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US09224201B2	Method for the reduction of artifacts in image data sets and computing facility A method for the reduction of artifacts based on an unequal representation of the same material classes in various locations, in particular of cupping artifacts, in a three-dimensional image data set, reconstructed from two-dimensional x-ray projection images is provided. An image datum, describing an attenuation value, is allocated respectively to a voxel, wherein at least two material class regions are located in a post-processing step, which receive, in particular, image data, which is homogeneously distributed and lies in an expected material class interval of the attenuation values, and, considering at least one characteristic of the material class regions, calculates a smooth homogenization function, which is to be applied to the image data of the entire image data set and is applied to the image data of the image data set.
US09224200B2	Computer vision based method for extracting features relating to the developmental stages of Trichuris spp. eggs There is provided a computer vision based method for extracting features relating to the developmental stages of Trichuris spp. eggs, wherein for the final developmental stages a larva is present inside the egg, said Trichuris spp. eggs having a substantially oblong or elliptical shape with a protruding polar plug at each end, the shape of the Trichuris spp. eggs thereby defining a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of the eggs.
US09224186B2	Memory latency tolerance in block processing pipelines Memory latency tolerance methods and apparatus for maintaining an overall level of performance in block processing pipelines that prefetch reference data into a search window. In a general memory latency tolerance method, search window processing in the pipeline may be monitored. If status of search window processing changes in a way that affects pipeline throughput, then pipeline processing may be modified. The modification may be performed according to no stall methods, stall recovery methods, and/or stall prevention methods. In no stall methods, a block may be processed using the data present in the search window without waiting for the missing reference data. In stall recovery methods, the pipeline is allowed to stall, and processing is modified for subsequent blocks to speed up the pipeline and catch up in throughput. In stall prevention methods, processing is adjusted in advance of the pipeline encountering a stall condition.
US09224183B2	Projection of a plurality of structured light patterns Systems and methods may provide for projection of a plurality of structured light patterns. In one example, the method may include generating a low-resolution pattern image utilizing a returned image, wherein the low-resolution pattern image is an approximation of an image that would have been generated utilizing a low-resolution pattern and generating a high-resolution pattern image utilizing a preprocessed returned image and a preprocessed low-resolution pattern image, wherein high-resolution pattern image is an approximation of an image that would have been generated utilizing a high-resolution pattern.
US09224182B2	Medical and personal data retrieval system A system for confidentially retrieving data from a person, such as by authorized personnel. One embodiment provides a data carrier item such as jewelry, having encrypted data imparted upon the item in manner that is only intelligible after being unencrypted. Such data can be encrypted and/or invisibly disposed such that the data is not identifiable by the public, but can be quickly and accurately retrieved by authorized personnel.
US09224178B2	Dynamic negotiation and authorization system to record rights-managed content A content recording system comprises a digital media recording device to record content. A rights-management module is in electrical communication with the digital media recording device to detect a desired recording performed by the digital media recording device. The rights-management module further communicates digital rights information of a rights-managed content to the digital recording device. The recording of the rights-managed content is performed according to the digital rights information.
US09224169B2	Interfacing between a dynamic spectrum policy controller and a dynamic spectrum controller A dynamic spectrum arbitrage (DSA) system may include a dynamic spectrum policy controller (DPC) and a dynamic spectrum controller (DSC) that together dynamically manage the allocation and use of resources (e.g., spectrum resources) across different networks. A dynamic spectrum arbitrage application part (DSAAP) protocol/component/module may allow, facilitate, support, or augment communications between the DSC and DPC so as to improve the efficiency and speed of the DSA system. The DSAAP may allow the DPC and/or DSC components to better pool resources across the different networks, better monitor traffic and resource usage in the various networks, to more efficiently communicate bids and bidding information, to quickly and efficiently register and deregister components, and better perform backoff operations. The DSAAP may improve the DSA resource auctioning operations by improving the performance and efficiency of the procedures for bidding, generating invoices, advertising resources, requesting resources, purchasing resources, validating bid credentials, etc.
US09224163B2	Incremental computation of billing percentile values in a cloud based application acceleration as a service environment Disclosed is a method of incremental computation of billing percentile values in a cloud based application acceleration as a service environment. In one aspect, a method includes sampling a usage data of a network entity of an application acceleration as a service provider in intervals of five minutes using a processor and a memory. A 95th percentile value is automatically calculated based on a next value in the billing cycle after the top 5% of samples in the billing cycle. The 95th percentile value of each of a plurality of billable units for each of billing measurements for a large scale data associated with the network entity is incrementally computed by computing the 95th percentile value upon a newest set of data arrived to the network entity in each five minute interval. A billing amount is determined based on an incremental computation.
US09224161B2	System and method for verifying message delivery integrity in a wireless mobile message broadcasting system A system and method verifying the operational integrity of a wireless message broadcasting messaging system with a heartbeat message generator module and a heartbeat feedback reporting system for receiving a broadcast message record including the broadcast message and the broadcast target area defined as geographical information, generating a heartbeat broadcast message, identifying by the broadcast message routing subsystem at least one wireless network providing point to multipoint cell broadcasting messaging to at least a portion of the broadcast target area, transmitting the broadcast message to each of the identified wireless networks, and transmitting the generated heartbeat message to at least one coupled wireless network in addition to transmitting the heartbeat broadcast message to each of the identified wireless networks, and receiving an indication of receipt of the heartbeat broadcast message from a remote feedback receiver verifying the receipt of the message as indicated by the received indication.
US09224160B2	System and method for message receipt verification in a wireless mobile message broadcasting system A system and method for verifying the receipt of wireless broadcast messages over a wireless message broadcasting system having a broadcast control module and a feedback reporting system for performing the receiving a broadcast message record including the broadcast message and the broadcast target area defined as geographical information, identifying at least one wireless network from among one or more coupled wireless networks that provides point to multipoint cell broadcasting messaging to at least a portion of the message specific broadcast target area as received in the broadcast message record, and transmitting the broadcast message to each of the identified wireless networks, and receiving an indication of receipt of the broadcast message by a remote feedback receiver located within a transmission area of at least one of the coupled wireless networks, and verifying the receipt of the message as indicated by the received indication.
US09224158B2	Mobile device cluster advertisement delivery Systems and computer program products provide advertisement delivery to a cluster of mobile devices with computer readable program code, when read by a processor, configured for identification based at least in part on a relative displacement of the two or more mobile devices during a period of time being less than a maximum relative displacement. The code is further configured for displaying an advertising message on each mobile device in the cluster.
US09224155B2	Systems and methods for managing publication of online advertisements Exemplary embodiments provide systems, devices, one or more non-transitory computer-readable media and computer-executable methods for managing publication of online advertising. In exemplary embodiments, computer-based publication techniques may include, but is not limited to, automatically determining whether the content of a particular web page article is suitable or unsuitable for accompaniment with one or more advertisements, automatically determining whether an advertisement is suitable or unsuitable for publication on a web page associated with a web page article, and automatically determining a category that may be used to classify the content of a web page article in order to select one or more categories of advertisements suitable for accompaniment with the web page article.
US09224149B2	External referencing by portable program modules A computer-implemented method includes storing at a computer server indicative data for a first web-accessible document that is not associated with the computer server, receiving a request from a program module in a container document associated with the web-accessible document, and providing, in response to the request, information related to the indicative data.
US09224127B2	Adaptable user interface for business software An adaptable user interface is formed based on a role assumed by a user and the identification of tasks in a process that need to be performed. For each role assumed by the user, a set of tasks assigned to the role is identified. Each task is evaluated to determine if it is an active task that needs to be performed in one or more processes. For each active task, an element is added to the user interface.
US09224121B2	Demand-driven collaborative scheduling for just-in-time manufacturing A schedule manager may include a chromosome comparator configured to compare a plurality of schedule chromosomes, each schedule chromosome including a potential schedule of use of manufacturing resources within one or more time intervals in producing one or more items, and configured to compare each of the plurality of schedule chromosomes relative to constraints, to thereby output a selected subset of the plurality of schedule chromosomes. The schedule manager may include a chromosome combiner configured to combine schedule chromosomes of the selected subset to obtain a next generation of schedule chromosomes for output to the chromosome comparator and for subsequent comparison therewith of the next generation of schedule chromosomes with respect to the constraints, as part of an evolutionary loop of the plurality of schedule chromosomes between the chromosome comparator and the chromosome combiner, and a scheduler configured to select a selected schedule chromosome therefrom.
US09224119B2	Architecting and defining extensible methods and processes to build hybrid solutions A method and system defines a mechanism to architect and define extensible methods and processes to build hybrid solutions. Solution templates provide a mechanism to architect and define the software development method in an extensible way and it enables the method architecture to be flexible to assemble method content and process elements only for those solution types that are necessary for a given solution. Solution templates keep the common base method lightweight and reusable and control the proliferation of software development processes necessary to build hybrid solutions by defining the solution templates for each of the solution types as pluggable extensions or add-ons to the base method that can be assembled on demand based on project needs.
US09224117B2	Software service to facilitate organizational testing of employees to determine their potential susceptibility to phishing scams A software system and service for facilitating organizational testing of employees in order to determine their potential susceptibility to phishing scams is disclosed to evaluate their susceptibility to e-mail and Internet cybercrimes such as phishing. The e-mail addresses of a client organization's employees are provided to the system, a phishing e-mail is created and customized, and a phishing e-mail campaign in which the phishing e-mail message is sent and the responses to the phishing e-mail is monitored, and the results of the e-mail campaign are provided for evaluation. The phishing e-mail may optionally contain attachments and various types of probes and “call home” mechanisms.
US09224116B2	Task identification based on semantics and temporal relationships The present description refers to a computer implemented method, computer program product, and computer system to receive a list of computer events, each of the events including a user interacting with a computer, determine one or more desktop operations, with each desktop operation including one or more computer events that are performed to accomplish the desktop operation, determine one or more knowledge actions, where each knowledge action includes a group of one or more desktop operations performed using a same application on a same information object, determine one or more tasks, with each task including a group of knowledge actions that include information objects that are semantically related, and combine two or more tasks that are temporally related.
US09224104B2	Generating data from imbalanced training data sets Injecting generated data samples into a minority data class of an imbalanced training data set is provided. In response to receiving an input to balance the imbalanced training data set that includes a majority data class and the minority data class, a set of data samples is generated for the minority data class. A distance is calculated from each data sample in the set of generated data samples to a center of a kernel that includes a set of data samples of the majority data class. Each data sample in the set of generated data samples is stored within a corresponding distance score bucket based on the calculated distance of a data sample. Generated data samples are selected from a number of highest ranking distance score buckets. The generated data samples selected from the number of highest ranking distance score buckets are injected into the minority data class.
US09224100B1	Method and apparatus using accelerometer data to serve better ads A mobile device, including an accelerometer and a processing unit receiving signals from the accelerometer and determining motion information of the mobile device based on the received signals is disclosed. A content selector selects a media format for content based on the physical state of the mobile device as indicated by the signals from the accelerometer. A display device displays the content in the selected media format. When the motion is a predetermined type of motion, the received content is withheld from being displayed by the display device. A machine learning apparatus is provided as the content selector.
US09224094B2	Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to measure online audiences Methods and apparatus to monitor media content at a content display site are described. An example method includes obtaining panelist data corresponding to a plurality of panelists accessing web pages at measured locations, classifying the panelist data according to demographic information of the panelists, generating a virtual panel based on an estimate of web page access at unmeasured locations, and classifying page view data associated with the unmeasured locations based on data corresponding to the virtual panel.
US09224086B2	Method for contacting a chip The invention relates to a method for contacting a chip with a conductor arrangement and also to a conductor arrangement, particularly a transponder antenna, an intermediate carrier or the like, with a carrier substrate (55) for accommodating the chip and with a chip having chip terminal faces formed thereon, wherein a conductor material layer (66) is formed on the carrier substrate, wherein the conductor material layer forms a conductor arrangement (64) having at least two conductors (56, 57) which are connected to each other in a chip contact area (58), wherein an insulating gap (59) is formed in the chip contact area, such that mutually electrically insulated conductor terminal faces (60, 61) of the conductors are formed, wherein the chip terminal faces are contacted with the conductor terminal faces, and wherein the insulating gap is formed by removal of the conductor material layer by means of a laser.
US09224081B2	Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes: at least one container, a recorder, a communication unit, an input device, a memory, a display, and a controller. The controller performs: receiving a recording command via the communication unit; storing the recording command in the memory; and detecting a remaining amount of the consumables in the container. And the controller further performs: calculating a consumption amount of the consumables in accordance with the stored recording command; receiving authentication information; authenticating the stored recording command and comparing the detected remaining amount of the consumables with the calculated consumption amount to be consumed for the image of the authenticated recording command; and displaying information of a first authenticated recording command with a first indication indicating the first authenticated recording command is executed, when the calculated consumption amount is equal to or less than the detected remaining amount.
US09224080B2	Spectral characteristic acquisition device, image evaluation device, and image formation apparatus A spectral characteristic acquisition device includes a light irradiation part configured to irradiate an object with light, a diffraction part configured to diffract light reflected from the object to provide diffracted light, a light-receiving part configured to receive the diffracted light and output a signal based on an amount of the diffracted light, a calibration color index configured to include a color with a known spectral characteristic, and an operation part configured to calculate a spectral characteristic of the object from a signal output from the light-receiving part by using a predetermined transformation matrix and calibrate the transformation matrix by using the calibration color index.
US09224076B2	Image forming apparatus, image formation system, and method for controlling image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a communication unit for receiving unmodified data and modified data obtained when the unmodified data is modified; an image-reading unit for reading a confirmation document over which commentary has been written, and generating scan data; a storage unit for storing the unmodified data, the modified data, and the scan data; a comparison processing unit for comparing the unmodified data, the modified data, and the scan data, and recognizing confirmation places of the modified data, which are modified places that correspond to the commentary and have been modified from the unmodified data; and a printing unit for printing only those pages of the modified data that comprise the confirmation places recognized by the comparison processing unit.
US09224074B2	System and method for tuning device link profiles for color printing A system and method according to which device link profiles (DLPs) for color printing are tuned or otherwise adjusted.
US09224069B2	Program, method and apparatus for accumulating images that have associated text information A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute an image accumulating procedure, the procedure includes: specifying a second image similar to a first image that is associated with text information; displaying the second image in an identifiable manner, and the text information on a display device; and storing the text information associated with image information that is related to the second image, based on instruction information that instructs a use of the text information with respect to the second image.
US09224068B1	Identifying objects in images Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying objects in images. One of the methods includes receiving an input image; down-sampling the input image to generate a second image; generating a respective first score for each of the plurality of object categories; selecting an initial patch of the input image; generating a respective second score for each of the plurality of object categories; and generating a respective third score for each of the plurality of object categories from the first scores and the second scores, wherein the respective third score for each of the plurality of object categories represents a likelihood that the input image contains an image of an object belonging to the object category.
US09224063B2	Apparatus and method for digital microscopy imaging A microscopy imaging system and method for rendering a mosaic representation of an object from a series of image frames of the object are disclosed. A current image frame is processed to determine its relative location or position within the mosaic representation based on relative displacement of the current image from one or more keyframes. Once the current image frame's position has been determined, it is rendered along with its neighboring keyframes to provide the mosaic representation of the object.
US09224060B1	Object tracking using depth information Systems and approaches are provided for tracking an object of interest using depth or disparity information, such as obtained by calculating stereo disparity between a pair of images. The depth or disparity information can be used as an additional signature for a template of the object of interest for tracking the object. A template that includes depth, distance, or disparity information for an object of interest may be invariant to the effects of lighting, such as shadows and changes in illumination conditions. Depth, distance, or disparity information can also provide information regarding shape and size that can be used to differentiate foreground objects. Depth, distance, or disparity information can also better handle occlusion. Depth, distance, or disparity information can also provide an additional disambiguating dimension for tracking an object.
US09224057B2	Biometric identification A system for biometrically authenticating a user includes: elements for obtaining image data that are representative of at least one user-associated biometric feature and at least one user-associated identifier, elements for extracting the at least one biometric feature in the image data, elements for extracting the at least one identifier in the image data, elements for performing a search for a reference biometric feature associated with the at least one identifier, elements for comparing the extracted biometric feature with the reference biometric feature, and elements for authenticating the user in accordance with a result of the comparison.
US09224054B2	Machine vision based obstacle avoidance system Machine vision based obstacle avoidance system is provided. The system utilizes a CCD camera to capture an image. A normalized image and dynamic masking is used in object detection.
US09224051B2	Lens-attached matter detector for determining presence or absence of attached matter, lens-attached matter detection method executed by the same, and vehicle system having the same A lens-attached matter detector includes an edge extractor configured to create an edge image based on an input image, divide the edge image into a plurality of areas including a plurality of pixels, and extract an area whose edge intensity is a threshold range as an attention area, a brightness distribution extractor configured to obtain a brightness value of the attention area and a brightness value of a circumference area, a brightness change extractor configured to obtain the brightness value of the attention area and the brightness value of the circumference area for a predetermined time interval, and obtain a time series variation in the brightness value of the attention area based on the brightness value of the attention area, and an attached matter determiner configured to determine the presence or absence of attached matter based on the time series variation in the brightness value of the attention area.
US09224048B2	Scene-based people metering for audience measurement Scene-based people metering for audience measurement is disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include grouping successive image frames depicting a location of a media presentation to form a sequence of scenes, respective scenes including respective groups of the image frames. Such example methods also include grouping matching scenes into respective scene clusters having respective sizes, the scene clusters being represented by respective key frames. Such example methods further include assigning respective ranks to the key frames of the respective scene clusters, the respective ranks being determined based on the respective sizes of the scene clusters. Such example methods additionally include processing the key frames in accordance with the respective ranks to monitor an audience of the media presentation.
US09224047B2	Specifying search criteria for searching video data A method and apparatus is described for specifying regions of interest within a two-dimensional view of visual information that comprises a series of frames. Visual changes that occur in the view are stored. A user enters search criteria that specify at least one first region of interest within the view and a visual change. A visual change may include a change in pixel values or a detection of motion of one or more objects within the view. The first search criteria are compared against the stored visual changes to identify a sequence of frames in which the specified visual change occurred within the first region of interest. The search criteria may specify multiple regions of interest, each with one or more types of visual changes. If a motion is specified, then a direction, speed, and behavior of a moving object may also be specified.
US09224043B2	Map generation apparatus, map generation method, moving method for moving body, and robot apparatus Performing map construction under a crowded environment where there are a lot of people. It includes a successive image acquisition unit that obtains images that are taken while a robot is moving, a local feature quantity extraction unit that extracts a quantity at each feature point from the images, a feature quantity matching unit that performs matching among the quantities in the input images, where quantities are extracted by the extraction unit, an invariant feature quantity calculation unit that calculates an average of the matched quantities among a predetermined number of images by the matching unit as an invariant feature quantity, a distance information acquisition unit that calculates distance information corresponding to each invariant feature quantity based on a position of the robot at times when the images are obtained, and a map generation unit that generates a local metrical map as a hybrid map.
US09224035B2	Image classification and information retrieval over wireless digital networks and the internet A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors.
US09224031B2	Compact dark field light source and dark field image analysis at low magnification The invention relates to image analysis of dark field images obtained at low magnification below 10:1. Image analysis of dark field images obtained at low magnification can be combined with analyzes of images obtained in respect of the same section of a sample and same magnification but with other techniques such as fluorescent microscopy. The system and method can be used e.g. for particle counting, particle size measurement, particle size distribution, morphology measurement, where the particles can be cells and/or cell parts. The invention also relates to a compact dark field light source unit, a system or apparatus including a microscope which by itself is compact and comprises the mentioned dark field light source unit.
US09224028B2	Pattern for coding a numerical information item on a surface and marking and reading methods A pattern for coding numerical a information item on a surface, including a specific arrangement of a plurality of symbols belonging to a set of symbols (ENS1), and each symbol in the arrangement being intended for the coding of a portion of said numerical information item, wherein each symbol includes at least one differential pair of elements (E1, E2) positioned in a specific way, each element being characterized by a parameter, the parameter of the first element of each differential pair having a first value and the parameter of the second element of each differential pair having a second value different from the first value.
US09224022B2	Autofocus lens system for indicia readers An autofocus lens system includes no conventional moving parts and has excellent speed and low power consumption. The system includes a small electronically-controlled focusing-module lens. The focusing-module lens includes two adjustable polymeric surfaces (e.g., two adjustable-surface lenses in a back-to-back configuration). The curvature of the surfaces can be adjusted to change focus. The performance of the autofocus lens system is extended by adding a conventional first and second lens, or lens group, on either side of the focusing-module lens. What results is an autofocus lens system with excellent near field and far field performance.
US09224017B2	Use of multiplexed RFID controller to verify connections in automated systems A system and method for using multiplexed RFID transceivers and RFID tags to verify connections and communicate the connection status to a host system is provided. RFID tags that are programmed with connection specific indicia are attached at or in proximity to various connections in a pharmaceutical or biotech processing system and interrogated by remote antennas driven by a multiplexed RFID transceiver. This enables a user to verify the status of each connection and communicate the connection status to a host system.
US09224015B2	Smart wallet A smart wallet that can only be exclusively opened by an authorized individual through biometric authentication is disclosed. The smart wallet also has a security system associated therewith to prevent the smart wallet from being lost or stolen. The system comprises a fob key configured to send periodic wireless transmissions to the smart wallet device having the ability for approximate range detection. Various embodiments include audible, visual and vibrational indications for authentication, battery power and range detection.
US09224007B2	Search engine with privacy protection A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.
US09224005B2	Cloud key directory for federating data exchanges Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing attribute-based data access. Embodiments include receiving a data request specifying search data attributes describing requested data that is to be found in an anonymous directory. The anonymous directory provides access to secured data of clients according to access controls, including secured data comprising a first portion that is unencrypted and readable by the anonymous directory and a second portion that is encrypted and unreadable by the anonymous directory. The second portion is encrypted using multi-authority attribute-based encryption that associates the second portion with encryption data attributes. The anonymous directory provides the first acid second portions of data f conditions in the access controls are met. The first and second portions of data are provided, based on determining that the conditions in the access controls are met, and that at least one data attribute is relevant to at least one encryption data attribute.
US09224002B2	Method and apparatus for file encryption/decryption A file encrypting method and apparatus, and a file decrypting method and apparatus is provided. The method includes following steps: creating a virtual disk; the virtual disk receiving a writing request from a file system, encrypting data in the writing request; and notifying the file system to write the encrypted data into a corresponding physical disk, so that the file system writes the encrypted data into the corresponding physical disk after receiving a notification from the virtual disk. The methods and apparatuses can employ the virtual disk to encrypt data in the writing request and decrypt the data required by the reading request, and this manner achieves highly-reliable, secure and effective file encrypting.
US09224000B1	Systems and methods for providing information security using context-based keys Systems and methods for securing or encrypting data or other information arising from a user's interaction with software and/or hardware, resulting in transformation of original data into ciphertext. Generally, the ciphertext is generated using context-based keys that depend on the environment in which the original data originated and/or accessed. The ciphertext can be stored in a user's storage device or in an enterprise database (e.g., at-rest encryption), or shared with other users (e.g., cryptographic communication). Use of context-based encryption keys enables key association with individual data elements, as opposed to public-private key pairs, or use of conventional user-based or system-based keys. In scenarios wherein data is shared by a sender with other users, the system manages the rights of users who are able to send and/or access the sender's data according to pre-defined policies/roles.
US09223994B2	Secure transaction method from a non-secure terminal The invention relates to a transaction method, the method including the steps of: providing a terminal including a main processor, a graphic processor controlling a display, and a control member, the graphic processor including a memory bank which cannot be accessed from the outside; creating a link between the graphic processor and a secure processor, the link being secured by means of an encryption key shared only by the graphic processor and the secure processor; presenting first data to the user; collecting second data from commands entered by the user by means of the control member, in connection with the first data; transmitting the second data to the secure processor; and, if the user has been authenticated from the second data, carrying out the transaction, the secure link being used to transmit the first and/or second data, and/or to carry out the transaction.
US09223993B2	Method for mandatory access control of processing in hardware cores A method for providing hardware mandatory access control (MAC) may include coupling an input filter to a hardware core. The input filter may receive one or more labeled objects and may qualify the labeled objects based on a first label associated with each of the labeled objects. The input filter may strip the first label from each of the labeled objects to provide one or more input objects. The hardware core may receive the one or more input objects and may provide one or more output objects. An output filter may be coupled to the hardware core. The output filter may receive the one or more output objects and may associate to each of the one or more output objects a second label. Operations of the input filter and the output filter may be coordinated by a label manager.
US09223990B2	Method and apparatus for application management in user device The method and apparatus support signature-based application management that examines credibility of an application to be installed or executed and controls installation and execution accordingly. The application management method for a user device includes: receiving user input for installing an application; comparing signature information of the application with an authentication list stored in a signature information storage; preventing, when the signature information is present in a blacklist of the authentication list, installation of the application; initiating, when the signature information is present in a whitelist of the authentication list, installation of the application; and selectively performing, when the signature information is not present in either the blacklist or the whitelist, installation of the application according to user consent.
US09223989B2	Approval of content updates A method, computer program product, and system is described. An indication of a problem regarding a content item is received, the content item being subject to a workflow including an approval protocol. A request for an emergency exception to the workflow with respect to an update to the content item is received, the update being associated with the problem. Permission for circumvention of one or more aspects of the approval protocol with respect to the update is provided, in response to receiving the request for the emergency exception.
US09223988B1	Extending browser functionality with dynamic on-the-fly downloading of untrusted browser components Subject innovations enable a client device to dynamically download Digital Rights Management components, and/or other plug-ins, to extend a browser functionality, where the downloading places the downloaded component(s) within a super sandbox that, inter alia, disables selected operating system calls by the downloaded component, performs one or more heuristic analysis on code execution of the component to detect possible malicious code, and restricts output through the super sandbox to those responses that are in response to a request to the component, rather than output that the component might have initiated ‘on its own.’ In some embodiments, a webpage is configured to include instructions to automatically download and install the component, thereby minimizing user actions to directly request and/or install the component.
US09223977B2	Detection of DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerabilities Testing a Web-based application for security vulnerabilities. At least one client request including a payload having a unique identifier can be communicated to the Web-based application. Response HTML and an associated Document Object Model (DOM) object can be received from the Web-based application. Content corresponding to the payload can be identified in the DOM object via the unique identifier. A section of the DOM object including the payload can be identified as un-trusted.
US09223976B2	Content inspection Content inspection techniques are described. In one or more implementations, it is detected that an application executing on a computing device is calling a particular code element of a group of code elements to be used to process content. For example, the group of code elements can include a pre-specified group of code elements (e.g., functions and/or properties) that may enable access to particular functionalities of a computing device and thus are associated with a known security risk. It is then ascertained that the content is untrusted and, in response to ascertaining that the content is untrusted, the content is inspected to determine if the content is safe to be passed to the code element.
US09223975B2	Data identification system Disclosed is a method of operating a data storage system. The method comprises identifying changed segments of a primary storage volume, receiving a data request for a plurality of data items in a secondary storage volume, identifying changed data items of the plurality of data items in the secondary storage volume based on a correspondence between the plurality of data items in the secondary storage volume and the changed segments of the primary storage volume, and transferring the changed data items in response to the data request.
US09223972B1	Dynamically remote tuning of a malware content detection system According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a processor and memory. Communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory comprises one or more detection modules each being software that is configurable to enable, disable or modify capabilities for that corresponding detection module. A first detection module the detection modules, when executed by the processor, conducts a first capability including an analysis of a received object to determine if the received object is associated with a malicious attack. The analysis may be altered upon receipt of a configuration file that is substantially lesser in size than the software forming the first detection module and includes information to alter one or more rules controlling the first capability.
US09223971B1	User reporting and automatic threat processing of suspicious email A computer device displays email messages received in connection with a user account and a user selectable icon to report suspicious email. The computer device receives user selections of the icon and an associated suspicious email message among the received email messages. Responsive to the selection, the computer device automatically collects information from the host, the user account, and the email message, determines an initial threat priority for the email message based on the collected information, generates threat indicators based at least on each file attachment of the email message, if any, determines malware, if any, in the email message based on the threat indicators, and creates an event ticket for the suspicious email message having fields populated based on the collected information, the initial threat priority, the threat indicators, and the determined malware.
US09223969B2	Anti-malware system and operating method thereof Provided are an anti-malware system, and an operating method thereof. The anti-malware system matches an filtering operation on first target data to be filtered with a rule pattern, performs a filtering operation on the first target data according to a matching result, matches second target data to be malware-scanned with a malware pattern, and performs a malware scanning operation on the second target data according to a matching result, wherein the filtering operation and the scanning operation are performed on a system-on-chip (SoC).
US09223964B2	Detecting JAVA sandbox escaping attacks based on JAVA bytecode instrumentation and JAVA method hooking By injecting bytecode into a predetermined method of a sandbox environment, an application that uses an exploit to attempt to escape from the sandbox environment may be detected without knowledge of the application or the exploit used to attempt to escape from the sandbox environment. Upon indicating that the application has escaped the sandbox, the application may be terminated or the escape may be reported, allowing further monitoring of the application.
US09223960B1	State-machine clock tampering detection An apparatus for detecting tampering with a clock of a state-machine, comprising, a master state-machine having master states and driven by a master clock, the master states being switchable responsive to events, and an auxiliary state-machine having auxiliary states and driven by an auxiliary clock synchronous with the master clock, the auxiliary states being switchable responsive to a signal generated based at least on said events, consequently establishing a correspondence between the master states and the auxiliary states, thus ensuing that subsequent to tampering with the master clock the correspondence between the master states and the auxiliary states become discordant, thereby indicating that the master clock has been tampered with.
US09223955B2	User-authentication gestures This document relates to user-authentication gestures. One example can capture multiple biometric features when a user-authentication gesture is performed as a device authentication attempt. The example can compare values of the multiple biometric features to previous values stored for the user. The example can further unlock the computing device in an instance where the values of the multiple biometric features satisfy a similarity threshold relative to the previous values.
US09223954B2	User detecting apparatus, user detecting method and computer-readable recording medium storing a user detecting program A user detecting apparatus includes: a memory that stores a program including a procedure; and a processor that executed the program, the procedure including: obtaining an image captured by a camera, switching between a first mode in which a first user-associated area, which is associated with a user, is detected from the image according to a similarity between a color histogram of the image and a reference color histogram and a second mode in which a second user-associated area, which is associated with the user, is detected from the image according to a feature point extracted from the image, according to luminance of the image, and detecting, from the image, the first user-associated area in the first mode or the second user-associated area in the second mode.
US09223945B2	Code diversity method and system In one embodiment, a processing device includes a memory to store an executable program including a multiplicity of encrypted component blocks such that different combinations of blocks selected from the encrypted component blocks are operative when decrypted and executed to perform a same functionally equivalent data transformation, each of the component blocks being operative upon execution to convert input data into output data, and a processor operative to receive a selection of cryptographic keys, decrypt some of the encrypted component blocks using the cryptographic keys such that each one of the some encrypted component blocks is decrypted with a different one of the cryptographic keys yielding a multiplicity of decrypted component blocks, and execute the executable program including the multiplicity of decrypted component blocks to perform the same functionally equivalent data transformation. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US09223944B2	Media rights management on multiple devices Media rights are managed to include not just device authentication, but to include elements of user, device, and service authorization. A user can play media on a mobile device, continue playing the media on a desktop computer, and subsequently move to a large screen television and media rights are automatically identified to provide the most appropriate authorized content. This allows an authorized user to seamlessly access different forms of the same content on a variety of authenticated devices using the same digital rights management mechanisms.
US09223942B2	Automatically presenting rights protected content on previously unauthorized device A first consumer electronics device includes a computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by a processor, and a processor configured for accessing the computer readable storage medium to execute the instructions to configure the processor for receiving a signal indicative of close proximity of the first CE device to a second CE device. The instructions also configure the processor for providing a private key to the second CE device in response to receiving the signal. The private key is associated with a digital rights management (DRM) account for which the first CE device has been configured to access, and is configured for a single use by the second CE device to access a first audio video (AV) content without the second CE device communicating any other authentication information associated with the DRM account to access the first AV content to a content provider associated with the first AV content.
