US10737718B2
A steering control system for an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle includes a steering input device accessible to a driver for providing steering control of the vehicle in a manual steering mode. Also included is at least one autonomous steering assembly for providing steering control of the vehicle in an autonomous steering mode. Further included is a plurality of road wheels controlled by a blended output of the steering input device and the at least one autonomous steering assembly during a transition steering mode.
US10737712B2
A collapsible cart assembly having a framework with two brackets. The two brackets have first arms, second arms and third arms. A rear leg frame section is rigidly affixed to the first arms. A front leg frame section that is pivotably connected to the second arms. A handle frame section is pivotably connected to the third arms of the brackets. Slides are disposed on the rear leg frame section. A first set of linkages connect the slides to the front leg frame section. A second set of linkages connect the slides to the handle frame section. The slides and linkages move the front leg frame the handle frame between an open configuration and a closed configuration.
US10737709B2
A worker protection system may include a train-mounted unit for use on a train, and one or more wayside units, configured for placement on or near a track traversed by the train. Each of the train-mounted unit and the one or more wayside units may include a corresponding communication component, with one or more antennas, configured to transmit and/or receive wireless signals, with the signals comprise ultra-wideband (UWB) signals, and one or more circuits configured for processing signals and data, and for performing applications or functions relating to operations of the corresponding unit. The train-mounted unit may operate cooperatively with the one or more wayside units, to provide alerts to one or more workers operating on or near the track, based on communication of the UWB signals with at least one of the one or more wayside units.
US10737708B2
A method for operating vehicles, in particular track-bound vehicles, permits two vehicles to approach one another even to comparatively short distances and at the same time can be implemented with comparatively low expenditure. For this purpose, a collision by a first vehicle towards the rear of a second vehicle is detected by the second vehicle, a warning message is emitted by the second vehicle triggered by the detection of the collision or running into from the rear, and a braking process is triggered by the first vehicle on the basis of the warning message emitted by the second vehicle. A device for a vehicle which detects the collision of a further vehicle is also provided.
US10737700B2
A vehicle includes a step-ratio automatic transmission having clutches engageable to provide forward and reverse gears, an electric machine selectively coupled to the transmission, a main pump powered by the electric machine and supplying oil to actuate selected transmission clutches, a gear selector configured for selecting a transmission gear, and a controller configured to stop the electric machine when the gear selector selects park or neutral, to operate the electric machine in a speed control mode using a higher controller gain in response to the gear selector selecting forward or reverse while the electric machine is stopped until the electric machine and the main pump reach a first speed threshold to reduce engagement delay of at least one of the transmission clutches, and to operate the electric machine using a lower controller gain when the electric machine and the main pump exceed the first speed threshold.
US10737699B2
A system and method are disclosed for controlling shifting of a vehicle having an automated manual transmission. In the system and method, an amount of fuel being provided to a first grouping of cylinders is reduced, where the first grouping of cylinders are fewer than all of the available cylinders; the first grouping of cylinders are placed in an engine braking mode; a first gear of the vehicle transmission is disengaged; an amount of fuel being provided to a second grouping of cylinders which does not include the first grouping of cylinders is reduced; engine speed is reduced by braking; and a second gear of the transmission is engaged.
US10737698B2
Technologies for assisting vehicles with changing road conditions includes vehicle assistance data based on crowd-sourced road data received from a plurality of vehicles and/or infrastructure sensors. The crowd-sourced road data may be associated with a particular section of roadway and may be used to various characteristics of the roadway such as grade, surface, hazardous conditions, and so forth. The vehicle assistance data may be provided to an in-vehicle computing device to assist or facilitate traversal of the roadway.
US10737690B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for mobile device tethering for a remote parking assist system of a vehicle. An example vehicle includes a plurality of proximity sensors and a body control module. In response to detecting a mobile device proximate one of the proximity sensors, the body control module sends a location associated with the corresponding proximity sensor to the mobile device. The body control module receives, from the mobile device, a relative position of the mobile device from the location, and when the mobile device is within a threshold distance of the vehicle, enables autonomous parking.
US10737689B2
A parking assistance apparatus includes a display unit configured to display an image of an area around a vehicle; a sensor unit configured to detect at least one object around the vehicle; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to perform an automatic parking function that moves the vehicle to a target parking position by: calculating a congestion level for the automatic parking function based on information about the at least one object around the vehicle detected by the sensor unit; and executing the automatic parking function according to the calculated congestion level.
US10737688B2
A behavior control apparatus is provided which is configured to calculate a first normative yaw rate of the vehicle based on a vehicle speed, a steering angle and a lateral acceleration of the vehicle, to calculate a second normative yaw rate of the vehicle based on a vehicle speed and a steering angle, to determine, when deflection control is not being performed, that vehicle behavior is unstable when an absolute value of a first yaw rate deviation between the first normative yaw rate and an actual yaw rate of the vehicle is larger than a first reference value, and to determine, when the deflection control is being performed, that vehicle behavior is unstable when an absolute value of a second yaw rate deviation between the second normative yaw rate and an actual yaw rate of the vehicle is larger than a second reference value.
US10737682B2
A drive force control system for hybrid vehicles configured to reduce a change in a drive force simultaneous execution of a starting operation of an engine and a shifting operation of a transmission. The drive force control is applied to a hybrid vehicle comprising: an engine connected to front wheels; a first motor connected to rear wheels; and a transmission that changes a speed ratio between the first motor and the rear wheels. A controller restricts execution of any one of an engine staring operation and a shifting operation of the transmission during execution of other one of the engine staring operation and shifting operation of the transmission.
US10737675B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling a braking system for a motor vehicle, capable of implementing a parking brake function. The system includes a disk, a brake caliper and at least one piston to exert a disk clamping force on the disk, the braking system further including an electric drive unit moving the piston relative to the caliper and a hydraulic drive unit moving the piston relative to the caliper. The method includes at least one step of exerting a disk clamping force by moving the piston, by the electric drive unit and/or the hydraulic drive unit. The method includes a step of actuating the hydraulic unit by exerting a first clamping power on the piston, followed by a step of actuating the electric unit by exerting an additional clamping power, until a total power is obtained that is high enough to lock the disk.
US10737674B2
A method for operating a vehicle brake system, including activation of a electrohydraulic brake booster device when there is an actuation of a brake actuating element, so a brake pressure increase is brought about in a wheel brake cylinder, and decoupling of the wheel brake cylinder from a master brake cylinder of the brake system by closing a separating valve, it being ascertained, before the closing of the separating valve, whether a first quantity relating to an actuation speed of the actuation of the brake actuating element and/or a second quantity relating to a master brake cylinder pressure increase is within at least one specified normal value range, and, if warranted, the separating valve being closed without a delay, whereas otherwise the closing of the separating valve is delayed taking into account the second quantity and/or a third quantity relating to the brake pressure increase.
US10737669B2
A brake control system for a landing gear of an aircraft is provided. The system includes a first control channel for providing brake control signals to one or more brakes on the landing gear, and a second control channel for providing brake control signals to another one or more brakes on the landing gear. At least one of the first control channel and the second control channel is configured to act as an executive in monitoring braking efforts applied by the one or more brakes as compared to braking efforts applied by the another one or more brake, and to cause the braking efforts of at least one of the one or more brakes or the another one or more brakes to be modified in an effort to equalize the braking efforts.
US10737662B2
Systems and methods for cleaning, drying, and thermally managing vehicle components are described herein. In some embodiments, the vehicle components can include various sensors and, more particularly, the surfaces of cameras, LIDAR sensors, etc., that need to be clean to effectively perceive the environment around the vehicle. In one embodiment, a cleaning system includes a central delivery system configured to route fluid, such as washer fluid, along one or more delivery channels to remote holding chambers. The holding chambers can hold and/or heat the fluid before delivering the fluid to nozzles that spray the fluid on nearby vehicle components to clean the components.
US10737659B2
A wireless communications system for an automotive vehicle includes a vehicle control unit and a fob. The vehicle control unit includes a vehicle transceiver. The fob includes a fob transceiver and a fob control unit and is configured to transmit and receive communications through at least two channels. The fob control unit is programmed to transmit a preamble through the first of the at least two channels, transmit a preamble through the second of the at least two channels during a null space following the preamble transmitted through the first channel, transmit a data packet payload through the first channel when a null space following the preamble in the second channel is detected, and transmit a data packet payload through the second channel when a null space following the preamble in the second channel is detected. Communications are interleaved between the first and second channels.
US10737657B2
A pedestrian protecting device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a right air bag device including a right air bag configured to be deployed at a right region of the windshield; and a left air bag device including a left air bag configured to be deployed at a left region of the windshield. A wiper device includes a right wiper and a left wiper including a turning fulcrum located closer to a middle portion of a vehicle than a turning fulcrum of the right wiper. The right and left air bags and include respective tip end portions that vertically overlap each other at the middle portion of the vehicle. The right air bag of the air bag device is deployed before the left air bag of the air bag device is deployed.
US10737651B2
A method of determining an accident time parameter for evaluating an accident situation of a motor vehicle, including a) determining at least two of the following values: (i) a current value of a measured acceleration, (ii) a first integral of the measured acceleration, or (iii) a second integral of the measured acceleration, and b) determining an accident time parameter from the at least two values determined in step a).
US10737650B2
A passenger occupancy detection system is provided that implements a sensor-connected passenger detection method. The system includes that a sensor controller that reads a sensor value using an ESC as an acceleration sensor when a vehicle is stopped and distinguishes an in-vehicle passenger with a vehicle acceleration change by the sensor value. The operations of a rear-seat passenger notification system 200 and a passenger-seat occupant classification advanced airbag system 300 are connected by the distinguishing the in-vehicle passenger, enhancing the sensor reliability by providing Fail-Safe together with increasing the accuracy of the passenger detection utilizing longitudinal/lateral accelerations/yaw rate information.
US10737649B2
A computer implemented method of reconstructing vehicle behaviour for a vehicle that has been subject to a critical event, the method comprising: receiving vehicle sensor data associated with vehicle motion; receiving a critical event notification signal, the critical event notification signal being associated with a critical event time for the critical event; deriving, from the received vehicle sensor data, a vehicle trajectory within a time window prior and adjacent to the critical event time; analysing the vehicle trajectory to determine forces acting through the vehicle system; outputting a notification signal in the event that one or more of the determined forces exceeds one of more of the operating parameters of the vehicle.
US10737634B2
Display systems for a vehicle are contemplated that comprise a seat display unit coupled with a display screen, where the display screen is affixed to a seat back and the seat display unit is disposed within the seat back. The display screen is fixed to the seat back such that its relative position with the seat back remains constant when the seat back is reclined. The seat display unit is coupled to the seat back, such that the seat display unit automatically tilts or pivots when the seat back is reclined, and while the display screen does not move relative to the seat back.
US10737633B2
A vehicle sound effect generation apparatus includes a running state detecting unit that detects a running state of a vehicle; a lateral input amount setting unit that sets, based on the running state detected by the running state detecting unit, a lateral input amount in which a physical amount relating to at least one of a movement of the vehicle in a width direction and a movement of the vehicle in a turning direction is a parameter; an adjustment wave sound selector that selects one or more integer-order adjustment wave sounds having an integer-order frequency component, based on the lateral input amount; and a sound effect generation unit that synthesizes a fundamental wave sound having a fundamental frequency component with the one or more integer-order adjustment wave sounds selected.
US10737632B2
A carrier system for a vehicle having a pair of vacuum devices shaped and sized to mate and secure to a recreational article. Each vacuum device includes a pad shaped and sized to detachably seat with a vehicle to form a vacuum cavity. The vacuum device includes a plunger attached to the pad and in fluid communication with the vacuum cavity, and an indicator positioned on the plunger to indicate the level of vacuum pressure within the vacuum cavity.
US10737623B2
According to one or more embodiments described herein, a cloaking device may comprise a first mirror, a second mirror, a third mirror, and a fourth mirror. The cloaking device may further comprise a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. Each of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens may be achromatic cylindrical lenses, or each of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens may be acylindrical lenses.
US10737620B2
A virtual mirror arrangement, in particular for a vehicle, including at least one screen arranged in the interior of a vehicle for displaying a detection region of at least one camera, where an actuator connected to the camera is controllable by a movement of the display. The disclosure further relates to a method for adjusting a virtual mirror.
US10737619B2
A vehicle-mounted moving image transmitting device includes: a camera outputting a video signal corresponding to a video of a subject existing outside a vehicle; a signal processor superimposing animation images on multiple frames, which form a moving image corresponding to the video signal outputted from the camera, frame by frame, while changing the animation images in synchronization with frame advancement; and a wireless communication interface wirelessly transmitting the moving image formed of the multiple frames, which are superimposed with the animation images by the signal processor, at a predetermined frame rate to a moving image display device. The moving image display device receives the moving image and displays the received moving image to an occupant of the vehicle.
US10737618B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method. The method includes: receiving a first metric of a first object; receiving a second metric of a second object; calculating a distance between the first object and the second object based on the first metric and the second metric; comparing the calculated distance with a predetermined distance; identifying whether the second object is approaching the first object based on the first metric and the second metric; calculating an elevational difference between the first object and the second object; and generating a notification responsive to the calculated distance being less than the predetermined distance, the second object being identified as approaching the first object and the calculated elevational difference between the first object and the second object being less than a predetermined value.
US10737613B2
A vehicle visual element includes a substrate defining a lamp cavity; at least one light source positioned within the lamp cavity; at least one of a holographic and a diffraction grating, disposed over the lamp cavity; a proximity switch positioned close to the lamp cavity; and a controller configured to activate the light source in response to a signal provided by the proximity switch.
US10737604B2
A grab handle assembly for a vehicle includes a sleeve for attaching to the vehicle, an insert receivable in the sleeve, and a grab handle positioned on an end of the insert. A locking member is provided to adjustably fix a position of the grab handle with respect to the sleeve. The locking member includes a locking pin and a cam lock mechanism to hold the insert with respect to the sleeve. A rotation prevention surface may be provided on the locking pin to prevent the locking pin from rotating with respect to the sleeve and the insert. A locking force provided by the locking member may be preset.
US10737602B2
An armrest includes a gear assembly with a crown gear directly coupled to the armrest that imparts rotational motion to the armrest, a planetary gear engaged with the crown gear, and a pinion gear coupled to the crown gear that imparts vertical motion of the entire gear assembly, and the armrest, along a rack.
US10737594B2
The invention relates to a foot prop adapted to be attached to a child safety seat, comprising an elongate component, comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the lower portion is slidable relative to the upper portion in longitudinal direction of the elongate component. The foot prop is configured such that a force applied in the longitudinal direction causes the lower portion to automatically move away from the upper portion whenever the force exceeds a predetermined threshold, so that the length of the elongate component is increased; and the foot prop is configured such that the lower and the upper portion are releasably blocked against relative movement towards one another. The invention further relates to a seat base and a child safety seat comprising a foot prop.
US10737591B2
A seat driving device includes a rotary motor having a rotary shaft, operation members, and clutch mechanisms. The operation members are separately arranged to respectively correspond to position adjustment mechanisms. The clutch mechanisms are separately arranged to respectively correspond to the position adjustment mechanisms. When any one of the operation members is operated, each clutch mechanism selectively connects the corresponding position adjustment mechanism to the rotary motor. In response to operation of any one of the operation members, the rotary motor is energized with the polarity corresponding to the operation direction of the operation member. Each clutch mechanism is arranged with respect to the rotary motor such that the axis of the clutch mechanism is parallel with the axis of the rotary shaft.
US10737586B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for supplying voltage to a load and battery. In one implementation, an unregulated DC-to-DC converter is electrically connected to a first energy source to down convert a first voltage supplied by the first energy source. A load is electrically connected to the unregulated DC-to-DC converter to receive the down converted first voltage. A regulated DC-to-DC converter is electrically connected to the unregulated DC-to-DC converter to regulate the down converted first voltage to a second voltage. A second power source is electrically connected to the regulated DC-to-DC converter to charge the second power source using the second voltage, and the second power source is switchably connectable to the load.
US10737575B2
A computer includes a processor; and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine, based on a measurement performed in a vehicle, that a parameter of a power device is outside of a predetermined range; and actuate components in the vehicle to heat the power device.
US10737573B2
An input device configured for a vehicle in which a display area and an input area are realized as a single body so that a degree of freedom of design may be improved, may include a body having a display area and an input area, and a touch assembly disposed under the input area, and one or more input elements and one or more indicators are formed in the input area.
US10737566B2
To protect a battery pack supported in a rear end part of a vehicle body at the time of a rear end crash, the vehicle body rear structure comprises: a pair of left and right rear side frames (10) extending in a fore and aft direction in a laterally spaced apart relationship; a rear floor panel (14) attached to the rear side frames (10) and defining a battery receiving space (40) for receiving a battery pack therein; and a load transmitting member (46) having a front end (46A) fixedly secured to a structural member (24) of the vehicle body and extending to a rear end (46B) thereof located behind the battery receiving space.
US10737556B2
The present invention relates to a photocatalytic module for an automobile air conditioner and an automobile air conditioner having the same and, more particularly, to a photocatalytic module capable of eliminating various germs resulting from dew formed on an evaporator installed in an automobile air conditioner and corresponding bad smell, and an air conditioner having the same.The photocatalytic module includes a duct fixation frame 54 adjacent to an inner wall of the duct 10; a filter fixation frame 55 having one end connected to the duct fixation frame, the filter fixation frame 55 fixing the photocatalytic filter 52; a photocatalytic filter 52 fixed by the fixation frame 55, being formed by applying a photocatalytic material onto a supporter having a shape of a plurality of cells neighboring each other and provided with a plurality of airflow paths; and a substrate 58 fixed to the duct fixation frame 54 and equipped with an ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diode (LED) 59 for radiating ultraviolet light toward the photocatalytic filter 52. The present provides an air conditioner having the photocatalytic module installed therein and an LED disposed upstream of the photocatalytic filter on the flow path of the duct.
US10737549B2
A tube of elastomeric material for an air conditioning system or for other system which is on-board of a motor-vehicle is intended to be fitted over a metal connecting element and to be locked onto the latter by means of a crimping operation that envisages the clamping around the tube of a metal clamping element. The tube includes at least one body made of polymeric elastomeric material supplemented with carbon-based nanofillers wherein an outer surface with one or more piezo-resistive areas is provided, where the polymeric material supplemented with carbon-based nanofillers has been made locally piezo-resistive by means of laser irradiation. The piezo-resistive areas arranged on the body of polymeric elastomeric material of the tube can be used for verifying the correct execution of the crimping operation.
US10737548B2
The interior member includes a base material part and a skin part disposed on one surface side of the base material part. The skin part is provided with an air passage part through which air that is temperature-adjusted to a predetermined temperature passes. The air passage part has a passing resistance member (a knitted fabric part that gives passing resistance to the air passing through the air passage part. Also, the air that is temperature-adjusted may be distributed from air sent out from an air conditioner installed in a vehicle, a building, or the like. Further, examples of the passing resistance member include three-dimensional knitted fabrics (such as a double raschel knitted fabric or a circular knitted fabric) and nonwoven fabrics.
US10737545B1
A vehicle suspension connects a vehicle body to a plurality of wheels and allows relative motion between the vehicle body and the wheels. The suspension system includes a plurality of telescoping multi-stage hydraulic cylinder assemblies arranged to selectively lift the vehicle body relative to the wheels when extended and to lower the vehicle body relative to the wheels when contracted. A control valve is used to adjust a volume of hydraulic fluid in the hydraulic cylinder assemblies to change a height of the vehicle. External spring packs are in fluid connection with the hydraulic cylinder assemblies to maintain spring forces on the suspension system over a range of telescopic movement of the hydraulic cylinder assemblies. Fluid damping valves are provided for damping telescopic movement of the hydraulic cylinder assemblies by restricting fluid flow between the hydraulic cylinder assemblies and the spring packs.
US10737544B2
Systems and methods to control suspension of a vehicle are disclosed. An example apparatus includes one or more processors coupled to a vehicle. The one or more processors are to generate road profile data while the vehicle is moving and generate suspension control data based on the road profile data. A suspension of the vehicle is to be adjusted based on the suspension control data. The one or more processors also determine a distance traveled by the vehicle during a time interval. The time interval is associated with generating the road profile data or adjusting the suspension. The one or more processors also adjust the suspension based on the suspension control data, the distance, and a preview distance associated with the vehicle.
US10737543B2
The invention provides a vehicle suspension system, comprising a jounce bumper made of elastomeric thermoplastic material, having improved design to maximize energy absorption.
US10737539B2
A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10. The step of co-extruding may further include the step of: forming the projecting walls 9c on an inclined angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the width of the assembly 10. The step of co-extruding further has the step of forming the barrier strip 9 with lateral edges 9a and 9c that extend beyond the lateral outermost sealant strips 11 on each side of the assembly 10, the lateral edges 9a, 9b being bonding surfaces to seal the sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 into an uncured rubber layer when assembled into an unvulcanized tire 2.
US10737530B2
A method of making a work piece without the use of an auxiliary anode and a work piece created using the method are provided. The work piece includes a main face being generally planar. The work piece also includes a first area comprising a plateable resin configured to be plated using the plating process without the auxiliary anode and having a first current density during the plating process. Additionally, the work piece includes a second area comprising a non-plateable resin configured to not be plated using the plating process without the auxiliary anode. The first area and the second area are determined by a process referencing a predetermined minimum current density value with the first current density being greater than the predetermined minimum current density value.
US10737524B2
A binding method of a perfect-bound booklet includes the steps of folding each leaf of sheets forming a body to obtain multiple signatures; pressing creased parts of the multiple signatures in a thickness direction thereof; jogging a one-book bundle formed of a predetermined number of signatures forming a body, a front cover, and a back cover, or a multi-book bundle formed by stacking a plurality of one-book bundles on top of one another; applying a first adhesive that remains flexible upon curing, in a layer in a middle area 5 to 10 millimeters from both top and bottom ends of a rear face of the one-book bundle or the multi-book bundle; applying a second adhesive on the entire rear face; and drying and curing the second adhesive for a predetermined drying time.
US10737507B2
A relative position detection method detecting a position of a light-emitting member relative to a lens array or a position of the lens array relative to the light-emitting member, in which the light-emitting member includes light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction and the lens array includes lenses arranged in the first direction and condenses light from the light-emitting elements to image positions of the light-emitting elements, optical axes of the lenses being orthogonal to the first direction. The method includes: causing the light-emitting elements to emit light; detecting, at a position displaced from the image positions along an optical axis direction, optical intensity distribution of light emitted from the light-emitting elements and transmitted through the lens array; and detecting a position of the light-emitting member relative to the lens array or a position of the lens array relative to the light-emitting member with use of the optical intensity distribution.
US10737492B2
A liquid ejecting head includes a piezoelectric element which includes a piezoelectric layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode sandwiching the piezoelectric layer therebetween, a leading-out wiring provided on an upper portion of the piezoelectric element and including a wiring layer made of gold or platinum and an underlayer which are patterned, and an insulating protective film which covers at least an exposed portion on the underlayer of the leading-out wiring.
US10737486B2
A printing method includes a printing process that performs printing on a recording medium, in which, in the printing process, a first correction is performed in which discharging portions, where a first correction target head other than a first reference head among heads of a first group and a second correction target head other than the first reference head among the heads of a second group discharge inks, are corrected based on a first reference printing pattern, and a second correction is performed in which a discharging portion, where a third correction target head among heads of a third group other than a second reference head discharges the inks, is corrected based on the first reference printing pattern and a second reference printing pattern.
US10737480B2
The present invention relates to a filament suitable to be used in a 3D printing device, wherein the filament comprises a metal and/or ceramic powder, a thermoplastic binder and additives. The invention also relates to a process for producing a shaped body comprising the step of printing a shaped green body using the filament according to the invention. Also provided is the use of a filament according to the invention in a 3D printing device and a green body producible by mixing a metal and/or ceramic powder and a thermoplastic binder. The invention also relates to the use of a binder of the invention for the production of a filament for 3D printing devices.
US10737473B2
The present invention relates to a transparent film for flooring comprises a polyvinyl chloride resin and a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) resin.
US10737471B2
According to the present invention, a synthetic resin laminate comprising two transparent synthetic resin layers (A), two or more functional layers (B) having photochromic properties interposed between the two synthetic resin layers (A), and a transparent resin layer (C) interposed between the two or more functional layers (B), wherein the functional layer (B) is a cured layer comprising a photochromic dye and obtained from a diisocyanate and a polyol can be provided.
US10737455B2
A method for manufacturing a bag includes a wall of the bag is passed along a placement drum for rotatably mounted handles; a handle is hooked onto the drum, legs of the handle extending backwards along a perimeter of the drum in the direction of rotation of the drum, the legs being connected by a cross member; same is completely turned over using a turnover drum so that the legs are at the front on the placement drum; and the handle is deposited on the wall.
US10737452B2
A tire vulcanization mold includes a side molding surface, a mark forming stencil plate for forming a convex mark at an outer surface of a side portion, an attachment recess provided in the side molding surface, and a screw fixing the stencil plate to the attachment recess. The stencil plate is formed larger than the attachment recess so as to cover the attachment recess, and a peripheral portion of the stencil plate is in contact with an opening peripheral portion of the attachment recess.
US10737444B2
Various methods and assemblies are provided for producing composite components having formed in features. For example, a method may comprise depositing a composite material on a base tool; aligning an aperture forming tool with a tooling aperture in the base tool; inserting the aperture forming tool through the composite material to form an aperture in the composite material; deploying a feature forming tool to press the composite material into one or more recesses; and processing the composite material with the feature forming tool in contact with the composite material. In some embodiments, the feature forming tool includes a stem extending through the composite material and into the base tool, as well as a feature forming head that is brought into contact with and processed with the composite material. In other embodiments, a tooling assembly holds a pin in place during processing to fix the pin in the composite component.
US10737434B2
The subject matter described herein relates to methods and systems for fast imprinting of nanometer scale features in a workpiece. According to one aspect, a system for producing nanometer scale features in a workpiece is disclosed. The system includes a die having a surface with at least one nanometer scale feature located thereon. A first actuator moves the die with respect to the workpiece such that the at least one nanometer scale feature impacts the workpiece and imprints a corresponding at least one nanometer scale feature in the workpiece.
US10737431B2
An injection device having at least one flexible diaphragm. The injection device for forming a preform into a container and filling the container, and further including a main housing having an inlet, an outlet and an injection chamber, a closing body movable relative to the outlet between a closed position and an opened position, a closing diaphragm attached at least to the closing body, the injection chamber being delimited at least by an inner surface of the closing diaphragm, the closing diaphragm having an outer surface defining an outside area, a bearing surface against which a supported portion of the outer surface of the closing diaphragm is applied. The closing diaphragm further includes a free portion forming with the supported portion the whole outer surface of the closing diaphragm. The bearing surface is arranged such that the surface of the free portion decreases when the closing body moves from the closed position to the opened position.
US10737429B2
An apparatus and method of delivering a predetermined volume of a liquid product, defined as the liquid end product, formed by addition of a first and second liquid product, into a thermoplastic container formed from a heated preform positioned in a mold and having an opening opposite an injection head. Prior to injecting the second liquid product into the preform causing expansion of the container, the preform is at least partially, filled with the first liquid product.
US10737427B2
To provide a polyarylene sulfide (PAS) resin composition and a PAS resin molded article that are excellent in mechanical strengths such as impact resistance while maintaining excellent heat resistance of the PAS resin, and methods for producing the PAS resin composition and the PAS resin molded article. Specifically, provided are a method for producing a long fiber-reinforced PAS resin molded article, the method including obtaining a long fiber-reinforced PAS resin composition containing a PAS resin and a fiber reinforcing material having a fiber length of more than 5 mm, subsequently subjecting the resin composition and a PAS resin to dry blending, and subsequently subjecting the dry-blended substance to melting and subsequently to melt-molding; the long fiber-reinforced PAS resin composition; and a method for producing the long fiber-reinforced PAS resin composition.
US10737424B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide a magnetic materials additive manufacturing system (MMAMS) configured to form compact magnetic structures and/or devices. A MMAMS includes a controller and one or more dispensers configured to dispense magnetic material matrix in a high resolution pattern in order to form the compact magnetic structures and/or devices. The MMAMS receives a magnetic device design including a magnetic structure to be formed from a magnetic material matrix, where the magnetic material matrix is configured to be used in the MMAMS. The MMAMS receives magnetic material matrix and dispenses the magnetic material matrix to form the magnetic structure.
US10737414B1
Methods, apparatus and system for decorating plastic articles having an uneven surface or hollow structure are disclosed. An assembly comprising a transfer pad and a flexible heat transfer die comprising a thermal interface material (TIM) replace the hard rubber die in a hot-stamping process to fuse indicia into the surface. The assembly modifies ordinary pad printing into a hot-stamping process that transfers indicia onto uneven surfaces. A pad printing machine or other robotics is used to move the assembly from a position of heating to a position of compressing the ink transfer to the surface of the article.
US10737411B1
A system for fabricating composite parts efficiently. Pre-impregnated (prepreg) composite material is drawn as a sheet from a roll and fed by advancement rollers into a stamping and molding station in which a piece of the prepreg material is cut, on a mold, from the sheet. Pressure is applied to cause the prepreg material to conform to a surface of the mold, and the prepreg is cured with ultraviolet light. Additional layers of prepreg may be cut and cured on any layers that have already been cured on the mold. The complete part may be removed from the mold with ejector pins. Scrap prepreg may be recycled in a recycling station that separates reinforcing fiber from uncured resin.
US10737405B2
The present invention relates to a self-pouring mold system which ensures uniformity of a material by laterally pouring concrete into a mold installed on a side of a wall structure and minimizing a fall head generated when the concrete is poured to prevent bleeding, thereby ensuring uniformity of a fire-proofing material and adjusting a required fire-proofing coating thickness, and a method of fire-proofing, repairing, and reinforcing using the same.
