroisoquinolines useful for treating viral infections, pharmaceutical formulations containing such compounds, as well as methods of inhibiting the replication of a virus, such as HIV, or treating a disease, such as AIDS.
US10195186B2
The present invention is directed to N-substituted-5-substituted phthalamic acids which of formula (A). The compounds are considered useful for the treatment of diseases treatment of a neurodegenerative disease, psychiatric disease, motoneuron disease, peripheral neuropathies, pain, neuroinflammation or atherosclerosis such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
US10195183B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating conditions, which may be associated with elevated levels of mast cells, basophils, eosinophils, or a combination thereof, with a therapeutically effective amount of dexpramipexole or pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof.
US10195182B2
A method of cancer intervention or eradication by administering an effective amount of an endogenous ligand for the aryl hydrocarbon (Ah) receptor (AhR) named ITE or one of its analogs (the active ingredient) to a subject with cancer is disclosed. An effective dose and dosing frequency of the active ingredient are determined by measuring its blood levels of the subject after dosing. The active ingredient formulated with a carrier system is applied topically, enterally, or parenterally to the subject. The formulated drug can also be administered together with one or more of other cancer therapeutic agents. A maintenance dosing is provided after the subject is free of cancer to insure the cancer eradication. Subjects with cancers of prostate, liver, lung, ovarian, and breast are preferably accepted for treatment.
US10195178B2
Disclosed are compositions comprising (a) a GPR40 agonist and (b) an SGLT2 inhibitor, and methods for treating of disorders that are affected by the modulation of the GPR40 receptor and SGLT2 transporter. Such GPR40 compounds are represented by Formula (I) as follows: wherein ring W, R1, R2, R3, R5, R6, A, and Z, are defined herein.
US10195174B2
The present disclosure provides methods for detecting the presence of a cancer stem cell and their use in cancer prognosis, evaluating risk of cancer metastasis, identifying or validating drug candidates, and determining treatment efficacy. It also provides kits useful for detecting the presence of cancer stem cells as well as methods of treating cancer using CAIX inhibitors.
US10195172B2
Campylobacter are the commonest reported bacterial causes of gastroenteritis in the UK and industrialized worlds. This invention relates to a method of preventing or reducing the colonization of the gastrointestinal tract of an animal with Campylobacter. Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for disinfection of an animal comprising administering to said animal at least one compound that binds to MOMP or FlaA of Campylobacter in an effective amount to reduce the number of Campylobacter present in the gastrointestinal tract of said animal. The present invention also provides a method of preventing or reducing transmission of Campylobacter from one animal to another.
US10195171B2
Processes for producing a nutritional supplement that contains sulforaphane, and supplements formed thereby. Such a process includes combining a cruciferous vegetable, for example, broccoli sprouts, with strains of Lactobacillus, Streptococcus and Bifidobacterium to form a mixture, causing the mixture to undergo lactic acid fermentation, transform a glucosinolate within the cruciferous vegetable to sulforaphane, and yield a fermented mixture that contains sulforaphane, and then producing from the fermented mixture a supplement that can be ingested by an individual.
US10195167B2
A compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for use in the treatment of a condition or disorder associated with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase.
US10195166B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating hepatitis C virus (HCV) infectious disease. More particularly, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating HCV infectious disease or an antiviral composition for HCV, containing at least one selected from the group consisting of: GRIM19 protein or a fragment thereof; and a gene encoding the protein or a fragment of the protein.
US10195161B2
The present invention relates to methods of treating Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy and dominant optic atrophy with tocotrienol quinones, including alpha-tocotrienol quinone, in order to alleviate symptoms of the disease.
US10195157B2
A delivery system containing an active agent within a polymeric material formed from a thermoplastic composition is provided. Through selective control over the particular nature of the thermoplastic composition, as well as the manner in which it is formed, the present inventors have discovered that a porous network can be created that contains a plurality of micropores and nanopores. The ability to create such a multimodal pore size distribution can allow the delivery rate of an active agent to be tailored for a particular use.
US10195143B2
The present disclosure provides a device for self-preparation of a gastroretentive dosage form being capable of transitioning between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, the device comprising an assembly unit including: a compartment configured for accommodating the gastroretentive dosage form in the expanded configuration; and a mechanical system configured for, upon operation of an actuation mechanism: (a) transitioning said gastroretentive dosage form into the collapsed configuration; and (b) locking said collapsed gastroretentive dosage form into the collapsed configuration; wherein the device is configured for being portable.
US10195141B2
Oral dosage forms of osteoclast inhibitors, such as zoledronic acid, in an acid or a salt form can be used to treat or alleviate pain or related conditions.
US10195140B2
Described herein are methods and devices for the long term treatment of ophthalmic disorders. Also disclosed are encapsulated cell therapy (ECT) devices that secrete a biologically active molecule and methods for using the same for the treatment of various kinds of ophthalmic disorders, including retinitis pigmentosa, geographic atrophy (dry age-related macular degeneration), glaucoma and/or macular telangiectasia.
US10195132B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition comprising a dispersion of acrylic polymer particles, a semi-crystalline polymer and an organic solvent. The compositions of the present invention may optionally contain at least one colorant. The invention also relates to a method for making up and/or enhancing the appearance of a keratinous substrate, in particular lashes, by applying these compositions to the keratinous substrate.
US10195129B2
The present invention relates to a composition that acts prior to the action of a tooth whitening composition or tooth whitening patch, the composition containing an oral cavity stimulation alleviating component able to reduce stimulation by the tooth whitening composition or patch. The present invention also relates to a tooth whitening kit whereby oral cavity stimulation is alleviated. The composition that acts prior to the action of a tooth whitening composition or patch of the present invention provides an outstanding tooth whitening effect while alleviating pain by mitigating intra-oral stimulation brought about by the rapid action of a tooth whitening component due to a tooth whitening component active agent.
US10195128B2
An oral care composition comprising zinc phosphate, stannous fluoride, arginine or lysine and an organic acid buffer system, as well as methods of using the same.
US10195122B2
Disclosed are oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions comprising (a) an aqueous dispersion of particles of at least one latex chosen from an acrylate latex, a polyurethane latex, or a silicone latex, and (b) an oil phase, wherein the aqueous dispersion of particles of at least one latex is present in the O/W emulsion in an amount sufficient to stabilize the O/W emulsion. The disclosure also relates to hair styling and/or shaping compositions comprising the O/W emulsions, methods of making the compositions, and methods of styling and/or shaping the hair.
US10195112B2
An adaptor for coupling with a medical container filled with a number N of doses of a product including a gripping member for securing the adaptor to the medical container. The gripping member has at least one needle access port intended to face the outer surface of the septum of the medical container. The adaptor also includes a marking-device coupled to the needle access port, for designating to a user a not yet pierced area of said outer surface, for completing the next of the N successive piercings.
US10195111B2
A container for pharmaceutical preparations includes a base body. The container has at least one first holding element embodied such that it can work together with a corresponding second holding element of a holding device for the container in order to hold the base body securely on the holding device.
US10195110B2
A capping device for disinfection of a medical container is provided. The capping device includes a top portion having an inner surface, a bottom portion having an inner surface and an opening, and a connector. The connector couples the top portion of the capping device to the bottom portion thereof in a manner which permits movement of the top portion between a fully-seated position on the bottom portion of the capping device to form a hollow defined by the inner surface of the top portion of the capping device and the inner surface of the bottom portion thereof, and a position apart from the opening to permit ingress to the vial. The capping device further includes a disinfecting absorbent material disposed inside the hollow and extending through the opening in the inner surface of the bottom portion.
US10195107B1
The invention provides a sensing control method and apparatus, and a vibration massage apparatus. The method comprises: arranging a sensor which senses a trajectory of an external object, and controlling the change of output based on the direction of the trajectory. With the invention, a desirable control effect can be obtained based on the sensed direction of the trajectory of the external object without accurate positioning of the sensor. Not only the convenience of the sensing operation can be improved significantly, but also the control accuracy can be improved; meanwhile, the invention can be well applied to any device for control using several input control signals or variable input control signals for control, thus having a wide range of application and significantly optimizing user experience.
US10195101B1
A cap for preventing hair loss has a crown with protrusions extending from the concave surface of the crown. When the cap is placed on a user's skull at least one of the protrusions is aligned with a suture in the skull. Rubbing on the exterior of the crown at the locations of the protrusion will abrade excess bone growth or thickening on top of the suture thereby assuring circulation to the scalp to support hair growth.
US10195098B2
A spinal decompression harness which hangs from two lines on either side, is attached to a stand. A stool or seat is between the two sides of the stand, and the stand can be attached to a neck of the stool. In this manner, the harness is movable between the two sides of the stand, and one can rotate one or more of the harness, seat, or stand while keeping one's torso abutted to the harness. Their arms can also extend over the harness and be used for writing, typing, and other work, while their spine is decompressed in the harness.
US10195096B1
The feminine hygiene product dispenser comprises an enclosure having a pivoting compartment and a drawer. Interior space of the enclosure is filled with individually wrapped feminine hygiene products such as tampons. The pivoting compartment comprises a concave trough into which a feminine hygiene product may drop when the pivoting compartment is in a closed position. The pivoting compartment may be moved to an open position by pressing down on a lip that extends across the pivoting compartment. When the pivoting compartment is moved to the open position, the feminine hygiene product is passed to the exterior of the enclosure and may be taken by a user. The pivoting compartment is spring loaded and, when released, returns to the closed position where another of the products may drop into the concave trough. The drawer may be used to hold other feminine hygiene products such as pads and panty liners.
US10195092B2
A multi-component topsheet for an absorbent article includes a first discrete substrate, a second discrete substrate, and a third discrete substrate, wherein the second discrete substrate is disposed at least partially intermediate the first discrete substrate and the third discrete substrate, wherein the second discrete substrate is joined to the first discrete substrate and the third discrete substrate, wherein the topsheet has a single layer of substrate in about 80% or more of the total area of the topsheet and a dual layer of substrate in about 20% or less of the total area of the topsheet.
US10195070B2
Methods and apparatus for performing system validation and providing predictive criteria during remote titration of mandibular protrusion are disclosed herein. The effectiveness of oral appliance therapy can possibly be improved by screening obstructive sleep apnea subjects and prospectively identifying subjects suitable for oral appliance therapy. The methods and apparatus for performing system validation on an oral appliance therapy titration system are disclosed. In addition, methods and apparatus for providing predictive criteria during remote titration of mandibular protrusion are disclosed. Further, methods and apparatus for display results of remote titration of mandibular protrusion are disclosed.
US10195059B2
A composite stent graft has a balloon expandable stent portion, a tubular graft material portion inside or outside of the balloon expandable stent portion and self expanding stents associated with the tubular graft material portion. Part of the balloon expandable stent portion can extend beyond the proximal end of the tubular graft material portion. The tubular graft material can be polytetrafluoroethylene, dacron, polyamide, sub intestinal mucosa or any other suitable biocompatible material. A method of deploying which includes flaring a part of the balloon expandable stent portion is also discussed.
US10195048B2
The invention is a modular interbody fusion device for fusing adjacent spinal vertebrae that is adapted to be implanted in a prepared interbody space including a first modular segment having a width including a first rail extending at least partially along one side of the width and beyond a periphery of a body portion of the first modular segment, a second modular segment having a width and slidably connected to the first rail on one side of the width and having a second rail extending at least partially along another side of the width and beyond a periphery of a body portion of the second modular segment, a third modular segment having a width and slidably connected to the second rail on one side of the width and wherein the device has an expanded position in which the second and third modular segments are extended along the first and second rails and positioned in a generally end to end configuration spaced apart by the rails prior to implantation and an implanted position in which the modular segments are positioned in a generally side by side configuration that defines a unitary body that mimics the planar shape of the vertebra such that the device contacts and supports the adjacent vertebra.
US10195038B2
Apparatus and methods for total elbow replacement are provided to allow a surgeon to intraoperatively select a linked or unlinked constraint by utilizing a connection located on the body of the ulnar and/or humeral stem. Additional modularity also allows the selection of a cemented or cementless stem as described herein. The modularity and adjustability provides a number of advantages.
US10195034B2
Systems and methods for magnetic induction of a penile prosthesis are disclosed. The magnetic induction system includes a wand that has a coil arrangement covered with a thermal and electrical insulator sheath operable to generate an alternating magnetic field. The coil arrangement of the sheath is configured to receive the length of the penile prosthesis therein. The penile prosthesis may be made from a shape memory material such that application of alternating magnetic fields generated by the magnetic induction system induces eddy currents that raise the temperature of the penile prosthesis to a temperature above the austenitic transformation temperature that allows the penile prosthesis to achieve an erect state.
US10195026B2
Disclosed herein are prosthetic devices and related methods for implantation at the native mitral valve of the heart by drawing an atrial portion and a ventricular portion toward each other from opposite sides of the native mitral valve, clamping the native mitral valve therebetween. One or more retention members passing through the mitral valve orifice or through a puncture in the native valve anatomy can couple the atrial and ventricular members together and keep them anchored onto the native mitral valve anatomy. The atrial portion can seat against the atrial side of the mitral annulus while the ventricular portion can include hooks and/or a sub-annular ring that engage and capture the native mitral valve apparatus to provide anchorage. The described technology can avoid the need to use sutures to anchor a prosthetic device at the mitral valve region.
US10195020B2
Intraocular lens loading devices and methods of use. In some embodiment the devices are used to sequentially splay first and second haptics while loading the intraocular lens into a delivery lumen.
US10195018B2
An accommodating intraocular lens (AIOL) for implantation within a capsular bag of a patient's eye comprises first and second components coupled together to define an inner fluid chamber and an outer fluid reservoir. The inner region of the AIOL provides optical power with one or more of the shaped fluid within the inner fluid chamber or the shape of the first or second components. The fluid reservoir comprises a bellows region with one or more folds of the bellows extending circumferentially around an optical axis of the eye. The bellows engages the lens capsule, and a compliant fold region between the inner and outer bellows portions allows the profile of the AIOL to deflect when the eye accommodates for near vision. Fluid transfers between the inner fluid chamber and the outer fluid reservoir to provide optical power changes when the eye accommodates.
US10195016B2
An implant delivery system for delivering a sheet-like implant is disclosed. The implant delivery system includes a distal guidewire port for receiving the proximal end of guidewire after the guidewire distal end has been affixed to a first point on bone or other tissue. The implant delivery system is tracked over the guidewire to a selected position defined by the guidewire attachment. The device includes an implant spreader assembly disposed proximate the distal end of a delivery shaft. The implant spreader assembly includes a first arm and a second arm. The arms are coupled to the delivery shaft such that the first arm and second arm are moveable between a closed position and an open position. When pivoting to the open position the distal end of each arm travels in a generally transverse direction to spread a sheet-like implant.
US10195013B2
Packaging for prosthetic heart valves including an assembly for stabilizing dry prosthetic tissue implants such as heart valves during storage. The packaging assembly can be used for storing a bioprosthetic heart valve without a liquid preservative solution. The packaging assembly can comprise a holder comprising an engagement structure configured for removably attaching a bioprosthetic heart valve, the holder comprising a shaft. The packaging assembly can also include a storage tray comprising a cavity and an insert sized to provide a cap over the cavity of the storage tray, the insert comprising a slot having a closed central end and an open outer periphery. The shaft of the holder can be non-rotatably retained at the closed central end, wherein the insert defines a flat, generally planar disc comprising at least one of outward projections and flow passages.
US10195010B2
Methods and devices to prevent and/or treat breathing disorders (e.g., upper airway disorders) in mammals related to impaired airflow are described. Methods and devices apply force to soft tissue that avoids obstruction of airflow in the mammel's airway. Breathing disorders that are avoided by the methods and/or devices include apnea.
US10195008B2
A system and a method for observing piglet birth is provided. The method comprises detecting at a first detection zone, infrared electromagnetic radiation from a first radiation zone including at least a first area of a first delivery zone of a first farrowing sow or gilt, identifying a first event indicative variation in the detected infrared electromagnetic radiation, the first event indicative variation being indicative of a piglet birth, and determining a first piglet birth event by means of the identification of the first event indicative variation.
US10195003B2
A reference member for determining a position of an implant analog can comprise a trapezoidal body including a first side and a substantially parallel second side. The first side can define a first dimension and the second side can define a second dimension that is greater than the first dimension.
US10194996B2
Systems, methods and a sensor alignment mechanism are disclosed for medical navigational guidance systems. In one example, a system to make sterile a non-sterile optical sensor for use in navigational guidance during surgery includes a sterile drape having an optically transparent window to drape the optical sensor in a sterile barrier and a sensor alignment mechanism. The alignment mechanism secures the sensor through the drape in alignment with the window without breaching the sterile barrier and facilitates adjustment of the orientation of the optical sensor. The optical sensor may be aligned to view a surgical site when the alignment mechanism, assembled with the sterile drape and optical sensor, is attached to a bone. The alignment mechanism may be a lockable ball joint and facilitate orientation of the sensor in at least two degrees of freedom. A quick connect mechanism may couple the alignment mechanism to the bone.
US10194993B2
A system for aiding surgery on a patient is described including a display device and a storage device that stores an image of at least a portion of the anatomy of the patient, including one or more surgical navigation markers positioned on the patient, for display on the display device. An analyzer is adapted to receive positional data of a probe based on positioning of the probe relative to the one or more markers on the patient. Based on the positional data, the analyzer outputs correctional data to adjust an alignment of the image on the display device to match locations of said one or more markers.
US10194991B2
A system and process for performing orthopedic surgery is provided that uses a patient's existing implant as a registration tool in an orthopedic surgical procedure. The systems and processes may be used with computer assisted systems or navigation systems to aid in the removal of bone, bone cement, or a bone prosthesis, typically a bone prosthesis used in hip replacement surgery, knee replacement surgery, and the like. The removal of the prosthesis may be done by conventional methods, with navigation systems, robotic assistance or articulating hand held systems. The removal of bone and/or bone cement may be performed with navigated systems, robotic systems, articulating hand-held systems and combinations thereof.
US10194986B2
Disclosed herein are optical assemblies having thin, low profile shapes. These optical assemblies may be used with fiber coupled lasers and other light sources, including high power sources, to irradiate tissue at a wavelength suitable for inducing ablation or coagulation to a target depth, denaturation, thermal modification of a tissue, and/or preferential injury to a target tissue structure. Example optical assemblies can produce substantially uniform illumination patterns that are useful for treating superficial tissue, including the internal or luminal (e.g., esophageal) tissue. Some examples may have capability for cooling superficial tissue or skin, such as a detachable, reusable heat sink for active cooling without consumables, fluid pumps, or other cooling equipment.
US10194980B1
Methods for treating preventing or decreasing the likelihood of a human patient developing hypertension and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed to methods for therapeutic renal neuromodulation that partially inhibit sympathetic neural activity in renal nerves proximate a renal blood vessel of a human patient. This reduction in sympathetic neural activity is expected to therapeutically treat one or more conditions associated with hypertension or prehypertension of the patient. Renal sympathetic nerve activity can be modulated, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a neuromodulation assembly, e.g., a neuromodulation assembly configured to use electrically-induced, thermally-induced, and/or chemically-induced approaches to modulate the renal nerves.
US10194975B1
Unintended current flow or plasma discharge has been observed in known illuminated electrosurgical devices having a metallic tubular heat sink surrounding a conductive electrode and an illumination element, and having a distal outer edge that abuts against the light emitting element. An insulating, shielding or other isolating element that prevents or discourages unintended plasma formation between the distal outer edge and nearby patient tissue can reduce the potential for tissue damage to a patient or injury to a surgeon.
US10194973B2
Disclosed is a method of generating electrical signal waveforms by a generator. The generator includes a digital processing circuit, a memory circuit in communication with the digital processing circuit, the memory circuit defining a lookup table, a digital synthesis circuit in communication with the digital processing circuit and the memory circuit, and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit. The method includes storing, by the digital processing circuit, phase points of a digital electrical signal waveform in the lookup table defined by the memory circuit, wherein the digital electrical signal waveform is represented by a predetermined number of phase points, wherein the predetermined number phase points define a predetermined wave shape. Receiving a clock signal by the digital synthesis circuit. Retrieving, by the digital processing circuit, a phase point from the lookup table. Converting, by the digital processing circuit, the retrieved phase point to an analog signal.
US10194972B2
Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for providing a drive signal to a surgical device for treating tissue. A surgical generator may deliver the drive signal according to a first composite load curve. The surgical generator may receive a first tissue measurement indicating a property of the tissue at a first time during the delivery of the drive signal, receive a second tissue measurement indicating the property of the tissue at a second time during the delivery of the drive signal after the first time, and based on the first and second tissue measurements, determine a difference in the property of the tissue between the first time and the second time. When the difference in the property of the tissue exceeds a difference threshold, the generator may deliver the drive signal according to a second composite load curve that is more aggressive than the first composite load curve.
