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US09333851B2	Fuel cutoff valve A fuel cutoff valve comprises a casing having a primary valve chamber and a secondary valve chamber, a primary valve mechanism housed in the primary valve chamber, and a secondary valve mechanism housed in the secondary valve chamber. The casing has a first communication path that connects the inside of the fuel tank and the primary valve chamber, and a second communication path that connects the primary valve chamber and the secondary valve chamber, due to the differential pressure between the tank internal pressure and the primary valve chamber, by the fuel in the fuel tank flowing into the primary valve chamber through the first communication path, a connection conduit is closed by the primary valve mechanism. When the fuel level inside the fuel tank reaches a second fuel level, the second communication path is closed by the rising of the secondary valve mechanism.
US09333841B2	Drive wheel arrangement for two pivot components of a top of a convertible vehicle A top of a convertible motor vehicle includes a linkage movable between a closed position spanning a vehicle interior and a storage position uncovering the vehicle interior to the top A linkage arrangement having first and second pivot components is on opposing sides of the linkage and pivotably mounted at a rear main bearing. A rotatable drive wheel is coupled to the two pivot components. When the drive wheel is rotated, the first pivot component is always subjected to a drive torque, whereas the second pivot component, as a function of the position of a control element in a control slot that is fixed relative to the main bearing, is either held in place or is subjected to a drive torque.
US09333838B2	Routing structure of operation cable The objective of the present invention is to provide a routing structure that is for an operation cable and that, with a simple structure, can route an operation cable (7) with sufficient excess length. The present invention has: a handle device (5) that is affixed to the door (1) of a vehicle and that causes the operation force to an operation handle (3) rotatably connected to a handle base (2) to be output from an output section (4); a door lock device (6) that is disposed in proximity to the output section (4) of the handle device (5); and an operation cable (7) that couples the output section (4) of the handle device (5) and the door lock device (6). The operation cable (7) is connected from the output section (4) to the door lock device (6) via an excess length securing pathway that is approximately one circuit of the perimeter of the handle device (5), and the operation cable (7) is movably supported by a guide section (9) provided to an intermediate position of a mobile member (8) of the handle device (5), and the connection section to the door lock device (6) of the operation cable (7), and on the handle base (2), and thus the ingress of the mobile member (8) into a mobile region is restricted.
US09333837B2	Window regulator assembly for a vehicle In an aspect, a lifter plate is provided that is capable of a relatively strong connection to a vehicle window. The lifter plate includes a lifter plate body including a first side wall and a second side wall configured to receive a vehicle window there between, a window holding member positionable in a locking position to prevent the withdrawal of the vehicle window from between the first and second side walls, and a locking member positioned to prevent the movement of the window holding member out of the locking position in the event of a force urging the withdrawal of the vehicle window from between first and second side walls.
US09333835B2	Heater for vehicles Provided is a heater for vehicles, and more particularly, to a heater for vehicles, in which a first heater heated by a flowing of engine cooling water and a second heater heated by a power supply are integrally assembled, thereby increasing spatial efficiency and more increasing heat exchange performance to improve heating performance.
US09333832B2	System and method for providing an air conditioner efficiency control for a vehicle A system and method for providing an air conditioning compressor efficiency in a vehicle. The method and system includes determining one or more vehicle driving scores based on one or more vehicle driving factors. The system and method additionally includes predicting when the vehicle will be put into the vehicle idle stop state based on the one or more vehicle driving scores and providing air conditioning during a plurality of vehicle operating states. The providing of air conditioning during a plurality of vehicle operating states includes disabling an air conditioner compressor and providing cooling to a vehicle cabin from a cold storage evaporator when the vehicle is put into the vehicle idle stop state and continuing to provide cooling from the cold storage evaporator when the vehicle operating state changes from the vehicle idle stop state to an engine enabled state.
US09333827B2	Shock absorber mounting assembly for leaf spring suspension trailers A shock absorber mounting assembly is provided for a trailer incorporating a leaf spring suspension. That mounting assembly includes a first shock absorber mounting bracket secured to a frame of the trailer and a second shock absorber mounting bracket secured to an axle of the trailer. The second shock absorber mounting bracket includes of tie plate, an elongated shock absorber mounting lug extending from the tie plate and an adjustable suspension alignment feature.
US09333821B1	Lock down hitch ball system A ball/lock component formed with a C-shaped central section having horizontal upper and lower legs. A ball extends upwardly from the lower leg. A bolt is threadedly received in the upper leg. The bolt is axially movable toward and away from the ball. An adjustment collar is attached to the bolt for rotating the bolt. An attachment leg extends forwardly from the central section and has a horizontal bore. A support component has vertical walls with vertically spaced adjustment apertures extending there through. An adjustment rod extends through selected aperture pairs. The support component has a coupling leg. A support bore extends through the coupling leg.
US09333813B2	Tire inflation system having a passage for routing pressurized gas through a flange A tire inflation system having a first conduit and a flange. The first conduit may supply a pressurized gas for inflating a tire. The flange may be coupled to an axle flange. The flange may have a passage that routes the pressurized gas through the flange.
US09333811B2	1-D tire patch apparatus and methodology Disclosed is a tire mountable apparatus and method that includes a substrate defining a longitudinal direction, a top surface and a bottom surface. The substrate has a plurality of conductor terminals arranged in a substantially linear relationship. A first support element is located below the bottom surface of the substrate and a second support element is located above the top surface of the substrate. The plurality of conductor terminals are positioned between the first and second support elements. The substrate may be a piezoelectric device having a piezoelectric layer arranged between first and second conductive layers. The plurality of conductor terminals may be arranged in a substantially linear relationship along a line about 80° to about 100° to the longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the longitudinal direction of the substrate being substantially perpendicular to the direction of rotation of the tire.
US09333810B2	Tire tread comprising a wear indicator Vulcanizing device with radially mobile segments comprising: a bottom plate supporting a bottom shell for molding a tire sidewall, an axially mobile top plate supporting a top shell for molding a tire sidewall, an axially mobile closure ring comprising an inclined interior face, a plurality of circumferentially arranged adjacent segments of which the interior radial faces comprise linings for molding the tread of the tire and of which the inclined exterior radial faces are able to collaborate with: first means of coupling with the closure ring which are produced in such a way that the axial movements of the closure ring involve a radial movement of the segments, and second means of coupling the segments to the top plate which are able to connect the segments to the top plate and to allow their radial movement, the said second means of coupling being adjustable on the circumference of the top plate.
US09333794B2	Ring binder mechanism A ring binder mechanism that includes a housing, first and second hinge boards positioned in the housing that cooperate to define a slot having a closing edge and an opening edge. The hinge boards are pivotable between open and closed positions. A plurality of pairs of semi-rings include first and second ring members mounted on the first and second hinge boards, respectively. A travel bar is positioned below the hinge boards and moveable with respect to the housing and the hinge boards between an open position and a closed position. The travel bar includes at least one top bar extending from a top surface thereof that includes inclined opening and closing surfaces. The top bar extends through the slot in the hinge boards and is biased toward the open position. The inclined opening surface of the top bar contacts the opening edge of the slot to pivot the first and second hinge boards to the open position.
US09333786B2	Laser-sensitive coating formulations The present invention provides polymeric particles comprising a polymeric matrix comprising one or more water-insoluble polymers and a laser-sensitive system encapsulated in the polymeric matrix. It also provides a process for the preparation of the polymeric particles, a composition comprising the polymeric particles, a process for the preparation of this composition, a process for forming a laser-sensitive coating layer on a substrate using this composition, a coated substrate obtainable by the coating process, a process for preparing a marked substrate and a marked substrate obtainable by the marking process.
US09333783B1	Printer apparatus A printer apparatus comprises a paper conveyance path on which a paper is conveyed; a carrier which moves in a direction orthogonal to conveyance direction of the paper conveyed on the paper conveyance path; a dot matrix print head which includes head pins arranged in the carrier; an ink ribbon cassette which stores an ink ribbon; a photo sensor which is arranged at the external side of the movement direction of the carrier in the printing area of paper and at the downstream side in the paper conveyance direction of the dot matrix print head; a concentration detection pattern printing module which prints a predetermined concentration detection pattern with the head pins; and an exchange necessity determination section which determines whether to exchange the ink ribbon cassette according to the value obtained by detecting the printing created by the concentration detection pattern printing module through the photo sensor.
US09333781B2	Printer and method and device for controlling same The disclosure discloses a printer and a method and device for controlling the same. The method for controlling the printer comprises: detecting the number of heating units of a currently mounted printing head; acquiring a resolution, corresponding to the detected number of the heating units, of the printing head; and setting a printer parameter according to the acquired resolution of the printing head. The problem of high error rate after the resolution of the printing head of the printer is changed is solved.
US09333768B2	Printed ink curing An ink-jet printing system (10) includes a generator (20) for in situ generation of a component of an inert atmosphere (an atmosphere that is depleted of oxygen). The system also includes a curing zone (16) in which the generated component (for example nitrogen or carbon dioxide) is distributable over ink that had been deposited on a substrate (12), and in which the ink is exposable to a curing agent (for example UV radiation).
US09333758B2	Liquid storage container and liquid ejection apparatus There is provided a liquid storage container capable of keeping a negative pressure therein more reliably. An ink cartridge includes a negative pressure generation unit configured to generate a negative pressure in an ink storage chamber and a filter attached to an atmosphere communication channel opening and allowing air to pass from the outside to the inside of the liquid storage chamber depending on the negative pressure in the ink storage chamber. The ink cartridge has a capillary groove configured to supply ink from a portion in which ink is stored in the ink storage chamber to the filter.
US09333754B2	Liquid ejecting apparatus and control method thereof A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which includes a manifold; a first flow path and a second flow path which are connected to the manifold; a switching unit which switches a communication state between a liquid storage unit and the respective first and second flow paths; a pressure regulating unit which includes a valve which is open due to negative pressure on the manifold side of the first flow path; and a control unit which controls the switching unit, in which the control unit is capable of performing switching between a first mode in which liquid is supplied to the manifold through the valve and a second mode in which liquid is supplied to the manifold without going through the valve.
US09333738B2	Printed article and method of making same An article is printed based upon predetermined artwork. The artwork includes the specification of a palette of ink colors to be used in printing the article. Each of the colors is specified by a full tone color target and an undertone color target. Each ink formulation has a combined full tone L-C-H-a-b dE equal to or less than about 2, and a combined undertone dE less than or equal to about 3. The specification of ink colors may also include a light fastness value. The ink colors may be further specified by way of a proofing index value. The inks are printed upon a substrate.
US09333737B1	Methods of preparing lithographic printing members by imagewise deposition and precursors suitable therefor A lithographic precursor includes a hydrophilic layer that presents a surface for lithographic interaction, and which is formulated to receive a pigment-based aqueous ink deposited (e.g., by inkjet) in an “imagewise” pattern. The compatibility between the ink and the hydrophilic layer is such that a baking step is not required for subsequent printing.
US09333736B2	Processing apparatus and processing method of stack A processing apparatus of a stack is provided. The stack includes two substrates attached to each other with a gap provided between their end portions. The processing apparatus includes a fixing mechanism that fixes part of the stack, a plurality of adsorption jigs that fix an outer peripheral edge of one of the substrates of the stack, and a wedge-shaped jig that is inserted into a corner of the stack. The plurality of adsorption jigs include a mechanism that allows the adsorption jigs to move separately in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction. The processing apparatus further includes a sensor sensing a position of the gap between the end portion in the stack. A tip of the wedge-shaped jig moves along a chamfer formed on an end surface of the stack. The wedge-shaped jig is inserted into the gap between the end portions in the stack.
US09333727B2	Sponge-iron alloying A steel manufacturing process can include forming an iron oxide layer on a hot band during hot rolling; reducing the iron oxide layer on the hot band to form a sponge iron layer that includes pores; the sponge-iron layer having a thickness in a range of about 0.05 μm to about 1000 μm, about 0.1 μm to about 100 μm, or about 5 μm to about 25 μm; and depositing an alloying element into the pores of the sponge iron layer to form an impregnated sponge-iron layer. The process can further include annealing the impregnated sponge-iron layer to produce an iron alloy layer carried by the substrate.
US09333700B2	Imprinting apparatus and imprinting method using the same Disclosed is an imprinting apparatus and imprinting method using the same that prevent a process of forming a pattern on a substrate from being affected by flatness of a stage. The imprinting apparatus comprises a chamber unit in which a process of forming a pattern on a substrate is carried out; a stage for supporting the substrate on which a resin layer is formed; an installing member positioned above the stage and having a mold member attached to transform the resin layer so as to form the pattern on the substrate; and a first spraying unit for spraying fluid to separate the substrate supported by the stage from the stage, wherein the installing member moves the mold member in the direction getting near to the substrate separated from the stage so that the mold member and the resin layer are brought into contact with each other.
US09333686B2	Seat structure member and manufacturing method of same A seat structure member includes a cover and a seat pad. The cover and the seat pad are integrated when the seat pad is foam molded. A recessed portion is formed on a portion of a surface of the seat pad that is covered by the cover. Integrated molding of the seat pad and the cover is avoided at a location of the recessed portion, and a space of the recessed portion is formed between the seat pad and the cover.
US09333682B2	Stamp, method of fabricating the stamp, and imprint method using the same A stamp includes a transparent body having an inner chamber containing an inlet/outlet tube configured to have a fluid injected and removed therefrom.
US09333678B2	Composite tape for use in tape laying machines A tape for use in automated tape laying machines that includes a multi-layer substrate composed of a plastic layer that includes at least one plastic film having an outer film surface and an inner film surface. The plastic film is adhered to a fibrous layer so that the inner surface of the fibrous layer is bonded to the inner film surface. An uncured composite material layer composed of a fibrous reinforcement and an uncured resin matrix is releasably adhered to either the plastic layer surface or the outer fiber layer surface to provide a tape suitable for use in an automatic tape layer.
US09333672B1	Hardenable material structure construction apparatus and method A temporary building hardenable material construction apparatus, constituted of: a freestandable support frame; at least one extension member; a first and second enclosure member positioned in parallel such that a space is defined therebetween, wherein the freestandable support frame is juxtaposed with the outer face of the first enclosure member or the outer face of the second enclosure member, wherein each extension member extends through the first and second enclosure member such that the first end thereof extends past the first enclosure member or the second end thereof extends past the second enclosure member, and wherein the at least one extension member is secured to the freestandable support frame.
US09333671B2	Chopping aid device A chopping aid device for use in chopping of firewood includes a frame to pre-vent pieces of wood from spreading into the surroundings outside the chopping aid device during chopping. In order to make chopping of wood easy, fast and safe, the chopping aid device has a support with flexible spikes to keep the firewood in an upright position within the frame.
US09333669B2	Cutting devices A cutting device may include a cutting unit having a cutter for trimming an edge portion of a workpiece or forming a groove in a workpiece. The cutting device may further include a base assembly configured to support the cutting unit with respect to the workpiece, and a grip device capable of being mounted to and removed from the cutting unit independently of the base assembly and configured to be capable of being grasped by a user during a cutting operation.
US09333667B2	Punching apparatus and punching method A punching apparatus includes a holding part for holding a workpiece, a punch having a punching portion at an axial end thereof, the punching portion being configured to be inserted into the workpiece for punching the workpiece. The punching apparatus further includes a guide part supporting the punch so as to be movable in an axial direction of the punch, and a rotating part for rotating the punch around the axial direction of the punch while the punch is away from the workpiece.
US09333666B2	Image forming apparatus, security printing method, and storage medium An image forming apparatus having security printing function, connectable to a post-processing apparatus capable of cutting a sheet, includes a sheet size detector to detect a size of a sheet to be conducted with print processing, a dividing number acquiring unit to acquire a dividing number of the sheet, a sheet divider to divide the sheet into a plurality of areas based on the sheet size detected by the sheet size detector and the dividing number acquired by the dividing number acquiring unit, a security printing setting acquiring unit to acquire setting of a position of security printing, and a security printing position determination unit to determine a print position of security printing on each of the plurality of areas, divided by the sheet divider, based on the position of security printing acquired by the security printing setting acquiring unit.
US09333657B2	Safety razor apparatus having a pivotable grip portion A safety razor apparatus having a blade assembly comprising two guiding members, each having a surface for abutting against the skin, and one or more blades located between the two guiding members (9,10), wherein the cutting edge of each blade and the surfaces are positioned substantially in one plane. The apparatus has a grip portion being pivotal relative to said blade assembly about a pivot axis, wherein the pivot axis is positioned parallel to the cutting edge. A location of the pivot axis is adjustable with respect to the blade assembly.
US09333655B2	Handling device with at least one controllably deformable elastic element A handling device (100) having at least one controllably deformable elastic element (10) is disclosed. With the objective of increasing handling precision and flexibility, the inventive solution provides for the controllably deformable elastic element (10) to be arranged in an active region (40) of the device and be designed to assume a normal position or at least one deformation position upon the appropriate control, wherein the position of a central region (15) of the elastic element (10) in the main direction of elongation (R), which extends substantially along the longitudinal axis (60) in the normal position and projects substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis (60) in the at least one deformation position, is definable by controlling the change in distance (A) from the longitudinal axis (60) within the active region (40).
US09333653B2	Automatic pill grasping apparatus and method A pill grasping method comprises rotating a grasping arm with a nozzle to a predetermined initial position driven by a driving mechanism, rotating a number of pill storage cases to position one of the pill storage cases with a set number of pills to a predetermined grasping pill position driven by an actuating mechanism, rotating the grasping arm to enter into the corresponding pill storage case, starting a pump to generate a vacuum in the nozzle for sucking a pill, and determining if an actual pressure value in a pipe connecting the nozzle to the pump is less than a predetermined pressure value. The grasping arm is rotated to the predetermined initial position when the actual pressure value is less than the predetermined pressure value.
US09333649B1	Object pickup strategies for a robotic device Example embodiments may relate to methods and systems for selecting a grasp point on an object. In particular, a robotic manipulator may identify characteristics of a physical object within a physical environment. Based on the identified characteristics, the robotic manipulator may determine potential grasp points on the physical object corresponding to points at which a gripper attached to the robotic manipulator is operable to grip the physical object. Subsequently, the robotic manipulator may determine a motion path for the gripper to follow in order to move the physical object to a drop-off location for the physical object and then select a grasp point, from the potential grasp points, based on the determined motion path. After selecting the grasp point, the robotic manipulator may grip the physical object at the selected grasp point with the gripper and move the physical object through the determined motion path to the drop-off location.
US09333647B2	Method for operating an industrial robot The invention relates to a method for operating an industrial robot by means of an operating device comprising a graphical user interface having a touch display. To improve the operating safety of the industrial robot, at least one virtual operating element representing a function of the industrial robot is displayed on the touch display, a control signal associated with said virtual operating element is sent to a safety controller, and an image is produced by means of the safety controller, which image is then displayed on the touch display. If the image is touched on the touch display, feedback is given to the safety controller so that a function of the industrial robot can be carried out if the displayed image and touching of said image on the touch display match.
US09333640B2	Rotary joint and worktable using the same A rotary joint includes an input member and an output member rotatably sleeved on the input member. The input member defines a through hole extending along a vertical axis of the input member. A plurality of mounting portions circumferentially protrudes from an outer surface of the input member. Each two adjacent of the plurality of mounting portions form a first receiving groove. A plurality of transmission holes is defined in the input member. An opening of each transmission hole away from the end surface of the input member is formed in a sidewall of the first receiving groove. An output member is rotatably sleeved on the input member. Sidewalls of the first receiving groove and an inner wall of the output member cooperative form a channel. An outlet is defined in the inner wall of the output member. The invention also discloses a worktable using the rotary joint.
US09333638B2	Power tool including an anti-tilt structure for an accessory A power tool includes a motor, a foot plate, a biasing element, and an accessory. The motor is configured to move a saw blade in a repeating pattern of movement. The foot plate defines a saw blade opening. The foot plate has a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall that are spaced apart from each other so as to define a storage space. The biasing element is supported by the foot plate and has a detent. The accessory defines a detent recess configured to receive the detent therein. When the accessory is located in the storage space, so that the detent is received in the detent recess, the accessory is interposed between the anti-tilt structure and the foot plate.
US09333635B2	Chisels A chisel includes an elongate shank portion composed of a first steel, and a working end portion composed of a second steel that is different than the first steel. The working end portion is joined to the shank and configured to chisel a workpiece. The joined shank portion and working end portion has been heat treated to cause the first steel of the shank portion to adopt a first microstructure comprising bainite, the second steel of the working end portion to adopt a second microstructure comprising martensite, and the working end portion to have a greater hardness than the shank portion.
US09333629B2	Reversible ratchet wrench A novel reversible ratchet wrench may include a wrench body, a control member, a ratchet member and a rotating member, wherein the control member has a restricting slot and two stopper planes, and a deep hole for placing the spring. The control member is placed into the round hole of the wrench body by the half cylindrical body and connects with the ratchet member which is placed into the arc-shaped ratchet slot, thereby resulting in a secure relative positioning between the control member and the ratchet member. The novel reversible ratchet wrench allows convenient switch between directions of the rotational movement of the wrench body and the structural design effectively prevents the spring from ejecting from the deep hole of the control member or getting stuck by restricting the movement space of the spring. Furthermore, this structural design improves the smoothness of switching operation of the ratchet wrench.
US09333621B2	Polishing pad for endpoint detection and related methods A polishing pad has a polishing layer with a polishing surface and a back surface. A plurality of grooves are formed on the polishing surface, and an indentation is formed in the back surface of the polishing layer. A region on the polishing surface corresponding to the indentation in the back surface is free of grooves or has shallower grooves.
US09333615B1	Apparatus for mounting one or more orbital sanders having an extended handle An apparatus for mounting one or two handheld type orbital thereto is described to permit a user to sand a floor surface from a standing position while moving the mounted sander(s) to and fro by way of a broom handle extending from the apparatus. Typically, the apparatus includes one fixed mount and one moveable mount. Each mount is configured to facilitate attachment to an orbital sander. The moveable mount can be placed and secured in one of two positions: A first position that centers a single sander in line with the handle and a second position wherein the fixed mount is located to one side of the handle and the moveable mount is secured essentially an equal distance on the other side of the handle.
US09333613B2	Sharpener for knives with widely different edge angles A wide range of knives and blades, including Western, Asian or traditional Japanese style blades that have a primary edge facet on at least one side of the knife edge are sharpened through use of an electric knife sharpener having a first sharpening stage with at least one rotating abrasive surface disk and a knife angle guide to position the blade's facet at a first relative angle of approximately 15 degrees as it contacts the moving abrasive surface. The knife sharpener includes a second sharpening stage with at least one rotating abrasive surfaced disk and a knife angle guide to position the blade's facet at a second relative angle of approximately 20 degrees as it contacts the rotating abrasive surface. The knife sharpener also has a third stropping stage with at least one rotating stropping disk containing abrasive particles of less than 1 thousandth of inch diameter and a knife angle guide to position the blade's facet at a third relative angle larger than the first and second angles as it contacts the rotating surface of the stropping disk. The rotating sharpening and stropping disks are displaceable from a rest position against specific restraining forces when contacted by the edge facet being sharpened or stropped.
US09333609B2	Tool carrier unit of a tool magazine The present disclosure relates to a tool carrier unit of a tool magazine. The tool carrier unit of a tool magazine according to the present invention includes: a body frame installed across a first tool magazine and a second tool magazine; a clamping unit disposed at one side of the body frame and configured to clamp a tool accommodated in any one of the first tool magazine and the second tool magazine; an LM unit (liner motion unit) disposed at one side of the body frame and configured to guide a movement of the clamping unit; an actuator disposed at one side of the body frame and configured to move the clamping unit; and an unclamping unit disposed at the body frame and configured to unclamp the tool when the clamping unit reaches the first tool magazine or the second tool magazine.
US09333606B2	Device for aligning door hinge of automatic system for mounting door hinge to vehicle A device for aligning door hinges of an automatic system that mounts door hinges to a vehicle automatically mounts a plurality of door hinges within a hinge box to upper and lower seats on pillars of a vehicle body conveyed by a conveying unit. The device includes at least one stand frame and a tilting plate that is coupled to the stand frame to tile the tilting plate in an upward and downward direction. In addition, the device includes a tilting cylinder that is vertically disposed with one side hinged to the stand frame and the other side hinged to the tilting plate.
US09333604B1	Manually adjustable bracket for use with a fastener mechanism Disclosed is a manually adjustable bracket moveable in first and second directions that is attached to a fastener mechanism for use in a fastener assembly station. An actuator moves the manually adjustable bracket and the fastener mechanism in a third direction to fasten fasteners to a work product. The manually adjustable bracket comprises: a first linear guideway configured for manual movement in the first direction and configured to be attached to the actuator; and a second linear guideway coupled to the first linear guideway and configured for manual movement in the second direction and configured to be attached to the fastener mechanism. The first and second linear guideways are configured to be manually moved to a desired location and locked such that the fastener mechanism is locked into the desired location to be moved by the actuator in the third direction for fastening fasteners to the work product.
US09333603B1	Method of assembling gas turbine engine section A method for assembling a section of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The method involves a plurality of vane arc segments that together form a full vane ring, and a multi-row rotor drum that is formed of a single-piece body that has at least two rows of blades about a central axis. The method includes inserting the plurality of vane arc segments in a radial direction into an assembled position that is axially between the two rows of blades.
US09333595B2	Tool holder Welding tool holders are presented including: a welding tool receiving bracket having a surface, where the surface forms a first partial cylinder that forms two connected arms extending outwardly to define a first vertical opening for receiving a first welding tool, the first partial cylinder having a first diameter, where the first partial cylinder is vertically oriented, where the first partial cylinder includes an upper edge, where the welding tool receiving bracket further includes a lower surface extending downwardly from the surface and forming a second partial cylinder, the second partial cylinder having a second diameter; and an attachment portion extending away from the surface with respect to the first vertical opening.
US09333593B2	Joining method, joint structure and method for producing the same A first joining object and a second joining object are joined to each other using an insert material. The first joining object and/or the second joining object has a first metal composed of Sn or an alloy containing Sn. The insert material contains, as a main component, a second metal which is an alloy containing at least one selected from among Ni, Mn, Al and Cr, and Cu, and is located between the first joining object and the second joining object. When subjected to heat treatment to produce an intermetallic compound of the first metal and the second metal, the first joining object and the second joining object are joined to each other.
US09333591B2	Process for electric bonding of an aluminum wire A process for electric bonding of an aluminum wire to a contact area which wire, provided with an oxide layer on its outer surface, is wrapped with an insulating lacquer and ultrasonic bonded to said contact area, wherein insulation is removed from the aluminum wire section to be connected to the contact area prior to the ultrasonic bonding process by removing the insulating layer which surrounds the outer surface of the wire with oxide layer by means of an electric plasma.
US09333590B2	Joined heterogeneous materials and joining method therefor A joined heterogeneous material includes a carbon steel material and an aluminum material which have been joined via friction-stir welding. The region of a weld zone with a low lift-up amount in a plastic flow area created during friction-stir welding is located on one side of the aluminum material with respect to the weld zone, created by a welding probe. The region of the weld zone with a high plastic flow area lift-up amount is located on the other side of the aluminum material.
US09333588B2	Crack avoidance in resistance spot welded materials Methods of crack avoidance during resistance spot welding are provided. The compressive stress from the spot welding is distributed across an electrode assembly having an enlarged footprint. The electrode assembly includes a conductive core and a non-conductive cover. The delivery of current through the electrode assembly is localized to the conductive core.
US09333585B2	Welding wire feed system and method In one embodiment, a system is provided with a welding wire feeder that includes a first wheel having a first rotational direction, and a second wheel having a second rotational direction opposite from the first rotational direction. The first and second wheels are disposed compressively about a wire feed region, and the first and second wheels are drivingly coupled together to output substantially equal tangential speeds in the wire feed region. In addition, the first wheel, or the second wheel, or both the first and second wheels comprise a drive wheel directly coupled to a gear without separately coupling both the drive wheel and the gear to a shaft.
US09333582B2	Method and system to control heat input in a welding operation A system for and method of controlling the heat input in a welding operation are provided. The system includes an arc welding power supply configured to output a welding waveform to a welding torch. The welding power supply includes a waveform generator to generate an output welding waveform. The power supply also includes a controller to optimize the output welding waveform based on one of a desired RMS voltage set point and a desired RMS voltage range. The optimization is performed by adjusting at least one of a power ratio and a duration ratio. The power ratio is a ratio of a power of a negative portion of the welding waveform to a power of a positive portion of the welding waveform, and the duration ratio is a ratio of a duration of a negative portion of the welding waveform to a duration of a positive portion of the welding waveform.
US09333581B2	Apparatus and method for energy replacement in a welding waveform during welding A system and method is provided which uses a power supply which receives an input signal and provides an output signal to an electrode, where the output signal generates an arc between the electrode and at least one workpiece, and the output signal has a desired output power profile. The power supply has at least an output power circuit which determines an output power of the output signal, a power differential calculator which determines a difference between the determined output power and the desired output power profile, and a waveform generator which changes a power output of the output signal based on the determined difference between the desired output power profile and the determined output power.
US09333574B2	Honing machine with oil-tight operating tank A honing machine includes a machine housing enclosing a workpiece spindle and a tool spindle. The workpiece spindle includes a spindle collar with a spindle head configured to hold a workpiece. The tool spindle includes a cup-shaped holder with a honing ring located on an inside of the cup shaped holder. An operating tank is also located within the machine housing, where the operating tank surrounds the tool spindle in an oil-tight manner. The operating tank includes a panel with a recess, where the workpiece spindle is configured to insert the spindle head through the recess and form a first oil-tight seal between the recess and the spindle collar. The panel is moveable relative to the operating tank and tool spindle when the panel is carried along by the workpiece spindle during a feed motion. A second oil-tight seal is formed between the panel and the operating tank.
US09333565B2	Rotary cutter The present invention relates to a rotary cutting tool consisting of a shank and at least one cutting section comprising a plurality of cutting teeth, the cutting section being conceptionaly and functionally divided into several sub-sections along the tool axis (“zones” for brevity), wherein each zone has its own core form and its own cutting edges, its own teeth land form and its own zone cutting length, these being selected according to the perceived task for which each zone of the tool is to be optimized.
US09333564B2	Drill bit An elongated drill bit has a shank at one end and working end at the other. A flute portion is between the working end and the shank. The flute portion is continuous with the shank and working end and is generally unitarily formed with them. The flute portion has at least one flute with a helix angle between approximately 30° and 35°. The working end has a pilot tip with a cutting portion. A tapered web is formed in the flute portion, a thickness of the web at the tip of the working end is about 9% to 15% of the nominal diameter.
US09333555B2	Manufacturing method of a component of a split blade of a wind turbine The invention provides a manufacturing method of a component of a split blade of a wind turbine (such as an inboard shell or an inboard spar) having joining elements with its complementary component (i.e. an outboard shell or an outboard spar). The method comprises the following steps: a) manufacturing a joint laminate of a composite material having embedded into it the joining elements, said joint laminate being configured for becoming a part of the component; b) manufacturing the component using as a preform said joint laminate. The invention also refers to a split blade comprising components manufactured by said manufacturing method.
US09333547B2	Refitting mechanism A refitting mechanism for measuring a flatness value of a workpiece and refitting the workpiece includes a worktable, a refitting assembly, a measuring unit, and a controller. The refitting assembly is movably assembled to the worktable. The holding assembly is assembled to the worktable and adjacent to the refitting assembly for holding the workpiece on the worktable. The measuring unit is assembled to the refitting assembly. The controller is electrically connected to the refitting assembly, the holding assembly, and the measuring unit. The measuring unit measures a flatness value of the workpiece and transfers the flatness value to the controller. The controller compares the flatness value with a preset value range to determine whether the workpiece is qualified or not. When the workpiece is not qualified, the controller controls the holding assembly to hold the workpiece, and controls the refitting assembly to refit the workpiece.
US09333543B2	Pipe element having shoulder, groove and bead A pipe element has a circumferential shoulder at one end. The shoulder has an outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the pipe element. A groove is positioned adjacent to the shoulder. The groove has a floor surface with an outer diameter less than the outer diameter of the pipe element. A bead is positioned contiguous with the groove. The bead has an apex with an outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the pipe element. A combination of roller tools is used to cold work pipe elements and impart a desired shape to the sidewall in one method of manufacture. In another method, a spin forming tool is revolved in an orbit of increasing diameter within the pipe element captured within a die.
US09333539B2	Method and device for processing and transporting items in a sequence A method and device for processing and transporting items, particularly mail items, measure a processing attribute for each item. A value which each predefined feature assumes for the item is measured. A data record for the item is generated including the measured feature values and the measured processing attribute value. The item is transferred into an intermediate storage device, into a transport device and to a processing system. After reaching the processing system, a value is newly measured which each predefined feature assumes for this item. The data record generated for this item is determined using the feature values from the new measurement. If this item has an identification read clearly during the new measurement, the data record is determined based on this identification. Otherwise, a search with a restricted search space is executed. The processing system processes the item using the processing attribute value in the determined data record.
US09333527B2	Nozzle for applying sealants A nozzle that includes a connecting section, a main hollow elongated and conical body, a bell shaped section and an injection bottom is described. The design of the connecting section allows it to be connected to injections machines or to a sealant containing cartridges. The injection button is non-permanently connected to the bell shaped section and it has a circular central protrusion, a series of radially oriented channels ending in circularly positioned openings, which facilitates the direction of the expelled sealant. Alternatively, the button may also include lateral grooves at the walls of the central circular protrusion. The particular design of the injection button allows an efficient and highly accuracy distribution of the sealant on the surfaces and selected parts of machines and artifacts wherein the sealant is applied.