US10737403B2
The invention relates to a device for moving portions, which each comprise at least one slice cut from a food product, in particular by means of a slicing device, in particular a high-speed slicer, comprising a plurality of individually movable transport movers each for at least one portion, a track system for the transport movers, in which track system the transport movers can be moved along at least one specified track in a transport direction, and a control apparatus for controlling the movements of the transport movers in the track system, wherein the transport movers each comprise at least one runner that interacts with the track system and at least one carrier for at least one portion, the at least one carrier being attached to the runner by means of a retainer, and wherein the drive for each transport mover is formed by the runner and the track system, which together form an electromagnetic drive for the transport mover.
US10737402B2
An electric hair cutter includes a motion conversion mechanism that converts rotary motion of an output shaft of an electric motor into reciprocating linear motion and a movable blade driven by reciprocating linear motion of the motion conversion mechanism. The motion conversion mechanism includes a first conversion portion, converting rotary motion of the output shaft into reciprocating rotary motion about a first axis, a second conversion portion, converting the reciprocating rotary motion into reciprocating linear motion, and an output portion, coupling the second conversion portion to the movable blade. The second conversion portion includes a motion transmission part, coupling the first conversion portion to the output portion, and an elastic deformation part coupled to the motion transmission part to restrict motion of the motion transmission part caused by motion components differing from a motion component in an output direction so that the motion transmission part linearly reciprocates.
US10737400B2
A self-defense pocket knife with handle of suitable proportion to be grasped in closed fist and a conveyance system configured for the emergency manual conveyance of a blade from a position for storage to a position for use without requiring the user to appreciably alter or compromise grip upon the handle during the course of such conveyance.
US10737396B2
A dummy tool is used to teach a robot the path the robot will follow to perform work on a workpiece to eliminate the possibility of damaging an actual tool during the training. The dummy tool provides the robot programmer an indication of potential collisions between the tool and the workpiece and other objects in the work cell when path is being taught. The dummy tool can have a detachable input/output device with a graphic user interface (GUI) that can communicate wirelessly with the robot controller. The dummy tool can also have a moveable camera attached thereto to track the relationship of the tool to objects in the work area.
US10737385B2
A hand for transferring a transfer target can be selected even when the combination of the transfer target and the hand is not taught. A machine learning device includes: state observation means for acquiring at least a portion of image data obtained by imaging a transfer target as input data; label acquisition means for acquiring information related to grasping means attached to a robot for transferring the transfer target as a label; and learning means for performing supervised learning using a set of the input data acquired by the state observation means and the label acquired by the label acquisition means as teacher data to construct a learning model that outputs information related to the grasping means appropriate for the transferring.
US10737368B2
A method of treating a cutter element comprises contacting at least a portion of a volume of polycrystalline diamond with an electrolyte solution, applying an electrical current between the volume of the polycrystalline diamond and a counter electrode to maintain a predetermined electrochemical potential between a reference electrode and the volume of polycrystalline diamond, and corroding at least a portion of the catalyst material from the interstitial spaces between the diamond grains in the volume of polycrystalline diamond. The volume of the polycrystalline diamond comprises interbonded diamond grains and a catalyst material disposed in the interstitial spaces between adjacent diamond grains in the volume of polycrystalline diamond. The counter electrode is in contact with the electrolyte solution, and the electrical current is supplied at a substantially constant electrochemical potential between a reference electrode and the volume of polycrystalline diamond.
US10737364B2
The present application discloses a multifunctional wheel burr removing device, comprising a synchronous clamping drive system, a first burr brushing system, an upper burr brushing system and a second burr brushing system. The multifunctional wheel burr removing device in use may remove burrs of four parts. And the four parts are as follows: end faces of upper rims, wheel wells, cutting positions of sides of upper rims and fronts of wheels having different diameters and different heights. So the production efficiency is very high; and simultaneously, the device has the characteristics of high automation degree, advanced process, strong generality, safety and stability.
US10737363B2
A tool includes a flexible section; a head that extends form the flexible section; and an exciter within the head. A method of additively manufacturing a component including burrowing a tool into a conglomerated powder within an internal passage of an additively manufactured component, the tool vibrating in a manner to facilitate removal of the conglomerated powder.
US10737358B2
The metallurgical composition of a machine surface may be determined. Based on the composition of the surface layer and its substrate materials, a mixture of pure metal nanoparticles, each coated with a monomolecular organic layer adsorbed on its surface can be mixed with catalysts, reaction initiators, and/or other necessary ingredients for the repair action of the machine surface, depending on the specific machine, operational type, and/or the nature of the damage. The nanoparticles are applied to the machine surface, the organic monolayer wears away from the nanoparticles under shear stresses and the nanoparticles adhere to the machine surface to form a repair layer on the machine surface, thereby providing a repaired surface.
US10737345B2
A pipe joint includes a first member, a second member, a weld experiencing transverse contraction and joining a first outer cylindrical end portion and a second outer cylindrical end portion butted with their end faces meeting over the entire circumference, an annular sealed area produced by the transverse contraction of the weld causing a first pressing portion and a second pressing portion to be displaced toward each other, a heat transmission suppressing member arranged in a space delimited by a weld forming area and a to-be-sealed area, inside the first and second members assembled, to suppress transmission of heat applied in welding from the weld forming area to a to-be-sealed area, and a first stop ring fitted in an outer cylindrical surface of the heat transmission suppressing member to hold the heat transmission suppressing member against an inner surface of the first or the second member.
US10737336B2
An automatic key duplicating machine is disclosed. A master key identification module includes at least one key blade cross-section detector with a plurality of sliding elements, the master key identification module being configured to determine a key type for a master key based at least in part on engagement of the plurality of sliding elements with a blade profile of the master key. A key extraction module is configured to retrieve a key blank of an identified key type. A key cutting module is configured to cut the key blank in accordance with a tooth pattern of the master key.
US10737335B2
Systems and methods for duplicating keys are disclosed. A key duplication system receives a key blank into a key receiving module. The key receiving module includes opposable jaws that assist with alignment of the key blank within the module. The key receiving module also includes an end stop that engages the tip of the received key blank and is linearly displaced as the key blank is further inserted. The linear displacement of the end stop is compared to a known value corresponding to a length of the shank of the key blank, and if the displacement does not match the known value, the user is instructed to re-orient the key blank.
US10737322B2
The present invention relates to a composite tantalum powder and a process for preparing the same, and to a capacitor anode prepared from the tantalum powder. The method for preparing a composite tantalum powder comprises the following steps of: 1) providing a tantalum powder prepared by a reduction process, and flattening the tantalum powder so as to prepare a flaked tantalum powder; 2) providing a granular tantalum powder prepared from tantalum ingot; 3) mixing the flaked tantalum powder and the granular tantalum powder to give a tantalum powder mixture; and 4) thermally treating the tantalum powder mixture, and then pulverizing, screening to give a composite tantalum powder. The present invention further relates to a composite tantalum powder prepared from the process and the use thereof in a capacitor.
US10737318B2
A method of manufacturing a structural support member, the method includes providing a donor casting, separating the donor casting into at least a first segment and a second segment, providing a mold, disposing the first and second segments into the mold, pouring a liquid metal alloy into the mold. recovering and cleaning a solidified structural support member from the mold, and performing an operation for achieving a mechanical lock feature between the first and second segments and the solidified metal alloy.
US10737306B2
For a rolled metal strip, in particular a steel strip; a drive roller unit deflects the metal strip from a first transportation direction to a second transportation direction, and the strip is then fed to a coiler. The metal strip is coiled in the coiler to form a coil having a coil diameter. Plastic deformation of an end portion of the metal strip is caused such that the end portion in its uninfluenced state is curved at a curvature radius. The plastic deformation of the end portion (8) is at least partially caused by an asymmetric impingement with a cooling medium (21) on the sides of the end portion (8). The impingement of the end portion (8) with the cooling medium (21) is performed across a length of the end portion (8) that is longer than half the outermost coiling of the coil (6) but smaller than the outermost coiling of the coil (6).
US10737302B2
Peroxyformic acid compositions for removal of biofilm growth and mineral deposits on membranes are disclosed. In particular, peroxyformic acid compositions are generated in situ or on site generation for the reduction and prevention, of biofilms and the mitigation of mineral buildup on the membranes. The compositions according to the invention are compatible with the membranes under application of use conditions.
US10737300B2
Systems and methods for monitoring the cleaning conditions of a facility include the use of a cleaning apparatus with a tracking device. The tracking device is adapted to detect an operating parameter of the cleaning apparatus. In embodiments, the operating parameter includes at least one of the location of the cleaning apparatus within a facility over time, the movement of the cleaning apparatus, and the dynamic coefficient of friction encountered by a cleaning head of the cleaning apparatus as it traverses a surface being cleaned in the facility.
US10737298B2
Embodiments of a system and method for unloading articles from a container of items for use in an automatic stack feeder are disclosed. The automatic stack feeder may comprise a belt, a moveable lower paddle, and a moveable upper paddle, wherein the lower paddle is configured to partially extend through a belt of the automatic stack feeder. The movement of the belt, the lower paddle, and the upper paddle are coordinated such that there is no need to interrupt the operation of the automatic stack feeder to unload the container.
US10737296B2
A grain-cleaning machine for obtaining grains has a desired size which is greater than a lower value and less than or equal to an upper value. The grain-cleaning machine comprises an arrangement of sieves. The arrangement of sieves comprises at least two main sieve levels positioned overlapping each other. Each main sieve level comprises a respective fine sieve followed by a respective grain sieve. At least one lower sieve level comprises a respective lower grain sieve. The at least one lower sieve level being positioned below the main sieve levels. Each fine sieve has a first mesh provided with openings having an opening size which is equal to said lower value, and each grain sieve and each lower grain sieve have a second mesh provided with openings having an opening size which is equal to said upper value.
US10737293B2
A method for treating a metal substrate surface before coating or printing thereof, the method including preheating to 40° C. or above a specific metal substrate having a thermal conductivity of 10 W/mK or higher, and thereafter performing a flame treatment on the substrate surface, prior to coating or printing of the surface of the substrate with a coating material or an ink.
US10737280B2
The present invention relates to an azolethione flotation collector and application thereof. According to the application, an azolethione compound such as a 1,3,4-thiadiazole-2-thione compound, a 1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-thione compound, a 1,2,4-triazole-3-thione compound or a 1,2,4,5-tetrazole-3-thione compound is used as a mineral flotation collector to be applied to ores containing copper, zinc, lead, nickel, cobalt, platinum, palladium, silver or gold minerals to realize flotation recovery of valuable metal minerals. Compared with common flotation collectors in the existing technologies, the flotation collector of the present invention can effectively improve enrichment and recovery of copper, zinc, lead, nickel, cobalt, platinum, palladium, silver or gold minerals.
US10737277B2
An air cleaner includes a flying body having a main body unit in which a control unit controlling flying movement is stored, and a propeller disposed around the main body as propulsion for floating the flying body; and a dust collector connected to the flying body, and including an intake opening and an exhaust opening. The propeller is disposed inside or under the dust collector, the dust collector electrostatically attracts dust in air flowing from the intake opening, and the flying body is a drone structured so that the propeller takes in air from an upper side and exhausts the air to a lower side.
US10737275B2
A material reducing machine includes a rotary reducing drum that is rotatable about an axis of rotation and defines a reducing boundary that extends at least partially around the axis of rotation. The material reducing machine includes an infeed conveyor for transporting material to a front portion of the rotary reducing drum and defines a conveyor plane. The material reducing machine includes a mill box at least partially surrounding the rotary reducing drum and including a mill box lid mounted generally above the rotary reducing drum. The mill box lid has an inlet edge positioned above a rear portion of the rotary reducing drum and an outlet edge positioned above the front portion of the rotary reducing drum. The mill box includes an infeed opening that is configured to receive material from a feed table and has an upper opening defined by the outlet edge of the mill box lid.
US10737266B2
In one embodiment, a removable pneumatic connector, comprises a body having a plurality of bores passing through, each bore surrounded by a sealing member on an inner surface of the body. A plurality of gas lines may be placed within a corresponding bore. A vacuum port is disposed on the inner surface of the body, and an outer seal on the inner surface of the body surrounds the sealing members and the vacuum port. A vacuum line may be placed within the vacuum port, and configured to deliver negative pressure to the vacuum port. A vacuum holding area is created in the volume between the outer seal and each of the sealing members when the inner surface of the body is placed against a substrate. When the vacuum line is activated, a vacuum is created within the vacuum holding area, creating a positive seal between the body and the substrate.
US10737260B2
A system and method configured to restore ion exchange kinetic properties and purify resin is described. Degraded ion exchange kinetic properties of anion resin will eventually result in impurity slippage through resin charges. This system and method employs an acid catalyst in combination with sulfite cleaning solution to remove organic material and to protonate iron oxides for deconstruction and removal from anion resins. The cleaning solution, when applied via a cleaning vessel utilizing an eductor(s)/plenum and wedge-wire screen draw chamber, while controlling all phases of cleaning by electronic monitoring, yields complete restoration of ion exchange kinetics on usable resin. As such, the system and method provides a safe, effective, and vastly improved method for restoring anion resin kinetics and improving regeneration quality, for improved resin performance and minimizing resin replacement costs.
US10737239B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in form of a homogenous powder, and a process wherein the metal-organic framework is molded into shaped bodies.
US10737237B2
A composition capable of removing chlorides from a gaseous stream and a process of using same. The compositions have sufficient chloride capacity, offer comparable creation of green oil, and have sufficient structural integrity to be utilized as sorbents in a chloride removal process. Generally, the compositions include a first zinc carbonate, a second zinc carbonate different than the first zinc carbonate and an alumina material. The composition has been cured at a temperature between about 149 to 399° C. The first zinc carbonate may comprise hydrozincite and the second zinc carbonate may comprise smithsonite.
US10737236B2
A reactor for efficient control of endothermic and exothermic catalytic reactions, including, for example, Fischer Tropsch reactions. Also disclosed are methods of delivering coolant materials and gasification source materials to the reactor.
US10737234B2
A method of loading material within a microchannel device, the method comprising: (a) loading particulates into a plurality of microchannels; and, (b) ultrasonically packing the particulates into the plurality of microchannels using a portable, compact ultrasonic densification unit.
US10737226B2
An improved system and method for fluidizing dry powder-based additives into downhole well operations utilizes a dried, low-volume air stream and an ejector nozzle in order to disperse the powders into a liquid stream. In an embodiment, the system can be placed on a powder blending trailer in order to convey additives directly from bulk transport bins into a liquid stream, through the use of an atmospheric pressure hydration tank fitted with a cyclone separator to ensure an even dispersal into the liquid stream.
US10737221B2
Provided is a scale inhibitor for RO membranes which effectively inhibits the precipitation of calcium carbonate in an RO membrane treatment without increasing the phosphorus concentration in effluent and which can be used even in the RO membrane treatment of feed in which high-M-alkalinity concentrate having a calcium hardness level of 100 to 600 mg/L-CaCO3 and an M alkalinity of 1000 to 16000 mg-CaCO3/L is produced. A scale inhibitor for reverse osmosis membranes which inhibits the formation of calcium carbonate scale in an RO membrane treatment, the scale inhibitor including components (A) and (B) below. An RO membrane treatment method including adding the scale inhibitor for RO membranes to RO feed. Component (A): Terpolymer of maleic acid, an acrylic acid alkyl ester, and vinyl acetate, Component (B): Homopolymer of carboxylic acid
US10737220B2
A composite membrane for selectively pervaporating a first liquid from a mixture comprising the first liquid and a second liquid. The composite membrane includes a porous substrate comprising opposite first and second major surfaces, and a plurality of pores. A pore-filling polymer is disposed in at least some of the pores so as to form a layer having a thickness within the porous substrate. The polymer is more permeable to the first liquid than the second liquid but not soluble in the first liquid or the second liquid. The composite membrane may be asymmetric or symmetric with respect to the amount of pore-filling polymer throughout the thickness of the porous substrate.
US10737219B2
An exhaust gas purifying catalyst according to the present invention is provided with a base material 10 and a catalyst-coated layer 30. The catalyst-coated layer 30 is provided with a lower layer 34 and an upper layer 32. The upper layer 32 contains Rh and/or Pt as a noble metal catalyst. The lower layer 34 contains Pd as a noble metal catalyst. The lower layer 34 is provided with a front-stage lower layer 34a positioned on an upstream side and a rear-stage lower layer 34b positioned on a downstream side. The front-stage lower layer 34a is a Ce-free layer that does not contain a Ce-containing oxide. The rear-stage lower layer 34b is a Ce-containing layer that contains a Ce-containing oxide with a pyrochlore structure.
US10737217B2
An exhaust gas purification device downstream of a wet desulfurizer for a combustor has a vessel body for intake of exhaust gas from the wet desulfurizer at a lower portion and discharge of the same at an upper end, an auxiliary desulfurizing portion with an injection nozzles for injection of an alkaline solution at a position above an inlet in the vessel body to purify the exhaust gas, bag filters above the injection nozzles to separate particles in the exhaust gas, backwashing nozzles for injection of compressed gas from above the bag filters for backwashing, a drain-receiving tank for reception of drain from the vessel body and a supply pump for supply of the drain in the drain-receiving tank as alkaline solution to the injection nozzles.
US10737207B2
A method for producing a ceramic honeycomb filter having a ceramic honeycomb structure having plugs in predetermined cells: comprising using an apparatus having a reservoir having an inlet for a plugging material slurry and an upper opening, a porous plate with pluralities of openings covering the upper opening of the reservoir, and a holding member fixed to an upper end of the reservoir; keeping a lower surface of the sealing film attached to a lower end surface of the ceramic honeycomb structure apart from an upper surface of the porous plate by a distance D of more than 0 mm and 2.0 mm or less; supplying a predetermined volume of the plugging material slurry into the reservoir to introduce it into the predetermined cells of the ceramic honeycomb structure; rotating the ceramic honeycomb structure after sealing of the ceramic honeycomb structure is released; and lifting the ceramic honeycomb structure after the rotation starts.
US10737203B2
A compact shower water filter assembly for holding a water filter element therein. The water filter element is easily changeable by unscrewing two halves of a body forming the filter assembly. The body halves are easily gripped and turned, so as to be opened or closed. The upper half of the body is internally threaded to engage the shower arm, and may pivot about the shower arm. The bottom half of the water filter assembly may include a showerhead, converting the shower water filter assembly, into a filtered showerhead assembly. The shower water filter assembly may be easily and quickly adapted to be held on any shower arm, and to replace any existing shower water filter without taking up as much room as currently existing shower water filters.
US10737200B2
A method of operating a filter press, wherein filter material is fed into a filter chamber so as to form a filter cake between at least two sides of a flexible said filter medium. Filtrate is received from the filter chamber and the filter cake formed the filter chamber is discharged. Prior to discharging the filter cake, compression is applied on the filter cake formed within the filter chamber by providing compression fluid gas at a compression pressure exceeding a prevailing pressure within the filter chamber, directly on a side of the filter medium exterior to the filter chamber, so as to exert said compression pressure directly on said side of the filter medium, thereby causing the filter medium to yield against the filter cake.
US10737184B2
A method and system hosts a game on a collaboration platform to allow playing users to participate in gameplay of the game. The method and system identify a condition of the game that is specified by the creating user of the game and identifies first social interaction criteria for the plurality of playing user. Satisfaction of the condition qualities at least one of the playing users to receive a friend request. The method and system determine that a first social interaction between a first playing user and a second playing user of the plurality of playing users playing the game satisfies the condition of the game. The method and system send the friend request to a first client device of the first playing user inviting the first playing user to establish a friendship with the second playing user on the collaboration platform.
US10737181B2
First, an indication sign displayed on a display screen is moved so as to reach a first position at a predetermined timing. Next, when an operation input to an input section is performed at the predetermined timing, a parameter related to the indication sign is changed. Furthermore, when the parameter related to the indication sign does not satisfy a first condition after the parameter is changed, the indication sign is moved to a position different from the first position, and then is moved toward the first position again.
US10737180B1
Systems and methods for collaborative gaming are described herein. In some embodiments, a system comprises a computer system. The computer system comprises at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. The memory stores program instructions are executable by the at least one processor to cause the computer system to perform tasks. The tasks include enabling a first user, via a first gaming device, to initiate a gaming session of a gaming application using an account of the first user, enabling a second user, via a second gaming device distinct from the first gaming device, to join the initiated gaming session; and enabling the second user, via the second gaming device, to engage in game-play in the initiated gaming session on behalf of the first user. The second user engages in the game-play using the account of the first user.
US10737179B2
Receiving a data set including user skills as well as skill competency levels and an event with event-relevant skills as well as expected skill competency levels. Identifying one or more video games that can train a user's skill competency levels in the event-relevant skills to the expected skill competency levels. Prioritizing which video games to train the user's skill levels to the expected skill competency levels.
US10737177B2
A video game processing program product causes a user terminal to realize functions to control progress of a video game. The functions include: an updating function configured to update a position of a character; a first displaying function configured to display, in a normal mode, a normal game screen; and a second displaying function configured to display, in a photographing mode, a photographing game screen based on a photographing operation. In a first case where a user operates the user character to change position while the photographing screen is displayed in the photographing mode, a change in position of the user character does not affect a status of the normal mode. The status of the normal mode of the video game is configured to be updated in a second case while the photographing screen is displayed in the photographing mode.
US10737164B2
A bicycle trainer fastening device, disposed on a bicycle trainer, includes a hollow tube, a first fastening member and a second fastening member. The hollow tube includes a first assembly portion and a second assembly portion at two opposite ends thereof. The first fastening member is disposed correspondingly to the first assembly portion, and includes a first through opening correspondingly in communication with the hollow tube and having an aperture corresponding to an inserting shaft of a bicycle. The second fastening member is disposed correspondingly to the second assembly portion, and includes a second through opening correspondingly in communication with the hollow tube and an aperture corresponding to the inserting shaft. By selecting the first through opening and the second through opening corresponding to the shaft diameter of the inserting shaft and replacing the first fastening member and the second fastening member, the scope of applicability can be maximized.
US10737162B2
A system and method for improving a player's shooting efficiency by providing a player with various shooting challenge routines at which a player makes either a total number of shots or a total number shots in a row. Statistics regarding the player's performance are stored, printed and/or evaluated and the player can use the information to improve his or her efficiency at one or more of the plurality of different locations where the player shoots the basketball. In another embodiment, a measuring or detection system is used in combination with or separate from a ball launcher. The system is adapted to measure at least one of a distance of a player from the launcher, height of a shot made by the player after catching a basketball, release angle, release time, or arc of a shot; entry angle of the basketball into a goal; hold or release time; or shot arc.
US10737161B2
Hockey puck rebounders and training devices are capable of rebounding playing objects, such as hockey pucks or balls. Aspects of the technology are directed to training devices that can be used on ice surfaces or synthetic ice surfaces to practice various skills. The training device can include a frame, anchors, and rebound panels mounted to a tubular frame. The anchors can secure the training device to the ice surface. Hockey pucks can be rebounded off the rebound member by a player.
US10737158B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and device for recognizing movement of a tennis racket, the method includes: collecting swing data of the tennis racket; extracting an data segment of an effective swing from the swing data of the tennis racket according to an effective ball hitting position; performing matching calculation between the data segment of the effective swing and preset template data, the preset template data corresponding to types of tennis racket movements; and acquiring a recognition result of the movement of tennis racket according to a result of the matching calculation. The method and device for recognizing movement of the tennis racket can improve the accuracy of the process of matching, avoid miscalculations of types of the swing movement of the tennis racket.
US10737156B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf club grip having good anti-slipping performance at hitting and improved head speed. The present invention provides a golf club grip comprising a cylindrical portion for inserting a shaft, wherein the cylindrical portion is formed from a rubber composition containing a base rubber and a crosslinking agent, the base rubber contains a nonpolar rubber in an amount of 50 mass % or more, and the cylindrical portion has a surface on which a plurality of minute projections having a height (h) of 0.07 mm or more and a minimum width (w1) at the bottom in a range from 0.2 mm to 0.8 mm are formed.
US10737150B2
Some embodiments include a golf club head with an insert. Other embodiments for related golf club heads and methods are also disclosed.
US10737143B1
The present invention is retractable finned footwear comprising an outsole with retractable fins and a lever used to extend and retract the fins. One end of the fins is rotatably connected at back end of the outsole using fastener, while the other end is extended outside from front side of outsole. The fins can be secured at the bottom of the outsole, to facilitate the footwear suitable for walking on land. The fins can be extended from bottom of outsole by pulling the lever positioned at the back end of the outsole. The extended fins provide forward propulsive thrust to user wearing the footwear in water. After using in water, the lever can be pushed to align and secure the fins in line with the outsole. This facilitates the use of footwear both in water and land.
US10737137B2
A biofeedback belt system which serves as an alert belt with the ability to decrease stomach size as well as decrease the arch of a user-wearers lower back. The invention is designed for patients who have hyper lordosis conditions. The mechanism of the belt is based on biofeedback. When a user-wearer relaxes their abdominal region, the belt produces vibration or sound and the user-wearer must tighten their abdominal region to discontinue the vibration or noise. Biofeedback belt system can also work in a manner such that when the user-wearer tightens their abdominal region, the belt plays music or favorable vibration separately or together as encouragement. Over a period of time of tightening of the abdominal region on a regular basis, the abdominal region size decreases and abdomen strengthens.
US10737134B2
A wall-mounted collapsible exercise system which is adjustable between a collapsed position against a wall and an expanded position for use in multiple exercise configurations. The wall-mounted collapsible exercise system generally includes a mount support adapted to be connected to a wall, a body support adapted to support an exerciser, and a base support adapted to support the body support when the body support is in use. The body support may be pivotably connected to the mount support and the base support may be pivotably connected to the body support such that the body support and base support are adjustable between a first collapsed position for storage and a second expanded position for use. When in the expanded position, the body support may be converted between a glute ham developer configuration and a reverse hyper configuration through use of various exercise attachments.
US10737128B2
In one embodiment, a product includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes and a fill material in interstitial spaces between the carbon nanotubes for limiting or preventing fluidic transfer between opposite sides of the product except through interiors of the carbon nanotubes. Moreover, the longitudinal axes of the carbon nanotubes are substantially parallel, where an average inner diameter of the carbon nanotubes is about 20 nanometers or less. In addition, the ends of the carbon nanotubes are open and the fill material is impermeable or having an average porosity that is less than the average inner diameter of the carbon nanotubes.
US10737127B2
A flame mitigation device (FMD) for use within a portable fuel container includes a generally cylindrical body having an interior sidewall and exterior sidewall. An annular rim is configured at an upper end of the body and a bottom wall is further configured at a lower end of the body. The FMD includes one or more indented fuel flow members extending from the interior of the annual rim for decreasing cyclonic effect of fuel flowing into the body and a plurality of stepped ribs configured on the interior sidewall of the body for centering diesel and gasoline fuel pump nozzles when inserted into the body. A reverse domed shaped bottom help to disperse fuel though a plurality of substantially rectangular shaped holes through the side wall and bottom wall.
US10737124B2
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for acoustic nerve stimulation. In one aspect, a system for acoustic nerve stimulation is disclosed. The system comprises an ultrasonic phased array chip device deployable into a living organism, the ultrasonic phased array chip device including a substrate and an acoustic signaling module on the substrate that includes an array of acoustic transducer elements operable to generate ultrasonic beams based on electronic control signals, capable to propagate the ultrasonic beams through biological nervous tissue to affect nervous signal firing; and a transmitter device wearable on an exterior of the living organism, wirelessly couplable with the ultrasonic phased array chip device to transmit the electronic control signals.
US10737118B2
A method of monitoring a patient includes: obtaining an input image having a plurality of regions of interest by a processing unit; and determining a plurality of positions for the respective plurality of regions of interest by the processing unit; wherein the act of determining the plurality of positions comprises: accessing a plurality of templates; comparing the plurality of templates with respective areas in the input image using a comparator in the processing unit; and determining the plurality of positions based at least in part on a result of the act of comparing.
US10737115B2
A method for simulating a particle transport may include recording transport paths of inputted particles and determining an uncertainty of each of lattice cells based on the transport paths of each batch of the inputted particles, a lattice cell being a qualified lattice cell if an uncertainty of the lattice cell does not exceed a first threshold; determining a standard-reaching rate of lattice cells in a region of interest (ROI), the ROI including at least one lattice cell, the standard-reaching rate of lattice cells in the ROI being equal to a ratio of the number of qualified lattice cells to a total number of lattice cells in the ROI; and if the standard-reaching rate of lattice cells in the ROI exceeds a second threshold, stopping inputting particles, and outputting the transport paths of the inputted particles.
US10737114B2
A method and system are provided for converting clinical criteria constraints for a target structure of radiation therapy into a second set of constraints. The method includes selecting, by a hardware processor, a plurality of clusters of voxels in the target structure based on pre-specified criteria. The method further includes assigning, by the hardware processor, each of the plurality of clusters of voxels a respective constraint that specifies one or more bounds on a radiation dose applied to each voxel in a corresponding one of the plurality of clusters of voxels. The method also includes storing, in a memory device, the respective constraint for each of the plurality of clusters of voxels.
US10737107B2
A portable LED-laser biomagnetic waves therapy device including a body portion, a head portion, a plurality of magnets, a plurality of LED lights, a laser and a power mechanism. The head portion is attachable to an end of the body portion. The plurality of magnets is mounted to at least one of the body portion and the head portion. The plurality of LED lights is mounted to at least one of the body portion and the head portion. The laser is mounted to at least one of the body portion and the head portion. The power mechanism is operably attached to the plurality of LED lights and the laser.
US10737105B2
Several defibrillators, defibrillator architectures, defibrillator components and methods of operating defibrillators are described. In one aspect, a modular defibrillator architecture is described. A base unit provides a fully functional defibrillator. The functionality of the base unit can be supplemented by attaching an interface unit to the base unit or by connecting a smartphone the base unit. Such devices provide connectivity as well as a screen for displaying supplementary graphics and/or videos which are useful to support both emergency and maintenance & monitoring activities. In some embodiments a battery pack may also or alternatively be coupled to the base unit to prolong the unit's shelf life before recharging or replacement of its batteries is required. If necessary the base unit can be powered from a connected external device such as a mobile communication device.