US10194969B2
The present application relates to a torque limiter (1) comprising a handle (2) with a mono-block cylindrical handle-body. The cylindrical handle-body includes a central through bore (3) having an axis (B) at a right angle to a longitudinal axis (A) of the cylindrical handle-body as well as a first pocket (4) and a second pocket (5). The first pocket (4) is arranged on a first side and the second pocket (5) is arranged on a second side of said cylindrical handle-body opposite of said first side. The first pocket (4) and the second pocket (5) are arranged along said longitudinal axis (A) and intersect each other in the area of said central through bore (3), each of said first pocket (4) and said second pocket (5) comprising at least one magnet (6a, 6b, 7a, 7b; 35). Further, the torque limiter (1) comprises a mono-block shaft (20) having a central shaft (21) removably arranged in said central through bore (3), said central shaft (21) having a drive (23) arranged at a first end. The central shaft (21) comprises at least one protrusion (25, 26; 27) arranged at a second end and being at a right angle to a central axis (22) of said central shaft (21), said at least one protrusion (25, 26; 27) being sized and shaped to be arranged within said first pocket (4) or said second pocket (5) and to magnetically interact with the at least one magnet (6a, 6b, 7a, 7b; 35) arranged in said first pocket (4) or said second pocket (5).
US10194958B2
A surgical instrument comprises a first arm connected with a longitudinal element and a first spinal construct. The first arm is connected with the longitudinal element and includes a body engageable with a first spinal construct and rotatable relative to the first arm in a first orientation and a second orientation. A second arm is axially translatable relative to the first arm and includes a body engageable with a second spinal construct and is rotatable relative to the second arm in a first orientation and a second orientation. The bodies include locks. In some embodiments, spinal constructs, implants, systems and methods are disclosed.
US10194953B2
A spinal rod extension includes a rod portion, a connector portion, a lip, and a connector. The connector portion is mounted to the rod portion. The connector portion is configured for insertion through a screw head of an existing pedicle screw that is used to secure an existing spinal rod. The lip is mounted to the rod portion, and is configured to engage at least a portion of an end of the existing spinal rod. The connector is configured to secure the connector portion to the existing spinal rod.
US10194950B2
A bone screw includes an elongate shaft extending longitudinally between a proximal end and an opposing distal end The shaft bounds a first passageway at least partially extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The shaft is comprised of a radiolucent material. A core is disposed within the first passageway of the shaft. The core can be comprised of a radiolucent or radiopaque material. A head is either integrally formed with or secured to the proximal end of the shaft or the proximal end of the core. The head can also bound a second passageway that extends through the head and is aligned with the first passageway. The core can also be disposed within the second passageway.
US10194948B2
A pedicle screw assembly including a bone fastener having a lower end for engaging bone and an upper end remote from the lower end; a head having a rod-receiving channel attached to the upper end of said bone fastener; a spinal rod insertable into the rod-receiving channel of said head, said spinal rod having an outer surface extending between first and second ends thereof, wherein at least one of the first and second ends has a reduced diameter section. A spinal rod having an outer surface extending between a first end and a second end thereof; wherein the outer surface of said spinal rod has a reduced diameter section at at least one of the first and second ends.
US10194940B2
A living cell collection needle has a hollow needle having a hollow body part, a hollow small-diameter front end part, a tapered part between the front end part and the hollow body part and decreasing in inner and outer diameters toward the front end of the needle, and a piercing cutting edge part at a front end of the small-diameter front end part; a hub fixed to a rear end portion of the hollow body part; an inner tube inside the hollow needle and a living cell sucking tube connected to a rear end portion of the inner tube. A rear end of the hollow needle is positioned inside the hub. The needle has a side tube with a front end portion inside the hub and communicating with the inside of the hollow needle and a rear end portion projecting rearward from the hub and liquid-tightly fixed to the hub.
US10194934B2
A system for controlling temperature of a fluid used during treatment of biological tissue includes a fluid temperature control apparatus. The apparatus includes at least one heat transfer device and a solution bag and/or a heat transfer membrane. The solution bag and/or the heat transfer membrane reside in thermal communication with the heat transfer device. When the solution bag and/or the heat transfer membrane is fluidically coupled to an electrosurgical device, fluid is supplied to the electrosurgical device at a controlled temperature during a surgical procedure utilizing the electrosurgical device to enable more efficient treatment of the biological tissue. A corresponding method includes fluidically coupling the fluid temperature control apparatus to the electrosurgical device and supplying fluid at a controlled temperature during a surgical procedure utilizing the electrosurgical device to enable more efficient treatment of the biological tissue.
US10194928B2
In one illustrative embodiment, a thrombectomy device is disclosed. The thrombectomy device includes a treatment portion, comprising a reversibly-expandable framework configured to be deployed from within a microcatheter into a selected vasculature for removing thrombus or embolus. The thrombectomy device further includes a substantially tubular connection member disposed on a proximal end portion of the treatment portion configured to receive a terminal portion of a delivery member for positioning the treatment portion within the vasculature. The framework comprises structural features for engaging the thrombus or embolus including one or more of: framework peaks and valleys along a long axis of the treatment portion or a plurality of strut members.
US10194927B2
A retrieval device having a contracted state and an expanded state may include a sheath, and at least three support members each having at least two lumens, a proximal end fixed to the sheath, and a distal end movable relative to the sheath. The retrieval device may also include at least three movable members movable relative to the support members. Each movable member may extend through a lumen of one support member of the at least three support members and through a lumen of a different support member of the at least three support members.
US10194924B2
An instrument for preparing an acetabulum. The instrument includes a handle having a reamer coupling feature and a trial coupling feature. The instrument further includes an acetabular reamer having an outer cutting surface and an inner concave surface having an apex. The acetabular reamer has a first handle coupling feature located at the apex adapted to couple to the reamer coupling feature of the handle. A trial having an outer convex surface having an apex is also included. The outer convex surface adapted to fit inside the inner concave surface of the acetabular reamer. The trial has a second handle coupling feature located at the apex of the outer convex surface adapted to couple to the trial coupling feature of the handle.
US10194922B2
A bone, cartilage, and disk removal tool assembly is provided with a motor mounted in a housing. A spindle is mounted for rotation to the housing. A rack-and-pinion mechanism is operably driven by the motor and connected to the spindle to oscillate the spindle for providing a rotary oscillating cutting operation. According to at least another embodiment, a plurality of cams is supported in the housing and driven for rotation by the motor. A plurality of followers is mounted for rotation to the housing, in engagement with the plurality of cams so that one rotation of the plurality of cams oscillates the plurality of followers more than once while preventing over-rotation of the plurality of followers. A peak angular acceleration of the spindle is less than nine million radians per second squared.
US10194917B1
A tourniquet includes: a baseplate with first and second ends; a strap having first and second ends, the strap having a first portion adjacent its first end, and a second portion adjacent its second end; a lever with proximate and distal ends, wherein the proximate end is pivotally connected to the baseplate, and the distal end is free; wherein the first end of the strap is pivotally connected to the lever intermediate to the proximal and distal ends; and a connector assembly operable to selectively connect the second portion of the strap to the baseplate, so as to form a closed loop, the connector assembly operable to permit a length of the closed loop to be adjusted.
US10194912B2
An apparatus includes a body, a shaft assembly, an end effector, and a staple cartridge. The shaft assembly extends distally from the body. The end effector includes an anvil and a lower jaw. The anvil is pivotable toward the lower jaw to capture tissue between the anvil and the lower jaw. The staple cartridge is coupled with the lower jaw. The staple cartridge includes a deck, a plurality of staples, and at least one compressible feature. The deck faces the anvil. The staples are positioned in a plurality of staple openings formed through the deck. The at least one compressible feature extends toward the anvil. The at least one compressible feature is positioned along an outer region of the deck. The at least one compressible feature is configured to compress tissue against the anvil.
US10194909B2
Instrument for stretching the skin for closing wounds, having a skin expander, having at least two jaws mechanically adjustable relative to each other in a tension direction on the skin expander, having barbs associated with the jaws the barbs being anchorable in the skin in the area of the edges of the wound, wherein a tensile force is exerted on the skin by means of the barbs by adjusting the jaws, the force stretching the skin and drawing the edges of the wound toward each other, wherein one or more barbs are each disposed on a carrier extending transverse to the tension direction, wherein the carriers are releasably mounted on the jaws, and wherein the carriers can be fixed in position relative to each other by attachable fixing elements.
US10194907B2
A surgical system includes a handle having a controller and a motor, an adapter releasably coupled to the handle, and a loading unit releasably coupled to the adapter. The motor is coupled to a drive shaft of the handle. The adapter including an adapter identification device in communication with the controller, configured to store adapter data, and to communicate the adapter data to the controller. The loading unit configured to affect tissue in response to a force transmitted by the adapter from the drive shaft. The loading unit including a loading unit identification device in communication with the controller, configured to store loading unit data, and to communicate the loading unit data to the controller. The controller is configured to adjust output of a motor based on at least one of the adapter data or the loading unit data.
US10194902B2
A suturing device for suturing a portion of biological tissue includes a needle attached to a suture, a needle holder that releasably holds the needle, and a needle driver adapted to be advanced and retracted substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the suturing device. A distal needle holder adapted to releasably hold the needle is positioned in a distal position relative to the portion of biological tissue and a distal end of the needle driver is positioned in a proximal position relative to the portion of biological tissue. The needle is positioned in either the proximal position or the distal position. The needle driver is moved longitudinally in a first direction along a path substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis such that the needle and suture pass through the portion of biological tissue, thereby forming a suture incision through which the suture passes. By repeating the above-described processes, a series of stitches is thereby formed.
US10194899B2
Surgical methods for stabilizing a joint are disclosed. The methods aid in surgical repairs by allowing for quick and reproducible repairs to be made. A bone tunnel is formed anteriorly/posteriorly in clavicle, and a bone tunnel is formed superiorly in acromion. At least one cannulated insert is provided into one or both of bone tunnels to protect the bone from abrasions caused by a flexible construct. A flexible construct is passed through the acromion tunnel and the clavicle tunnel. An attachment device may then be positioned on at least one side of the clavicle and/or acromion tunnel, and the flexible construct is attached to the attachment device.
US10194898B2
Suture anchors are disclosed having suture locking features able to lock multiple suture ends extending from a body tissue, such as from a bone tunnel, with a single device.
US10194896B2
A retractor system is provided having a plurality of blade portions that collectively present a low profile tapered configuration for insertion through tissue along a natural tissue plane. Once inserted through tissue the blade portions may be independently moved apart to form an access path to a surgical site, such as by first moving the blade portions apart along the natural tissue plane followed by moving the blade portions apart transverse to the natural tissue plane. The blade portions may be attached to retractor frame members, and rack and pinion frame components may be used to control movement of the blade portions relative to one another. Pins may be used to secure the blade portions to bone.
US10194885B2
A system that automatically detects a myocardial barotrauma (i.e., tissue pop) event so that proper post-procedure care can be given includes an electronic control unit (ECU), a computer-readable memory coupled with the ECU, and detection logic stored in the memory configured to be executed by the ECU. The detection logic is configured to receive a signal generated by an electro-acoustic transducer related to acoustic activity within the patient, monitor the signal for a pre-determined indication of a barotrauma event, and output a notification when the pre-determined indication is detected. The transducer can be integrated with an extra-body patch that includes one or more electrodes for use with a medical device navigation system.
US10194881B2
A radiographic image which is captured by irradiating a subject with radiation is acquired. A body thickness information acquisition unit acquires body thickness information of a subject. The radiographic image may be analyzed to acquire the body thickness information. A noise removal unit removes quantum noise included in the radiographic image on the basis of the body thickness information, using a filtering process using, for example, a smoothing filter.
US10194878B2
Provided is a radiation imaging apparatus, which is configured to acquire radiation exposure image data and non-radiation exposure image data, including: a setting unit configured to set at least one of an order or a frequency of generating offset correction data in association with imaging modes; a correction data generation unit configured to generate the offset correction data associated with each of the imaging modes from the non-radiation exposure image data in the set order or at the set frequency; and an image processing unit configured to correct, with use of the offset correction data, image data that is acquired by imaging a subject.
US10194869B2
An apparatus and method for measuring a biosignal that include generating a control signal for processing the biosignal based on an obtained replication signal or a sensed motion of the subject.
US10194860B2
A virtual image display system adapted for venipuncture applications is provided. The virtual image display system includes at least one infrared light source, at least one image sensing module, and at least one virtual image display module. The at least one infrared light source is configured to emit at least one infrared light to a tissue having a vein. The at least one image sensing module is configured to receive the infrared light from the tissue so as to sense an image of the vein. The at least one virtual image display module is disposed in front of at least one eye of a user. The at least one virtual image display module includes an image display unit configured to show an image of the vein to the at least one eye of the user.
US10194856B2
Disclosed herein are a circuit and a method for the electrical data read-out of a large-area sensor flexible circuit. This circuit incorporates sensing elements of two types, and is therefore used for the measurement of two physical metrics associated with the etiology of pressure ulcers, one of which might be pressure. The flexible circuit is large enough to cover the area(s) of the human body. The flexible circuit comprises electrically of the following components: (a) a passive or active matrix array, and (b) its scanning/read-out circuitry. The matrix array (a) comprises further of (i) two electrodes for the sensing of pressure in each sensing element (sensel) of the array, and (ii) two electrodes for the sensing of another metric (temperature, moisture, pH, etc.) in each sensel. One electrode is shared (common) between the first (i) and the second (ii) sensor in the sensel.
US10194853B2
A system for verifying a sample volume includes a sample reservoir and a volumetric verification device. The sample reservoir defines an inner volume and is configured to receive a volume of bodily fluid. The inner volume of the sample reservoir contains an additive. The volumetric verification device includes a first indicator and a second indicator. The volumetric verification device is configured to selectively engage the sample reservoir to (1) place the first indicator in a first position along a length of the sample reservoir such that the first indicator is substantially aligned with a surface and/or meniscus of the additive and (2) place the second indicator in a second position along the length of the sample reservoir such that the second indicator is substantially aligned with a predetermined fill volume when bodily fluid is transferred to the inner volume.
US10194851B2
A blood sampling transfer device that is adapted to receive a blood sample having a cellular portion and a plasma portion is disclosed. The blood sampling transfer device is able to separate the plasma portion from the cellular portion. After separation, the blood sampling transfer device is able to transfer the plasma portion of the blood sample to a point-of-care testing device. The blood sampling transfer device also provides a closed sampling and transfer system that reduces the exposure of a blood sample and provides fast mixing of a blood sample with a sample stabilizer. The blood sampling transfer device is engageable with a blood testing device for closed transfer of a portion of the plasma portion from the blood sampling transfer device to the blood testing device. The blood testing device is adapted to receive the plasma portion to analyze the blood sample and obtain test results.
US10194848B1
A sensor cover according to embodiments of the disclosure is capable of being used with a non-invasive physiological sensor, such as a pulse oximetry sensor. Certain embodiments of the sensor cover reduce or eliminate false readings from the sensor when the sensor is not in use, for example, by blocking a light detecting component of a pulse oximeter sensor when the pulse oximeter sensor is active but not in use. Further, embodiments of the sensor cover can prevent damage to the sensor. Additionally, embodiments of the sensor cover prevent contamination of the sensor.
US10194847B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure seeks to smooth a perfusion index measurement through use of a baseline perfusion index measurement and/or through the use of multiple PI calculations. The combination of the baseline perfusion index measurement reduces an error between a calculated measurement of PI and actual conditions.
US10194846B2
Methods and apparatus for providing multi-stage signal amplification in a medical telemetry system are provided.
US10194840B2
Embodiments of the invention provide analyte sensors having optimized electrodes and/or configurations of electrode elements as well as methods for making and using such sensors. Typical embodiments of the invention include glucose sensors used in the management of diabetes.
US10194836B2
Biometric monitoring devices, including various technologies that may be implemented in such devices, are discussed herein. Additionally, techniques for enhancing GPS speed and distance measurements based on step counts measured by a biometric monitoring device are provided. Such techniques may, in some implementations, involve blending two independently-measured data streams of raw distance traveled—one based on inter-coordinate GPS coordinate distances and one based on step count and stride length—using a Kalman filter to provide an enhanced-accuracy measurement of distance or speed traveled. In some other or additional implementations, distances or speeds calculated based on inter-coordinate GPS coordinate distances may be smoothed with a smoothing constant that is proportional to the variance in measured step count.
US10194825B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods of detecting disease, methods of treating disease using targeted hyperthermia, methods of treating disease using targeted chemical agents, methods of treating disease comprising accurate measurements of the efficacy of treatments. The effect of nanoparticles on magnetic fields can be used to determine the location of a disease, and a measure of the number of cells characteristic of the disease. This location and measure can be used to guide therapy, and provide information regarding the most effective therapy to be applied. The same nanoparticles can be used to facilitate hyperthermia treatments, and to allow targeted application of chemical therapeutic agents.
US10194817B2
A method of monitoring the cardiac function of a patient includes receiving a position input from a position sensor attached to the patient and classifying the position input into a position class. Cardiac waveform data is received for the patient and then the cardiac waveform data is compared to model waveform parameters for the position class.
US10194815B2
An electrocardiogram high pass filter (25) employs a baseline low pass filter (40), a signal delay (44) and a signal extractor (45). In operation, baseline low pass filter (40) includes a finite impulse response filter (41) and an infinite impulse response low pass filter (42) cooperatively low pass filtering a baseline unfiltered electrocardiogram signal (ECGbu) to output a filtered baseline signal (BSEf). Baseline low pass filter (40) further includes a baseline wander estimator (43) dynamically adjusting a corner frequency of baseline low pass filter (40) as a function of an estimation of any baseline wander within the baseline unfiltered electrocardiogram signal (ECGbu). Signal delay (44) time delays the baseline unfiltered electrocardiogram signal (ECGbu) to output a delayed baseline unfiltered electrocardiogram signal (ECGdbu), and signal extractor (45) extracts the filtered baseline signal (BSEf) from the delayed baseline unfiltered electrocardiogram signal (ECGdbu) to output a baseline filtered electrocardiogram signal (ECGbf).
US10194814B2
Presented herein are substantially automated techniques that enable an electro-acoustic or other hearing prosthesis implanted in a recipient to use objective measurements to determine when the recipient is likely experiencing sound perception changes. Once one or more perception changes are detected, the hearing prosthesis may initiate one or more remedial actions to, for example, address the perception changes. As described further below, the one or more remedial actions may include adjustments to the recipient's operational map to reverse the one or more perception changes.
US10194809B2
Devices and systems are provided to electrically and optically detect hemodynamic properties of a body. Such devices are configured to detect electrocardiographic signals and photoplethysmographic signals and to operate a single analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to sample one or more of each of such signals. This includes operating a multiplexer to connect electrical signals related to the detected optical and electrical properties to the single ADC during respective different sampling times or periods. This can include connecting the detected electrocardiographic signals and photoplethysmographic signals to the ADC during alternating periods of time. Using a single ADC to sample one or more of each of electrocardiographic signals and photoplethysmographic signals can provide samples of such signals that have a relative timing that is known, stable, and controllable.
US10194806B2
A system and method, for measuring phase delay and amplitude of a near infrared signal emanating from tissue of an animal subject in response a near infrared signal input to such tissue, operate by processing a signal from an optical detector and a corresponding signal from an optical detector emulation circuit. In some aspects, the processed signals are fed into zero crossing detectors that in turn feed a time-to-digital converter providing at an output thereof a digital measure of the phase delay of the received optical signal.
US10194802B2
Disclosed is a device (1) for processing and transmitting measured signals which correspond to implant parameters or biological parameters for monitoring and/or controlling medical implants, diagnostic devices or biological processes comprising: A) a biocompatible sterilizable covering (9); B) an electronic signal processing device (2) arranged in said covering (9) and electrically connectable to at least one sensor (5) allowing to process measured signals received from said at least one sensor (5); C) a data memory (16) arranged in said covering (9) and electrically connected to said signal processing device (2) allowing to store data received from said signal processing device (2); and D) a data transmission device (4) arranged in said covering (9) and electrically connected to said data memory (16) for transmitting data received from said data memory (16) to a remote data receiving device (6) which is connectable to an external data processing device (8), wherein E) said signal processing device (2) is programmed to calculate statistically relevant data obtained from the said measured signals to reduce the stored data. Disclosed are furthermore methods to monitor or control bone healing or bone distraction implants.
US10194797B2
A method for selecting an intraocular lens (IOL) to be implanted into an eye, in which the selection is based on a non-paraxial approach. In a ray tracing method for selecting an intraocular lens to be implanted into an eye with a simplified, centered optical system, in addition to the preoperatively measured biometric values, the effective lens position of the corresponding eye and the optical transfer function of the IOLs are used, which are calculated for a standardized distance behind the equatorial plane of the IOL. The method may be used to select an intraocular lens to be implanted into an eye and is equally suitable for spherical, aspherical, toric and multifocal IOLs.