US09333525B2	Substrate spreading device for vacuum processing apparatus, vacuum processing apparatus with substrate spreading device and method for operating same A processing apparatus for processing a flexible substrate, particularly a vacuum processing apparatus for processing a flexible substrate, is described. The processing apparatus includes a vacuum chamber; a processing drum within the vacuum chamber, wherein the processing drum is configured to rotate around an axis extending in a first direction; and a heating device adjacent to the processing drum, wherein the heating device is configured for spreading the substrate in the first direction or for maintaining a spread of the substrate in the first direction, and wherein the heating device has a dimension in a direction parallel to a substrate transport direction of at least 20 mm.
US09333523B2	Atomizing spray apparatus A spray apparatus includes a pump, a reservoir and an atomizing unit in fluid communication within a fluid circuit. The atomizing unit comprises a housing enclosure defining an enclosed interior space. An aperture is defined a front wall of the housing, and an ultrasonic atomizer is disposed within the interior space proximate to the aperture. A fluid supply port extends into the interior space, arranged to deliver a fluid pumped by the pump to the ultrasonic atomizer. An overflow return port extends from the interior space, and is arranged to return fluid from the interior space to the reservoir. The fluid supply port may be arranged to deliver a fluid into a fluid receiving space such that the atomizer becomes at least partially immersed within a fluid during operation. Alternatively, the fluid supply port may be arranged to direct a stream of fluid against a surface of the atomizer.
US09333521B2	Filter installation and method for operating a filter installation In order to provide a filter installation, including a filter device for cleaning a raw gas flow loaded with paint overspray, the filter device including a filter element, on which paint overspray from the raw gas flow loaded with paint overspray is configured to be deposited together with the auxiliary filter material fed to the raw gas flow, a receiving container for receiving a system of paint overspray and auxiliary filter material and a removal device for removing at least a part of the system of paint overspray and auxiliary filter material from the receiving container, by means of which filter installation a material-saving, efficient filtering operation is configured to be carried out, it is proposed that the filter installation includes a processing device for processing the system of paint overspray and auxiliary filter material.
US09333520B2	Waste stream management system and method A contaminant management system includes a scouting unit configured to map a perimeter including a portion of a land area where to apply a waste stream, and to transmit the perimeter to a control center configured to access data indicative of a contaminant profile of a contaminant in the portion of the land area in the perimeter, and data of a maximum allowable amount of the contaminant, and to generate a contaminant capacity profile for the portion of the land area in the perimeter. An applicator unit includes a movable container, a variable flowrate valve and a controller configured to receive the contaminant capacity profile and data indicative of a concentration of the contaminant in a volume of fluids loaded in the applicator unit, and to cause the variable flowrate valve to open, close, or maintain its position based on the location of the applicator unit relative to the perimeter.
US09333519B2	Spray gun and accessories A spray gun with a gun body having a handle region and having a head which is equipped with a cartridge which has an angled, tubular region as an inlet for a material-conducting channel which runs through the cartridge and ends in an outlet region which is arranged at the front end of the head of the spray gun, wherein the inlet region of the cartridge is connected or is connectable to a storage container for the material to be sprayed, and wherein the cartridge preferably guides at least one material-conducting component of the spray gun. The cartridge is held fixedly, but releasably, on the head of the spray gun by means of a screw collar ring, wherein the screw collar ring is preferably supported on the cartridge and/or on or in the head of the spray gun by at least one mechanism.
US09333517B2	Fluidic oscillator array for synchronized oscillating jet generation A fluidic oscillator array includes a plurality of fluidic-oscillator main flow channels. Each main flow channel has an inlet and an outlet. Each main flow channel has first and second control ports disposed at opposing sides thereof, and has a first and a second feedback ports disposed at opposing sides thereof. The feedback ports are located downstream of the control ports with respect to a direction of a fluid flow through the main flow channel. The system also includes a first fluid accumulator in fluid communication with each first control port and each first feedback port, and a second fluid accumulator in fluid communication with each second control port and each second feedback port.
US09333514B2	Fully jacketed screw centrifuge having an overflow weir A solid-wall screw centrifuge includes a discharge for discharging a clarified liquid from a drum of the centrifuge. The drum includes a passage in a drum cover associated with a weir plate. The passage, drum cover, and weir plate form an overflow weir on a radial inner edge. A deflecting device is arranged on an outside on the drum cover, the deflecting device is arranged such that an exiting fluid flow from the centrifuge is one of deflected in the circumferential direction and subjected to a twist in the circumferential direction.
US09333510B2	Devices and methods for shape-based particle separation A particle sorting system includes an inlet and an inertial focusing microchannel disposed in a substrate and having a downstream expanding region at a distal end, wherein the inlet is connected to an upstream end of the microchannel. A source of different shaped particles is connected to the inlet, wherein the source of different shaped particles are configured for continuous introduction into the inlet. A plurality of outlets is connected to the microchannel at the downstream expanding region. Fluidic resistors are located in the respective outlets. Different resistances may be used in the outlets to capture enriched fractions of particles having particular particle shape(s).
US09333505B2	Setting method for microplate washing devices Setting method for microplate washing devices has a receptacle for receiving a microplate and a washing head having washing cannulas. The cannulas are in an array corresponding to a well array with lowermost ends define a work plane. This work plane is parallel to a reference plane. In a first phase, the receptacle and/or washing head are moved together until the lowermost ends of the cannulas touch a surface defining the reference plane. A sensor device has a controller linked thereto and from the sensor device is registered using the controller and a relative altitude value is determined therewith, which indicates touching of the surface by the lowermost ends of the cannulas or for determining the position of this surface. Based on this, an active altitude of the lowermost ends of the washing cannulas in relation to an inner surface of the well bottoms of a microplate is determined.
US09333498B2	Isolator system An isolator system including: a body case; a sterilizing unit; an air conditioning unit; a display unit; a control unit; and a storage unit, the control unit being configured to, after startup, confirm whether a concentration of a sterilizing substance in a work area is equal to or less than a predetermined concentration, or not, and when the concentration of the sterilizing substance exceeds the predetermined concentration, store a high concentration flag in the storage unit, and thereafter, check an operation of the air conditioning unit, if there is no problem with the operation of the air conditioning unit, confirm whether the flag is stored, and when the flag is stored, operate the air conditioning unit for a predetermined time period, to lower the concentration of the sterilizing substance, and when the flag is not stored, end check of the operation of the air conditioning unit.
US09333491B2	Catalyst for oxygenate synthesis, oxygenate production apparatus, and method of producing oxygenate This invention relates to a catalyst for oxygenate synthesis to use for synthesizing an oxygenate from mixed gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide, the catalyst comprising, an (A) component: rhodium, a (B) component: manganese, a (C) component: an alkali metal, and a (Z) component: magnesium oxide.
US09333476B2	Grid nozzle assembly, a fluidized bed reactor with a grid nozzle assembly and methods of using a grid nozzle assembly A grid nozzle assembly for a fluidized bed reactor that includes a horizontally extending bottom plate, a gas plenum chamber below the bottom plate, and vertical gas pipes having a top end and extending from the gas plenum chamber upwards across the bottom plate. The assembly includes a nozzle head with a gas channel that injects fluidizing gas from one of the vertical gas pipes to the reaction chamber. A tube sleeve is adapted to be fixed by welding around the top end of the vertical gas pipe. The nozzle head and the tube sleeve have a knob and groove portion that form a twist-lock enabling quick connecting and disconnecting of the nozzle head and the tube sleeve.
US09333472B2	Precision warming bowl A warming container 10 includes a mixing bowl and a heating cradle configured to receive the mixing bowl. The warming container 10 also includes a shell having an inner facing surface and which is coupled to a bottom edge of the heating cradle at a seat. The seat is configured to receive a base of the mixing bowl. A cavity is defined between the heating cradle and the shell and a conductive heating structure is disposed within the cavity. The conductive heating structure includes a plurality of conductive longitudinal flanges. A wire heating element is disposed about the plurality of conductive longitudinal flanges, wherein the wire heating element is disposed about the conductive heating structure in a sinusoidal configuration. The wire heating element is in thermal communication with the heating cradle via the conductive longitudinal flanges.
US09333471B2	Fluidically integrated magnetic bead beater A system for at least one of homogenization and lysis of a sample includes one or more walls forming an enclosed chamber, a permanent magnet within the enclosed chamber, a magnet guide, and one or more magnets located outside the chamber. The enclosed chamber has an inlet and one or more fluidic connections configured to introduce at least the sample into the chamber. The permanent magnet has a positive pole and a negative pole. The magnet guide is configured to laterally guide the permanent magnet between a first position and a second position and maintain a substantially constant orientation of the permanent magnet during the movement. Movement of the magnets outside the chamber changes a magnetic field between the one or more magnets and the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet moves between the first and second positions in response to the changing magnetic field.
US09333464B1	Membrane module system with bundle enclosures and pulsed aeration and method of operation A membrane filter module configured to treat a liquid contained in a tank at an ambient pressure. The module may have a header, with a bundle containing a plurality of substantially vertical hollow fiber membranes, wherein a lower end of each hollow fiber membrane is fixed in the header. The module may also have a gasification device adapted to periodically generate a gaseous bubble and configured to release the gaseous bubble within the bundle. The module may further have an enclosure that substantially surrounds the bundle that extends from a lower region to an upper region of the membrane bundle, wherein the enclosure is configured to retain the liquid introduced into the enclosure such that the liquid surrounds the membrane bundle. The gaseous bubble has a cross-sectional area that corresponds with a cross-sectional area of the enclosure, such that the cross-sectional area of the gaseous bubble occupies substantially the entire cross-sectional area of the enclosure as it flows along the bundle.
US09333460B2	Plasma treatment device A plasma abatement device comprises a gas chamber having a gas inlet for receiving a gas to be treated by the device and a gas outlet, at least part of the inner surface of the gas chamber being formed from, or coated with, an electrically conductive material that is resistant to corrosion during treatment of a gas containing a halocompound and water vapor.
US09333456B2	Systems and methods for multi-celled gas processing Systems and methods for gas processing are described that utilize two or more cells that are fluidly coupled to one another by a common liquid space. Via the common liquid space, each of the cells can be coupled to a fluid outlet. The cells can each include an absorber and/or other gas processing equipment. A feed gas can be separately fed to each of the cells for processing. The cells can be independently operable, such that not all of the cells must be operated simultaneously.
US09333450B2	HVAC register filter and method of using the same A combination filter and register for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system includes a register mounted in a structure and a filter. The register includes a plurality of parallel blades and a plurality of vane members, with a space defined between the two. The register does not have a dedicated access opening. The filter includes a pliable rectangular frame with a pliable filter material spanning it. The pliable filter material and pliable frame allow the filter to be inserted between two of the plurality of parallel blades, or between one of the parallel blades and an edge of the register, for placement of the filter into the space between the blades and the vanes without removing the register from the structure in which it is mounted.
US09333449B2	Method for producing a ceramic filter element In a method for manufacturing a ceramic filter element for an exhaust gas filter of internal combustion engines, a combustible non-ceramic filter medium is shaped to a coil and impregnated with a ceramic slurry having a powder size distribution selected such that the ceramic filter element in the finished state has a desired porosity distribution that varies across the coil cross-section of the ceramic filter element.
US09333443B2	Method and apparatus for treating fluids to reduce microbubbles Versions of the invention include methods for reducing microbubbles in liquids treated by heat or mass exchange devices. The exchange devices may be conditioned by having gases in crevices and surfaces displaced by a liquid. The methods can be used to prepare liquids with reduced numbers of microbubbles.
US09333429B2	Method and system for randomly altering information and content within web pages to create a new and unique website and online game A system and method for providing an objective to a user comprises a user registration unit, a build unit, a user interface unit, and an objective determination unit. The user registration unit is configured to receive a user request to operate the system. The build unit is configured to select a plurality of variable components for the system. The user interface unit is configured to receive user requests to interact with the variable components and to provide information to the user in response to the user requests. The objective determination unit is configured to determine whether the user has achieved the objective based at least in part on the user interactions.
US09333426B1	Using game data for providing content items Methods and systems for receiving a request for content associated with a game, receiving at least one of a device identifier and at least one of game data, associating the device identifier with the game data to create a document, and retrieving the document to generate relevant content items for display on the web page.
US09333413B2	Mouth guard with breathing and drinking aperture A mouth guard includes a pair of spaced-apart molar receiving members with an inner wall extending therebetween. The inner wall is configured for insertion between a user's lips and teeth. An outer wall is configured to confront an exterior surface of the user's lips. A conduit extends between the inner and outer walls and includes a passage formed therethrough. The passage extends through the inner wall between the molar receiving members and extends through the outer wall whereby a user may breathe or drink through the passage.
US09333401B2	Multi-piece driver with separately cast hosel The present invention is directed to a multi-piece golf club head having a metal hosel with adjustability features that is cast separately from a face component, sole, and crown, and then is permanently affixed to those other parts after casting is complete. The face component, sole, and crown may be composed of any suitable materials, but preferably each of the face component, the sole, and the crown are stamped from a metal material and are welded to the hosel.
US09333395B2	Multi-layer core golf ball Golf balls consisting of a multi-layer core and a cover are disclosed. The multi-layer core comprises at least one intermediate core layer formed from a thermoset composition other than diene rubber.
US09333394B2	Golf ball having visually enhanced layer A golf ball comprising: a core; at least one intermediate layer encasing the core; at least one cover layer encasing the at least one intermediate layer; wherein the cover layer is translucent; and wherein at least one of the core, intermediate layer and cover comprises a visually enhancing means comprising a color effect providing pigment comprising at least one of: (1) calcium aluminum borosilicate coated with a metal oxide; and (2) silicon dioxide platelets coated with metal oxide. The visually enhancing means highlights a contrast between two golf ball layers.
US09333392B2	Underwater propulsion aid and underwater garment equipped with the same Provided are an underwater propulsion aid and an underwater garment equipped with the same that enable a user to walk on land or get on or off a boat or the like while wearing them, that have high fashionability and safety, and that enable even a user with weak muscular strength and a user having no experience of using them to easily obtain a propulsive force in water. An underwater propulsion aid 1 includes a base portion 2 that is formed in accordance with a curved shape of a shank and that is fitted to a part from a knee to an ankle, and a pair of front fins 3 that are protruded to right and left outer sides from both right and left side surfaces of the base portion 2 while continuing to a curved surface of a shin.
US09333386B2	Physical exercise device The invention relates to a physical exercise device which is to be entirely supported by the user and which is usable while walking or jogging. The device according to the invention is characterized in that it includes: for exercising the upper body, a belt (1), two side handles (2), and two resilient links (3), it being a given that each handle (2) is sized so as to contain, when the device is at rest, the entirety of each resilient link (3), the length and the resilient characteristics of which are such that the extension thereof out of the handle ensures the extension and 360° rotation in space of the upper limbs of the user; and, for exercising the lower body, a back roller (4) removably attached to the belt (1) and intended for rolling on a wall by bending and extending the lower limbs.
US09333385B2	Exercise device with elastic members and webbing An exercise device for various exercises includes a pair of bridges on opposing ends of a relatively inelastic, flat central webbing/band/belt, with an elastic member extending from each bridge. The elastic members themselves may serve as grips (for hands, feet, ankles, arms, wrists, etc.), or separate grips (such as those of a handle) may be used. The elastic members include a pair of bulbs on opposing ends of a body, and may be secured to the bridges and handle grips via cradles (in which the bulbs may be lodged) and/or channels (through which the bodies may be passed). A user may push or pull on grips with hands or feet to stretch the elastic members while exercising. The elastic members are preferably exchangeable to allow the user to change workout intensity by swapping in elastic members having different elasticities/lengths that provide different resistances.
US09333384B1	Exercise equipment having adjustable band pegs Exercise equipment is for performing exercises in an exercise zone. The exercise equipment comprises a frame and a band peg that is connected to the frame so as to be selectively movable between an active position wherein the band peg extends from the frame into the exercise zone and an inactive position wherein the band peg is retracted away from the exercise zone.
US09333380B2	Valve for a fire extinguishing system A valve for a fire extinguishing system includes a housing, a flow control apparatus, an actuator apparatus, and a manual override apparatus. The flow control apparatus is disposed in a cavity to prevent or permit flow of the fire extinguishing agent from an ingress aperture to an egress aperture of the housing. The flow control apparatus includes a burst disk clamped between the first and second annular faces and an annular spool axially movable along the longitudinal axis relative to the housing. The actuator apparatus includes a bearing sleeve angularly movable around a longitudinal axis relative to the housing and a latch element operably coupling the bearing sleeve and the annular spool. The manual override apparatus includes a cam operably coupled to the bearing sleeve.
US09333379B2	Aerial fire suppression system A fire suppression apparatus for fighting fires from a vehicle configured for flight is disclosed, comprising a foam and water held in separate containers aboard the vehicle that when mixed forms a fire retardant, a pump driven by an electric motor to pressurize the fire retardant, the pump including an air induction valve where air is drawn into a suction end of the pump and pressurized together with the fire retardant, and an aimable boom connected to the pump by a conduit, the boom including a nozzle on a distal end of the boom from which the pressurized fire retardant and air is dispensed toward a target.
US09333376B2	Method and apparatus for calibrating a charged particle pencil beam used for therapeutic purposes A system for calibrating a charged particle pencil beam includes a first pixelated detector, a second pixelated detector, a beam stop, and a diagnostics system. The first and second pixelated detectors measure the pencil beam at positions proximal and/or distal to an isocenter plane. The beam stop is configured to detect an energy level of the pencil beam. The diagnostics system is configured to transmit a signal to request a generation of the charged particle pencil beam at different settings. The diagnostics system is also configured to update a calibration parameter for each setting based on the data received from the pixelated detectors and the beam stop.
US09333374B2	Treatment planning device, particle beam therapy system and method for determining scanning route of charged particle beam A scanning candidate route extracting unit which extracts plural candidates of scanning routes in which each of the scanning routes connects all spot positions in one layer is provided, in an evaluation function using necessary scanning time Tk and weight coefficient wk for a kth partial route among partial routes which are routes between the spot positons which are adjacent on one of the plural candidates of scanning routes, and number n of spot in the layer, wk with respect to a partial route which passes through affected tissue is set to be 1, wk with respect to a partial route which passes through normal tissue is set to be bigger than 1, and wk with respect to a partial route which passes through an important internal organ is set to be bigger than wk with respect to a partial route which passes through normal tissue.
US09333369B2	Systems and methods to reduce power deposition in tissue exposed to radio frequency electromagnetic fields An apparatus for exposing a region of interest of an object, animal or person to an alternating magnetic field has a source of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation arranged to provide the alternating magnetic field in an exposure volume defined by the apparatus, and a shield arranged between the source of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation and the exposure volume. The shield includes a material that has a sufficient thickness and arrangement to reduce power deposition to at least regions outside of the region of interest of the object, animal or person during exposure in the exposure volume.
US09333368B2	Treatment of biological tissues using subnanosecond electric pulses A system for treatment of biological tissues is provided. The system includes a lens having a hollow, substantially hemispherical shape with an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining a substantially hemispherical cavity for inserting the biological tissues. The system further includes an antenna assembly for generating and directing electromagnetic radiation towards the outer surface. In the system, the lens is configured to direct the electromagnetic energy to an area in the cavity, a dielectric constant of the lens at the inner surface substantially matches a dielectric constant of the biological tissues, the dielectric constant monotonically increases from the outer surface to the inner surface, and the electromagnetic energy is generated via a series of pulses having a transient of less than about 1 nanosecond.
US09333358B2	Selective high frequency spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain with reduced side effects, and associated systems and methods Selective high-frequency spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain with reduced side effects and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In particular embodiments, high-frequency modulation in the range of from about 1.5 KHz to about 100 KHz may be applied to the patient's spinal cord region to address low back pain without creating unwanted sensory and/or motor side effects. In other embodiments, modulation in accordance with similar parameters can be applied to other spinal or peripheral locations to address other indications.
US09333347B2	Devices and methods for non-invasive electrical stimulation and their use for vagal nerve stimulation on the neck of a patient A non-invasive electrical stimulation device shapes an elongated electric field of effect that can be oriented parallel to a long nerve, such as a vagus nerve in a patient's neck, producing a desired physiological response in the patient. The stimulator comprises a source of electrical power, at least one electrode and a continuous electrically conducting medium in which the electrode(s) are in contact. The stimulation device is configured to produce a peak pulse voltage that is sufficient to produce a physiologically effective electric field in the vicinity of a target nerve, but not to substantially stimulate other nerves and muscles that lie between the vicinity of the target nerve and patient's skin. Current is passed through the electrodes in bursts of preferably five sinusoidal pulses, wherein each pulse within a burst has a duration of preferably 200 microseconds, and bursts repeat at preferably at 15-50 bursts per second.
US09333341B2	Medical electrical lead An implantable lead for placement by means of a guide wire passing therethrough. The lead has an elongated insulative lead body with an axially extending lumen through at least a distal portion of the lead body. A conductor is mounted within and extends to an electrode assembly mounted to a distal portion of the lead body. A seal housing with a seal located therein located at a distal end of the lead body. The seal is located generally perpendicular to the axis of the lead body and is concave on both its proximal and distal sides. The housing is provided with a cavity adjacent each of the seal's proximal and distal sides, into which the seal may be deflected. The electrode assembly may be mounted to the seal housing.
US09333338B2	Electrode for common cavity cochlear malformation A method is described to implant a cochlear implant electrode into a cochlea having a single internal cavity defined by an outer cavity wall. An implantable electrode array is made of a resilient electrode carrier material and has an outer surface with one or more stimulation contacts for delivering the electrical stimulation signals to adjacent neural tissue. A distal end of the electrode array is attached to an insertion line made of a line material different from the electrode carrier material. The distal end of the electrode array is inserted through a single cochleostomy opening into the cochlea while an extra-cochlear end of the insertion line is held outside the cochleostomy opening. The remainder of the electrode array is inserted through the cochleostomy opening into the cochlea while continuing to hold the extra-cochlear end outside the cochlea to maneuver all of the stimulation contacts against the outer cavity wall.
US09333331B2	Method for implanting an access port A transcutaneous access port to a user has a coupling member destined to be anchored in a bone of the user. A first valve system is removably connectable to the coupling member and a second valve system is removably connected to the first valve system. An internal conduit is connected at its proximal end to the access port and at its distal end to a vascular structure of the user. An external conduit is connected to the access port and to an extracorporeal device. A traversing cavity is formed in the bone at an implantation site of the user, passing the internal conduit. The internal conduit is routed through the traversing cavity to connect its distal end to the vascular structure of the user. The coupling member is anchored to the bone at the implantation site. The proximal end of the internal conduit is connected to the access port.
US09333329B2	Vaginal carrier for the controlled release of substances A device that delivers one or more substances into a vaginal lumen according to one of a plurality of release patterns. The device comprises a supporting structure, substance dispensers, and/or coupling elements which are configured to release one or more substances, for example, drugs, in manner designed to optimize treatment of one or more medical conditions.
US09333319B2	Illumination device and method for reducing sleep inertia or controlling alertness The invention relates to a method and an illumination device arranged for reducing sleep inertia and/or for controlling alertness of a human being. The illumination device is arranged for reducing sleep inertia and/or controlling alertness by light radiation. The illumination device comprises one or more light sources for generating a first illumination output and a second illumination output. The first illumination output comprises light with a dominant wavelength in the range of 590-770 nm. The second illumination output comprises light with a dominant wavelength in the range of 400-560 nm. Thus, colored light is used. Alternatively, the first illumination output comprises white light with a color temperature below 4100 K, i.e. warm white light. The second color temperature then comprises white light with a color temperature above 4900 K. The illumination device comprises a controller configured for controlling the one or more light sources to expose said eye of said human being to the first illumination output during a first time interval and to the second illumination output during a second time interval. The second time interval terminates at a later point in time than the first time interval. The time intervals are selected such that at least one of the first and second time interval is less than 60 seconds.
US09333311B2	Electronic cigarette and electronic cigarette device This invention discloses an electronic cigarette and an electronic cigarette device, the electronic cigarette includes a cartridge and a power unit, the cartridge defines atomizing chambers therein, the power unit includes a power supply therein, the atomizing chambers are mutually parallel to each other, the electronic cigarette further comprises a controller connecting the power supply and the atomizing chambers to control the atomizing chambers to work. The electronic cigarette and the electronic cigarette device of the invention have multiple atomizing chambers parallel to each other, and the controller which connects the power supply and the atomizing chambers to control the atomizing chambers to work, thereby achieving big and thick smoke for good flavor. On the other hand, the atomizing chambers accommodate different types of smoke oils, this makes the electronic cigarette to generate smoke with multiple mixed flavors, thus, the users can change the flavors of smoke as they like.
US09333304B2	Needle safety arrangement and method for operating it The invention refers to an auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M), the auto-injector having a distal end (P) and a proximal end (D) with an orifice intended to be applied against an injection site and comprising: an elongate housing arranged to contain a syringe with a hollow needle and a stopper for sealing the syringe and displacing the medicament (M), wherein the syringe (3) is slidably arranged with respect to the housing, a drive means capable of, upon activation: pushing the needle from a retracted position into an advanced position through the orifice and past the proximal end (P), and operating the syringe to supply the dose of medicament (M), a plunger for transmitting power from the drive means to the syringe and/or stopper, activating means arranged to lock the drive means in a compressed state prior to manual operation and capable of, upon manual operation, releasing the drive means for injection, characterized in that translation of the needle and the syringe and/or translation of the plunger in longitudinal direction is controlled by at least one ramp or one thread so as to cause the syringe and/or the plunger to rotate when translated at least during part of the translation.
US09333290B2	Anti-free flow mechanism The present invention discloses an anti-free flow mechanism for a finger-type peristaltic infusion pump (DDS) and methods for avoiding anti-free-flow. The mechanism comprises: a passive mechanical interface (MS) which integrally accommodates a portion of the flexible infusion tube, and an anti-free flow valve (AFFV) which is a spring-activated latch, which is incorporated within said MS. The maneuverable latch is secured in the MS either in CLOSED or OPEN configurations: in its CLOSED configuration no flow is provided, and in its OPEN configuration, a free flow is facilitated. Said anti-free flow mechanism is configured in a manner such that when the MS is not properly mounted in the DDS, said AFFV is automatically actuated via one or more integrated springs, to its CLOSED configuration. When the MS is properly mounted in the DDS, said latch is adapted to be automatically switched to the OPEN configuration.
US09333288B2	Attachable plunger rod and associated packaging A syringe assembly including a plunger rod separate and detached from a syringe barrel and a packaging member, the plunger rod having a sealing member and the packaging member having a first compartment and a second compartment is disclosed. With the syringe barrel received within the first compartment and the plunger rod received within the second compartment, the sealing member of the plunger rod seals the syringe barrel and the plunger rod within the packaging member. In this manner, the syringe assembly is placed in the packaging member in a manner that allows for reduced storage space of the syringe assembly.
US09333286B2	Medical tubing installation detection This disclosure relates to medical tubing installation detection. In certain aspects, a method is performed by a data processing apparatus. The method includes detecting that a tube is incorrectly installed on a drug delivery device by providing an instruction for a motor of the drug delivery device to pump a drug and receiving, after a period of time has passed since providing the instruction for the motor of the drug delivery device to pump the drug, a signal from a fluid detector connected to the tube, the signal indicating an absence of fluid in the tube.
US09333285B2	Method and device for downgrading at least one component of a fluid medium A method for the depletion of at least one component of a fluid medium includes increasing the concentration of the at least one component to be depleted before its depletion. An apparatus for the depletion of the at least one component of the fluid medium has a concentration increasing unit for increasing the concentration of the component of the fluid medium to be depleted and a depletion unit disposed downstream thereof and in fluid communication therewith for the subsequent reduction in the concentration of the component to be depleted.
US09333281B2	Drainage pump unit A drainage pump unit for aspirating body fluids by means of a suction pump has a suction pump arranged in a suction pump housing, wherein a fluid collection container can be secured releasably on the suction pump housing, and wherein a capacitive filling level sensor is arranged on the suction pump housing for detecting a filling level in the fluid collection container. The filling level sensor has at least two electrodes, which are arranged at a distance from each other and extend along a common path. A first of the electrodes is in one piece, and a second of the electrodes is segmented. This arrangement permits the production of inexpensive fluid collection containers while still ensuring a high degree of measurement accuracy.
US09333277B2	Extracellular matrix (ECM) structures for tissue regeneration An extracellular matrix (ECM) structure for tissue regeneration, the ECM structure having a a sheet member comprising small intestine submucosa (SIS), the SIS sheet member being folded and laminated proximate the sheet member edge, wherein a folded laminated ECM structure having a cavity therein is formed, the ECM structure further including an ECM composition that is disposed in the ECM structure cavity, the ECM composition including liver basement membrane, urinary bladder submucosa, a mesenchymal stem cell and a growth factor.
US09333276B2	Bone/polyurethane composites and methods thereof Present inventions present composites of bone particles and polyurethane(s), as well as methods of making such composite and uses thereof. A porous composite comprises a plurality of bone particles; and polyurethanes with which the bone particles are combined. To prepare a porous composite, a composition comprise a plurality of bone particles, polyurethane precursors including polyisocyanate prepolymers and polyols, water and catalyst. A composition is either naturally moldable and/or injectable, or it can be made moldable and/or injectable. After implantation or injection, a composition may be set to form a porous composite that provides mechanical strength and supports the in-growth of cells. Inventive composites have the advantage of being able to fill irregularly shape implantation site while at the same time being settable to provide the mechanical strength for most orthopedic applications.
US09333266B2	Medicinal agent for medical applications Provided is a medicinal agent for medical applications, which can act on the function of a target cell specifically. The medicinal agent for medical applications comprises: a cell-incorporated substance that can be incorporated into a target cell specifically; and an acting substance that can act on the function of the target cell and is bound to the cell-incorporated substance.
US09333259B2	Selective fat removal using NIR light and nanoparticles A system and method are provided for minimally-invasive selective removal of fat from a target area by injecting the area with a solution of photo-absorbing nanoparticles and irradiating the injected area with a beam of near infrared (NIR) light. The NIR emission wavelength excites the nanoparticles to melt fat within the target area so that the liquefied fat can be aspirated from the target area. The nanoparticles may be gold nanorods having aspect ratios selected to produce surface plasmon resonance when irradiated with NIR light around 800 nm.
US09333253B2	Vaccines for inclusion body hepatitis A composition comprising an isolated fowl adenovirus (FAdV), wherein the FAdV is a strain selected from FAdV-2, FAdV-7, FAdv-8a, FAdV-8b, FAdV-8a/8b or FAdV-11 serotype strains; and a suitable carrier and methods for inducing protective immunity in a subject and/or its progeny.
US09333252B2	Vaccine against streptococcal infections based on recombinant proteins An antigenic composition comprises several antigenic components derived from antigens of Streptococcus equi subsp. equi or subsp. zooepidemicus, wherein at least one component is a fusion protein or polypeptide comprising two or more such antigens or fragments thereof. The antigenic composition may be used for immunization of mammals against S. equi subsp. equi and/or subsp. zooepidemicus. A vaccine composition comprising the antigenic composition as immunizing component is also disclosed.
US09333246B2	Compositions and methods to elicit immune responses against pathogenic organisms using yeast-based vaccines Embodiments of the present invention illustrate methods of treating and preventing infection due to a pathogen such as a fungal pathogen. In particular, the present invention relates to compositions and methods for vaccinations against or treatment for a fungal organism in a non-immunocompromised or immunocompromised subject.
US09333241B2	Thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor polypeptide agonist glycoforms to treat metabolic syndrome TSHR agonists that are substantially desialylated are described for treating metabolic syndrome and obesity and for inducing lipolysis. The TSHR polypeptide agonists are useful for treatment of hallmarks of metabolic syndrome: obesity, insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia, and liver steatosis, without producing a hyperthyroid state in treated individuals.
US09333234B2	Combination of somatostatin-analogs with 11beta-hydroxylase inhibitors The present invention relates to a combination which comprises (a) a somatostatin analog and (b) a 11beta-hydroxylase inhibitor; each in free form or in the form of a pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof; the use of such a combination for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of diseases associated with increased stress hormone levels; a commercial package or product comprising such a combination; and to a method of treatment of a warm-blooded animal, especially a human.
US09333232B2	Methods for treating papilloma virus infection The present invention relates to polyamide compositions and therapies for treating cells infected with papilloma virus (PV).
US09333230B2	Cosmetic compositions Disclosed is a composition and methods for its use capable of treating pruritus comprising a combination of one or more of an Echinacea purpurea extract, a Silybum marianum extract, glycerin, and a mixture comprising cetylhydroxyproline palmitamide/steric acid/Brassica campestris (rapeseed) sterols.
US09333227B2	Controlled growth of microorganisms It can be useful to regulate the growth of microbial cells. Some embodiments herein provide genetically engineered microbial cells that can produce bacteriocins to control the growth of microbial cells. In some embodiments, microbial cells are contained within a desired environment. In some embodiments, contaminating microbial cells are neutralized. In some embodiments, a first microbial cell type regulates the growth of a second microbial cell type so as to maintain a desired ratio of the two cell types.
US09333226B2	Use of plant cell membrane treatment of obesity The present invention relates to the use of a composition comprising at least one cell membrane fraction or parts thereof, for the reduction of lipolytic activity and/or to retard fat digestion, suppress appetite, body weight and/or lower blood lipids. The invention also relates to the use of said hydrophobic peptide in a pharmaceutical as well as a food composition and methods of treating a mammal with said composition.