US10737101B2
A capacitor bank for use in a medical device is provided. Through selective control over the individual capacitors employed in the bank, a low ESR can be achieved without adversely impacting other properties of the resulting medical device. More particularly, at least one capacitor in the bank may contain a solid electrolytic capacitor element that includes an anode and a solid electrolyte overlying the anode. The anode includes an anodically oxidized, sintered porous pellet and the solid electrolyte includes a plurality of conductive polymer particles.
US10737099B2
Systems, devices and methods are disclosed that include an antenna for an implantable medical device, the antenna including a passageway extending through the antenna windings of the antenna, the passageway providing a pathway for an electrical connector providing at least one electrical connection between a power source and electronic circuitry included within the implantable medical device.
US10737095B2
Neurostimulator devices are described. An example neurostimulator device includes a stimulation assembly connectable to a plurality of electrodes, wherein the plurality of electrodes are configured to stimulate a spinal cord. The neurostimulator device also includes an interface and at least one processor configured to modify at least one complex stimulation pattern deliverable by the plurality of electrodes by integrating data from the interface and performing a machine learning algorithm on the at least one complex stimulation pattern.
US10737090B2
An external defibrillator system may include processing circuitry; signal generation circuitry communicatively coupled to the processing circuitry; and a plurality of electrodes, each including an electrode body electrically coupled to the signal generation circuitry and configured to deliver an electrical pulse therapy to a patient; and an electrolyte dispersal pad that includes a substrate defining a plurality of wells, each defining an opening; an electrolyte material, e.g., fluid, disposed within at least a portion of the plurality of wells; and a conductive material disposed over at least a portion of the openings and configured to retain the electrolyte material within the plurality of wells, where the processing circuitry is configured control the signal generation circuitry to pass a current pulse through a portion of the conductive material to fuse the portion of the conductive material to release the electrolyte material from at least one of the wells.
US10737087B2
A fitting has a first end conventional connector and a second end non-conventional connector of a given configuration that is matable only to a counterpart non-conventional connector having a configuration complementary to the given configuration. The body of the fitting has two extending wings that merge with a partition that separates the conventional connector from the body. A label may be mounted about the neck extension of the male connector to convey information to the user. The portion along the fitting between the label and the partition provides a location whereat the user can position his fingers to grasp the fitting. The partition prevents the fingers of the user from coming into contact with and contaminating the conventional connector, while the label, in addition to conveying information to the user, also acts a barrier to prevent contamination of the non-conventional connector by the fingers of the user.
US10737084B2
Devices and methods for draining excess lymph fluid are disclosed. The device can be fixed to the blood vessel adjacent to the thoracic duct. The device can have a port for withdrawing lymph fluid exiting the thoracic duct. The device can have a cannula and/or subcutaneous port to draw the lymph fluid away from the thoracic duct and reduce hemostatic pressure in the lymphatic system.
US10737077B2
A method of limiting an inflation system pressure for dilating a region of a patient's nasal sinus passageways. The method includes grasping an inflation device. The inflation device includes a syringe including a plunger slidably disposed within a barrel, a connector for fluidly connecting an outlet of the syringe with a surgical instrument balloon, and a mechanical pressure indicator associated with the syringe, the mechanical pressure indicator including a housing and an indicator body disposed within the housing. The method also includes delivering the surgical instrument balloon to a patient's paranasal sinus target area, operating the plunger within the barrel of the syringe to deliver pressurized fluid to the surgical instrument balloon, and transitioning the indicator body to extend outside of the housing when a predetermined inflation pressure of the surgical instrument balloon is reached.
US10737055B1
Devices and methods for the prevention and treatment of disorders related to stress and poor sleep are provided. A headgear device is provided that delivers heated water vapor to the crown of the wearer's head, which has been observed to facilitate sleep and reduce the symptoms of stress. Methods of facilitating sleep and reducing stress are provided that involve exposing the crown to heated water vapor. Further embodiments of the device and methods for use thereof provide relief to other parts of the body, such as joints and back muscles.
US10737054B1
The system may include a chamber structure having a substantially oval or “egg” shaped outer shell. The system may also include an interior formed within the outer shell. A user area may be provided in the chamber structure substantially centered front to back and side to side within the outer shell. The system may also include at least one sound emitting device positioned to provide at least one person in the user area with a prescribed sound therapy. The system may also include at least one light emitting device selected to provide the person in the user area with a prescribed light therapy.
US10737053B2
A vehicle is adapted for movement along a roadway. A cabin of the vehicle is adapted for surrounding and supporting an occupant with movement of the vehicle. Systems of the vehicle control an environment within the cabin.
US10737050B2
A ventilator delivers breathing gas to a patient via a patient circuit connecting the ventilator and the patient. The ventilator is configured to, upon activation of an oxygen boost function of the ventilator, increase the oxygen concentration of the breathing gas so as to deliver oxygen-enriched breathing gas to the patient. The ventilator includes a control unit configured to determine the volume of a part of the patient circuit conveying breathing gas from the ventilator to the patient, determine a delay in delivery of the oxygen-enriched breathing gas to the patient based on the volume, and cause indication of the delay to an operator of the ventilator.
US10737045B2
A delivery device for and method of delivering substance, the delivery device comprising: an outlet member through which substance is in use delivered in an entraining gas flow; and a substance supply unit for supplying substance to be entrained by an entraining gas flow as one or both of a vapor or a fine aerosol mist, wherein the substance supply unit comprises a flow channel which is fluidly connected to the outlet member, and a substance supporting element for supporting substance, at least a surface of which is in use disposed in the flow channel.
US10737041B1
Methods and systems are described herein for fluid handling and dispensing liquid substances using vaporization or nebulization in a controlled, safe manner. A dispensing device may be configured to receive one or more cartridges storing different types of vaporizable or nebulizable substances. A controller may be provided to regulate the amount of a given substance dispensed over a defined time period. Optionally, in response to detecting tampering of the dispensing device and/or a liquid cartridge the dispensing device may be disabled and/or a liquid stored in a substance cartridge may be rendered inert.
US10737036B2
A medical injector is disclosed. The medical injector includes an upper guard housing having a gripping component, a lower guard housing defining a reservoir, and a stopper engaged with a portion of the upper guard housing, the stopper being slidably disposed within the reservoir and sized to provide sealing engagement with an interior sidewall of the lower guard housing. The upper guard housing at least partially surrounds the lower guard housing and is moveable relative to the lower guard housing to advance the stopper through the reservoir.
US10737034B2
A method of manufacturing a sealing element for use in a fluid conveyance device comprising the steps of: forming an elastomeric sealing body including a first body portion defining at least one annular sealing rib, and a second body portion arranged on an end of the first body portion, the second body portion comprising an annular protrusion extending radially beyond the first body portion; and forming a layer of barrier material on a free end of the second body portion, wherein the forming steps are carried out in a single molding operation.
US10737032B2
An apparatus for use in injectate delivery includes an actuator including a linkage, a force generating mechanism mechanically coupled to the linkage, and a controller coupled to the force generating mechanism. The force generating mechanism includes a passive force generator and an active force generator. In operation and on the basis of a control signal, the controller is configured to control the force generating mechanism to provide an input force to the linkage that is a combination of the first force provided by the passive force generator and a second force provided by the active force generator.
US10737025B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that provide smart alerts to users, e.g., alerts to users about diabetic states that are only provided when it makes sense to do so, e.g., when the system can predict or estimate that the user is not already cognitively aware of their current condition, e.g., particularly where the current condition is a diabetic state warranting attention. In this way, the alert or alarm is personalized and made particularly effective for that user. Such systems and methods still alert the user when action is necessary, e.g., a bolus or temporary basal rate change, or provide a response to a missed bolus or a need for correction, but do not alert when action is unnecessary, e.g., if the user is already estimated or predicted to be cognitively aware of the diabetic state warranting attention, or if corrective action was already taken.
US10737023B2
Systems and methods are provided for signaling a condition of an infusion assembly. A system may comprise an elastomeric pump that includes a chamber for receipt of a volume of fluid, an outer layer configured to expand and contract as the chamber receives and dispenses fluid, and a passive indicator provided on the outer layer for signaling a change in the volume of fluid in the chamber. The system further may comprise an image capture device configured to capture an image of the pump, and a processing system configured to process the image to signal the condition of the infusion assembly to a user of the system. A method may comprise capturing an image of a pump; processing the image; and displaying information to a user of the pump to communicate the condition of the pump to the user. Elastomeric pumps for infusion assemblies also are provided.
US10737022B2
A liquid supplying device for a human insulin injection includes a substrate, a liquid storage chamber, a flow-guiding-and-actuating unit, a sensor and a driving chip. The flow-guiding-and-actuating unit includes a liquid guiding channel having a liquid guiding outlet in fluid communication with a liquid storage outlet of the liquid storage chamber. The sensor contacts with the human skin to measure a blood glucose level contained in sweat. The driving chip is configured to control the actuation of the flow-guiding-and-actuating unit, control open/closed states of the switching valves and receive the measured data from the sensor for determination. By driving the flow-guiding-and-actuating unit, a pressure gradient is generated, and an insulin liquid stored in the liquid storage chamber is transported to the liquid guiding outlet through the liquid guiding channel, flowing into a microneedle patch, and injected into a subcutaneous tissue through a plurality of hollow microneedles.
US10737015B2
Some embodiments an infusion pump system can be used to determine a user's total insulin load (TIL) that provides an accurate indication of the insulin previously delivered to the user's body which has not yet acted. In particular embodiments, the TIL can account for both the bolus deliveries and the basal deliveries that have occurred over a period of time. Such information may be useful, for example, when the infusion pump is operated in conjunction with a continuous glucose monitoring device.
US10737014B2
The present invention comprises methods, compositions, devices and systems for determining the status of, or treating, a body structure or conduit. An embodiment of the invention comprises a fluid pressure control device for pressure control of fluid introduced into a body structure or conduit.
US10737012B2
Disclosed is a device for separating a cellular component from a multicomponent fluid. The device can include a body, a first acoustic wave generator, and a second acoustic wave propagating component. The body can define a channel having a first surface, an opposing second surface, a first side, and an opposing second side. The channel can extend along a longitudinal axis from a first end to an opposing second end. The first acoustic wave generator can be coupled to the first surface. The second acoustic wave propagating component can be coupled to the second surface. The first acoustic wave generator and second acoustic wave propagating component can be configured to generate a bulk standing acoustic wave in the channel.
US10737010B2
In one aspect, an arteriovenous access valve system may generally include a first valve configured to be positioned at or adjacent to an end of arteriovenous graft and a second valve configured to be positioned at or adjacent to an opposite end of the arteriovenous graft. In addition, the system may include an actuator assembly in fluid communication with the first and second valves. The actuator assembly may include a housing, a driver assembly positioned within the housing and a drive magnet positioned within the housing. The drive magnet may be rotatably coupled to the driver assembly such that, when the drive magnet is rotated, the driver assembly is configured to be rotatably driven so as to supply fluid to the first and second valves or to draw fluid out of the first and second valves depending on a rotational direction of the driver assembly.
US10736984B2
A photocatalyst sterilization device includes a housing, wherein the housing includes a first receiving chamber and a second receiving chamber that are in communication with each other, the first receiving chamber receives a photocatalyst layer and a light source assembly configured to irradiate the photocatalyst layer, the second receiving chamber receives an axial-flow fan; and an air inlet and an air outlet are defined in the same surface of the housing, one of the air inlet and the air outlet is corresponded to the first receiving chamber in position, the other one of the air inlet and the air outlet is corresponded to the second receiving chamber in position, and a direction in which the axial-flow fan suctions air via the air inlet is parallel to a direction of irradiation of the light source assembly.
US10736983B2
An air purification composition. The air purification composition includes patchouli, lavender, lemon, lemongrass, rosewood, white camphor and tea tree. The air purification composition has the form of a fluid concentrate which can be used by itself or in combination with other ingredients. The air purification composition may be utilized in a targeted area to improve the air quality and scent of the air.
US10736974B2
Carbamate and beta-amino acid urea-based scaffolds that have high binding affinity to PSMA are disclosed. These scaffolds can be radiolabeled and used for imaging cells and tumors that express PSMA or for cancer radiotherapy. These compounds also can comprise a fluorescent dye and be used for imaging cells and tumors that express PSMA or for photodynamic therapy.
US10736972B2
Described herein is a method of induced cell death via ferroptosis by nanoparticle ingestion. Moreover, the present disclosure describes the administration of high concentrations of ultrasmall nanoparticles at multiple times over the course of treatment in combination with a nutrient-depleted environment, thereby modulating cellular metabolic pathways to induce cell death by the mechanism ferroptosis. Ferroptosis involves iron, reactive oxygen species, and a synchronous mode of cell death execution.
US10736971B2
Peptide-based molecules for modulating expression or accessibility to the coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR) are disclosed. Cell-permeable peptide-based molecules having a PDZ-decoy domain or PDZ-binding domain are used to modulate the expression or accessibility of CAR molecules, thereby affecting the ability of viral molecules, or molecules containing viral sequences or proteins able to bind CAR, to enter host cells.
US10736969B2
Among other aspects, provided herein are multi-arm polymeric prodrug conjugates of pemetrexed-based compounds. Methods of preparing such conjugates as well as methods of administering the conjugates are also provided. Upon administration to a patient, release of the pemetrexed-based compound is achieved.
US10736951B2
Anaplasma phagocytophilum surface proteins Asp14 and OmpA and homologous genes from Anaplasmatacaea family members are used in compositions suitable for vaccines to treat or prevent infections caused by tick-born bacteria of the Anaplasmatacaea family. Asp14 and/or OmpA proteins or peptide fragments may be used in combination with other Anaplasmatacaea surface proteins to elicit an immune response. Furthermore, antibodies to Asp14 and/or OmpA proteins can be used in diagnostic methods to determine whether an individual has contracted an Anaplasmatacaea infection. Because of the conserved invasin domains in the surface proteins, a wide range of Anaplasmatacaea infections may be diagnosed, treated or prevented using compositions of the invention.
US10736949B2
A method of treating a malignant solid tumor in a subject is disclosed herein. The method includes the steps of administering to the subject an immunomodulatory dose of a radiohalogenated compound that is differentially taken up by and retained within malignant solid tumor tissue, and performing in situ tumor vaccination in the subject by intratumorally injecting into (or treating via a separate method) at least one of the malignant solid tumors a composition that includes one or more agents capable of stimulating specific immune cells within the tumor microenvironment. In certain exemplary embodiments, the radiohalogenated compound has the formula: wherein R1 is a radioactive halogen isotope, n is 18 and R2 is —N+(CH3)3.
US10736945B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating a myopathy. In certain embodiments, the invention provides compositions and methods for treating, improving muscle function, and prolonging survival in a subject with X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM). The present invention provides a method comprising systemic administration of a composition that induces the increased expression of myotubularin in the muscle of a subject. The invention provides sustained regional and global increases in muscle function.
US10736943B2
A method was developed to prepare silk fibroin microspheres using lipid vesicles as templates to efficiently load therapeutic agents in active form for controlled release. The lipids are subsequently removed through the use of a dehydration agent, such as methanol or sodium chloride, resulting in β-sheet structure dominant silk microsphere structures having about 2 μm in diameter. The therapeutic agent can be entrapped in the silk microspheres and used in pharmaceutical formulations for controlled-release treatments.
US10736939B2
Semaphorin 3A and uses thereof for treatment of IBD are provided. Further provided is assessing IBD severity or treatment efficacy, including determining Semaphorin 3A levels in a biological sample of a subject afflicted with IBD.
US10736937B2
The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of bacterial superinfections post-influenza. In particular, the present invention relates to a method of treating a bacterial superinfection post-influenza in a subject in need thereof comprising administering the subject with a therapeutically effective amount of a flagellin polypeptide optionally in combination with at least one antibiotic.
US10736934B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions useful for preventing or reducing corneal haze of opacification resulting from Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency (LSCD). The invention comprises a method of preventing or treating corneal opacification, comprising administering to a subject a sufficient amount of a proteasome modulator. The invention also comprises a method of preventing or treating corneal opacification, comprising administering to a subject a sufficient amount of a proteasome modulator. In addition, the invention comprises a method of administering to a subject suffering from corneal opacification with a sufficient amount of proteasome modulator, resulting in reduction of Keratin proteins in the cornea of the subject.
US10736933B2
The invention relates to a peptide capable of activating NK cell-mediated immunity, the peptide comprising or consisting of the amino acid sequence XnAX2X1, Wherein Xn is an amino acid sequence of between 5 and 12 residues, and X1 is any amino acid; or leucine or phenylalanine; and X2 is alanine, threonine or serine. The invention further relates to an MHC class I molecule and the peptide, nucleic acids encoding the peptide, activated NK cells, and related compositions and methods, including use in methods of treatment.
US10736932B2
Disclosed herein are novel compounds that are Ras inhibitors. Also disclosed are compositions comprising the compounds and methods of using the compounds in treating various diseases. In another aspect, provided is an antibody-drug-conjugate comprising an antibody conjugated with a compound described herein. In still another aspect, provided is a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound or antibody-drug-conjugate described herein. In a further aspect, provided is method of treating a cancer comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound or antibody-drug-conjugate described herein to a patient in need thereof.
US10736921B2
This invention is directed to treatment of a subject having or suspected of having a cancer comprising administering to the subject a monoclonal antibody and NK-92 expressing Fc receptor.
US10736919B2
Materials and methods for producing genome-edited cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) construct on the cell surface, and materials and methods for genome editing to modulate the expression, function, or activity of one or more immuno-oncology related genes in a cell, and materials and methods for treating a patient using the genome-edited engineered cells.
US10736903B2
Conjugates of an antibody that binds to PSMA with PBD dimers.
US10736901B2
This invention relates to deuterated analogs of etifoxine of Formula 1, solvates, prodrugs, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as well as to methods for their preparation and use, and to pharmaceutical compositions. Briefly, this invention is generally directed to deuterated analogs of etifoxine as well as to methods for their preparation and use, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing the same.
US10736887B2
Provided in the present invention is a quinoline derivative for treating gastric cancer. 1-[[[4-(4-fluoro-2-methyl-1H-indol-5-yl)oxy-6-methoxyquinolin-7-yl]oxy]methyl]cyclopropylamine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a hydrate or a prodrug thereof as provided in the present application can effectively treat gastric cancer, and can stabilize or relieve the state of illness of a gastric cancer patient.
US10736883B2
Compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II), pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, stereoisomers of any of the foregoing, or mixtures thereof are agonists of the APJ Receptor and have use in treating cardiovascular and other conditions. Compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II) have the following structures: (I); (II). Intermediates (V) are also claimed.
US10736877B2
The present disclosure provides compositions that inhibit the SH2-containing inositol 5′-phosphatase (SHIP), as well as methods using such compositions for use in treating or ameliorating the effects of a medical condition in a subject.
US10736869B2
The present invention provides cannabinoid and terpenoid compositions, among others, and methods of use including as medicines, supplements and nutraceuticals.
US10736867B2
A method of treatment of mild to moderate non-penetrating closed traumatic brain injury and mild to moderate TBI due to surgical intervention using 3-hydroxybutyate glycerides is disclosed.
US10736860B2
The present invention is directed to antiviral compositions that provide efficacy against non-envelope viruses such as noroviruses. The antiviral compositions comprise an alkyl 2-hydroxycarboxylic acid and an effective amount of a sulfonated surfactant. The composition may be used as a topical on human skin, as a hand sanitizer or as a hard surface cleaning composition.
US10736857B2
Methods of treating or suppressing pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) including; autistic disorder, Asperger's syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD), Rett's disorder, and PDD-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of one or more compounds as disclosed herein.
US10736855B2
A composition suitable for forming a viscous suspension upon admixing with an aqueous medium, methods for its production and use thereof are provided. The composition includes a plurality of units, each unit having a core containing a proton pump inhibitor and an outer coating containing a gel-forming agent.
US10736852B2
An abuse resistant oral pharmaceutical composition, comprising: a barrier layer, comprising a first polymer; a diffusion layer, comprising a second polymer, substantially covering the barrier layer, wherein the diffusion layer is bonded to the barrier layer and comprises a drug that is substantially homogeneously distributed within the second polymer and diffuses from the diffusion layer within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract; and optionally an expansion layer comprising an expandable polymer, wherein the expansion layer is substantially covered by the barrier layer. Methods of making the same and methods of using the same are also provided.
US10736844B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods useful for treating viral infections. As described herein, the compositions and methods are based on the development of immunogenic compositions that include an attenuated or inactivated virus in combination with a non-ionic surfactant vesicle (NISV).
US10736843B1
Methods of enhancing cognition and/or memory and methods of treating cognitive and cerebrovascular disorders by intranasally administering an in situ gelling composition comprising micelles formed with tocopherol or a derivative thereof are provided. The micelles encapsulate a biological active agent such as vinpocetine. The methods provide for enhanced brain targeting of the biological active agent.
US10736836B2
The invention is directed to a composition comprising a first low-melt wax, a second low-melt wax, a high-melt wax, one or more oil phases, and optionally a flavoring agent.
US10736835B2
The present disclosure relates to a sprayable gel composition for hair conditioning, comprising (a) from about 0.01% to about 0.35% by weight of an acrylate/alkyl-acrylate cross-polymer, (b) from about 0.1% to about 30% by weight of a silicone oil selected from dimethylpolysiloxane, cyclic polysiloxanes, hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxanes, polysiloxane-polyalkylene copolymers, alkyl methyl polysiloxanes, phenylmethylpolysiloxane, hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxanes, divinyldimethicone/dimethicone copolymer, and combination thereof, (c) from about 0.1% to about 30% by weight of a monohydric alcohol containing from about 2 to about 8 carbon atoms, and (d) from about 40% to about 99.9% by weight of a cosmetically acceptable carrier, and to a method of treating hair in need of a conditioning treatment
US10736818B2
A transfer member (128) comprising a housing (24) having a top, a side wall (26), an open bottom, the open bottom permitting insertion of a vial (12) within the housing, a piercing member (34) mounted within the housing (24), the piercing member (34) having a piercing tip (36) located at a bottom end thereof, the piercing member having an interior passageway formed therein, a connector (30) located on an exterior side of the top, a moveable member (40) mounted within the housing (24), the moveable member (40) being moveable from a first position wherein the moveable member (40) prevents access to the piercing tip (36) to a second position permitting access to the piercing tip when the vial is inserted in the housing, a transfer member (128), the transfer member (128) having first and second transfer member ends (131, 133) wherein the moveable member (40) and the housing (24) cause the moveable member (40) to rotate when the moveable member (40) moves upwardly upon insertion of the vial (12), the moveable member returning to a third locked position upon removal of the vial, the third locked position being such that a further vial cannot be inserted into the housing, the first transfer member end (131) being connectable to the second adaptor end (123), the second transfer member end (133) being arranged to receive a neck of a vial (130).
US10736815B1
A system and method for altering the scent within the headspace of a product's packaging, such as a pill container. In the container, the pills or other consumable product partially fill the container. A scent release insert is placed into the container along with the consumable contents of the container. The scent release insert is elastomeric and is readily deformed by the consumable product within the container. As such, the scent release insert can be deformed into many of the voids within the container, therein making efficient use of space within the container. The scent release insert emits scent into the container and alters the scent of the head space within the container.
US10736811B2
A portable environment sensing device is described which comprises at least one time-of-flight sensor capable of detecting the distances from the time-of-flight sensor to at least two features within the field of view of the time-of-flight sensor simultaneously. The portable environment sensing device further comprises a processing unit capable of converting the at least two measured distances into at least two different distance signals, where each distance signal is correlated with the corresponding measured distance, and an output interface providing the at least two distance signals to a user simultaneously.
US10736806B2
A massage chair includes a backrest, and two sets of massage arms assembled with the backrest and spaced apart from each other along a transversal axis of the backrest, each set including a first and a second massage arm that respectively have a first and a second contact member and are movable relative to each other. The method includes positioning the two sets of the massage arms such that at least the first contact members of the first massage arms contact a desired region of a user's body, actuating the two sets of the massage arms to perform a sequence of kneading pulses or a continuous kneading displacement from a wide state to a narrow state to apply a gripping action on the user's body, and stopping the two sets of the massage arms in the narrow state for a period of time to maintain the gripping action on the user's body.
US10736789B2
An absorbent article is provided with microencapsulated phase change material (microPCM) particles that are embedded in and/or coated onto a layer of the absorbent article that includes a resilient sheet of an open-cell foam. The foam layer is disposed such that it is in contact with or is in proximity to the user. The microPCM particles absorb heat generated during use of the absorbent article to reduce the contact temperature on the inside of the absorbent article and improve the comfort of the user. To maximize comfort, the phase change temperature of the microPCM particles may be an average normal body temperature.
US10736786B2
The present invention is directed to a flowable hemostatic paste comprising a crosslinked carboxymethyl cellulose and at least one non-toxic dispersant. More specifically the present invention relates to a hemostatic paste containing citric acid cross-linked CMC, which is suspended or dispersed as a powder in a mixture of a first non-toxic glycerol-containing hygroscopic dispersant and a second non-toxic alcohol functionalized dispersant comprising propylene glycol or 1,3-butanediol.
US10736785B2
A tympanostomy tube delivery device comprises a drive assembly and a force limiting shaft assembly. The shaft assembly comprises a cannula and a piercer operable to translate relative to the cannula so as to pierce the tympanic membrane of a patient. The piercer is mechanically coupled with the drive assembly such that actuation of the drive assembly causes translation of the piercer relative to the cannula. The piercer is mechanically coupled with the drive assembly by a clutch. The clutch is resiliently biased to couple the piercer with the drive assembly. The clutch is configured to uncouple the piercer from the drive assembly in response to a threshold force being imposed upon the piercer so as to inhibit translation of piercer relative to the cannula.
US10736784B2
A system effectively narrows a patulous Eustachian tube (ET) of a patient with a guide catheter, instrument, and insert. The guide catheter includes a shaft, a lumen and a distal end configured to provide access the ET when the guide catheter is inserted into a head of the patient. The instrument comprises a shaft. The insert comprises a body configured to radially expand and retract between a non-expanded state and an expanded state. The insert is sized and shaped to be received within the first lumen when in the non-expanded state and is operable to expand to the expanded state to substantially reduce an effective diameter of the ET.
US10736781B2
In certain embodiments, a device comprises a laser device and a control computer. The laser device directs a laser beam with laser energy through an outer portion of an eye to a target portion of the eye. The control computer receives an optical density measurement of the outer portion, determines the laser energy according to the optical density measurement, and instructs the laser device to direct the laser beam with the laser energy through the outer portion of the eye to the target portion of the eye.
US10736778B2
Devices can be implanted in an eye to treat glaucoma. The devices described herein include a body defining a lumen and having first and second ends and external and lumenal surfaces. The body has a length sufficient to provide fluid communication between the anterior chamber and tear film of the eye through the lumen when the device is implanted in the sclera. By the strategic selection of particular materials of construction, and/or by controlling the configuration and size of the lumen, in some embodiments, the device is a filterless construct. In some embodiments, a filter is included. The glaucoma treatment devices as provided herein are designed to prevent bacterial ingress and to provide the required level of outflow resistance to achieve a desired intraocular pressure. Methods of treating glaucoma wherein the device is implanted in the sclera of an afflicted eye are also described.
US10736773B2
Methods, devices, and systems for temperature management and ventricular defibrillation are disclosed. Methods, devices, and systems for positioning an electrode in the esophagus of a subject and managing the core body temperature of the subject are disclosed. The use of esophageal heat transfer devices to deliver an electrode for use in delivering an electrical shock to the myocardium is disclosed.
US10736761B2
A medical device having a first portion, a second portion, and at least one connector connecting the first and second portion is formed using additive manufacturing. The method includes forming a plurality of layers of a first portion of the medical device, placing a first removable masking plate over the first portion with an opening of the masking plate aligned with a point of the first portion, forming at least one layer of a first connector on the first portion, wherein the first connector is formed in the opening of the removable masking plate, forming a plurality of layers of a second portion of the medical device, wherein a first layer of the plurality of layers of the second portion is formed partially on the first connector and partially on the removable masking plate, and removing the first removable masking plate.
US10736759B2
In an embodiment, a stent is provided for use in blood vessels with blockage near or in a bifurcation. The stent includes a side aperture. The stent is inserted into one of the daughter branches of the bifurcation and positioned with the use of markers. The stent is then expanded so as to support the wall of the blood vessel while allowing the blood to continue to flow to both daughter branches.
US10736757B2
A method and apparatus to scan and measure the surface of objects using a radiation source, such as a laser. When combined with bio-data from bio-sensors to create a profile, the invention is particularly useful for measuring the internal surface of a prosthetic socket and improving the fit between the socket and the residual limb.
US10736755B2
A workstation having a pair of posts on either side of a clamping plate where a donor bone may be placed on sequentially cut in three separate cutting paths. Cutting gates are attached to the posts and used to provide cutting paths that can be precisely oriented with respect to the meniscus of the donor bone part using visual alignment without any manual measurements. The graft is affixed to a machining clamp and shaved to appropriately shape the sides and form a radius on the bottom of the graft. A tibia is then prepared by using a drill guide to form a pilot hole and then to drill out a large hole for the graft. The drilled hole is expanded and shaped using a rod guide and chisel and then a rasp. The shaped graft may then be implanted into the shaped hole and sutured in place.
US10736752B1
An implantable medical device, such as an intervertebral spacer, may comprise a polymeric component and a metallic component. The metallic component can contain both porous metal and substantially-solid metal. The polymeric material can contain particles of an osseointegrative material. The metallic component can be more protruding toward bone than the polymeric component while having a smaller dimension of roughness than the polymeric component. In embodiments, the pin may press-fit against substantially solid metal. The porous metal may surround solid metal which in turn may surround the pin. The pin may have a press-fit with metal and a looser fit with polymeric component, if the metal components and polymeric components are trapped. A pin may connect superior and inferior metal components by a press-fit. The central opening may be exposed to porous metal and also to substantially-solid metal and to polymer. Specific geometries of implants are disclosed.