US09223934B2	System and method for identifying medical articles in an enclosure An automatic data collection system tracks medical articles by providing a robust electromagnetic (EM) field within an enclosure in which the articles are stored. Respective data carriers, such as RFID tags, attached to each article respond to the electromagnetic field by transmitting data identified with each article. An RFID scanner receives the transmitted RFID tag identification data and a processor compares the received identification data to a data base. The data base associates the identification data with data concerning the medical article to which the RFID tag is affixed, such as the name of the medicine, the size of the dose, and the expiration date. The processor is also programmed to keep track of the number of articles of a particular type remaining in the enclosure, to note receipt of an article in the enclosure, and to note removal of the article.
US09223932B1	Handheld medical imaging mobile modality A method of acquiring medical image data for a subject having a subject medical record and subject identifying information includes capturing medical image data related to the subject with a mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device. The mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device includes an optical imaging component, an input component, and a wireless two-way communication component. The method also includes providing a program that includes a program includes a request for subject identifying information, providing the subject identifying information in said program, and wirelessly transmitting data derived from the medical image data and the subject identifying information from the mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device to a second device. The second device is separate from the mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device.
US09223928B1	Reverse engineering part families for multiple disciplines Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a plurality of part families, where each part family comprises a plurality of parts; and for each part in each part family: obtaining connection port geometry information for a physical part in a part family; positioning each of the port vectors in a three-dimensional space at a respective location specified by the port vector; generating a respective port alignment line for each of the port vectors; generating one or more base curves each positioned to align with a plurality of the port alignment lines; generating one or more port solids from the connection port geometry information; and constructing body geometry between each of the one or more port solids by sweeping along a respective base curve, wherein the constructing is based at least on the connection port geometry information.
US09223920B2	Method and apparatus for timing closure Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit, such as an integrated circuit. The circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The second circuit includes a delay circuit configured to cause the second circuit to have substantially matched delay characteristics of the first circuit in response to at least one parameter change of manufacturing, environmental and operational parameters, such as process variation, temperature variation, and supply voltage variation.
US09223917B2	Polynomial synthesis Galois Field circuit production apparatus for fabricating a polynomial over GF(2m) in a circuit, comprising, an input device for allowing a specification relating to a desired polynomial over GF(2m) to be entered, a processor and memory for producing an improved, and preferably optimized, netlist, and means for fabricating a circuit from an improved netlist, wherein the processor and memory are configured to factorize a netlist corresponding to an input specification, determining common factors by passing through chains of multipliers following chains of adders, and to use an optimization algorithm on the factorized net list to generate an improved net list, and wherein the means for fabricating operably fabricates a circuit based on the improved netlist produced by the processor.
US09223916B2	Timing analysis of asynchronous clock domain crossings Various implementations of a method, system, and computer program product for executing timing analysis of an asynchronous clock domain crossing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a signal group and a corresponding timing specification are determined for one or more signals of an electronic design. For each of the signals, a clock associated with the signal is renamed based, at least in part, on the signal group associated with the signal. The asynchronous clock domain between a transmit domain and a receive domain is identified in the electronic design based, at least in part, on identifying a signal path associated with one or more renamed clocks that is asynchronous to a clock associated with the receive domain. For each of the one or more renamed clocks, timing analysis is executed across one or more signals associated with the renamed clock at the asynchronous clock domain crossing.
US09223910B1	Performance and memory efficient modeling of HDL ports for simulation A method for compiling an HDL specification for simulation of a circuit design is disclosed. The circuit design is elaborated from the HDL specification and memory locations are allocated for formals and actuals of the elaborated circuit design. For each port having a formal and an actual that are compatible, the allocating of memory locations sets a reference pointer for the formal and a reference pointer for the actual to reference a same one of the memory locations. For each port having a formal and an actual that are incompatible, the allocating of memory locations sets the reference pointer for the formal and the reference pointer for the actual to reference different respective ones of the memory locations. Simulation code modeling the elaborated circuit design is generated that updates a formal and actual of a port that are compatible using a single write operation to the referenced memory location.
US09223904B2	Correction of topology interference for solid objects in a modeling environment The present invention provides a method, system, and instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium that resolve interference between surfaces in a modeling environment, such as a CAD environment. Further, exemplary embodiments of the present invention may modify the surfaces of a model to ensure that parts of the model constitute a solid body. In exemplary embodiments, when the manipulation of a first surface or set of surfaces causes interference with a second surface or set of surfaces, the topologies of the surfaces are modified to account for the interference. The individual surfaces involved in the intersection may be treated as a merged surface or set of surfaces having a single topology, surface area, and volume. If an ambiguity arises whereby more than one option exists for resolving the interference or providing a solid body, the modeling environment may provide multiple potential solutions to a user, and allow the user to select from among the solutions.
US09223901B2	Method for selecting elements in textual electronic lists and for operating computer-implemented programs using natural language commands A method for controlling a program by natural language allows a user to efficiently operate a computer-implemented target program through intuitive natural language commands. A list of natural language commands related to the target program is compiled. Each natural language command is stored as an element in an electronic list. Natural language commands generally consist of short sentences comprising at least a predicate (a verb) and an object (a noun). A user can filter the list of natural language commands by entering the initials of a natural language command. The user enters the first character of the first word to be filtered, followed by the first character of the second word to be filtered, and so forth. Filtering by initials very rapidly reduces the number of choices presented to a user and minimizes the number of keystrokes required to select a particular list element.
US09223893B2	Updating social graph data using physical objects identified from images captured by smartphone This technology concerns, in one aspect, using a person's social network graph data as a virtual visual cortex—taking image input from a smartphone or the like, and processing it with the graph data to yield a personalized form of processing based on the imagery. The user's network graph data is typically updated by such processing—providing a form of virtual image memory that can influence future social network behavior. In another aspect, the technology concerns identifying content (e.g., audio) by both fingerprint-based and watermark-based techniques, and arrangements employing such identification data. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09223888B2	Combining client and server classifiers to achieve better accuracy and performance results in web page classification In one embodiment, an internet monitor service may use a final content rating to determine access to a webpage. A monitor client 102 may generate a client content rating of a webpage 104. The monitor client 102 may factor the client content rating with a server content rating of the webpage 104 to determine a final content rating for the webpage 104.
US09223884B2	Resource identifier personalization A uniform resource locator (URL) including an identification of a network resource and one or more tag-variable sets may be determined. One or more variables associated with the URL may be determined based on the tag-variable sets, wherein each tag-variable set may include a variable and a corresponding tag. A target recipient of the URL, associated with one or more values corresponding to the one or more variables, may be determined. Each of the one or more variables may be replaced with the corresponding one or more values in the URL. The URL including the identification of the network resource and one or more tag-value sets may be provided to the target recipient, each tag-value set including the one or more tags and the corresponding one or more values, wherein upon a selection of the URL, the tag-value sets are provided to the network resource via the URL.
US09223883B2	Context driven arrangement of portlets in a portal Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for context driven arrangement of portlets in a portal page. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of context driven arrangement of portlets in a portal page can be provided. The method can include computing a context for an application co-executing with a portal page in a computing client, and arranging portlets in the portal page in the computing client based upon the computed context.
US09223882B2	Method, apparatus, and recording medium for selecting location of mobile device A method, an apparatus, and a recording medium for selecting a location are provided. The present method uses a communication module to position a mobile device so as to get a first location of the mobile device. Then, an electronic map of a range around the first location is displayed. A second location selected on the electronic map by a user is received and used as location information. Accordingly, the user can select precise location of himself/herself in an indoor place and share the location information to remote contacts.
US09223879B2	Dynamically generating recommendations based on social graph information In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining access to information comprising nodes and edges; receiving a request from a first user corresponding to a first user node for a structured document corresponding to a first concept node; determining a first data set that identifies concept nodes connected by edges with user nodes that are each connected by edges with both the first user node and the first concept node; determining a second data set that identifies concept nodes connected by edges with the first concept node and user nodes that are each connected to the first user node; generating a score for each concept node in the data sets; selecting one or more concept nodes based on their scores as recommended nodes; and transmitting to the client device the structured document and code executable by a client application to render node names or identifiers of the recommended nodes for display.
US09223848B2	System and method of combined database system A system, including both an OLTP database and a warehouse database, that is configured to manage the coordination between the OLTP database and the warehouse database. An aspect relates to a combined OLTP and warehouse database which manages duplicate copies, in both the OLTP database and the warehouse database, of data expected to have a relatively high update and query rate. Data which has a low update and query rate is removed from the OLTP database, such that it remains only in the warehouse database. Updates of the duplicate copy data are performed in the OLTP. Periodically, for example every several minutes, data recently changed in the OLTP database is copied to the warehouse database. Queries are optionally primarily handled by the warehouse database, and are supplemented, when necessary, by data from the OLTP database.
US09223843B1	Optimized log storage for asynchronous log updates A log-structured data store may implement optimized log storage for asynchronous log updates. In some embodiments, log records may be received indicating updates to data stored for a storage client and indicating positions in a log record sequence. The log records themselves may not be guaranteed to be received according to the log record sequence. Received log records may be stored in a hot log portion of a block-based storage device according to an order in which they are received. Log records in the hot log portion may then be identified to be moved to a cold log portion of the block-based storage device in order to complete a next portion of the log record sequence. Log records may be modified, such as compressed, or coalesced, before being stored together in a data block of the cold log portion according to the log record sequence.
US09223834B2	Distributed multi-system management Methods, systems and computer program products for operating a plurality of nodes within a network are provided. Using a monitoring node, a subgroup of the plurality of nodes is monitored, the subgroup including the monitoring node and a non-monitoring node. The non-monitoring node is configured to not manage a distributed database distributed among all monitoring nodes of the plurality of nodes, other non-monitoring nodes of the plurality of nodes, and the monitoring nodes of the plurality of nodes and is configured to not store replicated data from other ones of the plurality of nodes. Information from the subgroup is exchanged with a monitoring node of another subgroup of the plurality of nodes over the network, using the monitoring node.
US09223827B2	Database query language transformation method, transformation apparatus and database query system A method, device and system for transforming a concept-based query into SQL query statements, that includes transforming inputted concept-based queries into logic rules, checking validity of the logic rules, optimizing the valid logic rules, and translating the logic rules into SQL query statements in accordance with the optimization result.
US09223817B2	Virtual repository management Virtual repository management is disclosed. An indication is received that a content management functionality is desired to be available with respect to one or more external content items. A reference object is created for each for the one or more external content items that represents the external content item and enables the content management functionality to be performed with respect to the external content item.
US09223816B2	Opening a data set A method of and system for opening a data set is disclosed. The method and system may include structuring a storage facility to have address spaces. The address spaces may include a first address space having an open manager. The open manager may be configured and arranged to manage activities associated with an open request in response to receiving the open request. The method and system may include performing pseudo-opens associated with the open request in the address spaces. The method and system may include performing a batch-open utilizing the pseudo-opens and a resource used to complete the open request.
US09223814B2	Scalable selection management Architecture for handling large data selections with small and substantially constant memory footprints. The architecture facilitates the creation of sets of data objects (e.g., rows) of a data source based on selection of the data objects. The set structures can be defined according to a range (span) of data objects selected and a pattern of the objects selected. These set structures are then saved in memory, rather than the data objects, to provide optimized memory usage. In a database implementation, the solution stores the set representation (the structure) in nearly a constant amount of memory, regardless of the number of rows in the grid, and regardless of the number of rows selected. Memory usage can be proportional to the number of discontinuous spans of rows selected by the user. Structures in memory can be consolidated, replaced, or eliminated dynamically as the user changes row selections and pattern criteria.
US09223810B2	Storage advisor for hybrid-store databases Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for recommending a storage layout for the hybrid-store database with actions including receiving one or more data characteristics associated with data that is to be stored in the hybrid-store database, receiving one or more query characteristics associated with one or more queries that are expected to be applied to the hybrid-store database, processing the one or more data characteristics and the one or more query characteristics using a cost model to generate a plurality of costs, each cost being associated with a respective storage layout, identifying, based on the plurality of costs, a recommended storage layout, and providing the recommended storage layout for application to the hybrid-store database.
US09223809B2	Code processing technique A disclosed data structure of a phrase tree includes, as data of each node in the phrase tree, a data block including a first area for holding a code for a character or a character string, a second area for holding, for each character that will be used, an appearance sequential number of a second character that appears next to the character or the character string, and a third area for holding, according to the appearance sequential number, a number of appearances or a code corresponding to a character string comprising the character or the character string and the second character when the number of appearances exceeds a threshold.
US09223798B2	Virtualized workspaces for standardization of access to data A system and method for bridging between various operating systems, applications, file formats and file structures and the like is described. The system and methods described include the creation of a virtual workspace transparent to a user that allows the user to access information stored on an accessible computer readable medium in a manner that is compatible with the user's system, even where the requested data may reside on a system having an operating system or file structure that is incompatible with the user's system or application.
US09223790B1	Managing deletion of data in a data storage system In certain embodiments, a system comprises a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The memory includes executable instructions that upon execution cause the system to generate, at a first time, a first snapshot capturing data stored in storage units of a storage device. The executable instructions upon execution cause the system to receive an indication to delete at least a portion of the data in the storage units and captured by the first snapshot, and to mark, in response to receiving the indication, the one or more storage units that store the at least a first portion of the data as available. The executable instructions upon execution cause the system to generate, at a second time subsequent to the first time, a second snapshot that omits the one or more storage units marked as available.
US09223788B2	File system consistency check on part of a file system A file system that includes multiple logical devices can be subdivided into multiple containers. The containers each include respective non-overlapping sets of the logical devices. An amount of memory allocated to a container is dynamic. A set of the containers can be selected for a file system consistency check. The file system consistency check is performed on only the set of the containers instead of on the entire file system.
US09223787B2	Systems and methods for sideband communication between device and host to minimize file corruption Communications systems and methods for minimizing file corruption when communicating between a device and a host are provided. To initiate a file transfer section, a host can transfer data to a device on a primary communications channel. The device can then temporarily store the received data in a memory circuit until a command is received indicating that the file has been completely transferred. In order to avoid interfering with the data transfer, the host can provide such a command to the device on a sideband communications channel. Upon receiving the command, the device can integrate the received data into its file system by transferring the data from the memory circuit to a more permanent storage component. If the communications interface is disconnected before such a command is received, the temporarily stored data can be considered incomplete and can be deleted.
US09223785B2	Mobile terminal displaying page of e-book and background image and controlling method thereof A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a more convenient e-book reading environment can be provided through background video and/or audio settings. The present invention includes a touchscreen configured to display a first page of an e-book including at least one or more pages, a memory unit configured to store the e-book and at least one image, a communication unit configured to exchange data with an external device by wire/wireless, and a controller searching at least one of the memory unit and a search server connected via the communication unit for at least one or more candidate images with a search word determined using at least one portion of a content of the first page, the controller controlling a first one of the found at least one or more candidate images to be displayed as a background image of the first page.
US09223783B2	Apparatus and methods for managing content Apparatus and methods for managing content, such as content captured by a mobile device, are provided. The apparatus and method include receiving a plurality of content, which includes tag information, e.g., date and location information and an identifier for the mobile device. In addition, the apparatus and methods may include automatically grouping the content based on the tag information, and automatically labeling the content based on the tag information. For example, determined groupings of the content may be placed into folders and labeled based upon the tag information.
US09223779B2	Text segmentation with multiple granularity levels Text processing includes: segmenting received text based on a lexicon of smallest semantic units to obtain medium-grained segmentation results; merging the medium-grained segmentation results to obtain coarse-grained segmentation results, the coarse-grained segmentation results having coarser granularity than the medium-grained segmentation results; looking up in the lexicon of smallest semantic units respective search elements that correspond to segments in the medium-grained segmentation results; and forming fine-grained segmentation results based on the respective search elements, the fine-grained segmentation results having finer granularity than the medium-grained segmentation results.
US09223778B2	Net moderator A method and an apparatus for moderating an inappropriate relationship between two parties by analyzing a dialog between the two parties. The method and apparatus creates an alert depending upon the nature of the dialog between the two parties. The alert is sent to a third party who can moderate the relationship between the two parties. The third party can ban or block the dialog between the two parties based upon the inappropriate relationship between the two parties. A banning or block of the dialog between the two parties can also be automated.
US09223776B2	Multimodal natural language query system for processing and analyzing voice and proximity-based queries The disclosure provides a natural language query system and method for processing and analyzing multimodally-originated queries, including voice and proximity-based queries. The natural language query system includes a Web-enabled device including a speech input module for receiving a voice-based query in natural language form from a user and a location/proximity module for receiving location/proximity information from a location/proximity device. The query system also includes a speech conversion module for converting the voice-based query in natural language form to text in natural language form and a natural language processing module for converting the text in natural language form to text in searchable form. The query system further includes a semantic engine module for converting the text in searchable form to a formal database query and a database-look-up module for using the formal database query to obtain a result related to the voice-based query in natural language form from a database.
US09223767B1	Unified graphical user interface for displaying a plan of operations in a datacenter In a computer-implemented method for a unified graphical user interface for displaying a plan of operations in a datacenter metadata is accessed from a plurality of disparate software bundles for updating targets in a datacenter. A unified visualization of a plan of operations on the targets is displayed via a unified graphical user interface based on the accessed metadata, wherein the unified graphical user interface displays the plan of operations with a common look and feel.
US09223763B2	Document generation apparatus, method, and storage medium A document generation apparatus comprises: a first acquisition unit adapted to acquire, based on identification information appended to a first document, layout data and data acquisition information required to acquire data to be laid out in accordance with the layout data; a second acquisition unit adapted to acquire data based on the data acquisition information acquired by the first acquisition unit; and a generation unit adapted to generate a second document on which the data acquired by the second acquisition unit are laid out in accordance with the layout data acquired by the first acquisition unit.
US09223761B2	Real time visual feedback during move, resize and/or rotate actions in an electronic document Real time feedback during move, resize or rotate actions in an electronic document is provided. During live drag actions, the layout shown during the action may be the layout produced when the object is dropped. Detection of slow performance of an application and aborting a redraw action as needed may be provided. A visual indication may be provided for helping users to see that an action is in progress, and thereby removing a perception that the application is failing to respond properly. Determining if a figure will not land in a current cursor/touch point position in a move action and a visual indication to help the user see where and why the figure may jump to a new location may also be provided. In addition, determining an attachment point for an object on a page comprising a table may also be provided.
US09223757B2	Automated paragraph layout Methods and apparatus for calculating paragraph layout. A method begins with a first node in a paragraph and calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout that ended in the node. For every subsequent node in the paragraph, the method calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout that ends respectively in every subsequent node. Each optimal line break scheme is calculated by minimizing the total of a penalty value of a current line and all preceding penalties of all preceding lines. The preceding penalties of all preceding lines are defined by a previously calculated optimal line break scheme.
US09223752B2	Digital signal processor with one or more non-linear functions using factorized polynomial interpolation A digital signal processor and method are disclosed with one or more non-linear functions using factorized polynomial interpolation. A digital signal processor evaluates a non-linear function for a value, x, by obtaining two or more values from at least one look-up table for said non-linear function that are near said value, x; and interpolating said two or more obtained values to obtain a value, y, using a factorized polynomial interpolation.
US09223749B2	Celestial navigation system for an autonomous vehicle A navigation control system for an autonomous vehicle comprises a transmitter and an autonomous vehicle. The transmitter comprises an emitter for emitting at least one signal, a power source for powering the emitter, a device for capturing wireless energy to charge the power source, and a printed circuit board for converting the captured wireless energy to a form for charging the power source. The autonomous vehicle operates within a working area and comprises a receiver for detecting the at least one signal emitted by the emitter, and a processor for determining a relative location of the autonomous vehicle within the working area based on the signal emitted by the emitter.
US09223747B2	System for reusing triple event data in PET and method, program product thereof The invention provides a system for reusing triple event data of PET. The system includes an input unit, a determining unit, and an output unit. A plurality of data is generated by an object undergoing the PET scan, and the input unit is used to receive the data. The determining unit is used to determine the data and pick out data corresponding to triple event from the data and according to a formula to pick out data corresponding to coincident event from the data corresponding to triple event. In other words, the determining unit picks out data corresponding to true triple event from the data to reuse and analyze the data corresponding to coincident event and further to generate an analysis result. The output unit is used to output the analysis result.
US09223745B2	Flexible database and iterative spatial search process A flexible database and iterative spatial search process is described. In an embodiment, a flexible database server is described which takes input queries in the form of XML strings describing a search specification and parses them using a stored procedure. Searching is performed by generating a temporary table for each term in the search specification and then comparing the temporary tables to pre-existing tables within the database to identify datasets that meet the search specification. An application is also described which generates the XML string in response to user input and which displays the results to a user. The application provides a user interface which enables users to select attributes of results, such as the spatial data associated with a dataset, to include in a second search specification and to trigger this new search.
US09223739B2	Detection method and apparatus for hot-swapping of SD card A detection method for hot-swapping of a Secure Digital (SD) card is provided. The detection method includes steps of: transmitting an inquiry command to an card reader at a predetermined frequency; receiving a command return message replied in response to the inquiry command; determining whether the SD card is removed or plugged according to the command return message; and detecting a hot-swapping status of the SD card in real-time to provide an accurate status of the SD card for upper-layer applications.
US09223730B2	Virtual system management mode device and control method thereof A virtual system management mode device, for processing a system management interrupt signal generated by a special process, includes a transformation unit, a control unit memory, and a control unit. The transformation unit transforms the system management interrupt signal into a virtual system management interrupt signal. The control unit memory stores a plurality of system management interrupt processes. The control unit executes one of the system management interrupt processes according to the virtual system management interrupt signal.
US09223729B2	Servicing a globally broadcast interrupt signal in a multi-threaded computer Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for servicing a globally broadcast interrupt signal in a multi-threaded computer comprising a plurality of processor threads. Embodiments include an interrupt controller indicating in a plurality of local interrupt status locations that a globally broadcast interrupt signal has been received by the interrupt controller. Embodiments also include a thread determining that a local interrupt status location corresponding to the thread indicates that the globally broadcast interrupt signal has been received by the interrupt controller. Embodiments also include the thread processing one or more entries in a global interrupt status bit queue based on whether global interrupt status bits associated with the globally broadcast interrupt signal are locked. Each entry in the global interrupt status bit queue corresponds to a queued global interrupt.
US09223727B2	Input-output circuit An identification terminal voltage detecting circuit detects a voltage of an identification terminal. A video switch is inserted into a signal line connecting a video circuit included in an internal circuit and the identification terminal. When a voltage representing that a video cable is connected to a connector is detected, and then a voltage representing that the video cable is terminated with specified impedance is detected, the control unit turns on the video switch.
US09223721B2	Embedded processor with virtualized security controls using guest identifications, a common kernel address space and operational permissions A method includes assigning unique guest identifications to different guests, specifying an address region and permissions for the different guests and controlling a guest jump from one physical memory segment to a second physical memory segment through operational permissions defined in a root memory management unit that supports guest isolation and protection.
US09223716B2	Obstruction-aware cache management Processors and methods disclosed herein include a cache memory unit, n processor cores where n≧1, a controller connected to the cache memory unit and to each of the n processor cores, and n obstruction monitoring units, where each obstruction monitoring unit is connected to the controller and to a different one of the n processor cores, and where during operation of the electronic processor, each obstruction monitoring unit is configured to detect an obstruction corresponding to an operation from the processor core connected to the obstruction monitoring unit before the operation executes in the cache memory unit.
US09223713B2	Allocation of cache to storage volumes A technique for allocating a write cache allowed data size of a write cache from a plurality of write caches to each of a plurality of storage volumes, calculating a write cache utilization of the write cache for each of the respective storage volumes, wherein the write cache utilization is based on a write cache dirty data size of the write cache allocated to the respective storage volume divided by the write cache allowed data size of the write cache allocated to the respective storage volume, and adjusting the write cache allowed data size of the write cache allocated to storage volumes based on the write cache utilization of the write cache of the storage volumes.
US09223704B2	Memory access control circuit, prefetch circuit, memory device and information processing system Disclosed herein is a memory access control circuit including: a determination section adapted to determine whether a target requested by a first wraparound memory access request from a processor is stored in a prefetch buffer; a request generation section adapted to generate a second wraparound memory access request including the target if it is determined that the target is not stored in the prefetch buffer; and an address conversion section adapted to convert the start address of the first wraparound memory access request according to predetermined rules for use as a start address of the second wraparound memory access request.
US09223700B2	Managing global cache coherency in a distributed shared caching for clustered file systems Systems. Methods, and Computer Program Products are provided for managing a global cache coherency in a distributed shared caching for a clustered file systems (CFS). The CFS manages access permissions to an entire space of data segments by using the DSM module. In response to receiving a request to access one of the data segments, a calculation operation is performed for obtaining most recent contents of one of the data segments. The calculation operation performs one of providing the most recent contents via communication with a remote DSM module which obtains the one of the data segments from an associated external cache memory, instructing by the DSM module to read from storage the one of the data segments, and determining that any existing contents of the one of the data segments in the local external cache are the most recent contents.
US09223697B2	Computer reprogramming method, data storage medium and motor vehicle computer A method (50) for reprogramming a computer (10) by modification of the content of a non-volatile rewritable memory (104) of the computer via reprogramming software stored in the non-volatile rewritable memory (104). The reprogramming software includes a task sequencer and a plurality of software components, divided in advance into at least two sets, namely: a first set including each software component to be executed simultaneously with an operation of modifying the content of the non-volatile rewritable memory (104), and a second set including some or all of the other software components of the reprogramming software. During the reprogramming of the computer, the software components of the second set are executed from the non-volatile rewritable memory (104), and the task sequencer and the software components of the first set to be executed are copied in advance into a volatile memory (106) of the computer, and are executed from the volatile memory.
US09223695B2	Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus including a NAND type flash memory; circuitry configured to control writing/reading of data to/from the NAND type flash memory; and an interface configured to connect the information processing apparatus to a host apparatus. The circuitry is configured to determine whether to erase data stored in a specific area within the NAND type flash memory by overwriting the data based on whether an overwrite command is received from the host apparatus via the interface; and erase a physical block including the specific area when it is determined to erase the data by removing electric charges in the NAND type flash memory in the physical block including the specific area.
US09223694B2	Data storage device and operating method thereof A data storage device includes a first memory device configured to store data having a first property, and a second memory device including a first block configured to store data having a second property and a second block configured to store data transferred from the first memory device.
US09223686B1	Cache memory data storage control system and method A caching system and methodology for data in a memory for faster access to commonly-used data by other applications and computer devices on a network. The memory can include a solid-state drive (SSD) array for the cache memory that has read-bias, in addition to a magnetic hard drive array. The system uses a logical set of slots to hold identifiers for specific groups of data that can be placed into cache memory and each identifier has a usage attribute that changes based upon the usage of the specific group of data and causes the identifier to move within the set of slots and potentially into cache memory.
US09223680B2	Information processing apparatus and debugging method An information processing apparatus includes a system memory, a cache system that includes a cache memory, and a plurality of cores, each of which accesses the system memory and the cache memory. The cache system stores in a cache line of the cache memory a break indicator that designates one or more of the plurality of cores. The cache system determine whether a first core in the plurality of cores that issues a request to read data from an address that corresponds to the cache line in which the break indicator is stored matches one of the cores designated by the break indicator. If the first core matches one of the cores designated by the break indicator, the cache system returns a break command to the first core. If the first core does not match one of the cores designated by the break indicator, the cache system returns the data to the first core.
US09223679B1	Lightweight, non-intrusive, and flexible apparatus to obtain system and process state According to one embodiment, a debug daemon executed by a processor of a data processing system receives a signal from a first program executed within the data processing system. In response to the signal, a snapshot of a memory region associated with the first program is captured. An analysis tool is identified from a pool of analysis tools based on the signal in view of a set of one or more rules associated with the first program. The analysis tool is invoked to perform an analysis on the snapshot to generate a summary that describes the snapshot. The summary is transmitted from the data processing system to a remote system over a network, without transmitting the snapshot.
US09223677B2	Generation of trace data in a multi-processor system A data processing apparatus is provided having a plurality of processing circuits each having access to a memory. Tracing circuitry is provided for generating a stream of trace data for generating a stream of trace data corresponding to at least one of the plurality of processing circuits. Selection circuitry is provided to enable selective switching of the tracing circuitry from generating a first trace data stream corresponding to a first one of the plurality of processing circuits generating a second different trace data stream corresponding to a different one of the plurality of processing circuits. The selective switching is performed in dependence upon processing state information associating with one or more of the plurality of processing circuits. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.
US09223663B2	Resolving memory faults with reduced processing impact A fault occurs in a virtual environment that includes a base space, a first subspace, and a second subspace, each with a virtual address associated with content in auxiliary storage memory. The fault is resolved by copying the content from auxiliary storage to central storage memory and updating one or more base space dynamic address translation (DAT) tables, and not updating DAT tables of the first and second subspace. A subsequent fault at the first subspace virtual address is resolved by copying the base space DAT table information to the first subspace DAT tables and not updating the second subspace DAT tables. A fault occurring with association to the virtual address of the first subspace is resolved for the base space and the base space DAT table information is copied to the first subspace DAT tables, and the second subspace DAT tables are not updated.
US09223654B2	Resilient distributed replicated data storage system A resilient distributed replicated data storage system is described herein. The storage system includes zones that are independent, and autonomous from each other. The zones include nodes that are independent and autonomous. The nodes include storage devices. When a data item is stored, it is partitioned into a plurality of data objects and a plurality of parity objects are calculated. Reassembly instructions are created for the data item. The data objects, parity objects and reassembly instructions are spread across nodes and zones in the storage system according to a policy for the data item. When a zone is inaccessible, a virtual zone is created and used until the intended zone is available. When a read request is received, the data item is prepared from the lowest latency nodes according to the reassembly instructions, and a virtual zone is accessed in place of a real zone when the real zone is inaccessible.
US09223653B2	Modifying a dispersed storage network memory data access response plan A method includes storing tasks in a task queue. The method continues with computing devices retrieving at least some of the plurality of tasks for execution. The method includes a computing device issuing read requests and initiate delete requests to storage units regarding an unassigned task, wherein the initiate delete requests instruct the storage units to flag for deletion, but not execute deletion, of a set of encoded task slices corresponding to the unassigned task. The method continues with the computing device receiving responses. When the responses include encoded task slices, the method continues with the computing device decoding them to recover the unassigned task. The method continues with the computing device executing the recovered task and, when execution is successful, issuing commit delete requests to the storage units that instruct the storage units to delete the set of encoded task slices for the unassigned task.
US09223644B1	Preventing unnecessary data recovery A method that prevents unnecessary data recovery includes receiving, at a data processing device, a status of a resource of a distributed system. When the status of the resource indicates a resource failure, the method includes executing instructions on the data processing device to determine whether the resource failure is correlated to any other resource failures within the distributed system. When the resource failure is correlated to other resource failures within the distributed system, the method includes delaying execution on the data processing device of a remedial action associated with the resource. However, when the resource failure is uncorrelated to other resource failures within the distributed system, the method includes initiating execution on the data processing device of the remedial action associated with the resource.
US09223642B2	Green NAND device (GND) driver with DRAM data persistence for enhanced flash endurance and performance A Green NAND Device (GND) driver application queries AC line and battery status and then stores an image of processor states and caches and a resume routine to DRAM when power failure occurs. A DRAM image is then stored to flash memory for a persistent mode when battery power is available. The image in DRAM may be a partial image that includes entries, flushed caches, processor contexts, ramdisks, write caches, and a resume context. Endurance of flash memory is increased by a Super Enhanced Endurance Device (SEED) SSD. In a power down mode, the GND driver limits DRAM use and only caches in DRAM data that can be deleted on power down. Host accesses to flash are intercepted by the GND driver and categorized by data type. Paging files and temporary files cached in DRAM are optionally written to flash.
US09223622B2	Capacity planning of multi-tiered applications from application logs One embodiment collects performance data for an application server that processes transactions received from a client computer to a database server. An application log is created from the performance data and used for capacity planning in a multi-tiered architecture.
US09223621B1	Organizing content using pipelines A transcoding service is described that is capable of transcoding or otherwise processing content, such as video, audio or multimedia content, by utilizing one or more pipelines. A pipeline can enable a user to submit transcoding jobs (or other processing jobs) into an available pipeline, where a transcoding service (or other such service) assigns one or more computing resources to process the jobs received to each pipeline. The transcoding service and the pipelines can be provided by at least one service provider (e.g., a cloud computing provider) or other such entity to a plurality of customers. A service provider can also provide the computing resources (e.g., servers, virtual machines, etc.) used to process the transcoding jobs from the pipelines.
