US10251981B2
Provided is a coating layer including a reaction product of a diisocyanate compound (a) selected from the group consisting of aromatic diisocyanates, aliphatic diisocyanates, and alicyclic diisocyanates, a polyol (b), and a copolymer (c) having a functional group selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acid groups, carboxylic acid ester groups, and carboxylic acid anhydride groups. The coating layer exhibits sufficient lubricity in wet conditions and has excellent durability.
US10251978B2
A method of preparing a bone graft. An osteoconductive matrix is placed in a receptacle. Bone marrow aspirate is provided that includes plasma, progenitor cells, hematopoietic cells, endothelial cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, bone, cartilage, thrombus or combinations thereof. The bone marrow aspirate is passed through the receptacle. At least a portion of bone marrow aspirate is retained in the receptacle. The portion of the bone marrow aspirate retained in the receptacle becomes associated with the osteoconductive matrix to form the bone graft.
US10251973B2
An adhesive composition of a rubbery elastomeric matrix comprising a block-copolymer and a homopolymer where the block-copolymer contains one or more block(s) of a polymerized mono alkenyl arene monomer and one or more block(s) consisting of a linear or branched saturated hydrocarbon chain wherein the homopolymer is a linear or branched saturated hydrocarbon chain made from the same monomer as said block(s) consisting of a linear or branched saturated hydrocarbon chain.
US10251972B2
A wound dressing and a method for production thereof. The wound dressing includes a collagen-containing sheet-like structure, which is made of magnesium or a magnesium alloy. The sheet-like structure has openings and is embedded in a collagen-containing sheet-like structure. The wound dressing is embodied as a geometrically stable bioresorbable membrane and includes a support made of a collagen membrane, on which the collagen-containing sheet-like structure is arranged.
US10251970B1
An air sanitation apparatus capable of providing an antimicrobial agent in the form of a gas or mist into the air lines that feed into a processing tank for air agitation of the contents in the processing tank, the air sanitation apparatus capable of being operably coupled to an air supply header that uses a plurality of air supply tubes connecting the air supply header. The source of compressed air passing through the air sanitation apparatus having a microbial load decreased using photohydroionization and the antimicrobial agent.
US10251965B2
A device and method for disinfecting a needleless connector, the device including a housing comprising a hub rotationally coupled to a motor, the motor being operably connected to a power source, the hub further comprising a receptacle configured to receive a cleaning head, wherein the device is configured to detect achievement of one or more minimum thresholds which are recommended to achieve proper disinfection of the needleless connector. Various devices and methods are further provided to permit tracking and reporting of disinfection events.
US10251963B2
Disclosed is a method for drying endoscope channels, including the following steps: a) connecting the endoscope, particularly via a specific connection, to a plasma drying unit; b) injecting a neutral gas into the endoscope channels for a duration of 10 to 60 seconds, the flow rate of the gas being low, the gas being injected at a temperature of 10° C. to 30° C. such as to eliminate residual water; then c) drying the endoscope channels, for a duration of 30 to 150 seconds, by injecting a gas at a high flow rate, the gas being injected at a temperature of 30° C. to 60° C.
US10251962B2
Apparatus and methods include a single-pair earphone sterilize with germicidal light. Embodiments include a housing and a germicidal light source. The apparatus may include circuitry, such as power, to support the germicidal light source and a divider to shield the circuitry from the germicidal light source. The apparatus may also include attachment portions to position and maintain earphones in a position relative to the germicidal light source.
US10251955B1
A heparin-mimicking sulfonated reverse thermal gel (SRTG) as a heparin-binding therapeutic protein delivery system. This system is designed to turn from low viscous liquid to a physical gel by exposure to body temperature alone. This allows direct deployment through a small gauge needle or catheter at target area with minimal surgical intervention. A unique aspect of this system is that it possesses a net negative charge due to the presence of sulfonate groups. This allows the SRTG to mimic heparin function, binding and preserving the bioactivity of positively charged therapeutic proteins, providing localized and sustained release of such proteins.
US10251939B2
The invention relates to medicine, namely to the antimicrobial agent for the treatment of infectious bacterial diseases including hospital infections and drug-resistant TB which represents the ion nanostructured complex (INSC) synthesized from carbohydrates proteins and/or polypeptides (albumins, interleukins, interferons, signaling proteins, etc), which are to enhance the antimicrobial activity in vivo, by activating immune cells that contain at least one terminal amino acid such as Phe, Ala, Val, Ala, Leu, Ile, and others with electron-donor functional groups, iodine and halides of the alkali and alkaline earth elements in the fourth stage at a certain ionic strength; an antibacterial agent increases: the susceptibility of bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant, to antibiotics; activity of monocytes and macrophages; efficiency of antibiotic treatment of hospital infections and drug-resistant TB; it also has antiviral activity, stimulates hematopoietic function of bone marrow; has an antitumor effect and radioprotective properties; in acceptable concentrations of components can be used as non-pharmaceutical agent (BAFS or parapharmaceutical); is presented in the pharmacological form suitable for parenteral, oral, external, or other application. INSC has the formula [{(Ln (MeI3)+) y [Me (Lm) I]+x} (Cl—) y+x+k] with M=30-300 kDa.
US10251937B2
Compositions, pharmaceutical compositions and biodegradable pharmaceutical compositions containing at least one analog of spadin or at least one analog of a propeptides of spadin or mixtures thereof are described. Methods for treating depression using the analogs of spadin or analogs of propeptides of spadin or mixtures thereof, as well as methods for blocking TREK-1 channel activity are also disclosed.
US10251932B2
The invention relates to preparations comprising amorphous emodepside in a polyvinylpyrrolidone matrix, pharmaceuticals comprising such preparations, and their use against endoparasites in animals or humans.
US10251921B2
The invention provides compositions comprising bacterial strains for treating and preventing inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
US10251911B2
The technology relates to spray dried plasma and methods of making the same. The method includes providing plasma to a spray drying apparatus, spray drying the plasma, at the spray drying apparatus, to form physiologically active plasma powder, the spray drying apparatus configured utilizing one or more parameters, and storing the physiologically active plasma powder.
US10251910B2
Provided herein are pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods for determining the total non-volatile organic carbon in a sodium nitrite-containing sample. Further provided herein are methods for producing pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite. Still further provided herein are methods of treatment comprising the administration of pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite.
US10251903B2
The present invention is directed to a process for making Nucleoside Phosphoramidate Compounds of formula (I): which are useful for the treatment and prophylaxis of HCV infection. The present invention is also directed to compounds that are useful as synthetic intermediates for making the compounds of formula (I).
US10251900B2
Provided herein are methods for treating a pulmonary infection in a patient in need thereof, for example, a nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infection for at least one treatment cycle. The method comprises administering to the lungs of the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising a liposomal complexed aminoglycoside comprising a lipid component comprising electrically neutral lipids and an aminoglycoside. Administration comprises aerosolizing the pharmaceutical composition to provide an aerosolized pharmaceutical composition comprising a mixture of free aminoglycoside and liposomal complexed aminoglycoside, and administering the aerosolized pharmaceutical composition via a nebulizer to the lungs of the patient. The methods provided herein result in a change from baseline on the semi-quantitative scale for mycobacterial culture for a treated patient, and/or NTM culture conversion to negative during or after the administration period.
US10251897B2
The present invention provides a therapeutic drug for diabetes containing 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphoethanolamine (DOPE) as an active ingredient, particularly a therapeutic drug for diabetes that exhibits a GLUT4 endocytosis suppressive action by suppressing activation of PKCα and the like.
US10251893B2
The present invention relates to methods for modulating the Wnt signaling pathway using compounds of Formula (1), wherein A1, Y and Z all represent rings.
US10251887B2
The invention relates to therapeutic applications for compositions that reduce the level of oxidative stress on cells in vivo or in vitro. The invention describes methods for improving the therapeutic properties of stem cells. The invention also provides combination therapies that are useful to balance the oxidative microenvironment of cells in vivo or in vitro.
US10251883B2
The present invention relates to compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and formulations comprising the compounds or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof that are useful in modulating lyn kinase activity. In particular, the compounds or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are useful for treating or preventing a disease or disorder including cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, dyslipoproteinemia, a disorder of glucose metabolism, metabolic syndrome (i.e., Syndrome X), a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-associated disorder, septicemia, a thrombotic disorder, type II diabetes, obesity, pancreatitis, hypertension, renal disease, inflammation, or impotence.
US10251875B2
The inventive subject matter is directed to compositions and methods for sterile and storage stable low-dose atropine formulations with improved stability. Most preferably, the compositions presented herein are substantially preservative free and exhibit less than 0.35% tropic acid from degradation of atropine. Advantageously, contemplated formulations are also substantially free of preservatives.
US10251865B2
Disclosed herein is a method of upregulating regulatory T-cells, and treating diseases that would benefit from such upregulation, by administering an alpha-2 receptor agonist.
US10251861B2
The present invention provides methods to improve scar and burn outcome utilizing tocotrienols. In particular, various skin pathologies may be treated using the present methods. The present invention also provides methods to increase skin tissue concentrations of tocotrienols.
US10251852B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating a condition characterized by a dysregulation in macrophage lipid homeostasis. The disclosed methods may include the administration of an agent selected from a PPARγ agonist, a LXR agonist, or a combination thereof. In certain aspects, the disclosed methods may be used to prevent, treat, or ameliorate conditions such as pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) and/or symptoms associated therewith.
US10251851B2
Analgesic compounds for treatment of pain or fever that include a bicyclopentane moiety linked to an amine, combinations of the compounds with opioid analgesic drugs, and methods for treating pain or fever by administering a compound described herein.
US10251847B2
Disclosed herein are polymorphic and amorphous forms of anhydrate, hydrate, and solvates of (R)-2-hydroxy-2-methyl-4-(2,4,5-trimethyl-3,6-dioxocyclohexa-1,4-dienyl)butanamide and methods of using such compositions for treating or suppressing oxidative stress disorders, including mitochondrial disorders, impaired energy processing disorders, neurodegenerative diseases and diseases of aging. Further disclosed are methods of making such polymorphic and amorphous forms.
US10251844B2
A substantially solvent-free matrix layer containing (−)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-6-[propyl-[2-(2-thienyl)ethyl]amino]-1-naphthalenol is produced by adding an active substance to an adhesive solution, coating the resultant active substance-containing adhesive solution onto a suitable sheet, and removing the solvents in a drying process to give said substantially solvent-free matrix layer.
US10251832B2
A method for reducing a presence of sebum on skin, reducing an appearance of shiny skin, and reducing an appearance of the size of skin pores, the method comprising topically applying to skin a composition comprising: a navy bean extract comprising amino acids; a combination of an extract of Bambusa vulgaris wendl shoots and charcoal; Lonicera japonica leaf extract; and salicylic acid, wherein topical application of the compositions to the skin reduces the presence of sebum on the skin, reduces the appearance of shiny skin, and reduces the appearance of the size of the skin pores.
US10251828B2
Disclosed is an anhydrous lip moisturizing composition and a method of use for moisturizing lips. The composition can include 20% to 30% by weight of caprylic/capric triglyceride; 12% to 22% by weight of tridecyl trimellitate; 1% to 15% by weight of jojoba esters; 5% to 10% by weight of Helianthus annus (sunflower) seed oil; 2% to 10% by weight of microcrystalline wax; and 2% to 10% by weight of beeswax.
US10251820B2
The present invention relates to a topical composition comprising plant extracts. In particular, the present invention relates to a topical composition comprising plant extracts embedded in hydrophilic vesicles (niosomes), preferably having a size smaller than 500 nm, and at least one topically acceptable excipient.
US10251818B2
A pump set for use with a pumping apparatus to deliver nutrition to an infant is disclosed. The pump set can have a first container configured to receiving breast milk; a second container configured to receive fortifier; tubing extending from the first container and from the second container; and a valve mechanism connected to the first and second containers by the tubing and configured to selectively pass liquid from the first container and the second container.
US10251817B2
A teat including at least a shaft and a nipple, wherein structured surface areas are provided at least in a partial region thereof, and the structured surface areas are formed by at least one rough surface zone having a surface roughness of 100 μm at the most, or 50 μm at the most.
US10251815B2
A delivery system and method for storing and delivering colostrum or milk to an infant are provided. In one aspect, the system includes a syringe for delivering a dose of colostrum or milk, a swab container, and a swab. The swab is contained in the swab container and the swab container connected to the syringe. In another aspect, the delivery system includes a plurality of syringes for delivering a dose of colostrum or milk and a storage container for storing the plurality of syringes having the colostrum or milk therein. The method includes loading a first syringe with a dose of colostrum or milk and placing the loaded first syringe in a first slot in a storage container. The method further includes loading a second syringe with a dose of colostrum or milk and placing the loaded second syringe in a second slot in the storage container.
US10251809B2
A device for treating sleep apnea in a patient through stimulation. The device includes a generator configured to produce stimulation pulses, a stimulator that receives the stimulation pulses produced by the generator and delivers stimulation to the patient, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a sleep state of the patient, adaptively control the generator based on the sleep state where the sleep state includes a plurality of sleep stages, and modulate a stimulation energy of the stimulation pulses produced by the generator based on the sleep stage of the patient.
US10251808B1
A configurable cushion assembly adaptable for personal pleasure activities includes multiple cushions joined in a pivoting arrangement by which multiple cushioned constructions may be adapted to aid in personal exercise or other physical activities. Various elements of the cushion assembly provide for the retention and support of personal massaging devices in a variety of configurable positions.
US10251806B2
A collapsible rolling walker that readily collapses for storage and/or transportation and that readily deploys for use.
US10251801B2
A collapsible containment apparatus (36) with a first hub (21), a second hub (22), a plurality of articulated arms (23, 25) coupled to the first hub (21), a plurality of support arms (24) coupled to both the second hub (22) and the articulated arms (23), and a flexible canopy (73) carried by the articulated arms (23). The apparatus (36) is collapsed by relative movement of the two hubs (21, 22) away from one another, and deployed by relative movement of the hubs (21, 22) toward one another. When the apparatus (36) is deployed the canopy (73) creates a closed interior environment, which may be sterile.
US10251797B2
A patient support includes a frame and a mattress supported by the frame. The frame includes a deck support and a deck supporting the mattress.
US10251793B1
A system comprises a series of passive RFID tag sensors each embedded on top of its own matching antenna inside a flexible substrate. The sensors are driven by a controller-transceiver. The controller-transceiver sends RF signals through an antenna to each RFID tag sensor and receives data transmitted back from the same sensors. Sensors are embedded in a flexible substrate positioned under an unaltered incontinence absorbent pad and juxtaposed to derive further information. Multiple sensors provide sensing of physical-environmental data in addition to moisture. The controller makes intelligent and positive incontinence determinations by relating data to profiles indicative of correlation to incontinence conditions.
US10251780B2
A three-coil electromagnetic induction power transfer system is disclosed for epiretinal prostheses and other implants. A third, buffer coil is disposed between an external transmitting coil and a receiver coil buried within the body to improve efficiency and robustness to misalignments. One or more of the coils can be manufactured using micromechanical machining techniques to lay out conductors in a ribbon of biocompatible insulator, folding lengths of the insulated conductor traces longitudinally over one another, and then spiraling them into a ring. The traces change axial position in the ring by shifting across fold lines. One or more U-shaped sections on the traces can be folded so that adjacent traces can project opposite one another, lengthening the resulting ribbon that can be wound into a coil.
US10251768B2
According to aspects of the present disclosure, a retrieval catheter assembly for retrieving an intragastric balloon may include a tubular member configured to pass through a wall of the intragastric balloon. The retrieval catheter assembly may also include a retrieval member coupled to the tubular member and movable between an undeployed configuration and a deployed configuration. In the undeployed configuration the retrieval member may be substantially aligned with the tubular member. In the deployed configuration at least a portion of the retrieval member may diverge from the tubular member and may be configured to engage the wall of the intragastric balloon.
US10251767B1
A minimally invasive system and method for providing weight loss by inducing the feeling of satiety whereby an intragastric device is inserted into the gastric lumen via the esophagus and an external magnetic device is used as needed to magnetically attract the intragastric device towards the inner wall of the stomach and impart tactile stimulation sufficient to induce the feeling of satiety.
US10251759B2
A spinal interbody device includes a base link having a first end and a second end, a linkage including a first link having a first end coupled to the first end of the base link and a second end, and a second link having a first end coupled to the second end of the first link and a second end coupled to the second end of the base link. The base link and the first and second links define top and bottom surfaces configured to engage adjacent portions of bone, and first and second sides extending between the top and bottom surfaces. The device further includes at least one radiographic element provided in at least one of the first link and the second link and positioned such that the radiographic element provides an indication of a degree of expansion of the device when the device is imaged from one of the first side and the second side of the device.
US10251753B2
The present invention regards an elbow spacer device, including: at least one ulnar section, including a stem portion extending along a substantially longitudinal axis (x-x) between a proximal end and a distal end; at least one humeral section, including a stem portion extending along a substantially longitudinal axis (y-y) between a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end of the humeral section delimiting an engagement seat with the proximal end of the ulnar section; articulation means between the distal end of the humeral section and the proximal end of the ulnar section, positionable along an axis (z-z) that is orthogonal to the substantially longitudinal axis (y-y) of the humeral section. The proximal end of the ulnar section is engageable in the housing seat.
US10251752B2
A modular femoral prosthesis system for an orthopedic hip implant and method of use is disclosed. The prosthesis system includes a femoral stem component and a plurality of collar components configured to be selectively coupled to the stem component in a fixed position adjacent to a neck of the stem component. Each of the collar components includes a base and is configured to secure an assembled femoral prosthesis to a patient's surgically prepared femur to provide stability for the assembled femoral prosthesis.
US10251750B2
A system for improving cardiac function is provided. A foldable and expandable frame having at least one anchoring formation is attached to an elongate manipulator and placed in a catheter tube while folded. The tube is inserted into a left ventricle of a heart where the frame is ejected from the tube and expands in the left ventricle. Movements of the elongate manipulator cause the anchor to penetrate the heart muscle and the elongate manipulator to release the frame. The installed frame minimizes the effects of an akinetic portion of the heart forming an aneurysmic bulge. Devices and methods are described herein which are directed to the treatment of a patient's heart having, or one which is susceptible to heart failure, to improve diastolic function.
US10251747B2
A tissue holding assembly for endothelial implantation comprising an open frame having legs for engaging a stem, such that said frame is insertable between a stroma and a Descemet's membrane, said frame being coated with a biological adhesive for adhering to a perimeter of a section of the Descemet's membrane to adhere the section of the Descemet's membrane to the frame for surgical separation of said section by cutting therearound, wherein said frame further comprises a heating element around its inner perimeter.
US10251744B2
A device for attaching soft tissue to a prosthetic implant. The device includes a body that includes a frame and a porous section disposed within the frame, wherein the porous section permits the passage of body fluids therethrough to encourage the healing of the soft tissue as well as the growth of soft tissue into and through the porous section.
US10251738B2
Systems, method, and devices related to surgically implantable supportive slings are presented herein. More specifically, in various embodiments, the systems, devices and methods relate to a surgically implantable supportive sling adapted to anchor in patient tissue.
US10251735B2
The present invention includes a device, system and method of use consisting of a specialized dental keyboard wherein the specialized keyboard resides as virtual keys on a touch screen panel on a device such as a tablet computer including such devices as an Apple iPad. The invention includes a software component that enables customer configurable keyboard layouts including a plurality of specialized keys that provide short-cut macros to streamline data entry during a dental exam.
US10251717B2
A surgical system includes methods and systems for damping vibrations. The damping of these vibrations can increase the precision of surgery performed using the surgical system. The surgical system can include one or several moveable set-up linkages. A damper can be connected with one or several of the set-up linkages. The damper can be a passive damper and can mitigate a vibration arising in one or more of the set-up linkages. The damper can additionally prevent a vibration arising in one of the linkages from affecting another of the set-up linkages.
US10251714B2
The present disclosure is directed to robotic surgical system that includes an operating console configured to operate at least one robotic arm and at least one drive motor configured to receive an input from the operating console and control the at least one robotic arm based on the input from the operating console. A surgical instrument is coupled to the at least one robotic arm. The surgical instrument is inserted into a patient and captures an image of a region of interest inside the patient during a surgical procedure. A controller receives the image and applies at least one image processing filter to identify at least one non-visible property of an object in the region of interest. A display displays the image to a user.
US10251696B2
An endoscopic bipolar forceps includes an elongated shaft having opposing jaw members at a distal end thereof. The jaw members are movable relative to one another from a first position wherein the jaw members are disposed in spaced relation relative to one another to a second position wherein the jaw members cooperate to grasp tissue therebetween. The jaws members are connected to a source of electrical energy such that the jaw members are capable of conducting energy through tissue held therebetween to effect a tissue seal. At least one non-conductive and spaced-apart stop member is disposed on an inner-facing surface of the jaw members to regulate the gap distance between the jaw members when tissue is held therebetween. The forceps also includes a longitudinally reciprocating knife which severs the tissue after sealing at a location which is proximate the sealing site.
US10251692B2
A system and method for determining the optimum dose of cryotreatment to an area of target tissue to achieve isolation based on the time to effect (TTE). The system may generally include a treatment device, a sensing device, and a processor programmed to calculate the optimum dose of cryotreatment, in seconds, based on TTE. The TTE may be based on electrical signals received by the processor from the sensing device. The processor may be further programmed to automatically terminate a cryoablation procedure when the optimum dose of cryotreatment has elapsed. The optimum dose of cryotreatment may be the time, in seconds, it takes to achieve isolation, which may be the time it takes for an area of tissue to reach approximately −20° C.
US10251690B2
An instrument for internal bone fracture fixation includes a shaft having a distal portion and a patient-specific bone holder coupled to the distal portion. The bone holder has a three-dimensional curved and patient-specific bone engagement surface designed during a preoperative plan based on a medical scan of a patient to match and conform to an outer surface of a bone fragment of the patient in only one position.
US10251687B2
Disclosed are a device for fixing acetabular fractures involving the anterior/posterior column and acetabulum quadrilateral plate and a usage method thereof. The device includes an iliopectineal plate and an trapezoidal plate or a pubic plate. The iliopectineal plate and the pubic plate are integrally bent to match with a medial anatomic structure of an iliopectineal line and a superior pubic ramus. The shape of trapezoidal plate matches with the acetabular quadrilateral plate, the anterior column and the posterior column to fix the posterior column, an ischium and the acetabulum quadrilateral plate from inside to outside. The device is at the medial surface of the iliopectineal line, which fixes the fragments of the acetabulum quadrilateral plate in an opposite direction and fixes the acetabular fracture stably for improving the quality of reduction and fixation.
US10251686B2
An adjustable, knotless button/loop construct for fixation of ankle syndesmosis tibio-fibular diastasis and an associated method of ankle repair using the same. The knotless construct comprises a pair of buttons attached to a flexible, continuous, self-cinching, adjustable loop integrated with two splices that are interconnected. The knotless construct is passed through fibular and tibia tunnels and the buttons are secured on the cortical surfaces of tibia and fibula. One of the buttons (for example, an oblong button) is secured on the medial side of the tibia by passing the button and the flexible, adjustable loop though the fibular and tibia tunnels and then flipping and seating the button outside the tibia. The length of the flexible adjustable loop is adjusted so that the second button (for example, a round button) is appropriately secured on the lateral fibula.
US10251674B2
Provided is a manual follicle-transplanting hair transplanter for increasing a graft survival rate. The manual follicle-transplanting hair transplanter includes a needle member having a lower end containing a follicle to be transplanted and having a head having a larger diameter than a portion below the head at an upper end thereof, a rod member inserted into the needle member and having a push portion having a larger diameter than a portion below the push portion at an upper end thereof, an inner body configured to contain the needle member and limit downward movement of the needle member, and an outer body configured to contain the inner body and limit upward movement of the needle member. The needle member is automatically withdrawn when a compressed spring disposed in the inner body expands and pushes up a lower surface of the head.
US10251670B2
A positioning apparatus includes a needle guide, a rotation unit, a detector for the rotation position, a position measuring unit, an engageable stopper, and a setting unit for setting position information to a value corresponding to a predetermined position are provided herewith. The positioning apparatus can be used, for example, to position a needle placement manipulator.
US10251668B2
A medical device for incising a substance inside a biological lumen. The medical device includes a rotatable drive shaft, an outer sheath that accommodates the drive shaft, an intermediate portion connected to the drive shaft, at least one strut interlocked with the drive shaft, a linear motion shaft inside of the drive shaft, and a liquid feeding unit. The strut rotates with the drive shaft and is expandable radially outward in response to outward expansion of the intermediate portion. The linear motion shaft is movable relative to the drive shaft in the axial direction to cause the strut to expand radially outward. The liquid feeding unit supplies liquid to a space between the outer sheath and the drive shaft. The drive shaft includes a hole portion penetrating from an inner surface of the drive shaft through to an outer surface of the drive shaft.
US10251667B2
A device and method for removing atheroma. An expandable atherectomy device comprises a rotatably motor-driven flexible hollow shaft that is slidable over a guidewire introducible through a flexible catheter tube and is coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the guidewire, an expandable cutting unit connected to a distal end of the hollow shaft, and an actuator which is operable to induce selective expansion of the cutting unit. The cutting unit, when expanded, is eccentrically rotatable about the longitudinal axis to cut and remove atheromous material from a blood vessel. In one embodiment, the method also includes the step of drilling an occlusion present in the lumen of a blood vessel by a drill unit connected to the cutting unit.
US10251665B2
Prostate treatment using fluid stream to resect prostate tissue, thereby relieving symptoms of conditions such as BPH, prostatitis, and prostatic carcinoma. A device having a fluid delivery element is positioned within a lumen of the urethra within the prostate. A fluid stream is directed outwardly from the fluid delivery element toward a wall of the urethral lumen. The fluid delivery element is moved to scan the fluid stream over the wall to remove a volume of tissue surrounding the lumen. The fluid may be combined with therapeutically active substances or with substances that increase resection efficiency. Fluid force may be adjusted to provide selective tissue resection such that soft tissue is removed while harder tissue is left undamaged. In order to gain a working space within the urethra, another fluid may be introduced to insufflate the urethra in the region of treatment.
US10251662B2
A surgical instrument including a housing, an elongated body, an end effector, and a dissection element. The housing has a handle assembly and the elongated body extends from the housing. The end effector is supported at a distal end of the elongated body and is operatively associated with the handle assembly. The dissection element is disposed about the elongated body proximal to the distal end of the elongated body. The dissection element is configured to bluntly dissect tissue surrounding the elongated body.
US10251648B2
A surgical staple driver. A driver body is configured to be slidably supported in a surgical staple cartridge. The driver body comprises at least two staple support members. Each staple support member is configured to operably support a corresponding staple thereon. The driver body further comprises a first camming surface and a second camming surface that is spaced from the second camming surface. The driver body further comprises at least one aperture that is configured to slidably receive therein a corresponding driver guide formed in the staple cartridge.
US10251644B2
Adapter assemblies selectively interconnect a surgical end effector that is configured to perform at least a pair of functions and a surgical device that is configured to actuate the end effector. The adapter assembly includes an adapter knob housing configured and adapted for connection with the surgical device and to be in operative communication with each of the at least one rotatable drive shaft of the surgical device. The adapter knob housing defines a lumen extending longitudinally therethrough and a ring gear formed in an inner surface of the lumen of the adapter knob housing. The ring gear defines an internal array of gear teeth which are engaged with a spur gear of a rotatable drive shaft. The adapter knob housing may be a unitary member and may be formed of plastic.
US10251643B2
An apparatus and method for joining members together using a self-drilling screw apparatus or stapling apparatus are disclosed. The screw apparatus includes a shell and first and second first screw members having tapered ends and threaded bodies that are disposed within the shell. A drive mechanism rotatably drives the first and second screw members from the shell in opposite directions and causes the screw members to embed themselves in the members to be joined. The screw apparatus can be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, vertebral bodies, wood, building materials, metals, masonry, or plastics. The stapling apparatus includes first and second lever arms rotatably joined together at a fulcrum, and the lever arms rotate in opposite directions. First and second cartridges are disposed at the ends of the lever arms. Each cartridge is capable of holding a staple including a bracket, a nail member and an alignment slot. When the ends of the lever arms are rotated towards each other the staples from the cartridges are interlocked. The staples can be also be used to join members such as bones, portions of the spinal column, or vertebral bodies.
US10251628B2
According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe, image generation circuitry, image generation circuitry, at least one light emission circuitry a plurality of optical detection circuits, a slide mechanism and analysis circuitry. The slide mechanism makes at least either the at least one light emission circuitry or the plurality of optical detection circuits slide to change positional relationships between the ultrasonic transmission/reception surface, the at least one light emission circuitry, and the plurality of optical detection circuits. The analysis circuitry analyzes a change in the light intensity detected for each of different positional relationships between the ultrasonic transmission/reception surface, the at least one light emission circuitry, and the plurality of optical detection circuits.
US10251626B2
According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes a storage and processing circuitry. The storage stores a first image indicating a breast of an object captured by a medical image diagnostic apparatus and interpretation information associated with the first image. The processing circuitry generates, based on position information of a region of interest based on the interpretation information and information of an interpretation direction, schematic diagram information for adding information about a position of the region of interest onto a schematic diagram of the breast. The processing circuitry transmits information, including the schematic diagram information, for generating the schematic diagram.
US10251620B2
A dispensing system is provided including a housing having a cavity, a first opening and a second opening, the openings being in communication with the cavity. First and second rollers are positioned within the cavity. A strip extends through the openings. The strip has a first end that is wound about the first roller and a second end that is wound about the second roller. A plurality of instrument covers are removably positioned on the strip. Methods of use and kits are disclosed.
US10251616B2
A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes: scanning and signal lines; a two-dimensional array of detecting elements defining a detecting part; a control unit that reads image data from all detecting elements in a reading area of the detecting part by repeating a cycle of a readout process at N-line intervals, wherein the scanning line subjected to the readout process is shifted every cycle, where N is an integral number of at least 1; and a communication unit for external communication. The control unit detects a radiation emission start of a radiation irradiating apparatus, and if the readout process starts with an N+1th or any subsequent scanning line and then starts with any of first to N+1th scanning lines in a certain cycle, the control unit transfers the image data read in the certain cycle as preview image data substantially concurrently with the readout process.
US10251614B2
A digital radiographic detector having a radiolucent cover and housing at one or more edges of the detector allows radiographic imaging using multiple detector arrangements with overlapping edges that do not obstruct radiographic images captured thereby.
US10251613B2
A method is disclosed for x-ray CT scanning with a dual-source system, in which two radiation bundles are each delimited by diaphragms such that these radiation bundles are free of mutual points of intersection at least in the examination object. An embodiment of the invention also relates to a dual source CT system, including a controller configured to control radiation-delimiting diaphragms, which delimit and align the radiation bundles such that these run free of mutual points of intersection at least in the examination object.