US09333222B2	Histone deacetylase inhibitors as therapeutic agents for Niemann-Pick type C disease Embodiments herein relate to the field of lysosomal storage disorders, and, more specifically, to methods of treating lysosomal storage disorders such as Niemann-Pick type C disease, for instance with inhibitors of histone deacetylases, particularly inhibitors of class 1 histone deacetylases. In various embodiments, methods of treating Niemann-Pick type C disease with inhibitors of class 1 histone deacetylases are described.
US09333219B2	Method to treat or prevent herpesvirus infections Methods and compositions are provided for inhibiting or treating a herpesvirus infection in a subject using inhibitors of mammalian Akt.
US09333213B2	Prochelators as broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents and methods of use The present disclosure provides methods of treating (including ameliorating and/or preventing) pathogenic infections by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a prochelator. The present disclosure further provides pharmaceutical compositions and a kit comprising the prochelator therein.
US09333209B2	Compositions for increasing hair growth Cosmetic skin and hair care compositions for enhancing the growth and appearance of mammalian hair in an individual are provided, which compositions comprise a dose of an L-type calcium channel blocker effective to promote anagen phase of the hair cycle. As shown herein, anagen phase promotion can result in more rapid hair growth.
US09333204B2	Solid antiviral dosage forms The present disclosure relates to solid dosage forms comprising antiviral compounds and methods of using such dosage forms to treat antiviral infection.
US09333202B2	Non-retinoid antagonists for treatment of age-related macular degeneration and stargardt disease A method for treating a disease characterized by excessive lipofuscin accumulation in the retina in mammals afflicted therewith, comprising administering to the mammal an effective amount of a non-retinoid antagonist compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US09333201B1	Treating pain in patients with hepatic impairment An extended release composition for an analgesic active pharmaceutical ingredient which may be an opioid, preferably hydrocodone as the only active ingredient. The extended release composition preferably comprises a extended release composition which may be in the form of beads contained in an oral dosage form such as gelatin capsules. The composition is designed to release hydrocodone in a way such that the increase in hydrocodone exposure in hepatically impaired patients is not clinically significant. The oral dosage units are supplied as part of a kit, which also includes a primary package and a package insert all sold as a commercially marketed product. The primary package and package insert are contained in an optional secondary package and the package insert does not contain a warning, a dosing instruction, or a dosing table specifically directed to patients suffering from mild, moderate or severe hepatic impairment, and preferably explicitly states that dosing adjustment is not required for mild or moderate hepatic impairment.
US09333196B2	Use of quaternary pyridinium salts as vasoprotective agents The invention relates to the use of quaternary pyridinium salts of formula (I), wherein R is NH2, CH3, or N(H)CH2OH group, and X is pharmaceutically acceptable counterion, for the preparation of vasoprotective agent for the treatment or prevention of conditions or diseases associated with dysfunction of vascular endothelium, oxidative stress, and/or insufficient production of endothelial prostacyclin PGI2, in particular but not exclusively if the above coincides with hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia or low HDL level.
US09333183B2	Self-assembling polyphenol-quinonoid polymer derivatives and uses thereof The invention relates to novel polyphenol-quinonoid polymer derivatives, methods of synthesizing, compositions and uses thereof. In particular, the invention relates to polyphenol-quinonoid polymer derivatives useful in the treatment of viral infections, notably conditions caused by retroviruses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
US09333178B2	Essential oil microparticles and uses thereof for preventing enteric diseases The present invention relates to a microparticle containing essential palmarosa and lemongrass oils for controlling enteric diseased caused by microorganisms. More specifically, the microparticle according to the present invention can be used for controlling enteric infections caused by pathogenic bacteria in humans and animals, and can be used as an alternative to the administration of antibiotics for that purpose. The microparticle can be used in the veterinary and pharmaceutical fields and can be administered orally.
US09333175B2	Controlled release levetiracetam formulations and methods for producing the same Pharmaceutical compositions in the form of tablets are disclosed including water-soluble active ingredients such as levetiracetam and a polymer component which primarily includes water-insoluble polymers comprising between 60% and 100% of the polymer component in the tablet core, preferably the entire polymer component in the tablet core. The pharmaceutical compositions can also include an extended-release coating including both water-soluble and water-insoluble polymers.
US09333174B2	Use of simple amino acids to form porous particles Particles having a tap density of less than 0.4 g/cm3 include a hydrophobic amino acid or salt thereof and a therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic agent or any combination thereof. Preferred particles include a phospholipid, have a median geometric diameter between about 5 and about 30 microns and an aerodynamic diameter between about 1 and about 5 microns. The particles can be formed by spray-drying and are useful for delivery to the pulmonary system.
US09333167B2	Topical skin care formulations comprising plant extracts Disclosed is a method of lightening skin or evening skin tone, the method comprising topically applying to skin in need thereof a composition comprising an extract from Rhododendron moulmainense, wherein topical application of the composition lightens skin or evens skin tone.
US09333163B2	Particles with multiple functionalized surface domains This disclosure relates to particles (e.g., nanoparticles and microparticles) that display multiple functionalized surface domains in a controlled mosaic pattern. The disclosure also provides simple methods to create various particles that have multiple functionalized surface domains while allowing the use of a wide variety of diverse core structures. The multiple functionalized domains provide controllable particle binding and orientation, and controlled and sustained drug release profiles.
US09333161B2	Composition containing an alkoxysilane and hyaluronic acid A composition comprising: at least one alkoxysilane having at least one solubilizing functional group and at least one amino substituent; at least one glycosaminoglycan chosen from hyaluronic acid; water; optionally, at least one auxiliary ingredient; and optionally, at least one volatile solvent.
US09333150B2	Dental restorative materials based on polymerizable azides and alkynes The invention relates to a dental restorative material on the basis of at least one compound of Formula I A-[X-Q-(Y-CG)n]m Formula I, wherein CG represents in each case independently an azide group N3 or an alkyne group selected from the group consisting of —CR1R2—C≡CH, with the proviso that the dental restorative material comprises at least one compound of Formula I comprising an azide group and at least one compound of Formula I comprising an alkyne group. The invention also relates to the use of the dental restorative materials according to the invention for preparing dental composites, preferably composite blanks, which are suitable in particular for mechanical processing by means of computer-aided processing techniques such as milling and grinding processes, and which are suitable above all for preparing dental restoration materials such as inlays, onlays, crowns, bridges or veneering materials.
US09333147B2	Device for sealing a vessel and method of manufacturing a sealed vessel A device for sealing a vessel, in particular a cartridge (7) or a test-tube for accommodating a freeze-dried pharmaceutical product (S), wherein the vessel (1) comprises at its opening end (3) an opening edge (4) and an adjoining longitudinal portion (5) with an evenly formed inner cross section, including a front plunger (2) to be positioned inside the vessel (1) at the longitudinal portion (5), is characterized in that the front plunger (2) is configured to be positioned in the vessel (1) in a sealing state, in which the front plunger (2) is fully inserted in the vessel (1), or in an exchange state, in which the front plunger (2) is inserted partly in the vessel (1) and partly protrudes over the opening edge (4) of the vessel (1), wherein the front plunger (2) comprises sealing means that are configured to seal the inside of the vessel (1) against the outside when the front plunger (2) is positioned in the sealing state, and one or more communicating grooves (2i) that are configured to place the inside and outside of the vessel (1) in communication with each other when the front plunger (2) is positioned in the exchange state. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing a sealed vessel (1) is disclosed.
US09333135B2	Bolster attachment system for an adjustable bed A bed frame with a support structure has a rigid structural frame for carrying an articulating structure for an adjustable bed. The support structure extends substantially to the extents of the articulating structure in an unarticulated position and has a padded bolster. The bolster incorporates a mounting support attached to the structural frame and a resilient foam bumper received on the mounting support with a fabric covering surrounding the bumper and fastened to the mounting support. The articulating structure includes rigid planar supports having edges with a surrounding resilient foam layer having a fabric covering secured to the planar support. The bumper and foam layer are resilient to deform upon contact with an intruding appendage inserted between them. For an exemplary embodiment, an electrical outlet is mounted in a housing which penetrates the support frame, mounting support and bumper.
US09333126B2	Composition and method for blood sugar modulation Compositions and methods for modulating blood sugar are provided. The composition comprises gymnema, green coffee, grape seed, hibiscus, cinnamon, holy basil, Russian tarragon, ginger, turmeric, and chromium.
US09333121B2	Disposable diaper In a disposable diaper, ends at a front waistline region side of the disposable diaper within a stretchable range in leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the front waistline region side as compared to an end at the front waistline region side within a stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. Ends at a rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the rear waistline region side as compared to an end at the rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. A tensile modulus of the crotch stretch unit is configured so as to be greater than a tensile modulus of the leg stretch units.
US09333115B2	Separation of gas and liquid in membrane valves A drainage device for implantation in an eye of a patient to treat an ocular condition is disclosed. The drainage device includes a housing, a multi-compartment flow control chamber, and a membrane. The housing includes an entrance port and an exit port connected by a fluid flow passageway. The membrane is disposed between the fluid flow passageway and the multi-compartment flow control chamber, which includes a first compartment and a second compartment in fluid communication with each other. The first and second compartments are structurally arranged to limit contact of gas with the membrane, which is disposed between the fluid flow passageway and first compartment. The membrane is configured to affect flow through the fluid flow passageway by deflecting in response to pressure in the flow control chamber.
US09333111B2	Fundus bumper mechanical reference for easier mechanism deployment Intrauterine devices and methods for facilitating deployment thereof using a bumper are disclosed. In one embodiment, an intrauterine device comprises a structure including a first central support member and a deployment mechanism coupled to the first central support member. The intrauterine device further comprises a bumper positioned at a distal end of a second central support member and at a more distal position relative to a distal end of the structure so as to prevent the distal end of the structure from contacting the fundus of the uterus of a patient during deployment of the deployment mechanism. In another embodiment, the intrauterine device comprises a bumper coupled to the deployment mechanism and configured to move from a more distal to a more proximal position relative to a distal end of the structure.
US09333107B2	Brace system A brace system includes a medial brace and a lateral brace securable via cross members. Each brace has an upper portion, a lower portion, and a hinge assembly between the upper and lower portion configured to allow translation of the lower portion relative to the upper portion.
US09333106B2	Circumferential walker An orthopedic device in the form of a circumferential walker includes a first member (posterior shell) and a second member (dorsal shell) corresponding to the first member. An outsole or plantar shell portion is attached to, or formed on or with the posterior shell. A hinge mechanism is provided between the posterior and dorsal shells to allow the dorsal shell to be swung away from the posterior shell in order to accommodate an anatomical limb therein. Inflatable bladders having perspiration wicking channels and/or openings are provided within a liner for insertion between the posterior and dorsal shells. Quick-connecting buckle and retaining assemblies can be provided to allow a user to quickly don and doff the orthopedic device.
US09333100B2	Stents for prosthetic heart valves A stented valve including a stent structure including a generally tubular body portion having a first end, a second end, an interior area, a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of vertical wires extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis around a periphery of the body portion, wherein the plurality of vertical wires includes multiple commissure wires and at least one structural wire positioned between adjacent commissure wires, and a plurality of V-shaped wire structures having a first end, a second end, and a peak between the first and second ends, wherein a first end of each V-shaped structure extends from a first vertical wire and a second end of each V-shaped structure extends from a second vertical wire that is adjacent to the first vertical wire, wherein each V-shaped structure is oriented so that its peak is facing in the same direction relative to the first and second ends of the body portion, and a valve structure including a plurality of leaflets attached to the stent structure within the tubular body portion.
US09333099B2	Magnesium alloy implants with controlled degradation Stents or scaffolds made from magnesium or magnesium alloys including additives or barrier coatings that modify the corrosion rate of the stent are disclosed. Methods of forming barrier coatings that modify the corrosion rate of the stent are disclosed.
US09333097B2	Artificial human limbs and joints employing actuators, springs, and variable-damper elements Biomimetic Hybrid Actuators employed in biologically-inspired musculoskeletal architectures employ an electric motor for supplying positive energy to and storing negative energy from an artificial joint or limb, as well as elastic elements such as springs, and controllable variable damper components, for passively storing and releasing energy and providing adaptive stiffness to accommodate level ground walking as well as movement on stairs and surfaces having different slopes.
US09333083B2	Artificial hip joint consisting of multi-layer shell core composite structural components An artificial hip joint consisting of multi-layer shell core composite structural components includes an artificial acetabular bone (1) and an artificial femoral head (2) which are mutually matched with each other. The artificial acetabular bone (1) has a multi-layer shell core composite structure and is constituted of a ceramic acetabular bone lining (1-1), transitional layers (1-2, 1-3), an acetabular bone shell made of a porous metal or a porous alloy or a porous toughened ceramic (1-4). The artificial femoral head (2) has a multi-layer shell core composite structure and is constituted of a ceramic spherical shell layer (2-1), a transitional layer (2-5) and a toughened ceramic inner core (2-2). The artificial acetabular bone lining and the artificial femoral head spherical shell layer of the hip joint have high rigid, anti-corrosion and anti-wear performance. The artificial acetabular bone shell layer and the femoral head inner core layer have high tough, shockresistant performance.
US09333082B2	Delivery system attachment A covering for delivering a substance or material to a surgical site is provided. The covering, with substance provided therein, may be referred to as a delivery system. Generally, the covering may be a single or multi-compartment structure capable of at least partially retaining a substance provided therein until the covering is placed at a surgical site. Upon placement, the covering may facilitate transfer of the substance or surrounding materials. For example, the substance may be released (actively or passively) to the surgical site. The covering may participate in, control, or otherwise adjust, the release of the substance.
US09333074B2	Vascular implant and delivery system A vascular implant for replacing a native heart valve comprises a self expanding stent supporting a valve body having leaflets. The stent preferably comprises an anchoring structure configured to prevent the implant from passing through the valve annulus. For delivery, the implant is compacted within a delivery device and secured at one end. During delivery the implant is partially released from the delivery device, and positioning of the implant can be verified prior to full release. The implant can be at least partially resheathed and repositioned if desired.
US09333069B2	Method and apparatus for attaching soft tissue to bone The present teachings provide for a graft fixation assembly including a base member, a compression member, and a fastener. The base member includes a bone engaging surface and a first graft engaging surface opposite to the bone engaging surface. A plurality of first fixation members extend from the bone engaging surface and are configured to be impacted into bone. The compression member includes a second graft engaging surface and an outer surface opposite to the second graft engaging surface. The fastener is configured to secure the compression member relative to the base member such that a graft between the base member and the compression member is compressed therebetween and secured to the graft fixation assembly.
US09333060B2	Plaque removal and differentiation of tooth and gum A method of tooth treatment includes sensing a surface condition of tooth or gum and controlling ejection of a fluid jet against the tooth based on the sensed condition. The fluid may be a liquid and may be carried in a self-contained reservoir in a handle of a fluid ejection device. The liquid can be a cleansing solution and may contain cleaning particles. The ejection can be controlled to clean teeth at high pressure and to reduce pressure applied to gum, for example, to clean plaque. In some embodiments, the method may be used to remove soft tooth. The method may further include automatically scanning the fluid jet relative to a handle of an injection device. In an embodiment, the fluid is ejected by means of a fluid ejector comprising a stationary magnet assembly providing a magnetic field and a coil assembly, slidably disposed with respect to the magnet assembly, the coil assembly driving ejection of the fluid jet. Sensing the surface condition can include measuring a response of tissue to a mechanical perturbation and may include sensing an acoustic signal reflected from tissue. The mechanical perturbation can include applied force and the measured response can include deformation of the tissue. The method may further include mechanically disturbing the tissue with the fluid jet. A tooth treatment device includes a fluid ejector that ejects fluid against teeth and a servo controller controlling pressure of ejected fluid in response to a sensed surface condition. The fluid jet can have a diameter of less than 500 microns, a peak relative pressure of at least 1 kilopascal and velocity of at least 1 meter per second.
US09333051B2	Method for manufacturing appliances for repositioning teeth A method for generating digital data sets is provided. The method includes: obtaining a first digital data set representing a first tooth arrangement; providing at least one operator for modifying a digital data set representing a tooth arrangement; providing target data which represents orthodontic treatment requirements; generating a second digital data set representing a second tooth arrangement based on the first digital data set using a state space search method and the at least one operator; determining whether the second tooth arrangement meets the treatment requirements; generating a Nth digital data set representing a Nth tooth arrangement based on a N−1th data set representing a N−1th tooth arrangement using the state space search method and the at least one operator, where N is an integer greater than 2; and determining whether the Nth tooth arrangement meets the treatment requirements.
US09333045B2	Method and means for transferring controller motion from a robotic manipulator to an attached instrument A coupler to transfer controller motion from a robotic manipulator to a surgical instrument includes a pin having a tip with a bearing surface and a plate having a driving surface that bears against a gimbal assembly in the surgical instrument. The plate has a surface supported on the bearing surface of the pin. The bearing surface has a center that coincides with an intersection of two rotational axes of the gimbal assembly. The plate is rotated about the center of the bearing surface to transfer controller motion to the surgical instrument. There may be alignment features on the driving surface of the plate to mate with corresponding features on an inner gimbal of the gimbal assembly. An actuator arm may be connected to one side of the plate. An actuator mechanism may be connected to the actuator arm to rotate the plate about the center of the bearing surface.
US09333042B2	Medical robotic system with coupled control modes In a coupled control mode, the surgeon directly controls movement of an associated slave manipulator with an input device while indirectly controlling movement of one or more non-associated slave manipulators, in response to commanded motion of the directly controlled slave manipulator, to achieve a secondary objective. By automatically performing secondary tasks through coupled control modes, the system's usability is enhanced by reducing the surgeon's need to switch to another direct mode to manually achieve the desired secondary objective. Thus, coupled control modes allow the surgeon to better focus on performing medical procedures and to pay less attention to managing the system.
US09333028B2	Double-length jaw system for electrosurgical instrument An electrosurgical forceps includes a handle having a shaft extending therefrom defining a longitudinal axis. The handle is selectively movable to translate movement of the shaft along the longitudinal axis to actuate a pair of laterally spaced first and second jaw members pivotably connected to a distal end of the shaft. The first and second jaw members are moveable from an open position, wherein the first and second jaw members are in spaced relation relative to a stationary jaw member, to a closed position wherein the first and second jaw members cooperate with the stationary jaw member to grasp tissue therebetween. Each of the jaw members is adapted to connect to an electrosurgical energy source to conduct energy through tissue grasped therebetween to effect a tissue seal.
US09333024B2	Electrosurgical systems and methods System and methods of an electrosurgical controller having multiple modes of operation that are configured for treatment of a specific targeted tissue type and the electrosurgical effect desired where the treatment and effect are provided by a single controller and an electrosurgical probe. The electrosurgical controller includes an integrated fluid control apparatus or pump where activation of the controller allows for selective energy delivery and corresponding fluid volume flow rates. The electrosurgical probe includes a fluid transport lumen and is in communication with the controller and the pump for operation of the probe in the various user selected modes with accompanying energy delivery and fluid control directed to the desired treatment and surgical effect.
US09333021B2	Tensioning instrument A bone plate system for securing a plurality of bones is provided including a plate member, a locking device of the bone plate, and a surgical cable having a trailing end for being connected to the bone plate and a leading end for being advanced around the bones and into the locking device. The surgical cable may be tensioned to approximate the bones, urge the bones together, and seat the bone plate against the bones. The locking device may be reconfigured to a locked configuration to fix the bone plate to the surgical cable. The bone plate further includes a plurality of throughbores for receiving bone anchors that rigidly fix the bone plate to the bones. The bone plate system utilizes the tensile strength of the surgical cable and the rigid fixation between the bone anchors and the bone plate to resist relative movement of the bones.
US09333020B2	Tissue graft anchor assembly and instrumentation for use therewith The present disclosure relates to a soft tissue graft anchor. The anchor includes a plurality of prongs, each prong including a distal end and a proximal end, wherein the prongs are coupled at their distal ends to form an inner cavity having an opening, at least one of the prongs including a fin, the fin extending perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the prong and including a pointed end. A tissue graft anchor assembly, a method for tissue repair, and instrumentation for use therewith are also disclosed.
US09333019B2	Wire driver A driver for medical wires has a hollow drive shaft, rotatable about a rotation axis. The hollow drive shaft has a distal end and a proximal end. Furthermore, a plurality of clamping jaws penetrates under an angle into the hollow drive shaft close to its distal end. The clamping jaws are moved into or out of the hollow drive shaft by means of a jaw guide mounted slidable parallel to the rotation axis and movably connected to the clamping jaws. An actuator is provided to shift the jaw guide parallel to the rotation axis and therefore modify the penetration depth of the clamping jaws.
US09333015B2	Apparatus and device for the fixation of osteosynthesis plates Disclosed herein are apparatus, devices and methods for affixing an implant, plate, or the like to body tissue. Preferred embodiments comprise a plate with a pre-defined hole, fasteners configured for secure attachment to body tissue, and a self-centering tool capable of holding and installing multiple fasteners.
US09333003B2	Multi-functional medical device and related methods of use A medical device including an elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending therebetween. The medical device may further include an end-effector disposed at the distal end of the elongate member. The end-effector may include a plurality of arms pivotally connected to one another, wherein each arm includes a tissue-contacting surface, a first portion of the tissue-contacting surface including a plurality of ridges configured to grasp tissue. Further, the tissue-contacting surface may include a channel oriented substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the medical device.
US09333002B2	Apparatus for performing an electrosurgical procedure An endoscopic forceps is provided and includes a housing having a shaft that extends therefrom. An end effector assembly is operatively connected to a distal end of the shaft and includes a pair of pivotably coupled first and second jaw members. The jaw members are movable relative to one another. A drive mechanism includes a driving structure that is operably associated with the shaft and is operably disposed adjacent the end effector assembly. One of a driving structure guide and movable cam operably couples to the driving structure and is configured to facilitate movement of the jaw members.
US09332996B2	Chuck for reciprocating surgical instrument Devices are described relating to the retaining of surgical tools within the chuck of a reciprocating surgical instrument, such as a reciprocating saw. A securing chuck is disclosed for securing a surgical tool to a reciprocating surgical instrument that comprises a shaft and a securing member. The shaft defines an axis and has a cylindrical bore extending along the axis. The bore is shaped to receive a substantially rounded tool shank. A pair of transverse slots extends into the shaft along a plane passing through the axis for receiving a substantially flattened tool shank. The transverse slots intersect with the cylindrical bore. The securing member is carried by the shaft and is radially movable relative to the bore both inwardly and outwardly to secure the surgical tool in the chuck.
US09332993B2	Devices and methods for delivering an endocardial device Described herein are devices, systems and methods for delivering an endocardial device. The systems for delivering the device transvascularly may generally include an elongate guide catheter having a proximal end and a distal end; a conical dilator at the distal end of the elongate guide catheter, the conical dilator being removable to enable delivery of the ventricular portioning device; a delivery catheter having a proximal and distal end; an expansion member near the distal end of the delivery catheter and configured to expand a plurality of struts of the partitioning device; and a coupling element configured to deployably secure to a hub of the partitioning device. The systems for delivering the device transapically may generally include an elongate access sheath; an elongate delivery catheter; an expansion member; and a coupling element proximal to the expansion member and configured to deployably secure to a hub of the partitioning device.
US09332992B2	Method for making a laminar ventricular partitioning device Described herein are systems and methods for securing a polymeric sheet to rib components of a frame structure, wherein the rib components are jointed at a hub to form an expandable and collapsible implant. In general, the method may include the steps of decreasing a diameter of the frame structure; placing the frame structure into an assembly fixture, wherein the assembly fixture is configured to hold the frame structure in a loaded configuration with a decreased diameter; placing a polymeric sheet into the assembly fixture; and heating the assembly under pressure to fuse the sheet to the frame structure. In general, a fixture may include a first and second platen having a shaping portion and a rim portion positioned around the periphery of the platen, wherein the shaping portions are configured to hold the rib components of the frame structure in a loaded configuration with a decreased diameter.
US09332990B2	Ureter to ileal conduit anastomosis using magnetic compression and related delivery devices and methods Magnetic compression anastomosis can be carried out by placing cooperating magnets, one in the ileal conduit and one in the ureter, to lock together and form the anastomosis. The magnets may be placed to form a side-to-side anastomosis. At least one of the magnets can include radioactive material. Catheters may be used to place the magnets, and the catheters may have at least one deflatable or retractable tissue spacer.
US09332985B2	Barbed surgical staple An exemplary surgical staple may include a base including a first end and a second end; a single tine extending from the second end of the base; and a barb extending from the base at a location between the first end of the base and the second end of the base. An end of such a staple may be frangibly affixed to a feeder belt. Another exemplary surgical apparatus may include at least one staple including a base including a first end and a second end, a first tine extending from the second end of the base, and a second tine extending from the base at a location between the first end of the base and the second end of the base.
US09332980B2	Arthroscopic knot pusher and suture cutter Knot pushers and suture cutter apparatuses to be used arthroscopically, for example, in an arthroscopic knee surgery may be operated with a single control to both lock the suture within the distal end of the apparatus and cut the suture once the knot has been pushed to the appropriate location. The apparatus may include a safety lock preventing deployment of the cutter until the safety lock (e.g., cutter release) has been released.
US09332977B2	Closure device A closure device for closing a bodily passageway is provided. The device includes first and second frames and first and second crossbars. A sheet of biocompatible material is attached to one or more of the frames. The first crossbar extends across the first frame and has terminal crossbar ends connectively linked to separate sites on the first frame; the second crossbar is similarly linked to the second frame. The crossbars are attached to each other at a connection point, and they are each configured to bend away from the connection point when the closure device is deployed to close a bodily passageway. A method of making the closure device is provided, as well as a method for closing a bodily passageway using such a device. Further, a closure device assembly is provided, including a closure device, a delivery catheter housing, and a delivery release member.
US09332965B2	Method and apparatus for managing and displaying ultrasound image according to an observation operation A method of managing an ultrasound image, the method including storing a plurality of pieces of setting information to respectively match a plurality of observation operations for diagnosing an object, each of the plurality of pieces of setting information including at least one from among information about an observation plane that splits ultrasound volume data in a predetermined direction, information about a split method of splitting the ultrasound volume data, and information about a reference point; displaying a plurality of plane images for a current observation operation, wherein the plurality of plane images are obtained based on a piece of the setting information matching the current observation operation; storing an image selected from among the plurality of plane images according to an external input signal such that the selected image matches the current observation operation.
US09332963B2	Swept focus for acoustic radiation force impulse Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) scanning uses a swept focus in transmit. Using a changing delay or phase profile across the array during the generation of the ARFI pulse, a time varying focus is provided for the ARFI beam. This time varying focus may be used to extend the focus in depth, azimuth, and/or elevation. Less repetition may be needed to measure tissue characteristics from displacements due to the multi or continuous change in foci within a given ARFI transmit beam.
US09332962B2	Ultrasound ARFI displacement imaging using an adaptive time instance In ARFI imaging, a cost function is used to identify a time of displacement that best or sufficiently indicates the desired information. For example, the displacements associated with a combination of contrast and signal-to-noise ratio are identified. The time at which the desired displacements occur may be other than the time of the maximum. Since the time is common to displacements for one or more scan lines, the displacement image may be assembled line-by-line or by groups of lines.
US09332961B2	Ultrasound endoscope An ultrasound endoscope includes: a bending portion; a distal end rigid portion which is located on a distal end side with respect to the bending portion; and a connection portion making up the distal end rigid portion, for connecting the ultrasound observation section with the bending portion, wherein the connection portion is inclined with respect to a central axis of the bending portion, an interface between the connection portion and the bending portion is perpendicular to the central axis, and the connection portion has a swept shape which is obtained by making a cross-section of the interface slide in a direction perpendicular to the central axis while keeping the perpendicularity along a straight line intersecting with the central axis.
US09332958B2	Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and method of displaying ultrasonic image Provided is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that constructs and displays a 3-dimensional elastic image showing the hardness or softness of a biological tissue of an object to be examined, and a method of displaying an ultrasonic image. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is characterized by being provided with an elastic image constructing unit (24) that constructs 2-dimensional elastic image data on the basis of the strain or elasticity modulus acquired by the elasticity information calculating unit (23), an elastic volume data creating unit (26) that creates elastic volume data from plural sets of the 2-dimensional elastic image data, and 3-dimensional elastic image constructing unit (28) that constructs a 3-dimensional elastic image from the elastic volume data.
US09332957B2	Evaluation aid An evaluation aid which can be used as a phantom (imitation lesion) when a digital X-ray image is taken and then evaluation is carried out through the digital X-ray image. The evaluation aid can be used to easily evaluate image qualities of a digital X-ray image for object parts having different X-ray absorption ratios at once. The evaluation aid is adapted to be used for taking a digital X-ray image thereof through which evaluation is carried out, and contains a substrate (plate-like body) including a plurality of regions having different X-ray absorption ratios; and step members provided on the plate-like body so as to correspond to the plurality of regions, respectively. Each step member includes a plurality of subregions having different X-ray absorption ratios. Thicknesses and/or constituent materials of the plurality of regions of the substrate may be different from each other to establish regions having different X-ray absorption ratios.
US09332951B2	Alignment apparatus for dental intraoral radiology An apparatus for obtaining an intraoral x-ray image from a patient has an x-ray source and an intraoral image detector comprising one or more detectable elements. One or more sensors are positionally coupled near the x-ray source and are energizable to sense the location of the one or more detectable elements when the intraoral image detector is within the patient's mouth. A control logic processor is in signal communication with the one or more sensors and is responsive to stored instructions for calculating a detector position of the intraoral image detector. A projector is positionally coupled to the x-ray source and is in signal communication with the control logic processor and is energizable to project an image toward the calculated intraoral image detector position in response to signals from the control logic processor.
US09332946B2	Adaptive control of sampling frequency for computed tomography A method of contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) imaging can include repeatedly scanning a target region at a frequency during a session, the frequency initially being a first rate. After detecting an increase of the attenuation of radiation by a contrast-enhanced first structure within a target region, the frequency can be increased to a second rate. After detecting a subsequent decrease in the attenuation, the frequency can be decreased to a third rate.
US09332935B2	Device having embedded antenna Body-mountable devices and methods for embedding a structure in a body-mountable device are described. A body-mountable device includes a transparent polymer and a structure embedded in the transparent polymer. The transparent polymer defines a posterior side and an anterior side of the body-mountable device. The structure has an outer diameter and an inner diameter and includes a sensor configured to detect an analyte and an antenna. The antenna includes a plurality of conductive loops spaced apart from each other between the outer diameter and the inner diameter.
US09332926B2	MRI imaging probe A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probe includes a coil section having an imaging coil, and a handle section connected to the coil section. The handle section has a phase shifter circuit with inductors, capacitors, and coax line electrically connected and is configured to provide appropriate phase shift. The handle section further has a coaxial cable winding electrically connected to the imaging coil, and wound cylindrically, and has a slot therethrough between the ends of the cylindrical winding. The handle section further has a pre-amp circuit mounted on a substrate and electrically connected to the cylindrical coax winding.
US09332914B2	Coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter A coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter utilizes coaxial construction incorporating a thin wall guiding catheter technology for the outer lumen and using a strong braided diagnostic technology for the central lumen to accommodate high-pressure injections. The catheter includes a manifold body to provide for connection to each of the dual lumens. The distal end of the coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter tapers to a more flexible portion that is perforated by spiral side holes to provide for more undistorted pressure readings in the left ventricle. The coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter also utilizes proximal straight sideholes at the end of the dual lumen portion and a taper between the dual lumen portion and the single lumen portion.
US09332903B2	Headgear for observation of eye movements An apparatus for covering a left eye and a right eye of a human, includes: a first eye piece configured for covering a left eye of a human; and a second eye piece configured for covering a right eye of the human; wherein the first eye piece and the second eye piece are configured for preventing transmission of visible light; and wherein at least one of the first eye piece and the second eye piece comprises a region that is transparent for electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength range outside a visible range.
US09332901B2	Ophthalmic apparatus and method for measuring an eye The ophthalmic apparatus is aligned to an eye to be examined. The apparatus is used to examine the eye. It has two or more infrared or near infrared light sources for emitting light beams and a detector sensitive to infrared or near-infrared light with the capability of detecting the light reflected from the examinee's face. It registers the examination result of the eye examined. The ophthalmic apparatus is aligned to an eye to be examined. The light beam of one infrared or near infrared light source is directed to the face. The light beam of another infrared or near infrared light source is directed to pass the examinee. The direction of the light reflected from the examinee's face is detected and the examination result and the examined eye are registered to know whether the examined eye was the right eye or the left eye.
US09332898B2	Vaginal speculum apparatus A vaginal speculum apparatus includes a portable illumination assembly that is releasably attached to one of the upper blade and lower blade of a disposable vaginal speculum. The portable illumination assembly is defined by a housing that retains at least one LED and a portable power supply. The portable illumination assembly can be energized by an externally accessible member after the illuminator has been attached to the speculum.
US09332892B2	Light converging type light guide unit and light source device using the same In a light converging type light guide unit for guiding light emitted from a light source to a light-receiving member having a reflection face extending from a light emission point to at least a place in the neighborhood of a light reception point of the light-receiving member, the reflection face has first and second focal points at which the light emission and reception points are disposed, respectively, and comprises an elliptical reflection face at the side of the light reception point, and a curved surface reflection face that is provided at the side of the light emission point, reflects light of the light source therefrom to the elliptical reflection face and obtains light that travels to the light reception point and is incident to the light reception point at a predetermined incidence angle or less by reflection from the elliptical reflection face.
US09332883B1	Waterproof shower receptor module and method of shower construction There is disclosed a prefabricated shower receptor module having a floor with a drain opening and a plurality of peripheral edges. The floor is bound along at least one peripheral edge by a side flange such that an integral one-piece module is created. In one embodiment, a prefabricated seat is bonded to a peripheral edge of the floor. The module is constructed from a waterproof matrix material suitable for applying shower tile or stone directly thereon. Previously set tile or stone can be removed from the matrix material, and new tile or stone reapplied, without damaging the module.