US10194787B2
The present invention discloses an endoscope and a method of manufacturing the endoscope, and a medical detection system. The endoscope includes a housing; and a transparent cover structure, which includes a seal cover and at least one dissolution layer, the at least one dissolution layer wrapping around an outer surface of the seal cover, and the dissolution layer including a soluble material that can dissolve in digestive juices, wherein the housing and the transparent cover structure are connected in a sealed manner to form a sealed space, and the sealed space is provided therein with: an optical lens, which is provided in a region of the sealed space close to the transparent cover structure; a light source, which is provided in a region around the optical lens; and an image sensor, which is provided to correspond with the optical lens.
US10194777B2
Various disclosed apparatuses relate to lighting mechanisms for illuminating portions of a fixture, such as a toilet. One embodiment relates to a seat assembly of a toilet. The seat assembly includes a hinge assembly including a hinge housing and a lighting mechanism. The lighting mechanism is at least partially disposed within the hinge housing. The lighting mechanism includes a light source and a lens. The lens includes a curved portion configured to direct light from the light source downwardly toward a bowl of the toilet. The seat assembly further includes a ring pivotally connected to the hinge assembly.
US10194771B2
Provided is a non-stick cooking container, comprising a container body, in which the container body comprises a ribbed inner surface, the ribbed inner surface comprising a plurality of ribs and grooves arranged at regular intervals, a non-stick coating covering the surfaces of the ribs and the grooves, the ribs comprising a top surface, the grooves comprising a bottom surface. It is difficult to scratch or chip off the non-stick coating of the non-stick cooking container, which allows the cooking container to retain the non-stick properties over a long period.
US10194759B1
A box is provided for displaying items, at least one of which is an ultraviolet-reactive item. The box is sized for insertion into a showcase. The box includes a box structure for containing the items to be displayed, and has at least one shadowing surface, and at least one open or glazed surface. Lighting is provided that is wired with the box structure, and includes a 365 nm ultraviolet LED diode assembly in an adjustable strip. A means is provided for directing the position or orientation of the adjustable strip so that the ultraviolet LED stimulates visible fluorescence in the ultraviolet-reactive item, while areas in the box are subject to ambient or showcase white light penetrating into the box structure through the at least one open or glazed surface; and areas in the box are subject to shadowing from the at least one shadowing surface.
US10194756B2
A light-emitting glazed door for a piece of refrigerating equipment, includes first and second glazing units forming an insulating glazing unit, the glazing units being spaced apart by a mastic seal; a peripheral light source with a source carrier; a system for extracting guided light in order to form at least one luminous zone; and a fastening part, namely a profile, making direct adhesive contact with the mastic seal.
US10194751B1
A split folding furniture support device having an upper support portion and a lower support portion. The upper support section is connected and secured to the lower support section as the shaft inserts into the guide tube. The lower end of the upper main plate touches the upper end of lower main plate forming a load-bearing support. The device can be used to make folding tables, thin waist stool and rotary backrest chair with split, fold and rotation functions.
US10194748B1
The present invention relates to a compressible sitting stool. The stool may include a housing, a compressible layer located in the housing interior, and a plurality of dowels located above the compressible layer. The tops of the plurality of dowels create a sitting area and when a user sits on the sitting area, the dowels move downwards compressing the compressible material.
US10194742B2
An applicator, also referred to as workpiece, is suitable for use with a personal care appliance. The applicator can be in the form of a dual brush head. The dual brush head includes a movable central portion having first and second independently movable sections.
US10194719B2
A zipper slider is provided. The zipper slider includes a slider body configured to slide along a zipper, the slider body having an upper wing with a top surface. The zipper slider also includes a pulling member integrally formed with the upper wing, the pulling member having at least one wall(s) on the upper wing each having a substantially closed aperture therethrough, wherein the at least one wall(s) is longitudinally disposed on the top surface of the upper wing and the at least one substantially closed aperture(s) forms a transverse channel. The zipper slider further includes a pull tab having a pintle, wherein the pintle is disposed in the transverse channel.
US10194706B2
A garment includes a longitudinal arch support configured for supporting a longitudinal arch of a foot; and a transverse arch support that extends from the longitudinal arch support and is configured for supporting a transverse arch of the foot.
US10194705B2
Long sleeve exercise apparel with weight lifting wrist wraps/lifting straps attached at the cuffs of the sweatshirt sleeves. The invention is the ultimate lifting sweatshirt. It is a sweatshirt that is used as a training aide to force users to sweat more and lose more weight, all while providing wrist support and aiding in allowing the user to lift more than usual by enhancing ones grip.
US10194704B2
A pair of pants has a main pants portion knitted from a yarn which is comprised of rayon, nylon and spandex extending from an elastic waistband fabricated of polyester and rubber. The main pants portion of the pants can be sized so that said fabric is in a stretched condition about the buttocks and thighs of a wearer.
US10194702B2
A manufacturing method uses a main body piece formed of an elastic fabric material and having a first portion having a first end, a second portion having a second end opposite the first end, and two side ends extending between the first and second ends. A bonding material is placed in contact with the first and/or second portions, arranged in lines extending in a direction between the first and second ends. The lines are spaced from each other in a second direction extending between the side ends. The main body piece is folded so that the first portion confronts the second portion, defining a fold line, where the bonding material is positioned between the first and second portions. The folded main body piece is then heat pressed and bent so the side ends are connected together to form a band having a tubular body defining a central passage.
US10194698B2
An indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator comprises a capillary tube adapted to form an aerosol when liquid material in the capillary tube is heated to volatilize at least some of the liquid material therein and a thermally conductive material in thermal contact with the capillary tube. The indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator provides substantially even and uniform heating across the heated length of the capillary tube.
US10194696B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic cigarette may be provided including a heater configured to vaporize a liquid; a mouth piece to deliver the vaporized liquid to a user of the electronic cigarette; a processor configured to control the heater to vaporize the liquid; a wireless communication circuit configured to communicate with an external communication device; and a verification circuit configured to start the operation of the electronic cigarette upon receipt of a signal transmitted by the external communication device via the wireless communication circuit.
US10194684B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to apparatuses and methods for blanching (e.g., continuously) a microcrop (e.g., aquatic species, Lemna) and a high-concentration protein product derived therefrom. The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to an apparatus for blanching a microcrop (e.g., Lemna, Wolffia) where the apparatus may include: a conveyance mechanism operable to transport a biomass to a blanching tray; an applicator operable to dispense a blanching solution onto at least one surface of the biomass within the blanching tray; the blanching tray oriented to receive a volume of the blanching solution from the applicator; and a vibratory mechanism capable of vibrating the blanching tray to generate a net motion of the received volume of the blanching solution within blanching tray such that a wave of blanching solution is formed. In some embodiments, a vibratory mechanism may be operable to generate a motive force capable of directing a biomass from a first side of a blanching tray to a second side of the blanching tray. In some embodiments, an apparatus may be capable of processing a biomass at a product flow rate ratio of about 7:1.
US10194683B2
A method for the removal of mycotoxins from cereal or oil seed meal that includes the use of a mycotoxin sequestrant to form a food grade composition for human consumption wherein said composition contains no more or less than an FDA approved level of mycotoxin for a human food product.
US10194676B2
A process for the production of crumb is disclosed in which a wet crumb feedstock comprising bulk sweetener, protein and water is formed and then simultaneously dried and comminuted in a thin layer rotary paddle dryer (20). The wet crumb feedstock is preferably formed into discrete, free-flowing granules prior to the simultaneous drying and comminuting. Apparatus for the production of crumb is also disclosed.
US10194671B2
A method for processing vegetables to reduce unpleasant odor and/or taste, and/or to minimize discoloration, deterioration, degradation, or rot over a period of storage time is described. The method includes: subjecting the vegetable to mechanical size reduction; heating or freezing the vegetable for a pre-determined period; and bringing the softened vegetable product into contact with one or more reactive oxygen species selected from: peroxides; superoxides; and ozone.
US10194670B2
A method and apparatus for deshelling shellfish, particularly lobsters, using a laser cutting system.
US10194668B2
The disclosure concerns a method for producing a layered cookie comprising at least one biscuit and a filling, the layered cookie containing 10 wt % to 25 wt % fat and 15 wt % to 40 wt % sugar, wherein the slowly-digestible-starch-over-total-available-starch ratio of the layered cookie is at least 31 wt %, the method including: forming a dough comprising a cereal flour, fat, sugar and at most 8 wt % added water relative to the total weight of the dough; molding the dough into the shape of a biscuit; baking the biscuit; and assembling the biscuit with a filling to form a layered cookie; wherein the cereal flour comprises refined cereal flour, in an amount of at least 21 wt % over the total weight of the dough, with a water absorption under 55% as measured by Brabender® Farinograph®.
US10194661B2
Disclosed herein are methods of making solid bodies of dazomet for use in internal remedial treatments of wood and methods of applying such solid bodies to wooden structures and manufacturing such solid bodies. The solid bodies can be easily transported and inserted into treatment holes in utility poles, wooden pilings, and other wooden structures, that can deliver a dose of insecticide and fungicide that combats internal decay in the wood.
US10194655B2
The invention provides, in various embodiments, devices and methods relating to ex-vivo organ care. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to aortic cannulas for use in perfusion systems to return perfusate to the heart or delivering perfusate from the heart while the organ is sustained ex vivo at physiologic or near-physiologic conditions.
US10194649B2
An apparatus for applying a desired amount of mechanical abrasion to plants and selective cutting of undesirable plant material. The apparatus includes a base, a brush and an elevation device for maintaining the base at desirable height. The base has a first longitudinal axis and a plurality of grooves, the grooves being oriented approximately perpendicular to the first longitudinal axis. The brush has a second longitudinal axis and a plurality of bristles and/or blades extending outwardly from the second longitudinal axis. The brush is attached to the apparatus such that the second longitudinal axis is substantially parallel to the first longitudinal axis and the brush is rotatable about the second longitudinal axis. The brush is spaced from the base such that the plurality of bristles engage the plurality of grooves. The base is adjustable enabling the operator to move the base closer or further from the rotating brush/blades.
US10194645B2
The present invention provides in a first aspect a mouse in which the λ (lambda) light chain locus has been functionally silenced. In one embodiment, the mouse λ light chain locus was functional silenced by deletion of gene segments coding for the λ light chain locus. In a further aspect, a mouse containing functionally silenced λ and κ (kappa) L chain loci was produced. The invention is useful for the production of antibodies, for example heterologous antibodies, including heavy chain only antibodies.
US10194637B2
A drinking apparatus includes a drinking receptacle, a liquid reservoir, a pump, a controller, and a liquid detector. The liquid reservoir has a liquid outlet for dispensing liquid into the drinking receptacle. The pump has an inlet in liquid communication with the drinking receptacle, and an outlet in liquid communication with the reservoir. The controller is configured to control the operation of the pump. The liquid level detector is configured to detect when the level of liquid in the reservoir is below a first threshold level. The controller is responsive to the liquid level detector to operate the pump to pump liquid from the drinking receptacle into the reservoir when the liquid level detector indicates that the level of liquid in the reservoir is below the threshold level, and the controller is configured to deactivate the pump at the end of a pumping period.
US10194633B2
A control arrangement for controlling movement of animals, with at least two smart gate arrangements and a same number of enclosed transit areas, wherein smart gate arrangement includes an entrance through which animals can enter, an animal identifier identifies each animal entering the smart gate arrangement, and three separate exits, through which each animal can be selectively guided to exit the smart gate arrangement after having been identified, and wherein each transit area is provided with a first one of the exits of a first one of the smart gate arrangements and an entrance of a neighboring second one of the smart gate arrangements with an unobstructed pathway therebetween contained within the transit area, the plurality of enclosed transit areas being interconnected via the smart gate arrangements such that an animal can be guided through the at least two smart gate arrangements via the transit areas in a circulating manner.
US10194632B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety KG1410770 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety KG1410770 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using KG1410770 in a breeding program.
US10194613B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01064363. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01064363. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01064363 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01064363 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10194609B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01062049. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01062049. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01062049 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01062049 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10194607B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV744222. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV744222, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV744222 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV744222 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV744222.
US10194602B2
The invention provides seed and plants of tomato line PSQ9Z12-9063. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ9Z12-9063 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US10194597B2
A method of cultivating aquatic product and plant contains steps of: (A) Preparing a cultivation tank with cultivation water; (B) Aerating the cultivation water; (C) Drawing overflow water in a top of the cultivation tank and foul water in a bottom of the cultivation tank into a protein separator and a first ultrafiltration unit; (D) Collecting bubbled fluid from the protein separator and concentrated waste fluid from the first ultrafiltration unit into a collection chamber; (E) Pumping the cultivation wastewater into a second ultrafiltration unit and filtering the cultivation wastewater by using ultrafiltration films of the second ultrafiltration unit; (F) Discharging cloudy high-protein concentration fluid into a first gathering bucket; (G) Pumping filtered fluid filtered by the plurality of ultrafiltration films of the second ultrafiltration unit into a Nano-filtration unit; and (H) Flowing the recyclable water into the cultivation tank from the recycle tank.
US10194596B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an organism cultivation facility suitable for industrial, economical, and large-scale cultivation of an organism by efficient air conditioning which is required for the cultivation of the organism. The object can be achieved with an organism cultivation facility comprising, in a building: a cultivation unit having organism containers capable of storing organisms, and a support structure that supports the organism containers; and a conveying device for the organism containers; wherein the organism cultivation facility has a partition wall(s) that can divide the space of the operating area of the conveying device into two or more spaces in the height direction, and at least a part of the partition wall is movable.
US10194592B2
A combine harvester with separably driven rotor portions for threshing grain is described herein.
US10194585B2
A harvesting vehicle including a cleaning section including a blower and at least one sieve. The sieve is configured to transport a layer comprising a mixture of grain kernels and residue material towards an exit edge of the sieve so that kernels fall through openings of the sieve and the residue remains on the sieve until it is ejected from the sieve by crossing the exit edge. The sieve may be subject to a grain loss, including a sieve-off loss and a blowout loss. The cleaning section further includes a sensor configured to determine whether the blowout loss or the sieve-off loss is a highest contributor to the grain loss. The cleaning section may also include a grain loss detector configured to measure the sieve-off loss and at least a portion of the blowout loss and a blowout sensor mounted above the sieve for measuring the blowout loss.
US10194584B2
The cutting knife has a base member with first and second faces. One face has a topographic disturbance element arranged between knife edge and longitudinal center axis and shaping the elevation profile of the face. On the opposite face relative to the center plane an opposite elevation profile with contour line is formed. The contour line points of the contour line of the first elevation profile are positioned opposite the contour line points of the opposite contour line on perpendiculars to the center plane. The contour line of the first elevation profile and the opposite contour line are noncongruent. The contour line of the first elevation profile extends transversely to the longitudinal center axis of the base member across the disturbance element and has an ascending line section and a descending line section. A turning point positioned between these line sections is a component of the disturbance element.
US10194582B2
An apparatus applies product and includes a pivotal platform solely supported through bushings formed of compressible material. The ground speed can be locked by stepping on a step pivoting a composite block to engage with an engagement of the transmission proportioner arm. A gate is opened utilizing a control lever pivotally mounted to a pivotably mounted control block to either engage or avoid a tang of an adjustment guide. A drive belt system includes a variator having first and second sheaves having variable effective diameters when their pivot pin is moved by pivoting a lever. A spray tip sprays a fan style spray at a small acute angle to the application area. A flip shield is pivoted about an axis parallel to the movement direction and includes a linear straight portion parallel to the axis in a redirection position.
US10194581B2
An agricultural implement for applying an active ingredient to a geographic area includes a chassis, and at least one active ingredient tank. Each active ingredient tank is removably positioned on and carried by the chassis. Each active ingredient tank contains an active ingredient therein which is to be applied to the geographic area. Each active ingredient tank has an identification (ID) tag representing data associated with the active ingredient. An electrical reader carried by the chassis is configured for reading the ID tag and providing an output signal. An electrical processing circuit is coupled with the reader and receives the output signal.
US10194580B2
An agricultural product metering system includes an air screen configured to selectively cover an opening in an agricultural meter housing extending from an external environment to an interior of the agricultural meter housing. The air screen has at least one mounting feature on at least one peripheral side of the air screen, and the at least one mounting feature of the air screen is configured to engage at least one corresponding mounting feature on at least one peripheral side of the opening in the agricultural meter housing to removably couple the air screen to the agricultural meter housing.
US10201117B2
The present invention relates in general to an Integrated High Density Server Vault (or “HDSV”) system containing the necessary mechanical and electrical infrastructure for the installation, operation and cooling of heat generating data processing equipment within a scalable manufactured environment which includes, but is not limited to, computing and electrical equipment. The disclosure relates in particular to the equipment application as it pertains to units adapted for rapid deployment of computing and electrical equipment.
US10201116B1
A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing that at least substantially encapsulates an interior space, and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack in the interior space. The data center can further include a cooling system. The cooling system includes a conduit that is disposed in the interior space of the rack housing and a fluid that flows through the conduit, wherein heat is transferred from air in the interior space to the fluid to produce cooled air in the rack housing.
US10201114B2
A system may include a removable board that is adapted for inserting into and removing from an enclosure, an electronic component that is attached to the removable board, and a cooling system that is attached to the removable board. The cooling system may include a first heat exchanger that is attached to the electronic component by a physical interface. The cooling system may include a coolant pipe that that is at least partially filled with a working fluid to receive heat, generated by the electronic component, via the first heat exchanger. The cooling system may include a second heat exchanger, attached to the coolant pipe and situated to be located outside of the enclosure when the removable board is inserted into the enclosure. The cooling system may be adapted to remain attached to the removable board when inserting and removing the removable board.
US10201112B1
A connector assembly includes: a socket connector and a plug connector. The socket connector includes a main body having a tongue, multiple mating terminals, and a first thermal conduction member. The tongue has two first surfaces arranged opposite to each other. Each mating terminal has a first contact portion, and the first contact portions are exposed from at least one of the first surfaces. The first thermal conduction member has a first mating portion exposed from the at least one first surface provided with the first contact portions. The plug connector includes: a circuit board; a chip provided on the circuit board; a mating joint having an insulating body and multiple conductive terminals provided on the insulating body; and a second thermal conduction member provided on the insulating body. The second thermal conduction member has a second mating portion and a conducting portion thermally conducted with the chip.
US10201109B2
The present invention provides an apparatus and/or method for modular, scalable and nestable parallel data processing and process control systems from molecular to module/enclosure level, comprised of calculable inter- and intra-modular processing time standards and shorter look-ahead propagation paths; based on regular and irregular hexagonal and dodecagonal prisms, derivative dumbbells and variants as actual and/or approximated tilings/tessellations which may be arranged in columns, rows, stacks and arrays with or without rounding and/or a sliding fit. Non-sliding fit systems are fundamentally solid. Sliding fit systems modules have a central cavity with systems as follows: cage assembly, optional patch panels, anchoring, thermal management, interconnect enclosures, power, hot swap, fail over, positioning, and interconnects with optional quick disconnects and retractors. Optionally, module arrays store on dollied pallets in ramped warehouse rack shelving with optional catwalks, mezzanines, walls and roofs for build out and new construction.
US10201105B2
Manufacturing methods that combine molding processes and shaping processes are described. The systems and methods described can be used to form composite parts using a single manufacturing process. In some embodiments, the methods involve positioning a workpiece within a mold cavity, then injecting a moldable material within the cavity at pressures sufficient to deform the workpiece such that features, such as protrusions or cavities, are formed within the workpiece. The resultant composite part includes the workpiece molded to a molded material. In some embodiments, the workpiece is a layer of metal material and the molded material is a structurally rigid plastic material, such that the composite part is a structurally rigid plastic with a metal coating. In some embodiments, multiple workpieces are molded within a composite part.
US10201104B2
The present application discloses an electronic apparatus including an apparatus frame having an aperture; a door movably secured to the apparatus frame and configured to be movable between a first position at which the aperture is accessible and a second position at which the aperture is substantially closed; and a communication socket at least partially enclosed by the apparatus frame; the communication socket having a plurality of communication terminals configured to be accessible for electrical connection with an external apparatus through the aperture. The communication socket includes a first member, the door includes a second member, the first member and the second member being magnetically attractive to each other and cooperatively configured to secure the door in the second position.
US10201098B2
The embodiments herein relate to an apparatus and medium for selective partitioning of a via in a printed circuit board as to produce an electrically isolating portion between two electrically conducting portions in said via. The apparatus and medium implement a step of prior to drilling the hole for the via, laminating plating resist layers to the printed circuit board at a distance from each other corresponding to a desired length of the electrically isolated portion of the via. After drilling, copper is added to selected portions of the interior of the via in two different processing steps followed by a step of removing undesired copper as to produce the electrically isolating portion.