US10251612B2
A method for generating a modulation tube current waveform acquires reflectance images of a subject and generates a surface contour characterization of the subject according to the reflectance images. The surface contour is registered to the imaged field of view. A volume image is formed according to the generated surface contour. A modulation factor for the radiographic volume imaging apparatus is determined at a plurality of modulation points. A modulation tube current waveform is generated using the modulation factor.
US10251605B2
A flexible, body-mountable analyte sensing device includes a flexible substrate configured for mounting to skin of a living body. The sensing device additionally includes a sensor probe attached to the flexible substrate and configured to penetrate the skin such that a sensor disposed on the sensor probe can detect an analyte in interstitial fluid. The sensor probe can include an elongate extension of the flexible substrate. The sensor can be, for example, an electrochemical sensor or an optical sensor. The sensing device is configured to wirelessly indicate detected concentrations or other information about the analyte in the interstitial fluid. The flexible substrate of the sensing device is configured to be adhered or otherwise mounted to the skin in a manner that minimally impacts activities of the living body.
US10251595B2
A medical device delivers a therapy to a patient. The medical device or another device may periodically determine an activity level or gait parameter of the patient, and associate each determined level or parameter with a current therapy parameter set. A value of at least one activity metric is determined for each of a plurality of therapy parameter sets based on the activity levels or parameters associated with that therapy parameter set. Whether the patient is currently experiencing or anticipated to experience gait freeze caused by their neurological disorder, such as Parkinson's disease, may also be determined. Gait freeze events may be associated with current therapy parameters and used to determine activity metric values. In some examples, the activity metric associated with certain therapy parameters may be presented to a user.
US10251591B2
A method and apparatus for diagnosing and/or treating mood disorders, such as depression, is provided. Right vestibular function in subjects diagnosed with a mood disorder is diminished compared with subjects who do not have a mood disorder. Accordingly, a method and apparatus for determining right vestibular function in a subject is provided, from which a diagnosis of a mood disorder may be determined. Stimulation of the vestibular system of a subject diagnosed with a mood disorder may reduce symptoms of the mood disorder in the subject. A method and apparatus for registering a subject's response to stimulation of the vestibular system and providing therapeutic vestibular stimulation based on the subject's response is provided. A subject's response to stimulation of the vestibular system may be based on measurements of nystagmus in the subject.
US10251590B2
An apparatus includes a pre-sample reservoir, a diversion mechanism, and a flow metering mechanism. The diversion mechanism has an inlet port couplable to a lumen-defining device to receive bodily-fluids from a patient, a first outlet port fluidically couplable to the pre-sample reservoir, and a second outlet port fluidically couplable to a sample reservoir. The diversion mechanism defines a first fluid flow path and a second flow path that are configured to place the first outlet port and the second outlet port, respectively, in fluid communication with the inlet port. The flow metering mechanism is configured to meter a flow of a predetermined volume of bodily-fluid through the first fluid flow path into the pre-sample reservoir, to meter a flow of a second volume of bodily-fluid through the second fluid flow path into the sample reservoir, and to display a volumetric indicator associated with the predetermined volume and the second volume.
US10251579B2
A medical apparatus (1100) comprising a magnetic resonance imaging system and an interventional device (300) comprising a shaft (302, 1014, 1120). The medical apparatus further comprises a toroidal magnetic resonance fiducial marker (306, 600, 800, 900, 1000, 1122) attached to the shaft. The shaft passes through a center point (610, 810, 908, 1006) of the fiducial marker. The medical apparatus further comprises machine executable instructions (1150, 1152, 1154, 1156, 1158) for execution by a processor. The instructions cause the processor to acquire (100, 200) magnetic resonance data, to reconstruct (102, 202) a magnetic resonance image (1142), and to receive (104, 204) the selection of a target volume (1118, 1144, 1168). The instructions further cause the processor to repeatedly: acquire (106, 206) magnetic resonance location data (1146) from the fiducial marker and render (108, 212) a view (1148, 1162) indicating the position of the shaft relative to the target zone.
US10251578B2
An MR Spectroscopy (MRS) system and approach is provided for diagnosing painful and non-painful discs in chronic, severe low back pain patients (DDD-MRS). A DDD-MRS pulse sequence generates and acquires DDD-MRS spectra within intervertebral disc nuclei for later signal processing & diagnostic analysis. An interfacing DDD-MRS signal processor receives output signals of the DDD-MRS spectra acquired and is configured to optimize signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by an automated system that selectively conducts optimal channel selection, phase and frequency correction, and frame editing as appropriate for a given acquisition series. A diagnostic processor calculates a diagnostic value for the disc based upon a weighted factor set of criteria that uses MRS data extracted from the acquired and processed MRS spectra along regions associated with multiple chemicals that have been correlated to painful vs. non-painful discs. A diagnostic display provides a scaled, color coded legend and indication of results for each disc analyzed as an overlay onto a mid-sagittal T2-weighted MRI image of the lumbar spine for the patient being diagnosed. Clinical application of the embodiments provides a non-invasive, objective, pain-free, reliable approach for diagnosing painful vs. non-painful discs by simply extending and enhancing the utility of otherwise standard MRI exams of the lumbar spine.
US10251577B2
Systems, articles, and methods for surface electromyography (“EMG”) sensors that combine elements from traditional capacitive and resistive EMG sensors are described. For example, capacitive EMG sensors that are adapted to resistively couple to a user's skin are described. Resistive coupling between a sensor electrode and the user's skin is galvanically isolated from the sensor circuitry by a discrete component capacitor included downstream from the sensor electrode. The combination of a resistively coupled electrode and a discrete component capacitor provides the respective benefits of traditional resistive and capacitive (respectively) EMG sensor designs while mitigating respective drawbacks of each approach. A wearable EMG device that provides a component of a human-electronics interface and incorporates such capacitive EMG sensors is also described.
US10251576B2
A system and method for ECG data classification for use in facilitating diagnosis of cardiac rhythm disorders is provided. ECG data is obtained via an electrocardiography monitor with a patient button. A press of the patient button is identified within the ECG data. A button window with a segment of data prior to and after the button press is defined within the ECG data. The ECG data is divided into blocks. Noise detection analysis is applied to the data blocks. A classification of noise or valid data is assigned to each data block based on the noise detection analysis. At least one data block that overlaps the button window is assigned the noise classification. The at least one data block is trimmed to align with one of the start and end of the button window. The trimmed blocks assigned with the noise classification are removed from the data.
US10251554B2
An MRI apparatus includes: an image processor that generates a real-time image and a scout image by using an MR signal that is received from an object; a display that displays slices, which respectively correspond to portions of the object, on the scout image; and an input interface that receives a user input corresponding to at least one of the real-time image and the scout image. The image processor updates the real-time image based on the user input, and the display displays the updated real-time image.
US10251542B1
This device consists of a frame and light filters so as to enable a highly portable device to measure Dark Adaption. Dark Adaption is a process which tests sight in low light conditions and is an indicator of wet AMD disease, the leading cause of blindness in older people. This testing process was first established by the Goldmann-Weekers machine in the 1950s. The portability is achieved by use of filters, a common means to light reduction, and elimination of a machine outer cover. The simplicity and portability of this invention allows many types of very substantial cost efficiencies in eye examinations and also greater flexibility. With this device, testing for incipient wet AMD may be achieved in routine eye examinations where it is not now common. Home testing for wet AMD is also made possible and practical with this device.
US10251536B2
The medical instrument a wire, a flexible sheath through which the wire is inserted, a wire driving unit for driving the wire, a passive unit that is put into operation as the wire is driven, a sheath pulling unit for pulling the sheath, a sheath lock unit for locking movement of the sheath, and a control unit for switching among a run-up mode in which the passive unit and the wire driving unit are still disconnected, a sheath free mode in which the sheath is not locked and so set free, a sheath slack adjustment mode in which a slack in the sheath is adjusted to lock the sheath in place and a master/slave mode in which the passive unit connected to the wire driving unit is put into a drivable state.
US10251521B2
A cyclone assembly includes a first cyclonic cleaning stage. The first cyclonic cleaning stage includes at least one first stage cyclone having a first stage cyclone chamber. Each first stage cyclone chamber has a height extending between a first stage cyclone chamber air inlet and a first stage cyclone dirt outlet. The cyclone assembly also includes a second cyclonic cleaning stage downstream from the first cyclonic cleaning stage. The second cyclonic cleaning stage includes a plurality of second stage cyclones in parallel. Each of the plurality of second stage cyclones has a height extending between a second stage cyclone chamber air inlet and a second stage cyclone dirt outlet. The second cyclonic cleaning stage has a larger number of second stage cyclones than the first cyclonic cleaning stage, and the height of each second stage cyclone chamber is greater than the height of each first stage cyclone chamber.
US10251515B2
The present invention relates to household food-processing devices. In order to provide a household food-processing device with a mounting system ensuring that it is not possible to touch the processing tool in an operating state, a household food-processing device (10) is provided that comprises a base unit (12), a processing tool unit (14) with a processing tool (18) for processing supplied food, and a receiving unit (16) with a receiving volume (20) for receiving the processed food. The base unit provides a driving force for actuating the processing tool. The receiving unit is mountable to the processing tool unit, and the base unit is mountable to the processing tool unit. The processing tool unit is provided with a safety mounting mechanism (38) defining a mounting order, according to which the base unit is mountable to the processing tool unit only when the receiving unit is mounted to the processing tool unit; and according to which the de-mounting of the receiving unit from the processing tool unit is blocked when the base unit is mounted to the processing tool unit.
US10251514B2
The present invention relates to a grinder, comprising a container bottle for containing a spice, a grinding assembly interconnected with the container bottle and used for grinding the spice and a casing for accommodating the grinding assembly. A feeding mechanism for pushing the spice in the container bottle into the grinding assembly is further provided between the container bottle and the grinding assembly in the casing. Compared with the prior art, the design of the feeding mechanism in the present invention provides a solution for feeding of a spice with large volume and/or a relatively smooth spice with small friction in the prior art, so that the grinder provided by the present invention is applicable to not only grinding of a granular spice, but also grinding of a leafy spice with large volume and light weight.
US10251508B2
A kettle includes a kettle body, a top cap, a heating base, a filter cup and a filter cup lifting arrangement. The kettle body includes a water reservoir having a receiving cavity. The filter cup is adapted for storing food or beverage items and communicating with the receiving cavity. The filter cup lifting arrangement includes a supporting member supported in the water reservoir, a stopper and a lifting member movably extended between the supporting member and the stopper through the top cap. The lifting member is arranged to drive the filter cup to move between an immersion position and a lifted-up position, wherein in the immersion position, the filter cup is moved to immerse under the hot water stored in the receiving cavity, wherein in the lifted-up position, the filter cup is moved to lift up from the hot water.
US10251502B2
An adjustable liquid container holder and method, whereby a set of components that may be used for holding various types and sizes of liquid containers with the ability to temporarily hang or mount the liquid container holder and still retrieve liquid through a hose. The liquid container holder may have frame parts that are height adjustable to snugly fit a liquid container regardless of its height. The spigot may be configured with a detachable retractable cord and reel so that the spigot may be automatically retracted in close proximity to the liquid container holder upon release of the spigot from a user's hand.
US10251501B2
A beverage glass transport apparatus holds and transports multiple beverage glasses, each having a narrow base portion and a wider upper portion. The apparatus includes a unitary fork body with two spaced apart arms defining a slot therebetween, with an opening at one end of the fork body. Optionally, each arm may include an inner band and an outer band joined to the inner band. The inner bands have upper surfaces which cooperate to define a plane. Each of the outer bands extends in a direction away from the plane, which may be downwardly. The fork body also includes a bridge interconnecting the arms, the bridge disposed at an end of the fork body opposite the opening. The fork body also includes a handle attached to the bridge portion, for being grasped by a user to carry the apparatus. A method of using the apparatus to transport beverages is also described.
US10251497B2
A weighted car seat pad includes a generally U-shaped main body having a pair of side protrusions that define a recessed buckle area. A retention strap extends across a portion of the recessed buckle area, and an opening is disposed along one side of the pad. A weighted pad insert is removably secured within the main body, and includes a specific weight that is matched to the age group and/or particular condition of a child with whom the pad will be used.
US10251495B2
The present invention relates to a device for mounting wall objects. The device has a vertical member and a horizontal member attached to one another along a fold line. The vertical member has a wall-facing side that engages and is secured to a wall or surface by receiving connection members through one or more mounting holes. The horizontal member, in some arrangements, has a pair of flanges that form a gap along an outer end opposite the fold line. A pair of spaced-apart support braces that form a slot extend generally down the middle between the horizontal and vertical member. The slot allows for the reception of a brace or clamp that can be held in place by inserting a locking pin through aligned sets of locking holes and through either a brace hole in the brace or a fixing hole in a transverse hole of the clamp.
US10251490B2
A method and system may include transmitting a signal to a pump of an air mattress to set the pressure of the air mattress to an initial pressure; receiving, at a central controller, a user preference condition for an automatic adjustment of the pressure in the air mattress; receiving, at the central controller, an indication that the air mattress is empty; and based on determining that the user preference condition has been met and receiving the indication: detecting a change in the pressure of the air mattress beyond a threshold value; and based on the detection, adjusting the pressure of the air mattress to the initial pressure.
US10251480B2
Disclosed is a pullout apparatus having side access and designed for simple, adjustable, and accurate installation within a pre-existing cabinet space. The apparatus, slidably mounted within the cabinet space, comprises a top slide assembly mounted to a cabinet carcass and a drawer box. The drawer box is automatically centered on a base slide box. The base slide box is comprised of a slotted template slidingly engaged with a frame, where the frame is mounted to the cabinet carcass. Slide rail assemblies connect the slotted template to the frame. A pin block on the underside of a fixed shelf of the drawer box automatically centers the drawer box on the slotted template. A face plate adjustment mechanism provides for three dimensional alignment of the face plate with surrounding cabinets. An alternate embodiment comprises a mounting bracket providing three dimensional adjustability of the upper drawer slide.
US10251479B2
A reading lamp, by which, the limitation of illuminated and magnified zones of a known flat-panel reading lamp is overcome. The reading lamp does not need to be manually moved many times in use, so that it is convenient to carry and easy for operation. The reading lamp includes a splicable optical module and a luminous module, wherein, the splicable optical module includes a plurality of light guiding plates, at one face of each of which, there is provided a Fresnel thread, and at another face of each of which, there are arranged optical lattice points with uneven density; the plurality of light guiding plates can be spliced with each other; a light exiting end of the luminous module is connected to an upper end of the splicable optical module.
US10251476B2
The invention relates to a work surface arrangement consisting at least of a standing work surface, a seated work surface, at least one planning board and a movement space having a center as basic elements; said basic elements are arranged at a random angle relative to each other around the movement space and are each arranged at a distance a1, . . . , an around an imaginary center, said distance lying within a radius ranging from about 0.30 m to 2.00 m, measured from a front edge of the basic element to the imaginary center.
US10251467B2
A backpack support system has a frame, which is equipped with shoulder straps and preferably also a waist belt and which preferably inherently rigid so hat the loads that occur during use, the frame only flexes by inevitable amounts in the millimeter range by which any rigid body flexes when subjected to a load. A bike mount is fastened to the frame. The bike mount is embodied so that the bike, almost exclusively by its frame or frame components such as the rear fork can be fastened directly to the frame, i.e. without luggage or a pack compartment being situated between the bike and the frame in the points at which the bike rests directly against the frame. When properly fastened, the bike is thus affixed to the frame so that it cannot move.
US10251461B2
A cosmetic product applicator, in particular for mascara, is configured to be screwed on a receptacle for a cosmetic product The applicator includes a cover (22), intended to be manipulated by a user, a rod (24), intended to bear an applicator end-piece, and a molded interface zone (30) on which the cover (22) and/or the rod (24) are mounted The interface zone (30) bears a thread (32) for screwing the applicator (20) on the receptacle (10), the thread forming less than one turn.
US10251453B2
A buckle includes a male coupler including a bar portion with an external surface, a first flange protruding from the external surface, the first flange being adapted for connection of a strap thereto; a female coupler with a hollow body having an opening therein, the opening including an end part at a first axial end of the hollow body and a slot part extending generally axially from the end part of the opening, the slot part having opposing lips extending along the slot, the hollow body having an internal surface complementary to the external surface of the bar portion; a detent for releasably holding the bar portion in the hollow body; and wherein the lips extend reentrantly and each lip is adjacent a respective inwardly-extending face in the bar portion.
US10251444B2
The sliding-shoe sole is a device that is permanently attached or removably positioned on fitness shoes. The sliding-shoe sole is fabricated from materials that reduce the degree of frictional contact between the sole and a contacting surface. The sliding-shoe sole may encompass a portion or the entire bottom of the fitness shoe and portions of the heel, toe and side areas of the shoe. This arrangement enables the wearer to participate more fully in exercises and/or dances that require the foot to not only slide and/or glide along the dance floor or exercise surface along the shoe bottom, but also along the shoe heel, toe and side.
US10251441B2
A boot for riding which includes a spur and a spur-holder seat associated to the boot are provided. The spur can include a portion slidingly inserted in the spur-holder seat. Such boots are configured to allow easy adjustment of the position of the spur which allows the comfortable and safe positioning for horseback riding.
US10251440B1
A system for mitigating an impact force is provided. The system a helmet having a face mask attached thereto, and the face mask includes a first portion; and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion are separated by a gap and held together via a biasing member. A force received by the first portion is at least partially transferred to the second portion via the biasing member, wherein a fraction of the transferred force is returned to the first portion, the fraction being less than the force received.
US10251439B2
A hood apparatus has structure to be removably engagable to a jacket and further structure to help eliminate reduced user peripheral vision from the hood via the user turning their head side to side. The structure of the hood is to create a slackened removable engagement between the hood and the jacket. Further structure of the hood is to provide multiple axes of adjustability for the hood to form around a user's head in effect causing the hood move in lockstep to the user's side to side head movement. These multiple axes of adjustability include a circumferential elastic drawstring positioned about the user's face periphery and an added independent lateral elastic drawstring that is partially parallel to the circumferential elastic drawstring for about an upper one-third of the user's face periphery wherein the lateral elastic drawstring is routed laterally toward the rear of the hood.
US10251437B1
A manufacture includes a hair accessory (200,300) comprising a weft (201,301) and a plurality of hair strands (202,302), a film layer (411), and a support (1206). The weft can be arranged in a coil (408) along the film layer with the plurality of hair strands extending outwardly from the coil. The plurality of hair strands can be parted (1101,1102) to define a first subset of hair strands (1103) extending substantially in a first direction (1105) from the coil and a second subset of hair strands (1104) extending substantially in a second direction from the coil to form a parted hair assembly (1109). The parted hair assembly can then be wrapped about the support so as to preserve a one directional curl in the hair, as well as offer consumers a way to inspect both the interior side (1204) and the exterior side (1205) without disturbing the curl or coil.
US10251434B1
A device to increase a person's awareness of his or her breathing rhythm is disclosed. The device includes a clip, an air deflection plate, and a hinge connecting the air deflection plate to the clip. The air deflection plate may rotate about the hinge, relative to the clip. The air deflection plate may at least partially occlude a user's nostril when the clip is attached to the user's nose.
US10251433B2
A wearable garment includes at least one impact absorbing pad with an inner face facing the body of a wearer and an opposite outer face, and a pressure sensor on the side of the pad faced by the inner face of the pad positioned so as to measure the effect at the inner face of an impact on the outer face after a portion of the impact has been absorbed by the pad.
US10251431B1
A fly shield for a garment such as, for example, a pair of jeans. The fly shield includes a material folded and stitched to form a mitered corner. The mitered corner is defined by a fly shield seam and the fly shield has an approximate trapezoid shape defining two approximate right angles, a first acute angle, and an obtuse angle. The fly shield seam extends towards a vertex of the obtuse angle; and the fly shield defines a bottom folded edge that extends between the vertex of the obtuse angle and a vertex of the first acute angle. The fly shield seam and the bottom folded edge intersect to form a second acute angle, which is a portion of the obtuse angle.
US10251428B2
A driving module for an electronic cigarette is provided. The electronic cigarette includes a casing, a mouthpiece, a sensing unit, an atomization component, a liquid storage component and a fluid transportation device. The driving module includes a battery, a connection interface, a power board and a control board. According to a control signal, a voltage of the driving power is converted into a specified voltage, and a driving signal is generated according to the specified voltage. According to the driving signal, the driving power with the specified voltage value is provided to the fluid transportation device to enable the fluid transportation device to transfer the cigarette liquid to the atomization component, and the driving power with the specified voltage value is provided to the atomization component to enable the atomization component to atomize the cigarette liquid and generate an atomized vapor.
US10251426B2
An electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) is disclosed, said electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) comprising a mouth piece (MP), an atomizer arrangement (AA), a power supply (PS), a nicotine container (NC), an additive container (AC), the atomizer arrangement (AA) comprising an inlet (NCI) from the nicotine container (NC) and an inlet (ACI) from the additive container (AC), the atomizer arrangement (AA) comprising two separate atomizers, a first atomizer (FA) and a second atomizer (SA), the first atomizer producing nicotine-containing aerosols having a first mass median aerodynamic diameter (FMMAD) and the second atomizer producing additive-containing aerosols having a second mass median aerodynamic diameter (SMMAD) and wherein the second mass median aerodynamic diameter (SMMAD) is greater than the first mass median aerodynamic diameter (FMMAD), the atomizers being electrically connected to the power supply (PS). Furthermore, a method of producing a mixture of aerosols, an aerosol mixture and a use of an electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) is disclosed.
US10251409B2
Suggested is a mixture of matter, comprising: (a) steviol glycosides, (b) starch degradation products and (c) one or more phenolic sweetness-enhancing aroma substances selected from the group formed by hesperetin, phloretin, 1-(2,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-3-(3-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)propan-1-one, 7,3-dihydroxy-4′-methoxyflavan and 5-hydroxy-4-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-7-methoxy-2-chromanone. On condition that components (a+b) and (c) are present in a ratio by weight of from 1.99 to 99:1.
US10251407B2
The present application relates to compositions and methods for modulation of the mucosal immune system. The compositions include foods fermented by the probiotic organism, Lactobacillus paracasei CBA L74 (International Depository Accession Number LMG P-24778). Alternatively, the compositions can include L. paracasei CBA L74 and a physiologically acceptable carrier. In some embodiments, the L. paracasei CBA L74 can be non-replicating. The compositions can be administered to a subject having or at risk for gastrointestinal disorders related to immaturity of the immune system, infection or disease.
US10251402B2
Methods and compositions in which botanical oils, such as wintergreen oil, and/or isolated methyl salicylate are combined with an attractant matrix (pellets) and applied near a nest of leaf-cutting ants. These oils possess fungicidal and fungistatic properties that destroy and inhibit growth of the ant-cultivated fungus—the ant colony's sole food source—thereby promoting destruction of the colony. These oils are also highly attractive to the ants, exerting no repellent effects, encouraging transport of the fungicidal materials into the nest and ensuring that the fungal colonies come into contact with the materials and suffer mortality.
US10251395B2
What are described are compounds of the general formula (I) and agrochemically acceptable salts thereof their use in crop protection and processes for their preparation.
US10251383B1
A flexible fishing hole light-emitting device for adjustably extending and shining a light into an ice fishing hole. The flexible fishing hole light-emitting device includes a base assembly adapted to be removably attached to an object, wherein the base assembly includes a power unit; and a light-emitting assembly including a flexible elongated support member and a light-emitting member with light-emitting diode in communication with the support member and the power unit.
US10251371B1
A fully self-contained collar monitors the location of a pet. A look-up table has rows and columns representing geographic location, and machine-stored values at each table location represent a particular one of several guidance zones. The real-time guidance zone determination is made by first determining present location. The corresponding table location value representing guidance zone is retrieved. Each guidance zone has an associated set of characteristics used by collar electronics and stimulus generators to generate well defined and positive stimulus to train the pet to stay within a predetermined area. In addition, using location history the collar electronics also predictively alerts the pet of an impending exit from a safe zone. This departure alert may be further combined with inertial validation and dynamic position request intervals to provide a much more reliable and robust system that is then able to much more efficiently and effectively train a pet.
US10251366B2
In order to avoid negative changes in the teat ends of a cow, in particular to avoid hyperkeratoses, the invention proposes a method for operating a milking system in which at least one of the parameters from total pressure per cycle, minimum total pressure per cycle or the ratio of total suction to total pressure is determined for at least one animal of a herd during at least one part of a milking process, and is compared with at least one reference value.
US10251365B2
The present invention relates to at least one epichloae fungal endophyte strain combined with at least one species of Secale spp., which confers at least some level of pest protection on the Secale spp. plant. In particular, the invention relates to an isolated strain of epichloae fungal endophyte selected from the group consisting of AR3039 (NRRL# 50716), AR3046 (NRRL# 50576), AR3049 (NRRL#50577), AR3050 (NRRL# 50578), AR3064 (NRRL# 50718), AR3067 (NRRL# 50719), AR3068 (NRRL# 50720), AR3073 (NRRL# 50721), AR3074 (NRRL# 50722), AR3076 (NRRL# 50723), and AR3078 (NRRL# 50724), and combinations thereof; a Secale spp. plant infected with a fungal endophyte wherein Secale spp. is not a natural host of the endophyte; a method of making a stable host plant/epichloae fungal endophyte combination; a method of conferring at least some level of pest protection on a host Secale spp. plant; and a Secale spp. seed infected with an epichloae fungal endophyte.
US10251359B2
The present invention relates to an iceberg lettuce having one or more romaine lettuce characteristics. The invention further relates to methods for producing iceberg lettuce varieties containing one or more romaine lettuce characteristics.
US10251358B1
A soybean cultivar designated 67421739 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 67421739, to the plants of soybean cultivar 67421739, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 67421739, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 67421739. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 67421739. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 67421739, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 67421739 with another soybean cultivar.
US10251356B1
A novel maize variety designated X95M231 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X95M231 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95M231 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X95M231, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95M231 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95M231 and methods of using maize variety X95M231 are disclosed.
US10251353B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 15R537. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 15R537. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 15R537 and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 15R537 with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US10251349B2
A multiple plant container self-watering system comprising a frame supporting multiple grow pots, the multiple grow pots comprising at least a primary grow pot and a secondary grow pot; a primary container at a first elevation on said frame wherein said primary grow pot rests on a primary wick of the primary reservoir pot, and a plurality of secondary containers, each of the plurality of secondary containers being at a different elevation and comprising a secondary grow pot resting on a secondary wick of the secondary reservoir pot; whereby the primary container and the plurality of secondary containers are fluidly connected by means of the tubing and configured to allow for substantially similar dry-down time.
US10251344B2
The disclosure relates to a dampening system useful for reducing the shimmying or movement of caster on suspension systems of harvesters, such as self-propelled windrowers. The suspension system utilizes hydraulic cylinders on harvesters which are operably linked to the caster and that respond to movement of the caster and/or caster wheel during operation of the harvester in a high-speed operable mode.
US10251338B2
An apparatus for forming a first component making up at least a part of a housing on a trimmer head and a method of using the apparatus. The housing has a rotary axis and is configured to support at least one radially projecting cutting component. The first component has a central axis. A forming unit defines at least one cavity within which a moldable material is confined to produce at least a part of a wall on the first component that extends around the rotary axis. The forming unit is configured to allow selective controlling of a quantity of a moldable material introduced into a first discrete subvolume at a first location in the one cavity to thereby allow selective controlling of a mass of a portion of the at least part of the wall formed by the moldable material in the one cavity at the first location to facilitate dynamic balancing of the housing, within which the first component is incorporated, with respect to the rotary axis.
US10251326B2
A row unit assembly may generally include a clamp mount configured to be coupled to a frame member of an agricultural implement. The clamp mount may include a first clamp member and a second clamp member pivotally coupled to the first clamp member. The first clamp member may include a first clamp wall spaced apart from a second clamp wall of the second clamp member such that the frame member is clamped between the first and second clamp walls. In addition, the second clamp member may include a flange extending outwardly relative to the second clamp wall such that the flange overlaps the frame member along at least a portion of a top side of the frame member. Moreover, the row unit assembly may include an agricultural row unit including at least one support arm pivotally coupled to the clamp mount.
US10257961B2
An apparatus and system for a heat sink assembly, and a procedure for forming a heat sink assembly. The heat sink assembly includes a heat sink having a base and fins extending from the base, and a spring clip disposed on the heat sink between the fins. The spring clip includes a first tab that forms a first angle with respect to the base of the heat sink and including a second tab that forms a second angle with respect to the base of the heat sink. The first and second tabs are attached to the circuit board. By virtue thereof, a heat sink attachment to cage is provided that is space-efficient and permits a higher density of cages on a circuit board than do conventional arrangements.
US10257959B2
Methods and apparatus for monitoring air cooling fans including, by way of non-limiting examples, the determination of an upper and lower boundary limit of acceptable fan operation, sends a control signal to a fan being monitored, measures the fan rotation rate or fan power consumption subsequent to sending the control signal; and issues an alarm if the measured fan rotation rate is above the upper boundary limit or below the lower boundary limit.
US10257954B2
An electronic device includes a battery including a first end portion in a plan view, the first end portion including a first engagement portion, a first case member including an accommodation portion where the battery is accommodated, and a slide member which is held by the first case member and is slidable along the first end portion. The slide member includes a first structure which prevents the slide member from dropping off from the first case member. The slide member can take a first position at which the slide member is in engagement with the first engagement portion and a second position at which the slide member is not in engagement with the first engagement portion as a result of sliding along the first end portion.
US10257953B2
Provided is an enclosure for use in a modular storage system, the enclosure comprising a plurality of drive bays, a controller canister, an expansion canister, and a midplane connecting the drive bays to the canisters, wherein the controller canister occupies a greater volume of the enclosure than the expansion canister.
US10257941B2
A connection substrate includes a ceramic substrate with a through hole therein and a through conductor provided in the through hole and having first main surface and a second main surface. The through conductor includes a metal porous body having first open pores communicating with the first main surface, and second open pores communication with the second main surface, first glass phases provided in the first open pores, respectively, second glass phases formed in the second open pores, respectively, first spaces provided in the first open pores, respectively, and second spaces provided in the second open pores, respectively. The first spaces are closed spaces which do not communicate with the first main surface. The second spaces are open spaces communicating with the second main surface.