US09332880B2	Spice grinder A spice grinder comprising a bottle (60) and a grinder unit (10) which is screwed onto the bottle. The grinder unit comprises a fixed component (12) and a rotatable component (14). The components have teeth (28, 44) which face one another across a grinding gap (52). The component (12) has one or more ramps (54) on the inside thereof and the bottle (60) has one or more external ramps (66). Each ramp (54) comprises a camming surface (56) and a locking surface (58) which intersect. The ramp (66) also comprises a camming surface (68) and a locking surface (70). When the grinder unit (10) is screwed onto the bottle the ramps (54, 66) ride over one another until the surfaces (56, 70) clear one another and the surfaces (58, 70) snap into face-to-face contact to prevent the grinder unit being rotated in the direction which unscrews it from the bottle.
US09332879B1	Combination grinder and vaporization bowl A vaporizer bowl having an integral internal grinding mechanism has a plurality of internal stainless steel prongs and is split in hemispherical halves. In use, a substance used to create a desired vapor is placed within the bowl. The prongs grind/cut the substance as the halves of the bowl are turned in opposing directions. Such action ensures that the substance is completely consumed, allowing for less waste or the use of less material.
US09332878B1	Manual grate case barbecuing device A manual grate case barbecuing device facilitates turning food items while cooking. The device includes a base panel having a pair of planar outer sections and a planar medial section extending between the planar outer sections. The outer sections form respective obtuse angles relative to the medial section. Each of a pair of end bars is coupled to the base panel and positioned to extend between the outer sections wherein the base panel and the end bars define an interior space configured for holding food items. A cover panel is provided having a pair of planar outer portions and a planar medial portion extending between the outer portions. The cover panel is pivotally coupled to the base panel and positioned to selectively cover and enclose the interior space. A base handle is coupled to and extends from the base panel.
US09332875B2	Coffee maker with single serve setting A coffee maker comprises a filter basket assembly that enables two coffee dispensing modes. The assembly comprises a filter basket, an actuator that cooperates with a carafe and a motor driven valve. The actuator stops coffee from dispensing when the carafe is removed, but can be defeated by the user to dispense into a cup or mug when the carafe is absent.
US09332874B2	Beverage flavoring pod ejection system and method A mechanical waste pod ejector system for a single cup pod beverage flavoring machine that has a lower head with a holding chamber therein, for holding a pod during a flavoring operation, which head mechanically ejects the pod after usage. The system includes a pod ejector mechanism, a pod support plate sized to engage the pod, and actuator head, with a pod ejector controller including a cam slide surface for moving the lower head from a flavoring position to a pod disposal position.
US09332869B1	Shoe and orthosis donning aid An aid or device for assisting a person in putting on his or her shoes when the person uses an ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) has a generally flat platform or frame on which the shoe rests. A toe strap or restraint holds the toe of the shoe, and an elastic or spring-biased cord at the heel end has a clip or hook that attaches to the upper part of the orthosis. A handle at the toe-end or distal end extends upwards and permits the wearer to manipulate the donning aid with the shoe and orthosis so he or she can don the shoes without assistance of others. The donning aid can be formed from a sheet of ABS material with suitable cutouts for toe restraint and hand-hold.
US09332857B2	Mattress assembly A mattress assembly includes a first layer of viscoelastic foam defining an upper surface, and a second layer of non-viscoelastic foam supporting the first layer. The mattress assembly also includes a plurality of spring elements positioned beneath the upper surface for enhancing a firmness of the combined first and second layers. Each of the spring elements includes a first spring having a first spring rate and a second spring having a second spring rate different than the first spring rate.
US09332848B2	Process for forming a connecting structure between the column and seating portion of an office chair, and a structure obtained by such process A method of forming a connecting structure between column and seating portion of an office chair includes the steps of forming a frusto-conical portion having a flange by cold-pressing a portion of sheet metal, inserting the flanged portion into a mold reproducing the shape of the structure, injecting plastic material into the mold and incorporating the flanged portion of the frusto-conical portion into the plastic material.
US09332843B2	Sitting type shampoo chair A shampoo chair having a seat is provided. When a back of the chair is pushed backwards, a leg support is concurrently lifted up in conjunction with the back of the chair such that a client washing his or her hair can receive a shampoo service in a more comfortable way.
US09332841B1	Drawer pull The drawer pull is a device that is adapted for use with a drawer face in order to provide a pull that is used to open or close off the respective drawer. The drawer pull is adapted to be installed onto an existing drawer, but with no retrofitting required of the drawer or the drawer face. The drawer pull includes a knob that extends forwardly of a planar member. The planar member may be decorative, and is telescopically affixed to a frame member. The planar member includes a pair of armatures that extend rearwardly. The pair of armatures is telescopically engaged with respect to the frame member. Moreover, the pair of armatures enables the planar member and the knob to adjust with respect to the frame member in order to adaptively accommodate a drawer front of a drawer.
US09332837B2	Apparatus for holding and displaying articles An assembly for holding and displaying books, or items having a book-like structure includes a book attached to a hinged book-holding device, which displays the book in various positions. The hinge allows the book to move in at least two positions, a first standing position and a second, inclined position. The disclosed book-holding system also comprises a stabilizing mechanism that, when activated, provides a broader structural base. Thus, when the book is inclined and opened, the stabilizing mechanism holds the entire system steady so it does not tilt open.
US09332831B2	Cleaning apparatus A cleaner assembly includes a main body having a first end with a handle portion and a second end with a removable cleaner head; a motor contained with in said main body; an actuator operatively associated with said motor; a rotational shaft operatively associated with said motor and with a rotational cleaner head support; and a cleaner head removably attached to said rotational shaft.
US09332825B2	Method for mounting a bush around a part of a shaft by means of a tight fitting A method for mounting a bush round a part (2) of a shaft with a force fit, which method comprises the following steps: providing a guide element (7, 23) with an outer surface (8) which is at least partly conical; providing the guide element (7, 23) in the extension of the aforesaid part (2) of the shaft (1); pushing the bush (5) over the guide element (7, 23) on the part (2) of the shaft (1).
US09332823B2	Shoulder harness system A shoulder harness system for efficiently pulling objects by a human. The shoulder harness system generally includes a support member having a central segment formed to fit about the back of the neck, a first segment extending from the central segment, a second segment extending from the central segment opposite of the first segment, a first connecting end extending from the first segment and a second connecting end extending from the second segment. The central segment is formed to fit about the rear portion of the neck of the user and the first segment and the second segment are formed to be positioned adjacent to an upper front portion of the user's chest. The connecting ends include apertures that receive a corresponding fastener to secure a first connector and a second connector respectively to the first connecting end and the second connecting end. The connectors are attached to the object to be pulled.
US09332819B2	Applicator for applying cosmetic product on the lips of a user and associated application method This applicator comprises an application surface (16), the application surface (16) having a central region (22) and a peripheral contour line (24) analogous to the contour of the lips of a human being. The central region (22) and the peripheral line (24) being intended to receive the cosmetic product.The peripheral line (24) comprises preferred means (26) for application of the cosmetic product on the lips of the user for applying, opposite the peripheral line (24), a surface mass of cosmetic product that is greater than the surface mass applied opposite the central region (22).
US09332813B2	Protection case for electronic device A protection case includes a receiving portion for receiving an electronic device and a cover portion connected to one side of the receiving portion for supporting or covering the receiving portion. The cover portion includes a first reinforcing member, a second reinforcing member adjacent to the first reinforcing member, two third reinforcing members symmetrically located at two opposite sides of the first reinforcing member, and two fourth reinforcing members symmetrically located at two opposite ends of the cover portion. The first, second, third and fourth reinforcing members are connected flexibly to each other. The first reinforcing member is folded toward and absorbed on the second reinforcing member. Each of the two third reinforcing members together with the adjacent fourth reinforcing member forms a supporting portion to abut against the back of the receiving portion.
US09332808B2	Footwear with enhanced cleats A shoe includes a sole having a plurality of cleats thereon at spaced apart locations. The cleats are configured to enhance the performance of the shoe based upon the specific characteristics of movement of the user. The cleats may include differently configured first and second cleats. Each first cleat includes at least one first directional pattern and each second cleat includes at least one second directional pattern. Individual cleats and methods of assembling and designing a shoe are also provided.
US09332806B2	Shoe having convertible heel A shoe is provided that includes a sole having a stow cavity, a first heel assembly and a second heel assembly that can transfer from a stowed position in the stow cavity to a deployed position. In the deployed position, the second heel is below a heel portion of the sole such that the contact surface of the second heel assembly is positioned to contact the ground when worn, such that the shoe has a greater contact surface area with the second heel assembly in the deployed position.
US09332800B2	Helmet structure with compressible cells A helmet structure without any hard outer shell has axially compressible cell units contained in a hemispheric frame by a thin fabric covering stretched over cup shaped cell retainers that have sidewalls of compressible foam. The frame is supported on the wearer's head on plastic foam posts that space the inner ends of compressible bladders from the wearer's head, and ambient air in the bladders compresses at impact, being vented then through openings for gradually absorbing such impact forces. Each bladder is vented into a space between the cup “bottom” and the outer end of a bladder. At least two cell sizes are provided, and some of these are on depending lobes in the frame, for protecting the wearer's ears and neck.
US09332798B2	Device for regulating and fastening a strap of protecting helmets Disclosed is a device for fastening and adjusting a strap having a base body structured to allow insertion of part of the strap therein, and one ratchet constrained in a rotatable manner to the base body and provided with a coupling portion adapted to engage one corresponding portion of the strap. The device includes first elastic means interposed between the ratchet and the base body to reversibly retain the ratchet in one position of engagement with the strap, and one operating lever to rotate the ratchet from a position of engagement with the strap to a position of disengagement therefrom. The operating lever of the device is constrained on the ratchet in a rotatable manner for one given angular interval. The device also has second elastic means to regulate rotation of the operating lever relative to the ratchet in the angular interval of rotation.
US09332796B2	Clothing top for technology concealment Various embodiment of a body-top garment for removably housing a tube assembly is disclosed. The tube assembly has a first end that connects to a mouthpiece, and a second end connects to various types of devices. The body-top garment has an elongated pouch with a zipper opening for easy access to the tube assembly. The elongated pouch has a first opening and a second opening to pass at least part of the tube assembly outside the body-top garment. Optionally, the body-top garment has pocket with a horizontal opening to hold the various type of devices.
US09332795B1	Neck support apparatus and applications thereof In one aspect, neck support apparatus are described herein. In some embodiments, a neck support apparatus comprises a band comprising a first end, a second end and a neck support region positioned between the first end and the second end, the first end comprising a first fastener and the second end comprising a second fastener, wherein the neck support region has one or more dimensions sufficient to restrain, prevent, or inhibit neck extension beyond a 70 degree angle when the band is placed in tension by coupling the first and second ends to body equipment on the torso of an individual, the angle defined by the intersection of a line drawn from the tragus of the ear to the canthus of the eye and a horizontal line of the tragus.
US09332790B2	Athletic garment assembly An athletic garment assembly for allowing access to bindings on a boot while preventing moisture from entering the boot includes a pair of pants structured to be worn by the user so the pants do not extend low enough to cover a pair of boots worn by the user. A pair of inserts is coupled to the pants. Each of the pair of inserts extends down from the pants and is positioned within a respective one of the pair of boots when the user wears the pants.
US09332788B2	Attachable garment collar cover Various embodiments of a novel attachable garment collar cover are disclosed. In one embodiment, the attachable garment collar cover has a first collar cover blade, a second collar cover blade, a first button hole edge, a second button hole edge, a rear elastic, and a collar insert opening that can form an arched groove. A collar portion of a shirt, a dress, a coat, a blouse, or another article of clothing can be inserted into the collar insert opening of the attachable garment collar cover, and be fastened by the rear elastic of the attachable garment collar cover. The attachable garment collar cover completely encapsulates the collar portion of the article of clothing to protect and/or hide the collar from stains and wear-and-tear. When attached to the collar portion of the article of clothing, the attachable garment collar cover can also provide a pleasant and unique fashion statement.
US09332785B2	Method of manufacturing multi-segment filter rods After the start of manufacturing, the control system provisionally calculates a cutting moment necessary to obtain a proper length of the filter rod and compares it with the basic static relationship calculated earlier, after which it makes a gradual adjustment of the cutting moment in relation to the calculated basic static relationship and determines an averaged cutting point of a filter roller considering the information about actual dimensions of the segments and their actual positioning in the roller, conveyed by a sensor. During manufacturing, the averaged cutting point is compared by the control system with the cutting moment and, in order to keep the length tolerance of the filter rod, dynamically corrected considering the information about the segments currently conveyed by the sensor.
US09332782B2	Controlled release of water to an oxygen scavenger The invention relates to an article for oxygen absorption that is a container containing a water-soluble on source, a water activated oxygen scavenger, and a rupturable canister of hydrated polymer. The hydrated polymer comprises a superabsorbent polymer. The water-soluble on source comprises a salt. The invention in another embodiment relates to a method for providing timed oxygen absorption using the article as above with rupturing of the canister to release the water carrying superabsorbent such that it will contact the oxygen scavenger and on source thereby leading to activating the oxygen scavenger.
US09332779B2	Dried food products formed from cultured muscle cells Dehydrated, edible, high-protein food products formed of cultured muscle cells that are combined (e.g., mixed) with a hydrogel (e.g., a plant-derived polysaccharide) are described. These food products may be formed into a chip (e.g., snack chip), that has a protein content of greater than 50%. One or more flavorants may also be included.
US09332775B2	Spinach hybrid 51-326 The present invention relates to the development of a spinach plant that expresses a new resistance pattern against downy mildew (Peronospora farinosa f. sp. spinaciae) strains Pf1-Pf13, methods and compositions relating to plants, progeny, seeds and derivatives thereof and plants, progeny, seeds and derivatives thereof having all the morphological, physiological and/or genetic characteristics thereof.
US09332761B2	Synergistic combination of a chlorotoluron compound and zinc pyrithione for dry film protection A synergistic antimicrobial composition containing chlorotoluron and zinc pyrithione is provided. Also provided is a method of inhibiting the growth of or controlling the growth of microorganisms in a building material by adding such a synergistic antimicrobial composition. Also provided is a coating composition containing such a synergistic antimicrobial composition, and a dry film made from such a coating composition.
US09332755B2	Covalently attached antimicrobial polymers The present invention relates to substrates comprising covalently attached antimicrobial polymers, which act as synthetic mimics of antimicrobial peptides (SMAMPs) and are preferably obtained by ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). The inventive antimicrobial polymers exhibit a molecular weight of more than 100,000 g mol−1 and are preferably covalently attached to the surface of a substrate, e.g. an implant, a medical device, medical equipment or a (tissue-supporting) biomaterial, etc. Covalent bonding may be carried out using a photoreactive crosslinker but also by “grafting onto” or “grafting from”. The present invention is also directed to uses of the inventive antimicrobial polymers as defined herein, e.g. for antimicrobially coating a surface of such a substrate with a layer of the inventive antimicrobial polymer.
US09332754B2	Alkyl phenyl sulfide derivative and pest control agent An alkyl phenyl sulfide derivative represented by the general formula [I] or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof, and a pest control agent containing the derivative or the salt as an active ingredient. [in the above formula, R1 is, for example, a C1˜C6 alkyl group which is mono- or poly-substituted with halogen atom; R2 is, for example, a halogen atom or a C1˜C6 alkyl group; R3 is, for example, a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; and R4 is, for example, a hydrogen atom or a C1˜C12 alkyl group.] The derivative or the salt has an excellent pest control effect.
US09332749B2	Audio trapping lure An audio trapping lure includes a housing defining an interior area for containing electronic components including a processor, a daylight sensor, a body heat sensor, cell phone transmission capabilities, and a speaker. The audio trapping lure includes digital sound files of the distress cries of prey of a predator to be hunted or trapped. Under the control of programming, the processor causes predetermined distress cries to be emitted through the speaker at predetermined intervals of time and for a predetermined duration. The audio trapping lure is activated only when the daylight sensor indicates it is dark. The audio trapping lure is deactivated when the body heat sensor detects the proximity of a heat source, indicating the predator has already been trapped. The cell phone text function is activated upon the deactivation of the device by the body heat sensor indicating an animal has been trapped.
US09332747B2	Apparatus, system and method for recovery of artifacts and eradication of invasive species in aquatic environments An apparatus, system and method for recovery of artifacts and eradication of invasive species in aquatic environments. The structure may comprise an elongate flexible bladder blanket divider having first and second ends. The structure may have an open bore vertical support operably coupled to the first and second ends. Each end extends into the open bore vertical support and rests on at least one apron bladder of an apron bladder bundle. The at least one apron bladder is contained in the open bore vertical support and at least one apron bladder is between the end of the vertical support and the bottom of the body of water. A method of using the apparatus, comprising providing an apparatus having variable volume first and second compartments separated by a flexible bladder blanket divider; and introducing agents through openings in the bladder to control the growth of or kill the invasive organisms.
US09332745B2	Knot tying tool Tools and methods are discussed for tying a knot. A knot tying tool can include an elongated housing and an insert member. The housing can have first and second body portions having different outer cross-sections. A first chamber can extend within the housing with a slit that opens into the chamber. The insert member can also have a slit opening into a second chamber. The insert member can have an inner cylinder rotatable and movable within the first chamber. Rotation of the inner cylinder within the first chamber can move the knot tying tool between a locked and an unlocked position, the first and second slits being aligned in the unlocked position to allow a line to pass through the first and second slits into the second chamber.
US09332736B2	Deodorizing, sterilizing and moisture reduction system for animal waste and litter A portable system for recycling used animal litter, such as chicken litter, in place which one can use to accommodate a succession of animals, such as flocks, in the same commercial chicken house, with the same bedding material. The system comprises a litter pulverizer mounted within a hood-like housing, a high output ozone generator, fluidly connected thereto, which, in use, discharges ozone into a flux of pulverized animal litter and pathogen-laden dust particulates, killing pathogens and neutralizing ammonia odors in the process, and an ultraviolet light source for further sterilizing pulverized litter and for destroying excess ozone discharged with it from the hood-like housing's base. Enhancing the system's pathogen-killing capacity are at least one hot air blower also fluidly connected to the hood-like housing and a moisture detector. The latter measures, in real time, the dryness of ozone-treated litter being discharged from the hood-like housing onto the chicken house floor.
US09332731B2	Pet diaper A pet diaper is equipped with a front surface layer, a back surface layer, and an absorbent layer disposed between the front surface layer and the back surface layer. The pet diaper has a back portion, an abdominal portion, and a crotch portion disposed between the back portion and the abdominal portion. The pet diaper is further equipped with: a first cut portion that is provided on the back portion and that is formed as a convex curve rounding towards the end portion of the back portion; a second cut portion that is provided closer to the crotch portion than the first cut portion and that is formed as a convex curve rounding towards the end portion of the back portion; and a first perforated portion that is formed so as to extend from the second cut portion towards the first cut portion.
US09332730B2	Livestock oiling and scratching device A livestock oiling and scratching device facilitates dispensing of oil and insecticide onto livestock as the livestock rubs against the device. The device includes a base and a pole coupled to the base. A reservoir for holding a fluid is coupled to the pole proximate an upper end of the pole. A cable is coupled to and extends between the pole and the base. A top section of the cable is in fluid communication with the reservoir wherein the cable is impregnated by the fluid. The cable extends through each of a plurality of tubes and discs. Each of the discs is positioned between an associated adjacent pair of the tubes. A circumferential edge of each disc is positioned in outwardly spaced relationship to the associated adjacent pair of the tubes.
US09332727B2	Animal bedding and associated methods for preparing and using the same Animal bedding having one or more solvents and a lignocellulosic fiber, wherein the lignocellulosic fiber has been processed by ruminant digestion and anaerobic digestion. A method for preparing pelletized animal bedding is also disclosed including the steps of providing excrement from a cow which has undergone ruminant digestion, introducing the cow excrement into an anaerobic digester, modifying the cow excrement to a first wet product, drying the first wet product to generate a first dry product, and densifying the first dry product to, in turn, generate pelletized animal bedding.
US09332723B2	Method of creating a spring Brassica napus Crossing a winter B. napus line with a rapid-cycle B. rapa line has been discovered to provide an unexpectedly simple and efficient way to create a modified B. napus with a spring flowering habit. In one implementation, such a modified B. napus or its progeny is crossed with a second winter B. napus line to produce at plant having a winter flowering habit. This allows one to significantly shorten the development cycle for winter-flowering B. napus lines by conducting part of the breeding program with spring-flowering time cycles, then migrating the resultant germplasm back into a winter-flowering line.
US09332715B1	Variety corn line HID3753 The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated HID3753, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line HID3753 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line HID3753, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line HID3753, and plants produced according to these methods.
US09332714B1	Wheat variety W040241D1 A wheat variety designated W040241D1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W040241D1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W040241D1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W040241D1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W040241D1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W040241D1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
US09332707B2	Soybean variety XB04F13 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XB04F13. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XB04F13. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XB04F13 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XB04F13 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09332706B2	Soybean variety XB007G13 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XB007G13. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XB007G13. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XB007G13 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XB007G13 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09332694B2	Blower apparatus A blower apparatus has a drive motor and a blower device operatively connected to the drive motor. A blower tube is connected to the blower device and has an outlet opening remote from the blower device. A blower air stream conveyed by the blower device passes through the blower tube in the direction of a longitudinal center axis of the blower tube and exits through the outlet opening in an outflow direction. A pivoting device that pivots the blower tube is provided. A nozzle is supported to be freely pivotable on the blower tube about at least one pivot axis, wherein the outlet opening is formed on the nozzle. The nozzle forms the pivot device for pivoting the blower tube and utilizes a transverse force that is generated by the blower air stream in the nozzle for pivoting the blower tube.
US09332691B2	Autonomous travel work system An autonomous travel work system works, regarding a garden LD as a canvas and applying an arbitrary design to the garden LD, according the design. The autonomous travel work system includes an information terminal configured to be input means and transmit input information, a computer configured to receive the input information, and at least one electric lawn mower configured to work autonomously traveling in the garden LD. The information terminal includes a display, a work ground input, a design allocation input, and a work request device. The information terminal or the computer includes a work ground designation device, a design allocation device, a mapping route generator, and a work pattern generator.
US09338934B2	Shield-can and jig for manufacturing shield-can There is provided a shield-can, including a plate including a circular through-hole formed therein for exposing a lens part, a plurality of side walls extended from edges of the plate and forming an inner space together with the plate, an anti-reflection layer stacked on an upper surface of the plate, and an insulating layer stacked on an inner surface of any one side wall of the plurality of side walls and at edges of inner surfaces of side walls neighboring the any one side wall, wherein the insulating layer has a band shape and is stacked on lower end portions of the inner surfaces of the side walls.
US09338928B2	Optimizing free cooling of data centers through weather-based intelligent control Optimizing free cooling of data centers through weather-based intelligent control, including: receiving predictive weather information for the data center's location, wherein the predictive weather information includes information describing expected future weather conditions at the data center's location; receiving a predetermined target inlet air flow temperature for computing components in the data center; receiving excursion information describing acceptable temporary operating conditions during which the predetermined target inlet air flow temperature for computing components in the data center is higher than the sustainable inlet air flow temperature for computing components in the data center; and determining a free air cooling schedule in dependence upon the predictive weather information and the excursion information, the free air cooling schedule specifying periods of time during which cooling is provided with free air.
US09338924B2	Dehumidifying cooling apparatus and method for an electronics rack Dehumidifying cooling apparatus and method are provided for an electronics rack. The apparatus includes an air-to-liquid heat exchanger disposed at an air inlet or outlet side of the rack, wherein air flows through the rack from the air inlet to the air outlet side. The heat exchanger is positioned for air passing through the electronics rack to pass across the heat exchanger, and is in fluid communication with a coolant loop for passing coolant therethrough at a temperature below a dew point temperature of the air passing across the heat exchanger so that air passing across the heat exchanger is dehumidified and cooled. A condensate collector, disposed below the heat exchanger, collects liquid condensate from the dehumidifying of air passing through the electronics rack, wherein the heat exchanger includes a plurality of sloped surfaces configured to facilitate drainage of liquid condensate from the heat exchanger to the condensate collector.
US09338920B2	Mounting device for attaching mechanical, electrical and/or electronic modules A mounting device is provided for attaching a mechanical, electrical and/or electronic module to the vehicle window pane. The mounting device includes, but is not limited to a front side and a rear side and at least one laterally springy pin opening. The pin opening can receive a pin element that is designed to attach the mounting device with its front side to the vehicle window pane.
US09338918B2	Socket interposer and computer system using the socket interposer Exemplary embodiments include a socket interposer having a plurality of connectors and at least one of on-board memory and an external communication controller. The plurality of connectors is configured to fit with a form factor of a socket on a server board. The server board includes at least one processor and a circuit board having the socket and at least one processor socket. The processor(s) are coupled with the processor socket(s). The socket has the form factor configured for a module having a first functional set and the form factor. The at least one of the on-board memory and the external communication controller is coupled with at least some of the connectors. The external communication controller also has a second functional set different from the first functional set. The on-board memory is configured to be usable by the processor(s).
US09338911B2	Electronic enclosure device An electronic enclosure device including an enclosure, an electric circuit device, and a sealing device is disclosed. The sealing device is provided as one, continuous gasket having a first gasket section configured to seal a first sealing area, a second gasket section configured to seal the second sealing area, and a third gasket section configured to seal the third sealing area.
US09338895B2	Method for making an electrical circuit A method for making an electrical circuit comprises the steps of: forming a rigid printed circuit board having a plurality of electrical contacts on at least one surface; forming a multilayer flexible circuit board having a plurality of electrical components on at least one surface, and further having a bifurcated area along one edge; forming electrode pads on the inner surfaces of the bifurcated area of the flexible circuit board that are alignable respectively with the electrical contacts on the rigid circuit board when the bifurcated area is spread apart by about 180°; spreading the bifurcated area apart and aligning the electrode pads respectively with the electrical contacts; and forming an electrical connection between the electrode pads and the electrical contacts.
US09338894B2	Method and apparatus for assembling electric components on a flexible substrate as well as assembly of an electric component with a flexible substrate A method is presented for assembling a component (30) with a flexible substrate (10), the component having electric contacts (31). The method comprises the steps of placing the component (30) on a first main side (11) of the substrate, applying a machine vision step to estimate a position of the electric contacts, depositing one or more layers (32) of an electrically conductive material or a precursor thereof, said layer extending over an area of the substrate defined by the component to laterally beyond said area, calculating partitioning lines depending on the estimated position of the electric contacts, partitioning the layer into mutually insulated areas (32d) by locally removing material from said layer along said partitioning lines. Also an apparatus is presented that is suitable for carrying out the method.In addition an assembly is present that can be obtained by the method and the apparatus according to the invention.
US09338866B1	Panelboard power bus with arc transfer for passive arc control Methods and systems for limiting damage caused by arcs in bus stacks provide an arc transfer feature on each side of the bus stack. The arc transfer feature captures any arcs forming near busbar connection points and transfers the arc away from the busbar connection points to the interior of the bus stack. Phase barriers along the length of the interior of the bus stack then direct the arcs toward the end of the bus stack. At the end of the bus stack, a bus end interrupter receives and extinguishes the arcs.
US09338862B2	Techniques for remote communication with a photocontrol device Disclosed are various embodiments for remote lighting control by a processor of photocontrol device for a light fixture. The photocontrol receives, via a wireless network interface, a request to establish a communication session with a remote device using the wireless network interface. The request includes an authentication credential. A command is received, via the communication session with the remote device, to control light output produced from the light fixture. The photocontrol initiates performance of the command for the light fixture, where the command supersedes any other command from ambient light sensing logic of the photocontrol device. The photocontrol device indicates a result of the performance of the command.
US09338855B2	Lighting apparatus and light emission control method A lighting apparatus includes: a plurality of light emission units that respectively emit lights in luminescent colors different from each other; and a control unit that controls in luminance the respective light, which are emitted from said plurality of light emission units, for the respective luminescent colors. In response to a control input, said control unit switches between a first light emission mode that it makes said light emission units emit light with luminance set for the respective luminescent colors and a second light emission mode that makes it light emission units corresponding to at least one luminescent color turn off or emit light with luminance lower than the luminance in the first light emission mode.
US09338854B1	Safety switch apparatus, universal LED tube having the safety switch apparatus, and power system of the universal LED tube A universal LED tube includes a LED light bar, a power conversion apparatus, and a safety switch apparatus. The power conversion apparatus converts an external power source to provide the required power for supplying the LED light bar. The safety switch apparatus is connected to the LED light bar and the power conversion apparatus. The LED light bar is driven to emit light by the external power source after a switch module of the safety switch apparatus is certainly turned on.
US09338849B2	Spatial intensity distribution controlled flash This disclosure describes techniques for outputting light with a controlled spatial intensity distribution. According to some examples, this disclosure describes a device that includes at least one LED matrix that includes a plurality of LED elements. According to these examples, the device controls the LED elements of the LED matrix to output the light by causing at least a first LED element of the LED matrix to output light of a first intensity, and causing a second LED element of the LED matrix to output light of a second, different intensity. In some examples, the device controls the first at least one LED element to output light of the first intensity to illuminate a first object, and controls the second LED element to output light of the second intensity to illuminate a second object. The second object may have a different location than the first object.
US09338846B2	Dimming device and illumination system using same A dimming device includes a control unit, a first setting section and a second setting section. The control unit is configured to receive a control signal transmitted by a multiplexing transmission method and to control a dimming level of an illumination load in response to the control signal. The illumination load includes light-emitting diodes. The first setting section is configured to set a lower limit of the dimming level of the illumination load, the lower limit being adjustable in a first range. The second setting section is configured to set an upper limit of the dimming level of the illumination load, the upper limit being adjustable in a second range. A minimum value in the second range is greater than a maximum value in the first range.
US09338845B2	LED arrangement An LED arrangement includes a first LED chain having first LEDs; a second LED chain having second LEDs; a circuit arrangement for coupling the first and second LED chains to a supply source; wherein the circuit arrangement is configured such that the first and second LED chains can be coupled to or decoupled from the supply source, wherein the first LED chain can be coupled to the supply source at first points in time and the second LED chain can be coupled to the supply source at second points in time; wherein the circuit arrangement is configured such that, in the case of a coupling of the LED arrangement to the supply source, a current having a first average current intensity through the first LED chain and a current having a second average current intensity through the second LED chain, wherein the LEDs are arranged depending on their current intensities.
US09338844B2	LED lighting apparatus An LED lighting apparatus includes (i) a series circuit connected to both ends of the DC power source and including an LED, an inductor L1, a switching element Q1, and a current detecting resistor R1, (ii) a regenerative diode D1 connected in parallel with a series circuit of the LED and inductor L1, and (iii) a PWM control circuit 11 carrying out ON/OFF control of the switching element. The capacitor C2 is charged and discharged according to a differential current between a current of the switching element when the switching element is ON and a predetermined constant current, and the PWM control circuit 11 carries out PWM control based on a voltage of the capacitor C2 to keep a current average value in each ON period of the switching element to control a constant current of the LED.
US09338843B2	High power factor, electrolytic capacitor-less driver circuit for light-emitting diode lamps A driver circuit for use with LED lamps. The driver circuit uses a rectifier, a power factor correction subcircuit, a voltage conversion subcircuit, and a semiconductor switch. The power factor correction subcircuit uses a film capacitor instead of an electrolytic capacitor. As well, the power factor correction subcircuit uses either an inductor or a transformer to shape the incoming current to a substantially sinusoidal waveform that is in phase with the input AC current. The semiconductor switch provides a high frequency pulsating triangular current at the output of the rectifier.
US09338842B2	Pulse switched resistor driver Pulse switching controller for the LED lighting of the LED drive module for lamps in automobile applications provided with light sources having LED diodes and a drive module for the LED function and excitation, where the drive module (3) comprises at minimum one resistance regulator (38) working in pulse switching duty, which is connected by its input to the last cathode of the corresponding branch (33) of LED diodes and by its output to the input electrode of a switching element (37), which is connected by its output electrode to ground, while the controlling electrode of the switching element (37) is connected to the output of a pulse generator (36) with a set duty cycle in dependence on the input voltage, which is connected both by a sensor input to the input voltage from the input circuit (31) and by an external input (35).
US09338830B2	Raft assembly A raft assembly for a gas turbine engine is provided. The raft assembly includes a rigid raft formed of a rigid material that has an electrical system and/or a fluid system embedded therein. The raft assembly further includes one or more clamps for mounting tubular members to the raft. The or each clamp has a first clamp block and a second clamp block which, in use, clamp together to grip a tubular member between the blocks. The first block is fixed to the raft. The or each clamp further has a fastener operatively extending between the blocks. The fastener is tightenable to apply a clamping load between the blocks, and releasable to remove the clamping load such that the second block can be moved relative to the first block to allow the tubular member to be received between or removed from between the blocks.
US09338824B2	Mediation of information carried via a common public radio interface A device may receive first common public radio interface (CPRI) information associated with a first CPRI format. The device may determine a translation key associated with the first CPRI format. The translation key may include information associated with translating the first CPRI information to a second CPRI format. The second CPRI format may be different from the first CPRI format. The device may generate second CPRI information based on processing the first CPRI information with the translation key. The second CPRI information may be associated with the second CPRI format. The device may provide the second CPRI information associated with the second CPRI format.