US09223601B2	Control device, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for a virtual system deployment A control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising determining the order of setting of operating conditions which are set to a plurality of virtual machines and make the virtual machines operate, respectively, in accordance with processing dependency between software executed by the plurality of virtual machines and first setting the respective operating conditions of the virtual machines in the setting order at the determining.
US09223589B2	Smooth layout animation of visuals A declarative animation system allows a designer to declaratively specify transitory behavior of a user interface or other visual display by recognizing changes in an underlying data model that spans visual elements. A visual display is typically comprised of one or more visual elements, as well as an underlying data model. Although animating within a particular visual element is typically straightforward, moving items across visual elements typically involves sophisticated programming logic. However, using the declarative animation system, visual elements can be associated with an underlying data model in a manner that allows the visual display layer to recognize and respond to changes in the underlying data model. This association can also be leveraged to allow automatically generated animation between visual elements without the addition of custom programmatic code. Thus, the declarative animation system allows designers to specify intuitive, graphically sophisticated interfaces without programming knowledge.
US09223588B2	Application window closure in response to event in parent window A method for closing a child application window of a parent window. An indicator is instantiated in data loaded into the parent window, followed by performance of a loop. In each iteration of the loop: (a) if it is ascertained that the data currently loaded into the parent window includes the indicator, then pausing of a first number of seconds is followed by looping back to perform the next iteration, otherwise pausing of a second number of seconds is followed by determining whether the data currently loaded into the parent window includes the indicator; (b) if it is determined that the data currently loaded into the parent window includes the indicator, then pausing of the first number of seconds is followed by looping back to perform the next iteration, otherwise the loop is exited and the child application window is closed during a final iteration.
US09223577B2	Processing multi-destination instruction in pipeline by splitting for single destination operations stage and merging for opcode execution operations stage Various techniques for processing instructions that specify multiple destinations. A first portion of a processor pipeline is configured to split a multi-destination instruction into a plurality of single-destination operations. A second portion of the pipeline is configured to process the plurality of single-destination operations. A third portion of the pipeline is configured to merge the plurality of single-destination operations into one or more multi-destination operations. The one or more multi-destination operations may be performed. The first portion of the pipeline may include a decode unit. The second portion of the pipeline may include a map unit, which may in turn include circuitry configured to maintain a list of free architectural registers and a mapping table that maps physical registers to architectural registers. The third portion of the pipeline may comprise a dispatch unit. In some embodiments, this may provide certain advantages such as reduced area and/or power consumption.
US09223572B2	Interleaving half of packed data elements of size specified in instruction and stored in two source registers An apparatus includes an instruction decoder, first and second source registers and a circuit coupled to the decoder to receive packed data from the source registers and to unpack the packed data responsive to an unpack instruction received by the decoder. A first packed data element and a third packed data element are received from the first source register. A second packed data element and a fourth packed data element are received from the second source register. The circuit copies the packed data elements into a destination register resulting with the second packed data element adjacent to the first packed data element, the third packed data element adjacent to the second packed data element, and the fourth packed data element adjacent to the third packed data element.
US09223556B2	Software download method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention disclose a software download method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring a fanout command and a replacement instruction delivered by a device management server, and replacing, according to the replacement instruction, a software identifier in the fanout command with a software local download address generated for software; delivering the converted fanout command to each terminal corresponding to the fanout command, so that each terminal downloads the software according to the software local download address. The present invention further provides another software download method and software download apparatus. In the embodiments, multiple terminals can be effectively prevented from retrieving data externally, and a local storage function provided by a device management gateway is used to directly acquire download data of the software from a local network of the device management gateway, thereby significantly improving the efficiency.
US09223555B2	Hierarchical resource pools in a linker A novel declare instruction can be used in source code to declare a sub-pool of resource instances to be taken from the resource instances of a larger declared pool. Using such declare instructions, a hierarchy of pools and sub-pools can be declared. A novel allocate instruction can then be used in the source code to instruct a novel linker to make resource instance allocations from a desired pool or a desired sub-pool of the hierarchy. After compilation, the declare and allocate instructions appear in the object code. The linker uses the declare and allocate instructions in the object code to set up the hierarchy of pools and to make the indicated allocations of resource instances to symbols. After resource allocation, the linker replaces instances of a symbol in the object code with the address of the allocated resource instance, thereby generating executable code.
US09223537B2	Conversation user interface A conversation user interface enables users to better understand their interactions with computing devices, particularly when speech input is involved. The conversation user interface conveys a visual representation of a conversation between the computing device, or virtual assistant thereon, and a user. The conversation user interface presents a series of dialog representations that show input from a user (verbal or otherwise) and responses from the device or virtual assistant. Associated with one or more of the dialog representations are one or more graphical elements to convey assumptions made to interpret the user input and derive an associated response. The conversation user interface enables the user to see the assumptions upon which the response was based, and to optionally change the assumption(s). Upon change of an assumption, the conversation GUI is refreshed to present a modified dialog representation of a new response derived from the altered set of assumptions.
US09223536B1	Method, apparatus and system to determine display misalignment Techniques and mechanisms for determining misalignment of one or more tileable display panels. In an embodiment, a plurality of images are processed to create a super-resolution image of the one or more tileable display panels. The super-resolution image may be processed to recognize one or more features indicating misalignment in a reference image displayed by the one or more tileable display panels. In another embodiment, the one or more features are evaluated based on fiducial data to generate a signal indicating an adjustment to be made to a first tileable display panel.
US09223535B2	Smartpad smartdock A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad.
US09223534B1	Client side detection of motion vectors for cross-platform display Data including information regarding a display of the host device may be received. A display of a client device may correspond to the display of the host device. Information regarding the display of the host device may be monitored for changes. When a change is detected, a movement of an image may be identified. Instructions may be generated regarding the changes to the display. A client device may process such instructions to incorporate the detected change while maintaining a remaining portion of the display. The instructions may include a motion vector command for the image movement and a command to fill in space vacated by the moving image. As such, the client device is not required to re-process and re-render an entire display where a change pertains to only a portion thereof.
US09223531B2	Image processing apparatus that generates remote screen display data, portable terminal apparatus that receives remote screen display data, and recording medium storing a program for generating or receiving remote screen display data An image processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores one or more files; a connector that connects the image processing apparatus to a portable terminal apparatus, the portable terminal apparatus including a display portion that remotely displays a screen of the image processing apparatus along with one or more application icons representing one or more applications installed on the portable terminal apparatus, the screen having: one or more file buttons and one or more file processing buttons; a receiver that receives display information from the portable terminal; a display data generator that generates remote screen display data on the basis of the display information, by moving the file processing button to a position at which the file processing button would be further away from the application icon; and a transmitter that transmits the remote screen display data to the portable terminal apparatus.
US09223526B2	Apparatus, method, and storage medium According to an aspect of the present invention, an apparatus includes an area setting unit configured to set, in a case where it is not determined that a page of an aspect ratio can be set in an application, a data arrangement area which the data to be printed is arranged, in a page setting of the application, so that an aspect ratio of the data arrangement area fits to the aspect ratio of the printing area, and a scaling setting unit configured to set a scaling of the page in which the data arrangement area set by the area setting unit, so that the page is scaled in accordance with the printing area and the data arrangement area, based on a size of the page and the size of the printing area.
US09223522B2	Wireless communication device configured to perform a response process and a search process A wireless communication device may execute a response process and a search process with a first operation being performed as a trigger in a first period after the first operation. The response process may include receiving a search signal from a specific external device and sending a response signal to the specific external device in response to the search signal. The search process may include sending the search signal to the specific external device and receiving the response signal from the specific external device. The wireless communication device may communicate a wireless profile with the specific external device so as to establish a wireless connection with the specific external device in a case where the first operation is performed. The wireless communication device may execute the response process in a second period before the first operation is performed.
US09223518B1	Method and system for remote cache direct data placement Method and system for processing a read request are provided. The first adapter receives the read request from a client to read data using a logical object managed by a second adapter. The first adapter is configured to generate a vendor unique command descriptor block for the second adapter to obtain the data and write the data at a location specified by the read request. The second adapter is configured to retrieve the data from a storage location specified by the logical object and writing the data at the location specified by the read request; and notifies the first adapter after writing the data.
US09223504B2	Method and system for placement of logical data stores to minimize request response time Logical data stores are placed on storages to minimize store request time. The stores are sorted. A store counter and a storage counter are each set to one. (A), (B), and (C) are repeated until the storage counter exceeds the number of storages within the array. (A) is setting a load for the storage specified by the storage counter to zero. (B) is performing (i), (ii), and (iii) while the load for the storage specified by the storage counter is less an average determined load over all the storages. (i) is allocating the store specified by the store counter to the storage specified by the storage counter; and, (ii) is incrementing the load for this storage by this storage's request arrival rate multiplied by an expected service time for the requests of this store. (iii) is incrementing the store counter by one. (C) is incrementing the storage counter by one.
US09223493B2	Mobile terminal, electronic device and method of controlling the same A mobile terminal, an electronic device and a method of controlling the same are provided. The electronic device can be controlled easily and intuitively by using the mobile terminal including a touch device.
US09223486B2	Image processing method for mobile terminal An image processing method based on zooming for a mobile terminal permits touch zooming on touch screens of a plurality of devices. The image processing method preferably includes: displaying, in response to entering a touch on a touch screen displaying an image, a zooming GUI indicator for image zooming operation; performing image zooming on the touch screen in response to entering a touch point move while retaining the touch; and hiding the zooming GUI indicator from the touch screen in response to entering a touch release.
US09223485B2	Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus including same, and method for controlling image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a storage portion, an image processing portion, a display portion, a touch panel portion for detecting a touched position, and a processing portion. The storage portion stores image data. The image processing portion performs image processing on the image data. The display portion displays a preview image indicating image data content. The processing portion recognizes touched positions, recognizes a rectangular region having a diagonal connecting two touched positions, recognizes the specified region on the basis of sections overlapping with the rectangular region among a plurality of sections obtained by dividing the preview image, and controls the image processing portion to perform the process on data of a part of the image data corresponding to the specified region.
US09223479B2	Communicating plans for users of a social networking system Exemplary systems and methods for calendaring are provided. Exemplary systems include a natural language receiving component configured to receive a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, a calendar generation engine configured to create a calendar entry based on the natural language entry, a social network database configured for accessing and querying by the calendar generation engine, a privacy component configured to receive a privacy setting indicating a person who is approved to view the calendar entry, and a display module configured to display the calendar entry on a calendar. Exemplary methods include receiving a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, creating a calendar entry, and displaying the calendar entry.
US09223477B2	Command user interface for displaying selectable software functionality controls An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls and for presenting logical groupings of particular functionality controls associated with a selected top-level functionality. Underneath a row of top-level functionality tabs, functionalities controls associated with a given top-level functionality tab are presented in logical groupings. Selection of a particular tab switches modes of the user interface to present controls for functionalities associated with the selected tab.
US09223473B2	Supplemental services interface Examples are described for integrating interface functionality with other experiences. For example, if a user is interested in a particular item of scheduled or on-demand content (e.g., a television series episode), the user may also be interested in a web page devoted to the television series and/or other extras such as cast interviews, news, related theme apps, and the like. These types of experiences may be integrated into an interface by presenting the experiences as supplemental services that may be presented and/or selected.
US09223471B2	Touch screen control This document relates to touch screen controls. For instance, the touch screen controls can allow a user to control a computing device by engaging a touch screen associated with the computing device. One implementation can receive at least one tactile contact from a region of a touch screen. This implementation can present a first command functionality on the touch screen proximate the region for a predefined time. It can await user engagement of the first command functionality. Lacking user engagement within the predefined time, the implementation can remove the first command functionality and offer a second command functionality.
US09223469B2	Configuring a virtual world user-interface A particular user's user-interface to a virtual world is customized based at least upon an analysis of behavioral characteristics of the user, the behavioral characteristics indicating how the user controls an avatar in the virtual world. In this regard, image-capture-or-sharing tools, avatar-appearance-editing tools, or both may be configured in the user-interface based at least upon the analysis of the behavioral characteristics. Information pertaining to results of the configuring of the user-interface may be stored in a processor-accessible memory system.
US09223468B2	Display apparatus, display method and program A display apparatus communicatively connected to a distribution apparatus. The display apparatus storing one or more information contents of external information distributed from the distribution apparatus and/or internal information of the display apparatus, an icon associated with each of the information contents, a placement area for placing the icon, and one or more templates having one or more placement areas for placing icons; determining which of the information contents and the icons are to be displayed; selecting a template where the determined information contents and icons are displayable; and generating and displaying an image to be displayed by embedding the determined icon in a placement area of the selected template corresponding to a placement area associated with the determined icon.
US09223463B1	Mobile user interface for a picker application A user interface of a mobile computing device having a mobile operating system and a display device utilizes a picker application to facilitate selection of an activity. More specifically, the picker application presents at least one radial list of items to provide an effective process for selecting activities categorized amongst one or more locales or neighborhoods associated with a location.
US09223459B2	Using neural signals to drive touch screen devices Methods and apparatus for using are provided for using neural signals to drive touch screen devices. An electromyography (EMG) device can receive neural based on electrical activity of one or more voluntary muscles of a user of the EMG device. The EMG device can filter the neural signals to generate a plurality of channel signals. A touch event can be determined based on the plurality of channel signals. The touch event can relates to user input for a touch-based interface of a touch-enabled device. The touch-enabled device can receive an indication of the touch event. The touch-enabled device can determine a touch operation for the touch-enabled device based on the touch event and then perform the touch operation.
US09223452B2	Noise-cancelling integrated touch screen and display panel and drive method thereof An In-cell touch screen and a method for driving the same includes: concurrently providing a plurality of gate drive signals to the plurality of gate lines line by line and a plurality of touch drive signals to the plurality of drive lines line by line, collecting original touch signals from the plurality of sensing lines line by line; when collecting is performed on a sensing line and any gate line covered by the sensing line is supplied with a gate drive signal, defining the original touch signals collected from a sensing line as interference signals; and removing the interference signals from the original touch signals to obtain a valid touch signal.
US09223447B2	Touch panel, touch display device and assembling method thereof A touch panel including a substrate, a light shielding layer, a touch sensing device layer, a protective layer, and at least one light transmission protrusion is provided. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the first surface is divided into a visual region and a non-visual region. The light shielding layer is disposed in the non-visual region. The touch sensing device layer is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The protective layer disposed on the first surface of the substrate covers the light shielding layer and the touch sensing device layer. The light transmission protrusion is disposed on the protective layer, and at least part of the light transmission protrusion is in the non-visual region. A light enters the light transmission protrusion from the second surface. A touch display device and an assembling method thereof are also provided.
US09223446B2	Touch-sensitive surface A body part of a user touching a touch sensitive surface is determined based on a measured electrostatic signal. The electrostatic signal is transmitted by a transmitter and received by a receiver using a capacitively coupled human body as a communication channel. A touch signal is provided by the touch sensitive surface being touched by the user. The received electrostatic signal is measured in response to the touch signal and the body part of the user touching the touch sensitive surface is determined.
US09223444B2	CMOS image sensor with shared multiplexer and method of operating the same A CMOS image sensor includes a pixel array unit, a row selection unit, and a logic circuit. The pixel array unit is used for sensing an object. The pixel array unit includes M pixels and P multiplexers and each of the M pixels is electrically connected to one of the P multiplexers, wherein M is a positive integer and P is a positive integer smaller than M. The row selection unit and the logic circuit are electrically connected to the P multiplexers. The row selection unit is used for generating a row selection signal. The logic circuit is used for determining a sensing region corresponding to the object wherein the sensing region includes N of the M pixels. Furthermore, the logic circuit controls Q multiplexers, which are electrically connected to the N pixels, to transmit the row selection signal to the N pixels.
US09223440B2	Optical navigation utilizing speed based algorithm selection Embodiments of method and systems are disclosed. An embodiment of a method for optical navigation involves generating light at a light source, directing the light to a navigation surface, detecting light reflected from the navigation surface toward a sensor array, and generating movement information, which is indicative of movement of the navigation surface relative to the sensor array, in response to the detected light. Generating the movement information involves determining the speed of the movement, comparing the speed of the movement to a movement threshold, selecting a processing algorithm from a plurality of processing algorithms in response to the comparison, and processing the movement information according to the selected processing algorithm. In an embodiment, the processing algorithms include an adaptive navigation algorithm and a sensor resolution adjustment algorithm.
US09223430B2	Distributing touch data A system comprises processing logic and storage comprising a system service application (SS), an administration application (AA), a first user application configured to receive single touch data or both single and multiple touch data. The system also comprises a touch-screen display configured to receive touch data. Execution of the SS causes the processing logic to obtain touch data from the display and to provide the touch data to an instance of the AA that corresponds to a target user selected based on user context information.
US09223429B2	Touch module and electronic apparatus A touch module, adapted for an electronic apparatus and including a cover, a touch sensor layer, a flexible printed circuit board (FPC), a light-emitting element and a light guide film is provided. The cover has at least one transparent icon. The touch sensor layer and the FPC are disposed under the cover, and the FPC is electrically connected to the touch sensor layer. The light-emitting element is mounted on the FPC, wherein the FPC is located between the cover and the light-emitting element. The light guide film is disposed under the cover, wherein the touch sensor layer is located between the cover and the light guide film. Light emitted by the light-emitting element is transmitted to the transparent icon through the light guide film. In addition, an electronic apparatus is also provided.
US09223418B2	Pen digitizer In embodiments, a pen digitizer includes a light source that generates light. The pen digitizer also includes light guides, such as fiber optics, configured coaxial within the pen digitizer to transfer the light from the light source and focus the light around an imaging tip of the pen digitizer. A photo array optically-images reflected light from encoded bits in an encoded micro pattern, and a lens focuses the reflected light onto the photo array.
US09223404B1	Separating foreground and background objects in captured images Locating features in image information captured by multiple cameras of a computing device can be facilitated by removing background objects from the image information. A distance past which objects should be considered to be background objects is determined, and an amount of disparity for that distance calculated. Any objects having less than that amount of disparity in the image information can be removed, leaving objects that should be treated as foreground objects. An advantage of such an approach is that objects can be determined to be foreground objects even when those objects are only viewable by one of the cameras and disparity information cannot be calculated for those objects from the image information. Such an approach can be combined with other approaches as well to improve accuracy.
US09223401B1	User interface Systems and methods for navigation and selection with eye gestures in a graphical display are provided, in which a graphical display of content may be provided to a wearer of a head-mountable device. A first signal may be received from a first sensor configured to detect an eye gesture of a first eye of the wearer. A second signal may then be received from a second sensor configured to detect an eye gesture of a second eye of the wearer. The first signal may be associated to a first command to navigate through or select an item in the graphical display of content provided by the head-mountable device, and the second signal may be associated to a subsequent command, based at least in part on a given output of the first command, to navigate through or select another item in the graphical display of content.
US09223397B2	Personal computing device control using face detection and recognition Systems and methods are provided for control of a personal computing device based on user face detection and recognition techniques.
US09223388B2	Power state transition saving session information Techniques for saving session information when transitioning a port to a low power state are provided. An indication of an intent to transition a port to a low power state is provided. Session information related to the port is saved. The port is transitioned to the low power state.
US09223386B2	Interactive pointing device capable of switching capture ranges and method for switching capture ranges for use in interactive pointing device An interactive pointing device capable of switching capture ranges includes an image capturing element and a processing unit. The image capturing element operates in a first capture range or a second capture range. The image capturing element is used for capturing a light source, and outputting an image signal. When a distance from the interactive pointing device to the light source is smaller than a reference value, the processing unit controls the image capturing element to detect the light source with the first capture range, and the processing unit converts the image signal into a first coordinate data. When the distance is greater than the reference value, the processing unit controls the image capturing element to detect the light source with the second capture range, and the processing unit converts the image signal into a second coordinate data.
US09223384B2	Synthesizing intermediate performance levels in integrated circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media Synthesizing intermediate performance levels in integrated circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed. In one embodiment, a synthesized performance level setting circuit receives an input indicating a synthesized performance mode. The circuit generates a power source selection output to select a first power source providing power to an integrated circuit functional block at a first voltage level, and generate a clock frequency setting output to select a first clock frequency associated with the first voltage level to clock the functional block, for a first predefined time interval. The circuit also generates the power source selection output to select a second power source to provide power at a second voltage level lower than the first voltage level, and generate the clock frequency setting output to select a second clock frequency associated with the second voltage level to clock the functional block, for a second predefined time interval.
US09223383B2	Guardband reduction for multi-core data processor A multi-core data processor includes multiple data processor cores and a power controller. Each data processor core has a first input for receiving a clock signal, a second input for receiving a power supply voltage, and an output for providing an idle signal. The power controller is coupled to each of the data processor cores for providing the clock signal and the power supply voltage to each of the data processor cores. The power controller provides at least one of the clock signal and the power supply voltage to an active one of the data processor cores in dependence on a number of idle signals received from the data processor cores.
US09223382B2	System and method for providing power-save operation in an in-home communication network A first device of a multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) network may grant a second device of the MoCA network permission to enter a power-saving state. While the second device is in the power-saving mode, the first device may grant bandwidth to the second device during one or more predetermined timeslots. The bandwidth may be granted without a corresponding reservation request from the second device. While the second device is in the power-saving state, it may track time utilizing a clock that is synchronized to the system time of the MoCA network, and transmit during one or more of the predetermined timeslots without first transmitting a corresponding reservation request. The second device may utilize a first modulation profile when not operating in the power-saving state, and utilize a second modulation profile when operating in the power-saving state.
US09223378B2	Sensing current to protect a fuse The speed of a processor is adjusted based on the current sensed by a current sensor in order to protect a fuse from being damaged.
US09223372B2	Energy management system An energy management system and method connecting a load to multiple energy sources. The system includes a load connection, source connections for each energy source, a control unit and at least one energy management module having an inductor and four switches. The first source is in parallel with the load. The first switch couples the first source positive terminal to the first inductor end, second switch couples the first source negative terminal to the first inductor end, third switch couples the second source positive terminal to the second inductor end, and fourth switch couples the second source negative terminal to the second inductor end. The control unit controls the four switches of each module to transfer energy between the energy sources through the module inductor. The system can have more than two sources. Modes including one or two switch, synchronous or asynchronous, and buck or boost can be used.
US09223363B2	Electronic devices assembled with heat absorbing and/or thermally insulating composition Provided herein are electronic devices assembled with a heat absorbing and/or thermally insulating composition.
US09223360B2	Rack mounted liquid submersion cooled electronic system A liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices in parallel using a plurality of cases connected to a rack system. The system cools heat-generating components in server computers and other devices that use electronic, heat-generating components and are connected in parallel systems. The system includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid. The rack system contains a manifold system to engage and allow liquid transfer for multiple cases and IO connectors to engage electrically with multiple cases/electronic devices. The rack system can be connected to a pump system for pumping the liquid into and out of the rack, to and from external heat exchangers, heat pumps, or other thermal dissipation/recovery devices.
US09223357B2	Touch panel, manufacturing method thereof and touch display device Embodiments of the present invention provide a touch panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a touch display device, the touch panel is provided with a buffer trench region disposed in a peripheral region of a transparent substrate, the buffer trench region, and comprising: a first laminated structure, disposed on the transparent substrate, comprising: a metallic wire, disposed on the transparent substrate; a first insulating wire, disposed on the metallic wire; a transparent electrode wire, disposed on the first insulating wire; a first passivation wire, disposed on the transparent electrode wire; a second laminated structure, disposed on the same layer as the first laminated structure, comprising: a second insulating wire, disposed on the transparent substrate; and a second passivation wire, disposed on the second insulating wire, wherein the second laminated structure and the first laminated structure are spaced apart from each other to form a trench.
US09223356B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a first body and a second body. The first body has a lock portion. The second body includes a main body, a lock component, an actuator and a retainer. The main body is configured to be detachably assembled to the first body. The lock component is movably disposed in the main body. The actuator is disposed in the main body. The retainer is connected to the actuator, in which when the main body is detachably assembled to the first body and the lock component is located at a first position, the lock component locks the lock portion to prevent the main body being separated from the first body, and the actuator is configured to drive the retainer pushing the lock component so as to prevent the lock component departing from the first position.
US09223350B2	Slidable display portable mobile device A portable electronic device includes a device body, a first image display panel on a front surface of the device body, a second image display panel, and a coupling portion. The second image display panel has a structure in which light incident from a back surface side of the second image display panel is transmitted toward a side of an image display surface of the second image display panel, and overlaps with an image display surface of the first image display panel. The coupling portion slidably couples the second image display panel to the device body to reciprocate the same along a predetermined path over the image display surface of the first image display panel. The image display surface of at least one of the first image display panel and the second image display panel is provided with an inputting touch panel having a light transmittance.
US09223340B2	Organizing display data on a multiuser display For organizing display data on a multiuser display, a position module determines a user position from an audible signal. An organization module organizes display data on a multiuser display in response to the user position.
US09223333B2	Power supply apparatus, electronic apparatus, and power supply control method A power supply apparatus includes a first constant-power power supply that switches and supplies powers of j types (where j is a natural number of two or more), a second constant-power power supply that switches and supplies powers of k types (where k is a natural number of two or more), and a switching controller that selects and switches on the first and second variable-power power supplies, excluding power transition periods thereof, to supply a load with a constant power.
US09223332B1	Stabilizing reference voltage of switched capacitor circuits A system includes a switched capacitor circuit and a stabilizing circuit. The switched capacitor circuit receives a reference voltage from a reference node, transitions from a first state to a second state, and draws or supplies a switched capacitor charge from or to the reference node in response to transitioning from the first state to the second state. The second state is a function of the first state, an input of the switched capacitor circuit, or a combination of both. The stabilizing circuit stabilizes the reference voltage by supplying or drawing a stabilizing charge to or from the reference node based on the first and second states of the switched capacitor circuit.
US09223328B2	Switching regulator, control circuit and control method thereof, and electronic apparatus A control circuit for controlling a switching transistor and a synchronous rectifying transistor of a switching regulator includes: a bottom detection comparator configured to assert an on signal; an off signal generator configured to assert an off signal; a zero current detector configured to assert a zero current detection signal; and a control logic part configured to receive the on signal, the off signal and the zero current detection signal and generate a control signal such that the control circuit (i) transitions to a first state where, when the on signal is asserted, (ii) transitions to a second state where, when the off signal is asserted, and (iii) transitions to a third state where, when the zero current detection signal is asserted; In the third state, the control logic part reduces an operation current of at least a portion of the control circuit.
US09223324B2	DC voltage-limiting circuits and electronic devices and thermostats including DC voltage-limiting circuits A DC voltage-limiting circuit generally includes first, second, and third transistors. The first transistor is connected between a voltage input terminal and a voltage output terminal. The first transistor has a collector connected to the voltage input terminal, an emitter connected to the voltage output terminal, and a base connected to the voltage input terminal via a first resistor. The second transistor has a base connected to the voltage input terminal via a first voltage regulator and a second resistor, a collector connected to the base of the first transistor, and an emitter connected to the voltage output terminal. The third transistor has a collector connected to the base of the first transistor via a third resistor, an emitter grounded, and a base connected to the voltage output terminal via a second voltage regulator and a fourth resistor.
US09223320B2	Pressure regulator A pressure regulator includes a body having a gas inlet for a gas having an inlet pressure and a gas outlet for the gas having an outlet pressure lower than the inlet pressure and a passage connecting the outlet to the inlet. A regulator piston is arranged to control the outlet pressure of the gas by moving closer to and further away from a pressure regulator seat, and a regulating elastic element is arranged to bias the regulating piston in a direction away from the pressure regulator seat, against the force of gas at outlet pressure acting on the regulator piston in a direction towards the pressure regulator seat. The passage is fluidly connected to a floating piston, arranged to move in response to increased inlet pressure by compressing a stabilizing elastic element. The stabilizing elastic element is connected to the regulating elastic element via a connection element.
US09223318B2	Mass flow controller system A mass flow controller with high accuracy flow rate output control is disclosed. In the mass flow controller, relation data that indicates a corresponding relation between a flow rate of a reference gas and a CF value of a sample gas is stored, a target flow rate is converted into a reference gas flow rate by the use of a predetermined CF value, a sample gas flow rate is calculated from the converted reference gas flow rate and a CF value corresponding to the reference gas flow rate, the sample gas flow rate is compared with the target flow rate, and the CF value that is used for conversion of the reference gas flow rate or calculation of the sample gas flow rate is updated by the use of the corresponding relation based on the error between the sample gas flow rate and the target flow rate.
US09223307B1	Method for scheduling single-arm cluster tools with wafer revisiting and residency time constraints In semiconductor manufacturing, there are wafer fabrication processes in cluster tools that need a wafer to visit some processing steps for more than once, leading to a revisiting process. Also, wafers may be subject to wafer residency time constraints. By considering atomic layer deposition (ALD) as a typical wafer revisiting process, this invention studies the challenging scheduling problem of single-arm cluster tools for the ALD process with wafer residency time constraints. By recognizing that the key to this problem is to schedule the robot tasks, the present invention presents different robot task sequencing strategies. With these strategies for different cases, the present invention performs the schedulability analysis and derives the schedulability conditions for such tools for the first time. If schedulable, the present invention proposes scheduling algorithms to obtain an optimal schedule efficiently. Illustrative examples are given to show the application of the proposed concepts and approach.
US09223305B2	Semiconductor manufacturing system A semiconductor manufacturing system includes circuitry configured to execute: displaying a screen for selecting an inspection set including inspection items having a manipulation item and/or a check item; retrieving the inspection items, arranging the inspection items in the order of workflow, and displaying each inspection item on a screen with an execution attribute indicating whether each inspection item is “automatic” or “manual” execution; receiving an inspection start command and reading the first inspection item from a storage unit. The circuitry also executes steps corresponding to the following cases (a) to (d) until there are no more inspection items: (a) the read-out inspection item being the manipulation item and “automatic”; (b) the read-out inspection item being the manipulation item and “manual”; (c) the read-out inspection item being the check item and “automatic”; and (d) the read-out inspection item being the check item and “manual”.
US09223303B2	Method for providing safety functions The present invention relates to a method for safely providing safety functions for safety devices of an automation system. For this purpose, modular safety components are introduced, comprising a logic module (A, B, . . . , X), an address-dependent parameter module (1, 2, . . . , n), and failsafe information. The modules are stored separately with recovery information. After turning on a safety device in an automation system, a safety component created for a specific device can be restored and transmitted to the safety device, wherein the accuracy of the safety component is checked in the safety device.
US09223297B2	Systems and methods for identifying a user of an electronic device Systems and methods for identifying a user of an electronic device are disclosed. An example method includes capturing body characteristic data associated with a user via a sensor on a computing device. The body characteristic data is captured as the user interacts with the computing device for a purpose different from user identification. The example method includes determining an identifier associated with the user based on the captured body characteristic data.
US09223289B2	Image forming apparatus and process unit configuration and arrangement therefor An image forming apparatus may include arrangement of a process unit, a fixing unit, and a discharge tray. In one example, the process unit, the fixing unit and the discharge tray may be arranged in such an order above a feed tray. The image forming apparatus may further include an exposure unit disposed at a position distinct from, in a sheet conveying direction, a position where the process unit is located. Additionally or alternatively, the process unit may include a developing unit. The developing unit may include a developing agent storage that extends beyond a photosensitive drum of the process unit in a direction opposite to a direction in which developing agent is conveyed from the storage.
US09223288B2	Waste toner collecting container and process unit Disclosed is a waste toner collecting container used in an image forming device for collecting waste toner and a process unit having the waste toner collecting container. An assembly of a development unit and the photoreceptor unit is fixedly connected to the waste toner collecting container. The development unit is configured to supply toner to a photoreceptor in the photoreceptor unit. The photoreceptor unit is configured to form a toner image on an outer surface of the photoreceptor, and to have a cleaning component used for removing the waste toner remaining on the outer surface of the photoreceptor after the toner image is transferred to a recording medium. A waste toner discharging outlet is disposed on a top wall of the waste toner collecting container, far away from the photoreceptor, and is disposed at an end of the top wall along an axial direction of the photoreceptor.