US10201090B2
A circuit structure is provided, which includes a plurality of conductive posts, and a plurality of first and second conductive pads formed on two opposite end surfaces of the conductive posts, respectively. A length of each of the first conductive pads is greater than a width of the first conductive pad so as to reduce an occupation area of the first conductive pad along the width and increase a distance between adjacent first conductive pads, thereby increasing the wiring density and meeting the wiring demand.
US10201087B2
A device includes a circuit element, a housing for the circuit element and a terminal for coupling the circuit element to an electrical circuit. The terminal includes an engagement portion and a sleeve portion. The engagement portion is configured to engage a base for the electrical circuit. The sleeve portion couples the engagement portion to the circuit element. The housing encloses the sleeve portion.
US10201085B2
A multilayer PCB having may include a first sub-composite core having a first core structure sandwiched between a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, the first core structure including one or more dielectric and conductive layers. A first via hole extends at least partially through the first core structure, wherein an inner surface of the first via hole is plated with a conductive material along a first via segment electrically coupling the first conductive layer to an internal layer or trace within the first core structure. A second via segment extending between the second conductive layer and the internal layer or trace is devoid of the conductive material such that the first via hole is substantially stub free. A first dielectric layer is coupled to the second conductive layer. A second sub-composite core coupled to the first dielectric layer.
US10201080B2
An electronic module assembly and method of assembling an electronic module to a conductive fabric are provided. An electronic module assembly comprises a non-conductive fabric and a conductive fabric covering at least part of a first side of the non-conductive fabric. An electronics module is disposed on the conductive fabric, and a portion of the electronics module includes a wall defining a through hole. A fastener passing through the through hole and passing through the conductive fabric is configured to electronically couple the electronics module to the conductive fabric.
US10201076B2
A coupler for proximity wireless communication primarily based on an electric induction field generated therein, includes a substrate, a ground layer formed on a first region of the substrate and surrounding a second region of the substrate on three sides of the second region, a fourth side of the second region being defined by an edge of the substrate, and a coupling element electrically isolated from the ground layer and formed on the second region of the substrate. The coupling element includes a first portion that extends adjacent to and along the edge of the substrate and a second portion that is electrically connected to the first portion, extends inwardly from the edge of the substrate, and includes an inductor.
US10201074B2
A printed circuit board includes a plurality of layers including conductive layers separated by dielectric layers, the conductive layers including a signal layer; and via patterns formed in the plurality of layers, each of the via patterns comprising first and second signal vias extending from a first surface of the printed circuit board to the signal layer, the signal layer including first and second signal traces connected to the first and second signal vias, respectively, the signal layer further including a ground conductor located between the signal traces and adjacent signal-carrying elements.
US10201073B2
A multi-layer Printed Circuit Board PCB and a wireless communication node are disclosed in the present invention. The multi-layer PCB which is to be assembled in the communication node may include multiple radio layers (501) on one side of the PCB and at least one antenna layer (502) on another side of the PCB. At least one radio component is to be mounted on a surface layer of the multiple radio layers and at least one antenna element is to be patched on a surface layer of the at least one antenna layer. In such way, legacy connectors from the filter unit respectively to the antenna unit and the radio unit in conventional PCB can be left out to decrease the size of the PCB.
US10201072B2
An electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The EMI shielding structure includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a plurality of elements mounted on a region of the PCB, an insulating dam provided on a peripheral portion of the region of the PCB and covering a portion of the plurality of elements; an insulating member provided on a remaining portion of the region the PCB that is surrounded by the insulating dam and covering a remaining portion of the plurality of elements; and a shielding layer covering outer surfaces of the insulating dam and the insulating member.
US10201068B2
The invention relates to a method for the plasma cutting of workpieces. It is the object of the invention to provide possibilities with which improved cutting surfaces can be achieved in plasma cutting which do not require any reworking, or at least only a reduced reworking. In the method in accordance with the invention, a plasma cutting torch having at least one torch body, an electrode and a nozzle is used and the plasma jet is inclined or deflected at least before the traveling over of a workpiece edge at an angle δ with respect to the axis aligned perpendicular to the workpiece surface such that the emission position of the plasma jet from the workpiece is arranged at a spacing in the feed movement direction which is at most half the amount than is the case with a plasma jet incident perpendicular on the workpiece surface.
US10201058B2
Disclosed is a method for improving a lighting condition with a wearable computing device (100), the method comprising determining (302) an actual light condition with an optical sensor arrangement (114, 220); determining (303) the user activity with a further sensor arrangement (116, 230) for determining a user activity, said user activity being associated with a suitable lighting condition for performing said activity; comparing (304), on the wearable computing device, the actual light condition with the suitable light condition; and generating (306, 406) a signal with the wearable device if the actual light condition deviates from the suitable light condition. A computer program product including computer program code for implementing this method when executed on a wearable computing device (100), a wearable computing device (100) including the computer program product and a lighting system kit including a lighting system (200) and the wearable computing device (100) are also disclosed.
US10201051B1
An LED module is disclosed containing an integrated MOSFET driver transistor in series with an LED. In one embodiment, GaN-based LED layers are epitaxially grown over an interface layer on a silicon substrate. The MOSFET gate is formed in a trench in the silicon substrate and creates a vertical channel between a top source and a bottom drain when the gate is biased to turn on the LED. A conductor on the die connects the MOSFET in series with the LED. One power electrode is located on a top of the die, another power electrode is located on the bottom of the die, and the gate electrode may be on the top or the side of the die.
US10201037B2
Embodiments for an access point (AP), station (STA) and method for communication are generally described herein. An access point (AP), configurable to operate in a basic service set (BSS), the apparatus comprising memory. The AP further comprising processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry configured to encode a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) for transmission to stations operable in the BSS. The PPDU may comprise a media access control (MAC) header portion. The processing circuitry may encode signaling in the MAC header portion of the PPDU that defines a spatial reuse restriction and the spatial reuse restriction may restrict spatial reuse by stations operating in a BSS that is different from the BSS of the AP. In an embodiment, processing circuitry coupled to the memory may encode the spatial reuse restriction in an HE-A control field of the MAC header portion.
US10201033B2
A method for managing network traffic between one or more user equipment devices in a private network and a server outside the private network via a private gateway, a server gateway and a connection therebetween. The server gateway acts as a router and the private gateway acts as a bridge. The method including monitoring the connection between the private gateway and the server gateway; in the event of loss of connection, switching the private gateway from a bridge operation mode to a minimal service mode; repeating the previous method steps; in case of retrieved connection, switching the private gateway from the minimal service mode back to the bridge operation mode; and repeating the previous method steps. The private gateway provides minimal routing services to allow data traffic in the private network to continue in the minimal service mode.
US10201030B2
A method for handling dual connectivity comprises a first base station (BS) configuring a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a communication device via a first cell of the first BS; a second BS transmitting a secondary cell group (SCG) configuration to the first BS; the first BS transmitting a RRC message on the RRC connection via the first cell to the communication device, wherein the RRC message comprises the SCG configuration; the first BS receiving a RRC complete message from the communication device via the first cell or a second cell of the first BS; the first BS transmits a complete message to the second BS; and the second BS starting scheduling at least one transmission for the communication device, when the second BS receives the complete message and the SCG configuration indicates the communication device not to perform a random access procedure.
US10201028B2
The present disclosure provides a near-field communication system and a terminal. The system includes: a first terminal having a first near-field communication region; and a second terminal having a second near-field communication region, where the second near-field communication region has a first subunit and a second subunit, and the first subunit and the second subunit are configured to detect a distance between the first near-field communication region and the second near-field communication region, and the second subunit is configured to establish communication with the first near-field communication region when the distance between the first near-field communication region and the second near-field communication region is less than or equal to a preset distance. Embodiments of the present disclosure may reduce signal attenuation and external interference in data transmission.
US10201022B2
In one embodiment, a method comprising entering, by machine, a first field defined by first field boundaries; and automatically associating the machine with a first wireless network defined by the first field boundaries, the first wireless network comprising a secured data communications network.
US10201018B2
A method performed in a preamble transmitter for transmitting a preamble sequence, the method comprising the steps of generating S11 a short sequence s(n), the short sequence having the same time duration as an OFDM symbol used for carrying data traffic in a radio access network of the preamble transmitter, constructing S12 a preamble sequence by concatenating a plurality of said short sequences in time, and transmitting S13 the constructed preamble sequence as a radio signal to a preamble receiver transmission and reception of a random access preamble signal.
US10201013B2
Systems and methods for using a communication system in a spectrum are provided. For example, a random access or RACH procedure may be performed where the random access or RACH procedure may be configured to reduce secondary interference and/or to be used in a pixel-based environment. The random access or RACH procedure may include selecting a RACH preamble; sending a RACH preamble and/or format information; determining a transmission power of the RACH preamble and/or the format information; determining a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) and preamble ID associated with the RACH preamble; and/or selecting a physical RACH (PRACH).
US10201002B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for processing interference, wherein according to a first demodulation reference signal DMRS pilot symbol carried by a first subcarrier used by an uplink user equipment, an interference channel matrix of an uplink interference channel from the uplink user equipment to a D2D receiving end is measured, wherein the first subcarrier is a subcarrier shared by a D2D transmitting end and the uplink user equipment; a null space matrix of the uplink interference channel is calculated according to the interference channel matrix; and the signal received by the D2D receiving end via the first subcarrier is processed by using the null space matrix to eliminate an interference signal which comes from the uplink user equipment in the signal.
US10201001B2
Method for transmitting reference signal allocation mode information by device operating in FDR mode
A method for transmitting reference signal (RS) allocation mode information by a device operating in a full duplex radio (FDR) mode comprises the steps of: determining to change an RS allocation mode from a first RS allocation mode to a second RS allocation mode for nonlinear component estimation of a residual self-interference signal after antenna and analog self-interference cancellation; and transmitting information about the changed second RS allocation mode to a counterpart node, wherein the first RS allocation mode and second RS allocation mode are distinguished from each other on the basis of whether or not RSs, used for nonlinear component estimation of the residual self-interference signal, are additionally transmitted.
US10200988B2
Embodiments include a physical resource block scheduling method, network device, and system, which may be used to perform scheduling request indicator SRI scheduling. The method includes: receiving a scheduling request indicator SRI sent by user equipment UE; allocating M PRBs to the UE according to a reference quantity of bits for scheduling; receiving, on a physical uplink shared channel, an uplink transmission block TB that is sent, in response to current-time SRI scheduling, by the UE; and determining, according to the uplink TB, a reference quantity of bits for scheduling for next-time SRI scheduling of the UE.
US10200987B2
Resource allocation techniques for D2D communications are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment may comprise one or more radio frequency (RF) transceivers, one or more RF antennas, and logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a D2D control information (D2DCI) message comprising D2D transmission pattern (DTP) information, identify a set of D2D transmission resources based on the DTP information, and send one or more D2D data messages using the set of D2D transmission resources. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10200986B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a terminal device, including: an obtaining unit, configured to: when a user terminal UE needs to perform D2D communication, obtain a quantity of available D2D resources in a D2D resource pool including at least one D2D resource; a determining unit, configured to determine whether the quantity of available D2D resources is less than or equal to a preset threshold; and a responding unit, configured to, when the quantity of available D2D resources is less than or equal to the preset threshold, respond to a report instruction broadcast by a base station and return response information, so that the base station manages the D2D resource pool according to the response information.
US10200985B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for managing control and data transmissions for low cost UEs. In certain aspects, multiplexing of a control channel and data channel may be allowed in a Physical Resource Block (PRB) pair of a subframe. An indication may be provided to the UE regarding whether a portion of resources of the PRB pair not used to transmit the control channel is available for transmitting the data channel. In alternative aspects, control and data may be scheduled in different subframes, such that there is no need to multiplex them in a subframe or a PRB pair in a same subframe.
US10200984B2
An apparatus and method for control channel transmission in a wireless network are disclosed. A disclosure is provided with at least one resource block (RB) including a first control channel element associated with a first antenna port (AP) and a second control channel element associated with a second AP. The first and second control channel elements might be used for transmission of a single control channel, and a first reference signal sequence associated with one of the first AP and the second AP is selected for transmission of the single control channel based on a control channel element index value, such that a resource element of the at least one RB can be detected to decode the first control channel element and the second control channel element.
US10200983B2
Provided are a method and a device for transmitting and receiving downlink control information. In particular, a method and device may be provided for configuring a downlink control information transmission format in a carrier aggregation situation among serving cells having different duplex modes. A method of a base station for transmitting downlink control information includes the steps of: configuring a downlink control information format on the basis of the duplex mode of one cell among the plurality of cells configured in a terminal performing Carrier aggregation; and transmitting the downlink control information by using the downlink control information format.
US10200977B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provided techniques that for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). An exemplary method, performed by a UE, generally includes determining one or more locations for receiving system information for machine type communication (MTC) over a bundled transmission and decoding the system information received at the locations over the bundled transmission.
US10200973B2
Embodiments disclose a network accessing method for a mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal. In some implementation manners of the present invention, a mobile terminal reads a help request used for accessing a network by another mobile terminal; sends a beacon channel on a beacon channel resource allocated by a base station of the network, and sends a broadcast signal on a broadcast channel resource corresponding to the beacon channel resource, where the broadcast signal includes an access resource; and receives an access request of the another mobile terminal on the access resource, and assists the another mobile terminal in accessing the network.
US10200968B2
There is provided a paging message receiving method at a user equipment, comprising reporting status information of the user equipment to a base station, the status information including information on coverage enhancement of the user equipment and information on a cell on which the user equipment camps, the information on coverage enhancement including information indicating a level of coverage enhancement that the user equipment needs; receiving from the base station a paging repetition level configuration message which indicates a paging repetition level of the user equipment; and receiving from the base station a paging message that is transmitted according to the paging repetition level of the user equipment and/or the information on the cell on which the user equipment camps. There are also provided related methods at the base station and a network side device and related devices. According to the invention, the resource utilization of LTE-enabled MTC UEs is enhanced and the spectrum/energy spectrum efficiency is improved.
US10200959B2
Methods and systems are described for calibrating amplitude hardware-induced distortion in a communications system. A power status indication is received by a base station (BS) of a communications system from a user equipment (UE) communicating in the communications system. A downlink pathloss associated with communications to the UE from at least one other BS is estimated by the at least one other BS of the communication system based on the received power status indication. Downlink power allocation is performed based on the downlink pathloss estimate from at least one other BS.
US10200952B2
The present invention provides a wireless access point control method, a related device, and a system. An activation signal sent by user equipment is received on a radio resource corresponding to a receiving pattern of a first wireless access point, so that the first wireless access point controls itself to leave a power-saving state according to the activation signal. Therefore, the user equipment may directly send the activation signal to the first wireless access point to switch a working state of the first wireless access point from the power-saving state to a normal communication state as soon as possible. In this manner, a power-saving objective of the wireless access point is achieved, and switching of the wireless access point from the power-saving state to the normal communication state as soon as possible can also be accelerated on a basis of achieving power saving of the wireless access point.
US10200943B2
In a telecommunication network, a method is carried out for assisting a user terminal (100) in connecting to an access network. The user terminal (100) obtains (s20) information (50), i.e. “tag information”, from an electronic tag or a visual tag. The user terminal (100) transmits (s40), to a network node hosting an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF), i.e. to an “ANDSF node” (200), the tag information (50). The ANDSF node (200) then transmits (s60), to the user terminal (100), credentials (70) for allowing the user terminal (100) to connect to said access network. The invention also relates to methods carried out by a user terminal (100), to methods carried out by an ANDSF node (200), to user terminals (100), to ANDSF nodes (200), to computer programs, and to computer program products for assisting user terminals (100) in connecting to an access network.
US10200938B2
A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing a cell search procedure or a cell discovery procedure in which a discovery signal is transmitted to a resource element determined in consideration of interference between adjacent cells. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a discovery signal generated by a particular small cell; and searching for the particular small cell on the basis of the discovery signal, wherein the position of the resource element to which the discovery signal is transmitted may be changed according to time.
US10200922B2
A satellite network comprises networks nodes including multiple satellites, multiple gateways, additional servers and a mobile vehicle (e.g., an aircraft). All of (or a subset) of the network nodes include switches. The network implements a software defined network that includes a mobility manager as part of the management plane, a network controller as part of the control plane, and the switches on the network nodes as the data plane. In one embodiment, the switches communicate using an Open Flow communications protocol and make routing decisions based on flow tables. The mobility manager communicates with, and manages, the switches via the network controller. The mobility manager proactively generate updates to flow tables based on satellite ephemeris data for the multiple satellites and itinerary data for the aircraft, and pushes the updates to the switches in response to determining that the aircraft needs to be handed off between satellites.
US10200901B2
During operation, a computer may monitor values of at least one performance metric associated with packet communication by access points in a network. Then, the computer may compare current values of the performance metric for the access points with historical values of the performance metric for the access points within a temporal context in order to determine temporal anomaly scores for the access points. Moreover, the computer may compare the temporal anomaly scores of a group of access points in order to determine spatial temporal anomaly scores for the access points that indicate a significance of the temporal anomaly scores in a spatial context. Furthermore, when a spatial temporal anomaly score for an access point meets a detection criterion, the computer system may identify the current value of the performance metric for the access point as an anomaly. Next, the computer system may perform a remedial action based on the identified anomaly.
US10200892B2
In order to maintain performance during wireless communication, a transmitting electronic device may concurrently and independently communicate redundant information to a receiving electronic device. In particular, information associated with a data stream may be communicated to the receiving electronic device using one or more channels by two radios using one or more wireless local area network communication protocols. The packets transmitted by the radios may preferentially include the same information. Moreover, the transmitting electronic device may attempt to maintain the redundant communication if a performance metric associated with the one or more channels degrades. For example, the transmitting electronic device may transfer communication to a different channel or may compress the information in the packets in the one or more channels if the throughput drops below a threshold value. Furthermore, the concurrent communication may allow the transmitting electronic device determine link quality without disrupting the communication of the information.
US10200891B2
A wireless communication device includes a wireless transceiver, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a processor. The ADC is configured to read a sensing value to generate a piece of sensing data. The processor is electrically connected to the wireless transceiver and the ADC. When an interrupt request is detected, the processor sends the piece of sensing data via the wireless transceiver.
US10200890B2
A method to trigger aperiodic CSI reports in LTE TDD systems having dynamic uplink-downlink configurations is proposed. When uplink grants can be sent on any subframe, the method further defines how to indicate which measured subframe set is to be used in reporting the aperiodic CSI. The method is useful for homogeneous networks and networks employing enhanced interference management and traffic adaptation (eIMTA).
US10200889B2
Disclosed in the present application is a method for a terminal receiving data in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of determining at least one transmission subject for the data among one or more auxiliary nodes and a base station; receiving a distributed code from the determined at least one transmission subject; and obtaining the data from the distributed code, wherein the at least one transmission subject is determined based on the sum of the distributed codes stored in the auxiliary nodes and the number of auxiliary nodes existing within a predetermined distance from the terminal.
US10200887B2
A vehicle, and methods of operating a mobile hotspot at a vehicle including a plurality of mobile hotspots, are disclosed. The method includes detecting an availability of a first one of the mobile hotspot as an access point. The method also includes delaying an availability of a second one of the mobile hotspots as an access point by a period of time after the detection of the availability of the first one of the mobile hotspots. The vehicle may include a plurality of mobile hotspots, each configured to provide wireless connectivity for one or more non-vehicle wireless devices located in the vehicle or within a proximity of the vehicle. In accordance with the method, one of the mobile hotspots may be configured to delay its availability as an access point by a period of time after an availability of at least another one of the mobile hotspots is detected.
US10200883B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for signaling support that define an open and extensible end-to-end network architecture. One method includes extracting, by an interface to a base station system, real-time and context related information from a radio access network, and transmitting the extracted real-time and context related information to an interface to a transport system.
US10200877B1
A cloud-based platform is provided offering large-scale and dynamic data analysis, processing, and exchange for telecommunications network design and deployment. It is configured to accommodate local, regional, and nationwide network planning and management needs. Information relevant to the network and individual design projects is organized with respect to a shared timeline that is shared with all project teams. All on-going and committed planned projects related to network performance are tracked on the shared timeline, with predicted network performance continually and automatically updated at regular intervals.
US10200876B2
The present invention is related to a wireless network node for deployment at the intersection points of a plurality of electromagnetically shielded regions, and methods for its configuration and placement to provide wireless access and transmission using minimal amount of network data cables.
US10200866B1
A computer-implemented method and system for detecting and minimizing harmful network device and application behavior on a cellular network are disclosed. The method and system comprise providing predefined rules of behavior for a deployed device on a cellular network, wherein the deployed device is a device with cellular connectivity deployed with an application; and monitoring network behavior of the deployed device based upon self certification of the application and testing of the deployed device to detect harmful behavior of the deployed device.