US10736743B2
The present invention relates to a handle assembly (100) for an implant delivery device for folding or unfolding at least one medical implant by means of at least one tension thread, wherein the handle assembly (100) comprises a drum (14) for winding the tension thread thereon by rotating the drum (14); a knob (9) to be rotated by a user of the handle assembly (100) in order to fold or unfold the medical implant, the knob (9) being interconnected with the drum (14) such that the drum (14) is rotated when the knob (9) is rotated; and a displacement limiter for limiting the length or displacement by which the tension thread (11) may be at least one of wound onto or unwound from the drum (14) by rotating the knob (9).
US10736737B2
A compressible and expandable stent assembly for implantation in a body lumen such as a mitral valve, the stent assembly including at least one stent barrel that is shaped and sized so that it allows for normal operation of adjacent heart structures. One or more stent barrels can be included in the stent assembly, where one or more of the stent barrels can include a cylinder with tapered edge.
US10736734B2
An accommodating intraocular lens (AIOL) for implantation within a capsular bag of a patient's eye comprises first and second components coupled together to define an inner fluid chamber and an outer fluid reservoir. The inner region of the AIOL provides optical power with one or more of the shaped fluid within the inner fluid chamber or the shape of the first or second components. The fluid reservoir comprises a bellows region with one or more folds of the bellows extending circumferentially around an optical axis of the eye. The bellows engages the lens capsule, and a compliant fold region between the inner and outer bellows portions allows the profile of the AIOL to deflect when the eye accommodates for near vision. Fluid transfers between the inner fluid chamber and the outer fluid reservoir to provide optical power changes when the eye accommodates.
US10736729B2
Peripheral arterialization devices and methods of using the same. In an exemplary embodiment of a catheter for facilitating venous arterialization of the present disclosure, the catheter comprises an elongated body extending from a proximal end to a distal end and having a lumen defined therethrough along a longitudinal length of the elongated body, the elongated body configured to attach to a graft at or near the proximal end of the elongated body and further configured to permit fluid to flow through the graft, through the lumen, and out of one or more apertures defined within the elongated body at or near the distal end to facilitate venous arterialization upon at least partial implantation of the catheter into a vein of a patient.
US10736726B2
A mechanical prosthetic heart valve assembly for the provision of surface anticoagulation by generating an electrostatic field of a plurality of negatively charged ions thereon, acting as neo-endothelium on the mechanical prosthetic heart valve, referred as Surface Anticoagulation by Electrical Neo-endothelialization (SAEN). The mechanical prosthetic heart valve assembly comprises a mechanical prosthetic heart valve housing; a pair of mechanical prosthetic heart valve discs; a mechanical prosthetic heart valve sewing ring; an implantable pulse generator serving as a source of electricity for generating the electrostatic field of the plurality of negatively charged ions thereon the surface of the mechanical prosthetic heart valve; a pulse generator bipolar lead connected to the outer surface of the mechanical prosthetic heart valve housing, using an electrode; and a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft sutured to margins of a fenestration on the mechanical prosthetic heart valve sewing ring.
US10736725B2
Described are various embodiments of surgical procedures, systems, implants, devices, tools, and methods, useful for treating pelvic conditions in a male or female, the pelvic conditions including incontinence (various forms such as fecal incontinence, stress urinary incontinence, urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, etc.), vaginal prolapse (including various forms such as enterocele, cystocele, rectocele, apical or vault prolapse, uterine descent, etc.), and other conditions caused by muscle and ligament weakness, the devices and tools including devices and tools for anchoring an implant to tissue.
US10736710B2
A dental valve device having a disposable turret is disclosed having a valve body having a tip receiving end, a hose receiving end, a lumen formed between the tip receiving end and the hose receiving end, an opening formed in the valve body, and a rotatable valve sealing body adapted to being inserted into the opening, the rotatable valve sealing body having a bore for alignment with the lumen formed between the tip receiving end and the hose receiving end, the bore having a tip receiving end opening and a hose receiving end opening, the rotatable valve sealing body having an outer surface having an indentation formed in the outer surface adjacent to the tip receiving end opening with the indentation having an upper ramp portion, a lower ramp portion, and an end having a tab portion.
US10736707B2
A drape management assembly for a robotic surgical system includes a base portion and a grasping portion. The base portion is configured for connection to the robotic surgical system. The grasping portion extends from the base portion and defines a cavity therebetween. The cavity is configured to locate an excess portion of a drape which sheaths at least a robotic arm of the robotic surgical system.
US10736699B2
Disclosed is a navigation system. The navigation system may be used to at least assist in a procedure. The system may assist in delineating objects and/or determining physical boundaries of image elements. The system may assist in planning and/or a workflow of the procedure.
US10736693B2
Diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices and methods that include an elongate shaft, a balloon, a plurality of electrodes carried by the balloon, and electronics to electrically connect the electrodes to a proximal end of the shaft. The devices can include a visualization system within the balloon.
US10736689B2
A non-implantable minimally invasive system for treatment of tissue in a body via direct current ablation is provided. A low-corrosion electrode for use with such system is further provided. In one embodiment the electrode includes a catheter end configured for coupling to a catheter, a tip configured for puncturing the tissue, and a length extending between the catheter and the tip. The length includes an active portion and an insulated portion. The active portion is electrically conductive and is between approximately 3 mm and approximately 12 mm long at an inserted portion of the electrode. The length further comprises an inner core formed of a material having a high resistance to deformation and an outer shell formed of a material having a high resistance to material decomposition.
US10736688B2
Methods and systems for spinal radio frequency neurotomy. Systems include needles capable of applying RF energy to target volumes within a patient. Such target volumes may contain target medial branch nerves along vertebrae or rami proximate the sacrum. Such procedures may be used to ablate or cauterize a portion of the targeted nerve, thus blocking the ability of the nerve to transmit signals to the central nervous system. Disclosed needles may be operable to asymmetrically, relative to a central longitudinal axis of the needle, apply RF energy. Such asymmetry facilitates procedures where a tip of the needle is placed proximate to anatomical structures for location verification. Then RF energy may be applied in a selectable direction relative to the needle tip to ablate volumes that include the targeted medial branch nerves or rami, thus denervating facet joints or the sacroiliac joint, respectively, to relieve pain in a patient.
US10736686B2
A surgical instrument for treating body tissues through narrow body passages employs an elongated cantilevered beam having a proximal end supported in a rigid block and a narrower distal end extendable through the narrow passages. One or more piezoelectric actuators are fixed to the beam surface and energized from an AC source provided by an electrical excitation system through electrodes interspersed with the piezoelectric actuators to produce oscillatory motion of the beam distal end in multiple modes of movement.
US10736683B2
An anchor for a pedicle screw having an anchor body comprising a proximal end, a proximal portion, a distal portion, and a distal end, and a through-hole through the anchor body from the proximal end to the distal end. The through-hole defines a long axis of the anchor, and is provided with undersized female threads in the proximal portion and a reduced inner diameter in the distal portion. The reduced inner diameter causes expansion of at least the distal portion of the anchor body when a screw is inserted into the through-hole. The anchor is further provided with a plurality of ridges on an exterior surface of the anchor body, the ridges configured to reduce the likelihood of pullout when the anchor is inserted into a vertebra and a screw is inserted into the through-hole.
US10736678B2
A compression plate kit that allows for manual compression of a bone discontinuity includes a bone plate, two or more reduction screws, and a compression clamp. The compression clamp can include engagement members configured to engage the reduction screws, thereby allowing a practitioner to compress a bone discontinuity by manually closing the compression clamp. One or more implementations of a kit of the present invention can provide a practitioner with physical or tactile feedback during the compression of a bone discontinuity, and thus, provide the practitioner with the ability to better control the compression and spacing of bone portions during a reduction.
US10736672B2
A surgical instrument includes an actuator. A first member is connected with the actuator and is configured to engage a bone fastener that defines a first implant cavity and a second implant cavity. A second member is connected with the actuator and includes an implant engaging surface having a first portion movable along the first implant cavity and a second portion movable along the second implant cavity. Systems, spinal constructs, implants and methods are disclosed.
US10736671B2
Rod link reducer assemblies, systems, and methods thereof. The rod link reducer assembly provides a manipulator rod having a first end, a second end, and an elongate body extending along a body axis between the first end and the second end. A post extends outwardly from the rod. A rod manipulating joint comprise an elongate joint rod extending along a joint rod axis, a first coupling clamp disposed along the joint rod, the first coupling clamp releasably connectable to the post, and a second coupling clamp disposed along the joint rod adjacent to and rotatable about the joint rod relative to the first coupling clamp. The second coupling clamp is releasably connectable to a shaft. A biasing member is adapted to bias the second clamp against the first clamp.
US10736665B2
A bone fastener comprises a head including a first receiver that defines an implant cavity and a second receiver that defines an implant cavity. The first receiver is connected to the second receiver. A shaft is aligned with the first receiver and configured to engage tissue. A part is disposed within the implant cavity of the second receiver and movable relative thereto in a selected plane of a body. Systems, surgical instruments, spinal constructs, implants and methods are disclosed.
US10736662B2
A system and method for harvesting, storing, and implanting biological units, in particular hair follicular units (FUs). The system is particularly useful to facilitate hair transplant procedures. The system may comprise an implanting tool, a cartridge with a plurality of receptacles for biological units and one or more control mechanisms. The device and cartridge for storing biological units may be incorporated within an overall automated or robotic system, or may form part of a semi-automated or even manual apparatus.
US10736659B2
A cannula assembly configured to receive a surgical instrument therethrough includes an elongated body portion, a housing coupled to a proximal end portion of the elongated body portion, and an annular-shaped light member. The housing defines a longitudinally-extending channel therethrough dimensioned for passage of the surgical instrument. The light member is disposed within the housing and about the channel.
US10736656B2
An intravascular catheter for peri-vascular or peri-urethral tissue ablation includes multiple needles advanced through supported guide tubes which expand around a central axis to engage the interior surface of the wall of the renal artery or other vessel of a human body allowing the injection an ablative fluid for ablating tissue, or nerve fibers in the outer layer or deep to the outer layer of the vessel, or in prostatic tissue. A method can involve injection/infusion of the ablative fluid over an extended time period of at least 10 seconds or with two injections at two different penetration depths to reduce or eliminate patient pain during ablation.
US10736654B2
Exemplary embodiments of apparatus and method for obtaining one or more portions of biological tissue (“micrografts”) to form grafts are provided. For example, a hollow tube can be inserted into tissue at a donor site, and a pin provided within the tube can facilitate controlled removal of the micrograft from the tube. Micrografts can be harvested and directly implanted into an overlying biocompatible matrix through coordinated motion of the tube and pin. A needle can be provided around the tube to facilitate a direct implantation of a micrograft into a remote recipient site or matrix. The exemplary apparatus can include a plurality of such tubes and pins for simultaneous harvesting and/or implanting of a plurality of micrografts. The harvested micrografts can have a small dimension, e.g., less than about 1 mm, which can promote healing of the donor site and/or viability of the harvested tissue.
US10736653B2
Systems, instruments, methods, and compositions are described involving removing a portion of the epidermis within a donor site on a subject, and harvesting dermal plugs within the donor site. An injectable filler is formed by mincing the dermal plugs. The injectable filler is configured for injecting into a recipient site on the subject.
US10736640B2
A tourniquet is presented with a strap including two patterns of cavities and ridges on top and bottom surfaces respectively. The pattern includes a plurality of spaced cavities arranged in parallel rows, the cavity being rectangular and including two first slopes on two short sides respectively and two second slopes on two elongated sides respectively, the first slopes having an elevation greater than that of the second slopes, and the second slopes having an inclined degree greater than that of the first slopes; and a plurality of spaced depressions arranged in parallel rows, the depression being adjacent to the cavity widthwise, the depression being rectangular, and the depression including two third slopes on two short sides respectively and two fourth slopes on two elongated sides respectively. Depths of the cavity and the depression are different.
US10736638B2
A device for applying a tissue healing agent includes an insertion member extending longitudinally from a proximal end to a distal end and including a channel extending therethrough, a delivery element including a first surface and a second surface opposing one another, the delivery element movable between a closed configuration, in which the delivery element is compressed to be received within the channel, and an open configuration, in which the delivery element is substantially planar, and a first tissue healing agent formed in a sheet configuration and disposed on the first surface of the delivery element.
US10736631B2
An end effector for a surgical stapling device includes an anvil, a multiple use loading unit, and an ejector assembly. The multiple use loading unit is pivotally secured to the anvil and includes a channel member defining a cavity and a staple cartridge received within the cavity. The staple cartridge has a distal portion having an angled lower surface. The ejector assembly includes an ejector button that is supported on the channel member and engages the angled lower surface of the staple cartridge such that movement of the ejector button from an advanced position to a retracted position in relation to the channel member lifts the distal portion of the staple cartridge from the cavity of the channel member.
US10736618B2
A modular surgical retractor including a handle and a blade. The handle includes a base and a neck. The neck projects from an end of the base to a tail region. The blade includes a head section and a blade member. The head section includes opposing side walls and a floor combining to define a slot sized to receive the neck. The blade member projects from the head section. The blade is removably attached to the handle. In an attached state, an attachment face of each side wall contacts the end of the base, and the floor contacts the tail region. In some embodiments, a light source, such as an LED, is disposed within the neck and arranged to emit light along a face of the blade member. Two or more additional blades are provided, each additional blade including the head section and a differently configured blade member.
US10736616B2
Surgical instruments having a rotary drive that can selectively actuate multiple end effector functions are described herein. In at least one embodiment, a surgical instrument includes an outer shaft, an end effector coupled to the outer shaft, a rotatable drive shaft coaxially disposed within an inner lumen of the outer shaft, and a plurality of selectively engageable clutches configured to transfer torque from the rotatable drive shaft to the end effector. Each of the clutches is configured to convert the rotation of the drive shaft into one of a plurality of movements of the end effector relative to the outer shaft.
US10736614B2
This disclosure provides an intravascular memory metal puncture needle and the use thereof. The puncture needle comprises a split-shaped structure capable of opening and closing, as well as a metal spiral hollow tube including a plurality of spiral coils, wherein the split-shaped structure and the metal spiral tube are made of memory metal, and the split-shaped structure is composed of a plurality of tapered petals; when the temperature is T1, the pitch between two adjacent spiral coils in the metal spiral tube is decreased, each of tapered petals in the split-shaped structure is closed; when the temperature is T0, the pitch between two adjacent spiral coils in the metal spiral tube is increased, and each of tapered petals is opened. The puncture needle achieves synergistic effect by matching the metal spiral tube with the split-shaped structure, so that it not only move well in the blood vessels, but also accurately pierce the blood vessel wall, and achieve effective sampling for biopsy.
US10736607B2
An integrated circuit array, in particular for two dimensional sensor arrays such as ultrasound imaging systems is disclosed. The integrated circuit array (10) comprises a plurality of integrated circuit elements (12) each formed in a substrate (14), wherein the substrates are separated from each other. The array comprises a flexible and/or stretchable connection layer (22) connected to the integrated circuit elements for flexibly connecting the integrated circuit elements to each other. The array further comprises a plurality of electrical interconnects (18) for electrically connecting the integrated circuit elements to each other, wherein the electrical interconnects are formed as metal lines in one piece with integrated interconnects of the integrated circuit elements.
US10736606B2
An acoustic window layer for an ultrasound array, which layer has an inner surface arranged to face the array and an outer surface arranged to face a patient, and comprising an outer layer comprising a thermoplastic polymer selected from a polyolefin family (TPO) and an elastomer selected from the polyolefin family (POE) blended therein, wherein the outer layer located at the outer surface of the acoustic window layer. In a preferred embodiment the blend comprises a copolymer of ethylene-octene and polymethylpentene. The thermoplastic polyolefin provides the blend with mechanical, chemical stability and low acoustic wave attenuation; whilst the polyolefin elastomer provides a possibility to tune the acoustic impedance of the blend and to further improve its acoustic wave propagation properties.
US10736597B2
A radiographic system comprises: an irradiation control apparatus including a first timer configured to provide a time value for an irradiation timing; and a radiographic apparatus that is communicably connected to the irradiation control apparatus and includes a second timer configured to provide a time value for an imaging timing. The system measures a time difference between a time value of the first timer and a time value of the second timer; corrects at least one timer out of the first timer and the second timer so as to eliminate the time difference using one of a plurality of types of correction processing having different correction periods. The correction processing to be used is selected from the plurality of types of correction processing, based on an operating state of the radiographic apparatus.
US10736595B2
An image control system has a table, a head frame, an imaging system, a rotation system, and a control system. The head frame includes at least one pin which immobilizes a select patient anatomy with respect to the table while the imaging system collects image data through a CT scan process. The CT scan process produces an image of the patient anatomy, with the image including an artifact associated with the at least one pin. The artifact masks an area of interest in the image. The control system determines an angle of rotation which will move the artifact out of the area of interest and rotates at least one of the table, the head frame, and the imaging system by the angle of rotation. A subsequent image produced by the CT scan process includes an image of the patient anatomy with the artifact moved out of the area of interest.
US10736593B2
An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to the embodiment includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, image generating unit generating time-series medical images of vasoganglion in a predetermined organ of a subject, region setting unit setting a first upstream and downstream region of a stenosis location in a first blood vessel in the vasoganglion on the medical images, curve generating unit generating a stenosis upstream and downstream curve indicating a change in pixel value in the time-series based on pixel values included in the first upstream and downstream region respectively, stenosis index generating unit generating a stenosis index indicating the degree of stenosis in the first blood vessel based on the stenosis upstream and downstream curve, and display unit displaying the stenosis index.
US10736581B2
A health monitoring system receives a health condition reading from a mobile device. The health condition reading is compared to ranges of data defining acceptable health conditions. If the health condition reading lies outside one of the ranges of data, then an alert may be generated and sent to the mobile device. The alert informs a user that the health condition reading is unacceptable, perhaps requiring medical attention.
US10736575B2
The disclosure provides a heart rate monitor (HRM) circuit. The HRM circuit includes an analog front end (AFE). The AFE receives a Photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal, and generates a fine PPG signal. A motion cancellation circuit is coupled to the AFE, and receives the fine PPG signal and an accelerometer signal. The motion cancellation circuit subtracts the accelerometer signal from the fine PPG signal to generate a coarse heart rate. A peak detector is coupled to the motion cancellation circuit and the AFE, and generates an instantaneous heart rate. A filter is coupled to the peak detector, and generates an estimated heart rate from the instantaneous heart rate, the estimated heart rate is provided as a feedback to the peak detector.
US10736574B2
A system for monitoring performance of a user includes at least one processor, and at least one memory including a computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the system to perform operations including obtaining force data measured by at least one force sensor coupled with one or more poles and velocity data measured by at least one sensor for measuring velocity of the user, determining poling power based on the force data and the velocity data, and outputting a poling power indicator based on the determined poling power.
US10736573B2
A blood pressure measurement system comprises: a pressure sensor guide wire comprising a pressure sensor located in a distal region of the pressure sensor guide wire; a transceiver unit communicatively coupled to the pressure sensor guide wire, the transceiver unit comprising: a housing adapted to be used external to the human body, a sensor signal adapting circuitry configured to process a signal representing a pressure reading sensed by the pressure sensor to create a processed pressure reading, and a first Bluetooth transceiver configured to wirelessly transmit a signal representing the processed pressure reading; and a second Bluetooth transceiver configured to wirelessly receive the signal representing the processed pressure reading transmitted from the first Bluetooth transceiver, wherein the second Bluetooth transceiver is connected with a personal computer that is configured to display a value representing the processed pressure reading.
US10736569B2
The disclosure provides a wireless biometric monitoring system that may be capable of acquiring, compiling, analyzing, and transmitting biometric data in near real time/real time. The system may utilize either the most up-to-date Bluetooth protocol (currently Bluetooth Smart) or a similar wireless protocol. The system may further integrate through this wireless protocol with peripheral devices to expand the measurement capacity of the system.In embodiments, the system may be capable of monitoring multiple biometric responses including, but not limited to: skin temperature, core temperature, respirations, heart rate, predicted tidal volume, chest wall movement, abdominal movement in conjunction with inspiration, abdominal movement in conjunction with expiration, HRR (heart rate reserve), HRV (heart rate variability), body position relevant to perpendicular, shoulder position relevant to hip position, general body posture, up time, down time, and malfunctions.
US10736563B2
The invention relates to a detection system of an endo-urethral device for an artificial urinary sphincter implantable in the body of a patient, said sphincter comprising an occlusive cuff (2) adapted to compress the urethra, the bladder neck or the prostate of said patient, an activation device (5) of said cuff (2) and a control unit (6) adapted to control the activation device.Said system comprises at least one compression sensor (13) of the urethra and a posture sensor (9), and a processing unit (30) configured to determine: (i) if the compression parameter of the urethra exceeds a predetermined threshold during a predetermined period, (ii) if the patient is in a recumbent position. If the conditions (i) and (ii) are fulfilled, the processing unit sends to the activation device (5) an immediate reduction order of the compression exerted by the cuff (2).
US10736560B2
The present disclosure provides a computer implemented method for automatic detection of teeth clenching and/or teeth grinding in a dataset representing the level of biting force vs. time of a subject, the method comprising the steps of a) calculating a threshold level of biting force assigned to time t=t1 based on a background level determined from the dataset at a prior time t=t1−Tback, where Ttrack is a first predefined period of time, b) checking the level of biting, and if the level of biting force at time, t, exceeds the threshold level assigned to time t for a second predefined period of time, Tclench/grind, then assigning an event of teeth clenching to time t, c) if an event of teeth clenching has been assigned to time t, then either waiting a predefined period of time 10 Twait, or waiting until the level of biting is below the threshold for another predefined period of time Tend, d) if no events of teeth clenching and/or teeth grinding have been assigned for a third predefined period of time Tsilence, then repeating steps a)-c), e) if events of teeth clenching and/or teeth grinding have been assigned for a third predefined period of time Tsilence, then repeating only steps b)-c).
US10736559B2
A method and apparatus for estimating or measuring a physical area or physical volume of an object of interest in one or more images captured using an endoscope are disclosed. According to the present method, one or more structured-light images and one or more regular images captured using an imaging apparatus are received. An object of interest in the regular images is determined. Distance information associated with the object of interest with respect to the imaging apparatus is derived from the structured-light images. The physical area size or physical volume size of the object of interest is determined based on the regular images and the distance information. The imaging apparatus can be a capsule endoscope or an insertion endoscope.
US10736554B2
An apparatus includes a housing, a fluid reservoir, a flow control mechanism, and an actuator. The housing defines an inner volume and has an inlet port that can be fluidically coupled to a patient and an outlet port. The fluid reservoir is disposed in the inner volume to receive and isolate a first volume of a bodily-fluid. The flow control mechanism is rotatable in the housing from a first configuration, in which a first lumen places the inlet port is in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir, and a second configuration, in which a second lumen places the inlet port in fluid communication with the outlet port. The actuator is configured to create a negative pressure in the fluid reservoir and is configured to rotate the flow control mechanism from the first configuration to the second configuration after the first volume of bodily-fluid is received in the fluid reservoir.
US10736547B2
A method and apparatus for inserting at least a portion of a sensor into a patient is provided. Simple and easy to use mechanisms are provided that can position the sensor or any other device accurately with minimal complication. The method and apparatus can include an inserter device for use with the sensor. The method and apparatus can be for use in continuous or semi-continuous monitoring systems such as analyte monitoring systems.
US10736546B2
A device and method for the continuous monitoring of otoacoustic emissions (OAE) levels on an individual worker uses as a pair of earpieces each featuring an external microphone, an internal microphone and a pair of miniature receivers. An adaptive filtering noise rejection processing of the measured distortion product OAE (DPOAE) is used to further improve the Signal-to-Noise ratio in frequencies where passive isolation remains insufficient. The adaptive filtering noise rejection technique relies on a Normalized Least-Mean-Square (NLMS) algorithm that uses the ipsilateral external microphone and the contralateral internal microphone to reject the noise from the measured DPOAE signals for each in-ear OAE probe. A DPOAE signal extraction algorithm provides for an increase in results reliability on a greater dynamic range in DPOAE magnitudes than known methods of DPOAE signal extraction. The device and method is suitable for the continuous monitoring of workers' hearing capabilities in industrial noises up to 75 dB(A).
US10736536B2
One embodiment of the present application sets forth a method for predicting recurrence of cancerous cells in a patient that includes measuring, by a first subset of electrodes included in an electrode array operating at a first frequency, a first impedance of a first section of a first sample of tissue excised from the patient, computing a first Cole relaxation frequency for the first section of the first sample based on the first impedance, and generating a first prediction relating to cancerous cells in the patient based at least in part on the first Cole relaxation frequency.
US10736526B2
A system and a process are provided for evaluating subliminal pixel patterns and identifying trigger patterns, which are pixel patterns that trigger a response in subjects exposed to the pattern. Each pixel pattern is embedded in a digital video or a digital still image. Pixel patterns that are found to induce reactions in subjects are identified as trigger patterns and are flagged for re-testing. Re-tested trigger patterns that repeatably induce reactions are identified as positive trigger patterns and are studied further. Variations are made to a positive trigger pattern to determine whether small changes can affect how a subject responds when exposed to that positive trigger pattern. A positive trigger pattern is evaluated to determine whether it can induce an emotional, a physical, and/or a behavioral change in the subjects and, if so, the positive trigger pattern is applied to a real-world situation.
US10736525B2
Systems and methods are described for detecting and characterizing seizures or seizure-related events. The methods herein may include determining magnitude and/or scaled magnitude data for each of at least one high and low frequency group of signals. Based on the determined magnitudes and/or scaled magnitude data, seizures or seizure-related events may be characterized.
US10736523B2
A handheld device measures all vital signs and some hemodynamic parameters from the human body and transmits measured information wirelessly to a web-based system, where the information can be analyzed by a clinician to help diagnose a patient. The system utilizes our discovery that bio-impedance signals used to determine vital signs and hemodynamic parameters can be measured over a conduction pathway extending from the patient's wrist to a location on their thoracic cavity, e.g. their chest or navel. The device's form factor can include re-usable electrode materials to reduce costs. Measurements made by the handheld device, which use the belly button as a ‘fiducial’ marker, facilitate consistent, daily measurements, thereby reducing positioning errors that reduce accuracy of standard impedance measurements. In this and other ways, the handheld device provides an effective tool for characterizing patients with chronic diseases, such as heart failure, renal disease, and hypertension.
US10736518B2
A patient monitoring system to help manage a patient that is at risk of forming one or more pressure ulcers is disclosed. The system includes a patient-worn wireless sensor that senses the patient's orientation and wirelessly transmits information indicative of the sensed orientation to a patient monitor. The patient monitor receives, stores, and processes the transmitted information. It also displays and transmits information indicative of the patient's orientation to help caregivers manage the patient's risk of formation of one or more pressure ulcers. The patient monitor detects patient turns from one position to another. The system can identify the present orientation of the patient and determine how long the patient has been in the present orientation. If the patient remains in an orientation beyond a predefined duration, the system can notify the patient and/or caretakers that the patient is due to be repositioned.
US10736510B2
Various embodiments described herein relate to a wearable device for monitoring health parameters of a patient. According to various embodiments, a wearable device, associated mobile device, or other user device may receive health parameters of the user obtained by at least one sensor configured to sense one or more health parameters from the user; receive an identification of a medical alert to be provided to third parties with respect to the user, persist the identification of the medical alert in a memory of the user device, and repeatedly transmit at least one of the identification of the medical alert and an indication of the availability of the medical alert via a communications interface of the user device configured to communicate wirelessly with nearby reader devices.
US10736507B2
Systems and method for monitoring patient physiological data are presented herein. In one embodiment, a physiological sensor and a mobile computing device can be connected via a cable or cables, and a processing board can be connected between the sensor and the mobile computing device to conduct advanced signal processing on the data received from the sensor before the data is transmitted for display on the mobile computing device.
US10736499B2
A video processor receives first and second images respectively acquired by an endoscope at first and second timings before and after a predetermined function is applied to a subject, generates first and second correction images respectively using first and second images, generates first and second post-correction images respectively obtained by causing the first and second correction images to act on the first and second images, extracts color components in the second post-correction image to find first and second distribution characteristic values, and calculates a degree of change of the second distribution characteristic value from the first distribution characteristic value.
US10736497B2
A method and a system for anatomical site relocalisation using dual data synchronisation. Method for repositioning, possibly several times, at a specific location, which has been already explored during a first or “reference exploration”, a flexible endoscope during one or more successive endoluminal or extraluminal subsequent or “new exploration”, or similar procedures, wherein the repositioning is realized either manually, by a human user, or automatically, by a robotic system, from or by way of a synchronisation process between a “new exploration” flexible endoscope video and the “reference exploration” flexible endoscope video displayed in parallel on or in two different windows, on one or more screens.
US10736491B2
A distal end of an introducer sheath into a patient's urethra is advanced into a patient's urethra while flowing an irrigation fluid through a lumen and out a distal end of the introducer sheath into the urethra. The irrigation fluid is simultaneously removed from the urethra through the distal end and lumen of the introducer sheath to establish a circulation of the irrigation fluid in the urethra as the introducer sheath is advanced. The urethra may then be viewed through an endoscope positioned in the lumen of the introducer sheath as the irrigation fluid circulation is continued. A unitary connector is detachably coupled to a proximal end of the elongated sleeve, and a fluid seal is disposed between the unitary connector and the proximal end of the elongated sleeve. The unitary connector is configured to connect the first and second channels to the inflow pump and the outflow pump, respectively.
US10736488B2
A flexible tube insertion apparatus includes an insertion section including a bending portion and a flexible tube portion, variable stiffness sections which causes a change in a level of a bending stiffness of the flexible tube portion, a variable stiffness control section which controls the change in the bending stiffness of the flexible tube portion by the variable stiffness sections, an image sensor which images a subject in a forward direction of the bending portion, a cavity detection section which detects a presence of a cavity in the forward direction based on an image from the image sensor, and a time setting section that sets a time period. The bending stiffness is switched each time period set by the time setting section when the cavity detection section has detected the presence of the cavity in the forward direction.