US10257939B2
Methods of fabricating tamper-respondent electronic circuit structures and electronic assembly packages are provided which include, at least in part, a tamper-respondent sensor including one or more formed flexible layers of, for instance, a dielectric material, having opposite first and second sides, and circuit lines defining at least one resistive network. The circuit lines are disposed on at least one of the first side or the second side of the formed flexible layer(s). The formed flexible layer(s) with the circuit lines includes curvatures, and the circuit lines overlie, at least in part, the curvatures of the formed flexible layer(s). In certain embodiments, the formed flexible layer(s) may be one or more corrugated layers or one or more flattened, folded layers.
US10257935B2
A printed circuit board assembly (1) and a method for manufacturing a printed circuit board assembly (1) are provided. The method comprises: providing a substrate (2), printing a circuit pattern on the substrate (2) thereby forming a bottom layer (4a) of an uncured conductive material (7) and a top layer (4b) of an insulating material (8), arranging at least one electronic component (5), having at least one electrical connection part (6), on the top layer (4b) of the circuit pattern, the at least one electrical connection part (6) of the at least one electronic component (5) forming at least one electrical connection (9) with the bottom layer (4a) comprising the uncured conductive material (7), and, after arranging said at least one electronic component (5) on the top layer (4b), curing the conductive material (7) and the insulating material (8). By this method, the conductive material (7) mechanically secures said at least one electronic component (5) to the substrate (2).
US10257931B2
Systems and methods for grooved vias are described. For example, a method may include: drilling a via hole in a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), where the PCB comprises a first layer having a first trace and a second layer having a second trace, the via hole includes a first portion between the first layer and the second layer and a second portion between the second layer and a bottom surface of the PCB, and the via hole is configured to couple the first trace to the second trace through the first portion; after drilling the via hole, creating a rough internal surface in at least the second portion of the via hole that is configured to reduce a resonance of a signal transmitted from the first trace to the second trace; and forming a via by filling the first and second portions of the via hole with conductive material.
US10257929B2
A variable stiffness film, a variable stiffness flexible display, and a manufacturing method thereof may include a lower electrode, a variable fluid, and an upper electrode. A polymer layer may be formed on the lower electrode, and a variable fluid receiving portion is patterned on the polymer layer. A variable stiffness layer is formed by putting a variable fluid in the variable fluid receiving portion. The upper electrode is formed on the variable fluid layer.
US10257916B1
A plurality of wearable accessories for creating a synchronously presented lighting effect from an audience in a controlled access venue. Each accessory has a substrate, a power source, at least one light, a controller, and a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The radio frequency identification tag can store information and communicate with other devices to enable a user to conduct transactions with others.
US10257911B2
Methods and apparatus related to a LED-based lighting unit (10; 110; 210; 310; 410) having a radar for presence detection. A radar circuit (140; 240; 340A; 340B; 440) may be electrically coupled to conductive wiring (25; 125; 225; 325; 425) of the LED-based lighting unit that at least selectively powers the radar circuit and at least selectively powers the LEDs. In some implementations, an antenna coupled to the radar circuit may be formed from the conductive wiring and optionally at least partially isolated from any current flowing through the LEDs.
US10257904B2
A control circuit for a light emitting diode (LED) lighting system for achieving a dim-to-warm effect is provided. The control circuit includes an LED controller, a clamp circuit coupled to a set of warm correlated-color-temperature (“CCT”) LEDs, a switch coupled to a set of cool LEDs, and a feedback circuit coupled to the clamp and the switch. The LED controller is configured to control the clamp circuit to clamp current through the set of warm LEDs based on the input current, and control the switch to switch on the set of cool LEDs responsive to the input current being greater than a first threshold level and to switch off the set of cool LEDs responsive to the input current being lower than the first threshold level. The feedback circuit is configured to divert current from the set of warm LEDs to the set of cool LEDs.
US10257903B1
A signal detecting device and a light-emitting apparatus using the same are provided. The signal detecting device includes an electromagnetic generator and a first switch. The electromagnetic generator includes a first receiving terminal and a second receiving terminal to receive an input signal from the first receiving terminal and the second receiving terminal and generate electromagnetic induction according to the input signal. A first terminal of the first switch is coupled to a first signal source. A second terminal of the first switch is coupled to an output terminal of the signal detecting device. The first switch determines whether the two terminals of the first switch are conducted according to the electromagnetic induction caused by the input signal.
US10257895B1
Methods and systems are provided for operating a lighting array that is comprised of one or more lighting segments. In one example, the lighting segments may be comprised of light emitting diodes that are electrically coupled in series. The lighting segments may be controlled responsive to output of a potentiometer and the lighting segments may be controlled responsive to positions of circuit boards in an enclosure.
US10257893B2
A luminaire that adjusts a certain set of light sources according to the installation location of said luminaire with respect to an external structure. A luminaire with a light emitting surface comprising a LED driver (30); an array of light sources, the luminaire further comprising: a light output tuning unit, connected to a certain set of light sources within the array and being able to tune an light output of said certain set of light sources; an interface adapted to be operated during an installation/commissioning of the luminaire, adapted for receiving configuration information which is dimming information; and a control unit, for controlling the tuning unit according to the received configuration information; wherein the light emitting surface is a planar surface and said certain set of light sources is on at least one edge of the planar surface and wherein said array of light sources is connected to the LED driver (30) and the light output tuning unit comprises a dimming circuit including at least one shunt switch adapted to shunt said certain set of light sources off from or on to the LED driver (30).
US10257890B2
An inductive cooking utensil with a concave cooking surface at room temperature and a substantially flat cooking surface at a cooking temperature.
US10257884B2
A device that warms a surface of a living body required to be warmed at an appropriate timing at any place indoors and outdoors or the sea without causing low temperature burns. A sheet having a heat generating function including a circuit capable of receiving electric power without contact over a sheet containing plastic or a fibrous body, a heat generating circuit, and a circuit that controls the temperature of the heat generating circuit is manufactured. The user with the sheet transmits the radio signal from the transmission device outdoors or indoors to heat the heat generating circuit on the sheet and the heat can be conducted to the skin of the user. Temperature can be automatically adjusted by the circuit for controlling the temperature of the heat generating circuit.
US10257882B2
A communications assembly including a first mobile station communicatively coupled to a public mobile radio network, a second mobile station communicatively coupled to a private mobile radio network, and a communications interface module configured to provide a communication conduit between the first mobile station and second mobile station, for routing: a communication originating from the first mobile station through the communications interface module for transmission over the private mobile radio network via the second mobile station, and a communication initiated at the communications interface module for transmission over the public mobile radio network via the first mobile station device.
US10257851B2
Techniques for channel configuration on a shared communication medium are disclosed. An access point may select a set of resource elements to carry an uplink control channel and transmit a configuration message including one or more configuration parameters associated with the selected set of resource elements to one or more access terminals. The access point may then receive uplink control signaling from the one or more access terminals via the selected set of resource elements. An access terminal may receive a configuration message including one or more configuration parameters for an uplink control channel from an access point and determine a set of resource elements configured to carry the uplink control channel based on the configuration message. The access terminal may then transmit uplink control signaling to the access point via the determined set of resource elements.
US10257841B2
The present application discloses a downlink transmission method including: UE receiving configuration information sent form base station and accordingly adjusting CQI table and MCS table; UE measuring and reporting downlink channel quality indicator information to the base station; here, the UE reports the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256QAM modulation; the UE receiving downlink scheduling information sent from the base station, receiving accordingly downlink data sent from the base station, here, the UE processes the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256QAM modulation.
US10257840B2
A wireless access point device that schedules packet transmission and reception by devices (access point and stations) in a wireless local area network detects the presence of periodic transmissions on a first carrier frequency, wherein one or more of the detected periodic transmissions will interfere with reception of a packet by at least one of the devices. A different one of the devices is identified such that the detected periodic transmissions will not interfere with reception of a packet by the different one of the devices. Packet transmission and reception are scheduled within the wireless local area network such that said different one of the devices is scheduled to receive a packet during an occurrence of the detected periodic transmissions.
US10257834B2
A communications device transmitting/receiving data to/from a mobile communications network includes a transmitter to transmit data to the mobile communications network via a wireless access interface, a receiver to receive data from the mobile communications network via the wireless access interface, and a controller. The wireless access interface includes plural time divided temporal units and in each temporal unit a down-link control channel and a down-link shared channel. The temporal units may be sub-frames of an LTE carrier. The controller can control the receiver to receive downlink control channel information transmitted by the mobile communications network in one or more control channel elements of the downlink control channel, and to receive the downlink control channel information by searching the downlink control channel in a predetermined sub-set of plural possible sets of control channel elements in one or more of the temporal units according to a fixed aggregation level.
US10257831B2
A node is configured for connection to a massive multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) array to provide spatially multiplexed channels in an unlicensed frequency band. The node includes a memory configured to store samples of non-spatially filtered signals received by the node during a first listen-before-talk (LBT) operation used to acquire the unlicensed frequency band. The node also includes a processor configured to determine, based on a number of previously stored samples, a duration of a silent time interval during which the node collects samples of non-spatially filtered signals and stores the samples in the memory. The node further includes a transceiver configured to perform a second LBT operation to acquire the unlicensed frequency band using a spatial filter determined based on the samples stored in the memory.
US10257828B2
Time-division duplexing (TDD) in distributed communications systems, including distributed antenna systems (DASs) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a control circuit is provided and configured to control the TDD transmit mode of a DAS to control the allocation of time slots for uplink and downlink communications signal distribution in respective uplink path(s) and downlink path(s). The control circuit includes separate power detectors configured to detect either a transmit power level in a downlink path or a receive power level in an uplink path. If the transmit power detected in the downlink path is greater than receive power detected in the uplink path, the control circuit switches the TDD transmit mode to the downlink direction. In this manner, the control circuit does not have to control the TDD transmit mode based solely on detected power in the downlink path, where a directional coupler may leak uplink power in the downlink path.
US10257827B2
Method for configuring frame structure, user equipment and network equipment are provided. The method includes: configuring a group of time intervals X and generating configuration information of the group of time intervals X according to a channel condition and communication service demand; adding the configuration information of the group of time intervals X to downlink control information which is carried in a predetermined resource unit; and transmitting the predetermined resource unit to a UE, to indicate the UE to perform data transmission with a network based on the group of time intervals X. In this way, the configuration of the frame structure including the time intervals X is indicated, so that the network and the UE can normally communicate with each other.
US10257816B2
In one aspect, the present specification discloses a transmission/reception method in a machine type communication (MTC) apparatus. The transmission/reception method for the MTC apparatus may comprise the steps of: receiving information about the specific number of a bundle of downlink control channels which are receivable on a plurality of downlink subframes; and determining the location of the downlink subframe in which the specific-number bundle of downlink control channels can finish reception in accordance with time division duplex (TDD) uplink/downlink setting. Here, when the reception about the bundle of downlink control channels is not finished at the location of the determined downlink subframe, it can be assumed that the reception of the bundle of downlink control channels will continue up to the location of the fastest downlink subframe in which the specific-number bundle of downlink control channels can finish reception among the subframes according to the TDD method.
US10257815B2
A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving Downlink Control Information (DCI) in a wireless communication system. A method includes generating downlink control information including an antenna port indicator comprising antenna port information and scrambling identity information; and transmitting, to a terminal, the downlink control information and data associated with the downlink control information. The scrambling identity information indicates one of two scrambling sequences, if a number of antenna ports indicated by the antenna port information is one and one transport block is enabled.
US10257814B2
A method of indicating to a secondary station a set of at least one available transmission resource among a predetermined plurality of transmission resources, each set being described by a plurality of parameters, said method comprising the steps of: —signalling to the secondary station an association between a control signalling channel and at least one parameter describing a set of transmission resources; coding into an address at least one remaining parameter from the plurality of parameters describing the said set of transmission resources; —transmitting the address to the secondary station using the said control signalling channel.
US10257812B2
The present invention relates to a method for communicating between a primary station and at least one secondary station, comprising (a) the secondary station being configured to search a first configuration of search spaces, said search spaces comprising a number of resource sets, where at least one resource set might be used to transmit a message to the secondary station, (b) configuring the secondary station by means of a configuration message to search a second configuration of search spaces, (c) the secondary station in response of the reception of the configuration message entering into a transitional configuration mode, wherein the secondary station searches partly the first configuration of search spaces and the second configuration of search spaces.
US10257811B2
A method and an apparatus for implementing a mobile broadband device service. The method includes the following steps: obtaining, service information of a mobile broadband device according to a rule set on the host or by calling an application programming interface of a Web server on the mobile broadband device; and when it is necessary to use a corresponding function of the host for implementing a mobile broadband device service corresponding to the service information, executing, the corresponding function of the host by calling an application programming interface provided by an operating system of the host, to implement the mobile broadband device service. In the embodiments of the present invention limitations when the mobile broadband device is managed in the Web manner are reduced, and a capability of managing the mobile broadband device is improved.
US10257809B2
The present invention relates to a method for performing a device-to-device cooperative transmission (D2D CT) using a multi-carrier in a wireless access system, including the steps of: enabling a source device to perform a network entry process with a base station using a primary carrier; enabling the source device to receive control information related to a dedicated carrier used for D2D CT from the base station through the primary carrier; and enabling the source device to transmit an uplink signal to a collaborative device using the dedicated carrier.
US10257808B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a preamble sequence transmission method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: acquiring system information or a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) that is broadcast by a base station, wherein the system information or the PBCH comprises a preset physical random access channel (PRACH) that comprises m preset radio frames and a number of repetition times of a preamble sequence n, which is used for random access, m being a positive integer and wherein 1≤n≤10 m; and sending the preamble sequence to the base station, the preamble sequence being sent at n preset resource locations of the preset PRACH, where the preamble sequence is the format of 1 ms, or the format of 2 ms, or the format of 3 ms.
US10257807B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting cell-broadcast data in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station determines a transport block size (TBS) based on an aggregation level, and transmits the cell-broadcast data to a machine-type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) by using the TBS. That is, different TBSs may be determined based on different aggregation levels.
US10257804B2
A method (400, 500) of identifying nodes in a communications network is disclosed, the nodes being for use in locating wireless terminals within the network based upon reports from the wireless terminals of transmissions received from the nodes. The method (400, 500) comprises prioritizing combinations of nodes in which at least three nodes are located around a reference node in a configuration satisfying similarity criteria to an idealized star configuration, wherein an idealized star configuration comprises three nodes evenly angularly distributed around, and at the same distance from, a reference node. Also disclosed is a method (100, 200) for locating a plurality of wireless terminals in a communications network, the network comprising a plurality of network nodes at known locations, wherein the nodes emit wireless transmissions in an unsynchronized manner, such that a time difference exists between the emission time of corresponding transmissions from different nodes. The method comprises receiving reports from a plurality of wireless terminals of transmissions received from the network nodes (110, 210), selecting a subset of network nodes (120, 220) and identifying a plurality of reports reporting transmissions from all of the nodes of the subset (130, 230). The method further comprises simultaneously determining the locations of the wireless terminals generating the identified reports and the time differences between emission times of transmissions from the nodes of the subset (140, 240). Also disclosed are a computer program product for carrying out the above methods and a network element (300, 700, 800) configured to carry out the above methods.
US10257796B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. One method may include receiving, at a first base station, at least one clear channel assessment (CCA)-exempt transmission (CET) indicating timing information of at least a second base station over a shared spectrum. A timing of the first base station may be adjusted based on the received timing information of the second base station. Another method of wireless communication may include identifying a CCA slot assigned to a first base station for a frame, which may be associated with time synchronization, of a shared spectrum. A CCA may be performed at the identified CCA slot for the frame. When the CCA is successful, a first timing information of the first base station may be selectively transmitted during the frame. When the CCA is unsuccessful, a second timing information of a second base station may be listened for during the frame.
US10257788B2
A base station transmits at least one message to a wireless device. The at least one message comprises one or more configuration parameters of: a plurality of cells grouped into a plurality of groups, and a pathloss reference of a secondary cell. The base station receives uplink signals on the secondary cell. Transmission power of the uplink signals in the secondary cell is determined, at least in part, employing measurement of downlink signals of the pathloss reference of the secondary cell.
US10257785B2
Disclosed are: a communication technique combining, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and subsequent systems; and a system therefor. The disclosed communication technique and system therefor can be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, safety and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A method for controlling standby power of a mobile terminal, of the present invention, comprises: detecting applications and services related to a background operation; classifying the detected applications and services according to characteristics; predicting use patterns for the applications and the services classified by the characteristics, in consideration of a user response to the applications and the services classified according to the characteristics; and controlling the applications and the services classified by the characteristics, on the basis of the applications and the services classified by the characteristics and the predicted use patterns.
US10257782B2
A system and method are provided for automatically shutting off or reducing power to certain radios in a client device based on collected wireless network quality parameters. The wireless network quality parameters are collected from wireless networks by various client devices in communication with the wireless networks. The client devices report the wireless network quality parameters to a server. The server collects wireless network quality parameters from a plurality of client devices and analyzes the wireless network quality parameters from the plurality of client devices to determine a network quality for the particular wireless networks. The network quality is stored in a network quality database maintained by the server. When it is determined that a device is in an area of weak signal coverage, power to its radio is automatically reduced or shut off until the device leaves the area.
US10257781B2
Context-based coordinated data retrieval for mobile devices is provided. An interface between application code of a mobile device and an operating system of the mobile device receives a declarative language based data-retrieval request made by the application code for data from an I/O device of the mobile device. Based on operating context of the mobile device, opportunistic coordination rule(s) are selected from a local rules cache, the rule(s) representative of at least one power-saving option for retrieving data for responding to the request. The rule(s) are evaluated to determine how to retrieve data for responding to the request, and action(s) are performed based on the evaluating, the action(s) including responding to the request.
US10257775B2
A method and apparatus for determining whether to allow attachment of a mobile terminal to a Radio Access Network. A selection function node receives an indication that the mobile terminal has requested to attach to the Radio Access Network. A determination is made of a property of a radio connection on both an uplink and a downlink between the mobile terminal and the RAN. On the basis of the determined property, a further determination is made as to whether to allow attachment of the mobile terminal to the RAN.
US10257765B2
Methods and systems are described in which a node may cause a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols to be transmitted. The OFDM symbols may comprise at least a portion of a pilot and/or user data.
US10257760B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for inter-RAT bearer change for the 3GPP network. In one novel aspect, a bearer termination procedure is performed upon detecting one or more triggering events for the inter-RAT bearer modification. In one embodiment, the UE established the 4G EPS bearer. The UE successfully performs a bearer change from 4G to 3G. Subsequently, the UE detects missing mandatory parameters during inter-RAT bearer change from 3G to 2G in an idle state. The UE performs bearer termination by releasing the PDP context. In one embodiment, the PDP context is locally released. In other embodiments, the UE explicitly releases bearer using the PDP context deactivation procedure. The locally released procedure can be triggered by the UE, or by the network, or by both the UE and the network. The explicitly PDP context release procedure can be triggered by the UE, or by the network, or by both the UE and the network.
US10257753B2
A network device (e.g., an evolved Node B (eNB), user equipment (UE) or the like) can operate wireless local area network (WLAN) mobility between groups of WLAN access points (APs) in LTE/WLAN aggregation based on control by the eNB and further between WLAP APs within a particular group based on control by the UE. A long term evolution (LTE) link can communicate a first set of WLAN data related to a first set of WLAN access points (APs) that enables the UE to generate a WLAN mobility operation from a first WLAN AP to a second WLAN AP within the first set of WLAN APs based on a determination generated by the UE. The UE can be prompted by the eNB to also select another WLAN AP of the second set of WLAN APs coupled to a different WLAN Termination or logic node.
US10257743B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing a buffer status reporting in a D2D communication system, the method comprising: configuring a plurality of sidelink logical channels, wherein each of the plurality of sidelink logical channels has an associated priority and belongs to a LCG, and one or more of LCGs belong to a ProSe Destination; generating a SL BSR MAC CE including buffer sizes of LCGs in decreasing order of a LCG priority, wherein the LCG priority of a LCG is determined as a highest priority of a logical channel among priorities of logical channels belonging to the LCG; and transmitting a MAC PDU including the SL BSR MAC CE.
US10257735B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a first frame, the first frame being a frame for channel estimation; a receiver configured to receive a second frame, the second frame including channel information; and controlling circuitry. The transmitter is configured to transmit a third frame by beamforming based on the channel information. The controlling circuitry is configured to measure a communication quality of a channel based on a response frame to the third frame and control a transmission timing of the first frame based on the communication quality and a transmission rate of the third frame.
US10257732B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for measurement delivery. In some example embodiments, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving information to configure a user equipment to perform one or more measurements and to configure the user equipment to report, when requested by a network, the one or more measurements; receiving a request from the network to report the one or more measurements configured based on the received information; and reporting, in response to the request from the network, the one or more measurements to the network, without regard to measurement event reporting. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US10257726B2
A wireless terminal, includes a first transceiver configured to transmit a first type of wireless signal; and a second transceiver configured to transmit a second type of wireless signal; wherein the first transceiver is configured to transmit an indication of interference when interference is detected between the first type of wireless signal and the second type of wireless signal and to transmit information showing a condition of each of the first and second types of wireless signal with the indication of interference; and the first transceiver is further configured to receive interference control information useable by the terminal in mitigating the detected interference.
US10257725B2
A system for detecting a fault in a first wire of a power grid that affects a transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves that transport data and that propagate along a surface of the first wire, selecting a backup communication medium from one or more backup communication mediums according to one or more selection criteria, and redirecting the data to the backup communication medium to circumvent the fault. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10257721B2
In a wireless network formed of short range femtocells, each femtocell provides wireless connectivity to user equipment devices and the user equipment can move around the topographical range covered by the network by handing over to a neighboring femtocell. Due to the limited range of a femtocell, there will be coverage gaps. If the device moves to a location not covered by a femtocell, it will try to connect to a macrocell of a different wide area cellular network until it is within range of another femtocell network. To minimize handovers from the femtocell network to the macrocell network, each femtocell is arranged to analyze historic log data to detect coverage gaps experienced by the user equipment as it moves along a user equipment route and try to close the gaps by increasing the coverage range of femtocells on either side of the coverage gap to close the gap.
US10257714B2
Controlling utilization of a plurality of frequency channels in a cellular network by a node by using a channel selection algorithm which is based on an initial channel allocation and two consecutive sequences of channel allocation processes. The concepts described may be used for efficiently controlling utilization of a plurality of frequency channels in a cellular network. In particular, due to the consecutive search loops, an optimized allocation of frequency channels to a plurality of access nodes can be obtained in an automated manner, without requiring excessive measurements or trial of allocations.
US10257707B2
A method for providing safe access of a mobile control unit (1) to a field device (2), wherein, in particular, the field device is protected against unauthorized access via a mobile control unit is achieved in that a connection for transmitting data is established between the mobile control unit (1) and the field device (2), that access data for access is exchanged, that a comparison is made between the access data and stored comparison data and a comparison result is generated, and that access of the mobile control unit (1) to the field device (1) is permitted based on the comparison result.
US10257688B2
A device is configured to perform a method of device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication network in accordance with a Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. The method includes entering an RRC-Idle state or an RRC-Connected state. The method also includes transmitting, in the RRC-Idle state or RRC-Connected state, a D2D discovery signal for receipt by at least one second device in the network. The method further includes receiving, in the RRC-Idle state or RRC-Connected state, at least one D2D discovery signal from the at least one second device in the network.
US10257674B2
A system and method for triggering on platform usage can include at a platform, receiving and storing a trigger configuration of an account; operating a platform comprising internally executing a process on behalf of an account and publishing at least one event when executing the process; at the platform, incrementing a counter in response to the at least one event and if the stored trigger configuration species a usage key associated with a category of counted events of the at least one event; monitoring counters in a context of an associated trigger; and processing the trigger upon the counter satisfying condition of an associated trigger.
US10257665B2
Methods and apparatuses for optimizing performance using data from an Internet of Things (IoT) device with analytics engines. The method receives, from a requesting Internet of Things (IoT) device, a request for trend data of physical resource consumption based at least in part on a portion of received data from at least one of a plurality of IoT devices. The method retrieves, from memory of an analytics engine, at least the portion of the received data. The method calculates, in a calculator of the analytics engine, the trend data based on at least the portion of the received data. The method transmits, to the requesting IoT device, the calculated trend data, wherein the requesting IoT device adjusts parameters in an IoT device using the calculated trend data.
US10257663B2
Methods for emergency visualization are disclosed. The methods include a computer-implemented method for interactive emergency visualization that includes receiving a notification concerning an incident associated with a multi-floor structure, requesting location information from a user device geographically associated with the multi-floor structure, and receiving, in response to the request, a beacon identifier from the user device, the beacon identifier being associated with a beacon disposed within the multi-floor structure. The method also includes determining on which floor of the multi-floor structure the user device is located based on the beacon identifier and stored information indicating the location of the beacon and displaying a graphical map of the multi-floor structure and information indicating the specific floor on which the user device is located.
US10257662B2
In a system a map of a site is presented on a display. A user input specifying at least one path section in the map on the display is detected. A definition of the at least one path section is stored. A representation of a radio environment stored for the site is provided as positioning assistance data. The representation of the radio environment enables a determination of a location estimate for a mobile device at the site based on at least one characteristic of at least one radio signal detected by the mobile device at the site. The definition of the at least one specified path section is provided for enabling an adjustment of a determined location estimate.
US10257659B2
A positioning device includes a first storage device having stored therein received signal strength data in time series according to mobile device data, a second storage device having stored therein relative movement data of the mobile device in time series within a relative coordinate system, and a processor configured to calculate a first neighboring time at which the mobile device becomes closest to a first base station in the plurality of base stations based on the received signal strength data and a second neighboring time at which the mobile device becomes closest to a second base station of the plurality of base stations, and convert the relative movement data in the second storage device into position coordinates data specifying an absolute position of the mobile device in an absolute coordinate system using the first base station as a reference point from the first neighboring time to the second neighboring time.
US10257658B1
A method and system for automatically updating a self-learning data repository. The method is executed in a processor of a server computing device to store a fingerprint map of an area in the self-learning data repository, the fingerprint map having positioning fingerprint data that includes magnetic spatial derivative fingerprint data, receive, at the self-learning data repository, at least one of mobile device signal data and mobile device sensor data correlated with a sequence of positions along a trajectory describing a movement of a mobile device relative to the area, the sensor data including mobile device magnetic spatial derivative data, and automatically update, using the processor, the self-learning data repository by adding the at least one of mobile device signal data and mobile device sensor data to the positioning fingerprint data.
US10257648B2
Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and wearable computing devices for identifying activities and/or destinations of relative importance. More specifically, a system, a device and a method are provided to determine interactions at a mobile computing device predict activities based on one or more types of interactions. Examples of activities include preferential activities available at a geographic region association with lodging. In one or more embodiments, a method can include receiving data representing an interaction with a user interface, generating data summarizing the interaction to include an interaction type, and determining data representing a prioritized value indicative of a degree of the interaction. The method also may include predicting participation in an activity as a function of the prioritized value, and generating customized advisory data based on prioritized values of one or more interaction types.
US10257640B2
A device for processing a signal includes a processor stage configured to filter the signal present in a frequency-domain representation by a filter with a filter characteristic in order to obtain a filtered signal, to provide the filtered or a signal derived from the filtered signal with a frequency-domain window function, in order to obtain a windowed signal, wherein providing has multiplications of frequency-domain window coefficients of the frequency-domain window function by spectral values of the filtered signal or the signal derived from the filtered signal in order to obtain multiplication results, and summing up the multiplication results. Further, the device has a converter for converting the windowed signal or a signal determined using the windowed signal to a time domain in order to obtain the processed signal.
US10257634B2
Embodiments provide a digital processor including an ambient portion extractor and a spatial effect processing stage. The ambient portion extractor is configured to extract an ambient portion from a multi-channel signal. The spatial effect processing stage is configured to generate a spatial effect signal based on the ambient portion of the multi-channel signal. The digital processor is configured to combine the multi-channel signal or a processed version thereof with the spatial effect signal.
US10257621B2
A method for operating a hearing system is defined, wherein a sound signal emanating from a sound source is measured by a plurality of microphones, which are fitted in different devices. Each of the microphones detects the sound signal and generates therefrom a microphone signal. The hearing system is binaural and two of the devices are each embodied as a hearing aid. For at least the two microphone signals from the microphones of the hearing aids there is determined an individual reverberation time in each case, and the individual reverberation times are combined in a dataset from which a general reverberation time is determined. An operating parameter of the hearing system is adjusted according to the general reverberation time. A corresponding hearing system is also defined.
US10257610B2
A microphone module has a substrate with an aperture to allow sound waves to pass through the substrate, a lid mounted to the substrate to define a first interior volume, a microphone mounted to the substrate within the first interior volume, and a housing coupled to the substrate and covering the aperture. The housing forms a second interior volume and includes an acoustic port configured to allow sound to enter the second interior volume. The module further includes a pipe extending from the acoustic port in the housing, and at least one exterior interface pad outside of the second interior volume. The pipe has an open end to receive sound waves and direct them toward the acoustic port in the housing. Moreover, the at least one exterior interface pad electrically couples to the microphone.
US10257603B2
An electronic wearable device includes an electrical cord for carrying electrical signals. An electrical power module includes an interface for detachable connection to the electrical cord. A first audio module includes an interface for detachable connecting to the electrical cord. A second audio module includes an interface for detachable connecting to the electrical cord. The electrical cord is configured to support the first audio module and the second audio module thereon. A controller module controls the first audio module and the second audio module.
US10257601B2
Open-air earbuds and methods for making the same are disclosed. The earbud has a neck, which is open to the ambient environment in order to improve bass response. In order to prevent debris from entering the interior of the earbud, a filter is incorporated into the neck.
US10257595B2
A transparent clock converter is interposed between a non-precision time protocol (non-PTP) enabled network node and other portions of the network. The transparent clock converter effectively converts the non-PTP node into a transparent clock node. In some embodiments the transparent clock converter includes physical layer devices, but not media access controllers.
US10257586B1
A system for timing an event utilizing video playback on a mobile device is disclosed. The mobile device includes a processor, a touch panel, and a camera. The mobile device is configured to: generate a video recording of an event with the camera; store the video recording of the event in the memory; play back the video recording of the event, frame by frame, via the touch panel; receive a first input via the touch panel, the first input associated with placing a start pin at a first frame or sub-frame of the video recording; receive a second input via the touch panel, the second input associated with placing a finish pin at a second frame or sub-frame of the video recording; and determine a time period between the first frame or sub-frame associated with the start pin and the second frame or sub-frame associated with the finish pin.
US10257580B2
Systems and methods are described for presenting content with time-based metadata. Methods may comprise transmitting the time-based metadata to a playback device. The time-based metadata may comprise a plurality of time stamps that are triggerable at different points of a timeline of content and one or more of the time stamps may be associated with corresponding metadata content. The playback device may trigger a sequence of time stamps of the time-based metadata and the triggered sequence of time stamps may be synchronized with the occurrence of one or more events in the timeline of the content.