US10200859B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for transferring application data between devices. In one aspect, a method includes causing, by a first service running on a first device, the first device to establish a wireless connection with a second device; receiving, from a second service running on the second device, data specifying applications that are installed on the second device and supported by the second service, each of the applications being separate from the second service; determining, by the first service, that a first application installed on the first device matches one of the applications installed on the second device, the first application being separate from the first service; receiving, by the first service, first application data from the first application; and causing, by the first service, the first device to send the first application data to the second service running on the second device using the wireless connection.
US10200857B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting that an IMSI associated with a first SIM is provisioned onto a first mobile device and designating the IMSI into an available state. Further embodiments can include determining an expiry period for the available state. Additional embodiments can include purging the IMSI from a plurality of mobile network devices and designating the IMSI into a reclaimable state in response to an expiration of the expiry period. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10200856B2
A wireless communication device generates content-delivery data indicating stored media content, content-delivery interface capability, tethered media devices, and Internet Protocol (IP) address data for the wireless communication device and for the tethered media devices. The wireless communication device wirelessly transfers the content-delivery data to a wireless communication network for delivery to a content distribution network. The wireless communication device transfers at least a portion of the stored media content to the wireless communication network for subsequent content delivery.
US10200855B1
A method for adaptive Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission modes (TMs) in wireless communication networks. The method comprising receiving an attachment request from a User Equipment (UE). The method further comprising retrieving a Subscriber Profile ID (SPID) for the UE, and qualifying the UE for an enhanced MIMO TM based on the SPID. If the UE qualifies, then determining if the UE is capable of the enhanced MIMO TM. If the UE is capable of the enhanced MIMO TM, then assigning the UE to the enhanced MIMO TM, and receiving a Rank Indicator (RI) from the UE. If the RI is less than a RI threshold, assigning the UE to a lower MIMO TM.
US10200852B1
A method and system of providing a roaming data service to a User Equipment (UE) that requires a dual attachment to a Packet Switched (PS) network for the data service and a Circuit Switched (CS) network for a voice service, but the visited network is a data-only PS network. When the UE sends a dual attach request, the visited network communicates with the home network via a Diameter Agent to obtain the UE's PS profile needed to complete attachment of the UE in the visited network for data services. To enable CS attach of the UE with the visited network, a custom function, titled a SGs-Agent, is deployed. The SGs-Agent provides a predefined CS profile to the visited network, thereby enabling the UE to complete the CS attach with the visited network. The visited network provides data services to the UE, but the voice services are denied.
US10200845B2
Disclosed are a D2D signal detecting method and device, comprising: a user equipment determines a physical resource for discovery signal detection; the user equipment determines the number of discovery resources used by the discovery signals according to the physical resource area for discovery signal detection, or according to a discovery resource set of the discovery sequence contained in the discovery signal detected in the physical resource area, the number of discovery resources being the number of discovery resources used in one discovery period or in the physical resource area for sending the same discovery signal; the user equipment detects the discovery signals according to the determined number of discovery resources. The present invention can improve performance loss caused by D2D signal detection and can reduce the complexity of D2D signal detection by user equipment.
US10200842B1
An example device manager gateway includes one or more memories; and one or more processors, communicatively couple to the one or more memories, to identify a plurality of short range wireless communication devices; cause a plurality of short range wireless communication sessions to be established, the plurality of short range wireless communication sessions being established with the plurality of short range wireless communication devices; determine services associated with the plurality of short range wireless communication devices; identify an association between two or more of the short range wireless communication devices of the plurality of short range wireless communication devices; aggregate data associated with the services based on the association between two or more short range wireless communication devices of the plurality of short range wireless communication devices; and/or perform an action associated with the aggregated data and the two or more short range wireless communication devices.
US10200839B2
Methods and apparatuses for use in a low cost machine type communication user equipment, wherein the low cost machine type communication user equipment communicates with a legacy base station, are provided. The method comprises adjusting at least one parameter relating to scheduling such that the legacy base station is to schedule the low cost machine type communication user equipment with a transmission block size less than a predefined size. The method also comprises reporting the adjusted at least one parameter to the legacy base station. With the methods and apparatuses of the present disclosure, it is possible for the low cost machine type communication use equipment to operate in the coverage area of the legacy base station.
US10200835B2
Techniques are disclosed for reducing interference, in a network device, among multiple radio circuits operating in a same or similar frequency band and in close physical proximity. In some embodiments, a network device includes a first and a second wireless network circuit. The network circuits operate in a same radio frequency band and are collocated. The second network circuit is assigned a higher priority than the first network circuit. The device further includes a coexistence controller coupled to the network circuits via a communication bus and configured to selectively suppress transmitting operations of the first network circuit during receiving operations of the second network circuit. Among other benefits, the embodiments can increase wireless network bandwidth and reduce mobile device power consumption by providing coordination among the radio circuits so that the transmitting and receiving operations are performed in a way that they do not interfere with their respective antennas.
US10200818B2
The disclosure is directed to navigating based on directionality. An embodiment determines a position and a direction of a mobile device, determines one or more paths from the mobile device to one or more destinations associated with a current location of the mobile device, and displays one or more direction indicators corresponding to the one or more paths to the one or more destinations.
US10200817B2
A method includes receiving wireless signals from consumer devices that are in communicable range of the merchant device. The wireless signals each include a unique identifier associated with one of the consumer devices. The method further comprises generating signal strength data that includes one signal strength value associated with the unique identifier of each of the wireless signals, storing the signal strength data in a data storage device, analyzing the signal strength data to determine how many of the consumer devices achieved various signal strength levels, determining a threshold signal strength value based on the analysis, determining a consumer device is present within a physical area when a subsequent wireless signal from a subsequent consumer device is greater than the threshold signal strength value.
US10200813B1
A computer implemented method may include receiving geo-location data from a device of a user; comparing the geo-location data with a geo-location fence associated with an event; determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event; responsive to the determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event, supplying user-selectable event gallery information, associated with an event gallery of the event, to the device for addition to a destination list on the device; detecting selection of the user-selectable event gallery information in the destination list by the user of the device; and/or responsive to the detecting of the selection of the user-selectable event gallery information by the user of the device, adding the user as a follower of the event, with access to the event gallery.
US10200800B2
An electronic device with a microphone is used to determine a transfer function of an environment (and, more generally, an acoustic characteristic). In particular, the electronic device may use the microphone to perform acoustic measurements when the electronic device is proximate to a speaker in the environment. Then, based on the acoustic measurements and a first predetermined transfer function of the speaker, the electronic device may calculate a transfer function of the microphone in a band of frequencies. Moreover, the electronic device may use the microphone to perform additional acoustic measurements in the environment that includes the speaker. Next, based on the additional acoustic measurements, the transfer function of the microphone and a second predetermined transfer function of the speaker, the electronic device may determine the transfer function of the environment in the same or a different band of frequencies.
US10200796B2
A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is provided, comprising a forward path comprising an input transducer for providing an electric input signal, a signal processing unit configured to apply a requested forward gain to the electric input signal, and an output transducer. The hearing device further comprises a feedback reduction unit for reducing a risk of howl due to feedback from the output transducer to the input transducer. The forward path and the external feedback path defines a roundtrip loop delay. The feedback reduction unit is configured to modulate said requested forward gain in time, to provide that the resulting forward gain exhibits a first, increased gain AH in a first time period TH and a second, reduced gain AL in a second time period TL, wherein at least one of AH, AL, TH, and TL is/are determined according to a predetermined or adaptively determined criterion including said roundtrip loop delay.
US10200795B2
A method of operating a hearing system for conducting telephone calls as well as a hearing system capable of performing the proposed method. The hearing system includes a communication device (4) with a communication device microphone (3′) for picking up a first sound signal and providing a primary sidetone signal. The hearing system further includes a hearing device with a hearing device microphone for picking up a second sound signal and providing a secondary sidetone signal. A first amplification is applied to the primary sidetone signal and a second amplification is applied to the secondary sidetone signal. Adjusting of the first amplification is dependent on adjusting of the second amplification, or alternatively, adjusting of the second amplification is dependent on adjusting of the first amplification. The primary and secondary sidetone signals are then combined and subsequently output by a hearing device loudspeaker.
US10200788B2
An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least one audio signal from a further apparatus; an input configured to receive at least one audio signal associated with the apparatus; an orientation/location determiner configured to determine a relative orientation/location difference between the apparatus and the further apparatus; an audio processor configured to process the at least one audio signal from the further apparatus based on the relative orientation/location difference between the apparatus and the further apparatus; and a combiner configured to combine the at least one audio signal from the further apparatus having been processed and the at least one audio signal associated with the apparatus.
US10200787B2
An apparatus including an input configured to receive at least one first audio signal from a first apparatus; an input configured to receive at least one second audio signal from a second apparatus; a distance detector configured to determine a distance between the first and the second apparatus; and a level control generator configured to generate a level control for mixing the at least one first audio signal and the at least one second audio signal based on the distance between the first and the second apparatus.
US10200784B2
A speaker box structure of an electronic device, includes: a left side speaker box having: a left side wall part; and a first opposed wall part which has a region where a distance in a lateral direction from the left side wall part to the first opposed wall part continuously varies; and a right side speaker box having: a right side wall part; and a second opposed wall part which is opposed to the first opposed wall part in an intermediate part in the lateral direction, and which has a region where a distance in the lateral direction from the right side wall part to the second opposed wall part continuously varies.
US10200780B2
A system includes a left earpiece comprising a left earpiece housing and a right earpiece comprising a right earpiece housing and a radio transceiver disposed within at least one of the left earpiece and the right earpiece, and a software application executable on a computing device in operative communication with the radio transceiver; wherein the software application provides a visual representation of the left earpiece and a visual representation of the right earpiece and wherein the visual representation of the left earpiece indicates a remaining charge for the left earpiece and wherein the visual representation of the right earpiece indicates a remaining charge for the right earpiece. A method for displaying battery life is also provided.
US10200778B2
An earpiece that substantially lacks a lower lobe is disclosed. In one example, the earpiece can have a generally arcuate rib having upper and lower ends. A lobe can be formed at the upper end of the arcuate rib. No lobe is formed at the lower end of the arcuate rib. An extension can extend from the earpiece and can be configured to extend into the ear canal. Eliminating the lower lobe mitigates discomfort during use and also reduces the likelihood of tissue damage and infection. The extension can enhance communication of desired sound, e.g., from a two-way radio, to an eardrum while mitigating communication of undesirable ambient noise to the eardrum. Other implementations and related methods are also disclosed.
US10200776B2
Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear.
US10200764B2
A determination device includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes, from captured footage of a baseball game including plural frames stored in a storage section, determining plural consecutive frames, which each have a specific characteristic and in which a change is detected in a ball count number, an out count number, or a runner number acquired from image information representing the game situation, to be a pitching scene.
US10200763B2
The present disclosure discloses a video-based interaction method, a terminal, a server, and a system, and relates to the field of information processing technologies. The method includes: acquiring an interaction instruction; acquiring multi-media data related to a video according to the interaction instruction; sending the multi-media data; receiving at least one type of interaction page matching with the multi-media data, different interaction pages corresponding to different types of interaction operations; and displaying at least one type of interaction page, and implementing a corresponding type of interaction operation according to each type of interaction page.
US10200740B2
A hybrid, expandable electronic programming guide that may allow broadcast programming customers to view both broadcast programming options and over-the-top service options in a single electronic programming guide.
US10200738B2
A remote controller and an image display apparatus having the same are disclosed. The remote controller includes a key input unit for receiving a specific key input, a touch screen for receiving a touch input, a wireless communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from an image display apparatus, and a controller for controlling the touch screen to display usage mode information in response to a user input to the key input unit. The controller is configured to, in response to a first touch input for selecting at least one of at least one usage mode indicated by the usage mode information displayed on the touch screen, enter the selected usage mode, and control the touch screen to display a user interface corresponding to the selected usage mode.
US10200737B2
A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display (such as a cellular telephone) provides a wireless remote control for an entertainment device (such as a consumer-electronic device). Based on device-state information that specifies a current state of the entertainment device (which is determined by an audio/video (A/V) hub that communicates with the entertainment device) and one or more related states of the entertainment device, the A/V hub may generate user-interface information that specifies a user interface that includes one or more virtual command icons. Note that the one or more related states are related to the current state in a state diagram by corresponding operations that transition the entertainment device from the current state to the one or more related states. Then, the A/V hub provides the user interface to the portable electronic device. In this way, the A/V hub device dynamically adapts the user interface.
US10200735B1
A portable terminal includes a receiving unit which receives content information, an external device communication unit which conducts communication with an external information device, a display unit which displays the content information received by the receiving unit, an acquiring unit which acquires identification information identifying the content information displayed by the display unit, an operation unit which receives an operation indication from a user, and a control unit which conducts control such that if a transmission indication of the identification information is received by the operation unit while the content information is being displayed, the identification information acquired by the acquiring unit is transmitted to the external information device and the display of the content information by the display unit is terminated.
US10200727B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: splitting a video stream into a plurality of sub-streams, encoding each of the sub-streams in parallel, and transmitting a packet to a receiver, wherein the packet includes a number of the encoded sub-streams. Each of the sub-streams individually provide a unique version of the video stream having a lower video quality, while merging more than one of the sub-streams provides a merged version of the video stream having a relatively higher video quality. Moreover, the number of the encoded sub-streams included in the packet transmitted to the receiver corresponds to a quality of service associated with the receiver. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
US10200721B2
Methods of encapsulating a bitstream include generating reference information to enable image items identifying image portions of a bit-stream to be referenced to corresponding description information. The resulting encapsulated file may also include information identifying a timed portion of the data stream corresponding to a video sequence. Description information may include spatial parameters, such as position and width and height of sub-parts of an overall image, and/or display parameters such as color display, pixel aspect ratio, and clean aperture parameters.
US10200708B2
In general, techniques are described for separately coding depth and texture components of video data. A video coding device for processing the video data comprising one or more processors may perform the techniques. The one or more processors may be configured to determine first sequence level information describing characteristics of the depth components, and determine second sequence level information describing characteristics of an operation point of the video data.
US10200704B2
According to an embodiment, an image decoding apparatus includes a memory, a decoder and a first filter. The memory stores reference pixels based on pixels included in a decoded pixel block. The decoder decodes encoded data in units of pixel blocks using the reference pixels to generate a first decoded pixel block, the first decoded pixel block being adjacent to the reference pixels. The first filter performs a first filtering on only the first decoded pixel block using the first decoded pixel block and part of the reference pixels perpendicularly adjacent to the first decoded pixel block in a scan direction of image decoding processing.
US10200700B2
A system and method for decoding video. A first syntax element for a block of video data is received, a value of the first syntax element indicating one of a plurality of mapping functions to be used to determine a magnitude of a scaling parameter for cross-component prediction. A second syntax element for the block of video data is received, a value of the second syntax element corresponding to the magnitude of the scaling parameter, wherein receiving the second syntax element includes decoding the value of the second syntax element with a specific binarization method. The magnitude of the scaling parameter is determined using the one of the plurality of mapping functions indicated by the first syntax element and the value of the second syntax element. Cross-component prediction is performed for at least one component of the block video data using the determined magnitude of the scaling parameter.
US10200696B2
The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the determined context, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type, and the second type is one of “ref_idx_l0” and “ref_idx_l1”.
US10200690B2
In one example, a device for processing decoded video data a video decoder implemented by one or more hardware-based processing units comprising digital logic circuitry, and a postprocessing unit implemented by one or more hardware-based processing units comprising digital logic circuitry. The video decoder is configured to decode video data of a video bitsream according to a video coding standard, extract HDR postprocessing data from an SEI message of the video bitstream, and provide the decoded video data and the HDR postprocessing data to the postprocessing unit. The postprocessing unit is configured to process the decoded video data using the HDR postprocessing data according to the video coding standard. The device may additionally determine whether the video decoder is compliant with the video coding standard by comparing the processed video data with reference processed video data.
US10200685B2
A method of compressing data comprising separating a bit stream of compensation data into a sub-bit stream including an impulse component and a sub-bit stream not including the impulse component, predicting and calculating a trend component of compensation data to be compressed using compressed compensation data, generating a noise component by eliminating the trend component from the compensation data, and separating and compressing an impulse component and a noise component of the compensation data from each other, wherein the impulse component is compressed without quantization and the noise component is quantized and compressed.
US10200684B2
The present invention relates to a device for monitoring the proper functioning of a transmission path, particularly of a camera (12), comprising a camera (12), particularly a digital camera, for capturing a detection area (14) and for generating corresponding first signals (S1), a display unit (26) for displaying the detection area (14) captured by the camera (12) using the first signals (S1), a light source array (18) arranged in the detection area (14) of the camera (12), a detection unit (30) with an optical measuring sensor array (32) for detecting the display output of the display unit (26) and for generating corresponding second signals (S2), a monitoring unit (36) that actuates the light source array (18) using a pre-definable pattern (M) and checks whether the second signals (S2) detected by the detection unit (30) contain the pattern (M), during evaluation of the display output of the display unit (26), and a communication unit (24) for transmitting the first and second signals (S1, S2) and the pre-definable pattern (M). The invention further relates to a corresponding method and a corresponding computer program.
US10200669B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may, for example, receive a request for a telepresence seat at an event, obtain media content comprising event images of the event that are captured by an event camera system, receive images that are captured by a camera system at a user location, and provide the media content and video content representative of the images to a processor for presentation at a display device utilizing a telepresence configuration that simulates the first and second users being present at the event, where the providing of the first and second video content establishes a communication session between the first and second users. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10200668B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for monitoring and reporting quality of experience (QoE) metrics that are associated with an access method. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10200667B2
A recorder creating an encoded data stream comprising an encoded video stream and an encoded graphics stream, the video stream comprising an encoded 3D (three-dimensional) video object, and the graphics stream comprising at least a first encoded segment and a second encoded segment, the first segment comprising 2D (two-dimensional) graphics data and the second segment comprises a depth map for the 2D graphics data. A graphics decoder decoding the first and second encoded segments to form respective first and second decoded sequences. Outputting the first and second decoded sequences separately to a 3D display unit. The 3D display unit combining the first and second decoded sequences and rendering the combination as a 3D graphics image overlaying a 3D video image simultaneously rendered from a decoded 3D video object decoded from the encoded 3D video object.
US10200665B2
The present invention involves a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display surface for displaying images, and the display surface is concave when being viewed in front of the display surface. The display panel can provide a good sense of presence when displaying images.
US10200664B2
There are provided an apparatus and a method which generate an RGB image having less color noise and fewer false colors by inputting an RGBW image. The apparatus has an image sensor having an RGBW array, and an image processing unit which performs image processing by inputting a sensor image formed of an RGBW pixel signal output from the image sensor. The image sensor has a periodic array of a unit composition formed of each RGBW pixel, and has an array in which composition ratios of each RGB pixel within the unit composition are adapted to be the same as each other. The image processing unit converts a pixel array of the sensor image formed of the RGBW pixel signal, and performs at least either array conversion processing for generating an RGB array image or signal processing for generating each RGB image signal in which all RGB pixel values are set for each pixel position of the sensor image.
US10200658B2
An enhanced broadcast data service with reports locations of traffic enforcement camera locations (e.g., red light cameras and speed cameras) to users. Traffic enforcement camera information is aggregated, verified (e.g., particularly as to traffic enforcement camera type) and stored (e.g., at a server). A broadcast signal comprising program channels and at least one data channel having traffic enforcement camera information is transmitted to a plurality of receivers. Receivers store at least a subset of the traffic enforcement camera information available from the server and synchronize to it using periodic transmitted updates. Receivers compare receiver location data with stored camera location data, and display or generate audible alerts when the receiver is within a selected geographic range of a traffic enforcement camera. Alerts can be filtered as to camera type. A alerts can employ different color camera icons superimposed on a screen map depending on camera type or whether the camera is newly added.
US10200657B2
System and methods are provided for distributed microscopy. A plurality of microscopes may capture images and send them to a media server. The microscopes and the media server may be part of a local area network. The microscopes may each have a distinct network address. The media server may communicate with an operations console, which may be used to view images captured by the microscopes. The operations console may also accept user input which may be used to selectively control the microscopes.
US10200651B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may capture images using a camera system at a location associated with a user, transmit video content representative of the images over a network for presentation by another media processor at another location, receive at a media processor media content and second video content representative of second images that are associated with the second user, and present at a display device of the location the media content and the second video content in a telepresence configuration that simulates a presence of the other user at the location, where at least one of the media content and the video content is presented as three dimensional content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10200648B2
An audio/video stream recording, storage, and delivery system 10 utilizes an Internet-based browser connection. The system 10 includes recording software 20, storage memory 30, a code generator 40, and a user interface 50. Preferably, the recording software 20 is located on the host back end 60 where it processes and records audio and video material that originates from the user front end 70 and is streamed to the host back end. The storage memory 30, which is also located on the host back end 60, stores the recorded audio and video material. The user interface 50 to the system provides a user located at the user front end 70 with remote access to a virtual recording room. The user interface 50 further enables the user to record audio and video material streamed from the user front end 70 by activating the recording software 20 located on the host back end 60. This is accomplished without requiring recording functionality on the user front end 70. The code generator 30 produces code associated with the recorded audio and video material. This code can be easily copied and pasted to an additional location 80, such as an auction website. Activating the code pasted at the additional location 80 provides access to the recorded audio and video material from the additional location while allowing the recorded audio and video material to remain stored at the host back end 60.