US09223283B2	Image forming apparatus and lubricant application method An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a rotative image carrier and transferring the image onto an object, including: a cleaning unit removing a residual material from the image carrier; and a lubricant applying unit applying lubricant to a circumferential surface of the image carrier, the lubricant applying unit including: a rotative transporter picking up and retaining lubricant, transporting the lubricant to a lubricant application point, and supplying a portion of the lubricant to the image carrier at the lubricant application point; an ejector causing the transporter to eject a portion of the lubricant retained by the transporter; a collector collecting the portion of the lubricant ejected from the transporter; and a controller controlling ejection of the portion of the lubricant so as to maintain the amount of the lubricant retained by the transporter as no greater than a predetermined upper limit.
US09223272B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a job executing portion, a mode setting portion, and an operating portion. The operating portion accepts a function unit setting operation for setting a job executing mode in a function unit, the mode setting portion sets the job executing mode in the function unit based on the function unit setting operation accepted by the operating portion, and the job executing portion executes a job in the job executing mode set by the mode setting portion.
US09223267B2	Image forming system, control method, and program An image forming system includes receiving units that receive sheet settings and a setting of a mode for reducing toner scattering, a first setting unit setting, according to received sheet settings, a conveyance speed of a sheet when performing an image forming process, a second setting unit setting, according to a received setting of a mode for reducing toner scattering, a transfer voltage of a recording material when performing an image forming process, and an image forming unit that performs an image forming process according to the received sheet setting, a set conveyance speed, and a set transfer voltage, wherein the second setting unit sets, when a mode for reducing toner scattering is received, a first transfer voltage when a first conveyance speed is set and a second transfer voltage, lower than the first transfer voltage, when a second conveyance speed is lower than the first conveyance speed.
US09223261B2	Image forming apparatus with fixing unit adapted to fix toner including pressure-induced phase transition toner An image forming apparatus including multiple imaging units and a fixing unit is provided. Each of the imaging units includes an image bearing member, a developing device containing a toner including a pressure-induced phase transition resin or a thermoplastic resin, a transfer device, and an image bearing member cleaner, and is adapted to form a toner image with the toner. The fixing unit includes a pressure fixing device adapted to fix the toner including the pressure-induced phase transition resin on the recording medium by applying a temperature Tb and a pressure Pb thereto in a pressure fixing nip, and a heat fixing device adapted to fix the toner including the thermoplastic resin on the recording medium by applying a temperature Ta and a pressure Pa thereto in a heat fixing nip. The image forming apparatus satisfies the following inequations: TbPa.
US09223260B2	Image forming apparatus and fixing device An image forming apparatus includes a fixing side member disposed at a position on a fixing surface side of a sheet on which a toner image is formed; a back side supporting member that forms a fixing nip for conveying the sheet in a tightly sandwiching manner when the back side supporting member is in pressure contact with the fixing side member; and a voltage applying section that applies to both sides of the sheet passed through the fixing nip voltages opposite in polarity to surface potentials of the both sides.
US09223258B2	Fixing device, image forming apparatus and oblique motion restraint member for a fixing belt A fixing device includes a fixing belt configured to rotate about a specified rotation axis, and an oblique motion restraint member provided at an outer side of the fixing belt in a direction of the rotation axis and configured to restrain oblique motion of the fixing belt. The oblique motion restraint member includes a contact portion provided to make contact with an end surface of the fixing belt and a breakage-preventing portion provided radially inward of the contact portion and more outward in the direction of the rotation axis than the contact portion. The contact portion bulges in an arcuate cross-sectional shape toward an inner side in the direction of the rotation axis.
US09223257B2	Belt unit, transfer unit including the belt unit, and image forming apparatus including the transfer unit A belt unit includes a belt wound around a plurality of rollers to rotate endlessly, a contact member disposed along a surface of the belt, an opposing member disposed facing the contact member via the belt, a moving member including an action receiving portion, to swing and movably support the opposing member to contact and separate from the belt, and a moving assembly. The moving assembly includes an actuator to bias the action receiving portion in a first direction in which the opposing member contacts the belt and in a second direction opposite the first direction in which the opposing member separates from the belt, a drive mechanism to move the actuator in the first and the second directions, and an elastic member to transmit a moving force of the actuator to the action receiving portion when the actuator moves.
US09223256B2	Intermediate transfer belt method for producing intermediate transfer belt, and image forming apparatus An intermediate transfer belt including a base layer, and an elastic layer on the base layer containing spherical particles on a surface thereof and containing an elastic layer ingredient, wherein the elastic layer contains a fatty acid in an amount of 0.001 parts by mass to 0.040 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the elastic layer ingredient.
US09223244B2	Image writing device, image forming apparatus, and image writing method An image writing device includes an exposure unit including an exposure head, writing an image onto an image bearing surface of a photoconductor by causing the exposure head to repeatedly expose; and a write control unit transmitting image data to be written by the exposure unit to the exposure unit on a one-line basis. Further the write control unit generates a write cycle reference signal having a cycle corresponding to writing resolution, counts a clock by a predetermined count value, generates a write cycle signal by delaying the write cycle reference signal by a time period, generates a data request signal to request transmission of one line of the image data to a controller unit based on the write cycle signal, and stores the one line of the image data transmitted from the controller unit.
US09223231B2	Position measurement method, position control method, measurement method, loading method, exposure method and exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method An exposure method and apparatus exposes a substrate that is loaded on a stage via a carrier system, with an exposure beam via a projection optical system and a liquid. An object carried by the carrier system is mounted in a depressed section of the stage. Information on a positional relation between the object mounted in the depressed section and the depressed section is obtained. The substrate is loaded on the stage based on the obtained information so that the substrate carried to above the stage by the carrier system is mounted in the depressed section. A part of the substrate mounted in the depressed section is irradiated with the exposure beam via the projection optical system and a liquid immersion area formed by the liquid under the projection optical system.
US09223228B2	Method and apparatus for forming pattern There is provided a pattern forming apparatus which transfers a paste to a predetermined position of a pattern forming object fixed to a table through a pattern forming mask having opening portions at predetermined positions using a discharge mechanism part. To realize a pattern forming which allows the stable forming of a fine pattern with high accuracy and allows the paste to be surely filled into fine through holes, a corner portion of a distal end of the discharge mechanism part in contact with the pattern forming mask is formed into a concave shape, and a surface of the distal end portion of the discharge mechanism part including the concave shaped portion is covered with a film having liquid repellency so that the rolling of the paste is accelerated in a region formed by the concave shaped portion to form a fine pattern with high accuracy.
US09223225B2	Liquid immersion member, exposure apparatus, exposure method, and device manufacturing method A liquid immersion member forms a liquid immersion space between the member and a movable object such that an optical path of exposure light is filled with liquid. The liquid immersion member includes: a first plate that is disposed at least partially around the optical path; a second plate that is disposed at least partially around the optical path, and has an upper surface, opposed to at least a part of a lower surface of the first plate, and a lower surface which can be opposed to the object; and a collection port that is disposed outside the first plate with respect to the optical path, can be at least partially opposed to the object, and collects at least some of the liquid from a first space, which the upper surface of the second plate faces, and a second space which the lower surface of the second plate faces.
US09223221B2	Photoresist stripping and cleaning composition, method of its preparation and its use A photoresist stripping and cleaning composition free from N-alkylpyrrolidones and added quaternary ammonium hydroxides comprising a component (A) which comprises the polar organic solvents N-methylimidazole, dimethylsulfoxide and 1-aminopropane-2-ol.
US09223220B2	Photo resist baking in lithography process A method includes coating a photo resist on a wafer in a first production tool, and performing a pre-exposure baking on the photo resist in a second production tool separate from the first production tool. After the pre-exposure baking, the photo resist is exposed using a lithography mask. After the step of exposing the photo resist, a post-exposure baking is performed on the photo resist. The photo resist is then developed.
US09223218B2	Photosensitive resin laminate and thermal processing of the same A method of developing a photocurable printing blank to produce a relief pattern comprising a plurality of relief dots having desired characteristics. The photocurable printing blank comprises a backing layer having at least one photocurable layer disposed thereon and a barrier layer disposed on the at least one photocurable layer. The method includes the steps of (1) placing a negative of a desired relief image on top of the barrier layer; (2) exposing the printing blank to actinic radiation through the barrier layer and negative to selectively crosslink and cure portions of the at least one photocurable layer, wherein the at least one photocurable layer is crosslinked and cured in the portions not covered by the negative, thereby creating the relief pattern; and (3) developing the printing blank to remove the barrier layer and uncured portions of the photocurable layer and reveal the relief pattern.
US09223215B2	Actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive composition, actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film using the same, pattern forming method, manufacturing method of electronic device, electronic device and resin There is provided an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive composition comprising (P) a compound having a phenolic hydroxyl group and a group formed by substituting for the hydrogen atom in a phenolic hydroxyl group by a group represented by the specific formula, a resist film formed using the specific actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive composition, a pattern forming method containing steps of exposing and developing the resist film, a manufacturing method of an electronic device, containing the pattern forming method, and an electronic device manufactured by the specific manufacturing method of an electronic device.
US09223210B2	Photosensitive compound, photosensitive resin, and photosensitive composition A photosensitive compound represented by formula (1) or formula (2). (Chemical formula 1) (In formula (1) and formula (2), n is an integer of 1-3; R1 is a linear or branched alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms or an alkylene group having 2-6 carbon atoms formed from two R1 together; R2 is —NR3R4; R3 and R4 are each independently a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, a linear or branched alkylene group having 2-6 carbon atoms formed by R3 and R4 together, or a linear or branched alkylene group or alkenylene group having 3-8 carbon atoms optionally containing an oxygen atom or nitrogen atom.)
US09223207B2	Resist pattern-forming method, and radiation-sensitive resin composition A resist pattern-forming method includes forming a resist coating film using a radiation-sensitive resin composition. The resist coating film is exposed and developed using a developer solution containing no less than 80% by mass of an organic solvent. The radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a polymer component including a polymer having an acid-labile group, and a radiation-sensitive acid generator. The polymer component includes, in an identical polymer or different polymers, a first structural unit having a first hydrocarbon group, and a second structural unit having a second hydrocarbon group. The first hydrocarbon group is an unsubstituted or substituted branched chain group, or the like. The second hydrocarbon group has an adamantane skeleton. A molar ratio of the second hydrocarbon group to the first hydrocarbon group is less than 1. A proportion of a structural unit having a hydroxyl group in the polymer component is less than 5 mol %.
US09223205B2	Acid generator, chemically amplified resist composition, and patterning process There is disclosed an acid generator generating a sulfonic acid represented by the following general formula (1) in response to high-energy beam or heat: As a result, there is provided a novel acid generator which is suitably used as an acid generator for a resist composition, which solves the problems of exposure margin and MEF particularly without degradation of resolution and can be effectively and widely used, a chemically amplified resist composition using the same, and a patterning process.
US09223204B2	Actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition, resist film, and pattern-forming method using the same Provided is an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition, a resist film formed with the composition, and a pattern-forming method using the same. The actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes (P) a resin that contains the following repeating units (A), (B) and (C); and a solvent having a boiling temperature of 150° C. or less, (A) a repeating unit containing a group capable of decomposing and forming an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, (B) a repeating unit containing a group capable of decomposing and forming a carboxylic acid by the action of an acid, and (C) a repeating unit containing a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond.
US09223201B2	Method of manufacturing a photomask with flexography A method of manufacturing a flexographic printing plate includes designing a photomask patterned design. The photomask patterned designed is laser-ablated into a thermal imaging layer. The laser-ablated thermal imaging layer is laminated to a top side of a flexographic printing plate substrate. A bottom side of the flexographic printing plate substrate is exposed to UV-A radiation. The top side of the flexographic printing plate substrate is exposed to UV-A radiation. The thermal imaging layer is removed. The flexographic printing plate substrate is developed. A flexographic printing system for printing a photomask includes an ink roll, an anilox roll, a printing plate cylinder, a flexographic printing plate disposed on the printing plate cylinder, and an impression cylinder. The flexographic printing plate comprises embossing patterns corresponding to a photomask patterned design. The flexographic printing plate may be used in a flexographic printing system to manufacture a photomask with flexography.
US09223190B1	Hanger device for camera/filming equipment A hanger device for camera/filming equipment includes: a base seat having a hanging slide channel with an opening at one end and a terminal section at the other end to define a latching section; a floating tenon and a restoring latching slide tenon disposed outside the latching section and floatable/sinkable in the hanging slide channel; and a latching/unlatching unit disposed on the base seat. The quick release structure locked with the camera/filming equipment can be freely slid into the hanging slide channel in any of four directions and hung in the hanging slide channel in a fixed direction without swinging. The floating tenon serves to latch the quick release structure in the latching section. The latching/unlatching unit serves to control the floating tenon to sink or protrude into the hanging slide channel so as to unlatch the quick release structure or restore the floating tenon to the latchable state.
US09223189B2	Support head for video-photographic equipment A support head (1) for video-photographic equipment comprising a base (2), a first body (5) rotating with respect to the base so as to oscillate about a first axis of rotation (X) of the head, and a first lever (10) extending from the first body along a longitudinal axis (A) and comprising a first end (12a) housed in a seat (13) obtained in the first body and a second end (12b) spaced from the first body. The first lever (10) may oscillate with respect to the first body about an axis of oscillation (P), passing through the first end (12a) and incident with the longitudinal axis (A), between an operating position in which the first lever is designed to control the oscillation of the first body about the first axis of rotation and a non-operating position of minimum encumbrance of the support head.
US09223185B2	Electro-optic silicon modulator with alternative capacitance-loaded coplanar waveguide structures Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a high-speed silicon modulator without the microwave mode conversion and provide 50-ohm impedance matching to drivers simultaneously. In one aspect, a device may include an input waveguide region, an optic splitter, two optic phase shifters, an optic splitter, and an output waveguide. The device may include two curved waveguides. Either or both of the curved waveguides may have specially doped regions including PN junctions or MOS capacitors. The PN junctions or MOS capacitors may be alternatively connected to both slots of a coplanar waveguide forming the electrodes.
US09223179B2	Liquid crystal display apparatus According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes an active area including a matrix of pixels, and a light-shielding area surrounding the active area. The apparatus includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode formed for each pixel, a switch including a semiconductor layer to switch write of a video signal to the pixel electrode, and a auxiliary capacitance line opposing the semiconductor layer to form an auxiliary capacitance, a second substrate including a counter-electrode extending from the active area to the light-shielding area, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first and the second substrate, Each of the pixel electrodes of end portion pixels formed in two end portions of the active area extends from the active area to the light-shielding area such that the pixel electrode becomes larger than others, and the auxiliary capacitance formed in the end portion pixel is greater than that formed in others.
US09223171B2	Polarizer, method of manufacturing the polarizer, display panel having the polarizer and display apparatus having the display panel A display panel includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate facing the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates. The array substrate includes a first polarizer, a first insulating layer covering the first metal layer, a gate electrode on the first insulating layer, a gate insulation layer on the gate electrode, a channel layer on the gate insulation layer, source and drain electrodes on the channel layer, a protecting layer covering the source and drain electrodes and including a contact hole exposing the drain electrode, and a first electrode on the protecting layer and electrically connected to the drain electrode through the contact hole. The first polarizer includes a first substrate, a first antistatic layer on the first substrate and including a conductive material, and a first metal layer on the first antistatic layer and including a plurality of protrusions which form a wire grid pattern.
US09223169B2	Display device A display device includes a reflective image display unit having a sheet-like anisotropic scattering member. The sheet-like anisotropic scattering member has a surface in which both a low refractive index area and a high refractive index area exist. The sheet-like anisotropic scattering member is disposed so that a light enters from a first surface thereof and exits as scattered light from a second surface thereof, when an extent of refractive index difference at a boundary or vicinity thereof between the low refractive index area and the high refractive index area is relatively large in the first surface and relatively small in the second surface.
US09223148B2	Multifocal lens A multifocal lens has a number n>2 of principal powers, of which at least one principal power is refractive and at least one principal power is diffractive. The multifocal lens includes a first lens portion having at least one first annular zone and at least a second lens portion having at least one second annular zone, wherein the zones each have at least one main sub-zone and at least one phase sub-zone. For forming the n principal powers, a maximum of n−1 lens portions are combined, and an averaged refractive power of a zone of the first lens portion is equal to an averaged refractive power of a zone of the second lens portion.
US09223147B2	Spectacle lens providing ophthalmic vision and an additional vision A method produces a spectacle lens that provides both ophthalmic vision and an additional type of vision. The method includes two consecutive steps consisting of calculating a rear surface and a front surface of the lens. The additional vision type corresponds to the perception of a light that is conveyed between the front and rear surfaces by an insert built into the lens. The rear surface of the glass is initially calculated to provide a correction of the additional vision type, and the front surface is calculated to correct the ophthalmic vision. The two surfaces of the glass therefore have complex shapes, which simultaneously reduce the optical aberration levels for both types of vision.
US09223145B2	Device for assembling camera module having anisotropic conductive film A device for assembling a camera module includes a support base, a pressing head, a buffer tape, a winding device, a driver, and a controller. The support base is for supporting the camera module. The camera module includes a ceramic substrate positioned on the support base and an anisotropic conductive film (ACF) pasted on the ceramic substrate. The pressing head is positioned above the ACF and is configured to pressing the ACF. The buffer tape is positioned between the pressing head and the ACF. The winding device includes a winding-out roller and a winding-in roller. The buffer tape is wound on the winding-out roller. The controller is configured to control the driver to drive the winding device to wind the buffer tape out from the winding-out roller and into the winding-in roller in a predetermined manner.
US09223144B2	Display and electronic device A display including a display panel and a switchable retarder is provided. The switchable retarder disposed on a light path of a polarized image having a first polarization provided by the display panel and includes a first substrate, first electrode stripes, second electrode stripes, and a retardation medium. The first electrode stripes and the second electrode stripes are disposed between the display panel and the first substrate, and are electrically independent from each other. A retardation region is defined by each first electrode stripe and one second electrode stripe. The retardation medium is located at a side of the first electrode stripes and at a side of the second electrode stripes, and is controlled by an electric field in the corresponding retardation region such that each retardation region provides a retardation. Accordingly, the polarized image having the first polarization is transformed into the polarized image having a second polarization.
US09223143B1	Volumetric film display systems An apparatus for watching movies in 3D having a belt feeding 3D volumetric objects comprising singular sequences for viewing a movie strip in 3D and thus eliminating the need for wearing 3D glasses to enjoy a movie in three dimensions.
US09223132B2	Optical scanning device, method for manufacturing the optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus An optical scanning device includes a deflector configured to deflect a plurality of light beams emitted from a plurality of light emitters that are mutually spaced apart in a sub-scanning direction; an incident optical system configured to steer the plurality of light beams so as to be incident on the deflector; an imaging optical system configured to steer the plurality of light beams so as to be obliquely incident on a surface to be scanned and to form images of the plurality of light emitters on the surface to be scanned; and a correction unit configured to correct a jitter of at least one of the plurality of light beams in a main scanning direction on the basis of irradiation position information, in the sub-scanning direction, of at least one light beam among the plurality of light beams at a point corresponding to the surface to be scanned.
US09223129B2	MEMS device with multi-segment flexures A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device includes a scanning platform suspended from a fixed platform by two flexures that form a pivot axis. The two flexures may be symmetric or asymmetric about a centerline of the scanning platform. At least one flexure includes two segments that are not parallel to each other. A second flexure may include two segments with one segment being wider than the other. Flexure design reduces effects of mounting and thermal stresses when the MEMS device is mounted as part of an assembly.
US09223128B2	Display apparatus with densely packed electromechanical systems display elements This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for reducing undesired capacitance and electrostatic attraction among components of electromechanical systems (EMS) displays. An apparatus includes an array of display elements, a control matrix, and an electric insulation layer. The display elements each include a movable light blocking component coupled to a conductive beam. The control matrix includes a plurality of interconnects, including at least one switched interconnect, which passes under and is electrically isolated from at least one of the conductive beam and the movable light blocking component.
US09223125B2	Bessel beam plane illumination microscope A microscope has a light source for generating a light beam having a wavelength, λ, and beam-forming optics configured for receiving the light beam and generating a Bessel-like beam that is directed into a sample. The beam-forming optics include an excitation objective having an axis oriented in a first direction. Imaging optics are configured for receiving light from a position within the sample that is illuminated by the Bessel-like beam and for imaging the received light on a detector. The imaging optics include a detection objective having an axis oriented in a second direction that is non-parallel to the first direction. A detector is configured for detecting signal light received by the imaging optics, and an aperture mask is positioned
US09223122B2	Illumination optical system and image projection apparatus The illumination optical system includes, as optical elements, a condenser lens system (3) to condense light from a light source (1), a first fly-eye lens (5) and a second fly-eye lens (6). The light source generates a light emitter having a finite longitudinal length in a first direction orthogonal to an optical axis direction of the illumination optical system. The light source and the optical elements are configured to form the light source images closer to the illumination surface than the second fly-eye lens. The light source and the optical elements are configured to satisfy a condition of P2/P1≦2.0. In the condition, P1 represents an array pitch of the light source images in the first direction, and P2 represents an array pitch of the light source images in a second direction orthogonal to the first and optical axis directions.
US09223119B2	Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, disposed in order from an object side to an image side, and an aperture stop between a lens surface closest to the object side of the second lens unit and a lens surface closest to the object side of the third lens unit, the third lens unit is moved to the image side during a focusing operation from an infinite object to a short distance object, the first lens unit is configured by at most two negative lenses and one positive lens, the third lens unit is configured by a single lens or a cemented lens, and an appropriate conditional expression are met.
US09223115B2	Image pickup lens unit Image pickup lens unit (100) comprises, in order to minimize the positional displacement between an optical system and a holder therefor, compound lens (6), holder (2) which houses compound lens (6) therein, and cover (4) which covers compound lens (6). In holder (2), there is formed peripheral section (2e) which restricts the movement of compound lens (6) in the XY-direction. In cover (4), there is formed projecting section (4e) which restricts the movement of compound lens (6) in the Z-direction.
US09223111B2	Zoom lens and cam frame thereof A cam frame of a zoom lens is provided. The cam frame includes an end surface, a first cam groove including a first connecting portion, a second connecting portion and a zooming-collapsing operation portion connected between the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion, an introducing groove connecting the end surface and the first connecting portion, a second cam groove, and a first connecting groove connecting the second connecting portion and the second cam groove.
US09223105B2	Communications bladed panel systems A fiber panel system includes a chassis and at least a first blade configured to moveably mount to the chassis. Each blade includes a base, a frame, and front couplers. The base of each blade defines at least one opening at a location spaced rearwardly from the front couplers. The front couplers may be smart or passive.
US09223098B2	Lens array and optical module including the same A lens array satisfies a+b+d1+e+ΔL≦W1 where: a: positional accuracy of first lens faces 11, b: positional accuracy of second lens faces 12, d1: positional accuracy of light-emitting elements 7, e: positional accuracy of optical fibers 5, ΔL=α×ΔT×L (α: coefficient of linear expansion of lens array main body 4; ΔT: temperature change in the lens array main body 4; and L: distance from a fixed position on a first surface 4a to a position of a lens face on the first surface 4a farthest from the fixed position), W1: a distance between attachment positions before and after movement, under a premise that a photovoltaic device 3 is moved from an attachment position at which optical coupling efficiency between the light-emitting elements 7 and fiber ends 5a indicates a maximum efficiency to an attachment position at which efficiency reduction equivalent to 2 dB is indicated.
US09223097B2	Connector indicia A plurality of connector modules is disclosed. The connector modules have respective various indicia including topside indicia to indicate orientation and ferrule indicia to indicate ferrule position. Ferrules may be removably inserted into the connector modules, and may include seated indicia that indicate if the ferrules are seated.
US09223096B2	LC connector and method of assembly A fiber optic connector includes a front housing having sidewalls each defining a slot and a rear insert with a pair of locking flanges extending radially away, the locking flanges configured to snap-fit into the slots, each locking flange defining a front face and a rear face, the radially outermost portion of the rear face defining an edge, the edge being the rearmost extending portion of the locking flange. Another fiber optic connector includes a front housing defining a front opening at a front end, a circular rear opening at a rear end, and an internal cavity extending therebetween. A rear insert including a generally cylindrical front portion is inserted into the front housing through the circular rear opening, the front portion defining at least one longitudinal flat configured to reduce the overall diameter of the generally cylindrical front portion configured to be inserted into the front housing.
US09223093B2	Connector A receptacle includes a hollow cylinder and a flange. A plug includes a barrel having a cylindrical body, a semicylindrical section extending from the body, and an engaging section provided at an end of the semicylindrical section and a coupling nut. A boom-like retaining piece is cut out and formed in the semicylindrical section and a retaining hook is formed at an idle end of the retaining piece located in the engaging section. The coupling nut is screwed onto threads of the hollow cylinder so that the plug is connected to the receptacle. Before the connection, the engaging section is engaged with and inserted into the hollow cylinder and the retaining piece is caught in the receptacle, so that the plug is temporarily retained to the receptacle securely.
US09223091B2	Light beam collimator particularly suitable for a densely packed array A method and apparatus for controlled displacement, rotation and deformation of parts of a fiber optic collimator so as to provide multiple degrees of adjustment freedom that are decoupled one from another, for adjusting the path of a light beam, comprising: an output elongate hollow node for passing a light beam therethrough and towards a lens, and an elongate hollow base node having separate top and bottom parts connected to each other by opposed ends of a plurality of flexible rods that restrict the relative movement between the top and bottom parts of the base node to substantially only translational parallel movement. Opposed portions of the top and bottom parts of the base node each include a respective screw and an opposed slanted surface, which upon interaction, develop a shearing force which is applied to the top and bottom parts of the base node and cause a translational parallel relative movement therebetween.
US09223090B2	Bidirectional wavelength cross connect architectures using wavelength routing elements Bidirectional wavelength cross connects include a plurality of ports, each configured to receive an input optical signals, each input optical signal having a plurality of spectral bands. At least one of the plurality of ports is disposed to simultaneously transmit an output optical signal having at least one of the spectral bands. A plurality of wavelength routing elements are configured to selectively route input optical signal spectral bands to output optical signals.
US09223077B2	Light guide plate and light source module A light guide plate including a first surface, a second surface, at least one light incident surface, and a plurality of groove sets is provided. The light incident surface connects the first surface and the second surface. The groove sets are separately disposed on the second surface. Each of the groove sets includes a plurality of curved grooves. Each of the curved grooves has a curved inclined reflective surface and a curved back-to-light surface connected thereto. The curved inclined reflective surface is inclined with respect to the first surface. The curved grooves of each of the groove sets curve toward the same curving direction. The curved inclined reflective surface of one of two adjacent curved grooves is connected to the curved back-to-light surface of the other one of the two adjacent curved grooves through a connection surface. A light source module is also provided.
US09223076B2	Semiconductor light emitting device package A semiconductor light emitting device package is provided, including a body, first and second reflective cups disposed under a top surface of the body and spaced apart, a first connection pad disposed under the top surface of the body and spaced apart from the first and second reflective cups, a second connection pad disposed under the top surface of the body and spaced apart from the first and second reflective cups and the first connection pad, a first semiconductor light emitting device disposed within the first reflective cup, and a second semiconductor light emitting device disposed within the second reflective cup.
US09223075B2	Direct type backlight module A backlight module includes a light guide assembly and a light source assembly. The light guide assembly includes a back cover, a reflective sheet, a light guide plate, and an optical film. The light source assembly includes a lamp cover, a light plate, and a plurality of light sources. The back cover and the reflective sheet define a first opening and a second opening. The light guide plate includes two prism shaped protrusion portions parallel to each other, and two surfaces of the two protrusion portions facing each other are a first incident portion and a second incident portion inclined to the light guide plate, and an area between the first incident surface and the second incident surface is third incident surface. The protrusion portions extend into the lamp cover, and the light source assembly is positioned below the third incident portion.
US09223074B2	Light guide plate and area light source device A light guide plate has an end surface configured to have light incident thereon, a light introduction part that confines light incident through the end surface, and a light guide plate body disposed to be continuously joined to the light introduction part. The light guide plate body has a thickness smaller than a maximum thickness of the light introduction part. The light guide plate body outputs the incident light to an outside from a lighting region through a light exit part. The light introduction part includes an inclined surface in at least one of a light-exit-side surface and an opposite surface of the light-exit-side surface. The directivity change pattern changes directivity of the light passing to the lighting region from the light introduction part.
US09223073B2	Light guide plate and method of manufacturing the same This invention relates to a light guide plate, which includes tunnels into which a light source may be inserted in a backlight unit assembly thus reducing light loss, and to a method of manufacturing the same.
US09223071B2	Light-emitting device, vehicle headlamp and illumination apparatus A headlamp includes the laser chip which emits excitation light, a light-emitting section which contains a phosphor, and an optical rod. The excitation light emitted from the laser chip is optically guided by the optical rod, and the light output from the optical rod enters the light-emitting section. An edge is present in the light intensity distribution of the light-emitting section.
US09223067B2	Display device and thin film polarizer used for display device A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first polarization element film which is directly formed on a surface of the second substrate on a side opposite to a side where the first substrate is arranged, and a first polarization layer which is formed in contact with a surface of the first polarization element film on a side opposite to a side where the second substrate is arranged. The first polarization element film is made of an aligned lyotropic liquid crystal material, and the first protective layer is made of a material having a refractive index smaller than a refractive index of the first polarization element film in a transmission axis direction, and has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first polarization element film.
US09223064B2	Photonic crystal-metallic structures and applications A photonic crystal-metallic (PCM) structure receives an input light signal from a light source. The PCM structure includes a metal structure and a photonic crystal structure disposed adjacent the metal structure. The photonic crystal structure is configured to receive the input light signal such that the input light signal excites surface plasmons of the metallic structure and such that the input light signal is internally reflected within the photonic crystal structure.
US09223053B2	Object detection apparatus and method for vehicle using a reference wavelength value extracted from a plurality of calculated correction wavelength values and outputting pixel data having value larger than the reference wavelength value Provided is an object detection apparatus using a general camera sensor for adjusting detection sensitivity to an object (pedestrian or animal) even in an urban area in which the scattered reflection of a light source is severe. The object detection apparatus overcomes the limitations of a related art object detection apparatus using a thermal imaging camera which is incapable of adjusting detection sensitivity to an obstacle (pedestrian or animal) in an urban area in which the scattered reflection of a light source is severe.
US09223046B2	Apparatus and method for capacitive measuring of sensor standoff in boreholes filled with oil based drilling fluid An apparatus and method for estimating the at least one resistivity parameter using at least one processor to estimate capacitance information, wherein the capacitance information is estimated using only one selected frequency electromagnetic signal. The apparatus may include at least one measure electrode. The apparatus may also include a transverse antenna. The method may include imparting an electric current at only one selected frequency into a formation using the at least one measure electrode. The method may also include using capacitance information to estimate a standoff between the at least one measure electrode and a borehole wall. In some embodiments, the estimated capacitance information may be used to reduce errors due to eccentricity.
US09223042B2	Systems and methods for the quantitative estimate of production-forecast uncertainty Systems and methods for updating posterior geological models by integrating various reservoir data to support dynamic-quantitative data-inversion, stochastic-uncertainty-management and smart reservoir-management.
US09223041B2	Three-dimensional mechanical earth modeling A technique includes receiving a first dataset that is indicative of seismic data acquired in a seismic survey of a field of wells and receiving a second dataset that is indicative of wellbore data acquired in a wellbore survey conducted in at least one of the wells. The technique includes determining a mechanical earth model for the field based at least in part on the seismic data and the wellbore data.
US09223036B1	Pixilated neutron detector Disclosed is a pixilated neutron detector including one or more pixel-cells defined by a plurality of perimeter walls, the pixel-cells including a cathode and an anode, the cathode being at least one wall of the pixel-cell, the cathode being lined with an interaction material, the anode disposed inside the pixel-cell, the cathode and anode structured to provide an electrical field within the pixel-cell to collect charged particles released by neutrons interacting with the interaction material lining, and a signal processing chain communicably coupled to each of the one or more pixel-cells to transmit a signal indicative of a neutron interaction event within the pixel-cell, the signal processing chain including analog signal processing electronics communicably coupled to digital signal processing electronics. In one embodiment inserts coated with interaction material are provided along the length of the anode to enhance the detector efficiency.