US10736484B2
A detergent dispensing device for a dishwasher that may include a container for accommodating detergent, at least two inlets to the container, which inlets are arranged such that pressurized fluid entering the inlets are applied onto the detergent from different directions, and an outlet via which the detergent dissolved by the pressurized fluid exits the container.
US10736483B2
A method of operating a dishwasher includes a tub that at least partially forms a treating chamber and a reuse tank fluidly coupled to the tub for storing liquid from the tub for subsequent reuse in the treating chamber. The method includes supplying liquid from the reuse tank to the tub, sanitizing liquid in the tub by heating the liquid to a sanitizing temperature by operating a heating element located in the tub and maintaining the liquid at or above the sanitizing temperature for a sanitizing time period sufficient to sanitize the liquid, and supplying the liquid in the tub to the reuse tank after sanitizing to sanitize the reuse tank.
US10736482B2
A carton for holding at least one article. The carton has a plurality of panels that extends at least partially around an interior of the carton. A plurality of end flaps are respectively foldably connected to a respective panel of the plurality of panels for closing an end of the carton. An engagement structure is attached to at least one panel of the plurality of panels. The engagement structure is positioned for receiving the at least one article and activating the at least one article.
US10736479B2
A drive-wheel suspension mechanism for a smart movable device and a smart movable device, include a drive wheel bracket, a gearbox and a resilient reset member. The drive wheel bracket is provided with at least one set of sliding slot assembly arranged oppositely. The sliding slot assembly includes two first sliding slots arranged opposite to each other, and the first sliding slot extends rearward and an included angle between the first sliding slot and a horizontal plane is greater than or equal to 0 degree.
US10736478B2
The present invention relates to a vacuum cleaner robot comprising a floor nozzle supported on wheels and a dust collection unit, wherein the floor nozzle comprises a driving device for driving at least one of the wheels of the floor nozzle, wherein one of the wheels, a plurality of or all of the wheels of the floor nozzle are omnidirectional wheels, wherein the floor nozzle comprises a base plate with a base surface, which, when the vacuum cleaner robot is in operation, faces the surface to be cleaned, the base plate having provided therein an air flow channel, which extends parallel to the base surface and through which air to be cleaned enters the floor nozzle, and wherein the floor nozzle comprises a rotating means for rotating the air flow channel about an axis perpendicular to the base surface.
US10736472B1
Invention is a lathering and body scrubbing cleansing device comprised of a silicone and mesh pod portion which contains at least one soap additive as well as the method of making the same. When wet, and with application of soft, squeezing type manual pressure by the user, the device will produce a frothy, abundant lather delivered through several mesh protrusions located on top of the pod. Inside the pod additional soap additive is housed and mesh tubing is secured and supported. On the outside, lower portion of the pod, a silicone handle allows end user to slide fingers through and palm device. The 2 pod halves are sealed together along perimeter creating a completed structure. Being lightweight, this body cleansing device can be comfortably and freely maneuvered over the skin's surface for an exhilarating cleansing experience.
US10736471B2
A foam soap-providing machine with function of recycling soap-liquid, which comprises: a container containing a soap-liquid and having a soap-releasing portion; a shell-group including at least two detachable shell-bodies combinedly disposed on the outer peripheral surface of the soap-releasing portion; and a faucet mounted on the upper end of the soap-releasing portion and having a soap-feeding portion provided for flowing out the pressurized soap-liquid; wherein the soap-feeding portion has a joint end; wherein a foam-generating module used to generate a foam and a foam-recycling module used to recycle the extruded unused foam are comprised in the shell-group; thereby it can generate foam and recycle the remaining foam in the soap-releasing portion through a single motor. Accordingly, the present invention greatly saves the structural volume and prevents the soap-liquid from being dropped outside and wasted.
US10736469B2
A tub or shower surround kit, system, and method are disclosed. An example system for constructing a tub surround, shower surround, and wall covering includes a plurality of components including at least one panel, at least one edge component, and at least one interconnecting component. The example system also includes a tongue or lip of a first of the plurality of components configured to fit into a groove of a second of the plurality of components. The example system also includes a tongue or lip of the second of the plurality of components to fit into a groove of the first of the plurality of components. Any number of the plurality of components are connected adjacent a desired wall geometry to provide an assembled version of the tub surround, shower surround, and wall covering.
US10736466B2
Rice-washing work can be easily performed by anyone, and proper rice-washing of various kinds of rice can be performed irrespective of an amount of rice. Namely, conventional apparatuses have not dealt with water absorption, infiltration, swelling, weakening, dissolving, and unpleasant taste, making it difficult to secure Japanese style rice quality in a white rice state. The present invention provides a rice-polishing technique for reproducing the quality. Provided is a rice washer that can be installed in a saved space not to cause obstruction even when installed in a kitchen. The rice washer according to the present invention includes a charging part into which milled rice is charged; a pressurized-stirring part provided at a rear-stage of the charging part and configured to, while pressurizing, stir and sequentially feed the milled rice charged from the charging part; a first water supply part configured to supply water to the pressurized-stirring part.
US10736459B2
The utility model discloses a milk foam generator of a coffee maker, comprising a milk tank, wherein the top part of the milk tank is provided with a support, a foam generator body is placed on the support, the foam generator body is respectively connected to an inlet milk pipe, a steam pipe and a milk foam sprayer, the foam generator body is internally provided with a first emulsification chamber, the first emulsification chamber is communicated with an air inlet channel, and the air inlet channel is internally provided with an air inlet adjustment member. The utility model has a simple structure, and is convenient for adjusting the emulsification effect of the milk foams.
US10736449B2
A reusable drinking straw that is foldable into a compact configuration for storage and easily transportable in a storage case. The straw comprises a rigid external tube and a flexible internal tubing that is foldable to a compact configuration for storage. In a folded configuration, the reusable straw has a significantly reduced length of approximately one-half to one-fourth of its extended length when in use. The external tube of the straw is preferably formed of multiple rigid segments for supporting the flexible internal tubing in the extended configuration during use as a drinking straw. A simple cleaning device is provided to clean the straw after use. A storage case is provided to store the straw in the folded configuration in a compact form and to store the cleaning device.
US10736447B2
Improvements in a spoon that reduces the dripping of liquids is disclosed. The spoon is used for the preparing, serving and eating food. The spoon has a structure that reduces or prevents dripping from a bottom surface of the spoon. The spoon has a bowl with an interior and a back surface. A neck is attached to the bowl. A handle extends from the neck. The bowl has a divot that extends from the back surface of the bowl inward into the interior of the bowl. The divot provides an annular or elliptical enlarged surface to eliminate the radius bottom of a spoon to reduce the potential for drops forming and dropping from the bottom of the bowl.
US10736445B1
A beverage container system may include a vessel having an interior volume for containing a beverage and shell having an interior volume for removably coupling vessel therein. The shell may include an inner wall, an outer sidewall, and a sealed volume between the inner wall and the outer wall. The sealed volume may be at a vacuum pressure. The vessel may be constructed from glass while the shell may be constructed from a durable material such as stainless steel.
US10736444B1
An adjustable body pillow with connectors for arranging the pillow in multiple configurations. The pillow includes a center section, a first shorter leg, a second longer leg, and a plurality of connectors. Each connector is connectable to each other connector. The connectors include a first connector on the free end of the shorter leg, a second connector on the outer periphery of the body pillow at the junction between the other end of the shorter leg and one end of the center section, a third connector in the body receiving space at the junction between one end of the longer leg and the other end of the center section, and a fourth connector on the free end of the longer leg. Using the connectors, the body pillow can be arranged in various positions depending on the changing needs of the user.
US10736433B2
The present invention relates to a fire resistant, double knit fabric and methods of manufacturing the same. The fire barrier double knit fabric of the present invention includes a face side having a yard including a fire retardant fiber, and a back side having a yard including a charring yarn. The fabric resistant fabric of the present invention can be made in a stretchable tubular sock that can be used on all mattress widths (one size fits all) or as an open form for upholstering, lamination of mattress ticking.
US10736427B1
A chin rest includes a body having opposing sides, a front, a back, a top having a top surface, and a bottom having a bottom surface. The top further defines a top plane between a front and back of the top, and the bottom defines a bottom plane between a front of the bottom and a back of the bottom. The top plane and bottom plane form an angle so that the chin rest can comfortable sit between a user's chin and the user's chest, with the user's chin resting on the top surface, and the bottom surface engaged against the user's upper chest. The user's head can be comfortably supported while the user is seated, allowing the user to relax muscles in the neck and avoid strain and other issues normally associated with resting without support in a seated position.
US10736423B2
The invention concerns a seat back (10) for an article of adjustable furniture comprising: a frame (12), at least one movable support section (14, 80) mounted for angular adjustment with respect to the frame; cam means (64) associated with one of the frame and the movable support section, cam follower means (58) associated with the other of the frame and the movable support section; actuator means (38) for moving said cam means or cam follower means associated with the frame with respect to the frame; whereby movement of said actuator means effects relative movement of said cam means with respect to said cam follower means and said relative movement effects angular adjustment of said support section relative to the frame to alter the seat back configuration. The present invention contemplates embodiments where the support section(s) comprise(s) an adjustable head rest (14), an adjustable lumbar support (80) or both.
US10736422B2
A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, a first structure, a second structure and a disengaging member. The disengaging member is arranged at a position on the second rail to be conveniently operated by a user. When the second rail is moved relative to the first rail to an extended position, the first structure and the second structure are configured to be engaged with each other, in order to hold the second rail at the extended position. Wherein, the disengaging member is configured to disengage the first structure from the second structure.
US10736420B2
A bracket device includes a bracket, a fastening member and a resilient member. The bracket includes a longitudinal wall and at least one mounting member mounted adjacent thereto. The fastening member is longitudinally displaceable with respect to the bracket and includes a side wall and a fastening portion bent with respect to the side wall. The resilient member is for providing a resilient force to the bracket and the fastening member. The bracket is arranged with a first engaging feature, and the fastening member is arranged with a second engaging feature. When the fastening member displaces with respect to the bracket from a first position to a second position, the fastening portion is close to the at least one mounting member, and the first engaging feature is engaged with the second engaging feature, such that the fastening member is kept at the second position with respect to the bracket.
US10736418B2
A storage assembly for vertical storage of a plurality of beer kegs. The storage assembly includes a frame comprising two vertical members and a series of attached horizontal members to support vertically stored beer kegs. The storage assembly has an inferior shelf and a superior shelf. The superior horizontal frame member comprises a centrally attached hook having a part which is positioned through an aperture of the superior keg to provide secure positioning on the superior shelf.
US10736395B2
An applicator-equipped aerosol container includes an aerosol main body, and an applicator that includes comb-teeth attached to an upper end section of the aerosol main body. Contents of the applicator-equipped aerosol container may be, for example, chemical agents, cleaning agents or hair treating agents. Contents can be ejected from the applicator-equipped aerosol container by pressing down on a stem part of the container such that contents are dispensed from the aerosol main body of the container through the comb-teeth.
US10736394B2
Hair curling devices comprise a length of multi-stranded solid copper wire having ring crimp terminals secured to opposing ends. A fabric tube is situated about the length of multi-stranded copper wire and has first and second end portions that define corresponding fabric holes. The fabric tube is secured to the ring crimp terminals and prior to attachment, is longer that the wire/ring crimp terminal assembly so that the fabric tube is gathered about the multi-stranded copper wire. Hair bundles captured by the hair curling device form hair curls after a suitable exposure period. In some examples, flexible members other than copper wire are used, and the fabric tube and the wire/ring crimp terminal assembly can be secured to form a straight section or to form a loop.
US10736392B2
A luggage with transverse displacement wheels includes a luggage body (1) having a giving-away surface (16) located on the junction between the bottom panel (13) and back panel (11) thereof, a transverse displacement wheel (2) mounted to each side panel (15) of the luggage body (1). The transverse displacement wheel (2) includes a wheel holder (21) coupled to one respective side panel (15) near the giving-away surface (16) and a tire (22) pivotally mounted on the wheel holder (21). The wheel holder (21) is transversely slidable relative to the luggage body (1) and lockable to the luggage body (1) in one of a series of positions near or far from the front panel (12) to let a relatively smaller or larger part of the tire (22) protrude over the giving-away surface (16), facilitating storage or moving on stairs of an uneven road surface.
US10736388B2
A protective apparatus includes a gemstone and a foreign material encapsulated and physically isolated within an interior space of the gemstone. The gemstone is one of a precious gemstone or a semi-precious gemstone or a semi-precious stone.
US10736386B1
A wearable jewelry device is a continuous ring shaped base member including an interior side, an exterior side, and a circumferential channel defined in the exterior side, the channel having a depth and extending annularly around a circumference of the exterior side of the base member; and a continuous annular decorative band removably receivable within the channel of the base member. The decorative band has a thickness that is substantially equal to the depth of the channel such that the decorative band is flush with the exterior side of the base member when the decorative band is received within the channel. The base member and the decorative band are formed from a resilient material.
US10736383B2
A device for use in securing two or more laces on an article of clothing includes (a) a piece of flexible and elastic material having shear-resistive properties and an initial disk-like shape and (b) a hole formed in the material. When the laces are inserted through the hole a first time, wrapped together around a portion of the piece of material, inserted together through the hole a second time, and pulled tightly in opposite directions, the material deforms to (1) assume a self-herniated shape in which the material grips the laces and folds upon itself and the laces toward the hole, and (2) retain the self-herniated shape and secure the laces in place after pulling forces are removed from the laces.
US10736379B2
An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole structure coupled to the upper. The sole structure and the upper collectively define an interior cavity therebetween. The sole structure further includes a reinforcing element spanning from the sole structure to the upper within the interior cavity.
US10736374B2
A type variable helmet includes a half face unit formed to cover an upper part of a user's head, and an under face unit detachably attached to a lower part of the half face unit and configured to cover a lower part of the head of the user.
US10736372B2
A protective football helmet is provided having a one-piece molded shell with an impact attenuation system. This system includes an impact attenuation member formed in an extent of the front shell portion by removing material from the front portion. The impact attenuation member changes how a portion of the shell having the impact attenuation member responds to an impact force having a component applied substantially normal to the impact attenuation member as compared to how the left and right side portions respond to the impact force.
US10736370B2
A protective wearable system comprises a helmet for providing protection and enhancing safety to a rider on a vehicle. In one embodiment, the helmet comprises a LED display configured to produce visual information to vehicles and pedestrians surrounding the rider. The helmet further comprises a control module and a communication module configured to establish a point-to-multipoint communication group such that the rider can transmit or receive real-time and/or just-in-time information to other members of a riding group. The protective wearable system further comprises one or more illuminated wearables and accessories configured to produce light signals for clearly depicting silhouette of the rider and synchronized to the helmet for making the rider more visible and identifiable to nearby motorists.
US10736365B2
An intelligent bra includes a main body and an air pump. The main body includes a connection base connected with a cup set, two back bands and two fixing elements. The cup set includes a first cup, a second cup and a central part defined between the first cup and the second cup. The cup set includes an outer layer, an inner layer and an air bag layer. The air bag layer is disposed between the outer layer and the inner layer. A connection end of an airflow channel of the air bag layer is disposed on the central part. The two back bands are respectively connected with the connection base. The two fixing elements are disposed on the lateral sides of the two back bands, respectively. The air pump is detachably connected with the connection end, so as to adjust an inner pressure of the air bag layer.
US10736358B2
A flue-cured tobacco device and a heating control method thereof, the flue-cured tobacco device comprises a shell, an opening section is provided at an end of the shell, a fixing canister communicating with the opening section is provided in the shell, an end of the fixing canister is communicated with a first receiving section and a second receiving section successively, at least one net filter layer structure is defined in the first receiving section, a heating element is defined in the second receiving section; one end of a cigarette inserts into the first receiving section to abut the filter layer structure, the other end of the cigarette extends out the shell from the opening section. The flue-cured tobacco device of present invention makes users experience a taste of a real cigarette without the condition of producing tar, and the taste of the cigarette is soft to improve the users' experience.
US10736356B2
At least one example embodiment discloses a section of an electronic-vaping device including a pressure sensor configured to measure a current ambient pressure, the pressure sensor further configured to output the current ambient pressure measurement in accordance with a read request frequency, and a controller configured to determine a mode of operation of the electronic-vaping device, control the read request frequency based on the determined mode of operation, and detect a threshold pressure change based on the current ambient pressure and a baseline pressure.
US10736354B2
A smokeless tobacco product includes smokeless tobacco and structural fibers. The structural fibers forming a network in which the smokeless tobacco is entangled. The structural fibers have a composition different from the smokeless tobacco. The tobacco-entangled fabric can have an overall oven volatiles content of at least 10 weight percent. In some embodiments, the structural fibers form a nonwoven network. In some embodiments, fibrous structures of the smokeless tobacco are entangled with the structural fibers.
US10736353B1
A cigar cutting apparatus has a circular body with a front housing and a rear housing, a left cutting blade assembly, a right cutting blade assembly, a blade opening actuator. A scissors mechanism communicates between the actuator and the blade assemblies and is adapted to retain the blade assemblies in the closed state and to selectably allow the blade assemblies to move to the open state. The front housing has a cigar-receiving through-hole and the rear housing has a cigar-impeding closed back wall.
US10736350B2
The invention relates to a method for producing pouched smokeless tobacco products for oral use as well as to a pouched smokeless tobacco product obtainable using this method. The method comprises heat-treating an initial tobacco preparation having water content below 20% w/w, providing a smokeless tobacco composition comprising the heat-treated tobacco preparation and enclosing portions of said smokeless tobacco composition in saliva-permeable pouch material.
US10736344B2
The disclosure provides methods and processes for the preparation of oil-in-water emulsions by mechanical means and injection of the emulsions into meat and poultry to improve eating qualities associated with flavour, juiciness, tenderness and fat content. The disclosure also provides a meat or poultry product prepared by the methods described herein.
US10736343B2
An antimicrobial composition for extending the shelf-life of water, feed or feed ingredients, comprising: water, a mixture of CrC18 organic acids, a mixture of CrC24 aldehydes, 5-25 wt. % pelargonic acid, and 5-30 wt. % trans-2-hexenal.
US10736341B1
A carbonated water beverage having electrolytes to provide cations including potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium cations. The carbonated water beverage also is substantially sulfate-free and has a total cation fluid concentration of at least 10 mmol/l.
US10736327B2
A method for treating Black Sigatoka fungus in crops of the Musaceae family by applying a fungicidal composition comprising garlic oil, rosemary oil, thyme oil and cinnamon oil.
US10736321B2
The present disclosure relates to fungicidal active compounds, more specifically to benzosultams and analogues thereof, processes and, intermediates for their preparation and use thereof as fungicidal active compound, particularly in the form of fungicide compositions. The present disclosure also relates to methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi of plants using these compounds or compositions comprising thereof.
US10736320B2
Pesticidally active polycyclic derivatives with 5-membered sulfur containing heterocyclic ring systems of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US10736312B2
An animal trap, according to one embodiment, includes: a first portion having upper and a lower ends; a second portion in sliding relationship with the first portion, the first and second portions being relatively positionable between cocked and deployed positions; a biasing mechanism for biasing the first and second portions towards the deployed position; a trigger mechanism for selectively locking the first and second portions in the cocked position; and an end unit removably coupled to the lower end of the first portion. The end unit includes: a base; at least two unique members extending from a bottom end of the base; and a bottom portion coupled to a distal end of each of the unique members. A first end of each of the unique members is coupled to the base, while each of the distal ends are at a second end of each of the unique members.
US10736306B1
A hummingbird feeder having the unique features of an umbrella-shaped member containing insect repellent on a retaining post to repel insects from entering the nectar retaining basin. Also included is a multiplicity of shaped openings that are made of silicone and which are removably affixed to the cover of the nectar retaining basin to facilitate easy cleaning of the shaped openings.
US10736289B2
The presently disclosed subject matter relates to methods and compositions for identifying, selecting, and/or producing drought tolerant maize plants or germplasm. Maize plants or germplasm that have been identified, selected, and/or produced by any of the methods of the presently disclosed subject matter are also provided.
US10736274B2
A growing system is equipped with a mixing box that features a PLC-controlled cooling coil and a heating coil in series. Gaseous inputs include air and CO2. The coils facilitate condensation and maintain relative humidity and temperature in an acceptable range. An absorption unit or other chilled liquid source supplies chilled liquid for the cooling coil. Engine or boiler combustion provides hot liquid to the heating coil and CO2-containing exhaust. Condensate is collected for reuse. The output to a growing space is a temperate low relative humidity CO2-enriched stream optimal for plant health.
US10736263B2
A spreader includes a frame having wheels mounted on an axle. A gear assembly on the axle is coupled with a shaft. A hopper is mounted on the frame and holds particulate that empties through an opening within the bottom wall. An impeller is mounted on the shaft and receives the particulate emptied from the hopper. A controlled-release assembly is mounted about the shaft and includes a drive housing secured to the hopper. The drive housing has a funnel opening to dispense the particulate therethrough. A transfer wheel within the drive housing is rotatably coupled to the shaft. When the shaft is rotating, the transfer wheel rotates whereby the particulate is delivered to the funnel. When the shaft is stationary, the transfer wheel is stationary whereby particulate is not delivered to the funnel.
US10736256B2
A work vehicle includes a touch-panel display, at least one first physical button, and the circuitry. The touch-panel display is to display at least one first touch button, at least one first function, and work information. The at least one function is displayed in the at least one first touch button to which the at least one first function is assigned. The work information includes a state of work which the work vehicle performs. The at least one first physical button is provided outside the touch-panel display. The at least one first function is assigned to the at least one first physical button. The circuitry is configured to change the at least one first function assigned to the at least one first touch button and the at least one first physical button in accordance with the work information.
US10743451B2
Electronic component supply device of the present invention includes multiple feeders each having an individual control section configured to operate by use of operation software to control a tape feeding mechanism, a host control section capable of holding update software configured to be replaced with at least part of the operation software, and multiple information transmission sections connected between the host control section and the individual control sections of the multiple feeders so as to transmit information and configured to transmit the update software from the host control section to the individual control sections independently of one another. According to this configuration, the multiple information transmission sections can transmit the update software to the different feeders in parallel in terms of time, whereby the updating time can be shortened significantly compared with a case where update software is transmitted sequentially to multiple feeders.
US10743437B2
A flexible and inexpensive solution for mounting telecommunication equipment to a structure. For example, a mounting bracket for mounting telecommunication equipment to the structure is described. The mounting bracket comprises an upper end and an opposite lower end. A surface between the upper end and the opposite lower end is adapted to abut the telecommunication equipment. The upper end has an essentially semi-circular protrusion. This essentially semi-circular protrusion is adapted to pivotally engage with a corresponding hook-like protrusion of a mounting rail in a locking manner. Moreover, the lower opposite end of the mounting bracket comprises a protrusion that is substantially perpendicular to said surface and that extends in a direction away from said surface. This protrusion includes at least one fastener which is adapted to engage with a corresponding end of the mounting rail such that the mounting rail can be locked to the mounting bracket.
US10743431B2
An electronic device includes: a casing having an opening that houses a connection terminal inside; and a terminal cover that seals the opening such that the connection terminal is not exposed. The terminal cover includes a lid that seals the opening and a fixing part that fixes the terminal cover to the casing. The lid includes a protrusion and a cushion member, the cushion member being mounted around the protrusion and having a surface lower than a surface of the protrusion. The cushion member seals the opening by being in close contact with a member provided around the opening.
US10743429B2
The present invention relates to a rollable display device. A rollable display device includes a display module including a flexible display panel; and a support unit disposed at a rear surface of the display module and including a bar-shaped rigid plate and a cover configured to fix the rigid plate to the rear surface of the display module, wherein the bar-shaped rigid plate has a first hardness, and wherein the bar-shaped rigid plate is in close contact with and fixed to the cover having a second hardness lower than the first hardness, so that the bar-shaped rigid plate is free from the display module. The rollable display device may have improved rigidity in an unrolled state.
US10743420B2
Methods and composition sets for forming etch-resist masks on a metallic surface are provided. The method may include applying a composition comprising a first reactive component onto a metallic surface to form a primer layer; and image-wise printing by a nonimpact printing process on the primer layer another composition comprising a second reactive component to produce an etch-resist mask, wherein when droplets of the second composition contact the primer layer, the reactive components undergo a chemical reaction so as to immobilize the droplets. The set may include a first liquid composition comprising a fixating reactive component and a second liquid composition comprising an etch-resist reactive component, wherein the fixating reactive component and the fixating reactive component are capable undergoing a chemical reaction to form a bi-component material that is insoluble in water and in an acidic etch solution.
US10743395B2
A DC power supply for lighting includes low voltage driver electronics for any suitable load such as lighting along with a supervisory controller that communicates to the driver electronics via any suitable digital communication protocol. Each driver's output ports include a 3rd wire that communicates to the low voltage load fixture for the purpose of auto-negotiating the appropriate power level without first having to energize the fixture.
US10743382B1
A resonant power converter and method for limiting the output power using a voltage sensing circuit across the output is provided herein. The voltage sensing circuit feeds a sensed voltage back to a feedback circuit which produces an error voltage based on the difference between the sensed voltage and a reference voltage. The error signal is fed back to a current control circuit to dynamically adjust the operating frequency and maintains a constant output voltage. The current control circuit accurately sets the minimum and maximum operating frequencies of a self-oscillating integrated circuit. By accurately setting the minimum frequency, a maximum output power of the converter can be controlled.
US10743377B2
Disclosed are induction heating cells comprising tensioning members with non-magnetic metal cores. Also disclosed are methods of operating such cells, for example, to process composite parts. The non-magnetic metal cores of the tensioning members provide excellent tensile strength. Furthermore, the non-magnetic metal cores allow forming long tensioning members leading to large induction heating cells for processing large composite parts, such aircraft fuselage parts, wing parts, and the like. The diameter of these non-magnetic metal cores is less than the induction heating threshold for magnetic fields used during operation of the cells, which ensures limited or no interaction of the cores with the magnetic fields. The cores can be arranged into a tensioning member extending through and compressing the die of an induction heating cell. When multiple cores are used, these cores are electrically insulated from each other, e.g., using an insulating shell or spacing these cores away from each other.
US10743375B2
A pane arrangement directed to a heatable composite pane having a capacitive switching region, including a substrate and a cover pane is disclosed. At least one intermediate layer is arranged between the substrate and the cover pane. A carrier film having an electrically conductive layer is arranged between the substrate and the intermediate layer or between the cover pane and the first intermediate layer. The electrically conductive layer forms a capacitive switching region having a contact region, a supply line region, and a connection region. The supply line region electrically connects the contact region to the connection region that can be electrically connected to a sensor electronics system. A heating wire and at least two busbars are arranged between the substrate and the cover pane, wherein one end of the heating wire is electrically connected to one of the busbars. A capacitive sensor electronics system is electrically connected to the connection region via a first input and to the heating wire or to the busbars via a second input.
US10743356B2
A wireless communication apparatus, system or method utilizing directional data transmission over a communication (e.g., mmW) band, and broadcasting time and directional allocations in each direction. Stations transmit beacons containing time, directional allocations and unallocated slots in their direction of transmission. Stations comparing beam identifications with received allocation to determine if the allocation is in the direction of reception. Stations performing receiver beamforming with a station from which a beacon was received in order to determine if the station can access the direction (channel) in its intended direction.
US10743347B2
Methods, apparatus and systems supporting coexistence of wireless devices and equipment in shared wireless medium environments through the use of multiple PHYs. The techniques provided herein may be applied to various types of wireless devices and equipment. Under one example, a wireless device transmits and/or receives signals using one or more frequencies and/or channels within shared wireless medium environments in which other wireless equipment is operating, such as access points and stations in wireless local area networks (WLANs). The wireless devices are configured to coexist with the operations of the other wireless equipment within the shared wireless medium environment by adapting its transmission operations to utilize frequencies or channels that do not interfere with other equipment and/or implementing co-channel and shared channels operations under which access to channels is implemented using standardized WLAN protocols such as, but not limited to PHY and MAC protocols used for 802.11 (Wi-Fi™) networks.
US10743341B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for processing an uplink grant of which a resource size is zero in wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting uplink data; receiving uplink grant after the uplink data is transmitted; considering that the uplink data transmission is performed successfully, if a resource size of the uplink grant is ‘zero’; and performing a Hybrid-ARQ (HARQ) process of the uplink data as successful uplink transmission.
US10743338B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Wireless communications systems as described herein may be configured to support several service types with different latency, reliability, or throughput rates or standards. One such service type may be referred to as ultra-reliable, low-latency communications (URLLC). Enhancements to improve URLLC performance in coexistence with and as a complement to legacy service types, such as LTE are described. These include, for example, enhanced timing resource allocations, enhanced transmission repetition schemes, enhanced feedback mechanisms, or a combination of these features to achieve certain reliability and latency targets.
US10743337B2
A method and apparatus for receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for a short transmission time interval (TTI) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a downlink control information (DCI) format, which schedules the PDSCH for the short TTI in at least one group of bandwidths among an entire system bandwidth, from an eNodeB (eNB), and receives the PDSCH for the short TTI in the at least one group of bandwidth from the eNB. A length of the short TTI is less than 1 ms.
US10743336B2
A method of indicating resources in periodically occurring resource pools according to some embodiments includes, in a radio communication device, transmitting a scheduling assignment message on a shared medium during a predefined period that is defined for the transmission of scheduling assignment messages, wherein the scheduling assignment message indicates resources in a plurality of the periodically occurring resource pools for transmission of a data message; and transmitting the data message in the identified resources in the plurality of the periodically occurring resource pools. Related radio communication devices are also disclosed.
US10743334B2
A user equipment is configured for use in a wireless communication system. The user equipment in particular is configured to receive from a base station one or more configuration messages that indicate a pattern of downlink transmission gaps in time. The user equipment is further configured to receive from the base station a scheduled downlink transmission that comprises a downlink data block and one or more repetitions of the downlink data block. The scheduled downlink transmission is received with downlink transmission gaps therein according to the indicated pattern. Alternatively or additionally, the user equipment is configured to transmit a scheduled uplink transmission that comprises an uplink data block and one or more repetitions of the uplink data block. In this case, the scheduled uplink transmission is transmitted with uplink transmission gaps therein according to an uplink transmission gap pattern that specifies a pattern of uplink transmission gaps in time.