US10200644B2
An imaging array having a plurality of pixel sensors connected to a bit line is disclosed. Each pixel sensor includes a first photodetector having a photodiode, a floating diffusion node, and an amplifier. The floating diffusion node is characterized by a parasitic photodiode and parasitic capacitance. The amplifier amplifies a voltage on the floating diffusion node to produce a signal on an amplifier output. The first photodetector also includes a bit line gate that connects the amplifier output to the bit line in response to a row select signal and a voltage dividing capacitor having a first terminal connected to the floating diffusion node and a second terminal connected to a drive source that switches a voltage on the second terminal between a drive potential different from ground and ground in response to a drive control signal.
US10200643B2
An apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive a plurality of sensed values from a plurality of sensing elements in a sensor. The processor may be connected to the interface and configured to (i) generate a list of a plurality of bad values among said sensed values and (ii) calculate a unique identification value of the sensor based on the bad values. Each of the bad values generally indicates an improper performance of a corresponding one of the sensing elements.
US10200632B2
Techniques for combining images to reduce motion blur in an output image are described. Data indicative of a first image and a second image of a scene is received. At least one portion of the first image associated with motion blur is identified. The portion of the first image is compared to a corresponding second portion of the second image. First pixels within the at least one portion of the first image and second pixels within the second portion of the second image not associated with motion blur are selected. The selected first pixels and second pixels are combined into an output image. The combined selected pixels are rendered on a display device.
US10200629B2
For image recording purposes, an object is illuminated at a plurality of illumination angles. A detector captures a plurality of images (41-43) of the object for the plurality of illumination angles. An electronic evaluating device applies an image correction to the plurality of images (41-43), said image correction comprising a rectification (T1, T2, T3), wherein the rectification (T1, T2, T3) depends on the illumination angle used when recording the respective image (41-43). The corrected images (44-46) may be combined.
US10200628B2
An electronic device for capturing an image by using a display is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a display controller configured to operate the display using a first lighting parameter and a second lighting parameter to generate an afterimage effect for objects included in images, a camera configured to capture an image to be displayed by the display, and a processor configured to determine a camera operation parameter corresponding to a final lighting parameter of the display for a capture operation of the camera. Therefore the electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure can capture a high quality image in a dark environment.
US10200623B1
Methods, devices, and systems for determining one or more image capture settings for use in flash photography are disclosed. In some aspects a device includes a memory and a processor that is coupled to a first camera, a second camera, a flash unit, and the memory. The processor can be configured to cause the flash unit to emit a flash during a flash operation having a first portion and a second portion. The processor can be further configured to cause the first camera to receive a plurality of image frames during the first portion, determine at least one image capture setting based on at least one of the plurality of frames received by the first camera, and cause the second camera to capture one or more image frames during the second portion based on the determined image capture setting.
US10200621B1
Movements of a pan and tilt camera may be controlled by reorienting the camera in response to discrete information obtained by the camera from a related but independent device such as a sensor so that the camera can capture video of events of potential interest to a user. Such sensors can respond to multiple stimuli such as, for example, sound, motion, light, pressure, humidity, and/or the like. The cameras can include, for example, pan and tilt and zoom (PTZ) cameras that can be used in monitoring and surveillance operations. For example, the pan and tilt camera can be used as a surveillance camera at a home, business, vacation, or any other property.
US10200616B2
An image processing device capable of rotating an image through a desired rotation angle such that a display direction of an image matches a posture of a user. A first image pickup section acquires a main image, and a second image pickup section acquires a sub image. A display image formed by combining the main image and the sub image is displayed on a display section. Rotation instructions for rotating the main image and the sub image displayed on the display section are separately given. The main image and the sub image are rotated according to the respective rotation instructions. The main image and the sub image, on which rotation processing has been performed, respectively, are combined and displayed on the display section.
US10200615B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an electronic apparatus comprising a display panel having a through hole having a through hole passing therethrough in a thickness direction thereof within a display region, and an image capturing device disposed on a side of the display panel opposite to a light-exiting side and configured to capture an image through the through hole. In the electronic apparatus according to the present invention, eyes of a user can look straight at the camera while viewing the screen when taking a photo of him by himself, thereby obtaining a satisfy or desirable face image.
US10200613B2
The disclosed technology includes techniques for providing improved video stabilization on a mobile device. Using gyroscope data of the mobile device, the physical camera orientation of the mobile device may be estimated over time. Using the physical camera orientation and historical data, corresponding virtual camera orientations representing a camera orientation with undesired rotational movement removed may be modeled using a non-linear filter to provide for mapping of a real image to a stabilized virtual image. The virtual camera orientation may be modified to prevent undefined pixels from appearing in the output image.
US10200612B2
An image stabilization apparatus includes: a first calculation unit that calculate an angular velocity; a second calculation unit that calculates a motion vector of an object; a third calculation unit that calculates a current position of an image stabilization unit; a fourth calculation unit that calculates an angular velocity of a motion of the object; and a control unit. The control unit controls, before the image capturing apparatus is released, the image stabilization unit so as to correct an image blur, moves, an output position of an image from the image capturing unit, and controls, after the image capturing unit has started exposure, so as to correct an image blur based on an angular velocity of the image capturing apparatus and an angular velocity of the object.
US10200608B1
An image processing system, panoramic camera, and method use multiple image processors to process image data from an image sensor to provide a panoramic image output of different resolutions depending on a mode of operation. None of the image processors are capable of outputting an image at a full resolution of the image sensor's output image data. Depending on the mode of operation, each image processor can process a portion of the image data output by the image sensor to produce a respective image that may be joined with the image(s) produced by the other processor(s) to create a full resolution image, or a less than a full resolution image can be produced by turning off one or more of the image processors.
US10200593B2
An image capturing apparatus having an image sensor, that reads out an image signal from pixels of the image sensor, controls a region in which a plurality of image signals having different viewpoints are read out from pixels of the image sensor, acquires depth information using the image signals read out from the region, and records image information in which the image signals, the depth information and information regarding the region are associated with each other.
US10200592B2
A camera body according to the present disclosure is a camera body to which a lens barrel including an optical system is detachable and reattachable, the optical system being configured to include a plurality of lenses. The camera body includes: a controller which controls the camera body; an image sensor which obtains an optical image formed by the optical system; and an image sensor driver which drives the image sensor in an optical axis direction of the optical system. The controller detects optical feature amounts of a plurality of frames in a state where the image sensor is at an identical position in the optical axis direction, detects a frame in which a change amount of an optical feature amount calculated from a plurality of the detected optical feature amounts has exceeded a predetermined threshold, and drives the image sensor driver to move the image sensor from the identical position to a reference position provided in a movable range when there is a plurality of the frames in which the change amount has exceeded the predetermined threshold.
US10200585B2
An imaging device includes a first communication unit, an imaging control unit, and a recording determination unit that determines whether or not an image data is to be recorded according to an operation instruction. The first communication unit transmits recording permission information to an external communication device when a user operation is a recording permission operation, and transmits recording prohibition information to the communication device when the user operation is a recording prohibition operation. The imaging control unit associates image data with determination result determined by the recording determination unit and either one of the recording permission information and the recording prohibition information and controls a recording unit to record the image data.
US10200576B2
A rotatable-swingable input device that has high reliability at low cost and that improves operability. Optical sensors, an elastically deformable holder, and switches are disposed on a wiring board. A shading member has a plurality of shading parts that are arranged in a circumferential direction and pass a space between a light projecting section and a light receiving section of the optical sensor when an operation member is rotated. A click spring contacts with a concavo-convex part of the operation member to generate click feeling. The holder has an inner annular part holding the operation member and shading member, and an outer annular part having pressure parts each of which deforms and pushes one of the switches when the operation member is swingingly operated. The optical sensors are arranged between the inner annular part and outer annular part without overlapping with the click spring to interpose one of the switches.
US10200571B2
An image of an object under a first illuminant is captured. The color of the ambient light at a device on which the image is to be displayed is identified. The image data is adjusted to compensate for the color of the ambient light as well as for the color of the first illuminant. An image based on the adjusted image data can then be displayed on the device. As such, the desired perception of the colors in the displayed image can be managed so that image quality is maintained even if the image is displayed under different ambient lighting conditions.
US10200569B2
Matching color information in an optical system can include splitting an image forming beam into a bright intensity beam and a dark intensity beam, detecting, using multiple sensors, a color value for a light component from the bright intensity beam and the dark intensity beam, determining color values for the remaining light components associated with the bright intensity beam and the dark intensity beam, and transforming the color values associated with the dark intensity beam to calibrate the color values of the dark intensity beam against the color values of the light intensity beam, the color values of the light intensity beam including color inaccuracies.
US10200559B2
An image scanning apparatus comprises: a first image scanning unit that performs image scanning of a first surface of an original; a second image scanning unit that performs image scanning of a second surface of the original; and a control unit that controls output channels for outputting analog signals from the first image scanning unit, wherein the control unit changes, between a case of single-sided scanning and a case of both-sided scanning, the output channels of the analog signals output from a part of scanning region in a plurality of scanning regions of the first image scanning unit, and changes, between a case of single-sided scanning and a case of both-sided scanning, the number of output channels for outputting the analog signals from the first image scanning unit.
US10200557B2
A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions which cause an information processor to execute: a first determination processing for determining whether at least one of a first condition, a second condition, and a third condition is established; a first communication processing for receiving input data obtained from an input device and transmitting the input data to an output device, when at least one of the first condition, the second condition, and the third condition is established; and a second communication processing for transmitting instruction information to the input device when none of at least one condition determined in the first determination processing among the first condition, the second condition, and the third condition is established. The instruction information is for instructing the input device to transmit the input data to the output device.
US10200547B2
An image reading apparatus includes a document tray on which a plurality of documents is stacked, a feeding unit that feeds the documents on the document tray, a detection unit that detects a double feed of the documents fed by the feeding unit, and a notification unit that issues a notification prompting a user to loosen the documents when the detection unit detects the double feed.
US10200543B2
A method and system for providing Customer Service Management (CSM) a communication network, such as a 5G wireless communication network. The communication network provides at least one service involving one or more terminals serviced by the communication network. A CSM function is defined which is based upon said at least one service and customized to said at least one service, to provide service-customized CSM. CSM may provide service-based charging/billing, service-based context management, service-customized QoE control, service-customized network topology.
US10200540B1
Audio systems and methods are provided to reduce echo content in an audio signal. The systems and methods receive an audio signal and sound stage rendering parameter(s), and select a set of filter coefficients to filter the audio signal to provide an estimated echo signal. The estimated echo signal is subtracted from a microphone signal to provide an output signal with reduced echo content. The set of filter coefficients are selected based upon the sound stage rendering parameter(s) from among a plurality of stored sets of filter coefficients.
US10200539B2
[Problem] To provide am audio communication system configured such that a relaying device and terminal devices are connected via a communication network, and communication between terminal devices is managed on the relying device side on the basis of the priority of communications.[Solution] The relaying device is provided with a network communication unit, a control unit, and a priority information storage unit. A network communication unit communicates with a plurality of terminal devices via a communication network. A control unit transfers audio signals between terminal devices participating in a communication session. When a calling audio signal specifying a terminal device participating in the existing communication session as a communication partner is received, and the priority of the new communication session is higher than the existing communication session, the control unit causes the terminal device participating in the existing communication session to participate in the new communication session. The terminal devices transmit, to the relaying device, the audio signals to which transferring destination information indicating the transferring information of the audio signal has been applied.
US10200533B2
A method for providing file-based media on hold (MOH) services in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system includes selecting an MOH file and streaming digital content of the MOH file to a communication device while a call is on hold. If the call is removed from hold and placed back on hold a second time, the digital content of the MOH file is streamed to the communication device while the call is on hold the second time. The digital content is streamed from substantially a beginning of the MOH file to a first stopping point while the call is on hold the first time, and from substantially the first stopping point to a second stopping point while the call is on hold the second time.
US10200531B2
For mitigating potential fraud, a processor detects potential fraud in a communication from a caller through a communication device. The processor further generates a fraud alert in response to the potential fraud. In addition, the processor mitigates the potential fraud in response to a fraud policy being satisfied.
US10200528B2
An electronic device and a method for performing a function in the electronic device are provided. The method includes recognizing that the electronic device is at a first state, the first state including that the electronic device is in an overturned state or that a predetermined amount of a display is covered; detecting a specific event in the first state; outputting a color notification associated with the detected specific event through at least a portion of the display, the portion of the display wrapping around a side edge of the electronic device; receiving a specific user input corresponding to the color notification, while outputting the color notification; and performing a function associated with the received specific user input.
US10200522B2
A waterproof apparatus including a waterproof enclosure including electronic circuitry, a solar panel and a keypad. The electronic circuitry is configured to communicate data wirelessly when pressure is applied to the keypad. The waterproof apparatus may be mounted to watersport equipment, such as a surfboard, kiteboard, kayak, wind surfer jet ski, paddle board, or a wakeboard.
US10200520B2
A system for providing telematics to a vehicle includes an integrated communication device having a list with mobile communication devices and periodically sending at least a portion of the list including a phone number of a currently paired mobile device. A telematics component communicates with the integrated device and has a data pump sending out information and/or requests for information and receives and sends the list portion. An off-site telematics information provider receives the information and/or requests and the list portion. When the information or the request for information is received, the integrated device and/or the provider decides whether to send a response and, if sending the response, where to send a response and what to send as the response. When the response is sent, the integrated device and/or the provider automatically sends the response to the data pump for use by the telematics component at the vehicle.
US10200516B2
Interlocking first member and optical members and methods of their manufacture. A component formed from an interlocking first member and optical member, where the first member includes a recess formed within a surface and the optical member is disposed in the recess. The recess of the first member may include a recess geometry and the optical member may include a member geometry that may correspond to the recess geometry. Additionally, the interlocking component formed from the first member and optical member may be formed by a coupling process. The coupling process may include sintering the first member and the optical member, bonding the optical member to the first member or providing a compression-load or fit between the first member and the optical member.
US10200510B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE).A method for receiving objects of a web page by a terminal is provided. The method includes determining sizes of the objects, determining a number of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections to be allocated for each of a plurality of domains connected to the web page, based on estimated sizes of the objects, determining a reception order of the objects to be received in the domains for each domain based on a size of a Congestion Window (CWND) of a server, and receiving the objects in the determined reception order.
US10200507B2
An indication of an update to a server system may be received. In response to receiving the indication that the server system has been updated, a description associated with resources of the server system may be received. One or more functions associated with the resources of the server system from the received description may be identified where the one or more functions are associated with accessing the resources of the server system. A binding may be created for a client system in view of the indication that the server system has been updated and the identified one or more functions associated with the resources of the server system to map the one or more functions of the server system to another function of the client system.
US10200500B2
A system and method for a system for communicating with a user device includes a broadcast management system generating content channel data signals. The system also includes a software download manager in communication with the broadcast management system. The software download manager generates an announcement file and a download resolution file. The download manager communicates the announcement file. The user device has user device identifier data and receives the download resolution file in response to the announcement file and stores the software image in the user device in response to the download resolution file.
US10200498B2
Embodiments of the instant invention are directed to a method and apparatus for presenting unsolicited data to users without interrupting the user's activities, wherein the presentation of the unsolicited data is monitored and is available for review by the user at the user's convenience. Embodiments of the invention comprise a content and display manager, wherein the content and display manager include a display monitor, a content delivery system and a content controller. The display monitor selects the display of content to the users, in part, by reviewing a marker which defines the last time that content was displayed to the user and the type of content displayed. The content delivery system transmits a content window to a user computer via the controller.
US10200490B2
Content-based redirection with respect to communication protocols whose standard configurations do not support such functionality is disclosed. In some embodiments, prior to requesting a content item, a client queries a server for the availability of the content item. In the event that the content item is available at the server, the server responds to the query indicating that the content item is available, and the client obtains the content item or a desired portion of the content item from the server. In the event that the content item is not available at the server, the server responds to the query indicating an alternative location at which the content item may be available, and the client redirects to the alternative location.
US10200478B1
Systems and methods for pre-login of user(s) to sessions or resources in an information handling system are disclosed. A method for pre-login may include the steps of determining if any users are to be pre-logged on to a session or resource within a select period of time from a current time, and counting the number of users to be pre-logged on. A pre-login time for the users may be calculated and scheduled, and the users may be pre-logged on to the session or resource at the pre-login time.
US10200477B2
A system may comprise an aggregator gateway associated with a zone. The system may further comprise a first relay gateway and a second relay gateway connected to the aggregator. The first relay gateway and the second relay gateway may be associated with the zone. The first relay gateway may be connected to a first M2M device located in the zone and to a second M2M device located in the zone. The second relay gateway may be connected to a third M2M device located in the zone and to a fourth M2M device located in the zone.
US10200473B2
Methods and systems for a networked storage environment are provided. One method includes mirroring a plurality of requests from a switch and transmitting the mirrored plurality of requests to a remote acquisition unit; extracting application layer protocol data units from assembled transport layer packets; parsing the application layer protocol data units to obtain file system requests; identifying storage volume identifiers from the parsed file system requests that are associated with a greatest number of operations; identifying network addresses for client systems initiating the greatest number of operations for the storage volumes and network addresses of target storage systems managing the storage volumes; and providing a total number of operations for the plurality of requests in a given time, the identified storage volume identifiers, the network addresses of the client systems and the network addresses of the target storage systems to a management console.
US10200472B2
Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for improved coordination between sender and receiver nodes in a one-sided memory access to a PGAS in a distributed computing environment. The system may include a transceiver module configured to receive a message over a network, the message comprising a data portion and a data size indicator and an offset handler module configured to calculate a destination address from a base address of a memory buffer and an offset counter. The transceiver module may further be configured to write the data portion to the memory buffer at the destination address; and the offset handler module may further be configured to update the offset counter based on the data size indicator.
US10200469B2
The application discloses a method and a system for information synchronization between cloud storage gateways and a cloud storage gateway, to resolve a problem that an address obtained by a cloud storage gateway is usually a dynamic address or even a private address, and it is difficult to perform direct communication and impossible to perform directory synchronization. A cloud storage gateway obtains, from a cloud message queue of a cloud service provider, a directory distributed by another cloud storage gateway; and therefore, as long as the cloud storage gateway can communicate with the cloud service provider, directory synchronization can be implemented without a need of direct communication between the cloud storage gateways. Therefore, even through an address obtained by the cloud storage gateway is a dynamic address or a private address, directory synchronization is not affected.
US10200461B2
A projection agent processor may generate a projection of future workload demand for at least one virtual resource based on historical demand data for the at least one virtual resource, wherein the workload comprises a total demand for virtual resources from a single source. An action agent processor may effect at least one configuration change for the at least one virtual resource in accordance with the projection.
US10200459B2
A method includes receiving first data from a first data source that continuously generates a first set of records with first common fields. The first data is filtered by selecting a first sub-set of fields of the first common fields to form first filtered data. Second data is received from a second data source that continuously generates a second set of records with second common fields. The second data is filtered by selecting a second sub-set of fields of the second common fields to form second filtered data, where the first filtered data and the second filtered data are generated simultaneously. Rules are applied to the first filtered data and the second filtered data in real-time to identify selected real-time events. The selected real-time events are reported prior to persistently storing the first filtered data, the second filtered data and the selected real-time events.
US10200458B2
A system and method for processing communication media in a regionally distributed communication platform that includes at a first platform region, establishing a communication session comprising establishing a media communication to at least one endpoint from the first region and establishing signaling communication to a second platform region; selecting a media resource in response to a change in media processing requirements of the communication session; when the selected media resource is outside the first region, routing media communication through a media resource outside of the first region; when the media resource is available in the first region, routing media communication through the media resource of the first region; and when the media resource is outside of the second region, storing the media communication in the first region at least temporarily and tunneling a branch of the media communication to a central media service in the second region.
US10200454B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A set of co-located devices is identified, including at least first and second devices that are associated with different users and are currently in proximity to each other. A determination is made that a first one of the co-located devices is configured to be viewed by multiple people. Use data is gathered that is associated with current sessions associated with the different users related to their use of their respective devices including gathering first data related to the use of the first device by a first user and second data related to the use of the second device by a second different user. The first and second data are aggregated and evaluated to identify content to present on the first one of the co-located devices for presentation to both users.