US09223035B2	Radiographic image detector The invention provides radiographic image detectors in which a scintillator layer itself exhibits improved flexibility and is prevented from crystal breakage while the scintillator layer and a photoelectric conversion element are bonded to each other via uniform thickness without forming defects.The radiographic image detector includes a substrate, a scintillator layer with a columnar crystal structure disposed on the substrate, an optical coupling layer and a photoelectric conversion element. The scintillator layer has a flexural elastic modulus Esc satisfying relationships represented by Expression (I) as measured by a cantilever test in which the scintillator layer disposed on the substrate is held in a cantilever condition and is bent under a uniformly distributed load with the columnar crystal structure side being bent outward: Esc≦−0.43M+372 and Esc≧−0.16M+98 (I) (In Expression (I), Esc is the flexural elastic modulus (kg/mm2) of the scintillator layer and M is the thickness (μm) of the scintillator layer).
US09223033B2	Scintillator array and methods of forming a scintillator array and a radiation detector Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a scintillator array including a reflector disposed between the scintillator pixels, and methods of forming the scintillator array and radiation detector. In an embodiment, the reflector can be used in the scintillator array without an adhesive. In another embodiment, the reflector can be disposed in a zigzag pattern between the scintillator pixels.
US09223032B2	Composition for reflective film, reflective film, and X-ray detector Provided is a composition for reflective film comprising a polyvinyl acetal resin, an epoxidized vegetable oil, a solvent, a coupling agent and titanium oxide.
US09223023B2	Proximity sensing systems and methods Methods, systems and device are provided for improving the range and accuracy of proximity measurement such as in ultrasonic sensing systems. In particular, the blind zone caused by reverberation signals can be reduced or eliminated by attenuating signals received during the time period corresponding to the blind zone without. In an implementation, an attenuator circuit is selected by a switch to process received signals during the blind zone time period and deselected by the switch after the time zone time period. Additionally, the accuracy and range of the measurement can be improved by varying the gain provided to the received signals based on the varying measuring distance. In an implementation, a gain-adjustable amplifier is controlled by a gain control signal to provide incremental gain as time increases.
US09223012B2	Ultrasound image enhancement based on entropy information Embodiments for enhancing an image quality of an ultrasound image based on entropy information in an ultrasound system are disclosed. In one embodiment, an ultrasound data acquisition unit acquires multiple ultrasound data, and a processing unit forms entropy information based on the multiple ultrasound data and adaptively perform data processing for image enhancement upon the multiple ultrasound data based on the entropy information. The processing unit forms multiple ultrasound images based on the multiple ultrasound data with the data processing performed.
US09223011B2	Ultrasonic signal processing device and ultrasonic signal processing method An ultrasonic signal processing method includes: measuring a sound velocity in a subject according to transmission/reception data acquired in ultrasonic transmission of M times (M is an integer equal to or greater than 1 and less than N) along different transmission focus lines among ultrasonic transmission of N times (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2) along multiple transmission focus lines in a case where ultrasonic transmission is sequentially performed at least one time on each of multiple transmission focus lines to create an ultrasonic image for one frame.
US09223007B2	Kalman filtering with indirect noise measurements Accurate remote tracking of fixed objects from a moving platform requires overcoming platform noise. Such tracking becomes difficult when the only inertial reference (such as a central aircraft inertial navigation system) is remote from the sensor, which experiences non-measured angular movements due to airframe vibrations and flexing. In such a scenario, Kalman filtering cannot converge on a true value because all noise sources are not known. Current naïve approaches arbitrarily boost noise with fixed additive or multiplicative factors. However, such approaches slow filter response and; thus, often fail to give timely results. Embodiments of the present disclosure derive inertial reference parameters to quantify noise of the sensor that is remote from the inertial reference. Advantageously, disclosed embodiments enable use of remote sensors with an existing inertial reference, rather than consolidating sensors and the inertial reference at a single location or providing inertial references at each sensor.
US09222997B2	Gradient coil power supply and a magnetic resonance imaging system A gradient coil power supply includes: at least two H-bridge circuits connected in series, wherein each H-bridge circuit supplies: voltage of a first polarity when in a first switching state, voltage of a second polarity when in a second switching state, no voltage when in a third switching state, and no voltage when in a fourth switching state; and a controller for controlling the switching of the H-bridge circuits. The controller is adapted for: receiving a gradient pulse sequence; creating a switching plan for controlling the switching of the H-bridge circuits, wherein the switching plan includes controlling the voltage output of the gradient coil power supply by alternating between the first switching state and the second switching state, and at least one H-bridge circuit being in either the third or fourth switching state for part of the switching plan to cool the H-bridge circuit; and executing the switching plan.
US09222995B2	Apparatus and method for dispensing a hyperpolarized fluid A dispenser is provided for producing a nuclear hyperpolarized contrast agent. The dispenser comprises a chamber to receive a compound. A photonic hyperpolarization system generates an OAM-photonic beam endowed with orbital angular momentum and is arranged to direct the OAM-photonic beam into the chamber so as to generate nuclear hyperpolarization in the compound. The chamber has an output over which the hyperpolarized compound can be issued. Since the hyperpolarization is generated ex-vivo, the penetration depth of the OAM-photonic beam in biological tissue is irrelevant for the present invention.
US09222990B2	Magnetic field sensors and related techniques that can communicate at least one of three or more potential categories in which one or more characteristic values of a proximity signal responsive to a proximity of a sensed object are categorized A method of performing a self-test associated with a magnetic field sensor includes generating a proximity signal responsive to a proximity of a sensed object with one or more magnetic field sensing elements, and identifying one or more characteristic values associated with the proximity signal while the proximity signal is responding to the proximity signal, The method also includes categorizing the one or more characteristic values into three or more potential categories, including three or more categories, wherein the plurality of potential categories is representative of a plurality of discrete self-test states of the proximity signal that could occur while the proximity signal is responding to the proximity of the sensed object. The method also includes communicating at least one of the plurality of potential categories into which at least one of the one or more characteristic values was categorized. A magnetic field senor implements the above method.
US09222980B2	IC test circuitry and adapter with data transport control register A system and method for sharing a communications link between multiple protocols is described. A system includes a communications interface configured to exchange information with other systems using at least one of a plurality of protocols; a protocol select register that stores a value that selects a protocol from among the plurality of protocols to become an active protocol; and a state machine accessible to the communications interface, the state machine used to control the exchange of information through the communications interface according to the active protocol. The active protocol is used by the communications interface to exchange information while the remaining protocols of the plurality of protocols remain inactive. The state machine sequences through a series of states that cause the communications interface to operate according to the active protocol, and that are designated as inert sequences under the remaining protocols.
US09222979B2	On-chip controller and a system-on-chip An on-chip clock controller includes a clock-control chain configured to shift first clock-control bits in serial and output the first clock-control bits to a first clock domain in parallel in response to a clock-control scan clock provided from outside of a chip, and a first domain clock generator, the first domain clock generator configured, during a test mode, to generate a first internal clock by selectively outputting a first data scan clock provided from outside of the chip or a first functional clock generated from inside of the chip.
US09222972B1	On-die jitter generator An IC that includes a jitter generator, where the jitter generator is integral with the IC and generates non-intrinsic jitter, is provided. In one implementation, the non-intrinsic jitter is used to measure a characteristic of the IC. In one implementation, the non-intrinsic jitter is used to test jitter tolerance of the IC. In yet another implementation, the non-intrinsic jitter is used to test another IC coupled to the IC that includes the jitter generator.
US09222968B2	Monitoring system for detecting degradation of integrated circuit A monitoring system for detecting stress degradation of a semiconductor integrated circuit has an amplifier circuit and degradation test transistors. Multiplexers are provided that have an output coupled to a respective electrode of the degradation test transistor. Each of the multiplexers has an input coupled to one of the monitor nodes and a respective node of the amplifier circuit. In operation, the multiplexers selectively insert the degradation test transistor into either the integrated circuit or the amplifier circuit so that when inserted into the integrated circuit the degradation test transistor is subjected to stress degradation voltages in the integrated circuit. When the degradation test transistor is inserted into the amplifier circuit, an output signal is generated that is indicative of stress degradation of the integrated circuit.
US09222965B2	Translators coupleable to opposing surfaces of microelectronic substrates for testing, and associated systems and methods Translators coupleable to opposing surfaces of microelectronic substrates for testing, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. An arrangement in accordance with one embodiment includes a microelectronic substrate having a first major surface, a second major face facing opposite from the first major surface, and electrically conductive through-substrate vias extending through the substrate and electrically accessible from both the first and second surfaces. The arrangement further includes a first translator releasably connected to the substrate and positioned in a first region extending outwardly from the first surface, the first translator including first electrical signal paths that access the vias from the first surface, and a second translator releasably connected to the substrate simultaneously with the first translator, the second translator being positioned in a second region extending outwardly from the second surface, the second translator including second electrical signal paths that access the vias from the second surface.
US09222962B2	Automatic gain control apparatus, automatic gain control method, and receiver An automatic gain control apparatus includes: a first counter configured to calculate a first count value that is the number of times when a voltage of an input signal exceeds a first voltage threshold within a predetermined period; a second counter configured to calculate a second count value that is the number of times when the voltage of the input signal drops below a second voltage threshold in the predetermined period; and an over-range detector configured to detect an over-range, based on a comparison result obtained by comparing either one of each of the first count value and the second count value and a calculation result of the first count value and the second count value with a predetermined threshold, and output a detection result.
US09222957B2	Coupler for smart electrical wheel for electrical bikes A wheel assembly having a motor attached to a hub within the wheel assembly such that the motor powers the wheel assembly to rotate about an axle once the motor receives a predetermined amount of power. A battery system is configured to deliver power to said motor, the battery system is arranged to rotate with the wheel assembly. A sensor system within the wheel assembly that provides data to a control system related to velocity and angle of orientation of the assembly. A load transferring quick-release mechanism is also disclosed for coupling the wheel assembly to a vehicle wheel attachment frame member and a method is provided for calibrating the same.
US09222954B2	Unitized reagent strip The embodiments disclosed herein relate to unitized reagent strips for holding and transporting reagents and materials used in automated sample preparation and/or processing for biological and or chemical assays.
US09222950B2	Analysis assisting method, analyzer, remote computer, data analyzing method, program, and reagent container In an analysis system having an analysis apparatus using a reagent container having a memory to store reagent information concerning the reagent in the reagent container and a remote computer, the following steps are executed: reading out the reagent information from the memory of the reagent container; judging, based on the read reagent information, whether or not the reagent in the reagent container is usable; when it is judged that the reagent in the reagent container is unusable, writing data representing the reagent is unusable into the memory of the reagent container; and when it is judged that the reagent in the reagent container is unusable, registering the data representing the reagent is unusable, into a reagent database managed by the remote computer in association with identification information to identify the reagent container. Thus, it is possible to automatically identify the reagent, which should not be used, and to manage the reagent not so as to use it for the analysis. In addition, it is possible to use the data for the enhancement of the business efficiency such as the automatic order of the reagent, the stock management in the manufacturer and the like.
US09222938B2	Neoepitope detection of disease using protein arrays A biosensor for use in detecting the presence of diseases, the biosensor comprising a detector for detecting a presence of at least one marker indicative of a specific disease. A method of determining efficacy of a pharmaceutical for treating a disease or staging disease by administering a pharmaceutical to a sample containing markers for a disease, detecting the amount of at least one marker of the disease in the sample, and analyzing the amount of the marker in the sample, whereby the amount of marker correlates to pharmaceutical efficacy or disease stage. Markers for gynecological disease. An immuno-imaging agent comprising labeled antibodies, whereby the labeled antibodies are isolated and reactive to proteins overexpressed in vivo. Informatics software for analyzing the arrays, the software including analyzing means for analyzing the arrays.
US09222932B2	Engineered liver tissues, arrays thereof, and methods of making the same Engineered, living, three-dimensional liver tissue constructs including: one or more layers, wherein each layer contains one or more liver cell types, the one or more layers cohered to form a living, three-dimensional liver tissue construct free of pre-formed scaffold. Also disclosed are arrays and methods of making the same.
US09222930B2	Fabrication of tunneling junction for nanopore DNA sequencing A mechanism is provided for forming a nanodevice. A reservoir is filled with a conductive fluid, and a membrane is formed to separate the reservoir in the nanodevice. The membrane includes an electrode layer having a tunneling junction formed therein. The membrane is formed to have a nanopore formed through one or more other layers of the membrane such that the nanopore is aligned with the tunneling junction of the electrode layer. The tunneling junction of the electrode layer is narrowed to a narrowed size by electroplating or electroless deposition. When a voltage is applied to the electrode layer, a tunneling current is generated by a base in the tunneling junction to be measured as a current signature for distinguishing the base. When an organic coating is formed on an inside surface of the tunneling junction, transient bonds are formed between the electrode layer and the base.
US09222929B2	Solvent surveillance in solvent-based heavy oil recovery processes The present disclosure relates to solvent surveillance in heavy oil production. A method includes the steps of measuring an amount of a native bitumen marker (NBM) in a heavy oil, measuring an amount of the NBM in a recovery-aid solvent, measuring an amount of the NBM in a blend including the heavy oil and the recovery-aid solvent, and applying a blending model to determine a fraction of the recovery-aid solvent in the blend.
US09222928B2	Biphenol ether compounds as markers for liquid hydrocarbons and other fuels and oils A method for marking a petroleum hydrocarbon or a liquid biologically derived fuel by adding to the petroleum hydrocarbon or liquid biologically derived fuel at least one compound having formula (I), wherein R represents C1-C18 alkyl, C3-C18 alkenyl or C3-C18 alkynyl.
US09222927B2	Dissolution test equipment Apparatus and method for dissolution testing of active substances in various dosage forms is provided. The apparatus has filtration cells equipped and configured to simulate bodily functions, operate continuously and facilitate testing various types of dosage forms including, but not limited to, tablets, capsules and those having non-disintegrating substrates.
US09222923B2	Data processing device for gas chromatograph and data processing program used in same As a data processing device and data processing program for a gas chromatograph, which enable composition, a name, and the like of a registered substance to be extracted from an actually measured retention index by a reverse search, a known RI data storage part that stores a plurality of pieces of known RI data each in which an identifier Gn specific to each registered substance, and retention indices actually measured at a plurality of different temperatures by gas chromatographic analysis on the registered substance indicated by the identifier Gn are paired, and a known RI data conversion part that is configured to convert the retention indices of the registered substance at the plurality of different temperatures to a retention index of the registered substance under a predetermined temperature condition for each of the pieces of known RI data are provided.
US09222918B2	Sizing of a defect using phased array system Disclosed is an improved method of sizing a defect using a phased array system with a single probe orientation requiring only a simple one-pass scan. It is an improvement of the ADDT standard which is adapted to phased array systems with fixed probe orientations. Based on pre-configured parameters obtained from C-scans, the method as presently disclosed provides novel analysis on C-scans and more complete information on defects, including the orientation and sizes in length and depth or thickness of the defects. Phased array systems devised with the presently disclosed method can perform such inspection and complete sizing automatically for longitudinal, transverse and oblique defects in one pass of scan.
US09222898B2	X-ray diffraction imaging system with integrated supermirror An x-ray diffraction imaging (XDI) system includes a plurality of x-ray sources configured to generate x-rays directed toward an object. The XDI system also includes a primary collimator positioned a distance from the plurality of x-ray sources. A plurality of nodes are defined within the primary collimator at a plurality of node distances from the plurality of x-ray sources. Each node of the plurality of nodes defines an x-ray intersection region. The XDI system further includes a supermirror assembly including a plurality of mounting rails positioned adjacent the plurality of nodes.
US09222893B2	Modified apparatus and method for assessment, evaluation and grading of gemstones An apparatus (10) for assessment, evaluation and grading of gemstones has a stage (11) upon which a gemstone may be supported. The stage is enclosed in a housing (15) that is impervious to light. There is at least one light source (14) located in the housing which is adapted to project incident light onto the gemstone. Means for rotating and tilting the stage so as to vary the orientation of the gemstone to the incident light are also present. A digital camera (16) is located in the housing adjacent the or each light source and is adapted to take images of the gemstone based on reflection and/or refraction of the incident light. The apparatus also includes information processing means for calibrating and analyzing the images. The information processing means is programmed with instruction sets for assessing one or more of color, cut, clarity, scintillation, brilliance, lustre, dispersion and sheen. The gemstone is supported upon the stage by securing means (17) engaging the gemstone at its bottom surface.
US09222890B2	Plasma spectrometer To improve detection sensitivity, detection accuracy, and reproducibility when electric discharge is caused in a sample solution to perform analysis with light emission in the plasma, a flow channel 101 provided with a narrow part is filled with a conductive sample solution, plasma is generated in bubbles formed by applying an electric field to the flow channel, and a region other than the narrow part in the flow channel is set as a measurement object region to measure light emission.
US09222886B2	Quantitating high titer samples by digital PCR Systems, devices, methods, kits, and compositions for nucleic acid analysis using digital PCR are provided. In particular, methods to analyze high titer samples that cannot be divided into a sufficient number of partitions containing zero nucleic acid molecules per partition to allow for Poisson analysis (digital PCR analysis) are described.
US09222883B2	Optical measuring system having a cell holder to accommodate flow through cells of different dimensions in the direction of optical path An optical measuring system includes at least one radiation source, at least one radiation receiver, and at least one flow through cell. The radiation emitted by the at least one radiation source passes at least partially in an optical path between the radiation source and the radiation receiver through the flow through cell and then strikes the at least one radiation receiver. The radiation receiver is embodied to output a signal dependent on the intensity of the radiation striking the radiation receiver, wherein the flow through cell is arranged in a cell holder, which is connected via a first connection interface releasably with the radiation receiver and which is connected via a second connection interface releasably with the radiation source.
US09222881B2	Vibrational spectroscopy for quantitative measurement of analytes The present invention relates to systems and methods for the determination of the secondary structure composition of proteins using coherent two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy of backbone amide I vibrations (1580-1720 cm−1). Fractions of α-helix, β-sheet, and unassigned regions in globular proteins were determined by singular value decomposition using basis spectra from sixteen commercially-available proteins with known crystal structures. Preferred methods included removing each protein from the set and comparing the predicted composition against the crystal structure. The root-mean-squared (RMS) errors of the predicted secondary structure compositions were found to be 7.9% for α-helix, 5.5% for β-sheet, and 7.6% for unassigned regions. The structure analysis can also be performed using one-dimensional absorption spectra and the RMS errors are compared with those obtained from 2DIR.
US09222879B2	Apparatus and method for optically characterizing materials The present invention relates to a device for optical characterization of a sample and/or of the material(s) of the same having an illumination unit that can be orientated to illuminate with incident light a sample spatial portion into which the sample can be introduced, a detection unit which is orientated or can be orientated to image the sample introduced into the sample spatial portion by receiving light reflected by the sample, and which is configured to detect at least two different, preferably orthogonal, polarization components in the reflected light, and an evaluation unit with which, in the imaging data recorded by the detection unit, those imaged surface elements (reflection elements) of the sample can be identified, and with which the detected different polarization components for these reflection elements can be evaluated for optical characterization.
US09222878B2	Method and device for optical imaging with a resonant amplifier assembly An optical imaging apparatus includes an optical signal source, an optical signal detector apparatus, and a resonant amplifier assembly. The optical signal source is configured (i) to generate an optical signal including a carrier signal and an imaging signal, and (ii) to guide the optical signal to a sample. The optical signal detector apparatus is configured (i) to detect a modified optical signal from the sample, and (ii) to generate an electrical image signal based on the modified optical signal. The electrical image signal includes a background component and a modulated image signal corresponding to an image of the sample. The resonant amplifier assembly is electrically coupled to the optical signal detector apparatus and is configured (i) to isolate the modulated image signal from the background component, (ii) to amplify the modulated image signal, and (iii) to rectify the modulated image signal.
US09222869B2	Sheath flow device and hematology analyzer An embodiment of a sheath flow device may include: a reflecting plane, aspheric reflecting surface, and a conduit for passage of cells disposed in a central hollow. A focal point of the aspheric reflecting surface is positioned in a location where cells settle. A collimated beam generated by an external light source incident on a first reflective side of the reflecting plane, is reflected to reach a first reflective surface of the aspheric reflecting surface, and reflected before being focused on the focal point, after which the light proceeds to reach a second reflective surface of the aspheric reflecting surface to be reflected to reach a second reflective side of the reflecting plane to emerge after being reflected thereby. The first and second reflective sides and the first and second reflective surfaces may be centrosymmetric. The sheath flow device improves the alignment accuracy of beam commissioning during the application process.
US09222866B2	Evaluation of ground surface hardness Evaluating ground surface hardness for a site involves using a mobile data collection device to automatically drop an object including an accelerometer onto a ground surface at sample locations spaced at regular intervals within the site. The acceleration of the object is detected with the accelerometer as the object impacts the ground surface at the sample locations. A value is generated representative of ground surface hardness for each of the sample locations. Evaluation using a handheld hardness measurement device is also disclosed.
US09222854B2	Vehicle dynamic load estimation system and method A dynamic load estimation system and method is provided, the system including a tire supporting a vehicle; a vehicle-mounted acceleration sensor for determining a vehicle lateral acceleration and a vehicle longitudinal acceleration; a roll angle calculating model for determining a vehicle roll angle; a roll rate calculating model for determining a vehicle roll rate; a static normal load calculation model for calculating a measured static normal load; and a dynamic tire load estimation model for calculating an estimated dynamic load on the tire from the measured static normal load, the vehicle roll angle, the vehicle roll rate, the vehicle lateral acceleration and the vehicle longitudinal acceleration.
US09222845B2	Flexible sensors and related systems for determining forces applied to an object, such as a surgical instrument, and methods for manufacturing same Methods of manufacturing a flexible force sensor include forming a first sensor part providing a plurality of spaced first electrode plates in an electrically non-conductive material. A second sensor part is also formed and includes a plurality of second electrode plates in an electrically non-conductive material. The second electrode plates are identical to the first electrode plates at least in terms of spacing. The first part is assembled to the second part such that each of the first electrode plates are aligned with and parallel to, yet spaced from, respective ones of the second electrode plates, establishing a plurality of capacitive sensing components. The first electrode plates are movable relative to the corresponding second electrode plates, establishing a variable gap therebetween. The sensor parts can be ring-shaped. The sensor parts can be formed via MEMS techniques, with the non-conductive material being a polymer.
US09222843B2	System for on-chip temperature measurement in integrated circuits A thermal sensor providing simultaneous measurement of two diodes. A first diode and a second diode are coupled to a first current source and a second current source, respectively. The ratio of the currents provided by the two sources is accurately know The voltage across each of the two diodes may be coupled to the input of a differential amplifier for determination of temperature. Alternatively, the first diode may be coupled to a first current source by a resistor with a known voltage drop, the second diode may be coupled to an adjustable second current source. The current in the second diode is equal to the sum of voltage drop across the first diode and the known voltage drop across the resistor. Under the established conditions, the Diode Equation may be used to calculate a temperature.
US09222842B2	High temperature sensor wafer for in-situ measurements in active plasma Aspects of the present disclosure disclose a component module in a process condition measuring device comprises a support for supporting a component, one or more legs configured to suspend the support in a spaced-apart relationship with respect to a substrate. An electrically conductive or low-resistivity semiconductor enclosure is configured to enclose the component, the support and the legs between the substrate and the enclosure. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09222839B2	Detection circuit, sensor device and electronic apparatus A detection circuit includes a pyroelectric element, an amplifier circuit, a first switching element and a second switching element. The amplifier circuit includes a transistor in which a detection signal from the pyroelectric element is inputted to a gate. The first switching element interrupts an electric current that flows into the transistor. The second switching element interrupts a connection between the pyroelectric element and the gate of the transistor.
US09222835B2	Multi-angle colorimeter A multi-angle colorimeter employs a multi-angle mode and a symmetrical arrangement mode in an optical arrangement. Light detection on both sides of the symmetrical arrangement is performed by a single photodetector unit. The photodetector unit is used on both sides, and thus, the device becomes simpler, without any impact on individual difference in characteristics of multiple photodetector units. Conversely, elements for illumination can be used on both sides. Also in a case where multiple photodetector units are used, the size and cost of the device can be reduced with the use of a photodetector unit having a relatively low wavelength resolution as a photodetector unit to be used on one side. This enables to reduce an attitude error due to relative tilting of a measurement surface while reducing the size and cost of the device.
US09222828B2	Downhole flow measurements with optical distributed vibration/acoustic sensing systems A method of verifying a substance interface location during a cementing operation can include optically measuring vibrations caused by substances flowing across structures distributed along a wellbore, the vibrations being caused at each structure, and the vibrations changing at each structure as the interface displaces across the structure. A method of determining a property of at least one substance flowed in a wellbore can include optically measuring vibrations caused by the substance flowing across structures distributed along a wellbore, the vibrations being caused at each structure, and the structures having different shapes, thereby causing the vibrations at the structures to be different from each other when the substance flows across the differently shaped structures.
US09222827B2	Method and system for an ultra low power dosimeter Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in an ultra low power dosimeter assembly. The ultra low power dosimeter assembly may comprise a low power voltage source and a table circuit. The table circuit may be adapted to convert an input voltage to a second voltage level. The second voltage level may correspond to noise dose. The ultra low power dosimeter assembly may also comprise a switch adapted to trigger a control circuit. The control circuit may provide progressive attenuation of an output signal as the second voltage level increases. In certain embodiments, the control circuit may also be adapted to send one or more warning signals to a user of the ultra low power dosimeter. The one or more warning signals may be sent when the control circuit determines the second voltage level has reached one or more pre-determined threshold voltage levels.
US09222825B2	Device for measuring liquid filling levels The invention relates to a device (1) which uses ultrasound to measure the filling level for liquids in a tank (2). The device (1) consists of a housing (3) in which a piezoelectric disc (4) connected to a circuit board (5) and an energy store (6) is provided. A display unit (8) is arranged in the housing (3), and on the side of the piezoelectric disc (4) that faces the tank (2), the disc is given a layer (11) consisting of elastic material.
US09222815B2	Wafer style insertable magnetic flowmeter with collapsible petals A magnetic flowmeter for measuring flow of a process fluid includes a meter body having an opening formed therein. The meter body is configured to be inserted in-line between process piping which carries the process fluid. A moveable extension is coupled to the meter body and configured to extend into the process piping. A coil of wire is carried by the extension and configured to generate a magnetic field. A pair of electrodes sense an EMF in the process fluid generated as a function of the applied magnetic field and flow of the process fluid.
US09222806B2	Encoder An encoder is configured for detection of rotational movement of a rotatable shaft in relation to a part of a machine, and a method is provided for generating a reference signal by an encoder.
US09222805B2	Circuit system and method for evaluating a sensor A circuit system for evaluating a sensor, wherein the circuit system comprises two complex impedances (2, 3, 13, 14), wherein the complex impedances (2, 3, 13, 14) are each part of a resonant circuit in which the complex impedances (2, 3, 13, 14) can be excited to perform oscillations, and wherein at least one of the two complex impedances (2, 3, 13, 14) are part of the sensor, is characterized with respect to a particularly cost-effective and as simple a circuit design as possible in that a counter (9, 18) and a switch apparatus (8, 16) are provided, wherein the counter (9, 18) can be used to alternately count the oscillations of one of the two resonant circuits, the switch apparatus (8, 16) can be switched when a specifiable counter reading has been reached, and the switch signal of the switch apparatus serves as a pulse width-modulated output signal (11, 21) for the circuit system.
US09222803B2	Metering and measuring point system for measuring and metering electrical energy and method The invention relates to a metering and measuring point system for measuring and metering the electrical energy drawn off a connection device or fed in the connection device by a consumption and/or generation unit at a fixed geographical point, comprising (a) an identifiable stationary connection device as well as (b) an identifiable mobile or non-stationary functional unit, the latter comprising respective devices for (b1) detecting the identifier of the connection device, (b2) metering and measuring the electrical energy drawn off and/or fed in the recognized connection device, (b3) storing the determined metering and measuring data and the determined identifier of the respective connection device being used and (b4) reading out the stored data.The invention further relates to a method for mobile/non-stationary measuring, metering and billing/clearing of the electrical current.
US09222796B2	Map display system, map display method, and computer-readable storage medium A map display system including a unit that stores map information including information about a facility icon, a display unit, a position detecting unit that detects a touch position on the screen of the display unit when the screen is touched, and a scroll control unit that performs follow scrolling in which a map image on the display unit is scrolled following movement of the touch position detected by the position detecting unit, and that performs inertial scrolling in which the map image is scrolled on the basis of a moving direction and speed of the touch position when touching the screen is released. When the facility icon is placed in a first given region having a center at a cursor displayed on the screen while the follow scrolling is being performed, the scroll control unit scrolls the map image so that the facility icon moves to a center position of the cursor and when the facility icon is placed in the first given region while the inertial scrolling is being performed, the scroll control unit continues the inertial scrolling.
US09222791B2	Query scenarios for customizable route planning A point-to-point shortest path technique supports real-time queries and fast metric update or replacement (metric customization). Determining a shortest path between two locations uses three stages: a preprocessing stage, a metric customization stage, and a query stage. Extensions to the customizable route planning (CRP) technique for routing are provided. These extensions include, for example, the computation of alternative routes, faster techniques for unpacking shortcuts, efficient query techniques for batched shortest path (one-to-many, many-to-many, and points of interest) determinations, and determining routes and alternative routes using traffic information.
US09222783B2	Location estimation using image analysis An implementation of location estimation using image analysis is described. In this implementation, an image of a place is obtained and matched with previously stored images. The matching may be achieved by employing methods based on key feature extraction algorithm, color histogram analysis, pattern matching or other image comparison techniques. Upon determining a match, the location information associated with the image provides the location. The location information may be in the form of location tags or location keywords and the location information may be used by the user or other applications for the purposes of location determination. The technique allows for the user to enter location information. The location information may be assigned to the previously stored images residing in local and remote databases for users and applications to assign information or keywords to images.
US09222778B2	Apparatus and method for providing navigation service in electronic device An apparatus and method for providing navigation service in an electronic device are provided. A method for providing navigation service in an electronic device includes determining whether candidate schedule information settable as a destination for navigation service among at least one schedule information exists and, when at least one candidate schedule information settable as the destination for navigation service exists, setting the destination for navigation service considering the at least one candidate schedule information.
US09222776B2	Gyro sensor and electronic apparatus A gyro sensor includes a base, a first connection arm and a second connection arm that extend from the base in opposite directions along an X axis, a first drive oscillation arm that extends from the first connection arm along a Y axis, a second drive oscillation arm that extends from the second connection arm along the Y axis, and a first detection oscillation arm and a second detection oscillation arm that extend from the base in opposite directions along the Y axis, and each of the first drive oscillation arm and the second drive oscillation arm has an oscillation component along the X axis and an oscillation component along a Z axis.
US09222769B2	High speed metrology with numerically controlled machines Systems, apparatuses and methods are described for integrating an electronic metrology sensor with precision production equipment such as computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines. For example, a laser distance measuring sensor is used. Measurements are taken at a relatively high sample rate and converted into a format compatible with other data generated or accepted by the CNC machine. Measurements from the sensor are synchronized with the position of the arm of the machine such as through the use of offsets. Processing yields a detailed and highly accurate three-dimensional map of a workpiece in the machine. Applicable metrology instruments include other near continuously reading non-destructive characterization instruments such as contact and non-contact dimensional, eddy current, ultra-sound, and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) sensors. Various uses of measurements include: multiple component matching, correction of machine drift, closed loop control of machines, and verification of product tolerances via substantially complete serialized dimensional quality control.
US09222764B2	Angular displacement sensor of compliant material Disclosed is a sensing device that includes a flexible substrate having an elongated structure extending between a first end and a second end, the elongated structure being compliant material that is flexible and bendable from a linear, non-bent position to multiple bendable positions. The sensing device also includes a first compliant strain sensing element embedded within the compliant material and extending between the first end and the second end along a longitudinal length of the elongated structure. The first compliant strain sensing element includes a second compliant material that is flexible and bendable, where an electrical property of the first compliant strain sensing element changes in proportion to an applied strain on the elongated structure.
US09222763B2	Coordinate measuring machine with constrained counterweight A coordinate measuring machine has a measuring member for measuring a workpiece, a counterweight to control movement of the measuring member, and a pulley and cable system coupling the measuring member with the counterweight. The coordinate measuring machine also has a guide track, where the counterweight is movably secured to the guide track. The guide track substantially limits counterweight movement, relative to the measuring member, to one dimension.