US09338820B2	Method and apparatus for providing machine-to-machine communication in a wireless network An apparatus for providing machine-to-machine communication in a wireless network may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least providing wireless network resources to enable direct downlink communication from a wireless network access point to a relatively low power communication device, allocating wireless network resources to enable uplink data to be provided from the relatively low power communication device to a mobile gateway device within communication range of the relatively low power communication device and utilizing wireless network resources to receive the uplink data from the mobile gateway device at the wireless network access point. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.
US09338819B2	Variable data usage personal medical system and method A variable data usage personal medical system including a self-care device attached to a patient, and operable to generate self-care device data and to transmit the self-care device data at a fixed interval; a cellular communication device operable to receive and store the transmitted self-care device data, to register a count at an interval counter for each of the fixed intervals in which the transmitted self-care device data is received, to generate a data cellular packet from overhead plus the stored self-care device data when the interval counter equals a fixed interval index, and to transmit the data packet; and a cloud infrastructure operably connected to the cellular communication device over a cellular network, and operable to receive, process, and store the transmitted data packet. The cloud infrastructure is operable to transmit a value for the fixed interval index to the cellular communication device for storage.
US09338816B2	Predictive and nomadic roaming of wireless clients across different network subnets Wireless access points detect neighboring wireless access points in different subnets. Upon connecting with a wireless client, a wireless access point determines predictive roaming information for the wireless client. Predictive roaming information identifies the wireless client; its home network subnet; and includes connection information associated with the wireless client. The wireless access point forwards the predictive roaming information associated with a wireless client to neighboring wireless access points while the wireless client is still connected with the wireless access point. Neighboring wireless access points store received predictive roaming information. Upon connecting with a wireless client, a neighboring wireless access point determines if the wireless client matches the stored predictive roaming information. If so, the neighboring wireless access point uses the predictive roaming information to quickly connect with the wireless client and to establish a tunnel to redirect network traffic associated with the wireless client through to its home subnet.
US09338803B2	Mobile terminal, control method, and control program A mobile terminal having a push-to-talk (PTT) function, including: a controller that, upon detection of an operation for terminating a predefined call mode, maintains the predefined call mode for a period of predefined time, and terminates the predefined call mode upon elapse of the period; a display that displays remaining time to termination of the predefined call mode; and a remaining time changer that, upon detection of an operation for changing the remaining time, changes the remaining time according to the operation for changing the remaining time.
US09338802B2	Method for accelerating the activation of a MBMS service The invention relates to a method for accelerating the activation of a MBMS service distributed by a service provider to a plurality of user equipments UEs in the form of MBMS data packets, MBMS data packet, comprising each, compressed header information and a payload, characterized by: —creating a specific MBMS service data flow containing only header information, —transmitting said specific MBMS service data flow to the UE separately from said MBMS data packets.
US09338800B2	Method of performing random access procedure in wireless communication system A method of performing contention resolution associated with a random access procedure. The method according to one embodiment includes transmitting, by the mobile communication terminal, an uplink message containing a cell-radio network temporary identity (C-RNTI) and starting a contention resolution timer; receiving, by the mobile communication terminal, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission; and considering, by the mobile communication terminal, a contention resolution successful and stopping the contention resolution timer if a specific condition is satisfied. The mobile communication terminal considers the contention resolution successful and stops the contention resolution timer if the PDCCH transmission is addressed to the C-RNTI and the random access procedure is initiated by a downlink (DL) data arrival. The mobile communication terminal considers the contention resolution successful and stops the contention resolution timer if the PDCCH transmission is addressed to the C-RNTI and contains an uplink (UL) grant.
US09338770B2	Method and apparatus for mitigating interference in a wireless communication system supporting heterogeneous networks A method and apparatus for receiving signals at a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system supporting a plurality of cells including a first cell and a second cell. The method includes receiving first uplink control information via a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) from a first user equipment (UE); and receiving second uplink control information via a second PUCCH from a second UE. The first PUCCH is carried only on the first cell. The second PUCCH is carried only on the second cell. The first cell is different from the second cell.
US09338768B2	Uplink power control for physical uplink control channel Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for uplink transmit power control for transmitting periodic channel state information. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09338765B2	Terminal device, and buffer partitioning method Disclosed is a terminal apparatus in which: a decoding section (210) that stores, in a retransmission buffer, downlink data transmitted by each of the plurality of component carriers and decodes the downlink data; and a radio transmitting section (222) that transmits, using a first component carrier of the plurality of component carriers, a response signal for first downlink data received using the first component carrier and a response signal for second downlink data received using a second component carrier of the plurality of component carriers. In addition, a second buffer is divided into regions respectively corresponding to retransmission processes based on a specific value determined by a combination of a first configuration pattern that is set in the first component carrier and a second configuration pattern that is set in the second component carrier.
US09338762B2	Extended monitoring window for robust paging A wireless communication device communicates an extended monitoring window indicator to a core network node. The extended monitoring window indicator indicates that the wireless communication device is capable of monitoring a paging channel of a radio access node using an extended monitoring window that includes one or more paging blocks in addition to a nominal paging block associated with the wireless communication device. The extended monitoring window indicator indicates the additional paging blocks of the extended monitoring window.
US09338756B2	Signaling of power information for MIMO transmission in a wireless communication system Techniques for signaling power information to facilitate channel quality indicator (CQI) reporting are described. A Node B may send power information that may be used by a UE to determine a power per channelization code, POVSF. In one design, the power information includes a power offset between the power of a data channel, PHSPDSCH, and the power of a pilot channel. The Node B may determine PHSPDSCH based on the power available for the data channel, the number of available channelization codes, and a designated number of channelization codes. The UE may determine POVSF based on the power information from the Node B and the designated number of channelization codes. The UE may estimate at least one SINR of at least one transport block based on POVSF, determine CQI information for the transport block(s) based on the SINR, and send the CQI information to the Node B.
US09338747B1	Wireless coverage assist Approaches in accordance with various embodiments can utilize loss of service and call drop information to anticipate connection events between a computing device and a cellular or data network. The utilize loss of service and call drop information is compiled from past connection events from many devices and is utilizes by the computing device to determine areas historically associated with greater connection reliability (or strength of connectivity) upon at least detecting a condition indicative of a connection event. Accordingly, a user can be notified upon entering or moving toward an area associated with poor connection reliability. The user can further be directed to an area associated with greater connection reliability to ensure sufficient network coverage to carry out a phone call.
US09338741B2	Security system device power management Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for power management. The methods include detecting a triggering event at a sensor device of a security system; activating a wireless transmitter/receiver from a low power mode; detecting a broadcast beacon frame from an access point device; transmitting a probe request frame that includes triggering event data; and returning the wireless transmitter/receiver to a low power mode.
US09338736B2	Methods and apparatus for radio resource control Improved systems and techniques for controlling access to network resources. A base station broadcasts extended access barring (EAB) and access class barring (ACB) information. Upon a determination by a user equipment that the user equipment requires service from the base station, the user equipment determines its EAB category and call type. The user equipment receives the EAB and ACB information broadcast by the base station and determines if it is subject to EAB based on its EAB category. If the user equipment is not subject to EAB, the user equipment determines if its call type is subject to ACB and, if the call type is subject to ACB, applies access class barring based on its call type.
US09338732B2	Systems and methods for fast initial network link setup Systems and methods for communicating in a wireless communication system are described. In one aspect a method in a wireless communication system includes assigning a first identifier at a first access point, the first identifier for establishing a link with the first access point. The method includes receiving from a device an access request message to establish the link, the access request message including a second identifier associated with a plurality of access points configured to provide the link, the plurality of access points including the first access point, the second identifier including a sequence of bits having a bit length, wherein the sequence of bits is based on the first identifier, and wherein the bit length of the sequence of bits is less than the first number of bits. The further includes transmitting an access response message establishing the link with the device and including the first identifier.
US09338731B2	Vehicle telematics unit management A method and system for maintaining a wireless carrier system presence at a vehicle telematics unit in a vehicle includes placing the vehicle telematics unit in a quiescent mode that suspends its signal transmitting functions; instructing the vehicle telematics unit to periodically exit the quiescent mode and transmit a query that determines if the wireless carrier system used by a telematics service provider has changed; when the wireless carrier system has changed, receiving a new wireless profile associated with a new wireless carrier system; and storing the new wireless profile in a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) hardwired at the vehicle.
US09338725B2	Mobile device for use in a dynamic and stochastic asynchronously updated wireless ad-hoc network A method for establishing and maintaining a dynamic network designed to allow wireless devices to communicate with one another on an ad-hoc basis. The wireless network is designed specifically to function autonomously, remaining completely independent from relying on any internet service provider or any other subsidiary systems such as any access points or routers. Rather than using central routers, all nodes in the network share the same capabilities as one another, and allow for a dynamic routing protocol to be executed directly by the network nodes.
US09338721B2	MIMO wireless communication system In a LTE-based wireless communication system having neighboring first and second cells a first user in the first cell may experience significant interference from downlink transmissions in the second cell. Such interference can be reduced by selecting a precoder for downlink transmission to a second user in the first cell which will result in reduced interference to the first user after the first user is handed-over to be served by the second cell. The method involves selecting, among a plurality of users in the first cell, the second user to receive the precoded downlink transmissions using the selected precoder. The second user is chosen so as to satisfy a measure of suitability using the selected interference-reducing precoder. Taken together, the choice in the first cell of precoder and second user (UEA) result in reduced inter-cell interference.
US09338713B2	Apparatus and method for enhanced tune-away operation Apparatus and methods are disclosed for a multi-SIM/multi-standby wireless user equipment (UE) configured for tune-away operations enabling simultaneous communication on multiple subscriptions using a shared RF chain while maintaining an ongoing signaling procedure on a primary subscription. The UE performs a signaling procedure with a first network associated with a first subscription, and decodes a downlink channel of the first network during an initial period of a transmission time interval (TTI). If the decoded downlink channel indicates that no data of the first subscription is destined to the UE during the current TTI, the UE tunes away to a second subscription to receive data from a second network associated with the second subscription.
US09338712B2	Facilitating intelligent radio access control Intelligent radio access control selecting a first cell device of a first cell layer or a second cell device of a second cell layer or selecting a radio access technology for communication by a mobile device are provided. A device receives information indicative of an access assignment for communication. The access assignment is generated based on a defined criterion, which is associated with a policy of determining a cell layer assignment prior to determining a radio access technology (RAT) assignment. In response to receiving the information, the device can update its configuration to transmit via a transmission parameter based on the information. The cell layer assignment can offload traffic from the first cell device to the second cell device while the RAT assignment can re-assign the device from a first RAT to a second RAT. Assignment can be based on network conditions or mobility state or applications of the device.
US09338710B2	Data forwarding during handover in a self-backhauled cell A method is implemented in an anchor eNodeB of a network, where the anchor eNodeB communicates with a self-backhauled eNodeB via a radio interface and where the network further includes another eNodeB. The method includes determining whether a user equipment (UE) is being handed off from the first self-backhauled eNodeB to the other eNodeB. The determining is based on: receiving (820) a message from the self-backhauled eNodeB via the radio interface instructing the anchor eNodeB to stop delivering packets that are destined for the UE, or sniffing (1 105, 1 1 10, 1 1 15) into one or more messages sent from the self-backhauled eNodeB to the other eNodeB to identify that the UE is being handed off from the self-backhauled eNodeB to the other eNodeB. The method further includes storing (1 120), based on the determination of whether the UE is being handed off, received packets intended for the UE: and forwarding (1 120) the stored packets to the other eNodeB via a transport network for delivery to the UE.
US09338703B2	Method and apparatus for changing cell information in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for changing a physical cell identity (PCI) of a mobile relay node (MRN) cell in a wireless communication system is provided. When a donor eNodeB (DeNB) changes the PCI of the MRN cell, the DeNB transmits a message indicating a change of the PCI of the MRN cell to an MRN if it is determined that the PCI of the MRN cell collides with the PCI of a DeNB cell or a PCI of neighbor cells. When the MRN changes the PCI of the MRN cell, the MRN transmits a message including the changed PCI of the MRN cell to user equipments (UEs) served by the MRN.
US09338697B1	Mobile device handoff while maintaining connectivity with multiple access points A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for allowing a mobile device to maintain communication connectivity during a handoff between wireless access points. In one aspect, the method may include negotiating security association information and establishing a first communication tunnel by tunneling an inner IP address within a first outer IP address. The method may further include authenticating a request for establishing a second communication tunnel by identifying the negotiated security association information within the request. Additionally, the method may include establishing the second communication tunnel by tunneling the inner IP address within a second outer IP address. Moreover, the method may include pushing data associated with the communication session through the second communication tunnel.
US09338693B2	Scheduling framework for adaptive video delivery over cellular networks Systems and methods for adaptive video delivery over a network, including receiving a plurality of types of data flows from one or more network base stations; separating resource management of the plurality of types of data flows, wherein the data flows include one or more of adaptive video streaming flows, regular video traffic flows, and other traffic flows by resource slicing. A scheduling framework for adaptive video delivery is instantiated; available choices of video bit rates for all users is received as input to an allocator; optimal allocation of resources is computed for all users by determining and selecting an optimal bit rate for each user using the allocator; the optimal bit rate being sent to an enforcer; resources across flows are isolated using the enforcer; and the optimal bit rate for each user is enforced using per-flow traffic shapers to maximize resource utilization without reaching network capacity.
US09338689B2	Method for mobile terminal to access wireless access point and wireless access point A method for a mobile terminal accessing wireless access points and a wireless access point are disclosed. The method includes: after acquiring an access request of a mobile station, when determining that its load exceeds a preset first load upper limit, according to acquired connection information of other wireless access points, a first wireless access point sends a load balance request to all the other wireless access points; a wireless access point receiving the request sends a load balance feedback message to the first wireless access point, carrying its load and connection authentication information required; the first wireless access point selects a load balance feedback message carrying a minimum load from all received messages, and then sends the connection authentication information carried in the selected message to the mobile station; and the mobile station initiates an access flow to a corresponding wireless access point according to the received information.
US09338688B2	Method for transmitting data and user equipment The present invention provides a method for a user equipment for supporting a multitude of radio access technologies. The method includes receiving information on an inter-system routing policy from a server. The information includes a filter rule information. The filter rule information includes at least a domain information or a content type information, and a list which is organized according to the priority of access technologies or access networks which are supported by the user equipment. The method further includes transmitting a data traffic to be transmitted, by using at least one access technology or a network that is decided according to the filter rule information.
US09338686B2	Method for operating a wireless network, a wireless network and a device Method for operating a wireless network, wherein at least one MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) group of different stations will be constructed by a grouping algorithm based on a grouping metric for providing a MIMO group of different stations addressable simultaneously in space by a base station using MIMO techniques and meeting a definable level of performance quality, the grouping metric being based on an SINR (Signal-to-Interference and Noise Ratio) experienced by each station within the MIMO group. The method includes: computing an SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) that a new station would experience without any interference when added to an existing MIMO group; computing an SINR estimate by correcting the SNR with the sum of spatial correlations between the new and each of the stations already present in the existing MIMO group; and using the SINR estimate for deciding whether the new station can be added to the existing MIMO group.
US09338679B1	Systems and methods for analyzing radio frequency exposure compliance Systems and methods for evaluating a proposed site for an RF transmitting structure are described. The system receives information relating to the proposed structure, and gathers additional data related to the inputs. The system calculates a conservative estimate of the spatially-averaged power density levels (in mW/cm2) a 6-foot human would be exposed to from electromagnetic fields produced by the RF transmitting structure at both the surface level and axis level for service antennas, and at the axis level for donor antennas. The system determines the total percentage of the maximum MPE limit that a 6-foot human would be exposed to at both the surface level and axis level for service antennas, and at the axis level for donor antennas. The system recommends compliance mitigation actions. The system generates a compliance record that includes an indication of whether the proposed site is approved, conditionally approved, or not approved, based in part on the percentages.
US09338674B2	Systems, structures and associated processes for optimization of state transitions within wireless networks A system for optimizing communications on a radio network by altering transitions between different link states that includes several modules. The activity, environment, and load module monitor monitors the link layer based on spectral-load metrics and radio-link metrics. The state transition control module determines when user equipment transitions between different states based on the type of user equipment, user equipment battery life, whether the user equipment is connected to an alternating current outlet, a spectral cost, and a backhaul cost. The channel state influencer module uses any of direct messages, ping messages, and keep-alive messages to influence the link state. The policy and preference handler enables or disables transitions based on the bearer technology type, the type of user equipment, the user's subscription plan, and the load level on the network.
US09338667B2	Drilling technology utilizing high temperature and low temperature discharges A drilling apparatus (100) includes a drill bit (200), a heating assembly, a cooling assembly, and a digging assembly. The heating assembly is configured to rapidly heat a material to be drilled at a target location. The heating assembly includes one or more first discharge structures (520) configured to discharge a high-temperature substance at the target location of the material. The cooling assembly includes one or more second discharge structures (440) configured to discharge a low-temperature substance at the target location of the material. The digging assembly is configured to remove substrate from the material at the target location.
US09338662B2	Method for inter-beam interference reduction using cross polarization and method for transmitting/receiving signal Disclosed are a method for inter-beam interference reduction using cross polarization and a method for transmitting/receiving a signal. A transmitting method of a base station in a wireless communication system, includes: configuring a first parameter for forming a first beam having first polarization with respect to a terminal located in a first sub-sector, and configuring a second parameter for forming a second beam having second polarization with respect to a terminal located in a second sub-sector; and transmitting a signal to each terminal by forming the first beam using at least one antenna based on the configured first parameter and forming the second beam using the at least one antenna based on the configured second parameter, wherein a frequency band equal to a frequency band of the first sub-sector is allocated to the second sub-sector in a cell in the base station.
US09338657B2	System and method for correlating security events with subscriber information in a mobile network environment A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a subscriber accounting start packet for a subscriber device in a mobile network environment. The method also includes extracting, from the subscriber accounting start packet, subscriber device information and a network address of the subscriber device. The method further includes mapping the network address to the subscriber device information, and then correlating the subscriber device information and a security event when the security event is detected in subscriber data network traffic associated with the subscriber device. In a specific embodiment, the subscriber device information includes at least one of an International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI), an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), a Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN), and an access point name (APN). In further embodiments, an identification of the security event and one or more items of the subscriber device information are provided to a user.
US09338654B2	Controlling access to communication services A method and corresponding apparatus and system of controlling access to communication services by a roaming wireless device are described. The method includes receiving a request for roaming wireless device service information related to a roaming user and determining which services the user has access to for the requesting system, if the user is determined to have access to the requesting system. The method also includes transmitting user service information concerning the services to which the user has access. The apparatus includes a memory, a communication system, and a processor. The memory stores: (1) user information including a class of service (COS) identifier and (2) COS restriction information. The processing system, coupled with the communication system and the memory, generates a reply message based on comparing information in a service request message received by the communication system with the stored information in the memory.
US09338652B1	Dynamic password-less user verification A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic password-less user verification in a mobile device are provided in the illustrative embodiments. Using a processor and a memory in the mobile device, a first portion of a call log stored in the mobile device is selected. Using a transformation function, a first transformed value corresponding to the first portion is obtained. A second portion of a call log stored in a repository of a service provider is obtained from the service provider, the service provider facilitating voice communications from the mobile device, and the second portion corresponding to the first portion. Using the transformation function, a second transformed value corresponding to the second portion is obtained. Responsive to the first transformed value matching the second transformed value within a tolerance limit, a conclusion is generated that the user verification is successful.
US09338651B2	Proactive assistance in obtaining a wireless network connection A user may be proactively identified as needing assistance to access a home wireless network. Assistance may be automatically provided through, for example, a text message, email, or telephone call. In one implementation, a method may include monitoring a wireless access point that provides a wireless network; obtaining, based on the monitoring, an indication of a failed attempt to attach to the wireless network due to entry of an incorrect network password; and causing, based on the obtained indication of the failed attempt to attach to the wireless network, transmission of a correct password for the wireless network to a mobile device corresponding to an account associated with the wireless network.
US09338645B2	Method and system for message service in multi-device environment and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a method and a system for a message service in a multi-device environment in which one or more terminals are used by a user, and to an apparatus therefor, the present invention registering, for each user, one or more terminals which will be using a message service and providing the message service by means of the one or more registered terminals, thereby providing additional services comprising user privacy protection and/or provision of presence information.
US09338642B2	Method and apparatus for processing application program, and mobile terminal therefor The present disclosure, pertaining to the field of computer technologies, discloses a method and apparatus for processing an application program, and a mobile terminal therefor. The method includes: determining a current running state of an application program currently opened on a mobile terminal; performing a corresponding operation for the opened application program according to the determined running state. The apparatus includes: a determining module, configured to determine a current running state of an application program currently opened on a mobile terminal; an operation performing module, configured to perform a corresponding operation for the opened application program according to the determined running state. According to the present disclosure, current running states of application programs opened on a mobile terminal are determined, and corresponding operations are performed for the opened application programs according to the determined different running states. This, as compared with performing the same operation for all opened application programs, saves system processing resources, power, and network bandwidth resources.
US09338640B2	System and method for remotely triggering actions on a mobile device A method for selecting data from a first electronic device for a second electronic device. The second electronic device includes an authentication module and is arranged to receive messages over a communication bearer, and transfer a received message to the authentication module when determining from an indication in the received message that the message is intended for the authentication module. The method includes receiving from the first electronic device the selected data, retrieving one or more commands associated to the selected data, generating using the selected data and associated command(s) a triggering message, the triggering massage including an indication that the triggering message is intended for the authentication module of the second electronic device for triggering the command(s) for the selected data, and sending the triggering message over the communication bearer to the second electronic device, thereby causing the authentication module to trigger the command for the selected data.
US09338638B1	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for wireless device and service discovery In an example embodiment, a method for short service discovery includes establishing a connection, by an apparatus, with a wireless device having a subset of service information available as default service information; transmitting, by the apparatus, a request for additional service information available from the wireless device; receiving, by the apparatus, from the wireless device, additional service information available from the wireless device, if the request is authorized by the wireless device; and receiving, by the apparatus, from the wireless device, a subset of service information available from the wireless device, if the request is not authorized by the wireless device.
US09338633B2	Wi-Fi service method and system for Wi-Fi devices A Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) service method and system are provided. A beacon message and probe response message may contain a service information field storing device information. Wi-Fi devices can exchange information on supported functions with each other and one Wi-Fi device may identify functions supported by another Wi-Fi device. Hence, a Wi-Fi connection can be set up through automatic provisioning. The method includes receiving, by a first Wi-Fi device in non-Access Point (AP) mode, messages from nearby Wi-Fi devices operating in AP mode, analyzing a service information field of each received message, determining a second Wi-Fi device that is manufactured by the same manufacturer as the first Wi-Fi device and is capable of supporting a requested service, establishing a connection with the second Wi-Fi device through Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) based on automatic provision, and sending data associated with the requested service to the second Wi-Fi device for a Wi-Fi service.
US09338632B2	Method and system of wireless device discovery in a wireless network employing directional antennas A wireless device (100) communicates in a wireless network, and executes a wireless device discovery process to discover other wireless devices (100) in the wireless network. In the wireless device discovery process, the wireless device (100) sets its antenna pattern to have an omnidirectional antenna pattern (202), and transmits a first packet (300) using the omnidirectional antenna pattern (202). The first packet (300) comprises a packet preamble sequence (310) formed by repeating each sample of a synchronization sequence N times (N>1). The remainder (320) of the first packet (300) is formed by spreading each sample thereof with a spreading factor P (P>1). For normal data communications, the wireless device (100) sets the antenna pattern to have a directional antenna pattern (204), and transmits a second packet using the directional antenna pattern (204).
US09338631B2	Method and apparatus for online charging in an IP multimedia subsystem A method is provided for online charging within an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS. A first credit control request message is received (S-A) at an IMS charging node (30) from an IMS service network node (20) over a service charging interface (22) provided between the IMS service node (20) and the IMS charging node (30). In response to receipt of the first credit control message, it is determined (S-B) at the IMS charging node (30), with reference to one or more triggering conditions, that a replenishment of credit is to be offered for a user associated with the first credit control request message. Following such a determination, a credit replenishment service is initiated in the IMS service node (20) by sending (S-D) a replenishment request in a first credit control answer message over the service charging interface (22) from the IMS charging node (30) to the IMS service node (20), the first credit control answer message being in response to the first credit control request message. Alternatively, a credit replenishment service is initiated (S-E) in the IMS charging node (30). In this alternative, a second credit control request message associated with the user is received (S-F) from a transport network node (40) over a bearer charging interface (42) provided between the transport node (40) and the IMS charging node (30); and, in response to receipt of the second credit control request message and as part of the replenishment service, a replenishment request is sent (S-G) in a second credit control answer message over the bearer charging interface (42) to the transport node (40), the second credit control answer message being in response to the second credit control request message.
US09338628B2	Emergency notification system An emergency notification system and method that is operable to provide a technique for a user to transmit an emergency signal request wherein the emergency signal request is transmitted to a 911 operations center, registered EMS providers, and at least one named contact identified by the user transmitting the emergency signal request simultaneously. The emergency notification system includes a server database having control software and further includes a software application for mobile devices. The emergency notification system is operable to receive and store relevant medical data for each of the registered users of the system wherein the medical data is transmitted to emergency medical service providers during the transmission of the emergency signal request. A customized notification message is additionally sent to a predefined list of contacts during the emergency signal request. The customized notification message further includes the geographic coordinates of the user transmitting the emergency signal request.
US09338626B1	Determining an accuracy of a location determination The accuracy of a location determination mechanism may be determined as compared to another location determination mechanism. Dialing 9-1-1 on a mobile communication device may trigger location determination of the device via a GPS-based mechanism. The location information may be time stamped. The location and time information may be provided to a network. The network may determine the location of the device via network infrastructure. The network may time stamp this second set of locations. The determination of the locations of the device via GPS and via the network infrastructure may occur approximately during the same time frame. The first set of locations and the second set of locations may be time aligned, and the differences between the two sets may be utilized to determine the accuracy of network-infrastructure-based location determination mechanism as compared to the GPS-based location determination mechanism.
US09338625B2	Geographically redundant and multiple EATF nodes An emergency access transfer function (EATF) node is described for use when hand over of a user equipment (UE) from a first to a second access network is performed during an emergency call session (ECS). The EATF node receives a request for transferring the ECS from the first access network to the second access network. The EATF node transfers the ECS of the UE from the first to the second access network when the ECS is known to the EATF node. The EATF node selects a second EATF node from a set of one or more EATF nodes when the ECS is unknown, and forwards the request for transferring the ECS to the second EATF node. The EATF node may be in a first network region and the second EATF node may be in the first or a second network region.
US09338624B2	Cellular telephone and computer program comprising means for generating and sending an alarm message The present disclosure relates to a cellular telephone comprising a processor generating and sending an alarm message destined for at least one predefined recipient, in response to an action for the automatic generation of an alert message by a portable telephone to one or more predetermined recipients, the process or being activated by a unique action by the user, and a computer program for detecting as a background task a change of state of at least one man-machine interface of the telephone corresponding to the unique activation action, the change of state being specific to a panic situation associated with pre-recorded parameters, and in case of detection of the change of state, the dispatching of a message for interruption of the processor and for calling of a routine triggering an application ordering the sending of a message containing pre-recorded parameters.
US09338619B2	User authentification system using call identification information and method thereof A user authentication system using call identification information, includes: a contents service provision server which provides a contents service through a wired/wireless communication network; a first user terminal which accesses the contents service provision server to request a service requiring the approval authentication; an authentication server which makes a call to the first user terminal with a corresponding stored terminal number upon receiving a request for approval authentication from the contents service provision server; and a wired/wireless second user terminal which transmits an approval number during calling with the authentication server, as an audio signal, to the authentication server.
US09338611B2	Wireless communication apparatus, data distribution apparatus, and data updating method A wireless communication apparatus including: a memory to store data therein, and a processor to receive a message including setting information concerning settings of a multicast service bearer through which updating data used for updating the data is distributed, to access the multicast service bearer through which the updating data is distributed in accordance with the setting information, to receive the updating data distributed through the multicast service bearer, and to update the data by the updating data.
US09338608B2	Method and system for providing enhanced location based information for wireless handsets Methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced location information on or about a mobile device may include hybrid lateration and trilateration solutions in which the mobile device performs location determination calculations with the aid of network components or global positioning systems (GPS). Mobile devices may automatically form groups based on proximity and/or may be grouped together via a network server. Mobile devices in a group may share computed location information and/or information collected from internal sensors with other grouped mobile devices. Information shared between grouped mobile devices may be used to enhance the location information computed on each mobile device. For example, each mobile device may supplement and/or augment previously computed location information based on the received location information and/or relative positions of other mobile devices in the same group. Each mobile device may also utilize local sensors to further enhance their location information.
US09338599B1	Location-based mobile object management in a distributed cloud for enhancing access and performance A method for location-based service migration is provided. The method may include monitoring, by a processor, a location of a mobile device. The method may also include checking the location against a geo-location profile, whereby the geo-location profile includes at least one of a service, a plurality of migration rules, a plurality of data, an application, a security, and a plurality of access frequency criteria. The method may further include transferring the at least one service and a plurality of data objects used by the at least one service from a first server with a server location outside a bounds for the location to a second server within a bounds for the location in response to detecting a service in the geo-location profile meets a migration criteria.
US09338585B2	Automatically connecting a user equipment device with a partner device A User Equipment (UE) device of a user may automatically determine an intended partner device with which the user desires to interact by determining its own UE orientation value and receiving a beacon signal that includes a device identifier of a candidate partner device and a device orientation value that indicates an orientation of the candidate partner device. The signal strength value for the beacon signal is determined. The UE selects the candidate partner device as the intended partner device based on at least the signal strength value, the device orientation value that indicates the orientation of the candidate partner device, and the UE orientation value. The UE then transmits a message to the intended partner device using the device identifier of the candidate partner device.
US09338581B2	System and method for connecting, configuring and testing new wireless devices and applications A system, apparatus, and method are provided for connecting, configuring and testing new wireless devices and applications. For example, one embodiment of a computer-implemented method for enabling a trial wireless device comprises: automatically pre-provisioning one or more trial SIM cards for operation on a particular wireless cellular network on behalf of a prospective customer; automatically pre-configuring a trial wireless machine-to-machine (“M2M”) device on behalf of the prospective customer; wherein the trial M2M device includes testing and monitoring program code which, when the trial M2M device is connected to a computer system, performs the operations of: automatically connecting to the wireless cellular network execute a plurality of test operations for testing the SIM card and the trial M2M device, the test operations including determining whether the SIM card is correctly provisioned for the wireless network; determining whether the trial M2M wireless device is operating properly; and determining the existence of wireless data connectivity.
US09338573B2	Matrix decoder with constant-power pairwise panning A constant-power pairwise panning upmixing system and method for upmixing from a two-channel stereo signal to a multi-channel surround sound (having more than two channels). Each output channel is some combination of the two input channels. Closed-form solutions are used to calculate dematrixing coefficients that are used to weight each input channel. The dematrixing coefficients are computed based on an inter-channel level difference and an inter-channel phase difference between the two input signals. The weighted input channels then are mixed uniquely for each output channel to generate a surround sound output from the stereo input signal. Each dematrixing coefficient has an in-phase component and an out-of-phase component. The phase coefficients for each component vary in time and are based on the phase difference between the input signals. The resultant surround sound output faithfully simulates the audio content as originally mixed.
US09338570B2	Method and apparatus for an integrated headset switch with reduced crosstalk noise An integrated audio signal processing circuit is described for reducing crosstalk noise in an integrated headset switch for a headset having two speakers, a microphone sharing a common ground. The audio signal processing circuit includes two audio amplifiers and also has two terminals configured to be either a microphone connection terminal or a headset ground connection terminal, respectively, depending on the type of the headset. An audio amplifier reference node is coupled to inputs of the audio amplifiers. The audio signal processing circuit has a first switch device responsive to a headset ground selection signal and configured to connect the audio amplifier reference node to the detected headset ground connection terminal. The audio signal processing circuit also has a second switch device responsive to the headset ground selection signal and configured to couple the detected headset ground connection terminal to a ground terminal of the audio processing circuit.
US09338566B2	Methods, systems, and devices for determining a binaural correction factor Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed herein. A sample method includes determining one or more binaural correction factors at one or more frequencies. Each binaural correction factor is representative of an amount of binaural summation experienced by a recipient of a binaural stimulus at one of the one or more frequencies. The binaural stimulus is delivered about simultaneously to the recipient by a first stimulation device and a second stimulation device.
US09338562B2	Listening system with an improved feedback cancellation system, a method and use A listening device includes an input transducer, an output transducer, a signal processor, and a feedback cancellation system for estimating acoustic feedback. The feedback cancellation system includes an adaptive FBC filter arranged in parallel to the forward path, an adaptive whitening filter, and a howl detection unit that performs howl detection based on an output of the adaptive whitening filter. The adaptive FBC filter includes a variable FBC filter part and an FBC update algorithm part for updating the variable FBC filter part, the FBC update algorithm part receiving first and second FBC algorithm input signals influenced by the electrical input and the electrical output signals. Further, the feedback cancellation system receives an electrical update signal essentially consisting of the direct part of the electrical input signal and coefficients of the adaptive whitening filter are based on the electrical update signal.
US09338560B1	Top port multi-part surface mount silicon condenser microphone A surface mount package for a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone die is disclosed. The surface mount package features a substrate with metal pads for surface mounting the package to a device's printed circuit board and for making electrical connections between the microphone package and the device's circuit board. The surface mount microphone package has a cover, and the MEMS microphone die is substrate-mounted and acoustically coupled to an acoustic port provided in the surface mount package. The substrate and the cover are joined together to form the MEMS microphone, and the substrate and cover cooperate to form an acoustic chamber for the substrate-mounted MEMS microphone die.