US10257576B2
A global speech user interface (GSUI) comprises an input system to receive a user's spoken command, a feedback system along with a set of feedback overlays to give the user information on the progress of his spoken requests, a set of visual cues on the television screen to help the user understand what he can say, a help system, and a model for navigation among applications. The interface is extensible to make it easy to add new applications.
US10257575B2
The various examples described herein generally provide systems and methods for generating a hybrid electronic programming guide (EPG) that includes both broadcast content and other types of content, such as over-the-top (OTT) content. In examples, broadcast content may be content provided by a satellite, terrestrial, or cable television provider. Other types of content, e.g., the OTT content, may be content that is delivered over an open network, such as the Internet. In examples, a secure processor may be employed to determine if a subscriber is authorized to access the OTT content based on subscription information received via a broadcast transmission.
US10257573B2
In one embodiment, there is a content delivery system comprising: a communication network; a media component configured to transmit media content and associated metadata to user devices; a store holding permission vouchers for users of the system; an auxiliary content management component configured to: receive a request for auxiliary content insertion information from a user device, the request comprising an identifier of a user of the user device and an identifier of desired media content; access said store to determine permission for consumption of the desired media content in a resource constrained playout mode at the device based on at least one permission voucher for the user; generate auxiliary content insertion information based on the identifier of the user, the identifier of the desired media content and the at least one permission voucher; and transmit the generated auxiliary content insertion information to the user device.
US10257570B2
A method is disclosed for identifying the media content. The method includes receiving fingerprint media content from a content provider to obtain a first set of fingerprints, the first set of fingerprints including a first subset of fingerprints in a first fingerprint layout and a second subset of fingerprints in a second fingerprint layout. The method can include receiving a second set of fingerprints for media content displayed on the electronic device, the second set of fingerprints comprising a third subset of fingerprints in the first fingerprint layout and a fourth subset of fingerprints in the second fingerprint layout. The method can include matching a first fingerprint in the first subset of fingerprints to a second fingerprint in the third subset of fingerprints or a third fingerprint in the second subset of fingerprints to a fourth fingerprint in the fourth subset of fingerprints in order to identify the media content.
US10257568B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selective orientation during presentation of a multidirectional video are provided. In an example, a multidirectional video may be received. A first orientation of a portion of the multidirectional video may be analyzed to determine a first score. A second orientation of the portion of the multidirectional video may be analyzed to determine a second score. Responsive to determining that the first score is greater than the second score, the first orientation may be selected in association with the portion of the multidirectional video. Responsive to receiving a request to view the multidirectional video, an indication of the first orientation as a representation of the portion may be provided.
US10257566B2
A BCN network with BCN modems that enable network wired devices to communicate over a typical home coaxial network that may include passive splitters and different types of coaxial cable.
US10257564B2
A method is provided for a reception apparatus to access non-real-time (NRT) content. The method includes receiving, by the reception apparatus, a selection of the NRT content included in a digital television broadcast signal broadcast by a content source. The reception apparatus determines whether the selected NRT content is stored in a memory of the reception apparatus. When the selected NRT content is determined not to be stored in the memory, the reception apparatus determines whether the selected NRT content can be downloaded from an external device that is accessible via a communication network. When the selected NRT content is determined to be downloadable from an external device that is accessible via the communication network, the reception apparatus downloads the selected NRT content from the external device.
US10257558B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for constructing and indexing a database with joint profiles for persons viewed by multiple wearable apparatuses. In one implementation, a system for updating profile information based on data collected by a wearable apparatus may include a database storing a plurality of profiles and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device may be programmed to obtain identification information associated with a person detected in one or more images captured by a wearable image sensor included in the wearable apparatus; obtain, from the wearable apparatus, auxiliary information associated with the detected person; identify, in the database, a profile associated with the detected person based on the identification information; and update the identified profile based on the auxiliary information.
US10257553B2
The present invention relates to a contents reception device and method, a contents transmission device and method, a program, and a recording medium, whereby a Push-type NRT service can be realized. “Ch. 4” is taken as a broadcasting channel for normal broadcasting, and “Ch. 5” and “Ch. 6” are taken as broadcasting channels for NRT. The broadcasting channel “Ch. 5” is multiplexed on logical channels “VC5-1”, “VC5-2”, and “VC5-3”. The logical channel “VC5-1” is assigned to a single Push-type NRT broadcasting service, and “VC5-2” is assigned to a Pull-type NRT broadcast. The logical channel “VC5-3” is assigned to another Push-type NRT broadcasting service. Three FLUTE sessions are provided to “VC5-2”.
US10257550B2
Systems and methods for push-based dynamic bandwidth allocation deliver addressable, advertising content in a digital network. Bandwidth is allocated on a push basis in response to receiving a trigger from a content distribution stream. The trigger contains data indicating an addressable break. A portion of bandwidth is then allocated to an addressable content stream based on the data of the trigger. The addressable content stream is then streamed to a receiver during the addressable break and the receiver is tuned from the broadcast stream to the addressable content stream for the duration of the addressable break. The additional bandwidth is de-allocated at the end of the addressable break.
US10257543B2
During a video encoding or decoding process, a predicted prediction block is generated for a CU. The CU may have two or more prediction units (PUs). A computing device selects a neighbor region size. After the computing device selects the neighbor region size, samples in a transition zone of the prediction block are identified. Samples associated with a first PU are in the transition zone if neighbor regions that contain the samples also contain samples associated with a second PU. Samples associated with the second PU may be in the transition zone if neighbor regions that contain the samples also contain samples associated with the first PU. The neighbor regions have the selected neighbor region size. A smoothing operation is then performed on the samples in the transition zone.
US10257538B2
Provided is a video decoding method including determining a reference intra prediction mode, based on availability and a prediction mode of an adjacent block of a current block; determining a plurality of candidate intra prediction modes for the current block, based on the reference intra prediction mode; obtaining, from a bitstream, intra prediction data comprising information regarding an intra prediction mode of the current block; when the intra prediction data indicates that the current block is predicted according to one of the plurality of candidate intra prediction modes, selecting an intra prediction mode to be used in intra predicting the current block, wherein the intra prediction mode is from among the plurality of candidate intra prediction modes; and performing intra prediction on the current block, according to the selected intra prediction mode.
US10257534B2
A video predictive coding system includes a video predictive encoding device having: an input circuit to receive pictures constituting a video sequence; an encoding circuit which conducts predictive coding of a target picture using, as reference pictures, pictures encoded and reconstructed in the past, to generate compressed picture data; a reconstruction circuit to decode the compressed picture data to reconstruct a reproduced picture; picture storage to store the reproduced picture as a reference picture for encoding of a subsequent picture; and a buffer management circuit which controls the picture storage, (prior to predictive encoding of the target picture), on the basis of buffer description information BD[k] related to reference pictures used in predictive encoding of the target picture, encodes the buffer description information BD[k] with reference to buffer description information BD[m] for a picture different from the target picture, and adds encoded data thereof to the compressed picture data.
US10257533B2
A video predictive coding system includes a video predictive encoding device having: an input circuit to receive pictures constituting a video sequence; an encoding circuit which conducts predictive coding of a target picture using, as reference pictures, pictures encoded and reconstructed in the past, to generate compressed picture data; a reconstruction circuit to decode the compressed picture data to reconstruct a reproduced picture; picture storage to store the reproduced picture as a reference picture for encoding of a subsequent picture; and a buffer management circuit which controls the picture storage, (prior to predictive encoding of the target picture), on the basis of buffer description information BD[k] related to reference pictures used in predictive encoding of the target picture, encodes the buffer description information BD[k] with reference to buffer description information BD[m] for a picture different from the target picture, and adds encoded data thereof to the compressed picture data.
US10257531B2
A method for processing multiview video signals, according to the present invention, comprises: generating a merge candidate list with respect to a current block; inducing a motion vector of the current block on the basis of a merge index of the current block, which has been obtained from a bitstream; obtaining a prediction value of the current block using the motion vector; and reconstructing the current block by adding the prediction value and a residual value of the current block.
US10257529B2
Techniques for generating wave front groups for parallel processing a video frame by a video encoder
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for dividing a frame comprising pixels into a number of macroblocks, each macroblock comprising a number of pixels within four macroblock boundaries. Various embodiments may also include creating at least two regions having a plurality of macroblocks by dividing the frame along macroblock boundaries and generating wave front groups based on the macroblocks in each region, each wave front group from each region comprising one or more macroblocks to process in parallel.
US10257527B2
A hybrid codec scalable video bitstream comprises first encapsulation units carrying video data of a base layer and encoded according to a first video coding standard and second encapsulation units carrying video data of at least one enhancement layer and encoded according to a second video coding standard. A prefix syntax element is added to each second encapsulation unit. The prefix syntax element has a value triggering a legacy decoder to discard or ignore the second encapsulation units. A non-legacy decoder selects, based on the value of a first portion of each of the first and second encapsulation units, whether to decode the encapsulation unit according to the first video coding standard or remove the first portion from the encapsulation unit and decode the remaining portion of the encapsulation unit according to the second video coding standard.
US10257522B2
Provided is an image decoding device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a first parameter indicating which tile is a region-of-interest tile from an encoded stream encoded by partitioning an image into a plurality of tiles, and a decoding section configured to decode at least one of the region-of-interest tile and a non-region-of-interest tile of the image based on the first parameter acquired by the acquisition section.
US10257519B2
A system for decoding a video bitstream that includes a base bitstream and enhancement bitstreams is disclosed. The system receives a video parameter set and a video parameter set extension, where the video parameter set extension includes decoder picture buffer parameters. In one embodiment, a method for decoding a video sequence is disclosed. The method comprises: (a) receiving said video sequence; (b) determining the number of an output layer set for said video sequence; (c) determining a maximum number of sub-layers minus one for at least one of said at least one output layer set; (d) decoding a characteristic of a decoded picture buffer for a sub layer of one of said at least one output layer set.
US10257506B2
A method of obtaining depth information and a display apparatus may adjust a sensor area of a sensor panel based on a distance from an object, and may obtain depth information of the object based on the adjusted sensor area.
US10257500B2
Systems and methods for displaying a stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) webpage overlay. In some embodiments, user input may be received from a user input device and in response to determining that the user input device is not substantially concurrently interacting with the 3D content, interpret the user input based on a 2D mode of interaction. In addition, the user input may be interpreted based on a 3D mode of interaction in response to determining that the user input device is substantially concurrently interacting with the 3D content. The 2D mode of interaction corresponds to a first visual cursor, such as a mouse cursor, and the 3D mode of interaction corresponds to a second visual cursor, such as a virtual beam rendered to extend from a tip of the user input device.
US10257499B2
An imaging sensor produces spatiotemporal measurement sets of distinct sensing zones of the imaging sensor. A multifocal lens directs electromagnetic radiation from distinct three-dimensional spatial zones to distinct sensing zones. A focus analyzer processes the spatiotemporal measurement sets to determine a sequence of in-focus status of the distinct sensing zones independent of other distinct sensing zones. A displacement processor generates object displacement vector(s) based on a sequence of in-focus status indicative of an object moving between distinct three-dimensional spatial zones.
US10257493B2
A system of transferring of three dimensional (3D) image data is described. A 3D source device (10) provides 3D display signal (56) for a display (13) via a high speed digital interface like HDMI. The 3D display signal has frames constituting the 3D image data according to a 3D video transfer format, in which format the frames comprise at least two different frame types. Each frame has a data structure for representing a sequence of digital image pixel data, and represents a partial 3D data structure. The 3D source device includes frame type synchronization indicators in the 3D display signal. The display detects the frame type synchronization indicators and frame types, and generates the display control signals based on synchronizing the partial 3D data structures in dependence of the frame type synchronization indicators.
US10257488B2
View synthesis is performed based on obtained texture data and a depth map. The resolution of the depth map is lower than that of the texture data by a ratio dw in the x direction and by a ratio dh in the y direction. Texture pixel positions x, y are transformed into non-integer depth map pixel positions by performing divisions x/dw and y/dh and these non-integer depth map pixel positions are rounded to integer depth map pixel positions, and a view is synthesized based at least on the obtained texture data and depth map values at the integer depth map pixel positions and/or adjacent positions.
US10257486B2
A method to be performed by a playback device includes determining whether the playback device has a function for converting first graphics in a second luminance range narrower than a first luminance range to second graphics in the first luminance range, when the playback device has the function, converting the first graphics to the second graphics, and displaying a video in the first luminance range with the second graphics being superimposed on the video, and when the playback device does not have the function, displaying the video with third graphics different from the second graphics being superimposed on the video.
US10257484B2
An imaging processing device and an imaging processing method that can solve a problem generated in visible light photographing in a case where DBPF is used instead of an infrared cut filter. An imaging sensor includes a color filter, and DBPH that has a transmission characteristic in a visible-light band, blocking characteristic in a first wavelength band adjacent to a long-wavelength side of the visible-light band, and transmission characteristic in a second wavelength band that is a part of the first wavelength band. A signal processing unit subtracts an infrared signal, which is output from an infrared pixel, from each color signal output from a pixel in each color of visible light in the imaging sensor. Here, in a case where each color signal reaches a pixel saturation level, control of performing correction in such a manner that an infrared signal subtracted from each color signal is lowered is performed.
US10257477B2
Smaller halftone tiles are implemented on a first modulator of a dual modulation projection system. This techniques uses multiple halftones per frame in the pre-modulator synchronized with a modified bit sequence in the primary modulator to effectively increase the number of levels provided by a given tile size in the halftone modulator. It addresses the issue of reduced contrast ratio at low light levels for small tile sizes and allows the use of smaller PSFs which reduce halo artifacts in the projected image and may be utilized in 3D projecting and viewing.
US10257474B2
An integrated accessory control system can efficiently set up a new media streaming session with one or more accessories. A session identifier for the new session, as well as a destination address and security parameters can be generated. A data object comprising the generated elements can be written to a resource location. Additionally, a second data object comprising the session identifier, a streaming source address, a source identifier, and additional security parameters can be read from the resource location. A third data object comprising the session identifier, a session start command, and codec parameters can then be generated. The third data object can also be written to the resource location. Further, streamed media data conforming to the codec parameters and the security parameters may be received.
US10257463B2
A conferencing system for providing remote assistance according to the present disclosure includes a service requester device configured to execute a service requester application, a service provider device configured to execute a service provider application and a server application executing on a computer server remotely located from the service requester and service provider devices, the service requester and service provider applications are configured to dynamically connect to each other through the at least one server application.
US10257452B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section that has at least one pixel with a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge detection unit. A driving section is configured to read out a signal of the pixel, a first portion of said signal being based on signal charge, a second portion of said signal being based on a reset potential. A signal processing section is configured to read out the first portion of the signal as a reference voltage, with the reference voltage being adjusted to cause the first and second portions of the signal to be within an input voltage range.
US10257449B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for performing automatic noise reduction in video. According to one aspect of the invention, a video noise-reducing system is provided consisting of a noise estimator, a motion classifier, two stages of filters, each including a spatial and temporal filter, and a combiner. The system adapts to noise level and to scene content to find at each location in the image a balance of noise reduction and detail preservation. Temporal Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filtering provides a high level of detail-preserving noise reduction where motion allows, while non linear spatial filtering provides edge-preserving noise reduction in areas where the temporal filter would introduce motion artifacts. A spatial-temporal combiner provides smooth transition and balance between the two filtering modes; this block also enables use of external cues to produce a visually pleasing output based on ambient conditions.
US10257444B2
An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a first image generated based on an electromagnetic wave other than visible light, an output unit configured to output a second image as an image obtained by emulating a displayed image using a night vision apparatus or a thermal imaging apparatus based on the first image, and a display processing unit configured to perform processing to cause a display unit to display the second image, wherein the output unit outputs, as the second image, an image obtained by performing at least one of processing to limit a spatial frequency band of the first image, processing to output the first image after storing the first image for a predetermined time, and processing to limit an amount of light of at least a partial region of the first image.
US10257443B2
A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and ‘meta data’ concerning the contents of the file. Multimedia files in accordance with several embodiments of the present invention also include references to video tracks, audio tracks, subtitle tracks and ‘meta data’ external to the file. One embodiment of a multimedia file in accordance with the present invention includes a series of encoded video frames and encoded menu information.
US10257442B2
Systems and methods for creating and distributing professional quality pictorial souvenirs giving the illusion that guests of a facility were imaged at other locations, including making initial arrangements with guests, showing selections of background scene images at video displays and flashing chrome key images interspersed with frames of the scene images, taking key guest images in synch with the flashed key images, extracting guest image content from the key guest images and merging into selecting scene images, showing preview merges images for guest selection and providing souvenir portfolios that include merged images to guests or designees after making financial arrangements, including for payment to third parties for copyright content included in the souvenirs and with advertisers for promotional material included in the souvenirs.
US10257441B2
Methods, systems, and products generate telepresence visualizations for a remote participant to a videoconference. A central server superimposes the remote participant onto images or video of the teleconferencing environment. The central server thus generates an illusion that the remote participant is in the same conferencing environment as other conferees.
US10257436B1
Various embodiments describe view switching of video on a computing device. In an example, a video processing application receives a stream of video data. The video processing application renders a major view on a display of the computing device. The major view presents a video from the stream of video data. The video processing application inputs the stream of video data to a deep learning system and receives back information that identifies a cropped video from the video based on a composition score of the cropped video, while the video is presented in the major view. The composition score is generated by the deep learning system. The video processing application renders a sub-view on a display of the device, the sub-view presenting the cropped video. The video processing application renders the cropped video in the major view based on a user interaction with the sub-view.
US10257435B2
A receiver sets a storage capacity to be assigned for each connected digital camera based on the number of connected digital cameras, and allocates these storage capacities in a buffer. Also, the receiver sends a request for a through image for each frame to each of the connected digital cameras, receives through images transmitted in response to the requests, and stores the through images in areas of the buffer assigned for each of the digital cameras. Furthermore, after receiving the through image for one frame from each digital camera, the receiver performs image processing on each through image and causes these images to be displayed in a list form on one screen of the display section.
US10257428B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquire a captured image obtained by capturing, by an image capturing unit, a target object to which a pattern has been projected. An adjustment unit adjusts, based on the pattern in the acquired captured image, at least one of a first parameter for controlling brightness of the pattern projected from a projection unit configured to project the pattern, and a second parameter for controlling an exposure amount of the image capturing unit.
US10257408B2
A control apparatus includes a focus detector configured to perform focus detection based on an image signal obtained via a first optical system, the first optical system having a shallowest depth of field in a plurality of optical systems having focal lengths different from each other, and a controller configured to perform focus control of the plurality of optical systems based on an output signal from the focus detector.
US10257397B2
An imaging apparatus includes a light source that includes a diffusion plate and, in operation, emits, toward a subject, pulsed light that diverges; a photodetector that includes a photoelectric converter that, in operation, receives light from the subject and converts the light to an electric charge and an electric charge accumulator that, in operation, accumulates the electric charge, and, in operation, generates an electric signal based on the accumulated electric charge; and a control circuit that, in operation, controls the light source and the photodetector. The control circuit, in operation, causes the electric charge accumulator to start accumulating the electric charge when a period of time has passed after the control circuit has caused the light source to start emitting the pulsed light, and causes the electric charge accumulator to accumulate the electric charge corresponding to a component, among the light from the subject, that is scattered inside the subject.
US10257395B2
In an example embodiment, method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes facilitating receipt of a plurality of VR contents and a plurality of video contents associated with an event captured by a plurality of VR cameras and a plurality of user camera devices, respectively. Each of the plurality of VR cameras comprises a plurality of camera modules with respective field of views (FOVs) associated with the event. The FOVs of the plurality of user camera devices are linked with respective FOVs of camera modules of the plurality of VR cameras based on at least a threshold degree of similarity between the FOV of the user camera device and the FOV of the camera module. The processor creates an event VR content by combining the plurality of VR contents and the plurality of video contents based on the linking of the FOVs.
US10257394B2
The invention provides methods for broadcasting video in a dual HDR/LDR format such that the video can be displayed in real time by both LDR and HDR display devices. Methods and devices of the invention process streams of pixels from multiple sensors in a frame-independent manner to produce an HDR video signal in real time. That HDR video signal is then tone-mapped to produce an LDR video signal, the LDR signal is subtracted from the HDR signal to calculate a residual signal, and the LDR signal and the residual signal are merged into a combined signal that is broadcast via a communications network.
US10257384B2
A binary image generation portion binarizes a scanned image and generates a binary image. A specific character position detection portion (a) specifies rectangles that circumscribe a plurality of characters, respectively, in the binary image, (b) detects a plurality of specific characters having longitudinal lines or transverse lines at centers of the specified circumscribing rectangles, and (c) detects, as positions of the plurality of specific characters, center positions of the longitudinal lines or the transverse lines, within a predetermined range, to be detected, in a main scanning direction or a sub-scanning direction. A skew angle specifying portion specifies an alignment direction in which the plurality of specific characters are aligned, based on the positions of the plurality of specific characters detected in the range to be detected, and specifies a skew angle of a document image in the scanned image, based on the specified alignment direction.
US10257382B2
An image formation control method for controlling an image forming system including a controller that converts original image data into image formation image data, an image forming apparatus that includes a control unit and an image forming unit and forms an image on a sheet on a basis of the image formation image data, a plurality of communication paths through which plural pieces of data are capable of being transferred in parallel between the controller and the image forming apparatus, and a measurement unit that measures data transfer speed of each of the plurality of communication paths includes causing the control unit to refer to the data transfer speed of each of the plurality of communication paths measured by the measurement unit and to assign a data transfer to each of the plurality of communication paths.
US10257381B2
An image forming apparatus that causes a user's will concerning which of a communication speed and power saving efficiency is given priority to be reflected on determination of a power saving mode. In shifting the apparatus to a power saving mode, a first setting inhibits disconnection of a communication link and a second setting indicates changing communication speed to a lower speed. One of the first and second settings is made according to a user's instruction. In the first setting, the apparatus is shifted to a first power saving mode. In the second setting, the apparatus is shifted to a second power saving mode. When the apparatus is shifted to the first power saving mode, the communication link is not disconnected. When the apparatus is shifted to the second power saving mode, the communication speed of the apparatus is changed to the lower speed.
US10257378B1
The disclosure is related to a positioning module and a handheld scanner using the same. The positioning module includes a base, a rotation support member, a shaft body, a wheel, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The rotation support member is pivoted to the base and rotates relative to the base about the first axis. The shaft body and the wheel are pivotally contacted to the main body and in constant contact with each other. When the wheel is rotated about a second axis due to a frictional force, the main body displace linearly and the shaft body is driven to rotate. Since the second axis is offset by the first axis, the rotation support member is driven to rotate at an angular displacement synchronously. The first and second sensors detect the shaft body and the main body to obtain the linear and angular displacements for positioning.
US10257369B2
A driving device includes an exterior cover, a drive source, a drive source mount, a drive transmitter, and a rotor cover. The drive source includes a rotor and a stator disposed in the rotor. The drive source mount is disposed between the drive source and the exterior cover, to mount the drive source. The drive transmitter transmits a drive force from the drive source to a rotator. The rotor cover covers a periphery of the rotor.
US10257368B2
Method for transferring an entitlement from a first party to a second party in a communication network. The second party which is preferably a mobile communication connects to a mobile communication network and to a peer-to-peer network. The second party selects, over the peer-to-peer network, entitlement offered by the first party to purchase or to use a product or a service. The second party effects the entitlement, using the mobile communication terminal, to purchase or to use the product or the service.
US10257348B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing additional information to called parties comprises receiving a call from a calling party, performing a lookup of information associated with the calling party in a database, receiving the information from the database, and forwarding the information to a called party. The system comprises at least one device for receiving a call from a calling party, and at least one database for storing information associated with the calling party, wherein the at least one device is operable to perform a lookup of information associated with the calling party in a database, receive the information from the database, and forward the information to a called party.
US10257347B2
A system and method for preventing or facilitating communications between individuals who reside in detention environments (such as e.g., prisons or correctional facilities) and individuals who are not in such detention environments using an automated authentication or verification.
US10257345B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for analyzing an incoming telephonic event (e.g., call, message, and/or notification) to a mobile device during operation of a vehicle in relation to a combination of factors to determine if the incoming telephonic event is to be allowed to be received during vehicle operation. The mobile device associated with a driver of the vehicle may receive the incoming telephonic event during operation of the vehicle. An incoming telephonic event analysis application operating on the mobile device may apply a soft block preventing the incoming telephonic event from being displayed on the mobile device. Based on the incoming telephonic event data, vehicle operational data, user preferences, hands-free device activation, and driver and road ratings, the incoming telephonic event analysis application may determine whether or not to maintain the soft block or allow the incoming telephonic event to be displayed on the mobile device during operation of the vehicle.
US10257340B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: a voice delivery application, running on a mobile device of a user, receives a text message from a user; by use of sensor inputs of the mobile device, the mobile device stores data regarding environment of the mobile device including external audio equipment, speed of the user, and bystanders within a hearing range of the environment; various data describing a sender of the text message and the bystanders are analyzed for respective relationships with the user and with each other to determine a confidentiality group dictating whether or not the text message may be heard by the bystander; the text message may be scanned for content screening, then according to configuration of the voice delivery application, the text message is securely delivered to the user by voice.
US10257324B2
The embodiments provide a method implemented by a network device for transmitting link adaptation feedback in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that supports multi-user simultaneous transmission. The method generates and transmits a frame that includes one or more link adaptation feedback values associated with a wireless communications link between the network device and a second network device. In one aspect, the one or more link adaptation feedback values may include a link adaptation feedback value for an entire operation bandwidth of the wireless communications link and a link adaptation feedback value for a given subchannel within the operation bandwidth. In another aspect, link adaptation feedback values for one or more users of a multi-user simultaneous transmission are transmitted in a multi-user acknowledgment (ACK) frame. The embodiments allow for efficient link adaptation in a multi-user simultaneous transmission environment.
US10257320B2
Methods and systems for a universal framework for connectivity of devices and developer tools are disclosed. A network device is detected at an engine. Data is received from the network device at the engine via a first protocol wherein the data comprises metadata. The metadata is converted from the first protocol to a plurality of protocols at the engine. A universal framework is provided at the engine to make the metadata available via the plurality of protocols. The metadata is sent from the universal framework to an external device via a specified protocol requested by the external device. In one embodiment, developer tools are provided for developing objects using said universal framework.
US10257318B2
Described herein are improved systems, methods, and devices for delivering and managing metadata in a distributed computing platform such as a content delivery network (CDN) so as to configure content servers to handle client requests. The teachings hereof provide, among other things, scalable and configurable solutions for delivering and managing metadata, preferably by leveraging dynamically obtained control information. For example, in one embodiment, a given content server may store metadata, e.g., in a configuration file, that references dynamic, late-bound control information for use in satisfying dependencies. This dynamic control information can be requested by the CDN content server, typically from a remote host, when needed to parse and execute the metadata.
US10257315B2
In one embodiment, a social networking system transmits a client proxy application to a client device in order to export data from a third-party site that has instituted IP address blocking or rate limiting. In particular embodiments, the proxy application multiplexes a plurality of web responses from the third-party server over a single socket communication with a proxy server. In particular embodiments, the proxy application obtains data from the third-party service and relays it via the proxy server to the social networking system.
US10257305B2
An aspect of preemptive distribution of content includes monitoring content accessed in a local cache of a computing device. A time and a location of content accesses in the local cache are tracked. Prefetching heuristics are determined based on patterns of the time and the location of the content accesses. The prefetching heuristics are applied to speculatively prefetch additional content prior to the computing device receiving a request to access the additional content.
US10257301B1
Systems and methods which provide a drive interface for delivery of various content to consumers of the content are described. Embodiments provide access to content shared by a content provider using an interface emulating a disk drive local to the consumer. In operation the user accesses content shared by a content provider using a drive interface content delivery platform of embodiments herein as if the user were accessing content on a local drive. The drive interface of embodiments is branded in correspondence to the content or content provider. Drive interface content delivery platforms of embodiments employ a “push” type content delivery technique whereby content is actively delivered to the consumers under the control or at the initiation of the content provider. Embodiments may additionally provide push delivery of content through web based interfaces and application interfaces.
US10257300B2
The present invention could achieve the implementation of one-off publishing by users of structured information, non-structured information, text information and webpage information, precisely push these information to various internet information application platforms and relevant information requiring users, thus relieving an internet user from the distress of repeatedly publishing on various application platforms, reducing information collecting costs of the internet application platforms, and further improving communication and application efficiency of internet information.
US10257298B2
An online system receives tracking requests from client devices interacting with a website. The online system analyzes user interactions with websites using the tracking requests. The online system predicts an accurate label for the web page that caused the tracking request to be generated. The online system uses the accurate label for generating reports describing user interactions with the website. The online system determines a quality of tracking requests generated by the website based on various factors including a number of web pages of the website that generate tracking requests, the type of information provided by the tracking requests, and so on. The online system generates reports describing the quality of the tracking requests. The online system uses a metric indicating the quality of tracking requests of the website to determine whether to use predicted labels instead of labels provided by tracking requests for generating reports of the website.
US10257295B1
In some implementations, a system can monitor Internet activity, internet connectivity, and nearby Wi-Fi and local network presence associated with a local network. Internet activity data of a network of a property over a particular period of time is initially obtained. Occupancy data from one or more devices associated with the property is then obtained. The occupancy data indicates a physical presence of people within the property over the particular period of time. An abnormality associated with the network of the property is then identified based on the obtained Internet activity data and the obtained occupancy data. An indication of the abnormality associated with the network of the property is then provided in response to identifying the abnormality associated with the network.
US10257293B2
In one embodiment, a system may receive sponsor specifications from a sponsor designating one or more concepts, monitor a plurality of activity streams for upload by users of matching multimedia objects, determine a geographic location associated with each matching multimedia object, receive a request from the sponsor associated with a specific geographic area, and send to a client device associated with the sponsor in response to the request information identifying the geographic locations associated with the respective matching multimedia objects that are within the specific geographic area.
US10257290B2
Methods and systems for data routing management are disclosed. A method can comprise a communication processing system receiving a request directed to an address. The communication processing system can determine performance capabilities of a first logical grouping of computing devices, wherein the first logical grouping of computing devices share the address. The communication processing system can determine whether at least one computing device of the first logical grouping of computing devices can receive the request. If at least one computing device of the first logical grouping of computing devices can receive the request, the request can be transmitted to the at least one computing device of the first logical grouping of computing devices. If at least one computing device of the first logical grouping of computing devices cannot receive the request, the request can be transmitted to a second logical grouping of computing devices that share the address.