US09222759B2	Barrier A barrier formed from a plurality of identical modular units that have an essentially planar front panel and triangular shaped top and bottom plates extending rearward from the front panel. A plate is removably attached to the front panel. Adjacent units are interconnected to one another at their terminal vertices by a square tubular member. A square shaped opening is formed approximately centrally through each of the triangular shaped plates. In addition, elongated linkages may be provided at about the midpoint of each side edge for purposes of interconnecting units that are positioned adjacent to another unit so as to assist in the formation of the overall barrier. The linkages provide pivotal movement between adjacent barriers through a range of angles from about 90 degrees (to provide a corner arrangement) to 180 degrees (to provide a straight wall arrangement).
US09222752B2	Light gathering adjustable ballistic reticule A weapon sighting system for gathering ambient or generated light and projecting a fixed or adjustable ballistic reticule image for targeting. The system includes a partially reflective, zero parallax, optical lens assembly, an illuminating reticule projection component, and an adjustable bracket fixed to the weapon being sighted. The bracket supports the lens assembly at one end and the projection component at an opposing end. The projection component is aligned to project a light image onto the lens assembly to be reflected back into the target sightline. The projection component gathers ambient (or generated) light through polymer acrylic solid materials and/or fiber optics, and directs the light through a fixed or adjustable mask. The movement of the weapon effects a corresponding movement in the angle of reflection through the optics of the sighting system. An adjustable mask allows the projected image to change to accommodate near and distant targets.
US09222749B1	Cover kit for a firearm handguard A system and method for a user's appendages when firing a weapon is described. One embodiment includes a cover kit for a firearm handguard. The kit has a base and an insert. The base has a longitudinal axis, an upright axis, a transverse axis, a socket, an exterior surface, and an interior surface. The insert has an insert body and a plug. The socket has a movable engagement prong shaped to engage a wall surface of a handguard slot. The plug has a prong engagement surface shaped to engage the engagement prong. The plug is shaped to apply a force on the engagement prong such that a distal portion of the engagement prong is flexed more than a proximal portion of the engagement prong.
US09222744B2	Apparatus and method for safe handling of striker-fired firearms A safety apparatus for striker-fired weapons, mountable at the back end of the weapon's slide and comprising a spring loaded button associated with a ram bar, wherein, when the spring loaded button is actuated by a user, the ram bar temporarily displaces a component of the weapon's firing mechanism, such that, although the weapon's trigger can still move full range, discharge of the weapon is prevented and the weapon is thus temporarily in safe mode; and wherein, as soon as the user releases the spring loaded button, the spring loaded button returns to its position before actuation by the user, causing the ram bar to stop the temporary displacement of the component of the weapon's firing mechanism, the weapon being thus returned to its normal, ready-to-fire mode.
US09222739B1	Follower and methods for weapons magazine A follower for a firearm magazine is provided. In some embodiments, the follower has: a platform shaped to interface with a firearm cartridge; a first side face extending longitudinally from the platform and having a first end opposing the platform; and a second side face extending longitudinally from the platform and having a second end opposing the platform. The first side face and the second side face may define a receiving space for receiving at least a portion of a magazine spring. At least one of the first end and the second end may have a nonlinear profile shaped to translate a lateral spring force into a longitudinal spring force.
US09222736B2	Heat-exchanger configuration A heat exchanger including a first plate and a second plate spaced apart from the first plate that defines a first gap between inner surfaces of the first plate and the second plate in which a first fluid circulates, where a major portion of the first gap is free of obstructions, where a second fluid contacts an outer surface of the first or second plate for heat exchange with the first fluid, where a first peripheral wall on the periphery of the first gap has a curved profile inside the first gap, and at least one inlet is radially positioned with respect to the first gap and injects the first fluid in the gap, and least one outlet is centrally positioned in one of the first and the second plate to enable the first fluid to exit the first gap, where first fluid circulates in a swirling flow in the major portion of the first gap.
US09222734B2	Heat exchanger tank groove geometry A heat exchanger includes a plurality of tubes extending between two tank bodies. At least one tank body includes a crown portion. At least one groove is formed in the crown portion. In order to avoid the creation of a thinner wall section in the crown portion, the inner and outer surfaces that form the groove are offset from each other.
US09222728B2	Penetrable and resealable lyophilization device A device and related method are provided for lyophilizing a substance within the device and storing therein the lyophilized substance. The device is penetrable by a needle for filling the device with the substance to be lyophilized, and a resulting needle hole in the device is laser resealable by transmitting thereon laser radiation from a laser source. The device defines a chamber for receiving therein the substance to be lyophilized. A needle penetrable and laser resealable portion of the device is pierceable with a needle to form a needle aperture therethrough to fill the chamber with the substance to be lyophilized through the needle, and is laser resealable to hermetically seal the needle aperture by applying laser radiation thereto. A filter is connectable in fluid communication between an interior and exterior of the chamber for permitting fluid to flow therethrough in a direction from the interior to the exterior of the chamber, and for substantially preventing contaminants from flowing therethrough in a direction from the exterior to the interior of the chamber.
US09222720B1	Air conditioner drainage system An air conditioner drainage system has a housing in a cylindrical configuration positionable in a hole. The housing has a side wall with a closed bottom and an open top. The side wall is imperforate over the majority of its extent and has a plurality of wall apertures there through. A plurality of stones positionable within the hole beneath the bottom of the housing and laterally spaced from the wall apertures is adapted to provide widely extended dispersion of water from the housing.
US09222707B2	Temperature stabilization in semiconductors using the magnetocaloric effect Apparatus and methods incorporate magnetocaloric materials in integrated circuit chip-carrier structures for electronic packages. An integrated circuit chip is electrically connected to a substrate. A thermostabilization unit is physically connected to the integrated circuit chip and the substrate. The thermostabilization unit comprises a temperature detector and magnetocaloric material on the integrated circuit chip. The integrated circuit structure includes a magnetic field generator operatively connected to the temperature detector. The magnetic field generator generates a magnetic field of variable intensity responsive to changes in temperature detected by the temperature detector.
US09222702B2	Systems and methods for control and calibration of a solar power tower system A solar energy collection system can include a plurality of heliostats configured to reflect sunlight to a target mounted on a tower. Each of the heliostats can have a heliostat controller configured to control a respective heliostat so that the sunlight reflected therefrom is directed to at least one of a plurality of cameras. The cameras can be oriented to image the heliostat. A second controller can be configured to compute geometry data that defines a geometry of the surface of the heliostat from captured images thereof. The geometry data can designate a plurality of subsections of the surface. The computing by the second controller can include storing data indicating sections of the captured images corresponding to the plurality of subsections of the heliostat. The second controller can also calculate data indicating respective surface normals of each of said subsections of each of said heliostat.
US09222691B2	Static roof ventilator A roof ventilator including: a first module defining a first module passageway having a first passageway longitudinal axis. The first module including a first module louver support extending substantially parallel to the first passageway longitudinal axis and a first module louver for creating a draft within the first module passageway upon wind blowing onto the first module louver. The first module louver extending from the first module louver support, located peripherally relatively to the first module passageway. A second module attached to the first module, defining a second module passageway, in fluid communication with the first module passageway and defining a second passageway longitudinal axis. The second module including a second module louver support, extending substantially parallel to the second passageway longitudinal axis. A second module louver creates a draft within the second module passageway upon wind blowing onto the second module louver. The second module louver extending from the second module louver support located peripherally relatively to the second module passageway. A fastener operatively couples the first and second modules biasing the first and second module louver supports towards each other.
US09222687B2	Active chilled beam with sterilization means An air-handling unit includes a primary air plenum and a primary air inlet in fluid communication with the primary air plenum. The primary air inlet is configured to provide a flow of primary air to the primary air plenum. The air-handling unit also includes a chamber in fluid communication with the primary air plenum. The chamber includes an irradiate cavity and a secondary air inlet configured to accept a flow of secondary air into the irradiate cavity, and a sterilization mechanism positioned in the irradiate cavity. The sterilization mechanism is configured to effectively treat and sterilize the secondary air.
US09222682B2	Portable catalytic heater One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a portable heating device comprising a combustion-powered heater, a regulator, and an air quality detector, such as an oxygen depletion sensor. The combustion-powered heater may be supplied by an associated fuel source and may comprise a combustion region comprising a catalytic surface. The regulator may be adapted for fluid communication with the associated fuel source. The air quality detector may comprise a burner and a temperature detector. The burner may be in fluid communication with the regulator and may be adapted to combust fuel form the regulator with air to produce a flame. The temperature detector may be adapted to detect the temperature of the flame and may be adapted to selectively render the combustion-powered heater non-functional.
US09222681B2	Flame arresting grease filter The invention relates to a device for arresting flames in a gas flow, for example in a kitchen hood, the device includes at least two substantially parallel spaced apart fire proof sheets, wherein the sheets are provided with perforated zones, wherein at least a channel is formed by a perforated zone of the sheet upstream of the gas flow, the space between the at least two sheets and a perforated zone of the sheet downstream of the gas flow, wherein the channel includes a section which has a reverse direction relative to the gas flow.
US09222678B2	Reducing pre-heat time in an oven A heating assembly is provided to reduce the pre-heat time of an oven. The heating assembly vaporizes a phase change fluid in an evaporator, allows the phase change fluid vapor to travel to a reactor in thermal communication with a cooking chamber of an oven appliance. In the reactor, the phase change fluid combines with a reaction substance and condenses, releasing latent heat and providing heat to the cooking chamber of the oven appliance.
US09222677B2	Gas burner Gas burner having at least two flame spreaders, at least one diffusion chamber between the flame spreaders for the diffusion of a primary air/gas mixture for at least one of the flame spreaders, and at least one cross-lighting duct for the flame passage between the flame spreaders. The duct is disposed transversally inside the diffusion chamber to define a first and a second region in the diffusion chamber and has two side walls and one upper wall, for the fluidic direct connection between the first and the second region of the diffusion chamber. The upper wall has at least one hole for the mixture inflow into the duct and the cross-lighting duct has at least one lower opening facing the upper wall of the cross-lighting duct.
US09222674B2	Multi-stage amplification vortex mixture for gas turbine engine combustor A multi-stage vortex mixer for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a vortex amplifier stage in communication with a first stage amplifier, the vortex amplifier stage in communication with a dilution hole.
US09222671B2	Methods and systems for controlling the products of combustion The present invention relates to methods and systems for controlling a combustion reaction and the products thereof. One embodiment includes a combustion control system having an oxygenation stream substantially comprising oxygen and CO2 and having an oxygen to CO2 ratio, then mixing the oxygenation stream with a combustion fuel stream and combusting in a combustor to generate a combustion products stream having a temperature and a composition detected by a temperature sensor and an oxygen analyzer, respectively, the data from which are used to control the flow and composition of the oxygenation and combustion fuel streams. The system may also include a gas turbine with an expander and having a load and a load controller in a feedback arrangement.
US09222668B2	Low NOx burner apparatus and method A burner apparatus for a furnace system and a method of burner operation. The burner has a series of fuel ejection structures which at least partially surround the burner wall for ejecting fuel into a combustion region projecting from the forward end of the burner wall. The ejection structures preferably eject fuel outside of the burner wall at alternating angles. Further, the burner apparatus preferably includes at least one additional series of fuel ejection structures which is spaced radially outward from the first series of ejection structures.
US09222663B1	Water lamp with top decoration A water lamp with a top decoration mainly includes a main body, base seat and top decoration. The main body is hollow and pervious to light, and slightly-thick, flowable low-boiling point fluid is filled hermetically and a poking member are mounted inside the main body; the base seat is configured below the main body, and a control circuit and at least one light-emitting element in electric connection with the control circuit are configured on the base seat correspondingly to the bottom of the main body, and a magnetic rotating shaft attracting the poking member magnetically to rotate is further configured on the base seat; the top decoration assumes a foggy, pervious-to-light, three-dimensional modeling, coupled to the upper side of the mainbody, a light-emitting element in electric connection with the control circuit being configured inside the top decoration. Whereby, the low-boiling-point fluid inside the water lamp will flow due to the heat generated from the light-emitting element when the base seat is switched on, and light further penetrates the top decoration, allowing the present invention to achieve both lighting and dynamic visual effects at the same time.
US09222652B2	Lighting module as a tool for connecting/disconnecting another lighting module A lighting module (1) having a connection end (2) for connection to a lamp holder (3), and a light output end (4) for outputting light, wherein the lighting module (1), at the light output end (4), is provided with a mechanical interface comprising first (6) and second (7) protrusions extending in a direction parallel with a longitudinal axis (13) of the lighting module and being configured to interact with corresponding protrusions (6′,7′) on an identical mechanical interface to transfer at least one of a rotational force and a pulling force to the lighting module (1), so that a device (1′) provided with such an identical mechanical interface can be used as a tool for connecting/disconnecting the lighting module (1). An advantage is that it is possible to utilize one lighting module as a tool to connect/disconnect another lighting module from a lamp holder.
US09222650B2	Switchable light-duct extraction The disclosure generally relates to switchable light extractors and in particular to switchable light extractors useful for extracting light from light ducts used for interior lighting of a building. The disclosure also relates to lighting systems that include the light extractors, and methods of extracting light from a lighting system. The switchable light extractors generally include a first and a second reflective film, each having a plurality of voids that can aligned to extract light from a light duct.
US09222649B2	Stage lighting fixture A stage lighting fixture having: a casing having a closed first end and an open second end; a light source housed inside the casing, close to the first end, and which emits a light beam along an optical axis; an optical assembly positioned to intercept the light beam, and having a focal point located between the light source and the optical assembly; and a reflector coupled to the light source; the reflector and the light source being designed and coupled to concentrate the light beam substantially at a work point substantially coincident with the focal point of the optical assembly; and the light source being defined by a short-arc lamp to project a light bar.
US09222636B2	Vehicle information transmission device A vehicle information transmission device includes: a display device that displays light in a first mode at a position of a vehicle body, at which visual recognition of a certain object is prompted, when the visual recognition is prompted and that displays light in a second mode different from the first mode on the vehicle body when the visual recognition is not prompted or when the visual recognition is prompted; and a control unit that adjusts light in the second mode on the basis of light in the first mode when the visual recognition is prompted.
US09222634B2	Solar lighting apparatus and system thereof A solar lighting apparatus and system, which is constructed into a street lamp, entrance lamp, garden lamp, nightlight, etc., includes a light emitting unit for providing illumination and a lighting apparatus body; a solar energy arrangement including a solar panel unit for light absorption and power supply; and a mounting plate; at least one ground supporting unit coupling with the mounting plate for securing the mounting plate onto a ground surface; and a light apparatus connecting unit provided through the mounting plate for firmly positioning the lighting apparatus, and a LED light control arrangement effectively controlling a power consumption in such a manner that the light emitting unit is arranged to being charged and discharged in a controlled manner and is protected against short circuit and overcharging, thereby maximizing power utilization, increasing lifespan and performance of the solar lighting apparatus.
US09222627B2	Annulus shaped luminaire An annulus shaped luminaire includes an annular structure that includes one or more luminous panels, and transition structure that couples a support structure of the luminaire with the annular structure. The one or more luminous panels emit light that illuminates an area adjacent to the luminaire.
US09222626B1	Light tube and power supply circuit A replacement light tube for replacing a fluorescent light tube includes an elongate tubular housing having first and second ends, first and second end caps disposed thereon, each configured to fit with a socket for the fluorescent light tube, and a rigid support structure having a planar portion having a first surface extending within the elongate tubular housing between the first and second ends and having spaced-apart sidewalls extending away from the first surface and extending within the housing between the first and second ends. At least a portion of the sidewalls are in contact with an interior surface of housing. A plurality of white light emitting diodes are supported only by a second surface of the planar portion opposite to the first surface and between the first and second ends, and are arranged to emit light through the housing.
US09222623B2	Devices and methods for manipulating deformable fluid vessels A fluid container comprises a first vessel, a second vessel connected or connectable to the first vessel, and a sealing partition preventing fluid flow from the second vessel. The container further includes a spherical opening element initially supported within the second vessel by the sealing partition and configured to be contacted with the sealing partition to open the sealing partition and permit fluid flow from the second vessel.
US09222614B2	Tilt-roll table for use in cleaning UF6 cylinders A tilt roll table for use with uranium hexafluoride cylindrical containers securely holds the container, supported from its domed ends by spindles mounted to brackets as the container is tilted and rolled. The spindles have greater surface area over which to distribute the weight and are shaped to complement the domed container ends. The brackets supporting the spindles, stiffened by vertical and horizontal braces, can be adjusted vertically and moved axially toward and away from the domed ends of the containers by a gear drive to accommodate different sizes of cylindrical containers. In addition, bands encircle the containers to hold them onto the frame during tilting and rolling.
US09222611B2	Flexible barrier composite fabrics via an adhered film process A composite fabric includes: a fabric backing; an adhesive layer; a midlayer barrier bonded to the fabric backing by the adhesive layer; and an external barrier bonded to the midlayer barrier, wherein the composite fabric has a hydrostatic pressure resistance of at least 100 psi and is sufficiently flexible such that it can be formed into a tube and everted. A process and an apparatus for producing the composite fabric are also disclosed. The composite fabric is particularly suitable for use as a liner in a cured-in-place pipe repair method.
US09222589B2	Automatic shut-off device An automatic shutoff device, comprising a housing member with a hollow opening, an inlet port coupled to a first end of the housing member, an outlet port coupled to a second end of the housing member, a valve coupled to the outlet port, a variable volume chamber within the housing member with an open end facing the inlet port of the housing member and a closed end with flow restriction holes in closed end facing the outlet port of the housing member, a one-way valve disposed in the closed end of the variable volume chamber, and a spring-biased piston within the variable volume chamber with a compressible spring coupled to the piston at the closed end of the chamber wherein the piston is mechanically coupled to the valve.
US09222587B2	Oil pressure regulator An oil pressure regulator includes a chamber that extends between an oil supply line and an oil bypass line. The chamber extends from a closed end of the chamber to an open end of the chamber. The regulator includes a plunger that is positioned within the chamber. The plunger is movable within the chamber between a first position preventing oil flow from the oil supply line to the oil bypass line, and a second position allowing oil flow from the oil supply line to the oil bypass line. Also, the regulator includes a compression spring that is positioned within the chamber between the plunger and the closed end. When the plunger is in the first position, the compression spring is in an uncompressed state, and when the plunger is in the second position, the compression spring is in a compressed state.
US09222584B2	Rigid piston retrofit for a diaphragm flush valve A rigid piston assembly for use in a conventional flush valve includes a rigid piston configured to fixedly engage within the valve body. The present invention is also directed to a flush valve for a plumbing fixture as well as a method of retrofitting a rigid piston into a diaphragm flush valve body.
US09222582B2	Main valve with internal rigid structure A valve assembly is described herein that includes a valve plate and a main valve contacting the valve plate, the main valve having an internal rigid structure and an outer shell, the internal rigid structure having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface.
US09222571B2	Temperature management system for transmission using split engine cooling A system for thermally managing a transmission having a transmission heat exchanger, wherein the transmission is coupled to an engine having a block and a head. A closed cooling circuit is provided to flow coolant through the system. A block output valve is provided for receiving coolant exiting the block and having a first outlet in fluid communication with the transmission heat exchanger and a second output connected to a bypass. Thermosensors may also be provided to determine the temperature of the block and the transmission. A system having a controller to thermally manage a transmission is also provided. A method of thermally managing a transmission is also provided.
US09222569B2	Toothed wheel and backlash free gear train A toothed wheel has a sequence of X teeth, wherein each N-th tooth at least partially has a smaller tooth rigidity compared to the remaining X−N teeth, N being a number which is selected from a range with a lower limit of 2 and an upper limit of X, in particular X/2. Alternatively, a number of M teeth at least partially have a smaller tooth rigidity than the remaining X−M teeth, where M is selected from a range with a lower limit of 1 and an upper limit of X−1 or an upper limit of X provided that at least individual teeth are divided or all the teeth have a different geometry, and/or wherein the tooth system has a pitch in which each Nth tooth stands out compared to the remaining X−N teeth.
US09222562B2	Output member and multi-shaft driving device To provide a multi-shaft driving device that aims for a lightening of weight and lowering of cost as compared with conventional structures. In a structure in which, when a movable shaft (40) is slidably installed at an output shaft (20) and advances toward an input-side bevel gear (14), an output-side bevel gear (50) of a distal end side of the movable shaft (40) meshes-together with the input-side bevel gear (14), and the movable shaft (40) rotates and rotation of this movable shaft (40) is transmitted to the output shaft (20), the movable shaft (40) and the output-side bevel gear (50) are molded integrally of resin, and the output shaft (20) also is formed of resin, and the movable shaft (40) is slidably exteriorly placed on an outer peripheral side of the output shaft (20).
US09222561B2	Transmission for use in shredding machines A transmission for shredding machines includes a drive shaft, a driven shaft, and an intermediate shaft, with at least two spur gears each, at least one hydraulic shift clutch each, and at least one overload clutch. The shafts can releasably be coupled with each other via the spur gears and the hydraulic shift clutches, and the driven shaft can releasably be coupled with an output shaft by way of the overload clutch.
US09222557B2	Dual-screw linear actuator A dual-screw linear actuator includes an inner push tube, an outer push tube, a first nut part, and a second nut part. The outer push tube is sheathed on the inner push tube and axially movable on the inner push tube; the first nut part is coupled to the outer push tube and screwed to an inner screw which has a coupling disposed at a front end of the inner screw; the second nut part is coupled to the inner push tube and screwed to an outer screw, and the outer screw is hollow, and the coupling is sleeved into the outer screw for an axial movement. The inner screw drives the outer screw to rotate, such that the first and second nut parts can synchronously push the inner and outer push tubes to extend or contract, so as to improve the stroke of extension or contraction.
US09222550B2	Multi-speed transmission A family of transmission gearing arrangements provides between eight and ten forward speed ratios and a reverse speed ratio. Three planetary gear sets are located on the input axis and a fourth planetary gear set is located on an offset axis. Axis transfer gears convey power between the input axis and the offset axis. One axis transfer gear is supported by a front support while another is supported by a center support. The center support also supports a clutch module and supplies pressurized fluid to engage the clutches in the clutch module.
US09222545B2	Silent chain and silent chain transmission A back face of each inner link plate of the chain is curved convexly. Heights from a pitch line connecting centers of pin holes of inner and guide link plates to the convex apex portion of the inner link plate and to an apex portion of the guide link plate are equalized. The convex apex portions are brought into contact with a guide face of the chain guide per every pitch and the ear apex portions are brought into contact with the chain guide per every pitch while being shifted by a half pitch from the convex apex portions.
US09222542B2	Engine-mount An engine mount includes: an insulator arranged inside a housing and deformed elastically in accordance with a force applied to a core connected to an upper end thereof; a nozzle plate having a flow channel opened up/downward for hydro liquid and connected between a diaphragm connected to the housing and the insulator; and a piston partitioning an internal space between the insulator and the nozzle plate and connected to the core to move in accordance force applied to the core, wherein upper and lower liquid chambers are formed between the piston and the nozzle plate, and between the nozzle plate and the diaphragm, respectively, and an air chamber through which ambient air can enter/exit is formed between the piston and the insulator. Vibration produced over a wide frequency region can be dampened more effectively by using air and the hydro liquid as an operation liquid.
US09222537B2	Damper Damper, in particular for washing machines with a spin cycle, with a housing having a central longitudinal axis and at least partially encompassing a housing interior by housing walls, a plunger displaceable in the housing along the central longitudinal axis, guided out of the housing and having at least one friction lining recess, fastening elements, arranged on open ends of the housing and the plunger, and at least one friction lining, arranged in the at least one friction lining recess and in frictional contact with opposite housing walls.
US09222535B2	Spring element The invention relates to a spring element (1) for a cushioning device of a piece of furniture for sitting or lying, in particular for a bed mattress, comprising a spring body (10) and an accommodating section (30) arranged thereon, wherein the spring body (10) and the accommodating section (30) are injection-molded from plastic as one piece. In order to develop a spring element (1) of the type mentioned above in such a way that the spring element can be used for an extended range of applications, a spring element (1) is proposed that is characterized in that the spring body (10) is designed as a ring part (11) extended in the longitudinal direction (40), which ring part comprises two ring part sections (13, 14) that transition into each other as one piece in a center section (12), said ring part sections each having an upward slope in the height direction (42) starting from the center section (12), wherein the end areas (15, 16) of the ring part sections (13, 14) lying opposite each other in the longitudinal direction (40) are connected to each other, the accommodating section (30) lying therebetween.
US09222524B2	Drive force transmission device A drive force transmission device includes a clutch operatively interposed between a hub member and a drum member to selectively transmit drive power therebetween. A first rotating shaft member is coupled to the hub member to rotate with the hub member. A second rotating shaft member is coupled to a separating wall part of the drum member to rotate with the drum member. A support member rotatably supports the second rotating shaft member via a bearing. The support member includes a restriction part that restricts axial movement of an outer race of the bearing. A bottom portion of the separating wall part is a radially offset towards the bearing space with respect to a top portion of the separating wall so that the bottom portion radial overlaps with the restriction part as viewed perpendicular to a rotational axis of the drum member.
US09222508B2	Bearing race with integrated spring A bearing race encapsulation apparatus, which has a spring assembly integrated into a hearing that allows the hearing to compensate for varying expansions and contractions caused by differences in temperature. The bearing race encapsulation apparatus includes an outer bearing ring with an end face and an outer face with a indent formed in the outer face. An encapsulation ring, which has a retention element that is snapped into the indent of the outer bearing ring, a first segment that extends axially outwardly from the retention element, and a second segment that extends radially inwardly from the first segment. A spring is arranged axially between the second segment of the encapsulation ring and the outer bearing ring to compensate for the expansion and contraction.
US09222500B2	Component connection and method for the detachable connection of the components of a component connection A connection between components includes a first component, a second component, and at least two pairs of fixing elements spaced apart by which the two components are detachably connected. Each pair of fixing elements has a female fixing element and a male fixing element that is inserted into the female fixing element. A fixing element of each pair of fixing elements is provided on the first component and the other fixing element of each pair of fixing elements is provided on the second component. The fixing elements are arranged such that on detachable connection of the two components by the pairs of fixing elements in the two components, a bending stress results in the components.
US09222490B2	Pilot-operated quick exhaust valve A fluid flow control device has an inlet, an outlet and an exhaust port all for an operating fluid. A pilot inlet receives a pilot pressure signal which operates a valve stem actuator via a piston. The valve stem is operable to open a supply valve between the inlet and outlet and, to open an exhaust valve disposed between the outlet and the exhaust. In a further position both the valves are closed. A first fluid leak path is provided between the valve stem and the supply valve for allowing fluid to leak through the supply valve chamber when the supply valve is open and a second fluid leak path is defined by the exhaust valve for allowing fluid to leak through the exhaust valve chamber. The leak paths provide for a force balancing arrangement. A quick exhaust feature allows exhaust flow through the device.
US09222485B2	Centrifugal compressor diffuser A system, in certain embodiments, includes a centrifugal compressor diffuser vane including a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a constant thickness section extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge. A radius of curvature of the leading edge and a radius of curvature of the trailing edge vary along a span of the vane. A ratio of a length of the constant thickness section to a chord length of the vane is at least approximately 50%, and the ratio is substantially constant along the span of the vane.
US09222478B2	Bladeless fan structure A bladeless fan structure includes a driving member, a pipe member, and at least one air-pressure increasing area. The driving member has a shaft connected and extended through the pipe member, and a first space is formed between an inner surface of the pipe member and an outer surface of the shaft. The air-pressure area is provided on the inner surface of the pipe member or the outer surface of the shaft. The pipe member is provided with at least one opening communicating with the first space and the air-pressure increasing area. When the driving member drives the shaft to rotate in and relative to the pipe member, air in the first space is brought to flow and is compressed in a direction along the air-pressure increasing area to blow out of the pipe member via the opening to achieve the function of a bladeless fan.
US09222450B2	Pressure relief apparatus for use with fuel delivery systems Pressure relief apparatus for use with fuel delivery systems are described herein. An example pressure relief apparatus includes a pressure relief system coupled to a body of a fuel cap to define a first side of the body and a second side of the body. The pressure relief system comprises a plurality of fluid valves to enable fluid flow from the first side of the body to the second side of the body when a first pressure differential across the pressure relief system from the first side to the second side is greater than a first reference pressure and to enable fluid flow from the second side of the body to the first side of the body when a second pressure differential across the pressure relief system from the second side to the first side is greater than a second reference pressure.
US09222447B2	Charge air cooler control system and method A charge air cooler, a system to control condensation within a plurality of cooling tubes of a charge air cooler, and a method are disclosed. The system includes an air flow control arrangement configured to selectively ensure a flow rate of charge air through each individual cooling tube is either essentially zero or above a predetermined minimum flow rate in accordance with predetermined operating conditions of the engine.
US09222445B2	Fuel vapor processing apparatus A fuel vapor processing apparatus may include a first canister and a second canister each having an adsorbent disposed therein. The second canister may include a first passage and a second passage each communicating between the first canister and an atmosphere. The first passage may be configured as an adsorption passage having the adsorbent disposed therein. The second passage may be configured as an air passage through which air flows. A control device may control flow of the air through the air passage. A heating device may heat the air flowing through the air passage. The air passage may be arranged so that the adsorbent of the adsorption chamber is heated by heat of the air that is heated by the heating device and flows through the air passage.
US09222442B2	Module integrating mixer and particulate separator into a common housing and an engine breathing system having the module One exemplary embodiment includes a product including a housing that has a mixer portion and first, second and third openings. The first opening is configured to receive at least a portion of exhaust gases produced by an internal combustion engine, and the second opening is configured to receive intake air. The mixer portion is in communication with the first and second openings to mix the exhaust gases and the intake air into a gas mixture. The third opening is in communication with the mixer portion to flow the gas mixture therethrough. The invention further includes a particulate separator disposed within the housing. The particulate separator is configured to remove particulates from the exhaust gases. The product may be included in a low-pressure EGR path and/or a high-pressure EGR path.
US09222441B2	Exhaust gas recirculation apparatus for engine An EGR apparatus includes a EGR passage for allowing part of exhaust gas discharged from a combustion chamber of an engine to an exhaust passage to flow in an intake passage and recirculate back to the combustion chamber, and an EGR valve provided in the EGR passage to regulate an EGR passage in this passage. The EGR valve includes a valve seat, a valve element to be seatable on the valve seat, and a step motor for driving the valve element to open and close. An electronic control device controls the EGR valve to repeat opening and closing of the valve element between a closing position and a small opening position in order to remove foreign matters adhered to the valve seat or valve element during deceleration fuel cutoff of the engine.
US09222440B2	One-step starting carburetor A one-step starting carburetor system includes a body, a middle body, a fuel inlet pipe, a fuel outlet pipe, a lower cover and a temperature controller which is connected to the lower cover. The fuel inlet pipe pumps fuel from an oiler through the pipe. The fuel outlet pipe connects with an oil pumping unit through a pipe. The body connects with a pulse generator through a pipe, wherein the pulse generator comprises a pulse generating chamber, a cover, and a solenoid valve.
US09222436B2	Airfoil combination for aircraft turbofan There is described an airfoil combination for aircraft turbofan, designed to save fuel in aircraft operation, which is composed by two wings (5) and two supports (6) articulated or not, for each of the wings (5). These two wings (5) are located inside the turbofan, internally to the outer fairing (3) of the turbofan and externally to the other components of the turbofan. In one of the embodiments, the two wings may have high-lifting devices, such as flaps. The two wings use the “blown” air at great speed by the fan (1) to generate a pre-determined lifting effect pursuant to the flight phases and the operating regimes of the turbofans to compensate totally or partially the weight of the turbofan itself, reducing the lift effort to be generated by the aircraft wings. As the lift force generated by a wing is directly proportional to the square root of the air speed which passes over its surfaces, the lift effect obtained as described above is proportionally very high in relation to the area of the wings (5) that are the subject matter of the present invention.
US09222429B2	Engine control system having a cam phaser A control system for a gaseous-fueled engine is disclosed. The gaseous-fueled engine may have an intake valve mechanically driven by a camshaft. The control system may have a variable valve timing device configured to adjust a cyclical opening and closing timing of the intake valve. The control system may further have a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a speed of the engine and a controller in communication with the variable valve timing device and the sensor. In addition, the controller may be configured to selectively initiate a first Miller Cycle timing and a second Miller Cycle timing based on the signal.