US10743331B2
A system includes a processor configured to receive a data transfer request including a data transfer constraint. The processor is also configured to receive a vehicle route. The processor is further configured to determine wireless network availability along the route based on known wireless network locations. Additionally, the processor is configured to determine a route window where wireless network availability indicates that a wireless network is available that meets the data transfer constraint and schedule data transfer to occur during the route window.
US10743325B2
Techniques for channel selection and related operations in a shared spectrum environment are disclosed. In one example, a channel selector or the like may be used to select one of a number of available channels as an operating channel based on a comparison of cost functions for each of the available channels, with the cost functions being based on separate utility and penalty metrics. In another example, a channel scanner or the like may be used to trigger a channel scan in response to a channel quality metric indicating poor service for a threshold number or proportion of access terminals. In another example, an operating mode controller may be used to trigger a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) mode on an operating channel in response to a utilization metric being above a threshold. The TDM mode may cycle operation between activated and deactivated periods in accordance with a TDM communication pattern.
US10743323B2
A communications device transmitting/receiving signals to/from a mobile communications network includes one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface for the communications device. The wireless access interface includes plural communications resource elements across a host frequency range of a host carrier, and a first section of the communications resources within a first frequency range for preferable allocation to reduced capability devices forming a first reduced bandwidth carrier and a second section of the communications resources within a second frequency range for preferable allocation to the reduced capability devices forming a second reduced bandwidth carrier. Each of the first and second frequency ranges is within the host frequency range. The communications device is configured with a reduced capability to receive the signals only within a frequency bandwidth less than the host frequency range and equal to at least one of the first frequency range or the second frequency range.
US10743314B2
The present disclosure provides a mobile communications system and method for communicating data to and/or from mobile communications devices. The method includes receiving, by a mobile terminal, a signal on a downlink, detecting a reduced bandwidth carrier on the downlink, and receiving downlink communications via the reduced bandwidth carrier, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is configured to provide a first set of resource elements within first frequency resources that are within and smaller than second frequency resources that are used by a host carrier to provide a second set of resource elements, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is provided in the first frequency resources in a first sub-frame, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is provided in third frequency resources in a second sub-frame after the first sub-frame, and wherein the third frequency resources are within and smaller than the first frequency resources.
US10743307B2
A device for communication includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to determine whether to generate a trigger message as a unicast message or a broadcast message. The transmitter is configured to transmit, based on the determination, the trigger message to a second device or to a plurality of devices.
US10743305B2
A method for communicating messages in a channel of a wireless communication network is provided. In the channel, successive cycles, each of which including a predetermined number of successive time slots, are defined. The method may include: a first node obtaining a first list of its neighboring nodes before a first qth time slot; broadcasting a first message in the first qth time slot; receiving acknowledge information from other nodes within the network for one cycle after the first qth time slot; obtaining a second list of its neighboring nodes after the first qth time slot; and determining whether qth time slots are proper for communicating messages by the first node by checking whether all nodes on both the first and the second lists have received the first message based on the received acknowledge information, each piece of which indicates whether a corresponding node has received the first message.
US10743303B2
There are provided an apparatus, a method and a system. The apparatus, at a first node, comprises: a transmitter, operative to transmit control channels and/or user shared channels to a second node; and a controller, operative to make different interpretations on time and/or frequency position indications in a control signaling for transmission of the user shared channels according to a subframe scheduling mode.
US10743301B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for allocating wireless resources for transmitting or receiving data in a wireless LAN. The method for allocating the wireless resources in the wireless LAN can comprise the steps of: allocating, by an access point (AP), each of the plurality of wireless resources for each of a plurality of stations (STAs) over the entire bandwidth; and transmitting, by the AP, a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) to each of the plurality of STAs through each of the plurality of wireless resources, wherein each of the plurality of wireless resources can be a combination of a plurality of wireless resource units defined as having different sizes from each other on a frequency axis.
US10743294B2
A modified subframe structure is defined for a subset of a plurality of subframes. The modified subframe structure includes a first portion with one or more blank symbols over which a network node can measure monitor to determine whether the subframe is used as a downlink (or uplink) subframe by a neighboring network node. The modified subframe structure can also include a second portion of symbols for communicating control information or data in the subframe, which can be based on determining whether the subframe is used as a downlink (or uplink) subframe by the neighboring network node. This can lessen the impact of possible interference caused by the network nodes dynamically switching time division duplexing (TDD) subframe configurations by enabling network nodes to determine when a neighboring node is transmitting in a subframe, and accordingly avoiding transmitting in the subframe.
US10743293B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to determine access control and channel and signaling priority. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may comprise a processor configured, at least in part, to determine device-to-device (D2D) data to be transmitted. The WTRU may determine if the D2D data may be transmitted. The WTRU may determine available scheduling assignment (SA) resources used for priority based D2D data signals. The WTRU may select one or more available SA resources used for priority based D2D data signals. The WTRU may transmit the D2D data, wherein the D2D data may be transmitted on the selected SA resources.
US10743267B2
A method in wireless device (110) is disclosed. The method comprises determining (404) a synchronization source for the wireless device, and determining (408) a synchronization priority of the synchronization source. The method comprises determining (412) one or more rules for dropping transmissions of sidelink synchronization signals, the one or more rules corresponding to the synchronization priority of the synchronization source. The method comprises dropping (416) transmissions of sidelink synchronization signals according to the determined one or more rules for dropping transmissions of sidelink synchronization signals.
US10743256B2
Apparatuses and methods for controlling a manner of delivering content to a content user in a mobile telecommunication network are provided. The content is sent to the content user using first a first transmission rate when the content user is in a first radio state and uses a first battery power, and then using a second transmission rate that is lower than the first transmission rate, when the content user is in a second radio state and uses a second battery power that is smaller than the first battery power. The sending is performed such as, (A) while delivering the content, an amount of the content already received by the content user to exceed an amount of the content used by the content user, and (B) to minimize an energy used by the content user during delivery.
US10743244B2
Disclosed is an active scanning method in a wireless LAN system. The active scanning method comprises: a step of transmitting a probe request frame via a predetermined channel; and a step of receiving, from an access point, a probe response frame corresponding to the probe request frame via a predetermined channel. The probe response frame includes main channel information on the access point. Thus, the access point can be quickly scanned.
US10743239B2
A method and a device for communication based on LAA, the method for communication includes: transmitting cell group information to a terminal, where the cell group information points to multiple carriers, and the multiple carriers comprise an un-licensed carrier and a licensed carrier; and transmitting downlink control information through an activated carrier in the multiple carriers, where the cell group information is used to instruct the terminal to implement a blind detection to the multiple carriers so as to obtain the downlink control information. Technical solutions of the present disclosures can improve communication speed and efficiency of a LAA system.
US10743235B2
Various communication systems may benefit from minimization of service interruption. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from support for minimization of service interruption with device-to-device-based user-equipment-to-network relay. A method can include determining that a layer 3 relay is selected for a remote user equipment. The method can also include sending an indication to a serving access node about the relay selection.
US10743230B2
A wireless telecommunications system including: a controller; a first base station and a second base station; and a terminal device operable to communicate with the first base station over a first radio path and to communicate with the second base station over a second radio path. The controller is configured to select one of the first base station and the second base station to act as a serving base station for the terminal device based on measurements of beacon signalling transmitted by the terminal device, wherein the measurements provide an indication of radio channel conditions associated with the first radio path and the second radio path.
US10743226B2
In one embodiment, a service receives radar data regarding usage of one or more wireless channels by a radar. The service populates a database of radar features with the received radar data. The service trains, using the database of radar features, a machine learning-based model to predict channel usages by the radar. The service causes a wireless access point to change to a different wireless channel, based on the predicted channel usages by the radar.
US10743224B2
[Object] To make it possible to select a cell that is more preferable for a terminal device in an environment in which beamforming is performed.[Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire received quality information indicating received quality of a reference signal in a terminal device; and a control unit configured to perform cell selection for the terminal device based on the received quality information. When a predetermined condition related to use of weight sets for beamforming by a base station is satisfied, the control unit does not perform the selection based on the received quality information.
US10743223B2
A method of handover control, a relay apparatus, and a method for selecting a target cell are provided that make it possible to identify a target cell in a hand-in phase even in a network topology in which relay apparatuses are connected in multiple stages. In a radio communication system in which a base station controller (14) and a first relay apparatus (1) are connected to a communication network, wherein the base station controller has under its control at least one first base station (12) connected thereto, and the first relay apparatus has under its control at least a second relay apparatus (2) connected thereto, wherein the second relay apparatus has under its control at least one second base station (4-6) connected thereto, the first relay apparatus acquires cell information of a cell controlled by the second base station under the control of the second relay apparatus, and in a hand-in phase for handover from the first base station (12), to which a radio station (16) is wirelessly connected, to the second base station (6), the first relay apparatus identifies a target cell of the handover by using the cell information.
US10743221B2
A target AMF may receive a first message from a source AMF. The first message may indicate a handover of a wireless device and may comprise first parameter(s) of a SMF. The target AMF may select a target SMF that is different from the source SMF in response to the handover. The target AMF may send a second message to the target SMF that may indicate creation of first PDU session(s). The second message may comprise PDU session identifier(s) of the first PDU session(s). The target SMF may select a target UPF different from a source UPF. The target SMF may send a third message to the target UPF that may request establishment of a session context for the first PDU session(s). The target SMF may receive a fourth message from the target UPF that may acknowledge establishment of the session context.
US10743219B2
Arrangements (e.g., apparatus, method, machine-readable medium, chipset, etc.) guiding selection of a gateway to which to present a hand-off request for an outgoing communication session, including: referencing a gateway database storing gateway data for gateways of plural communication carriers, respectively, the gateway data of each subject gateway including an IP address and at least one connection efficiency value for the subject gateway; and considering connection efficiency values of ones of the gateways of the plural communication carriers in the gateway database according to a predetermined selection criteria, to form an output instruction which guides selection of at least one gateway to which to present the hand-off request.
US10743208B2
A base station and mobile device (UE) may coordinate transmission of reference signals and reception of corresponding channel state information (CSI) reports. If a periodic reference signal is scheduled for transmission outside the on-duration period of the UE, even if the reference signal corresponds to a periodic CSI report scheduled to be transmitted by the UE during the on-duration period, the base station may not transmit the periodic reference signal, thereby allowing the UE not to prematurely exit a low-power state. The base station may instead transmit an aperiodic reference signal at a specified point in time later than the scheduled transmission of the periodic reference signal. The UE may receive the aperiodic reference signal and either transmit the periodic CSI report or an aperiodic CSI report in response, depending on how close to the start of the on-duration period the transmission of the periodic CSI report is scheduled.
US10743206B2
Techniques discussed herein can facilitate measurement gap configuration and/or determination of activation or deactivation delays for NR (New Radio) UEs (User Equipments). A first set of aspects can involve coordination of measurement gap configuration for a UE between a MN (Master Node) and SN (Secondary Node). A second set of aspects can involve estimation of timing for activation and/or deactivation of SCell(s) (Secondary Cell(s)) in DC (Dual Connectivity) scenarios. Various embodiments can employ techniques of the first set of aspects and/or the second set of aspects.
US10743203B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus relating to minimizing interference by controlling beam width of a wireless device. In certain aspects, a method of minimizing interference by controlling beam width of a wireless device, such as a user equipment (UE), includes configuring antenna elements of the UE to communicate in a serving cell using a first beam, monitoring a channel quality metric in the serving cell, and re-configuring the antenna elements of the UE to perform mobility measurements of one or more neighboring cells using a second beam broader than the first beam if the metric falls below a threshold value.
US10743202B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatus for enhanced reporting in for a UE operating in a shared spectrum. The UE may detect at least one parameter associated with a non-serving base station (BS) operating in a same spectrum as a serving BS and report, to the serving BS, an indication of the (at least one) parameter.
US10743198B1
An approach is disclosed that reduces traffic network delays by identifying optimal sensor locations for one or more time periods and by controlling traffic signals through optimized sensor deployment.
US10743196B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for receiving a request to steer wireless signals generated by a plurality of dielectric antennas, and adjusting, by the controller, a plurality of adjustable delays coupled to a transceiver to adjust an orientation of wireless signals received or generated by the plurality of dielectric antennas, each of the plurality of dielectric antennas comprising a feed point coupled to a different one of the plurality of adjustable delays, the transceiver facilitating reception or transmission of electromagnetic waves propagating via a different one of the feed points of the plurality of dielectric antennas along corresponding dielectric feedlines without an electrical return path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10743194B2
An association beamforming training (A-BFT) method between an access point communicatively coupleable to a plurality of stations through a plurality of channels is described. The method includes: receiving a first sector sweep (SSW) frame from a first station on a first channel; receiving a second SSW frame from a second station on a second channel; processing the first and second SSW frames to determine corresponding first and second sector sweep feedback (SSW-feedback) frames; and transmitting the first and second SSW-feedback frames to the first and second stations, respectively, wherein the second SSW frame may be orthogonal to the first SSW frame, and wherein the first SSW frame may be spread using a first spreading sequence, the second SSW frame may be spread using a second spreading sequence, and wherein the first and second spreading sequences are mutually orthogonal.
US10743190B2
There is provided a system and a method for installing a Remote Radio Unit. The system and method is for a network stranded remote radio installation.
US10743184B2
Certain features relate to unequal distribution of transmitters and receivers in a distributed antenna system (DAS). Remote units in the DAS can be configured as transmitting remote units, receiving remote units, or remote transceiver units that can transmit and receive wireless signals. In some configurations, the DAS can be configured with a greater number of transmitting remote units than receiving remote units. In other configurations, the DAS can be configured with a greater number of receiving remote units. In some aspects, unequal distribution of transmitters and receivers can be obtained by allocation of transmission frequencies and receiver frequencies in the DAS.
US10743182B2
Screen time-outs on a portable electronic device can be customized based on user activity. In one aspect, a sensing component receives data from one or more sensors located on the portable electronic device, for example, skin conductivity sensors and determines whether the user is using the portable device, either actively or passively and also determines the identity of the user. A configuring component is employed to change one or more features or functions of the portable electronic device based on the information determined by the sensing component. In particular, the configuring component changes one of more features of the portable electronic device based on the preferences predefined by the identified user and device usage (active and passive usage).
US10743180B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for authenticating a WI-FI network, where a terminal sends, to an associated authentication center when the WI-FI network exists in an area in which the terminal is located, a request message that carries a user identifier, receives access verification information allocated to a user represented by the first user identifier from the associated authentication center, sends, to a WI-FI authentication center, a login request that carries the access verification information, receives authentication information obtained and fed back by the WI-FI authentication center carrying a user identifier corresponding to the access verification information, and determines that the WI-FI network is a secure network when the user identifier carried in the authentication information is the same as the user identifier carried in the request message.
US10743176B1
A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a certificate authority, a first onboarding identifier associated with a private key stored on the UE. The UE may transmit, to a wireless network, an attach request based on the first onboarding identifier. The UE may receive, from the wireless network, a signaling message that includes a second onboarding identifier, wherein the signaling message may be encrypted with a public key paired with the private key stored on the UE. The UE may decrypt the signaling message using the private key stored on the UE to obtain the second onboarding identifier. The UE may obtain a permanent identifier from a Remote SIM Provisioning platform based on the UE completing an authentication procedure using an authentication response obtained from the decrypted signaling message. The UE may then connect to the wireless network using the permanent identifier.
US10743175B2
A method, apparatus, and system for disaster recovery of an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), where the method includes triggering a redundant Call Session Control Function (CSCF), obtaining, by the redundant CSCF, user backup data of registered IMS Private User Identities (IMPIs) that are associated with IMPUs and user service configuration data of IMS Public User Identities (IMPUs) in an IMS subscription from a network storage entity of a user; and recovering, by the redundant CSCF, a corresponding service according to the obtained user backup data of the registered IMPIs and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in the IMS subscription. Hence, the one-IMPU multi-IMPI, one-IMPI multi-IMPU, or multi-IMPI multi-IMPU service can be recovered, and this enables the user to have better service continuity experiences.
US10743165B1
A method is provided for automatically pairing a user device to an audio output device. A user device generates an identifier and transmits an audio version of the identifier over a Bluetooth profile capable of transmitting audio to an audio output device. The audio output device generates a data version of the received identifier and transmits the data version of the identifier of a different link. The application running on the user device receives the data version of the identifier and automatically pairs with the audio output device.
US10743149B2
In an example implementation of the disclosed technology, a system is provided by which a utility company customer can make a payment to the utility company via a point of sale (POS) system at a retailer such as a grocery store or clothing store. In some embodiments, the utility company provides to the user a barcode that includes information relating to the customer's account, and the customer can present the barcode to the POS system or a retail agent in the course of checking out at the retailer. Accordingly, the customer can pay a utility bill in the course of paying for, for example, groceries.
US10743146B2
The present disclosure discloses a multicast service reading method. The method includes: determining, by user equipment UE, multicast control channel MCCH configuration information, where the MCCH configuration information includes a multicast control channel identifier MCCH-RNTI and MCCH sending period information; determining, by the UE, MCCH sending time information according to the MCCH sending period information; reading, by the UE, an MCCH message according to the MCCH sending time information by using the MCCH-RNTI, where the MCCH message includes configuration information of a multicast service; and reading, by the UE, the multicast service according to the configuration information of the multicast service. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a multicast service sending method and a related device. The embodiments of the present disclosure help reduce waste of an MBSFN subframe.
US10743142B2
Examples of techniques for constructing a spatial map of a physical space are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes collecting, by a processing device, signal strength data about a plurality of user devices as the plurality of user devices move throughout the physical space, the signal strength data being indicative of a signal strength of a wireless signal between at least one of the plurality of user devices and at least one of a plurality of access points associated with the physical space. The method further includes generating, by the processing device, a signal space map based at least in part on the signal strength data. The method further includes transforming, by the processing device, the signal space map of the physical space into the spatial map of the physical space to construct the spatial map of the physical space.
US10743137B2
A system for facilitating remote assistance, the system configured to: receive, from a second computing device, device location data of the second computing device; identify, responsive to receiving a trigger communication from the second computing device, one or more proximate users within a predefined distance of the second computing device; generate an assistance communication including a prompt for assistance; transmit, to one or more third computing devices of the identified proximate users, the assistance communication; receive, from an assisting device among the one or more third computing devices, an assistance response indicative of an indication that the user of the assisting device is willing to assist the user of the second computing device; transmit, to the second computing device, a user profile associated with the user of the assisting device; and responsive to receiving an assistance acceptance, facilitate a communication channel between the second computing device and the assisting device.
US10743132B2
An example context-based computing framework includes methods to configure a computer device. Some example methods include generating a request for access to computing resources available at a first location in response to determining the computer device has moved from a second location to the first location. Some example methods also include, based on context data contained in a response to the request, configuring an interface of an application of the computer device is configured to allow interaction with a subset of a set of features of a first computing resource of the computing resources. The context data is identified in the context profile and the context profile is associated with the first location. Some example methods further include interacting, via the interface of the application, with a first feature of the subset of the set of features of the first computing resource.
US10743127B2
A system, apparatus and method are provided for updating spatial audio content in augmented reality based on a real-world speed and/or location of a consumer of the content. A moving spatial audio location may change location with time during a predetermining running time of the content. The spatial audio content is perceived as originating from a spatial audio location. Depending on the movement of the consumer, and a predicted alignment-time with of a point-of-interest and corresponding spatial audio content, a spatial audio location may be moved such that the spatial audio content aligns the point-of-interest based on an updated location of the consumer.
US10743125B2
Embodiments are described for rendering spatial audio content through a system that is configured to reflect audio off of one or more surfaces of a listening environment. The system includes an array of audio drivers distributed around a room, wherein at least one driver of the array of drivers is configured to project sound waves toward one or more surfaces of the listening environment for reflection to a listening area within the listening environment and a renderer configured to receive and process audio streams and one or more metadata sets that are associated with each of the audio streams and that specify a playback location in the listening environment.
US10743121B2
The present disclosure relates to communication devices. Such devices may comprise input for receiving sound signal to be processed and presented to a user, and output for outputting the processed signal to a user perceivable as sound. Such processing may be performed by use of a processor for processing the sound signal in dependence of a setting or a set of setting to compensate a hearing loss profile. Further, the communication device may comprise a bio-signal acquisition and amplifier component in communication with a user interface for providing the bio-signals as input to the user interface, the user interface controlling the setting or set of setting for operation of the communication device.
US10743111B2
An MEMS microphone is provided, including a base having a back cavity, and a capacitor system disposed on the base, the capacitor system including a backplate and a diaphragm disposed oppositely to the backplate. The diaphragm includes a body portion and a plurality of venting portions connected to the body portion, each of the plurality of venting portions includes a venting aperture penetrating through the diaphragm and a membrane flap partially fixed to the diaphragm and located in the venting aperture. The MEMS microphone further includes an insulation connecting pillar having one end fixedly connected to the backplate and another end fixedly connected to the membrane flap. Compared with the related art, the venting portion is fixedly connected to the backplate through the insulation connecting pillar, so that the venting portion is not easily warped, thereby improving reliability of the MEMS microphone.
US10743095B1
A contextual audio system configured to adjust audio playback in response to positional data. The contextual audio system may include a wearable audio device and, optionally, a sensing device. In some embodiments, the sensing device and the wearable audio device are the same. Generally, the contextual audio system employs different types of data to determine a user's location and/or activity (both of which are examples of “context”) and adjust audio output of the wearable audio device portion of the system.
US10743094B2
A helmet having a dual mode headphone has a helmet. A band is attached to an interior of the helmet. A pair of first housings is provided wherein one of the first housings is formed on each end of the band. A dual mode headphone circuit is provided having a dual-output acoustic transducer module positioned in each of the pair of first housings, the dual-output acoustic transducer module allowing for both air conduction and bone conduction of sound waves. The band is adjustable to position the pair of first housings on the user when the helmet is worn by the user based on a mode of operation of the dual mode headphone circuit.
US10743093B2
A grille and an acoustic device having a superior exterior design without impairment of acoustic efficiency are provided. The grille includes: a through hole-provided region having a plurality of through holes; and a non-through hole-provided region having a plurality of non-through holes each with a bottom, and provided adjacent to the through hole-provided region. The through holes and the non-through holes entirely provide a plurality of openings on an exterior surface of the grille. In the non-through hole-provided region, a depth of the non-through holes on a side close to the through hole-provided region is greater than a depth of the non-through holes on a side distant from the through hole-provided region.
US10743087B2
A content interaction system and method allow a user to simultaneously interact with a piece of content using three, four or five senses (such as sound, sight and smell in one example) of the user. In one embodiment, the content interaction system may have a plurality of devices wherein the user may integrate one or more of the devices together.
US10743083B2
Collaborative multi-media, multi-channel cognitive visual analytics rationale authoring and playback
Various embodiments provide a multi-channel collaborative visual analytics (CVA) system, method and computer program product for coordinating collaborative data exploration. The system comprises a central CVA server and a plurality of client devices. The CVA server has a plurality of local channels and a global channel. Each client device is coupled to one or more local channels of the central CVA server by one or more WebSockets and communicates state change event data of a distributed-web-connected application to the central CVA server. The central CVA server manages both real-time delivery and recorded playback of the state change events for the plurality of client devices. The CVA system further comprises a persistent store that stores the state change events from the plurality of client devices for deferred playback.
US10743081B2
A method includes associating a client device with a secondary device. The method further includes identifying a triggering event related to an operation of the secondary device. The method also includes, in response to identifying the triggering event, sending a message to the client device with a request for information related to the operation of the secondary device. The client device may have a user interface configured to receive the information. The method includes receiving, via a network, the information from the client device. The method further includes performing the operation at the secondary device using the information from the client device.
US10743077B2
Techniques for accounting for position-specific differences in user interaction while conducting content item selection events are provided. In one technique, a position-specific factor is determined. The position-specific factor may be based on a ratio of an observed interaction and a predicted interaction. Different positions in a content item feed or on a web page may be associated with different position-specific factors. Eventually, multiple content items are identified for presentation on a screen of a computing device. The content items include a first content item for which a predicted interaction rate is calculated and a second content item for which no predicted interaction rate is calculated. An order of the content items is determined based on the position-specific factor. For example, the predicted interaction rate of the first content item is modified based on the position-specific factor. The content items are presented on the screen based on the order.
US10743070B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising obtaining channel change data for a media processor coupled to a gateway; the channel change data relates to channel changes requested during recurring time periods. A channel viewing profile is determined for the media processor, and a channel viewing map is generated corresponding to a portion of the channel viewing profile for one of the time periods; the channel viewing map comprises a list of predicted channels likely to be requested during a recurrence of the time period. Signals are provided to the media processor corresponding to the predicted channels, each of the predicted channels thereby being available for an instant channel change responsive to a channel change request. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10743068B2
A method and system for improving real-time digital media capture and presentation is provided. The method includes retrieving digital media content in real time and dividing the digital media content into groups each including similar digital media portions. A digital tag is assigned to each group and each digital tag digitally describes media elements within each portion of the similar digital media portions. Each portion is analyzed with respect to the media elements and associated metadata is generated. The metadata is assigned to each media element and the groups of similar digital media portions are configured for automated presentation for users.
US10743066B2
Methods and apparatus for selecting digital access technology for programming and data delivery over, e.g., a network. In one embodiment, the network comprises an HFC cable or satellite network that includes a server process interfacing with a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE), and/or associated client devices, each having different capabilities profiles. The server determines one or more capabilities possessed by the CPE, and evaluates one or more program or content choices for possible delivery to that CPE based on its profile. The server generates a list of programs or content based on this evaluation, and transmits this list to the CPE, which displays the list for viewing by a user. The user is therefore offered a list of available content that is compatible with their specific configuration. A business and operational rules engine is also optionally employed to control the operation of the foregoing processes to accomplish particular business, or operational goals.
US10743056B2
Method and system for obtaining content data in an in-vehicle infotainment system from a set top box
A system and method for communicating content data to the in-vehicle system includes the in-vehicle infotainment system detecting a home local area network and joining the home local area network. The home local area network comprises a set top box. The in-vehicle infotainment system communicates a data request to the set top box in response to joining the local area network. The set top box communicates data corresponding to the request to the in-vehicle infotainment system through the local area network. The in-vehicle system stores the data at the in-vehicle infotainment system.
US10743054B2
A method of targeting of advertising content for a consumer product is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining consumer demographic data from a first server over a network, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person among a plurality of persons; obtaining product purchaser data for a plurality of product purchasers of the consumer product from a second server over the network, each product purchaser among the plurality of product purchasers being among the plurality of persons; and enriching the purchaser data with the consumer demographic data. The method further comprises enriching viewing data with consumer demographic data; and selecting viewed media among the aggregated viewed media having the highest similarity to the product purchasers as target media for the advertising content.
US10743042B2
In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for providing UGC to a media production or broadcast destination for potential inclusion in a broadcast or other media distribution. Video processing parameters of the destination are provided. An application is customized using the parameters to provide a customized application without requiring any additional development for the customization. A token and a link are then transmitted to the destination. The destination accesses the link, and the customized application is downloaded along with an API to the destination. The customized application periodically polls the API for UGC and associated metadata. It then, guided by the parameters, facilitates the ingestion of the media and metadata in the proper format into the appropriate place within the downstream broadcast or media production system.
US10743038B2
The present application provides a live broadcast processing method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium thereof, where the method includes: receiving, by a live broadcast server, source media data sent by a first terminal device of a video live broadcast side, where the source media data includes video data and audio data; translating the audio data into audio data in at least one target language; acquiring a playing language required by a video playing side, and acquiring audio data corresponding to the playing language from the audio data in the at least one target language; merging the audio data corresponding to the playing language with the video data to obtain target media data; and transmitting the target media data to a second terminal device of the video playing side for playback.
US10743018B2
Several methods and systems for estimating motion in a plurality of multimedia pictures are disclosed. In an embodiment, at least one temporal distance between a multimedia picture and one or more reference pictures corresponding to the multimedia picture in a capture order associated with the plurality of multimedia pictures is computed. The at least one temporal distance is computed subsequent to an encoding of the multimedia picture. At least one motion estimation parameter is determined based on the at least one temporal distance. Motion associated with a subsequent multimedia picture to be encoded is estimated based on the at least one motion estimation parameter.
US10743015B2
An endoscope apparatus includes: an imager having a photoelectric converter that performs a photoelectric conversion of an optical signal into a video signal, and a compressor that compresses the video signal; and a controller that changes a compression ratio in a compression of the video signal in accordance with a preset condition.
US10743009B2
An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of cores and an arithmetic processing device. The plurality of cores are configured to be allocated to a plurality of tiles obtained by dividing a single image data; a configured to control allocation of the plurality of cores based on the divided tiles. The arithmetic processing device is configured to control allocation of the plurality of cores based on the divided tiles. The arithmetic processing device allocates all of the plurality of cores to a single line of the plurality of tiles in a second direction, when the single image data is divided into the plurality of tiles in a first direction and the second direction different from the first direction.
US10743008B2
This application a video file transcoding system and related transcoding method. The system includes: a segmentation device for obtaining a video file and a customized index parameter; split the video file into n video fragments; and generate transcoding configuration parameters according to the customized index parameter; a transcoding device for obtaining an ith video fragment; obtain a customized material corresponding to the ith video fragment according to the transcoding configuration parameters; add the customized material to the ith video fragment, to obtain an ith customized video fragment; and transcode the ith customized video fragment to obtain an ith target video fragment; and a merging device for merging n target video fragments into a target video file after n customized video fragments are all transcoded. This application resolves the problem that it takes too long to transcode a video file to which customized information needs to be added and/or transcoding efficiency is low.
US10743001B2
A further coding efficiency increase may be achieved if for a current block of a picture, for which the bit stream signals one of supported partitioning patterns, a reversal of the partitioning by block merging is avoided. In particular, if the signaled one of the supported partitioning patterns specifies a subdivision of the block into two or more further blocks, a removal of certain coding parameter candidates for all further blocks, except a first further block of the further blocks in a coding order, is performed. Particularly, those coding parameter candidates are removed from the set of coding parameter candidates for the respective further block, the coding parameters of which are the same as coding parameters associated with any of the further blocks which, when being merged with the respective further block, would result in one of the supported partitioning pattern. This avoids redundancy between partitioning coding and merging coding.