US10257286B2
A dual-device tutorial system can facilitate user learning about a “primary” device by providing explanatory information on a “supporting” device while the user interacts with the primary device. The primary and supporting devices can be devices of different types. From a user perspective, the primary device can operate exactly as it would in normal (non-tutorial) use and can send event messages and/or other signals to the supporting device. Based on the event messages and/or other signals, the supporting device can provide explanatory information responsive to user interactions with the primary device.
US10257271B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates secure communication between computing entities. During operation, the system generates a first interest that indicates a vote for a value associated with a group prefix and a round number. In response to the first interest, the system receives a first content object that indicates an acknowledgment of the vote and has a payload that includes a nonce validator. In response to a second interest that indicates an acknowledgment of the first content object, the system receives a second content object that indicates a decision for the value and has a payload that includes a nonce which is used as a pre-image of the nonce validator. The system verifies the second content object based on the nonce and the nonce validator.
US10257269B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for selectively disabling operation of hardware components based on network changes. In some embodiments, the hardware component may cause a platform to perform network discovery to receive first network discovery data, cause the platform to perform network discovery to receive second network discovery data, determine that the differences between the first and second data exceed a network change threshold, and in response to the determination, cause disablement of operation of one or more functions of the hardware component. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US10257261B2
The present application is directed to a distributed system that provides multi-cloud aggregation and that includes a cloud-connector server, cloud-connector nodes, and one or more service-provider nodes that cooperate to provide services that are distributed across multiple clouds. A service-provider node obtains tenant-associated information from a virtual data center in which the service-provider node is installed and provides the tenant-associated information to the cloud-connector server.
US10257259B2
Embodiments regard manifest schema to provide application flows. An embodiment of a method includes: loading a manifest schema on a device, the manifest schema including a parent manifest and one or more application manifests; making a call to a server to populate a user interface of the device based on the manifest schema; upon receiving a message at the mobile device, utilizing the parent manifest to automatically select an application for routing of the message, the selection of the application being based on contents of the message; and utilizing an application manifest for the selected application to automatically select a process for routing of the message, the selection of the process being based on the contents of the message using an application manifest for the selected application.
US10257258B2
A processor may receive a request to transmit a logical volume to a cloud-based server. The logical volume may be stored in a data storage subsystem that includes one or more ranks. Each rank may include one or more extents, which may include one or more stride. The processor may determine an extent of the one or more extents that includes data of the logical volume. The processor may determine a set of strides associated with the extent. The processor may copy the set of strides into a stride buffer and combine the set of strides into a block extent file. The processor may transmit the block extent file to the cloud server.
US10257255B2
Performing a distributed data operation. A method includes receiving a request for one or more data operations from a first computing system, such as a client. The method further includes determining a number of node endpoints that can be used to satisfy the query. Based on the number of node endpoints, the method further includes selecting a plan from the group consisting essentially of a flat data operation plan, a hierarchical data operation plan or a combination of partially flat/partially hierarchical data operation plan. The request for one or more data operations is serviced using the selected data operation plan.
US10257247B2
The invention relates according to one of its embodiments to a method for encapsulating a video bitstream organized into slice segments, the slice segments comprising a plurality of coding units, the method comprising: obtaining a region of interest comprising one or more tiles, each tile comprising a set of one or more coding units; determining whether the region of interest forms part of a slice segment; if it is determined that the region of interest forms part of a slice segment, defining a new slice segment comprising the coding units of only the region of interest; and encapsulating the bitstream comprising the coding units of the region of interest using the new slice segment if it is determined that the region of interest forms part of a slice segment, and using the slice segment otherwise.
US10257246B2
A method and apparatus for streaming content to an access network in an interactive information distribution system. The method encapsulates the content in accordance to an Internet Protocol (IP). The content is then transcoded into a format supported by the access network, and streamed over a distribution network to a remote server or to a subscriber terminal that is coupled to the access network. The apparatus is embodied as stream caching server for streaming the content encapsulated within the packet to access networks via a stream distribution network in response to a request for content. A packet processor is coupled to the stream server for processing the encapsulated content within the IP packets into a format native to the access network.
US10257245B2
There is provided a server and method for association of user interactions of a first venue and a second venue. The server including a memory storing a user profile of a user and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor may be configured to receive first user interactions of the user with a first system in a first venue, the first user interactions including a request for playing a first media content using the first system in the first venue, store the first user interactions of the user in the user profile of the user in the memory, determine, after storing, the user is in a second venue, retrieve from the user profile, after determining, the first user interactions, and provide, after retrieving, a custom presentation to the user using a second system in the second venue, wherein the custom presentation is based on the first user interactions.
US10257244B2
The invention relates to a method for synchronizing an action in a piece of Rich Media® content with a change in a piece of audiovisual content, said Rich Media® and audiovisual content being part of a Rich Media® presentation. According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps: obtaining a piece of information representative of said change in said piece of audiovisual content, or change information; synchronizing an action in said piece of Rich Media® content with said change, said synchronization step including the following substeps: converting said change information into a Rich Media® event; detecting said event by at least one Rich Media® object of said presentation; triggering said action in said presentation on the basis of said detected event.
US10257242B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for communicating at least one real-time specially-composed bulletin message to at least one subscriber of a provider of Internet services, comprising a first device, and a second device communicably coupled to the first device, wherein the first device: accesses only subscriber upstream traffic to a destination web site requested by the subscriber, wherein the first device inter-connects between the at least one subscriber and the destination web site, identifies the at least one subscriber's identification based on the accessed subscriber upstream traffic automatically provided by the subscriber, and provides the unique subscriber identification to the second device located at the provider of Internet services providing data services and management control to the first device, wherein the second device determines the subscriber associated with the unique subscriber identification.
US10257239B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing overhead associated with packet switched voice service registration. According to some embodiments, a cellular network entity associated with a cellular network may receive a request relating to packet switched voice service from a wireless device. It may be determined whether subscription information for the wireless device indicates that packet switched voice service from the cellular network is permitted to the wireless device. A response to the request indicating whether packet switched voice service from the cellular network is available to the wireless device may be provided to the wireless device. The response may be generated based at least in part on the subscription information.
US10257238B2
Apparatus, system, and method of determining destination for state information, and recording medium
A control system includes a plurality of control apparatuses each capable of controlling a first communication terminal connected to the control apparatus. Each control apparatus transmits search information including terminal identification information for identifying a second communication terminal to other control apparatuses of the plurality of control apparatuses, searches for one of the other control apparatuses that is connected to the second communication terminal based on responses that are transmitted from the other control apparatuses in response to the search information, and transmits state information indicating a state of the first communication terminal connected to the control apparatus to the searched control apparatus connected to the second communication terminal.
US10257229B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for verifying users based on user motion may include (1) instructing a user of a mobile device to physically move in a prescribed manner, (2) receiving information, collected by one or more sensors associated with the mobile device, describing physical movement performed by the user after the user receives the instruction, (3) determining, upon receiving the information, that the user's physical movement matches the prescribed movement, and (4) verifying the user in response to determining that the user's physical movement matches the prescribed movement. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10257224B2
Methods and systems for providing forensic visibility into systems and networks are provided. More particularly, a sensor agent may receive events defining an action of a first object acting on a target. The object, the event, and the target are then correlated to at least one originating object such that an audit trail for each individual event is created. A global perspective indicating an age, popularity, a determination as to whether the object may be malware, and IP/URL information associated with the event may then be applied to at least one of the object, the event, the target, and the originating object. A priority may then be determined and assigned to the event based on at least the global perspective. An event line containing event information is then transmitted to an end recipient where the information may be heuristically displayed.
US10257222B2
A cloud checking and killing method for combating an anti-antivirus test includes receiving, by a cloud sever, a cloud checking and killing request for performing virus checking and killing on a sample. The method further includes analyzing the cloud checking and killing request, and determining whether the cloud checking and killing request is a cloud checking and killing request of an anti-antivirus test. If the cloud checking and killing request is a cloud checking and killing request of an anti-antivirus test, returning, by the cloud server, to the client a cloud checking and killing result that the sample does not carry a virus. If the cloud checking and killing request is not a cloud checking and killing request of an anti-antivirus test, comparing the sample with a virus library of the cloud server to determine whether the sample carries a virus and performing corresponding virus checking and killing.
US10257221B2
Techniques for selective sinkholing of malware domains by a security device via DNS poisoning are provided. In some embodiments, selective sinkholing of malware domains by a security device via DNS poisoning includes intercepting a DNS query for a network domain from a local DNS server at the security device, in which the network domain was determined to be a bad network domain and the bad network domain was determined to be associated with malware (e.g., a malware domain); and generating a DNS query response to the DNS query to send to the local DNS server, in which the DNS query response includes a designated sinkholed IP address for the bad network domain to facilitate identification of an infected host by the security device.
US10257216B2
Method and system for obtaining and analyzing forensic data in a distributed computer infrastructure
A system for obtaining and analyzing forensic data in a distributed computer infrastructure. The system includes a plurality of computing devices and at least one monitoring unit, which are connected to each other via a communication network. Every computing device is configured to detect security events and send same to the monitoring unit. The monitoring unit is configured to evaluate the received security events and assign same to a danger category, wherein if there is a lack of information for assigning a danger category, the computing device is configured in such a manner as to receive instructions for gathering additional forensic data and to send the additional data via an analysis unit to the monitoring unit. The monitoring unit is configured in such a manner as to transmit instructions to the computing device for gathering additional data and to use same for re-evaluation and assigning of a danger category.
US10257213B2
An extraction criterion determination method performed by an extraction criterion determination apparatus includes collecting a log information entry that is in a predetermined period of time and determined to be a specific communication, extracting a communication satisfying a criterion used to extract the specific communication from log information entries from the collected log information entries with reference to a storage unit storing an extraction criterion in which the criterion is defined, determining to adopt the extraction criterion when the ratio of the specific communications to the extracted communications is larger than or equal to a threshold, and performing a control to output the adopted extraction criterion.
US10257208B1
A system and method for verifying content on a network site is provided. A document such as a website is identified. The document is accessed over a network from a content provider system connected to the network to obtain information about the document. Through an automated process, using the information about the document to determine whether the document conforms to one or more predetermined rules associated with the content provider system governing the usage of content in the document.
US10257204B2
The present application provides an information processing method and an electronic apparatus that can automatically adjust the electronic apparatus to an information inaccessible state, thus the information security is enhanced. The method includes the steps of when a current state of the electronic apparatus is an information accessible state, obtaining an information of at least one parameter for determining whether it is necessary to adjust the current state from the information accessible state to an information inaccessible state or not; determining whether the at least one parameter meets a first preset condition or not to obtain a first determination result; when the first determination result is YES, adjusting the current state of the electronic apparatus to the information inaccessible state.
US10257198B2
A system is provided wherein a network control access device that is already in a network, called a Gatekeeper, generates a random short password in the form of a series of audio or visual cues that are visible to the user of a joining device. The joining device can be a simple one button device, or even a no-button device that is part of the internet of things (IOT) standard. The response to each cue can be entered by the user on a single-button joining device. For a no-button joining device, an alternate input method may be utilized on the joining device in response to the audio and visual cues. Alternatively, a password can be generated by the no-button joining device and be entered by the user one bit at-a-time directly onto the Gatekeeper keypad. Once the password is received, the Gatekeeper performs a password verification procedure.
US10257194B2
A method of receiving a request to access a plurality of resources and determining whether a first resource of the plurality of resources is associated with a different authorization requirement than at least one second resource of the plurality of resources. In response to determining that the first resource of the plurality of resources is associated with a different authorization requirement than the at least one second resource of the plurality of resources, determining whether the request includes the authorization requirement for the first resource and the authorization requirement for the second resource. In response to determining that the request includes the authorization requirement for the first resource and the authorization requirement for the second resource, providing access to the first resource and the at least one second resource.
US10257189B2
System and methods for using secure isolated technology to prevent piracy and cheating on electronic devices. In some examples, an electronic device can use hardware based secure isolated technology to store a first portion of an application in computer memory, and store a second portion of the application in a hardware based secure isolated region of the computer memory, the second portion of the application including an encrypted portion and a plaintext portion The electronic device can further use the hardware based secure isolated technology to establish a secure encrypted communication channel with a server, send data to the server via the secure encrypted communication channel, receive a decryption key from the server via the secure encrypted communication channel, and decrypt encrypted portion using the decryption key. The electronic device can then execute the application using the first portion of the application and the second portion of the application.
US10257186B2
The present invention proposes a method and network element which allows increasing, in different aspects, communications network protection in a single network element. This element will have the ability to manage and provide the mechanisms needed for communications, user and device protection without having to cooperate with end systems (i.e., in a transparent manner for said systems). The present invention proposes a new physical and logical architecture for said network element with various databases and verification and learning mechanisms, offering protection, management and automation abilities much greater than the systems existing today.
US10257182B2
Users of organizations use many different third-party applications. The organizations use the services of a server to manage and interact with the third-party applications. In particular, the server provides a remote login service that interacts with auto-login components executing within the domains of the organizations. The auto-login components intercept (e.g., at networking devices of the organization) the requests to login to, or otherwise use, the third-party applications, and sends them to the remote login service. The remote login service handles transparent login of the users to the third-party applications, capturing resulting URLs and session cookies of the third-party applications and providing them to the user browsers so that the user is automatically provided with access to the applications without requiring manual login interactions.
US10257179B1
A credential management system is described. The credential management system allows a user to identify peers and obtain additional information regarding the peers through the credential management system. The credential management system may perform user analytics and provide the requested additional information to the user. The credential management system may associate the discovered peers with a group or credential, and share information and data with one or more of the discovered peers associated with a particular group or credential in a convenient manner. The credential management system may also implement a hierarchical menu and/or conditions to determine which users of the credential management system may be able to view other users' information and to determine a type of information or data that is transmitted between users.
US10257174B2
Methods and systems for directly and securely transferring encrypted medical data between two remote locations, such as an imaging site and a diagnostic site, without storing the medical data on an intermediary server, and only storing audit information on the intermediary server, thereby allowing a direct transfer of medical data between the two remote sites, and without relying on the intermediary server for storage of the medical data.
US10257158B2
Methods and systems are described for assigning the proper Internet protocol (IP) address to a client device following authentication of the client device on a network. In particular, at commencement of an authentication procedure of the client device, a role is associated with the client device that denies all DHCP renews/requests. By assigning a role to the client device 103 with a “deny DHCP renew/request” rule at the commencement of an authentication procedure, the systems and methods described herein ensure that a race condition does not allow the client device to renew an IP address in an old segment of the network. Accordingly, the client device may avoid a possibly improper IP address in a segment of the network system in which the client device is no longer associated with or operating on.
US10257157B2
An apparatus prevents communication by a client device to a domain that cannot be uniquely identified by relocating the DNS mapping of the domain to a destination IP Address that is uniquely identifiable and that represents a location of an apparatus that provides a data path to the domain.
US10257152B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for processing address resolution protocol (ARP) packets in a computing environment. The method includes the steps of maintaining a table mapping internet protocol (IP) addresses to port identifiers (port IDs), receiving a packet, determining a type of the received packet, based on the type of the received packet being a first type, checking whether a destination IP address in the received packet matches an entry in the table, and if the destination IP address in the received packet matches an entry in the table: determining a port ID associated with the matching entry, and forwarding the received packet over a port associated with the determined port ID.
US10257149B2
Prioritizing messages in an activity stream with an actionable item or event for the user to respond
A method, system and computer program product for handling an overwhelming amount of messages in an activity stream. Messages in an activity stream, such as an activity stream of a social networking system, of a user are monitored. Those monitored messages that contain an actionable item or event are identified. The messages that contain an actionable item or event are prioritized in a list based on one or more of the following factors: the deadline, the relationship of the sender of the message to the user, the user's desired social relationship with the sender of the message and the event schedule. The prioritized list is then displayed to the user. In this manner, the user will be able to handle the overwhelming amount of messages in an activity stream by determining which posts with an actionable item or event to respond prior to other posts in the user's activity stream.
US10257138B2
Control of messages in a publish/subscribe system is described. A publishing system creates a message for publishing to multiple subscribers via a broker system. The message and associated metadata are provided. The metadata defines control of the message and relates to control of publishing of the message, by the broker system, and/or control of use of the message, by a subscribing system. The message is published with the metadata. A broker system receives the message and analyses the metadata with respect to a subscriber. Based on the analysis, restrictions are applied to delivery of the message to the subscriber. A subscribing system receives the message and analyses the metadata with respect to the subscriber. Based on this second analysis, restrictions are applied to use of the message by the subscriber.
US10257132B2
A method for managing processing of electronic messages. The method includes a computer processor identifying one or more electronic messages. The method further includes a computer processor determining one or more e-mail characteristics respectively associated with the identified one or more electronic messages. The method further includes a computer processor determining an estimated electronic message processing duration for the identified one or more electronic messages based, at least in part, on weighting factors that are associated with the determined one or more e-mail characteristics. The method further includes a computer processor identifying a first unscheduled time slot within an electronic calendar of a user. The method further includes a computer processor scheduling the identified one or more electronic messages within the identified first unscheduled time slot of the electronic calendar of the user.
US10257131B2
A system and method for private text chatting. A request is sent to a remote device to establish a private text chat session. Prior to receiving an acceptance of the private chat session request from the remote device, at least one text chat message is received from the remote device and stored. The acceptance of the private chat session request is received from the remote device. Subsequent to receiving the acceptance of the private chat session request, a private text chat session interface is displayed to conduct the private text chat session. The received at least one text chat message is displayed in the private text chat session interface.
US10257125B2
A messaging system including a server configured to receive a message from a second messaging device, transmit to a first messaging device a notification of the presence of the message at the server, transmit the message and a message attribute to the first messaging device, where the message and the message attribute are stored in non-volatile memory in the first messaging device at least until the message is managed by the first messaging device in accordance with the message attribute, and wherein the message attribute comprises a predetermined message viewing time after which at least a portion of the message cannot be displayed at the first messaging device, and receive from the first messaging device a message management notification generated by the first messaging device in connection with managing the message in accordance with the message attribute at the first messaging device.
US10257120B2
A communication control apparatus according to the present invention is connected between a core node which processes received packets in accordance with a specified flow and a control apparatus which controls the core node, controls each of the core nodes existing in an aggregated network into which one or more the core nodes are aggregated, and converts an aggregated flow specified for an aggregated network and received from the control apparatus to a real flow specified for each of the core nodes in the aggregated network based on connection relationships between the core nodes in the aggregated network, information specifying a real port which is a port through which the core node in the aggregated network is connected to a device outside the aggregated network and a real node which is the core node having the real port for each the aggregated networks.
US10257114B2
A method for estimating allocatable network medium data resources is disclosed. The method is performed at an apparatus having one or more processors and memory for storing programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a screening condition that includes at least one dimension from a set of dimensions of the network medium data resources. The method also includes obtaining allocation data of the network medium data resources, where the allocation data includes at least allocatable network medium data resources within a predefined geographical region, allocatable network medium data resources associated with a predefined content, a total volume of the allocatable network medium data resources, and a set of ratios associated with the set of dimensions. The method further includes calculating an estimated allocatable resource volume of the network medium data resources for the screening condition using the obtained allocation data.
US10257113B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to throttle resource access by web crawlers. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a data interface to obtain a media request message for media hosted by a server, the media request message requesting access to the media. The example apparatus also includes a category handler to determine a source indicator of a media-requesting source associated with the media request message, the source indicator indicating whether the media-requesting source is associated with a media provider to provide audience measurement information associated with the media provided by the media provider. The example apparatus also includes a penalty manager to insert a time delay including a delay tag in the media response message to the media-requesting source based on the source indicator, the delay tag to cause a delay time period based on the source indicator, at least one of the data interface, category handler, and penalty manager is implemented on a logic circuit.
US10257111B1
The present disclosure relates to dynamically scheduling resource requests in a distributed system based on usage quotas. One example method includes identifying usage information for a distributed system including atoms, each atom representing a distinct item used by users of the distributed system; determining that a usage quota associated with the distributed system has been exceeded based on the usage information, the usage quota representing an upper limit for a particular type of usage of the distributed system; receiving a first request for a particular atom requiring invocation of the particular type of usage represented by the usage quota; determining that a second request for a different type of usage of the particular atom is waiting to be processed; and processing the second request for the particular atom before processing the first request.
US10257108B2
A full-duplex (FD) capable access point (AP) of a wireless basic service set (BSS) that includes a plurality of stations (STAs) is configured to implement opportunistic FD downlink (DL) transmissions to a non-FD capable STA in the BSS when decoding uplink (UL) data from a UL STA in the BSS. While decoding the UL data, the AP selects a DL STA from a queue of DL STAs based on a predetermined FD DL transmission rate from the AP to the DL STA while the AP is decoding the UL data from the UL STA. The AP then causes an amount of data to be transmitted as an FD transmission to the selected DL STA while the processor is decoding the data from the UL STA.
US10257098B1
Provided are systems and methods for packet policing for controlling the rate of a packet flows. In some implementations, an integrated circuit is provided. The integrated circuit may comprise a memory, a counter, and a pipeline. The integrated circuit may be operable to, upon receiving packet information describing a packet, determine, using the pipeline, a drop status for the packet. Determining the drop status may include determining a previous number of credits available, a number of new credits available, a current number of credits available, and a number of credits needed to transmit the packet. The drop status may be determined by comparing the number of credits needed to transmit the packet against the current number of credits available. The integrated circuit may further update the information stored for a policing context in the memory based on the drop status and the number of credits needed to transmit the packet.
US10257096B2
Computer connectivity is dependent on network availability. When networks are offline, relocating systems and data to an available network is an inefficient, time consuming, and error prone process. A system and method is disclosed for instant IP sharing and relocation between geographical locations by combining BGP announcement in one or multiple locations and applying stateless NAT to the IP traffic. Thereby, IP traffic is redirected to the desired location and delivered to the final device using the shared/relocated IP address. This system and method allows a single IP address to actively respond to network requests from numerous locations which can be spread around the globe.
US10257092B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates forwarding of packets with variable length names. During operation, the system receives a packet with a hierarchically structured variable length identifier (HSVLI) which comprises contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. The system performs a longest prefix match lookup by selecting an entry from a first data structure of entries. The entries indicate a name component, forwarding information for the name component, and a plurality of entry identifiers that chain an entry to another entry. If a size of the name component is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the system selects an entry based on the name component. If the size is greater, the system selects an entry based on a compressed key which can be a hash of the name component. The system also resolves collisions associated with the selected entry.
US10257090B2
A computer-implemented method classifies a packet received from a network. The method comprises receiving the packet having header information and a rule-set that indicates a plurality of actions to perform on the packet. A geometric representation of the rule-set is constructed having a plurality of dimensions and rule boundaries. At least one rule boundary and dimension of the geometric representation is split to form a search structure having a plurality of nodes. Each node in the plurality of nodes is constrained to a predetermined memory threshold. The search structure is searched using the header information to obtain a rule in the rule-set that indicates an action to take on the packet.
US10257088B2
Creation of a virtual overlay for a multipath network with tiered topology is disclosed. A virtual-node module may group network nodes connected within a common tier, which is initially the tier furthest from the core. This module may also group network nodes at a consecutive tier, closer to the core, that connect a pairs of groupings in the common tier by links between the common and consecutive tiers. Groupings with a common network node may be combined and designated as virtual nodes. A virtual-link module may sum bandwidths for network links between virtual-node pairs with nodes in both the common and consecutive tiers. A check module may combine virtual nodes and links and network nodes and links not yet virtualized in a graph, which it may check for a cycle. An iteration module may iterate both tiers toward the core, triggering further grouping, summing, and updating until no loop exists.
US10257085B2
In a method of using structured communications in an observation platform with cloud computing, a signal from a first communication device is received by a second communication device associated with a first computer system. The second computer system forwards the signal from the first computer system to a second computer system, wherein the second computer system is physically remote from the first computer system and connected with the first computer system via a network. The second computer system derives context information for the signal, the deriving based on a plurality of factors derived from an analysis of the signal, wherein the plurality of factors comprises a speech to text analysis of the signal, and wherein the second computer system is cloud based. The second computer system determines at least one destination for the signal based on the plurality of factors for the context information.
US10257083B2
Techniques whereby a LAN-side border router observes all packets of an application flow from both directions so that the application recognition performed on the LAN-side border router functions properly. A border router may implement flags in a flow cache to indicate whether the border router is the LAN-side border router and/or a WAN-side border router for an application flow. As packets are received at a border router at either the LAN interface or WAN interface, the flags associated with packet's application flows are examined to determine if the border router is the LAN-side border router for the application flow. If so, then application recognition and routing control may be performed. If not, the packet may be redirected to another border router that may be the LAN-side border router or the WAN-side border router for the application flow to insure that border router observes the packet.
US10257081B2
Ways of sending data over a network over a single path or over multiple parallel paths on an as-needed basis depending upon network conditions, and/or other factors, are described. For example, if a computing device detects sufficient jitter and/or latency at one or more network interfaces, the data may be sent over two or more communication paths using two or more network interfaces.
US10257077B1
A mesh network device includes a radio and an application processor including a hop-aware multicast engine to: determine a mesh header time to live (TTL) value for a broadcast frame in a data link layer. The mesh header TTL value is the lessor of an internet protocol (IP) header TTL value of the first broadcast frame in an IP layer and a predefined value. The broadcast frame includes a request for a service or a resource to be sent. The hop-aware multicast engine sends the broadcast frame to a first set of mesh network devices being defined by the mesh header TTL value. The hop-aware multi-case engine determines that a response was not received within a time period; increases the mesh header TTL value; and sends a broadcast frame to a second set of one or more additional mesh network devices being defined by the increased mesh header TTL value.
US10257074B1
Techniques are described for avoiding traffic loss in a network when a designated router (DR) for a L2 broadcast communication domain loses its route toward a multicast traffic source. The disclosed techniques may be utilized in a scenario where a receiver is multi-homed to a DR network device and a non-DR network device by a L2 broadcast communication domain. Both the DR and the non-DR network devices receive a request from the receiver identifying a multicast group in which the receiver is interested. The non-DR network device monitors traffic injected into the L2 broadcast communication domain by the DR in order to determine whether the DR has lost the route to the source of the multicast group. If the DR has lost the route, the non-DR network device performs a repair by sending the multicast data traffic for the multicast group to the receiver on the L2 broadcast communication domain.
US10257071B2
Approaches for monitoring performance in a networked environment are provided. An approach includes monitoring, using a first metric, performance of a first host running a virtual machine. The approach also includes determining, using a computer device, a second metric based on the virtual machine being migrated from the first host to a second host, wherein the second metric is a function of: (i) the first metric and (ii) a comparison of the first host and the second host. The approach further includes monitoring, using the second metric, performance of the second host running the virtual machine.
US10257059B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a method and system for processing network data. During operation, the system obtains, at a remote capture agent, configuration information for the remote capture agent from a configuration server over a network. Next, the system uses the configuration information to configure the generation of event data from network data obtained from network packets at the remote capture agent. The system then uses the configuration information to configure transformation of the event data or the network data into transformed event data at the remote capture agent.
US10257047B2
A processor receives service availability data for at least one service, where the service availability data indicates an amount time the at least one service was available and an amount of time one or more resources utilized in the service was available. A processor receives service configuration data for the service, where the service configuration data indicates one or more resource requirements of the at least one service. A processor determines one or more resource unavailability scores for the one or more resources utilized in providing the service. A processor determines one or more resource replacement scores for the one or more resources utilized in the service. A processor determines availability risk scores for the at least one service based on the one or more resource unavailability scores and the one or more resource replacement scores. A processor generates an indication of at-risk services of the at least one service.
US10257046B2
Methods and systems analyze historical NXD traffic to predict future DNS traffic. In one embodiment, a system may count NXD responses generated by an Authoritative DNS server during a particular time period and calculate the variance in NXD traffic for domains over time. The system may then generate a coefficient of variance (CoV) value for each domain observed. Finally, the system may predict positive domain traffic based upon the calculated CoV data. In other embodiments, the system may also base the prediction on the classification of domains as “original” domains or “re-registered” domains. In another embodiment, the system may also base the prediction on the “size” of name servers. Additionally, or alternatively, the system may determine the number of unique name servers for a domain and base the prediction on the number of unique name servers for a particular domain name.
US10257043B2
Disclosed are embodiments for balancing utilization of infrastructure in a networked computing environment. One example embodiment includes: mapping, for each of a plurality of workloads operating on source devices in a networked computing environment, a corresponding target device within said networked computing environment; accessing topological information defining the networked computing environment; and reducing unbalanced utilization of infrastructure in the networked computing environment including migrating a workload to an alternate device within the networked computing environment, in dependence upon the mapping and topological information.
US10257035B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate configuration and naming of a multimedia playback device on a local playback network are disclosed. An example method includes identifying and analyzing local network topology to identify playback device(s) connected to the network at location(s). The example method includes analyzing a playback device to be added and comparing the playback device to be added to the playback device(s) already connected to the network. The example method includes displaying available option(s) to name the playback device to be added based on the analysis of the network, the already connected playback device(s) and the playback device to be added to the network. The example method includes naming the playback device to be added based on a selected available option.
US10257031B1
Techniques for dynamic augmentation of server rack network capacity are provided herein. Network nodes are described that are connected between server rack switches and a rack aggregation layer device. A port allocation controller is also described that can automatically reconfigure the network nodes to create connections, via the network nodes, between the rack aggregation layer device and the server rack switches. These network node connections can be used to alter the network capacities of the server rack switches in response to changing network demands.
US10257023B2
A storage controller comprising a first server and a second server is maintained. Data of the first server is stored in a first storage cloud, and data of the second server is stored in a second storage cloud. In response to a failure of the second server, the first server performs operations of the second server by using the stored data of the first server in the first storage cloud.
US10257022B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include instructions stored thereon for ranking multiple computer modules to reduce failure impacts. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system implementing the multiple computer modules to at least associate the multiple computer modules with multiple services that rely on the multiple computer modules, at least one of the multiple services relying on more than one of the multiple computer modules, determine values of the multiple services, and rank the multiple computer modules based on the determined values of the multiple services with which the respective multiple computer modules are associated.
US10257014B2
A method of amplifying a phase shift, comprises: receiving an input signal in response to an output signal; generating a reference signal; varying a modulation of at least one of the signals such that a ratio between modulation amplitudes of the input and reference signals is at least 0.9 and at most 1.1, and a phase difference between the reference and the input signals is from about 0.9 pi to about 1.1 pi; forming an output signal which comprises a sum of the reference and input signals, following the variation; and filtering the output signal by a bandpass filter to form a filtered output signal, wherein a bandwidth of the bandpass filter is selected such that XG<0.1, wherein X is a noise fluctuation average of the filtered output signal, and G is an expected amplification factor of a phase shift between the input and the reference signals.