US09338556B2	Electroacoustic transducer, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic device utilizing same An electroacoustic transducer comprises a piezoelectric vibrator; a casing being provided with a predetermined space from the piezoelectric vibrator and including a frustum shape cutout in an inner wall thereof; and an acoustic absorption material being fitted in the cutout wherein a sound hole is formed in the casing in front of the piezoelectric vibrator in an oscillating direction of the piezoelectric vibrator; and the casing is formed in the casing such that a hole diameter of a sound path decreases toward a front end in the oscillating direction of the piezoelectric vibrator.
US09338555B1	Earphones and hearing aids with equalization A system, methods, and devices that allow a listener to compensate for variability in the physical configuration and characteristics of individual ears to optimize the sound quality and listening experience for sound reproduction or amplification through an earphone, earbud, hearing aid, or the like. The present invention comprises one or more earphones, earbuds, hearing aid, dongle, or similar devices with an equalizer or equalizing circuitry or processing program contained therein, or in a circuit with the earphone, earbud, hearing aid or similar device. The equalizer or equalizing circuitry or processing program may be located in a separate device attached or in electronic communication, wired or wirelessly, to the earphone, earbuds or hearing aid, such as a remote. It also may be located in the sound-providing or music-providing device. The equalizer settings can be adjusted manually or automatically for each ear. An amplifier, or amplifying circuitry, also may be present.
US09338537B2	Loudspeaker housing The invention relates to a loudspeaker and to a loudspeaker housing for accommodating a loudspeaker module, wherein the loudspeaker housing has a sound output side having a sound output opening and a casing, wherein the sound output side is the side of the loudspeaker housing that is intended to output the sound of the loudspeaker module through the sound output side when the loudspeaker module is arranged in the loudspeaker housing, wherein the sound output direction is perpendicular to the sound output side, and wherein the casing is arranged radially around the sound output direction and laterally around the sound output side, and wherein the loudspeaker housing has a rear side opposite the sound output side, and wherein the rear side is open or has an opening, wherein between the sound output side and the rear side, the casing varies in the cross-section thereof perpendicular to the distance line between the sound output side and the rear side.
US09338535B2	Micro-speaker A micro-speaker is disclosed. The micro-speaker includes a frame, a magnetic circuit unit in the frame, a first vibration unit, and a second vibration unit. The magnetic circuit unit forms a first volume cooperatively with the first vibration unit, and a second volume cooperatively with the second vibration unit. The magnetic circuit unit further includes an aperture for communicating the first volume with the second volume for enabling the first vibration unit in phase with the second vibration unit.
US09338531B2	Input-controllable dynamic cross-connect A multiplexer capable of automatically and dynamically selecting a correct or the best input out of a pre-configurable set of alternative inputs, based on the current status of the alternative inputs. An input status-sensitive, dynamic, M-by-M digital cross-connect can be formed out of an arrangement of M (an integer) instances of such input-controllable dynamic M:1 multiplexers. An application is an SDH/SONET cross-connect system that is able to perform a protection-switch for any number, up to all, of its output paths, simultaneously, if necessary, thereby enabling a short and deterministic latency for individual-path-granular protection-switch process for cross-connects of unlimited capacity. Another application is an SDH/SONET path that can be dynamically shared, even at a single time-slot granularity, among multiple path sources. Such a multi-source-bus configuration of an SDH/SONET path enables allocating network resources dynamically based on the real-time capacity demand patterns, thereby maximizing the network throughput for bursty data traffic.
US09338525B2	Methods of automatically recording patching changes at passive patch panels and network equipment Methods of executing patching connection changes in a patching field are provided in which an electronic work order is received on a display located at the patching field, the electronic work order specifying the patching connection change. A technician may perform the patching connection change. Then, an electronic message may be sent from the patching field indicating that the patching change has been completed.
US09338521B2	Overwriting existing media content with viewer-specific advertisements Embodiments are directed to pacing on-demand linear advertisement entries to appear as being live entries, to generating a sequential segment map from a parallel playlist and to consolidating linear ad and main content portions into a single linear chunklist. In one embodiment, a computer system receives video content updates for a portion of live video programming, and generates a parallel playlist with parallel playlist entries that identify a presentation that is to be played. The computer system then generates a sequential segment map from the parallel playlist that identifies which parallel playlist entry is to be played, monitors a live position for new media, determines that an on-demand linear advertisement is to be played at the live position, and appends on-demand linear advertisement chunks to a chunklist to replace the main content chunks and play the on-demand linear advertisement entries in a pseudo-live format as if they were live.
US09338516B2	Electronic device and method for transferring data via digital television network and mobile communication network using the electronic device In a method for transferring data via a digital television (DTV) network and a mobile communication network using an electronic device, the method receives a DTV signal via the DTV network and detects a decode error rate (DER) of the DTV signal at a first frequency. The method further detects the DER of the DTV signal at a second frequency and detects an average signal strength of the mobile communication network when the DER is continuously greater than a first threshold value. The method builds an electronic connection between the electronic device and a multimedia server via the mobile communication network and receives multimedia data from the multimedia server when the DER is continuously greater than a second threshold value and when the average signal strength is continuously greater than a third threshold value.
US09338515B2	Real-time and secured picture/video upload via a content delivery network A content delivery network includes an overlay network having a plurality of cache servers. Each cache server configured to receive a request from a personal content server to register with the content delivery network, receive a request from a mobile capture device to establish communication with the personal content server, and establish a communication path through the overlay network between the mobile capture device and the personal content server. Each cache server is further configured to transfer content from the mobile capture device along the communication path to the personal content server.
US09338511B2	Video-on-demand content delivery method for providing video-on-demand services to TV service subscribers A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system has a VOD Application Server which manages a database of templates ordered in a hierarchy for presentation of video content elements of different selected types categorized in hierarchical order. The templates include those for higher-order displays which have one or more links to lower-order displays of specific content. The VOD Application Server, in response to viewer request, displays a high-order templatized display, and in response to viewer selection of a link, displays the lower-order display of specific content. A web-based Content Management System receives content uploaded online in file formats with metadata for title and topical area, and automatically converts it into video data format compatible with the VOD content delivery system indexed by title and topical area. A User Interface for the system delivers listings data to the viewer's TV indexed by title and topical area specified by the uploaded metadata.
US09338510B2	Systems and methods for presenting home screen shortcuts A method for presenting home screen shortcuts is disclosed. The method includes receiving a selection of shortcuts to a plurality of applications of at least two different types available for execution on a television device and presenting those shortcuts on a unified home screen user interface displayed on a TV screen or a second screen device. The method also includes responding to a user selection of one of the shortcuts by causing execution of the application associated with the shortcut, including in some instances effecting an intent (e.g., causing the associated application to achieve a state associated with the shortcut's intent). The different application types include applications, TV channels, websites, games, email, and widgets, such as a search widget.
US09338508B2	Preserving a consumption context for a user session Continuity of an entire user session (including the primary content stream, secondary content streams, and user context) is preserved so that the user can resume the session at a later time, at a different place, and, possibly, using different equipment. When a user pauses a session, the context of that session is automatically preserved. Upon resumption, the session begins where the user left off, resuming the primary media stream at the point where the user stopped, knowing what secondary content items the user has already seen, and re-establishing any user-set parameters for the session (e.g., playback volume, allocation of streams to particular screen real estate, whether closed captioning is turned on, and the like). For time-shifted content consumption, the system intelligently selects, filters, and processes contextual information (such as characteristics of the primary media) in order to present companion streams that are relevant and engaging to the user.
US09338502B2	Method and system for collaborative recording and compression A data compression reduces redundancy over time using information from other frames and among different viewers. A personal compressed copy of content includes an array of keys, and encrypted copy of the content and a codebook. The codebook, which is not a copy of the content may be stored in shared memory.
US09338500B2	Interactive product placement system and method therefor A method for presenting advertisements for commercial products in video productions, whereby the commercial product is placed in the video production as an element of the video production. A viewer is enabled to interact with the video production to select the product. Information is then displayed about the selected product; and the viewer is enabled to purchase the selected product.
US09338498B2	System and method for drawing anti-aliased lines in any direction A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to a destination rectangle in the frame buffer that is displayed on the screen.
US09338497B2	System and method for reconfiguration of an entertainment system controlling device An entertainment device is used to notify a user of a change in an audio visual entertainment system configuration in which at least one of a plurality devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual source and at least one of the plurality of devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual output destination for the entertainment device and/or to notify a user of a perceived problem in a configuration of a controlling device used to control functional operations of the audio visual entertainment system.
US09338490B2	System and method to provide a unified video signal for diverse receiving platforms A method includes receiving a request for media content at a residential gateway from a device coupled to the residential gateway and sending a media content request to a server based on the request. The method includes receiving a video data stream of the media content at the residential gateway. Data packets of the video data stream enable generation of the media content at a first resolution. A first subset of the data packets include tags that enable identification of particular data packets usable to generate the media content at a second resolution that is lower than the first resolution. The method also includes determining a display characteristic of a display device coupled to the device and sending the particular data packets to the device when the display characteristic indicates that the device is to receive the media content at the second resolution.
US09338484B2	Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast receiver includes a reception unit for receiving a broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, an extractor for extracting transmission parameter channel signaling information and fast information channel signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, an acquirer for acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and a service of an ensemble by using the extracted fast information channel signaling information, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, a detector for detecting a descriptor defining Internet access information corresponding to the mobile service data by using the acquired program table, and a controller for controlling the Internet access information of the detected descriptor and the mobile service data to be displayed.
US09338482B2	Enhanced group of pictures (GOP) alignment in media stream variants A media feed is received and delineated into groups of pictures (GOPs) for processing into output media streams having different quality levels. The media feed needs only to be decoded once. The decoded stream is split along different paths based on resolution, and resized output media data is sent to multiple encoders and fragmenters to generate variants in bit rate and frame rate for each resolution. The generated variants may be maintained as fragments on shared storage. A particular stream corresponding to a particular variant can be reconstructed using the encoded fragments.
US09338476B2	Filtering blockiness artifacts for video coding In one example, an apparatus for coding video data includes a video coder configured to determine a first prediction mode for a first block of video data and a second prediction mode for a second block of video data, wherein the first block and the second block share a common edge, decode the first block using the first prediction mode and the second block using the second prediction mode, and determine whether to deblock the common edge between the first block and the second block based at least in part on whether at least one of the first prediction mode and the second prediction mode comprises short distance intra-prediction (SDIP).
US09338475B2	Tone mapping for bit-depth scalable video codec A scalable video codec may convert lower bit depth video to higher bit depth video using decoded lower bit depth video for tone mapping and tone mapping derivation. The conversion can also use the filtered lower bit depth video for tone mapping and tone mapping derivation.
US09338473B2	Video coding A method of performing a rate-distortion optimization process comprising, for each of a plurality of target image portions to be encoded in each of a plurality of frames, selecting a preferred one of a set of encoding modes by optimizing a function comprising an estimate of distortion for the target image portion and a measure of bit rate required to encode the target image portion, wherein the estimate of distortion is based on source coding distortion and an estimate of a distortion that would be experienced due to possible loss over the channel; encoding the target image portion into the encoded video stream using the selected encoding mode; and transmitting the encoded video stream over the channel. The rate-distortion optimization process for a current one of the frames is performed in dependence on feedback received from the receiving terminal based on an earlier one of the frames.
US09338466B2	Method and device for coding an image sequence implementing blocks of different size, signal, data medium, decoding method and device, and computer programs corresponding thereto A method is provided for coding an image sequence, including splitting a current image into blocks of standard size, termed macroblocks. For at least one current macroblock of the current image, the method further includes: constructing at least one block of greater size than the current macroblock, termed a large block, which includes the current macroblock and at least one neighbor macroblock in the current image, taking account of characteristics of the current image; coding the large block, delivering base coding information, making it possible to reconstruct a base layer of said current image, and for at least one large block, determining enhancement information associated with at least one macroblock present in the large block.
US09338460B2	Method of constructing merge list Provided is a method checks availability of spatial merge candidates and a temporal merge candidate, constructs a merge candidate list using available spatial and temporal merge candidates, and adds one or more candidates if the number of available spatial and temporal merge candidates is smaller than a predetermined number. The spatial merge candidate is motion information of a spatial merge candidate block, the spatial merge candidate block is a left block, an above block, an above-right block, a left-below block or an above-left block of the current block, and if the current block is a second prediction unit partitioned by asymmetric partitioning, the spatial merge candidate corresponding to a first prediction unit partitioned by the asymmetric partitioning is set as unavailable. Therefore, the coding efficiency of motion information is improved by removing unavailable merge candidates and adding new merge candidates from the merge list.
US09338456B2	Coding syntax elements using VLC codewords This disclosure describes techniques for coding transform coefficients for a block of video data. According to these techniques, a video coder (a video encoder or video decoder) stores a first VLC table array selection table in memory, and an indication of at least one difference between the first VLC table array selection table and a second VLC table array selection table. The video coder reconstructs at least one entry of the second VLC table array selection table based on the first VLC table array selection table using the stored indication of the difference between the first VLC table array selection table and a second VLC table array selection table. The video coder uses the reconstructed at least one entry of the second VLC table array selection table to code at least one block of video data.
US09338448B2	Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus for performing inter-picture predictive coding for pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit for performing predictive error coding for image data; a decoding unit for performing predictive error decoding for an output from the coding unit; a reference picture memory for holding output data from the decoding unit; and a motion vector detection unit for detecting motion vectors on the basis of the decoded image data stored in the memory. When coding a B picture as a target picture, information indicating whether or not the target picture should be used as a reference picture when coding another picture is added as header information. Therefore, in a decoding apparatus for decoding a bit stream Bs outputted from the moving picture coding apparatus, management of a memory for holding the reference picture can be facilitated on the basis of the header information.
US09338446B2	Method of starting camera in user equipment, user equipment and storage medium A method of starting a camera, a user equipment and a storage medium are provided. A memory in the user equipment is additionally utilized to store calibrated OTP data therein so that the calibrated OTP data stored in the memory can be written directly into a register of an optical sensor of the camera each time the user equipment accesses the camera to thereby avoid OTP data calibration each time the user equipment accesses the camera, and shorten a period of time for the user equipment to access the camera and a period of time for the camera to start while avoiding an overly amount of calibration calculations, lowering a load on a kernel of the user equipment and improving the experience of a user.
US09338428B2	3D mode selection mechanism for video playback The invention relates to a signal comprising video information and associated playback information, the video information and associated playback information being organized according to a playback format, the video information comprising a primary video stream for two-dimensional (2D) display, and an additional information stream for enabling three-dimensional (3D) display, wherein that the associated playback information comprises display information indicating the types of display possible. The invention also relates to a method and device for playback of such a signal, the method comprising receiving the video information and the associated playback information, processing the display information to determine that both two-dimensional (2D) display possible and three-dimensional (3D) display are possible for the received video information; determining a playback setting of a playback device indicating whether the video information should be displayed two-dimensional (2D) or three dimensional (3D); and processing for display either the primary video stream or the primary video stream and the additional information stream, in accordance with the playback setting of the playback device.
US09338425B2	Device and method for generating stereoscopic image A rotation angle obtaining unit obtains an angle by which a stereoscopic image of a subject is to be rotated around a line-of-sight direction. A multi-viewpoint image accumulation unit accumulates a plurality of images of the subject obtained in one direction by changing capturing positions, as multi-viewpoint images. A selection unit selects base images for the stereoscopic image from the multi-viewpoint images accumulated in the multi-viewpoint image accumulation unit, based on the rotation angle. A rotation unit rotates the selected base images based on the rotation angle to generate images which are to form the stereoscopic image of the subject.
US09338412B2	Systems and methods for securing a digital communications link A digital data signal, such as a digital video signal, is intentionally pre-distorted before being sent over a network. In one embodiment, this pre-distortion may be performed in accordance with a pre-distortion pattern or algorithm which is shared with only intended receivers. The pre-distortion pattern may be used to vary the pre-distortion on a periodic basis, as frequently as on a symbol-by-symbol basis. The pre-distortion function may include distorting the phase and/or the amplitude of the digital signal's modulation.
US09338403B2	Persistent conversations Systems, methods and computer readable media for persistent conversations are described. In some implementations, a method can include receiving a communication message sent from a first user to at least one other user, and generating a persistent conversation object having a conversation content section and conversation state information. The method can also include storing the communication message in the conversation content section of the persistent conversation object, and forwarding the communication message to the at least one other user. The method can further include updating the conversation state information to reflect the receiving, storing and forwarding of the communication message.
US09338400B1	Systems and methods for using equivalence classes to identify and manage participants and resources in a conference room Equivalence classes are used to determine how groups of call participants are distributed among remotely situated conference rooms. A roster of conference call participants is distributed for display by communication devices the participants bring to a conference room. The distributed roster contains at least one indicium by which the possession of an attribute, by any conference call participant in a room can be confirmed by other conference call participant(s) using a communication device. After entering a room, at least some participants use a communication device to access the roster and indicate, to a server, that at least one other participant on the roster possesses an attribute of significance to conduct of the call. Participants are assigned to groups and the groups are merged based on the presence of participants possessing an attribute or set of linked attributes. The server assigns the participants to respective groups for selective treatment.
US09338387B2	Integrated audio video signal processing system using centralized processing of signals Integrated processing of audio/video signals can eliminate unnecessary signal processors and converters without losing the functionality of typical home entertainment system components. The integrated system includes a main player that captures and processes signals digitally, a dummy display, and a dummy speaker. The dummy display may only have a display panel and a panel driver. The dummy speaker may only have a driving unit and no crossover logic. The main player may have a PC architecture and process all signals digitally for outputting signals tailored for the display device and the individual driving units of the dummy speaker. The integrated system may also provide dynamic signal adjustments based on the surrounding environment. The main player may include a storage device and can process media content stored therein to produce supplemental information to provide an optimal audiovisual experience. This supplemental information can be shared among users over a network connection.
US09338385B2	Identifying ancillary information associated with an audio/video program A system communicates video information including television content associated with a plurality of channels and ancillary information. Information may be transmitted with the ancillary information that is indicative of the type of content included in the ancillary information. This provides the user, in one embodiment of the present invention, with a visual indication of the type of information that accompanies television content. This helps the user to decide whether the user wishes to view the ancillary information and provides the opportunity to select that enhancement for viewing.
US09338379B2	System, device, and method for obtaining an image of a person's skin There is provided an imaging device including a lighting unit whose lighting directions to a subject are able to be switched, and a control unit that performs focus adjustment on the subject for every lighting directions to calculate evaluation values in accordance with focus states, and determines a direction in which a focus state becomes best as a lighting direction based on the evaluation values to capture the subject.
US09338374B2	Solid-state image sensor, method for driving solid-state image sensor, and electronic device Provided is a solid-state image sensor including a pixel array unit and a driving control unit. In the pixel array unit, pixels each including a charge accumulation unit accumulating a photocharge corresponding to an amount of received light, a signal conversion unit converting the photocharge into an electric signal, and a charge transfer unit performing, with a driving signal, switching between a conduction state and a non-conduction state, the charge transfer unit being disposed between the charge accumulation unit and the signal conversion unit are arranged. The driving control unit controls a state of the charge transfer unit with the driving signal and performs a first driving control in which the charge transfer unit is kept being in the conduction state from when the photocharge is transferred from the charge accumulation unit to the signal conversion unit until when a first signal corresponding to the transferred photocharge is read out.
US09338367B2	Processing method of scene image of device with shooting function, device with shooting function and storage medium One or more embodiments of the present application provide a processing method of a scene image of a device with a shooting function, the device with the shooting function and a storage medium. The method includes: determining first and second combined regions in a pre-shot image of a shot scene according to gray values of pixels in the pre-shot image; determining first and second exposures according to the determined first and second combined regions respectively; adjusting respectively gray values of pixels in a first image region corresponding to the first combined region in a first image shot at the first exposure, and gray values of pixels in a second image region corresponding to the second combined region in a second image shot at the second exposure; and splicing the two adjusted image regions together to obtain the scene image.
US09338366B2	Apparatus and method for compensating for back light of image An apparatus and method for compensating for back light of an image are provided. The method includes receiving an image at a preset time interval, upon receiving the image, dividing pixels constituting the received image according to preset ranges, determining whether the received image is a back light image by confirming a distribution degree of pixels of each of the divided ranges, adjusting the brightness of the back light image when the received image is the back light image, and storing the received image and the back light compensated image.
US09338358B2	Image capture apparatus and control method for reflecting exposure compensation An image capture apparatus includes an image data acquisition unit which acquires image data, a photometry unit which performs photometry using the image data, an exposure control unit which performs exposure control when the image data acquisition unit acquires image data, a gain control unit which performs gain control for the image data, a display unit which displays a captured image reflecting the exposure compensation value set by a setting unit, and a control unit which controls to, when the exposure compensation value falls within a predetermined range, reflect the exposure compensation value on the exposure control by the exposure control unit, and when the exposure compensation value falls outside the predetermined range, reflect the exposure compensation value on the exposure control by the exposure control unit and the gain control by the gain control unit.
US09338356B2	Method and apparatus to correct digital video to counteract effect of camera shake The effect of camera shake in digital video is corrected using signal processing techniques. The digital video is a sequence of digital images. When the sequence of digital images are being captured, movement of the imaging device causes the images to shift on the image sensor of the imaging device and affects the quality of the eventual video. Movement of the imaging device is detected while the video is being captured, and a motion information representing the motion is recorded. A processor determines a correcting filter based on the motion information and user input. The processor modifies the sequence of images captured according to the correcting filter and obtains a final corrected video. Corrected video is displayed in a viewfinder.
US09338349B2	Generation of ghost-free high dynamic range images Apparatuses and methods for reading a set of images to merge together into a high dynamic range (HDR) output image are described. Images have a respective HDR weight and a respective ghost-free weight. Images are merged together using the weighted average of the set of input images using the ghost-free weight. A difference image is determined based on a difference between each pixel within a HDR output image and each respective pixel within a reference image used to create the HDR output image.
US09338342B2	Infrared lens unit and infrared camera system provided with the infrared lens unit An object of the present invention is to provide an infrared lens unit having a high optical quality and an infrared camera system provided with the infrared lens unit. An infrared lens unit according to the present invention to achieve the object is the infrared lens unit to be attached to an infrared camera-module characterized in comprising a data memory for storing lens data and an image focusing condition is controlled according to the data stored in the data memory and temperature data in the infrared lens unit.
US09338338B2	Electronic device and method of camera control An electronic device includes two cameras each with a light sensor. The electronic device uses the light sensor of one of the two cameras which is operational to detect an ambient luminance, and determines if the detected ambient luminance is less than a preset shading value. In response to the detected ambient luminance being less than the preset shading value, the electronic device interchanges the cameras to work. That is, the electronic device powers down the one of the two cameras which is operational and activating the other one of the two cameras.
US09338336B2	Image pickup apparatus The image pickup apparatus includes an imaging optical system to cause light rays from an object plane to image on an image side conjugate plane with respect to the object plane, an image sensor including pixels and to photoelectrically convert the optical image, and an optical element array including optical element cells each of which conjugates the image side conjugate plane with the image sensor and which are arranged so as to cause light rays from a same point on the object plane to enter mutually different pixels depending on positions on a pupil plane of the imaging optical system through which the light rays pass. An arrangement pitch of the optical element cells in the optical element array is 25 times or less of an arrangement pitch of the pixels in the image sensor.
US09338329B2	Image processing including color conversion for a printed image There are provided an image processing apparatus that can appropriately update a color profile referred to by an OS when color conversion is performed and/or an output condition associated with the color profile, a controlling method of the image processing apparatus. To achieve this object, in a case where a color profile and/or an output condition associated with the color profile are/is updated, by using the updated information, a color profile referred to by an OS when color conversion is performed and/or an output condition associated with the color profile are/is updated.
US09338326B2	Image processing apparatus to which security policy is applicable, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor An image processing apparatus that is capable of appropriately applying security policy data based on an information security policy. Security policy data containing a policy name of a security policy and a security policy setting value corresponding to the policy name is applied to the image processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains updating security policy data for updating the security policy data. An application version determination unit determines whether the updating security policy data obtained by the obtaining unit will be applied according to a predetermined application version setting value, when a version of the updating security policy data differs from a version of security policy data that is being applied actually. An application unit applies the updating security policy data when the application version determination unit determines that the updating security policy data will be applied.
US09338317B2	Method and apparatus for performing function according to position of scan object An image forming apparatus includes a user interface unit that includes a scan area, an image reading unit that reads an image of a scan object disposed on the scan area, a driving unit that moves the image reading unit, a control unit that controls a function according to a position of the scan object, an operation performing unit that performs the function by using the read image, and a storage unit that stores information about the function corresponding to the position of the scan object. The scan area includes a determination area and a function area, and when it is determined that the scan object does not exist on the determination area, the control unit controls the operation performing unit to perform the function corresponding to the position of the scan object on the function area.
US09338316B2	Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes a conveyor. The conveyor includes a first roller, a second roller, and a contact portion. The first roller is configured to rotate on a first axis. One of the second roller and the contact portion is disposed on an upstream side of the first axis along a conveyance path, and the other of the second roller and the contact portion is disposed on a downstream side of the first axis along the conveyance path. A first distance between a surface of the first roller and a surface of the second roller and a second distance between a surface of the first roller and a surface of the contact portion is fixed.
US09338313B2	Document management apparatus and document management system A document management apparatus delivers a to-be-delivered document to a delivery destination and collects information about browsing history of the document. The document management apparatus includes: a delivery-pattern determining unit; a delivery-information generating unit; a document delivery unit that delivers the document by transmitting the information of the delivery pattern to a network address of the delivery destination; and a browsing-history management unit that acquires information about browsing history. The delivery-pattern determining unit, when the type of the device is a type not adapted to a function of collecting information about browsing history, determines that a pattern for delivering a program for implementing collection of the information about browsing history together with the document as the delivery pattern. Otherwise, the delivery-information generating unit generates associating information that associates the document with the program such that the program is to be executed when the document is browsed.
US09338306B2	Processing usage information for machine-to-machine communication An M2M service provider (41) is a provider of a plurality of services (31-33). A method of processing charging information for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication between at least one M2M device (10) and an M2M service provider (41) comprises creating (102) a charging record (90) for recording usage information of the plurality of services (31-33) of the service provider (41). For each of the plurality of services (31-33) of the service provider (41), per-service usage information (94) is accumulated (105). Usage of the service by the at least one M2M device (10) is aggregated. The per-service usage information (94) is stored (108) in the charging record (90). The charging record can include at least one volume-based limit or time-based limit for publishing the charging record.
US09338304B2	Bidirectional communication system and method for compensating for undesired feedback in the bidirectional communication system A bidirectional communication system includes—a first compensating unit to which a first output unit and a first input unit are assigned that is configured to compensate for undesired feedback from the first output unit in the first input unit with generation of first compensation data and at least one second compensating unit that is configured like the first compensating unit and is physically separate from the first compensating unit. The second compensating unit has a second output unit but no input unit is assigned to it. The first compensating unit and the second compensating unit are connected by interfaces via which the first compensation data generated by the first compensating unit can be sent to the second compensating unit so that second compensation data can be generated in the second compensating unit based on the first compensation data.
US09338300B2	Method for communicating status or warning regarding mobile device functions This provides for controlling mobile device functions and features. For example, it limits or disables the use of some of mobile device features which could cause distraction to the user, when the user is engaged in another activity. In an example, it enables other mobile device features based on occurrence of events related to the user or environment. Another example addresses controlling the mobile device features, such as SMS, while the user is in a vehicle or driving. Another example restricts the ability of the driver of a vehicle to text, while the vehicle is in motion, by automatically disabling the texting ability of mobile device within and around the perimeter of the driver's seat. Other variations, examples, improvements, detection mechanisms, models, techniques, calculations, verification mechanisms, and features are also described in details.
US09338299B2	Distributed constraint-based omptimized routing of interactions A system for optimized and distributed routing of interactions, comprising a plurality of media servers operating adapted to handle interactions of one or more specific media types, a statistics server, a routing database, and a routing server. Upon receiving or initiating an interaction of a specific media type, a first media server from the media servers sends a route request message comprising at least an interaction identifier and a collection of interaction-specific data to the routing server, the statistics server receives event notifications from the media servers and computes one or more statistics, and the routing server executes, using statistical data from the statistics server and data from the routing database, a routing script comprising a constraint-based optimization process in response to the route request message and sends a response to the first media server directing it to route the interaction to a specific target resource.
US09338293B2	Communication device and communication method thereof A communication device provides a face detection module and a face recognition module. The face detection module detects faces in a photo input by a user. The face recognition module searches the detected faces in a storage system of the communication device. If the detected faces do not exist in the storage system, the communication device prompts the user to edit communication information of the detected faces. If the user wants to dial a phone number, the communication device searches the storage system for the phone number of a selected face in a photo and dials the phone number. If a phone number is calling in, the communication device displays a photo corresponding to the phone number, and highlights a face corresponding to the phone number.
US09338292B2	Method and apparatus for selective silencing of telephone ringing A system and method for a selective ring silencer that prevents people from having to listen to the telephone ring on and on with nuisance calls. The ringer silencer can be: (1) discretely constructed from a telephone, (2) part of a telecommunication device, or (3) part of a central telephone network construction. A receiver demodulates an incoming call. Control logic reads at least a portion of the called identification (CID) data and determines an action based on the reading. A switch in communication with the control logic is actuated to a first state that allows the communication data to be output from the ring silencer, and a second state that blocks the communication data from being output from the ring silencer to a user's communication device. The control logic blocks toll-free area codes originated calls from ringing a user's telephone, optionally forwarding the call to a voice mail module.
US09338289B1	Automatic determination of caller identification data in outgoing calls Automatic determination of caller identification information and encoding of such information in outgoing data requests, such a API calls to a call management component, are disclosed herein. The caller identification information may be determined by analyzing information associated with a call target to determine if the target has a custom outbound telephone number assigned, was contacted through a specific campaign, has local geographic data, is being called from a specific entity, or is being made from a call originator with a specific outbound number set. The system may execute machine learning on previous calling data in order to update caller identification selection models used for other outgoing calls.
US09338287B1	Automated verification of a telephone number A system and method for automatically verifying a telephone number proffered by a user of an application. During registration or installation of the application, client software is installed on the user's mobile device (e.g., a smart phone, a tablet computer). One of a pool of telephone numbers for outgoing calls is selected, and a call is initiated to the proffered number by the system. The software executing on the user's device detects the incoming call, extracts caller identification data (i.e., the originating telephone number), formats a data communication (e.g., an http request) to include the data, and sends it to the system. The system receives the data communication and compares the data with the originating number. If they match, the user's telephone number is verified. The outgoing call from the system may be canceled before it rings at the device if the data communication is received in time.
US09338285B2	Methods and systems for multi-factor authentication in secure media-based conferencing Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for multi-factor authentication of media-based (e.g., video and/or audio) conferencing between a plurality of end point devices. The methods and apparatuses provide for analysis of an end point media stream using a matrix of authentication factors, where the authentication factors include user-specific factors, environment factors, and technical factors, to determine an authentication score for the first end point device.
US09338279B2	Mechanism for connecting a mobile device to a network A system and method are disclosed for offloading control of services in a mobile device to a non-cellular wireless network, such as Wi-Fi. The described system and method allow the overall connection management to be performed by an application processor, while services are handled in a modem using Wi-Fi connectivity. The Wi-Fi subsystem can be fully driven by the modem for time critical operations allowing the application processor to be off (or in low-power mode) when it is not involved in the delivery of services. Battery power is saved by being able to substantially power down the application processor.
US09338257B2	Scene-based variable compression Technology is disclosed for enabling scene-based variable compression (“the technology”). In some embodiments, the technology can receive an indication of a compression level for a first content type, wherein the compression level specifies a tolerance level for lossy compression; receive a request for content, the content having at least two portions, wherein a first portion has first content of the first content type and the second portion has second content of a second content type, a first compression method associated with the indicated compression level and a second compression method associated with a different compression level. The technology can transmit the content, wherein the first portion of the content was compressed using the first compression method and the second portion was compressed using the second compression method.
US09338255B1	System and method for correlating end-user experience data and backend-performance data In one embodiment, a method includes operating at least one distributed software application. The method further includes receiving a web request from an end-user information handling system in connection with the at least one distributed software application. Further, the method includes generating a transaction identifier for the transaction. Moreover, the method includes processing the transaction. The processing includes generating backend-performance data indexed by the transaction identifier. Additionally, the method includes injecting the transaction identifier into a web response to the web request. Also, the method includes transmitting the web response to the end-user information handling system along a transmission path. In addition, the method includes, at a node along the transmission path, passively observing the response and generating end-user experience data therefrom.
US09338248B2	Parameter driven value conversion framework in client/server architectures A system and method for parameter-driven value conversion in a client/server architecture is presented. A request is received from a client computer for an application service. The request includes a parameter defining a data field for a conversion and a conversion ID that specifies the conversion. A lookup is performed of a converter in a conversion registry based on the conversion ID, and the converter is then called to perform the conversion of the data field defined by the parameter in the request, to generate a converted data field. Finally, the converted data field is returned to the protocol handler.
US09338225B2	Forwarding policies on a virtual service network In providing packet forwarding policies in a virtual service network that includes a network node and a pool of service load balancers serving a virtual service, the network node: receives a virtual service session request from a client device, the request including a virtual service network address for the virtual service; compares the virtual service network address in the request with the virtual service network address in each of a plurality of packet forwarding policies; in response to finding a match between the virtual service network address in the request and a given virtual service network address in a given packet forwarding policy, determines the given destination in the given packet forwarding policy; and sends the request to a service load balancer in the pool of service load balancers associated with the given destination, where the service load balancer establishes a virtual service session with the client device.