US09222418B2	Fuel feed circuit with hydraulic actuator and fuel metering unit for an aeroengine A fuel feed circuit for an aeroengine, the circuit including a high-pressure pumping system including first and second positive displacement pumps, a hydraulic actuator, and a fuel metering unit. As a function of a position of a slide of the actuator, a feed orifice of the actuator may be connected to a high-pressure delivery orifice connected to an outlet of the second pump, or to a low-pressure delivery orifice connected to a low-pressure feed line. The fuel metering unit includes through sections, one of these through sections being connected to an outlet of the high-pressure pumping system and the other through section being connected to an outlet of the high-pressure pumping system and leading to a high-pressure pilot chamber of the hydraulic actuator.
US09222415B2	Gas turbine engine fuel heating system A fuel heating system for a gas turbine engine comprises a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a fuel pump and a valve. The first heat exchanger produces a heated air flow. The second heat exchanger receives the heated air flow from the first heat exchanger. The fuel pump provides a fuel flow. The valve is coupled to the fuel pump to intermittently include the second heat exchanger in the fuel flow based on a temperature of the fuel flow. A method of heating fuel in a gas turbine engine comprises providing fuel to a gas turbine engine with a fuel pump to sustain a combustion process, heating a flow of air with exhaust gas from the combustion process, and heating fuel from the fuel pump en route to the gas turbine engine with the flow of air based on a temperature of the fuel.
US09222412B2	Method and a device for performing a check of the health of a turbine engine of an aircraft provided with at least one turbine engine A method of automatically performing an engine health check for checking the health of at least one turbine engine of an aircraft. During flight, the stability of at least one monitoring parameter is verified by acquiring a measurement signal, by performing first filtering of each signal by a high-pass filter over a long first duration (TPS1) and by verifying that a first amplitude (A1) of the signal filtered in this way does not exceed a first threshold defined by the manufacturer, by performing second filtering of each signal by a high-pass filter over a short second duration (TPS2) in parallel with said first filtering by a high-pass filter, and by verifying that a second amplitude (A2) of the signal filtered in this way does not exceed a second threshold defined by the manufacturer, the second duration (TPS2) being less than the first duration (TPS1), and the second amplitude (A2) being less than the first amplitude (A1).
US09222403B2	Fuel treatment system and method The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods for treating a fuel prior to ignition in a combustion engine in order to improve efficiency. In one aspect of the invention a throttle valve system that entrains a flow of gas, which can include a fuel, into a structured flow pattern via the inclusion of topological on a surface of the valve body and/or the flow chamber. The topological features can be arranged in a pattern configured to produce movement and/or structured turbulence in a stream of gas that is introduced to the throttle valve. An excitation source that ionizes or cracks species in the gas stream can be optionally utilized.
US09222390B2	Injection device The invention relates to a device for injecting a fluid (2), in particular into the exhaust-gas section of an internal combustion engine, having a reservoir (4) for storing the fluid (2) to be injected; an injection and metering module (10); a pump (8) which is configured for conveying fluid (2) during operation out of the reservoir (4) to the injection and metering module (10); and a return line (16) which makes an outflow of fluid (2) out of the injection and metering module (10) possible, wherein a switchable throttling valve (14) which is suitable for pumping fluid out of the injection and metering module (10) is arranged in the return line (16).
US09222389B2	Systems and methods for controlling reductant delivery to an exhaust stream Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a feed rate for direct introduction of a reductant gas into an exhaust stream to achieve a NOx emissions target and for controlling a reductant introduction device to admit the reductant gas into the exhaust stream at the determined feed rate.
US09222384B2	SCR treatment of engine exhaust gases using temperature control The exhaust system of an internal combustion engine is periodically dosed to recharge an SCR catalyst with ammonia. If dosing is scheduled and exhaust gas temperature is too low to ensure recharging, a forced increase in exhaust gas temperature is effected for the period of dosing. A diagnostic to confirm correct operation of a catalytic converter may advantageously run at the same time.
US09222381B2	Engine device An engine device in which a support structure of an exhaust throttle device can be made as a high rigidity structure, and it is possible to prevent the exhaust throttle device from being heated by radiation heat from peripheries of the exhaust throttle device. The engine device of the invention includes an engine having an exhaust manifold, and the exhaust throttle device adjusts exhaust gas pressure of the exhaust manifold An exhaust gas intake side of a throttle valve case of the exhaust throttle device is fastened to an exhaust gas outlet of the exhaust manifold, and an exhaust gas pipe is connected to the exhaust manifold through the throttle valve case. An intermediate portion of a cooling pipe of an EGR cooler is provided with a cooling water pipe of the exhaust throttle device.
US09222380B2	Powertrain and method for fast start of an internal combustion engine in a hybrid electric vehicle A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain includes an internal combustion engine and an electric vehicle traction motor, an engine lubrication oil pump in fluid communication with a lubrication oil flow circuit for the internal combustion engine, an electric oil pump drive motor drivingly connected to the lubrication oil pump, and a powertrain control module. The powertrain control module is configured to start the electric oil pump drive motor immediately upon the initial start of the vehicle.
US09222377B2	Volume store A volume store which has a substantially hollow cylindrical housing and a separating element displaceably disposed within the housing. The housing is fixedly disposed within a hollow chamber of a camshaft.
US09222374B2	Camshaft and associated cam A camshaft for a combustion engine has a shaft and at least one cam thermally joined to a joining surface on the shaft side via a joining surface on the cam side. The shaft is embodied as a drawn and not additionally worked tube. Because of this the production of commercial vehicle camshafts can be realized in a more cost-effective manner since these do not have to be additionally ground or turned.
US09222369B2	Joint assembly for an annular structure A joint assembly for an annular structure comprises a first annular member having a first radially extending flange and a second annular member having a second radially extending flange. The first and second flanges having a plurality of first and second circumferentially aligned apertures. A plurality of fasteners are provided and each fastener is arranged to extend through a respective pair of the first and second apertures to join the first and second annular members together. The first and second radially extending flanges have a plurality of circumferentially aligned third and fourth apertures. A plurality of members are provided and each member is arranged to extend axially through a respective pair of the third and fourth apertures.
US09222363B2	Angular sector of a stator for a turbine engine compressor, a turbine engine stator, and a turbine engine including such a sector A stator angular sector for a turbine engine compressor and including: an outer shroud and an inner shroud; and at least one vane extending radially between the shrouds and connected thereto at its radial ends. At one of its axial ends the outer shroud includes a cavity opening out to the axial end and extending between a radially-inner tongue of the outer shroud to which the radially-outer end of the vane is connected and a radially-outer tongue of the outer shroud carrying a mounting mechanism for mounting the stator angular sector to a casing of the engine. An abutment-forming insert is housed at least in part in the cavity, the abutment-forming insert configured to limit radial movements of the radially-inner tongue by contact and thus to modify vibratory behavior of the radially-inner tongue.
US09222361B2	Rotary piston machine having shaft encoder A rotary piston machine is disclosed. In one aspect, the machine includes a shaft and a shaft encoder including a first structure, based on which the rotational speed and/or the rotational position of the shaft can be determined by scanning the first structure with a sensor. The shaft encoder has a rotationally asymmetrical mass distribution in order to produce an imbalance.
US09222359B2	Setting tool and method for installing an anchor rod A setting tool for inserting an anchor rod into a borehole filled with a curable mass or filled with a cartridge containing a curable mass is disclosed. The setting tool includes a housing, which has a receptacle for the anchor rod, into which the anchor rod can be inserted in the longitudinal direction and in which the anchor rod can be fixed. At least one clamping element is tilted at an angle from the longitudinal axis of the receptacle and is supported in a guide in the receptacle in such a way that the clamping element can be moved from a receiving position, in which the anchor rod can be inserted into the receptacle in the longitudinal direction, to a clamping position, in which the anchor rod is fixed in the receptacle in the circumferential direction, by rotating the housing relative to the anchor rod.
US09222355B2	Detecting sump depth of a miner Systems and methods for operating a mining machine. One system includes a controller, a stationary object, and a radar device. The radar device transmits radio waves toward the stationary object and detects reflections of the radio waves. The controller obtains timing information regarding the radio waves and the reflections. Based on the timing information, the controller is configured to determine a first distance between the radar device and the stationary object before sumping the mining machine into material and a second distance between the radar device and the stationary object after sumping the mining machine into the material. The controller is also configured to determine a sump depth of the mining machine based on the first distance and the second distance, compare the determined sump depth to a predetermined sump depth, and perform at least one automatic action when the determined sump depth does not satisfy the predetermined sump depth.
US09222353B2	Tip for an earth working roll A tip for use on an earth working roll for mining, construction and public works machines such as crushers, surface miners, milling machines and the like includes a working end provided with side relief to reduce drag and wearing, require less power to drive the rolls, and lengthen the usable life of the tip. The working end can also have a generally flat front surface to improve the yield in a crushing or other similar operation. The tip includes a base and a wear cap releasably secured together by a retainer.
US09222352B2	Control of a component of a downhole tool An apparatus including a downhole tool for conveyance in a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation and method of use thereof. The downhole tool may include a turbo-alternator disposed in a passageway for drilling mud, and a controller to: track operating points of the turbo-alternator, determine from the operating points a flow rate of the drilling mud, and control a component of the downhole tool based on the flow rate.
US09222351B2	Systems and methods for real-time sag detection Disclosed are systems and methods for the real-time detection and measurement of sag within a deviated borehole. One method includes measuring a first pressure at a first time at a point within the borehole, predicting a characteristic of the drilling fluid at the point using a computer model, thereby obtaining a predicted characteristic, calculating the characteristic based on the first pressure, thereby obtaining a calculated characteristic, and determining whether sag has occurred based on a comparison between the calculated characteristic and the predicted characteristic.
US09222340B2	Mechanically adjustable flow control assembly A flow control assembly can be mechanically adjusted, rotationally or translationally, inside a tubing downhole between multiple positions by an intervening tool from the surface to change resistivity to flow through the flow control assembly. The positions among which the flow control assembly can be adjusted can include a closed position, a fully open position, and positions at which fluid experiences various resistances prior to flowing to an inner area of the tubing.
US09222334B2	Valve system for downhole tool string A technique facilitates the delivery and testing of a tool string assembly downhole. The technique employs at least one rotatable element valve in the tool string at a location which enables the rotatable element valve to be used for selectively blocking or allowing fluid flow along an interior passage of the tool string. A one-way valve, such as a flapper valve, dart valve, or spring loaded ball valve, is deployed within a rotatable element of each rotatable element valve to combine flow control functions, thus enabling a shorter tool string section. The at least one rotatable element valve also may be designed to facilitate pressure testing of the tool string.
US09222333B2	Monitoring system for borehole operations An assembly for monitoring a fluid operation including a plug member operatively arranged to impede fluid flow past the plug when the plug member is engaged with a seat. A conveyor is coupled to the plug and operatively arranged for positioning the plug at a desired location. A signal conductor is disposed with the conveyor. At least one sensor is coupled with the signal conductor for monitoring one or more parameters related to the fluid operation. A method of monitoring a fluid operation is also included.
US09222331B2	System and method for enhanced sealing of well tubulars A well isolation includes a radially expandable sealing element that engages an interior wall of the wellbore tubular and a radially expandable expansion cone in telescopic relationship with the sealing element. The expansion cone expands the sealing element and a swage telescopically engages and expands the expansion cone.
US09222330B2	Method for sealing an annular space in a wellbore A method for providing one or more seals in an annular space between a well tubular and the surrounding formation or between pipes of a wellbore system includes determining an in-situ temperature, pressure, earth formation properties and one or more fluids present at one or more locations where the seals are desired. A sealing substance is placed at the locations and allowed to flow into the annular space and undergo curing to form one or more seals. The sealing substance may be a setting expoxy based, phenolic based or polyester based fluid that includes at least one solid component. The sealing substance has physical and fluid dynamic properties compatible with the determined in-situ parameters.
US09222329B2	Low profile, high capacity ball injector An injector spool supports a plurality of ball injector assemblies having respective ball cartridges adapted to load one frac ball at a time into a ball chamber of a ball launcher of the respective ball injector assemblies to provide a low profile, high capacity ball injector.
US09222323B2	Petroleum well drill—or coiled tubing string mounted fishing tool A petroleum well drill- or coiled tubing string mounted fishing tool includes a main body including a lower housing with a magnet having at least one magnet surface facing downwards in the well at a lower end of the lower housing and arranged for catching and holding undesired magnetic objects present in the well, the main body provided with a connector to the drill- or coiled tubing string at its upper end. The tool further includes a generally cylindrical upper housing with a central channel with laterally directed curl flow forming nozzles through the cylindrical wall of the upper housing, the nozzles leading out into one or more helical grooves between helical ridges, the magnet including permanent magnets arranged in a magnetization pattern which concentrates their combined magnetic flux through the downwards facing surface, the upper housing's vertical channel extending near its lower end to peripherally directed channels extending to an outer wall of the lower housing about the magnets and leading to axially directed peripheral nose ports at a peripheral lower end of the lower housing and arranged for flushing fluid ahead of the magnet, the central channel provided with a vertically displaceable cylindrical flow control sleeve which is provided with a closing seat near its lower end so as for receiving a ball for shutting off the flow to the nose ports and redirecting the flow through apertures in the wall of the sleeve to the curl flow forming nozzles.
US09222320B2	Subsea pressure control system A subsea pressure control system can include at least one subsea choke which variably restricts flow of drilling fluid from a well annulus to a surface location, the choke being positioned at a subsea location, and a subsea process control system which automatically operates the subsea choke, whereby a desired pressure is maintained in the well annulus. Another subsea pressure control system can include at least one subsea choke which variably restricts flow of drilling fluid from a well annulus to a surface location, the choke being positioned at a subsea location, and a subsea pump which pumps the drilling fluid from the subsea location to the surface location.
US09222318B2	Systems and methods for riser coupling Systems and methods for riser coupling are disclosed. A riser coupling system comprises a riser joint connector comprising a first tubular assembly coupled to a second tubular assembly. The riser coupling system further comprises a spider assembly which receives the riser joint connector and has a connector actuation tool. The connector actuation tool comprises a dog assembly, a clamping tool and a splined member. The dog assembly selectively extends a dog to engage the riser joint connector. The clamping tool couples the first tubular assembly and the second tubular assembly. Finally, the splined member actuates a locking member of the riser joint connector.
US09222316B2	Extended reach well system A system and methodology facilitates extending the reach of coiled tubing during a well operation. The technique employs tubing which is deployed along wellbore. A plurality of extended reach devices is positioned along the tubing. Each extended reach device has at least one internal guide member oriented for extension into an interior of the tubing. The guide member engages and guides the coiled tubing during movement of the coiled tubing along the interior of the tubing, thus enabling an extended reach during a wellbore servicing application.
US09222304B2	Systems and methods to retain and refeed door curtains An example door includes first and second tracks. The example door includes a retainer borne by the first track and an alignment guide associated with the first track. The example door also includes a curtain extending laterally between the first and second tracks. The curtain has a leading edge selectively movable between a closed position and an open position. The example door includes a primary projection borne by the curtain that is in guiding engagement with the retainer within the first track. The primary projection is dislodged from the track when the curtain is in the breakaway state. The example door includes a secondary projection borne by the curtain and arranged to travel outside of the alignment guide when the leading edge is traveling between the open position and the closed position.
US09222288B2	Integrated hood latch keeper for a grill opening reinforcement structure A position-controlled front hood latch bracket for a vehicle includes a bracket base having a hood latch opening configured to receive a hood latch assembly having a latch base, the latch base having a perimeter and a plurality of locating apertures. The front hood latch bracket also includes a plurality of spaced-apart hood latch keeper features, the hood latch keeper features configured to receive and keep the perimeter of the latch base in slidable engagement with the bracket base while enabling a predetermined amount of movement of the latch base relative to the bracket base in a pre-assembly position. The bracket further includes a plurality of fastener apertures each configured to receive a fastener for detachably attaching the latch base to the bracket base, the locating apertures having a size and a location that exposes the fastener apertures in the preinstallation position regardless of the predetermined amount of movement.
US09222287B2	Object gripping device using electromagnetic assembly An object gripping device using a electromagnetic assembly includes a base having two opposite ends thereof, a fastening portion pivoted at one end of the base and having an object-gripping trench and a through opening having a stopping surface therein at two opposite ends of the fastening portion, a transmission portion pivoted at the other end of the base, a stopping shaft extending through both the transmission portion and the through opening, a first spring connected both the base and the fastening portion, a second spring connected both the base and the transmission portion, and a electromagnetic assembly connected the base and the transmission portion.
US09222275B2	Pool cleaning robot having waterline movement capabilities A cleaning robot that may include a control unit, a drive motor, a jet generator, a housing, a waterline proximity sensor, a filtering unit and a brushing unit. The jet generator has first and second openings that are positioned at opposite sides of the housing. The control unit is arranged to control the jet generator for jetting fluids to thereby inducing the pool cleaning robot to move according to a waterline movement scheme when the pool cleaning robot is proximate to the waterline. The waterline proximity sensor is arranged to sense proximity of the pool cleaning robot to a waterline. The drive motor and the jet generator are substantially closer to a front edge of the housing than to a rear edge of the housing.
US09222269B2	Reinforced composite decking and related method of manufacture A composite decking board constructed from a thermoplastic polymer material including one or more reinforcing filaments located within and embedded in at least a lower portion of the board to impart and enhance structural stiffness and rigidity. A method is provided in which the board is formed by extruding molten material through a die and continuously feeding reinforcement filament in the molten thermoplastic feed material simultaneously. The reinforcement filament is disposed substantially within the cross section of the extruded board and can generally be disposed in the lower portion of the board.
US09222267B2	Set of floorboards having a resilient groove A set of essentially identical floorboards each including a front face and a rear face extending in the horizontal plane, a core, and a surface layer, a mechanical locking system is arranged at least at two opposite edges for connecting a floorboard with an adjacent floorboard in a horizontal and a vertical direction, said mechanical locking system being configured for connecting the floorboard with the adjacent floorboard by vertical folding, wherein one of said opposite edges is provided with a horizontally extending protrusion at an upper edge, and wherein said protrusion is configured to overlap a surface groove at an upper edge of the other of said opposite edges, such that two connected and adjacent floorboards have upper overlapping edges.
US09222259B2	High impact and load bearing building panel A high impact and load bearing building panel includes a first magnesium oxide board, a phenolic resin sheet, an expanded polystyrene layer, and a second magnesium oxide board. The phenolic resin sheet is laminated with the expanded polystyrene layer, and the first magnesium oxide board is laminated with the phenolic resin sheet opposite of the expanded polystyrene layer. The second magnesium oxide board is laminated with the expanded polystyrene layer opposite of the phenolic resin sheet. The high impact and load bearing building panel is used for building construction to constructs exterior walls, interior walls, roofs, floors, and foundation systems.
US09222257B2	Operating room/intervention room A hospital layout comprising a plurality of adjacent OR/intervention rooms (46, 48) uniquely configured and equipped to perform surgical and other interventional procedures, with adjacent intubation rooms (52) configured and equipped to prepare patients for procedures to occur in the OR/intervention rooms and at least one extubation room (54) adjacent the OR/intervention rooms, configured and equipped to post-intervention awaken and extubate patients. A plurality of universal patient rooms (40) are located adjacent the OR/intervention rooms and universal patient rooms, and are configured and equipped to admit patients for surgery/intervention, prepare patients for surgery/intervention, allow patients to recover post-intervention, and discharge patients post-recovery.
US09222252B1	Foundation wall and floor slab drain The foundation wall and floor slab drain is a device that is designed to control the buildup of mold in basements by enabling the water that drains from wall to be channeled into a French drain that is provided there under. The device is installed during construction of the footing, foundation wall, and floor slab. The device is further defined as an elongated planar member with a plurality of tubes linearly aligned thereon, and which collectively form an assembly. Both the elongated member and the plurality of tubes are bent to form a right angle. A vertical portion of the assembly is adapted to interface against a foundation wall and a side surface of a floor slab. A horizontal portion of the assembly is adapted to interface between a bottom surface of the floor slab and a top surface of a footing.
US09222242B2	Fault detection, isolation and reconfiguration systems and methods for controlling electrohydraulic systems used in construction equipment The present disclosure relates to fault detection, isolation and reconfiguration schemes, architectures and methods for use in electrohydraulic actuation systems for construction equipment. In one embodiment, a supervisory controller adapted to interface with a main controller of the construction vehicle is provided. A plurality of control nodes that interface with the supervisory controller are also disclosed, each of which includes pressure and position sensors. The nodes also include a first actuator control node for controlling operation of a first hydraulic actuator, a second actuator control node for controlling operation of a second hydraulic actuator, and a pump control node. The control system has an architecture in which faults are detected and isolated at the supervisory controller level and, where possible, within each of the control nodes at a sensor level, a component level, and a subsystem level.
US09222239B2	On-board service tool and method A self-contained, on-board diagnostic system integrated with a control system and method of using the same. Various control system coefficients and parameter settings may be set and edited with the on-board system, without the use of external hardware. In certain embodiments, an operator panel display may be used as a display for the on-board system. A menu navigation scheme can be employed to access a plurality of screens in an organized, efficient manner. The on-board system can be adapted for use with a tracked trencher and/or other mobile equipment.
US09222238B2	Drag head and trailing suction hopper dredger A drag head (100) for dredging material (2) from the bed (3) of a body of water and transporting the material (2) to a suction tube (120). The drag head (100) is arranged to be dragged over the bed (3) in a dragging direction (D). The drag head (100) includes a suction section (110) in which an under pressure can be created to suck up the material (2) from the bed (3) through a suction opening (113) into a suction chamber (112). A heel section (111) guides the drag head (100) along the bed (3). The suction section (110) is preferably rotatably connected to the heel section (111). The suction section (110) also includes an outlet (114) for transporting the material (2) towards the suction tube (120).
US09222233B2	Method and device for creating an underwater foundation of a building The invention relates to a method and a device for creating an underwater foundation of a building, wherein a base element is provided as a module carrier (11) at the erection site and a pile (6) forms the foundation to be created or is a component of the foundation, wherein the pile (6) is implemented as a hollow body. The aim of the invention is to allow the creation of a foundation in geologically difficult conditions, while simultaneously reducing noise emissions in sensitive areas. The aim is achieved by clamping the pile (6) in a pivot module (13), by erecting the pile (6) by way of pivoting the pivot module (13), until the desired driving direction into the ground (9) relative to the horizontal is achieved, by locking the pivot module after erecting the desired slope, by sinking the pile (6) to the floor (8) of the water system (7) and pressing it into the floor (8) until a limit value of a driving force is reached, by installing a sinking device (24) in the pile (6) and sinking it to the floor (8), by loosening the rock (9) below the pile (6) and sinking the pile (6) until the final depth is reached.
US09222231B2	Electrically powered hand spreader A handheld spreader having a fillable container for dispensing particulate from an electrically powered blower assembly in a detachable base. The spreader includes a feed slide leading from the container to the air stream channel of the base that has a vibrating eccentric plate for guiding and improving the flow of particulate from container into the air stream. The container and base are frictionally engaged together, thereby allowing for easy assembly of spreader, including assembly after container has been filled with particulate, as well as easy reassembly if container is removed and refilled. The spreader includes a rotating slide that may be operated by a user to open and partially close the feed slide of the container to control the feed rate.
US09222229B1	Tunable sandwich-structured acoustic barriers In one embodiment, provided is a sound attenuating barrier having a core structure between face sheets with a mass attached to at least one face sheet, and having a spatially varied stiffness distribution and/or a spatially varied density. The sound attenuating barrier may include at least one face sheet and/or core having a spatially varied stiffness distribution and/or a spatially varied mass distribution. In one embodiment, a sound attenuating barrier is provided having a core structure between face sheets with a mass structure attached to at least one face sheet, with the core/and or face sheet(s) being constructed to design an effective vibration length as well as enable a variable local stiffness and mass across the sound attenuating barrier such that the sandwich structure provides variable resonance frequency responses and broadband coverage.
US09222214B2	Ironing board cover The present invention relates to an ironing board cover with at least three layers (18, 20, 22) that are arranged on top of each other, wherein one of the layers (18, 20, 22) is a heat resistant cover layer (18) that is permeable to steam (26), another one of the layers (18, 20, 22) is a porous layer (20) that is at least partially permeable to steam (26) and heat, and a further one of the layers (18, 20, 22) is a water proof layer (22) that is impermeable to steam (26) and/or liquid, wherein the porous layer (20) is arranged between the cover layer (18) and the water proof layer (22).
US09222212B2	Method for processing laundry, and a laundry processing device The invention relates to a method for processing laundry in a laundry processing device (110) comprising a drum (112) that is rotatably mounted on a support so as to be rotated about a substantially horizontal axis. The method comprises recording, while the laundry is being processed, a signal that is correlated to the interaction between the drum (112) and the laundry (114), and that exhibits a variation caused by the rotation of the drum (112); on the basis of the signal and a desired process result, determining a target rotary speed of the drum (112); and adjusting the rotary speed of the drum (112) to the target rotary speed. Further, the invention relates to a laundry processing device capable of performing the method.
US09222211B2	Mixing chamber connecting system in a washing machine A water inlet system for a washing machine including a main body, at least one insert and a valve assembly. The main body is made of a first material. The at least one insert is spin welded to the main body. The at least one insert is made of a material substantially the same as the first material. The valve assembly is mechanically coupled and sealed with the insert. The valve assembly has a valve body made of a second material, with the first material and the second material being different.
US09222207B2	Cross-tufting machine and process for carpet manufacturing A cross-tufting machine and process for manufacturing carpet. The cross-tufting machine includes a sewing head and a tufting gun. The sewing head is movably mounted on support railing and a support platform is provided to support carpet that is to be provided with a tufted secondary pattern. The carpet moves in steps on top of the support platform in a machine direction and the sewing head traverses back and forth in a cross-wise direction wherein the tufting gun forms the tufted secondary pattern in the carpet.
US09222203B2	Items of clothing having shape memory A method for making items of clothing having shape memory, the method comprising: synthesizing (31) a shape memory polyurethane; subjecting (34) the shape memory polyurethane to wet spinning, dry spinning, melt spinning or multi-component spinning in order to produce shape memory fibers; and knitting or weaving (36) the shape memory fibers to form the item of clothing.
US09222195B2	Electroplating systems and methods for high sheet resistance substrates In an electroplating process, electric current is applied to two or more electrodes, with the current varying over time according to a multi-variable function. The multi-variable current function is integrated over time, for each electrode, to determine a net plating charge delivered. A plating profile of a plated-on layer of material is compared to a target plating profile. Deviations between the actual plating profile and the target plating profile are identified and used to determine new net plating charges for each electrode. One or more variables of the multi-variable function is changed to provide a new multi-variable function. The new net plating charges are distributed according to the new multi-variable current function, and are used to electroplate a layer of material on a second substrate.
US09222194B2	Rinsing and drying for electrochemical processing An electroplating/etch apparatus including a fluid jet and a dryer present over the tank containing the electrolyte for the electroplating/etch process. The fluid jet and the dryer remove excess liquids, such as electrolyte, from the component being plated or etched, e.g., working electrode. The working electrode is present on a holder that traverses from a first position within the tank during a plating or etch operation to a second position that is outside the containing the plating electrolyte. The fluid jet rinses the working electrode when the holder is in the second position, and the forced air dryer blows any remaining fluid from the fluid jet and the electrolyte from the working electrode into the tank.
US09222192B2	Holding device for a product and treatment method A holding device for a treatment of a product (5), which holding device comprises a first holding part (41) and a second holding part (42). The first holding part (41) comprises at least one first electrical contact element (13) for establishing a contact with a first side (6) of the product (5). The second holding part (42) comprises at least one second electrical contact element (14) for establishing a contact with a second side (7) of the product (5), which second side that lies opposite the first side (6). The first holding part (41) and the second holding part (42) are arranged in such a way that they can be fastened to one another in a detachable manner for the purpose of holding the product (5). A product seal (15, 16) and a housing seal (17) provide a sealing arrangement to prevent the penetration of fluid into the at least one first electrical contact element (13) and the at least one second electrical contact element (14) in a treatment state.
US09222187B2	Article having cobalt-phosphorous coating and method for heat treating A method of processing an article having a substrate and a cobalt-phosphorous coating disposed on the substrate includes heat treating the article. At least one physical characteristic of the cobalt-phosphorous coating is altered using the heat treating to thereby change a performance characteristic of the article. For example, the article may be an actuator component having a bore or a shaft that is movably disposed at least partially within the bore.
US09222186B2	Method for manufacturing printed wiring board A method for manufacturing a printed wiring board includes forming a through hole in an insulating substrate such that the hole extends from first surface of the substrate to second surface of the substrate on the opposite side, forming a seed layer on the first and second surfaces and wall of the hole, and applying pulse plating to the substrate via the seed layer such that a through-hole conductor is formed in the hole. The applying of the pulse plating includes flowing forward and reverse current on the first and second surfaces of the substrate such that when the forward current flows on the first surface of the substrate, the reverse current flows on the second surface of the substrate and that when the reverse current flows on the first surface of the substrate, the forward current flows on the second surface of the substrate.
US09222184B2	Contact bar with multiple support surfaces and insulating capping board The present invention related to a contact bar or contact bar segment, a contact bar and insulating capping board assembly and a method for operating an electrolytic cell including electrodes for refining metal. Embodiments of the contact bar include support sections with multiple support surfaces for lying against the insulating capping board, thereby distributing weight of the electrodes hanging on the contact bar; and contact sections for receiving the electrodes while providing good electrical contact and precise positioning thereof. While following the steps of the method for operating the electrolytic cell, lifetime of the contact bar and insulating capping board may be increased.
US09222183B2	Inert electrodes with low voltage drop and methods of making the same An electrolytic cell anode, including an encasing conductive material configured to encase a dense conductive material and define the electrolytic cell anode, wherein the dense conductive material has an electrical conductivity greater than that of the encasing conductive material.
US09222182B2	Electrochemical activation device A system comprises a plurality of electrochemical cells each comprising an anode chamber and a cathode chamber, each cell configured to electrolyze electrolyte to generate an anolyte and a catholyte, a plurality of sets of one or more flow control devices, each of the sets being configured to control a flow rate of the electrolyte into a corresponding cell, a plurality of current measuring devices, each configured to measure a current across a corresponding one of the plurality of cells, and a control system in data communication with the flow control devices and the current measuring devices. The control system is configured to compare the measured current across each of the cells to a current set point, and control the flow control devices to adjust the flow rate of the electrolyte in response to a difference between the measured current across a cell and the current set point.
US09222177B2	Azeotropic compositions of 1,3,3,3-tetrachloroprop-1-ene and hydrogen fluoride Provided are azeotropic or azeotrope-like mixtures of 1,3,3,3-tetrachloroprop-1-ene (HCO-1230zd) and hydrogen fluoride. Such compositions are useful as a feed stock in the production of HFC245fa and HCFO1233zd.
US09222176B2	Alkaline cleaner for cleaning aluminum surfaces Composition for cleaning surfaces which are susceptible to corrosion in alkaline liquids, comprising at least one alkalinity source, at least one inorganic salt containing at least one cation selected from the elements of the second or third main group of the periodic table of the elements, and whereby the composition is free of any triazole and/or any alkali metal borate, aqueous concentrate comprising the composition, use solutions comprising the composition or the aqueous concentrate and method of cleaning surfaces which are susceptible to corrosion in alkaline liquids using the above aqueous concentrate or any of the above use solutions.
US09222172B2	Surface treated aluminum nitride baffle Methods and apparatus relating to aluminum nitride baffles are provided herein. In some embodiments, a baffle for use in semiconductor process chambers may include a body comprising aluminum nitride and a metal oxide binding agent, wherein a ratio of aluminum nitride to metal oxide on a surface of the body is greater than or equal to the ratio within the body. In some embodiments, the body may have a center stem and an outer annulus coupled to and extending radially outwards from a lower portion of the center stem. In some embodiments, a method of fabricating a baffle may include sintering aluminum, nitrogen, and a metal oxide binding agent to form a body of the baffle, the body having excess metal oxide binding agent disposed on a surface thereof; and removing a bulk of the excess metal oxide binding agent from a surface of the body.