US10257010B2
An electronic device and method for synchronous detection between time division duplex wireless communication cells. The electronic device can access a communication channel of a time division duplex wireless communication system, and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an actual time slot proportion of a target cell and a cell ID and an operator ID of the target cell at a specific moment; and a reporting unit configured to transmit the actual time slot proportion of the target cell and the cell ID and the operator ID thereof to a designee. By this technology, networks of different operators can be detected effectively, and by a comparison with a reference time or a coordinated uplink/downlink time slot proportion, a meaningful comparison result is obtained. Moreover, the measurement or comparison result is provided for a third party, such as a network manager, to confirm, so that the result is more credible.
US10257009B2
Described is a method of searching of multichannel signal and technique of demodulating and detecting DBPSK frequency division multiple access (FDMA) ultra-narrow band signal. A search is based on algorithm encompassing a signal-processing signal, and technique to demodulate and detect FDMA ultra-narrow band together with a method to increase time-frequency resolution.
US10257003B2
An Access Point (AP) performs a Multi-User (MU) transmission by allocating a plurality of resources of an Up-Link (UL) MU transmission to a first plurality of stations, and by transmitting, using one or more 20 MHz channels, a Down-Link (DL) PHY Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). The DL PPDU includes trigger information. The trigger information solicits the first plurality of stations to participate in the UL MU transmission using the allocated resources. All of the allocated resources may be in the one or more 20 MHz channels of the DL PPDU. The allocated resources may include at least one resource in each of the one or more 20 MHz channels of the DL PPDU.
US10256992B2
According to an example, a packet is tunnel encapsulated a packet according to a tunnel encapsulation template. The tunnel encapsulation template includes fields for the tunnel encapsulated packet, and the fields include static fields and variable fields. Field values are inserted into variable fields of the tunnel encapsulation template to generate the tunnel encapsulated packet.
US10256986B2
A system and method for recovering missed Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) data frames in a Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) is provided. The method includes storing a first set of Service Data Units (SDUs) in a first Radio Link Control (RLC) buffer, wherein the first set of SDUs is broadcasted using a first set of MBMS data frames from a first eNB, storing a second set of SDUs in a second RLC buffer, wherein the second set of SDUs is broadcasted using a second set of MBMS data frames from a second eNB, and comparing the first set of MBMS data frames associated with the first set of SDUs with the second set of MBMS data frames associated with the second set of SDUs to recover the missed MBMS data frame in the first set of RLC SDUs received from the first eNB.
US10256982B2
Methods, systems, and devices may be used for assigning names and bootstrapping of security credentials for Smart Objects inside a Digital Home environment. Methods, systems, and devices for identification and security bootstrapping of a smart object within a digital home environment may include automated assignment of a device level ID and security credential for each smart object in the home using a resource directory.
US10256976B2
An information interaction method, includes: obtaining, by an encryption accessory, one or more user features, the encryption accessory including a hardware logic circuit; performing, by the hardware logic circuit, a logical operation on the one or more user features to generate a hardware function; and using the hardware function for an access authentication by a social networking service (SNS) server.
US10256974B1
A cryptographic ASIC and method for enforcing a derivative key hierarchy for managing an information stream. A programming user provides a user passphrase that is used to generate a transform key and is then deleted. The transform key is inaccessibly, invisibly, and indelibly generated and stored in a one-time programmable memory with externally generated programming pulses during or after manufacture, without being reported out to the user who provided the user passphrase. A transform-enabled cryptographic circuit or method customized with the transform key processes a predetermined input message to obtain a predetermined output message indicating an identity of a particular information stream. Other input messages may also be processed, such as for verifying a blockchain, but replication requires knowledge of the transform key. Only a programming user with knowledge of the user passphrase is capable of creating an information stream, such as a blockchain.
US10256970B2
A system for performing a secure sequence of transformations of a data value, using encrypted representations of the data value is disclosed. The system includes a first transformer for applying a transformation to an input data value to obtain an obfuscated representation thereof. The obfuscated representation contains a redundancy that depends on an input variable. The system further includes a sequence of second transformer for applying a transformation to compute transformed obfuscated representations. The system also includes a fourth transformer for applying a transformation such that a last obfuscated transformed data is obtained. The system further includes a fifth transformer for applying a transformation that depends on the last obfuscated transformed data and the input data.
US10256968B1
A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes a phase detector, a digital loop filter, and a lock detector. The phase detector generates a phase detect result signal in response to phase detection of a plurality of samples. The plurality of samples are generated by sampling a received signal based on a sampling clock a sampling clock provided by a phase interpolator. The digital loop filter includes a phase path and a frequency path for providing a phase path correction signal and a frequency path correction signal based on the phase detect result signal respectively. A phase interpolator code generator generates a phase interpolator code for controlling the phase interpolator based on the phase path correction signal and frequency path correction signal. The lock detector generates a lock condition signal based on the frequency path correction signal, the lock condition signal indicating a lock condition of the CDR circuit.
US10256965B2
A cellular communication system comprises a first base station serving at least a first user equipment. The base station comprises functionality for transmitting a base station duplex capability message to user equipments using a transmission format which is common to a plurality of duplex modes. A first user equipment comprises a transceiver which receives the base station duplex capability message. A RACH characteristics processor determines at least one transmit characteristic for an access message in response to the base station duplex capability message and a RACH transmit controller controls the transmission of an access message to the first base station in response to the at least one transmit characteristic.
US10256956B2
A method for implementing uplink transmission in a flexible frequency division duplex (FDD) system is provided. A flexible FDD supported user equipment (FFUE) receives signaling from an evolved node B (eNB), obtains an uplink carrier configuration, and performs physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission by way of synchronous HARQ of 8 ms, synchronous HARQ of 10 ms, or asynchronous hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). According to the solution provided by the present invention, uplink transmission in the FDD system can be realized with low complexity, and the system performance of the FDD system is improved.
US10256954B2
Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for data transmission in a downlink virtual multi-antenna system. The method includes: N terminals receive downlink data and/or downlink Demodulation Reference Signals (DMRSs) from one Node B or multiple Nodes B, N being a positive integer larger than or equal to 2; and one terminal in the N terminals forwards the downlink data and/or downlink DMRSs received from the one Node B or multiple Nodes B to M terminal(s), M being a positive integer larger than or equal to 1. A first forwarding unit of the apparatus is configured to forward received downlink data and/or downlink DMRSs of a Node B to M terminal(s) by one terminal in N terminals, M being a positive integer larger than or equal to 1.
US10256944B1
A device includes a network interface that includes a physical coding sublayer (PCS) unit. The PCS unit receives an Ethernet packet. The PCS unit encode the Ethernet packet into a transmission frame that includes a first set of bit fields corresponding to contents of the Ethernet packet and a second set of bit fields corresponding to control information for the encoding. The PCS unit computes a validity value of the transmission frame, wherein the validity value is based on the first set of bit fields included in the transmission frame. The PCS unit inserts the validity value of the transmission frame into one or more idle bit fields in the second set of bit fields included in the transmission frame. The PCS unit processes the transmission frame for sending to a receiving device over a physical medium.
US10256942B2
A receiver for receiving data in a broadcast system includes a broadcast receiver configured to receive, via the broadcast system, a receiver input data stream including a plurality of channel symbols represented by constellation points in a constellation diagram. A demodulator demodulates the channel symbols into codewords and a decoder decodes the codewords into output data words. A redundancy unit selects or requests, if demodulation of a channel symbol and/or decoding of a codeword is erroneous or likely to fail, redundancy data for demodulation of future channel symbols and/or decoding of future codewords via a broadband system and a broadband receiver obtains the redundancy data via the broadband system. The demodulator and/or the decoder is configured to use the obtained redundancy data to demodulate the respective future channel symbols and to decode the respective future codewords, respectively.
US10256941B1
A first network interface device maintains a first counter, synchronized with a second counter of a second network interface device, that indicates a count of partial frames corresponding to communication frames exchanged between the first network interface device and a second network interface device via a communication link in a motor vehicle. While the first network interface device is in a low power mode of operation, the first network interface device i) uses the first counter to determine timing of windows, ii) powers up at least at a receive portion of the first network interface device during the windows to determine whether the second network device transmitted a signal configured to prompt the first network interface device to exit the low power mode of operation, and powers down between the windows in response to determining that the second network device did not transmit the signal.
US10256936B2
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a software programmable reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer (ROADM) comprising of a plurality of wavelength switches and a plurality of waveguide switches, wherein when the plurality of waveguide switches are set to a first switch configuration, the software programmable ROADM provides n degrees of an n-degree optical node, and wherein when the waveguide switches are set to a second switch configuration, the software programmable ROADM provides k degrees of an m-degree optical node.
US10256934B2
A technique for optical signal transmission includes generating a plurality of double sideband modulated optical signals by modulating a plurality of source data signals using a plurality of direct modulation laser (DML) optical sources, wherein the plurality of double sideband modulated optical signals occupy non-overlapping neighboring optical frequency bands, generating a chirp-managed laser (CML) output signal by multiplexing the plurality of double sideband modulated optical signals using a wavelength-selective multiplexer, and transmitting the CML output signal over an optical transport medium.
US10256929B2
A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving, by at least one antenna of a receiver, at least one signal from a transceiver, detecting at least one data symbol within the at least one signal, determining a probability associated with the at least one detected data symbol, determining channel state information (CSI) of at least one channel between the transceiver and the at least one antenna of the receiver, and estimating a common phase error (CPE) of the at least one signal based on the probabilities associated with the at least one detected data symbol and the CSI of the at least one channel.
US10256908B2
Methods and systems for monolithic integration of photonics and electronics in CMOS processes are disclosed and may include in an optoelectronic transceiver comprising photonic and electronic devices from two complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) die with different silicon layer thicknesses for the photonic and electronic devices, the CMOS die bonded together by metal contacts: communicating optical signals and electronic signals to and from said optoelectronic transceiver utilizing a received continuous wave optical signal as a source signal. A first of the CMOS die includes the photonic devices and a second includes the electronic devices. Electrical signals may be communicated between electrical devices to the optical devices utilizing through-silicon vias coupled to the metal contacts. The metal contacts may include back-end metals from a CMOS process. The electronic and photonic devices may be fabricated on SOI wafers, with the SOI wafers being diced to form the CMOS die.
US10256904B2
The circuit size of a signal processing circuit increases in a free space optical receiver, which increases in cost, because the signal processing becomes complex attempting to improve the coupling efficiency between received light and a fiber; therefore, a free space optical receiver according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a light collecting means for collecting laser light having propagated through a free space transmission path; a multi-mode transmission medium for receiving input of the laser light and outputting multi-mode light; a multi-mode signal processing means for outputting a plurality of received electrical signals based on part of the multi-mode light; a monitor means for monitoring signal information based on the multi-mode light; a control means for controlling an operation of the multi-mode signal processing means based on the signal information; and a signal processing means for performing signal processing on the plurality of received electrical signals and outputting an output signal synthesized from the plurality of received electrical signals.
US10256901B2
A system for monitoring optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) is provided. In some specific examples, the system may use a pilot tone power of a signal modulated with pilot tone to derive the pure signal power and the variance of the whole electric field to derive the total power (pure signal power plus amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) power of the signal). The ASE power can be obtained by subtracting the pure signal power from the total power (ASE+pure signal). Once the ASE power and the pure signal power are known, the OSNR can be calculated.
US10256898B2
Methods and systems are provided for guard band detection and frequency offset detection. For each of a plurality of downconverted signals, frequency related information associated with one or more corresponding circuits used in obtaining the plurality of downconverted signals may be determined; and based on the determined frequency related information, one or both of a band stacking operation and a channel stacking operation may be performed. During the band stacking operation, frequency bands are not stacked on each other or stacked frequency bands do not overlap. During the channel stacking operation, channels are not stacked on each other or stacked channels do not overlap. The frequency related information may be determined based on predefined frequency related parameters associated with the corresponding circuits. Frequency corrections may be performed, on output signals corresponding to the band stacking operation and/or the channel stacking operation, based on the frequency related information.
US10256894B2
In certain aspects of the present disclosure, an apparatus for wireless communications is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of block circuits, wherein each one of the plurality of block circuits is configured to receive a respective plurality of signals from a respective subset of antenna elements of an antenna array. Each one of the plurality of block circuits comprises a respective plurality of phase shifters configured to shift phases of the respective plurality of signals to obtain a respective plurality of phase-shifted signals, and a respective combiner configured to combine the respective plurality of phase-shifted signals into a respective combined signal. The apparatus also comprises a plurality of time-delay elements configured to delay the combined signals to obtain a plurality of delayed combined signals, and a combiner configured to combine the plurality of delayed combined signals into a total combined signal.
US10256889B2
A method includes a step of reading in the radio data signal and a radio data clock signal, a step of integrating a signal that is a function of the radio data signal and/or the radio data clock signal in order to determine an integral value curve, a step of decoding radio data signal information from the integral value curve, using the radio data clock signal and/or a phase position of the radio data signal, a step of ascertaining radio data signal quality information which represents the credibility of the decoded radio data signal information, using the radio data signal and/or the phase position of the radio data signal, and a step of providing the radio data signal information and the radio data signal quality information in order to provide a conditioned radio data signal.
US10256884B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for quantizing channel state information (CSI). According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for quantizing CSI is provided, which can be implemented on a base station side. The method includes: broadcasting antenna configuration of a base station to a user equipment, wherein the antenna configuration includes an antenna port in a vertical direction and an antenna port in a horizontal direction; sending a reference signal (RS) to the user equipment; receiving a vertical precoder corresponding to the antenna port in a vertical direction and a horizontal precoder corresponding to the antenna port in a horizontal direction that are fed back by the user equipment; and based on the received vertical precoder and horizontal precoder, reconstructing a precoder by using a vertical codebook corresponding to the antenna port in a vertical direction and a horizontal codebook corresponding to the antenna port in a horizontal direction.
US10256879B2
Components, systems, and methods for reducing location-dependent destructive interference in distributed antenna systems operating in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) configuration are disclosed. Interference is defined as issues with received MIMO communications signals that can cause a MIMO algorithm to not be able to solve a channel matrix for MIMO communications signals received by MIMO receivers in client devices. These issues may be caused by lack of separation (i.e., phase, amplitude) in the received MIMO communications signals. Thus, to provide amplitude separation of received MIMO communications signals, multiple MIMO transmitters are each configured to employ multiple transmitter antennas, which are each configured to transmit in different polarization states. In certain embodiments, one of the MIMO communications signals is amplitude adjusted in one of the polarization states to provide amplitude separation between received MIMO communications signals. In other embodiments, multiple transmitter antennas in a MIMO transmitter can be offset to provide amplitude separation.
US10256876B2
An apparatus of a wireless communication device operable to communicate channel state information in a wireless network can include memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is arranged to derive one or more principal eigen beams from received Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) signals, the one or more principal eigen beams having a rank greater than or equal to one. Quantized eigen beams may be derived from the one or more principal eigen beams. A bit pattern of the quantized eigen beams and at least one of a wideband channel quality indicator (CQI) or a subband CQI may be conditioned on the quantized eigen beams. Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) may be encoded with the conditioned bit pattern for transmission to an Evolved Node-B (eNB) in the wireless network.
US10256864B2
Embodiments of full-duplex self-interference cancellation systems are described. In one embodiment, a full-duplex transceiver includes a digital signal processor that processes digital signals, a transmit chain that receives a first digital baseband signal from the digital signal processor and converts it to a first RF signal, a receive chain that receives a second RF signal and converts the second RF signal to a second digital baseband signal, and an auxiliary receive chain that receives a portion of the first RF signal and converts it to an auxiliary digital baseband signal. The transceiver may further include a self-interference canceller that applies a channel transfer function to the auxiliary digital baseband signal to generate a cancellation signal and subtracts the cancellation signal from the second digital baseband signal to cancel self-interference at the transceiver. The suppression of self-interference in the transceiver assists the transceiver to achieve higher efficiency in full-duplex communications.
US10256857B2
A receiver for receiving an analog signal having a frequency band to be digitalized has a filter unit having at least two filters for at least two receive paths, an AD converter per receive path, and digital signal processing. The filters are coupled to a common signal source in order to obtain the analog signal having the frequency band to be digitalized, and configured to divide the frequency band to be digitalized into at least two sub-bands for the at least two receive paths. The analog-to-digital converters are configured to digitalize the signals of the at least two sub-frequency bands. The digital signal processing is coupled to the at least two analog-to-digital converters in order to obtain the at least two digitalized signals and merge the at least two signals to be digitalized. The at least two filters, with regard to their filter characteristics, are configured such that the at least two sub-frequency bands have a relative bandwidth of <1:2.
US10256853B2
A method of operating a communications system includes receiving a signal at a digital predistorter (DPD), introducing predistortion to the signal using the DPD, and converting the predistorted signal to an analog signal using a digital-to-analog converter having a first bandwidth. The method also includes amplifying the analog signal, sampling the amplified signal using an analog-to-digital converter having a second bandwidth less than the first bandwidth, and extracting coefficients of the DPD from the sampled signal.
US10256851B2
Systems and methods related to time-division and frequency-division duplex protocols for wireless applications. In some embodiments, a wireless architecture can include a radio-frequency (RF) path configured to support a first modified time-division duplex (TDD) band operation and a second modified TDD band operation. Such a wireless architecture can allow consolidation of signal paths and/or re-use of components such as filters and duplexers, to advantageously reduce or eliminate some paths and/or components.
US10256847B2
A method and terminal device for executing a radio application is disclosed. The method for executing a radio application is a method for executing a radio application independent of a modem in a terminal device, comprising the steps of: communicating with each other using a reconfigurable radio frequency interface (RRFI) by a unified radio application (URA), which operates on a radio computer of the terminal device, and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, which operates in a radio platform on the radio computer; and supporting, by the RRFI, at least one service among a spectrum control service, a power control service, an antenna management service, a transmission/reception chain control service, and a radio virtual machine protection service.
US10256840B2
A memory device includes memory arrays configured to store pages of data organized into multiple ECC words. The memory device also includes at least one input/output pad for each ECC word associated with a page. The memory device is configurable to perform a first level of error correction on each of the ECC words associated with the page. A system-level error correction circuit is configurable to perform a second level of error correction on the data output by each of the input/output pads during a particular period of time. Each of the one or more input/output pads of the memory device is configurable to provide only one bit of data per ECC word to an external source during an access from an external source.
US10256839B2
A low density parity check (LDPC) encoder, an LDPC decoder, and an LDPC encoding method are disclosed. The LDPC encoder includes first memory, second memory, and a processor. The first memory stores an LDPC codeword having a length of 16200 and a code rate of 5/15. The second memory is initialized to 0. The processor generates the LDPC codeword corresponding to information bits by performing accumulation with respect to the second memory using a sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix (PCM).
US10256832B2
A failure determination circuit includes a first A/D conversion circuit that continuously A/D converts a first analog signal based on a first physical quantity measurement signal, a switching circuit that receives a plurality of signals including a second analog signal based on the first physical quantity measurement signal and a first reference voltage and outputs the plurality of signals in a time division manner, a second A/D conversion circuit that A/D converts the output of the switching circuit, and a determination circuit, and the determination circuit determines a failure of the first A/D conversion circuit using a signal based on a first digital signal obtained by A/D converting the first analog signal by the first A/D conversion circuit and a signal based on a second digital signal obtained by A/D converting the second analog signal by the second A/D conversion circuit.
US10256826B2
A non-linear spread spectrum clock generator using a linear combination may include a phase locked loop configured to receive a reference signal and generate an output signal according to the reference signal and a feedback signal that compensates for the output signal. The phase locked loop may include a divider configured to generate the feedback signal by dividing the output signal by a divisional ratio. The non-linear spread spectrum clock generator may include a non-linear profile generator configured to generate a non-linear signal by selectively outputting selected ones of a plurality of signals according to the absolute magnitudes of the signals and a delta-sigma modulator configured to receive the outputted linear ramp function and to change the divisional ratio. The signals may vary according to different linear ramp functions. The different ramp functions may include different slopes and initiation time values.
US10256825B2
An oven controlled crystal oscillator that ensures reduced heat influence from outside to further stabilize an output frequency is provided. The oven controlled crystal oscillator includes a substrate secured above a base. The oven controlled crystal oscillator includes an oscillator circuit, a heater resistor, and a power transistor, which are mounted on the substrate. The oven controlled crystal oscillator includes pins that secures the substrate above the base at a predetermined interval, a metal cover that covers the oscillator circuit, the heater resistor, and the power transistor, and a resin cover that covers outside of the metal cover. An air layer is formed between the metal cover and the resin cover.
US10256822B2
A resistive random-access memory device formed on a semiconductor substrate includes an interlayer dielectric formed over the semiconductor substrate and includes a first via. A chemical-mechanical-polishing stop layer is formed over the interlayer dielectric. A lower metal layer formed in the first via presents a substantially planar top surface. A dielectric layer is formed over the chemical-mechanical-polishing stop layer and is in electrical contact with the lower metal layer. A barrier metal layer is formed over the dielectric layer. Edges of the dielectric layer and the first barrier metal layer form an aligned stack having edges extending beyond outer edges of the first via. A dielectric barrier layer including a second via is formed over the aligned stack and at least a portion of the chemical-mechanical-polishing stop layer. An upper metal layer formed in the second via in electrical contact with the barrier metal layer.
US10256821B2
A method and circuitry that enables an input/output pin (I/O) on a System on a Chip to function either as an analog or as a digital input/output without compromising the overall performance of the system, thus giving the automated test equipment full flexibility to maximize parallel testing for both analog and digital modules.
US10256805B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a protective circuit to be used in a digital output module, the digital output module comprises a first voltage source and at least an output terminal. The protective circuit comprises: a first sampling unit for sampling a first voltage relevant to the output current from the first voltage source, a first comparing unit for comparing the sampled first voltage with a first reference voltage, a control unit for generating a current regulating signal based on a result from the first comparing unit, and a current regulating unit for regulating the output current from the first voltage source based on the current regulating signal. This protective circuit provides overflowing and short circuit protection, and is cheap in cost.
US10256800B1
A delay-locked loop circuit and a selection method of unit coarse delay are provided. The delay-locked loop circuit includes a frequency detector and a unit coarse delay selector. The frequency detector receives a reset signal and a clock signal. The frequency detector performs a sampling operation to detect a clock frequency of the clock signal based on a time shift of the reset signal and a sequential delay of the reset signal to generate a plurality of determining signals. The unit coarse delay selector selects one of the plurality of determining signals with an earliest transition time as a selected coarse delay signal to control a timing of the delay-locked loop circuit.
US10256798B2
A delay circuit includes: a delay line that delays an input signal in accordance with a delay setting signal and performs output of the input signal as a delayed signal; and a logic circuit processes the input signal to the delay line and the delayed signal.
US10256791B2
A resonant circuit includes: a capacitor of which a capacitance is variable; and an acoustic wave resonator to which the capacitor is connected in series and/or in parallel, a capacitance of the acoustic wave resonator being to be changed so that a change in input impedance and/or output impedance is reduced when the capacitance of the capacitor is changed.
US10256784B2
A system and method for setting analog front end in a serial receiver. The serial receiver includes a decision feedback equalizer. During initialization, taps of the decision feedback equalizer other than the zeroth tap are disabled, and the zeroth tap is used to estimate the amplitude of the signal at the output of the analog front end. The analog front end gain is iteratively adjusted until the estimated value of the zeroth tap is within a set range.
US10256781B2
A complementary metal oxide silicon transceiver having an integrated power amplifier is provided. The complementary metal oxide silicon transceiver having the integrated power amplifier is capable of controlling an output power according to a communication environment to solve the following problem that with the increment of an output level of a power amplifier, performance is decreased when noises flow into other blocks of a transceiver with power and thus are inputted to the power amplifier.
US10256778B2
A power amplifier module includes a first current source that outputs a first current corresponding to a level control voltage for controlling a signal level of an amplified signal, a second current source that outputs a second current corresponding to the level control voltage, a first transistor in which an input signal and a first bias current are supplied to a base and an emitter is grounded, a second transistor in which an emitter is connected to a collector of the first transistor, the second current is supplied to a base, and a first amplified signal obtained by amplifying the input signal is output from a collector, and a third transistor in which the first current is supplied to a collector, a bias control current or voltage is supplied to a base, and the first bias current is supplied from an emitter to the base of the first transistor.
US10256759B2
The invention relates to a control system for a wind turbine generator, WTG. The control system defines reactive limits for a reactive power reference for the WTG. The reactive limits are defined as a function of a physical parameter, e.g. the output voltage of the WTG. In case the reactive power reference exceeds the predefined limits, the reactive power reference is limited. By limiting the reactive power reference output voltages which exceed certain output voltage limits may be avoided and, thereby, a disconnection of the WTG from the grid may be avoided.
US10256754B2
An apparatus for compensating for a position error of a resolver has a controller which is configured to: receive position information of a rotor of a motor, which is detected by the resolver, to measure a first position error, convert the first position error to a second position error at an electrical angular velocity of 0, and to store the second position error; receive a current electrical angular velocity and the second position error, convert the second position error to a third position error at the current electrical angular velocity, and compensate for the third position error; and perform determination of false position error compensation when a magnitude of a ripple at an electrical angular velocity, which is measured after the third position error has been compensated for, is equal to or greater than a reference magnitude.
US10256750B2
A circuit includes a first operating component, a second operating component and a starting time control circuit. The starting voltage of the first operating component is different from that of the second operating component, and the starting time control circuit is configured to regulate a starting time of the first operating component to be synchronous with that of the second operating component.
US10256748B2
An electrostatic actuator having a stationary electrode and a fixedly cantilevered bender is described, wherein the bender includes a cantilever electrode disposed opposite to the stationary electrode in an overlapping area and being deflectable in the direction of the stationary electrode.
US10256746B2
An actuation circuit for an inverter includes a direct voltage converter to convert direct current at a first voltage into direct current at an intermediate circuit voltage, and a driver unit that generates inverter control signals, based on direct current at the intermediate circuit voltage, to switch elements of the inverter. The actuation circuit also includes a discharge unit supplied with direct current at the intermediate circuit voltage, where the discharge unit switches, in response to a discharge control signal, a discharge resistor in parallel to an output of the direct voltage converter, and a control unit that is supplied with direct current at the intermediate circuit voltage. The control unit is configured to generate, for the discharging of the back-up capacitor, a discharge control signal that causes the discharge unit to switch the discharge resistor in parallel to the output of the direct voltage converter.
US10256742B2
Systems, methods, and devices that employ self-driven gate-drive circuitry to facilitate controlling power switches to emulate a diode bridge to synchronously rectify a power signal are presented. A single-phase or multi-phase synchronous rectifier can comprise at least a first pair of switches of a first conducting path and a second pair of switches of a second conducting path that can form or emulate a diode bridge. To facilitate emulating turn-on and turn-off conditions of a diode, a switch can be turned on when voltage across the switch is forward-biased and turned off when switch current is reversed; also, there can be at least one current-controlled switch in each conducting path. Self-driven gate-drive circuitry employs low power components that can facilitate controlling respective switching of the at least first pair and second pair of switches, wherein switching of the switches is also controlled at start-up to emulate a diode bridge.
US10256741B2
An embodiment of a resonant converter includes having resonant circuitry having inductive and capacitive elements configured to create electrical resonance when an input voltage is applied and a synchronous rectifier coupled between at least a portion of the resonant circuitry and an output of the resonant converter. The synchronous rectifier includes a diode, and an electrical switch. Control circuitry is configured to operate the electrical switch such that the electrical switch is turned on when there is substantially no voltage across the diode and current flow in the diode is positive in a direction from anode to cathode.
US10256737B2
A single direct current (DC)-DC converter may include a switching part switching an input DC voltage; first and second transforming parts transforming an output of the switching part; a rectifying part rectifying outputs of each of the first and second transforming parts; and an output part filtering and outputting an output of the rectifying part.
US10256734B2
System and method for regulating a power conversion system. An example system controller for regulating a power conversion system includes a first controller terminal associated with a first controller voltage and coupled to a first transistor terminal of a first transistor, the first transistor further including a second transistor terminal and a third transistor terminal, the second transistor terminal being coupled to a primary winding of a power conversion system, a second controller terminal associated with a second controller voltage and coupled to the third transistor terminal, and a third controller terminal associated with a third controller voltage. The first controller voltage is equal to a sum of the third controller voltage and a first voltage difference. The second controller voltage is equal to a sum of the third controller voltage and a second voltage difference.
US10256728B1
An apparatus includes a plurality of pulse control circuits and a control circuit. A given pulse control circuit of the plurality of pulse control circuits may source a current pulse to the output power signal based on a comparison of a particular feedback signal of a plurality of feedback signals and a target voltage signal. The control circuit may offset a voltage level of each feedback signal of a first subset of the plurality of feedback signals. The first subset may exclude a first feedback signal. In response to a determination that a period of time has ended, the control circuit may offset a voltage level of each feedback signal of a second subset of the plurality of feedback signals. The second subset may include the first feedback signal and exclude a second feedback signal.
US10256721B2
In a step-down chopper circuit, a distance between a plurality of first mounting portions of a first semiconductor package that houses a switching device circuit and a distance between a plurality of second mounting portions of a second semiconductor package that houses a backflow prevention diode circuit are different from each other.
US10256714B2
The present disclosure provides a snubber circuit, wherein the snubber circuit is used to an electronic equipment including a pulse signal generator, a driving power source and a load, and the snubber circuit includes a current detection module, a control module and a snubber module. The current detection module is connected to the driving power source and detects the driving current of the driving power source. The control module is connected to the current detection module and the snubber module and adjusts a center frequency of the snubber module according to the driving current detected by the current detection module. The snubber module is connected to an output terminal of the pulse signal generator and filters the noise of the pulse signal. Therefore, the present disclosure may dynamically adjust a center frequency of a filtering, so as to increase a filtering performance and increase an efficiency of suppressing EMI.
US10256706B2
A motor which reduces the manufacturing cost while able to reduce the cogging torque. The stator core is provided with a first core sheet and a second core sheet which is stacked with the first core sheet so that its rolling direction becomes a direction rotated from the rolling direction of the first core sheet by exactly an angle of an odd multiple of 360°/(number of poles of motor×2). The outside edge of the first core sheet has a first side and a second side at two sides in a direction perpendicular to the rolling direction. The outside edge of the second core sheet has a third side and a fourth side in a direction perpendicular to the rolling direction. The dimension between the first side and the second side and the dimension between the third side and the fourth side are the same.