US09338218B1	Distributed platform as a service A method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) comprising capturing metadata about the big data stored in clouds at an informational infrastructure layer.
US09338217B2	Method and apparatus for computing within a wide area network A cluster computer system including multiple network accessible computers that are each coupled to a network. The network accessible computers implement host computer programs which permits the network accessible computers to operate as host computers for client computers also connected to the network, such that input devices of the client computers can be used to generate inputs to the host computers, and such that image information generated by the host computers can be viewed by the client computers. The system also includes a cluster administration computer coupled to the multiple network accessible computers to monitor the operation of the network accessible computers. A method for providing access to host computers by client computers over a computer network includes receiving a request for a host computer coupled to a computer network from a client computer coupled to the computer network, wherein the relationship of the host computer to the client computer is to be such that after the client computer becomes associated with a host computer, an input device of the client computer can be used to generate inputs to the host computer, and such that image information generated by the host computer can be viewed by the client computer. Next, a suitable host computer for the client computer is determined, and the client computer is informed of the network address of the suitable host computer.
US09338212B2	Multi-interface adaptive bit rate session management Systems and method are provided that allow an application layer client in a mobile device to manage multiple interfaces in a communication network. The multiple interfaces can include WiFi, cellular, Femto, WiMAX, Bluetooth, infrared, Ethernet, and other types of interfaces for communication in a network. The client on the mobile device can use intelligence and rules to determine how and when request fragments are communicated over the various interfaces available to the client. The intelligence can include parameters such as performance information for a particular interface and subscriber preferences. Based on this information the client can decide to use a combination of the interfaces to obtain multimedia content and render the content for display on the mobile device. By using a combination of interfaces and tracking the advantages and disadvantages of each interface, the client can make intelligent decisions in providing multimedia content to the user.
US09338211B2	Apparatus and method for providing streaming content A method and apparatus for an adaptive Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming service using metadata of content are provided. The metadata may include one or more BaseURL elements. Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) of segments forming media may be generated based on the BaseURL elements. Additionally, a URL of a segment may be generated by mapping a BaseURL element among the BaseURL elements to a sourceURL attribute of the segment. Segments indicated by generated URLs may be identical to each other.
US09338206B2	Method and apparatus for playing live content A method for providing a client with a playlist of content segments accessible in a live streaming service provided in a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) adaptive streaming format is provided. A live content processing method for a broadcast system includes transmitting and updating content-related information sent from a server to a client, checking, at the client, content segments accessible in real time and saving a previous content-related information, retrieving the content segments playable by referencing the previous content-related information, determining, at the client, whether the content requested for playback can be playable using a playlist, and notifying the user of the playback result.
US09338191B2	Session initiation protocol (SIP) message incorporating a number of predetermined address headers having predetermined address information A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message adapted for communication between a plurality of network elements located on a multi-media services provider system to form a multi-media communication path between at least a first communication device and at least a second communication device of a plurality of communication devices. The SIP message includes a header region and a plurality of header fields located on the header region. The plurality of header fields include predetermined address information associated with at least one network element of the plurality of network elements located on the multi-media services provider system.
US09338190B2	System and method for managing multimedia communications across convergent networks A method and device that interrogates the availability of a called party before placing a communication from the calling party to the called party. A callback may be initiated so that both communications are completed simultaneously. The routing of communication may take place through any one of a number of different networks and at another time of the day, even if the caller does not otherwise have access to those networks.
US09338189B2	Internet protocol multimedia subsystem network, and data transmission method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem network, and a data transmission method and apparatus, which are used in the field of communications technologies. The data transmission method which is used in the IMS includes: performing tunnel encapsulation for an RTP packet to obtain a tunnel packet, where the tunnel packet includes a record unit, and a plurality of RTP packets are encapsulated in each record unit; and sending the tunnel packet to a peer end over a tunnel connected to the peer end. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the additional bandwidth caused by tunnel encapsulation is reduced, the bandwidth of a single packet is lowered, and the user experience and service access capabilities are improved.
US09338188B1	User agent to exercise privacy control management in a user-centric identity management system A client-side user agent operates in conjunction with an identity selector to institute and exercise privacy control management over user identities managed by the identity selector. The user agent includes the combination of a privacy enforcement engine, a storage of rulesets expressing user privacy preferences, and a preference editor. The editor enables the user to direct the composition of privacy preferences relative to user identities. The preferences can be applied to individual cards and to categorized groups of attributes. The engine evaluates the proper rulesets against the privacy policy of a service provider. The privacy preferences used by the engine are determined on the basis of specifications in a security policy indicating the attribute requirements for claims that purport to satisfy the security policy.
US09338187B1	Modeling user working time using authentication events within an enterprise network Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for modeling user working time using authentication events within an enterprise network are provided herein. A method includes collecting multiple instances of activity within an enterprise network over a specified period of time, wherein said multiple instances of activity are attributed to a given device; creating a model based on said collected instances of activity, wherein said model comprises a temporal pattern of activity within the enterprise network associated with the given device; and generating an alert upon detecting an instance of activity within the enterprise network associated with the given device that is (i) inconsistent with the temporal pattern of the model and (ii) in violation of one or more security parameters.
US09338181B1	Network security system with remediation based on value of attacked assets A data processing method comprising obtaining a plurality of computer network security threat feeds from two or more computer threat detection systems; based upon computer network attack information in the computer network security threat feeds, determining a threat score that represents a severity of an actual or suspected attack on a particular host in a computer network; obtaining an asset value for the particular host that indicates a worth of the particular host, and updating the threat score based upon the asset value; mapping the updated threat score to one of a plurality of remediation actions, wherein a first remediation action is mapped when the updated threat score is low and a second, different remediation action is mapped when the updated threat score is high; based upon the updated threat score and the mapping, selecting and automatically performing one of the plurality of remediation actions on the particular host; wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices.
US09338174B2	Systems and methods for inhibiting attacks on applications In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods that protect an application from attacks are provided. In some embodiments of the present invention, input from an input source, such as traffic from a communication network, can be routed through a filtering proxy that includes one or more filters, classifiers, and/or detectors. In response to the input passing through the filtering proxy to the application, a supervision framework monitors the input for attacks (e.g., code injection attacks). The supervision framework can provide feedback to tune the components of the filtering proxy.
US09338173B2	Methods and apparatuses for avoiding damage in network attacks Methods and apparatuses in a client terminal and a web server for enabling safe communication between said terminal and server. When the terminal obtains a web page from the server in a session, the terminal creates a context-specific key, Ks_NAF′, based on one or more context parameters, P1, . . . Pn, pertaining to said session and/or web page. The terminal then indicates the context-specific key in a login request to the server, and the server determines a context-specific key, Ks_NAF′, in the same manner to verify the client if the context-specific key determined in the web server matches the context-specific key received from the client terminal. The context-specific key is thus bound to and valid for the present context or session only and cannot be used in other contexts or sessions.
US09338170B2	On board vehicle media controller The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable media controller operable to receive a media stream from a remote node, the received media stream being for an occupant associated with an on board vehicle input/output system, identify which on board vehicle input/output systems are restricted due to operator command and/or as a result of a governing law, and provide the media stream, in compliance with any restriction, to a selected input/output system associated with the occupant.
US09338168B2	Method and device for controlling digital living network alliance contents The present document provides a method and apparatus for controlling digital living network alliance contents. One Media Access Control (MAC) recording unit is extended at the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) device side for recording which MAC addresses are permitted to access or use the service of the DLNA device or prohibited from accessing or using the service of the DLNA device; one service control program is extended at the DLNA device side, and when there is another DLNA device transmitting a request to the DLNA device, the MAC address of the DLNA device is compared with the MAC address recorded by the MAC recording unit; and if the MAC address of the DLNA device is in the permission list or the MAC address of the DLNA device is not in the prohibition list, then the request will be permitted; otherwise the request will be rejected.
US09338162B2	CAPTCHA challenge incorporating obfuscated characters A method for determining if a user of a computer system is a human. A processor receives an indication that a computer security program is needed and acquires at least one image depicting a first string of characters including at least a first and second set of one or more characters. A processor assigns a substitute character to be used as input for each of the second set of one or more characters. A processor presents the at least one image and an indication of the substitute character and when to use the substitute character to the user. A processor receives a second string of characters from the user. A processor determines whether the second string of characters substantially matches the first string of characters based on the substitute character assigned to each of the second set of one or more characters and determines whether the user is a human.
US09338159B2	Method and apparatus for sharing wireless network subscription services A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for enabling multiple mobile terminals to access a subscription service. The method may further include causing a client certificate to be issued to the first mobile terminal as a result of the certificate enrollment procedure. In some example embodiments, the client certificate comprises a subscription identifier and a flag indicating whether the client certificate is to be sharable with a second mobile terminal. The method may further include causing a certificate enrollment procedure to be initiated by a second mobile terminal with the first mobile terminal in an instance in which the first mobile terminal possesses one or more credentials that are configured to be shared with another mobile terminal. The method may further include the second mobile terminal receiving at least one credential in the form of a client certificate from the first mobile terminal.
US09338155B2	Security device provisioning The provisioning of a security token object to a user is disclosed. The security token object is used for accessing a computing resource through a mobile device. A security token object provisioning request may be received from the mobile device. In response, an authentication request may be transmitted. The user is authenticated against a user identity based upon a set of received identity credentials provided by the user. The extraction of a unique token identifier from the security token object is initiated, and completed without intervention from the user. The unique token identifier received from the client computer system is associated with to the user identity in a data store. By providing the security token object, the user can gain access to the computing resource.
US09338151B2	Method and device for controlling the execution of at least one function in a short range wireless communication module of a mobile phone A method and device for controlling the execution of at least one function in a short-range wireless communication module of a mobile apparatus adapted for receiving at least one identification card. After transmitting an information request to the identification card, to obtain at least one piece of information characteristic of the identification card, an answer including at least one piece of information characteristic of the identification card is received therefrom. When the answer is identified and in response to the at least one piece of information, the at least one function is executed. An authentication request is received by the short-range wireless communication module. If the answer is authenticated, the short-range wireless communication module sends an authorization to the authentication request in response to the at least one piece of information characteristic of the identification card before the execution of the at least one function.
US09338148B2	Secure distributed information and password management A method, performed by a computer device, may include receiving an indication that a first user has acquired rights to access a digital content; generating a key for the digital content; encrypting the digital content using the generated key to generate encrypted digital content; obtaining a first passcode; and providing the first passcode and the encrypted digital content to a user device associated with the first user. The method may further include receiving, from the user device, a request for the key, wherein the request include the first passcode; determining that the first passcode is valid; determining that the key has not expired; and providing the key to the user device, in response to determining that the first passcode is valid and that the key has not expired.
US09338138B2	Method for hiding source of wireless sensor network and node A method for hiding a source of a wireless sensor network and a node are provided. The method comprises: determining a first node having a shortest distance from the source; sending a real data packet via a shortest path between the first node and a base station, wherein the real data packet is generated by the first node according to the source; selecting a second node satisfying a preset condition on the shortest path as an initial false source node; establishing a false path with the initial false source node as a terminal node of the false path; and sending a false data packet to the initial false source node via the false path, such that the real data packet is hidden by the false data packet.
US09338135B2	Device, system and method of maintaining connectivity over a virtual private network (VPN) Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of maintaining connectivity over a Virtual-Private-Network (VPN). For example, a system may include a server to communicate with at least one computing device via a VPN tunnel, to receive from the computing device a mode indication indicating that the computing device is in a standby mode, to receive from at least one application server one or more packets intended for the computing device when the computing device is in the standby mode, based on at least one filtering criterion, to detect at least one targeted packet to be provided to the computing device, and to transfer the targeted packet to the computing device via the VPN tunnel.
US09338132B2	Providing notification of spam avatars Provided are approaches for monitoring activities, movements, and other behavior patterns necessary to determine whether an avatar is a spam advertisement. A storing mechanism stores a “black list” and a black list score consisting of a list of spam avatar identifications (UUIDs) matching avatars that have been flagged as confirmed or suspected spam advertisers. Another mechanism allows the owner to redraw or otherwise re-render a distinguishing mark when an avatar has been detected as being a spam advertiser. Yet another mechanism signals to the owner of an offending avatar that they have been added to the black list or had a report filed against them. Another mechanism allows for a black listed avatar to be removed from the black list, and scores to be decreased and for the virtual universe and users to utilize the black list and score.
US09338130B2	Apparatus and method to register Wi-Fi clients on a Wi-Fi network Techniques are provided to enable the registration of an embedded device with a wireless network, such as a Wi-Fi network. An established client of the wireless network formulates one or more data packets having an unencrypted multicast address, where at least a portion of the multicast address is unnecessary for transmission of the data packets over the wireless network. The established client inserts network configuration information in the unused portion of the multicast address and transmits the data packets over wireless network. The network configuration information can include a network identification (SSID) and network password. Any access point that receives the multicast packets will retransmit multiple times per standard protocol, allowing the embedded device to receive the original transmission from the client device or the retransmissions. Since the address portion of data packets are not encrypted, the embedded device can determine the SSID and any password from the multicast packets, and thereafter register with the wireless network.
US09338128B2	Controlling the status of network address space Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media provide for automated control of the status of network address space. Blocks of networking address space assigned to a network may be allocated from a free status to a new status based upon a request to allocate a particular size block. Blocks of networking address space assigned to a network that have been allocated to a new status may be deallocated to return to a free status based upon a request to deallocate the chosen block. Blocks of networking address space assigned to a network that have been allocated and otherwise manipulated such as through a lend from another network may be reclaimed for the original network upon a request to reclaim the chosen block.
US09338127B2	Browser based hostname resolution for non-DNS (domain name service) and/or different DNS environments Communication between (at least) two domains where domain name resolution for the first domain is not going to be available to clients in the second domain “as a service” but more as a “capability” available inherently in web containers. This can be accomplished as follows: (i) connecting a first server computer in direct data communication with a first domain and a second domain; (ii) storing domain name system (DNS) mapping information for the second domain on the first server computer; (iii) storing a first network page related to a network application on the first server computer; and (iv) sending, from the first server computer to a client computer on the first domain, the first network page and the DNS mapping information for the second domain.
US09338126B2	System and method for communicating in a telecommunication network via independent key routing and data locality tables A combination of an independent key routing (IKR) method and a data locality table (DLT) method may be used to route communication messages in a telecommunication network to achieve improved data locality and reduce secondary key lookups. A processor a multiprocessor computing system may receive a first communication message that includes subscriber identifiers that uniquely identify a subscriber, generate a plurality of keys for a plurality of message types based on the subscriber identifiers, identify a first logical scalable unit that includes a first database memory that stores a first type of data relating to the subscriber by using a first key of the plurality of keys to query a data locality table, identify a first application processor in the multiprocessor computing system that is part of the first logical scalable unit, and send the first communication message and the plurality of keys to the first application processor.
US09338124B2	Electronic messaging systems A computer system for facilitating communications between users that, in various embodiments, is configured for: (A) receiving, from a first user, one or more user watch area attributes; (B) using the one or more user watch area attributes to define a watch area; (C) receiving, from a second user, a message associated with a particular geographical location, wherein the second user has indicated that the message should be associated with the particular geographical location; (D) determining whether the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area; and (E) at least partially in response to determining that the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area, subscribing the first user to a thread of messages that includes the message.
US09338120B2	E-mail system, control method for e-mail system, relay device, program, and information storage medium To provide an e-mail system for ensuring that a user is able to know content of an e-mail sent addressed to the user even when the e-mail is not delivered to the user. An e-mail sending unit (220) sends an e-mail sent addressed to the alternative mail address of the user to the actual mail address of the user, after setting a predetermined destination as a destination of a notice of failed delivery, if caused, of the e-mail. In a case where the notice of failed delivery of the e-mail sent addressed to the actual mail address of the user is received by the predetermined destination, an undelivered mail data saving unit (230) saves undelivered mail data indicating the undelivered e-mail in an undelivered mail data storage unit (410). An undelivered mail data sending unit (110) sends undelivered mail data indicating an e-mail sent addressed to the actual mail address of the user and failed to be delivered to a terminal device used by the user.
US09338117B2	Electronic notification systems and methods Described are a system and method for electronic notification. A metadata generator adds metadata including data related to a computer-related action to an electronic notification. The electronic notification configured to be received by a plurality of disparate systems. A state processing machine changes a state of the electronic notification according to the metadata. A notification modification module marks the electronic notification having the changed state, wherein the marked electronic notification is received by each of the disparate systems and is processed according to its changed state.
US09338115B2	Content based message delivery Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating message sessions. In one implementation, a notification is received relating to a message submitted for delivery on behalf of a sender to a recipient. The message includes several components. At least one delivery policy is identified based on the content identified in at least one of the components. Delivery of the message is initiated according to the delivery policy.
US09338082B2	Resilient backhaul network A provider equipment having a backhaul resiliency module operable to determine multiple, alternative communication paths in a backhaul portion of a telecommunication network and then compare the different, alternative communication paths, based on their respective backhaul component reuse, to identify one or more resilient communication paths as options for a particular backhaul communication. The provider equipment can then select a preferred resilient communication path for either an uplink or a downlink of the backhaul network. Each of the alternative communication paths can correspond to a unique combination of Carrier Ethernet nodes and links that connect pairs of provider equipment devices located on opposing sides of a Carrier Ethernet, such as on a RAN side, an MSO side, or another Network side of the telecommunication network).
US09338080B2	Performing offline BGP prefix origin and path validation at route reflectors In one embodiment, an edge router receives an update message from a neighboring EBGP edge router, creates a modified origin validation state extended community, prepares a modified update message by attaching the modified origin validation state extended community to the update message, and sends the modified update message to a route reflector. The route reflector receives the modified update message, performs a prefix origin validation and a path validation based on the information contained in the modified update message, prepares a validation message based on the prefix origin validation and path validation, and sends the validation message to the edge router and to all other neighboring IBGP edge routers. The edge routers receive the validation message from the route reflector, parse the validation message, and inherit a validation state parsed from the validation message.
US09338076B1	Deriving hardware acceleration of decoding from a declarative protocol description A test-and-measurement instrument is described. The test-and-measurement instrument can store a state machine. As the state machine is used to analyze a bit stream, breadcrumbs can be saved from states in a memory of the state machine. The breadcrumbs can then be used to analyze the operation of the state machine.
US09338075B2	Method for monitoring traffic in a network and a network For providing a simple monitoring mechanism with reduced resource and performance requirements a method for monitoring traffic in a network is claimed, wherein a monitoring activity of at least two monitoring probes of the network is coordinated by a coordinating element, wherein at least two nodes of the network are able to operate as coordinating elements and wherein the responsibility for coordinating the monitoring activity of the monitoring probes is split between the nodes according to a compressed representation of flow parameter keys. Further, an according network is described, preferably for carrying out the above mentioned method.
US09338069B2	Broadband modem and network termination with channel learning and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a channel learning entity is configured to receive a priori network data via a transceiver. The channel learning entity generates at least one measurement of the communication environment based on the a priori network data, and generates first report data for transmission via the transceiver based on the at least one measurement of the communication environment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09338066B2	Tunnel keep-alive timeout mechanism based on quality of service (QoS) value of received keep-alive messages A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a variable tunnel keep-alive interval is presented. A tunnel keep-alive packet for a first tunnel is received at a first switching device. A Quality of Service (QoS) value of the keep-alive packet ishcekce. A determination is made regarding whether the QoS value corresponds to a QoS value of network control traffic, and when the QoS value of the keep-alive packet is lower than the QoS value of the network control traffic then a value of a tunnel keep-alive interval is increased.
US09338065B2	Predictive learning machine-based approach to detect traffic outside of service level agreements In one embodiment, a request to make a prediction regarding one or more service level agreements (SLAs) in a network is received. A network traffic parameter and an SLA requirement associated with the network traffic parameter according to the one or more SLAs are also determined. In addition, a performance metric associated with traffic in the network that corresponds to the determined network traffic parameter is estimated. It may then be predicted whether the SLA requirement would be satisfied based on the estimated performance metric.
US09338062B2	Information displaying method and apparatus A method of displaying information relating to one or more entities, the method including, in an electronic processing device, generating a network representation, the representation including a number of nodes, each node being indicative of a corresponding entity, and a number of connections between nodes, the connections being indicative of relationships between the entities. The method further includes causing the network representation to be displayed to a user, in response to user input commands, determining at least one user selected node corresponding to a user selected entity, determining at least one search to be performed in respective of the corresponding entity associated with the at least one user selected node, performing the at least one search to thereby determine additional information regarding the entity and causing any additional information to be presented to the user.
US09338058B2	Determination of communication routes in a wireless communication network A network manager device in an industrial wireless network sends a network investigating message to other network nodes for processing and forwarding through the network, the message including a message weight. A wireless communication device providing a node in the network receives the message from another network node, determines a communication weight based on the quality of communication, adds the communication weight to the message weight and compares the sum with the node weight. If the sum is lower than the node weight, it is set as new node weight and as new message weight, whereupon the changed message is sent to other nodes in the network. The network manager device maps the topology of the network based on updated node weights, sets a communication scheduling scheme based on the mapped topology and informs the network nodes of the scheme.
US09338054B2	Method, computer program, and algorithm for computing network service value pricing based on communication service experiences delivered to consumers and merchants over a smart multi-services (SMS) communication network A system and method for providing multi-services within a communication network according to various exemplary embodiments can include storing, in a database of a computer, user-defined sets of rules and instructions for providing multi-services to end user devices connected to a communication network comprising a Hybrid Fiber-Wireless (HFW) network having policy management capabilities. The system and method can receive, at one or more processors, the user-defined sets of rules and instructions from a plurality of end users via a plurality of end user devices. The system and method can configure a virtual network for each end user within the communication network using the policy management capabilities based on the user-defined sets of rules and instructions provided by each end user. The user-defined sets of rules and instructions define provisioning and delivery of resources and services provided by the communication network to the end user.
US09338051B2	Methods and systems for automatically tracking the rerouting of logical circuit data in a data network An example method involves providing, with a network management module of a network management system, current reroute statistics in a data structure based on the rerouting of the data from a logical circuit that has failed to a logical failover circuit in the network. The current reroute statistics include a committed information rate corresponding to the logical circuit in the network. The logical circuit is identified by a first logical circuit identifier. The logical failover circuit is identified by a second logical circuit identifier. The first and second logical circuit identifiers are renamed until the logical circuit has been restored from failure. Updated reroute statistics are provided, with the network management module, based on a change in a status of the logical circuit resulting from the committed information rate having been exceeded.
US09338049B2	Server device, annotation system, annotation method, and computer program product According to an embodiment, a server device includes a first registering unit, a second registering unit, and a providing unit. The first registering unit is configured to acquire first action information regarding an action performed by a first user from a client device, and register the first action information in an action information storage unit in which pieces of action information of users are stored in association with labels of the respective pieces of action information. The second registering unit is configured to specify at least one piece of action information similar to the first action information among the pieces of action information, and register the label associated with the specified piece of action information in the action information storage unit in association with the first action information. The providing unit is configured to provide the label associated with the first action information to the client device.
US09338047B1	Detecting content on a social network using browsing patterns In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving information related to users of a social network site and determining a graph for at least a portion of the social network, the graph including a plurality of nodes connected by directional links where each node corresponds to a user having a profile page on the social network and where each directional link corresponds to a user viewing at least an aspect of a profile page for another user. The method can further include identifying first nodes as including content associated with a particular subject of interest, and seeding the identified first nodes with first scores. The method can also include determining second scores for second nodes by propagating the first scores across the social graph based upon third nodes having viewed aspects of profile pages associated with the first nodes and the second nodes; and providing the determined second scores.
US09338045B2	System and method for fragment level dynamic content regeneration A system and method for provisioning dynamically generated content. One embodiment can interface a content delivery system and a content management system at the fragment level. Depending upon how a page is organized, a fragment may refer to a block within the page, a portion of the page, or a content item presented on the page. When a content item is updated and published onto the content management system, one embodiment can operate to track dependencies of managed pages and invalidate/validate fragment(s) affected by the change(s) accordingly. The updated fragment(s) may then be dynamically assembled on-the-fly or on-demand. The updated fragment(s) may or may not be cached. In this way, changes made to a piece of content can be reflected in all pages which utilize this content almost simultaneously with the changes to the content itself.
US09338043B2	Data processing apparatus and method for use in an interleaver suitable for multiple operating modes A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out the data symbols on to the OFDM sub-carriers to effect the mapping, the read-out being in a different order than the read-in, the order being determined from a set of addresses, with the effect that the data symbols are interleaved on to the sub-carrier signals. The set of addresses are generated from an address generator which comprises a linear feedback shift register and a permutation circuit.
US09338033B2	Recovering data from a primary one of simultaneous signals, such as orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexed (OFDM) signals, that include a same frequency An embodiment of a receiver includes signal- and data-recovery units. The signal-recovery unit is configured to recover a first component of a first signal that is received simultaneously with a second signal having a second component, the first and second components including approximately a frequency. And the data-recovery unit is configured to recover data from the first signal in response to the recovered first component. For example, such a receiver may be able to receive simultaneously, and over the same channel space, multiple orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexed (OFDM) signals that include one or more of the same subcarrier frequencies, and to recover data from one or more of the OFDM signals despite the frequency overlap. A receiver with this capability may allow an increase in the effective bandwidth of the channel space, and thus may allow more devices (e.g., smart phones) to simultaneously share the same channel space.
US09338027B2	Voicemail proxy server Methods and systems directed to retrieving voicemails from a voice mailbox server. In particular embodiments, a mailbox server may receive a notification from the voice mailbox server and connect to the voice mailbox server providing the credentials of a client device, and pull new voicemails for storage at the mailbox server. In particular embodiments, mailbox server periodically polls voice mailbox server for new voicemail messages. In particular embodiments, a client device polls or receives notification of new voicemails, and transmits a downloaded message to the mailbox server.
US09338022B2	Method of processing action, method of controlling controlled device, controlled device, and control point A method of processing an action executes an action requested by a control point for controlling a controlled device through a network, stores a result of executing the action as a pending result of the action when a network connection between the controlled device and the control point is terminated, and transmits the stored pending result of the action to the control point when the network connection between the controlled device and the control point is resumed.
US09338018B2	System and method for pricing communication of a telecommunication platform A system and method that include receiving a communication pricing query; mapping the communication pricing query to a billable item; resolving a price of a billable item within a set of hierarchically defined pricing models with sparse overrides, wherein each pricing model is defined for a set of billable items; and returning the price of the billable item in a response to the communication pricing query.
US09338015B2	Real time power monitor and management system A power monitor and management system includes an automatic modulation device, a monitoring device, multiple modules and an LAN (local area network) connected to the monitoring device and the modules to enable the monitoring device to communicate with the modules. The automatic modulation device determines a dominating module in according to registration sequences of the modules and subordinating modules and to modulate power of the dominating module and the subordinating modules as well as the overall power output in accordance with number of the modules.
US09338012B1	Systems and methods for identifying code signing certificate misuse A computer-implemented method for identifying code signing certificate misuse may include (1) identifying a software file that has been signed using a code signing certificate, (2) identifying a software publisher that is identified by the code signing certificate used to sign the software file, (3) obtaining a reputation score for the software file that indicates a trustworthiness of the software file independently of the code signing certificate, and (4) providing, to the software publisher, information that is based on the reputation score and that indicates that the code signing certificate has been compromised. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09338008B1	System and method for secure release of secret information over a network Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for secure release of secret information over a network. The server can be configured to receive a request from a client to access the deposit of secret information, send an authorization request to at least one designated trustee in the set of designated trustees for the deposit of secret information, receive responses over the network from one or more of the designated trustees in the set of designated trustees and apply a trustee policy to the responses from the one or more designated trustees in the set of trustees to determine if the request is authorized. If the request is authorized, the server can send the secret information to the client. If the request is not authorized, the server denies access by the client to the secret information.
US09338005B2	System for and method of remote secure backup Systems and methods for registering a module for backup, backing up a module, and restoring a backed up module are provided.
US09338002B2	Method and apparatus for wireless communication using an acoustic signal Systems, apparatuses, and methods for securing wireless communication using an acoustic signal are described. In one method involving a first and second device, the second device generates, when connecting to the first device, connection initiation information including key information for secure communication, converts the connection initiation information to an acoustic signal, and transmits the acoustic signal to the first device through an acoustic communication channel. Then the second device monitors a radio wireless channel, which is secured using the key information for secure communication, to determine whether a valid response is received from the first device and, upon receipt of the valid response, discontinues transmission of the acoustic signal and begins communicating with the first device securely on the radio wireless channel.
US09337998B2	Method for improving synchronization and information transmission in a communication system A method is provided for improving synchronization and information transmission in a communication system, including: generating a signal with a centrally symmetric part s(k) exploitable for synchronization; and sending the signal over a communication channel. The signal is based on a uniquely identifiable sequence c(l) from a set of sequences exploitable for information transmission. The centrally symmetric part s(k) is centrally symmetric in the shape of absolute value thereof. The centrally symmetric part s(k) is of arbitrary length N.
US09337994B2	Method, receiver and system for signal synchronization In a method for time domain joint synchronization in downlink, a sequence to be analyzed is obtained from a received time domain signal; the sequence to be analyzed is down-sampled by a factor of α to obtain a down-sampled sequence; an initial timing estimation is performed based on the down-sampled sequence; a frequency offset compensation is applied to the sequence to be analyzed based on an Integral Frequency Offset (IFO) estimation value {circumflex over (ε)} obtained by the initial timing estimation; a Fractional Frequency Offset (FFO) estimation value {circumflex over (ε)}f is obtained; a frequency offset compensation is applied to the sequence to be analyzed based on the IFO estimation value {circumflex over (ε)} and the FFO estimation value {circumflex over (ε)}f; and a further timing estimation is performed based on a position interval estimated using an initial timing position and a Primary Synchronization Sequence (PSS) to obtain a fine timing position.
US09337989B2	Method for configuring transmission resource, related device, and communication system Embodiments of the present disclosure related to a method for configuring a transmission resource, a related device, and a communication system. The method for configuring a transmission resource includes: notifying, by an access device, a user equipment of an uplink-downlink configuration change period, where the uplink-downlink configuration change period is less than a system message change period; and sending, by the access device, a first message to the user equipment, where the first message carries an uplink-downlink configuration indication corresponding to the uplink-downlink configuration change period, so that the user equipment updates, according to the uplink-downlink configuration indication, an uplink-downlink configuration used by the user equipment. The solutions according to the embodiments of the present disclosure help to improve flexibility for configuring a transmission resource and a utilization rate of a frequency spectrum resource.
US09337986B2	Scheduled clear to send (CTS) for multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications Scheduled clear to send (CTS) for multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Before sending transmissions, a request to send (RTS)/clear to send (CTS) exchange takes place between a transmitting wireless communication device and multiple receiving wireless communication devices may take place therein. The transmitting wireless communication device (e.g., an AP) may generate and transmit a multi-user request to send (mRTS) frame to a number of receiving wireless communication devices (e.g., STAs). The mRTS frame can include information and instructions therein to direct the manner by which all or a subset of the receiving wireless communication devices are to provide CTS responses back to the transmitting wireless communication device. The mRTS frame may be an OFDMA frame, a MU-MIMO frame, or a combination thereof. The CTS responses may be received in accordance with any one or combination of OFDM signaling, OFDMA signaling, and MU-MIMO signaling.
US09337983B1	Use of discrete portions of frequency bandwidth to distinguish between ACK and NACK transmissions The air interface between a first node and a second node will span a frequency bandwidth defining two distinct portions, and acknowledgement message transmission such as Hybrid-ARQ message transmission will make use of those distinct portions to distinguish ACKs from NACKs. In particular, ACKs may be restricted to being transmitted within one portion of the frequency bandwidth, while NACKs may be restricted to being transmitted in different portion of the frequency bandwidth. Consequently, when the first node transmits data to the second node and receives an acknowledgement message sent in response from the second node, the first node may determine, based on which portion of the frequency bandwidth the first node received the acknowledgement message in, whether the acknowledgement message is an ACK or rather a NACK.
US09337972B2	Method for instructing user terminal to alleviate interference in a base station The present invention proposes a method for assisting a mobile terminal to alleviate inter-cell interference in a base station, comprising the step of: sending to the user terminal an identification of a major interfering cell in a radio resource control signaling. With the solution of the present invention, it is possible to assist the user terminal in more effective interference alleviation by signaling to the user terminal from the base station.
US09337971B2	Wireless resource allocation method, wireless resource allocation device, and communication system An allocation of wireless resources is performed to avoid interference caused as an uplink and a downlink are mismatched between neighboring cells. When interference at a base station is desired to be reduced, in each portion causing interference at a base station side, an ABS is applied to any one of downlink and uplink sub frames. When interference at a terminal is desired to be reduced, in each portion causing interference at a terminal side, transmission or reception of a terminal is stopped. When both interference at a base station side and interference at a terminal side are desired to be reduced, basically, it is desirable to stop the same portion as when interference between base stations is reduced.
US09337966B2	Carrier aggregation A method implemented in a mobile communications system is disclosed. The method includes selecting primary component carrier cp for a new user according to a formula, and performing joint secondary CC selection for one or more Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced users and resource scheduling for one or more LTE users and said one or more LTE-Advanced users. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.
US09337963B2	Transmission method and apparatus for multi-antenna retransmission A transmission method for multi-antenna retransmission is provided, comprising steps of: generating the bits to be transmitted by respective antennas; mapping the bits to be transmitted by the respective antennas into symbols; and multiplying by a constant the vector constituted by the mapped symbols transmitted by multiple antennas, wherein the resulting vector is orthogonal to the matrix constituted by the symbols previously transmitted by multiple antennas, and transmitting the orthogonal symbols. According to the method of the present invention, the remapped symbols transmitted by the respective antennas and the symbols previously transmitted by the respective antennas constitute a matrix that has an orthogonal property. The orthogonal property can be used to effectively detect signals. In addition, the method has a reception algorithm with low complexity and brings about significant performance gains over conventional methods.