US09222170B2	Deposition of rutile films with very high dielectric constant Anisotropic materials, such as rutile TiO2, can exhibit dielectric constant of 170 along the tetragonal axis of (001) direction, and dielectric constant of 86 along directions perpendicular to the tetragonal axis. Layer of anisotropic material nanorods, such as TiO2 nanorods, can form a seed layer to grow a dielectric layer that can exhibit the higher dielectric constant value in a direction parallel to the substrate surface. The anisotropic layer can then be patterned to expose a surface normal to the high dielectric constant direction. A conductive material can be formed in contact with the exposed surface to create an electrode/dielectric stack along the direction of high dielectric constant.
US09222167B2	Sputtering apparatus A sputtering apparatus for depositing a material on a substrate through a sputtering process includes a vacuum chamber, a target positioned in the vacuum chamber and capable of sputtering a material to be deposited, a first plate attached for a substrate to be coupled thereto or decoupled therefrom and installed to be rotated in the vacuum chamber for the substrate to face the target, and a second plate installed to be rotated in the vacuum chamber to face the target.
US09222166B2	Slide parts and equipment including same It is an objective of the invention to provide a slide part in which a seal member formed of an elastic body is in sliding contact with a hard member. There is provided a slide part comprising: a hard member having an amorphous carbon coating containing nitrogen formed on an outermost surface of a substrate; and a seal member formed of an elastic body, the seal member being in sliding contact with the hard member, wherein: content of the nitrogen in the coating is 3 at. % or more and 25 at. % or less, taking a total content of the carbon and the nitrogen in the coating as 100 at. %; the seal member contains fluorine at least in a sliding contact surface region thereof; and content of the fluorine in the surface region of the seal member is equal to or more than the nitrogen content in the coating.
US09222165B2	Cooled PVD shield The present invention generally comprises a top shield for shielding a shadow frame within a PVD chamber. The top shield may remain in a stationary position and at least partially shield the shadow frame to reduce the amount of material that may deposit on the shadow frame during processing. The top shield may be cooled to reduce the amount of fluxuation in temperature of the top shield and shadow frame during processing and/or during down time.
US09222159B2	Bulk metallic glass matrix composites A method of forming bulk metallic glass engineering materials, and more particularly a method for forming coarsening microstructures within said engineering materials is provided. Specifically, the method forms ‘designed composites’ by introducing ‘soft’ elastic/plastic inhomogeneities in a metallic glass matrix to initiate local shear banding around the inhomogeneity, and matching of microstructural length scales (for example, L and S) to the characteristic length scale RP (for plastic shielding of an opening crack tip) to limit shear band extension, suppress shear band opening, and avoid crack development.
US09222144B2	Injecting gas into a vessel An apparatus for injecting gas into a vessel is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a gas flow duct from which to discharge gas from the duct, an elongate central structure extending within the gas flow duct, and a plurality of flow directing vanes disposed about the central structure adjacent the forward end of the duct to impart swirl to a gas flow through the forward end of the duct. The apparatus also comprises cooling water flow passages in the vanes that have inlets at the forward ends of the vanes and outlets at the rear ends of the vanes.
US09222141B2	Use of brown midrib-3 gene specific markers in maize for trait introgression This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for determining the zygosity of corn plants containing one or more brown midrib (BMR) mutations. The disclosure also concerns methods that are useful for enhancing the breeding process for BMR corn. In certain embodiments, compositions and methods for determining the zygosity of corn plants with respect to the bm3 allele.
US09222134B2	Molecule detection system on a solid support Disclosed herein are compositions and methods used for detecting different types of molecules associated with a site on a solid support.
US09222128B2	Multiplexed digital assays with combinatorial use of signals System, including methods, apparatus, and compositions, for performing a multiplexed digital assay on a greater number of targets through combinatorial use of signals.
US09222125B2	Dimeric diagnostic arrays The invention provides dimeric diagnostic arrays and methods for their use.
US09222123B2	Analytic devices comprising optical waveguides and nanometer-scale apertures and methods of uses thereof This invention provides substrates for use in various applications, including single-molecule analytical reactions. Methods for propagating optical energy within a substrate are provided. Devices comprising waveguide substrates and dielectric omnidirectional reflectors are provided. Waveguide substrates with improved uniformity of optical energy intensity across one or more waveguides and enhanced waveguide illumination efficiency within an analytic detection region of the arrays are provided.
US09222117B2	Leucine-rich peptide compositions and methods for isolation Disclosed are compositions comprising isolated peptides having a leucine content of from about 12 to about 40 weight percent. Also disclosed is a method for isolating leucine-rich peptides from protein sources such as bovine whey and methods of use for these peptides to provide beneficial effects in a human and/or animal such as increasing blood flow, decreasing blood pressure, increasing muscle mass, improving cognitive function, improving cardiovascular function, etc.
US09222114B1	Thermophilic phosphatases and methods for processing starch using the same The presently-disclosed subject matter includes thermophilic glucan phosphatase polypeptides. In some embodiments the polypeptide includes non-native laforin polypeptides, or fragments and/or variants thereof, and in some instances the polypeptide can alter the biophysical properties of starch in vitro or in planta. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes isolated polynucleotides encoding the present polypeptides, methods for processing starch by exposing starch to the present polypeptides, and methods for making the present polypeptides.
US09222105B2	Methods and compositions for modification of the HPRT locus Nucleases and methods of using these nucleases for modification of an HPRT locus and for increasing the frequency of gene modification at a targeted locus and clones and for generating animals.
US09222099B2	Plant regulatory elements derived from medicago truncatula 3'UTR sequences, and uses thereof Recombinant DNA molecules and constructs useful for modulating gene expression in plants, including molecules derived from Medicago truncatula 3′ UTR sequences, are provided. Transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising recombinant DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable DNA molecules are further provided, as are methods of their use.
US09222096B2	Fungi and products thereof The present invention provides substantially purified or isolated fungi of Nodulisporium spp. or Ascocoryne spp., plants infected with said fungi, organic compounds produced by said fungi, and related nucleic acids, polypeptides and methods.
US09222093B2	Two-way, portable riboswitch mediated gene expression control device A regulatable gene expression construct comprising a nucleic acid molecule comprising a two-way riboswitch operably linked to a target sequence. Also provided is a library screening strategy for efficient creation of target-specific riboswitches. A theophylline-repressible and IPTG-inducible riboswitch device achieves portable control of gene expression control in a ‘two-way’ manner. The default state of target genes is ON; the targets are switched off by adding theophylline, and switched back to the ON-state by adding IPTG without changing growth medium. The riboswitch device regulates gene expression in a portable, adjustable, and two-way manner with a variety of scientific and biotechnological applications.
US09222078B2	Bleaching of pulp The use of a peroxidase and violuric acid, or a derivative thereof in the bleaching of pulp, such as paper materials, such as paper, linerboard, corrugated paperboard, tissue, towels, corrugated containers and boxes. The peroxidases of the invention are classified as EC 1.11.1.7. The effect of peroxidase is bleaching and de-inking of the pulp, e.g. the paper pulp and the resulting paper material.
US09222074B2	Process for producing three-dimensional tissue The invention provides a process for producing a three-dimensional tissue by cultivating eucaryotic cells by introducing the cells into a matrix and cultivating the cells within the matrix in a cell culture medium within a cell culture vessel under controlled dissolved oxygen conditions of the cell culture medium. The matrix contains a support containing an optical oxygen sensor, which is an oxygen-sensitive dye, which upon irradiation with an excitation wavelength changes its emission characteristics in dependence on the dissolved oxygen concentration in the surrounding medium, including a dye phosphorescing upon irradiation of an excitation wavelength, which phosphorescence is quenched by dissolved oxygen.
US09222073B2	Immortalized mesenchymal stromal cell from adipose tissue The present invention relates to a composition for diagnosing a Parkinson's disease comprising mesenchymal stromal cells derived from adipose tissue, a method of providing information for diagnosing Parkinson's disease and/or the extent of the disease progression, a biomarker for diagnosing a Parkinson's disease, a method of screening a drug candidate treating Parkinson's disease where the drug candidate is a target of the biomarker, and an immortalized mesenchymal stromal cell from adipose tissue.
US09222071B2	Cell therapy method for the treatment of tumors T cell responses are often diminished in humans with a compromised immune system. We have developed a method to isolate, stimulate and expand naïve cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursors (CTLp) to antigen-specific effectors, capable of lysing tumor cells in vivo. This ex vivo protocol produces fully functional effectors. Artificial antigen presenting cells (AAPCs; Drosophila melanogaster) transfected with human HLA class I and defined accessory molecules, are used to stimulate CD8+ T cells from both normal donors and cancer patients. The class I molecules expressed to a high density on the surface of the Drosophila cells are empty, allowing for efficient loading of multiple peptides that results in the generation of polyclonal responses recognizing tumor cells endogenously expressing the specific peptides. The responses generated are robust, antigen-specific and reproducible if the peptide epitope is a defined immunogen. This artificial antigen expression system can be adapted to treat most cancers in a significant majority of the population.
US09222067B2	Single use centrifuge system for highly concentrated and/or turbid feeds A method and apparatus for cell harvest of production scale quantities of cell cultures using single use components comprising a flexible membrane mounted on a rigid frame and is supported within a multiple use rigid centrifuge bowl, such single use components including a core with an increased diameter and an internal truncated cone shape in order to permit the system to maintain a sufficiently high angular velocity to create a settling velocity suited to efficiently processing highly concentrated cell culture streams. Features which minimize feed turbidity, and others which permit the continuous or semi-continuous discharge of cell concentrate, increase the overall production rate over the rate which can be achieved using current intermittent processing methods for large cell culture volumes. Injection of a diluent during the cell concentrate removal process permits more complete removal of viscous cell concentrates.
US09222066B2	Incubator and method for decontaminating incubator An incubator includes filters in supply passages for supplying an environment-adjusting-medium. Divergent passages are connected to portions of the supply passages upstream from the filters. The divergent passages converge to a single supply/exhaust passage, which is provided with a pump. By driving the pump in a forward or reverse direction, decontamination gas is pumped from a culture space and discharged outside, and open air is introduced into the culture space. After sucking the contamination gas to adsorb it on the filter, open air is introduced so that the contamination gas is discharged into the culture space 6.
US09222061B2	Laundry detergent particle The present invention provides lenticular or disc detergent particles comprising surfactant, inorganic salts and pigment, wherein the inorganic salts are present on the detergent particles as a coating and the surfactant and the pigment are present as a core. The particles show reduced staining.
US09222057B1	Precision cutting tool for cutting or trimming pillar candles A precision cutting tool for removing the excess wax wall of a pillar styled candle includes a ring configured to encircle the candle and a handle extending from the ring. The handle includes an extendible and retractable cutting element. The cutting element may be extended into the circle defined by the interior circumference of the ring in a gradual manner. The tool includes a recess for the cutting element to be retained when the tool is not in use. The interior of the handle includes a cutting element mover configured to cause linear movement of the cutting element into and partially out of the recess. When the mover is actuated in a direction that results in movement of the cutting element out of the recess, the cutting element extends partially into the candle located in the interior circle established by the ring. The candle or the tool may then be rotated to cause cutting into the candle wall until the excess wax wall can be removed.
US09222056B2	Methods of refining natural oils, and methods of producing fuel compositions A method of refining a natural oil includes: (a) providing a feedstock that includes a natural oil; (b) reacting the feedstock in the presence of a metathesis catalyst to form a metathesized product that includes olefins and esters; (c) passivating residual metathesis catalyst with an agent selected from the group consisting of (i) a salt and/or an ester of a phosphorous oxo acid, (ii) a derivative of the phosphorous oxo acid in which at least one P—H bond has been replaced by a P—C bond, (iii) a salt and/or an ester of the derivative, and (iv) combinations thereof; (d) separating the olefins in the metathesized product from the esters in the metathesized product; and (e) transesterifying the esters in the presence of an alcohol to form a transesterified product and/or hydrogenating the olefins to form a fully or partially saturated hydrogenated product.
US09222051B2	Lubricating composition with improved TBN retention The invention provides a lubricating composition containing a diarylamine, an aminobenzene and an oil of lubricating viscosity. The invention further relates to the use of the lubricating composition in an internal combustion engine. The invention further relates to the use of the lubricating composition to improve TBN retention.
US09222050B1	Lubricant composition, method of preparing the same, and firearm cleaner including the same A lubricant composition including: tungsten disulfide having a particle size of 4 to 160 nm; an alkali metal borate; a borate ester; and a base oil.
US09222045B2	Method for producing a stable boric solution The invention relates to a method for producing a stable boron solution with lubricating characteristics which is intended to be used preferably as an addition in the form of a concentrate/additive to a liquid, e.g. to a liquid fuel or a lubricant. The invention is achieved by the method steps of using a boron substance of pharmaceutical quality (1, 11), using a liquid as solvent, applying a mixing ratio between the boron substance and the solvent (3, 13) of preferably 1 g of boron per 15-25 liters of liquid, agitating the mixture for an initial predetermined period of time (4, 14), adding further liquid to dilute the solution (6, 15), the quantity of liquid being chosen such that a final user mixture reaches a concentration of between 20 and 30 ppm of boron (8), and further agitating the mixture (7, 16) for a second predetermined period of time so that the boron substance is completely dissolved in the boron solution, resulting in a boron solution which is stable over time.
US09222044B2	Methods for producing low oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oils Methods for producing low oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil are provided. Starting biomass-derived pyrolysis oil is deoxygenated by exposing the biomass-derived oil to a first catalyst in the presence of hydrogen-containing gas at first hydroprocessing conditions to produce a partially deoxygenated biomass-derived pyrolysis oil. The first catalyst has a neutral catalyst support. The partially deoxygenated biomass-derived pyrolysis oil is exposed to a second catalyst in the presence of additional hydrogen-containing gas at second hydroprocessing conditions to produce a hydrocarbon product. The biomass-derived pyrolysis oil may be esterified prior to deoxygenation. A portion of the low oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil is recycled.
US09222039B2	Grate for high temperature gasification systems An improved active grate consisting of at least two elongated rockers positioned parallel to one and another, each rocker having a lower surface and an upper surface and configured to rotate back and forth about their longitudinal axis. Each individual rocker is further configured to rotate in the opposite direction of the adjacent rockers such that any pair of adjacent rockers alternately forms a void allowing material to pass through active grate when rotating in one direction into a first position, and closes the void when rotated in the opposite direction in a second position. The active grate finds particular utility in a combined gasification/vitrification waste treatment system, where it is used to pass partially oxidized materials from a gasification chamber to a vitrification chamber. The rockers include a coolant loop through the longitudinal axis of the rockers.
US09222035B2	Process for stabilizing an oil-in-water or water-in-oil emulsion A process for the preparation of at least one ARN acid or salt thereof comprising: (I) allowing at least one ARN acid salt to form during the production of crude oil in the presence of water; (II) removing at least 5 wt % of the formed at least one ARN acid salt, e.g. from the oil water interface; and optionally (III) converting said salt into an acid.
US09222033B2	High shear process for processing naphtha A method and system for processing naphtha, including a high shear mechanical device. In one embodiment, the method comprises forming a dispersion of gas in a naphtha hydrocarbon liquid in a high shear device prior to introduction in a cracking reactor/furnace. In another instance the system for processing naphtha comprises a high shear device for mechanically shearing hydrocarbons.
US09222030B2	Method for removing oxygen from an oil sand stream The present invention provides a method for removing oxygen from an oil sand stream, the method including the steps of: (a) providing an oil sand stream; (b) introducing the oil sand stream into a liquid bath; (c) transporting the oil sand through the liquid bath to a confined space above the surface of the liquid bath; (d) removing the oil sand from the confined space; and (e) extracting bitumen from the oil sand removed in step (d).
US09222028B2	Process to produce biofuels from biomass Biofuels can be produced by: (i) providing a biomass containing celluloses, hemicelluloses, lignin, nitrogen compounds and sulfur compounds; (ii) removing sulfur compounds and nitrogen compounds from the biomass by contacting the biomass with a digestive solvent to form a pretreated biomass containing carbohydrates and having less than 35% of the sulfur content and less than 35% of the nitrogen content of untreated biomass on a dry mass basis; (iii) contacting the pretreated biomass directly with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenolysis catalyst to form a plurality of oxygenated intermediates, and (vi) processing at least a portion of the oxygenated intermediates to form a liquid fuel.
US09222025B2	Method and device for coking coal mixtures having high driving pressure properties in a “non-recovery” or “heat-recovery” coking oven A method for coking coals having high driving pressure properties in a “non-recovery” or “heat-recovery” coking oven, wherein a coking oven battery which is composed of coking oven chambers arranged side by side is used for cyclic coking of coal, and wherein an amount of coal preheated to a high temperature is admitted into the coking chamber that is to be filled at such a level that the driving pressure resulting from the coking can escape over the coke cake into the gas chamber, in such a manner that the coking oven chamber wall surrounding the coking oven chamber is relieved by the driving pressure resulting from the coking. Also disclosed is a device with which this method can be carried out.
US09222024B2	Polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture The present invention relates to a process for producing polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture or for producing substrates coated with polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture, to polymerized films, obtainable by this process, with line texture or fingerprint texture or substrates coated with polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture, to pigments obtainable by comminuting such films, to the use of such films, substrates or pigments as or in optical filter(s), polarizers, decorative media, forgeryproof markers, reflective media or for focusing light (in solar cells), to the use of such films as an antibacterial coating, to a forgeryproof marker which comprises such a film, and to a process for detecting forgeryproof markings.
US09222022B2	Polymer-stabilized optical isotropic liquid crystal formulation and optical isotropic liquid crystal device An embodiment provides a polymer-stabilized optical isotropic liquid crystal formulation, including 50 to 99.5 parts by weight of an optical isotropic liquid crystal material; and 0.5 to 50 parts by weight of polymer, wherein the polymer is polymerized by an acrylic monomer containing fluorine groups and an acrylic monomer with a liquid crystal phase and/or an acrylic monomer without a liquid crystal phase.
US09222017B2	Method of manufacturing fluoride phosphor A method of manufacturing a fluoride phosphor includes mixing a first solution which contains at least Mn and F, a second solution which contains at least K and F, and a third solution which contains at least Si and F to form phosphor cores whose composition is represented by a formula K2[M1-aMn4+aF6] wherein a satisfies 0
US09222015B2	Thermochromic coating and method of manufacturing thereof A thermochromic coating which comprises a thermochromic compound and a polyurea resin. The thermochromic compound and polyurea resin form a thermochromic layer. The coating optionally has a protective layer containing a resin and a UV-blocking material arranged on top of the thermochromic layer. A reflective layer containing a reflective material is optionally arranged between the thermochromic layer and the substrate. A thermochromic coating is formed by applying successive reflective, thermochromic, and protective layers on a substrate.
US09222006B2	Joining a thermoplastic material and a metal A method and apparatus comprising a sol-gel solution. Zirconium n-propoxide is aged in a solvent to form a first part for the sol-gel solution. The first part is combined with deionized water to form a second part for the sol-gel solution. Aminoaryltrialkoxysilane is combined with an alcohol to form a third part for the sol-gel solution. The third part is combined with the second part to form a mixture for the sol-gel solution. The deionized water, or the alcohol, or a combination thereof is combined with the mixture to form a solution. The solution is aged to form the sol-gel solution comprising a mole balance ratio of approximately 1:5 between the zirconium n-propoxide and the aminoaryltrialkoxysilane.
US09222000B2	Synthetic coating for cell culture A method for coating a surface of a cell culture article includes dissolving a polymer having a covalently attached polypeptide in an aqueous solution to produce a polymer solution. The polymer is formed from monomers selected to form a polymer having a linear backbone, wherein the polymer is crosslink free. The weight percentage of the polypeptide relative to the polymer conjugated to the polypeptide is sufficiently high to render the polymer conjugated to the polypeptide water soluble. The aqueous solution is substantially free of organic solvents. The method further includes (i) disposing the polymer solution on the surface of the cell culture article to produce a coated article; and (ii) subjecting the coated article to sufficient heat or electromagnetic radiation to attach the polymer conjugated to a polypeptide to the surface of the cell culture article.
US09221988B2	Ink for inkjet, inkjet recording method, inkjet recorder and ink recorded matter An ink for inkjet includes water, a hydrosoluble organic material and a hydrodispersible colorant. The ink satisfies the following requirements (A) to (C): (A) the ink includes the hydrosoluble organic material in an amount of from 35 to 60% by weight; (B) the hydrosoluble organic material is 3-methoxy-1-butanol; and (C) the hydrodispersible colorant is a modified pigment modified with a geminal bisphosphonic acid group or a geminal bisphosphonic acid salt group.
US09221980B2	Conductive paste and printed wiring board A conductive paste which can form a silver layer and a printed wiring board having a silver layer formed of the conductive paste. The conductive paste has silver particles and a migration inhibitor, which is present in the amount of 12 parts by mass to 40 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the silver particles and represented by Formula (1):
US09221969B2	Thermally hardenable epoxy resin composition having an improved impact resistance at low temperatures The invention relates to compositions containing at least one epoxide adduct A that comprises an average of more than one epoxide group per molecule, at least one polymer B of formula (I), at least one thixotropic agent C based on a urea derivative in a non-diffusing carrier material, and at least one hardener D for epoxy resins, which is activated at an increased temperature. Said composition is used especially as an adhesive and is provided with an extraordinarily high impact peel working value, especially at low temperatures. The invention further relates to epoxide group-terminal impact strength modifiers of formula (I), which significantly increase the impact resistance in epoxy resin compositions, particularly two-component epoxy resin compositions.
US09221965B2	Method for manufacturing a mineral fibre-containing element and element produced by that method The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a mineral fiber-containing composite and the novel mineral fiber-containing element produced by that method.
US09221963B2	Absorbent material This invention relates to absorbent materials useful in the manufacture of absorbent articles, in particular dressings for the advanced wound care market. The absorbent materials of the present invention are sulfonated polysaccharides, particularly water-insoluble cellulose alkyl sulfonates in which the cellulose is substituted by one type of alkyl sulfonate group. The invention also provides a process for the manufacture of such materials. The preferred cellulose alkyl sulfonate described herein is cellulose ethyl sulfonate. Reinforcing fibers and/or antimicrobial agents are optionally applied to the cellulose alkyl sulfonate.
US09221960B2	Multifunctional melamine epoxy resins, methylols and amines Multifunctional melamine epoxy resins, methylols and amines are provided. Methods of making multifunctional melamine epoxy resins, methylols and amines are also provided.
US09221957B2	Patterning by area selective oxidation Technologies are described for methods for producing a pattern of a material on a substrate. The methods may comprise receiving a patterned block copolymer on a substrate. The patterned block copolymer may include a first polymer block domain and a second polymer block domain. The method may comprise exposing the patterned block copolymer to a light effective to oxidize the first polymer block domain in the patterned block copolymer. The method may comprise applying a precursor to the block copolymer. The precursor may infuse into the oxidized first polymer block domain and generate the material. The method may comprise applying a removal agent to the block copolymer. The removal agent may be effective to remove the first polymer block domain and the second polymer block domain from the substrate, and may not be effective to remove the material in the oxidized first polymer block domain.
US09221945B2	Liquid, adhesion-promoting additive and process for its preparation A polyester resin, comprising a polyester which comprises as esterified polymer units: at least one of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and an unsaturated polycarboxylic acid; and at least one of an alkoxylated diol and an alkoxylated polyol is provided. An adhesion-promoting additive comprising the polyester resin is also provided.
US09221941B2	Polyurethane elastomers made using mixtures of aliphatic diol chain extender and secondary amine Polyurethane elastomers are formed by curing a reaction mixture containing at least one polyisocyanate at least one polyol, an aliphatic diol chain extender and a small amount of a secondary amino compound that may have none or one or more hydroxyl groups. The reaction is catalyzed with a metal catalyst. In certain embodiments, the catalyst is an organozirconium, organotitanium or tertiary amine-based catalyst. The presence of the secondary amine compound in those cases provides for a good surface appearance and good physical properties.
US09221934B2	Process and plant for manufacturing polyethylene-silane-copolymers The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing polyethylene-silane-copolymer conducted in a plant including at least one compressor unit and at least one reactor downstream of the compressor unit. The process includes the steps of (a) feeding a first feed stream including ethylene into the at least one compressor unit and subsequently to the at least one reactor, and (b1) feeding a second feed stream including at least one silane comonomer to the at least one reactor as front feed and/or (b2) feeding a second feed stream including at least one silane comonomer to the at least one reactor at at least one location along the reactor.
US09221933B2	Process for preparing halogenated polymers The invention concerns a process for the aqueous suspension, micro-suspension, emulsion or micro-emulsion polymerization of at least one halogenated monomer, in particular chlorinated, for example vinyl chloride, by itself or with one or more other vinyl monomers, preferably less than 50% by weight of one or more other vinyl monomers, in which at least one shortstopper and at least one perhalogenate, acting as a whitening agent, are added.The invention also concerns the use of an association of at least one shortstopper and at least one perhalogenate, acting as a whitening agent, in reactions for the polymerization of halogenated monomers.The invention further concerns compositions comprising at least one shortstopper and at least one perhalogenate.
US09221932B2	Ziegler-Natta type catalysts, methods of preparing same, polymers produced using the catalysts and articles produced therefrom A method for making a support impregnated Ziegler-Natta-type catalyst precursor including at least two transition metals and a support material wherein the resulting catalyst precursor is free-flowing is provided. Also provided is a process for producing a Ziegler-Natta type procatalyst by halogenating the free flowing catalyst precursor. The Ziegler-Natta type procatalyst and the reaction product of at least one monomer in the presence of the Ziegler-Natta type procatalyst and cocatalyst are also provided.
US09221926B2	Expandable functional TFE copolymer fine powder, the expandable functional products obtained therefrom and reaction of the expanded products A functional TFE copolymer fine powder is described, wherein the TFE copolymer is a polymer of TFE and at least one functional comonomer, and wherein the TFE copolymer has functional groups that are pendant to the polymer chain. The functional TFE copolymer fine powder resin is paste extrudable and expandable. Methods for making the functional TFE copolymer are also described. The expanded functional TFE copolymer material may be post-reacted after expansion.
US09221917B2	Dual variable region antibody-like binding proteins having cross-over binding region orientation The invention provides antibody-like binding proteins comprising four polypeptide chains that form four antigen binding sites, wherein each pair of polypeptides forming an antibody-like binding protein possesses dual variable domains having a cross-over orientation. The invention also provides methods for making such antigen-like binding proteins.
US09221906B2	Methods of inhibiting solid tumor growth by administering GPR49 antibodies Described herein are antibodies against GPR49 and uses of such antibodies. Various aspects relate to monoclonal, humanized, or fully human antibodies against GPR49, hybridomas or other cell lines expressing such antibodies, nucleic acids and vectors comprising nucleic acids encoding for such antibodies, and methods of treating cancer with such antibodies.
US09221896B2	Albumin fusion proteins The present invention encompasses albumin fusion proteins. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the albumin fusion proteins of the invention are also encompassed by the invention, as are vectors containing these nucleic acids, host cells transformed with these nucleic acids vectors, and methods of making the albumin fusion proteins of the invention and using these nucleic acids, vectors, and/or host cells. Additionally the present invention encompasses pharmaceutical compositions comprising albumin fusion proteins and methods of treating, preventing, or ameliorating diseases, disorders or conditions using albumin fusion proteins of the invention.
US09221891B2	In vivo production of proteins The invention relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use of polynucleotides, primary transcripts and mmRNA molecules.
US09221880B2	Antibacterial agents: salinamide derivatives The invention provides compounds of formula (I): and salts thereof, wherein X and Y have any of the values defined herein. The compounds inhibit bacterial RNA polymerase, inhibit bacterial growth, and have applications in, analysis of RNA polymerase structure and function, control of bacterial gene expression, control of bacterial growth, antibacterial chemistry, antibacterial therapy, and drug discovery.
US09221879B2	Multiligand constructs Multiligand constructs and intermediate multivalent constructs for use in their preparation are described. The multiligand constructs have utility in diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
US09221877B2	Curcumin conjugates for treating and preventing cancers Conjugating LHRH to curcumin (LHRH-Curcumin) substantially enhances the bioavailability of curcumin, targets it to cells expressing LHRH receptors, facilitates intravenous administration, and increases the anti-cancer efficacy of curcumin. The conjugate may be used against cancer cells that express the LHRH receptor: pancreas, prostate, breast, testicular, uterine, ovarian, melanoma. LH-Curcumin conjugates may be used against cancer cells that express the LH receptor: prostate, breast, ovary, testis, uterus, pancreas, and melanoma.
US09221857B2	Pyridine-oxyphenyl coordinated iridium (III) complexes and methods of making and using Iridium (III) complexes are described together with methods to prepare and use such complexes. Also described are devices that utilize the iridium (III) complexes.
US09221853B2	Glyphosate dimethylamine salt crystal, preparation method and use thereof This invention provides the herbicidal active ingredient, a dimethylamine salt crystal of N-phosphonomethyl glycine (glyphosate), its preparation process and a solid formulation containing the crystalline dimethylamine salt of glyphosate as well as its application. Said preparation process comprises adding glyphosate and a suitable amount of solvent into a conventional reactor and introducing a dimethylamine gas for reaction, wherein the reaction temperature is controlled between 5 and 90° C. After the completion of the reaction, the temperature is reduced slowly to a certain value, a crystalline dimethylamine salt of glyphosate is precipitated (or precipitated after a crystal seed is added).
US09221852B2	Method for making organodiphosphites from phosphorochloridites characterized by measuring side-product levels to determine further additions Claimed is a process for producing a phosphorus-containing ligand, preferably a diphosphite ligand structure (DLS) such as structure I. The method includes contacting a phosphorochloridite (structure II) with a compound having the structure X—OH (which can be a bisaryl compound), and a tertiary organic amine to provide structure I′ and as preferred embodiment structure I.
US09221851B2	Mixture containing a monophosphite ligand and the use thereof for catalysis of a hydroformylation reaction A mixture containing a monophosphite ligand is useful for the catalysis of a hydroformylation reaction.
US09221847B2	Ionic liquid Provided is an ionic liquid comprising a cyclic quaternary ammonium cation indicated by formula (1) and a trimethylsilyl alkanesulfonate anion indicated by formula (2). (In the formula, R1 indicates a C1-3 alkyl group, R2 indicates a methyl group or an ethyl group, n indicates 1 or 2, and m indicates 2 or 3.)
US09221842B2	Bicyclic methylene aziridines and reactions thereof The oxidative functionalization of olefins is a common method for the formation of vicinal carbon-heteroatom bonds. However, oxidative methods to transform allenes into synthetic motifs containing three contiguous carbon-heteroatom bonds are much less developed. The use of bicyclic methylene aziridines (MAs), prepared via intramolecular allene aziridination, as scaffolds for functionalization of all three allene carbons, among other reactions, is described herein.
US09221841B2	Mitotic kinesin inhibitors and methods of use thereof This invention relates to inhibitors of mitotic kinesins, particularly KSP, and methods for producing these inhibitors. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the inhibitors of the invention and methods of utilizing the inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment and prevention of various disorders.
US09221840B2	Treating protein folding disorders with small molecule CFTR correctors Novel CFTR corrector compounds that are effective in rescuing halide efflux in a cell are provided. Also provided are methods for treating protein folding disorders (e.g., cystic fibrosis). The methods include administering a CFTR corrector compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof. Methods of screening for CFTR corrector compounds are also described herein. The methods of screening include contacting a cell that endogenously expresses a CFTR mutation with the compound to be screened and detecting a rescue of halide efflux from the cell.
US09221839B2	C5-C6 oxacyclic-fused thiadiazine dioxide compounds as BACE inhibitors, compositions, and their use In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain iminothiadiazine dioxide compounds, including compounds Formula and tautomers and stereoisomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of said compounds, said tautomers and said stereoisomers, wherein each of ring A, ring B, ring C, R2, R3, R4, m, n, p, and -L1- is as defined herein. The novel compounds of the invention may be useful as BACE inhibitors and/or for the treatment and prevention of various pathologies related thereto. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other active agents), and methods for their preparation and use, including Alzheimer's disease, are also disclosed.
US09221806B2	2-(heterocyclylbenzyl)pyridazinone derivatives Compounds of the formula (I), in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, are inhibitors of tyrosine kinases, in particular Met kinase, and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of tumors.

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