US10256705B2
The invention relates to a method for repairing an electric generator, preferably in a wind turbine generator (WTG), the electric generator (10) having a stator and a rotor (30) rotatably mounted relative to the stator. The method of repairing the electric generator provides a rotor connecting ring (40) with a first conductor assembly and a second conductor assembly in two different planes, each assembly with a plurality of conductive arc segments. Each of the first and the second plurality of conductive arc segments form a ring-like shape in their respective plane, both ring-like shapes being concentrical to the central shaft (132) when the rotor connecting ring is mounted. First electrical connections (50) from the central shaft connect to the rotor connecting ring for the multiple phases (K,L,M). Second electrical connections (60) further connect from the rotor connecting ring to the respective windings of the multiple phases (K,L,M) on the exterior part of the rotor facing the stator. The rotor connecting ring enhances rotational and thermal stability of the electric generator.
US10256701B2
An electric power tool and a method for driving a brushless motor in the electric power tool. The electric power tool includes a driving circuit for driving the brushless motor and position sensors (D1, D2, D3) for detecting positions of the rotor. The rotor of the brushless motor, when rotating in a normal direction, sequentially passes by a commutation position, where a signal of at least one of the position sensors (D1, D2, D3) in the brushless motor changes, and a reference position, where a back electromotive force of the stator winding of at least one phase in the brushless motor is at a midpoint position of the waveform of the back electromotive force. An electrical angle between the commutation position and the reference position ranges from 20° to 40°. The position sensors (D1, D2, D3) are configured such that performance of the brushless motor is improved.
US10256693B2
Disclose herein is a motor. The motor includes a stator assembly that has a stator core, an upper insulator covering and insulating an upper portion of the stator core, and a lower insulator covering and insulating a lower portion of the stator core, and a bus-bar assembly that has a bus-bar having a plurality of connecting terminals formed on a circular bus and a contact portion electrically connected to a coil, and a bus-bar housing accommodating the bus-bar therein. The bus-bar housing is coupled to a bus-bar seat defined in a central portion of the upper insulator.
US10256678B2
A method for improved wireless energy transfer includes steering a first energy beam, having a fundamental frequency, towards an energizable device. The first energy beam is formed by a plurality of polarizers of a first power access point (PAP). A first polarity of the first energy beam is aligned at the energizable device to a second polarity of a second energy beam formed by a second PAP, physically separate from, and having a wireless connection to, the first PAP, by combining at each of the polarizers of the first PAP a respective first polarized signal with a respective second polarized signal. The respective second polarized signal is formed by rotating the respective first polarized signal. The second PAP receives a PAP signal via the wireless connection and locally generates the fundamental frequency from the PAP signal.
US10256677B2
An example radio frequency (RF) charging pad includes: at least one processor for monitoring an amount of energy that is transferred from the RF charging pad to an RF receiver of an electronic device. The pad also includes: one or more transmitting antenna elements that are in communication with the processor for transmitting RF signals to the RF receiver. In some embodiments, each respective transmitting antenna element includes: (i) a conductive line forming a meandered line pattern; (ii) a first terminal of the conductive line for receiving current at a frequency controlled by the processor; and (iii) a second terminal coupled with a component that allows for modifying an impedance value at the second terminal. In some embodiments, the processor adaptively adjusts the frequency and/or the impedance value to optimize the amount of energy that is transferred from the one or more transmitting antenna elements to the RF receiver.
US10256657B2
A wireless charging system comprises a first coaxial structure configured to have an RF signal present on a conductor; and a second coaxial structure configured to have an RF signal present, power being transferred from the first coaxial structure to the second coaxial structure when the first coaxial structure and the second coaxial structure are excited in proximity to each other.
US10256653B2
Provided are a battery charging method and an electronic device. The electronic device includes a connector that includes a first terminal to which a voltage is applied by an external charger and a second terminal for transmitting and receiving data, and a first charging circuit configured to charge a battery of the electronic device by using the voltage applied to the first terminal. The first charging circuit may include a communication circuit configured to transmit information related to the battery through the second terminal, a voltage converter configured to convert a voltage supplied to the battery and a first controller circuit configured to obtain first information regarding a voltage of the battery, control the communication circuit to transmit the first information to a charger connected with the connector, and control the voltage converter to charge the battery using a voltage adjusted based on the first information by the charger, if the adjusted voltage is applied to the first terminal.
US10256647B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a charging method, a mobile device, and a charging device. The mobile device includes a battery and a connector, where the connector includes a charging pin and a ground pin. When the charging pin establishes a connection to an output pin of the charging device by using a charging cable or a battery charging stand, the charging pin receives a first current signal transmitted by the output pin of the charging device, and transmits the first current signal to an anode pin of a battery, so as to charge the battery.
US10256641B2
A wireless power transmitter includes a multi-mode drive circuit having a controllable resonant frequency. The multi-mode drive circuit is controlled to have a first resonant frequency to drive wireless power transmission at a first transmit frequency. The multi-mode drive circuit is also controlled to have a second resonant frequency higher than the first resonant frequency to drive wireless power transmission at a second transmit frequency higher than the first transmit frequency.
US10256640B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first switching element that controls an output current flowing between a power source and a load; a second switching element that is connected to the first switching element in parallel, and controls an output current flowing between the power source and the load; and a drive circuit that outputs control signals to the first switching element and the second switching element to individually control the first switching element and the second switching element. A second output current path that allows the output current to flow from a terminal connected to the power source to a terminal connected to the load via the second switching element is longer than a first output current path that allows the output current to flow from a terminal connected to the power source to a terminal connected to the load via the first switching element.
US10256636B2
A spraying heat preservation vapor supplying device comprises: a heat preservation boiler having an inner chamber, an outer chamber surrounding the inner chamber and a compartment layer separating the inner chamber from the outer chamber; a high heat capacity material filled in the outer chamber; a heater connected to the heat preservation boiler and heating the high heat capacity material, heat of the high heat capacity material being transferred to the inner chamber through the compartment layer; a supplier tube having a first end disposed in the inner chamber; a liquid source connected to a second end of the supplier tube and supplying a liquid to the inner chamber through the supplier tube to absorb heat of the inner chamber so that a vapor is generated; and a vapor outlet connected to the inner chamber and outputting the vapor. A generator apparatus using the vapor supplying device is also provided.
US10256632B2
A method of operating a power supply including first and second power converters connected to a load and a power factor correction circuit connected to the power converters includes operating the power supply in a normal power mode such that: the first and second power converters and the power factor correction circuit are active, the first and second power converters each drive their respective load, and the power factor correction circuit performs power factor correction for each circuit formed by the first and second power converters and their respective load, and operating the power supply in an auxiliary power mode such that: both the first power converter and the power factor correction circuit are deactivated and the second power converter is active, the second power converter drives its load, and the second power converter performs power factor correction for a circuit formed between the second power converter and its load.
US10256628B2
A controller and method are usable to control the provision of electrical power from a local electrical network to a power grid. If it is determined that changes in the power grid voltage are correlated with the provision of power to the power grid, the power that is being provided to the power grid is manipulated so that the rate of change of the wattage that is provided to the power grid does not exceed a predetermined ramp rate. Such a manipulation is accomplished by adjusting an operational parameter of one or more electrical loads that are connected with the local electrical network.
US10256627B2
A power management circuitry for a peripheral electronic device includes a power regeneration circuitry, a power selector, a power switch and an audio signal detection circuitry. The power regeneration circuitry receives a continuous periodic sound wave from an audio device and converts the continuous periodic sound wave into an amplified DC electrical signal. The power source selector receives the amplified DC electrical signal and input from a primary power source and provides a power signal output. The audio signal detection circuitry receives the amplified DC electrical signal and transmits a wake-up signal to the power switch circuitry. The power switch circuitry is turned on by the wake-up signal and connects the power source selector to the peripheral electronic device main circuitry and transfers the power signal output to the peripheral electronic device main circuitry.
US10256618B2
An electrically conductive surfacing material capable of providing sufficient conductivity for lightning strike protection (LSP) and/or electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding is disclosed. The conductive surfacing material is a multi-layered structure having a very thin conductive layer (e.g. solid metal foil) and a resin film formed on at least one surface of the conductive layer. The resin film is formed from a curable resin composition containing an epoxy novolac resin, a tri-functional or tetra-functional epoxy resin, ceramic microspheres, a latent amine-based curing agent, particulate inorganic fillers; and a toughening component. Optionally, the resin film further includes conductive additives to increase electrical conductivity of the surfacing material. The resin film exhibits high Tg as well as high resistance to paint stripper solutions. Furthermore, the conductive surfacing material is suitable for co-curing with fiber-reinforced resin composite substrates.
US10256610B2
A spark plug includes a tubular metal shell that includes a metal-shell step portion extending in an inner circumferential direction, an insulator that is inserted in the metal shell, that includes a facing portion that faces the metal-shell step portion with an annular packing interposed therebetween, a center electrode that extends in the axial direction, that has a flange portion extending in an outer circumferential direction, and a seal body seals the insulator and the center electrode. In a section that contains the axial line and that is along the axial line, a distance L along the axial line from a rear end of the facing portion of the insulator to a rear end of a portion at which the flange portion is in contact with the insulator satisfies L≤1.1 (mm).
US10256608B2
A structure includes an optoelectronic device having a Group IV substrate (e.g., Si); a buffer layer (e.g. SiGe) disposed on the substrate and a first distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) disposed on the buffer layer. The first DBR contains alternating layers of doped Group IV materials (e.g., alternating layers of SiyGe(1-y), where 0.8
US10256605B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and circuits that may facilitate sub-5 nanosecond laser diode operation. An example system includes a trigger source, a laser diode, a first field effect transistor and a second field effect transistor. The laser diode is coupled to a supply voltage and a drain terminal of the first field effect transistor. A source terminal of the first field effect transistor is coupled to ground and a gate terminal of the first field effect transistor is coupled to the trigger source. A drain terminal of the second field effect transistor is coupled to the supply voltage. A source terminal of the second field effect transistor and a gate terminal of the second field effect transistor are coupled to ground. In an example embodiment, the first field effect transistor and the second field effect transistor comprise gallium nitride (GaN).
US10256601B2
An optical module and a method of assembling the optical module are disclosed. The optical module comprises a laser unit, a modulator unit, and a detector unit mounted on respective thermo-electric coolers (TECs). The modulator unit, which is arranged on an optical axis of the first output port from which a modulated beam is output, modulates the continuous wave (CW) beam output from the laser unit. On the other hand, the laser unit and the detector unit are arranged on another optical axis of the second output port from which another CW beam is output. The method of assembling the optical module first aligns one of the first combination of the laser unit and the modulator unit with the first output port and the second combination of the laser unit and the detector unit, and then aligns another of the first combination and the second combination.
US10256600B2
The Hybrid Photonic Plasmonic Interconnect (HyPPI) combines both low loss photonic signal propagation and passive routing with ultra-compact plasmonic devices. These optical interconnects therefore uniquely combine fast operational data-bandwidths (in hundreds of Gbps) for light manipulation with low optical attenuation losses by hybridizing low loss photonics with strong light-matter-interaction plasmonics to create, modulate, switch and detect light efficiently at the same time. Initial implementations were considered for on-chip photonic integration, but also promising for free space or fiber-based systems. In general two technical options exist, which distinguished by the method the electric-optic conversion is executed: the extrinsic modulation method consists of an continuous wave source such as an LED or laser operating at steady power output, and signal encoding is done via an electro-optic modulator downstream of the source in the interconnect. In contrast, in the intrinsic method, the optical source is directly amplitude modulated.
US10256595B2
A system and method for tuning and infrared source laser in the Mid-IR wavelength range. The system and method comprising, at least, a plurality of individually tunable emitters, each emitter emitting a beam having a unique wavelength, a grating, a mirror positioned after the grating to receive at least one refracted order of light of at least one beam and to redirect the beam back towards the grating, and a micro-electro-mechanical systems device containing a plurality of adjustable micro-mirrors.
US10256586B2
The present disclosure relates to a G24 plug adaptor for use in retrofitting a traditional plug-in energy-saving luminaire, the traditional plug-in energy-saving luminaire initially adapted to receive a traditional energy-saving lamp, to be compatible with a non-traditional panel lamp such as, but not limited to, an energy-saving LED panel lamp. The G24 plug adaptor comprises a G24 plug base comprising a plurality of contact pins, an electrical connector adapted to couple to the non-traditional lamp, and an electrical supply line connecting the G24 plug base to the electrical connector. A method of retrofitting a traditional energy-saving luminaire to be compatible with a non-traditional panel lamp by using the G24 plug adaptor, the method comprising removing a reflector of the traditional plug-in energy-saving luminaire, is also disclosed herein.
US10256584B2
A contact device for transmitting electrical energy from a preferably spatially fixed busbar to a tap-off bar, movable along the busbar, including: at least one connecting housing, the busbar being mechanically connected to the tap-off bar by connecting housing, at least one combi clip, the combi clip brought into engagement with part of the outer periphery of the connecting housing in a mechanically releasable manner and establishing a mechanical connection between the connecting housing and a connecting bracket.
US10256579B2
In an embodiment, the present invention provides a plug connector part for connection to a mating plug connector part, including a plurality of electrical contact elements for carrying an electrical current and establishing electrical contact with contact elements of a mating plug connector part, the plurality of electrical contact elements including a plurality of temperature sensors, each of which is arranged on one associated contact element, respectively, of the plurality of contact elements, to detect a change in a temperature of the associated contact element, the temperature sensors being connected to a common sensor line.
US10256574B2
A shield connector includes a shielded cable (11) with wires (12) enclosed by a shield layer (13). An inner housing (16) accommodates terminals (15) connected to the wires (12). A shield shell (20) covers the inner housing (16) and includes a connecting portion (23) to be connected electrically to the shield layer (13). An outer housing (30) accommodates the shield shell (20) and is locked to a mating connector. The outer housing (30) includes a body (31) enabling the shield shell (20) to be inserted therein through an opening (31A) on a rear side, and two covers (40A, 40B) integrally hinged to the body (31) to close the opening (31A) and cover the connecting portion (23). Each cover (40A, 40B) includes a first lock (43, 44) to be locked to the mating cover and a second lock (45) to be locked to the body.
US10256563B2
An electrical connector for use in electron microscopy sample holders. The electrical connector provides electrical contacts to the sample support devices which are positioned in the sample holders for electrical, temperature and/or electrochemical control.
US10256556B2
The actuator (20) of the electrical connector (11) is configured such that pressure contact between the contacts (21) and the flexible connection member (8) is canceled by the actuator (20) being arranged at an open position (A1), and the contacts (21) are brought into pressure contact with the flexible connection member (8) by the actuator (20) being arranged at a closed position (A2). A provisional holding mechanism (51) can hold the actuator (20) at a provisional hold position (A3) when the flexible connection member (8) is not connected to the electrical connector (11). The provisional holding mechanism (51) includes first engagement portions (52) provided on a housing (22), and second engagement portions (53) provided on the actuator (20).
US10256553B2
Methods and systems for efficient multi-polarization communications are presented. An array based communications system may comprises an antenna array operably connected to a first polarization path and a second polarization path. Each polarization path may comprise an analog frequency conversion circuit, a digital beamforming circuit, and a cross-polarization interference suppression circuit. To save power while communicating with one or more link partners, one or both of the first polarization path and the second polarization path may be selectively enabled or disabled in accordance with temperature, bandwidth, and/or power consumption requirements.
US10256550B2
Systems and methods are described for operating a waveguide device having multiple slots, each slot having one or more switches. The waveguide device receives, from a circuit controller, an instruction to dynamically deactivate one or more switches to open selected ones of the multiple slots at determined locations in the waveguide device and to dynamically activate one or more switches to close selected ones of the multiple slots at determined locations in the waveguide device, wherein the circuit controller is communicatively coupled to each of the switches on the waveguide device. The waveguide device transmits a wave in a target direction based at least in part on the locations of the open selected ones of the multiple slots at the determined locations in the waveguide device.
US10256533B2
An antenna device includes at least one antenna that transmits and receives communication signals, and a helix ground plate connected to the at least one antenna. The helix ground plate includes an overlapping part, and has a length of at least one-quarter of a wavelength of a lowest-frequency in the communication signals.
US10256532B2
An apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a vehicle having at least one interior antenna and at least one exterior antenna. The apparatus includes a transceiver module for communication via a frequency band and a control module to control the transceiver module. The control module provides signal processing for the transceiver module for signals from the at least one interior antenna and the at least one exterior antenna based on a combination of the signals from the at least one interior antenna and the at least one exterior antenna.
US10256529B2
A hearing device adapted to be worn by a wearer comprises a shell configured for placement on an exterior surface of an ear of the wearer. The shell comprises a first end, a second end, a bottom, a top, and opposing sides, wherein the bottom, top, and opposing sides extend between the first and second ends. Circuitry is provided within the shell comprising at least a microphone, signal processing circuitry, radio circuitry, and a power source. A folded antenna is coupled to the radio circuitry and extends longitudinally along one of the bottom and the top and along the opposing sides between the first and second ends. The folded antenna encompasses at least some of the circuitry and forms an elongated gap between the opposing sides. The elongated gap faces the other of the bottom and the top.
US10256517B2
A waveguide antenna assembly conformable to the configuration of a supported device for transceiving signals of a predetermined radio frequency range comprising at least two collaterally aligned conductive layers configured in a conformable loop so as to form an electrically isolating channel dimensionally configured for support of the waveguide modes of the predetermined frequency range, an aperture for electromagnetically transceiving the signals, wherein the aperture extends along a surface of the electrically isolating channel such that the aperture extends between the outer edge of the inner surface of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, a back short spaced apart from the aperture a predetermined distance equal to a resonant length of the waveguide mode wavelength so as to provide a circuit impedance between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer for tuning the waveguide to transceive the signals, excitation points coupled to the aperture to propagate waveguide modes within the electrically isolating channel for transceiving signals, and mode barrier filters longitudinally oriented in the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer to impede coupling between excitation points. A preferred embodiment of the present waveguide antenna strategically orients the mode barrier filters to enhance antenna transceiving and can be used to support switched TEM and H11 waveguide modes.
US10256516B2
Provided are electrochemical cells that include a compound having the general formula wherein R1 is moiety associated with a lithium ion, X1 and X3 are unsubstituted methylene moieties, X2 and X4 are each independently selected from a substituted or unsubstituted methylene moiety, X is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C10 alkylene moiety, arylene moiety or heteroarylene moiety, R2 is selected from Li, H, an alkyl moiety, or a heteroalkyl moiety, 0
US10256510B2
Provided are an electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery, and a sodium secondary battery using the same, and the sodium secondary battery using the electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery according to the present invention may have an excellent cycle characteristic, charge-discharge capacity, and stability, thereby making it possible to be operated without deterioration at a low temperature for a long time.
US10256508B2
The invention aims to allow carbon dioxide, which is generated upon decomposition of lithium carbonate contained in a positive electrode mixture layer, to easily flow toward the outside of a flat wound electrode body, and further aims to rapidly raise the pressure inside a battery and to reliably operate a pressure-sensitive current interrupt mechanism before the temperature inside the battery rises to such an extent as causing an abnormal state, e.g., smoking, firing, or a burst.A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery (10) according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a pressure-sensitive current interrupt mechanism. An insulating tape (11b) is bonded onto a positive electrode mixture layer (11a) in at least one of a winding start-side edge portion and a winding end-side edge portion of a positive electrode plate (11) in a flat wound electrode body (14) at a position opposing to a separator (13), the insulating tape extending in a widthwise direction of the positive electrode mixture layer (11a).
US10256507B1
A secondary battery for cycling between a charged and a discharged state, wherein a 2D map of the median vertical position of the first opposing vertical end surface of the electrode active material in the X-Z plane, along the length LE of the electrode active material layer, traces a first vertical end surface plot, EVP1, a 2D map of the median vertical position of the first opposing vertical end surface of the counter-electrode active material layer in the X-Z plane, along the length LC of the counter-electrode active material layer, traces a first vertical end surface plot, CEVP1, wherein for at least 60% of the length Lc of the first counter-electrode active material layer (i) the absolute value of a separation distance, SZ1, between the plots EVP1 and CEVP1 measured in the vertical direction is 1000 μm≥|SZ1|≥5 μm.
US10256498B2
The present invention pertains to a process for manufacturing a component of a secondary battery, said process comprising the following steps: (i) preparing a liquid composition comprising: —a liquid medium selected from the group consisting of aliphatic ketones, cycloaliphatic ketones, cycloaliphatic esters and mixtures thereof, and —at least one fluorinated polymer [polymer (F)] comprising recurring units derived from vinylidene fluoride (VDF), hexafluoropropylene (HFP) and at least one (meth)acrylic monomer (MA) having formula (I), wherein: —R1, R2 and R3, equal to or different from each other, are independently selected from a hydrogen atom and a C1-C3 hydrocarbon group, and —Rx, is a hydrogen atom or a C1-C5 hydrocarbon moiety comprising at least one functional group selected from a hydroxyl, a carboxyl, an epoxide, an ester and an ether group; and (ii) processing said liquid composition to provide a film.
US10256491B2
The invention includes a catalysed membrane and membrane electrode assembly. The membrane and membrane electrode assembly comprise an ion-conducting membrane component comprising an ion-conducting membrane, an anode catalyst layer, and a cathode catalyst layer. The anode catalyst layer comprises a first electrocatalyst component comprising a first platinum-containing electrocatalyst and a first carbon support. The first carbon support supports the first platinum-containing electrocatalyst, and the electrochemical platinum surface area in the anode catalyst layer is 5-100 cm2Pt/cm2 of the geometric electrode area of the anode catalyst layer. The cathode catalyst layer comprises a second electrocatalyst component and a second oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalyst. The second electrocatalyst component comprises a second platinum-containing electrocatalyst and a second carbon support, wherein the second carbon support supports the second platinum-containing electrocatalyst component.
US10256484B2
A fuel cell system supplies anode gas and cathode gas to a fuel cell and generates electric power in accordance with a load. The fuel cell system configured to include a cathode gas control unit controls a pressure of the cathode gas on the basis of the load, an anode gas control unit configured to cause a pressure of the anode gas to pulsate on the basis of the pressure of the cathode gas and a pulsation amplitude. The pulsation amplitude is determined on the basis of an operating condition of the fuel cell. The fuel cell system includes an anode gas partial pressure maintenance control unit configured to increase the pressure of the anode gas in accordance with a condition of an impurity within the fuel cell. The cathode gas control unit configured to make the pressure of the cathode gas higher when a pressure difference between the pressure of the anode gas and the pressure of the cathode gas is large than when the pressure difference is small.
US10256482B2
A fuel cell stack with a bipolar plate assembly and a method of assembling a fuel cell stack such that reactant or coolant leakage is reduced. Bipolar plates within the system include reactant channels and coolant channels that are fluidly coupled to inlet and outlet flowpaths, all of which are formed within a coolant-engaging or reactant-engaging surface of the plate. One or more thin or low aspect-ratio microseals are also formed on a metal bead that is integrally-formed on a surface of the plate and is used to help reduce leakage by maintaining fluid isolation of the reactants and coolant as they flow through their respective channels and flowpaths that are defined between adjacently-placed plates. By delaying the activation of the adhesive bond formed between the microseal and an adjacent surface within the fuel cell until after the aligned cell assemblies have been compressively supported in a stack housing, the ability of the microseal and its adjacent surface to avoid reactant or coolant leakage is enhanced.
US10256478B2
A stainless steel sheet for a separator of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell includes a substrate made of stainless steel and a Sn alloy layer with which a surface of the substrate is coated. The Sn alloy layer includes 10 or more and 10,000 or fewer microcracks per cm2, where the microcrack is defined as a crack having a crack width that is at least 0.1 times the thickness of the Sn alloy layer and no more than 10 μm.
US10256471B2
An electrode wound element for a non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery includes a belt-shaped positive electrode; a belt-shaped negative electrode; a belt-shaped porous layer between the belt-shaped positive electrode and the belt-shaped negative electrode; and an adhesive layer formed on the surface of the belt-shaped porous layer, wherein the adhesive layer includes a fluorine resin-containing particulate and a binder for an adhesive layer supporting the fluorine resin-containing particulate, the binder comprising at least one of an ionic non-water-soluble binder, a non-ionic water-soluble binder, a non-ionic non-water-soluble binder and an ionic water-soluble binder.
US10256469B2
A high-capacity nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having good load characteristics is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains the active material composed of a lithium transition metal oxide and a positive electrode additive composed of an oxide that contains Li and at least two elements other than Li and oxygen and has an antifluorite structure. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery obtained is charged until the potential of the positive electrode is 4.0 V or higher and 4.65 V or lower (vs. Li/Li+).
US10256467B2
An object is to provide an electrode material with high electrical conductivity and a power storage device using the electrode material. An object is to provide an electrode material with high capacity and a power storage device using the electrode material. Provided is a particulate electrode material including a core containing a compound represented by a general formula Li2MSiO4 (in the formula, M represents at least one kind of an element selected from Fe, Co, Mn, and Ni) as a main component, and a covering layer containing a compound represented by a general formula LiMPO4 as a main component and covering the core. Further, a solid solution material is provided between the core and the covering layer. With such a structure, an electrode material with high electrical conductivity can be obtained. Further, with such an electrode material, a power storage device with high discharge capacity can be obtained.
US10256464B2
A method for producing a negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, comprising a step of charging either silicon and copper (II) oxide or silicon and copper metal in a pulverization device, pulverizing either the silicon and copper (II) oxide or silicon and copper metal, and simultaneously mixing either silicon and copper (II) oxide or silicon and copper metal thus pulverized. A negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery is produced by the method.
US10256461B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte, the positive electrode including lithium transition metal oxide particles as a positive electrode active material, the lithium transition metal oxide particles containing nickel as a main transition metal component and being such that a first compound containing at least one element Ma selected from the group consisting of Group IV elements and Group V elements is sintered to a portion of the surface of the lithium transition metal oxide particles, the first compound having a composition different from that of the lithium transition metal oxide particles, the positive electrode further including a second compound containing at least one element Mb selected from the group consisting of Group VI elements, the second compound having a composition different from that of the lithium transition metal oxide particles.
US10256454B2
The present invention describes a component for a secondary battery and a manufacturing method thereof, and a secondary battery manufactured by using the component. The component for a secondary battery according to the present invention comprises a lead-free soldering bridge having a melting point of 150 to 300° C. and containing tin (Sn) and copper (Cu) as a main ingredient; the first and second metal plates spaced therebetween through a gap and coupling with the lead-free soldering bridge. According to the present invention, when an over-current flows through the component for a secondary battery, the temperature of the lead-free soldering bridge is locally increased rapidly to melt the lead-free soldering bridge, thereby efficiently interrupting the flow of an over-current.
US10256451B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of secondary batteries and a plurality of bus bars. The secondary batteries are connected to each other in series and in parallel. Each of the secondary batteries includes first and second electrode terminals. Each of the bus bars electrically connects one of the secondary batteries to a neighboring one of the secondary batteries. The bus bars include a first bus bar having a first sectional area and a second bus bar having a second sectional area different from the first sectional area.
US10256449B2
A porous membrane separator for a secondary battery, comprising a separator substrate, a porous membrane formed on at least one surface of the separator substrate, and an adhesive layer formed on the porous membrane, wherein: the porous membrane contains non-conductive particles and a water-soluble maleimide-maleic acid copolymer including a specific structural unit (a) a structural unit (b); and the adhesive layer contains a particulate polymer having a glass transition temperature of 10° C. or higher and 110° C. or lower.
US10256428B2
In an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method for fabricating the same, OLED pixels are patterned through a photolithography process, so a large area patterning can be performed and a fine pitch can be obtained, and an organic compound layer can be protected by forming a buffer layer of a metal oxide on an upper portion of the organic compound layer or patterning the organic compound layer by using a cathode as a mask, improving device efficiency. In addition, among red, green, and blue pixels, two pixels are patterned through a lift-off process and the other remaining one is deposited to be formed without patterning, the process can be simplified and efficiency can be increased.
US10256424B2
A flexible substrate includes a polymer substrate. At least a portion of a first barrier region is formed on a neutral plane of the polymer substrate. A top region is formed above the first barrier region. A bottom region is formed below the first barrier region. The first barrier region includes a first inorganic material disposed in at least a portion of a free volume of the polymer substrate. A density of the first inorganic material in the first barrier region is greater than a density of the first inorganic material in the top or bottom regions.
US10256421B2
A compound that can be used as a donor material in organic photovoltaic devices comprising a non-activated porphyrin fused with one or more non-activated polycyclic aromatic rings or one or more non-activated heterocyclic rings can be obtained by a thermal fusion process. The compounds include those having the following structure By heating the reaction mixture of non-activated porphyrins with non-activated polycyclic aromatic rings or heterocyclic rings to a fusion temperature and holding for a predetermined time, fusion of one or more polycyclic rings or heterocyclic rings to the non-activated porphyrin core in meso,β fashion is achieved resulting in hybrid structures containing a distorted porphyrin ring with annulated aromatic rings. The porphyrin core can be olygoporphyrins.
US10256415B2
An organic light-emitting device having a compound represented by the following general formula in a light-emitting layer thereof has a high light emission efficiency. R1 to R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent having a Hammett σp value of 0 or more. R6 to R20 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that at least one of R6 to R20 represents a substituted or unsubstituted N,N-diarylamino group. m represents 1 or 2.
US10256414B2
Disclosed are an organic photoelectronic device including a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other and an active layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the active layer includes a p-type semiconductor compound represented by the formula C22R1—R12O2N2 and an n-type semiconductor compound having a maximum absorption peak at a wavelength region of about 500 nm to about 600 nm, and an image sensor including the organic photoelectronic device.
US10256411B2
Novel substituted tetraphenylene compounds useful as host for phosphorescent emitters in OLEDs is disclosed.
US10256410B2
A light emitting device comprising a polymeric charge transfer layer, wherein the polymeric charge transfer layer is formed from a composition comprising a polymer, said polymer comprising one or more polymerized units derived from Structure A, and one or more polymerized units derived from Structure (B), each as follows: A) a monomer having the Structure (A), as defined herein: and B) a monomer that comprises one or more dienophile moieties.
US10256409B2
The present invention relates to organic electronic devices, and more specifically to organic field effect transistors, comprising a dielectric layer that comprises a polycycloolefinic polymer and a diazirine compound.
US10256402B1
A method of operating a resistive memory device includes providing a resistive memory device including an array of resistive memory cells, where each of the resistive memory cells includes a resistive memory material having at least two different resistive states, performing a first mode read operation on a group of resistive memory cells within the array, determining a bit error rate for data generated by the first mode read operation, determining whether the determined bit error rate is below a predetermined limit, and performing a second mode read operation on the group of resistive memory cells within the array based on a threshold voltage if the determined bit error rate is above the predetermined limit.
US10256383B2
A light emitting device includes an LED chip to emit light, and a light emitting element holding member that includes a base on which the LED chip is disposed and a wall standing from the base such that the wall has an inner surface that faces the LED chip. The wall includes inner surfaces that are formed in black, and inner surfaces that are formed in white. The inner surfaces that are formed in black mutually oppose each other. The inner surfaces that are formed in white mutually oppose each other in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the inner surfaces that are formed in black mutually oppose each other.