US10742999B2
The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to encode or decode a region of interest associated with video data. A spherical region structure is associated with the video data that specifies the region of interest on a sphere, the spherical region structure including a reference point of the region of interest on the sphere, and data indicative of a set of side points, comprising a side point for each side of the region of interest on the sphere. The region of interest in the video data is determined based on the reference point and the set of side points. The video data can be composite video data. The spherical region structure, and/or metadata based on the spherical region structure, can be implicitly or explicitly associated with the video data.
US10742997B2
A method and apparatus for signaling and receiving a video signal for processing is disclosed. Methods for determining a most probable mode for predicting a current prediction block are provided as well as new methods for grouping intra prediction modes into prediction groups. Methods for predicting a prediction block of video data as well as signaling intra prediction modes are also provided.
US10742996B2
The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit.
US10742994B2
A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane.
US10742987B2
Disclosed is a method for analyzing a set of images of a video sequence with a view to performing a processing of the sequence. The method includes: determining, in the video sequence, a plurality of disjointed consecutive sub-sequences of at least one successive image according to the type of processing to be carried out and according to the content of the video sequence; and analyzing the images of each sub-sequence determined in the video sequence.
US10742983B2
A method for generating a prediction block in intra prediction, includes restoring a mode group indicator and a prediction mode index; constructing a most probable mode (MPM) group including three intra prediction modes of a current block; determining an intra prediction mode specified by the intra prediction mode index in the MPM group as the intra prediction mode of the current block if the mode group indicator indicates the MPM group, and deriving the intra prediction mode of the current block using the prediction mode index and the three intra prediction modes of the MPM group if the mode group indicator does not indicate the MPM group; determining a size of the prediction block based on transform size information; determining whether all reference pixels of the current block are available; generating reference pixels if one or more reference pixels of the current block are unavailable; adaptively filtering the reference pixels based on the intra prediction mode and the size of the current block; and generating the prediction block using the reference pixels based on the restored intra prediction mode.
US10742979B2
A method and system are disclosed for determining local activity of at least a portion of a coding unit using a sum and difference between a pixel and neighboring pixels being coded. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a minimum difference between the pixel and neighboring pixels for each pixel in the at least the portion of the coding unit and determining the local activity at least in part according to a sum of the differences between each pixel of the at least a portion of the coding unit and the neighboring pixels, wherein determining a difference between the pixel of the at least a portion of the coding unit and neighboring pixels comprises determining a minimum difference between the pixel and the neighboring pixels.
US10742972B1
A method of video decoding in a decoder is described. A first syntax element in a coded video bit stream is received. The first syntax element indicates a maximum allowed number of merge candidates in a set of coding blocks. A maximum allowed number of triangular prediction mode (TPM) candidates for the set of coding blocks is set based on a second syntax element when the second syntax element is received, otherwise it is set based on the first syntax element. When a current coding block in the set of coding blocks is coded in a triangular prediction mode, a triangular prediction candidate list of the current coding block is constructed based on a number of TPM candidates. The number of TPM candidates on the triangular prediction candidate list is equal to the maximum allowed number of TPM candidates.
US10742970B2
A device and a method for measuring spatial color characteristic and resolution are provided. The measuring device includes: a light source, a measuring dial plate and a camera under test, wherein the light source has at least two different spectral power distribution characteristics, the measuring dial plate is provided with a through hole penetrating a thickness direction of the measuring dial plate, the light emitted from the light source passes through the through hole, and the surface of the measuring dial plate is set in black color; the measuring dial plate can also be provided with a measuring pattern, the light emitted from the light source passes through a region other than the measuring pattern. With the device provided in the present disclosure, the spatial color and resolution of the camera can be measured simultaneously, which shortens the manufacture cycle of the camera and reduces measurement cost.
US10742967B2
A display system for a motor vehicle is provided. The display system comprises a holographic projector assembly and a steering wheel assembly. The steering wheel assembly includes a ring-shaped member configured to be held by a driver of the vehicle and rotated about a central axis in order to steer the vehicle. The holographic projector assembly is configured to produce a holographic image inside a central region about which the ring-shaped member circumferentially extends.
US10742954B2
A technique for displaying 3D videos creates a representation of image deformation, such as depth maps, in terms of a function for overlaying kernels with variable support and order. By optimizing the kernel type, order and support, which are allowed to be varied across different region of the deformation, it is able to approximate the image deformations in terms of the kernel parameters. Since the number of kernel parameters is usually much smaller than that of the number of pixels, this allows a significant reduction in the storage size of the image deformation.
US10742951B2
An image generation apparatus that is configured to generate a virtual viewpoint image comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain shape data indicating a three-dimensional shape of an object captured from a plurality of directions by a plurality of cameras; a selecting unit configured to select, based on a result of an evaluation on the shape data obtained by the obtaining unit, a method of determining a pixel value in the virtual viewpoint image from among a plurality of methods; and a generating unit configured to generate a virtual viewpoint image by the method of determining the pixel value selected by the selecting unit, wherein the virtual viewpoint image based on images obtained based on capturing by the plurality of cameras, the shape data obtained by the obtaining unit, and viewpoint information representing a virtual viewpoint.
US10742945B2
A luminance characteristics generation method includes: determining, for each of frames included in a video, a value as first luminance characteristics, the value being obtained by dividing the number of pixels having luminances less than or equal to a first luminance among all pixels included in the frame by the number of all the pixels included in the frame; and outputting the first luminance characteristics determined in the determining of the value.
US10742944B1
In certain embodiments, double-vision-related vision defects determinations or modifications may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a stimulus may be to be presented at a first time at a position on a first display for a deviating eye of a user (e.g., without a stimulus being presented on a second display of for a reference eye of the user) to cause the deviating eye to fixate on the position on the first display. A deviation measurement for the deviating eye may be determined based on an amount of movement of the deviating eye occurring upon the presentation on the first display for the deviating eye at the first time. In some embodiments, a modification profile associated with the user may be determined based on the deviation measurement, where the modification profile includes one or more modification parameters to be applied to modify an image for the user.
US10742933B2
In an in-vehicle picture storage device for a motorcycle having a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a storage device for storing pictures taken by the camera, the camera contains a first camera for imaging rider's facial expression, and the storage device stores vehicle environmental information in association with pictures taken by the first camera. The stored rider's pictures can be viewed in association with the vehicle environmental information, and a user can experience the conditions of a rider, a vehicle, etc. more realistically.
US10742929B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and machine readable mediums which determine whether a computer participating in a network-based conversation deliberately left the network-based conversation. A time period is selected in response to the determination of whether the computer deliberately left the network conversation. After the time period has elapsed, removing a graphical indication of the computing device from a display of a second computing device still part of the network-based conversation.
US10742923B2
Techniques for detecting epileptic triggers in video content by storing a first sequence of frames of a video stream in a first buffer. The technique can further comprise generating a second sequence of subframes and storing the second sequence of subframes in a second buffer. The technique can further comprise generating average intensity values for the second sequence of subframes in the second buffer and calculating intensity changes between consecutive subframes in the second sequence of subframes based on the average intensity values. The technique can further comprise determining that a number of intensity changes between consecutive subframes in the second sequence of subframes exceeds an oscillation threshold and tagging the frames in the first buffer corresponding to the subframes in the second buffer as hazardous.
US10742919B2
The present technology relates to an image sensor capable of suppressing the power consumption, and an electronic device. A reference signal output unit outputs a reference signal of which a level is changed and includes a plurality of DACs and a load resistance for outputting the reference signal. The plurality of DACs includes a plurality of current sources and a plurality of switches controlling a current flowing from the current source. The reference signal output unit is connected to three or more power sources, and in combinations of two power sources in the three or more power sources, each of two or more types of combinations of the power sources includes a first path through which the current controlled by the switch flows, and a second path through which a current in the same direction flows to the load resistance.
US10742914B2
An apparatus for reading data of a plurality of pixels as a unit, and includes a storage unit configured to store defective-pixel related information in the unit of the plurality of pixels, a readout unit configured to read out the defective-pixel related information, and a correction unit configured to correct a defective pixel among the plurality of pixels based on the defective-pixel related information.
US10742913B2
An imaging system includes a focal plane array including an array of pixels. An isothermal diaphragm covers a first portion of the pixels along a periphery of the array and exposing an imaging portion of the pixels. A controller is operatively connected to the focal plane array to read sensor data from the focal plane array, wherein the sensor data includes image data from the imaging portion of the pixels and non-uniformity data from the first portion of the pixels. The controller is operatively connected to the focal plane array to enhance the image data based on the non-uniformity data.
US10742906B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in rows and columns; a plurality of column signal lines which are provided in one-to-one correspondence with pixel columns; a column processor including a plurality of column AD circuits provided in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of column signal lines; a power supply variation detector which is connected to a power supply wire through which a power supply voltage is transmitted to each of the pixels, and which detects, in correspondence with pixel rows, power supply variation components attributed to variations in the power supply voltage; and a power supply variation corrector which corrects, for each of the pixel rows, a pixel signal detected by the column processor, using the power supply variation components detected by the power supply variation detector.
US10742891B2
A method includes setting an exposure time of an image sensor included in a terminal device so that, in an image obtained by capturing a subject by the image sensor, a bright line corresponding to each of a plurality of exposure lines included in the image sensor appears according to a change in luminance of the subject. The method also includes obtaining a bright line image including a plurality of bright lines, obtaining identification information of the subject, and obtaining a direction of light of the subject. Additionally, the method includes calculating a distance between the terminal device and the subject, and obtaining a location of the subject. The method further includes calculating a location of the terminal device using the distance and the location of the subject, and sending the location of the terminal device to a server.
US10742888B2
For example, in an operation of determining a composition while zooming in a plurality of areas and confirming positional relationship of mutual images such as, for example, a case of horizontal leveling and the like performed when a construction is photographed, it has been necessary to perform a complicated operation of repeating designation and release of zoom-in areas among the plurality of the areas. Therefore, an imaging apparatus is provided, the imaging apparatus being provided with a display unit that displays an image, and a display control unit that zooms in and displays a plurality of partial areas within the image, and also displays on the display unit positional information representing positions of the plurality of partial areas within the image.
US10742884B2
A function relating to communication of imaging data is assigned to an operational switch of an operating unit. A control unit switches a working mode of the assigned assignment function among a stop mode in which power supply to a communication unit that communicates the imaging data is stopped, a standby mode in which standby is performed to enable the communication of the imaging data by supplying power to the communication unit, and an executing mode in which the imaging data is communicated, depending on an operational duration of the operational switch. In a case where the imaging data is not communicated, the assignment function is set to the stop mode, thereby realizing power saving. Further, the working mode of the assignment function can be switched depending on the operational duration of the operational switch, which improves the operability of an imaging device.
US10742883B2
A data acquisition device including a processor which performs processing of eliminating some of a plurality of position data indicating mutually different positions of a moving object, in accordance with a mode signal from an information processing device, and a communication circuit which transmits the position data subjected to elimination processing by the processor to the information processing device.
US10742881B1
An optoelectronic device includes a mount, which is configured to rotate about a rotational axis. A line radiation source is attached to the mount and configured to project a line of radiation onto a scene surrounding the mount as the mount rotates. An imaging assembly is attached to the mount in a location that is offset from the radiation source and includes a temporal contrast sensor including a two-dimensional array of sensing elements, which independently and asynchronously generate event signals in response to temporal changes of irradiance, and objective optics, which are configured to image the scene onto the array.
US10742875B2
An electronic device including a camera assembly, a storage, and a processor is disclosed. The camera assembly includes a first camera unit and a second camera unit. The processor is configured to obtain an ISO value of the camera assembly when the camera assembly is activated and determine whether the ISO value is greater than or equal to a first preset value. The processor is also configured to control, when the ISO value is greater than or equal to the first preset value, the first camera unit and the second camera unit to separately capture a first image and a second image, respectively, fuse the first image and the second image to generate a third image, and store the third image in the storage. An image capture control method implemented in the electronic device is also disclosed.
US10742872B2
The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region.
US10742868B2
A digital camera includes an imaging element having an imaging surface where pixels are arranged in two dimensions in a row direction X and in a column direction Y, an AF processing unit that determines whether a focus lens is in a focused state using detection signals obtained from respective pixels of a first pixel group including plural pixels arranged in the row direction X and a second pixel group including pixels arranged at the same distance in one direction that crosses the row direction X with respect to each of the plural pixels of the first pixel group, in a state where the focus lens is at an arbitrary position, and a system control unit that moves the focus lens until the AF processing unit determines that the focus lens is in the focused state.
US10742861B2
Systems and methods for transmitting and receiving image data captured by an imager array including a plurality of focal planes are described. One embodiment of the invention includes capturing image data using a plurality of active focal planes in a camera module, where an image is formed on each active focal plane by a separate lens stack, generating lines of image data by interleaving the image data captured by the plurality of active focal planes, and transmitting the lines of image data and the additional data.
US10742850B2
In order to provide a more preferable white balance adjustment, an image processing apparatus obtains an input image, determines a representative point in the input image and a white balance coefficient of the representative point, obtains first information representing the inclination of a surface that includes the representative point and second information representing the inclination of a surface that includes a pixel of interest in the input image, and adjusts white balance of the pixel of interest based on the first information, the second information, and the white balance coefficient.
US10742849B2
This determination comprises: defining key constant-hue leaves such as to partition the gamut mapping color space into angular hue sectors; for each key constant hue leaf, defining a key hue leaf chroma mapping function; for each angular hue sector, defining a continuous angular hue sector chroma mapping function such that, for any source color belonging to one of the two key constant-hue leaves delimiting this angular hue sector, this continuous chroma mapping function allows to map the chroma of said source color according to the key hue leaf chroma mapping function of the key constant-hue leaf to which said source color belongs. Preferably, this mapping functions are non linear polynomials.
US10742839B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an acquisition unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet based on a gamma correction table. The acquisition unit acquires information on a sheet. The control unit controls the image forming unit. The image forming unit forms a first image indicating first image data on a sheet. The acquisition unit acquires the information on the sheet from the first image. The control unit creates second image data for creating a gamma correction table based on the information on the sheet.
US10742833B2
A multi-functional printing (MFP) includes a scan privacy tool to allow edits and changes to a document image to remove or hide private information within a document. The scan privacy tool is enabled for jobs on the MFP device and launches when a print job is run. The document is sent from a device or retrieved from memory storage. The document image displayed on a display and edit interface of the scan privacy tool. Changes are made to the document image using tools available through the scan privacy tool. The changes are applied to the document image. The modified image is saved and transmitted to an engine in the MFP device to complete the print job.
US10742832B2
Examples of providing printed confidential documents are described herein. In an example, a printing system includes at least two protected trays to store printed confidential documents. The at least two protected trays may be coupled to each other to enable transfer of the printed confidential documents between the at least two protected trays. Further, an output tray may be coupled to at least one of the at least two protected trays to provide the printed confidential documents for collection. Furthermore, on receiving an authentication input, the printed confidential documents may be transferred from one of the at least two protected trays to the output tray.
US10742823B2
An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit to obtain a plurality of images, a setting unit to set a first priority mode for a first page if the number of images including an object corresponding to the first priority mode among a plurality of images assigned to a first page is greater than the number of images including an object corresponding to the second priority mode among the plurality of images and set a second priority mode for a second page if the number of images including the object corresponding to the first priority mode among a plurality of images assigned to the second page is less than the number of images including the object corresponding to the second priority mode among the plurality of images.
US10742820B2
A device controller connected to a communication terminal and a plurality of devices via a network includes an acquisition unit configured to receive first control information for controlling a plurality of devices of predetermined type from the communication terminal, the first control information including specific information for identifying a control target device selected from the plurality of devices, a device identification unit configured to identify the control target device on the basis of the specific information included in the first control information, a generation unit configured to generate second control information for causing the control target device to execute control details indicated by the first control information, the second control information being different from the first control information, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the second control information.
US10742817B1
One example method of operation may include receiving a conference request from a moderator device, retrieving user profiles, included in the conference request, stored in a database, transmitting a conference access code to the user devices associated with the user profiles, retrieving and applying a moderator conference call agenda to a conference call at a conference call maturity time, and enacting one or more restrictions during the conference call based on the moderator conference call agenda.
US10742815B1
Responders and requesters can be assigned a score while waiting. Requesters and responders are matched via an auction type system, where requesters with the best requester scores are matched with requesters with the best responder scores. The requester scores can be boosted while the requester is waiting for a response if the requester performs certain actions. The requester score and responder score can increase over time. The requester score and responder score can also be based on other variables.
US10742811B2
A healthcare patient appointment management system for managing patient appointments. The system includes an interactive voice response (IVR), teleconsult module, and SMS messaging system. The IVR module calls a patient, and solicits patient responses to confirm a patient appointment. The teleconsult module provides a teleconsultation with the patient. And the SMS messaging system provides SMS messages to the patient. A controller is in communication with the IVR module, teleconsult module, and SMS messaging system. The controller receives the patient responses from the interactive voice response module and determines if the patient confirmed the patient appointment. If the controller determines that the patient does not confirm the patient appointment, then the controller sends an SMS message to the patient via the SMS messaging system. The SMS message includes a link to conduct the teleconsultation with the patient and a healthcare provider via the teleconsult module.
US10742810B1
A contact center dialing a telephone number to a party, such as a debtor, may discover that the number is subject to a prohibition of being autodialed. In other embodiments, a number that was subject to the prohibition of being autodialed is now discovered to no longer be subject to such prohibition. Various mechanisms defined indicate how such a prohibition associated with the number may be indicated in a dialing list and how various contact center architectures may be used to process the dialing list. In one embodiment, separate sub-systems are used to dial separate dialing lists based on whether the number is to be manually dialed or dialed using an autodialer. In another embodiment, another architecture is used to process an integrated dialing list to determine whether a number is to be manually dialed or autodialed.
US10742803B2
Call recording in an Internet telephone system is provided. A dual-mode terminal includes a call server interworker for, when a cellular call commences, determining whether it is possible to access a call server which controls Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls; a recording interface processor for, when it is possible to access the call server, setting a connection to a recording server; a recorder for generating recording data packets comprising a cellular phone conversation; and a data communicator for transmitting the recording data packets to the recording server.
US10742802B2
The object of the present application is to provide a method and device for verifying a communication number. Compared with the prior art, the present application includes: a user equipment transmitting a verification request to a network device; the network device transmitting an auxiliary verification number to the user equipment based on the verification request; the user equipment initiating a verification call to the auxiliary verification number via the communication number; the network device obtaining a call record of the auxiliary verification number and determining the verification result based on the call record of the auxiliary verification number. In this way, operator fees would not be caused at both the user equipment and the network device, thus greatly saving costs.
US10742798B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from a number of sensors of the computing device. The sensor data corresponds to a particular state associated with the computing device. The method also includes determining a vector corresponding to the received sensor data; and comparing the vector with a pre-determined hyperplane. The hyperplane corresponds to a number of imminent uses of the computing device. The method also includes determining whether the particular state associated with the computing device corresponds to a particular one of the imminent uses of the computing device based on the comparison of the vector with the pre-determined hyperplane.
US10742796B1
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for assisting with event execution are provided. Data from a productivity application associated with a user may be analyzed. A significant life event associated with the user may be identified based on the analysis. A plurality of sources that each have at least one recommendation for executing a type of event corresponding to the significant event may be identified. An itinerary template for the significant life event may be generated from a plurality of the recommendations. The itinerary template may be surfaced. Additional examples of the present disclosure relate to identifying relevant applications for download to a user's device managed by an administrator device.
US10742778B2
Disclosed are a device and a method for controlling multi-protocol operation, and the device includes: an acquiring module, being configured to acquire the priority of each target network protocol when detecting that a plurality of network protocols in the Wi-Fi module and the corresponding Internet of things (IOT) operator server are matching successfully; an allocating module, being configured to allocate a time slice of the Wi-Fi module processor for the corresponding target network protocol according to the priority; an adjusting module, being configured to count the usage of each of the target network protocols, and dynamically adjust the priority of each target network protocol for adjusting the number of time slices that allocated to the corresponding target network protocol.
US10742776B1
Isochronous endpoints of a redirected USB device can be accelerated. When a USB device is redirected, each of the device's endpoints can be identified. A UDP socket can then be created between the client-side proxy and the server-side agent for each isochronous endpoint, while a TCP socket can be created for each other endpoint. A lookup table can also be created which maps pipe handles to socket IDs. The lookup table can be employed to route USB request blocks pertaining to a particular endpoint over the corresponding socket. In this way, USB request blocks pertaining to an isochronous endpoint will be transferred over the network using UDP while USB request blocks pertaining to non-isochronous endpoints will be transferred using TCP.
US10742769B2
A computer-implemented schema-independent method of modeling data from diverse sources is described. A server transmits a blueprint to a client computer that is in communication with the server. The blueprint defines an application that runs on the client computer and is designed for visualizing and interacting with data from at least a first data source and a second data source. Responsive to a data fetch message from the application running on the client computer: receiving, by the server, data from the first data source; receiving by the server, data from the second data source; transforming, by the server, the received data from the first data source and the second data source into a semantic data format; and storing, by the server, the transformed data as a first data set.
US10742766B2
A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment, capture templates are created to harvest content from disparate content sources on multiple platforms. Data is extracted from the content from the disparate content sources using the created capture templates that drives extracting process. A standardized data stream is generated from the extracted data. The standardized data stream is provided for display on one or more different type of platforms.
US10742765B2
A device system includes a first server on a first network and a second server on a second network. The second server stores processing data transmitted from the first server in the second memory, in response to a request for processing the processing data from the electronic device, transmits the processing data to the electronic device, and stores, in the second memory, information indicating that the processing data has been processed in association with the processing data in response to reception of a notification indicating that the processing data has been processed from the electronic device. The first server determines whether the second server stores the information indicating that the processing data has been processed, and stores the information indicating that the processing data has been processed in the first memory based on a determination that the second server stores the information indicating that the processing data has been processed.
US10742763B2
A content rendering system to provide data limit aware content rendering is described. The content rendering system is configured to dynamically and in real time build, based on content requested from a client device, and based on and the data limit values associated with the requesting client device, a modified light version of the requested content that is less data intensive than the requested content. The content rendering system may provide the modified version of the requested content to the client device.
US10742759B2
Systems and methods for enhancing workflows with data virtualization. An example method may comprise: receiving a token identifying a mobile computing device; executing, by a processing device, a workflow comprising a conditional statement that initiates a request to send a push notification to the mobile computing device; producing, in view of the request, a plurality of messages compliant with a plurality of push notification infrastructures; selecting a message compliant with a push notification infrastructure associated with the mobile computing device; and transmitting the selected message to the push notification infrastructure associated with the mobile computing device.
US10742752B2
Conventional efforts for estimating the geographic location (geolocation) of devices associated with particular Internet Protocol (IP) addresses typically yield woefully inaccurate results. In many cases, the estimated IP geolocations are on the wrong continent. Embodiments of the present technology include techniques for identifying and improving incorrect estimates based on latency measurements, Domain Name Server (DNS) information, and routing information. For example, latency measurements from multiple collectors can be used to rate the plausibility of an IP geolocation estimate and, in certain cases, to increase the accuracy of the IP geolocation estimate. DNS and routing information can be used to corroborate the estimated IP geolocation. The resulting more accurate IP geolocation estimate can be used to route Internet traffic more efficiently, to enforce rules for routing sensitive information, and to simplify troubleshooting.
US10742744B1
A method for monitoring LWM2M IoT device state includes, in an SCEF, providing an interface for receiving subscription requests from IoT application servers or service capability servers for monitoring LWM2M IoT device state, the method further includes maintaining, in the SCEF, a database of identifiers of IoT devices that utilize LWM2M protocols, receiving, via the interface and from an SCS or AS, a first monitoring event request for subscribing to receive state information regarding an IoT device, and performing a lookup in the database using an IoT device identifier extracted from the first monitoring event request and identifying the first monitoring event request as being associated with an LWM2M IoT device. The method further includes communicating with the LWM2M IoT device using LWM2M constrained application protocol (CoAP) messaging to subscribe to and receive state information from the LWM2M IoT device and communicating the state information to the SCS or AS.
US10742738B2
A system onboard a vehicle may include a vehicle management system (VMS) and a mission management system (MMS). The VMS may include a plurality of VMS nodes for controlling operation of the vehicle. The MMS may include a plurality of MMS nodes for controlling equipment associated with a mission of the vehicle. The system may also include a flexible deterministic communications network. The flexible deterministic communication network may be configurable for communications between each of the VMS nodes, between each of the MMS nodes and between the VMS nodes and the MMS nodes. The VMS nodes communicate using static, deterministic messages and the MMS nodes communicate using dynamic, non-deterministic messages.
US10742737B2
An electronic device includes a storage device including a plurality of doorbell registers; a host configured to perform a first interface operation with the storage device using a first command queue managed by a first doorbell register from among the plurality of doorbell registers; and a third-party device configured to perform a second interface operation with the storage device using a second command queue managed by a second doorbell register from among the plurality of doorbell registers, without an intervention of the host, wherein at least the second doorbell register is allocated as one of one or more dedicated registers for use only with operations of the third-party device.
US10742733B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for acquiring media of the same event from multiple devices. The systems and methods enable wireless communication, specifically over a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless personal area network, between multiple media devices, such as personal or consumer devices (i.e., consumer smartphones, tablets, wearable devices, including action cameras, or other computing devices capable to capturing media content in the form of image, video, or audio data) at an event. The systems and methods further enable synchronization, via a specialized timing protocol, between the multiple media devices, over the BLE network, including synchronization of the media content captured by each of the media devices at the event. The present invention further includes an accessory device configured to provide for expansion of communication and synchronization of media devices, specifically bridging a short range BLE network with a long range RF network.
US10742727B2
An audio processing device includes a first analog cable connector that receives at least one analog audio source signal from a first analog cable. The first analog cable connector suitable to detachably interconnect the audio processing device to the first analog cable. The audio processing device includes a second analog cable connector and transmits the at least one analog audio source signal to the second analog cable connector suitable to be received by a second analog cable, where the second analog cable connector is suitable to detachably interconnect the audio processing device to the second analog cable. The audio processing device includes digital identification data that identifies the audio processing device. The audio processing device transmits the digital identification data to the second analog cable connector suitable to be received by the second analog cable. An enclosure that encloses the audio processing device.
US10742726B2
A computing system includes a virtual desktop server and a client computing device. The virtual desktop server is within an enterprise and includes a real-time media application to provide real-time communications (RTC) for peer-to-peer networking, and a native RTC engine to execute a portion of the real-time media application when received by the native RTC engine. An API code redirection module redirects intercepted APIs of the real-time media application intended for the native RTC engine so that the portion of the real-time media application is redirected away from the native RTC engine to a client RTC engine in the client computing device. The portion of the real-time media application being redirected includes provisioning information directed to a media server. A network edge appliance associated with a branch within the enterprise provides alternative network connectivity options for the peer-to-peer networking.
US10742725B2
A computing system includes a video source to provide a video stream and a virtual desktop server. The virtual desktop server includes a media application to provide media streaming that includes the video stream and an overlay on the video stream. An accelerated content redirection module redirects a portion of the media streaming by providing a placeholder to indicate positioning geometry of the video stream within a media window, with the placeholder to include the overlay. Providing the placeholder includes providing a first color for an underlay of the placeholder at a first time, and providing a second color for the underlay of the placeholder at a second time. A geometry tracking module detects the placeholder and determines positioning geometry associated therewith, and determines a color and an alpha blending factor of the overlay based on calculations involving the first and second colors for the underlays of the placeholder.
US10742715B1
A network device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive, from a first service provider, a file transfer request that includes at least a network location corresponding to a file to be transferred; determine whether the network location is internal or external to a second service provider network to which the network device belongs; modify the network location when it is determined that the network location included in the file transfer request is external to the second service provider network; retrieve the file to be transferred using the modified network location; and forward the retrieved file to a terminating user equipment (UE) device.
US10742697B2
A packet forwarding apparatus includes: a multicast determination unit that determines whether a packet that flows through a virtual network is a multicast communication packet; a multicast mapping information storage unit; a multicast mapping unit that allocates a second multicast address to a first multicast address of a newly generated multicast communication and manages these multicast addresses as a piece of mapping information; and a packet encapsulation unit that encapsulates the packet that flows through the virtual network. The packet encapsulation unit encapsulates the multicast communication packet that flows through the virtual network by using the second multicast address.
US10742692B2
During a Session Initiation Protocol dialog setup, a media gateway or container executes or initiates two or more applications that provide features during a conference call. The applications are applied to messages or data in the conference call based on a sequence order established during the setup of the conference call. The sequence order and the application identities are stored in a shared database. When a failure occurs during the conference call, the applications are reestablished in the reconstructed or reestablished conference call. The application reconstruction includes reinitiating the applications with the same sequence as previously established before the failure. As such, the user has the same features applied in the same way before and after the failure, which improves the systems performance and expected operation.
US10742690B2
Techniques are disclosed for implementing scalable policies across a plurality of categories that support application workloads. In one example, a policy controller assigns to the plurality of categories tags specifying one or more of a plurality of dimensions. The policy controller distributes a plurality of policies to policy agents for the plurality of categories. Each policy includes one or more policy rules, and each policy rule includes one or more tags specifying one or more of the plurality of dimensions. For each policy rule, the policy agents allow or deny a traffic flow between objects that belong to categories of the plurality of categories described by the one or more dimensions of a respective tag of the policy rule.
US10742688B2
A system for automated regulatory compliance monitoring of messaging services is provided, comprising a compliance data service configured to: provide an interface for an administrative user to define a compliance rule, store the compliance rule in a database; a messaging collection service configured to: monitor at least one messaging service associated with a monitored user; a compliance monitoring engine configured to: retrieve the collected data, retrieve the compliance rule from the compliance database, and process and analyze the monitored messages to determine whether they contain non-compliant data.