US10200450B2
An apparatus and method for sharing data between a cloud server and at last one terminal are provided. The method includes displaying, when a data type is selected on a setting menu screen of a cloud service, meta information of real data corresponding to the selected data type, the meta information being downloaded from a server, downloading, when a piece of meta information is selected, the real data corresponding to the selected piece of meta information from the server, and deleting, when the downloaded real data is consumed completely, the consumed real data.
US10200446B2
A method for user-desired delay estimation for mobile-cloud applications includes: collecting, by a mobile device, data for a mobile application using at least one of sensors, an application logger and a user feedback module of the mobile device; inferring, by the mobile device, a quality of experience based on the collected data; determining, by the mobile device, a desired delay based on the inferred quality of experience; and offloading, by the mobile device, a task to a cloud together with the desired delay.
US10200437B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An electronic device for providing a streaming service includes a controller, an encoder operatively coupled with the controller, and a transmitter operatively coupled with the control unit, wherein the controller is configured to provide a network available bandwidth estimated in a transmission layer of the electronic device from the transmission layer to an application layer, generate stream data from initial data based on the network available bandwidth, and transmit the stream data to another electronic device.
US10200435B2
A quality of service monitor adapted to measure a separate value for a quality of service for each of a plurality of monitoring intervals, where each monitoring interval is shorter than the total time duration of a network communications session and longer than the time duration of one data packet in the plurality of packets included in the session. A processor searches for the one monitoring interval with the poorest quality of service value and reports the quality of service for the session as the poorest quality of service for the one monitoring interval.
US10200432B2
In one embodiment, an HTTP streaming session may be initiated at a client device in a network. The client device may have a buffer and may be configured to request and receive one or more data segments over HTTP from an HTTP server. A first data segment at a first data source rate may be requested and subsequently received. The first data segment may be stored in the buffer. A second data source rate may then be calculated based on a storage level in the buffer, and a second data segment at the second data source rate may be requested.
US10200431B2
A multimedia system includes a source device for providing a media stream and a sink device for playing the media stream. The source device encapsulates the media stream into data packets with corresponding timestamps associated with a first wall time, and transmits the data packets to the sink device based on the timestamps and the first wall time. The sink device provides a second wall time based on the second global clock, synchronizes the second wall time with the first wall time through a network protocol, generates a local media clock, and locks the local media clock to the second global clock. The sink device decapsulates the data packets, and then plays the media stream with the locked local media clock. A play-out time of each data packet is determined by a corresponding timestamp and the second wall time.
US10200429B2
A system for making available at an end-user a media file, from a media provider comprising a media file patch related to at least one object, the system comprising: an encoding module at the media provider configured for determining at least one representation which resembles the media file patch, by comparing the media file patch with representations of said at least one object, and for including at least one identification corresponding with said representation in a skeleton file; a storage medium storing a dictionary including the representations of the at least one object at of the end-user and an intermediate node between the media provider and/or the end-user; a decoding module configured for decoding the skeleton file using the identification for looking up the corresponding representation in the dictionary of the storage medium and for rendering the media file patch based on the looked-up corresponding representation.
US10200424B2
A real-time media stream, multicast by a remote computing system, is received by an on-board system of a vehicle. While being received, the real-time media stream is packaged into time-delineated media segments that are input to a buffer. One or more missing segments are identified after a signal loss event (e.g., a satellite handoff), and a request for the missing segment(s) is/are caused to be sent to the remote computing system. The missing segment(s) is/are received from the remote computing system via a unicast transmission, and inserted into the buffer in sequence with the time-delineated media segments. The buffered real-time media stream, including the inserted segment(s), is caused to be provided to one or more electronic devices on-board the vehicle. In this manner, the real-time media stream may be seamlessly delivered to the on-board electronic device(s) despite a loss of connectivity due to the signal loss event.
US10200421B2
Systems and methods are provided for creating shared virtual spaces using a client device. For example, the disclosed systems receive a request from a user to share one or more digital content items with other users via a shared virtual space. The disclosed systems queue a request to send data to a content management system to create the shared virtual space. In some instances, the disclosed systems can determine that a connection between a user's client device and the content management system is below a threshold connectivity, and then simulate an online experience for the user despite the poor connection.
US10200418B2
A communication system, method, and components are described. Specifically, a communication system having the ability to carry a transitive context and communicate the transitive context to new participant user agents for continuity through all related call dialogs is disclosed. The transitive context communication is possible through the use of a newly created SIP dialog using a REFER message and/or an INVITE message for all call flows and topology change operations.
US10200416B2
A globally accessible list contains the identification of content casting applications, and the identification of stream receivers. When a casting application is launched to select a streaming content file, the casting application then accesses the global casting list and searches for the ID of the content casting application, and then selects the associated stream receiver to cast the URL to that stream receiver. This allows the user to not have to select the stream receiver every time a stream is cast. The list can be formed by an app, e.g., an application that forms the global list which may be an application that is provided with one of the stream receivers, for example. In one embodiment the list can be stored on a computer, e.g. the first computer that runs the application. The global casting list also contains, for each content casting application, an ordered list of IDs of user selected stream receivers by app and for by user. A stream receiver is selected based on order of the list.
US10200411B1
A re-stacking and security vulnerability data display is generated that includes individual graphic representations of instances (virtual computing systems) used to provide a software application in a cloud computing environment. The re-stacking and security vulnerability data display shows a launch date for each instance, a termination date for the instance, an indication of an instance vulnerability score assigned to the instance, and the base instance creation template release dates for each of the base instance creation templates. Consequently, the re-stacking policy and security vulnerabilities associated with that re-stacking policy for an account can be readily determined by a simple examination of the re-stacking and security vulnerability data display. As a result, any potential security issues and vulnerabilities can be readily identified and addressed.
US10200404B2
In one embodiment, a traffic model manager node receives data flows in a network and determines a degree to which the received data flows conform to one or more traffic models classifying particular types of data flows as non-malicious. If the degree to which the received data flows conform to the one or more traffic models is sufficient, the traffic model manager node characterizes the received data flows as non-malicious. Otherwise, the traffic model manager node provides the received data flows to a denial of service (DoS) attack detector in the network to allow the received data flows to be scanned for potential attacks.
US10200401B1
An example method includes providing, by a computing system, first randomized configuration information, generating, by the computing system and based on the first randomized configuration information, a first unique instance of a software component, providing second randomized configuration information, wherein the second randomized configuration information is different from the first randomized configuration information, and generating, based on the second randomized configuration information, a second unique instance of the software component that is executable on the runtime computing system. The first and second unique instances of the software component comprise different instances of the same software component that each are configured to have uniquely different operating characteristics during execution on the runtime computing system, and the first and second unique instances of the software component are each further configured, during execution on the runtime computing system, to output false information to an external computing system.
US10200395B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for automated whitelisting of files may include (1) obtaining telemetry information that identifies files located on a set of computing systems, (2) establishing a whitelist of files for the set of computing systems by, for each file identified by the telemetry information, (A) calculating an amount by which a cost for using the whitelist will increase if the file is included in the whitelist, (B) calculating an amount by which whitelist coverage of files in the set of computing devices will increase if the file is included in the whitelist, (C) determining whether to include the file in the whitelist by balancing the increase in the cost against the increase in whitelist coverage, and (3) using the whitelist to protect the set of computing systems from undesirable files. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10200386B2
Systems and methods for efficient downloading and rendering of a web page on a network connected processing device are provided. A per-page manifest specifies a list of blocked resources specific to the web page is provided. When a page is requested by the network connected processing device, blocked resources defined in the manifest are not retrieved via the network and hence not rendered by the processing device. Manifests are defined on a per-page basis. In one embodiment, manifests are created or retrieved with each request.
US10200379B2
Particular embodiments comprise a method, by one or more computer systems, for accessing a structured document from an external website, wherein the structured document includes markup language containing instructions identifying social network data elements of a social networking system, processing the markup language in the structured document to locate the social network data elements, rendering the structured document based on the markup language, wherein the displayable web page includes one or more of the located social network data elements of the social networking system, and displaying one or more of the located social network data elements of the social networking system proximal to the rendered web page on a display.
US10200376B2
Provided are a computer product, method, and system to dynamically provide discovery services for host nodes of target systems and storage resources in a network. Discover on storage resources available at target systems. An access control list indicates subsets of the host nodes that can access the storage resources at the target systems. A query is received from a requesting host node comprising one of the host nodes for storage resources the host node is permitted to access according to the access control list. Host discovery information is returned to the requesting host node indicating the storage resources the requesting host node is provisioned to access, wherein the requesting host node establishes a connection with the target systems indicated in the returned host discovery information to access the storage resources the requesting host node is provisioned to access indicated in the access control list.
US10200373B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for providing contents via a network, in which original data of contents provided via a network can be traced, and contents that are modified according to performance of a contents receiving device is provided. Location information of original contents is added to metadata of contents provided via the network to thereby increase convenience of access to the original contents and modify attributes of contents that are provided, to be suitable for the performance of the contents receiving device.
US10200372B2
An access determination management system obtains information regarding various different entities in a system (e.g., a networked environment) and what rights or privileges those entities have. An entity, also referred to herein as a principal, can be a user, a computing device, a group of users, a group of computing devices, or a service. The rights or privileges that an entity has includes, for example, whether administrative privileges are available to the entity, whether a particular program can be executed, whether an entity is a member of another entity, and so forth. The access determination management system uses the obtained information to generate and display a graph of the environment. The graph of the environment includes the different objects as well as links between the objects that indicate rights or privileges one object has with respect to another.
US10200371B2
Systems, devices, and methods for controlling access to vehicles in rental, loaner, shared-use, and other vehicle fleets. Some of the present systems, devices, and methods use encrypted virtual keys that can be relayed to a vehicle computing device via a user's mobile device. Such virtual keys can be command-specific such that successful use of a virtual key results execution of a predetermined command or group of commands, and further commands require one or more additional virtual keys with the additional commands. Others of the present systems, devices, and methods provide tools: for provisioning or initial pairing of vehicle computing devices with corresponding vehicles, identifying and permitting a user to select locally available vehicles, prompting vehicle computing devices to retrieve pending commands from a server, and/or various other functions described in this disclosure.
US10200366B2
An apparatus and method by which a user device in a home network system transmits home-device-related information is provided. The method includes acquiring, from at least one home device, a unique user identifier (UUID) for a related home device, a peer ID (peer ID) which is managed by a connectivity server for managing a connection between the user device and the related home device and that identifies the related home device, a peer group ID for identifying a group of home devices that have registered with a service server for managing device information on the related home device, and a device token containing key information for authenticating the connection to the related home device, selecting a specific user device which will share the UUID, peerID, peer group ID and device token from among neighboring devices, and transferring the UUID, peerID, peer group ID, and device token to the specific user device on the basis of a predetermined sharing method.
US10200364B1
A method for authenticating a user of a mobile electronic computing device to perform operations on a first electronic computing device includes receiving a request to access the first electronic computing device. In response to the request to access, a first identifier is sent to the mobile electronic computing device. A second identifier is received from a second electronic computing device. The second electronic computing device is different from the mobile electronic computing device. A determination is made as to whether the first identifier matches the second identifier. When the first identifier matches the second identifier, a trust score is calculated for the user. A determination is made as to whether the trust score is equal to or greater than a threshold. When the trust score is equal to or greater than the threshold, the user is authenticated to login to the first electronic computing device.
US10200363B2
An approach is provided for providing identification based on a multimedia signature. An indication platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more device events to determine one or more participants, one or more participant devices, or a combination thereof. The indication platform further causes, at least in part, an association of one or more multimedia signatures with the one or more device events, the one or more participants, the one or more participant devices, or a combination thereof. The indication platform also determines to identify the one or more device events, the one or more participants, the one or more participant devices, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the association.
US10200357B2
Features are disclosed for authentication of mobile device applications using a native, independent browser using a single-sign-on system. An authentication module within the mobile application can direct the mobile device's native browser to a URL to initiate authentication with an authentication appliance. The mobile browser can receive and store a browser-accessible token to indicate previous authentication performed by the user. The mobile application can receive from the application appliance and store a client application ID token that may be presented to network services for access. A second mobile device application may direct the same browser to the authentication appliance. The authentication appliance may inspect the persistent browser-accessible token and issue a second client application ID identity to the second application without collecting additional authentication information, or collecting additional authentication information that is different from the first authentication information.
US10200344B1
GTP firewall service to block or allow GTP-C v1 messages from specific SGSN/GGSN and GTP-C v2 messages from specific SGW/PGW to prevent fraudulent activity occurring from any specific serving node or home node. GTP Traffic from specific SGSN (3G) or SGW (4G) can be blocked going to specific home operator, including 3G GSM to 4G LTE and 4G LTE to 3G GSM protocol interoperability provided by GTP Firewall. Individual Information Elements within GTP-C v1 and GTP-C v2 messages will be monitored based on home and serve operator configuration as well as GTP messages and Information Elements mapped from GTP-C v1 to GTP-C v2 for 3G GSM to 4G LTE interoperability and GTP-C v2 to GTP-C v1 for 4G LTE to 3G GSM interoperability.
US10200338B2
Systems, methods and computer readable media for persistent conversations are described. In some implementations, a method can include receiving a communication message sent from a first user to at least one other user and generating a persistent conversation object having a conversation content section and conversation state information. The method can also include storing the communication message in the conversation content section of the persistent conversation object and forwarding the communication message to the at least one other user. The method can further include updating the conversation state information to reflect the receiving, storing and forwarding of the communication message.
US10200335B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from multiple client devices real time click-stream data indicative of multiple users accessing a content object within a structured document displayed as a web page and storing presence information associated with each of the users in a server associated with a social-networking system. The method also includes identifying one or more of the users based on the presence information, where each of the identified users accessed the content object within a specified time period and the identified users are within a specified degree of separation from each other on the social-networking system. The method further includes sending, to the client device associated with a first user of the identified users, instructions to modify a representation of the web page to include a messaging interface including presence information associated with one or more second users of the identified users.
US10200332B2
Systems and methods, by which a sender can deliver haptic messages to selected recipients within a larger group of recipients that are otherwise receiving a common message, are disclosed. The haptic messages can be individualized according to a recipient's profile, preference, and/or relationship with the sender. The haptic message can be created by the sender or selected from a pre-existing library of messages, and can be delivered automatically or assigned by the sender. The haptic messages can be dynamically changed in response to haptic feedback and supplemental data collected from the recipients that is used to update preferences and profiles of message recipients.
US10200328B2
Systems, methods, and software disclosed herein facilitate draft reminders. In at least one implementation, a primary view of an information management application is rendered. In various scenarios the primary view may include primary items, such as emails, events, tasks, or other types of items. When a reminder view is invoked, draft items are identified to include in the reminder view. The reminder view is then rendered in an overlaid manner with respect to the primary view and includes the draft items.
US10200319B2
An embodiment of the present invention, a computer receives, on a first computer, a request to locate a topic. The computer determines a second computer to query for the topic. The computer queries the second computer for the topic. The computer receives identification information of participants of an instant messaging conversation corresponding to the topic. The computer stores, on the first computer, the identification information of the participants and indexing the stored identification information by the topic.
US10200317B2
A service system for providing a service using a social group community function and a method therefor are provided. The method includes transmitting information, on a list of a chat room associated with a content providing service among a plurality of chat rooms managed in the SNS, to a server which provides the content providing service according to a request from the server which provides the content providing service a user of the SNS accesses, receiving information about a chat room selected by the user on the list of the chat room and link information from the server, and providing the link information to participants of the selected chat room through the selected chat room.
US10200314B1
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for controlling enrollment and secure persistent SMS texting account servicing communications. A method is provided that includes receiving, at an enrollment web portal, enrollment data including: enrollment credentials identifying a user for authentication, a phone number of a mobile device associated with the user, and consent by the user to persistently interact with an account servicing system via SMS texting. The method includes: processing the received enrollment data, authenticating the user responsive to processing the received enrollment data, storing the phone number of the mobile device associated with the user in a phone number data storage, and generating, responsive to the authenticating, a revocable token for persistent access to a natural dialog module via a SMS texting gateway for the mobile device identified by the phone number.
US10200313B2
A first memory device stores (i) a head part of a FIFO queue structured as a linked list (LL) of LL elements arranged in an order in which the LL elements were added to the FIFO queue and (ii) a tail part of the FIFO queue. A second memory device stores a middle part of the FIFO queue, the middle part comprising a LL elements following, in an order, the head part and preceding, in the order, the tail part. A queue controller retrieves LL elements in the head part from the first memory device, moves LL elements in the middle part from the second memory device to the head part in the first memory device prior to the head part becoming empty, and updates LL parameters corresponding to the moved LL elements to indicate storage of the moved LL elements changing from the second memory device to the first memory device.
US10200310B2
In an example, there is disclosed a compute node, comprising: first one or more logic elements comprising a data producer engine to produce a datum; and a host fabric interface to communicatively couple the compute node to a fabric, the host fabric interface comprising second one or more logic elements comprising a data pulling engine, the data pulling engine to: publish the datum as available; receive a pull request for the datum, the pull request comprising a node identifier for a data consumer; and send the datum to the data consumer via the fabric. There is also disclosed a method of providing a data pulling engine.
US10200304B1
Managing reservations for at least two different sites competing for a resource includes maintaining a table of groups of sites, where each group competes for the same resource, one of the different sites requesting a reservation for a particular resource, determining if the reservation is available by consulting the table, denying the reservation to the one of the at least two different sites in response to access having been previously reserved for an other one of the different sites, and granting the reservation to the one of the at least two different sites and reserving access for the one of the at least two different sites in response to the resource being available. The managed resources may correspond to data storage and the two different sites may be mirrored storage devices. In response to a failure of communication between the two different sites, pending writes may be failed.
US10200298B2
A process controls presentation of digital resources. Different resources or viewing components associated with viewing areas may be assigned different visual designators that affect how the digital resources are processed and presented. A user interface enables automatic generation of an array of resources that causes resources to be displayed in a particular predefined way based on their visual designators.
US10200297B2
Method for queueing packets, each packet of the packets including timing information representing a remaining time until a deadline associated with delivery at its destination; the system including N queues, each queue thereof being configured for buffering at least one packet, the N queues having a cyclic order; the method including keeping track of a pointer, initially pointing to a queue of the N queues; afterwards, repeatedly incrementing the pointer over the N queues, according to the cyclic order, after each passing of a scheduling interval S; enqueueing each packet of the packets in a queue of the N queues, that queue differing from the queue to which the pointer is pointing, based on the packet's timing information and taking into account the cyclic order; and dequeueing enqueued packets from the N queues, while prioritizing dequeueing from the queue to which the pointer is pointing.
US10200296B2
[Problem] In a case where a plurality of packets are compiled for transmission to a network, the length of data to be continuously transmitted to each of a plurality of destinations is increased and hence the time interval in which the packet(s) addressed to each destination gets a transmission opportunity is increased, with the result that the packet delay is disadvantageously increased. [Solution] A packet extraction unit (22 of FIG. 2) extracts a plurality of packets as a whole from a packet compilation queue (21 of FIG. 2) that sorts, according to destinations, and stores packets. A limited number of packets to be extracted as a whole at this time is given in accordance with a maximum packet compilation number defined by a maximum compilation number calculation unit (29 of FIG. 2) on the basis of a band increase and a delay increase due to a packet compilation.
US10200294B2
A method for network communication includes receiving in a network element a packet for forwarding to a destination node. The destination node is reachable via two or more candidate ports of the network element that are connected to respective next-hop network elements. Link-level flow-control credit notifications are received in the network element from the next-hop network elements via the respective candidate ports. An egress port is selected for the packet, from among the candidate ports, based at least on the received link-level flow-control credit notifications. The packet is forwarded toward the destination node over the selected egress port.
US10200289B2
A method executed by a control device in a software defined network is disclosed. According to the method, after establishing a control channel with a switching device, the control device obtains an identifier of the control channel. Then, the control device generates a flow entry, where the flow entry includes a match field and the identifier of the control channel. Further, the control device sends the flow entry to the switching device, where the flow entry is used to instruct the switching device to send, to the control device using the control channel represented by the identifier of the control channel, a data packet that matches the match field. Hence, classification of a new flow is completed on a switching device side.
US10200284B2
Embodiments provide a packet processing method and a device. The method includes: acquiring a first packet, and determining an identifier of a first table. The method also includes determining description information of the first table, and performing first processing on the first packet according to the description information and the first table, where the first table is a convention table. The method also includes determining an identifier of a next table according to the description information of the first table, where the identifier of the next table corresponds to description information of the next table. The method also includes processing, according to the description information, and the next table, the first packet that has undergone the first processing.
US10200277B2
Example methods are provided to influence path selection during a multipath connection between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. The method may comprise configuring, for a first subflow of a multipath connection, a first set of tuples and establishing, over a network interface of the first endpoint, the first subflow with the second endpoint. The method may further comprise configuring, for a second subflow of the multipath connection, a second set of tuples based a path selection algorithm learned by the first endpoint; and establishing the second subflow with the second endpoint. The method may further comprise sending first packets having the first set of tuples on the first subflow and second packets having the second set of tuples on the second subflow to the second endpoint via an intermediate device that uses the path selection algorithm.