US09337961B2	Method and apparatus for sending very high throughput WLAN acknowledgment frames One of a normal acknowledgement (ACK) and block ACK may be selectively enabled for wireless transmissions using a Very High Throughput Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). At least one designated bit may be set in a Physical Layer header of the PPDU for transmission from a transmitter to a receiver to indicate an ACK type selected from at least two of a normal ACK, a Block ACK, or no ACK. The PPDU may be transmitted in a Very High Throughput frame to the receiver where the designated bit can be used to provoke a normal ACK or Block ACK response to the PPDU, depending on the bit value.
US09337956B2	Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises an input formatter for input formatting each data stream divided into a plurality of data transmission path, a generator for generating each of first signaling data and second signaling data, wherein the first signaling data and the second signaling data are processed respectively, wherein the first signaling data includes first information for the second signaling data and the second signaling data includes second information for at least one the data transmission path, wherein the second signaling data includes a static data and a dynamic data, an encoder for encoding, wherein the encoder processing: first encoding service data corresponding to each of the plurality of data transmission path, wherein each of the data transmission path carries at least one service component, second encoding the first signaling data and third encoding the second signaling data, a frame builder for building signal frames, wherein each of signal frames includes the encoded service data and the encoded first signaling data and the encoded second signaling data, a modulator for modulating the signal frames by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals carrying the modulated signal frames.
US09337954B2	Protocol for channel state information feedback Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a low-overhead method for communicating Channel State Information (CSI) feedback in Very High Throughput (VHT) wireless communications systems. The present disclosure also provides packet formats for Null Data Packet Announcement (NDPA), CSI Poll and CSI feedback. In some cases, the CSI feedback may be too large to be carried in a single Media Access Control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) or a Physical Layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU), and a proposed protocol for CSI feedback segmentation can be then utilized.
US09337950B2	Service sensitive resilient IPoWDM network and method of operation A network and method of operating the network, the network comprising a transport layer that includes first and second disjoint but topologically substantially identical subnetworks A and B, each having a plurality of optical switch nodes and/or reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) nodes, and a routing layer wherein each router is coupled to at least one node in A and at least one node in B. The network is operable to provide a plurality of classes of services providing corresponding Quality of Service, and the routing layer or routing/transport interface can differentiate between traffic having different classes of service and schedule the traffic based on its service class. In the case either of the subnetworks becomes inoperable, all of the traffic is transferred to the other subnetwork, and the QoS of the classes of service is maintained by scheduling traffic to increase the delay experienced by delay-tolerant traffic.
US09337945B2	Receiving apparatus and receiving method for receiving broadcasting waves of different frequency bands A first high frequency processing unit detects a first broadcasting wave transmitted using a first frequency band, and extracts a first high frequency signal. Further, a second high frequency processing unit detects a second broadcasting wave transmitted using a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, and extracts a second high frequency signal. Furthermore, at least one local oscillator generates a local oscillation signal used in the first high frequency processing unit and the second high frequency processing unit.
US09337942B2	Propagation path estimation method and program and apparatus using the same A propagation path estimation method using an imaging method according to the invention includes a step of, in a case where a reflectarray which causes reflection and scattering in a different direction (θ−η)° from a specular reflection direction θ° exists on a propagation path from a transmission point to a reception point RX of the radio wave, calculating a virtual reception point VRX by rotating the reception point RX about a rotation center point O, and estimating the propagation path by using the virtual reception point VRX.
US09337938B2	Signal processing method, optical receiver and optical network system A signal processing method, an optical receiver and optical network system is provided. The method includes: receiving a first optical signal sent by an optical network unit, generating a second optical signal and modulating a phase of the second optical signal, obtaining at least one path of electrical signals after the first optical signal and the second optical signal separately undergo polarization splitting, frequency mixing, and optical-electrical conversion, outputting a third electrical signal after performing operation processing on the at least one path of electrical signals, and restoring a data signal according to the third electrical signal and performing sending. The embodiments example benefits are greatly reducing complexity of system implementation and maximally reducing a system upgrade cost and an optical power loss.
US09337936B2	Optical transmission apparatus, optical transmission method and program for optical transmission An object of the invention is to provide an optical transmission apparatus capable of reducing the influence of nonlinear effect of an optical fiber, suppressing a band requested to a device from being widened, easily bias controlling a modulator, and flexibly switching plural modulation methods.An optical transmission apparatus 301 according to the invention includes a modulator 101 and a controller 102. The modulator 101 is a modulator capable of quadrapture phase-shift keying the light from a light source and outputting the light. The controller 102 controls the input signal to the modulator 101 and causes the modulator 101 to carry out a quadrapture phase-shift keying operation or a π/2 shift binary phase-shift keying operation.
US09337935B2	Coded modulation for small step-size variable spectral efficiency A system and method involving a coded modulation scheme whereby different spectral efficiencies can be achieved for different transmitters in a WDM system using the same M2-QAM modulation format. A maximum achievable spectral efficiency for the transmitters may be selected and a spectral efficiency step-size of the maximum achievable spectral efficiency may be specified. The spectral efficiency for any transmitter in the system may be individually selected by reducing its spectral efficiency from the maximum achievable spectral efficiencies by a selected number of steps corresponding to the step size.
US09337933B2	Integrated optical network unit An optical network unit includes a transmit/receive port and a silicon waveguide optically coupled to the transmit/receive port. The optical network unit also includes a tunable filter coupled to the silicon waveguide and providing a first output for a first frequency band and a second output for a second frequency band. The optical network unit further includes a polarization diverse receiver coupled to the tunable filter and a laser coupled to the tunable filter.
US09337928B2	Time-domain based composite modulation for spectrally efficient optical networks Methods, systems, and apparatuses for time-based composite modulation of an optical carrier signal are provided. Time-based composite modulation includes determining a plurality of fixed time slots for the optical carrier signal, wherein the plurality of fixed time slots comprise a time-division-multiplexing frame. Determining a modulation format for each fixed time slot of the time-division-multiplexing frame, wherein a transport spectral efficiency of the modulation format determined for a first fixed time slot is different from a transport spectral efficiency of the modulation format determined for a second fixed time slot, and determining a number of binary bits for each fixed time slot of the time-division-multiplexing frame, wherein the number of binary bits for a fixed time slot is based on the modulation format determined for the fixed time slot.
US09337925B2	Apparatus and methods for optical control of lighting devices A lighting apparatus includes at least one light emitting device configured to receive an optical signal from a source external to the lighting apparatus and a control circuit coupled to the at least one light emitting device and configured to adjust a light output of the at least one light emitting device responsive to the received optical signal. The at least one light-emitting device may include at least one light-emitting diode (LED) configured to receive the optical signal, and the control circuit may include a detector circuit coupled to the at least one LED and configured to detect the received optical signal.
US09337924B2	Circuit architecture and system for implantable multi-function and multi-analyte biosensing device An implantable bio-sensing platform architecture that enables the wireless selection, calibration and reading of multiple sensors, as well as checking the power levels of the solar powering source energizing various electronic and optoelectronic devices and circuits embedded in the platform. It also permits checking the operation of the potentiostats interfacing with each amperometric analyte sensor. The platform is flexible to include FET based sensors for protein sensing as well as other applications including pH sensing. In addition, other physiological sensors can be integrated in the platform.
US09337919B2	Signal transmission system, connector apparatus, electronic device, and signal transmission method A signal transmission system including: a first connector apparatus, and a second connector apparatus that is coupled with the first connector apparatus. The first connector apparatus and the second connector apparatus are coupled together to form an electromagnetic field coupling unit, and a transmission object signal is converted into a radio signal, which is then transmitted through the electromagnetic field coupling unit, between the first connector apparatus and the second connector apparatus.
US09337918B2	Systems and methods for digital processing of satellite communications data A digital payload for processing a sub-band spectrum received on an uplink beam at a communications satellite includes a digital channelizer, a digital switch matrix and a digital combiner. The digital channelizer divides the sub-band spectrum into a plurality of frequency slices that can be routed by the digital switch matrix to any of a number of receiving ports. A digital combiner receives the frequency slices and re-assembles them to form one or more output sub-bands for transmission on an output beam of the communications satellite. The digital payload may also include an embeddable digital regeneration module configured to demodulate some or all of the sub-band spectrum to extract a digital bitstream therefrom. The digital bitstream may be processed to implement code-based multiplexing, switching, access control, and other features.
US09337917B2	Call establishment optimization for IMS based mobile satellite system IMS nodes and a satellite radio access node (RAN) are described herein which are operative to establish certain calls (e.g., voice calls) with reduced latency and selectively using a High Penetration Alert (HPA) page to reach a terminating satellite user equipment (UE).
US09337914B2	System and method for communicating with a portable electronic device A system and method for communicating with a portable electronic device are provided. The system includes a plurality of relay antennas mounted to a vehicle. The system further includes a processor in communication with the plurality of relay antennas to relay a communication message between the portable electronic device and a base station. The processor is also configured to locate the portable electronic device based on input data received from the plurality of relay antennas. The method involves establishing a communication link between the portable electronic device and a plurality of relay antennas. The method further involves relaying a communication message between the portable electronic device and a base station. The method also involves locating the portable electronic device based on input data from the plurality of relay antennas.
US09337910B2	MIMO communication system using pre-coder based on tight frame Provided is a MIMO communication system using a pre-coder based on a tight frame capable of increasing an amount of transmitted signals and improving reception performance by transmitting and receiving a signal through a tight-frame pre-coder. The transmission device modulates transmission data on the basis of a transmission combination of the transmission antennas and the pre-coder based on the tight frame and transmits the data to the reception device.
US09337902B2	System and method for providing wireless power transfer functionality to an electrical device An electrical device includes a host charger power management integrated circuit wired to a battery, a wired power input comprising a first VOUT and GND pair of power connectors wired to a first pair of charging inputs of the host charger power management integrated circuit, a wireless power port for conductively connecting with a retrofittable wireless power receiver, said wireless power port comprising a second VOUT and GND pair of power connectors wired to a second pair of charging inputs of the host charger power management integrated circuit; and a power DISABLE connector for communicating a DISABLE signal to disable charging.
US09337898B2	Digital intercom network over DC-powered microphone cable A digital intercom system provides DC power and multi-channel bidirectional digital communications over existing cabling such as microphone cabling used in analog intercom networks. Three or more conductors in the cabling are used for both transmitting and receiving digital signals and carrying DC power. The digital intercom system includes digital user stations and a digital master station which can be used to retrofit an existing analog intercom network or deployed in a new network. User stations can be connected to the cabling via drop cables which do not use active electronic components. The master station routes digital audio and control data packets in three or more channels based on respective network addresses of the user stations to provide point-to-point, point-to-multi-point, and party line communications among the user stations. Sessions and groups can be configured which define talker and listener user stations.
US09337896B2	Block filter for power line communication Provided is a blocking filter for PLC, the blocking filter including a low pass filter unit including a capacitor and a plurality of inductors, a plurality of magnetic saturation prevention circuits each connected to the inductor in parallel to prevent magnetic saturation of the inductor, and operating in response to an interruption control signal inputted from outside, and a first switch connected or opened in response to the interruption control signal and interconnected between the low pass filter unit and a neutral line.
US09337892B2	Method and system for switching main board and standby board A method and system for switching a main board and a standby board are disclosed. The method comprises: determining one MCU of the plurality of MCUs in the main board as a first main MCU and remaining MCUs as auxiliary MCUs, and determining one MCU of the plurality of MCUs in the standby board as a second main MCU and remaining MCUs as auxiliary MCUs; determining, by the first main MCU, a fault grade of the main board according to faults in the auxiliary MCUs of the main board and faults in the first main MCU; determining, by the first main MCU, a fault grade of the standby board according to faults in the auxiliary MCUs of the standby board and faults in the second main MCU reported by the second main MCU; switching the main board and the standby board according to the fault grade of the standby board and the fault grade of the main board. The switching of the main board and the standby board that comprise respectively a plurality of MCUs is simplified according to the invention.
US09337891B2	Method and apparatus of enabling multi band transmission A method and apparatus for enabling multi-band transmission includes receiving a beacon on a first radio band and receiving the beacon on a second radio band. The beacon includes synchronization information for transmission on the first and second radio bands.
US09337883B1	Protection case for mobile communication device A protection case for a mobile communication device includes a main body for receiving the mobile communication device, a main circuit board with an amplifier installed thereon, and a vibrator electrically connected to the amplifier. The amplifier comprises audio signal input terminals for receiving audio signals from the mobile communication device, and audio signal output terminals for outputting the audio signals which are amplified by the amplifier to the vibrator; the vibrator is driven to vibrate in accordance with the audio signals output by the amplifier.
US09337882B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a case defining an appearance of a terminal body of the mobile terminal, the case including a mounting groove recessed from one surface of the case, a frame coupled to the case at the mounting groove, the frame being arranged to cover at least one side surface of the terminal body and at least one signal input module coupled to the frame, the signal input module being configured to generate a signal in response to a user input.
US09337875B2	Method and apparatus for reducing charge and discharge time of capacitive elements A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, emulating a behavior of an RF capacitive device utilizing a mirror circuit; and providing feedback signals to an input of an operational amplifier via a feedback node coupled with the mirror circuit. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09337867B2	Cyclic decoding for cascaded forward error-correction FEC codes A computer implemented method for a cyclic (forward-backward) decoding for a forward error-correction FEC scheme includes decoding a given k−1th codeword in a block code of length N in an optical communication system, forwarding M symbols' enhanced log likelihood ratios LLRs produced by decoding the k−1th codeword, decoding the kth codeword together with forwarded M symbols' enhanced LLRS, and feeding backward, to the initial step i) decoding, corresponding overlapped M symbols' enhanced LLRs for decoding of the k−1th codeword again.
US09337860B1	Precision sub-RADIX2 DAC with analog weight based calibration A system includes a sub-binary radix digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that converts a digital input signal to an analog output signal based on a sub-radix DAC code. A radix conversion module performs radix conversion on the digital input signal. To perform the radix conversion, the radix conversion module associates bit positions corresponding to the digital input signal with respective analog weights and converts the digital input signal to the sub-radix DAC code based on the respective analog weights.
US09337858B2	Data processing system The present invention provides a data processing system which can increase resolution and which has excellent tracking with respect to the switching of a conversion range and is small in conversion error. The data processing system, which obtains an A/D conversion result after an n (where n: positive integer)-bit extension made to the resolution of an A/D converter, divides the input range of the A/D converter by m (2n≦m), determines to which divided range the A/D conversion result by the A/D converter belongs with respect to an analog signal to be measured, amplifies an amp offset which defines the range of the determined divided range as a voltage range for the input range of the A/D converter by applying the amp offset to a programmable gain amplifier, converts the amplified signal by the A/D converter, and adds a corresponding digital offset to a result of execution of a lower side bit extension to the conversion result and a division thereof by actually measured gain of the programmable gain amplifier, whereby an A/D conversion result with a bit precision being n-bit extended is obtained.
US09337857B2	Analog conversion device and programmable controller system An analog conversion device includes an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter; a shared memory that has an A/D conversion-value storage area for storing the converted digital value and a log storage area for logging a digital value that is stored in the A/D conversion-value storage area and that can be read and accessed from a central processing unit (CPU) that controls an entire programmable controller; a logging execution unit that stores the digital value stored in the A/D conversion-value storage area in the log storage area as logging data; a fixed-number logging detection unit that monitors whether the number of the logging data to be stored in the log storage area has reached a predetermined number since the last interrupt generation request has been made; and an interrupt generation unit that makes an interrupt generation request to the CPU when the number of the logging data has reached the predetermined number.
US09337852B2	Removing deterministic phase errors from fractional-N PLLs Methods and devices for phase adjustment include a phase detector that is configured to compare a reference clock and a feedback clock and to generate two output signals. A difference in time between pulse widths of the two output signals corresponds to a phase difference between the reference clock and the feedback clock. A programmable delay line is configured to delay an earlier output signal in accordance with a predicted deterministic phase error. An oscillator is configured to generate a feedback signal in accordance with the delayed output signal. A divider is configured to divide a frequency of the oscillator output by an integer N. The integer N is varied to achieve an average fractional divide ratio and the predicted deterministic phase error is based on the average divide ratio and an instantaneous divide ratio.
US09337843B2	Programmable logic device and semiconductor device Provided is a programmable logic device that includes logic elements arranged in a plurality of columns. Wirings connecting logic elements are arranged between the plurality of columns. Switch circuits that control electrical connections between the wirings and the logic elements are also arranged between the plurality of columns. Each of the switch circuit selects an electrical connection between one of the wirings and an input terminal of one of the logic elements in accordance with configuration data.
US09337842B1	Low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) driving circuit An LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) driving circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a first resistor, a second resistor, and a bias driver. The first transistor is coupled between a supply voltage and a first node. The second transistor is coupled between the supply voltage and a second node. The third transistor is coupled between the first node and a ground voltage. The fourth transistor is coupled between the second node and the ground voltage. The first resistor is coupled between the first node and a third node. The second resistor is coupled between the second node and the third node. The bias driver generates bias signals for controlling the first, second, third, and fourth transistors according to a data signal.
US09337841B1	Circuits for and methods of providing voltage level shifting in an integrated circuit device A circuit for providing voltage level shifting in an integrated circuit includes an inverter having an input coupled to receive an input signal having a first voltage level; an output stage having a first transistor coupled in series with a second transistor, and an output node between the first transistor and the second transistor generating an output signal having a second voltage level. A gate of the second transistor is coupled to an output of the inverter. A pull-up transistor is coupled between a reference voltage having the second voltage level and a gate of the first transistor. A switch is coupled between the gate of the first transistor and the gate of the second transistor to control a voltage at the gate of the first transistor. A method of providing voltage level shifting in an integrated circuit is also disclosed.
US09337819B2	Programmable delay unit A tunable delay unit and methods of tuning are provided, comprising a plurality of first delay elements and a plurality of first delay element taps between the first delay elements, wherein the first delay element taps are inputs to a first multiplexer and wherein the output of the first multiplexer is selected from among the inputs according to a first tap select input, further comprising a plurality of second delay elements connected in series to the output of the first multiplexer and a plurality of second delay element taps between the second delay elements, wherein the second delay element taps are inputs to a second multiplexer and wherein the output of the second multiplexer is selected from among the inputs according to a second tap select input, the output of the second multiplexer forming the output of the programmable delay unit. The programmable delay unit provides for highly accurate calibration of timed circuits, in particular delay lines.
US09337810B2	Semiconductor device There is provided a semiconductor device in which an influence of a power source noise is suppressed and the number of pins and the area of the semiconductor device are reduced. A power source line for a first internal circuit and a power source line for a second internal circuit are coupled to a common pin terminal. A ground line for the first internal circuit and a ground line for the second internal circuit are coupled to another common pin terminal. A power source noise generated on the power source line for the first internal circuit during an operation of the first internal circuit is absorbed by a P-channel MOS transistor and a capacitor. A power source noise generated on the ground line is absorbed by an N-channel MOS transistor and the capacitor.
US09337808B2	Semiconductor devices and semiconductor systems including the same A semiconductor system includes a controller and a semiconductor device. The controller receives a temperature code signal and responsively generates a mode set signal operable to adjust a level variation and a voltage variation rate of a temperature voltage signal, wherein the temperature voltage signal level varies according to temperature when a logic level combination of the temperature code signal is different from a predefined logic level combination. The semiconductor device generates the temperature voltage signal from a drivability and a resistance value set by the mode set signal. The semiconductor device generates the temperature code signal based on a comparison of the temperature voltage signal and a reference voltage signal.
US09337798B2	Impedance matching device, power reception-side device, and control method In an impedance matching device, a storage unit stores a control value representing a load value and a value equivalent to input impedance in advance. The control value identifies inductance and capacitance values matching a predetermined impedance value by use of either a first or second matching circuit. An impedance estimation unit estimates input impedance of the power transmission antenna. The load value estimation unit estimates load value of a circuit connected to a power reception antenna and consuming transmitted electric power. A circuit selection unit electrically connects the first matching circuit, the second matching circuit, or a through circuit per the load value and the input impedance equivalent value. A control value output unit reads out the control value stored in the storage unit based on the load value and the input impedance equivalent value, and outputs the control value to the circuit selected by the circuit selection unit.
US09337796B2	Capacitance device and resonance circuit To suppress changes in capacitance due to displacement between electrodes opposing each other across a dielectric layer, thereby allowing stable manufacturing of a capacitance device having a desired capacitance. A capacitance device is of a configuration including a dielectric layer, a first electrode formed on a predetermined surface of the dielectric layer, and a second electrode formed on a surface on the opposite side of the dielectric layer from the predetermined surface. The forms of the first and second electrodes are set so that even in the event that the first electrode is relatively displaced regarding position in a predetermined direction as to the second electrode, the area of the opposing-electrode region between the first electrode and to the second electrode is unchanged.
US09337794B2	Array microphone device and gain control method The array microphone device has a microphone array composed of a plurality of microphone units, having a signal input section for inputting a signal from the microphone units to be corrected as a signal to be corrected; a reference signal input section; a gain variable section for making the levels of the signal to be corrected and the reference signal equal; and a gain control section. The gain control section includes a high-speed gain update section for changing the gain with a first amount of change per unit time upon time elapsed since the array microphone device is starting-up being below a predetermined period of time; and a low-speed gain update section for changing the gain with a second amount of change per unit time upon the elapsed time being above the predetermined period of time, the second amount of change being smaller than the first amount of change.
US09337787B2	Power amplifier with improved low bias mode linearity Power amplifier circuitry includes a power amplifier including an input node and an output node, biasing circuitry, a selectable impedance network, and an input capacitor. The input capacitor is coupled to the input node of the power amplifier. The biasing circuitry is coupled to the input node of the power amplifier through the selectable impedance network. The power amplifier is operable in a low power operating mode and a high power operating mode. In the low power operating mode, the biasing circuitry delivers a first biasing current to the input node of the power amplifier, and a first impedance level of the selectable impedance is selected. In the high power operating mode, the biasing circuitry delivers a second biasing current to the input node of the power amplifier, and a second impedance level of the selectable impedance is selected.
US09337783B2	Distortion compensation apparatus and distortion compensation method A distortion compensation apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores a distortion compensation coefficient; a distortion-compensation-coefficient selecting unit that takes a logarithm of power of an input signal and exponentiates a value obtained by taking the logarithm, and that selects a distortion compensation coefficient that is stored in the storage unit according to a value obtained by the exponentiating; a distortion-compensation processing unit that acquires the selected distortion compensation coefficient from the storage unit, and that performs distortion compensation processing on the input signal to the distortion-compensation-coefficient selecting unit using the acquired distortion compensation coefficient; an amplifier that amplifies the signal subjected to the distortion compensation processing; and a distortion-compensation-coefficient updating unit that updates the distortion compensation coefficient stored in the storage unit based on the amplified signal and the input signal to the distortion-compensation-coefficient selecting unit.
US09337781B2	Augmented twin nonlinear two-box modeling and predistortion method for power amplifiers and transmitters The augmented twin nonlinear two-box modeling and predistortion method for power amplifiers and transmitters provides power amplifier distortion modeling and predistortion linearization. A memoryless nonlinearity is combined with a memory polynomial function that includes cross-terms. The method can utilize an augmented forward twin-nonlinear two-box model, an augmented reverse twin-nonlinear two-box model, or alternatively, an augmented parallel twin-nonlinear two-box model. The present two-box models are validated in modeling and predistortion applications. Measurement results demonstrate the superiority of the present two-box models with respect to conventional state of the art models. The present two-box models lead to better accuracy with reduced complexity.
US09337779B2	Operational transconductance amplifier, reconfigurable fully differential voltage sensing amplifier and reconfigurable fully differential capacitive sensing amplifier An operational transconductance amplifier includes a cascode differential-pair amplifying circuit, a bias driving circuit, and a common mode feedback circuit. The cascode differential-pair amplifying circuit is configured for receiving a differential input voltage and for providing a differential output voltage. The bias driving circuit is configured for providing a first bias current to drive the cascode differential-pair amplifying circuit and for adjusting the transconductance of the transconductance amplifier. The bias driving circuit includes a first floating-gate transistor. The first floating-gate transistor is configured for adjusting the first bias current. The common mode feedback circuit is configured for adjusting a second bias current of the cascode differential-pair amplifying circuit according to the differential output voltage so that the differential output voltage is stabilized. A reconfigurable fully differential voltage sensing amplifier and a reconfigurable fully differential capacitive sensing amplifier are disclosed herein as well.
US09337776B1	High-input common-mode differential amplifiers The present invention discloses a level-shifting circuit to provide an initial stage to a differential amplifier circuit, a differential amplifier circuit, and a method of operating same. An example level-shifting circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor to receive a first differential amplifier input. The first transistor has a drain receiving a power input, and the second transistor has a drain coupled to a source of the first transistor and a source coupled to a biased tail circuit. The example level-shifting circuit further includes a third transistor and a fourth transistor to receive a second differential amplifier input. The third transistor has a drain receiving a power input and the fourth transistor has a drain coupled to a source of the third transistor and a source coupled to the biased tail circuit. Other examples, methods, and apparatuses are described herein.
US09337773B2	Oscillation device and electronic apparatus An oscillation device (electro-acoustic transducer (100)) includes an oscillation element (110) that has a vibrating member (120) and a piezoelectric element (111) that is attached to one surface of the vibrating member (120). The oscillation device includes a sheet-shaped waterproof member (140) that is constituted by a waterproof material. The oscillation device includes a frame-shaped supporting member (130) that holds an outer peripheral portion of the vibrating member (120) and an outer peripheral portion of the waterproof member (140) so that the waterproof member (140) and the oscillation element (110) face each other. The oscillation device includes a connection member (150) that partially connects mutual opposed surfaces of the oscillation element (110) and the waterproof member (140).
US09337767B2	Single bus star connected reluctance drive and method A system and methods for operating a switched reluctance machine includes a controller, an inverter connected to the controller and to the switched reluctance machine, a hysteresis control connected to the controller and to the inverter, a set of sensors connected to the switched reluctance machine and to the controller, the switched reluctance machine further including a set of phases the controller further comprising a processor and a memory connected to the processor, wherein the processor programmed to execute a control process and a generation process.
US09337762B1	System and method for magnetizing a transformer in an electrical system prior to energizing the electrical system An electrical system includes a transformer structured to be selectively coupled to an AC source that provides a main AC voltage, the transformer having a number of sets of primary windings and a number of sets of secondary windings, and a charging module structured to generate a magnetizing AC voltage. The charging module is structured to selectively provide the magnetizing AC voltage to: (i) one of the number of sets primary windings, or (ii) one of the number of sets secondary windings. The magnetizing AC voltage is such that responsive to the magnetizing AC voltage being provided to one of the number of sets of primary windings or one of the number of sets of secondary windings, one or more of the number of sets of primary windings will be magnetized in a manner wherein a flux of the one or more of the number of primary windings is in phase with the main AC voltage provided from the AC source.
US09337754B2	Control apparatus for AC motor A control apparatus for an AC motor that drives and controls the AC motor includes a damping control unit that calculates a damping manipulated variable that suppresses a fluctuation in the capacitor voltage, wherein the damping control unit calculates a fluctuation rate of the capacitor voltage, calculates the damping manipulated variable based on the fluctuation rate and a predetermined value that is set as a value in a predetermined range around a maximum torque of the AC motor, generates a torque command or a current command of the AC motor based on the damping manipulated variable, and controls an inverter so as to change a current flowing in the inverter in a fluctuation suppressing direction with respect to a fluctuation in the capacitor voltage based on the torque command or the current command.
US09337750B2	Power conversion apparatus A power conversion apparatus includes an inverter circuit including a switching element, a system voltage measurement unit measuring a system voltage of a power system, a voltage drop detector detecting a voltage drop of the power system, a carrier wave generator generating a carrier wave, a carrier wave frequency modulator increasing a frequency of the carrier wave, when the voltage drop is detected, a signal wave generator generating a signal wave to control the inverter circuit, a gate signal generator comparing the carrier wave with the signal wave, and generating a gate signal, and a power conversion controller controlling the inverter circuit, based on the gate signal.
US09337746B2	Multilevel inverter A multilevel inverter having an efficient structure is provided, the multilevel inverter including a modularized phase-shift transformer including a plurality of modules to provide a phase shifted voltage by receiving a 3-phase input voltage, a plurality of first group unit power cells configured to provide an output voltage of predetermined phase, a plurality of second group unit power cells configured to provide an output voltage of predetermined phase, a plurality of third group unit power cells configured to provide an output voltage of predetermined phase. One of the first group unit power cells, one of the second group unit power cells and one of the third group unit power cells are paired to provide an output voltage of same phase.
US09337745B2	Integrated circuit device for power supply An integrated circuit device, for a power supply that is connected to an AC power source via an input circuit having a capacitor, is able to reliably discharge the capacitor when the AC power source is interrupted. The integrated circuit device includes a first discharge circuit that operates in response to an internal supply voltage and discharges the capacitor via a first switch element that is turned on when the input voltage provided via the input circuit falls below a set voltage, and a second discharge circuit having a second switch element that is turned off when receiving the internal supply voltage but is turned on in response to the input voltage when the supply of internal supply voltage is interrupted.
US09337739B2	Power controller with over power protection A power controller with over power protection is disclosed, capable of providing a pulse-width-modulation signal to control a power switch. The power controller comprises a pulse width modulator, first and second oscillators, and an over power detector. The pulse width modulator generates the pulse-width-modulation signal. The first oscillator is coupled to the pulse width modulator, for determining a cycle time of the pulse-width-modulation signal. The second oscillator, independent from the first oscillator, determines a maximum over power duration. The over power detector detects the occurrence of an over power event. When the over power event lasts for the maximum over power duration, the pulse-width-modulation signal switches OFF the power switch constantly.
US09337738B2	Transformer-coupled gate-drive power regulator system A transformer-coupled gate-drive power regulator system is provided that includes a feedback stage that generates a PWM signal having a duty-cycle that is based on a magnitude of an output voltage in an output stage. A switch driver stage configured to provide each of a first control signal and a second control signal based on the PWM signal. A switching stage comprising a first transformer input stage, a second transformer input stage, and a control switch. The first transformer input stage activates the control switch via the first control signal while the second transformer input stage is deactivated, and the second transformer input stage activates the control switch via the second control signal while the first transformer input stage is deactivated. The control switch can be configured to provide current through an output inductor in the output stage to generate the output voltage in response to being activated.
US09337720B2	Switching power supply startup circuit having normally on emitter-switched current source A power converter startup circuit establishes an operating voltage for control circuitry during startup and is then disabled to reduce no-load power dissipation. The startup circuit has a normally on characteristic to automatically provide startup charging current for a startup capacitor. The control circuitry begins operating as the startup capacitor voltage reaches an operating value, and it generates an inhibitory signal that disables the startup circuit to stop the startup charging current and reduce power dissipation. The normally on characteristic is achieved by an emitter switched current source employing a normally on device such as a depletion-mode J-FET. A resistor divider network provides both biasing for the startup current source and a point of monitoring the power supply input voltage during steady state operation.
US09337696B2	Rotary electric machine, stator unit and wire connection substrate A rotary electric machine includes: a rotating shaft having an axis extending in an axial direction; a rotor fixed to the rotating shaft; a stator provided with a plurality of stator coils; a wire connection part provided at one side of the stator coils in the axial direction, the wire connection part connecting end portions of the stator coils in a specified wire connection pattern; and a resin molded part arranged to cover the wire connection part and the stator coils. The wire connection part includes a plurality of conductive members connected to the end portions of the stator coils and an insulating member arranged to at least partially cover surfaces of the conductive members. The insulating member has projection portions protruding toward the resin molded part existing at the one side of the stator coils in the axial direction.
US09337690B2	UPS systems and methods using mode-dependent grounding A UPS system includes an inverter circuit having an input coupled to a DC link and an output configured to be coupled to a load and a gang switch (e.g., a contactor) configured to couple and decouple the DC link to and from a DC power source and to couple and decouple a neutral point of the inverter circuit to and from a ground node. The gang switch may be configured to couple the neutral point to the ground node when the DC link is coupled to the DC power source and to decouple the neutral point from the ground node when the DC link is decoupled from the DC power source.
US09337689B2	Power supply system and method for controlling the same A power supply system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The power supply system includes: a first AC source and a second AC source; a circuit switching module; a controllable AC/DC conversion module electrically coupled to the circuit switching module; a subsequent stage power supply module electrically coupled to the controllable AC/DC conversion module; and a control module electrically coupled to the circuit switching module and the controllable AC/DC conversion module, and when failure occurs in any one of the first AC source and the second AC source, configured to control the circuit switching module to switch to the other one of the first AC source and the second AC source which is in normal operation. By employing the power supply system and the method for controlling the same provided by the present application, the cost may be reduced and the reliability may be increased.
US09337687B2	Charging control system and device A charging control system for charging a secondary battery from a solar battery, including a first path for transmitting power from the solar battery to the secondary battery, a second path for sensing the voltage of the secondary battery, and a comparison unit for comparing the solar battery voltage with the sensed voltage of the secondary battery. The first path includes a first interrupter, controlled by the comparison unit, which interrupts the first path to prevent discharge of the secondary battery through the solar battery when the solar battery voltage falls below the secondary battery voltage. The second path includes a second interrupter that interrupts the second path after the first path is interrupted, to prevent the secondary battery from discharging through the second path when not being charged through the first path.

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