US10742682B2
An attack data packet processing method, an apparatus, and a system are provided. The method includes receiving, by a management node, description information of an attack data packet and an attack type of the attack data packet, where the description information and the attack type are sent by an awareness node; determining a processing policy on the attack data packet of the attack type according to the attack type; and sending the description information and the processing policy to a switch using a software-defined networking controller, so that the switch performs an operation indicated by the processing policy on the attack data packet with the description information.
US10742680B2
A method and a system of industrial data communication with dedicated physical isolation are provided that, the data collector and the physical isolator cooperate with each other. The data collector collects the data of each nodes of an enterprise by the intranet or by the wired and wireless communication module. The data is converted into encrypted messages under a protocol. The physical isolator secondarily encrypts the data and uploads the standardized data to a cloud platform via the internet. The data is exchanged between the data collector and the physical isolator by a dedicated data channel. The data transmitted in the dedicated data channel is encrypted by an algorithm, and is transmitted in a form of encrypted messages. Two ports of the dedicated data channel can only transmit the data in the form of encrypted messages. The dedicated data channel uses specific communication media, and forms physical isolation directly.
US10742667B1
A method and system for modeling cyber-security events are provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of cyber-security events, wherein each of the plurality of the cyber-security events defines at least one entity; for each of the plurality of received cyber-security events, processing a received cyber-security event to identify at least one key-value; mapping the at least one identified key-value to at least one data field; modeling the received cyber-security event to a security model, wherein the security model defines a specific activity related to the at least one entity, wherein the modeling is based on at least one modeling rule and the at least one identified key-value; and generating a graph based on the security model.
US10742665B2
A computer-implemented method for modifying file backups in response to detecting potential ransomware may include (1) detecting, during a file backup process, an anomaly that is potentially indicative of ransomware on a computing device, (2) in response to detecting the anomaly that is potentially indicative of ransomware, storing a backup copy in a separate location from other backup copies, (3) confirming that the anomaly is indicative of ransomware on the computing device, (4) adjusting a backup policy in response to confirming that the anomaly is indicative of ransomware on the computing device, and (5) managing the backup copy based on the adjusted backup policy. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10742662B2
The present disclosure includes an electronic device for processing a wireless transaction. The electronic device includes a wireless communication interface, a memory, and a processor configured to execute an applet. The wireless communication interface is configured to communicate with a transaction terminal. The memory is configured to store a first set of data for enabling a transaction between the electronic device and the transaction terminal, and a second set of data different from the first set of data. The applet is configured to receive a first request for conducting the transaction. The applet is configured to transmit a first message including or based on the first set of data. The applet is configured to receive a second request for retrieving at least part of the second set of data. The applet is configured to determine whether release of at least part of the second set of data has been authorized.
US10742661B2
Implementations and methods herein provide a networked storage system including a plurality of physical storage devices configured to store data on a plurality of virtualized volumes, a key store configured to store a plurality of encryption keys, and a secure messaging manager configured to encrypt a message to each of the plurality of virtualized volumes using a different encryption key.
US10742658B2
A method and a trust broker system for blockchain-based anti-bot protection are provided. The method includes identifying, on a blockchain network, a request from a client to access a protected entity; selecting an access policy in response to the access request, wherein the access policy includes at least one game to be performed by the client; causing execution of the at least one game defined in the access policy; identifying, on the blockchain network, results of the at least one game, wherein the results are deposited by the client upon completion of the game; determining a bias of the client based on the completion results, wherein the determined bias is utilized for a cyber-security assessment of the client, wherein the determined bias for the client is maintained on the blockchain network; and granting or denying access to the protected entity by the client based on the determined bias.
US10742649B1
Disclosed are systems and methods that enable secure authentication to a network and virtual environment setup. An end point computing device combines data input by a user with stored data to determine an IP address where login credentials can be transmitted for authentication. The end point device transmits system information to a provider front end computing device for authentication. In this manner, a user identity and the end point device can be authenticated without the need to store identifying information to the end point device or communicate with a provider's secure back end network. The provider devices determine permissions data that define the user's ability to interact with the provider's network. The provider front end device transmits settings data to the end point device that is used to connect to the provider's network and establish a virtual working environment.
US10742643B2
Methods and systems for network communication are disclosed. Proxy information may be received. The proxy information may facilitate a gateway device communicating as a proxy for a user device.
US10742637B2
The present disclosure discloses a system and method for providing multi-factor authorization for IEEE 802.1x-enabled networks. Specifically, a network device authenticates a client device to obtain access to network resources in a network via a network authentication protocol. The network device then detects a device quarantine trigger indicating an increased level of suspicion that a current user of the client device is a non-authenticated user. In response to the device quarantine trigger, the network device temporarily places the client device from an authenticated state to a quarantined state pending completion of a particular workflow by the current user. The client device has limited access to the network resources while in the quarantined state regardless of a previous successful user and/or device authentication.
US10742633B2
A method and system for securing user data, or data, possessed by a data owner, are disclosed. In one aspect data is concealed and encrypted to ensure data confidentiality, and may also be signed to ensure data integrity and authenticity. In another aspect accesses to data are controlled by the data owner through a distributed access control system. In another aspect the public keys of users are distributed automatically in a distributed manner, and are controlled by the users owning the corresponding public and private key pairs.
US10742630B2
Method and devices for making access decisions in a secure access network are provided. The access decisions are made by one or more portable credentials using data and algorithms stored on or received by two or more credentials. Since access decisions are made by the portable credential or credentials, non-networked hosts or local hosts can be employed that do not necessarily need to be connected to a central access controller or database, thereby reducing the cost of building and maintaining the secure access network.
US10742626B2
A method for key rotation includes initiating key rotation for a user account of a multi-factor authentication platform enabling one-time password authentication using a first symmetric cryptographic key; generating, at an authenticating device, a second symmetric cryptographic key; transmitting, at the authenticating device, the second symmetric cryptographic key to the multi-factor authentication platform; configuring the multi-factor authentication platform and the authenticating device to disable authentication that uses the first symmetric cryptographic key; and configuring the multi-factor authentication platform and the authenticating device to enable authentication that uses the second symmetric cryptographic key.
US10742619B1
In one example, a control node can receive a job request from a client device to perform a job using a computing environment, where the job request includes first secure information and second secure information. The control node can authenticate the user by validating the second secure information using a first secret key. The control node can then obtain access to a job-execution service of a server node within the computing environment using the first secure information. For example, the control node can use the first secure information to obtain third secure information that is specific to the server node, and then transmit the third secure information to the server node. The server node can validate the third secure information and responsively authorize the control node to access the job-execution service. The control node can then initiate execution of the job on the server node on behalf of the user.
US10742617B2
A system for and method of transmitting verifiable e-mail includes a message ID sent to a recipient of the e-mail. A system for and method of transmitting encrypted files using email and other electronic communication channels includes a computer program for storing encrypted files supplied by a user, creating a link to 5 the encrypted files to be e-mailed to a recipient, allowing download of the encrypted files when an authorization code is provided after the link is used to go to a system server, wherein the authorization code is sent to a telephone of the recipient, via text or aurally.
US10742608B2
The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for providing efficient packet flow fillrate adjustments and providing protection against distributed denial of service attacks. One exemplary embodiment in accordance with the invention is a method of operating a communication system including the steps of receiving, at a session border controller, a first SIP invite request message; making a decision, at the session border controller, as to whether the first SIP invite request originated from an Integrated Access Device or an IP-PBX device; generating, at the SBC, a packet flow fillrate based on said decision as to whether the SIP invite request originated at an Integrated Access Device or an Internet Protocol-Private Branch Exchange (IP-PBX) device.
US10742606B2
A method and apparatus for identifying data patterns of a file are described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary process includes, but is not limited to, receiving a data packet of a data stream containing a file segment of a file originated from an external host and destined to a protected host of a local area network (LAN), the file being transmitted via multiple file segments contained in multiple data packets of the data stream, and performing a data pattern analysis on the received data packet to determine whether the received data packet contains a predetermined data pattern, without waiting for a remainder of the data stream to arrive. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US10742602B2
A given packet of the packetized data flow of packets is received. The given packet (145) is selectively discarded depending on at least one of the flow history of the packetized data flow and up pseudorandom test. In some embodiments, the selectively discarding is selectively executed of the given packet is at least partially overlapping with at least one further packet of the packetized data flow. Such techniques may find particular application in network-based intrusion prevention systems.
US10742592B2
Techniques are provided for performing dynamic DNS-SD. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more databases, one or more transceivers to receive a first Domain Name System (DNS) query from a first computing device, the first DNS query defining a first service discovery name space, and one or more processors in communication with each of the one or more databases and the one or more transceivers. The one or more processors generate and append a first metadata associated with the first computing device to the first DNS query. The one or more transceivers transmit the first DNS query and the first metadata to a Domain Name System (DNS) server computer, receive, from the DNS server computer, a first response responsive to the first DNS query, and relay, to the first computing device, the first response.
US10742588B2
Representative media item selection for electronic posts is described. According to a computer implemented method, an electronic post generated by an author is textually analyzed. A representative media item is selected for the electronic post based on the textual analysis. The representative media item is inserted into the electronic post before publishing the electronic post.
US10742584B2
A plurality of pieces of send candidate information are stored (S12). Each piece of send candidate information has sender identification information identifying a sender of an email, recipient identification information identifying a recipient of the email, item identification information (52b and 52c), item information that are associated with each other. The item information includes element values of one or more elements. From among the stored pieces of send candidate information, two or more pieces of send candidate information that have different pieces of sender identification information, the same recipient identification information, and related pieces of item identification information are extracted (S13). The element values included in the pieces of item information of the two or more extracted pieces of send candidate information are compared, and timings for sending emails corresponding to the two or more extracted pieces of send candidate information are set to at least two different timings, based on the comparison result (S14, S15, and S16).
US10742583B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing a shared command history. In one aspect, a shared command history is enabled for performing at least one process using a command line interface. One or more commands entered in the command line interface may be sent to a shared storage location. One or more commands stored in the shared storage location and executed using at least another command line interface may be received. The shared command history may be displayed in the command line interface. In one example, the shared command history includes at least the one or more received commands.
US10742582B2
Launching a client application based on a message is disclosed, including: receiving a message at a client device; using information included in the message to identify a client application that corresponds to the message; and automatically launching the client application, wherein the client application is configured to receive at least some of the information included in the message.
US10742581B2
Summarization-based electronic message actions are described. A system includes a monitor to monitor an electronic communication stream, which electronic communication stream includes past electronic messages between various users. A summarizer of the system 1) determines, based on an output of the monitor, a desired summarization level for a current electronic message having certain characteristics and 2) determines a current summarization level for the current electronic message. When the current summarization level is different than the desired summarization level, an action engine takes an action against the current electronic message.
US10742579B2
Methods and systems for analysis and/or classification of electronic message information so as to capture and identify salient objects exchanged during electronic message passing in order to impute certain information about the object, groups of objects, the message, groups of messages, the parties, communities involved in the message exchange or combinations, thereof.
US10742572B2
Utilizing a computing device executing a master chatbot and one or more modular chatbots to respond to one or more chat messages. A computing device executing the master chatbot receives one or more chat messages. The computing device parses the received one or more chat messages to discover an intent and entities contained within the chat messages. A ranking algorithm is employed to rank the master chatbot and a plurality of modular chatbots, the ranking algorithm scoring the master chatbot and the plurality of modular chatbots based upon the intent and entities contained within the one or more chat messages. The master chatbot responds to the chat message if the ranking algorithm rates the master chatbot highest or forwards automatically the one or more chat messages to a ranked modular chatbot for response if the ranking algorithm rates the ranked modular chatbot highest.
US10742571B2
A system is configured to replay a selected conversation with a selected agent. The selected conversation may be selected from a plurality of previously conducted conversations with other agents. The selected agent may be selected from a plurality of available agents. The system determines various tasks, named entities, and user preferences from the selected conversation. During a replay of the selected conversation with the selected agent, the system generates responses to messages received from the selected agent based on the determined tasks, named entities, and user preferences. The system also allows a user to select whether the replayed conversation should be conducted in a passive mode or in an active mode. In a passive mode, the system generally conducts the replayed conversation autonomously whereas, in an active mode, the system requests user input before sending a response to the selected agent.
US10742562B2
A method for listen-before-talk (LBT) operation by an eNodeB (eNB) in a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes triggering an LBT request to transmit, to a user equipment (UE), at least one of an uplink (UL) grant or downlink (DL) data for UL transmission over an licensed assisted access (LAA), determining an adaptive contention window (CW) size includes a predetermined minimum value and maximum value for transmitting the DL data and UL grant, performing DL data and UL grant LBT operations in accordance with the adaptive CW size, performing a UL grant LBT operation that includes a higher priority than the DL data regardless of a level of quality of service (QoS) of the DL data to transmit a UL grant message to the UE, and multiplexing the UL grant with the DL data, and transmitting the multiplexed UL grant with the DL data transmission to the UE.
US10742558B1
A traffic manager is shared amongst two or more egress blocks of a network device, thereby allowing traffic management resources to be shared between the egress blocks. Among other aspects, this may reduce power demands and allow a larger amount of buffer memory to be available to a given egress block that may be experiencing high traffic loads. Optionally, the shared traffic manager may be leveraged to reduce the resources required to handle data units on ingress. Rather than buffer the entire unit in the ingress buffers, an arbiter may be configured to buffer only the control portion of the data unit. The payload of the data unit, by contrast, is forwarded directly to the shared traffic manager, where it is placed in the egress buffers. Because the payload is not being buffered in the ingress buffers, the ingress buffer memory may be greatly reduced.
US10742554B2
At an action implementation layer of a virtual traffic hub, a packet is obtained from a first isolated network. A first action, generated at a decision making layer of the hub based on a first route table of the hub, is performed, resulting in transmission of at least one network packet to a first destination. In response to a second packet, obtained at the action implementation layer from a source outside the first isolated network, a second action is performed, resulting in transmission of at least one packet to a second destination. The second action is generated based on a second route table of the hub.
US10742553B1
A network device may determine a control plane session type associated with a control plane session. The control plane session may be associated with the network device. The network device may determine whether the control plane session type is associated with a forwarding information base (FIB) cache on the network device. The network device may obtain, based on determining that the control plane session type is associated with the FIB cache, forwarding information associated with the control plane session. The forwarding information may be stored in a FIB, associated with the FIB cache, on the network device. The network device may store the forwarding information in the FIB cache and process the control plane session using the forwarding information stored in the FIB cache.
US10742549B2
A network device includes a routing information base including a first plurality of entries, a forwarding information base including a second plurality of entries; a forwarding information base entry optimizer that programs the second plurality of entries of the forwarding information base using, at least in part, the first plurality of entries; and a network processor that forwards packets based on the second plurality of entries of the forwarding information base. The second plurality of entries is less than the first plurality of entries.
US10742547B2
A communication device includes a forwarding processing unit configured to sort a telegram on the basis of processing content identification information included in header information of the telegram and a telegram processing unit configured to perform processing based on the processing content identification information on a payload of the telegram when the processing content identification information indicates processing in the communication device. The telegram processing unit can directly extract the payload of the telegram without performing protocol processing on the telegram and perform processing using the payload.
US10742541B2
In an example embodiment, a device includes a memory having computer-readable instruction stored therein and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to identify a plurality of communication paths for data transmission between the device and a network gateway, a first one of the plurality of communication paths being associated with a first radio access technology and a second one of the plurality of communication paths being associated with a second radio access technology, and establish a data transmission session between the device and the network gateway simultaneously over at least the first one and the second one of the plurality of communication paths.
US10742540B2
A connection from first terminal CL11, Cl12 to m of relay servers RS1 to RS4 is performed and a connection from second terminal CL21, CL22 to n thereof is performed to relay a communication between the terminals with one of the relay servers connected in common to both of the terminals set to be an active relay server. If a failure occurs in the active relay server, the other relay server connected in common to the first terminal and the second terminal is searched to relay a communication between the terminals with the relay server set to be an alternative relay server at the first terminal and the second terminal. Consequently, a data communication between the terminals is performed through the relay server selected optionally, and furthermore, adjustment for determining the alternative relay server is performed on the terminal side if a failure occurs in an active relay server.
US10742537B2
Various systems and methods for using strict path forwarding. For example, one method involves receiving an advertisement at a node. The advertisement includes a segment identifier (SID). In response to receiving the advertisement, the node determines whether the SID is a strict SID or not. If the SID is a strict SID, the node generates information, such as forwarding information that indicates how to forward packets along a strict shortest path corresponding to the strict SID.
US10742535B2
A method and system or monitoring a resource consumption of an application running on a computer. A first metric describes the resource consumption of the application as a first function of time. A wavelet analysis of the first function of time is performed. A discontinuity in the first function is detected at a first time at which a coefficient determined from the wavelet analysis exceeds a specified threshold. A cross-correlation of the first metric and a second metric describing the resource consumption of the application as a second function of time are calculated. A diagnostic level associated with the discontinuity in the first function is adjusted based on the calculated cross-correlation. In response to adjusting the diagnostic level, a debugging function on the application is started in response to the cross correlation having a value indicative of an anomaly within the application.
US10742533B2
A network device may include a packet generator device implemented in hardware. The packet generator device may include a control component, a payload generation component, and an interface element to receive test packet generation information. The test packet generation information may include one or more control inputs, header data that is to be included in one or more test packets, and information regarding a data pattern that is to be included in payload data of the one or more test packets. The one or more control inputs, when provided to the control component, may cause the control component to control the payload generation component to generate the one or more test packets based on the header data and the information regarding the data pattern.
US10742532B2
A network device performs operations comprising: receiving a first plurality of data packets, each data packet of the first plurality of data packets including a checksum value, and storing the checksum values of a subset of the first plurality of data packets along with a first timestamp; providing the first plurality of data packets to a network function (NF); receiving, from the NF, a second plurality of data packets generated by the NF in response to the first plurality of data packets, each data packet of the second plurality of data packets including a checksum value; storing a second timestamp when checksum values of a subset of the second plurality of data packets match the stored checksum values; and generating telemetry data based on the first timestamp and the second timestamp.
US10742524B2
A framework that provides for development and deployment of services that future-proofs application development efforts, avoids vendor “lock-in” at the PaaS level, and offers true portability of applications and services. Using the framework, developers write application code to a common API interface that connects to resources. The API interface obtains configuration data from a configuration provider that provides configuration data. The configuration data points to an implementation of the code that is bound at runtime. This results in a separation of the API from the configuration data. Using the framework, the application code is portable and can be moved from one framework to another so long each of the frameworks adhere to the common API interface. As such, application code may be written once and then implemented on one or more cloud-based infrastructures and/or within an on-premises data center.
US10742519B2
This disclosure relates generally to performing user segmentation, and more particularly to predicting attribute values for user segmentation. In one embodiment, the method includes segregating a user with an incomplete attribute value and a user with complete attribute values for an attribute into a first group and a second group respectively, computing prior probability for each suggestive attribute value, identified for the incomplete attribute value, based on number of users in second group having the suggestive attribute value as attribute value for the attribute. Computing likelihood for each suggestive attribute value based on similarity of the attribute values of the user of the first group with users of the second group, computing a posterior probability for each suggestive attribute value based on the prior probability and the likelihood, selecting a suggestive attribute value with the highest posterior probability as the attribute value for the incomplete attribute value of the user.
US10742518B2
The present disclosure provides a service indicator display method and device. The method includes: obtaining measurement values of service indicators in a building and a three-dimensional grid model of the building, where an outer surface of the model includes multiple polygons; determining, according to the measurement values of the service indicators, a measurement value that is of a service indicator and that is corresponding to a vertex location of each polygon; performing gradient rendering on each polygon according to a legend and the measurement value, to obtain spatial distribution of the service indicators; and displaying the spatial distribution in the building. A surface of a building model is divided more finely by using a polygon, and spatial location distribution of service indicators is reflected more truly by means of gradient rendering, so as to improve network optimization efficiency.
US10742514B2
A method for determining network topology of a provider network includes selecting a first network element, selecting a first port on the first network element, and iteratively performing connectivity validation tests using the first port, wherein each connectivity validation test is associated with a type of network element and yields a result that indicates whether a second port on a second network element of the associated type is connected to the first port. A system for discovering topology of a network, the system comprising a topology discovery engine in operable communication with a near network element and operable to identify a first port of a far network element that is connected to a second port of the near network element by remotely altering operation of the near network element to cause the second network element to respond in a manner that identifies the first port.
US10742509B2
Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to determining the spans of logical entities in a logical network using a graph theoretic method. For example, in some embodiments, a configuration of the logical network is represented as a directed graph with labeled edges. The span of any logical entity in the logical network may then be computed based on the directed graph of the logical network. For example, for a given entity represented by a given node, the set of nodes that can be reached from the given node via span-depends-on edges only may be computed and referred to as the span base of the given node. Further, the set of all managed forwarding elements reachable from each node of the span base of the given node via contains edges only is the span for the given entity.
US10742506B2
A method for performing policy-based storage service federation can include: identifying whether or not a policy is applicable for a request received from a client by a request interceptor; obtaining a policy by evaluating request information relating to the request and a policy status; and obtaining a customized set of storage services based on the policy. The method can provide a framework corresponding to a storage federation layer to allow fast application development.
US10742503B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller. The method receives network configuration data including an association of an entity configuration profile to a logical entity group that references at least two logical network entities. The entity configuration profile includes a set of configuration settings to apply to logical network entities with which the entity configuration profile is associated. The method associates the entity configuration profile with the logical network entities referenced by the logical entity group. Based on the associations of the entity configuration profile with the logical network entities, the method determines multiple host machines that require the configuration data for the entity configuration profile. The method distributes the entity configuration profile to the host machines.
US10742502B2
Embodiments provide a software modification initiation method. The method can include receiving, by a VNFM, a VNF LCM request sent by an NFVO. The VNF LCM request may include an instance identifier of a VNF instance of to-be-modified first-version VNF software. The method can include determining, by the VNFM, that a type of the VNF LCM request indicates a software modification operation, and obtaining metadata according to the VNF LCM request. The metadata may include a version identifier of the first-version VNF software and a software modification type. The method can include determining, by the VNFM, a first VNF instance of the first-version VNF software based on the instance identifier of the VNF instance of the to-be-modified first-version VNF software. The method can also include initiating, by the VNFM, a software modification operation for the first VNF instance of the first-version VNF software based on the software modification type.
US10742493B1
Remote configuration of network interface cards (NICs) on appliances of a scaleable compute resource such as a frame-based system is disclosed. Frames may include a frame link module (FLM). Remote configuration of NICs may allow for multiple networks to be maintained in physical or logical isolation from each other. For example, a management data network may be maintained independently of an application data network. An FLM CPU may detect an appliance, validate compatibility for the appliance, a midplane, a PHY connection, etc. Commands from the FLM CPU may configure the independent networks. Independent networks may provide redundancy and segregation by data type. A controller area network (CAN) bus may deliver configuration commands to a NIC of an attached appliance. Air gap equivalent isolation of networks based on type of network may be achieved while maintaining redundancy of networks to address potential failure of individual components.
US10742492B2
Managing server nodes on a management network with modified service discovery protocol messages including determining that a first management server requires management data for installation on a server node, wherein the first management server and the server node are communicatively coupled to a management network; determining that the required management data for installation on the server node is not stored on the first management server; broadcasting, on the management network, a first modified service discovery protocol (SDP) message requesting the required management data for installation on the server node; receiving, from a second management server communicatively coupled to the management network, a second modified SDP message providing the required management data for installation on the server node; and installing the required management data on the server node.
US10742490B2
An apparatus and method of performing a configuration process in the apparatus are provided. The apparatus has a backhaul sub-node to provide a backhaul connection to a communications network which comprises a proxy system. It also has an access sub-node to provide an access cell to which user equipment can connect. In a configuration process the backhaul sub-node performs a backhaul sub-node auto-configuration process comprising connecting to a further network node, determining backhaul sub-node configuration parameters, and storing in the proxy system at least one configuration parameter for the access sub-node in dependence on the backhaul sub-node configuration parameters determined. When the access sub-node then issues an access sub-node auto-configuration request, the proxy system intercepts the access sub-node auto-configuration request and responds to the access sub-node in dependence on the at least one configuration parameter for the access sub-node stored. Transparent to the access sub-node, the backhaul sub-node can thus modify the default configuration which the access sub-node would receive, based on the specific backhaul connectivity which it has established for itself.
US10742489B2
Networks that support business operations may be a complex combination of computers used by end-users, wired connections, wireless connections, and a multitude of infrastructure devices. Some of the infrastructure devices may be critical components in the operation of the network. Disclosed method and system provide for validation, deployment and rollback of configuration changes to network infrastructure components among other things. A computer device may include a network controller, memory storage for instructions and configuration database. A shadow database may be created to execute in parallel with the primary database service process, the shadow database instance comprising a shadow database control process and associated shadow database configuration information independently updatable from the configuration database information. Change validation may be performed using the shadow database without impact to the run-time configuration database.
US10742486B2
In one embodiment, a network assurance system discretizes parameter values of a plurality of time series of measurements obtained from a monitored network by assigning tags to the parameter values. The network assurance system detects occurrences of a particular type of failure event in the monitored network. The network assurance system identifies a set of the assigned tags that frequently co-occur with the occurrences of the particular type of failure event. The network assurance system determines, using a Bayesian framework, rankings for the tags in the identified set based on how well each of the tags acts as a predictor of the failure event. The network assurance system initiates performance of a corrective measure for the failure event based in part on the determined rankings for the tags in the identified set.
US10742482B2
In some examples, a system generates event records representing anomalous events associated with respective devices in a network, each respective anomalous event of the anomalous events being identified as anomalous for a respective context of a device of the devices. The system clusters the event records to produce a plurality of clusters of the event records. The system outputs the plurality of clusters for application of a remediation of an issue in the network.
US10742480B2
A Management-as-a-Service (MaaS) agent running on a client network creates a reverse session-origination (RSO) tunnel between the client network and a MaaS server. The MaaS agent collects client statistics at and regarding the client network and transmits the client statistics to the MaaS server. The MaaS server analyzes the client data and sends alerts or other messages to a user, who may be outside the client network, in the event certain conditions are met.
US10742475B2
Method, apparatus and systems for object tracking are disclosed. In one example, a system for tracking a plurality of objects in a venue is disclosed. The system comprises a transmitter configured for transmitting a series of probe signals in a broadcasting manner through a wireless multipath channel, wherein the wireless multipath channel is impacted by a movement of at least one of the plurality of objects in the venue; and a plurality of heterogeneous target wireless receivers each of which is associated with an object of the plurality of objects in the venue. Each of the plurality of heterogeneous target wireless receivers is configured for: receiving the series of probe signals through the wireless multipath channel between the heterogeneous target wireless receiver and the transmitter, obtaining at least one time series of channel information (TSCI) of the wireless multipath channel based on the series of probe signals received by the heterogeneous target wireless receiver, and tracking the object associated with the heterogeneous target wireless receiver based on the at least one TSCI.
US10742470B2
Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus, a sending end sends data to a receiving end on one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a scheduling unit, and the receiving end receives data sent by the sending end on one or more OFDM symbols in the scheduling unit. A time length of the scheduling unit is a length of two long term evolution (LTE) OFDM symbols having normal cycle prefixes and a subcarrier spacing of 15 kHz, the scheduling unit is formed by seven or eight OFDM symbols having a subcarrier spacing of 60 kHz, the scheduling unit is maintained to be the seven OFDM symbols having a subcarrier spacing of 60 kHz and having new extended cycle prefixes.
US10742467B1
A signal processor is provided for use with a first signal generator and a second signal generator, wherein the first signal generator provides a first signal having a first amplitude and the second signal generator provides a second signal having a second amplitude. The signal processor includes: a threshold component that stores a threshold value; a threshold detection component that generates a sum of the first amplitude and the second amplitude, compares the sum with the threshold value, generates a modification required signal when the sum is greater than the threshold value; a delay component that generates a delay signal; and a delay processor operable to output an output signal based on the sum of a modified first signal and the second signal when the sum is greater than the threshold value.
US10742465B2
A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving a first physical signal, determining a first physical structure based on information in the first physical signal, and determining resource elements based on the first physical structure. A first set of subcarriers with first subcarrier spacing which is integer multiple or integer sub-multiple of second subcarrier spacing are mapped such that in addition to a slot boundary one or more of starting positions or ending positions of first subcarriers with the first subcarrier spacing in a first set of OFDM symbols are aligned with one or more of starting positions or ending positions of second subcarriers with the second subcarrier spacing in a second set of OFDM symbols.
US10742464B2
Methods and systems for multi-protocol transmissions in shared spectrum are disclosed where an OFDM transmitter is configured to generate transmissions associated with one OFDM technology or protocol using subcarriers of another OFDM technology. Generally, multi-protocol transmissions as described herein may be performed sequentially (e.g. in a time division multiplexing fashion) or concurrently (e.g. during the same or an overlapping time interval). For concurrent transmissions, an OFDM transmitter may be configured to map or assign the different OFDM signals to different subsets of the available OFDM subcarriers such that the data contained therein can be transmitted at the same or during an overlapping time interval. In one application, an LTE transmitter is configured to use different subsets of the LTE subcarriers for concurrent LTE and 802.11 transmissions that can respectively be decoded by LTE and 802.11 receivers.
US10742463B2
Disclosed are method and apparatus for enabling multiple access in a wireless communication system that can enable ultralow latency, ultra-reliable, and high throughput services. The disclosed multiple access method includes: allocating resources for a plurality of user terminals according to space and frequency; performing a discrete Fourier transform on a transmission symbol for each unit of the space, the transmission symbol composed of a plurality of sub-symbols and configured to be transmitted according to the allocated space and frequency resources; and applying a frequency filter and a spatial filter on the Fourier transformation result, and wherein the applying of the frequency filter and the spatial filter comprises: selecting a pulse shaping filter according to an arranged position of the allocated frequency resource for each unit of the space and applying the selected pulse shaping filter on a sample representing a result of applying a Fourier transform on the sub-symbol to a frequency domain.