US10200276B2
The application disclose a method, an apparatus and a system for controlling routing information advertising, which relates to the field of communications and is used for reducing the configuration complexity and reinforcing the operability. The method includes: receiving, by a control device, first routing information sent by a first forwarding device; wherein the first routing information includes an identifier of the first forwarding device; determining a first routing path according to the identifier of the first forwarding device, an identifier of a second forwarding device and a routing path group; and determining an advertising range of second routing information for the second forwarding device according to the first routing path; for enabling the second forwarding device to advertise the second routing information according to the advertising range of the second routing information.
US10200269B2
An information generation method includes: obtaining, for respective communication paths included in the communication paths, a write speed of data received through the respective communication paths to a storage device and a reception speed of the data, by a computer; generating first information on a transmission speed of the data for the respective communication paths, based on the write speed and the reception speed; and transmitting the first information to a transmission source device of the data with second information for identifying the respective communication paths.
US10200267B2
A system and method for client network congestion analysis and management is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method includes: collecting real-time network data; executing calculations on the real-time network data to compute performance metrics; detecting peak usage time; and detecting one or more congestion incidents, wherein a congestion incident comprises a persistence of one or more metrics over a time window that comprises detecting a proportion of metric values crossing a threshold that exceeds a defined percentage amount, detecting a time-ordered stretch of metric values that exceeds a defined threshold, or combinations thereof.
US10200253B2
A method for establishing end-to-end tunnels extending across multiple domains using a network element. The method includes receiving a request from a customer controller to implement a virtual network (VN) created by the customer controller, wherein the VN identifies the end-to-end tunnels extending across the multiple domains, mapping the VN to available resources based on network constraints in response to the request, and transmitting, after the VN has been mapped, a message to a network controller managing one of the domains that includes a network path used to form a portion of one of the end-to-end tunnels, wherein the message includes an association object having a Type-Length-Value (TLV) field containing a virtual network identifier binding the network path to the VN.
US10200252B1
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a computer system. The method includes, responsive to deployment of at least one component of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in a multilayer VDI architecture, creating an integrated topology model (ITM) instance of interconnected topology objects, the ITM instance comprising: a physical-and-virtual infrastructure topology model (PVI-TM) instance comprising first interconnected topology objects; a VDI topology model (VDI-TM) instance comprising second interconnected topology objects; and an access gateway topology model (AG-TM) instance comprising third interconnected topology objects. The method further includes generating dependencies between the interconnected topology objects of the ITM instance, wherein the dependencies comprise. In addition, the method includes generating a dependency graph for the multilayer VDI architecture based, at least in part, on the dependencies. Also, the method includes outputting at least a portion of the dependency graph for presentation to a user.
US10200247B2
A system, apparatuses, and methods for enabling management of customizations/extensions to the functionality of a multi-tenant computing platform. In some embodiments, an extended or customized entity, such as a function, operation, process, module, sub-routine, data item, etc. is represented as a record. That record is then associated with an underlying record by means of a tenant specific mapping or equivalent structure. This enables the tenant to utilize the extended or customized entity in place of the underlying record in situations in which the underlying record would typically be used. This also provides a way of isolating the extensions or customizations on the multi-tenant platform so that they are associated with specific tenants and not with other tenants who may still access the underlying or un-extended versions of the entity.
US10200245B2
Adjustable data rate data communications may be provided. First, a plurality of remote data rates at which a remote device is configured to operate may be received. Then, a plurality of local data rates at which a local device is configured to operate may be received. A greatest one of the plurality of local data rates may comprise a cable data rate comprising a greatest rate supported by a length of cable connecting the local device and the remote device. Next, an operating data rate may be determined. The operating data rate may comprise a highest one of the plurality of local data rates that has a corresponding equivalent within the plurality of remote data rates. The local device may then be operated at the operating data rate.
US10200231B1
A communication system in which probabilistic signal shaping and FEC coding are jointly applied using a partial amplitude-shaping scheme, under which bit-words representing binary labels of the transmitted amplitudes may have (i) a fixed number of amplitude most-significant bits (MSBs) generated using a shaping code and (ii) a fixed number of amplitude least-significant bits (LSBs) generated using an FEC code, e.g., without the shaping code being applied thereto. In various embodiments, the transmitted constellation symbols can carry, as sign bits, some original information bits and/or the parity bits generated by FEC-encoding some combination of the MSBs, the LSBs, and said some original information bits. Some embodiments are compatible with convolutional FEC codes, such as the trellis-coded modulation. Some embodiments can be used in communication systems relying on discrete multi-tone modulation, such as the systems providing DSL access over subscriber lines.
US10200230B2
The present disclosure pertains to a terminal for a wireless network, the terminal being adapted to receive a control message. The terminal further is adapted to read from one of a set of alternative tables based on the control message, and to perform modulation configuration based on information read from the table.
US10200228B2
A method of interleaver design for dual carrier modulation (DCM) is proposed in a wireless network. For HE PPDU transmission with DCM, information bits are first encoded by a BCC encoder. The BCC encoded bit streams are then interleaved by a BCC interleaver. More specifically, the BCC interleaved bits are repeated on two halves of a given resource unit (RU). The BCC interleaver parameters are defined based on half of the total number of the data tones of the RU if DCM is applied. The BCC interleaved bits are then modulated and mapped to two halves of the RU by a DCM constellation mapper.
US10200219B2
Systems and methods are provided for adaptive control of pre-distortion during signal transmissions. While applying pre-distortion during processing of an input signal for transmission, feedback data may be generated based on a plurality of feedback signals, and adjustments to the pre-distortion may be applied to the pre-distortion based on the feedback data. Each of feedback signals corresponds to a particular processing stage performed during the processing of the input signal. Generating the feedback data comprises applying adjustments to the plurality of feedback signals based on a type and/or a source of at least one feedback signal, with the adjustments comprising one or more of: applying a gain to one of the plurality of feedback signals; applying a delay to one of the plurality of feedback signals; and modifying a first one of the plurality of feedback signals based on a second one of the plurality of feedback signals.
US10200212B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an edge device for accessing an IP network. A record is pre-configured to associate and record a port number, a VLAN ID and an EVI service instance ID in the record. A first packet is received from a user side. A corresponding EVI service instance ID is searched in the record according to a port number of a port through which the first packet is received, and a VLAN ID of the first packet. The first packet is then forwarded in an EVI service instance corresponding to the EVI service instance ID.
US10200210B2
A communication method for electronic devices includes: determining whether a transmission line is occupied or unoccupied; based on a determination that the transmission line is unoccupied: transmitting transmission data via the transmission line; receiving return data that returns via the transmission line after the transmission data has been transmitted; and determining whether data collision exists on the transmission line by comparing the transmission data with the return data, and based on a determination that the transmission line is occupied: waiting for a predetermined first time interval to elapse; and after the predetermined first time interval has elapsed, returning to the determining whether the transmission line is occupied or unoccupied.
US10200208B2
A home automation (HA) system may include addressable HA devices each having associated therewith a respective device capability, device configuration, and device state. The HA system may also include a cloud message queue controller and a cloud message queue memory coupled thereto in the cloud for storing the device configurations, device capabilities, and device states for the addressable HA devices. The HA system may also include a home device message queue controller and a home device message queue memory coupled thereto for storing the device configurations, device capabilities, and device states for the addressable HA devices. The cloud message queue controller and the home device message queue controller may synchronize device configurations, device capabilities, and device states for the addressable HA devices.
US10200207B2
The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting 256-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (256QAM), and more particularly, to methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving a Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH) to provide Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS). According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for receiving a Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH) by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless access system supporting 256QAM includes receiving a System Information Block (SIB) including information for acquiring a Multicast Control Channel (MCCH), receiving a PMCH carrying an MCCH including Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) control information, and receiving a PMCH carrying a Multicast Traffic Channel (MTCH) including MBMS data based on the MBMS control information. 256QAM is not applied to the PMCH carrying the MCCH, and the UE determines a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) and a Transport Block Size (TBS) using a second table supporting 256QAM to receive and demodulate the PMCH carrying the MTCH.
US10200204B2
The present application discloses a link state information advertisement method and device, including: receiving, by a first network device, network topology information sent by a control device, where the network topology information includes link state information, which is generated by the control device, between the first network device and a second network device, the first network device supports an IGP, and the second network device does not support the IGP; and advertising the link state information between the first network device and the second network device. The first network device advertises the link state information to other network devices supporting the IGP, therefore implementing that a network device supporting the IGP in multiple network devices controlled by one control device accesses a network device not supporting the IGP, thereby optimizing routing between multiple network devices controlled by the control device.
US10200198B2
A data storage system creates a data signature for a data element that is to be stored by hashing the data element. The data storage system also creates a sequence signature for the data element and stores the sequence signature in a signature database. The sequence signature is created using the data signature of the data element and the previous sequence signature stored in the signature database. The data storage system transmits a copy of the sequence signature to an anchor system. The anchor system stores the copy as an export anchor and creates an import anchor based on the export anchor and information associated with the present time. The anchor system stores the import anchor and transmits a copy to the data storage system. An audit system uses the export anchor and import anchor to determine whether data stored by the data storage system has been modified.
US10200196B1
A cryptographic ASIC and method for autonomously storing data into a one-time programmable memory in isolation. Internal circuitry provides programming pulses of a given voltage magnitude and duration for changing the state of selected memory elements. Use of internal circuitry reduces pin count and increases reliability and security over devices relying on external circuitry to provide programming pulses. In one embodiment, the stored data comprises cryptographic data for enforcing a derivative key hierarchy for managing an information stream, such as a blockchain.
US10200189B1
A Dual-mode forward path PLL system and method are disclosed. The forward path PLL system includes a phase frequency detector (PFD) circuit including a first input node a second input node, a first output node a second output node, where the PFD receives a first input signal, a second input signal and generates a first output signal and second output signal, and where the first input signal is a reference frequency signal and the second input signal is a divided frequency value signal, a charge pump circuit including a third input node, a fourth input node and a third output node, where the third input node and the fourth input node are coupled to the first output node and the second output node of the PFD and where the Charge pump is programmable; and a loop filter circuit including a fifth input node and fourth output node, where the fifth input node is coupled to the third output node of the charge pump and where the loop filter circuit is programmable. In some aspects, the up-side switch and the down-side switch are current sources and the divided frequency value is signal is a fractional frequency value signal.
US10200185B2
One embodiment of the present description provides a method for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The method for monitoring a PDCCH can comprise the steps of: performing a frequency division duplex (FDD) half-duplex operation; and determining whether to monitor the PDCCH if discontinuous reception (DRX) is set. Here, when a downlink subframe of a downlink carrier is positioned immediately before an uplink subframe of an uplink carrier, the PDCCH can be monitored in the downlink subframe during an active time.
US10200165B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for beamformed transmission in a wireless local area network. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for transmitting a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) frame to a plurality of stations (STAs) by an Access Point (AP) in a wireless local area network may be provided. The method may include transmitting a SIGNAL field of the PPDU frame, the SIGNAL field including beamforming information indicating whether beamforming is applied to respective data units of the PPDU frame, and transmitting the data units of the PPDU frame, the data units being individually beamformed or not beamformed according to the beamforming information.
US10200159B2
A method and system for use in an advanced wireless communication network is provided. The method comprises: providing, to a group of UEs, a resource multiplexing configuration defining resource multiplexing for cellular and non-cellular communication; and allocating resources to the group of UEs for cellular communication, according to the resource multiplexing configuration. Advantageously, the method enables collisions and interference between D2D and cellular transmissions to be reduced or avoided.
US10200154B2
A receiver, transmitter and method for early packet header verification are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) receiving a payload flit of a preceding packet and a header flit of a current packet; and (2) using a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) in the header flit to verify the payload flit of the preceding packet and the header flit of the current packet.
US10200148B1
An apparatus and related operating method of a mmWave WHMD, are provided. The apparatus utilizes beamforming information to determine direction information indicating a direction of a received signal from an external component that is connected to the apparatus via a VR data link. The apparatus selects and sets a current MCS that supports a data load of the VR data link. The apparatus, while maintaining the VR data link, determines a VR data link condition by a determination that a received signal is stronger or weaker than a predetermined signal strength level for the current MCS of the VR data link. When stronger, the processing circuitry is configured to signal a transceiver to widen a beam from a current beamwidth to a new wider beamwidth in a direction based on the direction information to maintain the current MCS and data load of the VR data link.
US10200143B2
A transmitter comprising a plurality of modulator and multiplexer (Mod-MUX) units, each Mod-MUX unit operating at an optical wavelength different from the other Mod-MUX units. The transmitter can additional include in each Mod-MUX unit two optical taps and three photodetectors that are configured to allow the respective Mod-MUX unit to be tuned to achieve thermal stabilization and achieve effective modulation and WDM operation across a range of temperatures. The Mod-MUX transmitter avoids the use of a frequency comb. The Mod-MUX transmitter avoids cross-modulation between different modulators for different laser signals.
US10200140B2
A method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus, which is associated with a first cell, may receive communication information of a second cell, wherein the communication information is associated with a transmission, of a base station associated with the second cell, to an ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) user equipment (UE) located in the second cell; and/or reduce transmission power of the apparatus associated with the first cell, in at least one resource, to reduce interference with the transmission by the base station to the URLLC UE.
US10200135B2
An over the air measurement module comprises an antenna, adapted to receive a first measuring signal from a device under test or to transmit a second measuring signal to the device under test. It also comprises an analog signal processor, directly connected to said antenna, adapted to reduce a frequency of the received first measuring signal, resulting in a frequency reduced first measuring signal, or adapted to increase a frequency of a frequency reduced second measuring signal, resulting in the second measuring signal. It also has a connector connected to said analog signal processor and is adapted to output the first frequency reduced measuring signal or is adapted to receive the second frequency reduced measuring signal.
US10200134B2
Communications systems, methods and devices having improved noise immunity are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for improving noise immunity in a communication may include (1) at least one computer processor determining a region of interest in a received signal; (2) the at least one computer processor determining a surrogate candidate within the region of interest of the signal; and (3) the at least one computer processor encoding the surrogate candidate as a surrogate in a region of the signal other than the region of interest.
US10200122B2
A communication device is disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a communication device includes an aperture section configured to attach to a protruding section of another communication device magnetically, and a first wireless communicator configured to wirelessly communicate with a second wireless communicator of the another communication device at a frequency associated with a millimeter-wave band, the first wireless communicator including at least one transmitting coupler, wherein the at least one transmitting coupler converts a wired signal to a radio signal.
US10200120B2
The present application relates to a wireless signal decoding method, which is used to decode an electric signal converted from a wireless signal, where the decoding method includes the following steps: recording a duration of each level of the electric signal; calculating an average value of m maximum durations and an average value of n minimum durations, where m and n are positive integers and are determined by referring to a distribution percentage value of first binary bit values and a distribution percentage value of second binary bit values in data respectively; calculating a decision duration according to the first average value and the second average value; comparing the duration of each level with the decision duration, and according to a comparison result, determining a binary bit value represented by the level; and integrating all binary bit values to restore the data represented by the electric signal.
US10200113B2
A system for monitoring marine vessels using a satellite network may include a plurality of satellite payloads to be carried by respective satellites. Each satellite payload may include a communications interface configured to communicate via the satellite network, a radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to communicate with the plurality of marine vessels, and a controller cooperating with the communications interface and the RF transceiver. The controller may be configured to obtain automatic identification system (AIS) data including vessel position and call sign information via the RF transceiver, and communicate the AIS system data via the communications interface. The system may further include a terrestrial station configured to receive the AIS system data, receive social media data, and determine expected passenger lists for the marine vessels based upon the AIS data and social media data.
US10200111B2
The Aircraft Mobile IP Address System provides wireless communication services to passengers who are located onboard an aircraft by storing data indicative of the individually identified wireless devices located onboard the aircraft. The System assigns a single IP address to each Point-to-Point Protocol link which connects the aircraft network to the ground-based communication network but also creates an IP subnet onboard the aircraft. The IP subnet utilizes a plurality of IP addresses for each Point-to-Point link thereby to enable each passenger wireless device to be uniquely identified with their own IP address. This is enabled since both Point-to-Point Protocol IPCP endpoints have pre-defined IP address pools and/or topology configured; each Point-to-Point Protocol endpoint can utilize a greater number of IP addresses than one per link. Such an approach does not change IPCP or other EVDO protocols/messaging but does allow this address to be directly visible to the ground-based communication network.
US10200110B2
Systems and methods for recording and communicating engine data are provided. One example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a method for encapsulating data. The method includes receiving, by one or more computing devices, a message via an aviation messaging protocol. The method includes encapsulating, by the one or more computing devices, the message in a packet, wherein the packet comprises a User Datagram Protocol format. The method includes transmitting, by the one or more computing devices, the packet via an Ethernet connection.
US10200106B1
In accordance with one or more embodiments, an analog surface wave multi-point repeater includes a first launcher configured to transmit and receive first guided electromagnetic waves that propagate on an outer surface of a first segment of a transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. A transceiver includes a splitter coupled to a second launcher and the third launcher and a low noise amplifier configured to receive a second microwave signal from the second launcher and the third launcher via the splitter. A directional coupler is configured to couple the second microwave signal from the second launcher and the first microwave signal to the splitter to facilitate transmission of the second guided electromagnetic waves by the second launcher on the second segment of the transmission medium and to further facilitate transmission of the third guided electromagnetic waves by the third launcher on the third segment of the transmission medium.
US10200104B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for measuring a channel quality indicator, a user equipment and a base station. The method includes: obtaining a channel quality indicator configuration, where the channel quality indicator configuration includes a first combination, and the first combination includes a valid signal processing manner and an interfering signal processing manner; performing valid signal processing and interfering signal processing according to the valid signal processing manner and the interfering signal processing manner in the first combination to obtain a valid signal and an interfering signal; performing channel quality indicator calculation according to the valid signal and the interfering signal to obtain a channel quality indicator; and feeding the channel quality indicator back to a base station.
US10200102B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may identify a transmission mode that specifies a rank indicator (RI) feedback parameter for channel state indicator (CSI) reporting, and may determine that the appropriate CSI configuration excludes an RI. The device may then send CSI reports with a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) and without the RI, and it may communicate using the transmission mode. In some cases, the PMI may be based on a default rank (e.g., rank of 1 for device with single antenna). In some cases, a category or capability of the device may be identified, and the determination that the CSI configuration excludes the RI may be based on the category or capability. In other cases, the CSI configuration may be based on channel conditions. In some cases, a reference signal (e.g., a CRS) may be used as feedback depending on the device's capabilities.
US10200101B2
Methods and apparatus for channel state information feedback are provided. In various aspects, a message is transmitted to one or more wireless communication devices requesting channel state information. In some aspects, a first portion of the message is transmitted according to a first or second, and contains first information intended for a first or second set of wireless communication devices compatible with the first or second format respectively. In some aspects, a second portion of the first message is transmitted according to the second format, and contains second information intended for the second set of wireless communication devices compatible with the second format. In some aspects, this information may comprise at least one of a list of identifiers, a set of parameters for estimating the channel state information estimation, and uplink transmission allocation information.
US10200098B2
A beamforming integrated circuit has a single channel with a transmit chain and a receive chain. The transmit chain is configured to transmit an output signal and, in a corresponding manner, the receive chain is configured to receive an input signal. The integrated circuit also has separate horizontal and vertical polarity ports, and a double pole, double throw switch operably coupled between the chains and the ports. The double pole, double throw switch is configured to switch between operation in a first mode and a second mode.
US10200097B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. An access point (AP) may switch antenna array configurations during reception of a packet to determine channel characteristic information for the antenna array configurations. The AP may use the channel characteristic information to select an antenna array configuration for use, and to determine a beamforming steering matrix for the selected antenna array configuration. In some cases, the AP may use multiple antenna array configurations to transmit training fields in the preamble of a packet. The AP may receive channel characteristic information for each of the antenna array configurations. The AP may use the channel characteristic information to select an antenna array configuration for use, and to determine a beamforming steering matrix for the selected antenna array configuration.
US10200088B2
An antenna for short-range applications, including an elongate two-pole conductor structure with an internal conductor and a sheath conductor coaxially surrounding the internal conductor, and a terminal structure connected to the conductor structure. The terminal structure includes an electrically insulating carrier plate, an electrically conductive sheath conductor connection surface that extends over a first region of the carrier plate on the upper side of the carrier plate and is connected to the sheath conductor, an electrically conductive internal conductor connection surface that extends over a second region of the carrier plate, which is spaced apart from the first region of the carrier plate, on the upper side of the carrier plate and is connected to the internal conductor, an electrically conductive coupling conductor surface that extends over a third region of the carrier plate on the underside of the carrier plate. The antenna provides reliable transmission of information over short distances.