US10256382B2
The present disclosure generally relates to light field displays and methods of displaying images with light field arrays. In one example, the present disclosure relates to pixel arrangements for use in light field displays. Each pixel includes a plurality of LEDs, such as micro LEDs, positioned adjacent respective micro-lenses of each pixel.
US10256381B2
The present invention provides an electronic device and a method for fabricating the same. The electronic device includes a driving-circuit substrate, light-emitting elements, an optical layer, and an adhesive layer. The light-emitting elements are disposed on the driving-circuit substrate, and the optical layer is disposed on the light-emitting elements. The adhesive layer is disposed between the optical layer and the light-emitting elements. The optical layer includes a first surface and a second surface that are opposite to each other. The first surface of the optical layer has a plurality of first convex lens structures, and at least a part of the first convex lens structures are at least partially overlapped with the light-emitting elements in the vertical projection direction.
US10256379B2
An optoelectronic component and a method for producing an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic component includes at least one metallic surface, a contacted optoelectronic semiconductor chip configured to emit radiation and a protective layer arranged on the at least one metallic surface, wherein the protective layer comprises a protective material of at least one N-heterocyclic carbene, and wherein a covalent bond is formed between the protective material and the at least one metallic surface.
US10256370B2
The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer under the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer under the active layer; a plurality of first electrodes disposed under the light emitting structure and electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer by passing through the second conductive semiconductor layer, the active layer and a portion of the first conductive semiconductor layer; a second electrode disposed under the light emitting structure to be electrically connected to the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first insulating layer disposed around the first electrode to insulate the first electrode from the second electrode; a bonding layer electrically connected to the second electrode by passing through the first electrode and the first insulating layer; and a second insulating layer around the bonding layer.
US10256365B2
A method of forming an electrical device that includes epitaxially growing a first conductivity type semiconductor material of a type III-V semiconductor on a semiconductor substrate. The first conductivity type semiconductor material continuously extending along an entirety of the semiconductor substrate in a plurality of triangular shaped islands; and conformally forming a layer of type III-V semiconductor material having a second conductivity type on the plurality of triangular shaped islands to provide a textured surface of a photovoltaic device. A light emitting diode is formed on the textured surface of the photovoltaic device.
US10256362B2
An apparatus includes a flexible silicon (Si) substrate, such as a crystalline n-type substrate, and a heterostructure structure formed on the silicon substrate. The heterojunction structure includes a first layered structured deposited on a first side of the silicon substrate. The first layered structured includes a first amorphous intrinsic silicon layer, an amorphous n-type or p-type silicon layer, and a transparent conductive layer. The second layered structure includes a second amorphous intrinsic silicon layer, an amorphous p-type or n-type silicon layer, and a transparent conductive layer. The heterostructure structure is configured to operate as a photovoltaic cell and an infrared light emitting diode.
US10256360B2
The present invention generally relates to graphic layers comprising visible images and/or patterns and related methods for incorporation of graphic layers into solar modules. In some embodiments, a photovoltaic module comprises the graphic layer (e.g., to enhance the aesthetic appearance of the photovoltaic module). In certain embodiments, the graphic layer comprises a plurality of isolated regions (e.g., substantially opaque isolated regions) and a contiguous region (e.g., a substantially transparent contiguous region). The isolated regions may comprise, in some cases, a base layer and an image layer. The plurality of isolated regions may form a recognizable image or pattern.
US10256353B2
A solar cell can include a substrate of a first conductive type; an emitter region which is positioned at a front surface of the substrate and has a second conductive type different from the first conductive type; a back surface field region which is positioned at a back surface opposite the front surface of the substrate; a front passivation region including a plurality of layers which are sequentially positioned on the emitter region; a back passivation region including a plurality of layers which are sequentially positioned on the back surface field region; a front electrode part which passes through the front passivation region and is connected to the emitter region, wherein the front electrode part comprises a plurality of front electrodes that are apart from each other and a front bus bar connecting the plurality of front electrodes; a back electrode part which passes through the back passivation region and is connected to the back surface field region, wherein the back electrode part comprises a plurality of back electrodes that are apart from each other and a back bus bar connecting the plurality of back electrodes, wherein the front passivation region includes a first aluminum oxide layer and the back passivation region includes a second aluminum oxide layer.
US10256352B2
A vertical semiconductor transistor and a method of forming the same. A vertical semiconductor transistor has at least one semiconductor region, a source, and at least one gate region. The at least one semiconductor region includes a III-nitride semiconductor material. The source is formed over the at least one semiconductor region. The at least one gate region is formed around at least a portion of the at least one semiconductor region.
US10256340B2
A high-voltage semiconductor device is provided. The device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, and a first doping region having a second conductivity type therein. An epitaxial layer is on the semiconductor substrate. A body region having the first conductivity type is in the epitaxial layer on the first doping region. A second doping region and a third doping region that have the second conductivity type are respectively in the epitaxial layer on both opposite sides of the body region, so as to adjoin the body region. Source and drain regions are respectively in the body region and the second doping region. A field insulating layer is in the second doping region between the source and drain regions. A gate structure is on the epitaxial layer to cover a portion of the field insulating layer.
US10256333B2
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a high electron mobility transistor, comprising: a substrate; a channel layer located on the substrate; a barrier layer located on the channel layer; a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a schottky gate electrode located between the source electrode and the drain electrode, all located on the barrier layer; and at least one semiconductor field ring located on the barrier layer and between the schottky gate electrode and the drain electrode. In the embodiments of the present invention, a concentration of two-dimensional electron gas at an interface between a barrier layer and a channel layer can be adjusted. Therefore, the concentration effect of the electric field at an edge of a gate is effectively improved, and the breakdown voltage of high electron mobility transistors is increased.
US10256324B2
A semiconductor device includes an active pillar on a substrate. A first source/drain region is disposed at a top end of the active pillar and has a greater width than the active pillar. A first insulating layer is disposed on a sidewall of the active pillar and a second insulating layer is disposed on at least a bottom surface of the first source/drain region. A gate electrode is disposed on the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A second source/drain region is disposed in the substrate at a bottom end of the active pillar. Methods of fabrication are also described.
US10256321B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a channel region and a source/drain region, and an electrically conductive gate on an upper surface of the channel region. An electrically conductive source/drain contact is on an upper surface of the source/drain region. The semiconductor device further includes enhanced low-k spacer on an upper surface of the substrate and interposed between the electrically conductive gate and the electrically conductive source/drain contact. The enhanced low-k spacer includes a stacked arrangement of a dielectric material and a ferroelectric material.
US10256318B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming dummy gate structures including a dummy gate insulating layer and dummy gate electrodes, on a first region of a semiconductor substrate, the first region including a patterning region, forming spacers on two side walls of each of the dummy gate structures, forming an interlayer insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate and the dummy gate structures, forming a protective insulating layer on a second region of the semiconductor substrate, the second region including a non-patterning region, forming a liner layer on the protective insulating layer, planarizing the interlayer insulating layer by using the liner layer as an etching mask to expose top surfaces of the dummy gate structures, forming openings by removing the dummy gate structures to expose the semiconductor substrate between the spacers, and forming gate structures including a gate insulating layer and metal gate electrodes, in the openings.
US10256307B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first doped region and a second doped region of a first conductive type and a third doped region of a second conductive type located in a substrate. The second doped region is located at a side of the first doped region. A top-view pattern of the second doped region has at least one recess portion. The third doped region is located between the first doped region and the second doped region. A top-view pattern of the third doped region has at least one protruded portion corresponding to the at least one recess portion.
US10256302B2
A vertical transistor has a first air-gap spacer between a gate and a bottom source/drain region, and a second air-gap spacer between the gate and the contact to the bottom source/drain region. A dielectric layer disposed between the gate and the contact to the top source/drain decreases parasitic capacitance and inhibits electrical shorting.
US10256298B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate. The semiconductor structure includes an isolation structure through the semiconductor layer, and the isolation structure has an opening with a first width, and the isolation structure has a vacuum gap. The semiconductor structure also includes a contact plug structure through the semiconductor layer, and the contact plug structure has an opening with a second width, and the second width is greater than the first width.
US10256295B2
A semiconductor device includes an outside-of-well n-type region, a p-type well region surrounded by the outside-of-well n-type region, an inside-of-well n-type region, and a gate electrode. The outside-of-well n-type region includes an impurity low-concentration region that is in contact with the p-type well region, and an impurity high-concentration region that is separated from the p-type well region by the impurity low-concentration region.
US10256293B2
A structure such as an integrated circuit device is described having a line of material with critical dimensions which vary within a distribution substantially less than that of a mask element, such as a patterned resist element, used in manufacturing the line of material.
US10256291B2
An object is to provide a method for manufacturing a highly reliable semiconductor device including a transistor with stable electric characteristics. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a gate electrode over a substrate having an insulating surface; forming a gate insulating film over the gate electrode; forming an oxide semiconductor film over the gate insulating film; irradiating the oxide semiconductor film with an electromagnetic wave such as a microwave or a high frequency; forming a source electrode and a drain electrode over the oxide semiconductor film irradiated with the electromagnetic wave; and forming an oxide insulating film, which is in contact with part of the oxide semiconductor film, over the gate insulating film, the oxide semiconductor film, the source electrode, and the drain electrode.
US10256290B2
A method for treating a compound semiconductor substrate, in which method in vacuum conditions a surface of an In-containing III-As, III-Sb or III-P substrate is cleaned from amorphous native oxides and after that the cleaned substrate is heated to a temperature of about 250-550° C. and oxidized by introducing oxygen gas onto the surface of the substrate. The invention relates also to a compound semiconductor substrate, and the use of the substrate in a structure of a transistor such as MOSFET.
US10256285B2
A display device includes a display portion that includes a plurality of pixels; common potential supply main wiring that is disposed so as to surround the display portion on an outside of the display portion; a common potential wiring layer that extends to a gap region between the plurality of pixels in the display portion and is electrically connected to the common potential supply main wiring; an organic film that is disposed to cover the plurality of pixels; and a common electrode film that covers the display portion and the common potential supply main wiring, and is disposed to be in contact with the common potential supply main wiring. The common potential wiring layer has a plurality of contact regions in the gap region and the common electrode film is in contact with the plurality of contact regions.
US10256283B2
An organic light emitting display (OLED) device capable of preventing a pad area of an organic light emitting display panel from being rolled, and a method of fabricating the same, in which the OLED device can include a base film including a display area, and a first pad area provided with first pads, in which the first pad area extends from and protrudes out of a first side of the display area; a plurality of thin film transistors on the base film; and a plurality of organic light emitting diodes on the thin film transistors.
US10256281B2
An organic light emitting display device includes, a light emitting structure, a pixel defining structure that includes first and second pixel defining layers, and a first wiring. The light emitting structure is disposed on a substrate and includes a pixel electrode, an organic light emitting layer and an opposite electrode. The first pixel defining layer is disposed on the substrate and partially covers the pixel electrode. The second pixel defining layer is disposed on the first pixel defining layer. The first wiring is disposed between the substrate and the first pixel defining layer and between the substrate and the second pixel defining layer, and is in contact with the first pixel defining layer and the second pixel defining layer. An adhesive strength between the second pixel defining layer and the first wiring is greater than an adhesive strength between the second pixel defining layer and the first pixel defining layer.
US10256279B2
A display device with high visibility regardless of the ambient brightness is provided. The display device includes a first display element, a second display element, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first display element has a function of reflecting visible light. The second display element has a function of emitting visible light. The first transistor has a function of controlling the driving of the first display element. The second transistor has a function of controlling the driving of the second display element. The first transistor is positioned closer to a display surface side of the display device than the first display element is. The first display element is positioned closer to the display surface side of the display device than the second display element and the second transistor are.
US10256277B2
The examples relate to various implementations of a software configurable luminaire and a transparent display device for use in such a luminaire. The luminaire is able to generate light sufficient to provide general illumination of a space in which the luminaire is installed and provide an image display. The general illumination is provided by additional light sources and/or improved display components of the transparent display device.
US10256273B2
High density resistive memory structures, integrate circuits with high density resistive memory structures, and methods for fabricating high density resistive memory structures are provided. In an embodiment, a high density resistive memory structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of first electrodes in a first plane in and/or over the semiconductor substrate. Further, the high density resistive memory structure includes a plurality of second electrodes in a second plane in and/or over the semiconductor substrate. The second plane is parallel to the first plane, and each second electrode in the plurality of second electrodes crosses over or under each first electrode in the plurality of first electrodes at a series of cross points. Each second electrode in the plurality of second electrodes is non-linear and the series of cross points formed by each respective second electrode is non-linear.
US10256271B1
A method for deactivating memory cells affected by the presence of grain boundaries in polycrystalline selection devices includes crystallizing a semiconductor layer in a diode stack to form a polycrystalline layer for selection diodes formed in a crossbar array. To achieve a crystalline state in phase change memory elements coupled to corresponding selection diodes perform an anneal. Memory cells having shunted selection diodes due to grain boundaries are identified by scanning the array using sense voltages. A second voltage larger than the sense voltages is applied to the phase change memory elements gated by the shunted selection diodes such that the phase change memory elements gated by the shunted diodes achieve a permanently high resistive state.
US10256268B2
Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device including: a solid-state imaging element which outputs an image signal according to an amount of light sensed on a light sensing surface; a semiconductor element which performs signal processing with respect to the image signal output from the solid-state imaging element; and a substrate which is electrically connected to the solid-state imaging element and the semiconductor element, in which the semiconductor element is sealed by a molding resin in a state of being accommodated in an accommodation area which is provided on the substrate, and in which the solid-state imaging element is layered on the semiconductor element via the molding resin.
US10256266B2
A chip-scale image sensor package includes a semiconductor substrate, a transparent substrate, a thin film, and a plurality of conductive pads. The semiconductor substrate has (i) a pixel array, and (ii) a peripheral region surrounding the pixel array. The transparent substrate covers the pixel array, has a bottom substrate surface proximate the pixel array, and a top substrate surface opposite the bottom substrate surface. The thin film is on a region of the top substrate surface directly above both (i) the entire pixel array and (ii) a portion of the peripheral region adjacent to the pixel array. Each of the plurality of conductive pads is located within the peripheral region, and is electrically connected to the pixel array. A portion of each of the plurality of conductive pads is not directly beneath the thin film.
US10256253B2
The present disclosure discloses that an array substrate, including a base substrate having a circular or oval horizontal section, wherein the base substrate comprises a display region and a non-display region, wherein a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines crossing the plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged in the display region, and the plurality of thin film transistors and the plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged in a plurality of pixel regions defined by the plurality of first signal lines and the plurality of second signal lines, wherein a connection wire connected to the plurality of first signal lines and the plurality of second signal lines is arranged in the non-display region.
US10256245B2
Electrical short caused by misalignment of source select level contact via structure and support pillar structures can be prevented by modifying the pattern of the support pillar structures such that the support pillar structures are omitted from the area in which source select gate contact via structures are formed. The insulating layer at the level overlying the source select level electrically conductive layer can have a sufficient thickness to prevent deformation during formation of the backside recesses. A minimum lateral separation distance between the source select level contact via structure and the support pillar structures is greater than any minimum lateral separation distance between the word line level contact via structures and the support pillar structures.
US10256240B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, a fin-shaped structure and a bump on the first region of the substrate, and a shallow trench isolation (STI) around the fin-shaped structure and on the bump. Preferably, the fin-shaped structure and the bump comprise different material, the fin-shaped structure comprises a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion and the bottom portion comprise different semiconductor material, and a top surface of the bottom portion is lower than a top surface of all of the STI on both the first region and the second region and higher than a top surface of the bump and the top surface of the bump contacts the STI directly.
US10256232B2
A semiconductor device provided herein includes: a semiconductor substrate; an upper main electrode provided above the semiconductor substrate; a sense anode electrode provided above the semiconductor substrate; a resistance layer provided above the semiconductor substrate and having a resistivity higher than the sense anode electrode; a lower main electrode provided below the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a switching element and a sense diode. The switching element is connected between the upper main electrode and the lower main electrode. The sense diode comprises a first anode region of a p-type connected to the sense anode electrode via the resistance layer and a first cathode region of an n-type connected to the lower main electrode.
US10256228B2
A semiconductor device includes a MOS transistor which is coupled between two terminals and discharges current which flows caused by generation of static electricity and a diode which is coupled between a back gate of the MOS transistor and one of the terminal and has a polarity which is reversed to the polarity of a parasitic diode which is formed between the back gate and a source of the MOS transistor.
US10256216B2
Interconnect structures with intermetallic palladium joints are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of forming an interconnect structure includes depositing a first conductive material comprising nickel on a first conductive surface of a first die, and depositing a second conductive material comprising nickel on a second conductive surface of a second die spaced apart from the first surface. The method further includes depositing a third conductive material on the second conductive material, and thermally compressing tin/solder between the first and third conductive materials to form an intermetallic palladium joint that extends between the first conductive material and the second conductive material such that one end of the intermetallic palladium joint is bonded directly to the first conductive material and an opposite end of the intermetallic palladium joint is bonded directly to the second conductive material.
US10256213B2
A computer memory module can include a molded layer disposed on a DRAM substrate. The molded layer can encapsulate a DRAM die and wire bonds that connect the DRAM die to the DRAM substrate, and can be shaped to include at least one cavity having a footprint sized to accommodate a system on chip (SOC) die. The DRAM module can attach to an SOC package so that the SOC die and the DRAM die are both positioned between the DRAM substrate and the SOC package, the DRAM substrate can form its electrical connections on only one side of the DRAM substrate, and the SOC die can fit at least partially into the cavity in the molded layer. This can reduce a package Z-height, compared to conventional DRAM packages in which the SOC die and the DRAM die are positioned on opposite sides of the DRAM substrate.
US10256198B2
Techniques for reducing warpage for microelectronic packages are provided. A warpage control layer or stiffener can be attached to a bottom surface of a substrate or layer that is used to attach the microelectronics package to a motherboard. The warpage control layer can have a thickness approximately equal to a thickness of a die of the microelectronics package. A coefficient of thermal expansion of the warpage control layer can be selected to approximately match a CTE of the die. The warpage control layer can be formed from an insulating material or a metallic material. The warpage control layer can comprise multiple materials and can include copper pillar segments to adjust the effective CTE of the warpage control layer. The warpage control layer can be positioned between the microelectronics package and the motherboard, thereby providing warpage control without contributing to the z-height of the microelectronics package.
US10256196B2
A semiconductor device in which an insulating material layer contains no reinforced fibers such as a glass cloth or a nonwoven cloth and which enables miniaturization of metal thin-film wiring layers, a reduction in the diameter of metal vias, and a reduction in interlayer thickness. The semiconductor device includes an insulating material layer including one or more semiconductor elements sealed with an insulating material containing no reinforced fibers, a plurality of metal thin-film wiring layers, metal vias that electrically connect the metal thin-film wiring layers together and electrodes of the semiconductor elements and the metal thin-film wiring layers together, and a warpage adjustment layer arranged on one principal surface of the insulating material layer to offset warpage of the insulating material layer to reduce warpage of the semiconductor device.
US10256195B2
A module includes a wiring board, a plurality of components mounted on an upper surface of the wiring board, a sealing resin layer which seals the components provided on the upper surface of the wiring board, and a shield layer provided so as to cover a surface of the sealing resin layer. The shield layer includes an adhesion layer which is stacked on the surface of the sealing resin layer and includes a first adhesion film composed of a metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Ni, TiCr, TiAl, NiAl, CrAl, and CrNiAl, a conductive layer which is stacked on the adhesion layer, and a protective layer which is stacked on the conductive layer and includes a protective film composed of a nitride, oxide, or oxynitride of a metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Ni, TiCr, TiAl, NiAl, CrAl, and CrNiAl.
US10256185B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure includes the following steps. A substrate including a dielectric material is formed. A surface of the substrate is molecularly modified to convert the surface of the substrate to a nitrogen-enriched surface. A metal layer is deposited on the molecularly modified surface of the substrate interacting with the molecularly modified surface to form a nitridized metal layer.
US10256180B2
A package structure includes a substrate, an insulator, a plurality of pads and a patterned circuit layer. The substrate includes a plurality of through holes. The insulator covers the substrate and is filled in the through hole. The conductive vias are located in the through holes and penetrate the insulator filled in the through holes. The pads are disposed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the insulator and electrically connected to the conductive vias. A bottom surface of each pad is lower than the top surface of the insulator. The patterned circuit layer is disposed on the top surface of the insulator and connected to the conductive vias and the pads. A bottom surface of the patterned circuit layer is lower than the top surface of the insulator.
US10256176B2
A through-hole electrode substrate includes a substrate including a through-hole extending from a first aperture of a first surface to a second aperture of a second surface, an area of the second aperture 5 being larger than that of the first aperture, the through-hole having a minimum aperture part between the first aperture and the second aperture, wherein an area of the minimum aperture part in a planar view is smallest among a plurality of areas of the through-hole in a planar view, a filler arranged within the 10 through-hole, and at least one gas discharge member contacting the filler exposed to one of the first surface and the second surface.
US10256172B2
Leadframes for semiconductor packages. Implementations may include a plurality of leads extending inwardly into an opening surrounded by the plurality of leads where the plurality of leads except for at least one are configured to mechanically couple at a surface of a semiconductor chip. The at least one of the plurality of leads that is not configured to mechanically coupled at the surface of the semiconductor chip be configured to electrically couple with the semiconductor chip.
US10256169B2
A highly-reliable semiconductor device has improved adhesion between a sealing material and a sealed metal member and/or a case member. In some implementations, the semiconductor device includes: a laminated substrate on which a semiconductor element is mounted; and a sealing material. In some implementations, the sealing material contains an epoxy base resin, a curing agent, and a phosphonic acid.
US10256166B2
A semiconductor device includes a resin case which houses a semiconductor element, a plurality of lead frames disposed in the principal plane of a base of the resin case with spaces therebetween, and a block portion disposed over a space between adjacent lead frames along the adjacent lead frames. With the semiconductor device, the disposition of the block portion makes creepage distance long, compared with a case where the block portion is not disposed and therefore a space between the adjacent lead frames is flat. Accordingly, even if metal atoms contained in the lead frames or the like migrate on an insulator or at an interface because of migration, a conduction path is hardly formed between the adjacent lead frames. That is to say, a short circuit hardly occurs between the adjacent lead frames with the block portion therebetween. This semiconductor device provides improved reliability.
US10256163B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method for treating a microelectronic substrate with dilute TMAH. In the method, a microelectronic substrate is received into a process chamber, the microelectronic substrate having a layer, feature or structure of silicon. A treatment solution is applied to the microelectronic substrate to etch the silicon, where the treatment solution includes a dilution solution and TMAH. A controlled oxygen content is provided in the treatment solution or in an environment in the process chamber to achieve a target etch selectivity of the silicon, or a target etch uniformity across the layer, feature or structure of silicon, or both by the treatment solution.
US10256161B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first channel region and a second channel region on a substrate, depositing a dielectric material layer on the first channel region and the second channel region, and depositing a barrier layer on the dielectric material layer on the first channel region and the second channel region. A metal layer is deposited on the barrier layer on the first channel region and the second channel region. A portion of the metal layer and the barrier layer on the first channel region and a portion of the metal layer on the second channel region are removed to expose the barrier layer on the second channel region. A layer of workfunction material is deposited on an exposed portion of the dielectric material layer on the first channel region and over the barrier layer on the second channel region.
US10256157B2
A device and method for manufacturing a Si-based high-mobility CMOS device is provided. The method includes the steps of: (i) providing a silicon substrate having a first insulation layer on top and a trench into the silicon; (ii) manufacturing a III-V semiconductor channel layer above the first insulation layer by depositing a first dummy layer of a sacrificial material, covering the first dummy layer with a first oxide layer, and replacing the first dummy layer with III-V semiconductor material by etching via holes in the first oxide layer followed by selective area growth; (iii) manufacturing a second insulation layer above the III-V semiconductor channel layer and uncovering the trench; (iv) manufacturing a germanium or silicon-germanium channel layer above the second insulation layer by depositing a second dummy layer of a sacrificial material, covering the second dummy layer with a second oxide layer, and replacing the second dummy layer with germanium or silicon-germanium by etching via holes in the second oxide layer followed by selective area growth.
US10256153B2
A semiconductor apparatus and its manufacturing method are presented. The method entails providing a substrate structure comprising a substrate, one or more fins positioned along a first direction on the substrate, and a separation region surrounding the fins. The separation region comprises a first separation region neighboring a first side of the fins and a second separation region neighboring a second side of the fins; forming a first and a second insulation layers on the substrate structure; forming a barrier layer; performing a first etching process using the barrier layer as a mask; removing the barrier layer; performing a second etching process using the remaining second insulation layer as a mask; forming a third insulation layer on side surfaces of the remaining first and second insulation layers; and performing a third etching process using the remaining second insulation layer and the third insulation layer as a mask.
US10256150B2
A method is presented for creating an asymmetrical split-gate structure. The method includes forming a first device, forming a second device, forming a first gate stack between a first set of spacers of the first device, and a second gate stack between a second set of spacers of the second device. The method further includes depositing a hard mask over the first and second gate stacks, etching a first section of the first gate stack to create a first gap and a second section of the second gate stack to create a second gap, and forming a third gate stack within the first gap of the first gate stack and within the second gap of the second gate stack such that dual gate stacks are defined for each of the first and second devices. The method further includes annealing the dual gate stacks to form replacement metal gate stacks.
US10256142B2
Described herein are methods of filling features with tungsten, and related systems and apparatus, involving inhibition of tungsten nucleation. In some embodiments, the methods involve selective inhibition along a feature profile. Methods of selectively inhibiting tungsten nucleation can include exposing the feature to a direct or remote plasma. In certain embodiments, the substrate can be biased during selective inhibition. Process parameters including bias power, exposure time, plasma power, process pressure and plasma chemistry can be used to tune the inhibition profile. The methods described herein can be used to fill vertical features, such as in tungsten vias, and horizontal features, such as vertical NAND (VNAND) wordlines. The methods may be used for both conformal fill and bottom-up/inside-out fill. Examples of applications include logic and memory contact fill, DRAM buried wordline fill, vertically integrated memory gate/wordline fill, and 3-D integration using through-silicon vias.
US10256141B2
A first etch stop layer is deposited on a plurality of conductive features on an insulating layer on a substrate. A second etch stop layer is deposited over an air gap between the conductive features. The first etch stop layer is etched to form a via to at least one of the conductive features.
US10256130B2
An electrostatic holding device (100) for holding component (1) by electrostatic holding forces includes clamp carrier (10) which has electrode device (11) and is configured for receiving component (1), voltage source device (20) for provision of a source charge current for charging clamp carrier (10), source switching device (30) which is arranged for a switchable connection of voltage source device (20) with electrode device (11), and at least one charge storage device (40, 40A, 40B) which has storage capacitor (41, 41A, 41B) and is configured to receive a clamp discharge current and temporarily store electrical charges of clamp carrier (10) in storage capacitor (41, 41A, 41B) and provide a storage charge current for charging clamp carrier (10). Also described is a method for operating holding device (100) and transfer circuit (200) for transmitting charges from working capacitor (201) to storage capacitor (202).
US10256118B2
A method to form an electrical component, the method comprising: providing a first lead and a second lead; forming a first conductive pillar and a second conductive pillar on a first portion of the top surface of the first lead and a first portion of the top surface of the second lead, respectively, wherein a second portion of the top surface of the first lead, a second portion of the top surface of the second lead, the first conductive pillar, and the second conductive pillar form a 3D space, wherein at least one device is disposed in said 3D space and electrically connected to the at least one device to the first conductive pillar and the second conductive pillar.
US10256116B2
A method for packaging a circuit component, comprising: forming a first protruding pad on a first copper substrate and a through-hole in the first protruding pad; forming a second protruding pad on a second copper substrate and placing a circuit dice of the circuit component on the second protruding pad having a conductive paste coated thereon wherein a first electrode of the dice facing the second protruding pad; stacking the first copper substrate onto the second copper substrate with the first protruding pad having a conductive paste coated thereon aligned and pressing onto the circuit dice placed on the second protruding pad wherein a second electrode of the dice facing the first protruding pad; inserting a copper rod tightly into the through-hole until contacting with a conductive paste coated on the second substrate; heat-treating the stacked structure for the circuit dice and the copper rod to form secured electrical connection with the first and second copper substrates respectively and further forming a hermetic seal in the space between the first and second copper substrates; and using the hermetic seal as a rigid processing structure, etching the exposed surface of the first and second copper substrates to remove the entire thickness of copper other than in the area of the first and second protruding pads and in the area other than where the copper rod connects to the second copper substrate, thereby forming the device terminals of the circuit component package.
US10256115B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming a first stack structure by alternately stacking first material layers and second material layers, forming first holes penetrating the first stack structure and a first slit located between the first holes, forming channel patterns in the first holes and a dummy channel pattern in the first slit, selectively removing the dummy channel pattern from the first slit, and replacing the first material layers with third material layers through the first slit.
US10256113B2
A transfer substrate for transferring a metal wiring material to a transfer target including a substrate, at least one metal wiring material formed on the substrate, at least one coating layer formed on a surface of the metal wiring material, and an underlying metal film formed between the substrate and the metal wiring material, in which the metal wiring material is a compact formed by sintering metal powder such as gold powder having a purity of 99.9 wt % or more and an average particle size of 0.01 μm to 1.0 μm, and the coating layer is a predetermined metal such as gold or an alloy having a different composition from that of the metal wiring material and has a total thickness of 1 μm or less, and the metal underlying film is made of a predetermined metal such as gold or an alloy. The transfer substrate can lower heating temperature on the transfer target side.
US10256112B1
Exemplary methods for removing tungsten-containing material may include flowing a chlorine-containing precursor into a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may also include flowing methane into the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include forming a plasma from the chlorine-containing precursor and the methane to produce plasma effluents. The methods may also include contacting a substrate with the plasma effluents. The substrate may include an exposed region of a tungsten-containing material. The plasma effluents may produce an oxychloride of tungsten. The methods may also include recessing the exposed region of the tungsten-containing material.
US10256110B2
A multiple patterning process is provided with a self-aligned blocking (SAB) technique. The SAB technique trades off difficult overlay requirements for more manageable etch selectivity requirements between the various layers utilized for the patterning process. As disclosed herein, damage to sidewalls resulting from etching at the self-aligned block masking step may still occur. Damage is repaired by providing a plug layer that fills the areas of the damaged spacers. The plug layer may be the same material as forms the spacers. In this manner, the fill process provides a self-healing mechanism for damaged spacers.
